Steve Guendert wrote:
My experience in attending both several times is that SHARE offers
better content, and a wider variety of content from a wider variety of
resources. I have also spoken at both, and I can say that IBM appears
to try and restrict the content of zExpo, as well as the
I know a fair number of people from around here like to attend the
technical migration webcasts for z/OS, and the one for z/OS 1.10 is being
held on January 15 (U.S. time). Details here:
http://event.on24.com/r.htm?e=128572s=1k=E72C1BA127FF07DE4E3CE87B4CA1DED7
If you can join live, great, but I
gsg wrote:
I thought that I previously read some VSAM Tuning recommendations where it
recommend to always use SPEED on the inital load vs. RECOVERY. I can't
seem to find that document. Has anyone ever heard about this? If I recall, it
stated that using recovery do triple the I/O, so using
Hi Ram,
In your original post you cited the ..need to prepare a JCL to perform the
following task
1)I have a GDG base say xxx.xxx whose versions might be generated in
TAPE or DASD
2)I have to prepare a JCL
- Which will just copy the GDG Version to a Flat
file if the
If you say 'single' z/OS image you mean a z/OS virt. guest (under z/VM) or a
LPAR ?
If it should be virt. guest then there is the possibility that someone logged
into the guest and let it hang around in mode 'CP READ' (some kind of virtual
STOP ...)
ciao Lutz
On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 10:10:49 -0500, Farley, Peter x23353
peter.far...@broadridge.com wrote:
But don't any DLL's dealing with long-name elements or interfaces need
to be stored in a PDSE? Or does the pre-link step always resolve that
issue?
The pre-link (EDCPRLK) does handle the long-name stuff
Cheryl,
We still use it.
Atenciosamente / Regards / Saludos
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On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 14:16:39 +0900, Timothy Sipples wrote:
UNIVAC 1108: There was an 1108 II model (a.k.a. 1108A) introduced in
August, 1965, which was the machine available with multiple CPUs. Wikipedia
says 296 of the 1108s (uniprocessor and multiprocessor) were sold, so this
was a reasonably
On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 08:21:19 +0100, Tidy, David (D) dt...@dow.com wrote:
Hi Mark
Thanks for the reply. These are newly initialised empty volumes. We do
the logical copy because we up-sequence the volume id, and build a new
catalog (with the volume id in the name) as we go.
Doing the large PDSEs
Hi Mark,
Sorry - I missed that. Interesting that it tends to mention the source
dataset allocation rather than the target. It certainly offers an
explanation of why the dataset might increase in allocated extents. But
in our case it appears to release the secondary allocation - the end
result is
Hi
We intend to convert our ZFS dataset's to VSAM EXTENDED format
Any option to do it ?
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On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:57:39 -0700, David Logan
loga3...@comcast.net wrote:
If that's the case, why doesn't it drop my AS/400 sessions? Why doesn't it
drop my VSE sessions to the same physical machine? Why doesn't it drop
my VM
session? Why does it only drop my z/OS 1.4, 1.5, 1.8 and 1.9
Hi Folks,
I just wanted to give you URL's to load the pds'es that my article
is on. You'll get the necessary software in CBT185 and CBT797 too.
Again, the article is called: TSO Authorization Tables.
The URL's are:
http://www.cbttape.org/ftp/updates/CBT120.zip
Thanks for all the suggestions.
Update. We experienced another 'hang' lasting 2 minutes. LOGREC indicated
SFTABN (S0222) on the same low priority batch job before both hangs. The
programmer indicated the job was doing many inserts/updates to various DB2
tables before it was canceled (this
On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 15:50:30 +0100, Miklos Szigetvari
miklos.szigetv...@isis-papyrus.com wrote:
Hi
We intend to convert our ZFS dataset's to VSAM EXTENDED format
Any option to do it ?
Which ones? All? Your OS (sysres) ZFS data sets?
It has to be SMS controlled and you have to define it
Hi
We have a number of user ZFS datasets, in NON EXTENDED format , and
already has reached the 4Gbyte limit
Till now we have allocated a new extended format ZFS and copied into it
via USS copytree.
Can the REPRO do the same ?
Can I restore a NON extended into an extended ?
Mark Zelden
Arthur Gutowski wrote:
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 13:46:41, R.S. r.skoru...@snip.it
wrote:
I did another test:
Created new IODF from scratch.
Defined CPC 2064
Defined 3 LPARs OS and 1 LPAR CF
Defined 10 CNC channels (40 - 49), online on all OS LPARs
Defined CU #1000, type 3990, connected to CHP 40, 41
The plot thickens. Be sure to mention to management that you have a few
thousand of your closest friends with literally millennia of cumulative
experience working on the issue with you :-)
Of course, working with IBM is the better path, I think. Still, it might
be fun to try to recreate the
On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 09:57:56 -0600, Hal Merritt wrote:
... it might
be fun to try to recreate the problem by running and cancelling that
test job.
Maybe. If he does, he might want to set a SLIP trap to take an SVCDUMP when
the that job gets the s222.
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On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 16:34:41 +0100, Miklos Szigetvari
miklos.szigetv...@isis-papyrus.com wrote:
Hi
We have a number of user ZFS datasets, in NON EXTENDED format , and
already has reached the 4Gbyte limit
Till now we have allocated a new extended format ZFS and copied into it
via USS copytree.
WSC had an updated presentation from that whitepaper done at local CMG and also
SHARE
http://regions.cmg.org/regions/ncacmg/downloads/mar082007_session2.pdf
Best Regards,
Sam Knutson, GEICO
System z Performance and Availability Management
Tom Marchant wrote:
On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 14:16:39 +0900, Timothy Sipples wrote:
UNIVAC 1108: There was an 1108 II model (a.k.a. 1108A) introduced in
August, 1965, which was the machine available with multiple CPUs. Wikipedia
says 296 of the 1108s (uniprocessor and multiprocessor) were sold,
I'll put in my .02 cents, in case these were not thought of
- were you able to process and see any SMF records during the 4 minute
'outage'.
- see any jobs that finished just after you came out of the 'outage'
that could've caused the problem.
- a notification to your users to ask if
Well, yes, but there is a tiny little detail that is drop dead
important. To 'document' is defined as having management involvement and
approval.
With that, comes accountability. Legal accountability. Many PHB's are so
because they are skilled at misdirecting and managing perceptions as to
is
The information which you seek is not generally available to the average
peasant. If you have some sample code you could fill in the gaps by
reading the comments in the IEFSSSA macro in MODGEN. Alternatively you
could use the IGWASMS callable service to obtain the DFSMS information
for a dataset.
Many years ago, I forget whether we were at V1.4 or V1.7 - we are now at V1.9 -
We had a similar situation, except that we were in a multi-engine machine. We
received a IEE message telling us that one processor was in spin mode and
asking what to do about it. I think also that we were doing
2009/1/8 JE Thinnes jethin...@aol.com:
Update. We experienced another 'hang' lasting 2 minutes.
I would be tempted to hit RESTART the next time you see this hang.
That may tell you who's running at that moment, and if you resume and
then repeat it a few times you may be able to see if the
Please forgive the newbie type question.
We almost have the daily backup working from Linux to TSM under Z\os working.
Naturally the Sysprog I'm working with wants 'recover' one of his files after
it is backed up. Looking at the Ref. Guide, I see no command that:
A. Allows me to list datasets
IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote on 01/08/2009
09:58:16 AM:
Update. We experienced another 'hang' lasting 2 minutes. LOGREC
indicated
SFTABN (S0222) on the same low priority batch job before both hangs. The
programmer indicated the job was doing many
On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 12:53:13 -0500, Tony Harminc wrote:
If figuring out what's going on is more important than keeping the
system running, then I'd suggest hitting STOP and STORE STATUS, and
then taking a standalone dump.
STORE STATUS isn't necessary. MVS has been updated long ago to tell the
On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 00:37:46 -0800, Edward Jaffe
edja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote:
zExpo is a good conference. [...]
No argument here.
For the extra money, they feed you three squares per day and
give you a conference bag with wheels. [...]
Thus the phrase Information Between Meals (credit to
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 15:25:57 -0600, Tom Marchant m42tom-
ibmm...@yahoo.com wrote:
While I agree with you that auditors *should* only report compliance, that
is certainly not always the case.
I have been in environments where management was afraid to challenge the
auditors. As a result, the
I have been in environments where management was afraid to challenge the
auditors. As a result, the auditor's word was law.
BTDT, GTTS.
That is the worst possible scenario.
I've always challenged auditors, and documented all conversations to my
management.
Haven't been fired over that.
-
Too
On 1/8/2009 at 1:19 PM, O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
obrie...@mail.nih.gov wrote:
-snip-
A. Allows me to list datasets that have been backed up under TSM control
(similiar to HSM's List TTOC).
dsmc query backup
B. Recover a Backed up file. (Similiar to HSM's Recover command)
dsmc
We have two companies (nodes X and Y) that connect to the same remote NJE node
(Z) via SNA, using the old Advantis SNA network. For one of the companies (X),
we want to eliminate its SNA connection to Advantis. For node X to continue get
to the remote NJE node (Z)site, we want to set up a
Good suggestion, but that low hanging fruit dropped off the tree many years
ago. Wish it were that simple. ;-)
.
.
JO.Skip Robinson
Southern California Edison Company
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On 8 Jan 2009 10:27:57 -0800, aguto...@ford.com (Arthur Gutowski)
wrote:
The sessions are longer and start at all sorts of weird times, which is a bit
confusing. (It's like living in the US and traveling to a country that uses
the
metric system or vice versa. Takes some getting-used-to.) [...]
In a message dated 1/8/2009 12:27:26 P.M. Central Standard Time,
aguto...@ford.com writes:
A big plus. I've mined the SHARE proceedings many times for gems - beats
having to pull around that wheeled conference bag, unless you like that form
of exercise.
One of the dipstick tuning guys
Mark T. Regan, K8MTR wrote:
X --- SNA/NJE --- Z
to:
X --- TCP/NJE --- Y --- SNA/NJE --- Z
When non-JES2 nodes are involved, you can't rely on PathMgr to learn the
NJE network topology. You will need a CONNECT statement in your
initialization stream to show that Y connects to Z. You can
Why go through Node Y at all? Use JES2/TCPIP and connect directly to JES3/TCPIP
on Node Z. Or am I missing something here?
snip
Subject: Routing a NJE connection via another NJE node
We have two companies (nodes X and Y) that connect to the same remote NJE node
(Z) via SNA, using the old
Going from:
X --- SNA/N
Just to expand on my drawing a little:
Going from:
X --- SNA/NJE --- Z
Advantis
and
Y --- SNA/NJE --- Z
Advantis
to:
First step:
X --- SNA/NJE --- Y --- SNA/NJE --- Z
AdvantisAdvantis
then finally to:
X --- TCP/NJE --- Y ---
The NJE connection between nodes Y (JES3)and Z (JES2) use the ATT Advantis SNA
network, so there is no IP connection between them. Note, in our case node Z is
a business partner.
Mark T. Regan, K8MTR
CTO1 USNR-Retired (1969-1991)
From: Staller, Allan
On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 13:30:43 -0600, Staller, Allan allan.stal...@kbm1.com
wrote:
Why go through Node Y at all? Use JES2/TCPIP and connect directly to
JES3/TCPIP on Node Z. Or am I missing something here?
My guess would be that there may not be a TCPIP path from X to Z. I.e. Z
connects to
Mark,
Thank you for responding.
Am I correct that the dsmc commands that you refer to are meant to be entered
from the Linux client?
I am looking for TSM Server based commands. Found Q Contents but the resulting
list is unwieldly to the point of being useless and I don't see the type of
For those of you who are migrating to z/OS R10 but can't make it to
SHARE for her highly-rated 3-part migration sessions, Marna Walle is
doing a migration-to-R10 webcast on the 15th. The price is right
(free!), but you do have to register in advance. You can register by
following the link at
I am running z/OS 1.7 and trying to install IBM Ported Tools for z/OS.
Not being a UNIX expert any help would be great.
I am getting the following errors in the APPLY output:
In SMPOUT:
GIM69168E ** HFSCOPY PROCESSING TO THE SFSUMMSC LIBRARY
FAILED FOR HFS FOTSRCAT
IN SYSMOD
Do you have SMPJHOME pointing to a JAVA environment?
James (Jim) Chappell
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On 1/8/2009 at 3:07 PM, O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
obrie...@mail.nih.gov wrote:
Mark,
Thank you for responding.
Am I correct that the dsmc commands that you refer to are meant to be
entered from the Linux client?
Correct.
I am looking for TSM Server based commands.
In all the
I do not have JAVAHOME define to a location. In the install guide there
is a mention of JAVAHOME in the context of IBM HTTP Server V7.0. I am
not installing that piece of IBM Ported Tools. Is there something else I
am unaware of?
These errors seem like a pathing problem of some type in the
I think the requirement is an SMP thing for how the Ported Tools is
packaged.
This is my - SMPJHOME PATH'/usr/lpp/java/J1.4/'
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We are using the pipe option of BMC's MainView Batch Optimizer instead of
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On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 14:32:07 -0600, Peter Ten Eyck
peter_tene...@farmfamily.com wrote:
I am running z/OS 1.7 and trying to install IBM Ported Tools for z/OS.
Not being a UNIX expert any help would be great.
I am getting the following errors in the APPLY output:
In SMPOUT:
snip
GIM42500WAN
On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 14:32:07 -0600, Peter Ten Eyck
peter_tene...@farmfamily.com wrote:
I am running z/OS 1.7 and trying to install IBM Ported Tools for z/OS.
Not being a UNIX expert any help would be great.
I am getting the following errors in the APPLY output:
snip
I didn't do that install,
I've installed the Ported Tools in my z/OS ServerPac SMPE environment.
What is in your case:
/techsupp/OSP17864/Service
Was my ServerPac (service) version root FS mount point.
From what I can see you do not have the z/OS root FS mounted on the
/techsupp/OSP17864/Service dir path.
Hth...
John Eells wrote:
For those of you who are migrating to z/OS R10 but can't make it to
SHARE for her highly-rated 3-part migration sessions, Marna Walle is
doing a migration-to-R10 webcast on the 15th.
Marna's presentations are always excellent! She presented z/OS 1.10
migration last August
The message
BPXF170E RETURN CODE 0081, REASON CODE 0594003D. A
SYMLINK FAILED FOR LINK
NAME /techsupp/OSP17864/Service/usr/lib/nls/msg/C/IBM/../../En_US/ope
appears to indicate a missing directory
/techsupp/OSP17864/Service/usr/lib/nls/msg/En_US/ope
( this pathname might be truncated
Had another hang today - 6 minutes 50 seconds.
HMC SAD indicated 100% utilization in supervisor state.
RMF indicated the DB2xMSTR was the big CPU user. The DB2 test batch job
was not canceled this time but rather completed rc=0 - just as the system
came back.
IBM asked for a dump (which has
Mark Post wrote:
... I've never even seen the TSM server admin guide.
The complete TSM documentation collection is available here:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v1r1/index.jsp
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I do think it is a pathing problem.
This message makes me think a link is attempting to be built to a path that
does not exist.
BPXF170E RETURN CODE 0081, REASON CODE 0594003D. A SYMLINK FAILED FOR
LINK NAME /techsupp/OSP17864/Service/usr/lib/nls/msg/C/IBM/.././En_US/ope.
I do not know
JE Thinnes wrote:
Are the any z/OS 1.9 uniprocessor configs out there? Have any default
settings changed in 1.9 that I should look at? I am reviewing a uniprocessor
white paper from Dec 2006. Any other ideas??
I would be surprised to see anyone running z/OS on a uniprocessor these
On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 15:12:53 -0600, Mark Zelden mark.zel...@zurichna.com wrote:
On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 14:32:07 -0600, Peter Ten Eyck
peter_tene...@farmfamily.com wrote:
I am running z/OS 1.7 and trying to install IBM Ported Tools for z/OS.
Not being a UNIX expert any help would be great.
I am
snip
I would be surprised to see anyone running z/OS on a uniprocessor these
days. In yesteryear, before millicode-based knee capping, uniprocessors
were not uncommon because of the hardware costs. But, these days, IBM
can knee-cap System z machines down to incredibly small MSU values. (I
Ok, I would propose that this is not a hang but a perceived hang. That
is, the system was just fine but its responsiveness was degraded well
below tolerable levels. That explains the lack of diagnostics: the
'problem' is in the eye of the beholder :-)
DB2 and that test job are looking guilty as
Ted,
Using SPEED tp speed up initial load of a KSDS is not a myth. Extra IO is
extra IO no matter what the disk equipment you are using.
It's a cinch to set this up as a the default in your DATACLASses.
Ron
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I there any impact in setting all of your DATACLASSes to SPEED? I notice
that alot of our datasets the index component is set to RECOVERY, but the
data component is set to SPEED. Not sure why you would want to do that,
but I would think the DATA component would be the most important.
From the APAR
{ In both cases it is not possible to use DFDSS as an overall
{ data mover for DASDs containing such allocated PDSE dataset
{ We need some documentation update to strongly recommend either
{ secondary space allocation for all pdse or some warning .
{ Another
There's not really any NEGATIVE impact since, AFAIK, it's for VSAM only.
gsg wrote:
I there any impact in setting all of your DATACLASSes to SPEED? I notice
that alot of our datasets the index component is set to RECOVERY, but the
data component is set to SPEED. Not sure why you would want
Hi:
The index always runs in RECOVERY mode as you cannot specify SPEED for
the index component.
Regards,
Gene
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On Jan 8, 2009, at 7:03 PM, gsg gsg_...@yahoo.com wrote:
I there any impact in setting all of your DATACLASSes to SPEED? I
notice
that alot of our datasets
One thing you need to remember is that the speed/recovery setting is
only used on initial load. Once the dataset is loaded, the system
ignores the parameter. IBM's recommendation is to use SPEED because it
is faster. The way I read the z/OS 1.9 documentation, it also only has
effect on the DATA
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as well as hardware errors. There can be a lot of good info in there.
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Thank you Mark, everything clear.
Mark Zelden wrote:
On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 16:34:41 +0100, Miklos Szigetvari
miklos.szigetv...@isis-papyrus.com wrote:
Hi
We have a number of user ZFS datasets, in NON EXTENDED format , and
already has reached the 4Gbyte limit
Till now we have allocated
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