Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: AI wipes out humanity?

2023-04-11 Thread Dave Barry
Sorry, Dave. I can't do that. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of rpinion865 Sent: Monday, April 10, 2023 10:22 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: AI wipes out humanity? CAUTION! This email originated outside of the organization. Ple

Re: z/OS performance question

2023-08-08 Thread Dave Barry
Take a look at RMF Monitor III reports taken during intervals of TSO activity. What is the performance index for your TSO service class periods? What are the delay percentages for your TSO users' address spaces? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Al

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Switching between SMT-1 and SMT-2

2023-09-06 Thread Dave Barry
As your zIIP utilization approaches 100 percent what you should expect is a corresponding increase in zIIP-on-CP time. That is a system-wide processor optimization technique. It does not deal directly with the subject of WLM workload dispatching priorities. -Original Message- From: IB

Re: [EXTERNAL] Chaining unix commands

2022-01-24 Thread Dave Barry
Is it possible the "\" is taken as an escape character? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of ITschak Mugzach Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2022 7:08 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Chaining unix commands CAUTION! This email originated outsi

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Fwd: Log4j hearing: 'Open source is not the problem'

2022-02-14 Thread Dave Barry
I'm old enough to remember reading the source code for VM on microfiche. Eventually, IBM got smart and went with OCO. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu wi

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: IBM BLSR subsystem

2022-05-18 Thread Dave Barry
IIRC, Batch LSR was developed at IBM by the BCP team; SMB was later developed by the DFdfp team. SMB is not BLSR under-the-covers, but it offers the same advantages. SMB is the more modern solution. It has worked wonders at my shop. Just mind your REGION size. If you haven't converted some

Re: [EXTERNAL] FedEx to move entirely to the cloud

2022-07-08 Thread Dave Barry
No surprise. FedEx announce years ago that they were getting off the mainframe "next year." Sincerely, Winston Smith -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of David Crayford Sent: Friday, July 8, 2022 3:15 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] F

Re: Couple of questions about job id

2024-08-12 Thread Dave Barry
For a given ASID, look at OUCB +B0. JES2, STC or TSO should appear. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2024 9:20 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Couple of questions about job id CAUTION! T

Re: [EXTERNAL] WLM question : Is ziip service units counted in period switching

2024-08-26 Thread Dave Barry
Shivang, It's an option on the Resource Group panel. “No” is the default. Modify a Resource Group Enter or change the following information: Resource Group Name . . . . : SPRT_B Description . . . . . . . . . SPRT_B Resource Group Define Capacity: 1 1. In Service

Re: [EXTERNAL] WLM question : Is ziip service units counted in period switching

2024-08-26 Thread Dave Barry
Although that might not answer your question about period switch. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Dave Barry Sent: Monday, August 26, 2024 11:36 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] WLM question : Is ziip service units counted in

Re: [EXTERNAL] WLM question : Is ziip service units counted in period switching

2024-08-26 Thread Dave Barry
"Duration is the amount of weighted SU (including zIIP) that a UOW (unit of work) may consume before it is switched to the goals of the next .period." Bear in mind that zIIP-eligible work can run on a GCP. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: STORAGE KEY of loaded executable

2021-02-04 Thread Dave Barry
I dimly recall from decades ago a recommendation to run CICS in key 7. IIRC, it had something to do with aligning a buffer on a page boundary. Long obsolete advice, I'm sure. == Peter Relson wrote: >. > > >May I ask why you n

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: question on enqueues

2021-02-16 Thread Dave Barry
If I'm not mistaken, FDR has an ENQ/NOENQ option. You decide which you can tolerate in your situation. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Clark Morris Sent: Monday, February 15, 2021 7:24 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: Low softcapping on high capacity CEC

2021-04-02 Thread Dave Barry
We had the same issue with SAS driving up the R4HA. We put the work in a service class with a resource group cap. The type 72 records gave us a reasonable target service units/second for starters, and we reduced the cap incrementally until we were satisfied. The jobs ran longer afterward, but

Re: Help with elementary CPU speed question

2012-07-18 Thread Dave Barry
Charles, In theory, you divide the rated SU/second by the number of processors giving SUs/processor/second, adjusting for "MP effect" overhead. Similarly, you could use MIPS/processor such that: 273.8 (2064-2C3) divided by 426.1 (2094-722) equals 0.643. 0.146 seconds times 0.643 equals 0.093

Re: Help with elementary CPU speed question

2012-07-19 Thread Dave Barry
ubject: Re: Help with elementary CPU speed question On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:47:13 -0400, Dave Barry wrote: >In theory, you divide the rated SU/second by the number of processors >giving SUs/processor/second, adjusting for "MP effect" overhead. No, the SU/second is called the SRM

Re: A New Perfromance Model ?

2015-04-08 Thread Dave Barry
In the old paradigm, technology was managed by technologists. In the new paradigm, technology is managed by accountants. Computer hardware and labor costs wind up on different lines of the general ledger. They have different budgetary constraints and are treated differently for tax purposes d

Re: Crypto Facility performance.

2013-05-08 Thread Dave Barry
Ahem... Did you mean to say zEnterprise? System z is so last year. ;-) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of zMan Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2013 9:56 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Crypto Facility performance

Re: Longer SMFWAIT during IPL MSI

2013-06-03 Thread Dave Barry
I remember having this issue years ago when using the old IPO SMFDUMP program. We forced a switch at midnight and dumped the last of the previous day's data on two loosely coupled systems. IIRC, the type 19s were produced by the IEFU29 exit under a global IPO1.SMF enqueue. The two dumps' time

Re: ''MVS overhead'' (as indicated by OMEGAMON)

2013-02-14 Thread Dave Barry
d time. A good explanation can be found in "LSPR Workload Categories" on IBMs Web site at https://www-304.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/lib03060.nsf/pages/lsprwork?OpenDocument. Sorry if this is more than you wanted to know, but IBM-MAIN is definitely a good place to ask. Dave Barry D

Re: Defined capacity

2013-02-14 Thread Dave Barry
Kees, I'd like to know more about the lack of cooperation between weight management and softcapping. Can you enlighten us? Much obliged, db -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Vernooij, CP - SPLXM Sent: Tuesday, Februar

Re: ''MVS overhead'' (as indicated by OMEGAMON)

2013-02-21 Thread Dave Barry
Jan, Omegamon has no way of attributing MVS overhead. It simply subtracts the RMF processor busy time from the interval time and reports the difference. Being time-driven, WLM uses very little CPU on it's own behalf. In fact, as has been pointed out, when capping is in effect, IRD weight mana

Re: DB2 subsystem availability

2013-04-01 Thread Dave Barry
Available to whom? For networked applications, you might try a SELECT from SYSIBM.SYSDUMM1 table. For batch applications, you might have some console automation response to the DSN9022I message stating"DSNYASCP 'START DB2' NORMAL COMPLETION" on one hand and the DSNY002I message on shut-down o

Re: DB2 subsystem availability

2013-04-01 Thread Dave Barry
It occurred to me to add to my previous comment: For batch applications, you might have some console automation response to the DSN9022I message stating"DSNYASCP 'START DB2' NORMAL COMPLETION" on one hand and the DSNY002I message on shut-down on the other. You would use the response to activa

Re: IEFBR14 question

2015-05-05 Thread Dave Barry
Some third-party software in use here at UPS has used this technique for years. The assumption is perfectly valid. Think about it: If an initiator allocates a migrated dataset specifically on behalf of IEFBR14 -- which cannot even open it, much less use it -- just to process a normal disposit

Re: Dataset enqueue, how to find the culprit.

2015-09-23 Thread Dave Barry
The problem is that the SVC99 dynamic allocation is unconditional. If the resource is already owned, the subsequent allocation request fails. At that point there is no enqueue conflict to show in any monitor because no exclusive or shared waiter was added for that resource in the GRS list. St

Re: Dataset enqueue, how to find the culprit.

2015-09-28 Thread Dave Barry
[mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2015 3:58 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Dataset enqueue, how to find the culprit. On 2015-09-23 11:54, Dave Barry wrote: > The problem is that the SVC99 dynamic allocation is unconditional.

Re: SRB And Enclave SRB

2015-11-04 Thread Dave Barry
See John Arwe's seminal work on the subject described at ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/s390/zos/wlm/WLMpresrb.pdf. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of michelbutz Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2015 1:39 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV

Re: Releasing Orphan Storage without IPL

2015-11-04 Thread Dave Barry
It happens that certain CSA allocations are not really orphans; they're more like emancipated minors. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Rob Schramm Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2015 2:20 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU