Re: WLM issue with a proposed solution

Agree: "Achievable" is what's important here. Please measure it - with load. This is where I struggle without IBM-MAIN being a visual medium. :-) I plot velocity WITH LOAD and see how it droops. My code has done this for years and I present this graphing method regularly - to individual custo

Following IBM-MAIN on iOS (or Android, for that matter)

I've participated in IBM-MAIN for MANY years - from my laptop email client. Other than using an email client on iOS has anyone found a good way of participating in LISTSERV groups on iOS? To keep this interesting for about half of y'all, same question for Android. Use case: Mental calisthenic

Re: WLM issue with a proposed solution

My experience is that CICS will suffer if the LPAR is being soft capped, no matter what you try to do to this situation. So I think the best and only solution is to avoid that the LPAR becomes capped by keeping the batch consumption under control. Not with a limited number of initiators, becau

Re: Alter access to datasets

On 28 Apr 2016 18:43:27 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main (Message-ID:<9982011699705061.wa.gsg808yahoo@listserv.ua.edu>) 0053fe88ed35-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu (gsg) wrote: As part of a systems programmer duties, they have ALTER access to many datasets. They need/require this access

Re: UCBSCAN and LSPACE

Did not see the original question but yes: UCBSCAN COPY, + WORKAREA=UCBSCAN_Work, + UCBAREA=UCBSCAN_UCBAREA, Return area for UCB copy + VOLSER=VOLSER, I

Re: How to copy one pack IPL'able z/OS to DVD.

Cloud? Rob On Thu, Apr 28, 2016, 9:55 PM Paul Gilmartin < 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Wed, 27 Apr 2016 16:00:36 -0400, Jim Mulder wrote: > > >> Ok, don't laugh. This may be commonplace to some of you, ... > >> Can anyone give a little direction and help. I would l

Re: WLM issue with a proposed solution

On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 19:57:32 +, Tracy Adams wrote: >The importance (priority) of DB2 is set 2 Importance is NOT priority. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lis

Re: How to copy one pack IPL'able z/OS to DVD.

On Wed, 27 Apr 2016 16:00:36 -0400, Jim Mulder wrote: >> Ok, don't laugh. This may be commonplace to some of you, ... >> Can anyone give a little direction and help. I would like to >> Create the DVD to keep in the vault at the DR site in case it's needed. > > z/OS does not support being IPLed f

Re: Alter access to datasets

On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 20:43:35 -0500, gsg wrote: >As part of a systems programmer duties, they have ALTER access to many >datasets. They need/require this access to install, upgrade, maintain and >resolve problems. Audit has been pushing more and more to remove the >ALTER access. What data set

Re: 64-bit caller and VL-bit

On 4/28/2016 5:34 PM, Tom Brennan wrote: But I do like ending things with zeros instead of . Wow, that's a lot of F's - I really can't imagine coding a 64-bit assembler program. Kind of like looking at IPV6 addresses. Just like in the 31-bit world, you can code F'-1' we code F

Alter access to datasets

As part of a systems programmer duties, they have ALTER access to many datasets. They need/require this access to install, upgrade, maintain and resolve problems. Audit has been pushing more and more to remove the ALTER access. Has anyone else been experiencing this?

Re: AXR04 System REXX

z/OS 2.2 introduces some overdue commands/controls to manage system REXX address spaces. There is finally a stop command: P AXR There are a number of new modify commands, like F AXR,SR,STOPTSO to stop all TSO server address spaces, or F AXR,SR,CANCEL,REQTOKEN= to cancel a given system REXX add

Re: 64-bit caller and VL-bit

On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 17:34:36 -0700, Tom Brennan wrote: > >Don't people usually use the argc (parm count) value also passed in unix >main()? If so they would never go past the end of argv[]. > I'm lazy; I might avoid declaring one variable with such as: for ( ; argv; ++argv ) { /* do s

Re: UCBSCAN and LSPACE

On 4/27/2016 3:10 PM, michelbutz wrote: Can any one of the parameters returned by UCBSCAN be used with LSPACE As ucbscan returns different parts of the UCB 1) What does the documentation say about LSPACE parameters? 2) Run UCBSCAN unauthorized to get a copy of a UCB, and invoke UCBSCAN to see

Re: WLM issue with a proposed solution

On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 18:22:11 +, Tracy Adams We have a soft capped LPAR that runs our DB2 and CICS regions and during >the day some "marketing batch". On Wednesdays, the marketing batch (online >submit via CICS) increases and by afternoon we hit our 4 hour soft cap. Once >or twice while we

Re: 64-bit caller and VL-bit

> I really can't imagine coding a 64-bit assembler program. Kind of like > looking at IPV6 addresses. Only half as bad . Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Brennan Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 5:35 PM To:

Re: 64-bit caller and VL-bit

Paul Gilmartin wrote: And the UNIX argv[] vector is terminated by a NULL (0) pointer, not -1. Don't people usually use the argc (parm count) value also passed in unix main()? If so they would never go past the end of argv[]. But I do like ending things with zeros instead of FFF

Re: 64-bit caller and VL-bit

> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 3:41 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: 64-bit caller and VL-bit > I believe it's part of the "C" standard that it shou

Re: WLM issue with a proposed solution

Some of the new features in RMF are an improvement into what's happening. SHARE papers and Redbooks give insight into what to look for in the 'buckets'. The Boebligen folks admit Velocity goals are really tough for RMF due to rapidity of changing landscape. Configuration is very important. I

Re: WLM issue with a proposed solution

On 29/04/2016 6:06, Martin Packer wrote: DB2 should have a higher importance than what it serves, so in this case it should be Importance 1. I'd set its goal velocity to what's achievable - probably 70, likely 80, maybe 90. I would not mess with eg 75, 85. By "DB2" I mean DBM1, DIST and MSTR. IR

Re: 64-bit caller and VL-bit

As a C/C++ convert, I like 0_0 (NULL in C lingo) better than _ (only because it is a widely-used convention in C). (OTOH FFF... is widely-used in CMS.) Agree with Gil's "collateral boon." IBM should definitely standardize *something*, before we have 27 competing "standards" out

Re: SAVING JOB OUTPUT IN A PDSE FROM SDSF

On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 22:59:45 +, willie bunter wrote: > >I need your suggestions. I am savings job output in a PDSE using SDSF. The >member name I use is the job number e.g. >Member to use ===> JOB067XX > >I am afraid that some where down the line I could overwrite a member because >the job

Re: SAVING JOB OUTPUT IN A PDSE FROM SDSF

When you use XDC and NEW it will indicate if the member already exists. You should try this and see if it works. I find trying SHR, OLD and NEW on a PDS that will not matter if it is over written a good thing to try to understand how things work. Also, you could press PF1 (HELP) and see what t

SAVING JOB OUTPUT IN A PDSE FROM SDSF

Hallo All, I need your suggestions. I am savings job output in a PDSE using SDSF. The member name I use is the job number e.g. Member to use ===> JOB067XX I am afraid that some where down the line I could overwrite a member because the job number could be the same. Is there something I coul

Re: PDS I/O Performance Improvement

Since DASD has become so fast, many shops--including ours--long ago dropped VIO processing. A VIO request simply goes to a SYSALLDA volume. In any case, VIO would be very expensive way to improve performance of a very large data set. . . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Ele

Re: 64-bit caller and VL-bit

On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 14:23:14 -0700, Ed Jaffe wrote: >On 4/27/2016 8:25 PM, Phil Smith III wrote: >> How does a 64-bit caller indicate the end of a variable parameter list? > >We tend to use _ as the end of list indicator. Yes, I >realize it's _technically_ a valid 64-bit address, b

Re: IBMSERV website

Have not tried the option. We are always told to call IBMSERV. I'd rather use the online interface. Next time we'll try it. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jesse 1 Robinson Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2016 5:21 PM To: IBM

IBM Destination z - IBM z/TPF Excels at Transaction Processing

Mighty Mainframe OS IBM z/TPF excels at transaction processing For decades—essentially since birth of the IBM System/370 in the early 1970s—mainframers have known and used the three primary members of the mainframe OS family: z/OS, z/VM and z/VSE. Ask a hundred mainframers to name z Systems O

Re: 64-bit caller and VL-bit

On 4/27/2016 8:25 PM, Phil Smith III wrote: How does a 64-bit caller indicate the end of a variable parameter list? We tend to use _ as the end of list indicator. Yes, I realize it's _technically_ a valid 64-bit address, but it's extremely unlikely -- nee impossible -- that we

Re: ICSF public key extraction.

In ICSF there is "PKA Public Key Extract Callable Service (CSNDPKX and CSNFPKX)". This service extracts a PKA public key token from a PKA internal (operational) or external (importable) private key token. It performs no cryptographic verification of the PKA private key token. Of course this is us

Re: WLM issue with a proposed solution

DB2 should have a higher importance than what it serves, so in this case it should be Importance 1. I'd set its goal velocity to what's achievable - probably 70, likely 80, maybe 90. I would not mess with eg 75, 85. By "DB2" I mean DBM1, DIST and MSTR. IRLM should be in SYSSTC. You'd be surpris

Re: WLM issue with a proposed solution

The importance (priority) of DB2 is set 2, as well as the CICS service class. It serves both the CICS and batch jobs. I only speak of dispatching priorities because isn't ultimately that is driven by the collective results of WLM? To Mark's question, I am not sure what is stalling those transa

Re: WLM issue with a proposed solution

Hello Tracy. What importance have you set DB2 address spaces' service class(es) to? Likewise the things it serves, such as CICS regions and CICS transactions/ If DB2 is getting locked out it could be caused by it being Imp 2 or something, rather than Imp 1 with a goal 70+. I also note you're m

Re: WLM issue with a proposed solution

Do you know why some of the transactions are taking longer than 45 seconds? A CICS performance monitor should be able to break down the response time. In other words, are you sure that the delay is caused by CPU restraints? On 28 April 2016 at 22:40, Staller, Allan wrote: > Set the DB2 goal to b

Re: WLM issue with a proposed solution

Set the DB2 goal to be "more reasonable" FSVO reasonable and see what happens. We have a soft capped LPAR that runs our DB2 and CICS regions and during the day some "marketing batch". On Wednesdays, the marketing batch (online submit via CICS) increases and by afternoon we hit our 4 hour soft

Re: ICSF public key extraction.

Thanks -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Kirk Wolf Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 11:30 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ICSF public key extraction. I've used assembler for many years, but I've never used it

Re: OA49446 on RSU1603 - RACF / DFSMS change

On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 12:22:17 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 12:01:17 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: > >>I'm applying z/OS 2.1 RSU1603 and came across this PTF. Is anyone running >>with >>it in production and has it caused you any grief? This seems to change a >>behavior >>that

WLM issue with a proposed solution

So here is my issue: We have a soft capped LPAR that runs our DB2 and CICS regions and during the day some "marketing batch". On Wednesdays, the marketing batch (online submit via CICS) increases and by afternoon we hit our 4 hour soft cap. Once or twice while we are capped, the busiest CICS

Re: OA49446 on RSU1603 - RACF / DFSMS change

On 4/28/2016 1:41 PM, Tom Marchant wrote: On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 12:28:58 -0500, Mike Schwab wrote: I would think this would apply to a discrete authorization, without an ending .**. I. E. authorize DATA.SET.NAME instead of DATA.SET.NAME.** Define DS(DATA.SET.NAME) would fail because of no authori

Re: OA49446 on RSU1603 - RACF / DFSMS change

On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 12:28:58 -0500, Mike Schwab wrote: >I would think this would apply to a discrete authorization, without an >ending .**. >I. E. authorize DATA.SET.NAME instead of DATA.SET.NAME.** >Define DS(DATA.SET.NAME) would fail because of no authorization for >DATA.SET.NAME.DATA (optional

Re: OA49446 on RSU1603 - RACF / DFSMS change

I would think this would apply to a discrete authorization, without an ending .**. I. E. authorize DATA.SET.NAME instead of DATA.SET.NAME.** Define DS(DATA.SET.NAME) would fail because of no authorization for DATA.SET.NAME.DATA (optional DATA.SET.NAME.INDEX, DATA.SET.NAME.PATH, etc) . On Thu, Apr

Re: OA49446 on RSU1603 - RACF / DFSMS change

On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 12:01:17 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: >I'm applying z/OS 2.1 RSU1603 and came across this PTF. Is anyone running >with >it in production and has it caused you any grief? This seems to change a >behavior >that has been around "forever", so it concerns me a bit even though the

OA49446 on RSU1603 - RACF / DFSMS change

I'm applying z/OS 2.1 RSU1603 and came across this PTF. Is anyone running with it in production and has it caused you any grief? This seems to change a behavior that has been around "forever", so it concerns me a bit even though there is a work around by defining a special RACF profile in the

Re: ICSF public key extraction.

I've used assembler for many years, but I've never used it in the same sentence with "friendly" :-) You are right - the Systems SSL gsk_* functions are C-library calls. (For a C programmer) these are pretty easy to use to do what you are asking. There is the R_Datalib API (which I have never us

Re: SMTP question.

On 2016-04-28, at 08:15, Jousma, David wrote: > Speaking of SMTP (including CSSMTP), how do your shops prevent Sender > spoofing? How do you validate that the From: in the email is authorized? > I ask because while we use SMTP internally, mostly for mail from production > batch jobs, we hav

Re: SMTP question.

Didn't try the NOSOURCEROUTE. Barry Merrill replied with an example. He had a sender= coded. Changed our code to explicitly include a sender= and that has resolved the problem. Alan Field Systems Engineer Principal Blue Cross Blue Shield of MN 651.662.3546 -Original Message- From:

Re: OT: IBM's Grady Booch named IEEE-CS Computer Pioneer

Dave Jones wrote: The IEEE Computer Society has selected Grady Booch, chief scientist for software engineering at IBM Research, to receive the society's 2016 Computer Pioneer Award for his work in object modeling and in co-authoring the Unified Modeling Language (UML). Ha, have spent a cert

Re: PDS I/O Performance Improvement

Right. But still valid for today. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperwork

Re: PDS I/O Performance Improvement

David Betten wrote: You might consider testing with PDSE. In z/OS 2.1 there were a number of performance improvements made to PDSE processing including improved directory processing. If you do a google search, you'll find a number of Share presentations on the PDSE improvements. I think Dave

Re: PDS I/O Performance Improvement

Wow! flashback from the 80's! We had a CICS region, seriously storage constrained with huge COBOL programs, it would do storage compressions multiple times a minute. A temporary performance boost came from copying the main loadlib into VIO dataset at starup. Dana On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 14:22:3

Re: SMTP question.

Speaking of SMTP (including CSSMTP), how do your shops prevent Sender spoofing? How do you validate that the From: in the email is authorized? I ask because while we use SMTP internally, mostly for mail from production batch jobs, we have no controls in place that would prevent someone from

Re: PDS I/O Performance Improvement

If the library is frequently updated, LLA is indeed no choice. LLA freezes the directory in storage until it is refreshed. This means that every update will be invisible until LLA (or all LLAs sharing the library) has been refreshed. A truly unworkable situation, I suppose. Kees. -Original

Re: SMTP question.

Does adding "NOSOURCEROUTE ENABLED" to your SMTP task config change anything? -- Donald J. dona...@4email.net On Wed, Apr 27, 2016, at 05:05 PM, Field, Alan wrote: > We run SMTP on one lpar (z/OS 2.1). > > Recently we switched our mail server from Notes to Exchange. > > Mostly transparent

Re: 64-bit caller and VL-bit

Wow. Thanks to all who replied! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

SUPERC - using CMPSECT

hi, I am testing some SUPERC comparison settings, and have been trying to use CMPSECT keyword to segment the input file compares. Both input files are themselves SUPERC compares, and for the majority of the report the SUPERC works great. But at the end of both reports are the side by side NEW

Re: PDS I/O Performance Improvement

I forgot to add. Have you checked with the vendor to see if there is anything they can do to help? (I think PROJCL is ASG) Lizette > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Lizette Koehler > Sent: Thursday, April 28, 201

Re: PDS I/O Performance Improvement

Thanks everyone for your suggestions. I'll test some of these suggestions with the user and see what the results are. I'm going to start with a PDSE test as I think that is the quickest thing to try. The parmlib is updated frequently so caching the directory with LLA probably isn't the best

Re: PDS I/O Performance Improvement

I have a memory from 15-20 years ago that PDS directory search was done connected, which meant high connect time indicated a directory search. I don't know if this has changed since then - I would have assumed it had, but perhaps not? In which case something that caches the directory should he

Re: PDS I/O Performance Improvement

If it's a matter of repeated reading why not copy to VIO in Central Storage and read from there? The OP said "read". I'm construing that as "read only". Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email:

Re: PDS I/O Performance Improvement

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 7:32 AM, Kreiter IBM-Main < kreiter_ibm-m...@centurylink.net> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking for some suggestions on how to possibly improve I/O > performance to a PDS. A user is running a job that is reading a large > parmlib (through PROJCL I believe). I think the access

OT: IBM's Grady Booch named IEEE-CS Computer Pioneer

The IEEE Computer Society has selected Grady Booch, chief scientist for software engineering at IBM Research, to receive the society's 2016 Computer Pioneer Award for his work in object modeling and in co-authoring the Unified Modeling Language (UML). http://www.eweek.com/developer/ibms-grady-

Re: PDS I/O Performance Improvement

Since PROJCL is a JCL Checker, is this process doing a large number of JCL members are one time or is this feeding the PROJCL Database for cross Reference processing? What process for the process is being performed? Lizette > > Kreiter IBM-Main wrote: > > >I'm looking for some suggestions o

Re: PDS I/O Performance Improvement

Search key equal can be a multi-track search, which even in a cached situation takes time. All PDS directory blocks are 256 bytes and a search for a member in a PDS always starts at the beginning of the directory. My guess is you would be better off with multiple proclibs and putting a JCLLIB

Re: PDS I/O Performance Improvement

Kreiter IBM-Main wrote: >I'm looking for some suggestions on how to possibly improve I/O performance to >a PDS. You already got good suggestions including moving to PDSE and compressing of that PDS. >A user is running a job that is reading a large parmlib (through PROJCL I >believe). I thin

Re: PDS I/O Performance Improvement

VLF doesn't do anything by itself. It will cache objects handed to it by the managers of those objects, like LLA, TSO CLIST processor, CAS address space etc. Which VLFCLASS should I specify for this case? LLA can cache the directory of non-Loadmodule PDSes, this could help, like PDSEs directory

Re: PDS I/O Performance Improvement

It is a parmlib, I don't think the members will be staged to VLF (who would stage them)? Considering the I/O times and the size of the directory, I suppose the directory is the problem. Maybe LLA member caching might help if a BLDL is done to locate a member. Otherwise converting it to PDSE wou

Re: PDS I/O Performance Improvement

It is not. That was about the only thing I could come up with but wanted to run this by the experts. - Original Message - From: "Mark Jacobs - Listserv" To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 8:36:11 AM Subject: Re: PDS I/O Performance Improvement Is it defined t

Re: Scheduled STCs running as instream procs?

On Wed, 27 Apr 2016 22:16:49 +, Lindy Mayfield wrote: > > Today I saw something I've never seen before. I wanted to know where a > started task was running from and normally the SDSF jes2 log shows which > > proclib it was loaded from. But it said it was instream, and looking at the > S

Re: PDS I/O Performance Improvement

It is a parmlib, I don't think the members will be staged to VLF (who would stage them)? Considering the I/O times and the size of the directory, I suppose the directory is the problem. Maybe LLA member caching might help if a BLDL is done to locate a member. Otherwise converting it to PDSE woul

Re: PDS I/O Performance Improvement

You might consider testing with PDSE. In z/OS 2.1 there were a number of performance improvements made to PDSE processing including improved directory processing. If you do a google search, you'll find a number of Share presentations on the PDSE improvements. Have a nice day, Dave Betten z/OS P

Re: 64-bit caller and VL-bit

I like the z/VM CMS method (used for passing tokenized arguments). A value of 8x'FF' is the end-of-list indicator. That's not really for HLASM programs, but for the tokenized argument list going into a CMS command. On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 6:29 AM, Peter Relson wrote: > >How does a 64-bit caller

Re: PDS I/O Performance Improvement

Is it defined to VLF? Kreiter IBM-Main April 28, 2016 at 8:32 AM Hello, I'm looking for some suggestions on how to possibly improve I/O performance to a PDS. A user is running a job that is reading a large parmlib (through PROJCL I believe). I think t

PDS I/O Performance Improvement

Hello, I'm looking for some suggestions on how to possibly improve I/O performance to a PDS. A user is running a job that is reading a large parmlib (through PROJCL I believe). I think the access is random rather than sequential. The parmlib has ~180,000 members is has an LRECL of 80/BLKSIZE o

Re: TSO command from Microsoft Windows

Timothy, Are there any stats on the number of z/OS installs and the number of installs that are using z/OSMF? Rob Schramm On Thu, Apr 28, 2016, 6:46 AM Timothy Sipples wrote: > Kirk Wolf suggested: > >you could also use the z/OSMF REST services API for TSO command services > > > +1. This

Re: 64-bit caller and VL-bit

>How does a 64-bit caller indicate the end of a >variable parameter list? In whatever way the target routine has documented that you need to do so. Or, if you own the target routine, in whatever way you implemented that the caller do so. Some implementations include: -- pass the number of para

Re: SMTP question.

On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 00:05:28 +, Field, Alan wrote: > >One thing we see from the failing lpar (in the SMTP log) is > > MAIL FROM: > MAIL FROM: is part of the SMTP protocol for specifying the originator of the e-mail. What goes between the <> is supposed to be the e-mail address of the se

Re: TSO command from Microsoft Windows

Kirk Wolf suggested: >you could also use the z/OSMF REST services API for TSO command services +1. This approach ought to make one's short list at least. Timothy Sipples IT Architect Exec

Re: OSA set up for Madrid

Vince Coen wrote: >Boring as it was :) I decided to look again at that boring thing and to my utter shock, I see this shocker footnote of all shockers! " ... or otherwise act upon any part of this e-mail... " Ouch! You and me are GUILTY! ;-) Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht --

Re: OSA set up for Madrid

I presume likewise it isn't possible to s/... long rant .../nevermind/ either. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog:

Re: Master Address space - High Paging

Peter wrote: >Is there a way to track which can influence Master Address space to consume >more Page dataset. What are you using to see that? Can you provide screen prints? Is this only for one LPAR? >Is there a way to track ? It depends. Are your machine suffering from heavy workload, respo

Re: OSA set up for Madrid

Nope, but it was interesting to see Barclays Bank IT info in the public domain ! Boring as it was :) On 28/04/16 10:52, Andrew Metcalfe wrote: > Fat finger trouble - please disregard. > Does anyone know how to remove a post? > Andrew > >

Re: OSA set up for Madrid

Andrew Metcalfe wrote: >Fat finger trouble - please disregard. Too late! ;-D Chop them fingers off! ;-D >Does anyone know how to remove a post? Not possible. [1] Once posted and accepted, it is always there on IBM-MAIN at the hosting university and immediately mirrored on Google Groups. Ask t

Re: OSA set up for Madrid

Fat finger trouble - please disregard. Does anyone know how to remove a post? Andrew -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Master Address space - High Paging

What's causing you to suspect it? I would say either a Report Class and 72-3 or SMF 30(2,3) would help. Former perhaps more accurate than the latter. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: mar

Master Address space - High Paging

Hello, Is there a way to track which can influence Master Address space to consume more Page dataset. Is there a way to track ? Peter -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@lis

Re: OSA set up for Madrid

Jolita/Steve Do we need to implement another value for the MODE system symbol to facilitate the IP configuration for LIx3 systems in Madrid primary site (Torrejon). We also need to consider the OSA/IP configuration for the Madrid DR site (Yecora). If so, what should we agree on so that you can