Re: CF Maintenance

2023-07-24 Thread Bill Neiman
ce one CF with another (section "Upgrading or replacing a coupling facility"). Bill Neiman IBM Parallel Sysplex Development On Fri, 21 Jul 2023 16:13:04 -0500, Bonnie Barthel wrote: >A couple of questions... > >In the past few years using MAINTMODE START and STOP, I'

Re: IXCMIAPU CFRM Report

2023-07-05 Thread Bill Neiman
ick an INITSIZE value for which the default 75% value of MINSIZE could be expressed in 1M (like 152M), you would see all the sizes displayed in 1M. Bill Neiman IBM Parallel Sysplex Development On Wed, 5 Jul 2023 10:54:28 +, Mark Jacobs wrote: >I recreated the abnormality on our s

Re: IXCMIAPU CFRM Report

2023-06-30 Thread Bill Neiman
sults as the utility? Bill Neiman z/OS Parallel Sysplex development On Thu, 29 Jun 2023 12:48:59 +, Mark Jacobs wrote: >718 STRUCTURE NAME(R901_GBP22) INITSIZE(150M) SIZE(293M) >719PREFLIST(CFANB,CFBNB) REBUILDPERCENT(1) ALLOWAUTOALT(YES) > >ADMINI

Re: IXCMIAPU CFRM Report

2023-06-29 Thread Bill Neiman
Mark, If you can supply an example of the input (CFRM policy) and output (IXCMIAPU report) for one of the structures that provides output in units of K instead of M, I'll take a look. Bill Neiman IBM Parallel Sysplex Develo

Re: Coupling Facility Structure Resizing

2023-06-17 Thread Bill Neiman
particular that for SIZER to be helpful during migration, you must run it when both old and new CFs are installed in the sysplex. Bill Neiman IBM Parallel Sysplex Development -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: ITEM NAME(CLUSTER) NUMBER(1), PGM=IXCL1DSU

2022-06-20 Thread Bill Neiman
The CLUSTER support was part of what was supposed to be an over-arching automation infrastructure that would provide a sysplex-level view of properties and events for improved business resiliency. I don't think it ever came together. Bill Neiman Parallel Sysplex developmen

Re: RLS False Contention Statistics

2022-01-12 Thread Bill Neiman
quarter, will alleviate this problem somewhat. Regards, Bill Neiman Parallel Sysplex development IBM > All, > > I can't reconcile RLS lock structure false lock contention between the > various SMS statistics records. > > According to the type 42 subtype 17

Re: CF structure type SERLIST

2021-12-20 Thread Bill Neiman
uot;Understanding the Serialized List Structure" and in the sections of that publication that describe the various IXLLIST (IXLLSTE / IXLLSTM / IXLLSTC) request options. Bill Neiman z/OS Parallel Sysplex development IBM -- For IB

Re: Reminder: Don't "Forget" Your CFRMPOL Keywords

2020-08-17 Thread Bill Neiman
If you neglected to update CFRMPOL, then you will fall back to the wrong policy and that's just the beginning of your troubles... Bill Neiman Parallel Sysplex Development IBM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: LOGSTREAM sizing factors

2019-12-26 Thread Bill Neiman
CFSizer will tell you what you need to know for sizing the CF structure, but provides no information about other considerations for sizing the Logger environment, like staging and log data sets. For that, refer to z/OS Setting Up a Sysplex (SA23-1399) (https://www-01.ibm.com/servers/resourceli

Re: Sizing CF Structures

2018-10-29 Thread Bill Neiman
As Peter points out, the Sizer utility, rather than CFSizer, is the tool of choice for resizing structures in anticipation of a CFLEVEL change. CFSizer (https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1027062) is appropriate when you're introducing a new workload or changing a workload for

Re: CFSizer site move

2018-04-11 Thread Bill Neiman
ught me by surprise so the redirects are still working their way through the approval process. But I'll be working on getting the various publications and websites that point to CFSizer updated with the new URL. Sorry for the

CFSizer site move

2018-04-11 Thread Bill Neiman
FYI: The CFSizer website has moved to http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1027062. There are still a few glitches in the implementation at the new site, but we hope to get those ironed out over the next few days. Bill Neiman Parallel Sysplex development IBM

Re: Failed or Quiesced XCF groups/members

2017-08-12 Thread Bill Neiman
Leo, The sample JCL in SYS1.SAMPLIB(IXCDELUT) should do what you want. Bill Neiman Parallel Sysplex development -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: Generated SET in START command

2017-04-04 Thread Bill Neiman
z/OS started task control processing inserts the @GENSET@ SET statement when processing a started JOB (as opposed to a procedure). Bill Neiman z/OS Parallel Sysplex development (but long ago, Scheduler development) -- For IBM

Re: How to change sysplex name

2016-01-19 Thread Bill Neiman
All couple data sets contain the sysplex name and can only be used in a sysplex of that name, so they all have to be reformatted to define them with the new name. In the IXCL1DSU JCL: DEFINEDS SYSPLEX(newname) Bill Neiman Parallel Sysplex development IBM

Re: Coupling Facility Structure Re-sizing

2015-12-21 Thread Bill Neiman
ecause an undersized structure can cause serious problems while it's practically impossible to go wrong by moderately over-sizing a structure (assuming you don't exceed the CF's available storage). Bill Neiman IBM Parallel Sysplex development ---

Re: XCFAS holding OMVS and XCF CDSes

2014-02-11 Thread Bill Neiman
ic or otherwise, without having a sysplex CDS in use. Bill Neiman Parallel Sysplex development IBM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INF

Re: CFRM policy size

2013-04-15 Thread Bill Neiman
However, the GRS ISGLOCK structure does not support alter, and there is therefore no need to specify an INITSIZE. Just specify SIZE for ISGLOCK. Bill Neiman Parallel Sysplex Development IBM Poughkeepsie -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: CFRM policy size

2013-04-12 Thread Bill Neiman
. It's up to you to determine what size works for your installation. Bill Neiman Parallel Sysplex development IBM Poughkeepsie -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listser

Re: CFRM policy size

2013-04-09 Thread Bill Neiman
html). It is useful when you believe that your structures are already sized correctly for your current workload and CFLEVEL, you are migrating to a new CFLEVEL, and you want to know how big your structures have to be to preserve the same capacity in the new CF. Bill Neiman Parallel Sys