There is a PTF for that. I can’t remember off the top of my head what it is though. I had opened a problem on that very thing and IBM did create the fix for it.
On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 8:18 AM Carmen Vitullo <[email protected]> wrote: > Friday rant > > I've been having problems with JES2EDS on 2 other systems in my PLEX, > once I install maint, or IPL JES2EDS gets the 'JES2EDS cannot locate the > zosmf server, what ? it was working fine before, so why can't I IPL a > system and JES2EDS locate the server again? > > I'm so tired of opening up cases, and researching something for days, > sometimes weeks, I usually just let it fail or ignore these messages any > more, yesterday, I re cycled zosmf on my production LPAR, once back up, > JES2EDS connected, well not by itself, but I had to cancel JES2EDS on > that system, a $SEDS did nothing. who builds stuff like this ? > > Rant off > > Carmen > > On 10/19/2022 7:27 AM, Michael Babcock wrote: > > > Another issue. PSWI uses GIMUNZIP which invokes DFSMSDSS via API. We > > make all of our ZFS data sets VSAM Extended (EA and REQUIRED). Yes, > > this isn't necessary I know but we do have a few that are larger than > > the 4GB limit. Anyway, DFSMSDSS does not invoke the DATACLASS, so > > there is no way to assign a DATACLASS. So how in the world do we > > make our ZFS data sets VSAM Extended? What's going to happen when > > the root filesystem grows beyond the 4 GB limit in the future? > > > > So far z/OSMF PSWI is not helping. First, I couldn't select a Target > > system but tell it to use a different, existing master cat (like we > > could with ServerPac), now this? > > > > On 10/6/2022 10:15 AM, Kurt J. Quackenbush wrote: > >> As I understand your scenario, you have two z/OS systems, a driving > >> system (call it A) where the z/OSMF server is running and a target > >> system (call it B), and you want to install z/OS 2.5 into the > >> existing master catalog for system B. Currently you have selected A > >> as the target system for the deployment. Unfortunately Software > >> Management does not have support for installing into an existing > >> alternate master catalog. Yes it can install into the driving > >> system's master catalog, or create and install into a brand new > >> master catalog, but it does not install into an existing master > >> catalog that is not the driving system's active master catalog. As a > >> circumvention, is B IPL’d? Is a z/OSMF server running on B? If so, > >> then define system B in the z/OSMF Systems task and select it as the > >> target system for the deployment instead of selecting A. > >> > >> Kurt Quackenbush -- IBM, z/OS SMP/E and z/OSMF Software Management > >> > >> Chuck Norris never uses CHECK when he applies PTFs. > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On > >> Behalf Of Michael Babcock > >> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 3:40 PM > >> To: [email protected] > >> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: z/OSMF PSWI > >> > >> Okay, more issues. As I stated, we use a permanent maintenance > >> volume/system. With ServerPac, we could define an SSA and have the > >> SYSRES datasets cataloged in our maintenance systems master cat then > >> ServerPac would allocate the dataset using an SSA. later it would > >> generate jobs to remove the SSA. > >> > >> Unless I’m missing something, this doesn’t seem possible with z/OSMF > >> because the Modify Catalog section doesn’t let us change the master cat > >> (even though it says it will). The only way I see around that is to > >> rename the SYSRES dataset with the SSA. Of course we would then need to > >> create our own rename job to remove the SSA. Jeez, COME ON PEOPLE! > >> > >> We were told z/OSMF would provide the same functionality as ServerPac > >> but I guess not. > >> > >> On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 3:28 PM Michael Babcock <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> We are installing z/OS 2.5 via z/OSMF and are using the Modify > >>> Deployment screens. We can easily change the volumes, HLQs, etc, but > >>> wanted to modify the Primary and/or secondary allocation and don’t > >>> see a way to do that. > >>> > >>> We have a case opened with IBM and have been told there is no way to do > >>> that and no plans for it in the future. What? We could do that > >>> with > >>> the ServerPac, why not with z/OSMF? I was under the impression that > >>> z/OSMF would provide most functions that ServerPac provided. > >>> > >>> So, is that capability not going to be provided? > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Michael Babcock > >>> OneMain Financial > >>> z/OS Systems Programmer, Lead > >>> > >> -- > >> Michael Babcock > >> OneMain Financial > >> z/OS Systems Programmer, Lead > >> > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> 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 > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- > Carmen > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Michael Babcock OneMain Financial z/OS Systems Programmer, Lead ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
