Re: Time on one LPAR on CEC
Thanks Paul and everyone else we got things to work on our lab with the following values, similar to yours Paul STPMODE YES STPZONE NO TIMEZONE=E.09.00.00 OPERATOR NOPROMPT Andy, we have STP setup to provide UTC (GMT) to the lpars/hardware. Them we use the offset in the CLOCK member to set the "local" time for the lpars. We have two CECs running lpars on US central time and lpars running on UK time. I hope this helps. Our CLOCK member for the US lpars with DST: OPERATOR NOPROMPT TIMEZONE W.05.00.00 STPMODE YES STPZONE NO Our CLOCK member for the UK lpars with DST: OPERATOR NOPROMPT TIMEZONE E.01.00.00 STPMODE YES STPZONE NO Thanks.. Paul Feller AGT Mainframe Technical Support The information contained in this message may be CONFIDENTIAL and is for the intended addressee only. Any unauthorized use, dissemination of the information, or copying of this message is prohibited. If you are not the intended addressee, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Time on one LPAR on CEC
George - Does this look right for the clockxx, so we won't use STP at all let the lpar use the system clock? STPMODE NO STPZONE NO ETRMODE NO ETRZONE NO TIMEZONE=E.09.00.00 OPERATOR NOPROMPT - The Logical partition time offset is used when there is a requirement to run with LOCAL = UTC. In that case the LPAR time offset is set to the local time zone offset (e.g. +9 hours for Japan) and STPZONE NO, TIMEZONE=W.00.00.00 in CLOCKxx. If you are running the z/OS systems with a local time zone offset and you do not wish to use the time zone specified via STP (e.g. as it is set to the US time zone) then you can specify STPZONE NO, TIMEZONE=E.09.00.00 (for Japan) in CLOCKxx. Regards,George Kozakos z/OS Software Service, Level 2 Supervisor The information contained in this message may be CONFIDENTIAL and is for the intended addressee only. Any unauthorized use, dissemination of the information, or copying of this message is prohibited. If you are not the intended addressee, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Time on one LPAR on CEC
Thank you George this will work for us! Andy If you are running the z/OS systems with a local time zone offset and you do not wish to use the time zone specified via STP (e.g. as it is set to the US time zone) then you can specify STPZONE NO, TIMEZONE=E.09.00.00 (for Japan) in CLOCKxx. Regards,George Kozakos z/OS Software Service, Level 2 Supervisor The information contained in this message may be CONFIDENTIAL and is for the intended addressee only. Any unauthorized use, dissemination of the information, or copying of this message is prohibited. If you are not the intended addressee, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Time on one LPAR on CEC
If we run the whole CEC as UTC won't I have to update the clock member on all the ones where there is DST? Now I'm ipling 3 systems (us based) and not having to IPL the Japan supported LPARS? Run all of the LPARs on UTC Universal Time something formerly GMT and set the time zone offset by LPAR. While there will be problems with the cutover due to overlapping dates and times, after that most SMF records will be consistent since most will use the hardware time and be immune to DST changes. People facing times can be used by the applications. Clark Morris > >I'm being told by operations staff who handles the hardware we have to >deactivate and reactivate the LPARS running on JAPAN time. These are 3 LPARS >we want to be on Japan time since they don't change to daylight savings like >the US. > The information contained in this message may be CONFIDENTIAL and is for the intended addressee only. Any unauthorized use, dissemination of the information, or copying of this message is prohibited. If you are not the intended addressee, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
HMC logs
Hi everyone, Has anyone successfully been able to get logs sent from your HMC to let's say a server or logs stored on a MF in a PDS. I have people from my team that would like to do it been trying to see how this works. The TSO id we put in it and password but don't see a successful logon to either TSO or USS. In a perfect world we have been asked by the auditors to send these logs weekly to a dataset for review. Anyone have a cheat sheet or a contact someone from my team can talk to offline? Thanks Andy The information contained in this message may be CONFIDENTIAL and is for the intended addressee only. Any unauthorized use, dissemination of the information, or copying of this message is prohibited. If you are not the intended addressee, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
OT: Job posting
Anyone interested, I just opened it up. Yes and sorry its off topic https://jobs.metlife.com/job/cary/lead-network-engineer-mainframe/751/2854473 The information contained in this message may be CONFIDENTIAL and is for the intended addressee only. Any unauthorized use, dissemination of the information, or copying of this message is prohibited. If you are not the intended addressee, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: DFsort and zIIP
This was exactly why I asked the question we run both in house dfsort and syncsort, don’t ask why. But because syncsort can take advantage of the zIIP engines. We are leaning more towards that and not drive MSU costs if we thought about converting the other way. At this point we are were just looking at it as a savings. Both seem to work fine for our customers its just the extra expense if we used DFSORT when it comes to the processor and our software costs. Andy The largest benefit is a financial one: you don't pay the zIIP MSUs. A performance benefit can come from the fact that the zIIP is always running at full speed, while your CP's can run at lower speeds. Kees. >>DFSORT can use zIIP on behalf of DB2 utilities, but not otherwise. >>Here's more information: > > >>At this time, IBM has no plan for enabling DFSORT to exploit the >>system z9 Integrated Information Processor (zIIP). IBM realizes >>DFSORT remains a prominent component of our customers' batch >>workloads. However, the added controls that would need to be >>implemented in order to maintain our high standards for performance, >>reliability and system integrity are not justified in view of >>estimations that there is a low offload potential and the value to >>clients may be marginal.[snip] > >I seem to remember that SyncSort offers an Add-On package that allows >certain SyncSort processing to be offloaded to zIIPs. The above >statement suggest that SyncSort's perfocmance is suffering from using >zIIPs (simplified and exagerated, I know). I understood "there is a low offload potential and the value to clients may be marginal" as meaning that there would not be much benefit in using zIIP. Not that it would be worse. -- Tom Marchant The information contained in this message may be CONFIDENTIAL and is for the intended addressee only. Any unauthorized use, dissemination of the information, or copying of this message is prohibited. If you are not the intended addressee, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
DFsort and zIIP
Does anyone know does DFSORT take advantage of zIIP engines if they are installed? I read online where they do for DB2 invoking DFSORT but wondering in general if it does or planned on utilizing them. Thanks Andy The information contained in this message may be CONFIDENTIAL and is for the intended addressee only. Any unauthorized use, dissemination of the information, or copying of this message is prohibited. If you are not the intended addressee, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Mirror/back up your Development DASD
Thanks to those that replied... Andy You may, if the source changed after the last backup. -teD The information contained in this message may be CONFIDENTIAL and is for the intended addressee only. Any unauthorized use, dissemination of the information, or copying of this message is prohibited. If you are not the intended addressee, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Mirror/back up your Development DASD
Hi people - For companies that mirror their mainframe DASD via XRC, SRDF, how many of them back up the development DASD? Currently, we mirror all production but don't mirror the development DASD we back most via VTS but I am pushing or trying that we back up all DASD. My thoughts about this are the development cycles and releases have a lot of time and money invested if it lost this work, how much is this worth? Anyway, if you are mirroring your development how did you "sell" it to your management? If you're not why not? Thanks Andy The information contained in this message may be CONFIDENTIAL and is for the intended addressee only. Any unauthorized use, dissemination of the information, or copying of this message is prohibited. If you are not the intended addressee, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: IBM RDEz
We do we installed in back when IBM first bought Rational and it was WSED then RDZ and a few names in between. Our developers like it we still haven't migrated after all these years into our change management tool. Not to say we can't but a lot of politics which will need to be worked out. The AD teams like it off shore and on shore. The new people who we hire right from school or intern programs like the ease of use. I'm old and still use ISPF and like it but when it comes to COBOL, JAVA etc RDZ is easy for use and deployment. Andy Does anyone's shop use RDz? Steve -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN The information contained in this message may be CONFIDENTIAL and is for the intended addressee only. Any unauthorized use, dissemination of the information, or copying of this message is prohibited. If you are not the intended addressee, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Check for dynamic HCD activation
Thanks to those that replied. We collect the LOAD PARM information so and update a chart for our operations staff based on the last IPL. This way if the hardware unit does an update what I called the HCD or IODF dynamically and do an activate we capture it, this way if it doesn’t match we automate an email to our staff. This way we check our LOADxx member matches the volume where the IODFxx is on DASD. The goal: We know it from yes (Mark's rexx exec, agree it's very useful) the current one but if it's changed dynamically the code doesn’t pick it up, is there a way to pick it up through another exec or anything else? And yes we control dynamic activations via RACF and yes only hardware staff can do it. -- SNIP --- 2. D IOS,CONFIG shows current configuration (IODF name) for both HSA and MVS, but it doesn't show whether the config was activated after IPL. Even case where IODF HSA <> IODF MVS does not mean there was an activate, because system could be IPLed with non-matching IODF (which in turn disallow dynamic changes). 3. AFAIK Mark's IPLINFO (great tool BTW, thank you Mark!) does not show whether dynamic change took place. BTW: What's the goal? IMHO there are some other methods to get such information. Not to mention dynamic activate should be strictly controlled and performed only by persons who really know what they do. Regards -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland The information contained in this message may be CONFIDENTIAL and is for the intended addressee only. Any unauthorized use, dissemination of the information, or copying of this message is prohibited. If you are not the intended addressee, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Check for dynamic HCD activation
Does anyone have Rexx code to check to see if an HCD is activated dynamically between IPLS. My issue is I can get the IPL Load Parms when the system is ipl'ed by using rexx code I have gotten off of websites. What I can't detect is when the HCD changes between IPLS because it seems the CVT area I'm checking doesn’t get updated. Thanks Andy The information contained in this message may be CONFIDENTIAL and is for the intended addressee only. Any unauthorized use, dissemination of the information, or copying of this message is prohibited. If you are not the intended addressee, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
RRSF Vtam vs TCPIP
Maybe someone can help me here: I thought IBM made a SOD for RRSF that we should go to TCPIP vs APPC. We currently have 15+ systems using RRSF via APPC and we are on z/OS 2.1 on all of them. I know it's been said many times at SHARE its recommended you change to TCPIP so the links can be encrypted, you can use TTLS etc. I'm not a RACF person more of systems back ground but is there an official IBM SOD? If so can you point me to it would be appreciated. Thanks Andy The information contained in this message may be CONFIDENTIAL and is for the intended addressee only. Any unauthorized use, dissemination of the information, or copying of this message is prohibited. If you are not the intended addressee, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
OT Job Posting - Senior Mainframe Network Engineer
Sorry to all a head of time this is Off Topic, but I am looking for someone who might want to change jobs or looking for a new one. We have an opening in our CARY NC office for a Senior Network Engineer --Mainframe Network Some respondesibilities 1) PAGENT - Admin and install/ TCP/IP, 2) Install of ISV/IBM products pertaining to network products. 3) Knowledge of AT/TLS 4) Level 3 support to network TCPIP issues 5) On call every 8 weeks , will be expected from time to time to work weekends as roll outs happen MUST be US citizen, ADP certiifcation preferred. Interested? See our positing https://erecruit.hrms.metlife.com/psp/EREC/ERECRUIT/ERECRUIT/s/WEBLIB_ERECRUIT.EXTERNAL_GATEWAY.FieldFormula.IScript_ApplyForJob?&JobOpeningId=87493&SiteId=110&PostingSeq=1 Any questions let me know. Andy The information contained in this message may be CONFIDENTIAL and is for the intended addressee only. Any unauthorized use, dissemination of the information, or copying of this message is prohibited. If you are not the intended addressee, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Inquiry looking for education HCD
I have a new employee who I'd really like to get out to HCD class. She keeps trying but they are either done remotely (I don’t like) or they are outside the US when in person. I only have one person so having it onsite doesn’t work either. Anyone have ideas? I know in the 90's you could take an HCD taught by multiple vendors. Thanks in advance Andy The information contained in this message may be CONFIDENTIAL and is for the intended addressee only. Any unauthorized use, dissemination of the information, or copying of this message is prohibited. If you are not the intended addressee, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
