Re: How can I tell the zFS files being used by my application

2021-05-17 Thread Andrew Rowley
On 15/05/2021 3:03 am, Matt Hogstrom wrote: It takes z/OSMF about an hour to fully initialize on my ZD&T … same behavior (lots of SIOs and CPU) IBM says its fixing this but its been quite a while. Its Java related. I did some investigation a while back using type 92 SMF records to try to

Re: How can I tell the zFS files being used by my application

2021-05-17 Thread Andrew Rowley
On 16/05/2021 12:59 pm, David Crayford wrote: And there is a good chance that you could introduce unacceptable software charges. I've worked on performance reporting tools for over two decades and in my experience customers measure everything, as any spike in workload can be a disaster in ter

Re: Best catch up resources for MVS / ZOS Technologies

2021-05-17 Thread Charles Mills
Steve, let me wade in here and suggest some big picture. I think SHARE and such is great for the details. What has changed since 2001? An idiosyncratic, IMHO list: - In 2001 SNA was yielding to TCP/IP. That transition has continued. An awful lot of mainframe connectivity is now TCP/IP. Lots and

Re: Best catch up resources for MVS / ZOS Technologies

2021-05-17 Thread Attila Fogarasi
IBM system z magazine back issues ... http://www.ibmsystemsmagmainframedigital.com/mspcomm/ibmsystemsmag/ibmsystems_mainframe_20201112/index.php#/p/Intro On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 11:57 AM Gibney, Dave wrote: > I would suggest SHARE presentations and perhaps Marna Walle's migration > guides > > >

Re: Best catch up resources for MVS / ZOS Technologies

2021-05-17 Thread Gibney, Dave
I would suggest SHARE presentations and perhaps Marna Walle's migration guides > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > Behalf Of Steve Estle > Sent: Monday, May 17, 2021 6:42 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Best catch up resources for MVS / ZOS Technol

Best catch up resources for MVS / ZOS Technologies

2021-05-17 Thread Steve Estle
Hello Everyone in Mainframe Land, I've been out of the mainframe world since about 2001, but spent the prior 20 years immersed in that world working with everything from MVS/370 to MVS/ESA and VM, performance and capacity planning disciplines across a variety of situations in the IT Services an

Question about SIE

2021-05-17 Thread Joe Monk
Hello! In the IBM vm environment on z/arch under SIE, what is the correct response to STFLE for a non-enabled or present facility? Zero or NULL? If a person were to try to do RRBM, should facility bit 66 be enabled or what? Thanks, Joe --

Re: How can I tell the zFS files being used by my application

2021-05-17 Thread Graham Harris
SMF 92 subtype 11 is usually useful in showing USS file activity, which can tend to reveal if anything 'odd' is going on with file based activity. I/O is also seen when network activity is involved, but I have not found 92's very useful in determining what is going on in that arena, but others may

Re: How can I tell the zFS files being used by my application

2021-05-17 Thread David Crayford
On 18/05/2021 2:05 am, Kirk Wolf wrote: Sorry, I meant to add that agree with David.   If you have big Java apps that use significant CPU, you really need to run them on zIIP or the costs will be intolerable. In the particular case of the large Australian customer, I wonder why they didn't se

Re: XMITIP - NLS support for Arabic character

2021-05-17 Thread Chris Hoelscher
Aladdin - he was an Arabic character, wasn't he!!! Chris Hoelscher Lead Sys DBA IBM Global Technical Services on assignmemt to Humana Inc. T 502.476.2538 or 502.407.7266 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Monday, May 17, 2021 11:

Re: How can I tell the zFS files being used by my application

2021-05-17 Thread Kirk Wolf
Sorry, I meant to add that agree with David.   If you have big Java apps that use significant CPU, you really need to run them on zIIP or the costs will be intolerable. In the particular case of the large Australian customer, I wonder why they didn't see the issue coming early on? Kirk Wolf

Re: How can I tell the zFS files being used by my application

2021-05-17 Thread Kirk Wolf
We haven't done much with Java in the last few years, but our experience with mission-critical production Java apps on z/OS (going back almost 20 years) is a little mixed. - JVM startup is rather expensive, especially the full JITing of classes. - the more classes you pull in (like huge class

Re: XMITIP - NLS support for Arabic character

2021-05-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 16 May 2021 20:31:13 +0400, Peter wrote: > >I am using XMITIP plus TXT2PDF for getting PDF and excel Files in Arabic >(CSSMTP being used), But when the PDF or spreadsheet reaches the outlook >email box the PDF or Spreadsheet contents are intact but the email body has >a ARABIC in Junk forma

Re: GitBucket on z/OS ?

2021-05-17 Thread David Crayford
On 17/05/2021 11:43 am, Timothy Sipples wrote: This message is because you're not running in a servlet container. If you download Apache Tomcat and drop the war into the WebApps directory it will work. Better still, download Jetty. You will have to use version 9.4 as new versions require versions