Hi John, If I may share some feedback on z/OSMF... Kind of pains to see this UI. Knowledge Centre, ResourceLink, and many other corners of the IBM site these days are very clean and new-age-looking. Even the new IBM Plex font is dope! If z/OSMF is wants to be a millennial magnet, then it needs the web design to match. HMC, DS GUI, tape GUI could do with some love too (with a switch to turn it off though, still love the classic HMC!).
– Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Eells Sent: 25 April 2018 21:37 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: z/OSMF, was How far out of date are my skills Gibney, Dave wrote: > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] >> On Behalf Of John Eells >> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 12:49 PM >> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >> Subject: Re: z/OSMF, was How far out of date are my skills >> >> Jousma, David wrote: >>> You can configure zosmf to NOT come up. There will just be some new >> functions that wont work without it. I'm guessing that over time that list >> will >> get longer. NOTIFY=your.email.address is just one of those new thing. >> <snip> >> >> One of those new functions that won't work without it is z/OSMF >> Software Management which, strategically speaking, we want to be our >> software product installer in a couple of years. > > What is your answer to folks like me, running severely capped for z/OS > software charging and no access to specialty engines? > > And, is it very much easier now to do an initial configuration of z/OSMF than > it was when I first looked and decided that at that time, it wasn't worth my > effort? Which probably it's first release. z/OSMF is a lot easier to configure now than it used to be. I've been through the entire setup, and it's not bad in my opinion. The most common sticking point seems to be security system setup. You can find the pertinent samples in SAMPLIB with names like IZUSEC (the main one) and IZUxxSEC, where xx is an abbrevation for the application name. For historical reasons, Software Management's sample is named IZUDMSEC. A rewritten configuration chapter should hit the streets soon, too, which I think will help. z/OSMF was rebased on WebSphere's Liberty Profile in z/OSMF V2.1, which dramatically reduced its CPU, memory, and disk footprints. The idle CPU consumption of the z/OSMF server is pretty low. It only chews up significant cycles if you use it to do things. That said, you can stop the server when you're not using it. You can also lower its priority in WLM, but if you go *too* far in that direction, you might experience browser timeouts if your other workloads yield high overall CPU utilization for long-ish periods of time. I have not done a comparative measurement of a ServerPac-based installation and a Software Management Deployment operation CPU consumption, but I would expect broad swaths of both to be fairly similar. ServerPac uses GIMGTPKG to get the package, and so does Software Management. Likewise, both use GIMUNZIP to load the files and data sets from the GIMZIP archives. The things that will eventually require using things unique to z/OSMF Software Management are acquiring the package (or pointing at it, if you don't have internet connectivity to IBM), doing the customization you want (data set names, catalog environment, etc.), the job management done by the final step of the ServerPac dialog, and (eventually) managing the setup workflows that we want to have replace the ServerPac product-specific batch jobs. If you want to model after something existing, which I expect most will, you will also have to define the thing to be modeled after as a "software instance" first. It's probably worth mentioning that not all of the aforementioned processing is zIIP-eligible. The z/OSMF proper part of it is mostly eligible (I'd guess about 80-85%), but many of the system services used by Software Management (DADSM, CVAF, Catalog, VSAM, etc.) are not. Those things cost the same whether we drive them from a PLI-based ISPF dialog or from a z/OSMF application. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN MARKSANDSPENCER.COM ________________________________ Unless otherwise stated above: Marks and Spencer plc Registered Office: Waterside House 35 North Wharf Road London W2 1NW Registered No. 214436 in England and Wales. Telephone (020) 7935 4422 Facsimile (020) 7487 2670 www.marksandspencer.com Please note that electronic mail may be monitored. This e-mail is confidential. If you received it by mistake, please let us know and then delete it from your system; you should not copy, disclose, or distribute its contents to anyone nor act in reliance on this e-mail, as this is prohibited and may be unlawful. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
