Re: Courses for Storage Admin Newbies

2021-12-16 Thread Steve Emge
On Wed, 15 Dec 2021 21:13:46 +, fred glenlake wrote: >Hi List-ers, > >Would any of you be able to recommend courses for newbie Storage >Administrators?? The shop is mostly IBM products, very few if any ISV >products. DFDSS is used for backups, restores. DFSMS is installed but

Re: Printing GTF trace?

2021-04-22 Thread Steve Emge
On Thu, 22 Apr 2021 09:18:03 -0400, Peter Relson wrote: >Isn't using file IPCSPRNT the intended way to print something produced by >IPCS report(s)? > >Allocate data set x with RECFM VBA and suitable LRECL/BLKSIZE such as >LRECL 137 BLKSIZE 27998 or LRECL 255 BLKSIZE 6144 >TSO ALLOC F(IPCSPRNT)

Re: Low softcapping on high capacity CEC

2021-04-05 Thread Steve Emge
> I appreciate the help and suggestions. And, if SAS was the only culprit, I'd > work at isolating SAS. . . . As a side note, there is a very bad performance defect [as designed] with SAS ODS Excel on z/OS. There is very significant CPU consumption with creation of large ODS Excel documents

Re: Low softcapping on high capacity CEC

2021-03-31 Thread Steve Emge
I agree with Scott regarding assigning a resource group to the service class(es) that need to be capped. In reference to SU/s per second specified in MAX SUs in the resource group, the unweighted SUs/sec for IBM Z systems can be found here:

Re: Rename in-process catalog issue

2016-12-05 Thread Steve Emge
Rob, The VVDSFIX tool should get rid of the BCS entry for you by using . . . CMD=DELBCSR;dataset.name Then, if the volume is still around (believe you mentioned it was not) you can use DEL dataset.name NVR to remove the NVR record. Regards, Steve Emge