Re: Resetting a z14 HMC - forgot the admin password :-(

agues have some things the local person could try? On Thu, Jun 6, 2024 at 6:25 AM Kevin McKenzie mailto:kmcke...@us.ibm.com>> wrote: > Probably not what you want to hear, but I’ve reached out to some folks > internally; there’s a process, but it differs depending on a number of > di

Re: Resetting a z14 HMC - forgot the admin password :-(

customer to perform a Report a Console Report from the z14 HMC (the task is located under Service Management on the HMC UI. This will open a HW case to our Support teams to engage our PE team and to schedule an SSR onsite for the work.” --  Kevin McKenzie z/OS Test Services - Test Architect

Re: Preferred FTP Client for Windows

What about z/OSMF? -- Kevin McKenzie External Phone: 845-435-8282, Tie-line: 8-295-8282 z/OS Test Services - Test Architect, Provisioning z/OS Hardware/Software Interlock From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Schmitt, Michael Date: Thursday, July 27, 2023 at 1:19 PM To: IBM-MAIN

Re: Inquiry about extracting and counting msgid from operlog using sort program

that this is provided with absolutely no support or warranty or anything else from IBM. And I would urge you to look at one of the other log monitoring tools, so you’re not having to do all the monitoring / analysis yourself. -- Kevin McKenzie External Phone: 845-435-8282, Tie-line: 8-295-8282

Re: Inquiry about extracting and counting msgid from operlog using sort program

using a pre-processing tool to handle the initial log parsing before you sort/summarize the data. -- Kevin McKenzie External Phone: 845-435-8282, Tie-line: 8-295-8282 z/OS Test Services - Test Architect, Provisioning z/OS Hardware/Software Interlock From: Jason Cai Date: Thursday, July 27

Re: Inquiry about extracting and counting msgid from operlog using sort program

What are you actually trying to do with this information? There are various tools available for log analysis. -- Kevin McKenzie External Phone: 845-435-8282, Tie-line: 8-295-8282 z/OS Test Services - Test Architect, Provisioning z/OS Hardware/Software Interlock From: IBM Mainframe Discussion

Re: Will z/OS be obsolete in 5 years?

. What they’re upset about is the bug-for-bug clones. That’s all this decision is about. I’d be surprised if they thought about z/OS or IBM Z at all when making this decision. -- Kevin McKenzie External Phone: 845-435-8282, Tie-line: 8-295-8282 z/OS Test Services - Test Architect, Provisioning z/OS

Re: Does the term USE CASE apply to system software upgrades

I would suggest choosing a function or two that you’re planning on exploiting on the new release, and have those be the use cases. -- Kevin McKenzie External Phone: 845-435-8282, Tie-line: 8-295-8282 z/OS Test Services - Test Architect, Provisioning z/OS Hardware/Software Interlock From: IBM

Chaos Toolkit Extension Available for z/OS

happen. If you’ve got any questions, suggestions, complaints, or whatever, feel free to reply here or contact me off-list; I’ll help as best I can. -- Kevin McKenzie External Phone: 845-435-8282, Tie-line: 8-295-8282 z/OS Test Services - Test Architect, Provisioning z/OS Hardware/Software Interlock

Re: Python log parsing library available

am, Kevin Mckenzie wrote: > > If anyone else has a need for this, I wanted to let people know that I’ve > released a z/OS log parsing library for Python, available from PyPi, called > zoslogs. On PyPi, you can find it here: https://pypi.org/project/zoslogs/ > . I built it to h

Python log parsing library available

complete, but it might be useful to someone else. -- Kevin McKenzie External Phone: 845-435-8282, Tie-line: 8-295-8282 z/OS Test Services - Test Architect, Provisioning z/OS Hardware/Software Interlock -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: System Boost Question

Not in any meaningful sense, no, it isn’t possible. There are two varieties of System Recovery Boost: longer boosts, that happen during IPL and shutdown, and short boosts that happen in response to certain sysplex events. It's not something you can trigger whenever you want to. ---

Re: Sharing PDSEs in shared DASD Environment

. My official suggestion would be to better isolate the two environments, not try to combine them. There are ways to copy PDSEs between separate environments. --- Kevin McKenzie z/OS Test Services IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 07/24/2019 11:23:16 AM: > From: S B <01439e1549b

Re: SYSAFF and SCHENV

V2R2 will be limited to running on those systems. Or you could control it based on the presence of a subsystem, or whether or not the system is DEVTEST, or whatever arbitrary reasons you want to schedule based on. --- Kevin McKenzie External Phone: 845-435-8282, Tie-line: 8-295-8282

Re: NFS Mount Failure

ystem. So what I was suggesting was to put the touch command in a batch job after the remount command, so that the file access attempt happens right after the file system is remounted. If it's a different problem you're trying to solve, the touch command won't help. --- Kevin McKe

Re: NFS Mount Failure

o that should prevent any file from actually being created. I haven't tested this, though I'm trying to get in touch with one of the NFS folks to see if this is known/expected behavior. Note that case matters in the PARM statement. --- Kevin McKenzie External Phone: 845-435-8282, Tie-

Re: NFS Mount Failure

Have you thought about using BPXBATCH and something like the touch command to force an access of the remote file system? --- Kevin McKenzie External Phone: 845-435-8282, Tie-line: 8-295-8282 z/OS Test Services - Test Architect, Provisioning IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 01/23/2019 01

Re: how many OSes run on IBMz

Strictly speaking, you could include Stand-alone Dump and ADRDSSU. --- Kevin McKenzie External Phone: 845-435-8282, Tie-line: 8-295-8282 z/OS Test Services - Test Architect, Provisioning IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 01/24/2019 09:17:25 AM: > From: John McKown > To: IB

Re: How to delay a healthcheck? [EXTERNAL]

d like to understand why. Or you can open a PMR, if you'd prefer. --- Kevin McKenzie External Phone: 845-435-8282, Tie-line: 8-295-8282 z/OS Test Services - Test Architect, Provisioning IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 01/07/2019 12:14:07 PM: > From: "R.S." > To: IBM-M

Re: How to delay a healthcheck? [EXTERNAL]

IRA86* messages being issued during IPL? Are any 'SET OPT=' commands being issued? --- Kevin McKenzie External Phone: 845-435-8282, Tie-line: 8-295-8282 z/OS Test Services - Test Architect, Provisioning IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 01/06/2019 09:00:56 PM: > From: "F

Re: Researching MT_ZIIP_MODE

Yes, that's correct. It was removed. My apologies; I thought we'd gotten all the technical guides updated. I'll follow up and see what we can do there. --- Kevin McKenzie External Phone: 845-435-8282, Tie-line: 8-295-8282 z/OS Test Services - Test Architect, Provisioning

Re: z/OS network Speedtest

> Is there anything for z/OS to measure upload/download speeds? Like on a PC > going to speedtest.net and running their test? >From the z/OS LPAR to where? What's the purpose of the measurement? Can you prevent other network traffic from happening when you're doing the meas

Re: CPU/L in SDSF

rk to do than you're giving z/OS capacity to run, so yes, things are going to hang. If you're going to run this way frequently, you need to make sure your WLM policy is correct, based on business needs. See also https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_1.13.0/com.ibm.zos.r13.erb