How display level of paging?

2019-11-02 Thread Charles Mills
Please forgive the basic question: I'm a product developer, not a sysprog. Two part question: 1. What command, panel or report would show the level of paging in a z/OS system? Ideally I would like something that would show the instantaneous level and some sort of "period" level (yesterday, last w

Re: How display level of paging?

2019-11-02 Thread Mark Jacobs
1) The RMFMON TSO command will have an option to look at paging rates at that instant in time. For anything else run batch RMF reports (with the appropriate options and data selection) for historical reports. 2) In 2019, I'd expect to have zero, or near zero paging rates. The local page dataset

Re: How display level of paging?

2019-11-02 Thread Charles Mills
Thanks. That's a start. Boy, RMFMON has a look and feel from 1987! Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs Sent: Saturday, November 2, 2019 8:23 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How display lev

Re: How display level of paging?

2019-11-02 Thread Mike Schwab
Paging packs should be a minimum of 3X real memory. 1 to back main memory, then another copy of both for a system dump. On Sat, Nov 2, 2019, 08:17 Charles Mills wrote: > Please forgive the basic question: I'm a product developer, not a sysprog. > > Two part question: > > 1. What command, panel

Re: multi-line STDPARM shell script for BPXBATCH

2019-11-02 Thread Jon Perryman
On Tuesday, October 29, 2019, 01:45:18 PM PDT, Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Oh, my.  True Blue! >  AOPBATCH removes that limitation and introduces no new limitations (AFAIK?)  > Are you arguing for a semantic distinction between "fixing a problem" a

Re: multi-line STDPARM shell script for BPXBATCH

2019-11-02 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 2 Nov 2019 18:53:35 +, Jon Perryman wrote: > ... >How many people ignore that AOPBATCH and COZBATCH execute in the callers >address space and think it's always a good thing! When called from a program, >you are exposing anything running in the address space to various problems and >s

Re: Best way for a task to give up the CPU and let other tasks run?

2019-11-02 Thread Jon Perryman
On Wednesday, October 30, 2019, 05:50:04 AM PDT, Peter Relson wrote: ,> If the two parties are running in different address spaces then a  > complaint could only be that the address space is consuming a lot of CPU  > and that is exactly what WLM goals and priorities are for. Only true if y

Re: multi-line STDPARM shell script for BPXBATCH

2019-11-02 Thread Jon Perryman
On Saturday, November 2, 2019, 12:38:38 PM PDT, Paul Gilmartin  wrote: > Doesn't any program object invoked by // EXEC PGM= execute in the initiator's > address space?   Sorry. I forgot to say EXEC PGM=AOPBATCH is safe.  > Is there the same exposure for any user-coded program that uses LINK

Re: multi-line STDPARM shell script for BPXBATCH

2019-11-02 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 2 Nov 2019 23:03:16 +, Jon Perryman wrote: > >> Doesn't any program object invoked by // EXEC PGM= execute in the initiator's >> address space?   > >Sorry. I forgot to say EXEC PGM=AOPBATCH is safe.  > That might be true if AOPBATCH were installed with AC=0 in an authorized library. >

Re: Clist dataset

2019-11-02 Thread Tim Hare
We submit a batch job with two steps: first step IEFBR14 with the dataset name allocated DISP=OLD, second step IDCAMS to do ALTER dsname NEWNAME(newdsname). The job ENQs on the dataset name so new TSO allocations for it fail, and the job waits until all TSO users using it have freed it or logge

Re: Clist dataset

2019-11-02 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 2 Nov 2019 22:30:47 -0500, Tim Hare wrote: >We submit a batch job with two steps: first step IEFBR14 with the dataset >name allocated DISP=OLD, second step IDCAMS to do ALTER dsname >NEWNAME(newdsname). The job ENQs on the dataset name so new TSO allocations >for it fail, and the job w

Re: WTO message at the end of JCL

2019-11-02 Thread Jon Perryman
> Is there a WTO module which can write a message (highlight message) on a > console based on the JCL previous condition code? I believe you are asking about the sample exit IEFACTRT on the CBTTAPE which issues a WTO for each step completion message. You can change this to issue the message a

Re: multi-line STDPARM shell script for BPXBATCH

2019-11-02 Thread Jon Perryman
On Saturday, November 2, 2019, 07:35:08 PM PDT, Paul Gilmartin  wrote: >> Sorry. I forgot to say EXEC PGM=AOPBATCH is safe.  > That might be true if AOPBATCH were installed with AC=0 in an authorized > library. AOPBATCH and COZBATCH must be linked AC=0 because the shell runs in problem st