On Monday, 11/05/2007 at 01:30 EST, Suleiman Shahin 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I've seen these messages and that's what prompted me to ask. 

In this case you just update PROFILE TCPIP with a larger value (see what 
NETSTAT POOL says).  However, if that message isn't "normal", it can 
indicate an attack on the system.

For example, ACBs (activity control blocks) are used whenever there is 
something to do.  I once saw a stack get hit with several hundred 
simultaneous telnet sessions and it got an ACB shortage. In this case it 
was semi-legitimate (a misconfigured test program), but I wouldn't update 
the control block allocations to make the message go away.  I *want* to 
know something like that is going on.

If you get the messages on a regular basis, then it may just reflect 
"normal" cycles in your workload and you *should* increase the buffer 
pools to reflect what is normal for your system.

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott

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