Re: BookManager format softcopy
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 8:11 PM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com wrote: The Information Center is very nice in that regard. You can download and run it on your workstation if you like, or you can use the Internet version. Learning curve is nil. Don't make me laugh. I thought you had 2 more weeks before your new job... Yeah, I frequently have cases like I really need to find what the default msglimit is for the IUCV statement in the directory, but the learning curve for using my PDF Reader is so steep... I have a copy of most z/VM PDFs on my laptop and hacked a copy of the HTML index from the VM web site to navigate that. Way cool. Google Desktop Search even searches them when I need. I rarely agree with David, but with respect to the Information Center it's hard to avoid. You may throw that stuff as far as you can (though not in this direction please) Only use it for the VM books by accident when Google leads me there, but I've used it more often for IBM middleware (online, so the latency may be part of my user experience). What I really hate is getting returned a list of a few hits with no indication that it's still searching and will add more later. Similar things happen with text where you see a paragraph and conclude required detail is not there, and then more lines are still added. A lot of the books suffer from too deep nesting of sections. That makes for an attractive layout in print and PDF, but is tedious with expand/hide process of Info Centers. When I click in the ToC under IUCV Statement a section called Operands then I expect to see the operands like in the book itself, not an empty paragraph and again new level of headings. Go ahead, try search the WAS InfoCenter on memory tuning - this gives you lots of references that all look the same because the InfoCenter has the books for WAS on 7 different platforms all merged together. So you get all the duplicated sections as well. Try finding how to restrict the search to the pieces that are relevant for you. Sure, it can be done by constructing your own virtual slice of a book in InfoCenter... But only if you're more patient and desperate than me. I downloaded the relevant PDF and read applicable sections as if it were a book (not much of a learning curve there) | Rob
ESAWEB message
One of my customers is using ESAWEB. Recently, some of their web servers abend some times with these messages 14:34:46 VSIIIH0010E TCP/IP path severed: KILL -9 14:34:46 VSIIIH0010E TCP/IP path severed: TCPIP TCPIP DMSHND911E An IUCV sever error occurred on path 2, iprcode=1; severing of other paths continues 14:34:46 VSIIPS0137W Shutdown of host (Default_host) has started 14:34:46 VSIIPS0137W Shutdown of host (Default_host) has ended Ready; T=31.13/35.61 14:34:46 My customer has no ESAWEB messages manual, and google doesn't find VSIIIH0010E, -- Kris Buelens, IBM Belgium, VM customer support
Re: ESAWEB message
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Kris Buelens kris.buel...@gmail.com wrote: One of my customers is using ESAWEB. Recently, some of their web servers abend some times with these messages 14:34:46 VSIIIH0010E TCP/IP path severed: KILL -9 14:34:46 VSIIIH0010E TCP/IP path severed: TCPIP TCPIP DMSHND911E An IUCV sever error occurred on path 2, iprcode=1; severing of other paths continues 14:34:46 VSIIPS0137W Shutdown of host (Default_host) has started 14:34:46 VSIIPS0137W Shutdown of host (Default_host) has ended Ready; T=31.13/35.61 14:34:46 My customer has no ESAWEB messages manual, and google doesn't find VSIIIH0010E, Your customer is probably looking at the wrong support staff for help in this ;-) From the data that you show, I expect the web server initiated a shutdown because the TCP/IP stack was shutdown or otherwise severed the connection. If that's not what happened, I would suggest the customer to get in touch with us so we can help understand whether he runs current level and one way or the other help him getting things resolved. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software http://www.velocitysoftware.com/
Re: IPGATE errors
I think I found the problem: when opening many files in different workunits, as many APPC connections are made to the SFS server as you have workunits. Even a return to CMS READY doesn't free these connections. The PIPE stages writing CMS files in SFS (even fn ft fm) have by default WORKUNIT PRIVATE, meaning they expose the problem. My PUTFILES REXX stage makes it easy to split a file in several small ones, all open at the same time. Run this in several users and given an SFS server with a small USERS value in its DMSPARM file and SFS will stop new connections coming in. This somehow makes IPGATE produce DMSRXS1419E EventSignal failed and my PUTFILES' user was waiting forever. I changed PUTFILES to have it use WORKUNIT DEFAULT.by default. The new version is on the download library. 2010/9/2 Kris_Buelens kris.buel...@gmail.com I'm struggling with IPGATE too: I've got some code that splits some MDISK resident files into 18 SFS files, these 18 files are open concurrently, and the SFS is remote, over IPGATE. When I tried it, the PIPE hangs, and IPGATE says: ... IPGATEY36 Request from MAINT for POOLSRC at 4567 10.132.224.1 IPGATEY37 started. IPGATEY37 Request from MAINT for POOLSRC at 4567 10.132.224.1 IPGATEY38 started. IPGATEY38 Request from MAINT for POOLSRC at 4567 10.132.224.1 DMSRXS1419E EventSignal failed for event IPGATEY21; RC=8 Reason=108 I found Alan's response about OverridePrecedence and I added it to the local and remote TCP/IP stacks via OBEYFILE and restarted both IPGATEs. But that didn't help. As some other, similar, process runs fins since quite some months (it has 13 files open, and still runs fine today) I decreased the number of files, but now IPGATE abends: ... IPGATEY28 Request from MAINT for POOLSRC at 4567 10.132.224.17 IPGATEY29 started. IPGATEY29 Request from MAINT for POOLSRC at 4567 10.132.224.17 IPGATEY30 started. IPGATEY30 Request from MAINT for POOLSRC at 4567 10.132.224.17 279 +++ total_received = total_received + received_length DMSREX476E Error 41 running IPGATE1Y MTREXX, line 279: Bad arithmetic conversion Kris Buelens -- Kris Buelens, IBM Belgium, VM customer support
Re: 'Approved' Change Techniques - Where Documented?
Hi Jeff, As for the 'official' documentation, i'd suggest the service guide. When applying service updating the CF1 or 190 (490) is one of the steps. But perhaps that's overkill for trivial changes. IMHO, the best thing is to write some workinstructions for these kind of changes. If required one can still point at the manuals, such as the service guide, within this instruction. Also it depends on how your system has been configured. As long as you use the IBM deleved installer system then you can use the sevrice guide as reference. If your system has been tailored to your needs then it might be the service guide doesn't provide the correct instructions. As for our systems, these are not quite build the way IBM would expect so the service guide, with its instructions, is only applicable on our installation system. We have created our own instructions for updating files on the production systems. Regards, Berry. Op 05-09-10 18:38, Jeff Gribbin schreef: If one was looking for the, 'official', 'approved' technique for changing (say) SYSTEM CONFIG (or some other file on MAINT CF1) or even SYSTEM NETID S2, where would one look?
Install z/VM 6.1 on z9 machines
Hi, I tried to install z/VM version 6.1 on our z9 BC machines but it seems not working. Documented in the Cookbook z/VM 6.1 and SLES 11, this version only workable on z10. Just want to clarify, if any of you got this experience. regards, rizal
Re: Install z/VM 6.1 on z9 machines
z10 only: http://www.vm.ibm.com/zvm610/architecture/ On 09/06/2010 10:36 PM, mohd rizal wrote: Hi, I tried to install z/VM version 6.1 on our z9 BC machines but it seems not working. Documented in the Cookbook z/VM 6.1 and SLES 11, this version only workable on z10. Just want to clarify, if any of you got this experience. regards, rizal -- Rich Smrcina Velocity Software, Inc. Mobile: 414-491-6001 Office: 262-392-3717 http://www.velocitysoftware.com Catch the WAVV! http://www.wavv.org WAVV 2011 - April 15-19, 2011 Colorado Springs, CO
