Adding a zIIP processor dynamically

Hi listers, Can I add a zIIP processor dynamically in one single z/OS image? Regards, Alvaro. -- Un saludo. Álvaro Guirao -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.e

Re: Mainframe Power - Was RE: Another Light goes out

On Mon, 1 Oct 2012 18:33:29 -0500, Roberts, John J wrote: >>Has anyone seen this NY Times article? Perhaps the reporter should have >>looked in the Times Tower for how they are saving power. Mainframes are far >>more efficient, and these CIO's and companies are doing whatever they can do >>to

Re: Adding a zIIP processor dynamically

W dniu 2012-10-02 09:20, Alvaro Guirao Lopez pisze: Hi listers, Can I add a zIIP processor dynamically in one single z/OS image? It depends. Assuming proper palnning, YES, you can. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- Tre tej wiadomoci moe zawiera informacje prawnie chronione Bank

Re: Mainframe Power - Was RE: Another Light goes out

>>(3) The CPU chip makers are about to apply Mobile technology to their Server >>CPU's. Mobile CPU's dynamically adjust their clock speeds to fit the >>workload, sometimes running at 200MHz and at other times running full >>throttle at 2GHz+ or more. Server CPU's will soon do the same. When

Re: Mainframe Power - Was RE: Another Light goes out

W dniu 2012-10-02 10:37, Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4) pisze: (3) The CPU chip makers are about to apply Mobile technology to their Server CPU's. Mobile CPU's dynamically adjust their clock speeds to fit the workload, sometimes running at 200MHz and at other times running full throttle at 2GHz+ or mor

Re: Search problem

> On Mon, 1 Oct 2012 16:24:13 -0500, Mark Steely wrote: >I am testing z/OS v1r13. I am also testing CA-OPS/MVS. I have something >strange happening when I try to process the OPS-LOG. I have a steplib in my >logon proc and in all the started tasks for OPS/MVS. ISRFIND finds the module >in my log

How to get a tape's DSCB

I am investigating the use of catalogued tapes. We have created one such and you can see it with ISPF 3.4, although line commands are prohibited . The existing code I am working with dynamically allocates the DSN on the tape, reads the JFCB and then issues the OBTAIN macro to get DSCB informatio

JES2 EXIT 40

Hello all, Somebody will have an example of exit 40 to implement conditionally purged processing by return code. Indeed, we have 35 000 job/day and don't kept job with rc=0, but just kept job step ends with a return code higher than 4. regards --

Re: Adding a zIIP processor dynamically

In order to follow z196 Technical Guide, chapter "3.4.9 Reserved processors" of the book says: "Reserved CPs can be defined to a logical partition dynamically to allow for nondisruptive image upgrades" -- I understand that first you must have defined the *n* reserved processors you might want.

Re: How to get a tape's DSCB

On Tue, 2 Oct 2012 10:14:14 + Robin Atwood wrote: :>I am investigating the use of catalogued tapes. We have created one such and you can see it with ISPF 3.4, although line commands are prohibited . The existing code I am working with dynamically allocates the DSN on the tape, reads the JF

Re: How to get a tape's DSCB

The DSCB (and OBTAINing it) is a DASD construct. For the equivalent with tape you have to read sequentially looking for labels. > Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 10:14:14 + > From: robin.atw...@microfocus.com > Subject: How to get a tape's DSCB > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > > I am investigating

Re: How to get a tape's DSCB

I was hoping it would be easier than reading the labels! Thanks for the input. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of J R Sent: 02 October 2012 19:19 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How to get a tape's DSCB The DSCB

Antwort: Re: Adding a zIIP processor dynamically

Hi, On a z196 you can add a logical processor without deactivate/activate the Lpar but z/OS must be at least on 1.10 This can be done via HMC - Select the LPAR - Operational Customization - Logical Processor add - change the reserved processors column accordig to your needs - klick on "change ru

Re: Career Advice for the Mainframer - Was RE: Another Light goes out

On Mon, 1 Oct 2012 15:46:04 -0500, Roberts, John J wrote: Well, to each his own. You can either resist change, or you can embrace it. I chose to embrace it. I think it has extended my career. Oh I went along for the ride with the outsourcing all right, moved around a couple of times withi

Re: JES2 EXIT 40

Houzet Alain wrote: >Somebody will have an example of exit 40 to implement conditionally purged >processing by return code. Indeed, we have 35 000 job/day and don't kept job >with rc=0, but just kept job step ends with a return code higher than 4. Why an exit? There is a JES2 command just for

Basic JES3 Exit Question

I am new to JES3, and have a JES3 exit 45 to install/update for XPAF. After wading thru the manuals, they only say to copy to SYS1.SIATLIB. Is anything else required (other than LLA refresh)? Is a JES3 restart required? -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A fast, anti-spam email service. ---

Re: Adding a zIIP processor dynamically

Thank you Ralf, i was imaging something like that but I wasn't seeing it! 2012/10/2 > Hi, > > On a z196 you can add a logical processor without deactivate/activate the > Lpar but z/OS must be at least on 1.10 > > This can be done via HMC > > - Select the LPAR > - Operational Customization > - Lo

Re: JES2 EXIT 40

Correction (after checking on my sandbox): $P J(*-*),CC=(00,04) must be $P J(*-*),CC=(CODE=00) and $P J(*-*),CC=(CODE=04) Two commands to purge set of jobs with RC=00 and also with RC=04. My 1.12 bookmanager is not that clear on this specific syntax... Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbr

Re: How to get a tape's DSCB

Robin, Do you have a tape management system? CA1 TLMS RMM? If not, then you would need to read the labels on the tape to get this information. Or you will need to add other processes to your environment to gather the information. Some of the information may be in SMF data records. Check out th

Re: JES2 EXIT 40

As it has been stated, the JES2 POJ command had many parameters now. You can purge output based on days, hours, return code, userid, task mask, etc. It is well worth browsing the JES2 Commands Manual and see what you can do with it. An exit is not really required for this. The other part is y

Re: How to get a tape's DSCB

Robin, If you have a tape manager such as rmm or CA-1, from ISPF you can normally issue the TI line command; both rmm and CA-1 support that. You can easily get data set details without mounting the tape. In addition, ISPF supports line commands for tape - but they have to be enabled via the con

Re: JES2 EXIT 40

Why an exit and not a jes2 command to purge output ? because our issue concern the cpu consumption of jes2. Indedd with 35000 sysout by day, jes2 is the biggest consumer of cpu to handle his spool. We will prefer to purge the sysout from the source than send a purge command every x minutes. than

Re: JES2 EXIT 40

On 10/02/12 09:53, Houzet Alain wrote: Why an exit and not a jes2 command to purge output ? because our issue concern the cpu consumption of jes2. Indedd with 35000 sysout by day, jes2 is the biggest consumer of cpu to handle his spool. We will prefer to purge the sysout from the source than se

Re: Basic JES3 Exit Question

These steps should allow you to install your JES3 Exit make any subsequent changes:     1. Copy the load module to SYS1.SIATLIB ( or other library that is the first library in the LINKLIST) 2. F LLA,REFRESH 3. *MODIFY,X,M=IATUX45,REFRESH A JES3 Restart is not

Re: JES2 EXIT 40

As you said, it's just an assumption, not an assertion. I miss the exit to test and confirm. alain HOUZET -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message:

Re: How to get a tape's DSCB

On Tue, 2 Oct 2012 07:19:16 -0400, J R wrote: >The DSCB (and OBTAINing it) is a DASD construct. For the equivalent with tape >you have to read sequentially looking for labels. > Which, in turn, requires BLP, which is restricted at many sites. It this the reason that Rexx LISTDSI will report

Re: Mainframe Power - Was RE: Another Light goes out

Roberts, John J wrote: So while we might have 1TB drives in our desktops, the enterprise RAID arrays are stuck at 73GB-146GB-300GB per HDA. Actually, z/OS has supported 1TB drives (EAVs) on DS8Ks since z/OS R10, which went out of service last year. In R10 we supported VSAM, in R11 we added

Re: JES2 EXIT 40

What version of JES2 z/OS OS/390 are you running? I am not sure an EXIT will process any faster than a command. JES2 is very efficient in controlling its environment. If you are seeing High CPU Utilization from JES2 it might be worth an ETR/SR to IBM to find out why. Sometimes there are tuni

Re: Mainframe Power - Was RE: Another Light goes out

John Eells wrote: >Actually, z/OS has supported 1TB drives (EAVs) on DS8Ks since z/OS R10, which >went out of service last year. In R10 we supported VSAM, in R11 we added >Extended Format sequential, and in R12 (the oldest release now in service) we >added support for "almost everything else."

Re: Mainframe Power - Was RE: Another Light goes out

"Roberts, John J" wrote in message news:<93891f43642f3c419a7d75acc2b1db6f3cbc75f...@exchangemb2.dhs.state.i a.us>... > John Eells wrote: > > >Actually, z/OS has supported 1TB drives (EAVs) on DS8Ks since z/OS R10, which went out of service last year. In R10 we supported VSAM, in R11 we added Ext

Re: Mainframe Power - Was RE: Another Light goes out

Roberts, John J wrote: John Eells wrote: Actually, z/OS has supported 1TB drives (EAVs) on DS8Ks since z/OS R10, which went out of service last year. In R10 we supported VSAM, in R11 we added Extended Format sequential, and in R12 (the oldest release now in service) we added support for "alm

Re: How can we get the normalization factors R723NFFI / R723NFFS / SMF70NRM numbers out of RMF?

The conversion factor is always the Su/sec of the full speed 1-way divided by the su/sec of the sub-cap 1-way. The value in the SMF records is an integer which is this number multiplied by 256. So a z10- O02 with 2 zIIPs for example would be the su/sec of an z01 divided by the su/sec of an O

Re: Adding a zIIP processor dynamically

On Tue, 2 Oct 2012 09:20:31 +0200, Alvaro Guirao Lopez wrote: >Hi listers, > >Can I add a zIIP processor dynamically in one single z/OS image? > > Yes, as long as you have z/OS 1.10 or above and a z10 or above. You use the "logical processor add" function. If you don't meet the above require

Re: Mainframe Power - Was RE: Another Light goes out

John Roberts wrote: Has anyone seen this NY Times article? Perhaps the reporter should have looked in the Times Tower for how they are saving power. Since his words are being recopied over and over it is appropriate to note that the New York Times Company has not owned or made any use of the '

Re: Mainframe Power - Was RE: Another Light goes out

On 2 October 2012 10:20, John Eells wrote: > Roberts, John J wrote: >> >> So while we might have 1TB drives in our desktops, the enterprise RAID >> arrays are stuck at 73GB-146GB-300GB per HDA. > > Actually, z/OS has supported 1TB drives (EAVs) on DS8Ks since z/OS R10, > which went out of service

Re: Mainframe Power - Was RE: Another Light goes out

I was referring to the NY Times building at 8th Ave. and 40th Street. Which admittedly, is now accepting non-Times tenants. But it is the Times's (well at least in theory) and is a tower. Doug Doug Fuerst Principal Consultant BK Associates 718.921.2620 917.572.7364 d...@bkassociates.net -Ori

Re: Mainframe Power - Was RE: Another Light goes out

>But this surely has little if anything to do with the size of the physical >drives used by the makers of storage subsystems. If storage array makers are using 1TB drives vs the 73GB that was typical just a couple years back, this should translate to many fewer drives. Which should translate

Re: Career Advice for the Mainframer - Was RE: Another Light goes out

On Mon, 1 Oct 2012 15:46:04 -0500, Roberts, John J wrote: > Well, to each his own. You can either resist change, or you can embrace > it. I chose to embrace it. I think it has extended my career. > And even if you don't leave the mainframe, knowing more about the industry and how things work

Re: Mainframe Power - Was RE: Another Light goes out

W dniu 2012-10-02 17:58, Roberts, John J pisze: [...] One thing that would be interesting to learn: how much of a typical data center's power consumption is attributable to storage subsystems, including RAID and Virtual Tape? Significant part of. Surely more than mainframe CPC, but less than bu

Re: Career Advice for the Mainframer - Was RE: Another Light goes out

Which side does this put me on: I didn't know what GIYF meant. I Googled it to find out. Ironic? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of zMan Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 11:06 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: JES2 EXIT 40

How many jobs are in your output queue? If you are generating 35000 per day, keep them for a few days, and they are all routed to the same destination, that is going to present a performance problem. Tom Wasik gave a great session at the last SHARE in Anaheim on JES2 Performance Issues. http

Re: Career Advice for the Mainframer - Was RE: Another Light goes out

Well you're in good company. (If I do say so myself!) -- Donald Grinsell State of Montana 406-444-2983 dgrins...@mt.gov "Hell is other people." ~ Jean-Paul Sartre -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Klein, Kevin Sent: Tu

Re: Career Advice for the Mainframer - Was RE: Another Light goes out

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Klein, Kevin wrote: > Which side does this put me on: > I didn't know what GIYF meant. > I Googled it to find out. > Ironic? Maybe, but you've passed the test -- the folks who were about to reply asking what it meant, check yourselves... -- zMan

Re: Career Advice for the Mainframer - Was RE: Another Light goes out

GIYF and others of that ilk (STFW, RTFM, etc., etc.) have their uses, but they are unlikely to defeat sloth here. --jg -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with

Re: Mainframe Power - Was RE: Another Light goes out

One thing no one else has mentioned is that one of the strengths of having many disks is that you can be doing I/O on many more drives at the same time. After all, you can only do 1 read or write from physical disk at a time. Of course, with the huge amounts of cache, that changes. If your da

Re: Mainframe Power - Was RE: Another Light goes out

On Oct 2, 2012, at 2:04 PM, Eric Bielefeld wrote: > One thing no one else has mentioned is that one of the strengths of having > many disks is that you can be doing I/O on many more drives at the same time. > After all, you can only do 1 read or write from physical disk at a time. Of > cours

Mailing list for IBM GSK crypto development issues?

What would be the best mailing list for discussion of development (C programming) issues for the IBM GSK crypto API, the API discussed in the manual z/OS Cryptographic Services System Secure Sockets Layer Programming, calls like gsk_environment_open()? Is there anyone here with any experience with

Re: Career Advice for the Mainframer - Was RE: Another Light goes out

Yep, it's like across instead of pronouncing it with a 't' , acrosst ... Scott ford www.identityforge.com Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. - Chinese Proverb On Oct 2, 2012, at 1:53 PM, John Gilmore wrote: > GIYF and others of that ilk (STFW

Re: Mailing list for IBM GSK crypto development issues?

W dniu 2012-10-02 23:02, Charles Mills pisze: What would be the best mailing list for discussion of development (C programming) issues for the IBM GSK crypto API, the API discussed in the manual z/OS Cryptographic Services System Secure Sockets Layer Programming, calls like gsk_environment_open()

Re: Mailing list for IBM GSK crypto development issues?

I was afraid of that. BTW and FWIW, GSK is "bigger" than the mainframe. I believe IBM implements GSK on all of their platforms. (Well, maybe not OS/2.) Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Tuesday, Octobe

Re: JCL Source Library Name Available During Execution?

If it came from a card reader? How about EXEC CICS SPOOL? Not every job is submitted from TSO and or has its origin in a PDS :) On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > In <2086667416745713.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu>, on > 09/28/2012 >at 10:01 PM, Pa

Re: JCL Source Library Name Available During Execution?

Indeed what about NJE...? Ed On Oct 2, 2012, at 6:16 PM, Wayne Bickerdike wrote: If it came from a card reader? How about EXEC CICS SPOOL? Not every job is submitted from TSO and or has its origin in a PDS :) On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In <208666741

Re: Career Advice for the Mainframer - Was RE: Another Light goes out

In <93891f43642f3c419a7d75acc2b1db6f3cbc75f...@exchangemb2.dhs.state.ia.us>, on 10/01/2012 at 03:46 PM, "Roberts, John J" said: >Well, to each his own. You can either resist change, or you can >embrace it. You don't always get to choose. Some companies are compartmentalized, and the staff f

Re: How to get a tape's DSCB

In , on 10/02/2012 at 10:14 AM, Robin Atwood said: >Subject: How to get a tape's DSCB There is none. A DSCB is an entry in a VTOC on DASD. >But of course, the tape *is* mounted. There is no "of course'; the fact that you can mount the volume at a later point in time does not mean that it wa

Re: Restore JES2 spool/chkpt to new volumes?

In <1349122686.18145.50.camel@localhost>, on 10/01/2012 at 04:18 PM, David Andrews said: >What did I do wrong? You gave your test LPAR access to your production SPOOL volumes. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2 We don't care. W

Re: JCL Source Library Name Available During Execution?

On 10/2/12, Ed Gould wrote: > Indeed what about NJE...? > > Ed > > On Oct 2, 2012, at 6:16 PM, Wayne Bickerdike wrote: > >> If it came from a card reader? >> >> How about EXEC CICS SPOOL? >> >> Not every job is submitted from TSO and or has its origin in a PDS :) >> >> >> On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 1

Re: Mainframe Power - Was RE: Another Light goes out

On 10/02/2012 02:41 PM, Pew, Curtis G wrote: On Oct 2, 2012, at 2:04 PM, Eric Bielefeld wrote: One thing no one else has mentioned is that one of the strengths of having many disks is that you can be doing I/O on many more drives at the same time. After all, you can only do 1 read or write

Big mainframe shops embiggen, says BMC survey

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/01/bmc_seventh_mainframe_survey/ The annual mainframe survey has never been restricted to BMC shops, and the company uses a variety of ways out there on the web to reach the 1,264 customers who took the survey in 2012. About 60 per cent of those polled

Re: How to get a tape's DSCB

At 09:12 -0500 on 10/02/2012, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: How to get a tape's DSCB: On Tue, 2 Oct 2012 07:19:16 -0400, J R wrote: The DSCB (and OBTAINing it) is a DASD construct. For the equivalent with tape you have to read sequentially looking for labels.   Which, in turn, requires

Re: Mainframe Power - Was RE: Another Light goes out

Few years back one of the SW conference schools had a nasty power outage(not a squirrel attack) and last message on console was a SIM alert NVS battery needs replacing...they got to restore the complex. In a message dated 10/2/2012 10:07:44 P.M. Central Daylight Time, jcew...@acm.org writ

Re: Mainframe Power - Was RE: Another Light goes out

There's also static power save mode. That feature debuted in the z196. If you have sustained low or zero utilization periods it's generally worth using. Or if you're running much quicker than you need to be within your batch window(s) then you might use this feature. The word "static" is perhaps a

Re: Somewhat OT: Judge's view on excessive copyright & patents, especially in software:

I think there's widespread agreement that the U.S. patent system has problems. One challenge regulators have is that it's already extremely tough to distinguish between "software" and "hardware" -- and it's getting tougher. Should a software-defined radio -- or some novel part of a software-define

Re: Mainframe Power - Was RE: Another Light goes out

W dniu 2012-10-03 06:36, Ed Finnell pisze: Few years back one of the SW conference schools had a nasty power outage(not a squirrel attack) and last message on console was a SIM alert NVS battery needs replacing...they got to restore the complex. I bet the message was not so last, or at least it

Re: How to get a tape's DSCB

>You could also write a program to OPEN a tape dataset for input and examine >the DCB >parameters merged into your DCB. Thanks to everyone who replied. Since this may form part of a product shipped to customers, I can't make any assumptions whether they have rmm or CA-1 installed. Therefore ope