Potential Resource Savings Techniques

I have listed below various items to save time or reduce costs. I realize that most of you on this list are Familiar with these. However, there may be a few users who find one or more helpful. Section 2 is more for newbies. Section 1. 1. Use MODE C command right before PUT or GET.

Re: directory backup

Hey Glenn, Apologies, being a bit lazy now. Could you help me understand the difference between accessed, modified, and changed... times. - KB --- Original Message --- On Tuesday, May 10th, 2022 at 11:47 PM, Glenn Wilcock wrote: > Yes, the access and modification times are

Re: Online citations for STARTIO

Not all reliable sources are online, particularly if they pre-date the www (1989).  Yes, I read the supplied link to reliable sources, but it's just an obligatory hand-wave.  They've made it pretty clear that they really don't want to recognize anything that's not online. I have a scan (with

Re: Online citations for STARTIO

What I'm looking for is a "reliable source" () for the STARTIO macro and service in MVS, not the SIO instruction. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe

Re: Online citations for STARTIO

Are these 4 slides good enough? https://www.slideserve.com/freira/ibm-s-360-370-io-instruction-format On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 10:58 PM Seymour J Metz wrote: > I'm looking for something that I can cite as a wiki reliable source for > STARTIO, preferably an online secondary source. Worst case

IBM Download IP numbers change June 12

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6580101 Firewall changes may be needed. Downloads might not be available on June 12 until DNS change is spread to DNS caches. ?Keep retrying every 10 minutes? -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all?

Re: directory backup

On Tue, 10 May 2022 13:17:12 -0500, Glenn Wilcock wrote: >Yes, the access and modification times are preserved. But, the change time is >updated because the metadata is changed due to update the last backup >timestamp. But, as indicated, if the wildcarding selects only those files to >be

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: How do you Prove that you no longer need a working SKLM server or started task.

Great story. It is not that I "wished" to share. Just being neighborly. I have been cured of that after frequently and repeatedly being snubbed by those who "know better than to use anything associated with mainframes" And please, do not get me started on Oracle. Their disk management

SLES15 SP3 Quarterly Update Images (QU3) released

Cross-posted to Linux-390, IBMVM, and IBM-Main All, SUSE has announced the release of the third quarterly update (QU3) images of SLES15 SP3. Quarterly Updates are refreshed ISOs based on GA and contain the last released updates. These updated ISOs are released every 3 months. While s390x is

Re: directory backup

Yes, the access and modification times are preserved. But, the change time is updated because the metadata is changed due to update the last backup timestamp. But, as indicated, if the wildcarding selects only those files to be archived, the backup and delete can be done with a single

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: How do you Prove that you no longer need a working SKLM server or started task.

Be careful what you wish for in sharing storage - especially if they're running Oracle. We hit something called "sibling pend" at my last site - not DS8K disk, but a different vendor. Had mainframe LUNs and Oracle LUNs on same spindles and whenever the Oracle folks would kick off some kind of

Re: How do you Prove that you no longer need a working SKLM server or started task.

Very interesting update that brought up issues that may become useful to us in the future. If we ever get a unified storage organization at our site, the idea of an onsite/offsite key management would make us look good. The biggest hurdle for me is the 'My Side/Your Side' dichotomy of

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Producing throwaway SMF?

I have a *LOT* of commercial product SMF exit experience, some of it very painful. Let me second everything Rob says. Including that the environment is "code-hostile": possibly SRB, possibly X-memory, and with few MVS services (no ENQ, no WTO, no WAIT, etc.). You can get reentered multiple

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Producing throwaway SMF?

Can I suggest that if you are considering implementing SMF record installation exits that you use IEFU86 instead of one or more of IEFU83/4/5. There are rules for which SMF exit applies : IEFU83 driven when SMFWTM or SMFEWTM with BRANCH=NO IEFU84 driven when SMFEWTM with BRANCH=YES IEFU85

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Producing throwaway SMF?

Well... in our case, we are using IEFU85 because of the specific SMF records that we are deleting and how they are produced, but I believe that you can use any of the IEFU8x exits for this purpose. Larre Shiller US Social Security Administration  “The opinions expressed in this e-mail are mine

Re: Producing throwaway SMF?

Larre and all, Thanks for the ideas/feedback. Larre, what exit are you using? Mike Martin -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO

Logstreams are a bit befuddling

Logstreams are a bit befuddling Trouble will start below DATA TYPE(LOGR) REPORT(YES) DEFINE LOGSTREAM NAME(IFASMF.) DASDONLY(YES) STG_SIZE(50) STG_DATACLAS(MVSLOGR) LS_DATACLAS(MVSLOGR)

Online citations for STARTIO

I'm looking for something that I can cite as a wiki reliable source for STARTIO, preferably an online secondary source. Worst case I'll use a dead tree on my bookcase, but I' hoping for something more accessible. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3