Our ASM is completely fine and we didn't add the page dataset for a long
time

On Mon, Dec 11, 2023, 4:27 PM Jousma, David <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Peter, have you been doing any PAGE ADDS, and PAGE DELETES?    Years ago,
> when we were migrating to new DASD (TDMF wont move active local page
> datasets), I exhausted EQSA but didn’t realize it at the time.   Now you do
> PAGE DELETE with REPLACE to avoid the ESQA problem.
>
> Dave Jousma
> Vice President | Director, Technology Engineering
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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf
> of Peter <[email protected]>
> Date: Monday, December 11, 2023 at 5:45 AM
> To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: SQA overflow condition
> These increase we have been whitenessing in last 1 month and never saw
> this overflowing in last 2 years. No software changes have been made but
> one of the product upgrade was backed out but we kept the products LPA SVC
> module in LPALST as the
>
>
> These increase we have been whitenessing in last 1 month and never saw this
>
> overflowing in last 2 years.
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>
>
> No software changes have been made but one of the product upgrade was
>
> backed out but we kept the products LPA SVC module in LPALST as the SVC
>
> module shipped with higher version of the new product(which was backed out)
>
> was also compatible with lower version of the same product.
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>
>
> So my question can the new SVC module which was shipped with newer version
>
> of product being utilized by lower version of product can cause spike in
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> ESQA ?
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> On Mon, Dec 11, 2023, 2:32 PM Martin Packer <[email protected]>
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> wrote:
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> > I’m wondering why 108% is a problem. I’d say that’s about the right
> amount
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> > of overflow. Unless you know have a shortage of free ECSA.
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> >
>
> > Thanks, Martin
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> >
>
> > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf
>
> > of Peter <[email protected]>
>
> > Date: Monday, 11 December 2023 at 04:29
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> > To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
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> > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: SQA overflow condition
>
> > The ESQA usage has gone to 108%.
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> >
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> > Is there any tool available in CBTTAPEA which can tell me or trace SQA
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> > users and who are not releasing the storage?
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> >
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> > On Mon, Nov 27, 2023, 5:37 PM Allan Staller <
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> > [email protected]> wrote:
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> > > Classification: Confidential
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> > >
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> > > 100% concur w/Martin
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> > >
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> > > -----Original Message-----
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> > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On
> Behalf
>
> > > Of Martin Packer
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> > > Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2023 2:39 AM
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> > > To: [email protected]
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> > > Subject: Re: SQA overflow condition
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> > >
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> > > [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Unless you trust
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> > >
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> > > (This is not specific advice but a way of thinking about things.)
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> > >
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> > > SQA can, of course, overflow into CSA - with no real harm done. Unless
> it
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> > > causes CSA to go short. (CSA can't overflow into SQA, of course.)
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> > >
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> > > The above statements are true for both 24-bit and 31-bit.
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> > >
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> > > 1409K below the line, though, is pretty extreme - for 24 bit. If you
> made
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> > > SQA larger so that it only overflowed, say, by 100K there would be no
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> > > wasted virtual storage.
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> > >
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> > > More importantly, check out the "free CSA" picture. You really don't
> want
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> > > to run out of that. For 24-bit you want a few hundred K free. (But to
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> > > achieve that might require losing 1MB of 24-bit private, which might
> not
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> > be
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> > > consequence free.)
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> > >
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> > > For 31 bit I like to see at least 100MB free ECSA, preferably more. The
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> > > reason is because ECSA is - in my experience - more volatile.
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> > >
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> > > Speaking of volatility, you need to plan defensively - as a problem can
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> > > lead to surge in SQA and CSA usage .
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> > >
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> > > Final point: I would advocate using SMF 78-2 to build a picture of
> common
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> > > storage usage - and how variable it is. Here is a blog post I wrote on
>
> > the
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> > > matter:
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> > >
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> > > htt ps://
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> > >
> mainframeperformancetopics.com/2020/01/05/how-i-look-at-virtual-storage
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> > >
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> > > (Take out the space to follow the URL - as my mail client turned it
> into
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> > > an attachment.) 😕
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> > >
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> > > Cheers, Martin
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> > >
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> > > Sent from my iPad
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> > >
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> > > > On 26 Nov 2023, at 05:40, Peter <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > > >
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> > > > Hello
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> > > >
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> > > > I am able to see the below alert condition under RMF postprocessor
> III
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> > > >
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> > > >
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> > > >
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> > > > Name Reason Critical val. Possible cause or action
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> > > >
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> > > > *STOR TSQAO > 0 1409K bytes SQA overflow into CSA 1409K.
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> > > >
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> > > > Our SQA and CSA set up in our IEASYSxx is as below
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> > > >
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> > > >
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> > > >
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> > > > CSA=(2000,300000)
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> > > >
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> > > >
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> > > >
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> > > > SQA=(16,192)
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> > > >
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> > > >
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> > > > Hardware: z14
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> > > > LPAR : 16gb memory
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> > > > zOS 2.4
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> > > >
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> > > > Do I have think about tunning the SQA parameter ?
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> > > >
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> > > > Regards
>
> > > > Peter
>
> > > >
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