Re: AMATERSE and PDSE ?

In my case the only interrelatedness was that my thought - a record exit on UNPACK - also related to AMATERSE. So Peter was right to suggest it was the subject of a different RFE. Cheers, Martin From: Peter Relson rel...@us.ibm.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 11/04/2015 23:34

Re: A New Performance Model ?

To quote Lizette Tuning programs have benefits. I'd add if you succeed to that sentence. Actually, just the attempt to tune yields UNDERSTANDING as another benefit. But I doubt that ever gets realistically accounted for. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator

Re: A New Performance Model

And I'd say Tim passes the Turing Test. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks

Re: DFSORT - How to select last 8 bytes in variable length records

it. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker From

Re: STCK question

Now that's one I DID goad Frank into doing. :-) (Along with SMFDT.) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https

Re: DFSORT - How to select last 8 bytes in variable length records

Yes! Especially as I probably goaded him into doing it in the first place. :-) But liking the solution. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook

Re: CF level z/OS 2.1

I'd aim for CFLEVEL 17 anyway - on a z196. I can't imagine problems being fixed with alacrity with a lower level - but that's not a definitive support statement. Now, an interesting question is how one upgrades CFCC. A while back I got the impression it got easier. Cheers, Martin Martin

Re: Split screen ISPF edit copy?

With x3270 (at least) it seems to end up overwriting the edit command prefix area for all bar the first line pasted. I'd use it much more if I could fix that. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584

Re: Slow storage creep in SYSTEM.SYSSTC

for REAL storage usage. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs

Re: Slow storage creep in SYSTEM.SYSSTC

I wouldn't use a command but rather proper regular timestamped information - to get the behaviour. That would be 72-3 for suitably-coded report classes. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email

Re: Forbes: IT Professionals Don't Have What The Tech Industry Wants

in Country B. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker

Re: PAGE DS 30% same-size

What complicates all the same size is SCM (zFlash) so I suppose we have to add the words except SCM somewhere in the discussion of paging space utilisation. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584

Re: Linux Without Limits: IBM Launch LinuxONE Mainframes

I'm not aware that we've announced a follow on to z12 BC so I would assume so. Jim Elliott follows this newsgroup so will probably want to wade in at some point. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245

Re: Mainframes open to internet attacks?

personal or personnel? Which makes the article writer or whoever was quoted another weak link in the chain. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter

Re: SMF30HVO

Which is precisely why a decent MEMLIMIT / IEFUSI is so important: Without giving the baddies :-) ideas consider the flip side of what Chris said. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email

Re: Dump Failing - Aux Shortage

I'm also thinking a 120GB+ dump is pretty large, even nowadays. Else what other stuff is filling SCM (Flash) to the brim? Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com

Re: Dump Failing - Aux Shortage

The clue could be in SCM 94% full but it still seems odd to me. Can you fill us in on page data set sizes? Thanks, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook

Re: Dump Failing - Aux Shortage

) data now that SCM is quite commonplace. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks

Re: Dump Failing - Aux Shortage

Yes but those are for a SEPARATE LPAR - the CF one, not the z/OS one. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https

Re: model-9 and model-27 mixture

And in customers I see lots of cases of mixed-size-volume pools, including custom volume sizes. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs

Re: Fwd: Bank’s severance deal indebts laid off IT workers to be ‘on call’ for 2 years of tech support — without pay

I assume US law requires no severance package at all. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm

Re: Releasing Orphan Storage without IPL

SQA. (Also oversized CSA, but that's a different matter.) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm

Re: SMF Type 30

Also SMF30EXN is sometimes usefully filled in with a Unix program name. But not often, IME. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs

Setting up Sublime Text to edit PDS members

Has anyone got Sublime Text's SFTP plugin to accept anything other than a HFS path? Most of my editing is REXX and Assembler in PDS(E)s. Alternatively - opening a can of worms :-) - recommendations for good text editors for the same that run on RHEL? Thanks, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion

Re: Setting up Sublime Text to edit PDS members

Well I was really hoping for a "keep the data in the PDS, edit it on RHEL" answer. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinP

Re: Setting up Sublime Text to edit PDS members

host data sets on a PC - with all the (even then good) benefits of PC editing. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https

Re: DFSORT (old) enhancement

Not sure whether it's relevant but AVGRLEN is another thing you can use to help DFSORT do the calculations, I seem to recall. (Someone long ago once said for Variable-Length the default is half the LRECL.) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide

Re: Adding Real memory Dyanamically

would love to be wrong on this - has what's on the machine nor what's offline but configurable online, nor the memory inactive LPARs would use... A long story I'm telling one sentence at a time. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Syste

Re: Paging RMF report

In SMF 30 you'll get paging counts for the address space. I suppose with a 1-AS report class SMF 72-3 Workload Activity Report might be some use. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 e

Re: D M=STOR causes disaster

Someone hinted at BCPii to get this info from the HMC. I don't believe BCPii has this capability at present. There are other things BCPii / HMC might be taught to do (theoretically) in the memory area. As well, perhaps, as this. Food for thought. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion

Re: Change CPC name in HMC

: "Largely they are". Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/Mart

Re: Change CPC name in HMC

What SMF records contain the CPC name? Thanks, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerw

Re: Change CPC name in HMC

What is the source of your connection documentation? Human? Or - as with the new 74-4 Path Data Section - machine-generated? Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm

Re: SRB And Enclave SRB

Also R723NFFS - if you're working with Report / Service Class data. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: h

Re: Coupling Facility Structure Re-sizing

And did I get the right name, Kees? And I also hear of a reflectometer for measuring signalling latency - to independently confirm what the Infiniband / ICA-SR cards are saying. "Every home should have one." :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems In

Re: [Bulk] Re: Coupling Facility Structure Re-sizing

about. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPa

Re: Coupling Facility Structure Re-sizing

is useful in checking distance and hinting at routing. While not wanting to advertise the posts I think this latency number is one people should check occasionally. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-

Re: AW: Re: z/OS and hiperspaces

It also depends on the DFSORT-specific controls you put in place - as Dave Betten former keeper of the controls (currently on vacation) will tell you. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 e

Re: WLM and Dispatching Priority

I'm puzzled: Why do you think those dispatching priorities are inconsistent with the WLM goals (and your technical business goals)? Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin

Re: z/OS and hiperspaces

was formally removed, nor how much maintenance / path length / bug-befuddlement that would save.) (I remember Bob Rogers in late 1990 demo'ing a PC program that explained how Non-Retain Hiperbatch rolled up the carpet after the last reader.) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal

Re: AW: Re: z/OS and hiperspaces

control to them. This separation MIGHT - for some applications - be valuable. But I'd hope VSM had made the requirement for segmentation/separation less pressing over the past 30 years. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Sys

Re: z/OS and hiperspaces

. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker

Re: z/OS and hiperspaces

Of course I meant to say "Hiperspaces DIDN'T become pointless". Sorry for any confusion. Especially in MY head. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ib

Re: Were you at SHARE in Seattle? Watch your credit card statements!

Ah Chip & PIN at last. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperwor

Re: Change CPC name in HMC

Well what's at both ends is known. The distance is known - at least for CF links given latency. The software could make up a name and allow a user to change it. Switches are self documenting in 74-7. What's left? :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator

Re: Change CPC name in HMC

Well, I think links COULD be self documenting and largely are (at some level of abstraction). SMF 74-4 has a new Path Data Section. Everyone should check it out. I've blogged about this data several times in the past couple of years. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems

Re: Change CPC name in HMC

And that's a wholly manual laborious process. :-( Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerw

Re: IEAIPS parmlib member

And by coincidence I just read a field description in the SMF manual that said the field (Performance Group Number) was invalid from z/OS 1.3 onwards. (Literally in the last half hour, while looking for something else.) Cheers, Martin Sent from my iPad > On 2 Jun 2016, at 21:48, John Eells

Re: z/OS 2.2 JES2 ABEND S878-10 during startup

5MB is huge for 24-Bit CSA. You can work out from SMF 79-2 almost all you need to know to manage this, including which storage keys are big and how much CSA is free. Cheers, Martin Sent from my iPad > On 7 Jun 2016, at 06:30, Bruce Hewson wrote: > > Hi Lizette, > >

Re: Video that might give you a chuckle

In a new presentation and an upcoming podcast episode I rely on the "Kicks" pronounciation. I also hate "zoss" but "the customer is always right". :-) Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +

Re: BPX.SMF misuse?

On the "add Java statistics to the SMF record" point note NOTHING gets to inject stuff into SMF 30. The one arguable exception to this is the Usage Data Section, but this is for licencing. Right now Java doesn't use the IFAUSAGE macro. Perhaps it could be taught to. If so maybe A VERY FEW

Re: SMF Type 30_5

Look at fields beginning SMF30HV. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerw

Re: IEBPTPCH (was: Read a PDS ...)

This is what customers use with AMATERSE to FTP their WLM Service Definition TLIB to ECUREP for me. Nice and reliable. Cheers, Martin Sent from my iPad > On 17 Jun 2016, at 21:57, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: > > Don't overlook Alan Field's recently posted usermod that

Re: Connect/Direct 5.2

>From where? The pre-IBM level? The other thing you might want to ask about is experiences with zIIP-eligibility. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com

Re: IBM Destination z - What the Heck Is JCL and Why Does It Look So Funny?

You're showing which part of the group you originated in, Graham. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: h

Re: PDS member information

Well if you like REXX the good news is z/OS 2.1 supports VBS data (e.g. SMF) with REXX. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPa

Re: DFSORT - SMF Records - GMT To EST

This worries me: You have to be careful to make sure the records remain internally consistent. Often there is MORE THAN ONE timestamp in a record. SMF~DTE and SMF~TME represent but one. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Sys

Re: Sort Job

In outline redefines could be achieved with DFSORT Symbols and = / POSITION. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: h

Re: AW: Re: You thought IEFBR14 was bad? Try GNU's /bin/true code

Thanks for spelling it out. I needed it. :-( :-) And maybe it helped the young'uns. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPa

Re: AW: Re: You thought IEFBR14 was bad? Try GNU's /bin/true code

. And I can see why clearing R15 is important - because of what you said. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: h

Re: PDS member information

. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker

Re: AW: Re: You thought IEFBR14 was bad? Try GNU's /bin/true code

Humour me and tell us all what setting the 4 bits in 15 means here. I had actually looked at the green card on my home office wall (no really) and figured the BCR 15,14 part out. Thanks, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance,

Re: Real Storage Allocation

, is still not an exact science. I would argue the instrumentation (again SMF 71) could be better in this area. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook

Re: Anyone interested in a brief tutorial on SMF record design?

Yes, of course. As someone who DOES process them. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerw

Re: Introducing the New z13s: Tim's Hardware Highlights

And if you think that's bad try making your favourite slide or email editor keep the "z" lower case. Permanent nightmare. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac

Re: DFSORT and SMF

Waiting for my teammate to chip in but... T42-6 is so heavily section-oriented (multiple data sets per record) that you'd need an E15 exit to break the record up. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802

Re: DFSORT and SMF

urden?" is spot on. He and I maintain our code because we rather have to. Maintainers of TDS, MXG, MICS, etc likewise. I'd avoid it if I were you. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-24

Re: Does everybody use chargeback?

it, by the way. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/b

Re: [SURVEY] What ISPF terminal model do you use

Maybe I'm being thick here but with X3270 I think I'm stuck at 32 x 80 - and not because of the emulator but because I don't know how to get the z/OS TSO/ISPF environment I'm using to take advantage of more. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [SURVEY] What ISPF terminal model do you use

Yes. And it gives invidious choices: 43 x 80 and 32 x 132. You can guess I'd want 43 x 132. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [SURVEY] What ISPF terminal model do you use

Thanks. But -oversize 132x43 (not order) got rejection from TSO. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [SURVEY] What ISPF terminal model do you use

(My) RHEL has an ancient X3270 but X3270 is happy with it. It's my TSO logon that isn't. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPa

Mainframe, Performance, Topics Podcast

Hopefully you won't consider this to be "S P A M m y" but Marna Walle and I have just started our podcast series. Episode 0 is out now... https://developer.ibm.com/tv/mpt/ Thanks, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Perform

Re: Markdown Processor For z/OS

Thanks Dave! You're right. Do you have a view as to which one is really good? I see, for example, https://code.google.com/archive/p/markdown4j/ , and I might well try it on my z/OS system. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Sys

Re: Markdown Processor For z/OS

will probably get recycled into some follow up in our next podcast - so don't be surprised to see it again.) :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook

Re: Automatic Binary Optimizer (ABO)

Bill Woodger scribbled :-) That may depend on how you take this claim: "[ABO] ... produces a functionally equivalent executable program". This is yet another reason why I'd like the ABO folks to say more about the kinds of program transformations they do. Cheers, Martin Mar

Re: Automatic Binary Optimizer (ABO)

it will be really helpful for quite a few customers. The above is intended to be helpful in customers assessing the value. Perhaps I threw away the chance with the above for a blog post (but I can still reuse it) and it has the makings of a presentation slide in my (accepted on the agenda in

Re: Automatic Binary Optimizer (ABO)

Questions like this are why I would really like to see "blind them with (computer) science" synopses of the kinds of optimisations. But note: It's not working with the source code. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Syste

Markdown Processor For z/OS

Does anyone know of a processor for any flavour of Markdown available on z/OS? (I've an awful feeling I've asked this before - but haven't found the question or the answer, so maybe not.) It's tempting to write some REXX... :-) Thanks, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems

Re: Markdown Processor For z/OS

Thanks! I guess one of the Java ones would be popular, because of zIIP-eligibility. Arguably one of the Python ones (through Jython) would suit as well. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 e

Re: IBM brings down large axe on staff in the US

On YOUR shores. :-) And another on MY shores. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerw

Re: Check for dynamic HCD activation

Not been listening until now so pardon me if this is way off base but SMF 73 might help here. (I, for one, would detect the change this way.) Fields SMF73TNM onwards would be useful. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Perform

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Advice needed - GRS across 2 sysplexes with shared dasd

rs, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker From: Elard

Re: What is SMC-D?

Do you know if SMC-D (or SMC-R) has any instrumentation associated with it? I don't believe Hipersockets did/does. Even traffic. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm

Re: Fwd: Religion provides statistical proof of the Creation of our civilization. This is .. really ... the Apocalypse. Today, see Eden and Exodus in superposition.

My mail rules are delivering this guy's mail to junk. And I do agree - though as an atheist I happen not to be offended; It's a kind of attention seeking (but not MY kind). :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance,

Re: Microprocessor Optimization Primer

is bijective or not I don't know. But, yes, DFSORT to do the I/O and much of the processing, choreographed by JZOS, is certainly an idea worth pursuing. NOTE: Not much zIIP in that, if any. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance,

Re: Microprocessor Optimization Primer

Stray thought, Kirk (and yes made public)... Maybe JZOS should have a way of mapping com.ibm.jzos.fields to DFSORT symbols (perhaps for use with JZOS' sort integration). And now back to everyone's (ir)regularly :-) scheduled programming... Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal

Re: OSA set up for Madrid

I presume likewise it isn't possible to s/... long rant .../nevermind/ either. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker

Re: Master Address space - High Paging

What's causing you to suspect it? I would say either a Report Class and 72-3 or SMF 30(2,3) would help. Former perhaps more accurate than the latter. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 e

Following IBM-MAIN on iOS (or Android, for that matter)

calisthenics in the morning is to read email in front of Breakfast TV while drinking that second cup of coffee. :-) Currently have to go find my laptop to do IBM-MAIN. Thanks, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245

Re: WLM issue with a proposed solution

it's a great way to slide into a Friday. :-) And I've a feeling Marna and I could do a while podcast episode on just this one topic. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: ma

Re: PDS I/O Performance Improvement

Right. But still valid for today. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerw

Re: PDS I/O Performance Improvement

If it's a matter of repeated reading why not copy to VIO in Central Storage and read from there? The OP said "read". I'm construing that as "read only". Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM

Re: WLM issue with a proposed solution

y graphing at least - have SYSSTC as "Imp 0" and SYSTEM as "Imp -1", though in my REXX I probably make everyone take 1 step down. :-) But I would expect the delivered velocity for "STCHI" to be (slightly) lower than SYSSTC. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, P

Re: BCPii (Was: can a program determine the capacity setting of a z-box?)

That explains "A158" and "3090" (and "C580") :-) True dat. :-) In my new "How To Be A Better Performance Specialist (Than Martin Packer)" :-) presentation I reinforce the importance of having a view of an installation's history. I was talking last

Re: TSO command from Microsoft Windows

? (Mentioning my 3 client operating systems implies I can find an SSH client for each.) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: h

Re: Following IBM-MAIN on iOS (or Android, for that matter)

I wouldn't - if the IBM-MAIN folder I have a Notes rule for actually sent stuff to iOS email (like my Inbox). Sounds like a configuration problem. I just wondered if there was a better way. Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance,

Re: WLM issue with a proposed solution

mainly talking dispatching priorities rather than WLM language. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm

Re: can a program determine the capacity setting of a z-box?

Maybe Marna and I should record a podcast item on BCPii enablement and what it buys you. Trouble is I know LITTLE about it. :-) Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twi

Re: What was a 3314? (was: Whither VIO)

The whole disk is NOT in your virtual storage; The track window IS (IIRC). Cheers, Martin Sent from my iPad > On 19 May 2016, at 21:45, Tony Harminc <t...@harminc.net> wrote: > >> On 19 May 2016 at 01:44, Martin Packer <martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com> wrote: >>

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