Re: EREP Symptom and/or Software Records

2017-06-18 Thread Edward Finnell
>From what we've gleaned so far, EREP is just 'holding the mirror' and some sort of WAIT is causing the CATALOG REDRIVE and is symptomatic of a tuning opportunity. From a sysprog perspective I'm going to review WLM, DB2 buffer use and device busy. Craig Mullins DB/2 series is great and sugge

Re: EREP Symptom and/or Software Records

2017-06-17 Thread Tim Hare
It's been a few years (retired / consulting now) since I had the duty of looking at EREP records but as with what many others have said, it's about what seems "normal" in your environment, although I've had instances of 0C4 that was occuring regularly, though handled by the piece of software in

Re: EREP Symptom and/or Software Records

2017-06-16 Thread Attila Fogarasi
Most likely cause is SYSZTIOT or SYSZVVDS contention -- so the abend 91A are symptoms of that latent problem (which affects your SLA potentially). Catalog added contention management enhancement in z/OS 1.12 which causes abend 91A for excessive wait and when the wait time threshold is reached the a

Re: EREP Symptom and/or Software Records

2017-06-15 Thread Peter Hunkeler
>Catalog processing is not my area of expertise, but I think that this symptom >record is the result of a catalog service task being ABTERMed with code 91A, >possibly by a catalog analysis task. I don't remember offhand if a 91A is >also used to terminate a service task when the suspended requ

Re: EREP Symptom and/or Software Records

2017-06-15 Thread Jim Mulder
: Turner Cheryl L > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Date: 06/15/2017 11:03 PM > Subject: Re: EREP Symptom and/or Software Records > Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > > I understand why you may have thought that but no I understand it is > not the slip that spawns the

Re: EREP Symptom and/or Software Records

2017-06-15 Thread Lizette Koehler
PM >To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >Subject: Re: EREP Symptom and/or Software Records > >I understand why you may have thought that but no I understand it is not the >slip that spawns the records. But couldn't it be said that the slip parms are >indicating IBM's view of th

Re: EREP Symptom and/or Software Records

2017-06-15 Thread Turner Cheryl L
as I can. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Peter Hunkeler Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2017 4:20 PM To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Subject: AW: Re: EREP Symptom and/or Software Records >But I still can't get my head around,

AW: Re: EREP Symptom and/or Software Records

2017-06-15 Thread Peter Hunkeler
>But I still can't get my head around, why cut 100's of symptom/software >records a day at all for a particular problem, if we're just going to ignore >them - abend or not. But I'll try to let that not keep me awake at night. I may well be wrong with my interpretation of the above statement an

Re: EREP Symptom and/or Software Records

2017-06-15 Thread Edward Gould
> On Jun 14, 2017, at 8:47 AM, Turner Cheryl L wrote: > > was hoping you'd chime in John (and I appreciate the responses from Skip, > Lizette and EdG, as well). Since I am the person that does the maintenance > and OS upgrades now, I was taking it upon myself to be a bit proactive (or > creat

Re: EREP Symptom and/or Software Records

2017-06-15 Thread Turner Cheryl L
ssion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Bruce Hewson Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2017 1:20 AM To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Subject: Re: EREP Symptom and/or Software Records Hello Cheryl, check out the Logrec Viewer exec - https://www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/tools/downloads/l

Re: EREP Symptom and/or Software Records

2017-06-14 Thread Bruce Hewson
Hello Cheryl, check out the Logrec Viewer exec - https://www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/tools/downloads/logrec-viewer.html also you can monitor the PFA_LOGREC_ARRIVAl_RATE healthcheck to tell you when you get a burst of LOGREC events. Regards Bruce On Tue, 13 Jun 2017 16:24:34 -0500, Turner

Re: EREP Symptom and/or Software Records

2017-06-14 Thread Edward Finnell
Hopefully DAE has kicked in and you are just getting symptom records. IPCS DAE(3.5) you can get a little insight into who's waving their hands. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1OA08663 In a message dated 6/14/2017 8:47:57 A.M. Central Daylight Time, cheryl.l.tur...@irs.g

Re: EREP Symptom and/or Software Records

2017-06-14 Thread John Eells
Turner Cheryl L wrote: I was hoping you'd chime in John (and I appreciate the responses from Skip, Lizette and EdG, as well). Since I am the person that does the maintenance and OS upgrades now, I was taking it upon myself to be a bit proactive (or creating busy work?) and looking at the EREP

Re: EREP Symptom and/or Software Records

2017-06-14 Thread Turner Cheryl L
Wednesday, June 14, 2017 9:10 AM To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Subject: Re: EREP Symptom and/or Software Records Turner Cheryl L wrote: > Greetings. > Our former sysprog, who paid attention to the more finer system details, has > left the building for greener pastures. So now we seem t

Re: EREP Symptom and/or Software Records

2017-06-14 Thread John Eells
Turner Cheryl L wrote: Greetings. Our former sysprog, who paid attention to the more finer system details, has left the building for greener pastures. So now we seem to have to step up our game. However, I'm not sure what to do or how. We are running several EREP reports to see what software

Re: EREP Symptom and/or Software Records

2017-06-13 Thread Lizette Koehler
l L >Sent: Jun 13, 2017 2:24 PM >To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >Subject: EREP Symptom and/or Software Records > >Greetings. >Our former sysprog, who paid attention to the more finer system details, has >left the building for greener pastures. So now we seem to have to step up our

Re: EREP Symptom and/or Software Records

2017-06-13 Thread Edward Gould
> On Jun 13, 2017, at 4:24 PM, Turner Cheryl L wrote: > > Greetings. > Our former sysprog, who paid attention to the more finer system details, has > left the building for greener pastures. So now we seem to have to step up > our game. However, I'm not sure what to do or how. > > We are runn

Re: EREP Symptom and/or Software Records

2017-06-13 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW robin...@sce.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Turner Cheryl L Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2017 2:25 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):EREP Symptom and/or Software Rec

EREP Symptom and/or Software Records

2017-06-13 Thread Turner Cheryl L
Greetings. Our former sysprog, who paid attention to the more finer system details, has left the building for greener pastures. So now we seem to have to step up our game. However, I'm not sure what to do or how. We are running several EREP reports to see what software or symptom records are