Bob Wow - there is some good stuff there - many thanks for the heads-up.
Rob Scott Rocket Software, Inc 275 Grove Street Newton, MA 02466 617-614-2305 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Wright Sent: 11 April 2008 11:32 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: IPCSs hidden qualities Barbara Nitz wrote: > Speaking of IPCS's hidden qualities: A former colleague showed me an IPCS full command named SYSTRACW, which is NOT available to customers in the normal product (I checked). This looked suspiciously (if very much better)like my old rexx/verbx combinations that takes a system trace and does an IPCS where on the relevant addresses. Saves tons of time analyzing loops and time delays. > > Is there any chance to make that available publicly on an as-is basis with no > IBM commitment to fix anything should a problem occur? > > My former colleague also told me that there are any number of commands > somehow in the product but neither documented outside IBM nor available in > the product going out to customers, with the rationale, that IBM doesn't want > to spend resources on supporting it. Funny thing is, the level1/2 people also > don't really know its there much less how to use it. > > In many cases, this might speed up problem determination for a > customer without going through the several-days/weeks-delays until the > dump finally finds someone who not only knows which questions to ask > but also how to interpret the answers. :-) > If you're running release 8 or later, take a look a dialog option 2.6i. It's not advertised on the analysis panel, and the disclaimer on the 2.6i panel hopefully explains why. Bob Wright - MVS Service Aids ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
