Re: Can DFSORT do pattern matching?

2012-05-31 Thread Martin Packer
. Anyone? Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker From

Re: WLM : multiple periods not recommended for batch - why?

2012-05-06 Thread Martin Packer
Agree on DDF - with the proviso that we need to check we're actually getting transaction endings out of DDF (CMTSTAT=INACTIVE etc). Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac

Re: XML Parsing

2012-04-30 Thread Martin Packer
Note: As it stands that ISN'T valid XML. I assume it's a subset of your actual file else standard XML processing is barking up the wrong tree. :-( Others have answered how to do the transformation of what you've shown to what you want. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance

Re: Any SMF Cut for MVS Commands cancel

2012-04-24 Thread Martin Packer
Type 30 should have the appropriate abend code - for the cancelled job. Cheers, Martin 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 Blog: https

Re: SMF from critical application

2012-04-11 Thread Martin Packer
the production of the IFCIDs at source. Which ones are we talking about? Cheers, Martin 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 Blog: https

Re: VSAM help wanted for random reads

2012-04-04 Thread Martin Packer
+1 for DEFERW. But understand it defers the writes :-) ... Once took a job down from 2M EXCPs to 0.5M with BLSR and then on down to 850 by adding DEFERW. 500 Control Intervals or so in the VSAM data set all the I/O was to. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant

Re: VSAM help wanted for random reads

2012-04-04 Thread Martin Packer
Not to suggest YOU should've done this but you can get useful statistics out of SMF 62 and 64 that would've told you how much write activity you had - and a lot else besides. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM

Re: z/OS ftp and Unicode

2012-03-26 Thread Martin Packer
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Re: Pre-Friday fun: Halon dumps and POK Resets

2012-03-23 Thread Martin Packer
More like potato cripes. :-) 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 Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs

Re: Pre-Friday fun: Halon dumps and POK Resets

2012-03-22 Thread Martin Packer
Similar to what I heard happened in the San Fran quake. Only it was pumps for the oil from the tanks in the basement to 8th floor for generators that were on city power when the quake took the power out. Got from QUAKE FORUM for those who remember it. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer

Re: Are LPAR names unique or effectively unique?

2012-03-12 Thread Martin Packer
Nowadays machine serial number is in Type 70 in a unique way. So I'd use that, together with LPAR number and name. Not sure how you'll cope if an LPAR has to move to a different machine. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center

Re: FICON channel utilization

2012-03-07 Thread Martin Packer
Perhaps one would expect HMC and RMF to source from the same place. Tell me if I'm wrong, this not being my area. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter

Re: The Trainer's Friend goes Kindle - and you don't need to own a Kindle!

2012-03-06 Thread Martin Packer
Given Kindle doesn't have much of a notion of a page which HTML construct are you using to contain a slide? Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter

Re: The Trainer's Friend goes Kindle - and you don't need to own a Kindle!

2012-03-06 Thread Martin Packer
The latter - a course page (which I had assumed would be a slide). Thanks, Martin 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 Blog: https

Re: The Trainer's Friend goes Kindle - and you don't need to own a Kindle!

2012-03-05 Thread Martin Packer
I'm not likely to be your customer but this sounds great. A question: What authoring mechanism are you using to create Kindle materials and in what format are they delivered? MOBI-derivative? Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center

Re: Writing article on telework/telecommuting

2012-03-04 Thread Martin Packer
but I bet this counts for lots of people. Anyhow, having telecommuted for more than 10 years I'm looking forward to this article: You are not alone is a useful thing to hear. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM

Re: Writing article on telework/telecommuting

2012-03-04 Thread Martin Packer
An interesting point Dave... ... For my system there's a session-management front end. Almost always this copes nicely with such drops. I suspect I'm paying a small response time penalty for it, though. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide

Re: Processor usage

2012-02-29 Thread Martin Packer
Then they will be prepared to learn how to do the calculations from the SMF 70 data and bake it into their product. There is no utilisation number recorded in Type 70: RMF postprocessor (and the ecosystem) do the calculations for end consumers based on fields in Type 70. Cheers, Martin Martin

Re: Hiper Dispatching

2012-02-24 Thread Martin Packer
I'd've said there was an additional benefit through parking of logical engines. Cheers, Martin 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 Blog

Re: Dedicated vs. Shared CPs

2012-02-16 Thread Martin Packer
supported on z9 and prior. (Fair mucked up my CPU reporting and as it was going anyway I deigned not to fix my code.) :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter

Re: Turning on additional CPs

2012-02-12 Thread Martin Packer
of cache. Cheers (as I just heard George Clooney say :-) ) Martin 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 Blog: https://www.ibm.com

Re: Getting the Storage Group name for a DASD volume.

2012-02-09 Thread Martin Packer
Another possibility is to parse SMF 74-1 from RMF Device Activity Report data. Might not have the real time nature you might be seeking. Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac

Re: WLM Capping

2012-02-08 Thread Martin Packer
So that told you some of your batch WASN'T (in business terms) truly discretionary. Glad you (by the sound of it) pulled the stuff that mattered if it never ran out of SYSOTHER. Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44

Re: Regular Expressions (OMVS)

2012-02-06 Thread Martin Packer
knowledge on the greedy vs non-greedy matching in Regexps.) :-( Cheers, Martin 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 Blog: https

Re: Regular Expressions (OMVS)

2012-02-06 Thread Martin Packer
Right... This was the kind of workaround for lack of non greedy I was thinking of. Wondering what the IBM C++ support for non-greedy (if any) is. Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac

Re: Regular Expressions (OMVS)

2012-02-06 Thread Martin Packer
the other day to go with whatever IBM C++ does - in order to avoid getting into (probably unhelpful to them) debates over which flavour of Regexps to support. Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac

Re: Very Lage Page Datasets (was ASM and HiperPAV)

2012-02-05 Thread Martin Packer
Paging (if you'll pardon the pun :-) ) Don Deese and wondering what checks he has in CPExpert in this area. Might provide inspiration to z/OS Development - if Barbara's comment had spurred them to revisit this area. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion

Re: Very Lage Page Datasets (was ASM and HiperPAV)

2012-02-02 Thread Martin Packer
I liked Barry's plot the curve approach to this i.e. Relating occupation to performance. Cheers, Martin 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

Re: Very Lage Page Datasets (was ASM and HiperPAV)

2012-02-01 Thread Martin Packer
POINTS. And I emphasise good paging subsystem design and adequate memory provision - even now. So I'm really glad we're having this conversation. Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac

Re: ASM and HiperPAV

2012-01-31 Thread Martin Packer
Barbara, yes you will. :-) Sounds like your DB2 folks are trying to write GENEROUS cheques and make YOU cash them, memorywise :-) Let me at'em. :-) (I happen to be in SVL at DB2 Boot Camp where John Campbell presented on this yesterday - corroborating my viewpoint.) Cheers, Martin Martin

Re: ASM and HiperPAV

2012-01-30 Thread Martin Packer
(and similar) I've been involved in have been to do with what happens when a paging subsystem performs poorly (because we blew through memory and into page data sets). Rest assured the appropriate Development teams in Poughkeepsie have been involved in those situations, too. Martin Martin Packer

Re: zEnterprise Use Cases

2012-01-29 Thread Martin Packer
I'm hoping those of us of a certain vintage will find my blog post on the subject resonates: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker/entry/haven_t_we_been_here_before4?lang=en_us Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center

Re: IBM manual formats

2012-01-10 Thread Martin Packer
to not need page numbers is a hard challenge, too. Was considering trying a Python script somewhere in the process to parse the PDF. Maybe Calibre (probably the program with the fastest gratitude generation in the teenies :-)) can already do it. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance

Re: REXX:trying to write a rexx interface with rmm

2012-01-09 Thread Martin Packer
As a matter of interest, Mike, how old are the DFSORT / ICETOOL reports? I don't know how others feel about this but it might be worthwhile my (I can't speak for Frank) taking a look at them some time. (Kind of how I feel about RACFICE, for example.) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe

Re: EZTrieve

2012-01-07 Thread Martin Packer
, Martin 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 Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker IBM Mainframe Discussion

SMF73GEN Channel Generation Field - Modern Values

2012-01-06 Thread Martin Packer
? Wondering about FICON Express8 and Express8S and autonegotiation down. (SMF73GEN has different values for eg Express4 @4, 2 and 1 Gbps.) Thanks, Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac

Re: Calling all experts on SMFPRMxx SUBSYS

2012-01-06 Thread Martin Packer
the record along. Then in DFSORT I use OUTFIL OUTREC to shift the record back. Cheers, Martin 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 Blog: https

Re: SMF73GEN Channel Generation Field - Modern Values

2012-01-06 Thread Martin Packer
I think - and I've only loose proof - that 6 is FICON Express8 at 2, 7 is FE8 at 4 and 8 is FE8 at 8Gbps. (The loose proof is I now see 8 in a customer that has publicly stated it has FICON Express8.) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking

Was: Calling all experts on SMFPRMxx SUBSYS - How does Subsys of SILO work?

2012-01-05 Thread Martin Packer
how WLM allows you to classify work from such a user subsystem. e.g. What qualifiers? In general I just wonder what this thing is and how it behaves and how prevalent it is. Oh, and why it's a user-defined subsystem in the first place. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance

Re: IBM manual formats

2012-01-04 Thread Martin Packer
Are you sure it doesn't run under WINE on Linux? Anyone? Cheers, Martin 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 Blog: https://www.ibm.com

Re: IBM manual formats

2012-01-02 Thread Martin Packer
step. I have to say even the O'Reilly books for Kindle are of quite variable quality, formattingwise. I'd be happy to have the discussion with appropriate IBMers and customers (the latter giving us some idea of demand for mobile reading formats). Anyone? Thanks, Martin Martin Packer

Re: cpu / machine identification

2012-01-02 Thread Martin Packer
One of the things I've been injecting into my code (the SMF analysis code I inherited and now maintain) in recent years has been more nosiness. :-) More nosiness in this case means recognising software product related footprints in the sand. It's a fun game. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer

Re: IBM-MAIN Digest - 31 Dec 2011 to 1 Jan 2012 (#2012-1)

2012-01-02 Thread Martin Packer
. (They used to and I thought it retrograde when they stopped - even as an author.) Cheers, Martin 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 Blog

Re: IBM manual formats

2012-01-02 Thread Martin Packer
l...@garlic.com wrote: simplest is email to kindle.com userid with convert (pdf may not turn out like you expected) It's precisely because it DOESN'T turn out how I'd like that I prefer the idea of trying to get the horse's mouth to emit it right. Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance

Re: cpu / machine identification

2011-12-27 Thread Martin Packer
This does raise the issue of WIBNI there was some way for an installation to name a machine? When I refer to a customer machine - because of what I get from SMF / RMF it's usually Plant/Serial as xx-x. Most of my customers have other names for their machines. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer

Re: Question on PR/SM dispatcher

2011-12-20 Thread Martin Packer
Chaucer spelt it cherl. Martin 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 Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs

Re: Question on PR/SM dispatcher

2011-12-19 Thread Martin Packer
To dispatch entire LPARs would be waiting for 2n ducks to line up in a row: An event with progressively high latency in the n1 case. Which is one reason we don't do it, I guess. (The 2n ducks would be the n logicals and n physicals.) Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant

Re: Java apps have most flaws, Cobol is cleanest.

2011-12-09 Thread Martin Packer
with...) :-) as delightfully feral. :-) But then I'm an off message IBMer at the best of times. :-) Cheers, Martin 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 Blog: https

Re: ISPF scrollable areas

2011-12-07 Thread Martin Packer
Andy, I can't answer your question but wonder if what you're trying to do violates the principle of least astonishment in UI design. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac

Re: ECSA usage - Clarification

2011-10-31 Thread Martin Packer
A reasonable start is SMF 78-2 (RMF Virtual Storage report) which will at least give you the dynamics and the key - both for CSA and ECSA. For one you need to understand if this is a regular occurrence or just a rarity. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion

Re: Batch Capacity Planning - BWATOOL?

2011-09-19 Thread Martin Packer
. Cheers. Martin 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 Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker From

Re: SLR columns size D_MIGR_SP mbyte gbyte

2011-09-08 Thread Martin Packer
up VIEW in the commands manual. Note this is NOT an RTFM answer. :-) As always when I see overflow I wonder what is causing the data to have values that big. Hope that helps. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM

Re: OT Good/Bad News

2011-09-08 Thread Martin Packer
The mainframe pictured IS rather ancient. Maybe THAT'S the bad news. :-) But, to be fair, the mainframe NAMED in the article is more modern. Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com

Re: IFCID Product section layout

2011-09-08 Thread Martin Packer
In the same section of the 101 record, stacked one after the other in the section. Their lengths are in their first byte (or maybe two). Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac

Re: Cobol and large QSAM record length

2011-08-31 Thread Martin Packer
DFSORT can process VBS. Whether it goes to 32767 or not I'll leave to Frank to clear up. A useful technique I've found in the past is to make DFSORT do my I/O to SMF and use an exit to pick up the records in a buffer. Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide

Re: JRIO/JZOS zAAP eligability questions

2011-08-22 Thread Martin Packer
Kirk, would it be worthwhile working up a blog post on the new library and its zAAPability? Happy to host as a guest post on my blog... ... if one hasn't been written already. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM

Re: How to obtain a file bigger than 80 chars from two inputs file

2011-07-19 Thread Martin Packer
Note your output messages are truncated in your post. For example EXAMPL. :-) Cheers, Martin 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 Blog

Re: ABCs of z/OS systems programming, draft revision of volume 1

2011-06-14 Thread Martin Packer
detail with them. While not wanting to start a letter writing campaign you may have views on this. Martin 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

Re: How to diagnose memory leak?

2011-06-08 Thread Martin Packer
In the old days IPCS was seen as one of the biggest users of memory - for TSO. That may still be guiding installations. Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter

Re: What is the current feeling for MVC loop vs. MVCL?

2011-06-01 Thread Martin Packer
I would expect MVPG to be slow - given its history. If we no longer feel the need to go the scenic route :-) maybe it isn't. Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter

Re: Facebook for professional usage (was Re: Recent maintenance for z/XDC)

2011-05-27 Thread Martin Packer
Facebook access is not just allowed in IBM but actively encouraged. And heavily used. (Likewise Slideshare, LinkedIn, FourSquare and Twitter - and this isn't a prescriptive list.) Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44

Re: DB2 shared data group % of SCA structure used

2011-05-26 Thread Martin Packer
Micheal, I'm interested in why macros rather than RMF / SMF. Cheers, Martin 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 Blog: https://www.ibm.com

Re: Facebook for professional usage (was Re: Recent maintenance for z/XDC)

2011-05-26 Thread Martin Packer
As I'm one of the contributors to them - particularly in how to treat dealings with customers - I hope you like them. If you don't then I'm receptive... Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email

Re: Facebook for professional usage (was Re: Recent maintenance for z/XDC)

2011-05-23 Thread Martin Packer
to adopt Web 1.0. (But maybe I forget...) :-) Martin 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 Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks

Re: It got very quiet

2011-05-23 Thread Martin Packer
... and there's no need to shout. :-) Martin 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 Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks

Re: Facebook for professional usage (was Re: Recent maintenance for z/XDC)

2011-05-23 Thread Martin Packer
So they like the idea of you going and getting a different job, John. :-) 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 Blog: https://www.ibm.com

Re: SYSOUT class of a data set

2011-05-21 Thread Martin Packer
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 Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker Unless stated otherwise

Re: MEMLIMIT Parameter Question

2011-04-25 Thread Martin Packer
. The same is probably true of HVSHARE and HVCOMMON, while we're at it. Cheers, Martin 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 Blog: https://www.ibm.com

Dyadic vs AP: Was CPU utilization/forecasting

2011-04-20 Thread Martin Packer
for a 3033 AP when you model a 3090-200? 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 Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs

Re: Dyadic vs AP: Was CPU utilization/forecasting

2011-04-20 Thread Martin Packer
. :-) Plus ca change... we just add a few zeroes somewhere in the numbers nowadays. :-) 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 Blog: https

AMATERSE and BatchPipes/MVS and SMF

2011-04-13 Thread Martin Packer
in support of CICS, DB2 and Batch studies these days. Thanks, Martin 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 Blog: https://www.ibm.com

Re: DB2 SMF Records

2011-04-13 Thread Martin Packer
They're not the easiest records to parse, BTW. But then again they're not the hardest. :-) Martin 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 Blog

Re: RMF rec 74 subtype 7 FCD

2011-04-13 Thread Martin Packer
Thanks Ravi. I was going to post the same answer. But it begs the question: What's a connector in this context? (Yes, I've mapped this record before and am still attempting to understand what it's telling me.) Thanks, Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide

Re: Adding storage to a partition

2011-04-11 Thread Martin Packer
My take on this whole discussion - which is why I'm not replying to anyone in particular - is it's high time we educated people again on what the rules are. (And, no, I don't crisply know what they are myself.) :-( Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide

Re: Region size

2011-03-26 Thread Martin Packer
With memory limits we have to remember that supports is different from performs well up to. As my audiences will know I talk about the work z/OS and Hardware Development did to make memory scale well. Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center

DB2 Restart Frequency - was Re: *IEA061E REPLACEMENT ASID SHORTAGE HAS BEEN DETECTED

2011-03-21 Thread Martin Packer
would be need to (re)prime buffer pools, EDM Pool etc. I'm interested in what people people do nowadays. I have a view but my customer set may be unusual. :-) Thanks, Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584

Re: zIIPs and TCP/IP usage

2011-03-19 Thread Martin Packer
the PROJECTCPU mechanism for workloads you aren't running yet.) :-) Martin 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 Unless stated otherwise

Re: Why is WTO so much easier to use than better methods? (Was RE: Trouble Reading a Spanned File with an Assembler Program - Working Program)

2011-03-17 Thread Martin Packer
Note printf() goes to stdout and there isn't really such a STANDARD thing in z/OS. Martin 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 Unless

Re: Why is WTO so much easier to use than better methods? (Was RE: Trouble Reading a Spanned File with an Assembler Program - Working Program)

2011-03-17 Thread Martin Packer
Maybe but he understood MINE. :-) 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: David Crayford dcrayf...@gmail.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu

Re: How to get the CPC name on which the current system is running

2011-03-17 Thread Martin Packer
to denote the machine but THEY often go oh, that's 'Flossie' but there's nowhere I know of to tell the machine what it's called. :-) Martin (not anthropomorphising computers as I gather they don't like it) :-) Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center

Re: Dummy LPAR to store excess MIPS

2011-03-11 Thread Martin Packer
Yes, but it wouldn't get the sysprogs a nice comfy fast playpen. :-) Cheers, Martin 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: Timothy

Re: What is Toronto

2011-02-22 Thread Martin Packer
Don't anthropomorphise computers: They don't like it. :-) 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 Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United

Re: Second Reference to Temporary Data Set Fails

2011-01-29 Thread Martin Packer
If you do that - use permanent data sets as pseudo-temporaries - then you forego the potential for VIO (In Central). But then I do it myself sometimes. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email

Re: digitize old hardcopy manuals

2011-01-20 Thread Martin Packer
With Evernote you only need premium for the month you break the free cap. Personally I'm a very happy premium user - as can be seen by my input to their bulletin board. I particularly like the idea of shared notebooks - though THIS would be my first use of it. Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe

Re: IFCID trace header error

2011-01-13 Thread Martin Packer
Probably a silly question but are BOTH the count and length zero? If so there ISN'T one of those sections. Martin 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

Re: Date representations: Y2k revisited

2011-01-10 Thread Martin Packer
Coloro che sanno sounds more Italian to me... but then I don't know Italian. :-) Martin 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 Unless

Re: Reading IBM Manuals on the Kindle DX (eBook)

2011-01-06 Thread Martin Packer
Inspired by Peter's mention of REXX and HTML in the same post... REXX could really use a DOM Tree Walker API (DOM = Document Object Model and is how most languages process XML and HTML). Or at least some z/OS TSO scripting language could. Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant

Re: Reading IBM Manuals on the Kindle DX (eBook)

2011-01-06 Thread Martin Packer
The received wisdom is that regex has a hard time with the complexity of HTML (whether broken or not) and XML. Being less than fluent in regex's I'm biased to agree. :-) Shane Ginnane wrote: Personally I prefer regex - it would be a doddle in perl/awk/sed ... Martin Packer, Mainframe

Re: Reading IBM Manuals on the Kindle DX (eBook)

2011-01-05 Thread Martin Packer
Was having just the same debate with my Dad: He wanted to read a certain UK newspaper on a Kindle. I pointed out there were alternatives that would do what he wanted. In THIS case an inept PDF reader is an inept PDF reader. Period. :-( Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant

Re: Reading IBM Manuals on the Kindle DX (eBook)

2011-01-05 Thread Martin Packer
For iPad I recommend 64GB (which I did and forewent 3G). It was frustrating that iPhone 4 could only come with 32GB. (Ours are within 10GB of full at present.) But I would hope 32GB would be enough on an iPad for PDF viewing. BTW I invested in iAnnotate PDF for obvious reasons. Martin Packer

Re: Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)

2010-12-27 Thread Martin Packer
Yeah, I tweeted about the tears typo. The funniest part of the whole thing. :-) 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 Unless stated

Re: Hardware-assisted compression: not CPU-efficient?

2010-12-02 Thread Martin Packer
Ron, is it generally the case that CPU is saved on read? I'm seeing QSAM with HDC jobsteps showing very high CPU. But then they seem to both write and read. Enough CPU to potentially suffer from queuing. (And, yes, I know you were talking about a different category of HDC usage.) Martin

Re: 64 bit mode disabled

2010-12-02 Thread Martin Packer
the CICS statistics (or other instrumentation) confirms it's the loaded modules that are the problem? Thanks, Martin 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

CICS Topology ... was Re: 64 bit mode disabled

2010-12-02 Thread Martin Packer
of all those regions is very severe. :-( (Just tossing in another data point.) But I still think for most customers the aggregate size of loaded (or ideally would be loaded) modules in a single region is not much of a factor. 100-200MB tops. I could be wrong. :-) Martin Packer, Mainframe

Re: IEFBR14

2010-11-25 Thread Martin Packer
that Shmuel Metz does, though. :-) Bill Fairchild Rocket Software I'd guess* that at the time there was a philosophical debate on whether iefBR14 was still the right name for the resulting program. :-) * I claim to be too young to know. :-) Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant

Re: IEFBR14

2010-11-21 Thread Martin Packer
Mostly Harmless? :-) Or, for the youngsters, That Boy Does Nothing? :-) 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 Ed Gould wrote: Gerhard

Re: IEFBR14

2010-11-20 Thread Martin Packer
Pathlength to eg branch around an eyecatcher would be trivial compared to just getting started. 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

Progress Indicator For AMATERSE?

2010-11-11 Thread Martin Packer
minor nice to have? (My thinking is a progress indicator for terse WOULD be useful to customers.) Thanks, Martin 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

Re: Rexx question - Dynamic generation of variables?

2010-11-07 Thread Martin Packer
probably be better.) Martin 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: Bruce Hewson bruce_hew...@hotmail.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: 07

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

2010-11-06 Thread Martin Packer
Note: This ISN'T tape we're talking about. (I'm sorry I mentioned it in passing.) Thanks for all the replies! 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

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