Re: How do I assemble a CP EXIT ?
Jim, David, Dave, My CP exit 1200 is working perfectly now. Thanks for helping me out. Bye, Geert. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Dave Jones Sent: dinsdag 3 mei 2011 2:24 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: How do I assemble a CP EXIT ? Hi, Geert. If Jim's instructions worked for you, that means that your site has the HLASM licensed and installed! You should be able to follow the rest of the instruction and load your CP EXITlet us know if that works. DJ On 05/02/2011 03:42 PM, Dieltiens Geert wrote: Jim, I tried that and the assembly worked, with no errors. I'll try to use the TEXT module as a CP EXIT tomorrow. Thanks! Bye, Geert. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Hughes, Jim Sent: maandag 2 mei 2011 22:30 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: How do I assemble a CP EXIT ? Here is what I do: VMFSETUP ZVM CP VMFHLASM OITW2H01 ZVM CP where OITW2H01 is my exit's name. Good Luck. Jim Hughes Consulting Systems Programmer Mainframe Technical Support Group Department of Information Technology State of New Hampshire 27 Hazen Drive Concord, NH 03301 603-271-5586Fax 603.271.1516 Statement of Confidentiality: The contents of this message are confidential. Any unauthorized disclosure, reproduction, use or dissemination (either whole or in part) is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately and delete the message from your system. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Dieltiens Geert Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 4:17 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: How do I assemble a CP EXIT ? Hi all, I'm trying to assemble the JAMSAMA sample for CP EXIT 1200 (for CP DIAL), from z/VM manual 'CP EXIT CUSTOMIZATION'. I understand the assembler sourcecode from the sample, and I've made my own version with minor modifications. Now I would like to assemble it in CMS. Can anyone tell me how to do that? Do I just use the ASSEMBLE command? Do I need GLOBAL MACLIB commands, etc.? Thanks, Geert. DISCLAIMER This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify postmas...@vanbreda.be This footnote also confirms that this email has been checked for the presence of viruses. Informatica J.Van Breda Co NV BTW BE 0427 908 174 -- Dave Jones V/Soft Software www.vsoft-software.com Houston, TX 281.578.7544
How do I assemble a CP EXIT ?
Hi all, I'm trying to assemble the JAMSAMA sample for CP EXIT 1200 (for CP DIAL), from z/VM manual 'CP EXIT CUSTOMIZATION'. I understand the assembler sourcecode from the sample, and I've made my own version with minor modifications. Now I would like to assemble it in CMS. Can anyone tell me how to do that? Do I just use the ASSEMBLE command? Do I need GLOBAL MACLIB commands, etc.? Thanks, Geert. DISCLAIMER This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify postmas...@vanbreda.be This footnote also confirms that this email has been checked for the presence of viruses. Informatica J.Van Breda Co NV BTW BE 0427 908 174
Re: How do I assemble a CP EXIT ?
Jim, I tried that and the assembly worked, with no errors. I'll try to use the TEXT module as a CP EXIT tomorrow. Thanks! Bye, Geert. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Hughes, Jim Sent: maandag 2 mei 2011 22:30 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: How do I assemble a CP EXIT ? Here is what I do: VMFSETUP ZVM CP VMFHLASM OITW2H01 ZVM CP where OITW2H01 is my exit's name. Good Luck. Jim Hughes Consulting Systems Programmer Mainframe Technical Support Group Department of Information Technology State of New Hampshire 27 Hazen Drive Concord, NH 03301 603-271-5586Fax 603.271.1516 Statement of Confidentiality: The contents of this message are confidential. Any unauthorized disclosure, reproduction, use or dissemination (either whole or in part) is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately and delete the message from your system. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Dieltiens Geert Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 4:17 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: How do I assemble a CP EXIT ? Hi all, I'm trying to assemble the JAMSAMA sample for CP EXIT 1200 (for CP DIAL), from z/VM manual 'CP EXIT CUSTOMIZATION'. I understand the assembler sourcecode from the sample, and I've made my own version with minor modifications. Now I would like to assemble it in CMS. Can anyone tell me how to do that? Do I just use the ASSEMBLE command? Do I need GLOBAL MACLIB commands, etc.? Thanks, Geert. DISCLAIMER This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify postmas...@vanbreda.be This footnote also confirms that this email has been checked for the presence of viruses. Informatica J.Van Breda Co NV BTW BE 0427 908 174
Re: XEDIT to display Euro
Frank, I thought anything below x'40' in EBCDIC was kinda non-displayable. We use code page 1148 Multinational Euro (=code page 500 + Euro) in PCOMM, and XEDIT displays x'9F' as a Euro sign (with TEXT OFF). Bye, Geert. From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Frank M. Ramaekers Sent: woensdag 23 februari 2011 14:59 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: XEDIT to display Euro Is there a way to get XEdit to display the euro symbol? (PC: x’80’ Alt-0128 €, EBCDIC: x’20’) It appears to change this character to the double-quote (“), as it does for undisplayable characters. Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. Systems Programmer MCP, MCP+I, MCSE RHCE American Income Life Insurance Co. Phone: (254)761-6649 1200 Wooded Acres Dr. Fax: (254)741-5777 Waco, Texas 76701 _ This message contains information which is privileged and confidential and is solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any review, disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this in error, please destroy it immediately and notify us at privacy...@ailife.com. DISCLAIMER This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify postmas...@vanbreda.be This footnote also confirms that this email has been checked for the presence of viruses. Informatica J.Van Breda Co NV BTW BE 0427 908 174
Re: DASD Subsystem Migration
Billy, Usually EMC copies the data from the old box the the new box, using an EMC-utility, no mainframe IO involved. Shutdown mainframe, connect to the new box, and IPL. Bye, Geert. From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Billy Bingham Sent: dinsdag 25 januari 2011 13:08 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: DASD Subsystem Migration This email was originally about FDRPAS, but I have changed the subject to reflect a more broader subject. What do other shops use when they have to migrate their VM system to a new DASD subsystem. Say you've installed a DS8300 and you need to migrate from a DS6800. What do you use? Thanks, Billy DISCLAIMER This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify postmas...@vanbreda.be This footnote also confirms that this email has been checked for the presence of viruses. Informatica J.Van Breda Co NV BTW BE 0427 908 174
Coupling TN3270E sessions to VTAM
Hi all, I'm looking into the TN3270E server of TCP/IP for z/VM 5.4 as a replacement for a Cisco CIP/CPA TN3270E server. I have briefly tested the VM TN3270E server, and it seems to works fine. Using the Cisco based TN3270E server, our end-users get a VTAM SNA-session with an USSTAB menu, giving them access to our multidomain VTAM-network and all its applications running in several VM and VSE systems. I can do the same using the TN3270E server in VM: I can connect a TN3270E session to VM/VTAM using the DIAL VTAM command (manually, or from SCEXIT) which creates a Non-SNA-session on which I can show an USSTAB menu. This does require a DEFINE GRAF 3270 for every session that DIALs to VTAM. I tried that and it works, but can I use this DIAL-method for several thousands of TN3270E sessions? Is there a limit to the number of sessions? Or are there better ways for coupling a lot of VM/TN3270E sessions to VM/VTAM? Thanks, Geert. DISCLAIMER This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify postmas...@vanbreda.be This footnote also confirms that this email has been checked for the presence of viruses. Informatica J.Van Breda Co NV BTW BE 0427 908 174
Re: Coupling TN3270E sessions to VTAM
Well, when I have DIALed into VTAM on my VM-TN3270E session then I can reach all VTAM-cross-domain resources/applications (e.g. several CICS region in CTC attached VSEs, etc.), just like I can when using our Cisco TN3270E server. My concearn was more about the thousands of DIAL commands and DEFINE GRAF commands, and using Non-SNA vs. SNA. I was wondering whether this was the correct way of implementing TN3270E in VM, and what its limitations might be. It looks like it's the only way, though... Thanks, Geert. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Frank M. Ramaekers Sent: donderdag 26 augustus 2010 14:17 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Coupling TN3270E sessions to VTAM You didn't mention any guests? Do you have VTAM available in them? If so you can CTCA and use CDRM and CDRSC to access the applications in other systems. Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Dieltiens Geert Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 4:03 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Coupling TN3270E sessions to VTAM Hi all, I'm looking into the TN3270E server of TCP/IP for z/VM 5.4 as a replacement for a Cisco CIP/CPA TN3270E server. I have briefly tested the VM TN3270E server, and it seems to works fine. Using the Cisco based TN3270E server, our end-users get a VTAM SNA-session with an USSTAB menu, giving them access to our multidomain VTAM-network and all its applications running in several VM and VSE systems. I can do the same using the TN3270E server in VM: I can connect a TN3270E session to VM/VTAM using the DIAL VTAM command (manually, or from SCEXIT) which creates a Non-SNA-session on which I can show an USSTAB menu. This does require a DEFINE GRAF 3270 for every session that DIALs to VTAM. I tried that and it works, but can I use this DIAL-method for several thousands of TN3270E sessions? Is there a limit to the number of sessions? Or are there better ways for coupling a lot of VM/TN3270E sessions to VM/VTAM? Thanks, Geert. DISCLAIMER This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify postmas...@vanbreda.be This footnote also confirms that this email has been checked for the presence of viruses. Informatica J.Van Breda Co NV BTW BE 0427 908 174 _ This message contains information which is privileged and confidential and is solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any review, disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this in error, please destroy it immediately and notify us at privacy...@ailife.com.
Re: Coupling TN3270E sessions to VTAM
Thanks all, my questions have been answered. Bye, Geert. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: donderdag 26 augustus 2010 17:25 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Coupling TN3270E sessions to VTAM On Thursday, 08/26/2010 at 05:06 EDT, Dieltiens Geert geert.dielti...@inf.vanbreda.be wrote: I'm looking into the TN3270E server of TCP/IP for z/VM 5.4 as a replacement for a Cisco CIP/CPA TN3270E server. I have briefly tested the VM TN3270E server, and it seems to works fine. Using the Cisco based TN3270E server, our end-users get a VTAM SNA-session with an USSTAB menu, giving them access to our multidomain VTAM-network and all its applications running in several VM and VSE systems. I can do the same using the TN3270E server in VM: I can connect a TN3270E session to VM/VTAM using the DIAL VTAM command (manually, or from SCEXIT) which creates a Non-SNA-session on which I can show an USSTAB menu. This does require a DEFINE GRAF 3270 for every session that DIALs to VTAM. I tried that and it works, but can I use this DIAL-method for several thousands of TN3270E sessions? Is there a limit to the number of sessions? Or are there better ways for coupling a lot of VM/TN3270E sessions to VM/VTAM? DIAL is the only way to connect native VM TN3270E sessions to VTAM, whether you DIAL VTAM, DIAL PVM, or DIAL some other VTAM-enabled guest. If you DIAL VTAM, the limit on the number of sessions is based solely on the number of GRAFs you have defined and the number of the LOCAL LUs you have defined to VTAM. Having thousands of LOCAL LUs defined shouldn't particularly bother VTAM, but you may need to adjust virtual and common storage sizes. Or you may need multiple VTAMs and split things up. (Hey, if it's an odd IP address DIAL VTAM1. If even, dial VTAM2.) Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott DISCLAIMER This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify postmas...@vanbreda.be This footnote also confirms that this email has been checked for the presence of viruses. Informatica J.Van Breda Co NV BTW BE 0427 908 174
How to avoid ATTACHED TO/DETACHED msgs?
Hi, We do quite a lot of ATTACH and DETACH of tapedevices. The problem is that with each ATTACH or DETACH, a msg is sent to the system-operator machine (usually OPERATOR). They look like this: TAPE ATTACHED TO userid BY userid TAPE DETACHED userid BY userid, ... These msgs can be useful for problemsolving when something went wrong, but I have an exec where I would like the ATTACH and DETACH commands to be executed WITHOUT these msgs being sent to sysoper. Is it possible to suppress these msgs on demand? Thanks, Geert. DISCLAIMER This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify postmas...@vanbreda.be This footnote also confirms that this email has been checked for the presence of viruses. Informatica J.Van Breda Co NV BTW BE 0427 908 174
Re: How to avoid ATTACHED TO/DETACHED msgs?
Rich, In 1 word: perfect. Thanks, Geert. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Rich Smrcina Sent: dinsdag 1 juni 2010 15:46 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: How to avoid ATTACHED TO/DETACHED msgs? Geert, Try the SILENTLY command. On 06/01/2010 08:34 AM, Dieltiens Geert wrote: Hi, We do quite a lot of ATTACH and DETACH of tapedevices. The problem is that with each ATTACH or DETACH, a msg is sent to the system-operator machine (usually OPERATOR). They look like this: TAPE ATTACHED TO userid BY userid TAPE DETACHED userid BY userid, ... These msgs can be useful for problemsolving when something went wrong, but I have an exec where I would like the ATTACH and DETACH commands to be executed WITHOUT these msgs being sent to sysoper. Is it possible to suppress these msgs on demand? Thanks, Geert. DISCLAIMER -- Rich Smrcina Phone: 414-491-6001 http://www.linkedin.com/in/richsmrcina Catch the WAVV! http://www.wavv.org WAVV 2011 DISCLAIMER This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify postmas...@vanbreda.be This footnote also confirms that this email has been checked for the presence of viruses. Informatica J.Van Breda Co NV BTW BE 0427 908 174
Re: Automated DDR funny - has anyone got any ideas
Colin, From HELP DDR: Two logical line editing symbols are recognized and handled by the DDR command. The first is the logical character-delete symbol (@) that allows deletion of one or more of the previous characters entered. The second is the logical-line delete symbol ([) that deletes the entire previous physical line Most often, the default values for these two symbols are defined for each virtual machine at system generation. When you use the CP TERMINAL command to redefine the CHARDEL and LINEDEL characters, the redefinitions have no effect on DDR line editing. DDR continues to recognize the at sign (@) and the cent sign ([) as valid CHARDEL and LINEDEL symbols, respectively. Bye, Geert. _ Geert Dieltiens Systeembeheerder Informatica J. Van Breda C° Tel.: + 32 3 217 50 16 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Colin Allinson Sent: woensdag 10 maart 2010 12:45 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Automated DDR funny - has anyone got any ideas I have a series of automated slaves that read a control file and perform DDR copies. These slaves do not have their own RW minidisks so they queue the commands for DDR. In this case the target volume has a label of d...@d5f3 but DDR is winging at a label mismatch. I have traced my exec and can see that the line :- OUT D5F3 DASD d...@d5f3 is being correctly queued but DDR responds with :- HCPDDR711D VOLID READ IS v...@d5f3 NOT D5F3 My first thought was CP TERM setting so I ensured that CHARDEL was set off - but to no avail. (I checked it with a FOR userid CMD Q TERM while it was waiting on a response). Does anyone have any ideas what is happening here? Colin Allinson Amadeus Data Processing GmbH DISCLAIMER This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify postmas...@vanbreda.be This footnote also confirms that this email has been checked for the presence of viruses. Informatica J.Van Breda Co NV BTW BE 0427 908 174
Re: Trapping output right after LOGON
Mike, I think you should be able to trap the OBSERVER msgs using WAKEUP, but you may need a CP SET CPCONIO IUCV statement before you issue the WAKEUP (IUCVMSG command. Bye, Geert. From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Horlick, Michael Sent: maandag 1 maart 2010 19:42 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Trapping output right after LOGON Greetings, I would like to trap all the CP console output from a virtual machine from its initial XAUTOLOG/LOGON. I have several z/VSE machines which are XAUTOLOGed on by the operator. Reason? In rare instances, maybe a pack is not attached to the system which contains some minidisks used by these machines. I know there could be a message such as: HCPLNM108E MIKE A194 not linked; volid XT160D not mounted For a test I have changed a virtual machine CONSOLE statement in its directory to CONSOLE 009 T MIKE OBS and I get all messages after the user logs on. I would like to programmatically trap these messages from a disconnected service machine so that it can be detected. Tried WAKEUP but no luck. Suggestions? Mike Horlick Conseiller CGI Gestion Intégrée des Technologies 1350 Boul. René-Lévesque Ouest Montréal, Qc, H3G 1T4 DISCLAIMER This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify postmas...@vanbreda.be This footnote also confirms that this email has been checked for the presence of viruses. Informatica J.Van Breda Co NV BTW BE 0427 908 174
Re: Daylight Saving Time change
We have our z9 set to GMT/UCT. We code the necessary Timezone_definition and Timezone_boundary statements in SYSTEM CONFIG. You can code Timezone_boundary statements for many years ahead. We don't define anything in the VSE guests. On Sunday morning, we bring down all our VSE's, and VMs. We wait 1 hour to avoid any double timestamps in logs and files and databases. Then we restart everything. When VM is IPL'ed (and only then) it selects the correct timezone from SYSTEM CONFIG Timezone definitions. The VSE guests then automatically use the same timezone as VM. Depending on your setup you could keep VM running and issue a SET TIMEZONE command, but we think it's safer to just stop VM during 1 hour. It's also a good excuse to have the z9 for ourselves for a while and do all those changes that have been waiting to go into production... Geert. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Frank M. Ramaekers Sent: dinsdag 13 oktober 2009 15:35 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Daylight Saving Time change How do you accomplish this change? (Especially with guests O/S's, like VSE, and timing related service machines, like VMUTIL). Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. Systems Programmer MCP, MCP+I, MCSE RHCE American Income Life Insurance Co. Phone: (254)761-6649 1200 Wooded Acres Dr.Fax: (254)741-5777 Waco, Texas 76710 _ This message contains information which is privileged and confidential and is solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any review, disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this in error, please destroy it immediately and notify us at privacy...@ailife.com. DISCLAIMER This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify postmas...@vanbreda.be This footnote also confirms that this email has been checked for the presence of viruses. Informatica J.Van Breda Co NV BTW BE 0427 908 174
Re: IBM DS6800 caching
Thank you for the reminder. Indeed, we always use 1 MDISK statement, and other guests have a LINK to that. And we don't share data between LPARs; so we're using MDC wherever it's useful. Geert. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: woensdag 29 juli 2009 21:13 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: IBM DS6800 caching On Wednesday, 07/29/2009 at 02:51 EDT, Dieltiens Geert geert.dielti...@inf.vanbreda.be wrote: But in our development VM (with 3 busy VSE guests) I've always used MDC for the Dynam catalog MDISK and never had any problem with it. Within a single z/VM system, MDC is fine as long as you use LINKs to a single MDISK. But if you create separate MDISKs (without NOMDC) rather than using LINKs, I am told the system will create a separate cache for each MDISK and your data will be toast. MDC must be turned off if you are sharing with other LPARs. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott DISCLAIMER This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify postmas...@vanbreda.be This footnote also confirms that this email has been checked for the presence of viruses. Informatica J.Van Breda Co NV BTW BE 0427 908 174
Re: IBM DS6800 caching
Tom, FWIW, we too had a corrupt Dynam 7.0 catalog, in 2005. First, we got the advise from CA about not using caching/MDC for Dynam catalog MDISKs and like you I had my doubts about it but just to be on the safe side I coded NOMDC for the MDISK for the Dynam catalog in the production VM. But in our development VM (with 3 busy VSE guests) I've always used MDC for the Dynam catalog MDISK and never had any problem with it. The hardware cache (3990 controllers in EMC Symmetrix) has always been active AFAIK. Then, we found out that during a backup-restore of the Dynam catalog, the catalog got dequeued to soon. While reviewing the logs, to my surprise, I saw that *another* batchjob had been able to update the catalog simultaneously with the restore, causing the corruption. That other job issued CADD014W CATLG. ERR. R/C=0C10 FILE=xxx, but apparantly the damage had been done. We then received ptf T705710 from CA (which is now available as QO72105 DYNCAT - Prevent dequeue during RESTORE REORG), applied it and never had that problem again. If you are current on Dynam service, then it's probably on your system already. I also remember a mandatory SHARE=YES parameter when initialising a shared Dynam catalog. But you probably went thru all that with CA. Bye, Geert. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Tom Duerbusch Sent: dinsdag 28 juli 2009 19:52 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: IBM DS6800 caching Can cache be turned off for a volume on the DS6800? I don't think so. But I would like to confirm that. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting DISCLAIMER This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify postmas...@vanbreda.be This footnote also confirms that this email has been checked for the presence of viruses. Informatica J.Van Breda Co NV BTW BE 0427 908 174
Re: Third level VSE
Berry, The guest runs with attached DASD so MDC is not applicable in this case. Do you mean: attached to the VSE-guest or to the VM/ESA-guest? If attached to the VSE-guest: is there still a real performance benefit in attaching dasd to a 3rd level VSE-guest? Anyway, MDC has the potential of giving your VSE-throughput a real boost (it did in our case), so in order for the VSE-guest to benefit from MDC in the VM/ESA system, I would: - in the first level z/VM: attach the dasd to the 2nd level VM/ESA guest. - in the 2nd level VM/ESA: attach the dasd to SYSTEM, and define fullpack MDISKs for the 3rd level VSE guest. Also, if enough storage is available in VSE, add more buffers to your CICS LSR-pools and/or database system. Bye, Geert. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Berry van Sleeuwen Sent: woensdag 29 april 2009 12:01 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Third level VSE Hello Kris, The guest runs with attached DASD so MDC is not applicable in this case. It doesn't look like IO is the problem here. But obviously any command processed in the guest will cause double the load in the host VM. So I do= agree to avoid as much as possible. I don't know if MDC in the guest is possible or acceptable. Paging is not an issue. The host has 1G, the guest has 512M. The VSE runs= NOPDS and the guest VM doesn't page. Yes, we run PTK. Running in the current config the guest VM can run up to= 100%, and it does. When we assign 2 virtual CPU's to both VM and VSE (and= start TD) we have seen the guest running up to about 190%. Also VSE does show processing at 100% CPU. But even an increase to 2 CPU's doesn't lowe= r the transaction times for the transactions in question to an acceptable l= evel. Regards, Berry. DISCLAIMER This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify postmas...@vanbreda.be This footnote also confirms that this email has been checked for the presence of viruses. Informatica J.Van Breda Co NV BTW BE 0427 908 174
Re: Third level VSE
Well, if the problem is caused by a CPU-intensive CICS-program, then I would expect that you would have seen that problem on your old system as well (when we put a really CPU-intensive CICS-program into production, we get calls from frustrated users immediately). But you'll need a CICS monitor to look into the resource usage of your CICS-transactions... A couple of other things to consider regarding CPU-resources: - is the VM/ESA guest the only (heavy) guest in the z/VM system or is competing with others? - was CP SET SHARE set appropriately for this guest in the z/VM system? - did you provide QUICKDSP for the VM/ESA guest in the z/VM system? - does the LPAR get all the resources you think its getting (check the Change Logical Partition Controls task or the activity display on the HMC)? Bye, Geert. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Berry van Sleeuwen Sent: woensdag 29 april 2009 13:51 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Third level VSE Geert, Do you mean: attached to the VSE-guest or to the VM/ESA-guest? If attached to the VSE-guest: is there still a real performance benefit in attaching dasd to a 3rd level VSE-guest? Attached to the guest VM. I don't know if there would be any advantage in= attaching to third level, other than an as-is move to a new location. Anyway, MDC has the potential of giving your VSE-throughput a real boost= (it did in our case), so in order for the VSE-guest to benefit from MDC in the VM/ESA system, I would: - in the first level z/VM: attach the dasd to the 2nd level VM/ESA guest. - in the 2nd level VM/ESA: attach the dasd to SYSTEM, and define fullpack MDISKs for the 3rd level VSE guest. But would that also boost non-IO load? I expect the problem is CPU load i= n some stupid program. In that case any MDC wouldn't help me for that. The only advantage would be an improvement of the batch processing. Also, if enough storage is available in VSE, add more buffers to your CICS LSR-pools and/or database system. Storage enough. We have 512M spare in the host VM that isn't used. And th= e VSE runs NOPDS so we can increase it just by adding virtual storage in th= e VSE guest directory. If VM runs out of storage (or starts paging at any serious level) we can add virual storage to the guest VM. Regards, Berry. DISCLAIMER This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify postmas...@vanbreda.be This footnote also confirms that this email has been checked for the presence of viruses. Informatica J.Van Breda Co NV BTW BE 0427 908 174
HMC remote access: Internet Explorer 7 problems
Hi, Our HMC is at the very latest level, and still the Hardware Management Console remote access doesn't work well with Internet Explorer 7. Most of the time it's OK, but then suddenly new HMC-windows don't popup(with popup blocker disabled), and sometimes they do popup but remain blank, sometimes nothing happens after double clicking an icon, sometimes a bunch of windows popup after closing another window... However, it does work well with Firefox, but we're not allowed to install Firefox on our PCs (company policy). So, does anyone know how I can make it work(consistantly) with IE 7, or what the problem with IE 7 is? Is anyone else having these problems? Thanks, Geert. DISCLAIMER This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify postmas...@vanbreda.be This footnote also confirms that this email has been checked for the presence of viruses. Informatica J.Van Breda Co NV BTW BE 0427 908 174
FW: IPL 190 hangs in zVM 5.4 - solved
Well, it seems that our missing interrupts were being caused by a bug in the EMC-microcode, in combination with z/VM 5.4. Eventually, last Friday afternoon, it did kill our production (and me too, feeling better now, thanks). Upgrading to the latest EMC-microcode apparantly fixed it. But to be fair I must say this was the first time in 15+ years that the EMC-boxes caused a serious mainframe-related problem, and EMC-support was very quick to repair it. If you're planning to be or already are running z/VM 5.4 on a multi-LPAR System z with shared dasd in an EMC Symmetrix DMX, then make shure you have that latest EMC-microcode. Thanks, Geert. __ From: Dieltiens Geert Sent: dinsdag 24 maart 2009 18:16 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: FW: IPL 190 hangs in zVM 5.4 An update: This seems to be related to missing interrupts for the volume(540RES) where the CMS IPL minidisk resides. Almost exactly 5 minutes after I issued IPL 190, the IPL came through. Better late than never :-) But the IPL worked eventually, which is quite a relief. I repeated the IPL a couple of times, and every time I had to wait 5 minutes. The 5 minute interval is twice our MITIME interval for DASD (2 x 2 minutes and 30 seconds). If I set MITIME to 5 seconds for volume 540RES then I always have to wait 10 seconds before I get the CMS IPL-headermessage after an IPL 190. That's quite a bit quicker than before it's not like it's supposed to be. So it seems that 2 missing interrupts have to be processed before the IPL 190 continues. I still have no idea what could be causing this... Bye, Geert. _ Geert Dieltiens Systeembeheerder Informatica J. Van Breda C° Tel.: + 32 3 217 50 16 __ From: Dieltiens Geert Sent: dinsdag 24 maart 2009 16:35 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: IPL 190 hangs in zVM 5.4 Hi all, 10 days ago we activated z/VM 5.4 in production. All worked really well. But yesterday when I logged on MAINT I noticed that CMS didn't IPL. It now seems that IPL 190 no longer works (in any VM-userid). After entering the IPL 190 command (or just logging on to MAINT) nothing happens. From that point on other users that issue IPL 190 or IPL CMS will hang as well. A LINK to a minidisk on the same volume (540RES) will hang as well. It seems that the whole volume is being locked. We can solve the hang by issuing #CP IPL CMS in the machine where the IPL 190 was issued (IPL CMS still works fine). Other users can then proceed as well. When I do an IPL 190 in user MAINT, Performance Toolkit shows this for USER MAINT: ... Device activity and status: 0009 3215 .0 000C 254R CL *, EOFNOH NCNT 000D 254P CL A, CO 01, NOH NCNT000E 3211 CL A, CO 01, NOH NCNT 0112 3390 .0 B001,RR, 65Cyl,---00123 3390 .0 B03C,WR,3339Cyl,---0 0124 3390 .0 B03D,WR,3339Cyl,---00125 3390 .0 B03E,WR,3339Cyl,---0 0190 3390 .0 B03C,WR, 107Cyl,BUSY 0191 3390 .0 B03C,WR, 175Cyl,---0 ... Please note that 190 is marked BUSY. It stays that way until I issue #CP IPL CMS in user MAINT. I also tried an IPL 490 in user MAINT and that hangs as well. I copied MAINT 190 using DDR to another volume as minidisk A190 and issued IPL A190 and that hangs as well. I then made this minidisk available to another VM-system, IPLed it, and that works fine. Any ideas what's going on? Thanks, Geert. _ Geert Dieltiens Systeembeheerder Informatica J. Van Breda C° DISCLAIMER This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify postmas...@vanbreda.be This footnote also confirms that this email has been checked for the presence of viruses. Informatica J.Van Breda Co NV BTW BE 0427 908 174
Re: IPL 190 hangs in zVM 5.4 - solved
This was with a DMX 3 (ESCON attached), but I think it goes for DMX 4 as well. AFAIK we were running microcode level 5772 and still are, allthough we now run the most recent sublevel. But I can't give you more details than that, my collegue manages the EMC environment and he's not in at the moment... What I do know is that the EMC-fix that should solve the problem was fix 39925, dated november 2008. If your microde level is more recent than that, you probably have the fix already. Bye, Geert. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Feller, Paul Sent: maandag 30 maart 2009 15:17 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: IPL 190 hangs in zVM 5.4 - solved If possible, could you please give a little more detail. What model of EMC DMX and what level of microcode? Paul Feller AIT Mainframe Technical Support -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Dieltiens Geert Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 6:35 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: FW: IPL 190 hangs in zVM 5.4 - solved Well, it seems that our missing interrupts were being caused by a bug in the EMC-microcode, in combination with z/VM 5.4. Eventually, last Friday afternoon, it did kill our production (and me too, feeling better now, thanks). Upgrading to the latest EMC-microcode apparantly fixed it. But to be fair I must say this was the first time in 15+ years that the EMC-boxes caused a serious mainframe-related problem, and EMC-support was very quick to repair it. If you're planning to be or already are running z/VM 5.4 on a multi-LPAR System z with shared dasd in an EMC Symmetrix DMX, then make shure you have that latest EMC-microcode. Thanks, Geert. __ From: Dieltiens Geert Sent: dinsdag 24 maart 2009 18:16 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: FW: IPL 190 hangs in zVM 5.4 An update: This seems to be related to missing interrupts for the volume(540RES) where the CMS IPL minidisk resides. Almost exactly 5 minutes after I issued IPL 190, the IPL came through. Better late than never :-) But the IPL worked eventually, which is quite a relief. I repeated the IPL a couple of times, and every time I had to wait 5 minutes. The 5 minute interval is twice our MITIME interval for DASD (2 x 2 minutes and 30 seconds). If I set MITIME to 5 seconds for volume 540RES then I always have to wait 10 seconds before I get the CMS IPL-headermessage after an IPL 190. That's quite a bit quicker than before it's not like it's supposed to be. So it seems that 2 missing interrupts have to be processed before the IPL 190 continues. I still have no idea what could be causing this... Bye, Geert. _ Geert Dieltiens Systeembeheerder Informatica J. Van Breda C° Tel.: + 32 3 217 50 16 __ From: Dieltiens Geert Sent: dinsdag 24 maart 2009 16:35 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: IPL 190 hangs in zVM 5.4 Hi all, 10 days ago we activated z/VM 5.4 in production. All worked really well. But yesterday when I logged on MAINT I noticed that CMS didn't IPL. It now seems that IPL 190 no longer works (in any VM-userid). After entering the IPL 190 command (or just logging on to MAINT) nothing happens. From that point on other users that issue IPL 190 or IPL CMS will hang as well. A LINK to a minidisk on the same volume (540RES) will hang as well. It seems that the whole volume is being locked. We can solve the hang by issuing #CP IPL CMS in the machine where the IPL 190 was issued (IPL CMS still works fine). Other users can then proceed as well. When I do an IPL 190 in user MAINT, Performance Toolkit shows this for USER MAINT: ... Device activity and status: 0009 3215 .0 000C 254R CL *, EOFNOH NCNT 000D 254P CL A, CO 01, NOH NCNT000E 3211 CL A, CO 01, NOH NCNT 0112 3390 .0 B001,RR, 65Cyl,---00123 3390 .0 B03C,WR,3339Cyl,---0 0124 3390 .0 B03D,WR,3339Cyl,---00125 3390 .0 B03E,WR,3339Cyl,---0 0190 3390 .0 B03C,WR, 107Cyl,BUSY 0191 3390 .0 B03C,WR, 175Cyl,---0 ... Please note that 190 is marked BUSY. It stays that way until I issue #CP IPL CMS in user MAINT. I also tried an IPL 490 in user MAINT and that hangs as well. I copied MAINT 190 using DDR to another volume as minidisk A190 and issued IPL A190 and that hangs as well. I then made this minidisk available to another VM-system, IPLed it, and that works fine. Any ideas what's going on? Thanks, Geert. _ Geert Dieltiens Systeembeheerder Informatica J. Van Breda C° DISCLAIMER This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you
Re: FW: IPL 190 hangs in zVM 5.4
I've been looking at the EREP EVENT-reports, and I see the following entries for every IPL 190 that I did in user MAINT: SPID SSYS ID REASON PSW-MCH /PROG-EC TIME JOBNAME RECTYP CP CUA DEVT CMD CSW SENSE04 06 * DNO CRW CHP SCSW 17 54 04 71 MAINTMIH03 B03C 3390 NA START PENDING I didn't a lot of info about START PENDING in the EREP doc. Anyone know what it means, what's causing it, or where I could find more info? Thanks, Geert. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: donderdag 26 maart 2009 4:07 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: FW: IPL 190 hangs in zVM 5.4 On Wednesday, 03/25/2009 at 02:11 EDT, Dieltiens Geert geert.dielti...@inf.vanbreda.be wrote: We have been using our current DASD setup for about 5 months now, with no problems, until a couple of days ago. We have 896 (256+256+256+128) devices on the Escon channels, using 4 control units, which PTK shows as 3990-6. AFAIK this should all be nicely within the IBM and EMC limits. What puzzles me is that we do millions of IOs to all those devices, but the problem only occurs with the IPL command in a virtual machine. Is there some special kind of IO involved with IPL? For a real (LPAR) IPL, yes, it is a special I/O. For virtual IPL, CP just reads the IPL records from the [real or virtual] disk, starts the I/O and loads the initial PSW. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott DISCLAIMER This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify postmas...@vanbreda.be This footnote also confirms that this email has been checked for the presence of viruses. Informatica J.Van Breda Co NV BTW BE 0427 908 174
Re: FW: IPL 190 hangs in zVM 5.4
Alan, I made that device available to a VM in another LPAR on the same CEC, and there the IPL worked. Our 3 LPARs share the same Escon channels to an EMC box. Each LPAR only uses it's own set of DASD devices (the other devices are set offline according to SYSTEM CONFIG OFFLINE_AT_IPL). In the production LPAR I see msgs like this on the OPERATOR console: HCPMHT2153I DASD B03C I/O CANCELLED DUE TO A MISSING INTERRUPT They started appearing since the moment that I IPL'd another VM in another LPAR last weekend. I thought that maybe some devices were being used in both LPARs, but I checked, and that's not the case. Maybe EMC can find out more... Thanks, Geert. _ Geert Dieltiens Systeembeheerder Informatica J. Van Breda C° Tel.: + 32 3 217 50 16 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: dinsdag 24 maart 2009 20:30 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: FW: IPL 190 hangs in zVM 5.4 On Tuesday, 03/24/2009 at 01:18 EDT, Dieltiens Geert geert.dielti...@inf.vanbreda.be wrote: This seems to be related to missing interrupts for the volume(540RES) where the CMS IPL minidisk resides. : So it seems that 2 missing interrupts have to be processed before the IPL 190 continues. I still have no idea what could be causing this... There will be a MI message on the OPERATOR's console and an EREP record will have been cut. When you made the device available to your other VM system, was that system in another LPAR on the same CEC or a different CEC? (If a different CEC, then you have another hardware path.) Check your switch and storage controller consoles to see if they're unhappy for any reason. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott DISCLAIMER This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify postmas...@vanbreda.be This footnote also confirms that this email has been checked for the presence of viruses. Informatica J.Van Breda Co NV BTW BE 0427 908 174
Re: FW: IPL 190 hangs in zVM 5.4
Alan, We have been using our current DASD setup for about 5 months now, with no problems, until a couple of days ago. We have 896 (256+256+256+128) devices on the Escon channels, using 4 control units, which PTK shows as 3990-6. AFAIK this should all be nicely within the IBM and EMC limits. What puzzles me is that we do millions of IOs to all those devices, but the problem only occurs with the IPL command in a virtual machine. Is there some special kind of IO involved with IPL? Thanks, Geert. _ Geert Dieltiens Systeembeheerder Informatica J. Van Breda C° Tel.: + 32 3 217 50 16 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: woensdag 25 maart 2009 16:33 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: FW: IPL 190 hangs in zVM 5.4 On Wednesday, 03/25/2009 at 03:54 EDT, Dieltiens Geert geert.dielti...@inf.vanbreda.be wrote: I made that device available to a VM in another LPAR on the same CEC, and there the IPL worked. Our 3 LPARs share the same Escon channels to an EMC box. Each LPAR only uses it's own set of DASD devices (the other devices are set offline according to SYSTEM CONFIG OFFLINE_AT_IPL). In the production LPAR I see msgs like this on the OPERATOR console: HCPMHT2153I DASD B03C I/O CANCELLED DUE TO A MISSING INTERRUPT They started appearing since the moment that I IPL'd another VM in another LPAR last weekend. I thought that maybe some devices were being used in both LPARs, but I checked, and that's not the case. Maybe EMC can find out more... I have seen odd I/O incidents (tho not on EMC) when the number of devices defined in an I/O configuration exceeds the number supported by the control unit. E.g. every dasd chpid with every device on the chpid defined to all the LPARs. As soon as a device beyond the limit is used, it pulls the device away from whoever had it first. But working it through EMC will be good. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott DISCLAIMER This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify postmas...@vanbreda.be This footnote also confirms that this email has been checked for the presence of viruses. Informatica J.Van Breda Co NV BTW BE 0427 908 174
IPL 190 hangs in zVM 5.4
Hi all, 10 days ago we activated z/VM 5.4 in production. All worked really well. But yesterday when I logged on MAINT I noticed that CMS didn't IPL. It now seems that IPL 190 no longer works (in any VM-userid). After entering the IPL 190 command (or just logging on to MAINT) nothing happens. From that point on other users that issue IPL 190 or IPL CMS will hang as well. A LINK to a minidisk on the same volume (540RES) will hang as well. It seems that the whole volume is being locked. We can solve the hang by issuing #CP IPL CMS in the machine where the IPL 190 was issued (IPL CMS still works fine). Other users can then proceed as well. When I do an IPL 190 in user MAINT, Performance Toolkit shows this for USER MAINT: ... Device activity and status: 0009 3215 .0 000C 254R CL *, EOFNOH NCNT 000D 254P CL A, CO 01, NOH NCNT000E 3211 CL A, CO 01, NOH NCNT 0112 3390 .0 B001,RR, 65Cyl,---00123 3390 .0 B03C,WR,3339Cyl,---0 0124 3390 .0 B03D,WR,3339Cyl,---00125 3390 .0 B03E,WR,3339Cyl,---0 0190 3390 .0 B03C,WR, 107Cyl,BUSY 0191 3390 .0 B03C,WR, 175Cyl,---0 ... Please note that 190 is marked BUSY. It stays that way until I issue #CP IPL CMS in user MAINT. I also tried an IPL 490 in user MAINT and that hangs as well. I copied MAINT 190 using DDR to another volume as minidisk A190 and issued IPL A190 and that hangs as well. I then made this minidisk available to another VM-system, IPLed it, and that works fine. Any ideas what's going on? Thanks, Geert. _ Geert Dieltiens Systeembeheerder Informatica J. Van Breda C° DISCLAIMER This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify postmas...@vanbreda.be This footnote also confirms that this email has been checked for the presence of viruses. Informatica J.Van Breda Co NV BTW BE 0427 908 174
FW: IPL 190 hangs in zVM 5.4
An update: This seems to be related to missing interrupts for the volume(540RES) where the CMS IPL minidisk resides. Almost exactly 5 minutes after I issued IPL 190, the IPL came through. Better late than never :-) But the IPL worked eventually, which is quite a relief. I repeated the IPL a couple of times, and every time I had to wait 5 minutes. The 5 minute interval is twice our MITIME interval for DASD (2 x 2 minutes and 30 seconds). If I set MITIME to 5 seconds for volume 540RES then I always have to wait 10 seconds before I get the CMS IPL-headermessage after an IPL 190. That's quite a bit quicker than before it's not like it's supposed to be. So it seems that 2 missing interrupts have to be processed before the IPL 190 continues. I still have no idea what could be causing this... Bye, Geert. _ Geert Dieltiens Systeembeheerder Informatica J. Van Breda C° Tel.: + 32 3 217 50 16 __ From: Dieltiens Geert Sent: dinsdag 24 maart 2009 16:35 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: IPL 190 hangs in zVM 5.4 Hi all, 10 days ago we activated z/VM 5.4 in production. All worked really well. But yesterday when I logged on MAINT I noticed that CMS didn't IPL. It now seems that IPL 190 no longer works (in any VM-userid). After entering the IPL 190 command (or just logging on to MAINT) nothing happens. From that point on other users that issue IPL 190 or IPL CMS will hang as well. A LINK to a minidisk on the same volume (540RES) will hang as well. It seems that the whole volume is being locked. We can solve the hang by issuing #CP IPL CMS in the machine where the IPL 190 was issued (IPL CMS still works fine). Other users can then proceed as well. When I do an IPL 190 in user MAINT, Performance Toolkit shows this for USER MAINT: ... Device activity and status: 0009 3215 .0 000C 254R CL *, EOFNOH NCNT 000D 254P CL A, CO 01, NOH NCNT000E 3211 CL A, CO 01, NOH NCNT 0112 3390 .0 B001,RR, 65Cyl,---00123 3390 .0 B03C,WR,3339Cyl,---0 0124 3390 .0 B03D,WR,3339Cyl,---00125 3390 .0 B03E,WR,3339Cyl,---0 0190 3390 .0 B03C,WR, 107Cyl,BUSY 0191 3390 .0 B03C,WR, 175Cyl,---0 ... Please note that 190 is marked BUSY. It stays that way until I issue #CP IPL CMS in user MAINT. I also tried an IPL 490 in user MAINT and that hangs as well. I copied MAINT 190 using DDR to another volume as minidisk A190 and issued IPL A190 and that hangs as well. I then made this minidisk available to another VM-system, IPLed it, and that works fine. Any ideas what's going on? Thanks, Geert. _ Geert Dieltiens Systeembeheerder Informatica J. Van Breda C° DISCLAIMER This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify postmas...@vanbreda.be This footnote also confirms that this email has been checked for the presence of viruses. Informatica J.Van Breda Co NV BTW BE 0427 908 174
Re: timestamp changing
Zoltan, I found DMSPLU ASSEMBLE on our MAINT 3B2 minidisk. It contains some info on how to use it... Bye, Geert. _ Geert Dieltiens Systeembeheerder Informatica J. Van Breda C° Antwerpen Belgium From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zoltan Balogh Sent: woensdag 4 april 2007 10:04 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: timestamp changing It working file the exec. the important line is here: 'DMSPLU 'rfn rft rfm rdate rtime so it woul be easier to use the DMSPLU in direct. The only problem was with it it hasnt got help (with running without parameter) or HELP DMSPLU Btw DMSPLU is a compiled exec too or compiled from other source? If it is a compiled exec, is there anywhere the source of it? Just because im curious. thanks for fast help! Zoltan On 4/4/07, Zoltan Balogh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok my problem solved the type of the transfer was ascii in default. Now im checking the exec :) On 4/4/07, Zoltan Balogh [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: vmarc unpk fixdate vmarc a No archive members found in FIXDATE VMARC A1. What can be the problem? On 4/4/07, Kris Buelens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DMSPLU is a module that can do this. You can use my EXEC I wrote as a front-end for it: http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/descript.cgi?FIXDATE 2007/4/4, Zoltan Balogh [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : Hi! Can you tell me how can i change the timestamp of a file? Zoltan -- Kris Buelens, IBM Belgium, VM customer support DISCLAIMER This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] This footnote also confirms that this email has been checked for the presence of viruses. Informatica J.Van Breda Co NV BTW BE 0427 908 174
Re: PAV and VSE guest
Dave, I would concentrate on MDC iso. PAV for VSE-fullpacks. When we started using MDC for VSE-dasd, we saw a real boost in throughput even though our real dasd already had quite a large cache. Once MDC has been activated, you can use a monitor (or QMDC EXEC, written by K. Buelens, should be on the VM-download pages) to get an idea of the MDC hit-ratio per minidisk. Keep MDC on for fullpacks with good hit-ratios, and turn it off for the really bad ones. You could even re-arrange your VSE-files onto mostly-read fullpacks vs. mostly write minidisks. We use about 800MB for MDC (no xSTORE). Using more storage didn't really help. A good example for MDC success is the fullpack where DOSRES and SYSWK1 reside: it has an average MDC Hit ratio of 96%. Some of our database(IDMS) fullpacks get 90% as well... Just give it a try. Bye, Geert. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Reinken Sent: maandag 19 maart 2007 21:19 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: PAV and VSE guest I was recently reviewing this: http://www.vm.ibm.com/storman/pav/pav2.html at the behest of my manager. He is looking to extend the life of and better utilize our current hardware. We are running z/VM 5.2 on a z800, with a single z/VSE 3.1.2 guest, using Shark 2105-F20 disk. We currently use DEDICATED volumes for z/VSE. I am not necessarily against changing these volumes to minidisks if there is a performance benefit to be gained. However, from my reading of the above referenced article, it appears to me that converting them to minidisks and running PAV is going to gain me about ZERO, since all I have accessing the disks is a single z/VSE guest. Is this true, or am I missing something and should look into PAV and minidisks for my single z/VSE guest? It looks to me that multiple z/VSE guests sharing volumes on minidisk _may_ benefit from PAV under VM, but a single one won't. DISCLAIMER This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] This footnote also confirms that this email has been checked for the presence of viruses. Informatica J.Van Breda Co NV BTW BE 0427 908 174
Re: Performance Toolkit
Hi, I had the same problem with PTK. I opened a PMR earlier today. After reading your postings I installed the PERF520 PACKMOD and now all seems to be OK. Thank you for posting. Bye, Geert. Geert Dieltiens Systeembeheerder Informatica J. Van Breda C° Belgium From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kurt Acker Sent: maandag 15 januari 2007 17:38 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Performance Toolkit Mike had beat me to this post. Please direct PMR's to z/VM support, queue CPCON, 100 if calling it in. FTP info is: This is the address: testcase.boulder.ibm.com Files from us to a customer should be placed in directory: /s390/fromibm/vm Customers may use the ID anonymous and should respond to the password prompt with the customer@ portion of their internet ID. Thanks and Best Regards, Kurt Acker Colin Allinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 01/15/2007 11:19 AM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Re: Performance Toolkit Sorry if I am being thick but can you tell me the exact FTP site that I need to address for this? Thanks Colin Allinson Amadeus Data Processing Michael Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote :- It appears you have run into the same problem one of our internal accounts encountered yesterday. It appears there is a time-of-day boundary check being performed inside the PERFKIT MODULE. Around Noon on 14 January, the TOD clock rolled from BFxx to C0xx and this TOD boundary check began failing. Here is a recent PMR update There is a problem in the Perfkit discovered late yesterday due to the TOD Clock value changing to x'C0xx '. We have the Perfkit fix(s) on our 'fromibm/vm' FTP site available as: PERF440 PACKMOD PERF510 PACKMOD PERF520 PACKMOD All should be xmitted using BIN F 1024 and unpacked using the CMS COPYFILE (UNPACK option. This should get customers up and running. We will follow thru with an official APAR shortly. Best Regards, Roger Lunsford action taken: supply fixtest action plan : work apar You can/should retrieve the fixtest version of PERFKIT from the FTP site. If you need information on that FTP site, please let me know. You can/should also open a service incident with this problem so we can add you to the (eventual) APAR's interested party's list. Thanks! Mike Donovan DISCLAIMER This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] This footnote also confirms that this email has been checked for the presence of viruses. Informatica J.Van Breda Co NV BTW BE 0427 908 174
HSA size on Z9 BC
Hi, We have been talking to Santa recently and *maybe* this time he will bring us a z9. But I've been told that the HSA on a z9 can be quite large, compared to the current 128 MB on the z800. So I've been playing with the HSA Estimator tool for z9 BC v2.9.1 on Resource Link. The minimum HSA-size the tool predicts (specifiyng 0 devices, no dynamics, no hypersockets) is no less than 1216 MB. Using more realistic numbers for devices etc., I get a HSA size of 1536MB (1,5 GB!). Which is *huge*, compared to the z800. Are these sizes realistic? Can anyone using a z9 give me an indication of the HSA-size on their machines? Thanks! Geert. _ Geert Dieltiens Systeembeheerder Informatica J. Van Breda C° DISCLAIMER This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] This footnote also confirms that this email has been checked for the presence of viruses. Informatica J.Van Breda Co NV BTW BE 0427 908 174
Re: HSA size on Z9 BC
Thanks all for your responses. Luckely I've been a bit conservative when it came to allocating the 8GB on our current CPU (we went from 1GB on a 9672 to 8GB on a z800). Otherwise we may have been in trouble, with only 6 or 7 GB os-storage on a z9. Still, for IBM it may be a small step, but for me it's quite a leap seeing the HSA growing ten-fold. What goes in there nowadays? Hopefully the VM and VSE folks at IBM don't go down that same road... Bye, Geert. _ Geert Dieltiens Systeembeheerder Informatica J. Van Breda C° From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Gentry Sent: donderdag 16 november 2006 13:44 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: HSA size on Z9 BC We installed a z9 this past spring, had originally been running a z800. I was surprised at the amount of storage the new HSA used. We didn't use the estimator. We did loose at least a gig of storage. Luckily we weren't memory constrained. The first time I ran into this situation, (many years ago) was at another shop and they were running a 4381-92E. We had always run VSE native and didn't need any of the special features. When we went to VM on this box, we had to install an IOCP. We were already memory constrained with 64meg and it seemed the IOCP we coded req'd 16 meg. So that cut us to 48meg. Our IBM rep had failed to tell us about this memory hit. Getting the IOCP loaded the first time is a whole other story. I've never understood why IBM used customer storage to load the IOCP/HSA. But, then, as many people have mentioned, IBM is in the business to sell hardware (memory). Steve G. Dieltiens Geert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 11/16/2006 03:59 AM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System To:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc: Subject:HSA size on Z9 BC Hi, We have been talking to Santa recently and *maybe* this time he will bring us a z9. But I've been told that the HSA on a z9 can be quite large, compared to the current 128 MB on the z800. So I've been playing with the HSA Estimator tool for z9 BC v2.9.1 on Resource Link. The minimum HSA-size the tool predicts (specifiyng 0 devices, no dynamics, no hypersockets) is no less than 1216 MB. Using more realistic numbers for devices etc., I get a HSA size of 1536MB (1,5 GB!). Which is *huge*, compared to the z800. Are these sizes realistic? Can anyone using a z9 give me an indication of the HSA-size on their machines? Thanks! Geert. _ Geert Dieltiens Systeembeheerder Informatica J. Van Breda C° DISCLAIMER This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] This footnote also confirms that this email has been checked for the presence of viruses. Informatica J.Van Breda Co NV BTW BE 0427 908 174
Re: Show amount of Memory used
Randy, A CP QUERY FRAMES shows the following in my 2nd level zVM 5.2 installsystem shows: cp q frames All Frames: Configured=51199 Real=51199 Usable=51199 Offline=0 Pageable=45165 NotInitialized=0 GlobalClearedAvail=32 LocalClearedAvail=32 LocalUnclearedAvail=31 Frames 2G: GlobalUnclearedAvail=25724 Pageable=45165 LogicalFreeStorage=156 RealFreeStorage=4 LockedRS=8 LockedCmd=0 MinidiskCache=5102 Nucleus/Prefix=3092 Trace=64 Other=1804 Frames 2G: GlobalUnclearedAvail=0 Pageable=0 LogicalFreeStorage=0 RealFreeStorage=0 LockedRS=0 LockedCmd=0 MinidiskCache=0 Other=0 Ready; T=0.01/0.01 15:20:51 HELP CPQUERY FRAMES shows some explanation... Bye, Geert. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Randy Dray Sent: woensdag 26 juli 2006 15:00 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Show amount of Memory used The new z/vm 5.2 ( installed last weekend) states that it will use memory over 2 gb. How do I look and see how much I am using now? Thanks, Any pointers on good z/vm Beginners books would be great! Randy Dray Systems Programmer Morton Buildings Inc. Morton IL (309) 263-6397 __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com DISCLAIMER This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] This footnote also confirms that this email has been checked for the presence of viruses. Informatica J.Van Breda Co NV BTW BE 0427 908 174
Controlling LPAR capping from VM
Hi, I would like to control capping for a specific LPAR automatically. At 08:00am capping should set on, and at 06:00PM capping should be set off. I know I can change the LPAR capping setting manually on the HMC, but is there a way to do this from within z/VM (4.4)? If not, is there another way to do this automatically? Thanks, Geert. DISCLAIMER This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] This footnote also confirms that this email has been checked for the presence of viruses. Informatica J.Van Breda Co NV BTW BE 0427 908 174
