As I noted things may have changed. I really tried to do it, but it was
10+ years ago. After that I did not come back to try it again and again.
BTW: I was very first user of SCRT in Poland, it was January 2006, AFAIR.
Actually I don't understand the way you submit reports. In the past few
ways were possible, one of them was webpage, another one was mail
attachment. Then mail was closed.
LMS webpage analyze CSV content and (see above) reject amended file. I
cannot say for today, because I did not submit SCRT report personally
for several years.
And in fact I don't care - for me there is no difference to put some
explanation in the file or on the webpage directly. I can imagine the
checksum now does cover only relevant fields, not whole file. It would
make sense.
My current problem is Activated but not IPLed LPAR. I had discussion
with my coworker and that's why I'm asking about it.
Regards
--
Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
W dniu 23.02.2023 o 23:09, Pommier, Rex pisze:
With all due respect, I have to disagree. Granted I haven't had to make any
explanations to LMS since IBM took away the FTP transmission and required us to
go through the web site for transmissions, but before that I would add my
comments to the mainframe version of the CSV and then directly FTP it from the
mainframe to LMS, all without any issues. I have the prior 12 months' worth of
SCRT reports on the mainframe and I found where I had commented in at least 3
of these reports and didn't have IBM reject any of them. Unless, of course,
IBM was silently rejecting them
Rex
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of
Radoslaw Skorupka
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2023 3:58 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: SCRT and not operating LPAR
You cannot update CSV file. There is a checksum at the bottom. Any update,
including such comment causes the file will not be accepted by the LMS. BTDT.
Of course it is possible to upload the file to LMS and then add explanations.
But then IBM knows the rest of file is not amended.
BTW: I'm pretty sure of the above. I had plenty Activated, but Not operating LPARs in my
former shop and the reports did not require any explanation for that. It was kind of
cloud or "on demand provisioning" - we created system + application instances
on demand. A lot of them, quite frequently. The problem occured when someone forgot to
archive SMF data before system shutdown and scratch. However it was slightly another
scenario - LPAR was both Active and Operating, but some records were lost.
Of course the rules may have changed. For example in the past it was acceptable
to collect 95% (time) SMF data, but the SCRT tool could not accept duplicate
SMF IDs. Now it's the opposite - any SMF loss causes explanations requirement,
but SMF ID need not to be unique any longer.
--
Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
W dniu 23.02.2023 o 21:33, Pommier, Rex pisze:
Hi John,
Actually I think you remembered right the first time. :-) When our sandbox is down for an extended period,
I get the "(required)" in the CSV file as well. I just change "(required)" with
"LPAR down for refresh" or whatever reason the LPAR isn't reporting SMF data and then send the CSV
in. The only times I recall having to fix the data once it gets to IBM is when I forgot to update the CSV
before submitting it.
Rex
-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of
John McKown
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2023 12:33 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: SCRT and not operating LPAR
Misremembered. The CVS file says "(required)". When uploaded to IBM there is a prompt, in
red, to fill the field in. That's when I enter "not in use".
On Thu, Feb 23, 2023, 04:52 John McKown <[email protected]>
wrote:
We have this situation. There is a REMARKS field in the SCRT cvs file.
I put the sentence "No longer in use." in that field during the
generation of it on my Windows desktop. I've done that for years now
with no problems with IBM.
On Thu, Feb 23, 2023, 04:05 Radoslaw Skorupka <
[email protected]> wrote:
As it is known, all the z/OS LPAR have to report SMF data to SCRT
otherwise SCRT report would contain "data missing" field for given
LPAR and explanation will be required.
What about not operating LPARs?
I mean an LPAR which is Activated, but not IPLed. Or the OS was shut
down and LPAR was reset (but still remain active).
AFAIR there was no problem with not operating LPARs in the past -
that mean the LPARs were not included in the report.
However It seems something changed and now such LPAR will cause "data
missing" issue.
Any clue?
--
Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
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