Re: California's COBOL payroll system
He just replied to my email to the .net address. Dave Thorn * Senior Technology Analyst * SunGard Computer Services * 600 Laurel Oak Road, Voorhees, NJ, 08043 Office 856 566-5412 * Mobile 609 781-0353 * Fax 856 566-3656 CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wayne Driscoll Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 11:26 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: California's COBOL payroll system I found both, the cmu.edu is from the main CMU faculty page, and the farber.net address is from the computer science college web site. Like many of us, I am sure that he has even more addresses. Wayne Driscoll Product Developer NOTE: All opinions are strictly my own. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 10:14 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: California's COBOL payroll system Wayne Driscoll wrote: For those who might be interested in letting Mr. Farber know what you think of his comments, his e-mail address is dfarber at cmu.edu. Wayne Driscoll Product Developer NOTE: All opinions are strictly my own. Hmmm. Someone else posted [EMAIL PROTECTED] Where lies truth? Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com z/OS Application development made easier * Our classes include + How things work + Programming examples with realistic applications + Starter / skeleton code + Complete working programs + Useful utilities and subroutines + Tips and techniques == Check out the Trainer's Friend Store to purchase z/OS == == application developer toolkits. Sample code in four== == programming languages, JCL to Assemble or compile, == == bind and test. == == http://www.trainersfriend.com/TTFStore/index.html== -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: embarresing request
In WLM, set up a scheduling environment for each system. Associate the production only jobs with the production SE, and the not production only with the other one. Turn the respective resources on with automation. If a not production job tries to run on the production system, the resource it needs won't be available and it will just sit there. Dave Thorn * Senior Technology Analyst * SunGard Computer Services * 600 Laurel Oak Road, Voorhees, NJ, 08043 Office 856 566-5412 * Mobile 609 781-0353 * Fax 856 566-3656 CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 4:23 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: embarresing request We have a two system basic sysplex. Basically, SY1 is for production only and SY2 is from not production only. Don't ask - politics. I do have a JES2 MAS. So now, we need some way to prevent a job from running on the wrong system. I currently have an IEFUJI exit which run on the non production only system which JCLs a job which has a bad jobname or job class. I don't really like this. Does anybody have any idea for a free-as-in-beer solution. Or do I just extend the IEFUJI exit to be bigger and hairier? -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology The information contained in this e-mail message may be privileged and/or confidential. It is for intended addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other use of this communication is strictly prohibited and could, in certain circumstances, be a criminal offense. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by reply and delete this message without copying or disclosing it. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Connect:Direct (NDM) CPU Usage
Tom, we have had similar issues where it impacts performance too. What we did was to assign it to a Resource Group to keep it from hurting others while still giving it enough resources to get its work done. Dave Thorn * Senior Technology Analyst * SunGard Computer Services * 600 Laurel Oak Road, Voorhees, NJ, 08043 Office 856 566-5412 * Mobile 609 781-0353 * Fax 856 566-3656 CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kelman, Tom Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 11:53 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Connect:Direct (NDM) CPU Usage We run Connect:Direct (used to be called NDM) from Sterling Commerce. Yesterday afternoon the started task, CDNDM, took from 50-60% of an engine on our z9BC for almost 2 hours while it transferred a large file. This caused us to hit our softcap and affected other tasks in the system. We have the CDNDM task running in our STCLO service class which is set for Vel=50 and an importance level of 4. It was still running at a high DP and grabbed the CPU. I can't understand why a task that is basically transmitting a file over the network should need this much CPU. My only explanation might be that it is compressing the data before putting it on the network and the compression algorithm isn't the most efficient in the world. Has anyone else had this kind of a problem running Connect:Direct? What, if anything, did you do to control it? Tom Kelman Commerce Bank of Kansas City (816) 760-7632 * If you wish to communicate securely with Commerce Bank and its affiliates, you must log into your account under Online Services at http://www.commercebank.com or use the Commerce Bank Secure Email Message Center at https://securemail.commercebank.com NOTICE: This electronic mail message and any attached files are confidential. The information is exclusively for the use of the individual or entity intended as the recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, copying, printing, reviewing, retention, disclosure, distribution or forwarding of the message or any attached file is not authorized and is strictly prohibited. If you have received this electronic mail message in error, please advise the sender by reply electronic mail immediately and permanently delete the original transmission, any attachments and any copies of this message from your computer system. * -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: SYSAFF card
A job can run on any LPAR that has a job class matching the one on the job card. This is the simple answer; where a job runs can be managed with WLM and other things such as automation. Dave Thorn * Senior Technology Analyst * SunGard Computer Services * 600 Laurel Oak Road, Voorhees, NJ, 08043 Office 856 566-5412 * Mobile 609 781-0353 * Fax 856 566-3656 CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Johnson Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 11:35 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: SYSAFF card If you do not use a SYSAFF card thereby taking the default of SYSAFF=ANY will a job run only on the LPAR that it is submitted from? Can it ever run on an LPAR other than the one submitted without a SYSAFF card? TIA Bill Johnson - You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Workload Manager
Another good one would be Barry Merrill's listservwhile it's generally oriented toward his MXG product there are often performance discussions there as well. See www.mxg.com And system performance is one of the main areas of interest at CMG...if you can get out of the office. Dave Thorn * Senior Technology Analyst * SunGard Computer Services * 600 Laurel Oak Road, Voorhees, NJ, 08043 Office 856 566-5412 * Mobile 609 781-0353 * Fax 856 566-3656 CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Stitt Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 3:14 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Workload Manager You are here. This is it. Although Al Sherkow runs a list for capacity/billing concerns/performance concerns. I don't follow that one as I find it above my head, too management oriented for me. On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 13:59:13 -0500, Yukus, Mary J CIV USMEPCOM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Everyone, Does anyone know of a Workload Manager users group or listserver? Thanks, Mary Yukus -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: CPU-Time in z/Os-System. Is The Cpu Time In z/Os-systems A Meaningful Indication?
And is it running on the same physical machine every time? Or are there multiple systems of different speeds where it can execute? Dave Thorn * Senior Technology Analyst * SunGard Computer Services * 600 Laurel Oak Road, Voorhees, NJ, 08043 Office 856 566-5412 * Mobile 609 781-0353 * Fax 856 566-3656 CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craddock, Chris Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 10:22 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: CPU-Time in z/Os-System. Is The Cpu Time In z/Os-systems A Meaningful Indication? I have a programm written in Cobol which runs monthly on a z/Os-System. The programm reads inputrecords and writes them in a database (DB2) and in different outputfiles. It consumes nearly the same numbers of input records every month. I wonder now, why there are so great differences in the consumed cpu-time. For example: Last month the programm consumed due to the job protocol 11.25 (what ever that means) and this month it consumed 16.33 If the COBOL program simply looped it would use a certain amount of CPU time and that amount of time would be more or less the same every time you ran it on a given machine. However your COBOL program does useful work, reading and writing data. It consumes system services while doing that and those system services are related to the amount of data being processed. So if the amount of data being processed is about the same then you would expect the amount of system resources (including CPU) to be about the same. You are seeing roughly a 5 second (45%) increase in CPU consumption, so that is far outside of what you might expect from random variations. Are you sure your program is processing the same amount of data? If the amount of data really is about the same then you have to look to the organization of the data. For your input files; the block size may have changed which could lead to an increase in CPU time, but it is unlikely that you would see such a big change. For your output; there are lots of minor changes that can have major impacts on performance in DB2. That pretty much leaves DB2 as the potential culprit. I would look there first. CC -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: WLM and TSO
It depends on your CPU speed and characteristics of TSO usage. If your users run lots of long transactions like searches, CLISTs, foreground things, they could suffer. Most TSO activity (in my experience) is of the short variety, so as you see below I'm not shy about making 1st period imp=1, but for just 500 service units. We also try to get some things through in period 2 with a pretty aggressive goal. Works OK here, but probably not for everyone. You might ask your users what they're trying to do when they hang. Duration Imp. Description 500 195% complete within 00:00:01.000 5 295% complete within 00:00:15.000 5Execution velocity of 5 Dave Thorn * Senior Technology Analyst * SunGard Computer Services * 600 Laurel Oak Road, Voorhees, NJ, 08043 Office 856 566-5412 * Mobile 609 781-0353 * Fax 856 566-3656 CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aimee Houghton Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 11:01 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: WLM and TSO I am no performance expert and I am basically mostly using Cheryl Watson quickstart (or whatever it is called). We are only using one service class for TSO users. For the most part it works fine but during batch window we have times when the operators let a bunch of stuff run in high priority batch service class. During those times, TSO users tend to sit and hang. Of course, the operators bump up their own priority so they don't have a problem. I am looking for suggestions as to how to setup the service class for TSO users to avoid having them hang during these situations. Here is my service class for TSO: Base goal: CPU Critical flag: NO # Duration Imp Goal description - - - 1 800280% complete within 00:00:00.300 2 4Execution velocity of 40 Here is my service class for PRDBATHI (which I am assuming is causing the problem): Base goal: CPU Critical flag: NO # Duration Imp Goal description - - - 1 3Execution velocity of 40 Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Aimee -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Question on Out Sourcing
With us that stuff is all spelled out in the contract. No surprises later. How can an IT director have only Windows experience? Does that mean my mother could be an IT director? : ) Dave Thorn * Senior Technology Analyst * SunGard Computer Services * 600 Laurel Oak Road, Voorhees, NJ, 08043 Tel 856 566-5412 * Mobile 609 781-0353 * Fax 856 566-3656 CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick Falcone Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 11:13 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Question on Out Sourcing Better to check the agreement very thoroughly. I would want to know, before signing, what is covered *after* the contract has been signed. You might be surprised at what you'll be paying for a few weeks down the road after the contract has been signed and you need *x* to be investigated, solved, implemented, upgraded, etc... for you by the outsourcer. I'm willing to bet that a lot of companies get hit with hidden fee's down the line where it becomes evident that outsourcing is ending up costing more that was originally thought. Pat Mihalec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this but I needed it from someone else to show the current director. He has not mainframe experience, his background is Windows. He thinks that if you move to the outsourcer system you no longer pay the fees. It comes as a shock to him. I suggested he ask the outsourcer directly about this. Pat Mihalec Rush University Medical Center Senior System Programmer (312) 942-8386 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Worst Predictions of All Time
She forgot the one from the half wit who predicted the date time of the shutdown of the last mainframe. Dave Thorn * Senior Technology Analyst * SunGard Computer Services * 600 Laurel Oak Road, Voorhees, NJ, 08043 Tel 856 566-5412 * Mobile 609 781-0353 * Fax 856 566-3656 CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: abusing WLM's classification rules
First, try telling the user they can't have the whole machine except at 3 a.m. on Sundays. You could try creating a multi-period service class for the batch jobs. The 1st period could mirror the AFAST service class in importance, velocity, etc., with a long enough duration so that most (or many) of them end there. The 2nd period would similarly mirror the A service class. Hopefully there aren't 20 of these batch jobs running concurrently. Could you figure out a resource group for the STC with a relatively high minimum and a max value that's only a little higher? Guarantee good (or pretty good) service but not enough to eat the machine. (sounds like you're on a uniprocessor??) If you ARE on a uni, all the more reason to be firm with them unless they are related to the CIO or something. Dave Thorn * Senior Technology Analyst * SunGard Computer Services * 600 Laurel Oak Road, Voorhees, NJ, 08043 Tel 856 566-5412 * Mobile 609 781-0353 * Fax 856 566-3656 I've got a bit of a problem. I have an STC which runs in one of two different service classes. Call them A and AFAST. Both service classes are assigned to a different resource group. This is because the STC can simply soak the entire machine. So, as a political solution, we did a resource group. Well, eventually, that was not good enough. The people wanted, on occassion, to have more resource than normal. That's where AFAST came in. Now, this has morphed a bit because one option in this STC is to offload processing from the STC to a batch job. I need all batch jobs submitted by this STC to run with service class (A or AFAST) that the STC was running in at the time the job was submitted. I know, I'm out of luck in this. Any ideas how I might get it done? The problem is the dynamic (by hand) switching of the STC between A and AFAST on demand by the user. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: WLM question.
When you figure it out let me know. : ) Seriously, don't even try. Instead, look into defining a Resource Group(s) for work that is at the bottom of the pile. If you REALLY want it to get some CPU, define a minimum amount of service you want it to get and WLM will try to do it for you. However, if the minimum is too large you may still impact production. (If it's on the same LPAR) Dave Thorn * Senior Technology Analyst * SunGard Computer Services * 600 Laurel Oak Road, Voorhees, NJ, 08043 Tel 856 566-5412 * Mobile 609 781-0353 * Fax 856 566-3656 CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Is it possible to get them? (Pierce, Bernard's old papers)
www.cmg.org You can order previous CMG Proceedings - http://www.cmg.org/national/publications.html#Order I think that you may be able to order individual papers if they are available. Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and ask for the info. Dave Thorn * Senior Technology Analyst * SunGard Computer Services * 600 Laurel Oak Road, Voorhees, NJ, 08043 Tel 856 566-5412 * Mobile 609 781-0353 * Fax 856 566-3656 CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Johnny Luo Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 10:50 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Is it possible to get them? (Pierce, Bernard's old papers) Tom, Thank you very much for the info. I also tried to find the website of CMG but only got CMGA (http://www.cmga.org.au/). I am wondering whether they have softcopy of papers for sale. I wanna have a try if possible. Johnny On Nov 9, 2007 11:29 PM, Tom Moulder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Johnny The first paper was presented at CMG in 1995. To the best of my knowledge, CMG does not have softcopy of papers before 1997 (the last ten years). You might find someone that attended the conference in 1995 and still has the paper copy of the proceedings. I do not still have my copy of the proceedings. Your best avenue to get the papers might be to track down Bernard R. Pierce. I can not find him as a current member of CMG. Tom Moulder -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Restricting a SYSPLEX LPAR with WLM
You could set up a Scheduling Environment for Sysprog jobs (ONLY) and another one for everything else that's batch. During normal operation both are active on all sysplex LPARs. During the test window, turn OFF the Everything Else environment on the LPAR you're testing on, leaving only the Sysprog environment active. When testing is complete the Everything Else environment is set back on. Maybe not the most efficient solution, but it will work. You'd need to make sure both environments are active after an IPL thru use of your automation software or else you'll be scratching your head wondering why batch isn't running. Dave Thorn * Senior Technology Analyst * SunGard Computer Services * 600 Laurel Oak Road, Voorhees, NJ, 08043 Tel 856 566-5412 * Mobile 609 781-0353 * Fax 856 566-3656 CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: ADMINISTRIVIA: Announcement!
Communist. : ) Dave Thorn * Senior Technology Analyst * SunGard Computer Services * 600 Laurel Oak Road, Voorhees, NJ, 08043 Tel 856 566-5412 * Mobile 609 781-0353 * Fax 856 566-3656 CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren Evans-Young Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 3:16 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ADMINISTRIVIA: Announcement! Some of you may be wondering what I will be doing after my retirement. I will be working for a company that helps companies migrate off of the old IBM mainframe onto the much more current Microsoft .NET platform. This will also help these companies utilize wasted space in empty office buildings by filling these rooms with servers. This will in turn, reduce energy consumption by channeling heat from the servers into the HVAC system. So, a win-win solution for all involved. (no pun intended) Darren -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: IPL an LPAR with a very low weight?
The customer wants the small LPAR to come up on request only and we want to give the MIPS from the small LPAR to the one weighted at 47, i.e. raise it to 56. It sounds like the best/safest thing to do is NOT make the weight=1. The box usually is not 100% busy, but can be depending on activity. Dave Thorn * Senior Technology Analyst * SunGard Computer Services * 600 Laurel Oak Road, Voorhees, NJ, 08043 Tel 856 566-5412 * Mobile 609 781-0353 * Fax 856 566-3656 CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. -Original Message- From: Al Sherkow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 10:02 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU; Thorn, David Subject: Re: IPL an LPAR with a very low weight? Hi Dave -- I suspect you wouldn't be considering this unless you were having problems with CPU resource contention in the two big LPARs (at 47 and 43). What kind of machine is this? how many engines? If this small LPAR is down, and the box is nearly 100% busy, IPLing this LPAR will be very slow, and this small LPAR may slow down the others in the sysplex and MIM. What is the real problem you are trying to solve? Al Al Sherkow, I/S Management Strategies, Ltd. Consulting Expertise on Capacity Planning, Performance Tuning, WLC, LPARs, IRD and LCS Software Seminars on IBM SW Pricing, LPARs, and IRD Voice: +1 414 332-3062 Web: www.sherkow.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
IPL an LPAR with a very low weight?
If an LPAR (in a down state) were set to a very low weight (1, for instance) and then IPLed, would there be problems? This assumes that the other LPARs are not at high utilizations and using all the CPU cycles themselves. Has anyone done this? Have problems occurred? Dave Thorn * Senior Technology Analyst * SunGard Computer Services * 600 Laurel Oak Road, Voorhees, NJ, 08043 Tel 856 566-5412 * Mobile 609 781-0353 * Fax 856 566-3656 CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: IPL an LPAR with a very low weight?
2 other LPARs on this box: one weight is 47 the other is 43. We want to make the 3rd LPAR=1 (down from 10) and give the other 9 to the one at 47. This LPAR shares MIM with one LPAR on this box and 2 other LPARs on 2 other boxes; all are in the same sysplex. So if it IPLs slowly that's where the problems occur? Dave Thorn * Senior Technology Analyst * SunGard Computer Services * 600 Laurel Oak Road, Voorhees, NJ, 08043 Tel 856 566-5412 * Mobile 609 781-0353 * Fax 856 566-3656 CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Schmidt Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 2:52 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IPL an LPAR with a very low weight? On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:44:43 -0400, Dave Thorn wrote: If an LPAR (in a down state) were set to a very low weight (1, for instance) and then IPLed, would there be problems? This assumes that the other LPARs are not at high utilizations and using all the CPU cycles themselves. Has anyone done this? Have problems occurred? Depends, of course. For starters the weight is relative to the aggregate for the CEC - if that is only, say, 2 (with 2 LPARs weighted at 1 each) you ought not expect to have any problems at all. Probably not your case though. Is your LPAR sharing any resources with any others? GRS or MIM come to mind here... if you need to run those on your resource challenged LPAR then you are a troublemaker. If your whimpy LPAR is a monplex, sharing nothing then no, it isn't a problem per se. More of an opportunity to catch up on your reading while you wait for it to respond. (We do it with a sandbox system and it is pretty pokey when the other LPARs are guzzling MIPS. Still, it all works but at an HO-scale. Just not the way to run a real railroad.) -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Logical PRocessor assignment - Processor Weight
1. You need to cap the LPAR at the 200 MIP level. (on the panel I believe it's a check box under Initial Capping) If you have 2 LPARs on a 1000 MIP machine, for example, and all CPs are shared, you could weight the capped LPAR at 20 and the other at 80. (20/100=.2, .2*1000=200) 2. Yes, it can be changed dynamically. This is a simple explanation...apply it carefully to your environment! Dave Thorn * Senior Technology Analyst * SunGard Computer Services * 600 Laurel Oak Road, Voorhees, NJ, 08043 Tel 856 566-5412 * Mobile 609 781-0353 * Fax 856 566-3656 CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jacky Bright Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 7:43 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Logical PRocessor assignment - Processor Weight Hi, I am using shared processor across LPARS. I need to restrict my one LPAR to 200 MIPS only so that it can not consume more than 200 mips. I am also using Coupling Facility. How can I achieve that ? What Initial Weight I need to assign in the Change Logical LPAR controls panel ? Can I change it dynamically ? JAcky -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Logical PRocessor assignment - Processor Weight
Correct. I was just using the environment presented and assuming all LPARs were IPLed. But if the smaller LPAR is capped I don't think it will exceed the cap, regardless of what else is going on. Dave Thorn * Senior Technology Analyst * SunGard Computer Services * 600 Laurel Oak Road, Voorhees, NJ, 08043 Tel 856 566-5412 * Mobile 609 781-0353 * Fax 856 566-3656 CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. Relative weight LPAR sizing is subject to the mix of LPARs that are active at any given point in time. In your example, if the LPAR whose weight is 80 is not IPL'd then the LPAR with weight=20 will get 100% of the processor (1000 MIPS in your numerical example) without changing the weight numbers. This is a far cry from the 200 MIP target. I believe that the calculation is: ((LPAR weight)/SUM(all _active_ LPAR weights))*(CEC capacity) Again, assuming that initial capping is activated. Mike Conmackie Senior Software Developer Compuware Corporation 1 Campus Martius Detroit, MI 48226 Tel 313 227-7721 The contents of this e-mail are intended for the named addressee only. It contains information that may be confidential. Unless you are the named addressee or an authorized designee, you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you received it in error please notify us immediately and then destroy it. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Setting Weights on LPARs
Changing the weight from 65 to 75 (in your particular environment) increased the available MIPS to the PROD LPAR by 15%: (75-65)/65=15.3% Another simple example: if you have 1000 MIPS, your Prod LPAR went from 650 to 750 MIPS, which is not an insignificant change. Conversely, the test LPAR went from 350 to 250 MIPS. If you are not capping, both LPARs have access to MIPS that the other LPAR is not using. The weights come into play when things get busy. You can measure this by comparing things like TSO performance, batch turnaround times, online response time, and by how loud the complaints are (if any). MXG will give you info on all of that except for the complaints. For those you're on your own. Dave Thorn * Senior Technology Analyst * SunGard Computer Services * 600 Laurel Oak Road, Voorhees, NJ, 08043 Tel 856 566-5412 * Mobile 609 781-0353 * Fax 856 566-3656 CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 8:41 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Setting Weights on LPARs Hypothesis: If I reset the weights on my 2 LPAR box to 60/40 or 75/25 what would I see. What reports would help me see if this is doing any good? I have MXG and SAS. I can also run RMFPP. I have not really gotten into performance tuning on this level so I need to try and find the reports that will help me understand this picture better. Thanks Lizette -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: z/OS job market (I could just scream!)
Me too. I also had to sign a statement when I got out stating that I wouldn't go to one of those countries for 4 years or something like that. Dave Thorn * Senior Technology Analyst * SunGard Computer Services * 600 Laurel Oak Road, Voorhees, NJ, 08043 Tel 856 566-5412 * Mobile 609 781-0353 * Fax 856 566-3656 CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. In the early 70's when I was in the Army, I was told that I could not go to any Iron Curtain country (except W. Berlin but needed orders for that) because of the security clearance I had. I did travel all over Europe (hit most of the countries) except Greece. I am still sorry I didn't make it to there. I just got in my car and went anyplace I could. I had 7 days (every other week) to make it there and come back. Ed -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: How much do you value Share ( Was Spam from SHARE)
Lizette is correct. I have been very involved in CMG for years, which most of you have probably heard of and/or attended. The income provided by vendors/sponsors is very important in keeping YOUR costs of attending down. Imagine what it would cost without them, not to mention your job of justifying attending at a higher price. And these things, CMG as well as SHARE, are pricey enough already. At CMG we handle vendor emails differently than SHARE, and I understand the spam problem. But as Lizette says, there's a delete key. And we all know how to use it. Dave Thorn * Senior Technology Analyst * SunGard Computer Services * 600 Laurel Oak Road, Voorhees, NJ, 08043 Tel 856 566-5412 * Mobile 609 781-0353 * Fax 856 566-3656 CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 8:11 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: How much do you value Share ( Was Spam from SHARE) Listers - I must now put my two cents in. How much corporate sponsorship do you think Share gets? I would think most of their funding comes from the vendors. And the only reason the vendors provide sponsorship is so they can get at us. If everyone opted out of notification of vendor products - do you think Share would continue to get the funds they need so that they can put on the conferences for us? Or is everything free? The hotel, the conference rooms, the snacks between sessions, the handouts? Or our fees paid enough for all of that? I know how to use a delete key, or say I am not interested at this time or pitch something into the waste basket. I am okay with this so long as Share continues to provide the conference at the level it is at currently. Now, I am not on the board and I am not sure how or where the sponsorship funds go to. But it is something to consider. Just my opinion Lizette -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Capacity Planning 101
We (CMG) are in the planning stages of making past papers available. Stay tuned. In the meantime, you can purchase a CMG membership for $175, which includes the proceedings (on CD) from CMG2006. And now is a good time to start working on your management to let you attend this year's conference! __ Dave Thorn * Senior Technology Analyst * SunGard Computer Services * 600 Laurel Oak Road, Voorhees, NJ, 08043 Tel 856 566-5412 * Mobile 609 781-0353 * Fax 856 566-3656 CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. Carol Srna [EMAIL PROTECTED] COM To Sent by: IBM IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Mainframe cc Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject .EDU Capacity Planning 101 04/11/2007 09:12 AM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU Hello. It has been sometime since I've done Capacity Planning Tuning so I am looking for web-sites (CMG), papers, etc. that I can study/read to brush away the cobwebs; get ideas for a plan, strategy. Any advice, tips, etc. will be greatly appreciated. I think you have to be a CMG member to access their site. TIA ~~Carol -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Spreading Batch Work Across LPARS
1. A new init class configuration, where class 'a' is on one LPAR and not the other. Extending this to multiple classes would force work to one LPAR or the other depending on a job's class. 2. WLM Scheduling Environments. Run some applications on one LPAR, other applications on the other. 3. I don't have Thruput Manager but it sounds pretty flexible; maybe they have something that can do this easier than #1 and 2 above. __ Dave Thorn * Senior Technology Analyst * SunGard Computer Services * 600 Laurel Oak Road, Voorhees, NJ, 08043 Tel 856 566-5412 * Mobile 609 781-0353 * Fax 856 566-3656 CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. Mark Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] SERV.COM To Sent by: IBM IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Mainframe cc Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject .EDU Spreading Batch Work Across LPARS 08/03/2006 07:48 AM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU We have two lpars that perform the vast majority of our batch work. CA7 runs on one of these lpars and most of the CA7 submitted jobs are picked up by the JES2 on that system. This leaves the other system almost empty of batch work while the first system is being over loaded. What are some of our options to spread the workload across both systems on an equal basis. zOS 1.4. JES2 managed batch. Thruput manager is available. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: publications
The CMG Journal __ Dave Thorn * Senior Technology Analyst * SunGard Computer Services * 600 Laurel Oak Road, Voorhees, NJ, 08043 Tel 856 566-5412 * Mobile 609 781-0353 * Fax 856 566-3656 CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Sent by: IBM IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Mainframe cc Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject .EDU Re: publications 06/29/2006 10:32 AM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Richard Tsujimoto You might look up z/Journal, ESJ (Enterprise Systems Journal), Wall Street Journal (put a business slant on it), start a blog, etc. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: URGENT
Do it from the DA screen. That's what you get in the ST screen. __ Dave Thorn * Senior Technology Analyst * SunGard Computer Services * 600 Laurel Oak Road, Voorhees, NJ, 08043 Tel 856 566-5412 * Mobile 609 781-0353 * Fax 856 566-3656 CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. Howard Rifkind [EMAIL PROTECTED] OMTo Sent by: IBM IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Mainframe cc Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject .EDU Re: URGENT 05/15/2006 02:39 PM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU Also in the jes output queue when we try to cancel or purge the output I'm seeing: ACTIVE MODIFY INVALID -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: WLM Classification Question
Are you using TNG's? (or other kinds of groups) Maybe you're getting a hit there before you get to the TN's? __ Dave Thorn * Senior Technology Analyst * SunGard Computer Services * 600 Laurel Oak Road, Voorhees, NJ, 08043 Tel 856 566-5412 * Mobile 609 781-0353 * Fax 856 566-3656 CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Friday Topic...
A little fun on this list, limited to Fridays, never hurt anyone. Lighten up gang. __ Dave Thorn * Senior Technology Analyst * SunGard Computer Services * 600 Laurel Oak Road, Voorhees, NJ, 08043 Tel 856 566-5412 * Mobile 609 781-0353 * Fax 856 566-3656 CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. Liliane L. Clever [EMAIL PROTECTED] To DU IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Sent by: IBM cc Mainframe Discussion List Subject [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: Friday Topic... .EDU 03/24/2006 09:38 AM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU Made my day too. The guy is really good! Liliane -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Using SMF data on a PC? Any software to assist?
www.mxg.com __ Dave Thorn * Senior Technology Analyst * SunGard Computer Services * 600 Laurel Oak Road, Voorhees, NJ, 08043 Tel 856 566-5412 * Mobile 609 781-0353 * Fax 856 566-3656 CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. John S. Giltner, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To .NET IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Sent by: IBM cc Mainframe Discussion List Subject [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: Using SMF data on a PC? Any .EDU software to assist? 01/23/2006 09:13 AM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU John Fly wrote: Is there any package(IBM, or otherwise) to analyse SMF datasets directly on a PC? (Windows, Unix, etc..)?? SAS is avalaible for Windows and I think Unix. We are looking at getting rid of SAS on z/OS and replacing it with SAS on PC's. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Its a question of ethics
Doggone right it's ethical, especially if your intent is to inform and not to disparage. If it were with bad intentions I'd say no to your question. __ Dave Thorn * Senior Technology Analyst * SunGard Computer Services * 600 Laurel Oak Road, Voorhees, NJ, 08043 Tel 856 566-5412 * Mobile 609 781-0353 * Fax 856 566-3656 CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. I have this question. Lets say I have worked for an organization for a few years and then decide to leave…on good terms for the most part but you didn’t feel that the management was fare so you picked myself up and find a new job and resigned. You weren't asked to leave nor did the management suggest that. Now you see that organization is posting the posting the position you held on the internet. I thought I would like to post a message on the list stating that if anyone was going to apply for that position they could give me a call or email off list and I could give that person a heads up regarding what to expect at the interview, possibly the people he/she would meet and maybe the kind of questions that would be asked. Also, what they might expect if hired in the future based on my past experience while employed there. Would you consider this ethical? If it was me applying for the position I certainly would appreciate having that information in my hip pocket. Thanks. - Yahoo! Shopping Find Great Deals on Holiday Gifts at Yahoo! Shopping -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: WLM swapout
If you want a service class do the following: Create a service class called, for example, SLOW, and then created a Resource Group (also called SLOW) associated with the service class, with min=0 and max=1 service rates. __ Dave Thorn * Senior Technology Analyst * SunGard Computer Services * 600 Laurel Oak Road, Voorhees, NJ, 08043 Tel 856 566-5412 * Mobile 609 781-0353 * Fax 856 566-3656 CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. Rugel José [EMAIL PROTECTED] FIN.ECTo Sent by: IBM IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Mainframe cc Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject .EDU WLM swapout 11/16/2005 02:12 PM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU Hi : Do you know what parameters must be coded to create a Service Clase like a Swap Out Performance Group ?. I need eventually to put swap out some Jobs Batch. Jose Rugel Analista de Sistemas IBM - Ecuador Phone: +593 4 2 566010 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: A quick question about velocity goals set high
I think you have answered your own question. The velocity is set so high that it's unreachable. My velocity goal for CICS and similar tasks is 40. And things are fine. __ Dave Thorn * Senior Technology Analyst * SunGard Computer Services * 600 Laurel Oak Road, Voorhees, NJ, 08043 Tel 856 566-5412 * Mobile 609 781-0353 * Fax 856 566-3656 CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. Estimeed lister I'm in a shop were I see for some subsystems (CICS,CONTROM etc) a very high velocity goal, that is 90%. PIs range from 1.4 to 2 and it NEVER reaches 1 nor it's below 1. I read some pepres that a very high velocity goal (80%) is not good if not useless and infact in my previous shop in some CICS we lowered our goals without any delay in response time. Is still bad to put velocity goals higher than 80% ? In IMHO it is. Thank you in advance Max Scarpa -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: SAS Procedurenames and --components
Do you use MXG? If so, the variables SASPROC and SASPROD in the TYPESASU file should contain what you're looking for. __ Dave Thorn * Senior Technology Analyst * SunGard Computer Services * 600 Laurel Oak Road, Voorhees, NJ, 08043 Tel 856 566-5412 * Mobile 609 781-0353 * Fax 856 566-3656 CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. Gentle Listers We are trying to get rid of some SAS-components like SAS-Graph and SAS-IML. To get an idea about who uses these components, we activated the SAS-SMF-Record. So far so good. We can now see when which SAS-procedure gets called; but could anybody point me to an url or a manual where I can find out which SAS-procedurename belongs to which SAS-component? Thanks a ton and have a good one Cheers Tom Thomas Ramseier Bundesamt für Informatik und Telekommunikation BIT Betriebszentrum / Bereitstellung / Host Informationssystem-Architekt Monbijoustrasse 74 CH-3003 Bern -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: HELP - can't IPL ZOS
It's been a while, but doesn't the 'message waiting' mean there's more console 'stuff' but the screen's K command won't let it roll? Change the mode from RD to R and see if you get more info rolling by. Dave Thorn Senior Technology Analyst SunGard Computer Services 600 Laurel Oak Road Voorhees, NJ 08043 Office 856-566-5412 Fax 856-566-3656 Cell 609-781-0353 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Keeping People and Information Connected (TM) HTTP://www.availability.sungard.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: DST Bill may cause Electronic Setbacks.
And MIPs. : ) Dave Thorn Senior Technology Analyst SunGard Computer Services 600 Laurel Oak Road Voorhees, NJ 08043 Office 856-566-5412 Fax 856-566-3656 Cell 609-781-0353 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Keeping People and Information Connected (TM) HTTP://www.availability.sungard.com Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Sent by: IBM IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Mainframe cc Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject .EDU Re: DST Bill may cause Electronic Setbacks. 08/09/2005 08:34 AM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU It's the American way. :-/ E.g., sometime in the 1970s the US CONgress enacted legislation to convert the US to the metric system, with a deadline of 1980 or thereabouts. As you probably noticed at your last SHARE attendance, we still measure things in inches, feet, yards, miles, ounces, pounds, pints, quarts, gallons, degrees Fahrenheit, etc. -jc- -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: WLM data collection
I think I understand what you want: Service class reporting across the sysplex. Here's how I do it I dump the RMF records desired and then XMIT the data to one LPAR. (all DASD is not shared) All the datasets are concatenated into the RMF postprocessor JCL and I then can report by service class for all systems I put into the JCL stream. Slightly cumbersome but it works. Dave Thorn Senior Technology Analyst SunGard Computer Services 600 Laurel Oak Road Voorhees, NJ 08043 Office 856-566-5412 Fax 856-566-3656 Cell 609-781-0353 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Keeping People and Information Connected (TM) HTTP://www.availability.sungard.com I am trying to collect Sysplex-wide WLM performance data, compare actual vs. desired. Unfortunately, or so it seems, WLM's IWMRCOLL macro only provides information for the system on which it is invoked on. The documentation indicates that 'monitors can use this to combine data'. Is there a way to extract sysplex-wide information of service class performance without manually merging this information in real-time? After all, WLM calculates and adjusts performance parameters according to measurements within the Sysplex (one definition per Sysplex). RMF III reports on these and I have serious doubts that it does its own x-system data aggregation. Does anybody have any notable knowledge in this area? Thanks in advance. /re -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: WLM data collection
You could also check the Sysplex Performance Summary Report in RMF Monitor III for real time info. Dave Thorn Senior Technology Analyst SunGard Computer Services 600 Laurel Oak Road Voorhees, NJ 08043 Office 856-566-5412 Fax 856-566-3656 Cell 609-781-0353 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Keeping People and Information Connected (TM) HTTP://www.availability.sungard.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Washington Post: 40 Million Credit Card #s Hacked
SNIP As far a Microsoft and security, this is interesting: http://news.com.com/Microsoft+meets+the+hackers/2009-1002_3-5747813.html UNSNIP Yes, interesting. I too enjoy meeting with those in the business who are smarter than I am, if you get my drift. Dave Thorn Senior Technology Analyst SunGard eSourcing 600 Laurel Oak Road Voorhees, NJ 08043 Office 856-566-5412 Fax 856-566-3656 Cell 609-781-0353 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Keeping People and Information Connected (TM) HTTP://www.availability.sungard.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Entry Level Sysprog Opportunity
http://www1.sungard.com/careers/careers.php?Job_ID=2747 Dave Thorn Senior Technology Analyst SunGard eSourcing 600 Laurel Oak Road Voorhees, NJ 08043 Office 856-566-5412 Fax 856-566-3656 Cell 609-781-0353 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Keeping People and Information Connected (TM) HTTP://www.availability.sungard.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
