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is a good deal more offensive than a porous statistic.
It sounds significant, bit it is pretentious nonsense. Properly,
'actionable' is a lawyer's term that means 'open to legal action,
AFAIK, XRC incremental resynch is a GDPS-only feature. I've never seen non
GDPS/XRC users using it.
Paolo Cacciari - IBM BCRS Italy
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Date: 07/06/2013 00:09
Subject:Re: XRC Volume Resync on a Return Home
PPRC has a bit map for updated tracks. If a mirroring set becomes
suspended, you can resume the mirroring and just the updated tracks
are sent.
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 2:24 AM, Paolo Cacciari
paolo.cacci...@it.ibm.com wrote:
AFAIK, XRC incremental resynch is a GDPS-only feature. I've never seen
Ed Finnell wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center
Future Home of a bigger PRISM when the current spy drama has settled down?
If you want to be an instant expert according to J. G., look at and be very
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Gadi,
We are about to start testing a Luminex VTS and, from everything that we've
read, it appears to be an excellent solution.
Regards,
Hervey
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Thanks,
But from what I see, they do not have a reseller in Israel.
I also doubt that our DR site, which is run by IBM, will let us use this.
Our main use for tapes, is to transfer data to the DR site.
gadi
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W dniu 2013-06-10 13:29, גדי בן אבי pisze:
Thanks,
But from what I see, they do not have a reseller in Israel.
I also doubt that our DR site, which is run by IBM, will let us use this.
Our main use for tapes, is to transfer data to the DR site.
I'd suggest 4 3590's connected to A60.
Our goals are:
Make backups run fast so we can back more data in a limited backup window.
Transfer the tapes to our DR site. They definitely have 3592's.
Encryption is not required.
Gadi
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Gadi,
In South Africa we have installed Luminex VTL / Data Domain solutions for
mainframe customers and it works very well. The Data Domain is not mandatory
and could be replaced with less expensive disk as Luminex now has replication
and compression capabilities, this would make it a cheaper
LTOs are pretty high capacity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 6:52 AM, גדי בן אבי gad...@malam.com wrote:
Our goals are:
Make backups run fast so we can back more data in a limited backup window.
Transfer the tapes to our DR site. They definitely have
True - that was my stated objective. But it was out of ignorance, I
thought all X went through SSH. Since this test is over a VPN, I don't
care how it works, as long as it does.
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote:
On Fri, 7 Jun 2013 13:53:38 -0400, Mark
W dniu 2013-06-10 14:03, Mike Schwab pisze:
LTOs are pretty high capacity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open
Oh, yes, but there are no FICON-attached versions. So, no z/OS system
can use them (directly).
Indirect use via some magic box like BusTech, Luminex or Interkom is
another
W dniu 2013-06-10 13:52, גדי בן אבי pisze:
Our goals are:
Make backups run fast so we can back more data in a limited backup window.
Transfer the tapes to our DR site. They definitely have 3592's.
Encryption is not required.
Then buy some second-hand J70 (with FICON cards) + FC switch +
Thanks, I will let the higher ups know.
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W dniu 2013-06-10 13:52, גדי בן אבי
In defense|defence of IBM's use of 'actionable' Timothy Sipples has
used recognition by a Merriam-Webster dictionary of the sense 'capable
of being acted upon'.
The single example he cites is semantically contaminated by its
law-enforcement/legal context, but for his purposes this is not
perhaps
That JCL example works fine for a single ZFS file system, but if you
need to define many, and don't want to use multiple job steps, you can
do something like this using the CoZ Toolkit.
//COZBATCH EXEC COZBATCH
//STDENV DD *
cyl=1 1
volumes=ZOS3AZ
aggr001=SYSZFS.FILESYSA
On 6/10/2013 6:45 AM, John Gilmore wrote:
[snip]
I am prepared to concede that IBM evolves. Some of this evolution is
admirable, some not;
but it is important to remember that not corporations buy people write text.
interesting construction above
Some write English or another language
Hi,
Is thee some documentation or some article which globalizes all (BMC
products which are zIIP-capable?
Is it correct that zIIP-capable offloading is discovered by the tools and
utilities themselves and that it starts by itself (without parametrization,
I mean), *IF* they are at the correct
The letters 'y' and 't' are adjacent on my keyboard (and many others).
The token 'buy' should have been 'but', less interesting but what I
meant.
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It is my understanding that if the volume does not exceed the high threshold,
migration will not begin on that volume.
Once migration begins, It will continue until the low threshold is reached
(normally, oldest datasets migrated first).
A specific dataset may or may not migrate as specified in
The easiest way to find out how zIIP enabled the products you are licensed for
is to contact your local friendly BMC Software Consultant or Sales person.
They can provide you with information about which products you own can make use
of zIIP and to what degree. Or you could open a Support
John Gilmore wrote:
The letters 'y' and 't' are adjacent on my keyboard (and many others). The
token 'buy' should have been 'but', less interesting but what I meant.
I don't buy it, but ... pun intended! ;-D
No offense meant, I just like and learn what all of you wrote. ;-D
All of the very
גדי בן אבי said:
Hi,
I was asked to help choose a tape library for our system.
-- snip --
As mentioned by another poster, for your use, a tapeless solution might prove
most scalable. You can use a something other than shipping to get your data
to D/R. See shameless-plug
On 6/9/2013 10:07 AM, John Gilmore wrote:
The numbers 9 and 27 (for the venturesome) still prevail in many
shops. Much larger values, never available as physical, spinning
DASD, appear to make some people uneasy.
They get used, reluctantly at least on the first occasion, only when
some
Richard,
I don't of course know the details of your situation, but in each of
the 6 six rather different shops where I have looked at this issue in
detail it has turned out that PAV was the economic choice, decisively
so.
If an occasion for revisiting it quantitatively ever arises, you
should
Rant
Like a few others on this list, I have often gritted my teeth at the necessity
to estimate disk storage quantities that vary widely over time in a fixed
manner (i.e., SPACE in JCL) when the true need is just to match output volume
to input volume each day.
Why is it that IBM (and
In general, I agree. But I will say that I need something to limit run-away
usage of disk space. Why? Because we have had programmers who didn't want
to be bother either. So they put out a report to SPOOL. And then their
program went into a loop; writing the same message over and over. This
On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 11:38:08 -0400, Farley, Peter x23353
peter.far...@broadridge.com wrote:
Rant
Like a few others on this list, I have often gritted my teeth at the necessity
to estimate disk storage quantities that vary widely over time in a fixed
manner (i.e., SPACE in JCL) when the true
A few more orders of magnitude and they'll maybe begin rivaling our NSA, whose
mission is to track and record data on every electron in the universe.
Bill Fairchild
Franklin, TN
“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder
acceptable, and to give the appearance of
I am not a LUW person, other than I use a windows machine for simple things, so
I am curious how external storage is allocated and controlled in that
environment. I think we have all heard the complaints about the short-comings
of MVS in this area, but what would be a realistic solution?
I
LUW works similar to z/OS UNIX file systems. I.e. there is a file system
which is formatted using some utility (mkfs in the Linux/UNIX world, format
in Windows). This sets up all the internals. In today's LUW, it is usually
possible for a single file to be as big as the file system upon which it
On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 11:08:32 -0500, Dale R. Smith wrote:
(really IBM, you can't come up with better names for hardware/software than 1
character? And i, is this an Apple box?)
Just as challenging to search the web for as C.
-- gil
For Windows Capabilities, I suggest reading about Dynamic Disks and Dynamic
Volumes on MSDN:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa363785(v=vs.85).aspx
John
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And it sounds so egotistical. grin/
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.comwrote:
On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 11:08:32 -0500, Dale R. Smith wrote:
(really IBM, you can't come up with better names for hardware/software
than 1 character? And i, is this an Apple box?)
Not my insight, but that sentence itself seems actionable, and reminds me of
some other winners I've seen from IBM over the decades:
HASP sprayed bits at random, resulting in a S0C4 (seen in a RETAIN item 40
years ago, and the only example here that is humorous);
The operator onlined the
On 6/10/2013 12:15 PM, Blaicher, Christopher Y. wrote:
I am not a LUW person, other than I use a windows machine for simple
things, so I am curious how external storage is allocated and
controlled in that environment. I think we have all heard the
complaints about the short-comings of MVS in
On 6/10/2013 11:38 AM, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
Rant
Like a few others on this list, I have often gritted my teeth at the
necessity to estimate disk storage quantities that vary widely over
time in a fixed manner (i.e., SPACE in JCL) when the true need is
just to match output volume to input
Download GnuPartEd, Burn it to CD-ROM, Boot from it, resize as needed.
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Roberts, John J
jrobe...@dhs.state.ia.us wrote:
For Windows Capabilities, I suggest reading about Dynamic Disks and Dynamic
Volumes on MSDN:
Would lowering the high threshold to as low as possible (for example 20) solve
the problem. The objective is to keep the volumes as free as possible because
mostly GDG (output) dsns reside on the volumes and never used as input.
From: Staller, Allan
Standard means that all block sizes are the same, except for possibly the last
one, which might be short.
Spanned means that a single logical record might span multiple physical blocks,
but the way it is implemented results in having all block sizes be the same,
except for possibly the last
We use 10% 1% for these types of volumes. Not 85% 1%.
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 12:38 PM, willie bunter williebun...@yahoo.com wrote:
Would lowering the high threshold to as low as possible (for example 20)
solve the problem. The objective is to keep the volumes as free as possible
because
snip
Would lowering the high threshold to as low as possible (for example 20) solve
the problem. The objective is to keep the volumes as free as possible because
mostly GDG (output) dsns reside on the volumes and never used as input.
/snip
Just off the top of my head, High 70, low 20. YMMV.
Seems like it'd be cheaper to just befriend everybody on facebook. Remember
a SHARE presentation by NSA from mid-nineties and they described some of
what they do. Said their goal was to remain 5 yrs ahead of
'state-of-the-art'.
In a message dated 6/10/2013 5:17:06 A.M. Central Daylight
I just got this error on a multi system shared DFHSM database. I can't anything
recent and since the disk drives are new technology DS8 type I doubt
there's a hardware error. The complete message is below. Any help would be
appreciated and no we can't call IBM, it's z/OS 1.11 and they'd
The key to your problem is here ERROR CODE=0900 TYPE=SNAP ARC0900I DFSMSHSM
ERROR CODE 0900 IN MODULE ARCILOG
Most likely a journal full condition.
F DFHSM,Q CDS (I would expect to see the journal 100% full)
F DFHSM, BACKVOL CDS (backs up CDS's and resets journals)
After successful
As to the religious aspect, I did try to signal the less-than-practical
nature of my note with the Rant and /Rant tags.
To your point about tailoring and dynamically submitting JCL, it really is an
issue. In a typical large z/OS shop today, dynamically tailoring and
submitting JCL is only
I had a similar problem a few months ago on z/OS 1.12. The bottom line fix
was to stop DFHSM on all the sharing systems (two in my case). Use ISPF to
delete (or rename) and redefine the DFHSM journal data set. I made it much
bigger while I was at it, but that may not be necessary. I then restarted
Too true. And, around here, our QA people appear to be glitz checkers
instead of function and reliability checkers. They have more people than
any other group and do less testing on the mainframe. They seem to check
mainly for ease of use. That is, can a totally numb skull still use
this?
On Mon,
I'm being told we use MacKinney Batch and the open/close commands are within
the batch job. We also have Mailbox,job scheduler commands in the JCL. 100's
of them.
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Is there a way/command to determine all of the file systems mounted on
OMVS.USER?
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The way I check what filesystems are mounted is D OMVS,F
or from a shell df
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 3:58 PM, gsg gsg_...@yahoo.com wrote:
Is there a way/command to determine all of the file systems mounted on
OMVS.USER?
Hope your auditor doesn't find out;-)
ed
On Jun 10, 2013, at 2:52 PM, gsg wrote:
I'm being told we use MacKinney Batch and the open/close commands
are within the batch job. We also have Mailbox,job scheduler
commands in the JCL. 100's of them.
Open and close are not z/OS or JES2 commands. (Are they JES3?) In any
event, since they are issued by the batch programs they would not be
affected by the command=verify setting.
Since command=verify is merely an auditor recommendation, it is up to
management to either accept the current risk
On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:43:58 +, DASDBILL2 wrote:
Spanned means that a single logical record might span multiple physical
blocks, but the way it is implemented results in having all block sizes be the
same, except for possibly the last one, which might be short.
Is uniform lengths a
VBS Blocksize in dumped SMF data with RECFM=VBS,LRECL=32760,BLKSIZE=0 does NOT
produce interior same-sized blocks, as this small file from my DEV machine
shows:
LENGTHFREQUENCY PERCENT
15712 1
I seem to recall some doc from pre-VSAM SMF (pre-MVS/SP[SE?]) that many blocks
were written 'short'.
For example: the Type-74 (Device Activity) RMF records (a collapsed link list
of multiple devices) were always started on a block boundary, even if there was
'room' in the previous record.
But,
Easy for you to way!
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Is anyone familiar with the internals of CSRCESRV run-length compression?
I am familiar with RLE schemes in general -- typically a run of n identical
characters is replaced with something like escapencharacter. Does
anyone know the specifics of z/OS's scheme? What is the escape character?
How is n
On 10 June 2013 19:58, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote:
Is anyone familiar with the internals of CSRCESRV run-length compression?
I am familiar with RLE schemes in general -- typically a run of n identical
characters is replaced with something like escapencharacter. Does
anyone know the
Thanks. I remember SCS! I've written a couple of 3270 emulators. SCS was
used for 3270 printers, right?
Does not look quite right. As I recall, cc = 0 is illegal, right? Here
is the beginning of some compressed data:
80 7f 00 01 00 02 00 03 00 04 00 05 ... so cc is 0.
Circumstantial
On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:18:48 -0500, Barry Merrill wrote:
VBS Blocksize in dumped SMF data with RECFM=VBS,LRECL=32760,BLKSIZE=0 does NOT
produce interior same-sized blocks, as this small file from my DEV machine
shows:
LENGTHFREQUENCY PERCENT
On 6/10/2013 2:46 PM, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
To your point about tailoring and dynamically submitting JCL, it
really is an issue. In a typical large z/OS shop today, dynamically
tailoring and submitting JCL is only permitted for test environments
and users. Production JCL is frozen and
On 6/10/2013 2:57 PM, Ted MacNEIL wrote:
What planet are you from?
Sol 3
Programmers seem able to test everything except that one condition that will
break in Production
Perhaps you are keeping bad company. While humans are not perfect, there
are methods to improve code reliability.
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