On Sat, 8 Jul 2017 09:50:00 -0500, Donald Likens <dlik...@infosecinc.com> wrote:
>Walt... Thanks for asking questions. I will answer you questions as best as I >can. > >Does that duplication include number of CPs and processor speed? I have seen >test environments that were setup as single CP, which > does little to help debug problems related to multi-tasking or -processing. > >A: No! We don't have a test environment that can duplicate their environment >in that detail. Our test environment is running under >VM on a 2827, I will check if we can specify how many CPs. I will check with >the client as to their CPU types, number of CPs, and >LPAR layout. In my experience when I worked at IBM, by default VM gave only a single CP, but we had a way of requesting more. And requesting more was critical to successful testing. > >How many simultaneous copies of your batch process were running, given that >the client could have dozens or hundreds of address >spaces writing SMF records? How much multi-tasking within your batch process >did you have, in case the issue is related to multi- >tasking rather than multi-processing? > >A: I only ran one one batch process at a time but the normal SMF processing >was happening at the same time. I will run another test. > >How did each of your batch processes pass the records to the exit? And which >exit(s) did you use? > >A: The called the exit directly passing the record in register 1. We use the >same exit for IEFU83-5. It would probably be a more realistic test if your program actually wrote them as SMF records and let SMF pass them to the appropriate exit. But I don't know how critical that would be. -- Walt ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
