Re: Parallel Sysplex Training

2012-06-13 Thread saurabh khandelwal
:39 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Parallel Sysplex Training > > Hello, > I am looking for classroom/Virtual/Online Parallel Sysplex > training. Please help me if you have any idea on this. > > -- > Thanks & Regards > Saurabh > > --

Re: Parallel Sysplex Training

2012-06-13 Thread John Weber
@bama.ua.edu Subject: Parallel Sysplex Training Hello, I am looking for classroom/Virtual/Online Parallel Sysplex training. Please help me if you have any idea on this. -- Thanks & Regards Saurabh -- For IBM-

Re: Parallel Sysplex Training

2012-06-13 Thread Mike Myers
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Re: Parallel Sysplex Training

2012-06-13 Thread John Eells
saurabh khandelwal wrote: Hello, I am looking for classroom/Virtual/Online Parallel Sysplex training. Please help me if you have any idea on this. There might be some Parallel Sysplex information in the Education Assistant materials (which are free), but they are not well

Re: Parallel Sysplex Training

2012-06-13 Thread Jake anderson
Try veroef training On Jun 13, 2012 7:10 PM, "saurabh khandelwal" < sourabhkhandelwal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > I am looking for classroom/Virtual/Online Parallel Sysplex > training. Please help me if you have any idea on this. > >

Parallel Sysplex Training

2012-06-13 Thread saurabh khandelwal
Hello, I am looking for classroom/Virtual/Online Parallel Sysplex training. Please help me if you have any idea on this. -- Thanks & Regards Saurabh -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instruct

Re: Change SYSPLEX name

2012-05-18 Thread Mark Zelden
On Fri, 18 May 2012 16:03:51 +0200, R.S. wrote: >I forgot to customize sysplex name during ServerPac installation. >Now I want to fix it. >I found it's coded in couple datasets only (and LOADxx). > >Q1. Is there any other place where I should change the sysplex name? >

Change SYSPLEX name

2012-05-18 Thread R.S.
I forgot to customize sysplex name during ServerPac installation. Now I want to fix it. I found it's coded in couple datasets only (and LOADxx). Q1. Is there any other place where I should change the sysplex name? Q2. How to do it? The only idea I know is to delete and re-create all th

Re: Changing sysplex hardware

2012-03-05 Thread Skip Robinson
Biggest thanks goes to the sysplex parallel sysplex development team. Reconfiguration is much more robust and easier to manage than when we started out in the mid 90s. We just finished upgrading both CECs in our production complex, one push-pull at a time, about three weeks apart. I built two

Re: Changing sysplex hardware

2012-03-05 Thread Natasa Savinc
Thank you all for taking interest, especially to Skip, who answered what was really the question here. We followed this procedure for our sandbox sysplex, we will do the same for test and production. Best regards, Natasa -- For

Re: Changing sysplex hardware

2012-02-15 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
t: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 4:10 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Changing sysplex hardware Resync after the secondary volume is updated? If the mirroring software supports that, it would save a lot of retransmitting. I am fairly sure the ESS F20 and 800 PPRC did not have that, and the us

Re: Changing sysplex hardware

2012-02-14 Thread Skip Robinson
There are two sides to the sysplex coin: one lives on DASD, the other lives in the CF. As long as DASD is fully replicated, the newly IPLed sysplex member(s) should look exactly like the old. CF is another matter. In the CFRM policy, each CF is identified by a unique combination of properties

Re: Changing sysplex hardware

2012-02-14 Thread Mike Schwab
ehalf > Of Mike Schwab > Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 2:59 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: Changing sysplex hardware > > Since you are moving the entire datacenter and all dasd is already > replicated, then. > Old location: > 1. Shut down your existing sy

Re: Changing sysplex hardware

2012-02-14 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
ed targets. Is this not how replication works? Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mike Schwab Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 2:59 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Changing sysplex hardware Since you are mo

Re: Changing sysplex hardware

2012-02-14 Thread Mike Schwab
Since you are moving the entire datacenter and all dasd is already replicated, then. Old location: 1. Shut down your existing systems. Old location prefered. 2. Break dasd replications. New location. 3. IPL one system. 4. Start Sysplex using your new datasets. 5. IPL the other systems. Backout

Re: Changing sysplex hardware

2012-02-14 Thread Staller, Allan
It is not clear if you are moving the entire SYSPLEX, or merely one or more of the members. It you are moving the entire SYSPLEX, perhaps a SYSPLEX wide restart is appropriate. However, even if you are moving one or more members of the SYSPLEX, why not use the "standard" SYSPLEX fac

Changing sysplex hardware

2012-02-14 Thread Natasa Savinc
Hello, we are moving data center to another location. The data is already there on DASD, replicated synchronously. We plan to stop the sysplex and IPL from the replicated data , on new processor. We pretty much answered all questions so far, except for the sysplex and CF. On new location we

Re: Provide a utility to remove residual systems from the sysplex CDS

2012-01-19 Thread Jerry Whitteridge
I also received this: User Group Number - MR1026112735 Document Status - Recognized Title - Provide a utility to remove residual systems from the sysplex CDS IBM agrees with the request and a solution appears to be a desirable objective. A solution however may not presently appear feasible or

Re: maxsystem in a sysplex - belated heads-up

2012-01-16 Thread Bill Neiman
he product. I'll work with the planners to see if we can get it done. Bill Neiman Parallel Sysplex Development, IBM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.

Re: Provide a utility to remove residual systems from the sysplex CDS

2012-01-16 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
"Barbara Nitz" wrote in message news:<9205233228045717.wa.nitzibmgmx@bama.ua.edu>... > >>MR1026112735 > >>Title - Provide a utility to remove residual systems from the sysplex CDS > > > >I am told that this request, pointed out by Barbara Nitz,

Re: Provide a utility to remove residual systems from the sysplex CDS

2012-01-16 Thread Barbara Nitz
>>MR1026112735 >>Title - Provide a utility to remove residual systems from the sysplex CDS > >I am told that this request, pointed out by Barbara Nitz, had been >answered incorrectly and that the response has been corrected to >"recognized". True. Today I rec

Provide a utility to remove residual systems from the sysplex CDS

2012-01-15 Thread Peter Relson
>MR1026112735 >Title - Provide a utility to remove residual systems from the sysplex CDS I am told that this request, pointed out by Barbara Nitz, had been answered incorrectly and that the response has been corrected to "recognized". Peter Relson z/OS Core T

Re: maxsystem in a sysplex - belated heads-up

2012-01-12 Thread Barbara Nitz
>Yes, sounds contradictory: IBM recommending a sysplex wide IPL, what was >a sysplex intended for in the first place? I didn't read that *IBM* recommends a sysplex-wide IPL. *I* do to get rid of the junk that IBM accumulates in the sysplex CDS. I believe IBM frowns upon sysplex-wi

Re: maxsystem in a sysplex - belated heads-up

2012-01-12 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
d with this: > "User Group Number - MR1026112735 > > Title - Provide a utility to remove residual systems from the sysplex CDS > IBM believes that the request described has been solved with a current > product / service / policy / etc. > > Please see apar OA37776" >

Re: maxsystem in a sysplex - belated heads-up

2012-01-11 Thread Barbara Nitz
>Barbara - I've asked our account team to add us as concurring with the >requirement and to be added to the Interested Parties list. The requirement has been rejected with this: "User Group Number - MR1026112735 Title - Provide a utility to remove residual systems from the

Re: Could use a "sysplex aware" version of IAZXJSAB

2012-01-04 Thread Edward Jaffe
in the same sysplex. In particular, I would like to get the USERID and the JOBID. I have the jobname, system name, and ASID. I get this information out of an ISGQUERY scan of ENQs. What I'm going for is a "monitor" command which can scan ENQ information and output messages. The &q

Could use a "sysplex aware" version of IAZXJSAB

2012-01-04 Thread McKown, John
IAZXJSAB has some nice output for executing address spaces. But it only returns data from address spaces in the system it is running on. I was wondering if there is any way to get some equivalent information from address spaces running on other systems in the same sysplex. In particular, I

Re: TSO "concern" - sysplex multisystem logon.

2011-12-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <0486882064432540.wa.paulgboulderaim@bama.ua.edu>, on 12/21/2011 at 12:02 PM, Paul Gilmartin said: >Hmmm... IIRC, there are certain authorized utilities that will run >only in a single-step job. They check. No. The check is before the ATTACH of the started program. I believe that the

Re: TSO "concern" - sysplex multisystem logon.

2011-12-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In , on 12/21/2011 at 05:39 PM, "Vernooij, CP - SPLXM" said: >Yes, there is a light at the horizon: you cannot FREE a dataset >allocated in JCL. Wherever did you get that idea? Not only can you, but lots of installations have logon clists that do just that. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz

Re: TSO "concern" - sysplex multisystem logon.

2011-12-21 Thread Chris Mason
Paul > ... IIRC ... I'm a touch surprised you are not confidently familiar with this topic! Unless it is I who am not quite as familiar as I might be, the point being that, when "multi-step" is tried with a TSO user procedure, the reaction is *not* the more familiar one, namely message "IEF188

Re: TSO "concern" - sysplex multisystem logon.

2011-12-21 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of David Andrews > Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 10:28 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: TSO "concern" - sysplex multisystem logon. > >

Re: TSO "concern" - sysplex multisystem logon.

2011-12-21 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Binyamin Dissen > Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 11:59 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: TSO "concern" - sysplex multisystem logon. >

Re: TSO "concern" - sysplex multisystem logon.

2011-12-21 Thread Frank Swarbrick
ama.ua.edu >Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 10:41 AM >Subject: Re: TSO "concern" - sysplex multisystem logon. > > >> >> Curious as to why you wish to prevent it. If they can >> arbitrarily choose to >> logon to any system, why prevent concurrent l

Re: TSO "concern" - sysplex multisystem logon.

2011-12-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:56:26 -0600, McKown, John wrote: > >Gee, I never saw a TSO logon proc with more than one step. Never would have >occurred to me. > Hmmm... IIRC, there are certain authorized utilities that will run only in a single-step job. They check. I don't know why it matters. I do

Re: TSO "concern" - sysplex multisystem logon.

2011-12-21 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
"Paul Gilmartin" wrote in message news:<8844286434605726.wa.paulgboulderaim@bama.ua.edu>... > On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:22:31 +0200, Binyamin Dissen wrote: > > >On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:39:14 +0100 "Vernooij, CP - SPLXM" wrote: > > > >:>Yes, there is a light at the horizon: you cannot FREE a datas

Re: TSO "concern" - sysplex multisystem logon.

2011-12-21 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:41:08 -0600 "McKown, John" wrote: :>> Curious as to why you wish to prevent it. If they can :>> arbitrarily choose to :>> logon to any system, why prevent concurrent logons? :>Because my boss said so. He didn't say why. I don't argue any more. We are "CPU poor" and our p

Re: TSO "concern" - sysplex multisystem logon.

2011-12-21 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
"McKown, John" wrote in message news:. .. > > > > > Curious as to why you wish to prevent it. If they can > > arbitrarily choose to > > logon to any system, why prevent concurrent logons? > > > > -- > > Binyamin Dissen > > http://www.dissensoftware.com > > > > Director, Dissen Software, Bar

Re: TSO "concern" - sysplex multisystem logon.

2011-12-21 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:42:15 -0600 Paul Gilmartin wrote: :>On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:22:31 +0200, Binyamin Dissen wrote: :>>On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:39:14 +0100 "Vernooij, CP - SPLXM" wrote: :>>:>Yes, there is a light at the horizon: you cannot FREE a dataset :>>:>allocated in JCL. So this trick migh

Re: TSO "concern" - sysplex multisystem logon.

2011-12-21 Thread McKown, John
sday, December 21, 2011 11:56 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: TSO "concern" - sysplex multisystem logon. > > > -Original Message- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > >

Re: TSO "concern" - sysplex multisystem logon.

2011-12-21 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 11:42 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: TSO "concern" - sysplex multisystem logon. > >

Re: TSO "concern" - sysplex multisystem logon.

2011-12-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:22:31 +0200, Binyamin Dissen wrote: >On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:39:14 +0100 "Vernooij, CP - SPLXM" wrote: > >:>Yes, there is a light at the horizon: you cannot FREE a dataset >:>allocated in JCL. So this trick might well be the solution. > >You certainly can. > What if he were

Re: TSO "concern" - sysplex multisystem logon.

2011-12-21 Thread McKown, John
> > Curious as to why you wish to prevent it. If they can > arbitrarily choose to > logon to any system, why prevent concurrent logons? > > -- > Binyamin Dissen > http://www.dissensoftware.com > > Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel Because my boss said so. He didn't say why. I d

Re: TSO "concern" - sysplex multisystem logon.

2011-12-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:39:14 +0100, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM wrote: >> >> Any other ideas? >> -- >> John McKown > >Yes, there is a light at the horizon: you cannot FREE a dataset >allocated in JCL. So this trick might well be the solution. > I thought I had done this routinely; now I must try it to pr

Re: TSO "concern" - sysplex multisystem logon.

2011-12-21 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:39:14 +0100 "Vernooij, CP - SPLXM" wrote: :>Yes, there is a light at the horizon: you cannot FREE a dataset :>allocated in JCL. So this trick might well be the solution. You certainly can. -- Binyamin Dissen http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar &

Re: TSO "concern" - sysplex multisystem logon.

2011-12-21 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:06:21 -0600 "McKown, John" wrote: :>We are upgrading, finally, to z/OS 1.12 next month. One thing that I would like to do is allow certain people the ability to logon to TSO on all systems concurrently. It appears this is possible, for all users, simply by not propagatin

Re: TSO "concern" - sysplex multisystem logon.

2011-12-21 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
McKown, John wrote: >He likes the idea of us (Tech Services) and Production Control being able to >do this. But he does not want any other TSO users to be able to do it. You can do that. We do this trick for many years. First look at Mark Zelden's hints about this. We use GRS only for our tec

Re: TSO "concern" - sysplex multisystem logon.

2011-12-21 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
"McKown, John" wrote in message news:. .. > We are upgrading, finally, to z/OS 1.12 next month. One thing that I would like to do is allow certain people the ability to logon to TSO on all systems concurrently. It appears this is possible, for all users, simply by not propagating the SYSIKJUA enqu

Re: TSO "concern" - sysplex multisystem logon.

2011-12-21 Thread David Andrews
On Wed, 2011-12-21 at 11:06 -0500, McKown, John wrote: > allow certain people the ability to logon to TSO on all systems > concurrently. It appears this is possible, for all users, simply by > not propagating the SYSIKJUA enqueue via the GRSRNL. The SYSIKJUA RNAME appears to be the TSO userid:

Re: TSO "concern" - sysplex multisystem logon.

2011-12-21 Thread Mark Zelden
le data set.By not using the profile sharing and only allocating the system specific profile data sets for those you want to allow, you will have as much control as you want. I guess you could use automation - and assuming this is a sysplex use a combination of "RO *ALL,D A,tsouser&quo

TSO "concern" - sysplex multisystem logon.

2011-12-21 Thread McKown, John
We are upgrading, finally, to z/OS 1.12 next month. One thing that I would like to do is allow certain people the ability to logon to TSO on all systems concurrently. It appears this is possible, for all users, simply by not propagating the SYSIKJUA enqueue via the GRSRNL. In fact, I have tested

Re: zFS parm sysplex=filesys

2011-12-19 Thread Walter Marguccio
> From: Lizette Koehler > Subject: Re: zFS parm sysplex=filesys > Does this mean with z/OS V1.13 I will have to change to SYSPLEX(YES) in > order to have zFS files mounted?  Or will zFS still mount even with > SYSPLEX(NO) Lizette, With SYSPLEX(NO) zFS address space wil

Re: zFS parm sysplex=filesys

2011-12-18 Thread Marna WALLE
Hello Lizette and All, Just to re-iterate what others had said (which has been correct)... This sysplex=filesystem migration action is applicable if you use zFS *AND* if you are in a shared file system environment. If you don't meet both of these criteria, then you do not need to do

Re: zFS parm sysplex=filesys

2011-12-16 Thread Lizette Koehler
> > [ snip ] > > > > Sorry, I am still a little confused on this issue. So if I could get > a little more clarification > > > > I am running with SYSPLEX(NO) in my BPXPRMxx member. > > > > Does this mean with z/OS V1.13 I will have to change

Re: zFS parm sysplex=filesys

2011-12-16 Thread Chase, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler > > [ snip ] > > Sorry, I am still a little confused on this issue. So if I could get a little more clarification > > I am running with SYSPLEX(NO) in my BPXPRMxx member. &g

Re: zFS parm sysplex=filesys

2011-12-16 Thread Lizette Koehler
ou, even if the message wording could be improved. Sorry, I am still a little confused on this issue. So if I could get a little more clarification I am running with SYSPLEX(NO) in my BPXPRMxx member. Does this mean with z/OS V1.13 I will have to change to SYSPLEX(YES) in order to have zFS file

Re: zFS parm sysplex=filesys

2011-12-13 Thread Marna WALLE
Walter and John, Thanks for the good suggestions for improved messages on a successful migration health check run. I will pass them along. The indication that the check did pass (I hope) would be enough to let you know that the migration action didn't affect you, even if the message wording co

Re: zFS parm sysplex=filesys

2011-12-13 Thread Chase, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Walter Marguccio > > From: Marna WALLE > > > Subject: Re: zFS parm sysplex=filesys > > > look at the output from check ZOSMIGV1R13_ZFS_FILESYS (available on > > R11 and R12), . .

Re: zFS parm sysplex=filesys

2011-12-13 Thread Walter Marguccio
> From: Marna WALLE > Subject: Re: zFS parm sysplex=filesys > look at the output from check ZOSMIGV1R13_ZFS_FILESYS (available on R11 and > R12), > then this check will tell you whether > 1) this migration action is applicable to you and > 2) if it is applicable t

Re: zFS parm sysplex=filesys

2011-12-13 Thread Marna WALLE
ealth Checker for z/OS, and activate and look at the output from check ZOSMIGV1R13_ZFS_FILESYS (available on R11 and R12), then this check will tell you whether 1) this migration action is applicable to you and 2) if it is applicable to you, whether you've correctly set sysplex=filesys on all t

Re: zFS parm sysplex=filesys

2011-12-13 Thread Mark Jacobs
On 12/13/11 04:55, Walter Marguccio wrote: Q2: What observable effect(s), if any, would occur if we specify sysplex=filesys in our 1.11 images without sharing file systems? Honestly, I didn't tried. I would think that sysplex=no takes precedence over sysplex=filesys, but again,

Re: zFS parm sysplex=filesys

2011-12-13 Thread Walter Marguccio
> From: "Chase, John" > Subject: zFS parm sysplex=filesys > Q1:  Has anyone here IPLed a z/OS 1.13 system into a "supported > back-level" sysplex WITHOUT shared file systems AND without having > specified sysplex=filesys in the "back-level" members?

Re: zFS parm sysplex=filesys

2011-12-12 Thread Staller, Allan
Currently studying the migration guide for z/OS 1.13 (we're running 1.11 now), and note that 1.13 delivers zFS with a default of sysplex=filesys. ...snippage Q1: Has anyone here IPLed a z/OS 1.13 system into a "supported back-level" sysplex WITHOUT shared file systems AND

Re: zFS parm sysplex=filesys

2011-12-12 Thread Mark Jacobs
I would expect that if you initiailize OMVS with SYSPLEX(NO) in BPXPRMxx whatever you specify in IOEPRMxx for sysplex= would be ignored. Mark Jacobs On 12/12/11 11:18, Chase, John wrote: Hi, All, Currently studying the migration guide for z/OS 1.13 (we're running 1.11 now), and

zFS parm sysplex=filesys

2011-12-12 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, Currently studying the migration guide for z/OS 1.13 (we're running 1.11 now), and note that 1.13 delivers zFS with a default of sysplex=filesys. Earlier releases default sysplex=off. We do NOT run any shared file systems, and do not anticipate doing so in the foreseeable f

Re: Fixing a sysplex definition problem for the first system in a sysplex - was: Re: CFRM Policy Number

2011-12-01 Thread Richards, Robert B.
54 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Fixing a sysplex definition problem for the first system in a sysplex - was: Re: CFRM Policy Number >The danger is that if *anything* goes wrong before your first system comes >up, you cannot log on to fix even the most trivial problem. One way to be

Fixing a sysplex definition problem for the first system in a sysplex - was: Re: CFRM Policy Number

2011-11-30 Thread Barbara Nitz
>The danger is that if *anything* goes wrong before your first system comes >up, you cannot log on to fix even the most trivial problem. One way to be able to fix a sysplex problem that occurs for the first system is the following and requires planning in advance: 1. Use the defa

Re: Frequency of Sysplex Verification Audits?

2011-11-20 Thread Patrick Falcone
From: Al Sherkow To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 11:33 AM Subject: Frequency of Sysplex Verification Audits? I'm curious about the actual frequency that sites are being asked to run IBM's Sysplex Verification Package. (The I

Re: Frequency of Sysplex Verification Audits?

2011-11-18 Thread Skip Robinson
: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: 11/18/2011 08:41 AM Subject:Frequency of Sysplex Verification Audits? Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List I'm curious about the actual frequency that sites are being asked to run IBM's Sysplex Verification Package. (The IBM Sysplex Ve

Frequency of Sysplex Verification Audits?

2011-11-18 Thread Al Sherkow
I'm curious about the actual frequency that sites are being asked to run IBM's Sysplex Verification Package. (The IBM Sysplex Verification Package can be found at http://ibm.com/systems/z/swprice/sysplex/verify.html .) The Ts&Cs of the Attachment for IBM System z AWLC (th

Re: maxsystem in a sysplex - belated heads-up

2011-10-27 Thread Jerry Whitteridge
- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of Barbara Nitz > Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 9:08 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: maxsystem in a sysplex - belated heads-up > > To finish this thread: There is now marketi

Re: maxsystem in a sysplex - belated heads-up

2011-10-26 Thread Barbara Nitz
To finish this thread: There is now marketing requirement MR1026112735 that describes the need for a cleanup utility and asks for a way to really re-initialize the sysplex on the ixc405 message. Barbara -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: maxsystem in a sysplex - belated heads-up

2011-10-23 Thread Barbara Nitz
uch less point the way in the right direction. >From a customer perspective, all I care about in such a situation is getting >my sysplex back up, and that is almost impossible with the contradicting >information I get. I don't really care what component is 'at fault'. I a

Re: maxsystem in a sysplex - belated heads-up

2011-10-21 Thread Mark Brooks
function. For many exploiters, that is tantamount to requiring that the function CDS be accessible from every system in the sysplex. But it is not a requirement that XCF imposes. The XCF signalling service does NOT lie about establishing signalling connectivity with other systems. If we

Re: maxsystem in a sysplex - belated heads-up

2011-10-21 Thread Bill Neiman
To clarify some technical issues that have been discussed in this thread: On the second and subsequent systems to join the sysplex, XCF signaling has a "chicken-and-egg" problem when it attempts to determine what signaling connectivity exists with other systems. It may be tha

Re: maxsystem in a sysplex - belated heads-up

2011-10-20 Thread Barbara Nitz
>How about expiring the data from slot not used for 30 days? An IPL >after that would retrieve the needed info in a few seconds when it >joins the sysplex? I like that idea. But as I said in my (private) note to Bill, since the design change from z/OS 1.9 isn't externally docu

Re: maxsystem in a sysplex - belated heads-up

2011-10-20 Thread Mike Schwab
How about expiring the data from slot not used for 30 days? An IPL after that would retrieve the needed info in a few seconds when it joins the sysplex? On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Bill Neiman wrote: > Barbara, > >          If you were to open a requirement requesting a utilit

Re: maxsystem in a sysplex - belated heads-up

2011-10-20 Thread Bill Neiman
Barbara, If you were to open a requirement requesting a utility of some kind to report and delete residual system information from the sysplex couple data set, we might be able to do something about this. I don't think it would be hard to implement something similar to IXCMIAP

Re: maxsystem in a sysplex - belated heads-up

2011-10-18 Thread Barbara Nitz
ay to find out *what* junk might have accumulated in the sysplex CDS over the years. On the other hand, a D XCF,CPL would faithfully show an ARM CDS that hasn't been around for years, and that isn't used. (Unless that has been silently fixed since we experienced it.

Re: maxsystem in a sysplex - belated heads-up

2011-10-18 Thread Skip Robinson
Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile jo.skip.robin...@sce.com From: Barbara Nitz To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: 10/18/2011 02:12 AM Subject:Re: maxsystem in a sysplex - belated heads-up Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List >The only thing I can

Re: maxsystem in a sysplex - belated heads-up

2011-10-18 Thread Barbara Nitz
>The only thing I can do for you is check D XCF,S,ALL when one of the >systems has been brought down, but I suppose you have a testplex >yourself? Yes, we do. I don't remember ever to have issued this command with the ALL parm when one of the systems was down, but it will be easy to do that once

Re: maxsystem in a sysplex - belated heads-up

2011-10-18 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
the current systens and ancient rubbish. > > maybe you can test for me if one can find out via simple display commands what rubbish is kept in the sysplex CDS (I obviously cannot, since I've cleaned up all sysplex CDSs with residual information): > > D XCF,S,ALL supposedly lists all

Re: maxsystem in a sysplex - belated heads-up

2011-10-18 Thread Barbara Nitz
pt in the sysplex CDS (I obviously cannot, since I've cleaned up all sysplex CDSs with residual information): D XCF,S,ALL supposedly lists all systems in the sysplex. It would be interesting to see if those are really all of them or only those that are active. The book isn't r

Re: maxsystem in a sysplex - belated heads-up

2011-10-17 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
n Behalf Of Barbara Nitz > Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 11:53 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: maxsystem in a sysplex - belated heads-up > > When we migrated from a z9 to a z196 - big-bang swap - we had a lot of trouble getting one sysplex up. The first system came up f

Re: n lpars in a sysplex and one of the lpar systems crashes

2011-10-13 Thread Barbara Nitz
>-In an N lpar sysplex with each lpar running late level z/OS (lets >say z/os 1.11 or higher) if a single lpar crashes (i.e. - an unscheduled >termination of z/OS without performing normal shutdown procedures)will >this affect the other systems? Yes, at least to some extent. &g

Re: n lpars in a sysplex and one of the lpar systems crashes

2011-10-13 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
don't, then things may get hairy with the offending system still holding locks, etc. The whole area is called SFM (Sysplex Failure Management) and IBM has spent considerable effort on it recently. There were several good Share presentations that touched on the topic, including two from M

Re: n lpars in a sysplex and one of the lpar systems crashes

2011-10-13 Thread Mike Liberatore
Congratulations you win! Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Arun Shanmugasundaram Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 06:43:27 To: Reply-to: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: n lpars in a sysplex and one of the lpar

Re: n lpars in a sysplex and one of the lpar systems crashes

2011-10-13 Thread Arun Shanmugasundaram
  ---Please excuse my brevity. I'm trying to win The Email Game!-Original Message- n lpars in a sysplex and one of the lpar systems crashes From: Ray Overby <rayove...@comcast.net>To: ibm-m...@bama.ua.eduDate: Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 7:11PM - In an N lpar sysple

Re: n lpars in a sysplex and one of the lpar systems crashes

2011-10-13 Thread Arun Shanmugasundaram
s  ---Please excuse my brevity. I'm trying to win The Email Game!-Original Message- n lpars in a sysplex and one of the lpar systems crashes From: Ray Overby <rayove...@comcast.net>To: ibm-m...@bama.ua.eduDate: Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 7:11PM - In an N lpar s

Re: n lpars in a sysplex and one of the lpar systems crashes

2011-10-13 Thread Arun Shanmugasundaram
hi how are you   ---Please excuse my brevity. I'm trying to win The Email Game!-Original Message- n lpars in a sysplex and one of the lpar systems crashes From: Ray Overby <rayove...@comcast.net>To: ibm-m...@bama.ua.eduDate: Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 7:11PM - In an N l

Re: n lpars in a sysplex and one of the lpar systems crashes

2011-10-13 Thread Mark Jacobs
On 10/13/11 09:41, Ray Overby wrote: -In an N lpar sysplex with each lpar running late level z/OS (lets say z/os 1.11 or higher) if a single lpar crashes (i.e. - an unscheduled termination of z/OS without performing normal shutdown procedures)will this affect the other systems? -Can

n lpars in a sysplex and one of the lpar systems crashes

2011-10-13 Thread Ray Overby
-In an N lpar sysplex with each lpar running late level z/OS (lets say z/os 1.11 or higher) if a single lpar crashes (i.e. - an unscheduled termination of z/OS without performing normal shutdown procedures)will this affect the other systems? -Can this situation be simulated by having

Re: maxsystem in a sysplex - belated heads-up

2011-10-12 Thread Richards, Robert B.
AIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: maxsystem in a sysplex - belated heads-up When we migrated from a z9 to a z196 - big-bang swap - we had a lot of trouble getting one sysplex up. The first system came up fine, but the second or third system could not be ipl'd into that plex. It ended up on a GRS (!)

maxsystem in a sysplex - belated heads-up

2011-10-11 Thread Barbara Nitz
When we migrated from a z9 to a z196 - big-bang swap - we had a lot of trouble getting one sysplex up. The first system came up fine, but the second or third system could not be ipl'd into that plex. It ended up on a GRS (!) wait0A3 rsn9C. The accompanying ISG message would only have

Re: Parallel sysplex

2011-08-22 Thread saurabh khandelwal
> > The "Merging Systems" is fairly comprehensive in covering the various > subsystem *plex considerations, and should point to specific books where > warranted (e.g. Unix System Services Planning, RACF System Programmers > Guide, etc.). Another fine RedBook (System Progr

Re: Parallel sysplex

2011-08-22 Thread Art Gutowski
.). Another fine RedBook (System Programmers Guide to Parallel Sysplex Aggregation) is available here: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp3967.html Toward the end of this book, as should be so for "Merging Systems", there is a list of related publications resources

Parallel sysplex

2011-08-19 Thread saurabh khandelwal
Hello, I am new to Parallel sysplex. I am trying to understand the Parallel sysplex configured in our shop. For this, I refereed below redbooks. 1) merging system into sysplex.pdf 2) MVS Setting Up a Sysplex.pdf Do we have any other book or document available, which can

Re: SYSPLEX

2011-07-28 Thread Art Gutowski
The "Setting Up a Sysplex" is *the* starting point, and should point you to several other helpful resources, including: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/advantages/pso/index.html You'll need to know about STP if you are on current (z9 and up) hardware, which you can find o

Re: SYSPLEX

2011-07-25 Thread גדי בן אבי
The book Setting up a sysplex is part of the base z/OS documentation. It is pretty good. For z/OS 1.11 it is here http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/iea2f1a0/CCONTENTS?SHELF=EZ2ZBK0I&DN=SA22-7625-18&DT=20090604231538 Gadi -Original Message- From: IBM M

SYSPLEX

2011-07-25 Thread saurabh khandelwal
Hello, I am interested in learning SYSPLEX environment. Can you please guide me, which book can help me to setup SYSPLEX. Any cookbook is available. -- Thanks & Regards Saurabh Khandelwal -- For IBM-

Re: Creating a BASIC sysplex between two VM Guests

2011-06-21 Thread Binyamin Dissen
nds can be issued from the VM console of the guest. :>On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 11:08 +0300, ??? ?? ??? wrote: :>> Hi, :>> Is it possible to create a BASIC sysplex between two VM guests? :>> Both guests are running under the same physical machine. -- Binyamin Dissen http://www.

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