Perfkit: plotting IFL and classic processors in 2 graphs

2011-03-03 Thread Kris Buelens
I've got a customer for which we are planning to merge its 2 LPARS into one ZVM-type LPAR. He has a z10 with 2 processors: a classic and an IFL. At the installation time z/VM 5.3 was the most recent VM, so they created two LPARs: one LPAR with classic processors for his VM/VSE workload, and an

Re: zLinux OS disk read-only

2011-03-03 Thread Joseph . Comitini
Steve, Just a suggestion, check the storage itself to make sure that the volumes are not set to r/o. I've been plagued with read-only situations due to a myriad of reasons but the 'write protected' reminds me of the one situation where the storage itself were set to read-only as they

Determining Daylight Savings Time Status

2011-03-03 Thread Michael Coffin
Hi Folks, Does anybody have a program or know of a way to determine if a given date falls within a Daylight Savings Time range? The CP QUERY TIMEZONE command will show you defined timezones, and which one is active - but not the start/end dates of the zone. I'm trying to avoid coding up a

Re: Determining Daylight Savings Time Status

2011-03-03 Thread Mike Walter
Mike, Search the list archives for TZRANGES EXEC. It builds the records for SYSTEM CONFIG (IIRC by default out to 2042). If that's not what you are trying to do, maybe the file can be used in your EXEC, our you can rip out its guts? Mike Walter Aon Corporation (Sent from the wee keyboard of

Re: Perfkit: plotting IFL and classic processors in 2 graphs

2011-03-03 Thread gclovis
Hi, Made some tests. Perftk shows the mixed processor types for a Type VM Lpar, on some screens. Like FCX100 and FCX144. But I can't find any field by processor to use in the PLOT screens. At least none in the menu... Regards, __ Clovis From: Kris

Re: Perfkit: plotting IFL and classic processors in 2 graphs

2011-03-03 Thread Michael Coffin
That has been my experience since going to a z10 as well, PERFKIT just shows Total CPU which is the sum of your CP engines + IFL's. I also would like to be able to segregate them by processor type (i.e. I don't care if my IFL's are running at 100%, it means my Linux guys are doing stuff - but I

Re: Determining Daylight Savings Time Status

2011-03-03 Thread Michael Coffin
Hi Mike, Hmmm, I searched the archives for TZRANGEs but the only hit was your note below. :( Does anybody have a copy handy? I’d love to look at its “guts”. :) -Mike From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Mike Walter Sent: Thursday,

Re: Determining Daylight Savings Time Status

2011-03-03 Thread Mike Walter
That's what happens when I try to reply from memory (apparently with some parity checks) while driving. :-( Wrong name, should have been: TZDATES EXEC. Try this one link, updated by Kris:

Re: Determining Daylight Savings Time Status

2011-03-03 Thread Michael Coffin
Hi Mike, That's perfect, Thanks much! Saved me from re-inventing the wheel. :) -Mike -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Mike Walter Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 10:34 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re:

Re: Determining Daylight Savings Time Status

2011-03-03 Thread RPN01
Was that script created before or after they changed when daylight savings goes into effect? It may not be correct any more... Be sure to check the results after you get it working. -- Robert P. Nix Mayo Foundation.~. RO-OC-1-18 200 First Street SW/V\

Re: Determining Daylight Savings Time Status

2011-03-03 Thread Frank M. Ramaekers
This might be handy: /**/ /* TIMEZONE - Display either VM SYSTEM CONFIG statements */ /*(Timezone_Boundary) */ /*or VSE ZONEBDY statements for 5 years,

Re: Determining Daylight Savings Time Status

2011-03-03 Thread Mike Walter
I spend all that time writing detailed comments, and include a change history in the Epilog at the bottom; then no one reads them. sigh ;-) See the change history at the bottom: 20070301 mrw - Update for 2007 US gov't timezone changes. Has the date been changed again since then? Mike

Re: Capacity Monitoring question

2011-03-03 Thread George Henke/NYLIC
An operating system, be in z/VM or z/OS, will always try to drive the CPU 100%. This is goodness. So looking at max CPU will never tell you anything about CPU capacity, it is an almost meaningless metric which can be at best very deceptive, a common, innocent mistake and misconception. What

Re: Determining Daylight Savings Time Status

2011-03-03 Thread Chip Davis
Not to take anything away from the solutions already offered, but wouldn't a Rexx exec (or pipe) that reads the SYSTEM CONFIG file be a single-source-data solution? I'd rather depend on the accuracy of an IBM-supplied file than to worry about making sure my (or someone else's) file keeps up

Re: Determining Daylight Savings Time Status

2011-03-03 Thread Mike Walter
Chip, The SYSTEM CONFIG supplied with z/VM 5.4.0 didn't go very far into the future. Maybe the VM Lab knows if some future congressionally-mandated timezone changes that we don't know about? :-) The distributed SYSTEM CONFIG for 5.4.0 contained only these statements related to timezone:

Re: Determining Daylight Savings Time Status

2011-03-03 Thread Michael Coffin
The problem is that the executor would need to have access to MAINT CF1. -Mike -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Chip Davis Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 1:38 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Determining

Re: Determining Daylight Savings Time Status

2011-03-03 Thread Chip Davis
It wasn't clear to me that you wanted a general-user solution, or an algorithm that would project years ahead, or simply a utility to be run from MAINT. The general-user, long-range solution is also a Rexx/Pipe SMOP: there are dozens of websites devoted to Daylight Saving Time tables and

Change OSA cards

2011-03-03 Thread Steve Harman
We recently added two 10Gb OSA cards to our Z9 to replace our old 1Gb cards. I'm trying to figure out how to convert from the old cards to the new (zVM 5.4), while having an easy backout method. SYSTEM CONFIG has these statements DEFINE VSWITCH VSWITCH1 RDEV 1E08 CONN CONTROLLER * DEFINE

Re: Change OSA cards

2011-03-03 Thread David Boyes
On 3/3/11 4:23 PM, Steve Harman steve.har...@mutualofomaha.com wrote: We recently added two 10Gb OSA cards to our Z9 to replace our old 1Gb cards. I'm trying to figure out how to convert from the old cards to the new (zVM 5.4), while having an easy backout method. Add the new RDEVs to the

Re: Determining Daylight Savings Time Status

2011-03-03 Thread David L. Craig
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Mike Walter mike.wal...@aonhewitt.com wrote: Has the date been changed again since then? Maybe--no one has actually _read_ the ObamaCare law. ;-) (and you cannot check only the Federal Government, too--local politicians also like to appear to do stuff that they