Default REGION Size

2011-02-09 Thread Haynes, Stan
We run a 4-system production sysplex using z/OS/JES2 1.11 augmented by Thruput Manager. As a result of an application area reporting one of their critical jobs abending S822 (issue since corrected), we found ourselves noticing a very old parm value: default REGION size for all classes via the

Re: Default REGION Size

2011-02-09 Thread McKown, John
IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Default REGION Size > > We run a 4-system production sysplex using z/OS/JES2 1.11 > augmented by Thruput Manager. > > As a result of an application area reporting one of their > critical jobs abending S822 (issue since corrected), we found &

Re: Default REGION Size

2011-02-09 Thread Mark Zelden
very old parm value: default REGION size for all classes via the JOBCLASS statement. It's still set to an 'ancient' value of 7M! Haven't assessed how many of our jobs simply accept the default, but I'm thinking of changing the default region size for all jobclasses to a

Re: Default REGION Size

2011-02-09 Thread Larry Macioce
What about region=0m?? >From what I remember it will take what is needed, the down side is if you have something run away(loop) you might be in trouble. Mace -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: Default REGION Size

2011-02-09 Thread Rob Schramm
I worked at a place that had a similar setup with 8M. It was set artificially low because there were a bunch of assembler programs in the shop that did a variable getmains to give them everything below the line. By setting it to 8M, it meant that they couldn't get "everything below the line and t

Re: Default REGION Size

2011-02-09 Thread Veilleux, Jon L
- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Larry Macioce Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 9:27 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Default REGION Size What about region=0m?? >From what I remember it will take what is needed, the down side is if

Re: Default REGION Size

2011-02-09 Thread Mark Zelden
r the dataset control blocks. > >-Original Message- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Larry Macioce >Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 9:27 AM >To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu >Subject: Re: Default REGION Size > >What about re

Re: Default REGION Size

2011-02-09 Thread Chase, John
S822 (issue since > corrected), we found ourselves noticing a very old parm value: default REGION size for all classes via > the JOBCLASS statement. It's still set to an 'ancient' value of 7M! . . . When we went to z/OS 1.11, we "finally" raised our default region size

Re: Default REGION Size

2011-02-09 Thread Mike Schwab
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Veilleux, Jon L wrote: > The only problem with not limiting the region below is if you have a job that > does a variable length getmain to take all available storage and then opens a > lot of datasets you can get errors due to not enough below the line space for

Re: Default REGION Size

2011-02-09 Thread Donnelly, John P
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Haynes, Stan Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 6:04 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Default REGION Size We run a 4-system production sysplex using z/OS/JES2 1.11 augmented by Thruput Manager. As a

Re: Default REGION Size

2011-02-09 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 09:04:27 -0500, Haynes, Stan wrote: >As a result of an application area reporting one of their critical jobs >abending S822 (issue since corrected), we found ourselves noticing >a very old parm value: default REGION size for all classes via the >JOBCLASS sta

Re: Default REGION Size

2011-02-09 Thread Mark Jacobs
6:04 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Default REGION Size We run a 4-system production sysplex using z/OS/JES2 1.11 augmented by Thruput Manager. As a result of an application area reporting one of their critical jobs abending S822 (issue since corrected), we found ourselves noticing a ver

Re: Default REGION Size

2011-02-09 Thread Veilleux, Jon L
, February 09, 2011 11:26 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Default REGION Size How was the S822 corrected? We get this occasionally and just drain and restart the failing initiator... Our JOBCLASS is set to 4M... John Donnelly National Semiconductor Corporation 2900 Semiconductor Drive

Re: Default REGION Size

2011-02-09 Thread Haynes, Stan
On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs Sent: February 9, 2011 11:41 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Default REGION Size Is there any reason why you're not using the VSM CHECKREGIONLOSS parameter in your DIAGxx member Mark Jacobs On 02/09/11 11:26, Donnelly, John P wrote: > How was the S8

Re: Default REGION Size

2011-02-09 Thread Rick Fochtman
noticing a very old parm value: default REGION size for all classes via the JOBCLASS statement. It's still set to an 'ancient' value of 7M! Haven't assessed how many of our jobs simply accept the default, but I'm thinking of changing the default region size for all jobc

Re: Default REGION Size

2011-02-09 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 12:28:36 -0500, Haynes, Stan wrote: >The issue with how much *low* private to allow is ensuring RTM can successfully GETMAIN, so I'm wondering: if we change the default to 128M, or 192M, etc, do we need to subtract some vstor for the low private ? > That is why you need an IE

Re: Default REGION Size

2011-02-09 Thread Veilleux, Jon L
: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 12:57 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Default REGION Size On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 12:28:36 -0500, Haynes, Stan wrote: >The issue with how much *low* private to allow

Re: Default REGION Size

2011-02-09 Thread Rob Schramm
o:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of Mark Zelden > Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 12:57 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: Default REGION Size > > On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 12:28:36 -0500, Haynes, Stan > > wrote: > > > >The issue with how much *low* priva

Re: Default REGION Size

2011-02-09 Thread Jerry Whitteridge
; Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 10:08 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: Default REGION Size > > I think there is a product to do this kind of stuff. OESM or > something along > those lines. I did a quick web search and obviously I don't have > the right > name

Re: Default REGION Size

2011-02-11 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In , on 02/09/2011 at 09:46 AM, "Veilleux, Jon L" said: >The only problem with not limiting the region below is if you have a >job that does a variable length getmain to take all available storage >and then opens a lot of datasets you can get errors due to not enough >below the line space for