SV: Avoiding Java (Was: And you ask why I hate OMVS?)

2009-06-25 Thread Thomas Berg
-Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] För Edward Jaffe Skickat: den 24 juni 2009 19:59 Till: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Ämne: Avoiding Java (Was: And you ask why I hate OMVS?) Shane wrote: On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 06:09 -0600, Steve

Re: And you ask why I hate OMVS?

2009-06-24 Thread Barbara Nitz
Here is what I did this morning: The chain of pids under pid=1 looked like this 1-- 400 (userid3) -- 200 (userid5) -- 500 (userid1) -- 300 (userid5) and so on. c userid*.* (there was no address space without a number at the end) got me: IEE535I CANCEL INVALID PARAMETER c userid.* (not that I

Re: And you ask why I hate OMVS?

2009-06-24 Thread Timothy Sipples
David Crayford writes: Ahhhaaa, you named and shamed and I didn't have to *search the archives*! A lot of the Websphere portfolio doesn't port well to z/OS. I have anecdotal evidence (I was told by an IBMer) that Websphere messaage broker runs like a stallion on AIX but sucks big time on z/OS.

Re: And you ask why I hate OMVS?

2009-06-24 Thread David Crayford
Timothy Sipples wrote: David Crayford writes: Ahhhaaa, you named and shamed and I didn't have to *search the archives*! A lot of the Websphere portfolio doesn't port well to z/OS. I have anecdotal evidence (I was told by an IBMer) that Websphere messaage broker runs like a stallion on AIX but

Re: And you ask why I hate OMVS?

2009-06-24 Thread Steve Comstock
David Crayford wrote: Timothy Sipples wrote: David Crayford writes: Ahhhaaa, you named and shamed and I didn't have to *search the archives*! A lot of the Websphere portfolio doesn't port well to z/OS. I have anecdotal evidence (I was told by an IBMer) that Websphere messaage broker runs like

Re: And you ask why I hate OMVS?

2009-06-24 Thread Arthur Gutowski
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:17:57 -0500, Barbara Nitz nitz-...@gmx.net wrote: F OMVS,SHUTDOWN well, at the point I detected those pids, issuing this command would have been just as bad as what I did (shutting down the fork service), as OMVS (or the fork service) was still needed for WBI shutdown. And

Re: And you ask why I hate OMVS?

2009-06-24 Thread Shane
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 19:27 +0800, David Crayford wrote: ... one of the big 4 retail banks in Australia were disappointed with the performance of WMB. Now that *is* a surprise. ... only one ??? ... Shane ... -- For

Re: And you ask why I hate OMVS?

2009-06-24 Thread Shane
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 06:09 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: Avoid the use of Java when not needed. s/ when not needed// Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: And you ask why I hate OMVS?

2009-06-24 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:25:21 -0500, Arthur Gutowski aguto...@ford.com wrote: I don't know about *your* automation product, but ours doesn't like F OMVS,SHUTDOWN very much. AF/Oper has it's hooks into OMVS, and if you kill OMVS before AF/Oper recedes on its own, things tend to get hung out to

Avoiding Java (Was: And you ask why I hate OMVS?)

2009-06-24 Thread Edward Jaffe
Shane wrote: On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 06:09 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: Avoid the use of Java when not needed. s/ when not needed// Shane ... But, then you would not know the joys of using the write once; debug everywhere language! ;-) -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software

Re: Avoiding Java (Was: And you ask why I hate OMVS?)

2009-06-24 Thread McKown, John
(Was: And you ask why I hate OMVS?) Shane wrote: On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 06:09 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: Avoid the use of Java when not needed. s/ when not needed// Shane ... But, then you would not know the joys of using the write once; debug everywhere language

Re: Avoiding Java (Was: And you ask why I hate OMVS?)

2009-06-24 Thread Barkow, Eileen
List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 1:59 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Avoiding Java (Was: And you ask why I hate OMVS?) Shane wrote: On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 06:09 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: Avoid the use of Java when not needed

Re: Avoiding Java (Was: And you ask why I hate OMVS?)

2009-06-24 Thread Howard Brazee
On 24 Jun 2009 11:01:29 -0700, edja...@phoenixsoftware.com (Edward Jaffe) wrote: But, then you would not know the joys of using the write once; debug everywhere language! ;-) Modern languages are like TVs. We don't maintain their code, we replace it.

Re: Avoiding Java (Was: And you ask why I hate OMVS?)

2009-06-24 Thread Kirk Wolf
What a great quote! I'm a big Java fan, but your statement is sadly true about most Java applications developed today. It is not that Java isn't a terrific language, but all modern OO languages suffer the same problem: they provide more ways for poor programmers to make a mess. Most companies

Re: And you ask why I hate OMVS?

2009-06-24 Thread Tony Harminc
2009/6/24 Barbara Nitz nitz-...@gmx.net What frustrates me most is the absence of a command that will terminate a pid chain (like described above) *without* having to issue a force to each and every process. The numbers aren't really conducive to being analyzed by a human[...] Certainly not

Re: And you ask why I hate OMVS?

2009-06-24 Thread Barbara Nitz
What frustrates me most is the absence of a command that will terminate a pid chain (like described above) *without* having to issue a force to each and every process. While pids converted to hex look a lot more readable, as far as I could see, they're shown in decimal, too, when the ps

And you ask why I hate OMVS?

2009-06-23 Thread Barbara Nitz
This past weekend I had the dubious honour of shutting down and IPLing 5 systems, two of them with USS work. The shutting down part was really bad (now I know why our operators keep complaining). One lpar has my favourite hate-application running (called WBIFN, for all you European SWIFT

Re: And you ask why I hate OMVS?

2009-06-23 Thread Ceruti, Gerard G
...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Barbara Nitz Sent: 23 June 2009 11:23 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: And you ask why I hate OMVS? This past weekend I had the dubious honour of shutting down and IPLing 5 systems, two of them with USS work. The shutting down part was really bad (now I know why our

Re: And you ask why I hate OMVS?

2009-06-23 Thread Norbert Friemel
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:22:35 -0500, Barbara Nitz wrote: I was looking at them. Canceling any of them didn't really help, never mind that the duplicate jobname requires using the asid, which requires a list first. By the time I get around to killing the pid, it's already gone. CANCEL jobname.*

Re: And you ask why I hate OMVS?

2009-06-23 Thread David Crayford
Ahhhaaa, you named and shamed and I didn't have to *search the archives*! A lot of the Websphere portfolio doesn't port well to z/OS. I have anecdotal evidence (I was told by an IBMer) that Websphere messaage broker runs like a stallion on AIX but sucks big time on z/OS. Having said that, I

Re: And you ask why I hate OMVS?

2009-06-23 Thread Barbara Nitz
CANCEL jobname.* cancels all tasks/jobs with the same jobname. I have only ever used the jobname.identifier construct when I had started gtf without specifiying the identifier at the start command. I didn't know that that might get rid of USS processes. I'll try it tomorrow morning, to see

Re: And you ask why I hate OMVS?

2009-06-23 Thread Barbara Nitz
A lot of the Websphere portfolio doesn't port well to z/OS. I have anecdotal evidence (I was told by an IBMer) that Websphere messaage broker runs like a stallion on AIX but sucks big time on z/OS. Agreed to the z/OS part. My ears are still ringing from the cursing my colleague did when he

Re: And you ask why I hate OMVS?

2009-06-23 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Barbara Nitz nitz-...@gmx.net Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 5:23 AM Subject: And you ask why I hate OMVS? This past weekend I had the dubious honour of shutting down and IPLing 5 systems, two of them with USS work

Re: And you ask why I hate OMVS?

2009-06-23 Thread Barbara Nitz
Tom, unless I can specify a certain jobname for that job, don't bother with searching for it. I cannot shut down *all* active processes, as that was what got me in trouble. Also, we have a clist that kills all processes left when JES2 doesn't shut down. Which doesn't help me, as that user

Re: And you ask why I hate OMVS?

2009-06-23 Thread David Crayford
Barbara Nitz wrote: My shutting down the fork service brought WBIFN to a halt, and probably rightly so. On the other hand, a 'real' MVS component would have had recovery in place with provisions for that service happening and terminating all on its own. Just think of the lengths IMS goes to

Re: And you ask why I hate OMVS?

2009-06-23 Thread Andy Robertson
: - To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu From: David Crayford dcrayf...@gmail.com Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: 06/23/2009 11:41AM Subject: Re: And you ask why I hate OMVS? Barbara Nitz wrote: My shutting down the fork service brought WBIFN to a halt, and probably rightly so

Another OMVS discussion (was: Re: And you ask why I hate OMVS?)

2009-06-23 Thread Barbara Nitz
David, Just think of the lengths IMS goes to *not* to have an MPR canceled from under it! IMS and it's BPE framework has it's hooks firmly in OMVS. IMS Connect cannot run without it. An IMS Java MPP/BPP requires OMS (anybody using IMS Java?). I was refering more to the fact that you cannot

Re: And you ask why I hate OMVS?

2009-06-23 Thread McKown, John
I usually enter the command: F OMVS,SHUTDOWN And every UNIX process starts dying. But other than TCPIP, FTP, and TN3270, we don't run much UNIX stuff. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817)

Re: And you ask why I hate OMVS?

2009-06-23 Thread Staller, Allan
When all else fails: F OMVS,SHUTDOWN It will kick the skids out from under anything that is running! Not graceful, but effective. I've never had to issue it more that twice in a shutdown cycle... HTH, snip Subject: And you ask why I hate OMVS? This past weekend I had the dubious honour

Re: And you ask why I hate OMVS?

2009-06-23 Thread Bob Woodside
by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: 06/23/2009 11:41AM Subject: Re: And you ask why I hate OMVS? Barbara Nitz wrote: My shutting down the fork service brought WBIFN to a halt, and probably rightly so. On the other hand, a 'real' MVS component would have had recovery

Re: And you ask why I hate OMVS?

2009-06-23 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:22:35 -0500, Barbara Nitz nitz-...@gmx.net wrote: Isn't there any surefire way to get the whole tree stopped in one fell swoop? F OMVS,SHUTDOWN? That is what we do. We don't even shutdown ZFS (shutting down OMVS takes care of ZFS and there was a timing bug with

Re: And you ask why I hate OMVS?

2009-06-23 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:46:24 -0400, Pinnacle pinnc...@rochester.rr.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Barbara Nitz nitz-...@gmx.net Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 5:23 AM Subject: And you ask why I hate OMVS? This past weekend I had the dubious honour

Re: And you ask why I hate OMVS?

2009-06-23 Thread Walt Farrell
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:22:35 -0500, Barbara Nitz nitz-...@gmx.net wrote: This past weekend I had the dubious honour of shutting down and IPLing 5 systems, two of them with USS work. The shutting down part was really bad (now I know why our operators keep complaining). Just a brief comment that,

Re: And you ask why I hate OMVS?

2009-06-23 Thread Shane
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 08:50 -0500, Walt Farrell wrote: ... if you want your message (and frustrations) to reach them you probably should use the MVS-OE mailing list instead. And have us all miss out on the entertainment ?. How's that fair ?. Shane ...

Re: And you ask why I hate OMVS?

2009-06-23 Thread Hal Merritt
Subject: Re: And you ask why I hate OMVS? Ahhhaaa, you named and shamed and I didn't have to *search the archives*! A lot of the Websphere portfolio doesn't port well to z/OS. I have anecdotal evidence (I was told by an IBMer) that Websphere messaage broker runs like a stallion on AIX but sucks

Re: And you ask why I hate OMVS?

2009-06-23 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:22:35 -0500, Barbara Nitz wrote: So how are other installations handling system shutdown when there are active USS users (or at least their leftover processes)? For a 'pure' MVS, I can shutdown TSO and the Initiators, cancel any running batch jobs, and I am done. But how

Re: And you ask why I hate OMVS?

2009-06-23 Thread Walt Farrell
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:12:37 +1000, Shane ibm-m...@tpg.com.au wrote: On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 08:50 -0500, Walt Farrell wrote: ... if you want your message (and frustrations) to reach them you probably should use the MVS-OE mailing list instead. And have us all miss out on the entertainment ?.

Re: And you ask why I hate OMVS?

2009-06-23 Thread Natarajan Mohan
Barbara, You could always list the omvs tasks by issuing D OMVS,A=ALL Followed by F BPXOINIT,TERM=identified-process-id and if term did not work, you could use F BPXOINIT,FORCE=identified-processs-id. But shutting down OMVS by issuing F OMVS,SHUTDOWN quiesce all the running process and