DFSMShsm ML1 ML2

Hi Listers, We would like to reduce the tape utilisation of HSM by adding more DASD for migration. The question is whether to add more as ML1 or add some as ML2. If we just add more as ML1 then I don't see too much benefit. Currently there is not much migration occurring ML1 to ML2 on a daily ba

Re: /*PRIORITY change without JCL change

On Wednesday 03 December 2008 02:13:22 pm John Mattson wrote: > Certainly there are (expensive) products which change JES job > input priority /*PRIORITY in order to maximize thruput. However, my shop > will not pay for them, so I am trying to fiture out another way. > Changing JCL

Re: Display Active Users panel (DA)

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:30:01 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > >>And, since 1 K is most often defined as 1024 in this context, > Often, but when, exactly? >It's about time for IBM to start paying attention to the correct >definitions of the SI units and to use Ki if they mean 1024. > +1 Bu

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Re: XMITIP commercial support ?

On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:10:39 +0100, CAPRON Romain wrote: >... >We're currently using the XMITIP freeware. >Is there any product with a "real" technical support ? >... I don't have an answer in any case, but the answer probably depends on which features of XMITIP are important to you. Which fe

Re: A Techie Goes to SHARE

On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:12:25 -0500, Warner Mach wrote: >... presentations at SHARE, including "SOA" and >how to virtualize everything; ... > >Over the years IBM puts forth various conceptual "themes" >that they think are important trends and which, coincidentally, >involve the purchase of addi

ARCMDEXT input parm

ARCMDEXT Parameter List at +8 has a pointer to the 'input data structure' which has various information. At +12 there is a two byte 'input flags'. The first byte is documented but the second byte is 'reserved'. I have numerous datasets that have a x'01' in that byte, it's usually x'00'. The DSN

Re: LLA for non load modules

> Afaik customers keeps QF for its reporting feature. > > Itschak > I admit that QF does have great online reports for module statistics but IBM did have (still has?) a MFM (Module Fetch Monitor) report for VLF usage but its not as robost as QF's reports. Some guy from U.S. West gave a SHARE presen

Re: LLA for non load modules

> Hello everybody, > > I try to figure out if we could get rid off CA-PMO/QuickFetch and use > LLA/VLF more intensively. We are running z/OS V1R8. Right now I am really > not sure if LLA just handles load modules or if also fetching from e.g. > REXXs/CLIST libraries could be improved by LLA. Manual

Re: anonymous FTP confusion

I made some improvement. I've found varying places where it says what the RACF userid should be. I've tried anonymou, anonymo, anonymos. Each ended still not asking for a password. So then I tried changing the FTP.DATA from ANONYMOUS to ANONYMOUS ANONYMO <-- the current RACF id I had defi

Re: Display Active Users panel (DA)

That's true for all of us, not just IBM, but I'm going to find it difficult to talk in mebibytes. There's a list of binary prefixes at . -- Jack Hamilton Management Information & Analysis - Analytic Information Services Kaiser Foundation Health Pla

Re: Anyone using JAVA 6.0 on z/OS?

On 15 Dec 2008 09:35:03 -0800, shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) wrote: >>Here's another way to think about it (and explain it) that might work. In >>1964, the business world changed when the System/360 was announced. Now >>you could write a program and that program was divor

Re: LLA for non load modules

Afaik customers keeps QF for its reporting feature. Itschak On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 7:22 PM, Mark Zelden wrote: > On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:10:12 -0500, Mark Jacobs > wrote: > > >Jochen Roehrig wrote: > >> Hello everybody, > >> > >> I try to figure out if we could get rid off CA-PMO/QuickFetch and

Re: Anyone using JAVA 6.0 on z/OS?

In , on 12/12/2008 at 05:39 PM, Timothy Sipples said: >Here's another way to think about it (and explain it) that might work. In >1964, the business world changed when the System/360 was announced. Now >you could write a program and that program was divorced from the >hardware. ObQoheleth Tha

Re: Capturing LOAD/DELETE SVCs for a Certain Program

In , on 12/10/2008 at 10:35 AM, Adam Johanson said: > However, the GTF trace is capturing all SVC 8 and 9 events for the >address space. Because you asked it to. SLIP records and SVC records are independent of each other. > What am I doing wrong? Asking for an SVC trace when it's not w

Re: Display Active Users panel (DA)

In <5411f4eec9c68f4ca6f78821e685165a02612...@htxmail.jhacorp.com>, on 12/11/2008 at 09:10 AM, Hal Merritt said: >So a display of 22T would be = 22 * 4096 / 1,000 = 90,112 bytes? No, it would be 22 * 4096 * 1,000 = 90,112,000 bytes. >And, since 1 K is most often defined as 1024 in this contex

Re: Display Active Users panel (DA)

In <4a25f3adc7d4cd4388704e36280459c30903d...@mddp-exch-003.aeth.aetna.com>, on 12/11/2008 at 11:28 AM, "Veilleux, Jon L" said: >How much DASD do you own? It has always scared me when the architecture >outstrips the ability to back it up. Why? It scares me when the architecture doesn't leave r

Re: Display Active Users panel (DA)

In , on 12/11/2008 at 04:33 PM, Mark Zelden said: >I think everyone I know who works with computers would know that in terms >of memory that K means 1024 My first computer had 2K words. That's 2,000. Plenty of vendors refered to their machines as having, e.g., 65K, 131K. -- Shmuel (Se

Re: Encryption routine from IBM accepting limited set of input characters

In <4c38b972143e1a4ba2d5e1f12104eca62501e...@aus-ex-01.adprod.bmc.com>, on 12/11/2008 at 08:23 AM, "Webster, Chris" said: >A-Za-z0-9+/ are the characters. You can search for base64 to get more >information. It's written up in RFC 2045, which you can retrieve from

Re: Encryption routine from IBM accepting limited set of input characters

In , on 12/11/2008 at 11:30 AM, "Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3)" said: >Has anyone heard of an encryption routine from IBM which >only accepts a limited set of characters in the input field >to be encrypted? No. My guess is that Chris is right and you're thinking of encoding rather than encryption.

Re: Encryption routine from IBM accepting limited set of input characters

In , on 12/11/2008 at 04:07 PM, "Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3)" said: >It is used to properly (not securely) transport "binary" >data through text based interfaces (e.g. email). It's used to transport 8-bit data through a 7-bit text interface; it's not needed to transmit 8-bit text through 8-bit te

Re: FTP DOWNLOAD QUESTION

In <397467.50363...@web31103.mail.mud.yahoo.com>, on 12/11/2008 at 06:11 AM, John Dawes said: >I have a problem when I download output (via FTP) from a DSN which >resides on the MAINFRAME to my PC. What FTP options are you using? You need a CRLF for each record. Ideally you also want a progra

Re: Health Checker questions

In <494125d7.1080...@bremultibank.com.pl>, on 12/11/2008 at 03:38 PM, "R.S." said: >There is absoluetely no explanation why should I use HZSAIEOF program >despite IEFBR14 performs the same work. No. >People say there are no stupid questions, The exception to that is a "question" that asser

Re: LLA for non load modules

On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:10:12 -0500, Mark Jacobs wrote: >Jochen Roehrig wrote: >> Hello everybody, >> >> I try to figure out if we could get rid off CA-PMO/QuickFetch and use >> LLA/VLF more intensively. We are running z/OS V1R8. Right now I am really >> not sure if LLA just handles load modules o

Re: Activate lpar automatically?

I sure David is right. I'm talking about an independent monoplex. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of David Andrews > Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 4:57 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: Activate lpar automati

Re: LLA for non load modules

Jochen Roehrig wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I try to figure out if we could get rid off CA-PMO/QuickFetch and use > LLA/VLF more intensively. We are running z/OS V1R8. Right now I am really > not sure if LLA just handles load modules or if also fetching from e.g. > REXXs/CLIST libraries could be i

Re: Activate lpar automatically?

ipl (activate) a lpar on the hmc automatically without any operator intervention. Another option would be to have remote HMC support which is fairly easy, other than the "security" and/or institutional concern(s). One brave soul could then deactivate it at night and then activate it in the mo

LLA for non load modules

Hello everybody, I try to figure out if we could get rid off CA-PMO/QuickFetch and use LLA/VLF more intensively. We are running z/OS V1R8. Right now I am really not sure if LLA just handles load modules or if also fetching from e.g. REXXs/CLIST libraries could be improved by LLA. Manuals just talk

Re: Memory Instrumentation - was "largest parallel sysplex around?"

Hi Martin, Your "mantra" = my "mantra" Self-documenting systems are absolutely essential. Configuration issues (how much central storage is installed and not allocated/committed) should not require hours of research from multiple sources. Tom Puddicombe Mainframe Performance & Capacity Pla

Re: XMITIP commercial support ?

On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:10:39 +0100, CAPRON Romain wrote: >Hi, > >We're currently using the XMITIP freeware. >Is there any product with a "real" technical support ? > >Regards, > >Romain I've heard of the following, but know nothing about it. http://www.casisoft.com/Products/J2X/J2XHome.aspx Th

Re: Interesting APAR OA27291 ....and PSF V3

Marna Walle wrote: > I believe you are referring to PSF APAR OA08748? You'll be happy to know > that OA08748 (which was FIN), was incorporated into PSF V4R1 (and is also in > the latest PSF - V4R2). Still, we do strongly encourage our products not to "FIN" this sort of situation because, as this

Re: Memory Instrumentation - was "largest parallel sysplex around?"

r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl (R.S.) writes: > I'm talking about *practice*. BTDT. Again: well signed cables are the key. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#71 Curiousity: largest parallel sysplex around? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#72 Curiousity: largest parallel sysplex aro

Re: Activate lpar automatically?

On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 04:19 -0600, Rafa Pereira wrote: > Is there any issue about quiescing a test lpar if it is in a GRS RING > together with a production lpar? Oh yes. Shutdown system TEST normally (don't QUIESCE or otherwise kill the LPAR), then at the "production" LPAR enter: V GRS(TE

Re: Memory Instrumentation - was "largest parallel sysplex around?"

R.S. wrote: Roy Hewitt wrote: R.S. wrote: Not necessarily. 1000 FICON connections sounds seriously, but in fact it means 2000 connectors "clicks". It has to be done be some human - hasn't it? So the only additional task for the human is to note cable number and port number. 2000 records. IMH

Re: Memory Instrumentation - was "largest parallel sysplex around?"

Roy Hewitt wrote: R.S. wrote: Not necessarily. 1000 FICON connections sounds seriously, but in fact it means 2000 connectors "clicks". It has to be done be some human - hasn't it? So the only additional task for the human is to note cable number and port number. 2000 records. IMHO spreadsheet

Re: Memory Instrumentation - was "largest parallel sysplex around?"

R.S. wrote: Not necessarily. 1000 FICON connections sounds seriously, but in fact it means 2000 connectors "clicks". It has to be done be some human - hasn't it? So the only additional task for the human is to note cable number and port number. 2000 records. IMHO spreadsheet is sufficient as a

Re: Memory Instrumentation - was "largest parallel sysplex around?"

Roy Hewitt wrote: Martin Packer wrote: My mantra is "machines should be self-documenting" and in that vein I perceive value in RMF "learning" how to get things like: Installed Memory and how much of that is purchased. HSA Size (and yes I know it's fixed 16GB on z10) How much memory each LPAR h

Re: Activate lpar automatically?

On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:54:52 -0800, Gibney, Dave wrote: >I've had success with a sandbox that's just z/OS. Not so much if a >database is up. > >> -Original Message- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On >> Behalf >> Of Gibney, Dave >> Sent: Sunday, Decemb

XMITIP commercial support ?

Hi, We're currently using the XMITIP freeware. Is there any product with a "real" technical support ? Regards, Romain Avant d'imprimer cet e-mail, réfléchissons à l'impact sur l'environnement. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / sign