Re: Change IEASYMxx via operator prompt

2012-06-15 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-06-15 01:07, Skip Robinson pisze: Our operators never 'change IPL address'. They select the appropriate LOAD profile on the HMC before IPL. We don't find it necessary on a regular basis, but each LOAD profile can contain a unique LOADPARM value where the specified LOADxx suffix points

Upgrade Omegamon V4R1 to V4R2

2012-06-15 Thread Jorge Garcia
Hello: We're upgrading Omegamon V4R1 to V4R2 in our test system in z/OS 1.12. Our enviroment is: - OMEGAMON II FOR MVS V550: ZOOM TO EPILOG EXEC PGM=KOBCIRT0 - OMEGAMON II FOR MVS V550: EPILOG COLLECTOR EXEC PGM=KEPCOLL - OMEGAMON II CUA: EXEC PGM=KLV - OMEGAMON II FOR MVS V550: HISTORICAL DATA

How much CPU percentage can be expected to be reclaimed?

2012-06-15 Thread Giliad Wilf
We are having four partitions defined on one of our boxes (2086), with one z/OS image always running, one CF LPAR with CFCC always running, but the remaining two idle most of the time (that is, the remaining two partitions are active and have their share of resources allocated, but no OS is runn

Re: How much CPU percentage can be expected to be reclaimed?

2012-06-15 Thread Barbara Nitz
>We are having four partitions defined on one of our boxes (2086), with one >z/OS image always running, one CF LPAR with CFCC always running, but the >remaining two idle most of the time (that is, the remaining two partitions are >active and have their share of resources allocated, but no OS is

Re: How much CPU percentage can be expected to be reclaimed?

2012-06-15 Thread Geoff Rousell
> We wonder what percentage of CPU, otherwise spent on PR/SM management, could > be spared and reclaimed if: > (1) We run a single z/OS image in Basic mode on this 2086 (no LPARs defined)? > (2) We inactivate the two partitions that are usualy idle and redistribute > their resources. You could a

Re: How much CPU percentage can be expected to be reclaimed?

2012-06-15 Thread Martin Packer
I'm worried about the ICF LPAR sharing the engines. Unless I misunderstood the OP. Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://

Re: How many cost a cpu second?

2012-06-15 Thread Jan MOEYERSONS
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 13:25:36 +0800, Timothy Sipples wrote: >1. Mainframe-only chargeback regimes are deadly. But unfortunately, the mainframe is the only server of which we truly know how much it costs. Most other platforms, we don't have a clue of what they cost, because most of their cost

Re: Change IEASYMxx via opartor prompt

2012-06-15 Thread Peter Relson
FWIW, the samplib member is IEASYMUP (SYMUPDTE was a predecessor not provided with z/OS itself). A different mechanism may replace IEASYMUP at some point. >The last time I looked you couldn't make the value of a symbol longer. I'm not sure when (or where) you looked. That has never been a facto

Re: Expiring SMPE Certificate

2012-06-15 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 16:16:43 -0700, Skip Robinson wrote: >Is anyone else severely inconvenienced by the annual expiration of the >SMPE Certificate: > > GIM69221WCERTIFICATE SMPE Client Certificate WILL EXPIRE WITHIN 16 >DAYS. > >One year is just long enough for me to forget completely how

Re: How to "Carbon Copy" ("Cc:") in Email from MVS?

2012-06-15 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <1022461350829189.wa.lmburchcabq@listserv.ua.edu>, on 06/14/2012 at 08:48 PM, Larry Burch said: >I was referring to the sentence, "For 'Bcc:' put the RCPT-TO in the >RFC 821 headers (above 'DATA') That's the envelope, not a header. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT

Re: How many cost a cpu second?

2012-06-15 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <2116802378190624.wa.jan.moeyersonsadelior...@listserv.ua.edu>, on 06/15/2012 at 06:14 AM, Jan MOEYERSONS said: >But unfortunately, the mainframe is the only server of which we truly >know how much it costs. It may be the only server for which the OS provides accounting information, but th

Re: Change IEASYMxx via operator prompt

2012-06-15 Thread Mark Zelden
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 09:17:39 +0200, R.S. wrote: >W dniu 2012-06-15 01:07, Skip Robinson pisze: >> Our operators never 'change IPL address'. They select the appropriate LOAD >> profile on the HMC before IPL. We don't find it necessary on a regular >> basis, but each LOAD profile can contain a uniq

Re: DB2 users list

2012-06-15 Thread Dell'Anno, Aurora Emanuela
DB2-L can be found at http://www.idug.org/p/fo/et/topic=19 - you need to register on the IDUG website but it takes very little time to do that :-) Thanks.   Aurora Aurora Emanuela Dell'Anno CA Technology - MSC Sr. Engineering Services Architect Tel:      +44 (0)1753 577 733 Mobile:  +44 (0)7

Re: How many cost a cpu second?

2012-06-15 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
shmuel+...@patriot.net (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) writes: > It may be the only server for which the OS provides accounting > information, but that's not the same think. We don't know how much of > the cost of the box is in support of instruction execution, how much > in support of memory and how m

Re: How many cost a cpu second?

2012-06-15 Thread Martin Packer
We still have the concept of a capture ratio - except I expect it to be in the region of 85 - 95%. If it's not then something's up. (It's one of the things I chart.) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-24

Re: Change IEASYMxx via operator prompt

2012-06-15 Thread Skip Robinson
Although we have only 'static' LPARs--which I interpret as always running the same SYSNAME in the same LPAR--you can handle virtually any combination of IPL parms by creating unique Load profiles with names suggesting their function. The idea of editing--entering characters on a keyboard--in pr

Re: Change IEASYMxx via operator prompt

2012-06-15 Thread Mark Zelden
1) Only the sysprogs IPL with the different loadparm for the sandbox 2) Our operators do enter the load addresses for all other IPLs. Only one icon per LPAR. Loadparm changes temporarily during OS migrations, but the sysprogs usually do the first IPL and it is remembered. We've had th

GDG Base alteration report

2012-06-15 Thread Donnelly, John
We would like to track and report any modifications to the number of entries in a GDG base by dataset name: ATTRIBUTES LIMIT--3 SCRATCH NOEMPTY ---any change to the LIMIT number by dataset name. ---how might we do this? John Donnelly Texas Instruments SVA 2900 Se

Re: How much CPU percentage can be expected to be reclaimed?

2012-06-15 Thread retired mainframer
Does the 2086 support Basic mode? I thought the MP2003 was the last machine that did and it won't run z/OS. :>: -Original Message- :>: From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu] On :>: Behalf Of Giliad Wilf :>: Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 2:00 AM :>: To: IBM-MAI

Re: GDG Base alteration report

2012-06-15 Thread retired mainframer
Does the type 66 SMF record have what you want (and type 61 for new GDGs)? :>: -Original Message- :>: From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu] On :>: Behalf Of Donnelly, John :>: Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 9:17 AM :>: To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu :>: Subject:

Re: GDG Base alteration report

2012-06-15 Thread Scott Barry
SMF type 66 subtype 42 documents an ALTER event. Scott Barry SBBWorks, Inc. http://sbbworks.com/ On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:17:19 +, Donnelly, John wrote: >We would like to track and report any modifications to the number of entries >in a GDG base by dataset name: > >ATTRIBUTES > LIMIT---

Re: Anyone a Unicode Services expert? -- roundtrip conversion

2012-06-15 Thread Charles Mills
Here is a final -- from my point of view anyway -- update on this. I wrote in the PMR: I had a further thought on this. I think the issue is very simple. I don't think what you are doing between 1027 and 1208 is round trip conversion -- I think it's enforced subset conversion. If you re

Re: Familiar

2012-06-15 Thread Rob Schramm
DB2 is more comparable. As far as I can tell Hadoop is more targeted at data large enough (like a data warehouse) to start to cause a traditional database "issues". There is some information about using Hadoop with Cobol. There are some folks using this in conjunction with z today. Rob Schramm

Re: Anyone a Unicode Services expert? -- roundtrip conversion

2012-06-15 Thread John Gilmore
The notion of bifurcating the code points in a code page into 1) those to which a printable/displayable grapheme is assigned and 2) those to which no such assignment has [yet] been made is a classical one. The further notion of assigning a locally standard sub[stitute] character, x'1a' in the ex

Re: How much CPU percentage can be expected to be reclaimed?

2012-06-15 Thread Jim Mulder
> Does the 2086 support Basic mode? I thought the MP2003 was the last machine > that did and it won't run z/OS. z900 (2064) and z800 (2066) were the last (and the only z/Architecture) machines to support Basic mode. z890 (2086) does not support Basic mode. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test

Re: Brain drain: Where Cobol systems go from here

2012-06-15 Thread Ed Gould
Scott: Manual reading has always been an issue. For year we have been asking IBM to write clear and useful manuals. Somewhere around the mid 1990's IBM seem to have done a reverse and either stop issuing manuals (eg COBOL MESSAGES AND CODES) or made them so complicated to read (COBOL conver

Re: How much CPU percentage can be expected to be reclaimed?

2012-06-15 Thread Mike Schwab
You might reduce your utilization some with the increased memory from the LPARs not in use. If you go too small of memory for them you would have to shut all of them down to redistribute memory to start them up. -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it a

Re: Brain drain: Where Cobol systems go from here

2012-06-15 Thread David Andrews
On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 16:22 -0400, Ed Gould wrote: > Manual reading has always been an issue. For year we have been asking > IBM to write clear and useful manuals. > Somewhere around the mid 1990's IBM seem to have done a reverse and > either stop issuing manuals (eg COBOL MESSAGES AND CODES) o

Re: Questions about WEBs (Dispatchable Unit identity)

2012-06-15 Thread Justin R. Bendich
>Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY> Thank you very much, Mr. Mulder. Justin R. Bendich -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the