21st Century Migrates Mainframe with Clerity

Greetings, Here's one I came across a few minutes ago. Not much information as to the size of the installation, but it's apparently a successful re-hosting. And it only took a year ??? http://www.insurancetech.com/architecture-infrastructure/232301250?cid=nl_ins_daily&elq=98a33fd7dd5849f58313c

XML Generate String Length

Greetings, One of our developers is performing an XML GENERATE with a string that's variable. When it gets above about 100K, it ASRA's. No error codes or anything. Is there a maximum message length ??? 100K seems too small for an IBM limit, so there's probably a parameter somewhere that I'

HYPERPAVs

Greetings again, We're finally starting a trial on HyperPAVs. I just activated an IECIOS member with HYPERPAV=YES. I see the devices display with the -H now, but I don't see any aliases bound to the base. Am I missing something required to activate PAVs ??? We installed the license keys

RMF Summary Reports

Greetings again, I'm trying to get some performance comparison numbers from RMF for tape activity. The summary report looks good for this, but I can't find a more specific description of what DASD RATE and TAPE RATE means. DASD RATE The activity per second for all direct access storage de

HMC Web Interface

Greetings again, I was recently upgraded to Windows 7. With it came Internet Explorer 8. And with that came an inability to use the HMC web interface. After much consternation and attempts to blame our network folks for blocking ports that I want to use, I was pointed to this. I can't speak t

Emulator Sessions Hung

Greetings again, I've been trying to track down the cause of several emulator sessions not coming back alive after IPL's. We have two PC's running EXTRA! 3270 emulators. Each has four emulator sessions defined and running. When we IPL, one set of sessions on one PC come back alive just fine. Of

Moving a Dataset to a Non-SMS Volume

Greetings, I'm trying to move a bunch of datasets to a non-SMS managed volume via DSS. I found examples in the manuals, but it's not working: COPY DATASET( - INCLUDE(DataSet.Name)) - OUTDDNAM(TARGET) - ALLDATA(*) - BYPASSACS(*) -

Staffing Levels for zServer Environments

I know this has been discussed many times in the past, but I thought I'd bring it up again. Does anyone know of any research involving recommendations for staffing levels for z shops ??? And what it is based on; MIPS, Employee count, etc ??? Thanks again, Dave K. ---

LPAR Group Controls

Greetings again, I have two LPARs that I'm trying to group softcap to 76 MSU's. I set the defined capacity in each to 76 and made them both members of the DEFAULT group and set that group capacity to 76. I expect this to allow resources to shift between both LPARs as needed. What I'm observi

WLM and FTP GETS From Open Systems

Greetings, I am trying to adjust a WLM service class for an FTP GET process coming from another host. The process is assigned a service class from the interactive workload group. I added a new transaction name to assign a different service class in the interactive group and it was ignored. Then

Virtual Tapes and Esoterics

Greetings, We're in the midst of a migration to virtual tape. I defined the virtual devices as 3590's. I assigned them esoterics so we can direct some to be replicated to a remote virtual tape device. Replication is based on data written to certain devices. Things started out great. These de

CEAServer Character Special File

Greetings, I came across this while trying to expand a /var linear file. crwxrwxrwx 1 BPXDFLTU BPXDFLTG 6, 0 Jan 14 2009 CEAServer* Since DSS likes to restore at the defined size, I defined a new VAR linear file and mounted it and copied all the entries from /var. This character speci

HYPERPAV Definitions

I've been trying to find doc that my meager intellect can understand, but alas, I have failed yet again... I defined a 2107 control unit. I defined 192 3390B devices behind it. I defined 64 3390A devices behind it. During the prompts for the 3390A devices, HCD asks: Parameter/ FeatureValue +

HYPERPAV Support on Hitachi Disk

Greetings, I'm researching using HYPERPAV on some new Hitachi disk we're getting. I'm coming across mixed indications of whether HYPERPAV is supported on non-IBM DS8* arrays. I read one post in the archives hinting that EMC is supporting it as of mid-2008. But what about Hitachi ??? And is t

Mainframe Hall of Fame

>From a zJournal E-Mail that just came in... MAINFRAME HALL OF FAME Seventeen new members have been added to the Mainframe Hall of Fame. Click here to see who they are! http://www.zjournal.com/redir.cfm?rid=1295 -- This

Announcement for UNICOM, Macro 4, SoftLanding and Eden Customers

I came across this in a z/Journal E-Mail article today: http://www.zjournal.com/index.cfm?section=news February 18, 2009 :: Important Announcement for UNICOM, Macro 4, SoftLanding and Eden Customers >From Corry Hong, Founder, President and CEO of UNICOM Group: I am delighted to formally announ

Website Blacklists

Greetings, I came across a weird situation late last week. I tried to reply to a post via the web interface and our netnanny software blocked it. I E-Mailed our security folks to ask why and they said they got an updated blacklist that classifies bama.ua.edu under the category of "Alcohol". I un

PSF and APKACIF

Greetings, A couple years ago, I was researching the relationship between PSF and the APKACIF module within it. At the time, IBM was coming out with a new release of PSF which decoupled APKACIF. If you wanted APKACIF, you had to buy the Enhanced ACIF offering. We don't use PSF and acquired it on

IRS Mainframe Not Secure Enough

>From SearchDataCenter today IRS MAINFRAME NOT SECURE ENOUGH, GOVERNMENT REPORT SAYS Mark Fontecchio, News Writer The federal Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a report detailing information security issues at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and among them are lax mainf

IBM mainframe migration boosts OLTP, batch processing

>From SearchDataCenter today Mark Fontecchio, News Writer For some companies, making the decision to migrate off the mainframe is tough, but not for Meritz Financial Information Services. Even though the company added capacity frequently, at peak times it still encountered application slowdow

Computer History Museum

Here's an interesting one from Intelligent Enterprise today - Computer History Museum Tour in Pictures http://www.intelligententerprise.com/channels/information_management/sho wArticle.jhtml?articleID=212501470&cid=nl_ie_week By Doug Henschen Our favorite event venue of 2008? Hands down it w

IFL Extended to OpenSolaris

>From IBM Announcements today... Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL) authorization is expanded to include the OpenSolaris operating system http://www.ibm.com/vrm/newsletter_10577_3590_95481_email_DYN_1IN/ngn1227 27252 -

OSA ICC Consoles

Greetings, I searched the archives and didn't find anything that might help explain what I'm observing. I'm at the end of a console replacement project and had an issue after a POR last night. None of the PC consoles came back online after the POR/IPL. All had to be varied as consoles and t

z990 Hardware Withdrawal

And so passes another generation Hardware withdrawal: IBM eServer zSeries 990 systems, features, and upgrades http://www.ibm.com/vrm/newsletter_10577_2783_67113_email_DYN_1IN/cyf1227 27252 -- This e-mail transmissi

SMF Under VM

Greetings, We are getting ready for our semi-annual DR test this week-end. One of the things that came out of our last test was we found we couldn't generate our usual utilization reports from the SMF data that was returned. I'm not the capacity planning person and I don't know much about wh

FW: NYSE Undertakes IBM Mainframe Migration to Unix and Linux

Greetings, About six months ago, a story appeared in SearchDataCenter concerning the NYSE migration to UNIX/LINUX platforms. Since it's been six months, I wrote to the author this morning requesting a follow up. He responded almost immediately that he'd look into it. I'll post again when I h

PSI CONSOLIDATES IBM MAINFRAME

>From SearchDataCenter today PSI CONSOLIDATES IBM MAINFRAME, UNIX, LINUX AND WINDOWS ON SINGLE BOX | Mark Fontecchio, News Writer Platform Solutions Inc.'s new System64 DS and ES servers run not only IBM z/OS but also Intel Itanium operating systems. Mind the wrap: http://searchdatacenter

SAS ITRM vs MXG

Greetings, Preface: I am not a performance analyst. I have no idea what these products do, hence my question. Our capacity analysis team is looking at SAS ITRM 3.1 functionality. In breezing through the synopsis: http://www.sas.com/solutions/itresource/fact.pdf this reads like extensions i

Chips the Size of Dust ??

>From Intelligent Enterprise today: IBM's Computing Breakthrough Promises Chips the Size of Dust By Thomas Claburn IBM's new techniques may well lead to the use of atoms for digital storage, which could store the entire contents of YouTube--about 1,000 trillion bits of data. http://www.intel

Load Profile Icon on a Service Processor

Greetings, A couple weeks ago, we lost our network connection from the HMC to the service processors in our z9. Comedy of errors. Our Operations people were mid-IPL when they realized the HMC was unusable. When I went to IPL from the service processor, I had trouble remembering how to fire u

SearchDataCenter Article

MAINFRAME SHOPS HELD HOSTAGE, ITANIUM ALLIANCE SAYS Mark Fontecchio, News Writer After joining the Mainframe Migration Alliance this week, an Itanium Solutions Alliance spokesperson discusses why migrating off the mainframe to Itanium is a sound choice. http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/qna/

MAINFRAME CUSTOMER BASE SEEMS TO SHRINK

Here's an interesting SearchDataCenter interview of our friend and past IBM-MAIN poster Vincent Re of CA: = MAINFRAME GURU LOOKS ON AS CUSTOMER BASE SEEMS TO SHRINK Mark Fontecchio, News Writer In this Q&A, a CA software arc

IPLINFO Question

Sorry to clutter the list with this, but it might be useful for others: We just got through with a DR test. During this test, management wanted to emulate as close as possible the resources we would have available at the DR hotsite based on the current contract with a DR service provider. To do t

3584 Tape Library Power Source

Lot's to admire about them Aussies I'm told this could run a 3584 Tape Library though. (Gratuitous attempt to redirect On Topic). >From SearchDataCenter today: I'LL TAKE A BEER AND 2KW, PLEASE | BLOG Resear

Attractive Alternatives to Mainframes

I sure hope they do a follow-up on this one early next year. Attractive Alternatives to Mainframes Are Breaking Their Decades-Old Hold on Wall Street http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197007742

Jes2 Exit52 Again

Greetings again, I'm having a hard time getting this exit to work. My assembler skills are pretty much non-existent. I'm trying convert an old JES2 EXIT2 to work as as an EXIT52. Following the manuals, IBM's sample exit and the old exit, I put this together. I yanked all the doc so it would post

z/OS 1.7 Upgrade of JES2 Exit 52

Greetings, I am trying to convert a JES2 EXIT2 to EXIT52. When I enable the exit, it gives me: *** INCORRECT JCL/JECL RETURNED BY EXIT 2/52 ** $HASP106 JOB DELETED BY JES2 OR CANCELLED BY OPERATOR BEFORE EXECUTION This exit is supposed to scan JOB cards searc

EMC SNAP Copy on Datasets

Greetings again, We use EMC's SNAP copy on a couple very large datasets. This offloads the copy to the array, frees up the initiator and lets our JOB stream move on once the SNAP command is issued to the array. The difference being a couple seconds vs. a couple hours. The physical copy is not co

KOREAN INSURER RETIRES 7,000 MIPS MAINFRAMES

Greetings, Another interesting story today on SearchDataCenter. This is the biggest one I've read about so far. Thanks, Dave K. === KOREAN INSURER RETIRES 7,000 MIPS MAINFRAMES | Matt Stansberry, Site Editor

Re: ROI and Mainframe Migration Analysis Report

The link to this paper requires you to sign up for a spam list, so you might consider that before following the link. Sorry. -- This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or co

ROI and Mainframe Migration Analysis Report

Here's an interesting one that came in my morning E-Mails: ROI and Mainframe Migration Analysis Report Sponsored by: HP A major provider of support services fo

MIGRATION FROM THE MAINFRAME: CAN DO, BUT NO, THANKS

>From a SearchDataCenter E-Mail this morning. MIGRATION FROM THE MAINFRAME: CAN DO, BUT NO, THANKS | TIP For the last fifteen years, some commentators have predicted the demise of the mainframe, as customers move away from mainframes to Wintel or Linux/Unix platforms; and for fifteen years, for

MAINFRAME LABOR POOL

Here's one I came across in a SearchDataCenter E-Mail. Just to be clear, you ladies still look marvelous to me. But the guys are definitely showing some mileage. Have a great day !!! == MAINFRAME LABOR POOL BOLSTE

z8 ???

Greetings again, We're in another cycle of hardware upgrades. It seems our z800 tapped out after a frenzy of migrations from tape to DASD in order to prepare for a lights-out type of operation while the bird flu pandemonium was in full swing. Enough of the history... Now that we're looking f

Migrating Off IBM Mainframes - Part 2

Greetings again, Another link on that page pointed to a company that already made this migration. This story is from March 2005. Has anybody heard how well it worked for them and how well it's working now ??? "Ancor IT director Kelly Colohan had a decision to make. Informed by IBM that it wou

Migrating Off IBM Mainframes

Greetings, From SearchDataCenter yesterday: "Simon & Schuster Inc. plans to save $1 million a year on hardware costs and licensing fees as a result of migrating off its old IBM mainframes." http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid80_gci1172792,00.html?track=NL-451&a

z/OS 1.6 Withdrawal Date

Infrequent Greetings, I'm trying to get moving on a z/OS upgrade. Using IBM's original stated direction of supporting four z/OS releases concurrently, I planned to upgrade to z/OS 1.6 this spring. I just reviewed the z/OS withdrawal dates and 1.6 is proposed to be withdrawn September 2007.

Mainstar

Greetings, I just came across this in an E-Mail from IBM isource. Hm http://www-306.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/4/897/ENUS906-004/ENUS906-004.PDF Developer Relations withdrawal: Mainstar Family of Products - Replacements available Overview Effective January 10, 2006, IBM will withdraw fr

z/OS 1.4 Slowdowns

Greetings, I'm having an issue with z/OS 1.4 slowdowns. We've got a product extension we're testing that appears to be causing the issues, but I'm having a hard time associating the two. I'm monitoring this through Omegamon. Basically, once the testing begins, I see the product begin to use mo