Great, I've used the reconfig dialog in test and it worked great, thanks again Lizette ! Carmen
----- Original Message ----- From: "Lizette Koehler" <stars...@mindspring.com> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Friday, July 28, 2017 9:32:35 AM Subject: Re: JES2 Checkpoint question Correct. The RECONFIG dialog is very good. You just need to know where you are going to. It is a lot of steps. So review each message as it occurs during the process. Until you enter that last "go for it" to JES2 there does not seem to be any impacts. Lizette > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Carmen Vitullo > Sent: Friday, July 28, 2017 7:25 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: JES2 Checkpoint question > > Finally received your reposne :) > so using the JES CKPT dialog to move CKPT2 from the structure to DASD is a > non issue? just wanted to be sure using $T CKPTDEF,RECONFIG=Y then using the > option to reassign CKPT2 from STRNAME= to DATASETNAME= I've defined? > thanks again > > > Carmen > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Lizette Koehler" <stars...@mindspring.com> > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Sent: Friday, July 28, 2017 9:13:14 AM > Subject: Re: JES2 Checkpoint question > > Think IBM recommendation is for CKPT1 to be in CF and CKPT2 on DASD. > > That way if either fails, you should be okay. > > Side Note: Moving the CKPT from CF to DASD or from DASD to another DASD is > very easy. We have done ours during the day time. The process is very quick. > > There is a SHARE presentation from 2004: JES2 Checkpoint Reconfiguration > > From the z/OS JES2 Initialization and Tuning Guide SA32-0991-00 > > In general, to prevent a total loss of the job queue, you should use 2 > checkpoints, specify CKPT DUPLEX=ON on all members, and place CKPT2 on a > DASD. > > > > Lizette > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > > On Behalf Of Carmen Vitullo > > Sent: Friday, July 28, 2017 6:55 AM > > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > > Subject: JES2 Checkpoint question > > > > I've looked and looked at the Init and Tuning REF and Guide and I > > can't seem to find an answer to my question, I'm hoping someone can > > provide a sanity check for me. > > I have a 2 system JES2 MAS both running z/OS 2.1, both checkpoints are > > currently in a CF with mode=duplex and duplex=on. > > my issue is both CF's are in the same CEC so a POR of the box for > > maint last month I lost all my prod spool data and was forced to > > perform a JES2 cold start. I need to move CKPT1 to DASD and I want to > > leave CKPT2 in the CF, so my question is can I still run with > > mode=duplex and duplex=on in that configuration, or do I need to have both > CKPT's on DASD. > > Any insight or recommendations would be very helpful, thank you all > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
