Re: Java?

2022-07-04 Thread Andrew Rowley
et up properly. Is that a reason not to use them? Andrew Rowley -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: NOTSP The Latin of Software Code Is Thriving - The New York Times

2022-07-10 Thread Andrew Rowley
u are talking about a routine executed by a running program, I would expect Java to be close to C. (Certainly not 3 orders of magnitude different.) -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / ar

Re: Calculate deltas using DFSORT

2022-08-30 Thread Andrew Rowley
nce should be much better than Rexx if you have significant numbers of records. I wouldn't consider 5 million records a large number, unless they are particularly large records. Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- Fo

Re: Calculate deltas using DFSORT

2022-08-31 Thread Andrew Rowley
ut it does get complex when it is extended to do other tasks. There seem to be various "tricks" used which work, but are not exactly intuitive. Andrew Rowley Black Hill Sofware -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / sign

Re: Real fun for companies on older machines & SCRT

2022-09-10 Thread Andrew Rowley
On 9/09/2022 11:20 pm, John McKown wrote: I just tested this out at work using Java 8 instead of Java 7. Java 8 reports that it will not run on a z9BC. "Processor detected (z9) does not support instruction MVGHI" . Can you just run it on another platform? Andrew Rowley Black Hil

Re: Enterprise Cobol 6.3.0, XML PARSE and zIIP usage.

2022-09-30 Thread Andrew Rowley
switching processors was justified. it probably also depends on whether the CP is full speed - a slower CP probably makes it switch to a zIIP earlier. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: Enterprise Cobol 6.3.0, XML PARSE and zIIP usage.

2022-09-30 Thread Andrew Rowley
between zIIP and CP. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: ftp to/from USS with Windows

2022-10-25 Thread Andrew Rowley
On 26/10/2022 8:47 am, Steve Thompson wrote: So this is what I want to do: [already set to the correct location in windows] get '/u/abc/some.java.file.jar' some.java.file.jar Try without the quotes? I think the quotes might indicate a dataset rather than HFS file. -- Andrew Ro

Re: Dcollect to Splunk

2022-11-09 Thread Andrew Rowley
t out. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: TNZ 3270 Emulator: Any Experiences?

2022-11-20 Thread Andrew Rowley
l.com port 443. A certificate error would show that the certificate is being validated. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.u

Re: Capture 3270 screen as text (was: TNZ 3270 Emulator: ... )

2022-11-20 Thread Andrew Rowley
s that. Pasting is more complicated in that there are areas you can't write to. That's more a design issue though - how you handle multiple lines, do you wrap etc. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN s

Re: Transmitting SMF records

2022-12-15 Thread Andrew Rowley
press -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Transmitting SMF records

2022-12-16 Thread Andrew Rowley
z/OS. This seems to be surprisingly difficult - IBM doesn't seem to have considered round trip capability when they wrote the FTP functions. (Although I haven't tried it with a RECFM U transfer.) -- Andrew Rowley Black Hil

Re: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question

2024-03-18 Thread Andrew Rowley
have looked into it a few times, but get as far as "significant indentation" and "no variable declarations" and decide it's not something I want to use. Is it a sign of weakness to ask the compiler to help me avoid bugs? -- And

Re: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question

2024-03-18 Thread Andrew Rowley
ave a ZonedDateTime you can't assign/compare a LocalDateTime without specifying the time zone. So the class designers can protect you form a whole heap of common errors, and flag them before the program starts. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hil

Re: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question

2024-03-18 Thread Andrew Rowley
to use an existing library or write your own. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question

2024-03-18 Thread Andrew Rowley
e language that is most available makes sense. But my question was: Why Python? What are the reasons for using Python rather than e.g. Java? -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / arch

Re: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question

2024-03-18 Thread Andrew Rowley
less restricted on other platforms... -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Anyone exploiting ZEDC?

2024-04-16 Thread Andrew Rowley
of zEDC with/without the CICS compression? I have limited samples, but it looks like zEDC might compress data better if it has been already been compressed by CICS. Of course, there is the CPU time to consider. I think I/O can also be much faster for zEDC compressed data. -- Andrew Rowley Black

Re: REXX vs other languages WAS: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question

2024-04-16 Thread Andrew Rowley
of Rexx, but I hate to go back because it is so much easier to get things done in Java. Rexx is good for small tasks where the overhead of starting the JVM is significant, or where there isn't functionality in Java. Otherwise, Java is my c

Re: Anyone exploiting ZEDC?

2024-04-16 Thread Andrew Rowley
side-track. On the other hand, I think zEDC has to decompress and recompress the data for SMF dump etc. so CICS compression might save some overhead for SMF housekeeping type operations, reducing the amount of data going through zEDC? -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Sof

Re: REXX vs other languages WAS: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question

2024-04-17 Thread Andrew Rowley
and run them on z/OS using Java :-) -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Anyone exploiting ZEDC?

2024-04-17 Thread Andrew Rowley
aster. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: REXX vs other languages WAS: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question

2024-04-18 Thread Andrew Rowley
e language you write it without thinking and avoid the traps, but the rules are there nonetheless. Java is relatively straightforward, and shares many rules with other languages - C++, C# etc. I'm not saying Java is perfect - it has its own traps (int vs Integer etc) but I find it a much easi

Re: REXX vs other languages WAS: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question

2024-04-19 Thread Andrew Rowley
DD * CLASSPATH=/home/andrewr/java/lib/twilio-10.1.3-jar-with-dependencies.jar TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID=xx TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN= //SYSOUT   DD SYSOUT=* //STDOUT   DD SYSOUT=* //STDERR   DD SYSOUT=* -- Andrew Rowley

Re: REXX vs other languages WAS: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question

2024-04-19 Thread Andrew Rowley
! I'm not trying to be negative about Rexx. I still use it when appropriate. But I think z/OS people make a mistake ignoring Java. It's fast (e.g. 1GB/s for my CICS SMF processing), makes powerful features available (e.g. the Twilio example to send SMS messages from z/OS) an

Re: REXX vs other languages WAS: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question

2024-04-21 Thread Andrew Rowley
never been able to see anything particularly useful. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: REXX vs other languages WAS: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question

2024-04-21 Thread Andrew Rowley
would use it? -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: REXX vs other languages WAS: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question

2024-04-22 Thread Andrew Rowley
"DELETE " || foo seems much clearer about exactly what is happening/expected, which are variables and which are (expected to be) constant etc. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: REXX vs other languages WAS: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question

2024-04-22 Thread Andrew Rowley
On 23/04/2024 11:55 am, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Tue, 23 Apr 2024 10:59:47 +1000, Andrew Rowley wrote: ... To me, it is much clearer to be explicit, including the concatenation, e.g. "DELETE " || foo That overkill is apt to confuse a POSIX shell partisan who would see the blank

Re: Anyone exploiting ZEDC?

2024-04-29 Thread Andrew Rowley
ead the details here: https://www.blackhillsoftware.com/news/2024/04/29/using-zedc-compression-for-smf-data/ -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: Mainframe performance tool replacement

2024-05-07 Thread Andrew Rowley
On 8/05/2024 7:40 am, Wayne Bickerdike wrote: EasySMF. Andrew Rowley may chip in here. Thanks, yes EasySMF is another option. There is a Windows based component with canned reports, and Java SMF API for customized reports that can run on z/OS. I'm happy to work with you to reproduce

Re: ./ ADD - which utility? (RANT)

2024-05-20 Thread Andrew Rowley
re new tools, e.g. I have been experimenting with Zowe CLI. It's worth trying for file transfer and can create new datasets, PDS etc. It only requires z/OSMF on the mainframe, i.e. nothing to install there - only configuration. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hi

Re: UUID for z/OS Instances

2024-06-04 Thread Andrew Rowley
could have hundreds of instances running from the same CSI and presumably with the same UUID. Probably the easiest way is to generate a UUID for an instance yourself as part of your product installation. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software

Re: Getting list of SMS class entries

2024-06-10 Thread Andrew Rowley
tmstp": "2023-07-24T15:04:40.61",   "dcuvers": 2,   "dscacces": "NO_PREF",   "dscavail": "DONTCARE",   "dscdate": "2021-09-16",   "dscdesc": "STORAGE CLASS FOR DB2 V12",   "dscdfacc": true,   "dscdfavl": true,   "dscdirb": "DONTCARE",   "dscflag2": 128,   "dscflag3": 64,   "dscflags": 64,   "dscname": "DBCGSC",   "dscpavs": true,   "dscseqb": "DONTCARE",   "dsctime": "10:11:00",   "dscuser": "IBMUSER"     }, ... This works for all DCOLLECT record types (and SMF record types supported by EasySMF) . You can also do filtering by various fields, calculations etc - whatever is required. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: CPU and I/O statistics for BPXBATCH executions?

2024-06-25 Thread Andrew Rowley
le tested the total CPU time was over 1 minute, but only 2 hundredths of a second appeared in the main job SMF record. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, sen

Re: CPU and I/O statistics for BPXBATCH executions?

2024-06-26 Thread Andrew Rowley
re or long after the other processes so it can be difficult to relate them in the SMF data. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.u

Re: CPU and I/O statistics for BPXBATCH executions?

2024-06-26 Thread Andrew Rowley
with SMF30WID = OMVS. IEFACTRT could presumably process them, but there are potentially thousands per second. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: CPU and I/O statistics for BPXBATCH executions?

2024-06-30 Thread Andrew Rowley
on is grouped together rather than generating individual OMVS records... -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message:

Re: Rexx is quite cool, flexible, powerful, feature-rich, thank you! (Re: z/OS 3.1 Enhancements & Support News

2024-07-01 Thread Andrew Rowley
table overflowed? Compiled languages also solved this problem a long time ago e.g. vector in C++. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: Inquiry on Powerful Sorting and Query Tools for Linux Platform

2024-07-17 Thread Andrew Rowley
t) in note pad!! If you're trying to write Java outside of an IDE you're doing it the extremely hard way. It's worth learning the IDE - everything else becomes much easier. If you have any questions about Java on z/OS let me know - I'm happy to help. -- Andrew R

Re: World’s largest computer outage!

2024-07-21 Thread Andrew Rowley
me systems could also be a challenge, if all your systems are down. Time to launch your DR systems perhaps - but what if the offending product is part of the real time data mirrored to the DR site? And every customer is ringing the DR providor and declaring  disaster? -- Andrew Rowley Black Hil

Re: World’s largest computer outage!

2024-07-21 Thread Andrew Rowley
y have multiple systems, there will always be an LPAR available to use for recovery. Maybe not always the case... -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: Improving OMVS performance using WLM ?

2024-08-20 Thread Andrew Rowley
-z-os/ Andrew Rowley -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: JAVA: Can it handle TIOT read?

2024-08-30 Thread Andrew Rowley
nd what they provide, they are very useful. https://www.ibm.com/docs/api/v1/content/SSA3RN_11.0/com.ibm.java.api.11.doc/com.ibm.jzos/ibm.jzos/module-summary.html -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / sign

Re: JAVA: Can it handle TIOT read?

2024-08-30 Thread Andrew Rowley
On 31/08/2024 4:09 am, Steve Beaver wrote: There is so much JAVA can’t do that we do on MVS like breathing Not really, there are a few things I wouldn't try (APF etc.) but it's more the other way round... -- Andrew Rowley Black Hil

Re: Should utilities FREE DDNAMEs?

2015-11-22 Thread Andrew Rowley
here is no guarantee that it will always work. You might find that there are circumstances where you get totally different data, or it fails completely. Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software +61 413 302 386 On 21/11/2015 6:41, Paul Gilmartin wrote: I shouldn't have implied "caller"

Re: Where's Java!? (SMP/E needs to know.)

2016-01-20 Thread Andrew Rowley
In answer to the original question, having SMP/E use the JAVA_HOME environment variable would be the clean way. It would be nice if there was somewhere you could set environment variables usable for any dubbed process, rather than requiring a shell. /etc/environment maybe? Andrew R

Re: Where's Java!? (SMP/E needs to know.)

2016-01-20 Thread Andrew Rowley
On 21/01/2016 15:00, Jack J. Woehr wrote: Andrew Rowley wrote: In answer to the original question, having SMP/E use the JAVA_HOME environment variable would be the clean way. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.gim3000/java.htm?lang=en Isn't

Re: Where's Java!? (SMP/E needs to know.)

2016-01-20 Thread Andrew Rowley
that there is no easy way on z/OS to set an environment variable system-wide. Maybe that horse has bolted, but I do think it is better to work towards common standards rather than inventing yet another way z/OS is different to everything else. Andrew R

Re: DFSORT - SMF Records - GMT To EST

2016-02-03 Thread Andrew Rowley
need assistance getting Java up and going, or some sample reports doing time zone conversion. Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software +61 413 302 386 On 3/02/2016 0:57, Ravi Gaur wrote: Does somebody got a quick example of time conversion for SMF Records from GMT to EST or any other timezone based on

Re: DFSORT - SMF Records - GMT To EST

2016-02-04 Thread Andrew Rowley
urate benchmarks, they were tests to get a basic feel for performance.) Java is not as good as assembler, but I wouldn't call it abysmal. I have ambitions to improve it although that may be difficult as most of the time seems to be in the I/O routines. Regards Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software +

Re: Java (was: DFSORT - SMF Records - GMT To EST)

2016-02-04 Thread Andrew Rowley
imezones to the date/times returned by the API. That will be interesting, because it obviously does require a certain amount of looking up rules. Regards Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software +61 413 302 386 -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: DFSORT - SMF Records - GMT To EST

2016-02-04 Thread Andrew Rowley
On 5/02/2016 12:13, Tom Marchant wrote: On Fri, 5 Feb 2016 10:15:41 +1100, Andrew Rowley wrote: Java batch job, basic report: CP time 0.9 s + zIIP time 2.4s Is that normalized zIIP time or raw zIIP time? And if raw, what level of kneecapping? That is, what model processor was it run on? On

Re: DFSORT - SMF Records - GMT To EST

2016-02-04 Thread Andrew Rowley
something silly like that. Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software +61 413 302 386 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: PDS member information

2016-02-10 Thread Andrew Rowley
EasySMF probably has the information you are looking for. You can download the 30 day trial and see: https://www.blackhillsoftware.com/easysmf/ The information would be in the Dataset Activity report. Regards Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software +61 413 302 386 On 10/02/2016 22:06

Re: Introducing the New z13s: Tim's Hardware Highlights

2016-02-18 Thread Andrew Rowley
nt. GC can be a problem for interactive workloads where response time is critical. In that case deterministic memory managment e.g. C++ might be better. However, batch jobs are about the least likely workload to suffer ill effects from regular "stop the world" GC. Andrew Rowley --

Re: Introducing the New z13s: Tim's Hardware Highlights

2016-02-18 Thread Andrew Rowley
On 19/02/2016 05:15 PM, Timothy Sipples wrote: Andrew Rowley wrote: I will make the same comment I made last time this topic came up - avoiding garbage collection is not usually a wise goal. It depends on the workload(s). The point I made is that with the z13 and z13s you have more such

Re: IBM secure z/OS software delivery: Don't get locked out!

2016-03-10 Thread Andrew Rowley
On 11/03/2016 4:38, Paul Gilmartin wrote: o Malware intrusion. To prevent that, a checksum transmitted over a separate secure channel should suffice. Or even better, design a delivery format for z/OS that can be digitally signed... -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software +61 413 302 386

Re: Cobol Install FS issue

2016-03-14 Thread Andrew Rowley
In your initial question you showed path /Service/usr/lpp/cobol/../../demo/oosample/Check.j ".." refers to the parent directory, so doesn't this resolve to /Service/usr/demo/oosample/Check.j // Andrew Rowley On 15/03/2016 2:41, venkat kulkarni wrote: Here also its same /usr

Re: Resolving Java import statements

2016-03-15 Thread Andrew Rowley
fer to z/OS and it should work. Andrew Rowley -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software +61 413 302 386 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Resolving Java import statements

2016-03-15 Thread Andrew Rowley
he command which ends as soon as the CLASSPATH= command ends. "export" makes it stick for subsequent commands. Adding $CLASSPATH to the start will add the jar to the end of any existing definition instead of replacing it. Andrew Rowley On 16/03/2016 10:41, Janet Graff wrote: Andre

Re: Microprocessor Optimization Primer

2016-03-31 Thread Andrew Rowley
t so helpful if what you really want is to minimize total CPU consumed e.g. batch on z/OS. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software +61 413 302 386 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Microprocessor Optimization Primer

2016-03-31 Thread Andrew Rowley
blems, but it's a good problem to have. It just means that if it can only get 5% CPU instead of 50% it will run ~10 times as long. Total CPU time is a better measure than CPU%. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software +61 413 302 386 -

Re: Microprocessor Optimization Primer

2016-03-31 Thread Andrew Rowley
e VM! ParallelScavenger, ConcurrentScavenger and MarkingScheme which I assume is part of the mark-and-sweep GC engine. Half the time in GC sounds excessive. Which GC option (and Java version) are you using? Gencon? There are verbose GC settings you can use to try to figure out what is going o

Re: (External):COBOL Rookie Problem

2016-03-31 Thread Andrew Rowley
results would be. I think it would be very difficult to create an artificial program with the same opportunities (or lack of) for optimization that you would see in production code. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software

Re: Microprocessor Optimization Primer

2016-03-31 Thread Andrew Rowley
a 5% total reduction over RecordReader, but the time on CP was much greater. I have some other improvements to do in my own code first but might revisit it later. Regards Andrew Rowley -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software +61 4

Re: COBOL Rookie Problem

2016-04-01 Thread Andrew Rowley
On 01/04/2016 06:26 PM, Bill Woodger wrote: Andrew, I don't think it would be difficult at all. Especially for ARCH 11, there's some substantial differences in that example of what code would be possible (with V5 or V6), so it will be interesting to see if the ABO takes full advantage. I'm n

Re: Microprocessor Optimization Primer

2016-04-01 Thread Andrew Rowley
va did any processing of the records. Regards Andrew Rowley On 01/04/2016 05:40 PM, David Crayford wrote: Pretty close. I haven't tried it on a massive data set. The assembler routine is for QSAM. RECFM=VB ,LRECL=32756,BLKSIZE=32760 SPACE=(CYLS,(1500)) Assembler: Program

Re: Microprocessor Optimization Primer

2016-04-01 Thread Andrew Rowley
va.time.LocalDate, CPU time to java.time.Duration etc. At the moment I use the JZOS RecordReader and I would prefer to keep using it rather than do my own JNI. It's useful to be able to say the API is 100% Java. Regards Andrew Rowley On 02/04/2016 08:48 AM, Kirk Wolf wrote: I'm c

Why sort (was Microprocessor Optimization Primer)

2016-04-02 Thread Andrew Rowley
used? I generally use e.g. Java HashMap, C# Hashtable for grouping so the data doesn't need to be sorted. Do other common languages on z/OS provide similar functions? (C++ I know.) Are there opportunities to use programming language features to avoid sorts altogether? And

Re: Why sort (was Microprocessor Optimization Primer)

2016-04-03 Thread Andrew Rowley
ely always too small quantities for something like DFSORT) and almost always sort for presentation. Presentation is hopefully also too small quantities for DFSORT. It is an interesting idea though to use it to read data via the exits without actually giving it back to DFSORT to process. -- Andr

Re: Why sort (was Microprocessor Optimization Primer)

2016-04-03 Thread Andrew Rowley
arning." Or, maybe, just plain NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here). I mean, have you read the screams here about the latest COBOL requiring PDSEs for their executable output? You'd think that they'd been told to convert their COBOL to FORTRAN. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software +6

Re: Why sort (was Microprocessor Optimization Primer)

2016-04-03 Thread Andrew Rowley
g. It was just speculation about whether Java etc. on z/OS provided opportunity to reduce CPU by implementing better algorithms, prompted by the comment about the amount of batch DFSORT people run. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software +61 413 302 386 --

Re: Why sort (was Microprocessor Optimization Primer)

2016-04-06 Thread Andrew Rowley
On 05/04/2016 01:20 AM, Tom Marchant wrote: On Mon, 4 Apr 2016 16:45:37 +1000, Andrew Rowley wrote: A Hashmap potentially allows you to read sequentially and match records between files, without caring about the order. Can you please explain what you mean by this? Are you talking about using

Re: DFDSS support for ZFS files query

2020-09-30 Thread Andrew Rowley
RY to establish the starting point for the DUMP operation, then use INCLUDE to _explicitly_ specify the files I want. The available documentation states: "DFSMSdss does not provide wildcard support when processing UNIX files." which, for my purposes, is a complete show-stopper. -- Andrew R

Re: DFDSS support for ZFS files query

2020-09-30 Thread Andrew Rowley
the way I hoped. It does seem to be less useful than it could have been. I wonder what the thinking was when it was being designed? Andrew Rowley -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: SMF to capture user login history

2020-10-25 Thread Andrew Rowley
t the units. There are methods provided to extract the record sections. Some sample reports to demonstrate the use are available on Github: https://github.com/BlackHillSoftware/easysmf-samples -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -

Re: SMF to capture user login history

2020-10-27 Thread Andrew Rowley
://www.blackhillsoftware.com/news/2019/08/27/comparing-bash-and-bin-sh-on-z-os/ Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the

Re: UNIX fork() performance (was: SMF to capture ... )

2020-10-27 Thread Andrew Rowley
n't a criticism of bash. It is very useful to have bash available, and it makes sense to minimize the changes for the z/OS port to make it easier to keep up with changes in the mainstream. Whereas /bin/sh has probably been optimized for z/OS. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hil

Re: UNIX fork() performance (was: SMF to capture ... )

2020-10-28 Thread Andrew Rowley
thout _BPX_SHAREAS=YES the SMF data showed most of the elapsed time was due to the setfacl command. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.u

Re: UNIX fork() performance (was: SMF to capture ... )

2020-10-29 Thread Andrew Rowley
mpletely - I guess it is built into the shell. When I tried with _BPX_SHAREAS all the individual steps for the shell commands disappeared, except for the SH step -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: UNIX fork() performance (was: SMF to capture ... )

2020-10-29 Thread Andrew Rowley
er COZBATCH, PS consistently showed the cut command which is part of the pipe. Under BPXBATCH, the only command which seemed to show up was setfacl. Presumably that is because that was the command where most of the time was spent. -- Andrew Rowley Blac

Re: UNIX fork() performance (was: SMF to capture ... )

2020-10-30 Thread Andrew Rowley
much sense - maybe more - that the last piped command runs in the original address space, not the first. I didn't see the 2 breakit.sh PS entries when running under BPXBATCH - only COZBATCH. Maybe it is fast enough that I was unable to catch it. And

Re: Improve OMVS cp performance?

2020-11-13 Thread Andrew Rowley
to the confusion. Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Improve OMVS cp performance?

2020-11-13 Thread Andrew Rowley
menting an incompatible variation, less so. Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Improve OMVS cp performance?

2020-11-14 Thread Andrew Rowley
ot; Call me a pedant, but if the record length information is not where it is supposed to be IBM is not following RFC 4506. Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: z/OS ssh git issue - the solution

2021-03-08 Thread Andrew Rowley
nary files. I am a bit surprised it is required for git. I would have expected that git would need a binary connection, without EBDCIC-ASCII conversion. If conversion is being performed I would be worried whether the data transfer was reliable, even if it appeared to be working. -- Andrew Ro

Re: WWUNTERSE for distributed platforms (especially SMF)

2021-03-13 Thread Andrew Rowley
esting much more complicated. It seems like it would be much better to do the translation outside of an UNTERSE implementation, and have the compression code give you back exactly the same data that was compressed. Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -

Re: WWUNTERSE for distributed platforms (especially SMF)

2021-03-14 Thread Andrew Rowley
LRECL for fixed RECFM, and it's impossible for variable records because the original implementation throws away the record length information. However, the limitations of EBCDIC to ASCII translation mean that if you do the translation, it can't really be considered lossless (de)comp

Re: WWUNTERSE for distributed platforms (especially SMF)

2021-03-18 Thread Andrew Rowley
On 14/03/2021 9:32 am, Andrew Rowley wrote: On 14/03/2021 2:32 am, Robert Prins wrote: Why hasn't it been released as open source under the same license, after all it's just decompression code, and given the note in the User's Guide, After a discussion with Mario at SHAR

Re: "Wrong" Size Allocation with AVGREC?

2021-03-23 Thread Andrew Rowley
Record format . . . : FB Record length . . . : 80 Block size  . . . . : 27920 1st extent megabytes: 1000 Secondary megabytes : 1000 -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access in

Re: IND$FILE and zFS?

2021-03-28 Thread Andrew Rowley
rfect, but IND$FILE isn't perfect either. It is fast... it can compress data in transit, so for transfer of SMF data (my purpose) is about 10x faster than FTP if bandwidth is the limiting factor. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hil

Re: IND$FILE and zFS?

2021-03-28 Thread Andrew Rowley
already be there in z/OSMF, and there is pretty much zero chance they will be added to IND$FILE. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@list

Re: z/OS V2R1 content in KC (and Google)

2018-06-14 Thread Andrew Rowley
com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1/en/homepage.html . As always, see the z/OS Internet Library at https://www.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/zosInternetLibrary for links to all releases and formats of the z/OS content. -Sue Shumway -- Andrew Ro

Re: Using JCL Symbld and TYPRUN=SCAN

2018-06-20 Thread Andrew Rowley
efulness but decreased the astonishment by 90%. The good news is that the syntax probably allows an easy fix in a new version: a new value such as SYMBOLS=(JCLCNVT) where symbols are substituted at the same time with the same logic as the rest of the JCL. Please IBM? -- Andrew Rowley Black Hil

Re: Using JCL Symbld and TYPRUN=SCAN

2018-06-21 Thread Andrew Rowley
ht need to be supplied for the various proc steps. If I have //DD1   DD   DISP=(OLD,DELETE),UNIT=SYSDA,VOL=SER=&VVV I end up with multiple copies of that JCL statement with different values. I have no problem with multiple copies of the SYSIN, it is what I expected. -- Andrew

Re: Using JCL Symbld and TYPRUN=SCAN

2018-06-21 Thread Andrew Rowley
ds to be before the PROC, the job needs to know exactly which variables the PROC needs exported, which negates some of the convenience of abstracting stuff into a PROC. The best solution seems to be SET VAR=&VAR in the PROC. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software +61 41

Re: Using JCL Symbld and TYPRUN=SCAN

2018-06-21 Thread Andrew Rowley
with JCL because you don't get one allocation until you get them all. The connection between program (DDNAME) and resources (dataset etc.) is nice too. In something like Rexx you need to pass the names as arguments (JCL is much better than one long command line) or hard code them. -- And

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2018-06-25 Thread Andrew Rowley
q-iyVlkZQ2 It looks like the biggest hurdle might be getting 100 people with 200+ reputation on other Stack Exchange sites. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instruct

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