>You want to use connect time to figure out MB/sec on FICON?
Never said that!
Just pointed out what EXCPs can/really do mean.
I'm well aware of the issues with FICON.
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I'm a SuperHero with neither powers, nor motivation!
Kimota!
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Ted,
You want to use connect time to figure out MB/sec on FICON? Be my guest. I
would rather beat my head a against a steel spike :-)
The busier any component in the path gets, the more inaccurate it becomes.
Path includes the MP on the host and the storage, ISL if you have any
cascading, command
I do an DCOLLECT on the volumes then an easytrieve report by storage
groups and similarly name non-sms volumes.
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Neil Duffee wrote:
>> OK, a third question: Is this even worthwhile?
>
> In batch, perhaps?
>
> z/OS v1.11 DFSMSdfp Storage Administration SC26-7402-13
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>The EXCP*BLKSIZE=MB is not true for all access methods. I'd only assume this
>is correct for SAM-E, which is probably the majority of tape IO.
Ron, we've had this argument/discussion before.
With XA/ESA, or even slightly before, IOC was changed to allow either blocks or
8.3 ms of connect time.
Clark,
The EXCP*BLKSIZE=MB is not true for all access methods. I'd only assume this
is correct for SAM-E, which is probably the majority of tape IO.
Ron
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of
> Clark Morris
> Sent: Thursday,
Here is the relevant documentation from the *Installation and Tuning
Reference*:
The SUBSYS specification overrides the SYS specification. Use SUBSYS to make
> exceptions to your SYS specification for particular subsystems.
...
> When you associate new exit routines with SMF exits through PROGxx
On 23 Sep 2010 07:29:51 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
>Hi John,
>
> Yes, I had thought of extrapolating channel busy % but I'm not sure that
> would be precise enough.
>Thanks for the suggestion.
As I recall the SMF 14 (sequential read) and 15 (sequential write)
records have the de
Matt
Go ahead. I/you/we can try to put any useful conclusions online for the
archives.
Chris Mason - chrisma...@belgacom.net
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:58:48 -0400, Dazzo, Matt
wrote:
>Chris, mind if we take this offline. I can then send the table as an
attachment, might be easier to read.
>
>T
Awesome! Thanks so much. You have no idea how much agony I have invested in
this. I will post back here within a couple of days if this solves the
problem.
Charles
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Of Brian Kennelly
Sent: Thursd
That is an accurate recap. (I ran into this one myself.)
To see the exits on the system, you can use
*D PROG,EXIT*
or
*D PROG,EXIT,MODNAME=IEFU84*
to see the exits for IEFU84, e.g..
*
*
You should see the exit names for each subsystem listed.
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 15:01, Charles Mills wrote:
Thanks much. Please allow me to clarify. (Not arguing -- just wanting to
make sure I understand perfectly.) You are saying that on the "not working"
system I need to install in SYSTSO.IEFU8x because of the statements
SUBSYS(TSO,...
that appear in the not working system's PARMLIB.
But on the o
> OK, a third question: Is this even worthwhile?
In batch, perhaps?
z/OS v1.11 DFSMSdfp Storage Administration SC26-7402-13 Chapter 21 Using
NaviQuest, Performing Storage Administration tasks in Batch pg 356.
Generate a Data Set List: ACBQBAI2 pg 365.
Table 29 SYS1.SACBCNTL Sample JCL libra
Each defined subsystem has its own set of dynamic exits. If you have not
defined a separate TSO subsystem, the SYS defaults will be used, but the SYS
** exits are called for subsystem if it is defined in the SMF
parms.
Similarly, if JES2 is defined in SMF, you will need to install your e
No, that alone will not fix the problem. TSO exits are already getting type
30 and 80.
You need to add your exit to the dynamic exit list for each subsystem you
want to monitor.
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 14:32, Charles Mills wrote:
> Perhaps I need an explicit SUBSYS(TSO,TYPE(30,80))?
>
> Charles
Perhaps I need an explicit SUBSYS(TSO,TYPE(30,80))?
Charles
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Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 11:59 AM
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Subject: SMF Exit suppression question
I've got
On 9/23/2010 10:10 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:55:08 -0500, Etienne Thijsse wrote:
Does anybody know why I don't see the second job in SDSF/ST ? Or,
I wondered that once, and was fed some alphabet soup; perhaps
JOE vs. ???.
alternatively, does anyone know how I can have
> Did you install the exits in SYSTSO?
No, have not needed to on the other systems. Would you expect that I would
have to "sometimes"? Under what circumstances?
Charles
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Did you install the exits in SYSTSO?
SYSTSO.IEFU83
SYSTSO.IEFU84
SYSTSO.IEFU85
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:59, Charles Mills wrote:
> I've got an exit that installs on SYS.IEFU83, 4 and 5. On my test system
> and
> several customer systems it works as expected. However, on one customer
> (z/OS V
I've got an exit that installs on SYS.IEFU83, 4 and 5. On my test system and
several customer systems it works as expected. However, on one customer
(z/OS V1R7 FWIW, although I have tested on V1R7 successfully) I am seeing
*some* of the expected records but not all. The exit is installed first on
t
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:10:39 -0500, Paul Gilmartin
wrote:
>On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:55:08 -0500, Etienne Thijsse wrote:
>>
>>Does anybody know why I don't see the second job in SDSF/ST ? Or,
>
>I wondered that once, and was fed some alphabet soup; perhaps
>JOE vs. ???.
>
Thank you, at least I now
> On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:11:33 -0700, John Norgauer
> wrote:
>
> >Does your root ZFS exist on your SYSRES or does it get moved after
> >receiving it from IBM? Do you rename it to reflect the OS level or
> >version?
> >
I copy all SMP/E maintained using ADRDSSU to datasets named like
OMVS.WSUMVS
My zFS files are SYS1.OMVS.sysres.ROOT, and reside in an SMS pool.
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 2:24 PM, David Elliot wrote:
> Here it lives in the appropriate SMS pool with the z/OS version, the LPAR
> and the PUT level in the name.
>
> David Elliot
>
> zSeries Software Support
>
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Here it lives in the appropriate SMS pool with the z/OS version, the LPAR and
the PUT level in the name.
David Elliot
zSeries Software Support
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
John Norgauer
Sent: Thursday, September 23,
Not using zFS for Root.
Using zFS for user and product file systems.
Root file systems for my 3 LPARs all z/OS 1.10
For KMC1 LPAR - HFS.ZOS0110.KMC1.ROOT renamed and directed during
ServerPac install to Master Catalog/IODF/SMPE volume.
For CPAC LPAR - HFS.ZOS0110.CPAC.ROOT on SYSRES volume one
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:11:33 -0700, John Norgauer
wrote:
>Does your root ZFS exist on your SYSRES or does it get moved after
>receiving it from IBM? Do you rename it to reflect the OS level or
>version?
>
Same as most of the other responses. SYSRES (set) with the volser as
part of the data se
Chris, mind if we take this offline. I can then send the table as an
attachment, might be easier to read.
Tks Matt
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Chris Mason
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 11:59 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama
In addition to the overhead of software encryption, consider the effects
of the loss of hardware compression for the data written to tape, which
will affect both tape performance and thus elapsed time and the amount
of tape used. Both effects might pose challenges for jobs that need to
finish
Our VERSION root is on the SYSRES and contains the SYSRES name, which we change
whenever we install maintenance,...SYS1.VSver1.OMVS.ROOT ,
SYS1.VSver2.OMVS.ROOT, etc.
Our SYSPLEX root is in the SMS System pool.
Jon L. Veilleux
veilleu...@aetna.com
(860) 636-9179
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> -Original Message-
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> [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of John Norgauer
> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 12:12 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
> Subject: where does your OMVS Root file live?
>
> Does your root ZFS exist on your SYSRES or do
I use a mod-27 for my sysres, so yes, my Serverpac supplied filesystems
are on the sysres, and they have the SYSRES VOLSER in the dataset name.
_
Dave Jousma
Assistant Vice President, Mainframe Services
david.jou...@53.com
1830 East P
Does your root ZFS exist on your SYSRES or does it get moved after
receiving it from IBM? Do you rename it to reflect the OS level or
version?
John Norgauer
Senior Systems Programmer
Mainframe Technical Support Services
University of California Davis Medical Center
2315 Stockton Blvd
ASB 1300
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:55:08 -0500, Etienne Thijsse wrote:
>
>Does anybody know why I don't see the second job in SDSF/ST ? Or,
I wondered that once, and was fed some alphabet soup; perhaps
JOE vs. ???.
>alternatively, does anyone know how I can have the child process put its
>output within the p
Just a small nit. ** in option 3.4 produces a list of only the cataloged
datasets. That should be adequate unless users have uncataloged datasets, in
which case the OP will need to go volume by volume..
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Matt
I hope the following two references pull it together for you:
---
z/OS Communications Server, IP System Administrator's Commands, Version 1
Release 12, SC31-8781-10
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3.1.6.20 Netstat ROUTe/-r report
...
Report field descriptions
...
Gateway or Gw
The gateway used to send packets t
Hi,
I have a question about using fork() in a C program. In SDSF, command PS, I
can see the new child process, and there I see it has the same jobname as
the process that did the fork(), but it has a different JobID.
So, since it is apparently a different job than the job that did the fork(), I
Based on some recent threads on various listservs,
there apears to be a lot of misinformation about
how to write programs that call other programs
written in different programming languages.
Based on these threads, I've revised our course
"Secrets of Inter-Language Communication in z/OS"
and reti
Thanks Ron, I see what you're referring to.
Thank You,
Dave O'Brien
NIH Contractor
From: Ron Hawkins [ron.hawkins1...@sbcglobal.net]
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 10:40 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Reports for GB per hour to tape
David,
W
Cross post from IBMTCP-L
Finally working on converting gateway to beginroutes format. I took some advice
to from the archives and used the 'netstat routes report' command to create the
basis of my conversion. Below is a short segment of the routes report, not
sure how to handle the statements
I would not consider doing Capacity Planning by adding up MIPs or MSUs.
You probably have 2 CECs to avoid single point of failure (although on the
z196 it is a very small chance that the entire box would fail), or you went
through some kind of merger/acquisition, or you have a primary/secondary
sit
Thanks Stephen, I appreciate the reality check. I fought my way through
it far enough yesterday to realize that SMTP has a documented
restriction for the dataset of an LRECL of 243 or less (although it will
take up to 250). I used an old friend IEBGENER to truncate the file
from FBA 256 to FB 250
"O'Brien, David W. [C] , NIH/CIT" wrote in
message
news:..
.
> Can anyone suggest a methodology to measure GB per hour written to
tape?
>
> Management is seeking to evaluate the additional CPU overhead that s/w
encryption might entail.
>
> IBM's Volume mount analyzer gives tape allocation and t
John,
Your mentioning this product piqued my interest in it as well. Unfortunately
from my brief perusal of the documentation, it appears as though it doesn't
handle IDMS.
Bummer,
Rex
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M
David,
Why would you extrapolate % channel busy? The MB/sec written, and read, for
each channel is on the report.
Ron
> -Original Message-
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> O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 20
Hi John,
Yes, I had thought of extrapolating channel busy % but I'm not sure that
would be precise enough.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Thank You,
Dave O'Brien
NIH Contractor
From: McKown, John [john.mck...@healthmarkets.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 23,
> -Original Message-
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> [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of O'Brien, David W.
> (NIH/CIT) [C]
> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 9:21 AM
> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
> Subject: Re: Reports for GB per hour to tape
>
> Hi Rex,
>
> Thanks for res
Hi Rex,
Thanks for responding. No, we have TMS (CA-1) as our tape management system.
Guess I had a senior moment earlier. The number of bytes written or read would
obviously only be available at the end of the job. GB/hour is just not
available for any job running past :59 of any hour. Managemen
timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com (Timothy Sipples) writes:
> In terms of CPU burden, sure, there's CPU burden incurred *somewhere*, and
> CPU burden is never free anywhere. My employer -- the one that I do not
> speak for -- has neatly solved that financial problem at least in this
> particular mainframe
> -Original Message-
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> [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples
> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 8:37 AM
> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
> Subject: Re: Easytrieve to COBOL - IBM Migration Utility of
> z/OS - program 5697-N44
>
> I ty
O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] pisze:
Can anyone suggest a methodology to measure GB per hour written to tape?
Management is seeking to evaluate the additional CPU overhead that s/w
encryption might entail.
IBM's Volume mount analyzer gives tape allocation and tape mounts per hour but
not, t
I typically think of a "migration utility" as a one-time thing. And you can
use IBM Migration Utility in that fashion, if you wish: convert the
programs to COBOL then maintain those, in COBOL, with the MU library. But
that's not the only option. You can also continue writing/maintaining in
the Easy
Dave,
It's rough, but if you have RMM as your tape management system, it records how
much data is written to the tape - precompression. You could just divide the
amount on the tape with how long the job took to get GB per hour. I don't know
if the other TMS' have this field or not.
Rex
John,
This was briefly discussed here earlier in March 2010 also. Look for the
thread entitled 'CA Easytrieve replacement'
Dana
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On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 22:51 -0400, Mike Schwab wrote:
> http://www.hercules-390.org/hercfaq.html
> In Section 3.01, Paragraph 4 of 6:
>
> [...] The prize for the world's smallest mainframe probably goes to
> Ivan Warren, who claims to have run VM/370 under Hercules on an iPAQ
> 5450 handheld PDA.
Mike Schwab observes:
>Actually, their product runs on the mainframe, and translates
>TN3270E data setreams to HTML Web pages. So any built in web
>browser accesses a remote mainframe with this product installed
>on the mainframe.
Many products do, including a popular product produced by my emplo
Can anyone suggest a methodology to measure GB per hour written to tape?
Management is seeking to evaluate the additional CPU overhead that s/w
encryption might entail.
IBM's Volume mount analyzer gives tape allocation and tape mounts per hour but
not, to my knowledge, GB written per hour.
Yes
Another DCOLLECT (not ISMF) option would be to use DFSORT and/or ICETOOL to
pick through DCOLLECT data and build reports. There's a nice set of starter
samples on the DFSORT publications page.
Start with http://www.ibm.com/storage/dfsort
Select the Publications link
Under Papers and Examples, sele
Steve
The service DIAG 204 is not really documented in the z/OS world - it might be
documented in the VM world (not sure).
However, its usage and the best guess at the parmlist and restrictions are in
the public domain (for an example see the source for SHOWMVS/ZOS on the CBT
tape). Obviously
Where is this documented?
Thanks
Steve
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Sent: 22 September 2010 19:10
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Subject: Re: Identify all MVS images in a CEC
There is a hardware
The way ISMF PRINT works is rather cockeyed.
Once you have created your list of data sets in ISMF, go to LIST at the top of
the screen and select the PRINT option from the drop down menu.
The resulting panel will ask for a list of TAGS. These are the numbers
associated with each column entry. E
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 1:08 AM, Clark Morris wrote:
> On 22 Sep 2010 12:55:17 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
>
> >(OOPS - I forgot and replied in the Newsgroup rather than sending to the
> >list-server. Sorry for the duplicate - for those who see two copies of
> >this)
> >
> Given th
Rather than focus on your problems using SAVE etc., like others, I thought I
might point you in a different direction.
You could use DCOLLECT to get a list of all your data sets. DCOLLECT records
includes all kinds of info that can be collected, and that data can be
processed/reported/analyzed.
Ba
Not really. I think we had to fiddle a bit to make DB2 DCLGENs work - some
had to be massaged a bit for EMU to accept them. But nothing serious
Andy R
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rom: Ron Wells
was there any show stoppers??
1. Better to have 2 z/Series, just in case one should go down entirely.
2. Are they in separate computer rooms in separate cities at least 2
POPs away, for mirroring and protection against a "Hinsdale" fire
taking out a phone company hub.
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/26/business/phone-system-fear
Steve,
You could implement SSDP in your agents. I'm no expert on it but it's worth
a look:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Service_Discovery_Protocol
The problem may reduce to identifying instances of your agent.
Cheers,
Andrew
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 09:06:00 +0100, Steve Austin
wrote:
>
Hi to All.
I would like to hear your opinion on the following issue.
We plan to change out 2xZ/10 (704+705) to 2x Z196
We still run a little bit of CICS and normal batch, but our main work is,
that we are running (and Coverting) our present applications to a
multitier-System.
That is, the applic
zMan,
I have a pretty barebones system where almost everything is a default.
When a save an ISMF list with command "save hawkins replace" the table is
saved in the PDS allocated as ISPTABL, which from a "LISTA ST" command I
find is my uid.ISPF.ISPPROF. And surprise, surprise a browse of my
ISPF.I
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