snip
Just run an IEBCOPY job to compress the PDS dataset. This will usually
get you back a lot of space since this file is updated a lot. This is
very easy to do with no issues that result from it.
/snip
Just to amplify, run a standard compress job using IEBCOPY with
DISP=SHR on SYS1.VTAMLST.
MVS Setting up a SYSPLEX SA22-7625
Merging Systems into a SYSPLEX SG24-6818
HTH,
snip
Hello all, we plan on installing z/os V.11 on our 2098-x01. Would
someone please point me to the book that tells you how to set up 2 LPARS
for sysplex capability for the new system. I have looked over the z/os
snip
I am reviewing our sysplex setups which haven't changed much since their
creation in the 1990s. Are there any pointers to conventional wisdom on
the
subject of tuning? I am already looking at z/OS 1.10 Setting Up A
Sysplex
(SA22-7625-16) and the White Paper Parallel Sysplex Performance: XCF
Given the constraints you have imposed, I would suggest a 3rd
('platimum') SMSplex for this data.
i.e. shared ucat,. Volumes, SMS cds's, HSMplex,...
Comments interspersed:
We have 2 SMSPLEXES within a bronze SYSPLEX.
GRS is common to all LPARS, but most everything else is not.
Now we have a
How about FTP (Binary) from z/OS tape to AIX and then restore?
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Subject: Restoring data backed up with
Presuming you are recent enough to have SMS, catalogs should not be a
problem. z/OS 1.11 should support all of the 1.8 and below
structure(s).
In short, IBM's position is that things will not inter-operate more than
n-2 levels apart. This forces you into a cold turkey migration.
Discard
I don't think you should translate the data in any way. FTP directly
from tape to AIX. MVS can do this. You may or may not have shop rules
that prevent FTP from tape.
HTH,
snip
My main doubt about that is what's the right way to read the data from
the tape (DITTO, IEBGENER maybe not).
Thanks a
AFAICT this has not yet been announced Using history as a guide, I would
expect 1 1/2 - two years. z/9 should have 3-5.
Of course, Big Blue may have a different opinion.
HTH,
snipAny idea when IBM planning to withdraw z9 BC from the marketing
and will be
out of support .. ?
/snip
Not from Ron but the redbook VSAM De-Mystified (SG24-6105) is also very
good.
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246105.html?Open
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is the book still available? Name??thx
Mace
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This may be SMF keeping the pieces it needs to build the SMF records
at task termination.
A key symptom would be a long shutdown time for the task and an apparent
CPU loop in the task after a xxx is shutting down message.
If this is the case, reference the DDCONS parameter of SMFPRMxx.
What is
IIRC, TSM for Z/OS has been stabilized. The other versions of TSM are
AFAIK, still being supported and enhanced.
Run TSM on a Linux Image...
snip
Since TSM has been stabilized by IBM, we are looking for alternatives
to Backup and DR solutions for our Linux environment. We currently run
FDR full
The CDS backup files on disk must be pre-allocated and large enough to
hold the contents of the CDS either in unloaded format or repro
format. Most likely the backup file did not exist or ran out of space.
There are other messages in the log that will clarify exactly what
happened.
HTH,
snip
From
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IEA2M291/SPTM
001945 (msg arc0744e Application programmer response):
The following list shows the return codes issued for this message and
the appropriate actions to be taken for each:
Retcode Meaning
irrelevant info snipped
16,
Storage Creep!
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Why is it called a memory leak? I think that's a distributed term. We
used to call it something else on the mainframe, but I can't remember
what.
Core cancer?
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BTW, I am not convinced that any update of an in-use linklist is safe.
IMO,
creating a new linklist is safer.
Agreed. I do not think that you can update an active LNKLST (somebody
correct me if I'm wrong). Also, IIRC, Peter Relson has cautioned against
UPDATE JOBNAME=*.
Reference the previous thread that appeared at the initial announcement
of the outage.
Sounds to me like the ANZ exec that shot his mouth off got his foot
stuck in it.
It would not be in IBM's interest to upset said executive by revealing
his incompetence to all!
snip
Subject: Little bit OT
... A replacement product will be available on December 31, 2009.
Reading between the lines is the z/11 imminent?
http://www.ibm.com/vrm/newsletter_10577_5852_137980_email_DYN_1IN/ffwp64
209573
http://www.ibm.com/vrm/newsletter_10577_5852_138666_email_DYN_1IN/ffwp64
209573
Before you do either of the below, try apar OA18452.
INITIMP=E may halp
Not sure about increasing the general DASD pool.
HTH,
snip
Subject: CPU Uncaptured overhead
We have a little z800 2066 with 350 mips and a reported uncaptured CPU
overhead percent in the 15-18% range.
We modified WLM to
IIRC, once you go to LARGEDS format on *ANY* spool volume you cannot go back
(LARGEDS=FAIL) except via a cold start.
Can't think of anything else to worry about.
HTH,
snip
z/OS V1.9
I am getting ready to move my spool from MOD3 to MOD9. I think the only thing
I have to do is change the
Did you point to the same or different couple datasets?
Last night we tried to IPL one of the members(SYSA) as a Monoplex with
a set of parameters we used many times.
The monoplex system abended with a wait state 40 rsn 52 (which
indicate no lpa dsn's were found), after the abend we tried to
snip
HSEND FREEVOL MVOL(HSM501) AGE(0) TARGETLEVEL(Ml2)
/snip
This is ok to reorg the ML1 volumes.
Re: the original dataset
HSEND MIGRATE dsname ML2
And you probably won't have to reorg ML1
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F DFHSM,RELEASE MIGRATION (or all)
HTH,
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Hallo To All,
Our ML1
IIRC, an experiment was done a few years back to see how many Linux
images could be started in an IFL using z/VM. IIRC, HW resources ran out
before the software architecture limits were reached. ISTR 32k images
running concurrently (no useful work, just how many can be started).
As to Linux
This is a non-issue. The HSMPDO* dataset are used for problem determination and
will fill up and toggle as needed.
*IF* you ever have an ongoing issue w/DFHSM, L2 may ask for the contents of the
PDO datasets to find out what was going on.
Essentially these are trace datasets designed to toggle
Lack of ML1 space? What do the HSM migration logs say? Hint MSGARC0734I
If SMS managed, what is the MGMTCLAS and the attributes assigned?
snip
This is a curiosity question. I noticed that I have one or two datasets
daily that get migrated during PSM that have one track and the minimum
age
(via
SDSF REXX and BATSO. Check the FMs!
snip
After accessing the task or joblog use the PRT ODSN 'output.dataset'
command. After this initial command, issue the PRT command which will
send the jesmsg output to the data set, then issue PRT CLOSE to close
the process. You can select the number
Thank you, Dr. Merrill For all of your work.
snip
I surely would have appreciated if you had checked your facts before
broadcasting such a scurrilous statement, especially since I
specifically stated in our User Group/Vendor Session yesterday
evening that I have
EVERY INTENTION OF LIVING TO 100
Check out Metal C programming guide at
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/Shelves/CBCBS180
Also Systems C (from Dingus) http://www.dignus.com/dcxx/
HTH,
snip
Okay I found dynalloc(). Maybe the question should have been is there a
LIST of these functions somewhere? A list of
Systems Rexx? (e.g. Result=AXRCMD('command'))
snip
I mean the REXX tcp/ip command server .
( I think got this with WD4Z)
Sorry, I hadn't heard of this.
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From the fine manual:
306-30
The user attempted to use a controlled program but is not authorized by
RACF to use that program. This can occur when a user has EXECUTE access
to a program library's data set profile, even if none of the program
modules involved are RACF program protected. Have the
USER=XX is not the same as NO VALID TSO USERID ASSIGNED I.E.
XXX (hex zeros or spaces)
snip
Subject: Re: S306-30
Said RACF guy claims he read the manual...can't argue that reference.
From RACF display of the ID:
USER= NAME=BATCH JOB ONLYOWNER=RACFADM CREATED=09.342
From your original post:
IKJ56644I NO VALID TSO USERID, DEFAULT USER ATTRIBUTES USED
And the FM:
Explanation: If RACF is installed, a background job will be run using
the minimum default user attributes. (Not the attributes of
USER=XXX. My Italics) Either the user ID was unidentifiable, or no
No recalls on either or both HSM images?
snip
When we started up DFHSM over the weekend on our two systems (z/OS 1.10
in a basic sysplex), both got the following messages:
ARC0001I DFSMSHSM 1.10.0 STARTING HOST=1 IN 064
ARC0001I (CONT.) HOSTMODE=MAIN
IEC031I
IIRC, when the journal is full, HSM goes into emergency mode. All is
held regardless of the individual function until NOEMERGENCY mode is
set. Please check the Fine Manual to verify my recollection.
F DFHSM,SETSYS NOEMERGENCY
HTH,
snip
Neither image would do a recall.
No recalls on either or
How do you get around the 44 byte key length restriction (for
compatability) on catalogs?
snip
I'm just throwing this idea on the table, and expect either little
interest or
strong opposition. What if catalog support allowed ALIAS names to exceed
44
characters?
/snip
snip
...This consolidates I/O sections, but is usually disabled
because of the large CPU costs and elapsetime of the consolidation,
mostly a problem for DB2.
/snip
Also DFHSM is notable for this same situation.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOBIDIC
snip
What do you mean Sun was the first?
The US Army used 360/30 and 360/40s in 18-wheel trailers back in the
early 1960s - 40 years before Sun thought of the idea. The Army even
had those in Vietnam for the division data centers.
And MOBIDIC (sp?) was
JOBCLASS(*) sets defaults for (JOB, STC, TSU)
JOBCLASS(?) sets defaults for (JOB)
JOBCLASS(STC) sets defaults for (STC)
JOBCLASS(TSU) sets defaults for (TSU)
JOBCLASS(x) where x is A-Z,0-9 overrides defaults for specified jobclass
JOBLCASS(*,?) should precede JOBCLASS(x) in the JES init deck.
Since you are accessing the 1.4 disks from another system, Just re-run
the compress from the other system.
I have had this happen in the past, and recovered with no issues.
HTH,
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NO!
Subject: DFHSM - Copy a tape dataset to ML2 directly
I have a tape dataset I would like to copy directly to ML2 without going
to DASD first. Does anyone know if this is possible using a utility like
IEBGENER?
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Check the SMP log for the date in question!
snip
Is there a way to find out all of the SYSMODs that were applied on a
certain date.
We are currently using SMP/E 3.4 in z/OS 1.9.
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This is a fairly wide ranging subject. The most common JES2 behavior I
have observed, is that work tends to start on the submitting system in
the JESplex.
This behavior can be influenced with a number of JES2 initialization
parameters, Scheduling Environments, and SYSTEM AFFINITY or any
I have recently been going through a similar situation with 2 different
service classes. Each has the same importance, but different velocities.
Each service class can consume all of the available CPU (after online,
etc.) at any given time.
A review of my performance results has shown that
snip
This can't be right. Adjustments to goals / DPs are made every 10
seconds.
Could you imagine if online systems in different service classes with
the same importance behaved this way? For example, CICSPROD with
IMP=2 and DB2PROD with IMP=2.
/snip
1) Generally (unless you are really
snip
Assuming the system was 100% busy, those lower service classes might
not get any service at all. Not just switch between one or more
service
classes.
/snip
This is true. In my case there is enough for one or the other, but
seldom both (usually about 2/3 of what the batch workloads want).
I have learned to live with the inevitable!
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Still haven't been able to completely eliminate the alternating
distribution entirely.
You won't be able to.
Removing MTTW was, in my opinion, a major mistake.
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In my case, the WLM because that is how I have defined the SC to WLM.
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Which Service Class takes the beating, the WLM managed one or the JES
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Just out of curiosity, is this a single engine LPAR?
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CICS/IMS *may* be managed at the AS level (as Mark pointed out, this
could be very bad) or at the transaction level (a rising tide lifts all
boats).
Most of the work performed by DB2, IIRC, is done under a user TCB
(transaction, enclave?, ddf?) and charged to the requestor, not the DB2
AS.
snip
I know WLM JES inits should not use the same SC, but what would be
the 'cost' of doing so?
/snip
The results are unpredictable, and most likely detrimental to defined
performance specifications.
Under WLM managed inits, JES queue delay samples are part of the
calculations used to
Is %use page dataset percent used (page slots) or page dataset percent
busy (paging IO)?
Page slot percent used should have no impact on performance unless there
is significant demand paging (page in from DASD) occurring. Check the
RMF post processor reports.
25% page slot utilization is not a
There is an old IBM manual that has a sample exit to do exactly this. I
don't have the reference handy, but check the IBM-MAIN archives.
It checks the JOBCLASS userID against a dummy RACF facility class. I'm
sure it can be modified as needed.
HTH,
snip
Subject: Re: RACF Protection for
Page out is asynchronous and will only affect paging performance to the
extent that the channel/device is not available for demand page-in.
snip
By %USE I meant page slots used, meaning increase in page out.
Why does workflow drop from %use?
too much juice wasted on paging out/in.
The issue
snip
We had a problem with a system with not enough page space defined. I remember
discussions a long time ago on IBM-Main saying that if you have local page
datasets of differing sizes, that you will never use all of the space on the
larger page datasets if you add a larger page dataset. Is
IMO, that is too many. 3 SC sounds about right. WLM, JES, HOT. Again,
that is the technical viewpoint. The business might have a different
one.
One thing you may notice, depending on the actual workloads is a round
robin amongst the service classes. At the end of 15 minutes or so, you
will see
This is a performance issue. In order for ASM not to care, the pages are
distributed (roughly equally) across all available page datsets. If the
algorithm were to take into account the available space:
1) the additional overhead of keep track (probably miniscue per IO, but
imagine a paging rate of
I believe the wild card feature has been added in z/OS 1.11 a la DFSMS.
*, **,
snip
Dataset that I really don't care about
T05.AGC.ZAG088C.AGCYLST.SORT
Test 1:
DEL T05.AGC*
IDC3203I ITEM 'T05.AGC*' DOES NOT ADHERE TO RESTRICTIONS
It depends. What is your page-in rate (from rmf I) over an interval?
snip
We only have 1 DS8000 controller. All volumes are raid 5 and metro
mirrored
to a second off-site DS8000 controller.
Which configuration is most likely to have the best performance?
Which configuration is most likely to
1) 100% agreed
2) 100% agreed
3) 90% agreed. I agree with statement paging bandwidth... I disagree
with the second statement more smaller is always better... The
bandwidth must be adjusted to suit the paging rate. If the total page
rate is 1 or 2 per sec, one local could handle the load easily.
InfoPrint Server? HOD?
Several ISV products will suck the data off spool and store elsewhere
for retrieval. Levi, Ray Shoup (LRS), CA, others
snip
Has anyone implemented any kind of Web Print Server where
1. accessible using just a Web Browser
2. sucks the print off the Jes2 Spool
snip
Paging rates depend on the interval they are measured over. A page rate
of
one or two per second measured in a 15 minute RMF interval may be due to
a
page rate of 30-60 pages/sec for half a minute within that RMF interval.
/snip
Agreed!
FTP has an OMVS component. Use the OMVS section for workload
classification.
You might also want to review the default service class for each
workload classification.
HTH,
snip
I am trying to adjust a WLM service class for an FTP GET process
coming from another
host. The process is assigned a
Can't find it either. In z/OS library or the IBM search DB. Seems pretty
self-explanatory though.
Either it's already one extent, or there is no space to consolidate the
extents.
Guess it's PMR (or RCF) time.
HTH,
snip
Anyone know where I can find ADR261I? It's not in the manuals on the
Web,
If you have no lines, why are you issuing the command(s) at all?
Check and see if there are any line(nn) statements in you init deck and
only start/stop that number of lines, or remove the commands entirely if
no line(nn) statements are present.
I just checked the manual and the range for line(*)
What is value of the HOLD= parameter on your MASDEF statement?
snip
GRS display:
ISG343I 15.55.25 GRS STATUS 932
DEVICE:6037 VOLUME:SPL3T0 RESERVED BY SYSTEM TSYS
S=SYSTEMS SYSZJES2 SPL3T0SYS1.RDYTPLEX.HASPCKP1 T
ISTR an option in DFSMS to allow recataloging instead of generating
message IEF287I. Does anyone remember what option that is and where it
is specified?
Thanks in advance,
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Thanks to all that replied. I must have had a senior moment.
snip
ISTR an option in DFSMS to allow recataloging instead of generating
message IEF287I. Does anyone remember what option that is and where it
is specified?
/snip
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Given the situation I would say, probably, NO. You *might* be able to
move TCPIP to SYSTEM but ISTR some changes made a few releases back to
force certain system critical tasks into IBM assigned SCLASSes.
The problem is not the TCPIP is not high enough on the food chain, but
that the food chain
I found that and it helps, but it does not do what I had mis-remembered.
Thanks for the effort.
snip
Maybe you recalled the CATLG_ERR parameter of ALLOCxx?
It does not do what you are looking for, but it does something with
IEF287I NOT CTLGD 2.
Kees.
/snip
Many people have written a subroutine in assembler to issue the abend
and just call it from the main program.
Eg CALL 'ABEND' USING ABEND-CODE.
HTH,
snip
We are trying to move aways from assembler to cobol in batch.
One of the programmers has a question. He asked me if there is a cobol
Check out the info apars and (very carefully!) check out segmentation
offload. You might want to bounce this off of IBM (either WLM or Comm.
Server ).
That's about all I can recommend. Please post the results when/if there
are any. I would be interested in the responses from IBM.
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Better than my previously posted solution!
snip
There's an LE370 program/service that can be invoked to cause an abend.
I've pasted in a small example of a callable COBOL program which in turn
calls the LE370 program.
LINKAGE SECTION.
That is why I said very carefully G
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Turning on offload
I'm a bit hesitant..
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I don't have any subsystem type TCP defined in WLM, do I really need
that?
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There is no such thing by default. It could be created with a fair
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I see no difficulties except the following:
If the usercat containing the SMF datasets needs maintenance, you will
need to create/format new MAN* datasets in another catalog, until the
repairs can be made. This is (IMO) a serious PITA.
IF no maintenance is ever needed on this ucat, you are safe.
Compare the total power consumption of a z/10 to the consumption of the
server farm (potentially 1000's of squatty boxes) it can replace. This
is why it can be considered a green machine.
snip
An example would be green z10 - I wouldn't really care about power
consumption unless I heard opinions
That is because WOMBAT is already included in the real FOO. IMO, the
most expedient way to fix this is to
1) relink SYSLMOD FOO w/o WOMBAT (outside of SMP).
2) Perform you JCLIN.
You might also try:
++ JCLIN
INCLUDE DISTLIB(FRED)
REPLACE WOMBAT
NAME FOO(R)
HTH,
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Last I heard, (and I may have heard wrong), optimum sort performance for
modern sorts (DFSORT, SYNCSORT,...) was obtained with (if possible) 3
SORTWKxx files. I would imagine (without backup information) that each
SORTWKxx file should be large enough (again if possible) to hold the
entire input
snip
Now, if you insist upon allocating them yourself, a first cut is at
least 3 SORTWKS and the total size should be input filesize + 30%. I
would also put a 10% secondary allocation size, for example
SPACE=(CYL,(100,10)).
/snip
IASTR the SORTWKxx cannot span volumes (at least in the case of
snip
We have over 100 storage classes. So that really needs to be cleaned
up as well. Does anybody have any recommendations for approach to
reduce this to a reasonable number? What would you consider
reasonable?
/snip
The fewer the better, subject to business considerations. Although I
Works just fine in a MONOPLEX. I am doing it now. Additional initiators
are started/stopped based on the mix of work currently in the system. If
you have some mix of JES and WLM managed inits, this can be used (as one
example) to limit test/dev work when production is heavy.
Pay close attention
snip
IIRC, any attempt to catalog a SYS1 dataset will be forced to the
current master.
/snip
Not true. See the catalog operand of the IDCAMS DEFINE command
snip
Locating a SYS1 dataset will always be done with the current master
(unless explicit unit and vol ser is specified).
/snip
True.
snip
Also SYS1 has the special attribute of DEFINE RECATALOG allowing the
definition of the same dataset in 2 different catalogs (just like
non-VSAMS datasdest). This only applies to datasets with the HLQ of
SYS1.
/snip
I meant to add that with the exception of SYS1, a VSAM dataset can only
Thanks for the update I did not know that ...
snip
I meant to add that with the exception of SYS1, a VSAM dataset can only
exist in 1 catalog at a time.
And PAGE.
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1) No. You can only accept or reject migration on a dataset basis via
exits.
2) YES and YES. Again, L2 migration can (IIRC) be controlled via the
exits.
HTH,
snip
First, is it possible to influence the choice of which SDSP data set is
selected for migration? We have eight SDSP data sets
snip
Yesterday I noticed that when we create our FDR ABRINIT datasets, the
job
contains a STORCLAS keyword that, at least here, is always set to the
STORGRP that the volume is being added to. When we are ready to
actually
delete some of the STORCLAS-es will we need to modify our FDR ABRINIT
Try CBT 149 (UCLA Utilities) or CBT179-181 (Leonard Woren). IIRC there
is a program in (SUPERZAP?) that should do what you want...
HTH,
snip
I have a need to zap core, but my client does not have OMEGAMON. I
searched
the CBT mods tape and came up empty. What we're trying to do is a
SETPROG
Also try CBT082 and CBT086
snip
Try CBT 149 (UCLA Utilities) or CBT179-181 (Leonard Woren). IIRC there
is a program in (SUPERZAP?) that should do what you want...
HTH,
snip
I have a need to zap core, but my client does not have OMEGAMON. I
searched
the CBT mods tape and came up empty. What
Setting the TIMEZONE in CLOCKxx will alter the time displayed on console
messages, but not as you desire.
The TIMEZONE offset is added (or subtracted) from the SYSTEM (HW) clock
to produce the displayed time (I won't go in to all of the minutiae
here). In neither case will the console messages
SYS1.PARMLIB(CEEPRMxx). The LE opts were (optionally) moved from an
assembled load module to SYS1.PARMLIB
Circa z/OS 1.7. Check Init Tuning for full details.
HTH,
snip
09:05 IDMS DC128010 V5 T43 CEE3792I The following messages pertain to
the DD: CEEOPTS dataset run-time options.
snip
Wonder what the real story is here -- a 9370 in a closet?
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-secret-service-outdated-computer-mainf
rame-system-1980s/story?id=9945663
/snip
And how many Dem budget cuts prevented a more timely upgrade?
You might want to consider getting somewhat more aggressive with dfHSM
migration. This will free up space, reduce extents required,.
Also consider DVC in the SMS STORCLAS.
The historical pattern of DSN access (in most shops) is write/read once
and fageddaboudit.
HTH,
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Well it's not a
Approved by Darren.
We have just had a applications programmer position open. This position
can be located in either Houston or DFW.
Skill Sets Desired.
Assembler, C, JCL, ISPF...
JAVA, UNIX* a plus (MVS Open Edition (USS) or non-IBM).
If interested, please send your information to the
At the end of the day, this discussion comes down to business
requirements. Many institutions, due to audit, regulatory, or industry
standards need to separate SANDBOX/DEV/TEST/QA/PROD. This can be done at
the administrative level (1 big LPAR with all information(os testing
excluded)), or the
What I think the authors were trying to say in vastly overstated English
is:
WLM managed inits are designed to ramp up more slowly than work is
arriving and ramp down more slowly than work is departing the JESPLEX.
HTH,
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When to Continue Using JES-managed Job Classes
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HSEND DELVOL xx DUMP(PURGE LASTCOPY))
Check the manual for exact spelling of lastcopy.
HTH,
Caution DUMP and BACKUP are 2 very different functions in dfHSM. Be sure of
what you are referring to!
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I have noticed that there are several backup tapes of non existant DASD
which are still
No, but I sent Big Blue a nasty-gram via the contact us link, explaining
the performance issues. I encourage all online users to do the same.
Then 3 clicks, 3 seconds and I was at the manual I wanted. Now 4 clicks,
30-45 seconds and I'm still not there.
Blankety-blank PFCSK's
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Subject: IBM
DELVOL will delete all of the dataset backups on the tape and then purge the
tape.
IIRC, this is a backup tape in question.
In the example below, LASTCOPY refers to a dump version, not a dataset backup,
hence the command should be:
HSEND DELVOL xx BACKUP(PURGE).
You could also do
Assembler Services Guide
Assembler Services Reference (vol 1-??)
Authorized Assembler Services Guide
Authorized Assembler Services Reference (vol 1-??)
The SHOWMVS command on the CBT tape has working code for a lot of this
HTH,
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Can someone direct me to a manual or two where I can learn
Reformatted response for clarity:
Assembler Services Guide
Assembler Services Reference (vol 1-??)
Authorized Assembler Services Guide
Authorized Assembler Services Reference (vol 1-??)
The SHOWMVS command on the CBT tape has working code for a lot of this
HTH,
snip
Can someone direct me
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