The handouts are located as follows:
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/eserver/zseries/zos/racf/pdf/ny_metro_naspa_2012_03_avoiding_logger_pitfalls.pdf
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/eserver/zseries/zos/racf/pdf/ny_metro_naspa_2012_03_high_availability_zlinux_architectures.pdf
I just noticed that a draft of the long missing ABCs of z/OS System
Programming Volume 4 is now available on the redbooks web site. The final
version should be available by the end of the year.
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On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 12:15:32 -0300, Clark Morris cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca
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On 7 Sep 2010 01:59:58 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
if you find a solution please post it or send it to me.
Post it because I am having the same problem and I am registered.
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On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:20:00 -0600, Darth Keller
darth.kel...@assurant.com wrote:
3. It rather does not depend on number of aliases. BTW: The number is
limited (by the filed in MCAT), but the limit is quite big (several
hundreds AFAIR).
-- Several thousands in fact.
-- The sum of the
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:02:28 -0800, John Dawes
jhn_da...@yahoo.com.au wrote:
John,
I tried your suggestion and the job was successful. However, when do a 3.4
I get the same error message.
In the ICKDSF JOB the only messages posted for both steps were :
ICK2I ICKDSF PROCESSING COMPLETE.
My thought is that the index ran out of space, and either didn't issue a
message, or you missed it. The BUILD OSVTOC PURGE will convert to an
OSVTOC and delete the existing index. The following JCL will allocate a new
index (size of your choosing), and convert it back to indexed format. The
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:46:57 -0800, John R. Ehrman (408-463-3543 T/543-
) ehr...@vnet.ibm.com wrote:
PDSEs have been available for a long time, and provide many
advantages over PDSs. Why are people reluctant to use PDSEs?
John Ehrman
On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 10:04:00 -0800, John Dawes
jhn_da...@yahoo.com.au wrote:
I am trying to change the status of an online volume. It is mounted as
PRIVATE and I want to change it to PUBLIC. I issued the following mount
command:
M A3FD,VOL=(SL,WRKC14),USE=PUBLIC
However, it failed due to a
The answer partly depends on whether (or not) you have PAV support in your
DASD hardware. Last I knew, only dynamic PAVs will provide performance if
you have multiple page datasets on a single volume (UCB); statis PAVs will
not, and hyper-PAV support is still on the drawing board. IBM has
On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 09:04:17 -0600, Mary Anne Matyaz
maryanne4...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello group. I just installed 1.11 and I have some hincky SMF problems, which
I'm leaning toward blaming on an SMF IEFU83 exit.
Here are some of the random errors we are getting:
DFHST0103 CIAPZZAB An SMF error
This is from z/OS V1R9.0 DFSMShsm Storage Administration Guide (SC35-
0421-06) page 65. (Other releases may have changed the manual
name/number and/or page.) This discussion is for tape mount management
datasets ... the description of such is not that clear; but, it really means
direct to
On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:23:16 -0600, R Hey sys...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi,
It's been recommended NOT to use Imp 1 in WLM.
My client has been using Imp1 for online CICS.
Im planning to change it to use Imp2 buy changing all Imp to Imp+1.
Can you think of any potential problems/issues?
TIA,
Rez
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:34:12 -0600, Tim Hare
tim.h...@ssrc.myflorida.com wrote:
In a 2008 thread on people using IEFBR14 to do deletes there as this:
Indeed, how should Allocation know whether the program about to execute
wants to do something with the dataset(s) before deleting it/them?
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:50:11 -0600, Mark Zelden
mark.zel...@zurichna.com wrote:
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:29:01 -0500, Baraniecki, Ray
ray.baranie...@morganstanley.com wrote:
Is it possible to isolate one LPAR in a CEC and set the date/time to a
different value than the other LPARs in the same
Two thoughts here.
1) Your new tape drives accept data at a faster rate than your old tape
drives. Therfore, you might expect that DFHSM is reading the DASD at a
faster rate; hence, DFHSM gets dispatched more frequently. This would
increase the apparent CPU utilization of DFHSM. However,
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:52:50 -0600, Raquel Calvo Olmos
raquel_ca...@everis-outsourcing.com wrote:
Hi there,
We are doing some tests with date change in our systems.
Has anyone tried, through JCL, etc., to change the system date?
We would cheat the system to indicate it that we are in other
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:08:09 -0600, Mark Zelden
mark.zel...@zurichna.com wrote:
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:06:28 -0600, John Laubenheimer
jlaubenhei...@doitt.nyc.gov wrote:
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:52:50 -0600, Raquel Calvo Olmos
raquel_ca...@everis-outsourcing.com wrote:
Hi there,
We are doing
The originally specified JCL isn't exactly correct. If you were to call for a
2nd
tape sometime before reaching file 10, the system would try to place that file
on the 1st (full) tape, due to the way this refer-back is coded. Also, if
allowed, there would be gaps in the file numbers (such as
Also, check the SETROPTS for the PROTECTALL option. If you had a PAGE.*
profile, which only covered the 2nd level, the PAGE.A.another_level is NOT
protected, and RACF (actually DFSMS) would fail any access to the dataset.
When you created PAGE.**, you then covered any number of levels after
Try allocating any dataset on the existing SYSRES volume. If there are any
datasets in transition (partial SMS conversion/deconversion), you won't be
able to allocate anything.
Most likely, your ACS routine (STORCLAS) is assigning a storage class to these
datasets while trying to clone the
Assuming that you are planning to flash all of your production DASD at one
time, you can do something like this:
PRODUCTION LPAR BACKUP LPAR
------
| || |
| PRODUCTION ||
I wouldn't use IEHPROGM for anything any more. IDCAMS is the way to go.
Also, for tapes, you really should be including the file-sequence number in the
catalog entry.
DEFINE NONVSAM(NAME(PSI.TRN.SI0095C.G2671V00) -
DEVICETYPES(3490) VOLUMES(183323) FSEQN(1))
Note: the
The official supported method to move a RACF database is by using the
utility IRRUT400. This utility provides the proper ENQ and locking mechanisms
to prevent updates to the database while the copy is in progress. And, it's
simple enough to use.
However, if you can afford the downtime, and
IBM is well aware of this issue with VISTA.
The PDF files are a good alternative. If you plan on using the PDF files, make
sure that you install the IBM Advanced Linguistic Search facility plug-in for
ACROBAT. This is located on the tools CD, in the PLUGINS directory, with a
name of
On Tue, 20 May 2008 13:14:05 -0500, David Day [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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rdef facility abc.addrspac.** uacc(none).
RACF does not gripe about this. Says everythingis fine,as far as I can tell.
next I execute
setropts generic(facility) refresh
I then execute a PERMIT as follows:
permit
On Wed, 7 May 2008 14:58:21 -0500, Staller, Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
It depends.
In the old SLED days this could be performance crippling, especially if
there was a decent paging rate(remember only one actuator/volume). With
little or no paging this would not be a large problem.
Fast
Try looking at the MVS DFP Utilities manual, SC26-7414. The utility that you
need is IEBIMAGE.
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I don't have the dates, although they are in line with the normal SHARE
conference dates. For 2010, the locations that have been stated are:
Winter (S114) - Seattle, WA
Summer (S115) - Boston, MA
Things can (and often do) change. These locations were reported by the BOD
at Team Time in San
Just curious: can the PROCLIB concatenation contain PDSEs?
Yes. That eliminates the COMPRESS issue or the problem you might
run into if the library takes an additional extent.
Yes, you can use PDSEs in the JES2 PROCLIB concatenation. LINKLIST too.
But, not such a great idea, IMHO.
Maybe I'm
If JES2 is up, then:
o Submit a job with:
- STEP1 IDCAMS ALTER NAME
- STEP2 IEFBR14 with DISP=OLD on the PROCLIB catenands.
o The job waits on PROCLIB ENQ
o Stop JES2
o Start JES2
o JES2 waits on PROCLIB ENQ
o The RENAME job completes freeing the ENQs
o JES2 allocates PROCLIB and
As a Rule of Thumb (and thumbs come in various shapes and sizes ... yours
may vary):
1 PLPA dataset
1 COMMON dataset
4 (or more) LOCAL datasets
LOCAL datasets should peak at no more that 30 (or so) percent utilization,
else the block paging algorithm starts to have problems (the probability of
First, the good news. A catalog can have up to 123 (if I recall correctly)
extents. If you haven't reached this limit, you should be OK.
If you are at (or near) this limit, it gets a bit fuzzy. If, by creating a new
entry in the catalog, you cause a CI split, which in turn causes a CA split,
All of your suggestions make sense. However, you really should address the
main culprit here, namely the HW*.** in your include. This, effectively,
causes DSS to search all of your catalogs via SVC 26. This approach, as I
recall from SHARE, causes catalog reorientation, security processing,
At SHARE in Orlando, MVSE Sessions 2832, 2833 and 2836 on Wednesday
morning have abstracts which tend to make one think that IBM will be talking
about something new. So, keep an eye on these slots.
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Mark Zelden wrote:
... I think the
decision to remove suspend/resume was based on issues that
kept cropping up with pav and
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:02:14 -0400, Tim Hare [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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This is one of those things that _ought_ to exist, but I can't find it
documented anywhere so far.
Is there, anywhere a 'reserved name' storage group which contains all of
the non-SMS volumes?
If it doesn't exist, has it
On Tue, 1 May 2007 07:22:09 -0500, Debbie Mitchell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there any way to determine who was holding a reserve after the fact? I
had a situation where systemA was holding an exclusive enq on a catalog but
systemB had the volume reserved. The job holding the catalog enq on
Two possibilities that I can think of (perhaps more) ...
The FEKFRSRV task is not really an STC, but a (1) APPC task of a (2) USS
task. In case (1), this task name should be placed in the ASCH subsystem
entry under WLM option 6. In case (2), this task should be placed in the
OMVS subsystem
Has anyone successfully used the RMF post-processor to read SMF data from
LBI tapes? (BLKSIZE 32K)
Currently, I receive an S013-E1 abend. z/OS is at 1.7.
I can read the tape back into DF/SORT and have it convert the data back to a
block size less than 32K, and all is well. But, I just
This is really a [EMAIL PROTECTED] guess here, and may need Mark Thomen to
chime
in here.
It sounds like you might have a duplicate NVR in the VVDS on the volume. Try
to salvage what you can from the PDSE in question by copying it to another
dataset with a different name on a different
This assumes that space constraint relief is NOT specified in the DATACLAS
being used.
By specifying a primary extent of 4,000 cylinders, you have essentially
eliminated the (12) 3390 mod-3 volumes from consideration, since none of
these volumes can satisfy this request. (At most, you will
and one (1) primary and eight (8) seconday extents on a 3390 mod-9 volume
Correction ... and one (1) primary and two (2) seconday extents on a 3390
mod-9 volume.
The maximum dataset size would then be 12 time 3,000 cylinders plus 2 times
4,000 cylinders (36,000 + 8,000), or 44,000 cylinders.
There's been some disagreement over the specification of CISIZE for the SMF
datasets. A CISIZE of 26624 gives you 52K per track on a 3390 (2 CIs) ...
slightly better performance. A CISIZE of 18432 will give you 54K per track
on a 3390 (3 CIs) ... sightly better space utilization. Make your
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 06:45:55 -0600, Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Esteemed colleagues
Does anyone know where the SHARE expo is after SEATTLE in March?
According to
An easier mechanism to vote SHARE requirements is coming soon!
It's currently in beta test on 4 projects, and we hope that it will be
available by the next meeting. (Seattle, first week of March ... mark
your calendars!)
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Ed ...
Each project handled the merge of the GUIDE requirements in their own
fashion. I can only speak for MVS Storage requirements, since I was the
coordinator at that time. (And, even though I am Manager of Requirements
for SHARE right now, I can't answer what happened to all of the GUIDE
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 09:49:49 -0400, Earnie Allen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a way to pick up the TSO userid [sysuid] during logon and
utilize
it in the specific TSO logon proc being used?
I would like to use it as part of a DSN which I would like to be able to
create during logon and go
I checked this last night. There was no requirement of this nature
transferred from GUIDE to SHARE. So, a new requirement might me in
order. All of the GUIDE storage requirements were subject to 2 separate
reviews by the MVS Storage Management requirements committee. The
majority of the old
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