A client from my contracting days has contacted me out of the blue. Perhaps only a week, but work is work, right? :-)
Does anyone have advice they can offer on what to expect these days? When I last worked for them, it was ESA/390, ISPF :-) Does a lot of PL/1, Assembler and Rexx programming work still get done in ISPF, or is it mostly at a *nix terminal? I'm comfortable in Linux, for example, but I've not even seen z/OS running, so I'm unsure about what to expect. Thanks for any advice. Roops On Sun., Nov. 29, 2020, 15:18 Martin Packer, <[email protected]> wrote: > I would also point out quite a few customers restart CICS on a daily > (sometimes weekly) basis. They IPL much less frequently (likewise > structure recovery etc). > > I should imagine therefore there would have to be a lot of thinking around > terms and conditions for something such as restarting CICS. At any rate, > that's not what SRB supports. > > Cheers, Martin > > Martin Packer > > Systems Investigator & Performance Troubleshooter, IBM > > +44-7802-245-584 > > email: [email protected] > > Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker > > Blog: https://mainframeperformancetopics.com > > Mainframe, Performance, Topics Podcast Series (With Marna Walle): > https://anchor.fm/marna-walle > > Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu_65HaYgksbF6Q8SQ4oOvA > > > > From: Peter Relson <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Date: 29/11/2020 13:11 > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: System Boost Question > Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> > > > > <snip> > Could we use SYSTEM boost to make the process of shutting down the CICS > region and restarting them? > </snip> > > That would not be an appropriate use of the shutdown boost. Shutdown boost > > is for shutting down the entire system. > > <snip> > Note that IBM also has a separate feature called "System Recovery Boost > Upgrade" which is unrelated to "System Recovery Boost" ... it is more like > CUoD. That is a paid feature and gives a 6 hour boost in processing > speed. > </snip> > > "Gives a 6 hour boost in processing speed" is not a good characterization > of System Recovery Boost Upgrade. It does not do so. Each activation (and > > the upgrade covers multiple) gives you a 6 hour window during which > additional processors can be applied to each LPAR when that LPAR is > starting up or shutting down. It is during the startup and the shutdown > that the additional processors can participate. > > Peter Relson > z/OS Core Technology Design > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > Unless stated otherwise above: > IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number > 741598. > Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
