R Hey pisze:
Hi,
My client has Raid DASD in remote site, being used/accessed by local(MVS1)
remote(MVS2) systems.
Say DASD is hooked to 3 ports of Brocade-2 in the remote site.
MVS1Brocade-1DWDM.DWDMBrocade-2MVS2
Can all 3 ports on Brocade being used/shared by
Defined capacity capping uses a rolling 4 hour average. Usage before the
cap kicks in can therefore exceed some license agreements. We have
successfully use a dummy coupling facility soaker LPAR. The ICF must have
dynamic dispatch set to OFF to ensure that it goes into a cpu loop. The
amount of
Yes, but it wouldn't get the sysprogs a nice comfy fast playpen. :-)
Cheers, Martin
Martin Packer,
Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion
Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM
+44-7802-245-584
email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com
Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker
From:
Timothy
I am assuming that you are on a z9. It is my understanding that under z10
such machinations are not needed.
Rob
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf
Of Walter Medenbach
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 5:27 AM
To:
Allan,
Thanks for the suggestion of HSEND RECYCLE ALL EXECUTE PERCENTVALID(0)
It freed up 6 tapes, I noticed the following from a TTOC of a tape after I
issued the above command :
VOLSER UNIT VOL REUSE VALID PCT VOL RACF PREV SUCC
NAME TYPE CAPACITY
We use Group Capacity to group our two LPARs together in a single capacity
group. We then tell PR/SM how many MSUs these two LPARs together may use.
PR/SM works with WLM on z/OS to cap the two LPARs such that they do not
exceed this group MSU capacity. SCLM works with this so that our software
Sorry, I had a glitch with my reply. Here it is in its entirety:
It freed up 6 tapes, I noticed the following from a TTOC of a tape after I
issued the above command :
VOLSER UNIT VOL REUSE VALID PCT VOL RACF PREV
SUCC
NAME TYPE CAPACITY
Allan,
As a follow up to my earlier post I noticed that when I issued HSEND RECYCLE
ALL EXECUTE PERCENTVALID(0) some volumes were accompanied by the following
message:
ARC0832I RECYCLE STARTING ON VOLUME 065076 AT 08:11:04 ON 2011/03/11 SYSTEM C090
ARC0260I BACKUP VOLUME 065076 ENTRY
snip
Sorry, I had a glitch with my reply. Here it is in its entirety:
It freed up 6 tapes, I noticed the following from a TTOC of a tape after
I issued the above command :
VOLSERUNITVOL REUSE VALIDPCTVOL RACF
PREVSUCC
NAME TYPE CAPACITY
ARC0260I BACKUP VOLUME 065076 ENTRY UNASSIGNED Indicates tape is now
available for reuse.
I am not sure why you do not have an equivalent to or another ARC0260I message
for the ML2 volumes.
See my previous post.
HTH,
Al Staller | Z Systems Programmer | KBM
Allan,
Thanks so much for your help. I will check to see why the TAPEDELETION parm is
not set to SCRATCH.
Much obliged. Cheers.
--- On Sat, 12/3/11, Staller, Allan allan.stal...@kbmg.com wrote:
From: Staller, Allan allan.stal...@kbmg.com
Subject: Re: HSM ODDITY - NOT RELEASING EMPTY
Capping works fine for us
-jc-
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Field, Alan C.
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 10:35 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Dummy LPAR to store excess MIPS
Dick,
We've
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 03:45:05 +, Linda Mooney
linda.lst...@comcast.net wrote:
Is there a sample that does include the OPERLOG info that does not fit into
the SYSLOG format?Â
The OPERLOG formatting program is called IEAMDBLG and it is provided in
source (Assembly language) form and you
OOPS - make that SCRT not SCLM. stupid fingers.
John McKown
Systems Engineer IV
IT
Administrative Services Group
HealthMarkets(r)
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Confidentiality
The documentation states:
REFDD Parameter
The following attributes are copied to the new data set from (1) the attributes
specified on the referenced DD statement, and (2) for attributes not specified
on the referenced DD statement, from the data class of the data set specified
by the
I guess I should mention that LIKE with a DSN does work as expected.
On 3/11/2011 at 10:00 AM, in message 4d79f2d2.6f0f.008...@efirstbank.com,
Frank Swarbrick frank.swarbr...@efirstbank.com wrote:
The documentation states:
REFDD Parameter
The following attributes are copied to the new data
The DD you are referring to does not contain any space information, AFAIK it
will not go to the DSCB for that info, it is only copying it from what is in
the JCL text.
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Frank Swarbrick
frank.swarbr...@efirstbank.com wrote:
The documentation states:
REFDD
Ah-hah, ok. Re-reading the docs with that knowledge in mind I see that I made
an assumption and that assumption made me misread the docs. Happens too often.
Thanks!
Frank
--
Frank Swarbrick
Applications Architect - Mainframe Applications Development
FirstBank Data Corporation - Lakewood, CO
Downloaded a product with shopz using the download to workstation method and
then moved up to mainframe with no problems. Unpaxed the doclib, rimlib, etc
and unzipped some relfiles to get sample jobs. My problem is that the RCVPDO
job contains the FROMNTS statement below specifying OSP30835 but
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
[mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Sumi, Joseph J.
(CMS/CTR) (CTR)
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 12:12 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: SHOPZ help
Downloaded a product with shopz using the download to
Anybody figured out how to copy uncataloged and yet live tapes, i. e.
tapes that have files with a retention date or expiration date of
'1999/365'? (And thanks, CA)
Kenneth Klein
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For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive
We are trying to satisfy our auditors by providing reports that detail the
activity in our PDSEs by using SMF Type42 records. This works fine unless
IEBCOPY was used to add or replace a member in the PDSE. Then no SMF Type42
record is created. IBM pointed to APAR OA30503 which states: SMF
Ken,
I do not know how Tivoli works but Opentech Systems TapeCopy product can
copy or move those and a lot more like OAM object backup tapes.
http://www.opentechsystems.com/tape-copy.php
Regards,
Don
Don Bolton
Director Technical Services
www.OpentechSystems.com
-Original Message-
Hello,
I am the Initiative Leader for IBM's Problem Reporting Infrastructure.
Within that initiative is the effort to migrate ServiceLink customers from
the ETR application to IBM Service Request (SR). Based in part upon the
concerns raised on this mailing list, we have slowed the migration
I had tried the rename of 200699 to OSP30385 and it took an 0C4 I also
tried your method and took the same 0C4.with these errors.
RCVPDO:
PATH='/maint2/product1/2006991250_10_PROD/'
SYSOUT:
Interesting. Can you use ISPF option 1 to browse the GIMPAF.XML file? Just put
the entire name:
/maint2/product1/2006991250_10_PROD/OSP30835/GIMPAF.XML
in the other dataset portion. Sounds like the file might be corrupt. The file
should be a normal text type file. Not binary garbage. And,
Here are the direct links in case they were stripped by the list serve.
SHARE presentation -
http://share.confex.com/share/115/webprogram/Session7726.html
SR Online Support - http://www.ibm.com/support/servicerequest/help
SR Email Support - srh...@us.ibm.com
Technical Note -
CA-PDSMAN
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Gary Snider
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 2:21 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: FW: Auditing PDSE Libraries
We are trying to satisfy our auditors by providing reports
Christian,
I want to thank-you for taking the time to provide information in this
forum. This topic has been a sore subject for quite a while now.
_
Dave Jousma
Assistant Vice President, Mainframe Services
david.jou...@53.com
1830
It is unreadable . do you have a GIMPAF.XML that is readable ? I'm thinking
that directory structure / missing order number in the structure is somewhat to
blame.
I have a call with support team on Mon and will find out more. Thanks.
Rgrds, Joseph Sumi
-Original Message-
From:
I suppose you could just audit the data sets... but that probably won't give
you what you need. There was a product.. Change Action (now there is a new
name for it..) by Action Software that would keep track of all PDS/PDSE
changes. I haven't used it.. just did some looking at it.
There is some
I'm guessing somewhere in the file transfer process, you left out the
BIN parameter, and did an ascii file translation.
_
Dave Jousma
Assistant Vice President, Mainframe Services
david.jou...@53.com
1830 East Paris, Grand Rapids, MI
I have a number of files with that name. They are all specific to that one
order.
If it is hex garbage, I wonder it if could be ASCII? On option 1, select
View ASCII Data towards the lower right. If you can then read it, I'd guess
that you may have had a problem with the upload from your
Is it possible to test-drive the SR application (ie. opening issue with IBM)
before pulling the plug on the ETR application ?
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Christian Gilmore
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 11:46 AM
To:
I feel I am speaking for a large portion of the IBM-MAIN constituency. There
may be those that disagree with me, and they are entitled to their opinion and
should feel free to voice that opinion.
We do not mind improved capabilities. However, a perusal of the comments on
IBM-MAIN over the last
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:05:33 -0600, Christian Gilmore c...@us.ibm.com
wrote:
Here are the direct links in case they were stripped by the list serve.
Technical Note -
https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21469299
Thanks,
Christian
Hi Crhistian,
I think that a major problem with
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:38:21 -0600, Doug Henry
doug_he...@usbank.com wrote:
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:05:33 -0600, Christian Gilmore c...@us.ibm.com
wrote:
Hi Christian
(sorry about the typo of your name)
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Hello, Barbara. I have searched the IBM Service Request (SR) Support Team
ticket history and could find no submission from you. It appears that last
service request you managed via the SR application was in October. Much has
changed since then to support the System z community in advance of the
That gets my vote as well. Why not just download it from Shopz again
(assuming there isn't something blocking it) but do a RECEIVE FROMNETWORK
instead? Some of the sysprogs around here ran into this issue and I
couldn't understand why they didn't just run the SMP/E Receive directly
from
Wow you guys are right . I changed my file xfer options from auto to
binary and I can read that file RCVPDO also ran. Thanks !!
Rgrds, Joseph Sumi
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
McKown, John
Sent: Friday,
One item was brought up at SHARE regarding CMF/RMF and z/OSMF. z/OSMF is the
new web-based system for system programmers. Depending on the release, it
provides problem determination, Communications Server migration, Workload
Manager policy editor, and a workload monitor. The workload monitor is
There is a product that does control of program, JCL, and Procs changes. The
product is CA's Endevor it provides audit reports and standard move procedures.
Regards
Otto Schumacher
HP Enterprise Services
Infrastructure Specialist
Ahold Account
CICS Capacity Technical Support
P.O. Box 6462
It is great that you want to do this but above all, it must look and feel like
the old application it is replacing to all 6 of those old applications. Thus
it must look and feel like ETR to us that use ETR to report problems. It must
look and feel like the other 5 applications to those who
This product from Neon was the topic of several discussions two years ago. I
just sent out a Cheryl's List email about the current status - it's still in
the courts, but a summary judgment was just filed. If you're interested, look
at Cheryl's List #148 at
Hello,
Yes, you can use both applications now and continue using either or both
until ETR is sunset. As a reminder, IBM has not yet reset the ETR sunset
date. However, I do not see an existing ServiceLink registration for you
personally. You may need to contact the IBMLink Help Desk to ensure you
Hello,
IBM Service Request (SR) is hosted in the same infrastructure as our special
events clients. It enjoys 150% capacity in usual operation due to a three
site deployment. We can perform maintenance on one site while the other two
are available at 100% capacity, resulting in zero downtime.
SR
Hello,
That is a good question. I will address your question with the support team
on Monday.
Thanks,
Christian
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:38:21 -0600, Doug Henry doug_he...@usbank.com wrote:
I think that a major problem with the Feature Comparison Chart found in the
above link is that it doesn't
IBM's reasons for creating SR seem to be sensible. However, the majority of
these reasons seem to be for IBM and not the customer. I think most users are
probably not confused, because for they only need to use one interface (the one
they know and love). They don't care about the other
In
of15ad58cb.1a06e57f-on4825784e.00203ad3-4825784e.00207...@us.ibm.com,
on 03/09/2011
at 01:54 PM, Timothy Sipples timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com said:
REXX is available in both compiled and interpreted flavors.
But only classic, not OOREXX.
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
In listserv%201103081154586206.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 03/08/2011
at 11:54 AM, Scott Chapman sachap...@aep.com said:
There is a Perl port available, I'm not sure how up to date it is at
the moment.
Very backlevel. The key issue is EBCDIC incompatibility with how the
newer Perl versions handle
Attempting to correct the URL:
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 16:20:59 -0500, Cheryl Walker wrote:
This product from Neon was the topic of several discussions two years ago. I
just sent out a Cheryl's List email about the current status - it's still in
the courts, but a summary judgment was just filed.
Christian:
I decided to jump in and see what SR looked like.
I started to enter a question, and got as far as the screen that says:
Open a new service request
Select an agreement
Select an agreement and then select Continue,
or select the link below to select an agreement by
Timothy --
Yes, Defined Capacity and Group Capacity Limits can do this, but not *all*
vendors. For many vendors, but not for all. Hence some sites are using these
other techniques.
Al
Al Sherkow, I/S Management Strategies, Ltd.
Consulting Expertise on Capacity Planning, Performance Tuning,
LPAR Group Capacity Limits came with z/OS 1.8, so that should be available to
most sites. Requires z hardware. What some customers have not understood is
you are allowed to have multiple LPAR Groups on a single machine and they are
able to work across sysplex boundaries.
So some sites use one
Hi Christian,
Thank you for providing the links, and thanks for trying to help.
I have a bunch of problems with SR. And I can't open an SR to address them.
From comments in this forum and at SHARE, it seems that I am not al one.
Didn't have theses problems with Link. There were too
I tried to renew my SSL certificate for a CICS TS 3.2 Webserver (z/OS
1.11). After some gyrations, I was sure I had the new certificate and
all three higher in the chain signing certs in the RACF keyring. I still
get:
+DFHAM4889 WRGWCICS Install of TCPIPSERVICE HTTP555 failed because
Thanks, Kevin.
Linda
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Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 6:58:28 AM
Subject: Re: operlog
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Is there a sample
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I haven't heard of vendors that both have sub-capacity licensing and then
proceed to define sub-capacity differently than the four hour rolling
average. But I suppose anything is possible. (A 3.28 hour rolling average?)
I'm still not sure what the use case is for a dummy LPAR, though, at least
I didn't understand this comment:
The current problem with z/OS pricing is that most
software is charged on the size of the machine, not
the amount of usage of the software.
The newsletter mentions VWLC later, but I disagree with this sentence with
respect to IBM software. (It's not a current
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