zHyperlink and Synchronous replication

2019-10-22 Thread Buckton, T. (Theo)
Hi, How does synchronous replication of DB2 data affect the effectiveness of zHyperlink? The storage array and the mainframe is within the 150m distance, however our DR site is way beyond this distance. Regards Theo Nedbank disclaimer and confidentiality notice: This emai

Re: zHyperlink and Synchronous replication

2019-10-22 Thread Revard, Thomas (T)
Theo, zHyperlink write functionality should work in a Metro Mirror environment with appropriate maintenance, but you also need to activate zHyperwrite to have your DB2 log writes done simultaneously to the primary and secondary volumes. We have been told by IBM that zHyperlink write functionali

Re: Best way for a task to give up the CPU and let other tasks run?

2019-10-22 Thread Peter Relson
My advice: Do Not Spin. If your implementation of a "lock" is to loop until it is available, you are pretty much doomed to failure in some edge cases over which you likely have no control. You can spin for a while, but then really need to "wait" (or pause) until "posted" (or released) when th

Re: Best way for a task to give up the CPU and let other tasks run?

2019-10-22 Thread David Crayford
On 2019-10-22 7:42 PM, Peter Relson wrote: You can spin for a while, but then really need to "wait" (or pause) until "posted" (or released) when the resource becomes available.. The code snippets I posted show that the code sleeps rather than waiting to be signaled which I suspect may be ch

Re: Best way for a task to give up the CPU and let other tasks run?

2019-10-22 Thread Don Poitras
In article you wrote: > On 2019-10-22 7:42 PM, Peter Relson wrote: > > You can spin for a while, but then really need to "wait" (or pause) until > > "posted" (or released) when the resource becomes available.. > The code snippets I posted show that the code sleeps rather than waiting > to be sign

Re: Best way for a task to give up the CPU and let other tasks run?

2019-10-22 Thread David Crayford
Thank you, Don! On 2019-10-22 8:37 PM, Don Poitras wrote: And for things like "enabled resources" (ENQ, LOCAL lock), the system may attempt to manage the work unit priorities to give the "holder" some extra CPU time. This is interesting for ENQ. Windows has a mechanism in place to raise the pri

Re: zHyperlink and Synchronous replication

2019-10-22 Thread Buckton, T. (Theo)
Hi Tom, Thanks for the reply. So it works with Metro Mirror (synchronous) irrespective of the distance of the DR site, which in our case is about 22km. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Revard, Thomas (T) Sent: 22 October 2019 12:45 PM To: IBM-MAIN

PDS to PDSE conversion issues

2019-10-22 Thread Toby Seguin
We are currently thinking about converting many of our PDS libraries to PDSE. While researching the possible pitfalls to a PDSE one that concerned me the most is "Blocked Workload" that Thomas Reed discussed at SHARE in 2018. This situation is said to occur when CPU is near 100% (pretty common

Re: PDS to PDSE conversion issues

2019-10-22 Thread Steve Smith
I don't have any recent experience with 100% utilization, but isn't that a generic problem with any shared resource? I doubt this would be an issue unless you have a PDSE with lots of output activity. But I don't see that a PDS would do better. sas On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 10:27 AM Toby Seguin <

Re: PDS to PDSE conversion issues

2019-10-22 Thread Mark Jacobs
Take a look at BLWLINTHD and BLWLTRPCT in IEAOPTxx, Tuning options for blocked workloads. Mark Jacobs Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. GPG Public Key - https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get&search=markjac...@protonmail.com ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday,

Re: PDS to PDSE conversion issues

2019-10-22 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 10:17:07 -0500, Toby Seguin wrote: >We are currently thinking about converting many of our PDS libraries to PDSE. >... Anything else I should be looking closer at? > When an aliased PDS member is deleted, the aliases remain valid. For a PDSE the aliases are automatically del

Re: PDS to PDSE conversion issues

2019-10-22 Thread David Purdy
I recently converted several PSF libraries, resulting in a problem if a dasd reorg moved the dataset while PSF tasks are up.  PSF does not issue an enqueue but has the dataset open.  The volume reorg only checks for enqueue before moving the dataset.  Short term, we configed the reorg to skip PS

Re: PDS to PDSE conversion issues

2019-10-22 Thread Gibney, Dave
Why would this change, between PDS and PDS/E? Unless this is yet another encounter with the pitfall os trying to share PDE/E outside Sysplex. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > Behalf Of David Purdy > Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 2:20 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LIS

"old" OS/390 documentation

2019-10-22 Thread Thomas David Rivers
I know there was a lot of discussion on this, but my searches have not been fruitful. I had a link to the last published OS/390 (V2R10) doc, but can't seem to find it on the IBM web site any more. Does anyone happen to have a pointer to it? - Many thanks! - - Dave Rivers - -- riv...@dignus

Re: "old" OS/390 documentation

2019-10-22 Thread Jim Ruddy
I tried to transfer a bunch of it to archive.org (Wayback machine) but noticed later some of it had been deleted. Try searching there. If you don't find what you are looking for let me know and I will see if happen to have a copy of it. On Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 7:21 PM Thomas David Rivers wrote: >

Re: "old" OS/390 documentation

2019-10-22 Thread Klaus Stanislawiak
Dave, you may want to try the "IBM Publications Center": https://www-05.ibm.com/e-business/linkweb/publications/servlet/pbi.wss It helps if you know the publication number, but there is also a search function available. HTH Klaus -

Re: "old" OS/390 documentation

2019-10-22 Thread Timothy Sipples
Have you checked the IBM Publications Center? I see what looks like all the OS/390 V2R10 publications there. https://www-05.ibm.com/e-business/linkweb/publications/servlet/pbi.wss Timothy Sipp