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2018-06-12 Thread James Peddycord
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Recommendations for number of pagesets in MQ

2017-12-13 Thread James Peddycord
NTAC:3NS-20 We are currently running MQ V7.1 (z/OS 2.2) and plan to migrate to V9 early next year. A couple of weeks ago we had an issue where a application 'audit queue' residing in pageset 01, along with the dynamic command queues, filled up the pageset due to an application error. This

Re: Recommendations for RECOVERY options

2016-12-29 Thread James Peddycord
Marchant Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2016 12:50 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Recommendations for RECOVERY options On Thu, 29 Dec 2016 13:45:53 +, James Peddycord wrote: >In this forum with so many people who have so many opinions, I can't >believe that nobody is of

Re: Recommendations for RECOVERY options

2016-12-29 Thread James Peddycord
Subject: Re: Recommendations for RECOVERY options James Peddycord wrote: >In this forum with so many people who have so many opinions, I can't believe that nobody is offering suggestions for the RECOVERY parameter when asked. Perhaps these persons with that specific hardware combination are st

Re: Recommendations for RECOVERY options

2016-12-29 Thread James Peddycord
- From: James Peddycord [mailto:j...@ntrs.com] Sent: 28 December 2016 4:56 pm Subject: Recommendations for RECOVERY options NTAC:3NS-20 We had a situation with a bad cable that resulted in a huge performance impact due to the default way that z/OS (we are at 1.13) handles error recovery on Ficon

Re: Recommendations for RECOVERY options

2016-12-28 Thread James Peddycord
Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of James Peddycord Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2016 8:56 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Recommendations for RECOVERY options NTAC:3NS-20 We had a situation with a bad cable that resulted in a huge performance impact due

Recommendations for RECOVERY options

2016-12-28 Thread James Peddycord
NTAC:3NS-20 We had a situation with a bad cable that resulted in a huge performance impact due to the default way that z/OS (we are at 1.13) handles error recovery on Ficon paths. The symptoms were many (thousands) of IOS050I messages in the task's joblog, followed by an IOS450E message, which

Re: Mainframe systems programmer ID 'vaulting'

2016-11-23 Thread James Peddycord
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Re: Mainframe systems programmer ID 'vaulting'

2016-11-23 Thread James Peddycord
NTAC:3NS-20 We have a FIRECALL process now, but it's automated. The vaulting process has taken the place of this FIRECALL process for most applications teams. The systems programmers don't need to get a FIRECALL ID to update SYS1 datasets. We only need them when working with datasets that we

Mainframe systems programmer ID 'vaulting'

2016-11-22 Thread James Peddycord
NTAC:3NS-20 Our company is undergoing a project to 'protect privileged access' by using a password vaulting product. We have been doing this for quite some time for applications teams who require higher levels of access to production datasets for problem resolution, installs, etc. The way it

Ping times with shared OSA

2016-05-11 Thread James Peddycord
NTAC:4UC-11 While investigating an issue, we noticed some variation in ping times from an RHEL 6 (on z/VM 6.2) to a z/OS 1.13 LPAR on the same CEC, using a shared 10G OSA. Times for 1000 pings: 1000 packets transmitted, 1000 received, 0% packet loss, time 999056ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev =