IBM takes a lot of customer satisfaction measurements, and there is a
pretty good system for looking at trends and taking action if/when there
are weaknesses.
Just last month somebody surveyed customer satisfaction at an IBM
conference where I spoke, and my manager and I both got those results.
(T
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I am trying to set up auditing of various storage management tasks.
Within RACF I have set various dataset profiles with AUDIT SUCESS(UPDATE)
so that they are logged as SMF/RACF type 80s - this works fine.
I then tried to do something similar whenever someone activated a new SMS
config
I am trying to migrate one VTS ML2 Tape to ML2 DASD Volume. I was trying
FREEVOL command but I am getting message "MIGRATION OF A TAPE VOLUME IS NOT
SUPPORTED"
Any idea how can I achieve this ? Are there any other ways to migrate the
data from virtual ML2 tape to DASD volumes which are designated
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:16:10 +0900, Timothy Sipples
wrote:
>snip
>Yes, I'm sure IBM support people want to close PMRs as quickly as they can.
>But (in general) that's only because they want to resolve the actual
>problem(s) quickly, because both speed and quality count. How quickly
>problems are
Jennifer Currell pisze:
Hi there
I am trying to set up auditing of various storage management tasks.
Within RACF I have set various dataset profiles with AUDIT SUCESS(UPDATE)
so that they are logged as SMF/RACF type 80s - this works fine.
I then tried to do something similar whenever someone
Jim,
If the new system has fewer profiles, one option might be to add the
profiles in the new database to the existing database, make an IRRUT200 copy
of the latter, and port the copy over to the new system. Regardless of how
and in what direction you copy the profiles, you'll need to consider the
Hi there
Thanks for the tip. It looks like it is the other way around. If you activate
via
ISMF then it doesn't get logged into RACF type 80. But if I issue SETSMS SCDS
(dsname) it does get picked up. I think I will raise a question with IBM.
Thanks
Lovely. It works. Thanks to all who responded.
--- On Thu, 13/8/09, Schwarz, Barry A wrote:
From: Schwarz, Barry A
Subject: Re: DFHSM QUESTION - RUNNING QUERY COMMAND IN BATCH
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Received: Thursday, 13 August, 2009, 4:33 AM
The QUERY command does have an ODS operand.
>> - Original Message
>> From: Mark Zelden mark.zel...@zurichna.com
>>
>> Typical size is 956 byte, at list at our shop. My RMF reports shows i.e.
>> 1,868,451 for the Default Class (956) and only 4,539 for the Big Class
>> (16,316)
>> as outbound traffic from one LPAR to another in the p
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:52:42 -0400, Gil, Victor x28091
wrote:
>Jantje,
>
>I am intrigued. Can you elaborate a bit on this idea?
>[Doc pointers, code samples, etc.]
You can find the fine manual that describes the CICS side of such at z/OS
Communications Server IP CICS Sockets Guide (
http://ww
RECYCLE execute volume(nn)
I am trying to migrate one VTS ML2 Tape to ML2 DASD Volume. I was trying
FREEVOL command but I am getting message "MIGRATION OF A TAPE VOLUME IS
NOT
SUPPORTED"
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> I once accidently swapped INDDn with OUTDDn with *predictable*
results. ;)
> It was one of the longest 5 minutes in my life to fix things... 8
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:49:46 -0600, Frank Swarbrick
wrote:
>Does the ISPF PROFILE_SHARING feature address this issue?
>
No. It addresses profile sharing issue. :-)
The issues related to profile sharing (or not) without the new feature
are covered in my doc. Please read it and then ask your
With others making judicious mention of GRS RNLs, I realized I omitted another
important reference: "z/OS MVS Planning: Global Resource Serialization",
SA22-7600, as well as sections in the various components' (HSM, RACF,
etc.) "sysprog" or "reference" manuals that speak to GRS requirements.
>
Thanks Dr. Merrill for your illustrative example but I do have a question about
it. Since L8 TCBs are used to execute DB2 code as well, what part of 10,298
seconds is for DB2 ? Since DB2 related code never executed on QR TCB
anyway, that portion of CPU usage is moot for this discussion. The real
We are moving our operations staff to another building from where our
processor is. Due to this change we are looking at making operations
logon to the consoles. One thing I don't see is a timeout that would
logoff an operator after some time period. Is there such a thing? Do
most shops auto l
"Wissink, Brad [ITSYS]" wrote in message
news:
...
> We are moving our operations staff to another building from where our
> processor is. Due to this change we are looking at making operations
> logon to the consoles. One thing I don't see is a timeout that would
> logoff an operator after so
Arthur, I snipped most of your text, which I whole-heartedly agree with, but I
have one comment about the "cost" of GRS-Star: I don't know if anyone has
truly studied this, but I have doubts as to whether GRS Star has a CPU cost, at
least in an environment with relatively low ENQ activity. I h
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:02:32 -0500, Barbara Nitz
wrote:
>It depends. There are components that you cannot separate/configure for a
>subset. One of them is DAE, for instance. (Has caused us *a lot* of grief.)
>Another is console. A third is GRS. And WLM. And RMF. And PDSE.
And HFS - this was a b
I am issuing a Listdataset RMM command, which worked yester. Today I get a rc
of zero but no output. The actual that is issued is contained in the above
comment. I sure would like to know what went wrong.
Code:
/* RMM LD 'TSTPRB.$.TESTTAPE' VOL(V59019) */
x = Outtrap("rmmout.")
Address TSO ""rm
I just ran into something tryng to assemble...I have a program that I am
assembling, and in my SYSLIB I have PDS-1 that uses a blocksize of 3120 and
PDS-2 that uses 32720 (I didn't create this!).
When I run with PDS-1 ahead of PDS-2, I get error messages ASMA057E
Undefined operation code...
When
In a message dated 8/13/2009 4:02:31 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
oldti...@wanadoo.fr writes:
Support is sometimes good , it is sometimes bad ... but what's for sure ,
it
is declining because of statistics and sometimes skills of some people but
very rarely because of the will of individuals
AFAIK there is no built in timeout function.
We put one together with our auto ops package (Control/O from BMC) that
notices a logon then issues a logoff after 30 minutes. Timer is
cancelled if the operator performs their own logoff.
We do run with LOGON=AUTO but commands are protected (Top Secr
Hi All,
Used to lurk on this list quite a while ago, but been away for awhile
for various reasons
Can anyone tell me if HLLAPI is still supported in the newer version(s)
of pcomm ? ... Preferably point me to a website where I can find this
info ...
Have tried the archives, but no joy ...
Not necessarely.
Suppose You doing (want to do!) an essentially character
compare.
Like: x1 = x2 where e g x1 = 'AB' and x2 = 'CDE' etc.
Now You have x1 = '1' and x2 = '01'.
Doing the compare x1 = x2 will get the result that they are equal,
becuase REXX is doing a numeric compare.
You ca
Is there a way to query DFSMS volume status with a batch job?
Thanks, Brent
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On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:05:39 -0400, Donald Johnson wrote:
>I just ran into something tryng to assemble...I have a program that I am
>assembling, and in my SYSLIB I have PDS-1 that uses a blocksize of 3120 and
>PDS-2 that uses 32720 (I didn't create this!).
>
>When I run with PDS-1 ahead of PDS-2,
All,
I realize this is a really open ended question. We completed our 1.8 to
1.10 upgrade in June, with no known problems. Everything seems to be
running fine. However, I have various people(mostly developers)
occasionally complaining that they "think" the system is slower since
the upgrade.
Peter
The evidence I can glean from Personal Communications for Windows, Version
5.9, Emulator Programming is that HLLAPI, in the guise of EHLLAPI, is alive and
well.
The IBM web site which directs you to all things PCOMM is the following:
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/network/pcomm/
I guess
I have a user requesting we change our JESINTERFACELEVEL from 1 to 2.
Since I am not familiar with this function, I am z/OS V1.9 - is this a good
setting? Or should it be left at 1?
I have read the fine manual and it seems to indicate this will allow a user to
retieve and job based on security
Tommy,
Can I ask a couple of fundamental questions?
What is the data access for the applications?
Is it DB2, DL/1, VSAM or something else.
If DB2 (and I think DL/1) these will already be running on threads and these
use their own TCBs, 1 per thread. If so I cannot understand your problem.
A
Have you checked RMF to compare CPU usage and I/O performance before and
after the upgrade; specifically the I/O response time. What about the cpu
usage of individual jobs.
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From: "Jousma, David"
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To:
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2
Hi David,
Look into increasing the buffers VSAM index. Some catalog changes have
occurred that may be the cause of your slow response. Also SMF and Logrec
buffering.
Regards,
Herman Stocker
---< snip>---
All,
I realize this is a really open ended question. We completed our 1.8 to
1.
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:46:44 -0400, Scott Rowe
wrote:
>Arthur, I snipped most of your text, which I whole-heartedly agree with, but
I have one comment about the "cost" of GRS-Star: I don't know if anyone
has truly studied this, but I have doubts as to whether GRS Star has a CPU
cost, at leas
esst...@juno.com wrote:
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I Much prefer Class room edcuation.
Ah, well, we should talk.
Give me a call, drop me a line.
Kind regards,
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z/OS Application developmen
If you use RACF to control SDSF access then "2" should work fine. If you use
ISFPARMS and don't have RACF set up to control spool access then "1" is
probably what you want. We use "2", but since we're a development shop we don't
care who accesses what.
Bob Shannon
Rocket Software
-
Mark,
I just went through this yesterday and you don't have to restore the zfs
aggregate.
I built this jcl:
//ZFSGROW EXEC PGM=BPXBATCH,
// PARM='sh zfsadm grow -aggregate syszm.hfszst.var -size 1920'
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
IIRC, when running in Ring mode, each GRS keeps a copy of all ENQs from all
systems in memory, while in Star mode each GRS only keeps ENQs for his own
system, so it seems logical that there would be a point at which Star uses less
memory overall.
Try being an all SAP shop, I am going to be g
JESINTERFACELEVEL=2 allows users to retrieve and list jobs based on SAF
calls to the same resource/class names used by SDSF. So, if you use
SAF/RACF to control SDSF and you allow these users to use SDSF, then you
should be OK with letting them use FTP with JESINTERFACELEVEL=2.
JESINTERFACELEVEL=1
Okay,
Here is the request
a vb.net application that I use to run ftp and submit jobs to the mainframe
with.
So I presume (no asuming) that FTP runs on a server to the mainframe and then
wants to review the output from the FTP process. Since we do have SDSF secured
through Top Secret, I th
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:59:55 -0400, Lizette Koehler
wrote:
>I have a user requesting we change our JESINTERFACELEVEL from 1 to 2.
>
>Since I am not familiar with this function, I am z/OS V1.9 - is this a good
setting? Or should it be left at 1?
>
>I have read the fine manual and it seems to indi
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:24:43 -0500, Mark Zelden
wrote:
>>Are there any other issues or impacts to changing this?
>>
>
>One word. SAF.
>
>If you have SAF rules set up for SDSF, then changing is probably easy and
>provides functionality. If you don't (you use ISFPARMS / ISFPRMxx) then
>this coul
According to the RACF Auditor's Guide, IRRADU00 will only process type
30, 80, 81, and 83 SMF records. It doesn't process type 42 or 43 at
all. If you want them, you may have to extract them yourself.
-Original Message-
From: Jennifer Currell
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 1:56 AM
To:
Possibly because the SETSMS command queries RACF for authorization but
ISMF already knows if you are an End User or a Storage Administrator.
-Original Message-
From: Jennifer Currell
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 3:19 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: SMS activation - RACF AUDIT
This is a curiosity. I ran your code (after setting a value to volnbr
and rmmcmd.volnbr) and the
value of rmmout.1 was:
EDG3201I THE ENTRY IS NOT DEFINED TO DFSMSrmm
I'm not sure I understand the scenario shown in your trace results where
rmmout.1 could be equal
to null while rmmout.0 is equa
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:16:10 +0900, Timothy Sipples
wrote:
>IBM takes a lot of customer satisfaction measurements, and there is a
>pretty good system for looking at trends and taking action if/when
>there are weaknesses.
I don't know if the satisfaction measurement tools are employed
uniformly
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Behalf Of Patrick O'Keefe
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 1:41 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: IBM Satisfaction surveys (Was: The "Shame" Approach)
[Patrick O'Keefe Kicks open the door]
The one
I recently added a subsystem using SETSSI. I did not realize when I issued the
command it had an INITRTN on it.
Now I have to run the jcl from SYS1.PROCLIB rather than my OEM proclib dataset.
The message I get when I start it is
S TDP4,MSGCLASS=R
David,
For BSAM and QSAM looking at the EXCP will not tell you if buffering has
changed because it is the count of blocks processed. Set BUFNO to 1 or 8 and
you will still get the same EXCP count.
If you think there is a change in SSCH for some datasets then try looking at
the type 42 subtype 6 S
By default, a started task matching a subsystem name starts under the master
scheduler.
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IEA2B680/7.3.1?SHELF=EZ2ZBK0G&DT=20080604022956
Bob
Lizette Koehler wrote:
I recently added a subsystem using SETSSI. I did not realize when I is
--
I just ran into something tryng to assemble...I have a program that I am
assembling, and in my SYSLIB I have PDS-1 that uses a blocksize of 3120 and
PDS-2 that uses 32720 (I didn't create this!).
When I run with PDS-1 ahead of PDS-2, I
>For BSAM and QSAM looking at the EXCP will not tell you if buffering has
>changed because it is the count of blocks processed. Set BUFNO to 1 or 8 and
>you will still get the same EXCP count.
I can't remember when exactly.
But, you have been able to change EXCP to service rather than blocks for
Willdo...Thanks for the tip. I was thinking that maybe since the first PDS
was 3120, that became the BLKSIZE for the DCB, and the opcode (macro) I was
looking for was further than 3120 into a block.
I'll let you know if this is still a problem.
Don
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Rick Fochtman
>> Is there a way to query DFSMS volume status with a batch job?
>> Thanks, Brent
Brent -
The only way I know that you can do any SMS functions in batch is
NaviQuest. There is a NaviQuest User's Guide which is pretty handy and a
bunch of pre-canned JCL's in SYS1.SACBCNTL lib. I don't th
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:03:10 -0400 Lizette Koehler
wrote:
:>I recently added a subsystem using SETSSI. I did not realize when I issued
the command it had an INITRTN on it.
:>Now I have to run the jcl from SYS1.PROCLIB rather than my OEM proclib
dataset.
:>The message I get when I start it is
It looks like you are installing Teradata Director. Recheck Appendix A.
Or just issue "S TDP4,MSGCLASS=R,SUB=JES2" and be happy... maybe? (Your
happiness depends upon whether the INITRTN performs much beyond allowing
the JES subsys to be the default for sysin/sysout services. My quick glance
And, the manual doesn't come right out and say this, but this default
behavior can be overridden as follows:
Instead of: S TDP4,MSGCLASS=R
Use instead: S TDP4,MSGCLASS=R,SUB=JES2
This makes the started task run under JES2 instead of *MASTER*, which is the
default for subsystems.
Brian
On Thu
Even though the PDS calls it a TTR, each member starts a new block so
the situation you describe cannot occur.
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From: Donald Johnson
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 1:39 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Concatenations and blocksizes
Willdo...Thanks for the tip.
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:03:10 -0400, Lizette Koehler
wrote:
>I recently added a subsystem using SETSSI. I did not realize when I issued
the command it had an INITRTN on it.
>
You're SOL until you can IPL. There probably should be an extra warning
in the commands manual about typos etc. I've
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:02:48 -0700, Schwarz, Barry A
wrote:
>Even though the PDS calls it a TTR, each member starts a new block so
>the situation you describe cannot occur.
>...
Thank you for corfirming what my questionable memory told me.
Doesn't that also argue against what Paul Gilmartin sa
---
Even though the PDS calls it a TTR, each member starts a new block so
the situation you describe cannot occur.
Never mind that the "R" of TTR refers to the physical record on the
track a
Am I wrong. I keep my MSTRJCL and my JES2PARM proclib definitions in
sync. SUB=MSTR and SUB=JES2 will start the same PROC.
On the other hand, in this case, I think I'd go with IEFJOBS DD in
MSTRJCL. Then I would specify the OEM PROCLIB using JCLLIB. Or, since
I've never needed such a feature, does
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:26:54 -0500, Patrick O'Keefe wrote:
>On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:02:48 -0700, Schwarz, Barry A wrote:
>
>>Even though the PDS calls it a TTR, each member starts a new block so
>>the situation you describe cannot occur.
>>...
>
>Thank you for corfirming what my questionable memory
Ted,
You are talking about the IOSRVC statement in the IPS which is used to
calculate IO Service Units. It doesn't change the EXCP count, it changes
whether EXCP count or IO connect time are used as the basis for IO Service
Units. SMF30BLK and SMF30TEP if IOSRVC is set to TIME.
I have to admit to
Our data access for applications is VSAM only without DB2. We have not
implement OTE yet that means we only has QR TCB. As you know, we have
to re-write many user program either switch to cicsplex with RLS or
DB2 access.
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 1:01 AM, Terry Draper wrote:
> Tommy,
>
> Can I ask a
>You are talking about the IOSRVC statement in the IPS which is used to
>calculate IO Service Units. It doesn't change the EXCP count, it changes
>whether EXCP count or IO connect time are used as the basis for IO Service
Units. SMF30BLK and SMF30TEP if IOSRVC is set to TIME.
I have to admit to
>I'm not sure where you get 8.3ms of connect time for one EXCP.
I get that from the IBM documentation when I changed from COUNT to time aeons
ago.
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On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:58:21 -0500, Paul Gilmartin
wrote:
>...
>My understanding/conjecture is that when the Assembler
>(for example), using BPAM, encounters a COPY nested
>within another COPY member, it:
>
>o Does a NOTE to mark the current block.
>
>o Saves the NOTE word _and_ the offset of th
*
I tried cloning a SYSRES volume for the first time at this site and received
this
message.
0ADR713E (001)-ALLOC(01), UNABLE TO ALLOCATE SMS MANAGED DATA SET
My suspicion is that there are 8 SMS datasets on the non-sms SYSRES.
I am hoping someone has encountered this before and can recommend
Should say " SMF30BLK and SMF30TEP do not change if IOSRVC is set to TIME."
> -Original Message-
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Behalf Of
> Ron Hawkins
> Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 3:12 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
> Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Deg
It was probably a good value to use aeons ago when it took a real SLED 3390
16.67 ms. to spin around once, so 8.3 ms. was 1/2 revolution. Today, however,
is aeons later as far as the hardware is concerned, especially channel speed
when delivering data from controller cache instead of straight f
>It was probably a good value to use aeons ago when it took a real SLED 3390
>16.67 ms. to spin around once, so 8.3 ms. was 1/2 revolution. >Today,
>however, is aeons later as far as the hardware is concerned, especially
>channel speed when delivering data from controller cache instead of strai
Ray, Why are you using outtrap for an rmm subcommand? Do you really
want to trap the line mode output, and if so, why?
Have you perhaps also set SYSAUTH.EDGDATE so that all command output is
via rexx variables - hence no line mode output.
Mike Wood RMM Development
-
Ted,
I like to see the documentation. The Channel measurement block records
connect time and SRM in turn converts that to IO service units. Are you
saying that 8.3ms was equivalent to 1 IO service Unit?
If that's the case it still seems strange as I thought they would at least
use something that
Bill,
My memory, and follow up calculation, says that a 3390 rotated every 14.2ms,
not 16.67ms.
Even so, it would hardly seem a good move to multiply or divide a metric
based on transfer time by the avg latency of a disk drive. I don't see the
relationship.
Ron
> -Original Message-
> Fr
>Ted,
>I like to see the documentation. The Channel measurement block records connect
>time and SRM in turn converts that to IO service units. >Are you saying that
>8.3ms was equivalent to 1 IO service Unit?
Gotta look over 20 years ago.
IOSRV=COUNT
IOSRV=TIME
was an option, a long time ago.
Lizette,
>I recently added a subsystem using SETSSI.
and once you've overcome the actual definition thing, beat up on the vendor.
There is a bit that they should have been set that says that JES2 is always
the primary subsystem for this product. That would avoid the same problem
(the subsyste
>
>
>[Patrick O'Keefe Kicks open the door]
>
>The one thing that was apparently missing in the survey process
>was a way to provide feedback on the survey itself. The last
>question was something like "Would you recommend IBM Service
>to others?". Why yes; I tell all my friends and relatives to
>And HFS - this was a big pain for us, particularly since we are multi-site.
>1.10
>and 1.11 will make this easier, but for now we are relegated to sysplex-wide
>IPLs for D/R events. And not just sysplex root -
>AUTOMOVE/NOAUTOMOVE/UNMOUNT require attention, and settings will
>depend on your lev
>We had problems with OPERLOG, using a structure, so now we only enable it
>on one subplex that shares DASD. We have the odd problem with EJES users
>on other systems trying to connect to the logstream from images outside the
>duplex. Perhaps we should try moving to DASD-only to resolve it.
>
>We
Speaking for myself also includes the fact that I'm in Japan. I am
constantly reminded that Japan is different. Getting a coffee ("コーヒーお
ねがいします") here is a full service experience. :-)
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Timothy Sipples
IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect
Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan / Asia-P
Hi Barbara,
This is what I run after TSO logon and before ISPF is started for real.
The code runs as an ISPF dialog...better if the ISPF LOG is set to 0 pages.
We use 5 character user IDs.
Address TSO
sysclone_name = Strip(Left('M
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