Alerts after critical events

2014-05-16 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Hi We are a small shop, no operator, and a small number of z/OS users. I would like to develop an application, which can send/show alerts if some kind of critical event occurs in the system. What I'm considering now: - Health checker events (PFA also) - High CPU usage(SDSF DA?) - MXI

Re: Alerts after critical events

2014-05-16 Thread Rob Scott
Miklos As you are already a MXI freeware user, you might be interested to know that the commercial version of MXI does pretty much everything that you want. Notification of alerts can be done in a variety of ways, including e-mails, WTOs, SNMP traps and web-based message boards and dashboards.

Re: TSO 3270 Data Stream question

2014-05-16 Thread Greg Price
On 16/05/2014 7:53 AM, Micheal Butz wrote: Yes but why these printable ebcdic codes If you really want to know, look at http://www.prycroft6.com.au/misc/3270.html which I wrote when I thought I knew what I was talking about, but it turned out I didn't. HOWEVER, about a quarter of the way into

E-SQA clarification

2014-05-16 Thread Jake anderson
Hi All, One of our sandbox *Master* Address space is consuming a E-SQA of 94% with 13.5MB. Under what circumstances we see spike in E-SQA to be more. Is there any pointers which can help me to understand its utilization. Normally I would expect the E-SQA to be close to 6MB but this time it looks

Re: TSO 3270 Data Stream question

2014-05-16 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 5/16/2014 4:49 AM, Greg Price wrote: If you really want to know, look at http://www.prycroft6.com.au/misc/3270.html which I wrote when I thought I knew what I was talking about, but it turned out I didn't. HOWEVER, about a quarter of the way into it is an update from May 2010 in colored text

Auxiliary Storage Usage Problem

2014-05-16 Thread Juergen Kehr
Hello, since a while we recognized that in some of our LPARs the auxiliary storage usage is rising steadily and we can't find out why this happens. I seems that one or more address spaces are not releasing their slots correctly. Here are some sample data from SLOTCNT recorded in a one week

Re: Auxiliary Storage Usage Problem

2014-05-16 Thread Sambataro, Anthony (NIH/NBS) [E]
This Share presentation may be of help, look at pages 22-25 https://share.confex.com/share/121/webprogram/Handout/Session14254/SHARE%20Boston%202013%20Common%20zOS%20Problems.pdf -Original Message- From: Juergen Kehr [mailto:kehrjuer...@t-online.de] Sent: Friday, May 16, 2014 6:26 AM

Re: z10 IPL from Utility Tape - FIXED

2014-05-16 Thread Bob Shannon
We also had a problem with a DS6800 when we had a system in Chelyabinsk, Russia. Someone (me) shut it down incorrectly and subsequently the z890 processor couldn't see any of the volumes. The CE obtained a standalone ICKDSF with special commands that remedied the problem. Bob Shannon Rocket

Re: Alerts after critical events

2014-05-16 Thread John McKown
We do this sort of thing by trapping console messages using CA-OPS/MVS (you might want to look at the free TSSO on the CBTTAPE for this, if necessary). We have a number of jobs which we then submit, via CA-7 which use XMITIP (also free) to send a email to the appropriate MS Exchange user. In our

Re: IFASMFR

2014-05-16 Thread Peter Relson
IFASMFR maps records owned by z/OS (and not necessarily even all of those for elements that are not exclusive elements). Other products (IBM and ISV) map their own records. There is no reason why IFASMFR can not have support for these records by internally calling the needed DSNQWS* macro.

Re: Auxiliary Storage Usage Problem

2014-05-16 Thread Lizette Koehler
How much central storage do you have available to this LPAR? IIRC, the Page volumes are used when the data cannot be held in Real Memory. So you may have a lot of paging going on. What is your paging rate? Sometimes with products, the vendor could be helpful in understanding why their

Re: Auxiliary Storage Usage Problem

2014-05-16 Thread Juergen Kehr
Hi Anthony, the presentation you mentioned in your post is one of the sources of information we already know. Based on these information we already took a dump of the RASP address space and run the IPCS commands mentioned there. Here you'll find an extract of the results. But I couldn't find

Re: Auxiliary Storage Usage Problem

2014-05-16 Thread Juergen Kehr
Dear Lizette, of course you're right, if your system hasn't enought central storage system starts to page out and more auxiliary storage is requested. But AFAIK as soon as there is less workload on the system, for example at weekends on our systems the paging rate decreases and so the

Re : Setting A SLIP For A Program Running Under CICS.

2014-05-16 Thread Jim Thomas
Hello, Many thanks to everybody that tried to help. Kind Regards. Jim Thomas -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: SMP/E Question regarding automatically relinking a load module with maintenance

2014-05-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 15 May 2014 14:40:11 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote: I have observed that merely deleting from the SMPPTS and re-RECEIVEing leaves tramp entries in the GLOBAL zone. I'm not surprised. Do it correctly. I wouldn't be surprised if Kurt Q. knows how to clean it up correctly without using

Re: Auxiliary Storage Usage Problem

2014-05-16 Thread Doug Henry
On Fri, 16 May 2014 08:39:01 -0500, Juergen Kehr kehrjuer...@t-online.de wrote: But the question still is, if that's true who requested these slots, and how to avoid this behaviour. Hi Juegen, We went through this earlier in the year and tracked it down to IBM INFOSPHERE GUARDIUM. I believe

Re: Auxiliary Storage Usage Problem

2014-05-16 Thread Ron Hawkins
Juergen, You need to allow for some double accounting of unchanged pages on AUX. While it may not be at the root of what you are seeing, pages that are paged in from AUX and are not changed will remain on AUX. There is some growth in AUX over time because of this. I have no measurement, but I

Re: Is there an SMP/E list somewhere out there?

2014-05-16 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 9b26bc6a6df52d4483dd73b1fe7b4b0679f3daf...@uspho-mxvs07.amer.thermo.com, on 05/15/2014 at 12:19 PM, Hardee, Chuck chuck.har...@thermofisher.com said: I was going to initially but some many get chastised for posting questions here when there is another list available Any IBM mainframe

Re: TSO 3270 Data Stream question

2014-05-16 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 985915eee6984740ae93f8495c624c6c232c6b9...@jscpcwexmaa1.bsg.ad.adp.com, on 05/15/2014 at 05:59 PM, Farley, Peter x23353 peter.far...@broadridge.com said: Those are the EBCDIC equivalents of the BCD 64-character printable characters standard on IBM hardware of the time before EBCDIC. There

Re: TSO 3270 Data Stream question

2014-05-16 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In !!AAAYADO3kaXBOTJGmkWYxtxnvxbCgAAAEGHlGLGpf0JLksLvme19juUBAA==@comcast.net, on 05/15/2014 at 09:41 AM, MichealButz michealb...@comcast.net said: Which has code to translate a ROW and COLUMN into a sba (screen buffer address) In what format? The code that you show is

Re: TSO 3270 Data Stream question

2014-05-16 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 750bc573-95bf-4c20-a1c1-1c22f8301...@comcast.net, on 05/15/2014 at 02:58 PM, Micheal Butz michealb...@comcast.net said: Can anyone give me an idea of how to make sense of the table For 12-bit addresses, you have xxbb xxbb, where is an address from 0-4095 and the high

Re: TSO 3270 Data Stream question

2014-05-16 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
I stand corrected. I can only report what I was told. It's been so long I have no memory of the source of that information. The updated information at Greg Price's url from earlier in this thread sounds like the real McCoy. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: SMP/E Question regarding automatically relinking a load module with maintenance

2014-05-16 Thread Longabaugh, Robert E
I have worked in QA for CA Technologies (Sterling Software prior to 2000) for 20+ years. In the course of doing my job I need to receive, apply, restore, and reject PTFs multiple times a week. There isn't any shortcut to the REJECT that would actually save time. The CSI is key to SMP/E

Blue sky threading - was: IBM C and Cobol Threading question

2014-05-16 Thread Jon Perryman
Storage overlays for multi-threaded servers such as CICS and IMS do exist but are far less than UNIX threading. CICS allows the use of key 9 and programs are usually conversational (vaguely remember that most storage is free while waiting for a terminal response). IMS runs code in dependent

Is z/OS MVS Programming: Product Registration obsolete?

2014-05-16 Thread Charles Mills
I note that the subject manual has apparently not been re-issued since z/OS V1R7. Should I interpret that to mean that the information in it has been deprecated? Or am I missing something? Charles -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: Is z/OS MVS Programming: Product Registration obsolete?

2014-05-16 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 5/16/2014 1:09 PM, Charles Mills wrote: I note that the subject manual has apparently not been re-issued since z/OS V1R7. Should I interpret that to mean that the information in it has been deprecated? Or am I missing something? More likely, nothing has changed. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix

Re: Alerts after critical events

2014-05-16 Thread Brian Westerman
The SyzMAIL/z part of our automation suite allows messages to be sent for nay console or system event, including automatically sending email (or SMS text message) for any and all tasks in the system when the task ends (or any time during it's execution), all without any JCL changes to any of