JT writes:
ACF2 === RACF
IBM bought Consul recently. Thus you might want to ask about the Tivoli
zSecure products (Admin and/or Audit I'd guess). If one of those products
helps you migrate faster and easier, and/or makes things easier for the
system operators, and/or reduces risk,
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:38:59 -0400 Craddock, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
:1) Does the ETXR exit routine share the Linkage Stack with the originating
:task?
:Depends on your definition of the originating task. The ETXR runs under the
control of an IRB on the attaching task when the attached
Like Barbara, I'd also like to see some justification for the alerts.
Some of them are just inane - especially for smaller sites that may
lack
experienced staff.
Shane ...
And that's exactly where the potential strengths and weaknesses of HC
lie.
For 10 or 20 years IBM is promising us
Shane wrote:
Ooooh, I doubt my opinion of the ITRM packaging is fit for public
consumption.
I'm with you, mate.
Quote from the doc:
SAS IT Resource Management ensures delivery of IT services and resources in
an efficient and cost-effective manner while demonstrating measurable value
to
Esteemed listers
We have a WLC licence for our z890 machine. It's becoming very frequent
that this machine is capped, even for many hours due to 4-hour rolling
average exceeding the capping limit. According to someone all is ok,
according my humble opinion this is not true, WLM should be
I've already dropped SAS from z/OS due to cost.
We managed to get quite a deal for SAS on the mainframe.
Ever since January 2006, when they announced sub-capacity pricing.
And, you don't have to run any reports.
A $100K licence dropped to $36K in the first year and $20K every year after.
-
Too
Hi
I'm searching for an application which can add or maintain extra info's
about different JCL, PROC etc. librariry conetnt
The 8 bytes member name is not enough in many cases.
To see example that the XYZ member is the daily backup job for xyz
datasets etc
--
Miklos Szigetvari
We have a WLC licence for our z890 machine. It's becoming very frequent that
this machine is capped, even for many hours due to 4-hour rolling average
exceeding the capping limit.
This is not necessarily a problem. Are all your service levels being met?
According to someone all is ok,
Hello Gil,
Of course you are right, I conflated the uses of the rexxes to
cater for contrasting uses
- (i) conditionally HDELETE unwanted datasets if they are migrated; this
avoids recalling them if the only thing we are going to do is delete
them before we reallocate them; We encourage
JT,
Are you sure this is necessary, is there no way the CA salesmen can come
up with some sort of an equation that will make the risk, training, and
al the other things that are included in a massive project like this,
just not worth the trouble?
Regards
Herbie
Elavon Financial Services Limited
I ask it as we have PI 1 for critical STCs,batch and all the rest (and
in many cases by far 1). When cpu is capped, all things goes very slow
(for instance deadlocks in DB2 increases, batch run forever, CICS tx
increase elapsed time and so on) and I think it's not they want. We haven't
a SLA
On Sep 17, 2007, at 3:05 AM, Miklos Szigetvari wrote:
Hi
I'm searching for an application which can add or maintain extra
info's about different JCL, PROC etc. librariry conetnt
The 8 bytes member name is not enough in many cases.
To see example that the XYZ member is the daily backup
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Skip Robinson
Unless I missed something in the APAR text, I don't
understand if this is merely a pumped up version of TRSMAIN.
That is--assuming the kind of flat files we're accustomed
to--are tersed files
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Roger Bowler
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:08:29 -0600, Mark Post (NOVELL.COM) wrote:
Hmm. While I like Hercules quite a bit, I've never heard of anyone
saving millions of dollars running anything on it. I do know a lot
Nice program name btw. Can envision some heated phone calls somewhat like
... and how am I supposed to do that?
AMATERSE ...
Couldn't resist
Robert
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On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 14:53 -0500, Roger Bowler wrote:
I do feel
obliged to point out that saving millions of dollars is not the sole measure
of whether something is worthwhile or not.
And that from a man well qualified to comment - *especially* about the
motivation for, and effort expended,
Sounds like a royal pain to me. Migrating from one solution to another
may seem doable; but the people time in effort to implement, retraining,
conversion of data, d/r issues from the old product to the new, and so
on, really seems a difficult decission to make. Unless, of course, you have
a lot
Marcos Rodrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
Hi Mainframers!!
I need the new record layout of SMF from Z/OS someone knows how can i
get it or
sends to me?
Thanks!
Best RegardS!
Marcos Rodrigues.
Which new layout are you talking about? The layout
Ed
I used to maintain a test/education environment for a number of classes,
some of them for colleagues, and at one point I despaired of all the members
in all the partitioned data sets for which I was responsible. Probably
matters came to a head when I, having spent some time building up
Posted by David Kopischke
Greetings,
Preface: I am not a performance analyst. I have no idea what these
products do, hence my question.
Our capacity analysis team is looking at SAS ITRM 3.1
functionality.
In breezing through the synopsis:
Probably he thought that Don would feel good and Her Majesty won't mind.
On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 09:39:05 -0600, Steve Comstock
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A post from the MVS Questions Yahoo group. I didn't
know Don had been knighted!
Original Message
snip
is called PC/370. It
If you dont mind some coding:
- keep your stuff in pdse
- write a small program to assign an alias to a member (I think pdse
alias names can be up to 1024 bytes)
- figure out a way to keep them in sync
Hope it helps,
Alex
--
For
Miklos,
I learned this very basic way of keeping track of things back in the
early 90's ... Not that great, but...
Jut below the jobcard he inserted the following :
//*###
//*### | MEMBER |DESCRIPTION|###
//*### |
I ask it as we have PI 1 for critical STCs,batch and all the rest
(and
in many cases by far 1). When cpu is capped, all things goes very
slow
(for instance deadlocks in DB2 increases, batch run forever, CICS tx
increase elapsed time and so on) and I think it's not they want. We
haven't
a
Most z/OS SMF records are described in the publication
z/OS System Management Facilities.
Here is a link to the z/OS 1.8 version of that publication:
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IEA2G271/CCONTENTS
Bill
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:55:13 +0200, Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM
Binyamin, Chris,
I did some testing and more reading and discovered the following...
a) The Extended Addressability Guide says that each workunit (TCB or SRB)
has its own stack. From that I it appears that the IRB is sharing the stack
with the orginating task. So, I won't be using the stack to
On Sep 17, 2007, at 8:25 AM, Chris Mason wrote:
Ed
I used to maintain a test/education environment for a number of
classes, some of them for colleagues, and at one point I despaired
of all the members in all the partitioned data sets for which I was
responsible. Probably matters came to
snip
If the communications server people had not told me where their tech
notes are, I would have never found them. And if you don't know the
number (ID) of the tech note, good luck searching IBM's web pages for
what you are looking for.
And so I put this question out to see if anyone else knew
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:33:56 -0500 Vic Petrone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:I did some testing and more reading and discovered the following...
:a) The Extended Addressability Guide says that each workunit (TCB or SRB)
:has its own stack. From that I it appears that the IRB is sharing the stack
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:11:06 +1000, Fenner, Jim wrote:
- (i) conditionally HDELETE unwanted datasets if they are migrated; this
avoids recalling them if the only thing we are going to do is delete
them before we reallocate them; We encourage people to use the rexx
instead of IEFBR14 deletes
-
I've got a temporary gig to migrate from IMS V6 to IMS V8, with a later
migration to V9. It appears that I can't use the V8 SVC routines for IMS
V6; are there any other coexistence or migration issues that I should be
aware of?
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:55:13 +, Norman Hollander
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And what happens when another vendor offers
a $1.50 less to go to their solutions?
Then you switch back. ;-) There are actually a lot of companies that
seem to work that way. That's what happens when bean
--snip-
I'm searching for an application which can add or maintain extra info's
about different JCL, PROC etc. librariry conetnt The 8 bytes member name
is not enough in many cases. To see example that the XYZ member is the
daily backup job for xyz
:a) The Extended Addressability Guide says that each workunit (TCB or SRB)
:has its own stack. From that I it appears that the IRB is sharing the stack
:with the orginating task. So, I won't be using the stack to save the state
in
:the exit. Hence the second question on the size of the save area
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 06:43:41 -0500, Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Support for PDSEs apparently has been added, as well.
Current version(s) of TRSMAIN already support PDSE.
Mark
--
Mark Zelden
Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead
Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance
Does anyone have any tuning/performance references/links for Java under z/OS?
Some tentative footsteps were taken to develop Java apps to run under USS and
the Hello World app sucked down 30% of the CPU during the time the app was
running. :( So, I gotta prepare for the onslaught when things
--snip-
Hi Mainframers!!
I need the new record layout of SMF from Z/OS someone knows how can i
get it or
sends to me?
Thanks!
Best RegardS!
Marcos Rodrigues.
Which new layout are you talking about? The layout can change with
each z/OS
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Aaron Walker
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 9:39 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Tech Notes - Any body know about them or where they are
hidden?
snip
If the communications server
Max,
Do you have any resource groups defined? This is the WLM tool to limit
processor capacity for a group of work. It is discussed in Chapter 7 of
the MVS Planning: Workload Management book.
The more work you can throw into a service class with an associated
resource group, the less likely
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 10:02 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: NEW Z/OS SMF RECORD LAYOUT.
Hi Mainframers!!
I need the new record layout of SMF from
I wouldn't mind so much using the search function at ibm.com if:
a) You could get it to work without timing out most of the time;
b) You could filter the results better;
c) When you click on a search result link, you could actually get the
page referenced most of the time rather than the Link not
Congradulations on the new job. Its always good to see people on the list
finding a job again. Sorry, I can't help you with IMS migrations.
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
414-475-7434
- Original Message -
From: Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) [EMAIL
Hello Shmuel,
Other then the IMS planning guide, you may ask at IMS Data Base Discussion
List [EMAIL PROTECTED] I went all versions one by one, so I did' nt
pay attention to gap analysis.
Shana Tova and Gmar Hatima Tova,
Itschak
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Gary Green
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 10:01 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: JAVA un z/OS
Does anyone have any tuning/performance references/links for Java under
z/OS?
Some tentative
Gary Green wrote:
Does anyone have any tuning/performance references/links for Java under z/OS?
Some tentative footsteps were taken to develop Java apps to run under USS and the
Hello World app sucked down 30% of the CPU during the time the app was
running. :( So, I gotta prepare for the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Zelden) writes:
Then you switch back. ;-) There are actually a lot of companies that
seem to work that way. That's what happens when bean counters make
the decisions and don't consider the human aspects (time, training etc.)
this is related to the original
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 09/13/2007
at 12:56 PM, R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Ad 1. Yes, VTOC space depends on extents! But this is weak dependence,
that means 1-3 extents occupy one VTOC block, next extents if available
occupy another VTOC block. In other words 100+ extents dataset occupy
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on
09/13/2007
at 10:43 PM, Johnny Luo [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Does that mean all data sets in z/os will consist of complete tracks?
Unless you consider a member or a VTOC to be a data set.
But I'm not sure because I once read from the manual about VTOC: A VTOC
consists
Thank you for?the responses so far (via list and private email).
For clarification, this proposal was made to management.? There is a pile of $$
on one side saying make the swap.? I am?trying to validate the
proposal?technically (functionality, ease of use, performace, resource
demand...).?
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 09/06/2007
at 07:23 PM, Joao Paulo PR [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I need to Know, how can i free ECSA area used by Address Space, that was
canceled by CANCEL command ?
With fear and trembling.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see
Hi, All,
Seeking comments on the (non-)advisability and implications of running
Integrated Cryptographic Services Facility (ICSF) on a z9 that has NONE
of the crypto assist features enabled or installed (don't ask; not
even the free one(s)).
TIA,
-jc-
Yes, I'm searching for an automated way, to store some change history
info, add this stciker manually or automatically etc etc.
I had a +10 year old ISPF application which had an ISPF table for every
library , and in the table there was a description line for every
member etc.
I thought
Chase, John wrote:
Hi, All,
Seeking comments on the (non-)advisability and implications of running
Integrated Cryptographic Services Facility (ICSF) on a z9 that has NONE
of the crypto assist features enabled or installed (don't ask; not
even the free one(s)).
TIA,
-jc-
I guess for starters.. I would ask why you want to run ICSF.. is there
something you want to take advantage of??
-Rob
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Gary,
In addition to the redbook, you might consider posting this on the
MVS-OE list. There are some pretty good people lurking that have JAVA
on z/OS experience.
-Rob Schramm
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Thanks Steve I'll head there and look for the PDF.
On Mon Sep 17 9:50 , Steve Comstock [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent:
Gary Green wrote:
Does anyone have any tuning/performance references/links for Java under
z/OS?
Some tentative footsteps were taken to develop Java apps to run under USS
For the man that has a hammer, everything looks like a nail... IBMMain is my
hammer. :(
Thanks, I completely forgot about that group, even though I subscribe! It's
that CRS I mentioned in a prior posting.
On Mon Sep 17 12:35 , 'Schramm, Rob' [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent:
Gary,
In addition to
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 22:28:07 -0500, Rick Fochtman wrote:
I can only say THANK YOU to ALL the IBM'ers who are involved, however
peripherally, in our discussions here. And ditto to all the other
manufacturers' representatives who offer their help and advice here.
I'd like to take this opportunity
From: Miklos Szigetvari [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes, I'm searching for an automated way, to store some change history info,
add this stciker manually or automatically etc
Hi Miklos,
Could you perhaps set up an initial edit macro so that whenever a member is
edited the macro would automatically
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs
Will it even start? If so does it do anything?
Well, as I read the manual, apparently it will start. If it finds no
crypto-assist features, it will apparently do whatever it does in
software (and
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Schramm, Rob
I guess for starters.. I would ask why you want to run ICSF..
is there something you want to take advantage of??
The CICS Internet Guide implies that it is required for CICS to
support https (secure
The 470C in error status seems to be perm IO error reading or writing a
DSCB.
Is your VTOC full?
snip
DSNJ103I -DB71 DSNJDS01 LOG ALLOCATION ERROR 761
DSNAME=DSN71.ARCHLOG1.B0001449, ERROR STATUS=470C107F, SMS REASON
CODE=
DSNJ115I -DB71 OFFLOAD FAILED, COULD NOT ALLOCATE AN
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:09:10 -0700, Edward Jaffe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
When the new system proved it couldn't handle the real world,
IBM should have immediately come up with a different plan while
letting customers continue using the 3270 interface.
Huh?? This is the 21st-century
Mark Zelden writes:
That's what happens when bean counters make
the decisions and don't consider the human aspects
(time, training etc.)
It's rare that I defend the bean counters, but I'd just like to point out
that many good business cases do consider (and cost) time, training, and
other such
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