Re: IBM Zcloud - is it just outsourcing ?

I remember about 20+ years ago there was "dial a vm" from IBM for customers. By the time you had phoned up, given your credit card details it had created a second level system for you to play with. "We did it first on z" Colin On Sat, 29 May 2021 at 12:45, Scott Chapman wrote: > I think one

Re: How can I tell the zFS files being used by my application

Timothy, Thanks for these links. Are these fixes available in the ACDC downloads? I was told that shared classes should make startup faster. I've been playing with it and have noticed a few interesting things. 1. I think the default shared classes cache size is 60MB... Ive made it 100MB

Re: How can I tell the zFS files being used by my application

hogstrom> Twitter <https://twitter.com/hogstrom> > > “It may be cognitive, but, it ain’t intuitive." > — Hogstrom > > > On May 14, 2021, at 1:01 PM, Colin Paice wrote: > > > > Im using z/OSMF on my little zPDT system, and it is doing about 50,000 > SIO &

How can I tell the zFS files being used by my application

Im using z/OSMF on my little zPDT system, and it is doing about 50,000 SIO a second, when it is doing "nothing" How canI tell what it is doing? I expect most of these files are in the zFS file system, but I dont know the best way of finding out what is going on. I do not have tools like Strobe

Re: How companies are moving on from Cobol?

It would be interesting to see the true cost after migrating to the new systems. 20 years ago I remember seeing a comparison which showed going off the main frame was going to save Mega bucks for someone. When you dug into it little things like 1. They had configured a top of the range z/OS

IBM Documentation black hole.

I raised some comments on MQ on z/OS in the IBM documentation at the beginning of April. I've checked with the IBM ID team - and they haven't got the comments yet. I recall that someone said they had given comments on z/OS documentation on IBM Documentation and had responses ... so I do not know

Re: IBM snew DOC Web SIte

I expect their test servers were physically close to them and they had a lot of automation which did a lot of testing (without complaining). Ears set to disengaged. Colin On Mon, 3 May 2021 at 14:42, Matt Hogstrom wrote: > If I were to venture a guess they hand this off to design people (which

Re: And the survey says...

Some sites do not allow FTP, but do allow transfer through the 3270 emulator. On Sun, 2 May 2021 at 12:15, Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: > My responses below > > W dniu 01.05.2021 o 23:31, Bob Bridges pisze: > > Pan Skorupka, I'm not sure whether I'm about to agree or disagree about > FTP. I use

Re: MQ For z/os

ta, prior to the migration, > you could use that data to start the queue manager up at the earlier > release. > > I assume these messages are displayed during start of MQ 9.2 because I > don’t see these messages in the startup of MQ 9.0. > > Is this correct ? > > Thank Y

Re: MQ For z/os

Mark, Backwards migration is supported between LTS releases (i.e. 9.0.0, 9.1.0, 9.2.0), so it's not correct that the upgrade process is not reversible, unless the question is about a CD release. IBM always suggested being up-to-date with all maintenance before migrating to a new release. The

Re: Printing GTF trace?

For processing IBM product GTF traces you use a command like GTF USR(ALL) to process "user" records. Each product has a format number, MQ has D9. When a record is processed, the GTF processing in IPCS looks up this format number xx, and then invokes a routine AMDUSRxx (or AMDUSRD9 for MQ). This

Re: IBM snew DOC Web SIte

Maybe the IBM documentation developers sit on top of their servers... so they get sub millisecond performance - without all of the monitoring etc/analytics which is added in afterwards. I once suggested they should put their servers on the opposite side of the world, so they get a typical

Re: Help with APA - Application Performance Analyzer

. Colin On Tue, 13 Apr 2021 at 19:37, Phil Smith III wrote: > Colin Paice wrote about using APA successfully. > > > > I sure wasn't meaning to diss APA-it did help. I just remember finding that > it wasn't granular enough for us. We have an underlying toolkit that has > many layers

Re: Help with APA - Application Performance Analyzer

n to 1 engine for the same workload. When I said they were going live in under 2 weeks; every one used the password "qw", and I could logon to the super user using qw! Colin On Tue, 13 Apr 2021 at 16:56, Phil Smith III wrote: > Colin Paice wrote: > > >I don

Re: Help with APA - Application Performance Analyzer

I dont think it matters which machine you run on, you just run for a longer time, and get more samples that way. I would suggest you run it on the same machine as production so you get true samples. The hardware can change, for example the MVCL instruction used to be slow on one machine, and

Re: Help with APA - Application Performance Analyzer

It used to be a separately orderable product. It was developed by another company, and badged by IBM. it provides the same functions as Strobe. For example 1. Hot spots... in code Module/csect down to 64 bytes granularity 2. Which DB2 queries are taking most elapsed time, and CPU time

Re: RACF violations - MQ and WAS, IMS

I dont think MQ provides any as such - I think it was left to RACF to report any violations. Once MQ had done a security check it cached the data in its memory, until it timed out. Colin On Mon, 12 Apr 2021 at 14:59, Pierre Fichaud wrote: > I was told on this forum that RACF violations for DB2

Re: LISTCAT for a VTOC

I have some C program (and load modules) on https://github.com/colinpaicemq/SMFFormatter which format DCOLLECT output, along with 1. SMF120 from WebSpere Liberty 2. SMF123 from z/OS Connect. 3. SMF30 jobs and step resource usage 4. SMF 42.6 Data set statistics 5. SMF 42.5 VTOC

Re: LISTCAT for a VTOC

Am I missing something... does IEHLIST LISTVTOC give you what you need? See here https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.1.0?topic=statements-listvtoc-statement //VTOCLIST JOB ... //STEP1EXEC PGM=IEHLIST //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=A //DD2 DD UNIT=*disk*,VOLUME=SER=11,DISP=OLD

More documentation problems

"back" is now two clicks.. eg https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.1?topic=reference-runmqdlq-run-dead-letter-queue-handler Click on See The sample DLQ handler amqsdlq >From this page use back arrow. Page jumps, and stays

Re: IBM snew DOC Web SIte

Rather than fill up this discussion list with comments about the new IBM Documentation site, is there an discussion site for making comments about the new IBM Documentation? I sent some comments (using their "contact us" facility) over a week ago but heard nothing back. On Fri, 9 Apr 2021 at

Re: IBM snew DOC Web SIte

There may be no need for documentation as it was expected to be intuitive! It would be nice if they had a permanent search box open, rather than click the eye glass and then enter the data. One reason it may be slow is I've seen it do 8 TLS handshakes as part of getting a page. It goes and tells

Re: IBM snew DOC Web SIte

Yes, On Sunday firefox said 7 seconds to load a file On Thu, Apr 8, 2021, 10:11 Martin Packer wrote: > I'm not really affiliated with the docs people but I have to ask: Are you > sure this is client-side that's slow? Could well be server side or > network. WASM, while fine, might not be

Re: Large block interface for VB

One of the benefits of striping is that you can do I/O in parallel, for example have 4 concurrent I/Os, so you reduce the "connect time" for transmission of data. Once the data gets to the end of the cable into the Storage Controller, it tends to be caught in cache, and should not matter what

Re: MQ information resources

Bill, There is https://community.ibm.com/community/user/imwuc/communities/community-home?CommunityKey=183ec850-4947-49c8-9a2e-8e7c7fc46c64 You can contact me off line, as I used to work in MQ development/support regard Colin On Tue, 9 Mar 2021 at 14:55, Bill Giannelli wrote: > Hello, > We

Re: z/OSMF desktop

- I found z/OSMF frustrating. I wrote a post on a practical guide to get it working as it is not very well designed for digital certificates. - The server certificate they create is badly defined,

Re: Assembler - Authorized program debug

One of the best troubleshooters I know was a big photograph of a dog. This dog had an 80% success rate! The photo belonged to the expert, and you could only ask the expert once you had asked the dog. Of course everyone would roll their eyes, tut and explain their problem to the dog. In doing so

Re: Assembler - Authorized program debug

First check your steplib - and all the libraries in steplib are APF authorised! Secondly check binder setting AC Colin On Fri, 26 Feb 2021 at 05:57, Ravi Gaur wrote: > **Positing in Assembler group as well** - However given the activity > thought to put it in IBM-Main as well. > > Writing and

Does SOF exist anywhere

I used to use an IBM product SOF (Software Operator Facility). This allowed you to have a set of operator commands in a file, and execute them such as F SOF,/MQSTART. You could pass parameters to it, and include waits etc. Does this still exist, or is there a good alternative without having to

Re: Colours on screen (mainframe history question)

I was around during 3279 development. I think it was code named hotspur (or was it beano). During a demo a customer (a big bank) asked "why do people need a colour screen". A quick witted person replied "you could display overdrawn accounts in red!!" "great - I'll put in an order". And of course

ZFS tuning

Are there any good guides for tuning ZFS? I've found some guides from 8 years ago - are they still valid? Can I get zFS to cache directories or hot files in memory? There are lots of stats from ZFS, but it is hard to find the important numbers in the data. Ive moved ZFS into OMVS

Any way to anticipate failure messages

Many moons ago I wrote some rexx execs to process SDSF operlog in ISPF edit. I've recreated them. They are on https://github.com/colinpaicemq/Goodies The doc says A suite of rexx execs to process the operlog available with SDSF. It does the following 1. S1 convert each multi line message

Re: wc3270 or NOTEPAD++ help

If you can create one large file on windows, and put ./ADD LIST=ALL,NAME=MYNAME... between each file you can use iebupdte for example https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.idau100/u1438.htm it will create a member for each section headed by ./

Re: SMF fields of RMF Subchannel Activity Report

n. > > Regards > Ituriel > > > Em quinta-feira, 11 de fevereiro de 2021 09:17:18 BRT, Colin Paice < > colinpai...@gmail.com> escreveu: > > You can get RMF to format most(all?) of these records. > What high level analysis do you want to do? > Colin > &g

Re: SMF fields of RMF Subchannel Activity Report

You can get RMF to format most(all?) of these records. What high level analysis do you want to do? Colin On Thu, 11 Feb 2021 at 11:56, Ituriel do Neto < 03427ec2837d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Hi all, > I'm trying to collect some information from SMF 74.4 and would like some >

Re: [EXTERNAL] Collecting SMF data with Logstreams

An advantage of log streams is that you can set up a log stream so type1 goes to one log stream and type2 goes to another log stream. If type1 produces too much data type2 is not affected. If you log to disk you process the data set to extract/process the type1 and type2 records. If type1

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