Peter,
My understanding for what Jim said is a little different.
Actually Jim wrote something about DREF three years ago and I happened to
find it in the archive:
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There are some important differen
>Why does z/OS-1.4 USS cron die/stop/go away without any trace of a
>cause?
How do you recognize it's gone. How do you start it? Any BPX messages
in SYSLOG?
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Hi Walter,
Several of our customer sites are using the MAS (I think they number over
30). I wrote several utility programs that are now offered with the MAS,
and I have some others that they (as yet) don't include with the product.
One of them (since you're z/OS.e) is a very quite (4 step) proce
> Keep in mind that MVS is permitted to move a unfixed backed DREF
>page to another real frame, so do not assume that the real address
>of an unfixed backed DREF page will not change.
...which makes DREF storage behave more like pageable storage than
fixed (like xxSQA): It is not backed until r
>Sorry, I spelled your name wrong..
I've survived it ;-)
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I hope a more pertinent response will appear, but I have Columbus Day off
(thanks, Chris); and the mainframe still offers new worlds to explore.
At the very end of last year, we suddenly confronted an 'opportunity' to
upgrade a z900 to z990. One image on that CEC had been stuck at z/OS 1.4
for som
The PTFs (for 4 z/OS releases) for OA20907 to add a patch byte to
ADRDSSU are now available:
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APAR Identifier .. OA20907 Last Changed 07/10/06
PATCH BYTE FOR DS1DSCHA / DS1IND20 ON FULL AND TRACKS RESTORE
Symptom .. IN INCORROUT
Not wasted. Instead, a very valuable educational experience.
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Problem resolved, everyone. I wasted a day because I had inadvertantly
specified the ASID's in decim
Problem resolved, everyone. I wasted a day because I had inadvertantly
specified the ASID's in decimal instead of their hex values. That's why the
SLIP was marked inactive, because load module DSNXGRDS, specified in the
PVTMOD parameter, was nowhere to be found in those wrong address spaces.
Th
Some days ago I noticed a request as to how difficult the move from a z900
to a z9 with the now unsupported release of z/OS 1.4. It looked like you
just had to apply the appropriate compatibility PTFs and PSP buckets.
However, I either did not see or missed if this was done using the
ORDERABLE
Here it is:
SLIP SET,IF,PVTMOD=(DSNXGRDS,B810A0,B818D0),A=SYNCSVCD,ID=DBXX,
ASID=(0052,006F),
SDATA=(ALLNUC,ALLPSA,CSA,GRSQ,LPA,LSQA,RGN,SQA,SUM,SWA,TRT),END
ASID is as you have it, tso id, and DBxxDBM1 address space. Note 2d
address in PVTMOD. I ha
Mark, can you copy and paste the SLIP command you used? This is driving me
nuts!
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 14:34:13 -0500, Ediger Mark - medige
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>
>Just to let you know, your slip does trigger on my system after a SELECT
>CURRENT TIMESTAMP FROM SYSIBM.SYSDUMMY1, but it is marke
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Carlos A. Bodra
>
> I´m trying to IPL z/OS in a z890 and receives following
> message after a POR:
>
> AN ERROR WAS DETECTED IN PARTITION LPARPRD1. CENTRAL
> PROCESSOR (CP) 00 IS IN DISABLE WAIT STATE. THE DISABLED
> -Original Message-
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carlos A. Bodra
> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 2:42 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
> Subject: Some help with disabel wait
>
>
> I´m trying to IPL z/OS in a z890 and receives following
>
With 12 hour clocks, correspond with someone 12 hours away!!
For UTC, I assumed that they would be 24-hour analog clocks.
That's why, when I suggested orienting the clocks a certain way,
I chose their "noon", not midnight, because it would be the
middle of their day.
From: Howard Brazee <[EMA
I´m trying to IPL z/OS in a z890 and receives following message after a POR:
AN ERROR WAS DETECTED IN PARTITION LPARPRD1. CENTRAL PROCESSOR (CP)
00 IS IN DISABLE WAIT STATE. THE DISABLED WAIT PROGRAM STATUS WORD(PSW) IS
000A001000B1. CENTRAL STORAGE BYTES 0-7 ARE: 000A00900074
Since I´m
I'm having trouble tying this 'problem' to a specific z/OS level, but we
discovered in early 2005 that one system in the enterprise was seeing
hugely elongated execution times for some catalog intensive jobs. Like 10 -
20 longer (!) on a massively configured production LPAR vs. even a puny
little s
Just to let you know, your slip does trigger on my system after a SELECT
CURRENT TIMESTAMP FROM SYSIBM.SYSDUMMY1, but it is marked
ENABLED(ACTIVE)
Mark Ediger
Acxiom
>So, it would appear that it's not finding load module DSNXGRDS. I've
tried
>LPAMOD, too. Same results. Anyway, I
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> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 1:58 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
> Subject: Logical PRocessor assignment - Processor Weight
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I have 823 MIPS processor Y02-209
I am 99% sure its within dfsms.. On a catalog report all numbers
Across the board are extremely higher..especially the mvs and bcs allocate.
Bill
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Are you sure is it a catalog problem ?
What is your main delay reported by RMF ?
Atenciosamente / Regards / Saludos
Ituriel do Nascimento Neto
Banco Bradesco S/A
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Tel: 55 11 4197-2021 Fax: 55 11 4197-2814
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Hi,
I have 823 MIPS processor Y02-2096 z9BC
I have 4 LPARS and 2 CF
PRODA
DEVEA
TESTA
MAINA
HSCF1
HSCF2
My requirement is to allocate
400 MIPS to PRODA
200 MIPS to DEVEA
200 MIPS to TESTA
23 MIPS to MAINA
It should be capped so that LPARS can not use more than allocated MIPS. I am
not sure wh
We've been on 1.7 for some time and never noticed a problem like this.
But be careful about the straws you grasp. You could be spending time going
down a path that leads to a dead-end. Do you have some evidence that
suggests the problem may be related to CATALOG? Are there any messages?
Oth
Bill,
Look at OA20748. There is no fix available for it yet, and it describes
a performance problem with catalogs in ECS mode and autotuning enabled.
The recommendation is to F CATALOG,DISABLE(AUTOTUNING) until a fix is
available.
John
Confidentiality notice: The information included in this
We converted to 1.7 over the weekend, mostly good, but a couple of really
weird problems. Job used to execute in 4 minutes now
Takes 20...Only that one job. A couple of jobs running snap, are taking a
bit longer as well. Is everybody running with the
Catalog auto tune on? I am just grabbing at
If you have CA-MIM(MIA) nee GTAF once upon a time STAM you will need PTF
QO91316 11.5 or version 11.6 where this fix is included in the base in order to
run with ALLOWUSERKEYCSA(NO) set or defaulted.
We ran into a problem and got excellent support from the CA Pittsburgh lab
getting a fix in 11.
> >CSVQUERY allows you to specify (any) address as the search criteria.
If
> >the address lies within a loaded module, CSVQUERY will tell you which
> >module that is.
>
> It will not, however, tell you which entry point was used. Depending
on
> what the OP needs, extracting a name from a CDE or JS
With a the number of systems at 32 and a classlen of 956, the
CFSizer yields a structure size of 94208. The output from the D XCF,STR
shows:
D XCF,STR,STRNAME=IXCSTR01
IXC360I 11.23.15 DISPLAY XCF 900
STRNAME: IXCSTR01
STATUS: ALLOCATED
EVENT MANAGEMENT: POLICY-BASED
TYPE: LIST
POL
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IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 10/08/2007
12:29:36 PM:
> Once a frame has been assigned to a DREF area it is effectively the same
> as an ESQA frame (if it is in a common area subpool) or an ELSQA frame.
> ESQA is permanently mapped until it is freed or released. ELSQA is
> private stora
On 8 Oct 2007 08:02:45 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Mason)
wrote:
>Well, the one I would pity would be the person, most likely a truck driver,
>who travelled the Karakoram Highway from, say, Kashgar to, say, Rawalpindi.
>In spite of this being a North-South journey, he (most unlikely to be
>
Paul Gilmartin wrote:
IBM utilities are moving glacially in the rignt direction. A conspicuous
laggard is ISPF PDS member time stamps. There ought to be a PARMLIB option
allowing installations to choose to store those in UTC, notwithstanding
setting of the system time zone otherwise.
A collate
> >And in my opinion, that's why DREF is superior to FIXED: it's backed
up
> >by real frames only when you access it for the first time (like
> pageable
> >area). And MVS has special facility to make it suitable for disabled
> user.
>
> DREF was introduced when real storage still was a scarce reso
Johnny Luo wrote:
And in my opinion, that's why DREF is superior to FIXED: it's backed up by
real frames only when you access it for the first time (like pageable area).
And MVS has special facility to make it suitable for disabled user.
DREF is not superior to fixed. Fixed is not superior t
Lance,
I don't think so. I displayed all the existing SLIPs in the system, all
defaults of
IBM (the Xnnn SLIPs). All of them are non-PER.
I did find the following, however, in the MVS System Commands manual:
--
SLIP allows specification of NUCMOD, PVTMOD, and LPAMOD on the trap.
Howev
---
Actually our SMF dump job dumps to a daily tape which in the next step
is mod on to a weekly tape using IEBGENER (actually ICEGENER in our
case). This weekly tape is then concatenated to a monthly tape once a
week. I keep multiple generations of the daily
Sorry, I spelled your name wrong..
On 10/8/07, Johnny Luo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Perter,
>
> Thanks a lot for your help to a newbie :)
>
>
> On 10/8/07, Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Sorry for the incomplete post. I had a finger check...
> >
> >
> >
> > -
Perter,
Thanks a lot for your help to a newbie :)
On 10/8/07, Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Sorry for the incomplete post. I had a finger check...
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On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 17:01:55 +0200, Chris Mason wrote:
>
>Well, the one I would pity would be the person, most likely a truck driver,
>who travelled the Karakoram Highway from, say, Kashgar to, say, Rawalpindi.
>In spite of this being a North-South journey, he (most unlikely to be
>female) would suf
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 08:32:23 -0600, Howard Brazee wrote:
>On 5 Oct 2007 21:43:56 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Hewson)
>wrote:
>
>>It has got to the stage where I am now suggesting that all our computers
>>just be set to UTC, with no local offset. That moves ALL handling of local
>>time to the ap
ENABLED(INACTIVE)
means that there is already a PER type slip active in the system. Disable
or
delete it.
Lance
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Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 5:18 AM
Subject: SLIP slid
"Hunkeler Peter , KIUK 3" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL
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> Sorry for the incomplete post. I had a finger check...
>
>
> DREF was introduced when real storage still was a scarce resource but
> when
> systems already had quite some expanded storage. DREF stor
Howard
Well, the one I would pity would be the person, most likely a truck driver,
who travelled the Karakoram Highway from, say, Kashgar to, say, Rawalpindi.
In spite of this being a North-South journey, he (most unlikely to be
female) would suffer a 3 hour discontinuity at the summit of the
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hunkeler Peter , KIUK 3) writes:
> Fixed storage is not only to support diabled users but much more often
> used in the ubiquituos I/O processing
On 5 Oct 2007 21:43:56 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Hewson)
wrote:
>It has got to the stage where I am now suggesting that all our computers
>just be set to UTC, with no local offset. That moves ALL handling of local
>time to the applications which interface with people. Knowing that all
>syste
Try running the DB2 DIAGNOSE MEPL utility. (Details in DB2 Utility
Guide and Reference) This gives the entry point for every module.
Compare that with your ABMLIST and use MEPL if different.
Mark Ediger
Acxiom
I'm trying to trap DB2's processing of a SELECT CURRENT TIMESTAMP
request.
This req
Hello
First, I work for DTS but the important difference between products that
reduce out of space conditions is when is the data set selected to be a
candidate for recovery. DFSMS and, I believe, CA-Allocate make that
determination at time of allocation. Under DFSMS, you assign a data
class with
On 6 Oct 2007 10:37:58 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J R) wrote:
>If they are analog clocks, you could orient each one with its
>local noon at the top. ;-)
With 12 hour clocks, correspond with someone 12 hours away!!
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On 5 Oct 2007 14:50:04 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Gilmartin)
wrote:
>I suppose that if our lunchtime is 1800 UTC, the clock for Canberra
>could be adjusted to show 1800 whenever it's lunchtime in Canberra.
>This would work middling well except for an employee based in
>Canberra who happens to
If there are CPU or other spin locks held after the release, the PSW will
remain disabled.
If the releaser requested that the system remain disabled after the
release, the PSW will remain disabled. At some later point, the code will
re-enable.
Peter Relson
z/OS Core Technology Design
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On 5 Oct 2007 15:33:52 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shane) wrote:
>> China has one time zone.
>
>Which (of course) is set for the convenience of Beijing. Pity the poor
>souls in (far) western regions.
>The difference is noticeable just trying to arrange photos at dawn each
>day as you putter up (what
Sorry for the incomplete post. I had a finger check...
>Sorry for my re-visit to this thread cause today I read something about
>FIXED and DREF virtual storage area and feel that something should be
>added.
>
>For FIXED area, it's no longer true: when you GETMAIN, all pages will
be
>backed up by
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 14:40:49 +, Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>wht about Coupling Facility Weightage ... Is there any rules to give some
std weightage to coupling facility ..
>
>Coupling Facilities should be dedicated engines.
>Otherwise, there are a lot of performance issues.
>So, we
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Several folks responded offlist to my request for
a screen shot of ISPF option 2 when running under
z/OS 1.9. Thanks again.
Looks like I need one more piece of information
that is not in the docs: I need to see the list
of topics that drop down from the Help action
bar choice as it is found in th
I am coming into this thread a bit late...
I do not recall ever having a problem using DFSort to process SMF. I use
DFSort all the time to spin off my CICS, DB2, Security records etc... It works
just fine. I even have it where I use DFSort to keep my SMF data in its own
file(s) based on the
Lizette,
Thanks for replying. No, it's the DBM1 region. Anyone who's ever used a Y2K
date simulator knows that's where the simulator's support zap code has to be
executed.
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 08:30:33 -0400, Lizette Koehler
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Why not use the DB2 Addresses Spaces like
It may simply be that your existing signaling structure is too small. The
structure must have enough list entries so that it can dedicate one for each
pathin or pathout between each pair of systems. See the CFSizer webpage
for XCF signaling structures
(http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseri
Why not use the DB2 Addresses Spaces like DSNMSTR and DSNIRLM? I am not
sure the DSNDBM1 (Data Base Management) ASID would be issuing the STCK for
SELECT. Perhaps the DSNMSTR would be more likely?
Of course I am unclear what your final requirement for this trap is. Are
you looking for those tha
For the purpose that this was being used for
-- do not use LOAD with GLOBAL=YES
Re-read EOM. LOAD with GLOBAL=YES does NOT persist across end of memory.
The EOM parameter determines whether the area is cleaned up at task
termination or at memory termination. There is no way with this option to
indi
Peter,
Sorry for my re-visit to this thread cause today I read something about
FIXED and DREF virtual storage area and feel that something should be added.
For FIXED area, it's no longer true: when you GETMAIN, all pages will be
backed up by real frames because FIXED area is supposed to serve dis
>From the guy who set up the IODF:
The disk storage features are:
· 288/432 GB Disk Storage
The 288/432 GB Disk Storage feature (#3705) provides 432 GB of useable disk
storage capacity for tape volume cache. With built data compression (3:1)
the effective capacity is approximately 1.3 TB
I'm trying to trap DB2's processing of a SELECT CURRENT TIMESTAMP request.
This request goes through DB2's DSNDBM1 region. The STCK instruction which
retrieves the current timestamp is located in DB2 load module DSNXGRDS, in
CSECT DSNXVCTS.
I did an AMBLIST to locate the offset of CSECT DSNXVCT
On Oct 8, 2007, at 2:56 AM, Martin Packer wrote:
BTW my point about our preferring IFASMFDP over DFSORT (perhaps
ICEGENER)
was meant to be a little provocative. (And ONE person responded
offline,
pointing out the contradiction between my statement just now and
what I've
said in my blog.)
Tom Schmidt wrote:
You mentioned that you dump directly to "a" tape dataset... isn't that putting
an awful lot of faith and hope into one measely tape? I would, if I were doing
that, be using 2 tapes written concurrently (just in case one of my tapes
broke or otherwise failed). Call it "RAIT
Hello there,
is anyone on the list willing to share their experience with the above VTS
controller ?
We are going to replace our 15 years old 3494 VTS fro IBM and this is one of
the possible options
we have to assess. We are a small z/OS.e shop, the amount of data on the old
VTS is about 10 TB.
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 18:35:33 -0500 "Patrick O'Keefe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
:>On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 16:25:07 -0500, Andy Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:>>"How do you prevent the module in the library from being replaced by another
:>>(potentially larger) one after the time you work out the leng
Further, in most cases Coupling Facility images will be in a different
pool. Given that they should - (again) in most cases - be dedicated, there
is no economic reason to carve them out of the GCP pool. Indeed that's an
understatement. :-)
Cheers, Martin
Martin Packer
Performance Consultant
IB
BTW my point about our preferring IFASMFDP over DFSORT (perhaps ICEGENER)
was meant to be a little provocative. (And ONE person responded offline,
pointing out the contradiction between my statement just now and what I've
said in my blog.)
The recommendation to use IFASMFDP rather than ICEGENER
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