IRD capacity planning

2006-09-26 Thread DMR-Qualitas Outsourcing
Hello, In the upcoming days we'll be activating Intelligent Resource Director in our systems (CSSPQ everywhere, and LPAR CPU management in the main production sysplex). Not being actually concerned about CSSPQ efects, as we don't expect any major changes (we've measured our SAP queues, being

Re: SYS1.IMAGELIB doubts!

2006-02-16 Thread DMR-Qualitas Outsourcing
Eric, I also think that only the catalogued SYS1.IMAGELIB will be used but I would like to see if our premise is true! I had revising proclibs/parmlibs/nucleus but I haven't found where SYS1.IMAGELIB is defined... Thanks On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 10:04:28 -0600, Eric Bielefeld Eric- [EMAIL

Re: Rule of thumb about paging / page fault rate

2005-12-28 Thread DMR-Qualitas Outsourcing
On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:33:47 -0600, Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The ROTs are fine (old and current), but there is really only one thing that matters and you may be paging, or you may not be Are you meeting your SLAs? Mark Hello Mark, of course, to meet SLAs is the first and last

Rule of thumb about paging / page fault rate

2005-12-21 Thread DMR-Qualitas Outsourcing
Good morning, we are revising central storage due to our systems not paging and, therefore, it's possible that we have installed too central storage. We have seen to find values or some rule of thumb but we don't find anything. At 1991 the recommendation was 300-500pag/sec of total paging but

Re: DFSORT: from hiperspaces to dataspaces!!

2005-12-02 Thread DMR-Qualitas Outsourcing
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 06:07:59 -0500, John S. Giltner, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DMR-Qualitas Outsourcing wrote: Hello, I'm investigating little ghost in a sort job batch due to this job was working with hiperspaces and, without any changes, it has started to use dataspaces. Being

Re: DFSORT: from hiperspaces to dataspaces!!

2005-12-02 Thread DMR-Qualitas Outsourcing
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 07:46:54 -0800, Frank Yaeger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/01/2005 01:14:36 AM: Hello, I'm investigating little ghost in a sort job batch due to this job was working with hiperspaces and, without any changes, it has started to use dataspaces. ...

Re: STRNO in DB2 catalog

2005-12-02 Thread DMR-Qualitas Outsourcing
Hi folks, as I mentioned later, I post IBM answer at PMR: DFSMS : Managing Catalogs explains in topic Specifying the Number of Concurrent Requests the paameter STRNO. This is the number of concurrent read requests for a BCS and can have from 2 to 255. From this manual: . Initially define the

Re: DFSORT: from hiperspaces to dataspaces!!

2005-12-01 Thread DMR-Qualitas Outsourcing
Another important difference: Before: ICE752I FSZ= 26843782528 BC IGN= 14280193 E AVG= 1000 0 WSP= 34865459 C DYN= 630120 56664 Now: ICE752I FSZ= 26663697126 BC IGN= 14119737 E AVG= 1000 0 WSP= 34631560 C DYN= 1389344 24544 Thanks Chr. On 12/1/05, DMR-Qualitas Outsourcing [EMAIL

Re: STRNO in DB2 catalog

2005-12-01 Thread DMR-Qualitas Outsourcing
Thanks Terry, we have received similar answer from another forum: I would have thought for a heavily hit DB2 there will be a heavy load on the Catalog at startup and at peak load times, depending on how many table spaces and index yor database comprises. I think the default is still 3, so I

STRNO in DB2 catalog

2005-11-30 Thread DMR-Qualitas Outsourcing
Hi folks, I'm revising catalog parameters to improve performance and I have found that DB2 catalog has STRNO=2 (concurrent read request). This catalog was created in 1991 and perhaps this value could be increased to decrease SYSZRPLW enqueues. Thanks in advance

How to simulate Status Update Missing to test SFM?

2005-09-28 Thread DMR-Qualitas Outsourcing
Good morning, we are trying to test SFM policy in our test sysplex and we have done following to simulate a Status Update Missing of one system: 1) Start one system without CF and we would like to put offline then all paths but last of them has been restarted automatically: V 6208,OFFLINE,FORCE

BUFND large GDGs

2005-09-26 Thread DMR-Qualitas Outsourcing
Good morning, we are working in catalog performance and we have read some post, zOS DFSMS-Managing Catalogs and Cheryl Watson Tuning Letter 2001 - N1. About following paragraph: BUFND Specifies the number of buffers for transmitting data between virtual and auxiliary storage. The default,

Reply if GDPS scripts ends correctly

2005-09-02 Thread DMR-Qualitas Outsourcing
Good morning, we need to implement a console reply when a GDPS script ends. We believe that is only possible obtain a reply if script fails. May be we can put an ASSIST at the end of the script but also appears if this scripts fails and we program to continue. Do you know if there is

Re: Negative implications to performance due to scratch files process

2005-08-23 Thread DMR-Qualitas Outsourcing
Hello Bruce, this ASM module uses following macros: NAME (to locate), UCATDX (to descatlg) and SCRATCH (to delete). This 'long process' (12hour) is a batch that executes thousands of file deletes and it loads this module and it passes differents parameters. This module is prepared to execute

Re: Negative implications to performance due to scratch files pro cess

2005-08-23 Thread DMR-Qualitas Outsourcing
Hello, yes but we can't have any reserve due to Hyperswap (GDPS feature) and therefore all reserves must be converted to ENQ. Tks for your help -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Negative implications to performance due to scratch files pro cess

2005-08-23 Thread DMR-Qualitas Outsourcing
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 11:51:48 -0400, Bruce Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... SYSVTOC is generally not a good candidate for reserve conversion because reserves are of short duration and I/O intensive That is true if you are using GRS Ring configuration (CTCs) but not if you are using GRS Star

Region requested by MQBroker

2005-07-21 Thread DMR-Qualitas Outsourcing
Hi folks, we are analyzing an incident about MQBroker and we have seen that region requested is 54M but we don't find where region is codified. Could you help us to find it? RPT VERSION V1R2 RMF TIME 16.33.28

Re: Region requested by MQBroker

2005-07-21 Thread DMR-Qualitas Outsourcing
-OMVS REGION You can find more information about the IEFUSI exit in MVS Installation Exits and DOC APAR OW38477. On 7/21/05, DMR-Qualitas Outsourcing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, we are analyzing an incident about MQBroker and we have seen that region requested is 54M but we don't find

Re: VLF Trimming - how much is good?

2005-07-20 Thread DMR-Qualitas Outsourcing
Hello Fred, we are also analyzing the reports of VLF and we have seen high trimming for 2 hours/day. At COFVLF we have MAXVIRT(16384) - 64Mb!! Which is your MAXVIRT? Regards Christian Blesa Operating Systems -- For IBM-MAIN

How to add, dynamically, a catalog to VLF?

2005-07-13 Thread DMR-Qualitas Outsourcing
Hi folks, we need to know how to add, dynamically, a catalog to VLF. Actually, this catalog resides at ISC. The sequence executed is: 1) Remove this catalog from ISC with 'F CATALOG,ALLOCATE(catname),NOISC' 2) Add this catalog to VLF with 'F CATALOG,VLF(catname) Then, this catalog is closed.