-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On
Behalf Of Radoslaw Skorupka
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2023 4:24 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: SCRT and not operating LPAR
[EXTERNAL EMAIL]
Gentlemen,
First, thank you for the discussion. That also helps.
Ad rem:
1. The is no big reason to keep LPAR Activated, Not operating, except
short time between activation and IPL or re-IPL, etc. And SCRT is IMHO
not the most important reason for that. Good reasons were presented by
Martin.
2. I asked mostly out of my curiosity. But it is not senseless at all,
it is good to know *severity* of results of mistaken scenario. Not to
say, the curiosity is good :-)
3. I did some tests.
Test 1. I activated an LPAR and deactivated it few hours later. Result -
the LPAR is not visible in SCRT report. No "required" statement for the
LPAR. Same as for other deactivated LPARs.
Test 2. I shut down the system, but the LPAR remained Activated. 8 hours
later I IPLed another z/OS image in the LPAR. Result - SCRT report
claims there is 8-hour hole in the SMF reporting.
I have some other ideas to test, but this is real customer production,
SCRT report is real, so I come off it.
Regards
--
Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
W dniu 23.02.2023 o 23:31, Pommier, Rex pisze:
Ignore my last question - you just answered it.
Rex
-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On
Behalf Of Pommier, Rex
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2023 4:30 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: SCRT and not operating LPAR
Hi Radoslaw,
I'm not denying your experience. You got me questioning my own so I had
to go back and make sure it was working like I had expected it to. :-) I did
also misspeak. You are correct, it was an e-mail with the CSV sent as an
attachment. This was the mechanism IBM took away and they're in essence
forcing us to submit the CSV manually thru the web site. We (as I'm sure
most every company submitting SCRT) had the e-mail completely automated
(except when we had to insert comments) and then they took that away.
Is there a reason you have these LPARs active but not IPLed? Just curiosity
and if I'm getting nosy tell me. :-) Wouldn't deactivating them stop SCRT
from reporting on them?
Rex
-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On
Behalf Of Radoslaw Skorupka
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2023 4:21 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: SCRT and not operating LPAR
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
-----Original Message-----
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
