Re: Internal Coupling Channel on z13

2019-01-30 Thread Scott Chapman
results if you do try it. Note that my reluctance applies specifically to single-CP machines. If I had even two CPs, then I'd be much more willing to give it a shot, depending on current utilization levels and so forth. With dyndisp=thin of course. Scott Chapman On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 0

Re: What tools are available for z/OS programs to access a z/Linux database?

2019-03-10 Thread Scott Chapman
CICS will be most performant. Scott Chapman -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Effective of SMT with high zIIP usage

2019-03-14 Thread Scott Chapman
ts and gives my recommendation for when you might want to try it. Go to https://www.pivotor.com and click on the "Free!" button then find and click through to our presentations. You probably can find it on a number of the conference web sites as I've presented it at the major confe

Re: What is GRXBIMG

2020-06-04 Thread Scott Chapman
ay's world. Especially if they're performance advice. Scott Chapman On Wed, 3 Jun 2020 07:00:19 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: >I must have time on my hands. I just dragged out the OS/390 V2R8 CDs from >1999, and the sentence is there verbatim. > >It's the onl

Re: New Mainframe Community

2020-06-16 Thread Scott Chapman
version of Edge is based on the open source version of Chrome under the covers. Some have suggested it would be better to have more diversity in the underlying browser technology, but Chromium generally is pretty good. Scott Chapman On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 10:46:13 -0400, Gord Tomlin wrote: >

Re: Free Mainframe Stuff 2020: Reply Here with Nominations

2020-07-10 Thread Scott Chapman
free webinars as well. Scott Chapman -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: zIIP MultiThreads

2020-09-05 Thread Scott Chapman
real zIIP capacity is the best answer. In cases where that's impractical, MT=2 might be useful. Scott Chapman -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: SAP Processor Utilization

2019-06-05 Thread Scott Chapman
10% busy in the customers I sampled though, which matches my historical understanding that most customers don't have an issue with SAP capacity. Scott Chapman -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: honorpriority=no in WLM

2019-06-18 Thread Scott Chapman
True, relative to the zIIP workload. But if that zIIP workload is relatively low importance and crossing over to the GCPs and raising your R4HA, it may make sense to restrict the low importance work instead of increasing the R4HA, depending on what your business requirements are. And keeping the

Re: honorpriority=no in WLM

2019-06-19 Thread Scott Chapman
>How about submitting a requirement to IBM that would add a control to WLM >This control would re-classify a ZIIP eligible workload to a different >service class if it spills over to a GCP because you are running your ZIIPS >hot (or hit the "generosity factor" for DB2 work). This service class co

Re: honorpriority=no in WLM

2019-06-20 Thread Scott Chapman
On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 13:34:09 -0500, Horst Sinram wrote: >The OP's question was about DB2 workloads. Resource group capping for DB2 >workloads would be pretty risky unless you could really guarantee that you do >not share resources with your production work. > Although I haven't counted them a

Re: Using bpxbatch to compress an MVS dataset

2019-07-01 Thread Scott Chapman
ttle utility that will read/write from DDs instead of file system files. I did so at my past job, but alas the source for that was left with the previous employer. Scott Chapman -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Can you update WLM via a batch program?

2019-09-17 Thread Scott Chapman
that. Seems like it should be a fine enough idea. But I'd check things closely the first few times at least. And I'd trust it more if it seemed to be valid XML. But at least from what I've seen by the time it gets downloaded, it's not quite so. Scott Chapman

Re: How display level of paging?

2019-11-03 Thread Scott Chapman
Class Memory were more likely to have paging space >= real storage. But even there, we've seen >1TB LPARs with with only a few hundred GB of paging space, including SCM. Of course it is also fairly common for those large memory systems to be running with large amounts of that memory

Re: How display level of paging?

2019-11-04 Thread Scott Chapman
ar metric changed gets more interesting. If your performance reporting tool makes that onerous, remember that we (Enterprise Performance Strategies) do offer free cursory performance reviews and our performance reporting service does have a free tier as well. Contact me off-list if you'

Re: Question on use of LPARNAME, SYSNAME and SMFID

2023-02-11 Thread Scott Chapman
Having looked at data from a whole lot of customer systems, I can say that SMFID and SYSNAME are often (but not always) the same. LPARNAME is very often different, although I appreciate it when there's at least some sort of visual link between it and SMFID/SYSNAME. E.G. SYSA and C1SYSA vs SYSA a

Re: Calculating SIIS% as MSUs or MIPS

2023-05-05 Thread Scott Chapman
vely idle production LPAR) meaning that the net savings will be also relatively minor in the overall scheme of things. Scott Chapman -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.e

Re: Switching between SMT-1 and SMT-2

2023-08-30 Thread Scott Chapman
Note you also must IPL PROCVIEW CORE (optionally append ,CPU_OK) in LOADxx before you can switch back and forth by the setting in IEAOPTxx. Scott Chapman -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: Switching between SMT-1 and SMT-2

2023-08-31 Thread Scott Chapman
is "we'll buy more when we start to see problems... or when we do the next upgrade". Which, to be fair, most customers are in that situation: they don't do any real detailed planning for zIIP capacity. Scott Chapman -

Re: Switching between SMT-1 and SMT-2

2023-09-01 Thread Scott Chapman
disable it. So it may be that the other platforms also sometimes have valid reasons to disable it. Scott Chapman On Thu, 31 Aug 2023 13:35:11 +, kekronbekron wrote: >Hi Scott, > >Could you expand on this please. > >> But z/OS "densely packs" the cores, mean

Re: Switching between SMT-1 and SMT-2

2023-09-05 Thread Scott Chapman
It's more complicated than that. Although I would agree that if an LPAR has only a single zIIP, likely SMT would be a good idea. But B is not true for intervals that people usually consider when looking at utilization levels because at the level of dispatch intervals, it's much more likely there

Re: Switching between SMT-1 and SMT-2

2023-09-07 Thread Scott Chapman
and 6xx. Their situation was particularly problematic, but they're not the only ones that could benefit from more than 6 CPs that could be finely adjusted in terms of capacity. Scott Chapman On Wed, 6 Sep 2023 09:52:47 +, Martin Packer wrote: >I really hope you�re not advising custo

Re: AI System Services on z/OS 3.1 - is a CF really mandatory?

2023-11-20 Thread Scott Chapman
all CF LPAR running on a GP. But it requires some effort to configure and manage. Scott Chapman On Mon, 20 Nov 2023 06:32:08 +, Timothy Sipples wrote: >The z/OS AI Framework requires EzNoSQL, EzNoSQL requires VSAM Record-Level >Sharing (RLS), and VSAM RLS requires a Coupling Facility (

Re: AI System Services on z/OS 3.1 - is a CF really mandatory?

2023-11-21 Thread Scott Chapman
x27;t know how interested people are in general in EzNoSQL. Scott Chapman On Mon, 20 Nov 2023 17:28:17 -0600, Peter Bishop wrote: >Also, given it's just SMF data being used here, surely there's a way for z/OS >to process that without VSAM RLS and EzNoSQL (?). Perhaps they

Re: SMF Interval

2023-12-30 Thread Scott Chapman
years ago and just left it set to that" makes much less sense to me. Scott Chapman On Fri, 29 Dec 2023 17:35:56 -0800, Ed Jaffe wrote: >On 12/29/2023 3:20 PM, Mark Zelden wrote: >> This paper from Scott Chapman of EPS talks about the subject and he agrees >> with >>

Re: How do I compare CPU times on two machines?

2019-12-14 Thread Scott Chapman
Reality may differ more significantly from expectation if you're just using one of the single-number metrics without regard to the RNI of the work and the LPAR configuration (factors that zPCR takes into account). Scott Chapman On Fri, 13 Dec 2019 20:55:54 -0500, Phil Smith III wr

Re: How do I compare CPU times on two machines?

2019-12-15 Thread Scott Chapman
to the processor core. That's also why you'll see potentially significant variations between runs of the same exact job. That's why I always want to see multiple re-runs so I can understand the "normal" variation. (But one still needs to take into account the curr

Re: New Jersey Pleas for COBOL Coders for Mainframes Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

2020-04-11 Thread Scott Chapman
e environments. But I would be surprised to find a case where COBOL isn't the most memory efficient. Scott Chapman -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: IBM Zcloud - is it just outsourcing ?

2021-05-29 Thread Scott Chapman
"I want to play with z/OS for a few hours, stand up a z/OS image with x CPU and y GB of disk and put it on my credit card". *-Remember: in the cloud, you pay for what you forgot to turn off. And those pennies can add up shockingly fast in some ca

Re: Java 8 (latest!) and TLSv1.3 - anyone got it working?

2021-06-19 Thread Scott Chapman
va 8 being supported until "at least May 2026" and Java 11 until "at least October 2024". So given that 17 is potentially coming available in September, and given that I think the migration from 11 to 17 will likely be easier than 8

Re: Software drag racing

2021-06-25 Thread Scott Chapman
d as it is on other platforms, it might underperform. Scott Chapman -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Paging subsystems in the era of big&^% memory

2017-04-14 Thread Scott Chapman
t as cheap as DASD, but in the grand scheme of things it's not *that* expensive. And it also can make dumps much more tolerable. I might go so far as to say that any machine over some threshold of real should really (!) have SCM. Scott Chapman --

Re: SMS STORGRP question

2017-04-22 Thread Scott Chapman
storage groups are added to the eligible list and evaluated the same regardless of which SG they're in. But I could be wrong about that. Scott Chapman -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: AW: BPXWDYN and AVGREC usage

2017-04-30 Thread Scott Chapman
location method 20+ years ago I probably knew the answer to your questions at one time, but the only one I remember for sure is that it works fine with SMS. Scott Chapman -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Why buy / rent z for small users was Re: z/OS 2.3 announcement

2017-07-18 Thread Scott Chapman
Which also have way more mind share among the smaller/startup organizations. Scott Chapman -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: How to calculate MIPS or SU's from user CPU time statistics?

2022-02-09 Thread Scott Chapman
fecting things that were off-peak. For customers trying to move workload off from the mainframe, it can sometimes be hard to reduce mainframe costs until they've moved off really significant amounts of workload. (Notice I didn't use the word "s

Re: FYI: IBM sales jump shows the mainframe is not dead, with hybrid cloud alive and well | Network World

2022-10-21 Thread Scott Chapman
Which may be part of the reason for releasing the smaller version* of a particular generation some months after the larger version. * - The models formerly known as "Business Class" that are now seeking a handy name. On Thu, 20 Oct 2022 17:07:14 -0500, Mike Schwab wrote: >The big problem w

Re: Transmitting SMF records

2022-12-16 Thread Scott Chapman
ns forever. LOCSITE EPSV4 can be important for getting through some firewalls properly.) Scott Chapman On Thu, 15 Dec 2022 12:27:56 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >>From Barry Merrill : >>... >>But if the destination is for ASCII and SAS, you can use IEBGENER to create a >

Re: Transmitting SMF records

2022-12-17 Thread Scott Chapman
Ah, I missed that or forgot by the time I got to posting. I haven't tried it myself, but have heard it is problematic to get the data back into a z/OS dataset in a usable fashion. On Sat, 17 Dec 2022 09:47:39 +1100, Andrew Rowley wrote: >The OP specified being able to reverse the process, so

Re: Masking SMF data internally

2024-01-22 Thread Scott Chapman
ta >that might be in the SMF type 7x records. While I agree that the 7x records generally have nothing that should be considered "sensitive", some organizations consider system names sensitive. Seems overkill to

Re: WLM - service class and Dispatch priority

2024-03-06 Thread Scott Chapman
LM section. The "Introdution to the WLM" presentation might be a good place to start. "WLM’s Algorithms – How WLM Works" might be another good early one to look at. It sounds like "Revisiting Goals over Time" might also be of interest. :) Scott Chapman On Wed,

Re: Anyone exploiting ZEDC?

2024-04-17 Thread Scott Chapman
ve a measurable increase in CPU would be those that are completely idle and doing nothing but writing interval SMF records to say they haven't processed any data. Scott Chapman On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 16:36:34 +1000, Andrew Rowley wrote: >On 17/04/2024 12:09 pm, Michael Oujesky wrote: >> Y

Re: Anyone exploiting ZEDC?

2024-04-19 Thread Scott Chapman
compressed data. IIRC, I was only looking at at CPU because I/O time can be significantly variable depending on where we reading the data from. And doing less I/O is obviously always better, and can significantly impact runtime in some cases. So I/O time wasn't really a question in my mind.

Re: Big LPAR vs small LPAR and DataSharing.

2024-04-21 Thread Scott Chapman
In short, giant LPARs can definitely be problematic. Similarly, too small LPARs can be problematic. Somewhere in the middle is ideal, but where that is will depend. First off, the most significant impact is you don't want LPARs whose processor count is so high that it crosses drawers. (In most

Re: UUID for z/OS Instances

2024-06-05 Thread Scott Chapman
n that might be counter-productive because some customers change the LPAR name when they move between CECs either for DR or site swap or even just because they upgraded to a new machine. If it's possible to do something, somebody probably will. Scott Chapman On Wed, 5 Jun 2024 07:25:29 -0400,

Re: CPU and I/O statistics for BPXBATCH executions?

2024-06-28 Thread Scott Chapman
found the below bit. It seems you might want to try running under BPXBATSL to see if that impacts what's reported. If you have shell scripts calling other "unix" commands that the combination of BPXBATSL and the _BPX* settings here might (possibly) get you to the all in one a

Re: Compression in z15-t02

2024-07-01 Thread Scott Chapman
Further clarification from my memory banks: That priced feature is required for the common use cases by the operating system, such as HSM. Those use cases use a method of calling the compression that works via the SAPs to manage calling the hardware instructions. But the underlying hardware in

Re: SMF/RMF Reporting question

2015-11-21 Thread Scott Chapman
As others have said, there are multiple ways to go look at what was using the CPU during a particular interval, depending on what tools you have access to and what the system configuration is. To recap: SMF 30 interval (subtype 2 & 3) records will show CPU utilization by interval by address spa

Re: Any Git compliant Client for OMVS

2015-12-19 Thread Scott Chapman
it needs to read from the zFS needs to be in ASCII, but that's usually not too big of a deal--ISPF can edit ASCII ok, you just need to tell it that it's ASCII. (Although at the moment I can't remember exactly where/how that's done.) Scott Chapman On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 01:46

Re: RMF monitor III panel restriction

2016-02-03 Thread Scott Chapman
The RMF Distributed Data Portal emits XML. So you can write your own app to issue requests to it and interpret the results--perhaps building friendlier html pages from a subset of values that are of interest to the target audience. You could either do that all in the browser (relatively easy) or

Re: Java (was: DFSORT - SMF Records - GMT To EST)

2016-02-05 Thread Scott Chapman
ch was unexpected. It was in the single digit percentage range, but it was consistent across multiple different workloads. I never did get that difference understood to my satisfaction. Scott Chapman -- For IBM-MAIN subs

Re: Java (was: DFSORT - SMF Records - GMT To EST)

2016-02-07 Thread Scott Chapman
On Sat, 6 Feb 2016 16:02:52 -0600, Kirk Wolf wrote: >I doubt that there is a significant difference in CPU resources between >running the JVM in JZOS vs BPXBATC**. I was surprised too. >Perhaps the differences that you are seeing have to do with not measuring >all of the address spaces? That's

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

2016-02-19 Thread Scott Chapman
On Fri, 19 Feb 2016 08:56:17 +, Martin Packer wrote: >And if you think that's bad try making your favourite slide or email >editor keep the "z" lower case. Permanent nightmare. :-) Amen. But the Ctrl-z every time after you type it reinforces what platform you're writing about. :) Scott -

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

2016-02-19 Thread Scott Chapman
On Fri, 19 Feb 2016 18:16:53 +1100, Andrew Rowley wrote: >Memory leaks are not a usual case, but I would suggest you will still >want to garbage collect. > >I'm not arguing against large memory - I am all in favour of as much as >you can afford. It's just the suggestion that avoiding Java GC is

Re: Does everybody use chargeback?

2016-03-08 Thread Scott Chapman
I believe that while chargeback is an important issue that SMT messes up, that's already somewhat messed up today because there's more variance from execution to execution. I.E. run the same exact job twice and even absent SMT you'll get different CPU measurements. That's always been the case, b

Re: Does everybody use chargeback?

2016-03-09 Thread Scott Chapman
>Scott Chapman wrote: >>Software billing is based on available/consumed capacity. > >IBM's is/are not. It's based on *peak* four hour rolling average >utilization per month -- or, effectively, per subscription year for >products that are not Monthly License Charge pr

Re: WLM Resource Group Capping: Dispatching and un-dispatching

2016-03-19 Thread Scott Chapman
current slice is a cap slice, the work unit is moved to the back of the queue (subject to priority order). Scott Chapman -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu

Re: Querying WLM address space CPU delays

2021-03-16 Thread Scott Chapman
how the work overall is performing and monitor for the work degrading over time. Monitoring the delay samples over time is one of the things I highly recommend, especially in the situations where you're always running at 100% busy or always running at cap or something like that. Scott Ch

Re: Querying WLM address space CPU delays

2021-03-17 Thread Scott Chapman
Alas no, but there's a number of products out there that will read said records, including our own. ;) Pivotor does have a free tier, but it's not open source. Scott Chapman -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: Low softcapping on high capacity CEC

2021-03-31 Thread Scott Chapman
make sure that SC has a resource group that limits how much CPU the work can consume. Scott Chapman -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Low softcapping on high capacity CEC

2021-04-01 Thread Scott Chapman
Absolute CP capping caps the LPAR at the specified number of CP's worth of capacity. It avoids the issues with initial capping (by weight) in which LPAR A's available capacity can change when LPAR B or C is activated or deactivated if LPAR A's weight isn't readjusted too. -

Re: Why are highly busy zIIPs worse than highly busy CPs?

2018-06-08 Thread Scott Chapman
cost to that, but in the grand scheme of things, the costs are not nearly as significant as GCP capacity, so err on the side of having too much zIIP capacity. That would be an interesting study: what's common ratio of zIIP capacity to GCP capacity? I suspect that that ratio has been creeping

Re: CPU Consuption on ZIIP - SMF / RMF

2018-07-26 Thread Scott Chapman
l for reporting on those. Scott Chapman -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: I/O priority

2018-11-09 Thread Scott Chapman
I/O priority management enabled may be leading to WLM not being able to effectively manage certain service classes. Note again: this is something I'm still researching and I hope/expect to present on the topic at the next SHARE. Scott Chapman Enterprise Performance Strategies On Fri

Re: Service class changes

2018-11-09 Thread Scott Chapman
SMF30PFI includes flags indicating that the service class was changed either during or before execution. Scott Chapman Enterprise Performance Strategies On Thu, 8 Nov 2018 17:59:19 +, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote: >Hello list, > >Apart from 99.2, can I find info on serv

Re: Service class changes

2018-11-10 Thread Scott Chapman
Yup.. should be SMF30PF1 that "1" and "I" look pretty close at the font size I had up. Scott On Fri, 9 Nov 2018 07:16:03 -0600, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: >Sorry, but is it not SMF30PF1 (number one instead of letter i)? --

Re: dumb VSAM KSDS & AIX question.

2017-08-31 Thread Scott Chapman
On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 22:27:52 +0100, David W Noon wrote: >> the keys. Yes, I know, if this sort of thing is a requirement, we need Db2 >> (or is it DB2), but that is _never_ going to happen around here. > >It is DB2. But that isn't really necessary. Except they really did change the branding to

Re: UTF-8 woes on z/OS, a solution - comments invited

2017-09-05 Thread Scott Chapman
1 garbage collector (which I believe will be the new default) will also get string deduplication: http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/192 Since those are internal JVM things, if those make will it into the IBM JVM I of course don't know.

Re: SAS - DB2 conversion to Java

2017-11-24 Thread Scott Chapman
eplacement option. Scott Chapman https://www.pivotor.com On Thu, 23 Nov 2017 09:04:40 +, Martin Packer wrote: >When you say "planning to" I hope you really mean "beginning to consider". >There are just so many ways this could turn out to be a bad idea. > >But th

Re: SAS - DB2 conversion to Java

2017-11-30 Thread Scott Chapman
basis and I'm not sure what that implications of that might be. Obviously I might be slightly (although I hope not much) biased at this point, but I think the points are worth consideration. Scott Chapman www.pivotor.com On Wed, 29 Nov 2017 21:16:00 +1100, Andrew Rowley wrote: >

Re: System z & Meltdown/Spectre

2018-01-11 Thread Scott Chapman
and start back up and ran into more "interesting" AWS issues/limitations. It's been an "interesting" week. Hopefully this all will be less painful on z/OS. Scott Chapman On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 15:26:04 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote: >On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 21:44:29 +0100,

Re: Watson

2016-11-07 Thread Scott Chapman
Since Alexa is mentioned... http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/4/13525172/amazon-alexa-big-mouth-billy-bass-hack-api -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the

Re: Why Can't You Buy z Mainframe Services from Amazon Cloud Services?

2016-12-07 Thread Scott Chapman
On Tue, 6 Dec 2016 13:54:27 -0500, Steve wrote: >If you look at the sheer cost if setting up a zOS ecosystem, its not cheap. Yeah, that's the key point not mentioned in the article: building your system on AWS starts at $0. However... AWS costs can add up too. Most of their rates are in penn

Re: Why Can't You Buy z Mainframe Services from Amazon Cloud Services?

2016-12-08 Thread Scott Chapman
I don't see anything there that says one can do real production business work using z/OS, starting at $0. Or $500. Or really any amount. Would be happy to be shown otherwise. On Thu, 8 Dec 2016 13:37:37 +0800, Timothy Sipples wrote: >Charles Mills asks: >>Is there any good reason IBM could no

Re: Why Can't You Buy z Mainframe Services from Amazon Cloud Services?

2016-12-09 Thread Scott Chapman
> I would point out that the cost to provide z/OS services, or any computing > services for that matter, is greater than zero, especially but not only for > "real production business work." If you'd like to suggest that any company > price its set of products and associated services below cost,

Re: UTC and Daylight Savings Time

2017-01-06 Thread Scott Chapman
he change is made. " See PDF page 93, indicated page 75 in: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg247281.pdf Scott Chapman -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@li

Re: Resistance to Java.

2014-01-23 Thread Scott Chapman
I think that's a better overview of the issue Martin, because you bring out the important fact that z/OS doesn't forget about how to prioritize work just because it's on a specialty engine. It's probably would also be a similarly good rule of thumb that you shouldn't let your GPs get over 50% bu

Re: Sysplex Common Time Source

2014-02-06 Thread Scott Chapman
I believe that you can have a mixed CTN where one CEC doesn't have STP, but in that case the external time source must be the 9037 and I'm pretty sure that at least one of the CECs must be both STP and 9037 capable. I don't know what the implications are from converting from a pure STP environme

Re: Sysplex Common Time Source

2014-02-07 Thread Scott Chapman
>That was what we originally though too, but our local IBM support person >told us we couldn't. Thinking further about configuration activities to >migrate to mixed CTN mode, I'm not seeing how on the non STP capable >processor we're going to be able to set the name of the mixed CTN, since >it isn'

Re: Sysplex Common Time Source

2014-02-10 Thread Scott Chapman
Ahh... I had forgotten about that. That is the kicker here. >I do not believe that anything z196 and up can do ETR at all. I'm pretty >sure I read that in the z196 Tech Guide redbook somewhere. (Page 14 - STP >section) > >Thomas Ambros >Operating Systems and Connectivity Engineering >518-436-643

Re: Query group capacity settings

2014-02-14 Thread Scott Chapman
Since RMF has it, I would presume that it's in a control block somewhere, but where I can't say. Maybe it's only internal to RMF. If you have the RMF Distributed Dataserver up, you can access: http://{rmfsys}:{port}/gpm/reports/CPC?resource=,{lpar},MVS_IMAGE Where {rmfsys} is the system where GP

Re: CPU Model Change -- Required activities

2014-02-17 Thread Scott Chapman
Every time I've reduced the machine's CPUs (either CBU or OOCoD), I've always varied CPUs offline from z/OS such that no running system has more CPUs online than what I'm reducing to. I'm not sure that it's an absolute requirement, but it seems like an easy precaution to take. Never have had a

Re: MIH Question

2014-02-21 Thread Scott Chapman
values for DASD devices while migrating from one DASD box to another. Always made me a little nervous about the actual migration: minute-long I/Os seem like they could result in a less than fully "non-disruptive" migration. Scott Chapman On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 10:32:24 -0500, Brian Fra

Re: PFA (Now, an HZR subject)

2014-05-06 Thread Scott Chapman
re. point of operlog: one of my favorite features is: "prev 23 m" to move backwards 23 minutes in the log. You can move by (d)ays, (h)ours, (m)inutes, or (s)econds. You can also do "next 3 s" to move forward in the log. Certainly a small thing, probably not worth the trouble to set up operlog j

Re: Mainframe (in general) running at 100% not always a bad thing

2014-05-08 Thread Scott Chapman
pacting those lower importance workloads worthwhile. Scott Chapman On Wed, 7 May 2014 18:37:03 -0500, Shane Ginnane wrote: >On Wed, 7 May 2014 10:47:49 -0400, John Eells wrote: > >>I'm not sure we have a white paper. > >I would think a search of Techdocs for "Kat

Re: Good News: Introducing Mobile Workload Pricing (MWP) for z/OS

2014-05-12 Thread Scott Chapman
u upload to the mainframe where it's executed. But the tool itself is all run on z/OS. Certainly, I download the produced CSV to my workstation, but there's no software delivered with SCRT that uses that output in Windows. At least that I know about. What have I missed? Scott Chapman

Re: Costs of core

2014-05-30 Thread Scott Chapman
Those numbers sound about right to me. Prices probably better in some deals, etc., etc. But don't forget that server memory typically is at least ECC memory whereas typical PC memory is not. And z memory is now RAIM--with significant redundancy and continual scrubbing. It's a different physical

Re: Costs of core

2014-05-31 Thread Scott Chapman
On Fri, 30 May 2014 13:47:26 +0200, R.S. wrote: > Well, defence without attack. Sorry--not meaning to defend nor offend. Just wanted to point out that which many of us already understand, but which the uninitiated, stumbling upon this conversation, may not. Interesting about the availability o

Re: Happy New Year

2014-08-13 Thread Scott Chapman
to put up with the quirks. A couple of years ago I would have assumed that portability of applications between databases would be relatively easy, but it turns out that it's really not easy at all. Scott Chapman On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 07:51:14 -0500, John McKown wrote: >Can _you_ say &q

Re: zAAP vs x64 performance comparison

2014-08-28 Thread Scott Chapman
In short, in my experience, Java performance on the mainframe is acceptable to very good today. If you're trying to make the case that "my mainframe processor is faster than your processor in your laptop", that's somewhat difficult to prove because the processors and systems are designed for d

Re: zAAP vs x64 performance comparison

2014-09-02 Thread Scott Chapman
1) zAAPs were only doing Java work. The z10 machines at the time had no option for zAAP on zIIP, so we're talking about real zAAPs here, which only are eligible for Java work. 2) Yes, when I said "zAAP-eligible" I meant just JVM work, not including stuff that isn't eligible. For example, if yo

Re: JES2 and IBM Global Mirror (UNCLASSIFIED)

2014-09-04 Thread Scott Chapman
We've been mirroring our DASD with Global Mirror for several years (and SRDF before that). Our policy currently is to mirror everything. No problems at all. And it makes it a lot easier when you get to DR--there's no issue of "oh well that dataset we need for production really happens to be on a

Re: PRSM % CPU calculation

2014-09-04 Thread Scott Chapman
1) Look at SMF70BPS 2) Are you looking at parked processors? (See SMF70PAT) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: z/OS IEASYSxx memory parameter values

2014-09-11 Thread Scott Chapman
The correct answer is that it (of course) depends. However, I went and looked and my smaller systems are SQA=(10,848) and my larger systems are SQA=(10,1030). My comments in IEASYSxx indicates that I increased them in the OS/390 2.8 timeframe when we were adding more WASes. They are perhaps a li

Re: High CPU Utilized

2014-09-19 Thread Scott Chapman
that seem to run long" to "I need to add capacity". That's how I would go about things. Scott Chapman -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: zOS 1.13 – CPU latent demand

2014-09-29 Thread Scott Chapman
It appears you have a single CP. If the CPU is busy on one of the other systems when PROD wants to be dispatched, it will have to wait for the other system to give up the processor or for PR/SM to steal it away. My guess is that's why you're seeing what you're seeing that, and my inclination is

Re: zOS 1.13 – CPU latent demand

2014-10-01 Thread Scott Chapman
As Martin mentioned, "unaccounted" could be multiple things. However, from the reports you've shown, my first guess would also be that it's likely related to CPU contention. However, I would start by looking at RMF III's DELAY, PROC, and ENCLAVE (if we're talking about DDF threads) and looking

Re: Interested in BASH becoming part of z/OS UNIX? Vote for requirement 60048

2014-10-07 Thread Scott Chapman
IANAL, but I can understand IBM's reluctance to ship any GPL code with the operating system. At least I'm assuming their reluctance--if anybody knows of GPL code that ships directly with z/OS, that would be a good precedent for including Bash. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLInPropr

Re: Article: IBM Brings Real-Time Analytics to System z Mainframe

2014-10-15 Thread Scott Chapman
y are improving things in that area. But when you hear from your users that processes that used to take them 6-8 hours are now completing in <10 minutes, it's a pretty compelling argument for spending the time to work the kinks out. Scott Chapman

Re: STP

2014-10-17 Thread Scott Chapman
FWIW: we use STP, and use a couple of HMCs as the NTP source for STP, with the HMC servers themselves getting time from our stratum 1 NTP servers which use a GPS receiver for the time. That makes the HMC stratum 2. And if z/OS was then serving the time via NTP, I believe z/OS would be considered

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