Re: BMC CMF

2012-06-03 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
We run CMF since ages, so I don't know RMF, but we are very happy with it. Compatibility is 101%, the standard 70-records are the same as RMF's and they write extra info in CMF records. BMC has a close relation with IBM, so they follow new z/Oss and hardware promptly. I can recommend the MAINVIEW

Re: ISV software costs based on MIPS

2012-05-31 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
We did. After changing our z9's to z196's, a vendor asked such a ridiculous price for one product that we took the jump to convert to the IBM version of this functionality, where installing a new product, training on it and converting the database and procedures and even getting used to the IBM

Re: How to delete the SYSZWLM_* structures

2012-05-29 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Barbara Nitz nitz-...@gmx.net wrote in message news:2107639644417546.wa.nitzibmgmx@listserv.ua.edu... I have been looking into IRD, to see if this could be useful and in that process I defined the SYSZWLM structures. In the end I decided that IRD was not useful, because it stops working

Re: How to delete the SYSZWLM_* structures

2012-05-29 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Barbara Nitz nitz-...@gmx.net wrote in message news:6875080454125356.wa.nitzibmgmx@listserv.ua.edu... You can turn IRD off effectively in IEAOPT00 by disabling its functions, Are you sure? The way I read it, you cannot. Turning VARYCPU off will not disable weight management which those

Re: How to delete the SYSZWLM_* structures

2012-05-29 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Vernooij, CP - SPLXM kees.verno...@klm.com wrote in message news:ce3ffbb7e42033469ef752a1d8a19ba10216f...@kl1221tc.cs.ad.klmcorp.ne t... Barbara Nitz nitz-...@gmx.net wrote in message news:6875080454125356.wa.nitzibmgmx@listserv.ua.edu... You can turn IRD off effectively in IEAOPT00

How to delete the SYSZWLM_* structures

2012-05-25 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Hello, I have been looking into IRD, to see if this could be useful and in that process I defined the SYSZWLM structures. In the end I decided that IRD was not useful, because it stops working when an LPAR is soft-capped and that just was when I needed it to do its job. The moment I

Re: 24/7/365 appropriateness was Re: IBMLink outages in 2012

2012-05-24 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com wrote in message news:CAFO-8tqWyJKz+G7jJXvgooJ7QinzBAo=rw0+ywebrx8_jbv...@mail.gmail.com ... On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 6:18 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: In fkjpr71k9aqo209gi143h9g9hnuq125...@4ax.com, on 05/23/2012 at 08:54

Re: IRD and Group Capacity (was: z196 tools question)

2012-05-14 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Al, Thanks for the reply and the confirmation that there GCL and IRD don't cooperate when the really should. We have sufficient CPU capacity in the boxes, so in a non softcapped situation, IRD has nothing to do, while in a softcapped situation it does nothing. The solution I am thinking of is

IRD and Group Capacity (was: z196 tools question)

2012-05-12 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Ok, let me rephrase the question: Is IRD LPAR Weight Management still used? How do you use it? Do you use it in combination with Definded Capacity or Group Capacity Limits and how? Kees. Hello, We have 2 z196's and therefore the AWLC pricing structure. We have a couple of

z196 tools question

2012-05-11 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Hello, We have 2 z196's and therefore the AWLC pricing structure. We have a couple of other tools in the z196 toolbox, which I am investigating. I have studied a lot of information about them and I think I know what I need to know, but have still 1 question. =Defined capacity/group

Re: UPDATING LAST REFERNCE DATE

2012-05-10 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
John Dawes jhn_da...@yahoo.com.au wrote in message news:1336651313.17657.yahoomail...@web162603.mail.bf1.yahoo.com... G'Day To All,   Is there a batch job/utility I could use to update the last reference date of a dsn?  I understand that I can do it by browsing the dsn, however since I

Re: Engine increase on the 2097

2012-05-04 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
I am pretty sure the answer is: NO. However you don't need a POR, changing the LPAR's definitions and a deactivate/activate of the LPAR will do. Kees. McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote in message news:a6b9336cdb62bb46b9f8708e686a7ea00e924b4...@nrhmms8p02.uicnrh.dom. .. Wouldn't

Re: WLM : multiple periods not recommended for batch - why?

2012-05-03 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Tom Marchant m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com wrote in message news:3196993092879856.wa.m42tomibmmainyahoo@bama.ua.edu... On Wed, 2 May 2012 15:26:54 +0200, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM wrote: Tom Marchant m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com wrote in message news:2739094540663537.wa.m42tomibmmainyahoo

Re: WLM : multiple periods not recommended for batch - why?

2012-05-03 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Tom Marchant m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com wrote in message news:7471668027599474.wa.m42tomibmmainyahoo@bama.ua.edu... On Thu, 3 May 2012 09:04:17 +0200, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM wrote: Tom Marchant m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com wrote in message news:3196993092879856.wa.m42tomibmmainyahoo

Re: WLM : multiple periods not recommended for batch - why?

2012-05-02 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Tom Marchant m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com wrote in message news:2739094540663537.wa.m42tomibmmainyahoo@bama.ua.edu... On Tue, 1 May 2012 22:06:55 +0200, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM wrote: In our case, production batch varies from seconds to hours That was my case too. It was several years ago

Re: WLM : multiple periods not recommended for batch - why?

2012-05-01 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Mark Zelden m...@mzelden.com wrote in message news:5062093122824588.wa.markmzelden@bama.ua.edu... On Tue, 1 May 2012 21:39:05 +1000, Andrew Rowley and...@blackhillsoftware.com wrote: Hi, I have read a few articles that say that multiple periods are not recommended for batch service

Re: WLM : multiple periods not recommended for batch - why?

2012-05-01 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Tom Marchant m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com wrote in message news:2633615499254368.wa.m42tomibmmainyahoo@bama.ua.edu... On Tue, 1 May 2012 15:40:59 +0200, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM wrote: In Goal mode you specify the performance with Vel/Resp + Imp, the same as you did with DP prior to Goal mode

Re: WLM : multiple periods not recommended for batch - why?

2012-05-01 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
How do you mean won't work? I have them 'working'. Kees. Norman Hollander on DesertWiz norman.hollan...@desertwiz.biz wrote in message news:00e101cd27d3$3427aad0$9c770070$@desertwiz.biz... WLM-managed Inits won't work as designed with multi-period Batch ServiceClass. -Original

Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment)

2012-04-12 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
At least I would like the BOOKFIND command with its cursor sensitive arguments to keep working. Do you really need the BOO format? Will a PDF reader with good searchable index and BOOKFIND PDF support do too? Kees. R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl wrote in message

Re: Modernizing the BCP code ?

2012-04-12 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Who is gonne pay for just modernizing without any other benefits? Kees. Miklos Szigetvari miklos.szigetv...@isis-papyrus.com wrote in message news:4f86e3b1.1020...@isis-papyrus.com... Hi We try to modernize our code here, with relative instructions, long displacements , immediate s

Re: New z/OS 1.13 Health Checks - Friday Rant

2012-04-01 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
if they are experiencing degraded or inefficient signaling? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Vernooij, CP - SPLXM Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2012 2:40 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: New z/OS 1.13 Health

Re: Initialize Tape Options

2012-04-01 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
CA1 has its own tape init utility, but I won't be surprised if this is IEHINIT plus some CA1 administration. Kees. Jake anderson justmainfra...@gmail.com wrote in message news:CAHTvvRWZEbxVF-b+HH3TOzBMGPVKQv7c4F=cjrd_emcqzyh...@mail.gmail.com ... Hello List, Good Morning ! Apart from

Re: Two why about the hardware

2012-03-31 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl wrote in message news:4f76e202.1020...@bremultibank.com.pl... 1. A coupling link ISC-3 is available from z/900 to z196, however IBM claims it's impossible to connect two machines (*). WHY? Is it technical or political (marketing) reson? AFAIK it more

Re: New z/OS 1.13 Health Checks - Friday Rant

2012-03-31 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl wrote in message news:4f776fe9.80...@bremultibank.com.pl... W dniu 2012-03-30 16:24, Mark Brooks pisze: Hi, The XCF signalling services are available in all sysplex environments, including monoplex. The rationale that motivates the defining of

Re: Tapeless solution (IBM or Sun) Enterprise class

2012-03-29 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Scott Chapman sachap...@aep.com wrote in message news:4525551506292614.wa.sachapmanaep@bama.ua.edu... We're just finishing up migration from a B20 Peer to Peer solution to a 7720-7720-7740 three-way grid solution. Performance has been much better, no surprise there. I'd say we've been

Re: Tapeless solution (IBM or Sun) Enterprise class

2012-03-29 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
on throttling read/write ? 2012/3/29 Vernooij, CP - SPLXM kees.verno...@klm.com Scott Chapman sachap...@aep.com wrote in message news:4525551506292614.wa.sachapmanaep@bama.ua.edu... We're just finishing up migration from a B20 Peer to Peer solution to a 7720-7720-7740 three

Re: Seven-Digit JES2 Job Number

2012-03-29 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
We implemented this years ago, and so did many others, so I would be surprised if an issue like this will pop up only now. Kees. Mark Zelden m...@mzelden.com wrote in message news:1805395092283981.wa.markmzelden@bama.ua.edu... On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:28:10 -0500, Dave Barry dba...@ups.com

Re: Tapeless solution (IBM or Sun) Enterprise class

2012-03-28 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Tommy Tsui tommyt...@gmail.com wrote in message news:cal96cms6abxwrwjtdlozcqjhzo-wbtxokdu-ws2hdmltfwu...@mail.gmail.com ... What I concerns are: 1. Tape still have life time, if 1TB tape damage then we need more time to re-built or re-create it, except you implement dual copy or PPRC VTS and it

Re: Tapeless solution (IBM or Sun) Enterprise class

2012-03-28 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
We have 2 7720 clusters in a grid configuration and are very happy with it. Kees. Tommy Tsui tommyt...@gmail.com wrote in message news:CAL96CmvY959T=nq+3C5h24w2isgSsajj6=ly+zzzmuv9dyo...@mail.gmail.com ... Our shop use B20 almost 5 years and sometime the IBM CE will notify me the tape cannot

Re: Tapeless solution (IBM or Sun) Enterprise class

2012-03-28 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
their device with zTPF (or even don't know the word at all). Kees. Vernooij, CP - SPLXM kees.verno...@klm.com wrote in message news:ce3ffbb7e42033469ef752a1d8a19ba10216f...@kl1221tc.cs.ad.klmcorp.ne t... We have 2 7720 clusters in a grid configuration and are very happy with it. Kees. Tommy Tsui

Re: Tapeless solution (IBM or Sun) Enterprise class

2012-03-28 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Dennis Trojak dennis.tro...@radioshack.com wrote in message news:3d40fdfc24014e459f11e569c730d98e05bd4...@ntexmbapb.corp.radioshack .net... We've been using a TS7720 for 3 years now but we are NOT in a grid which makes for some interesting operational procedures. The virtual volumes are

Re: Theology question

2012-03-20 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Phil Smith p...@voltage.com wrote in message news:b870629719727b4ba82a6c06a31c291232410ad...@hqmailsvr01.voltage.com ... In our configuration data set, you can specify a default, global value for something. Specific entries in the configuration can override that global value. However, there are

Re: DASD Mod9/Mod54

2012-03-20 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Lester, Bob bles...@oppenheimerfunds.com wrote in message news:8f672be771329649a9eb59c7d9d6a2d9521e8...@den-xmail01.den.ofi.com. .. Hi Folks, With todays' modern disk arrays, is there any reason (z/OS based or other) that response time for my Mod54s is consistently higher than for my

Re: Printing emails

2012-03-20 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
I usually consider this as rubbish, waste of bandwith, storage capacity and energy to process, store, transfer and read it (calculate the trees needed to display his view). Including notes from people that can't resist to display they have the money to buy a smartphone of brand such and such. I

Re: Hypothetical Performance Question

2012-03-15 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
None. Allocation has enqueued on the dataset(s), which is handled by GRS, and sits there waiting for the ENQ to be completed. Allocation does nothing explicitly (polling or so), but is signalled when the datasets are available. So this will not cost any CPU. The fact that the job is in the system,

Re: Clarification on IEEU29 EXIT

2012-03-14 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
jagadishan perumal jagadish...@gmail.com wrote in message news:CANHhCyRpDz4+PgycK_RZk5bcx7xWHR4BpE=kmj+_c-0po76...@mail.gmail.com ... Hi, Recently I have installed the EXIT IEFU29 in our test bed to automatically start an IFASMFDP job every time the SMF data set is switched, But I have

Re: Clarification on IEEU29 EXIT

2012-03-14 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM kees.verno...@klm.com wrote: jagadishan perumal jagadish...@gmail.com wrote in message news:CANHhCyRpDz4+PgycK_RZk5bcx7xWHR4BpE=kmj+_c-0po76...@mail.gmail.com ... Hi, Recently I have installed the EXIT IEFU29 in our test bed to automatically start

Re: IEFBR14

2012-03-13 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote in message news:3696066093116601.wa.paulgboulderaim@bama.ua.edu... On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:26:33 -0400, Gerhard Postpischil wrote: there is one case that I have not seen mentioned - in the dark ages, under release 21 of OS/360(MVT), IEFBR14 steps

Re: IEFBR14

2012-03-13 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote in message news:2403127533316948.wa.paulgboulderaim@bama.ua.edu... On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:38:35 +0100, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM wrote: ~ The system took a longer time to run a job, job step, or procedure than the time specified in one

Re: CICS Maintenance - LPA change

2012-03-12 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Peter, If it does not work, because the application loads the module once and uses this version from then on, refreshing the module and restarting the application should work, correct? Kees. Peter Relson rel...@us.ibm.com wrote in message

Re: TAPEMAP generator

2012-03-06 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
af dc acbi...@gmail.com wrote in message news:cakyfsgh0rbvrmbev0gyv7w0r5qry25pl0zerjcrc9ns4dwa...@mail.gmail.com ... Hello, I need to do a tapemap for about 100 tapes (virtual volumes), I've jcl: //V1 EXEC PGM=IEBGENER //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSUT1 DD

Re: Processor usage

2012-03-01 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Rob Scott rsc...@rocketsoftware.com wrote in message news:295ED806AB479944B1217CC84A173DE03281008C@nwt-s-mbx1.rocketsoftware .com... If you are not going to use SMF-70 records, you could consider using the ERBSMFI programming service (see the RMF manual) as part of the information returned by

Re: Processor usage

2012-02-29 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Out of curiosity, are your colleagues going to use this to schedule/attach work, probably to processors? If you are trying to be smarter than WLM, PR/SM, Hiperdispatch and all the other CPU management, you will hit your nose hard. Kees. Miklos Szigetvari miklos.szigetv...@isis-papyrus.com wrote

Re: 5 Byte Device Addresses?

2012-02-29 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Myname Is haroldberg...@yahoo.ca wrote in message news:2280839336598964.wa.haroldberglasyahoo...@bama.ua.edu... check the iocp manual - it's the CSS-ID (the logical channel subsystem id). http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg2de3388ad7e19bffc852577 68003f170eaid=1 page 68 and

Re: User datasets wrongly catalogued under Master Catalogue

2012-02-28 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Still: we do not allow a restore/recall to update the Master catalog, we rather let it fail to clearly indicate the problem. Kees. Jake anderson justmainfra...@gmail.com wrote in message news:cahtvvruffawfixnbt4uch3a4xuzftwxoop82sqzzqhzhjzc...@mail.gmail.com ... I agree that this happens when

Re: Fwd: User datasets wrongly catalogued under Master Catalogue

2012-02-28 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote in message news:5467422117818390.wa.paulgboulderaim@bama.ua.edu... On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:14:36 +0530, Jake anderson wrote: typo - it happens when a userid is *not* defined with alias relating to user catalog. To my understanding, that's

Re: Confused on concatenated parmlib and IEASYSxx

2012-02-27 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Donald Likens dlik...@infosecinc.com wrote in message news:0694692877244639.wa.dlikensinfosecinc@bama.ua.edu... If IEASYSNV in VENDOR.PARMLIB specifies PROG=VN and IEASYSLX in LVL0.PARMLIB specifies PROG=LV and when I IPL I state: SYSP=(LX,NV) What PROG members will be executed? Only

Re: Duplicating SYSOUT output to another DD/DSN in realtime ? (JCL)

2012-02-27 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Staller, Allan allan.stal...@kbmg.com wrote in message news:45e5f2f45d7878458ee5ca679697335502e25...@usdaexch01.kbm1.loc... YES!. Define multiple output statements //out1 output. //out2 output... And refer to them //sysprint dd output=(*.out1,*.out2) HTH, That is what I

Re: Simulating Smaller Processor

2012-02-27 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Ken Hansen khhwk...@comcast.net wrote in message news:003c01ccf55d$f6467cc0$e2d37640$@net... My company wants to downgrade its processor, but it recognizes that there may be significant processing constraint if they do. So they want to simulate the environment before they take the plunge.

Re: Hiper Dispatching

2012-02-24 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Looking for this information, I found these: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/features/ccr2/ccr2-2008-04/article 3.html http://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/features/ccr2/ccr2-2008-05/article 5.html Hope this helps, Kees. gsg gsg_...@yahoo.com wrote in message

Re: Hiper Dispatching

2012-02-24 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Bob Shannon bshan...@rocketsoftware.com wrote in message news:58FC7F986FCB804286E23B59DECF420F334E6230@nwt-s-mbx1.rocketsoftware .com... Does anyone know if turning on Hiper Dispatching on a single book box machine would make a difference in performance? The answer is yes, but I believe with

Re: Hiper Dispatching

2012-02-24 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Yes, like your cars, you put them in the parking place if you don't need them. If you have 4 online processors and you have only work for 2 or 3, it is more efficient to park #4 and dispatch the work to only 3 processors. That's what hyperdispatch does (amongst others). Kees. gsg

Re: O/T but curious (Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query) )

2012-02-20 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com wrote in message news:cajtoo5_brjh+-ojaqd9jq17cojfbbjuzddhi35yuk33zj_n...@mail.gmail.com ... On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 1:58 AM, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM kees.verno...@klm.com wrote: R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl wrote in message news:4f41f979.3010

Re: O/T but curious (Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query) )

2012-02-20 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: O/T but curious (Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query) ) On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 1:58 AM, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM kees.verno...@klm.com wrote: R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl wrote in message news:4f41f979.3010...@bremultibank.com.pl

Re: O/T but curious (Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query) )

2012-02-19 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl wrote in message news:4f41f979.3010...@bremultibank.com.pl... W dniu 2012-02-19 17:23, Edward Jaffe pisze: On 2/19/2012 4:40 AM, R.S. wrote: W dniu 2012-02-19 08:30, Edward Jaffe pisze: On 2/18/2012 4:45 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: Remember that if z/OS

Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query)

2012-02-17 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote in message news:2410839884184451.wa.paulgboulderaim@bama.ua.edu... On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:59:13 -0500, Scott Ford wrote: Me too, never even thought of megabytes until the pc slam dunk artists came along, everyone I knew calculated their file size

Re: Debug TSO through ISPF panels installation

2012-02-16 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Stefan, This newsgroup is a mirror of a list-server and that is where the majority of the IBM-MAIN people read the posts. To subscribe, see the info attached below. This reply will send your answer to the group. Kees. stefan stefan.br...@gmail.com wrote in message

Re: Z/architecture I/O questions

2012-02-15 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Ron, Do you have a source for (0,0)? What I could find was FLASH10337, which advises (10,30) for machines up to z10. Are there later advises, especially for z196? Kees. Ron Hawkins ronjhawk...@sbcglobal.net wrote in message news:002401ccebe6$70595590$510c00b0$@net... Joe, In the past %TPI

Re: SV: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query)

2012-02-14 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote in message news:2205241542597622.wa.paulgboulderaim@bama.ua.edu... On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:23:14 +0100, R.S. wrote: The only application I know that manages extent size - that means using some algorithm for extent increase - is MQ Series aka

Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query)

2012-02-13 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Thomas Berg thomas.b...@swedbank.se wrote in message news:a90e503c23f97441b05ee302853b0e6263ff850...@fspas01ev010.fspa.myntet.se... -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] För Lizette Koehler Skickat: den 13 februari 2012 12:43

Re: Restore db2 image copy backup efficiently

2012-02-13 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Victor Zhang victor_wor...@yahoo.com.cn wrote in message news:5518873281104669.wa.victorworkcnyahoo.com...@bama.ua.edu... Hello experts, During backup data image to virutal tape, to same virtual tape volume, tape stacking is normally used, ie more than one datasets will be written to one virtual

Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query)

2012-02-13 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Thomas Berg thomas.b...@swedbank.se wrote in message news:a90e503c23f97441b05ee302853b0e6263ff850...@fspas01ev010.fspa.myntet.se... -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] För Vernooij, CP - SPLXM Skickat: den 13 februari 2012 14

Re: SV: SV: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query)

2012-02-13 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Thomas Berg thomas.b...@swedbank.se wrote in message news:a90e503c23f97441b05ee302853b0e6263ff850...@fspas01ev010.fspa.myntet.se... -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] För R.S. Skickat: den 13 februari 2012 15:49 Till:

Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query)

2012-02-13 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
This only works on an empty dasd storage group. In a well filled one, there are only few allocations per volume of this calculated size possible, reducing very much the real amount of usable space per volume. If you lower the size, there are more allocatins possible and somewhere there is the

Re: Acceptable paging

2012-02-12 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Ron, At the moment I only have ESSs, but we are going to new storage soon. We expect everything to improve. Kees. Ron Hawkins ronjhawk...@sbcglobal.net wrote in message news:00ad01cce88a$d99abf30$8cd03d90$@net... Kees, Have you thought of putting your page datasets into Permacache (EMC) or

Re: WLM Capping

2012-02-10 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
That did not work. In the CAS case, it was a task in CAS that held the catalog and not something that WLM could apply the ERV to. The same within USS. Kees. Staller, Allan allan.stal...@kbmg.com wrote in message news:45e5f2f45d7878458ee5ca679697335502e25...@usdaexch01.kbm1.loc... That is why

Re: Acceptable paging

2012-02-09 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Barbara Nitz nitz-...@gmx.net wrote in message news:863014571846.wa.nitzibmgmx@bama.ua.edu... Maybe you can explain what MQ and broker issues you have and why you think this is related to paging and/or the page configuration. I agree with Kees. What exactly is your 'issue' with 'the

Re: Acceptable paging

2012-02-08 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Maybe you can explain what MQ and broker issues you have and why you think this is related to paging and/or the page configuration. I know the broker uses a lot of virtual storage, which indeed requires additional paging space, so the first check you can do is check how full your paging

Re: Why can't the track format be changed?

2012-02-08 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
I think when manufacturing real 3390 devices ended. Kees. Bill Fairchild bfairch...@rocketsoftware.com wrote in message news:77142D37C0C3C34DA0D7B1DA7D7CA346AE5C@nwt-s-mbx1.rocketsoftware .com... When did the manufacturing of real CKD devices end? Bill Fairchild -Original

Re: Acceptable paging

2012-02-08 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Correction: *local*. Maybe you can explain what MQ and broker issues you have and why you think this is related to paging and/or the page configuration. I know the broker uses a lot of virtual storage, which indeed requires additional paging space, so the first check you can do is check how full

Re: WLM Capping

2012-02-08 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Joel C. Ewing jcew...@acm.org wrote in message news:4f32a2df.5030...@acm.org... One of the subtle misconceptions in the design of WLM was the implicit assumption that you would always have enough hardware resources to do the required workload with the required response time, and if not

Re: Physical record size query

2012-02-07 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Yes, the RAID devices are only there to emulate 3390 devices and that is what z/OS cares about. So the rules for 3390 devices are still valid. Try to use System Determined Blocksize, so you don't have to do the calculation anymore. Kees. John Compton john.comp...@teamwpc.co.uk wrote in message

Re: Physical record size query

2012-02-07 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Peter, In my opinion, this is a good example of a branch away from the question of the OP and to a different aspect of the subject. Making this new path visible in the subject helps visibility and overview of the subjects. Viewers can choose if they would like to follow the original question and

Re: DATACLASS NOT BEING RESPECTED

2012-02-07 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Yes, that was my thought too: DATACLASS is also applied to non-SMS datasets, but is it also applied to non-SMS managed tapes? That might explain why it is not working. Kees. Greg Shirey wgshi...@benekeith.com wrote in message news:f5ff22ced304764eaac97a43706235b74f3116b...@corpexmbx.bekco.com...

Re: Why can't the track format be changed? (was: Physical record size query)

2012-02-07 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Staller, Allan allan.stal...@kbmg.com wrote in message news:45e5f2f45d7878458ee5ca679697335502e25...@usdaexch01.kbm1.loc... Think of all of the code within z/OS that actually depends upon device geometry. The C and H in CCHHR, etc. A hallmark of z/OS has been backward compatibility. If this

Re: WLM Capping

2012-02-07 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Run MXG on the TYPE70 records. See file TYPE70EL, variable SMF70NCA and probably others. Kees. Gibney, Dave gib...@wsu.edu wrote in message news:0de6a9840123e547b061ac5b6765c026324...@exmb-05.ad.wsu.edu... I apologize for asking what is likely a basic performance question. It's been about

Re: Very Lage Page Datasets (was ASM and HiperPAV)

2012-02-03 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Are you sure that this occurs at 50% Aux. storage utilization? IRA201E defines 'Critical storage shortage' at 85%. Kees. Skip Robinson jo.skip.robin...@sce.com wrote in message news:of7017747b.2f20bada-on88257999.0017af50-88257999.0018d...@sce.com ... IEE711I SYSTEM DUMP NOT TAKEN. A CRITICAL

Re: Returning to the fold

2012-02-03 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za wrote in message news:0215058873944004.wa.elardus.engelbrechtsita.co...@bama.ua.edu... Phil Smith wrote: Kees Vernooij wrote: That confirms my other translation and answers my question about this term for sheep. Since your name and

Re: Very Lage Page Datasets (was ASM and HiperPAV)

2012-02-03 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
I think the health check's way of working, to check each page dataset for its 30%, in stead of the entire page dataset configuration, is not such a bad one. AFAIK and some earlier posts in this thread suggested it too: ASM has one or more groups of page datasets, depending on devicetype, channel

Re: Returning to the fold

2012-02-02 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
John Compton john.comp...@teamwpc.co.uk wrote in message news:6904625898622703.wa.john.comptonteamwpc.co...@bama.ua.edu... Hi all... just coming back to the list after nearly 19 months out of work. Finally got a new job! Congratulations. As I am always interested in special/local/slang/etc.

Re: Very Lage Page Datasets (was ASM and HiperPAV)

2012-02-02 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Jim Mulder d10j...@us.ibm.com wrote in message news:of15dad2d4.112617be-on85257998.0064c1d8-85257998.0066c...@us.ibm.c om... I wonder what if any studies on this have been done in the lab. It would be nice if an IBM performance expert like Kathy Walsh could weigh in. The last

Re: Returning to the fold

2012-02-02 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
.com... Sheep fold. The lost sheep returns to the fold to join the flock. HTH Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Vernooij, CP - SPLXM Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 3:22 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu

Re: Returning to the fold

2012-02-02 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
to the fold to join the flock. HTH Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Vernooij, CP - SPLXM As I am always interested in special/local/slang/etc. variations of English: what is 'the fold'? -- Mike A Schwab

Re: Very Lage Page Datasets (was ASM and HiperPAV)

2012-01-31 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Mark Zelden m...@mzelden.com wrote in message news:9474272146773836.wa.markmzelden@bama.ua.edu... On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:35:02 +, Martin Packer martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com wrote: Because of the virtualisation within modern disk controllers robustness favours more, smaller. What

Re: ASM and HiperPAV

2012-01-30 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Barbara Nitz nitz-...@gmx.net wrote in message news:0492432665216573.wa.nitzibmgmx@bama.ua.edu... See APAR OA32453 (closed last year). It addresses the problem(s) associated with using HYPERPAV (and the WLMPAV option) for paging devices. If I read the apar right, this addresses the WLMPAV

Re: ASM and HiperPAV

2012-01-30 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Barbara Nitz nitz-...@gmx.net wrote in message news:9197539290910617.wa.nitzibmgmx@bama.ua.edu... To be precise: ASM reserves 2 exposures *per pagedataset* not per volume (i.e. 2n-1 Aliasses per volume), since/so you can allocate more than 1 pagedataset on one volume. We do so to fill

Re: ASM and HiperPAV

2012-01-30 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
and HiperPAV On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:39:20 +0100, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM kees.verno...@klm.com wrote: To be precise: ASM reserves 2 exposures *per pagedataset* not per volume (i.e. 2n-1 Aliasses per volume), since/so you can allocate more than 1 pagedataset on one volume. We do so to fill

Re: ASM and HiperPAV

2012-01-30 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Mark Zelden m...@mzelden.com wrote in message news:1732118085814428.wa.markmzelden@bama.ua.edu... On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:39:20 +0100, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM kees.verno...@klm.com wrote: To be precise: ASM reserves 2 exposures *per pagedataset* not per volume (i.e. 2n-1 Aliasses per

Re: STEPLIB problems - was: PDSE

2012-01-25 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
I see what you mean. What are 'dynamic steplib functions from outside IBM'? Some third party product? Our TSO users select the 'environment' they like to work in, i.e. DEVL/PROD, DB2ID etc. and during logon we allocate to the different ISP* ddnames the libraries required for that envrionment.

Re: Going from mod-3 to mod9

2012-01-23 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Probably only true if you have a good cache-hit-rate, but this depends on the box. PAVs will certainly help here if the box supports them and you have configured them. Kees. Jousma, David david.jou...@53.com wrote in message

Re: FTP Recall HSM instead of DMS

2012-01-17 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Marco Gianfranco Indaco mgind...@gmail.com wrote in message news:CAPbaEcFbkRaNqzq=f-_sH=eht+f5_44mxyts+lb+5v2ieyq...@mail.gmail.com ... Ops, I pasted the wrong msg, sorry the error is ARC0050A Current version is CA DISK r12.5 Apologize. IIRC, DMS intercepts the Catalog Request and checks if

Re: FTP Recall HSM instead of DMS

2012-01-17 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Marco Gianfranco Indaco mgind...@gmail.com wrote in message news:capbaeceagpufhhjjhje7qwwd0ahhwb415dgb9b7ypk4ybbx...@mail.gmail.com ... Tks, for the suggest, I've not verified but it works using IEFBR14 and other utility. The problem affect ftp only both if client or server OK, probably FTP

Re: Provide a utility to remove residual systems from the sysplex CDS

2012-01-16 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Barbara Nitz nitz-...@gmx.net wrote in message news:9205233228045717.wa.nitzibmgmx@bama.ua.edu... MR1026112735 Title - Provide a utility to remove residual systems from the sysplex CDS I am told that this request, pointed out by Barbara Nitz, had been answered incorrectly and that the

Re: HMC reset clear hang

2012-01-16 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
taltyman farmall...@gmail.com wrote in message news:39a5df20-ee44-4301-80d7-54c474b7d...@o9g2000yqa.googlegroups.com. .. Here is what happened. This client is on 2 z9's with multiple lpars. We were doing a maintenance IPL to 2 sysplexed lpars. One on each z9. Brought system 1 down, got the

Re: maxsystem in a sysplex - belated heads-up

2012-01-12 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Barbara Nitz nitz-...@gmx.net wrote in message news:9193446080894951.wa.nitzibmgmx@bama.ua.edu... Barbara - I've asked our account team to add us as concurring with the requirement and to be added to the Interested Parties list. The requirement has been rejected with this: User Group

Re: Cancel STC

2012-01-09 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Helio Jose Da Silva helio.si...@rural.com.br wrote in message news:ec61ef1aa63c694b8a23a9e1350cca2206462...@dr000s060.sfr.net... All list, I need to cancel a STC, but when I issued the command Cancel STRSSA,a=0071 or Force STRSSA,a=0071, I'm following receiving message RESPONSE=RPRD

Re: Was: Calling all experts on SMFPRMxx SUBSYS - How does Subsys of SILO work?

2012-01-06 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Barbara Nitz nitz-...@gmx.net wrote in message news:5715402586594249.wa.nitzibmgmx@bama.ua.edu... Just to add my speculations to this, too: For some reason they have excluded SMF records with that subsys. From the other posts, it is a user-defined SMF type number. The reason for

Re: Calling all experts on SMFPRMxx SUBSYS

2012-01-06 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za wrote in message news:5632376965579273.wa.elardus.engelbrechtsita.co...@bama.ua.edu... Barbara Nitz wrote: I cannot say with surety. I would have said an unequivocal yes before this discussion, but as Kees pointed out, anyone can report

Re: Calling all experts on SMFPRMxx SUBSYS

2012-01-06 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Hunkeler Peter , KIUP 4 peter.hunke...@credit-suisse.com wrote in message news:dc74548a025aff4a85f46926802a9b230779e...@chsa1035.share.beluni.net ... Can a SMF exit overwrite and change that subsystem name (or any field) in a SMF record as passed on and send these changed SMF records on to be

Re: Internal text

2012-01-06 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
From my experience with exit 6 from ages ago: there are indicators for the number of parameters and the length of the values. Take these in consideration when manipulating text. Below is the subroutine I used to remove a inttxt key from intxt. I hope this helps. Ik you need more explanation, I

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