All between 4 z15’s

Dave Jousma
Vice President | Director, Technology Engineering





From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of 
Mike Schwab <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, March 28, 2024 at 9:37 AM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Slow FTP's
How about processors (z15/z16)? On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 7: 30 AM Jousma, David 
<000001a0403c5dc1-dmarc-request@ listserv. ua. edu> wrote: > > All, > > 
Grasping at straws here, IBM support center is baffled too. > > To clone


How about processors (z15/z16)?



On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 7:30 AM Jousma, David

<[email protected]> wrote:

>

> All,

>

> Grasping at straws here, IBM support center is baffled too.

>

> To clone z/OS maintenance to various disconnected sysplex’s I do a DFDSS 
> dump, and FTP it everywhere it needs to be.  Its roughly a 50Gb file 
> transfer.  There is some environmental issue causing slow file transfers to 
> some systems (40mb’s a sec) and fast file transfers (150Mb/sec) to other 
> systems on the same CEC.    With IBM support help, we’ve narrowed down the 
> problem to the specification of MODE B and EBCDIC on the transfer since it is 
> a DSS dump.   Remove those, and the transfer is fast on the slow systems, and 
> still fast on the fast systems.  Obviously that isn’t a solution though.

>

> So, we are a GDPS shop.   The oddity is that all the “fast” transfers are to 
> the K systems(control systems), and all the “slow” transfers are to the 
> traditional application systems.   TEST, DEV, PROD makes no difference, nor 
> does LPAR busy or not busy.

>

> It seems there is something configured differently on the “slow” systems that 
> is affecting mode b, ebcdic file transfers, but for the life of me, I cannot 
> put my finger on what, nor can the support center, except that the issue is 
> at the remote end, in that the OS cannot offload the data fast enough, so 
> TCPIP/FTP is slowing the transfer pace.

>

> A virtual adult beverage of choice to the one that can point in a direction 
> to look….

>

>

> Dave Jousma

> Vice President | Director, Technology Engineering

>

>

>

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