IDCAMS ALTER and GDGs - From A(0) to B(+1) - Relative Generations

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Re: SYSPLEX names in a CPC

I would also add that the notion of an IRD Cluster is keyed off Parallel Sysplex name. I'm wondering what would happen if IRD were active. Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com

Re: CTC Connectivity

used to glean configuration. But in this case the data it has access to doesn't support that line of enquiry. Another, perhaps more trivial, one is the absence of PCHIDs in Type 73. (CHPIDs are there but not PCHIDs.) Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide

Re: What data area contains number of CPU running on a processor

I have manuals on MY iPhone. :-) 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: Barbara Nitz nitz-...@gmx.net To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: 07

Re: SORT question

E15 exit? NOT the nicest of solutions. :-( 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: Frank Yaeger yae...@us.ibm.com To: IBM-MAIN

Re: current used main-memory( realmemory, central memory)

one but one that requires provisioning to and beyond the peak dumping memory requirement. (And so it might be (or appear) unaffordable.) It's a stance an installation has to take for themselves - and so I don't get judgemental about it... I merely point out the dynamics. :-) Martin Martin

Job Numbers rolling over

Job Numbers to see which jobs the scheduler threw into the hopper at the same tiem - else I wouldn't be looking at Job Numbers in the first place.) Thanks, Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email

Re: Possible DFSORT problem?

John McKown said Sorry - DFSORT apparently did the AMODE switch to 64, not our code. That's perfectly possible - if the sort was using a large memory object. Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email

Re: Question on size of IEFBR14 and z/OS V1.11

Are we missing something here? Didn't R.11 allow IEFBR14 to issue HDELETEs as appropriate? And mightn't that take up some 24-Bit virtual? (In addition to everything others are saying about fragmentation.) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide

Re: Viewing composed AFP at a PC workstation

Given Bookmaster / DCF can generate Postscript (and that's a process I personally use - to make nice PDFs via Linux tools) I'm wondering if the originator of the AFP datastream could do similarly. Probably not, but I think it worth investigating. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe

FC_? Channel Path Acronym

to such channels so I assume z/OS knows SOMETHING about the channel. Thoughts? Thanks, Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Unless stated

Re: FC_? Channel Path Acronym

Thanks Don. I saw that APAR and the description. I guess I'm just surprised 78-3 knows a lot about the channel and yet the Channel Path Acronym suggests it doesn't. I'm assuming having channels show up as FC_? is nothing more than an instrumentation issue. Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe

Top bits of z/OS Unix Process IDs

address spaces that have been dubbed. Thanks, Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited

Re: Crazy idea for a desktop integration with z/OS project?

I use Apache webserver with PHP scripts to automate a lot of stuff - basically FTPing - on z/OS. Might be an attractive approach. (But command line via that is harder.) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245

Re: Crazy idea for a desktop integration with z/OS project?

Apache and PHP are free and not very consumptive. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United

Re: Crazy idea for a desktop integration with z/OS project?

Not often but sorry for when I do. John mentioned the CPU cost of java. I was just pointing out running a private Apache instance with PHP didn't prove to be computationally expensive. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM

Re: How to communicate with Dataspace

What happened to the very excellent Extended Addressability? Did it get renamed or something? Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker

Re: z9 / z10 instruction speed(s)

Seymour, wrong by about a decade :-) ... 3090 was first to have true Expanded Storage, 9021 the last. With CMOS we had the partition real memory thing. Unless it's ME that is wrong by about a decade. :-) Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence

Re: IBM Plans to Discontinue REDBOOK Series

Redbooks, and the contacts and learning that flow from being involved in the writing. But it's still true, despite my vested interest.) Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter

Re: Extended Format, LARGE Datasets and HiperBatch

be usable (with care and fiddling).) Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, Software Group Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu

Re: SORT error: What am I doing wrong here?

Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, Software Group Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker __ And I would've coded my INREC above my SORT. Just for clarity. Martin Packer

Re: What was old is new again (water chilled)

Perhaps someone could summarise cogently what was wrong with water cooling the first time around (which, yes, I was there to witness). :-) I surmise it wasn't the water cooling so much as the space and the energy consumption that caused it to be necessary. Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance

Re: SORT error: What am I doing wrong here?

And I would've coded my INREC above my SORT. Just for clarity. Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, Software Group Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Unless stated otherwise above

Re: Preview: z/OS V1.12 - September 2010

And *I* remember when SDSF was SDSF. :-) Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, Software Group Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom

Re: z9 / z10 hardware question - unused CPs

have liked the stripe to be? :-) (Actually a friend of mine showed me the green swatches in the middle of 2008, having been deeply involved in the colour choice. In 2006 I had suggested to HIM that the colour be green, as a marketing giggle. :-) ) Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance

Scatter Plot with GDDM Presentation Graphics Facility

of getting a scatter plot.) The above is probably pretty obscure but I'm thinking IBM-MAIN has the best chance of remembering. :-) Thanks, Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, Software Group Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac

Re: Heads Up: Possible Data Loss for Temporary Data Sets starting 2010

Maybe sue-icidal. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598

Re: DFSORT - Avoid reading entire input file?

been reached. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter ID: MartinPacker One Tribe Y'all :-) Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales

Re: WLM Imp1

Further, most shops I know run with a fair amount of Importance 1. There're no indications they're wrong. So I'd like to understand where the No WLM Importance 1 advice came from. Thanks, Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584

Re: How do __you__ read non-DB non-XML files in Java?

quite a lot of interest in the subject. (I don't recall if I ever did that.) Just a thought. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter ID: MartinPacker One Tribe Y'all :-) Unless

Re: Opinion time: SMF data in XML format?

John, if this is a flat-layout SMF record (which I thought RACF cut) then it oughtn't to be hard to code up a DFSORT job to emit XML. Paging Mark Nelson... :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac

Re: STSI instruction question

see these three pairs of numbers as all the same in all the (many) customer sets of z10 data I've looked at.) Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter ID: MartinPacker One Tribe Y'all :-) From

Re: JVM based languages? (mildly OT)

I wonder what JVM startup time actually IS... There may be a distinction between the startup time for ANY language starting a JVM and the work a specific language e.g java has to do once the common stuff is set up. Then again there might not be. :-) Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant

Re: COBDFSYM With COBOL 410 - ((attn Frank Yeager??))

I'm wondering if COBDFSYM shouldn't become open source or similar. Given the (apparent) loose ownership of the code. But I'm just wondering, not proposing. The advantage would be that interested parties could work on it. Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44

Re: COBDFSYM With COBOL 410 - ((attn Frank Yeager??))

An interesting discussion about COBDFSYM, particularly as I plug it in the Batch Modernization Redbook that's currently in review. Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter ID: MartinPacker

Re: Sub Capacity Reporting for non IBM Vendors

I thought it was Type 70 rather than Type 72. (70 is CPU, 72 is Workload.) Being in IBM Software Group I suppose I ought to pay more attention to software pricing. :-) Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac

Re: Library Lookaside

changes. And I got the impression LLA could buffer directories for ANY PDS. (But not PDSE). Again it's an IIRC. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter ID: MartinPacker They're figuring

Re: EMC DASD and Hyper-PAVs

(if dedicated) not help? Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter ID: MartinPacker Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41

Re: EMC DASD and Hyper-PAVs

big enough you might be able to reduce the amount of DB2 sort I/O. Not that that would NECESSARILY change the profile of the I/Os (which is I guess your gist). Hoping that helps a little. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245

Re: ICETOOL and USS HFS SYMNAMES

WIBNI there were adapters between HFS files and Sequential Data Sets? Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter ID: MartinPacker They're figuring out that collaboration isn't a productivity hit

Re: Suggested MEMLIMIT value for SMFPRMx

Then what we are looking for, arguably, is better controls. So, let's argue for them - if that's the case. But, in the meantime, use what you have and ensure that the touch a petabyte DOS can't happen in YOUR shop. Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167

Re: Suggested MEMLIMIT value for SMFPRMx

technical hygiene. Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter ID: MartinPacker They're figuring out that collaboration isn't a productivity hit, it makes them smarter. Sam Palmisano on BlogCentral, 26 November

Re: DFSORT - the missing date conversion.

John, Investigate IFTHEN WHEN=(condition) so that if the number would be valid with the subtraction then do the subtraction, otherwise don't. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter

Re: DCOLLECT output - convert KB to tracks?

Glad you found the maths stuff in DFSORT (presumably looong ago). BTW IFTHEN might help with ciel - but I wouldn't say it was any simpler, just a tad clearer. (And I've a feeling we did MAX / MIN which might help here.) Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20

Re: peripheral: thoughts on Amazon Kindle DX PDFs

If you were following me on Twitter :-) or Facebook :-) you'd note I had a Sony PRS-700 eBook Reader to read my PDFs on. It's an alternative to a Kindle(2) and should work worldwide, unlike the Kindle(2). Now some good cheap PDF editing tools would come in handy. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer

Re: IEFBR14 in z/OS R.11

IDCAMS would be another one. (That was my reaction when I first heard of this.) But note both of these are MUCH harder because that would require reading of SYSIN - perhaps from data sets. Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584

Re: Submitting a Marketing REQUEST (was: BLOCK CONTAINS

Do you suppose it has to be YOUR Marketing Rep? Or just a friendly IBMer in the field? Cheers, Martin (still striving to be a friendly IBMer after all these years) :-) Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com

Re: TSO/E Exits

as an IBMer and as someone who's known John for a very long time) but I think it was absolutely spot on of him to ask the question here. If we can get beyond the metachatter I think we could as a community do good work by answering this question. Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United

308x Processors - was Mainframe articles

who bought these, though. Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter ID: MartinPacker They're figuring out that collaboration isn't a productivity hit, it makes them smarter. Sam Palmisano

Re: Mainframe articles

Care to talk about the various slugged (and not slugged) models. And base vs X? Cheers, Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter ID: MartinPacker They're figuring out that collaboration isn't

Re: MULTACC and MULTSDN rule of thumb

Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter ID: MartinPacker They're figuring out that collaboration isn't a productivity hit, it makes them smarter. Sam Palmisano on BlogCentral, 26 November 2008 From

Java on z/OS JNI Sample Wanted - Preferably HLASM

Could someone point me to a good simple sample of a HLASM JNI method being called from Java on z/OS? Failing a HLASM one I'd accept some other language. Pointer to a basic doc also appreciated. (Project involves also getting Jython to call a JNI method.) Thanks, Martin Martin Packer

Re: bookmaster

Would you accept HTML as the output? If so I'd suggest you look for B2H and run that under TSO in Batch. But why I should encourage you to ditch Bookie I DON'T know. :-) Martin (still wedded to Bookie but also using B2H on Windows) Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd

Re: What (More) Open Source Software for z/OS?

Kirk, I took the liberty of tweeting your wiki link (and also your announcement today) - using the #Dovetailed hashtag on Twitter. Would be great if you could join us there (if you aren't there already). Thanks, Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832

Re: What (More) Open Source Software for z/OS?

express ourselves in 140 characters or fewer on a regular basis. :-) When I present on this stuff inside IBM I normally add a few swear words. Especially around Point 3. I'll spare you those here. :-) To me it's quite frustrating. Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20

Re: BDAM vs VSAM

BDAM is probably justified over VSAM mainly when you're maintaining something that's already BDAM. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter ID: MartinPacker They're figuring out

Re: MaxSpace and Real Memory

afford huge amounts of idle memory stance. I think installations need to take SOME stance, though it's probably going to be in between these two. Thoughts? Thanks, Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com

Re: MaxSpace and Real Memory

Barbara, it depends on what one means by taken systems down in the past by having MAXSPACE set too high. I've seen systems clearly in the lights are on but nobody's home category from dumps gone awry. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167

Re: Rexx

That would be a real shame - z/OS REXX Development being frozen. I still think there's mileage in the Object REXX extensions being supported. But then I don't even know WHO the TSO developers are these days. Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167

Re: Any Batch Pipes experience?

to were / are dwarfed by the need to find thumpingly good candidates - which I spent much of the mid-1990s doing. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter ID: MartinPacker They're

IBM-MAIN Threads Posted To Twitter

a minor fix that included the start of this thread link. Thanks, Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter ID: MartinPacker They're figuring out that collaboration isn't a productivity hit, it makes

Re: VIO Storage Group

find it - whatever format it was in. :-) A customer and I were discussing this very topic 2 days ago. I'm going to think about which messages from VIOTOES to resurrect. Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac

Re: VIO Storage Group

Remember an SSD read or write is already downchannel and beyond the cache in its controller. So I'd expect VIO in Central to do better. Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter ID

Re: VIO Storage Group

be cautious on CPU for VIO to Central against SSD. Anyone who knows anything SUBSTANTIAL like to chip in at this point? Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter ID: MartinPacker They're figuring out

Re: OOREXX and USS/TSO

Not very java like... It's Classic REXX with object-oriented extensions. Sadly the GUI stuff is only for Windows (at least out of the box). More importantly it OUGHT to be ported to z/OS, preferably not just USS. Volunteers? Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd

Re: ADMUGIF REXX Sample - ADMGDF To GIF Conversion

Thanks, Phil! Very much appreciated. Now, how about extending it to create JPEGs directly? :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter ID: MartinPacker They're figuring out

ADMUGIF REXX Sample - ADMGDF To GIF Conversion

to GIF or JPEG. Possibly on z/OS in Batch or maybe on Windows. Though I don't know of a good batch conversion program. As give back I'll happily document - in my blog - how to do this. (I'll obviously acknowledge those who help me in this quest.) Thanks, Martin Martin Packer Performance

Re: DB2 Basic

... and a reasonable amount of discussion about DB2 (and z/OS for that matter) over on Twitter. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter ID: MartinPacker They're figuring out

Re: Z11 - Water cooling?

Actually I think they were saying steam. :-) Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter ID: MartinPacker They're figuring out that collaboration isn't a productivity hit, it makes them smarter. Sam

Re: AIX gets 64 bit COBOL but still none for Z/os ...

. Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter ID: MartinPacker They're figuring out that collaboration isn't a productivity hit, it makes them smarter. Sam Palmisano on BlogCentral, 26 November 2008

Re: Heartland Payment Systems: Largest Data Breach in History?

If it doesn't scale maybe the damage is limited. :-) Or maybe it takes just one transaction to be a DoS attack. :-) I know, I know, one shouldn't mock... :-) Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter

Re: WLM four-hour rolling average

I suspect the OP may have been confusing this with the Group Capacity IPL bonus period. Possibly not. Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter ID: MartinPacker They're figuring out that collaboration

WLM and DB2

Nice debate going on on Twitter right now about WLM and DB2. Main users to follow and reply to on this are: martinpacker, meraltemel and dougielawson. It wouldn't surprise me if wfavero and craigmullins chipped in as well - when they wake up. Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United

Re: Is there a tool to put SMF data into DB/2?

- FOR ME - is a minor risk as I do almost all the development of our tooling (including mapping SMF records). YMWV :-) Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com They're figuring out that collaboration isn't

Re: z10 power problem notification

I still vote for some kind of clue in SMF 70. Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com They're figuring out that collaboration isn't a productivity hit, it makes them smarter. Sam Palmisano on BlogCentral, 26

Memory Instrumentation - was largest parallel sysplex around?

) but that's not the case here.) Thanks, Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com They're figuring out that collaboration isn't a productivity hit, it makes them smarter. Sam Palmisano on BlogCentral, 26

Re: z/OS 1.10 and Data Areas

I'm wondering whether we need to hack together some helper scripts for PDFs. I know this is a VAGUE wondering. Will repeat it on Twitter and see if anyone bites in either forum. :-) Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Enclave SRB CPU time

think it may be time to update this paper and do a modern presentation on it. (That idea competes for my attention with a Parallel Sysplex Performance Topics presentation I feel inclined to write for next year's round of conferences.) Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom

Re: Manual formats

I wonder if an open-source .BOO reader has merit. As well as perhaps an open-source writer. Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 [EMAIL PROTECTED] They're figuring out that collaboration isn't a productivity hit, it makes them smarter

Re: Processor model in HCD

for it to be put in and it's been in since at least z/OS R.7. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 [EMAIL PROTECTED] They're figuring out that collaboration isn't a productivity hit, it makes them smarter. Sam Palmisano

Re: z/OS 1.10 and Data Areas

A parallel discussion on Bookmanager vs PDF is going on on Twitter right now. It's a DB2-centric conversation but I've attempted to bring a z/OS (corroborative) perspective to the discussion. Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 [EMAIL

Re: Running with SQA/ESQA 100% CHECK

Shows the level of natural confusion there is on the subject. :-) I myself had to stop and think about it for a second. I'm wondering why (fundamentally) it's still a one-way conversion. Why can't / shouldn't CSA overflow into SQA? Cheers, Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM

Re: curl from ported tools

And what would be the preferred method of DOM parsing or whatever the results? Not negative about it - just curious. (Javascript on z/OS would get MY vote.) Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 [EMAIL PROTECTED] They're figuring out

Re: Add Storage To Lpar - z/800

was a good idea - or at least so it seems so far. So customers don't have to ask for an API to report HSA size via RMF. (But we could still use one.) Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eric Bielefeld wrote

Re: DFSORT PARSE question

What's wrong with Popeye The Sailor Man? :-) :-) Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered

CPU Measurement Facility

the time right now.) But I can say these are some rather nice counters provided by the hardware that will be externalised in an SMF record. (The SMF record was in plan last time I checked - a few months ago and is NOT the SMF 23 that has been talked about.) Martin Martin Packer Performance

Re: IBMMainiacs at System z Expo?

And Bill Seubert of IBM and I are both Twittering at the event: I am martinpacker and he is IBMBill on Twitter. Befriend us if you're also mainframe twitterers. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Update datasets defined in lnklst

Peter, is this the whole cache that gets invalidated on refresh? Or just the library / libraries specified? And does specifying specific libraries make sense? Thanks, Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: z Education - IBM System z Expo (Oct 13-17, 2008)

Personally I think having the presentations on CD without the recording is still valuable. At 35,000 feet getting internet access is STILL tricky. :-) Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unless stated

Re: CHROME and WEB apps on Mainframe?

programming benefiting also.) Oh I CAN think of ONE specific: It would be very nice to see Object REXX run under TSO. Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited

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Re: Sysplex MAXSYS - Impact Of Under- Or Over-Specifying

about CDS I/O. And I think I ought to. Now I just need to think about appropriate instrumentation to write up. Thanks, Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom

Sysplex MAXSYS - Impact Of Under- Or Over-Specifying

to increase the MAXSYS value if you need to add a system in and MAXSYS would prevent you. I don't know, other than the additional XCF list structure space, that OVERspecifying it is harmful. Experiences and opinions? Thanks, Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20

Re: XCF Coupling Facility Space vs In-Memory Buffers

and (perhaps) the buffer pools in the z/OS systems smaller. In other words, what are the trade offs for biasing towards space in the CF list structures vs biasing towards space in XCF buffers in z/OS? I'm not sure that makes it any clearer. :-) Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United

XCF Coupling Facility Space vs In-Memory Buffers

be interested in your opinions. Thanks, Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Twitter / identi.ca : MartinPacker Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number

Re: z/OS 1.9 System Commands Memory Reconfiguration Issue

I'm wondering whether to do the same regarding Parallel Sysplex manuals. They refer to eg CFLEVEL1 which I kinda think all customers will have by now. :-) Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Brian

Re: z/OS 1.9 System Commands Memory Reconfiguration Issue

being considered, mainly due to politics in the office. All three images running in separate LPARs on a 6-engine z9 processor. Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom

Re: IBM's 2Q2008 Earnings

Hopefully you didn't miss out Abel Gance's La Roue. :-) Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598

Re: Interesting problem with CONSOLE ACTIVATE

That's what I'd call Clustered Departures. :-) Sorry folks That's got to be the most NERDY joke in history. :-) Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom

Re: Memory Upgradation ??

.. and also opportunities to exploit memory. For example DB2 buffering. Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number

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