On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:38:35 -0500, Brian Peterson <brian.peterson.ibm.m...@comcast.net> wrote:
>For example, what if your automation package is issuing a command like D >GRS,C at hourly intervals? > >What if that automation was written to issue the command at exactly the same >time on every LPAR in the sysplex? > >Just a thought.... I really hate automation like that. But I have seen it in most shops I've been at - including here. I don't mind it while trying to diagnose a problem but over the years this sort of thing grows and gets out of control. Especially when you have all the "situation managment" and postmortems that dictate an action must be taken to prevent a problem from re-occurring. Everybody needs their own display command at some nn interval. I've often wondered just how many meaningless indication of processor speed thingies are wasted by this sort of thing contributing to the (perceived?) expense of our platform and are written of to the cost of doing business. Of course staggering these commands helps, but most of the ones I have seen aren't needed at all. Some ... like JES2 purge commands are needed and we have at least staggered those across the different JESplexes. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:mark.zel...@zurichna.com z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
