Re: SAS Replacement

[Neil O'Connor]

Have a look at Black Hill Software for SMF reports/graphs. See
https://www.blackhillsoftware.com/

Neil.


-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List  On Behalf Of
Kenneth Kripke
Sent: Thursday, 29 June 2023 05:26
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: SAS Replacement

Hello;

 I am curious if there is a known replacement product for SAS,
specifically Performance and Capacity software that is not dependent on
using the SAS product to collect, process, and, report on Capacity and
performance? 

I have heard of IntelliMagic, however, I do not know the capabilities of the
product.  Any recommendations would be appreciated. 

 

Regards, 

 

Kenneth James Kripke

k.kri...@comcast.net   

443-851-1237

 


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Re: z/OSMF

[Neil O'Connor]

I used z/OSMF on a z13s from 2018 till the end of 2022. Since then it's on a 
z15 T02. I have not found performance to be an issue. It was really bad in the 
early days before it exploited Liberty Profile, but much better after that.

Neil.


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Brian Westerman
Sent: Tuesday, 27 June 2023 14:48
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Subject: Re: z/OSMF

I manage 3 sites that each have a z13s with no specialty processors, they were 
deemed unnecessary at the time of the purchase, and at the time IBM didn't 
disclose that shortly afterwards they would be shifting to z/OSMF which all but 
locks them out of installing the next release.  

Possibly IBM should not sell processors that are under powered for the 
mandatory processes, or possibly not force sites to upgrade the processor they 
purchased jsut because IBM has decided that z/OSMF is "easier" than Serverpac.

It would have been smarter for IBM to keep z/OSMF based installation optional 
until the z13s was no longer a supported processor. 

Brian

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Re: zOSMF

[Neil O'Connor]

Re Mark Zelden's comment:

>>
>>Here, we have a  zFS data set that is a full 3390-27, and is mounted at a 
>>location we call the /nts  Everything that we acquire electronically goes 
>>there:  portable software instances and PTFs from RECEIVE ORDER.  We tidy it 
>>up with a DELETEPKG for PTFs, since we do RECEIVE ORDER very frequently. 
>>

>Ditto, except mine is still 4 volume 3390-9 zFS.  I tidy it up with a weekly 
>cron script that deletes everything older than 90 days.   

I have found NFS the best solution for receiving electronic deliveries into 
SMP/E. You can have terabytes of low cost non-mainframe storage mounted in USS 
for this kind of thing and you never have any space issues. I only learned 
about and experienced NFS on mainframe about 5 years ago, but now I use it all 
the time for all kinds of stuff. It's really useful. Did I mention I really 
like NFS on mainframe? 

Neil O'Connor (Australia)

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