Re: How to reconfigure the STP role by HMC or By GDPS

2022-04-15 Thread Kieron D Hinds
Speaking from experience testing STP in the IBM Poughkeepsie development lab, on whether “Could we directly modify the role as the target without intermediate transition steps when z/OS and subsystem are running?”: Yes, you can use the HMC Manage System Time dialog to go from the current configu

Re: Coupling Facility and z/OS SysPlex LPARs moving to new hardware

2021-02-14 Thread Kieron D Hinds
It may also be helpful to refer to the "Best practices for updating a coupling facility" in the z/OS MVS Setting Up a Sysplex guide in the z/OS Knowledge Center: [ https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.4.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r4.ieaf100/bestprac.htm ] Procedure 1 is seems to apply to what

Re: CFCC Performance

2018-12-19 Thread Kieron D Hinds
I agree the original question was a bit confusing, but to answer it directly: -> System-managed duplexing is definitely not deprecated, but yes there is an "overhead" to run system-managed duplexing for structures, which is why a new enhancement was recently released on z14 (CFLevel 22 and up)

Re: Sysplex Timer issue

2016-06-15 Thread Kieron D Hinds
sion List Hi, It turned out that the CTN-ID value was coded in Upper case and what we used to build the CF was in Lower case. I am still trying to see if CTN-ID values are case sensitive. Does anybody know if CTN-ID has such constraints ? On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 2:40 AM, Kieron D Hinds wr

Re: Sysplex Timer issue

2016-06-13 Thread Kieron D Hinds
Hi, It sounds like you have a situation where the CF you're attempting to IPL is running on a CPC with a different CTNID than the CTNID of the CPC[s] where other images are already active (z/OS and CFs). I'd have to compare the CTNID in the output of the IXL160E as well as the IEA386I from the

Re: IXC364I POLICY CHANGE(S) PENDING

2014-06-03 Thread Kieron D Hinds
Base on the output you posted from IXL015I and IXC359I, IXL015I REBUILD NEW STRUCTURE ALLOCATION INFORMATION FOR 420 STRUCTURE LOGREC, CONNECTOR NAME IXGLOGR_BOCT, CONNECTIVITY=DEFAULT CFNAME ALLOCATION STATUS/FAILURE REASON CFTST

Re: STP Setup question for IBM 2818 processsor

2013-11-06 Thread Kieron D Hinds
In case you haven't already, it would be very beneficial for you to spend some time with the STP Planning Guide - SG24-7280 from RedBooks: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247280.html Also, the STP Implementation Guide - SG24-7281 redbook has explicit examples of how to configure STP depe