Yes you have to initialize the keys in each LPAR but using CUT & PASTE in your
TN3270 emulator provided you have the keys laid out neatly in your document you
are working from this only take a few minutes on each. We have never purchased
the TKE due to the added cost and have 10 LPARs to update
Strangely enough the only thing I found to complain about in this incident was
the private notifications by phone/email to (in our case and I expect a
non-trivial percentage) incorrect management contacts for the corporation on a
holiday week. These notifications provided details including APA
It's not free but an excellent value FDRERASE.
http://www.fdr.com/products/fdrerase/
It works, great support, and importantly will produce reports at completion
suitable for auditors and government regulators.
The tool you need to use depends on value of the data you had stored there, who
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The right data (compressible) with the right R/W mix can be very beneficial.
We compress SMF data on disk and SVC dumps using SMS. Both compress well and
the performance in many use cases has been improved as well as considerable
disk space savings. Innovation IAM compression is great and very
We have a good compliment of native 3592 E06 tape drives in addition to VTS/VTL
libraries and will. We even have a pair of 3490 drives for data exchange with
agencies that don't support data transmission. Tape is far from dead but we
are very restrictive about access to native tape drives. T
Curious if this was a single processor CF?
We have never had an outage due to a CF even though we have had one fail and
structures rebuild into another.
I have seen performance "opportunities" that were solved by operating our
production data sharing CF's as 2 processor rather than 1 too improv
*FYI*
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/IBMElectronicSupport/entry/sr25e?lang=en
Updates to the IBM Service Request application coming Nov 14, 2012
Key new functions for IBM Service Request (SR) release 2.5
The IBM Service Request (SR) application has adopted the look and
>> I am now trying to figure out how to directly download a CBTTape file to a
>> z/OS system and process it there. I.e. eliminate the need to download to a
>> "desktop", unzip, then ftp to the mainframe.
It is available. All you need to FTP access to cbttape.org from your z/OS
mainframe and eit
Hi Mauri,
We have done this in all but our largest data sharing Sysplex which is
scheduled next month.
Currently there is an open interesting APAR OA39941.
If you exceed 80% of Large Pages you will get an exciting red hi-lite message
from SRM.
Nothing bad may happen but some ISV products may
Do you have the PTF for APAR OA38786 applied?
If not you might install that. If you do you should contact IBM. You should
not have to do any cleanup of data from the directory manually it is supposed
to be done automagically.
Best Regards,
Sam Knutson, GEICO
There is no IPL requirement to switch from recording to MANx to recording to
z/OS Logger.
This is an option that not only would improve performance could save general
purpose CPU if you modify your processing. As an example.
Typically shops record to MANx, then immediately dump to a temporar
I noticed that Jolly Giant (Jim Rymerson) announced a full tablet version of
their 3270 emulator http://www.jollygiant.com/qws3270tablet/ QWS3270.
I did a search in the Apple App Store (I have an iPad at home) and found there
were a few more choices than I expected with a price range from free/li
FYI - Posted on IBMLink news. Thanks, Sam
Fixpack #3 - Outage Communication
29 August 2012
This is to inform you that IBMLink will have a planned outage starting on
Friday, August 31st at 8:00 PM Eastern Time through Saturday, Sept 1st at 8:00
AM Eastern Time This planned outage will occur b
Many shops especially IBM's largest customers have requirements that are met by
the new zEC12. There are significant costs savings possible.
They can save money by consolidating multiple footprints using the increased
capacity and meeting performance challenges.
Some applications are limited to
These were the most interesting links I found so far and sent to my team in
addition to the announce itself
Announce
http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=ca&infotype=an&appname=iSource&supplier=877&letternum=ENUSZG12-0262
Draft - IBM zEnterprise EC12 Technical Introduct
My .02 I view the SMF Type 99 data as part of the z/OS "Flight Recorder" you
don't need it till you want it then it is priceless. The cost of not saving it
may be recreating a painful performance problem or worse unable to recreate
waiting for it to recur in production. A large 4 member produc
Hi Manshadi,
You might check to see if you have Defined Capacity or Group Capacity setup on
the HMC for the LPARs on this CEC.
This would fit with the general symptom of IPL and then sometime later seeing a
slowdown. You said 12 hours but I want to consider that might be subjective
and not al
The annual edition of the IBM Hot Topics Newsletter where you can learn about
key z/OS technical topics and other items of interest is available
#26 August 2012 Featured topic: The fine art of sizing coupling facility
structures: Techniques, tools, and tradeoffs. Also, updates on the Mainframe
IBM will have an announcement on August 28th which you may be interested in if
you like to keep up with the current System z technology directions.
Check this Out: zEnterprise...the Next Generation System at
http://engage.vevent.com/rt/ibm~nextgenerationmainframe
Best Regards,
Hi Peter,
Why would you add anything to HZSPRMxx? The check default is what you coded.
You just need to make sure you have appropriate automation to forward the
exception for attention by system support staff.
Best Regards,
Sam Knutson, GEICO
System
The servers were updated over the weekend in the 0300 time frame with required
security patches by our ISP.
They are to the best of my knowledge working without any problems since later
that morning and errors are most likely due to stale DNS or browser cache
entries on your PC.
In the tradition
VTAMCHK in CBT Tape file 77 does the same thing and it is freely distributed in
source.
http://www.cbttape.org/ftp/cbt/CBT077.zip
http://www.cbttape.org
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I think we will see a lot of people who don't have any more details than
we do continue to spin this to support whatever they want to say about
the mainframe like this.
http://blog.microfocus.com/avoiding-the-next-banking-crash/1577/feed
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussio
Another source for assistance would be joining Syncsort's user
community. This community is a blog site where you can get product usage
assistance from a wider community. The site to register and log on is
http://community.syncsort.com/ This community consists of public and
private groups of Syncs
SR is throwing HTTP 500 Internal Server Error this morning trying to open new
PMR's though.
Gives you that "talk to the hand" feeling. It's not worth the time to deal
with phone support for a SEV3 PMR better to wait and retry later it may work
better.
Best Regards,
Rick contributed significantly to the mainframe community worldwide
sharing useful code on the CBT Tape and advice and commentary liberally
all over the place.
Rick enjoyed his career and continued to pursue work related hobbies.
He assembled as complete a set of OS/360 source materials as he was a
To someone who is inexperienced on platform I imagine managing a CA-7 upgrade
is like having the world's smartest dog but it only responds to commands in
Latin. Miscommunication is likely to be a source of dissatisfaction.
The average person <30 is not stupid because they haven't been editing c
I wouldn't call IBM Personal Communicate a poor product just because it doesn't
offer the flexibility with Cut & Paste you want.
PCOM is the gold standard for TN3270 emulation and has a wealth of
functionality. It does have some annoyances like only very basic Cut & Paste
and some customizati
Hi,
SHARE is hosting a free webcast next week by Pete Enrico "How Well do You
Understand Coupling Facility and
z/OS Sysplex Performance?". Peter is a great speaker and this is a good
opportunity to see a small part of the technical program that you find at a
SHARE Conference like SHARE in An
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