System Programmer Titles

2021-10-11 Thread Herring, Bobby 
I asked this question back in 2004. My boss wants to know if there are any new 
titles to add to the list below.

Mainframe Engineer
Operating Systems Architect
Software Engineer
Software Project Specialist
Software Specialist
System Analyst
System Architect
System Engineer
System Programmer
Systems Programming Specialist
Systems Specialist
Technical Advisor
Technical Analyst
Technical Services Professional
Technical Specialist

What title do you have as a system programmer?

Bobby Herring
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IBM z/OS OpenSSH is a base feature of z/OS since V2R2.
When you install a new version of z/OS you will get a new version.
There are often migration actions from IBM having to do with /etc/ssh
configuration settings. When moving releases you would at minimum want to
review any changes that you made from the IBM /samples and the new /samples
and merge those as appropriate.

BTW: Here's a quick start guide that we have on customizing IBM z/OS
OpenSSH:
https://dovetail.com/docs/pt-quick-inst/index.html

Kirk Wolf
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On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 2:14 PM Roberto Halais 
mailto:roberto.hal...@gmail.com>>
wrote:

> Listers:
>
> My company has decided to forego FTP and go the SFTP way.
>
> I have installed OPENSSH and have SFTP working.
>
> I installed using the IBM user's guide and everything installed in the
> default libraries.
>
> My concern is, when we migrate to a new z/OS release do I have to do
> the whole install again?
>
> Can I, from the beginning, install all the SSH libraries in a different
> filesystem so that when I migrate I can just mount the filesystem and
> execute.
> And later on install the new version Openssh.
>
> Don't know if I am clear in what I am asking.
>
> Just some tips on facilitating installing under a new release.
>
> Thank you.
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Re: And the survey says...

2021-04-27 Thread Herring, Bobby 
Same here. Our systems group swears by it and threatens to quit if they remove 
it.

Bobby

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Mine will not be the only vote that you get for Tom Brennan's Vista.

Charles


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Classification: Confidential

What 3270 emulator are you using?

I (and my colleagues) have been using PCOMM as our 3270 emulator by corporate 
edict.
Corporate has removed PCOMM from the available list of emulators, hence this 
survey (survey ends Fri. Apr 30 @ COB).

Since we have to go through a procurement process, we want to obtain the 
optimal product.
I am aware of the usual suspects and have them on my short list.

Responses can be posted on-list or directly to me.

Thanks to all in advance for your time and attention,




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Re: Diagram of MVS Control Blocks

2021-04-26 Thread Herring, Bobby 
Or EOB or a CID deck.

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> I'll bet 99% of people -- even those who ran OS/360 --
> didn't t know what Roll out / Roll in did.

I hope that you weren't expecting me to take that bet. 99% of the users also 
didn't know what BAL, drums, GJP or SGJP were either.

The world is divided into two kinds of people; those that never experienced a 
noodle picker or Mother Fletcher, and those that wish they hadn't.

> How about here

That a legitimate diagram. The one that the OP metioned was deliberately 
obfuscated to make it look more complicated than it actually was. It was a true 
classic.


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I'll bet 99% of people -- even those who ran OS/360 -- didn't t know what Roll 
out / Roll in did.

I found it included in Mitre OS/360 SYSGEN when I joined company in 1971, 
laughed, exercised it, removed it -- saving xxKB from resident nucleus, back 
when bytes were precious.

It enabled JCL options, something like Rollout=yes and Rollin=yes. Specify 
former, job was eligible to be pushed entirely out of memory to disk. Specify 
latter, job was eligible to push jobs out to make room. Or maybe that's 
backwards, or maybe those aren't the precise options.

Some jobs designated as bullies, others wimps. Of course nobody at Mitre had 
ever used them; for grins I coded two jobs, one each. Ran wimp job, then bully 
job. Operator got a couple mysterious messages he'd never seen before about 
wimp job being rolled out and rolled in. Then I redid SYSGEN minus that 
pointless option. It was early primitive swapping.

Lizette Koehler mailto:stars...@mindspring.com>> said:

How about here

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Re: Is there a JES2 command to submit a job?

2020-11-19 Thread Herring, Bobby 
We have a rather simple solution we use.

We have this command in the JES commands member:

$TA,T=23.00,''$VS,S JOB,J=CLEANJES'''

That starts a started task called JOB. It is in a library that is in the JES 
PROCLIB concatenation.

It looks like this:

//JOBPROC J=XXX,   /* MEMBER NAME TO SUBMIT*/
//   L='SYS1.TXFZ.OPERJOBS.TZ' /* LIBRARY TO SUBMIT FROM   */
//**/
//*@ STARTED TASK TO SUBMIT JOBS   */
//**/
//STEP1  EXEC PGM=IEBGENER
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSUT2   DD SYSOUT=(A,INTRDR)
//SYSUT1   DD DISP=SHR,DSN=()
//SYSINDD DUMMY

The JES command formats out like this:

S JOB,J=CLEANJES

Which starts JOB and it submits CLEANJES from the SYS1.TXFZ.OPERJOBS.TZ library 
to the queue.

The commands member gets submitted each day at midnight to refresh the commands.

//CMDSTXFZ  JOB (HSKP),'CMDSTXFZ',CLASS=K,MSGCLASS=9,
// MSGLEVEL=(1,1),REGION=0M
//*
//*   LIB: SYS1.TXFZ.OPERJOBS.TZ(CMDSTXFZ)
//*@   COMMANDS TO ISSUE AT IPL TIME AND EVERY 24 HOURS
//*
// COMMAND '$CA,ALL'
// COMMAND '$TA,T=05.00,''$VS,S JOB,J=CLEANJES'''
// COMMAND '$TA,T=24.00,''$VS,S JOB,J=CMDSTXFZ'''
// COMMAND '$SA,ALL'
//STEP1EXEC PGM=IEFBR14
/*

Bobby Herring
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Subject: Re: Is there a JES2 command to submit a job?

I was and am under control on the $TA part and fully intend to use that.
It's not the whole solution, though. My question was "what can the $TA schedule 
that will run a job" and these replies have provided the answer.
The answer is something like

$T A,,86400,'$VS ''S RDR,DSN=MY.PDS(MYJOB)'' '

I may not have the syntax and all the quotes perfect, but that's the idea.

Charles


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On Thu, 19 Nov 2020, at 00:19, Charles Mills wrote:
> Right! I remember that. I remember that was how you ran anything. You
> started a real reader: it fired up the 2540 and read in the job. And
> then you did a S WTR (?) to print the output. OS/360 on a 360/40.

But the S RDR... command doesn't start a real reader.  It's just starting a
started task.   The previous reply talking about $TA etc was for faking a

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Re: z/OS Master Console Commands

2020-06-16 Thread Herring, Bobby 
On mine, it's ALT and Insert. I think that may map to PA1.

Bobby Herring

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Isn't there a way to recall previous commands on the console?
I can't find anything and it's killin me!
Thanks, Elaine

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Re: Messages & Codes (was Re: "Everyone wants to retire mainframes")

2020-06-12 Thread Herring, Bobby 
We used to run a product called SPIFFY by Isogon. It was bought by IBM and 
renamed to Dataset Commander. I was actually told by the IBMer supporting the 
product that they didn't have a messages manual. He said the messages were 
self-explanatory. And he was serious.

I tried to explain that if they were truly that self-explanatory, then I 
wouldn't be opening incidents with them for problems.

Bobby Herring
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> 4. Message description in the book is more than "Something is wrong.
Try again later".

That may be true now: I still recall with rage "The following messages are self 
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Personal Communications Printer Session

2019-07-02 Thread Herring, Bobby 
We have an old Windows server running an old version of Rumba. It is only used 
to emulate two printers connected via IP.

The new version is apparently very cost prohibitive so I thought we could use 
Personal Communications to replace it.
We use it for our console sessions and I have no problem defining terminal 
sessions.

I am trying to define a printer session with an IP address and a LU name to 
replace the Rumba printer. It isn’t working mainly because I don’t know what 
I’m doing.

Does anyone know of a list where PComm is or can be discussed?

Thanks,
Bobby Herring
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Waco, TX



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Re: WLM Service Definition Formatter

2019-06-13 Thread Herring, Bobby 
I tried Chrome, IE and Firefox. Also WS FTP LE and FileZilla.

Thanks, Bobby

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Yes, it is a 207,378 byte file. I was able to extract the spreadsheet, open it 
and load a definition. Is there an anti-virus or malware detection product 
blocking the download? Are you able to try to download with a ftp client or a 
different browser?

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>
>I had someone at our help desk look at it and he thought his download worked, 
>too. But the file was 0kb.
>
>Did you get an actual exe file to download?
>
>I can download all the other four files on the site, just not that one.
>
>Thanks, Bobby
>
>From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List 
>mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>> On Behalf Of Alan 
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>The download works here. I do notice it is a ftp link and not an http(s) link. 
>Is it possible your organization is blocking ftp access?
>
>
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>>From: "Herring, Bobby" 
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>>Sent: Jun 12, 2019 8:31 AM
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>>IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU<mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU<mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU%3cmailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>>
>>Subject: WLM Service Definition Formatter
>>
>>I have used IBM's WLM Service Definition Formatter spreadsheet tool for 
>>years. It's just an Excel spreadsheet with lots of macros under the covers.
>>
>>It was a download from the WLM web page.
>>
>>Mine is an older version and has quit working. The last time it worked 
>>correctly was last fall.
>>
>>I went to download a new copy but that download no longer works.
>>
>>Has anyone else tried downloading this tool and was it successful?
>>
>>Page: 
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>>
>>Bottom of the page under Service Definition Formatter
>>
>>Bobby Herring
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Re: WLM Service Definition Formatter

2019-06-12 Thread Herring, Bobby 
I had someone at our help desk look at it and he thought his download worked, 
too. But the file was 0kb.

Did you get an actual exe file to download?

I can download all the other four files on the site, just not that one.

Thanks, Bobby

From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List  On Behalf Of 
Alan Young
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2019 11:21 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] WLM Service Definition Formatter

The download works here. I do notice it is a ftp link and not an http(s) link. 
Is it possible your organization is blocking ftp access?


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>Sent: Jun 12, 2019 8:31 AM
>To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU<mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>
>Subject: WLM Service Definition Formatter
>
>I have used IBM's WLM Service Definition Formatter spreadsheet tool for years. 
>It's just an Excel spreadsheet with lots of macros under the covers.
>
>It was a download from the WLM web page.
>
>Mine is an older version and has quit working. The last time it worked 
>correctly was last fall.
>
>I went to download a new copy but that download no longer works.
>
>Has anyone else tried downloading this tool and was it successful?
>
>Page: 
>https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/z/zos-workload-management<https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/EdeDCNk1yLFMKQ4ir-KHp?domain=ibm.com>
>
>Bottom of the page under Service Definition Formatter
>
>Bobby Herring
>Texas Farm Bureau Insurance
>Waco, TX 76710
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WLM Service Definition Formatter

2019-06-12 Thread Herring, Bobby 
I have used IBM's WLM Service Definition Formatter spreadsheet tool for years. 
It's just an Excel spreadsheet with lots of macros under the covers.

It was a download from the WLM web page.

Mine is an older version and has quit working. The last time it worked 
correctly was last fall.

I went to download a new copy but that download no longer works.

Has anyone else tried downloading this tool and was it successful?

Page:  https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/z/zos-workload-management

Bottom of the page under Service Definition Formatter

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Re: Tape to tape copy jcl

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Re: Omegamon use?

2017-05-01 Thread Herring, Bobby 
The e3270 UI  is working. We are using it with V730 of Omegamon.

Bobby


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TEMS and TEPS run better on zLinux and Windows platforms.  Plus no major MIPS 
consumed that way.  TEPS does have a lot of additional metrics on it.  There 
was intent to move a lot of into the e3270UI over time.  But really don't think 
that will happen given the state of IBM lately.
zN

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Subject: Re: Omegamon use?

If you are not adverse to looking at other tools, what functions do you really 
need?  Real time or after the fact?

Some functions will require a lot of resources, some - not so much.  For 
example, if they have to schedule something to run in the address space to 
collect data.

Once you have the list you can look at other options.

Pare down Omegamon

BMC Mainview

CA SYSVIEW

IBM TIVOLI Performance monitors(Not sure of the name)



And I am sure others


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>
> Hi Folks,
>
>  Looking for opinions on this.
>
>  We've been running Omegamon (MVS + CICS) forever.  We're a small
> shop.  2 lpars, not shared - monoplexes.
>
>  As I upgrade these products, it seems that the GUI stuff (TEMS?)
> - which we've been avoiding - is more and more prevalent.
>
>  What are folks in my position doing?  I'm tempted to configure
> all of it, but notice that the DSST task is a resource pig, even when
> it's just out of the box.
>
>  Is it worth the resource usage?  Does it provide additional
> functionality?  (Yes, I have RTFM and I still pose the question).  Do
> I even have a choice?
>
>  What are y'all doing?
>
> Thanks!
> BobL
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Re: OAM message CBR3006I with an MTL

2017-04-06 Thread Herring, Bobby 
I was the one that responded. Here are our definitions:

FeatureValue
OFFLINEYes
DYNAMICYes
LOCANY Yes
LIBRARYNo
AUTOSWITCH Yes
LIBRARY-ID 1
LIBPORT-ID 01
MTLYes
SHARABLE   Yes
COMPACTYes

But, we do have compact set to yes. And our devices are defined as 3490.

EMC had us break the definitions into eight groups of 16. Each has a different 
LIBPORT. We have 1-4 and 11-14.

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On Wed, 5 Apr 2017 21:07:48 +, O'Connor, Ruth  wrote:

>Thanks for your comments.
>
>The vendor told us to set COMPACT to NO.

Really?  The default is NOCOMP for 3480 and COMP for 3490 and 3590 and I don't 
know why you wouldn't want to set it in HCD, but most likely you have it set in 
DEVSUPxx anyway so it doesn't matter.

>I don't know why we're still not using LOCANY. We probably should have
>changed that last century.

Yes.  :-)

> As for SHARABLE, can all the LPARs in the sysplex share the devices if
> we set that to NO? The devices in the 3494 libraries are set to YES.
>
>Ruth

Yes.  The devices are only allocated / in use by one LPAR at a time.  
AUTOSWITCH will switch it to another LPAR when needed.  I think even with IBM 
and other vendors virtual tape solutions you would set that to NO and I'm 
pretty sure even the HCD
manual says to set it to no for an MTL.   One of the first people that 
responded to
your post said they had the same definitions as you so I didn't really check 
them closely.  I wonder if they really have DLm in use with OAM and have 
SHAREABLE=YES.

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Re: OAM message CBR3006I with an MTL

2017-04-04 Thread Herring, Bobby 
That's the way we have our DLM defined.

In our COMMND00, we have:V (C00-C7E),AS,ON

And in our JES parms, we have this at the end:VARY (C00-C7E),ONLINE

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Subject: [IBM-MAIN] OAM message CBR3006I with an MTL

Hello,
I'm trying to set up a Manual Tape Library for virtual tapes, specifically for 
a Dell/EMC DLm2100 device, and am having trouble getting OAM to recognize the 
library. Whenever it starts it produces messages "CBR3006I Library DLMLIB with 
Library ID 1 unknown in I/O configuration" and "CBR3002E Library DLMLIB no 
longer usable." The devices and control units are genned as 3590, which matches 
what the vendor specified on the DLm's themselves.

In the IODF I specified these features in each of the z/OS LPAR configurations:
FeatureValueR Description
OFFLINEYesDevice considered online or offline at IPL
DYNAMICYesDevice supports dynamic configuration
LOCANY No UCB can reside in 31 bit storage
LIBRARYNo Device supports auto tape library
AUTOSWITCH YesDevice is automatically switchable
LIBRARY-ID 1  5 digit library serial number
LIBPORT-ID 01 2 digit library string ID (port number)
MTLYesManual Tape Library (NOTE: PORTID LIMIT=32)
SHARABLE   YesDevice is Sharable between systems
COMPACTNo Compaction


After reading all of the items under "System programmer response" to message 
CBR3006I I'm wondering if we should specify "OFFLINE  No". Do the devices need 
to be online at IPL time in order for OAM to recognize the MTL?

Does anyone on the list have any other advice?

Thank you,
Ruth O'Connor

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Can SMPPTS datasets be consolidated?

2017-03-16 Thread Herring, Bobby 
I am in the process of receiving a large RSU maintenance order. I have filled 
up three SMPPTS datasets that were not defined large enough.

Can these be merged and consolidated into one or two much larger datasets?

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Re: Hidden Figures

2017-01-13 Thread Herring, Bobby 
We did this in 1976/77 at a manufacturing plant to send the day's production 
numbers to the main office.

The office manager would punch the tape up and then send it on the teletype.

Bobby

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_tape
About 1974-75, I lived with my dad, manager of a Kroger store.  At night he 
would insert various strips of punch film into a reader to report the store's 
daily transactions.

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 12:05 PM, Frank Swarbrick  
wrote:
> There was a recent episode of the new TV series "Timeless" that
> involved this era, and in fact had the Katherine G.
> Johnson "character".
> In this show she and the main characters fairly easily got themselves
> access to the computer room and "fed a virus" in to the mainframe
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Re: TSO LINE COMMAND - EDIT MODE

2016-12-16 Thread Herring, Bobby 
I use this command to do that:

C P'^' '' 80 95 ALLThat carat character tells it to change non-blank characters 
to null.

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John,

I tried out your suggestion and it pariallly worked..  The 00 were removed 
however the non-00 were left.

63
64 02 **
65

Thanks for your help.

On Fri, 12/16/16, John McKown  wrote:

 Subject: Re: TSO LINE COMMAND - EDIT MODE
 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
 Received: Friday, December 16, 2016, 10:18 AM

 On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at
 9:15 AM, willie bunter <
 001409bd2345-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu>
 wrote:

 > Good Day To
 All,
 >
 > Is there a
 way of filling columns 80 95 with blanks?  I have  sequence  > commands 
(please see below for  an example) which I would like to remove.
 >
 >
 00550003   **
 > 0056
 > 00570001   *
 > 00580003   **
 > 0059
 >
 0061   *
 >
 00610003   **
 > 0062
 > 00630001   *
 > 00640003   **
 > 0065
 >
 00660001   *
 >
 00670003   **
 > 0068
 > 00690001   *
 > 0073   **
 > 0071
 >
 > I looked at using C P'00' "
 " 80 95 however since this is a huge dsn I was  > wondering if there is a 
quicker way.  I  also considered pressing the EOF  > key on  my keyboard on 
every line however since the file is quite  large it  > would take me a while.
 >

 ​In the
 ISPF editor or the TSO line editor. With ISPF, just put the  word  "ALL" at 
the end of your
 command:

 C P'00'
 " " 80 95 ALL​



 >
 > Is there a line command I could issue to  do what I want to do?  I remember  
 > > in  ROSCOE I could issue the command FILL 80 95  and it would  replace the 
 >  > numbers with blank  spaces.
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Re: z/VM "load from dvd or server"

2016-01-28 Thread Herring, Bobby 
I'm not very VM literate but when I IPL our VM/Linux LPAR's, we have to add 
CONS= to the load parm part of the IPL screen.

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>>> On 1/28/2016 at 07:18 AM, "R.S."  wrote:
> I vaguely remember such configuration should work, but it doesn't. I'm
> trying to find out what's wrong with my setup?
> Does it matter whether ICC session is defined as console or terminal?
> (I tried both) Should I somehow specify address of the console? How?

There are ways to pass information to z/VM as to what console to use.  I'm not 
familiar enough with that to really help you.  But, if there is an actual 
address associated with the ICC, I believe you can pass that via the loadparm.  
You should probably ask these questions on the IBMVM listserv.  You will 
undoubtedly get all the help you need there.


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Re: Hard Capping an LPAR

2014-08-21 Thread Herring, Bobby 
I am not sure, either. We were hoping they would negotiate if we limited them 
to the single severely crippled LPAR.

I'd like to name then here but that might complicate things later.
We've had good luck with every other vendor except these two.
Both are single use products that don't grow with MIPS upgrades. But, the cost 
does.

Hello to you, too! It's been quite a while since our conference calls.

Bobby

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Not sure that addresses the licence cost issue. BTW hello Bobby!

Cheers, Martin

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Date:   21/08/2014 07:37
Subject:Re: Hard Capping an LPAR
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If you need to cap a single application, put it in a Resource Group and give 
that a cap.

Kees.

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Thank you, that's what I needed to know.

We are trying to limit two problem ISV's that are MIPS based charging. We need 
to do a major CPU upgrade and these two products are making it too painful. One 
can't be gotten rid of easily. The other can be replaced with some pain but is 
doable.

If we can isolate them to the hard capped, very limited use LPAR, then maybe we 
can negotiate with them.

Thanks, Bobby



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Putting a hard cap on an LPAR limits the LPAR's use of the CPU; it does not 
limit a single application.

Yes you specify that on the HMC. 5% of 2000 is 100.

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Hard Capping an LPAR

2014-08-20 Thread Herring, Bobby 
I have searched the archives but just need some clarification.

If I want to hard cap an LPAR so that I can limit the cycles for a single 
application, would I use the HMC panel and check the Initial Weight box?

What we have is a product that we want to limit to 100 MIPS or so. We're 
running a z196 with 2000+ mips and the software cost is getting exorbitant.

If we set the weight so that it is about 5% of the total, will that do it?

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Re: Hard Capping an LPAR

2014-08-20 Thread Herring, Bobby 
Thank you, that's what I needed to know.

We are trying to limit two problem ISV's that are MIPS based charging. We need 
to do a major CPU upgrade and these two products are making it too painful. One 
can't be gotten rid of easily. The other can be replaced with some pain but is 
doable.

If we can isolate them to the hard capped, very limited use LPAR, then maybe we 
can negotiate with them.

Thanks, Bobby



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Putting a hard cap on an LPAR limits the LPAR's use of the CPU; it does not 
limit a single application.

Yes you specify that on the HMC. 5% of 2000 is 100.

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Re: V xcf clarification

2014-06-13 Thread Herring, Bobby 
Does it need to be done? When we IPL, we just bring everything down as noted 
and then do the load. The LPAR gets removed and reconnected to the plex and all 
seems to work well.

We've never done the V XCF command.

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I cannot really think of a specific reason why it SHOULD be done on another 
member in the sysplex.
Assuming that you have brought the system down in a clean way (stopped all 
subsystems, etc..), It sounds like a trouble  to get on a local terminal or HMC 
to issue the V XCF, OFFLINE to vary itself down.
Issueing V XCF, OFFLINE results in message IXC371D anyway. Much easier to just 
issue the command on another system of that sysplex and replying at IXC371D to 
vary the system out of the sysplex.

Again, I personally can not come up with a reason why this is done normally.

Met vriendelijke groet,

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 Hi ,

 Our IPL procedure says to issue v xcf offline from a active in the
 same plex. Its like dt01 is being ipled but v xcf, offline sys=dt01
 from a active lpar dt02. This is being done on CF bases plex.Is there
 any specific reason for issuing v xcf offline from a active system ?

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MIH Setting for DS8100/DS8300

2014-02-24 Thread Herring, Bobby 
We randomly run into a problem where DFDSS Flashcopy gets an ADR935W error.
Looking at the return/reason codes, it says it was unable to complete an 
establish request because of the request being canceled by system Missing 
Interrupt Handler (MIH) processing.

We found that the output device on the flash was not listed in our IOS member.
We thought we had all our DASD listed with 45 second times. Apparently, we 
missed some on our last upgrade.

The book says you can use the word DASD with a time to set all DASD devices 
instead of listing them in ranges. That would make it a lot simpler.

My questions are do we need to list the ranges individually or do we need to 
list them at all?

It would seem we do need to code them since the error was that it timed out due 
to MIH processing.

Thanks,

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Re: Anyone being notified by SR a LOT

2013-08-23 Thread Herring, Bobby 
And we seem to get notifications when nothing was actually updated in the SR.

Bobby

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I noticed getting the same update several times for an SR we had open.

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I had opened an SR with IBM on Aug 14.  Then on Aug 15 I closed the case as my 
problem was resolved.



Since then I have received about 12 notifications that my case has been closed.



I was wondering if anyone else was seeing this issue.



I have contacted the SR Help desk and they say they have a notification issue 
and are working on it.  But it is going on for 6 days now.  It is getting a bit 
annoying.



Thanks



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Re: VTOC Location

2013-07-10 Thread Herring, Bobby 
Probably about the virtual location.

We are getting a S213-04 when trying to flash this one volume. The VTOC on that 
volume is at a different location than the target flash output volume. She is 
trying to say that will cause a problem.

It's an older volume and we have since changed the standard for where and how 
big we create the VTOC and VTOCIX.

It contains the RMM CDS and as such is not easily moved. If it was just regular 
datasets, we would just DFDSS move them to another volume and then re-init it 
to look like our other volumes.

We may move it anyway this weekend to get around the problem.

Bob

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On 2013-07-10 14:56, Ken Porowski wrote:
 LISTVTOC FORMAT,VOL=SYSDA=MVS001

On a Shark, wouldn't that at best give a virtual location, not a physical 
location?


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 We are working with IBM on a flash copy problem with a drive. The box is the 
 ESE 800, the old Shark.

 She is asking about the physical location of the VTOC. ...

Why?

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Re: 'Hacking The Mainframe': What Hollywood Gets Wrong About Its Favorite Tech

2013-04-18 Thread Herring, Bobby 
That sounds like a place I worked back in the early 70's. 17th floor, stereo 
hidden under the raised floor was brought out as soon as day shift left.

 
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Quite a story!

Could Gotyes State of the Art video (although there's the focus on an old 
musical instrument-computer) be related to this in any way? :-)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWIKQMBBTtk)

 Somewhere in the early 1970's I did a lot of software development on 
 rented time. One place I rented time from -- cannot place anything 
 about it other than this part -- they had two machines and as I recall 
 four banks of eight 2401's each. Two of the banks were switchable to 
 either machine. I bought time third shift (because it was cheaper). 
 When I got there they would be running these HUGE tape sorts. Tape 
 sorts are a real thing of beauty, with half of the tape drives running 
 backwards at any given time.

 The third shift operators -- and anyone who has known third shift 
operators  will understand this story -- would go out on the fire 
escape and light up a  little illegal substance and then come back and 
turn off all the machine room lights* and then sit there and groove on 
all the blinking lights of 24  tape drives running a tape sort.

 I didn't participate in the illegal substances -- I did partake in 
 those days but can't work in that state -- but the 2401's in the 
 darkened machine room WERE amazing.

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