CAVMEN Meeting October 19, 2017 - SECOND NOTICE

Hello, The second quarter meeting of the Chicago Area VM (and Linux) Enthusiasts will be held on Thursday, October 19, 2017. PLEASE NOTE: we are setting aside some time before lunch to celebrate the 45th anniversary of VM operating system (thanx to the folks at MVMUA for the idea/reminder). There

Re: Time on one LPAR on CEC

[Default] On Sun, 8 Oct 2017 12:09:54 -0700 (PDT), in bit.listserv.ibm-main Andy wrote: >Hi - I'm not a hardware person, but we have a CEC z13 with multiple LPARS we >want 3 of the 6 to run on a different time zone. The system gets STP time >through our external CFs.

Re: DLIB volume for SAD

I agree that SAD should be rebuilt after every upgrade. The question is whether to maintain older levels to match every system in the enterprise and associate them without manual intervention. My earlier point was that we are configured to take SAD to the latest SAD version even though it might

Re: What does "Performance implications" signify?

IIRC, the S/370s were somewhat affected by non-aligned doublewords, and the impact has decreased with newer hardware, possibly to zero or nearly so. If I had to guess, micro code advances, faster multi-level cache, and/or out of order execution, have made any impact negligible. On Oct 7, 2017