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

2016-04-27 Thread Mike Shorkend
You might want to look at my SHARE presentation http://share.confex.com/data/handout/share/126/Session_18592_handout_9070_0.pdf I describe how BCPii is used to automate a daily DR test. The lack of support for zVM is indeed annoying. I spoke to Steve Warren(responsible for BCPII development at

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

2016-04-27 Thread Martin Packer
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 week to a customer's "NextGen z" people with

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

2016-04-26 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
I've known shops that let serial or model number creep into naming conventions. Like Mark, we control names across upgrades. Back in the Stone Age, IBM used to recommend embedding model number in SMF and JES names. And that required a cold start to change! Sort of nuts it seems to me. . . .

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

2016-04-26 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 13:25:45 -0700, Ed Jaffe wrote: >On 4/26/2016 1:13 PM, Mark Zelden wrote: >> When my client replaces their CPCs the name is kept the same. For example >> CPCA, CPCB, CPCC, ... etc. The RACF profile is based on that name so >> nothing needs to

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

2016-04-26 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 4/26/2016 1:13 PM, Mark Zelden wrote: When my client replaces their CPCs the name is kept the same. For example CPCA, CPCB, CPCC, ... etc. The RACF profile is based on that name so nothing needs to be changed in RACF. A RACF SEARCH command produces the following profiles beginning with

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

2016-04-26 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 07:58:23 -0700, Ed Jaffe wrote: >Oh yeah, and I need to set up a >slew of HWI security profiles in RACF with our new CPC serial number. >Ugh. Another time... > When my client replaces their CPCs the name is kept the same. For example CPCA,

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

2016-04-26 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 07:58:23 -0700, Ed Jaffe wrote: >On 4/25/2016 5:20 PM, Pinnacle wrote: >> :-P BCPii is fairly prevalent these days. >> It's enabled everywhere I've been. > >Now that we're talking about BCPii, despite it being a _totally, >completely and

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

2016-04-26 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
I have to agree that BCPii is an inappropriate answer to OP's question. We had to set it up years ago when we went to GDPS to manage our DR environment. We soon expanded its role to include all LPARs (except z/VM) on all CECs. I highly recommend BCPii , which is more powerful today than when we

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

2016-04-26 Thread John McKown
On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 9:58 AM, Ed Jaffe wrote: > On 4/25/2016 5:20 PM, Pinnacle wrote: > >> :-P BCPii is fairly prevalent these days. It's >> enabled everywhere I've been. >> > > Now that we're talking about BCPii, despite it being a _totally, > completely and

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

2016-04-26 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 4/25/2016 5:20 PM, Pinnacle wrote: :-P BCPii is fairly prevalent these days. It's enabled everywhere I've been. Now that we're talking about BCPii, despite it being a _totally, completely and thoroughly_ inappropriate solution to the OP's original question, I gotta wonder how prevalent