Hello,
Have a look at the example at:
http://www.servframe.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/HSMLIST.jcl_.txt
Many more HSM examples at http://www.servframe.com/jcl-samples/
Gil.
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 5:34 PM, af dc acbi...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
can you pls tell me a way to see all versions
In the first week of last December our operations team called us with an
auxiliary storage shortage on one of our systems, where SMSPDSE1 was
occupying about 70% of auxiliary storage. To resolve this situation we
restarted SMSPDSE1. We then went over the SYSLOG and OPERLOG and discovered
that
Gadi,
What about the VSAM SHAREOPTIONS parameter to limit write access from other
systems?
Gil.
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 1:46 PM, גדי בן אבי gad...@malam.com wrote:
Hi,
The reason for this request is that the specified DSNAME is a VSAM KSDS.
Many jobs read the file, and some update it.
Hello David,
Please follow the link below for a sample JCL of how to run ISMF storage
group report in batch.
You will have to tailor the job to suit your installation standards.
Note that for space information, you have to change the SCDS name to
'ACTIVE' under the GENSGLST step.
Jack,
What value do you specify in IEASYSxx for LFAREA= ? The default is none,
which means no real storage should be used to back 1M pages. So if you are
taking the default, your problem is probably not caused by large pages.
HTH,
Gil.
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Jack Oakley
Hi Barbara,
I know it doesn't count as an official publication, but the additional 2gb
in the high common are actually documented in the z/OS v1r10 implementation
redbook (sg24-7605).
Gil.
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 7:43 AM, Barbara Nitz nitz-...@gmx.net wrote:
Elpida,
z/OS adds 2G (for system
Guy,
If you wish to use IDCAMS REPRO to copy ZFS aggregates, you should not
format the target VSAM data set as a ZFS aggregate prior to the REPRO. The
REPRO process destroys the ZFS aggregate format resulting in an unusable
data set. If you only define the linear VSAM cluster, but don't format it
Hey John,
How do you feel about converting to JES3? ;)
They've had spool partitions, which provide just what you want, for many
many years...
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:06 PM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com
wrote:
OK, I'm being Scrooge. But we have a person here who loves to use
Hi all,
A little something I noticed...
We have some code in IEFACTRT that issues WTO messages with route code 11
(don't ask..).
When a job is running under a JES-managed initiator, the messages are
displayed fine in the JESMSGLG.
When a job is running under a WLM-managed initiator, each message
Hi Jan,
z/OS V1R10 allows defining PPRC secondary devices in SS1.
Gil.
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Jan Vanbrabant
jan.vanbrab...@telenet.bewrote:
Hi,
Question fully contained in the subject.
The z/OS V1R7 implementation indeed limits the exploitation of
subchannel set 1 to parallel
Hi all,
We have an LPAR running z/OS R9 with 6Gb of real storage and about 30Gb of
paging space (allocated in 3 page data sets on 3 3390-9 volumes).
We are using the default HVSHARE value of 510Tb from IEASYSxx and the
RSM_HVSHARED health check reports that everything is great.
We use an ISV
=LIST service.
Rob Scott
Developer
Rocket Software
275 Grove Street * Newton, MA 02466-2272 * USA
Tel: +1.617.614.2305
Email: rsc...@rs.com
Web: www.rocketsoftware.com
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Thomas,
You're not alone :)
I think your ISFMSG2 stem variable is empty...
Try adding a VERBOSE parameter on your ISFACT call. That should put some
diagnostic messages in ISFMSG2 which may help you debug.
Gil.
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Thomas Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
*Am I the only
Hi Barbara,
It is normal. I remember it being like that since CMDS was available...
After the first SLIP the task in *MASTER* does not end, but stays there in a
WAIT for more SLIP commands.
Gil.
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 8:51 AM, Barbara Nitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yesterday I had occcasion
Just found the APAR I was quoting earlier... APAR II13201.
It doesn't explain much, but it does acknowledge what CMDS shows.
Gil.
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Ignore what I wrote above. It's there, the ID just isn't 1.
Mark
--
Mark Zelden
Sr.
Jerry,
You're right, it can be done in a lab. I've seen it done in a lab.
From my short experience in such a configuration, you should be aware of at
least these basic issues:
- You will need an additional program on top of SDSF to be able to view
JES3's spool. I know (E)JES supports JES3 and
Lizette,
As Scott mentioned, when running in star mode, you may see a CPU spike on
the GRS contention notifying system (CNS) when there is a resource
contention in the sysplex and the CNS has to issue ENF 51.
Try checking whether the system you noticed the CPU spike on is the CNS
using a D GRS
Bruce,
We are currently migrating from z/OS 1.4 to z/OS 1.7 and we had the same
problem
with our IGDACSMC (management class) exit.
It seems that at some version of DFSMS between z/OS 1.4 and 1.7 the coding
requirements
for assigning a class in the ACS exits has changed.
For some reason, this is
Hi John,
It is possible to create DLLs under z/OS.
Check out the book z/OS C/C++ Programming Guide under the z/OS C/C++
bookshelf.
See the chapter named Building and Using Dynamic Link Libraries (DLLs)
which explains thoroughly how to build and use DLLs, Including code samples,
compiler options
We am running a similar configuration for our sandbox CF (internal CF LPAR
sharing 3 CPs with 4 other LPARs).
Not only that sync requests are converted to async by PR/SM, it's done
without z/OS knowing about it.
z/OS still thinks its a sync request, and RMF will report it as a sync
request.
So the
There's also EPV for z/OS from EPV Technologies. They process SMF records on
PC.
Gil.
John Fly wrote:
Is there any package(IBM, or otherwise) to analyse SMF datasets
directly on a PC? (Windows, Unix, etc..)??
--
For IBM-MAIN
You're right Ted. In fact, I really dont want to share CPs with the CF.
However, the current soft-papping mechanism only allows to soft-cap an LPAR
to a certain amount of MSUs.
At first I used soft-cap. Then I noticed we encounter situations where one
LPAR is being soft-capped, while all the
Peter,
The reason IXC256A eventually escaped our eyes was of course a combination
of several configuration errors which we have taken actions to correct. But,
I wonder if this is something that can/should be inserted into the z/OS and
Sysplex Health Checker. The Health Checker already alerts about
Barbara, thanks for your help.
I've been reading on SFM. In MVS Setting Up a Sysplex, under 7.2.3 Handling
Signaling Connectivity Failures they have an example of a 3
systems sysplex.. and they mention that:
SFM determines that the sysplex can be reconfigured as SYSA and SYSC or as
SYSB and SYSC.
You are absolutely right. I did not get into the details of how the loss of
connectivity actually happened. All the links in this site go through a box
that multiplexes them over a cable provided by a local cables company to the
other site. In fact, we do have 2 cables between the sites, and under
Maybe they should introduce the same kind of processing done by APAR OA07640
in case of an operator initiated SETXCF COUPLE,PSWITCH ??
Gil.
On 11/28/05, Barbara Nitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I understand what you are saying, but I don't think that is how the
architecture works.
Bill,
Thanks a lot for the explanation.
Gil.
On 11/28/05, Bill Neiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gil,
When any system detects a permanent I/O error during an attempt to
access a couple data set, it initiates removal of that CDS from service.
The removal protocol involves notifying all
Hi all,
We had a small incident here last week and I wanted to hear your take about
it...
We have 2 LPARs in a sysplex, running on 2 different machines in 2
different sites.
What happened was we lost connectivity between our 2 sites for a few
seconds.
As a result, MVSB (running in site B) lost
Hi,
We are running with 3 CPs.
Gil.
On 11/17/05, Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gil,
how many processor do you have, where you have the problem? Bruno had it
with 2 processors and I am trying to estimate how close we are to the
problem with 3 and 4 processors.
Kees.
Hi Bruno,
We too are victims of OA03194 and now waiting OA12848 to be closed...
Currently living the the SLIP provided in the APAR.
Do you have information about any progress with OA12848?
Thanks,
Gil.
On 11/13/05, Bruno Sugliani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 02:57:41 -0600,
Radoslaw,
For small XCF signalling message sizes, CTC will give performance very
close and sometimes even better than a CF structure. This behavior is sort
of documented in a WSC Flash.
Gil.
On 11/4/05, R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I created sandbox sysplex within one CPC (shared CPs for
John,
It is feasible for a C program to address memory in a data space using Cell
Pool Services. Member CSRCPC in SYS1.SAMPLIB provides all the definitions
you need. Cell Pool services require you to be in AR-mode and know the ALET
of the data space. Every CP service receives the ALET as a
Any chance the COMMDS was allocated with wrong SHAREOPTIONS parameter?
IIRC, It should be SHAREOPTIONS(3,3).
Gil.
On 10/12/05, R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm getting the following messages:
IGD604I ACCESS FAILED FOR DATA SET SYS1.SMS.COMMDS. 179
DIV RETURN CODE 0008 REASON CODE
Bruno,
After a lot of consideration, I decided to adopt your CF idea.
We already have a sandbox plex here with 10% ICF defined, we will simply
change it to 40% CPs.
Its an easy change for us since we dont have to touch anything in the
production or developement plexes (only reactivate the sandbox
We met with IBM this morning and explained the situation. Now waiting for
their response on this.
We are hoping to start with this today, as the SCRT reports are from the
2nd to the 1st of next month, and today is the 2nd..
Gil.
On 10/2/05, ibm-main [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Given that you
Hi all,
Yesterday, during the process of connecting additional ISC-3s between our 2
sites, I saw in the SE channels changing status between:
IFCC threshold exceeded,
check stop,
offline signal received,
not operational link,
stopped,
sequence timed-out
and some others..
Some of them I could
Bruno,
I heard about this from a colleague. Question is how will IBM regard this
in terms of licensing charges?
Another thing is im not totally convinced that this will not hurt
performance. Not sure PR/SM was designed to handle such a workload --
100%cpu 24/7...
Gil.
On 10/1/05, Bruno
Hello all,
We are running 2084-303 which provides us 191 MSUs. We have 4 LPARs.
Only in a couple of months new workload will start running in production on
this machine that will actually require all 191 MSUs, so meanwhile each LPAR
has its own Defined Capacity defined.
The defined capacity
John,
I might be wrong here, but doesn't the system create the IPL link list DEB
only when LNKLSTxx is used? You dont have to use LNKLSTxx. If you only use
PROGxx and dynamic link list, you should be able to update link list
dynamically using SETPROG commands (with the mentioned risks, ofcourse)
John,
I might be wrong here, but doesn't the system create the IPL link list DEB
only when LNKLSTxx is used? I know that when you do use LNKLSTxx you're
stuck with the *MASTER* allocation of the volume for the duration of the
IPL, but you dont have to use LNKLSTxx - you could use PROGxx instead. I
So I will never be able to vary offline a volume that a link list data set
resided on at IPL time?
Or is that only for the volume SYS1.LINKLIB/MIGLIB/CSSLIB resided on?
Gil.
On 9/27/05, Jim Mulder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The IPL Link List control control structures are the same regardless
of
From REXX you might find the function syscpus useful, though it returns only
limited information.
From any other language, you can use the CSRSI callable service. It returns
all the information D M=CPU does.
HTH,
Gil.
On 9/23/05, George, William (DHS-ITSD) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a
Jon,
You do have some control over HSA size using the Max number of devices
parameter in the IODF. However, from what I noticed, this makes very little
change, even when decreased by tens of thousands.. It seems the base HSA
size for the machine is what makes the big difference -- we noticed an
Hi Paul,
In my opinion, this is less a JCL issue and more a JES job management
issue.
For JES3, the Initialization and Tuning Guide gives an elaborate description
of C/I phase, which includes cataloged data sets resolution, followed by a
description of resource allocation.
For JES2, I fould
Thanks, Sam. I have run the Health Checker.
One of the exceptions it detects is having PATHOUTs defined without an
associated CLASS definition.
As explained in my first posting, we have 3 CLASSDEFs with GROUP(UNDESIG)
defined.
In the RMF XCF activity report I can see requests delivered in all
George,
In my opinion, you should espire to share as much as possible.
Whenever using different data sets for each group of LPARs is a must, I
would use a new qualifier in the data set name to differenciate the 2 groups
(from the 2 previously seperate SYSPLEXes).
Even though you will be using
Hanan,
What copy mode are you working with the VTS PtP, Immediate or Deferred? You
might consider using deferred copy mode and maybe change the priority the
VTS gives the copy operation.
It is possible to setup the VTC to prefer specific VTS for I/O. You can
also force scratch mounts to the
IST is the module prefix for VTAM.
Read the documentation about system code 0A8. It indicates an error
processing a user application. Usually some error with control blocks built
by the application and passed to VTAM.
This in no way should even come close to crashing the system.
Check the
To find module prefix to component mapping you should check the book MVS
Diagnosis: Reference, of your operating system version.
BPX is the module prefix for Unix System Services.
BPX1MP is a callable service (mvspause). You can read about it in the USS
ASM callable services reference.
Gil.
Radoslaw,
This is a great ASM program that was published in MVS update:
http://www.xephon.com/cgi-bin/xephon3/licence/getcode.cgi?pubfile=November.2001datafile=M182A08
However, It only works up to OS/390 2.10.
To get it to work under z/OS you should modify it to use the correct offsets
in the
Hi Scott,
When you issue spawn() a new process is created.
There is a C USS service named w_getpsent() you can use to get a lot of
information about a process including the user CPU time of the process.
Gil.
On 7/19/05, Jackson, Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All,
(Cross posted to
Ken,
We started testing soft-capping last night.
This morning I looked at the RMF CPU report. I noticed that one of the
LPARs was capped 4.6% of the night (8 hours). We have 2 z890 boxes running
in parallel sysplex and the soft-capping only occured in one box. The other
one was not soft-capped
Hi Michael,
This can be accomplished by using the fetch() c run-time library function.
Check the z/OS C/C++ Run-Time Library Referance book, It contains an
elaborate example of calling a COBOL program using fetch().
Gil.
On 6/29/05, Michael Knigge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a C-Prog
This is not a specific HSM action, but have you also defined categories in
the library and associated them with the correct media type (MEDIA6 or
MEDIA8 for WORM i believe) in DEVSUPxx?
Gil.
On 6/27/05, Natasa Savinc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
we have 4-way HSMplex. ML2 migration is
A1.
The following is from SC26-7514-00 (DFSMS Software Support for IBM
TotalStorage Enterprise Tape System 3592):
As described in Chapter 1, Introduction, on page 1, z/OS DFSMS and
related program products provide full support for the base 3592 and MEDIA5
with OS/390 V2R10 and above, with
Maybe you should try issuing the LOAD macro with the ADDR= parameter?
Load the programs straight to storage with key 9 .
Gil.
On 6/22/05, Richard Verville [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm looking for advice on the use of IVSK / ISKE instructions, I have
this program that loads (SVC 08) a couple
The command you are looking for is DEVSERV i believe.
Try:
DEVSERV QDASD,unit address
Or:
DEVSERV QDASD,?
to view online usage explanation...
Gil.
On 6/21/05, Carlos A Bodra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What command can display cache size and Fast Write Status for a 3990-6 (or
similar) in
Ed,
What I meant was that in many shops there are a lot of users who have
implicit access to APF-authorized data sets. And if they wished to
compromise the system they would be able to do so, even though they were
never explicitly authorized to run their own written APF-authorized
programs.
There is more that can be done besides locking your terminal or using
automatic lock time.
For some places, its not always enough to secure the main entrance and leave
the rest to the employees. i have seen several places who keep the system
programmers/production personnal/other teams
RSU=32 means different things on different machines and means different
things on the same machine with different amount of storage defined.
It depends on the central storage granularity of the machine. Thats why it
is recommended (In initialization and tunning guide) to use RSU=xxM or
RSU=xxG.
I imagine it is indeed your intent to work with the Cryptographic
coprocessor, or you wouldnt have been licensed to use them(?).
What you need to do is to assign a different usage domain index(es) to each
LPAR.
To do this, enter the Customize/Delete Activation Profiles dialog (Its under
the
Maybe all Usage domain indexes are accidently selected on one of the LPARs?
On 6/19/05, Crispin Hugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks Gil,
I have found all the stuff you mention. Its just whatever I choose for
Domain Index and/or PCI candidate lists, itsays that the combination is
already
Check the View LPAR Cryptographic Controls task that is on CPC Operational
Customization to see exactly which Usage Domain indexes are currenly defined
to each LPAR.
On 6/19/05, Gil Peleg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maybe all Usage domain indexes are accidently selected on one of the
LPARs
Ted,
I am unfarmiliar with the internal implementation in PR/SM, z/OS or z/VM.
However, this is from z890 PR/SM Planning Guide:
*
*The Usage Domain Index identifies the cryptographic coprocessor domain(s)
assigned to the partition for all cryptographic coprocessors that are
configured for the
This could have also resulted because of not enoguh logical paths to the
device. But then you should have seen the same problem with all other
devices in that control unit -- Perhaps you didnt because the operator
re-IPLed.
Was a channel online thats should not usually be online? Or some an
I am used to working with outlook and there i never had to change any
setting to read or post messages to the list. Lately I changed to a GMail
account and im working through the gmail web interface. Thats why I did not
realize I have to set this explicitly when using GMail.
Anyways, To define
Hello all,
My question is about enabling the CBU feature on a z/890.
We are running z/OS 1.4 on z/890 260 with 4 LPARS. Each LPAR is
defined in the activation profile with 2 initial CPs and 1 reserved.
After we enable the CBU feature, in the D M=CPU command I see our
machin is now a 370.
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