Re: RMF MON. III Vsam Files

2008-12-30 Thread Christian Blesa
Hi, I've replied you directly to your mail but in any case... As far as I know, RMF monitor III has info about special processors in System Information and Processor Usage view while CPC doesn't show any info about spec. proc. We're running 1.8 also. If you'd like to analyze IIP info from RMF

GDPS Hyperswap Concurrent Copy

2008-09-25 Thread Christian Blesa
Hi, following our disaster recovery planning, we've tried to execute a planned hyperswap but we've found that gdps shows that some concurrent copy is active so the dasd switch must be stopped. Previously, we've executed the cmd F ANTAS000,LISTSESS ALL and we've not found any CC active.

Re: WLM managed initiators

2008-08-13 Thread Christian Blesa
Take care if you've assigned a resource group capping for these batch because WLM doesn't take into account this type of delay (RGC-delay). If your system is not saturated, WLM will continue to start new inits as more jobs are submitted. Regards

From 1.7 to 1.8: CKPT effects

2007-11-15 Thread Christian Blesa
Hi, we've finished our migration from 1.7 to 1.8 in our development sysplex and we've seen a strange behaviour with JES2 checkpoint. Our configuration is CKPT1 allocated in CF and CKPT2 in DASD and this strange behaviour has been appeared in both CKPTs when all systems were migrated to 1.8

Be careful: Opened APARs

2007-11-08 Thread Christian Blesa
OA22716 WLM INITIATORS DO NOT START WHEN THERE IS NO CPU USING OR DELAY APAR status OPEN Error description Problem is the same as described in OA19711. OA19711 changed the algorithm in IRAPAQUE. But the change also needs to be done in IRAPABQD. When a service class is missing its goal and

Re: How old are you?

2007-08-03 Thread SUBSCRIBE IBM-MAIN Christian Blesa
Last tuesday I celebrated my birthday... 28 years old so I'm in the 7%! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at

Re: VLF vs ISC for catalogs

2007-03-27 Thread Christian Blesa
Not all catalogs are good candidates to VLF. You should revise some high-modified ucats (like ucats of Control-D, Spazio, ...) that must be out from ISC and VLF. We've also MCAT in ISC. Bye -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: Do you use $D PERFDATA ?

2007-03-01 Thread Christian Blesa
Info: http://www- 03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/fe582a1e48331b5585256de5 0062ae1c/4af80e435591bc358625704d0072da1e/ $FILE/JES2LatestStatusJuly2005_s26 52.pdf http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=tss1w9744b --

Do you use $D PERFDATA ?

2007-02-28 Thread Christian Blesa
Hello, like the subject asks... do you use $D PERFDATA command to revise JES2 performance? Thanks -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET

WLM Work Queue Viewer

2007-02-16 Thread Christian Blesa
Hello, We have found a very useful tool at http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/wlm/tools/wlmque.html Info: is a small ISPF based tool that may assist you in displaying the appl. env. that are currently being used on your z/OS system. This can be helpful for using Websphere

Re: XCF Performance Question

2007-02-15 Thread Christian Blesa
Hello Hal, I recommend you the following redbook: http://www.ibm.com/br/products/servers/zseries/news/events/itso2006/files/20 06_ITSO_Parallel_Sysplex_Update.pdf Bye -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

OA17708: Unable to IPL systems back into a Sysplex

2007-02-06 Thread Christian Blesa
Hi, it's not easy that all stars are aligned and five wolfs crying at the same time but all it's possible... About local fix... it's too... OA17708: UNABLE TO IPL SYSTEMS BACK INTO A SYSPLEX, MSGIXC455D AT IPL TIME APAR status Closed as program error. KNOWN IMPACT: System(s) cannot rejoin a

Re: Little ghost between WLM inits JES2 conversion

2007-01-04 Thread Christian Blesa
Hello, first of all, happy new year! 2th, finally, we have included $P to fix the problem. Regards -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET

Little ghost between WLM inits JES2 conversion

2006-12-12 Thread Christian Blesa
Hello, I have a little ghost between JES2 conversion and WLM inits... Once upon a time... a system (SYS2) was IPLed, it lived in a sysplex and it had some WLM inits. IPL automation executed $PXEQ and four secs later appeared *$HASP222 XEQ DRAINING. All seemed correct. Then, IPL automation

Re: Little ghost between WLM inits JES2 conversion

2006-12-12 Thread Christian Blesa
Adding... At SYS2 (IPLed system) not appeared any $HASP373 STARTED - WLM INIT - SRVCLASS abcd - SYS SYS2 about this job. So, any WLM init was started after $PXEQ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

XCF: wasted storage

2006-07-17 Thread Christian Blesa
Hi, it's possible to see the value of the wasted storage if the transport class is too large to send the XCF msgs? Thnks -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

VTOC of the MCAT backup

2006-06-19 Thread Christian Blesa
Hello: Our MCATs will be NONSMS so we will seize the opportunity to execute COPYFULL to obtain MCAT backups. If we need to use these backups, I think that it will be good practice execute VTOC reformat and import connect. Then, the MCAT backup will be exactly equal to MCAT original and VTOC will

Re: z/OS R7 IEC391I CATALOG NONVSAM.VIPRES5.ICFCAT HAS BEEN AUTOTUNED TO: BUFNI: 6 BUFND: 11 STRNO: 3

2006-06-06 Thread Christian Blesa
Hello: We discovered this new feature in the z/OS 1.7 migration. Searching information about it, we found following info: Large Systems Update 2005 DFSMS 1.7 Highlights Catalog Autotuning Support #56256;#56451; Catalog performance is dependent on three parameters when defined o Number of

Re: DFSORT: SMF16 (jobs ok, stcs nok)

2006-05-24 Thread Christian Blesa
Hello Thank you very much for your help. Our DBA colleagues will change this option next days and we will revise SMF16 again. Regards Chr. Blesa -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: DFSORT: SMF16 (jobs ok, stcs nok)

2006-05-23 Thread Christian Blesa
Hello Dave, thanks for your quickly reponse! On Mon, 22 May 2006 15:18:45 -0500, Dave Betten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finger checked before so not sure if this got sent already. I looked at your SMFPRMxx parms and they appear ok. Type 16 is not in your NOTYPE list for STC. But I'm still a

IEFSCHAS increases mips consumption

2006-05-23 Thread Christian Blesa
Hello, last thursday I have detected an increase in mips consumption by IEFSCHAS, XCFAS and GRS. I have revised all system changes and any seems to be relationated with this strange behaviour. Who could be the bad boy? Thanks

DFSORT: SMF16 (jobs ok, stcs nok)

2006-05-22 Thread Christian Blesa
Hello, I'm revising DFSORT and I have had a look to SMF16 records and only shows statistics of executed jobs but it not shows statistics DFSORT use by Started Tasks. I have revised ICEIEXIT/ICETEXIT and I don't see anything. Could you help me?

Re: DFSORT: SMF16 (jobs ok, stcs nok)

2006-05-22 Thread Christian Blesa
About SMFPRMxx used: SYS(NOTYPE(1:3,9:13,19,20,23,24,25,27,28,29,31,32,33,38,39,43:59, 69,92,99),EXITS(IEFACTRT,IEFUSO,IEFU29,IEFUTL,IEFU83,IEFU84,IEFUSI,IEFUJI), INTERVAL(SMF,SYNC),NODETAIL)

Re: IRD Short Engine Effect at 100% CEC utilization

2006-05-11 Thread Christian Blesa
Hello Gary: We have found your reply because we have the same problem: even though Weight Management change weights, no LCPUs in D M=CPU ever get the W flag on them, IRD don't touch them at all. We dont' have the Initial number of logical CPs equal to the number of shared physical CPs on the

DFSORT MOSIZE

2006-04-21 Thread Christian Blesa
Hello folks, we have read problems with DFSORT + z/OS 1.6 if you specify MOSIZE=MAX + VERIFY=NO. Then jobs ends with RC0 but records are not sorted. Problem is fixed with PK05024: INCORRECT RECORD SEQUENCE USING MEMORY OBJECTS Regards

Job info: Wrong time in queue

2006-03-22 Thread Christian Blesa
Hello We have had a ghost and we're finding it... We're migrating from JES2 inits to WLM inits and in our test environment we have done following test: 1) To send some jobs 2) To hold the jobs by hand 3) To free the jobs by hand. 4) To ask for job info. 1th March - Report

MCAT sms-managed?

2006-03-22 Thread Christian Blesa
Hello Last week we have heard in a catalog forum following recommendation: MCAT shouldn't be SMS-managed!! We haven't found any doc about it but now in our installation MCAT is SMS- managed. Thanks in advance! -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: WebSphere SMF records

2006-03-03 Thread Christian Blesa
for performance reasons), but, perhaps (just guessing), if you are not running an EJB container, you won't have this type of record activated? Aaron On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 02:26:02 -0600, Christian Blesa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, We would like to review the SMF120_5 and SMF120_6 record and we

Re: WebSphere SMF records

2006-03-02 Thread Christian Blesa
Hello, We would like to review the SMF120_5 and SMF120_6 record and we have customized WAS v.5 following described steps at WAS docs: +BBOM0001I server_SMF_container_activity_enabled: 1. +BBOM0001I server_SMF_container_interval_enabled: 1. +BBOM0001I server_SMF_interval_length: 0. +BBOM0001I

Re: SYS1.IMAGELIB doubts!

2006-02-16 Thread Christian Blesa
Hello Mark, thank you again for your help. We have tested an IPL with renamed SYS1.IMAGELIB and IPL has finished correctly without errors. Chr. On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 10:06:14 -0600, Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 08:20:57 -0600, Christian Blesa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

SYS1.IMAGELIB doubts!

2006-02-15 Thread Christian Blesa
Hello, We're revising the required system data sets (SA22-7629-00) and one of them is SYS1.IMAGELIB. Is required library in fact at IPL process? We have read old post (5 Oct 1999 from Zoltan Forray with subject SYS1.IMAGELIB) and DFSMSdfp Utilities book but we haven't clarify our question.

IRD Ficon Native/Director

2006-02-14 Thread Christian Blesa
Good morning, we're studying the implementation of IRD in our installation (running on z/OS 1.4) and we have read the following redbook: SG24-5952-00 about z/OS Intelligent Resource Director. This redbook was written in August 2001 and we have seen possible obsolete references like the supported

Re: JES2 proclibs allocated???

2006-02-08 Thread Christian Blesa
Hello, at following scenario: //PROC00 DD DISP=SHR,DSN=lib01 // DD DISP=SHR,DSN=lib02 // DD DISP=SHR,DSN=lib03 1) TDMF process have moved lib03 to another DASD. 2) This lib03 has been deleted (manually). 3) This lib03 has been allocated (through 3.2 option) from system x

Re: JES2 proclibs allocated???

2006-02-08 Thread Christian Blesa
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 14:16:17 +0100, R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK, JES2 restart is required. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland It's required JES2 restart only system x or all sysplex systems? Ta. -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: JES2 proclibs allocated???

2006-02-08 Thread Christian Blesa
-04). If lib03 exists on another volser, stop/start JES2. If lib03 does not exist anymore, delete it from JES2 JCl and stop/start JES2. Consider dynamic Proclibs to make these changes dynamically. Kees. Christian Blesa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:LISTSERV% [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Hello

Re: GDPS Redbook

2005-12-28 Thread Christian Blesa
Yes Ed, It's a good redbook to begin at GDPS world! ;-) Chr. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at

Re: Rule of thumb about paging / page fault rate

2005-12-23 Thread Christian Blesa
Hi folks!! Thanks a lot for your answers. I'm learning a lot with you. At DB2-list (http://www.idugdb2-l.org/archives/db2-l.html) I found following discussion: ** I read the value 100 in a Chuck Hoover's article: 'If the sum

BUFNO=2 DB2 catalog

2005-11-21 Thread Christian Blesa
Hello, do you have any notices about relationship between BUFNO=2 and DB2 catalog? Is the recommended value? Thanks -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the

Re: How to simulate Status Update Missing to test SFM?

2005-09-29 Thread Christian Blesa
Hello Barbara, thank you very much for your help. SFM has worked fine: IXC101I SYSPLEX PARTITIONING IN PROGRESS FOR SYSC REQUESTED BY XCFAS. REASON: SFM STARTED DUE TO STATUS UPDATE MISSING Regards Christian Blesa -- For IBM

Negative implications to performance due to scratch files process

2005-08-19 Thread Christian Blesa
Hello, anyone knows the (negative) implications to performance system if we execute a scratch file. We have a long process that execute an ASM module (equivalent to delete scratch of IDCAMS). Thanks -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /