Re: Catalog question

2010-02-17 Thread Ron Hawkins
Ted, I'm seeing examples of catalogs being in the top 1% of datasets for read-only disconnect time. While catalog IO may represent a small percentage of the IO for a file, the aggregate catalog IO may represent a single point of contention and delay for the end to end application. Also of note i

Re: DFSMSrmm Tape encryption

2010-02-17 Thread Russell Witt
TKLM is IBM's new Tivoli Key Lifecycle Manager and is the replacement for EKM. While EKM is (was) a no-cost download; I believe (could be wrong) TKLM is an extra-cost software product that requires WebSphere (oh goody-goody). And while EKM can still be downloaded, the statement on the IBM web-site

Re: Catalog question

2010-02-17 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>If you have a sysplex, significant performance would be gained by implemention >Enhanced Catalog Sharing. As long as ECS is working! I've had too many bad experiences. The I/O to the catalogue is so small, vs the files, that it's not worthwhile! - Too busy driving to stop for gas!

Re: Catalog question

2010-02-17 Thread Traylor, Terry
If you have a sysplex, significant performance would be gained by implemention Enhanced Catalog Sharing. Terry Traylor charlesSCHWAB TIS Mainframe Storage Management Remedy Queue: tis-hs-mstg (602) 977-5154 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.u

Re: IOACMD in BATCH

2010-02-17 Thread Chris Mason
Michael What my notes showed was the z/OS commands which need to be entered once the OAT is available to the OSA. Ed's earlier post indicated you may need to be aware of that sequence. Ed provided a very simple "TSO in batch" job sample which indicated how you can execute IOACMD commands in a

Re: PDS vs. PDSE

2010-02-17 Thread Rick Fochtman
-- The system structures designed into S/360 that turned into bottlenecks sooner than most others did were built around the cKd architecture, in which the K is uppercased because it means KEY (where "KEY rhymes with "bad, bad, bad").

Re: Fastest branch instruction

2010-02-17 Thread Ivan Warren
McKown, John wrote: I know "it's the one not taken!". But of the B, J, or BR, can they be ordered? I am 99.9% certain that having the branch address in a register is the fastest. But is it significant enough that I should dedicate a register for it? I'm asking because I'm reoptimizing some cod

Re: DFSMSrmm Tape encryption

2010-02-17 Thread Russell Witt
There are a couple of options here. First, there are software based encryption and then there are hardware based devices. With hardware based devices; you need to make sure there are similar devices at your DR location if used for backup (the main purpose of tape of course). And you have the issue

Re: SMS compression cost & size

2010-02-17 Thread Rick Fochtman
--- By 'killer apps' you mean good ones to COMP for, right? Would you COMP regardless of size, if short on CPU already, with lots of DASD? (even for less than 50 cyls) If size matters, what should the MIN size be? ---

Re: Batch Job Output Limiting

2010-02-17 Thread Rick Fochtman
I have been given the task of designing a way to prevent batch jobs fromfilling up our spool packs. The main culprits are traces with large input files that result in 10's of millions of lines of trace data on the spool vo

Re: Fastest branch instruction

2010-02-17 Thread Rick Fochtman
-- I may be advertising my age, but would a BXLE or BXH be the most efficient? - If you're guaranteed a hit, BRANCH RELATIVE ON COUNT would be the fastes

Re: What was old is new again (water chilled)

2010-02-17 Thread Rick Fochtman
Perhaps someone could summarise cogently what was wrong with water cooling the first time around (which, yes, I was there to witness). :-) I surmise it wasn't the water cooling so much as the space and the energy consumpt

Re: TS7700 & Backups

2010-02-17 Thread Lizette Koehler
If you want to backup non z/OS stuff to the VTS it is probably doable if you look at FDR Upstream for that function. A little cable to your smaller boxes and this software may do the trick. I had hoped to this at our shop with a TS3500. So far, the little guys are very resistant. Lizette > >

End of an era

2010-02-17 Thread Gabe Goldberg
Mike Cowlishaw, developer of the REXX language, author of several books, and IBM Fellow for quite some time, will take early retirement from IBM March 5. It's hard to exaggerate -- or even grasp, really -- how much REXX changed IBM computing and how those lucky enough to know REXX get their wor

Re: TS7700 & Backups

2010-02-17 Thread Richard Peurifoy
On 2/17/2010 5:19 PM, Tom Longfellow wrote: Just started a good look at something like the IBM TS7700 and sure enough the Chief comes by with a broad question. Are any people using the TS7700 to backup data from our Brethren over on the Windows or RedHat Linux side of things and then taking those

Re: SMS compression cost & size

2010-02-17 Thread R Hey
Ron, > What is the objective of compressing the dataset? Nobody remembers. It was done in a time far, far away ... My client is short on CPU, so I (new sysFROG) started wondering why ... > regardless of size. So, size is not everything after all ;-) Rez --

Re: DFSMSrmm Tape encryption

2010-02-17 Thread Richard Peurifoy
On 2/17/2010 5:04 PM, Tom Longfellow wrote: We use IBM's 3592 Tape Encryption technology for all our tape encryption needs. Any software based tape encryption is going to cost CPU cycles whereas offloading the encryption/decryption to the hardware we've found to be a cost effective solution. H

Re: LPARs: More or Less?

2010-02-17 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>customers have, shall we say, certain "demands", like "Don't you put our >"stuff" in the same LPAR as that customer!!". That is a valid requirement! Especially after SOX, in the states. Before PR/SM (LPAR), we had to dedicate entire processors. >So, the numbers of LPARs may also be driven by cu

Re: SUN/STK SL8500 ATL met STK 10000 drives

2010-02-17 Thread Mike Myers
Scott: That agrees with my experience. Although my current client has ESCON and no switches, each tape drive (and CU) had its own unique CHPid. Been working fine here for the last several days. Mike Myers Mentor Services Corporation (919) 341-5210 On 2/17/2010 6:02 PM, Scott Rowe wrote: Yes

AFP Toolkit - open source or freeware

2010-02-17 Thread Linda Mooney
Greetings All, We are unable to purchase due to serious budget issues.  I am looking for a WYSIWYG freeware or open source tool to build AFP resources with.  We have PSF, but not InfoPrint.  Up until now we have just written OGL, but now we need to look for a tool.  It would be fine for i

Re: SUN/STK SL8500 ATL met STK 10000 drives

2010-02-17 Thread Scott Rowe
Yes, each tape drive contains it's own CU. You can't really have the "same CHP" going to all the drives. Either you have a CHP going directly to a single drive, or you have a FICON switch in the middle. In either case the CUADD has no practical use, there is only one CU at the end of the fib

Re: Dynamically removing lpars to the I/O configuration

2010-02-17 Thread Brian Peterson
On z10 machines, you can do this. On older machines, I'm not sure. Use ACTIVATE IODF=nn,TEST to find out whether your new IODF is valid for dynamic LPAR updates. On z10, I was recently allowed to change an LPAR name from "LPAR1" to "*" - the asterisk character represents a reserved LPAR, and to

Re: Catalog question

2010-02-17 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>When I say all, I mean all. I was being facetious. What I meant was what I said in my fourth point - how many. I would recommend is that you do some sort of degradation analysis before you do (what might be) wasted work. - Too busy driving to stop for gas! --

Re: Catalog question

2010-02-17 Thread Ron Hawkins
Gsg, Looking at Catalog and VLF statistics will tell you how well your catalog is caching, but it will not tell you about the performance of your catalog IO. Caching is IO avoidance, while the catalog uncached catalog activity is what may be encountering problems. I'd start by looking at your Ty

Re: LPARs: More or Less?

2010-02-17 Thread Guy Gardoit
In a customer driven environment like ours, customers have, shall we say, certain "demands", like "Don't you put our "stuff" in the same LPAR as that customer!!". So, the numbers of LPARs may also be driven by customer requirements. On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 7:26 AM, George Henke wrote: > Here is

Re: Percentfull for 9840D emulated as 3490?

2010-02-17 Thread Carl Swanson
That does seem like a good number, they are being conservative. I would have thought they would have recommended 8250 as long as 2200 has been working for you. Carl Swanson carl.swans...@verizon.net Mobile: 215.688.1459 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [ma

Re: What was old is new again (water chilled)

2010-02-17 Thread Ron Hawkins
Lynn, We had a 3090-200 that did something similar. Problem occurred on a weekend and no-one was aware of it until the parts melting into the sub-floor triggered the smoke alarms. IBM took it away, and I believe it spent a few months in a Melbourne warehouse being poked and prodded to find a root

Re: SUN/STK SL8500 ATL met STK 10000 drives

2010-02-17 Thread BOB COSBY
We just purchased SUN/STK 9840D drives that can be GEN'ed as 3590; I was told by the SUN/STK sales representative that T1 tape drives had to be GEN'ed as 3592 which meant PTF's amd PRE-Reqsfor our OS. Better check this. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailt

Re: Name/Token services in VSE?

2010-02-17 Thread Chuck Arney
Check the IEANTASM macro in PRD1.MACLIB and the IEANTCR.OBJ, IEANTDL.OBJ and IEANTRT.OBJ in IJSYSRS.SYSLIB. I don't think they are documented anywhere in the VSE docs. Just use the z/OS docs. Chuck Arney illustro Systems International, LLC http://www.illustro.com Internet-enable your application

Re: SUN/STK SL8500 ATL met STK 10000 drives

2010-02-17 Thread Mike Myers
Hi: I just recently set up the I/O configuration for a SL8500 ATL, although we were using STK 9840C tape drives, operating in 3590 compatibility mode. We are ESCON attached rather than FICON, but required HCD definition had to see each tape drive as existing on its own control unit. I can't

Re: Catalog question

2010-02-17 Thread gsg
Would that be the F CATALOG,REPORT... commands? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/ar

Re: Dynamically removing lpars to the I/O configuration

2010-02-17 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2010-02-17 10:49, Jorge Garcia pisze: Hello: We want to remove two partition from our iodf. We have executed any dynamics activations y we have solved all the requirements. 1 .- We have unassigned all the candidate list definition chpid for the lpar in the HMC i/o configuration 2 .- W

Re: Catalog question

2010-02-17 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2010-02-17 21:26, gsg pisze: Can having all production application aliases defined in a single UCAT cause performance problems? If so, does anyone have any stories to tell regarding this. It depends - did you expect any other answer for such general question? 1. It depends on number of

Re: TS7700 & Backups

2010-02-17 Thread John Kelly
Windows or RedHat Linux side of things and then taking those dumps (TS7700) offsite Jim We're using a 3584 with LTO and 3592 tape drives and the little people are using Tivoli to backup/dump data to the LTOs. We haven't taken it offsite yet, other than to Iron Mountain. I can put you contact

Name/Token services in VSE?

2010-02-17 Thread Patrick Roehl
We're considering porting a z/OS application to z/VSE. Currently it uses data space with a name/token to find it. I can find references to IEANTCRS with VSE, but can't figure out where it's documented for use under VSE. Can anyone point me in the direction of how to find documentation for this

Re: Catalog question

2010-02-17 Thread John Kelly
I don't know how to go about measuring this to determine if it is a problem A good place to start is the 'f catalog,.' commands. they will tell you lots of good things about how busy your catalogues are and their performance. Jack Kelly 202-502-2390 (Office) ---

Re: Catalog question

2010-02-17 Thread gsg
When I say all, I mean all. There are probably 50 plus applications, but not sure how many are running at the same time. We are CPU constraint as it is. I don't know how to go about measuring this to determine if it is a problem or not. Just trying to see if it is a possibility before raisin

TS7700 & Backups

2010-02-17 Thread Jim Marshall
Just started a good look at something like the IBM TS7700 and sure enough the Chief comes by with a broad question. Are any people using the TS7700 to backup data from our Brethren over on the Windows or RedHat Linux side of things and then taking those dumps offsite. Let me know if indeed thi

Re: Catalog question

2010-02-17 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>Can having all production application aliases defined in a single UCAT cause >performance problems? >If so, does anyone have any stories to tell regarding this. 1. Define all. 2. It depends on the answer to 1. 3. With VLF, modern DASD, cache, & FICON, most likely not. 4. Very general question --

Re: PDS vs. PDSE

2010-02-17 Thread Bill Fairchild
The system structures designed into S/360 that turned into bottlenecks sooner than most others did were built around the cKd architecture, in which the K is uppercased because it means KEY (where "KEY rhymes with "bad, bad, bad"). Real key areas were written onto DASD tracks for system catalog

Re: SUN/STK SL8500 ATL met STK 10000 drives

2010-02-17 Thread John Kelly
According to my understanding, we need a CUADD for every controller on the FICON I'm not sure what a "SL8500 ATL with STK 1 drives" is but your comments seem to indicate that each CU is a tape drive? Is each STK 1000 drive a contol unit and do you have the same CHP going to all of the

Catalog question

2010-02-17 Thread gsg
Can having all production application aliases defined in a single UCAT cause performance problems? If so, does anyone have any stories to tell regarding this. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, s

Re: Fastest branch instruction

2010-02-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In , on 02/16/2010 at 12:09 PM, "McKown, John" said: >I know "it's the one not taken!". But of the B, J, or BR, can they be >ordered? There are two separate issue, the speed of the branch itself and it's impact on the speed of other instructions. Both of those are model dependent. In general

Re: Long LLE list

2010-02-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In , on 02/16/2010 at 10:31 PM, Chris Craddock said: >If you can't change the source, then create yourself a little look-aside >module that does something more sensible (name/token perhaps, although >that could easily use more cpu) and then zap the load module to call your >look-aside at the a

Re: Netiquette Guidelines (Was: Preview: z/OS V1.12)

2010-02-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In , on 02/16/2010 at 12:34 PM, "McKown, John" said: >I prefer email clients, like Pine, which simply know to insert a line >break every 72 characters or so while you're editting. How about GUI client that automatically insert a CRLF at a column width specified by the user and not tied to th

Re: Netiquette Guidelines (Was: Preview: z/OS V1.12)

2010-02-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In , on 02/16/2010 at 01:31 PM, J R said: >One additional problem I seem to have is that, when breaking up long >lines, the key seems to result in double spacing. Does that only mean that you see a blank line, or does it mean that CRLFCRLF is actually transmitted? -- Shmuel (Seymour

Re: Old assembler modules.

2010-02-17 Thread Tony Harminc
On 16 February 2010 00:33, Ed Gould wrote: > > >> --- >> I fail to understand how 3705 Assembler routines/modules could >> possibly be relevant to this discussion. The 3705/3745 PoPS are >> radically different from any IBM "mainframe" hardware of the la

Re: xml files to mainframe

2010-02-17 Thread Hal Merritt
I found I could open the file as a TXT file with Windows Notepad and simply save it back. Notepad apparently fixed the end-of-line issue. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Re: What was old is new again (water chilled)

2010-02-17 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. shar...@dtcc.com (Scott Harder) writes: > I think it's Thermal Conduction Module, but not 100% sure. IBM TCP Collection: http://ibmcollectables.com/gallery/album122

Re: What was old is new again (water chilled)

2010-02-17 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>I think it's Thermal Conduction Module, but not 100% sure. You get a virtual prize of your choice! (8-{]} - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to list

Re: "Intelligent" comparator?

2010-02-17 Thread Ron Hawkins
John, Comparex has been around for decades. http://www.serena.com/products/mainframe-tools/products/product-comparex.htm l Ron > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of > Mike Shorkend > Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:05 A

Re: xml files to mainframe

2010-02-17 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Hal Merritt > Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 1:14 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: xml files to mainframe > > Most likely you are originating from a *nix platform that i

Re: xml files to mainframe

2010-02-17 Thread Hal Merritt
Most likely you are originating from a *nix platform that is not sending a CR/LF to signify end of record. That is a FTP configuration option on the *nix box and there is little you can do downstream to fix the issue. There has been much discussion on this issue in the past. HTH and good luck

Re: What was old is new again (water chilled)

2010-02-17 Thread Tony Harminc
On 16 February 2010 14:50, Ken Porowski wrote: > IIRC this is not cooling of the CPU/chip itself but an add on cooling > 'door' on the rack to help with the heat dissipation.  This has been out > for a couple of years at least. That's about what the first IBM water cooled mainframes did. The 360/

Re: LPARs: More or Less?

2010-02-17 Thread Veilleux, Jon L
Good point. Do you want to pay the per CPU charge for software on a 10-way where the software really runs on about 1 cpu's worth? We split out our WebSphere's to smaller LPARs for this reason. Jon L. Veilleux veilleu...@aetna.com (860) 636-9179 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainfra

Re: SUN/STK SL8500 ATL met STK 10000 drives

2010-02-17 Thread Scott Rowe
Why is it that you think you need a CUADD? Unless there are multiple control unit images at the end of the fiber, then CUADD doesn't make sense to me. >>> Anton Britz 2/17/2010 10:11 AM >>> I received the following question this morning : We are busy installing a SL8500 ATL with STK 1 driv

Re: xml files to mainframe

2010-02-17 Thread John P Kalinich
Tim Brown of the IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 02/17/2010 12:31:12 PM: > Is there any way to transfer an xml file to the > mainframe and keep the look of it. By default it > wraps the entire file into large records. > > > I want this > > EDIT P08145.XML1

Re: xml files to mainframe

2010-02-17 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Tim Brown > Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:31 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: xml files to mainframe > > Is there any way to transfer an xml file to the > mainframe and

Re: What was old is new again (water chilled)

2010-02-17 Thread Scott Harder
I think it's Thermal Conduction Module, but not 100% sure. Scott Hal Merritt Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List 02/17/2010 01:12 PM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List To IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu cc Subject Re: What was old is new again (water chilled) IIRC, the chip t

xml files to mainframe

2010-02-17 Thread Tim Brown
Is there any way to transfer an xml file to the mainframe and keep the look of it. By default it wraps the entire file into large records. I want this EDIT P08145.XML1 Columns 1 00072 Command ===>

Re: Fastest branch instruction

2010-02-17 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Clark Morris > Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:09 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: Fastest branch instruction > > > If this code is in a routine called by a COBOL pr

Re: CICS IP printer

2010-02-17 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 2/17/2010 11:40:26 A.M. Central Standard Time, john_matt...@ea.epson.com writes: info in the TDQ, and writes it to the JES Queue. Once there we use MacKinney's JQP product to send it on its way to IP Printers. This is the cheapest way we found to write CICS to IP Print

Re: What was old is new again (water chilled)

2010-02-17 Thread Hal Merritt
IIRC, the chip technology of that era produced a lot of heat in very small places and was very temperature sensitive. There were things called TCM's or Thermal Controlled Modules. The later technology lent itself to air cooling. I want to say the buzzwords were BIPOLAR and CMOS. BIPOLAR was ver

Re: PDS vs. PDSE

2010-02-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:54:43 -0400, Clark Morris wrote: >>> >Since executables can exist in zFS, would the smarter long term >strategy be to migrate PDSE to zFS and dead end PDSE? The PDSE As soon as they allow Unix directories in my STEPLIB concatenation. (And LINKLIST.) But no aliases for prog

Re: Fastest branch instruction

2010-02-17 Thread Clark Morris
On 16 Feb 2010 10:10:22 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >I know "it's the one not taken!". But of the B, J, or BR, can they be ordered? >I am 99.9% certain that having the branch address in a register is the >fastest. But is it significant enough that I should dedicate a register for

Re: LPARs: More or Less?

2010-02-17 Thread Norman Hollander on DesertWiz
Many times, it is much easier to plan Business Resumption (DR) to a single LPAR. Mirroring DASD, Tapes (real or virtual), etc. can have many moving parts that make more sense to manage from one vantage point. A separate QA LPAR makes perfect sense if it exactly mirrors the Production LPAR (names

Re: PDS vs. PDSE

2010-02-17 Thread Clark Morris
On 17 Feb 2010 05:39:17 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >Bruce Hewson of the IBM Mainframe Discussion List >wrote on 02/17/2010 04:09:59 AM: > >> Hello John, >> >> there have been many responses.some positive some negative...this is >> another negative I am sorry! >> >> 1. Our dev

Re: Rumba on zOS 1.11 telnet connection refused

2010-02-17 Thread Chris Mason
John I have been reminded in another thread - where the topic of the "program properties table" (PPT) arose - that I missed a point when I suggested what was minimally required in order to split off the TN3270E server. There have been no replies so I guess you didn't try my suggestion. There i

Re: CICS IP printer

2010-02-17 Thread John Mattson
How about a CICS program which will read a CICS TDQ whenever something is put into it, and write it to the JES output queue, in a particular otuput class, with a destination? We have an assembler program which is defined as a CICS program and has an associated transaction. CICS

Re: LPARs: More or Less?

2010-02-17 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:34:15 -0600, Al Sherkow wrote: >But sites are being forced to follow the rules initially set long ago. That >is not a productive use of valuable system programmer time. Some sites spend >a lot of effort managing this. They could be installing a new release of DB2 >or IMS.

Re: z/OS 1.11 STCs which now require UID/GID?

2010-02-17 Thread John Mattson
I just jumped to zos 1.08 to 1.11 and the only thing I ran into was making sure the TN3270 STC had a UNIX UID/GID. RDEFINE STARTED TN3270.** STDATA(USER(OMVSKERN)) And make sure the TCP stack associates the same STC name with Telnet for ports 23 and 1023 (in most cases). ---

Re: Percentfull for 9840D emulated as 3490?

2010-02-17 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
STK got back to us. The recommended Percentfull in our case is 8000. Just in case anyone else had the same configuration. Thank You, Dave O'Brien NIH Contractor From: O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 10:16 AM To: IBM-MAIN

Re: LPARs: More or Less?

2010-02-17 Thread Kelman, Tom
I have read through several responses to this, and I agree with all of them. Performance wise, having less LPARs is probably better. Our shop is small and we have only on CEC with three LPARs (production, development, and sysprog sandbox). One purpose for the three is to be able to test new rele

Re: Rumba on zOS 1.11 telnet connection refused

2010-02-17 Thread John Mattson
Thanks, Chris Mason and others... That was it exactly. Once I understood TELNET had to be split out of the stack, it was easy to run down the details. I was barking up all the wrong trees. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signof

Re: SUN/STK SL8500 ATL met STK 10000 drives

2010-02-17 Thread Doug Fuerst
All mine have no CUADD in the report I just ran. Doug Anton Britz wrote: I received the following question this morning : We are busy installing a SL8500 ATL with STK 1 drives TST1 *Control Unit List * Row 9 of 161 Command ===>

Re: Fastest branch instruction

2010-02-17 Thread McKown, John
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Re: "Intelligent" comparator?

2010-02-17 Thread HUTCHISON Gregory
Beyond Compare is a pretty good PC compare tool if you don't mind doing the compare off the mainframe. It is not smart enough to understand your example but has a number of rule sets supplied and you can add your own. It's not free but there is a 30 day trial and the standard version is $30.00.

Re: LPARs: More or Less?

2010-02-17 Thread Al Sherkow
With z/OS and sub-capacity pricing the charges for many important and key products (and the more expensive) are tied to the "size" of the LPAR. A small amount of IMS in a large LPAR is charged a larger price than a small amount of IMS in a small LPAR. Some of IBM's current policies cause sites to

Re: LPARs: More or Less?

2010-02-17 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
George, I will give you the application developer's point of view. I can and have brought Dev/QA LPAR's to their knees with mistaken coding while developing new projects or updated programs. It isn't intentional, mind you, but mistakes happen. We are human. Do you really want your production o

Re: Fastest branch instruction

2010-02-17 Thread Martin Kline
I know "it's the one not taken!". But of the B, J, or BR, can they be ordered? I am 99.9% certain that having the branch address in a register is the fastest. But is it significant enough that I should dedicate a register for it? I'm asking because I'm reoptimizing some code which is very hea

Re: LPARs: More or Less?

2010-02-17 Thread Ken Porowski
>From a pure performance standpoint fewer is probably better (less overhead). WLM balancing should be possible if you want to mix DEV, UAT, PROD on the same LPAR but there is always the possibility of a DEV or UAT task impacting PROD in any number of ways that might not have as large an impact on

Re: Dynamically removing lpars to the I/O configuration

2010-02-17 Thread Jorge Garcia
HCD team answers me: Hello Jorge, before running the dynamic activate you have to do the following: >From HCD point of view you have to prepare the IODF in the following way: --Unassign all shared channel paths from the partitions you are going to remove. Dedicated channel p

Re: LPARs: More or Less?

2010-02-17 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:26:56 -0500, George Henke wrote: >Here is what I thought was a dumb question until someone posed it to me >yesterday. > >Why have a separate QA LPAR and not just leave QA in the DEV LPAR? > >The more I tried to come up with a good reason, the more I could not find >one. >

Re: DFSMSrmm Tape encryption

2010-02-17 Thread Mark Jacobs
On 02/17/10 10:39, MONTERO ROMERO, ENRIQUE ELOI wrote: Hi team, I mean, we are evaluating the way to encrypt the data saved into cartridges or tapes. Is there some way to activate the tape encryption with RMM? Is it a software or Hardware functionality? Which is the easiest way to start encryp

DFSMSrmm Tape encryption

2010-02-17 Thread MONTERO ROMERO, ENRIQUE ELOI
Hi team, I mean, we are evaluating the way to encrypt the data saved into cartridges or tapes. Is there some way to activate the tape encryption with RMM? Is it a software or Hardware functionality? Which is the easiest way to start encrypting our tapes? Best regards, Enrique Montero. -

LPARs: More or Less?

2010-02-17 Thread George Henke
Here is what I thought was a dumb question until someone posed it to me yesterday. Why have a separate QA LPAR and not just leave QA in the DEV LPAR? The more I tried to come up with a good reason, the more I could not find one. Then I started to take the logic to its extreme and ask myself, "Wh

Percentfull for 9840D emulated as 3490?

2010-02-17 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
This is a re-post due to absence of a subject. Sorry. I'm hoping someone else has gone through this exercise. We have STK 9840s emulating 3490s. We are about to install 9840Ds and migrate our HSM Backups and ML2 data from 9840As to 9840Ds. We currently have 2200 specified for our 9840As TAPEU

SUN/STK SL8500 ATL met STK 10000 drives

2010-02-17 Thread Anton Britz
I received the following question this morning : We are busy installing a SL8500 ATL with STK 1 drives TST1 *Control Unit List * Row 9 of 161 Command ===> ___ Scroll ===> CSR Select one or more control units, then press Enter.

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2010-02-17 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
I'm hoping someone else has gone through this exercise. We have STK 9840s emulating 3490s. We are about to install 9840Ds and migrate our HSM Backups and ML2 data from 9840As to 9840Ds. We currently have 2200 specified for our 9840As TAPEUTILIZATION(UNITTYPE(3490) PERCENTFULL(2200)) What is t

Re: SMS compression cost & size

2010-02-17 Thread David Andrews
On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 01:28 -0500, Ron Hawkins wrote: > What is the objective of compressing the dataset? In my environment (cycles to burn) reads for certain long sequential datasets are faster for compressed data. So my ACS routines look for specific larger datasets that are written once, read

Re: What was old is new again (water chilled)

2010-02-17 Thread Scott Harder
"Hardee, Charles H" Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List 02/16/2010 09:39 PM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List To IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu cc Subject Re: What was old is new again (water chilled) Yeah this is the bigger "wow!" for me. I didn't realize they had been out

Re: copy aliases from a master catalog

2010-02-17 Thread מתן כהן
now i understand . thanks 2010/2/17 מתן כהן > shane, > sorry but I didn't completely understood what you meant ? > > 2010/2/17 Shane > > On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 08:00 -0500, Mark Jacobs wrote: >> >> > You can always do it the old fashioned way by reading the existing >> > catalog for all existing

Re: copy aliases from a master catalog

2010-02-17 Thread מתן כהן
shane, sorry but I didn't completely understood what you meant ? 2010/2/17 Shane > On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 08:00 -0500, Mark Jacobs wrote: > > > You can always do it the old fashioned way by reading the existing > > catalog for all existing alias entries and build define alias statements > > for e

SV: Assembler variable with @

2010-02-17 Thread Thomas Berg
The normal codeplaces for $, # and @ is used for our (Sweden's) additional 3 alphabetical letters Å, Ä and Ö.   Regards, Thomas Berg _ Thomas Berg   Specialist   A M   SWEDBANK > -Ursprungligt meddelande- > Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: copy aliases from a master catalog

2010-02-17 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:00:15 -0500, Mark Jacobs wrote: >On 02/17/10 07:53, מתן כהן wrote: >> Hi, >> I need to copy all of my aliases from my currently in use Master Catalog to >> a new Master Catalog. >> I know the option of the command 'MERGECAT' of IBM® Tivoli® Advanced Catalog >> M

Re: PDS vs. PDSE

2010-02-17 Thread John P Kalinich
Bruce Hewson of the IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 02/17/2010 04:09:59 AM: > Hello John, > > there have been many responses.some positive some negative...this is > another negative I am sorry! > > 1. Our developers still regularly break PDSEand we are still getting new > APARs as

Re: Netiquette Guidelines (Was: Preview: z/OS V1.12)

2010-02-17 Thread Peter Nuttall
I blame Lotus Notes !! :-) "Steve Comstock" Sent by: "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" 16/02/2010 05:03 PM Please respond to "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" To IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu cc Subject Re: Netiquette Guidelines (Was: Preview: z/OS V1.12) Long lines are problematic

Re: copy aliases from a master catalog

2010-02-17 Thread Shane
On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 08:00 -0500, Mark Jacobs wrote: > You can always do it the old fashioned way by reading the existing > catalog for all existing alias entries and build define alias statements > for each one. Then just run IDCAMS using the statements generated in > step 1. RCNVCAT from th

Re: copy aliases from a master catalog

2010-02-17 Thread Mark Jacobs
On 02/17/10 07:53, מתן כהן wrote: Hi, I need to copy all of my aliases from my currently in use Master Catalog to a new Master Catalog. I know the option of the command 'MERGECAT' of IBM® Tivoli® Advanced Catalog Management , but not familiar with other ways. is there any a fast way to copy t

copy aliases from a master catalog

2010-02-17 Thread מתן כהן
Hi, I need to copy all of my aliases from my currently in use Master Catalog to a new Master Catalog. I know the option of the command 'MERGECAT' of IBM® Tivoli® Advanced Catalog Management , but not familiar with other ways. is there any a fast way to copy those aliases with no further objects f

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