Re: Vm Accounting data and DISKACNT

2009-07-23 Thread Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR)
sday, July 23, 2009 10:19 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Vm Accounting data and DISKACNT If you only use the ACNT ALL CLOSE command once per day, you get one record for any SVM that has been running all day. You cannot tell from it if there are any peaks/valleys in its workload. I usu

Re: Vm Accounting data and DISKACNT

2009-07-23 Thread Les Koehler
Of course this depends on no disasters, unscheduled shutdowns or breakage. A lot depends on the value of the accounting data. If it represents $$$, then you should do everything you can to protect and preserve it. Back in my IGS days in Tampa before I retired, the service machine that did the

Re: Vm Accounting data and DISKACNT

2009-07-23 Thread Cal
Hi Terry What you would get in that case is all the accounting records since the last time you did a CP ACNT ALL. In this case if you issued it every day at 23:45 you would get records that include usage for 15 minutes from yesterday and 23 hours and 45 minutes of today. The problem with this i

Re: Vm Accounting data and DISKACNT

2009-07-23 Thread Thomas Kern
If you only use the ACNT ALL CLOSE command once per day, you get one record for any SVM that has been running all day. You cannot tell from it if there are any peaks/valleys in its workload. I usually issue the command at the end of each shift to match the z/OS definitions. I would prefer to do it

Re: Vm Accounting data and DISKACNT

2009-07-23 Thread Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR)
786-0386 terry.mar...@cms.hhs.gov -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Cal Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 6:01 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Vm Accounting data and DISKACNT Hi Terry If you are sending this to

Re: Vm Accounting data and DISKACNT

2009-07-23 Thread Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR)
Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 5:16 PM Subject: Re: Vm Accounting data and DISKACNT I have a scheduler service machine issue CP ACNT ALL CLOSE at 23:59:55 every day. It also XAUTOLOGs a service machine at 00:02:00 every day which intelligently selects certain ACCOUNT files from the DISKACNT 191 dis

Re: Vm Accounting data and DISKACNT

2009-07-23 Thread Cal
y, July 23, 2009 5:16 PM Subject: Re: Vm Accounting data and DISKACNT I have a scheduler service machine issue CP ACNT ALL CLOSE at 23:59:55 every day. It also XAUTOLOGs a service machine at 00:02:00 every day which intelligently selects certain ACCOUNT files from the DISKACNT 191 disk and uses F

Re: Vm Accounting data and DISKACNT

2009-07-23 Thread Brian Nielsen
I have a scheduler service machine issue CP ACNT ALL CLOSE at 23:59:55 every day. It also XAUTOLOGs a service machine at 00:02:00 every day which intelligently selects certain ACCOUNT files from the DISKACNT 191 disk and uses FTP to send them to z/OS. Brian Nielsen On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:2

Vm Accounting data and DISKACNT

2009-07-23 Thread Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR)
Hi I am working on process to get the daily accounting records that are on the 'A' disk of the DISKACNT user and FTP them to my capacity folks on z/OS. I am trying to understand how the process works in terms of when the accounting records are actually written to DISKACNT each day and whe