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Batch Architecture, Part Three
Up until now I haven't talked much about DB2, except perhaps to
note it's a little different. But what is a DB2 Batch job anyway? It's
important to note a DB2 job ISN'T necessarily exclusively DB2 - although
some are. It's just a job that has some DB2 in it. The reason for writing a separate post, apart from breaking things
up a little, is because batch jobs with DB2 in them present... [More]
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Batch Architecture, Part Two
I concluded Batch Architecture - Part One with a brief mention of inter-relationships and data. I'd like to expand on that on this part. Often the inter-relationships between applications are data driven - which is why I'm linking the two in this post (and in my thinking). But let's think about the inter-relationships that matter. There are four levels: Between applications. Between jobs. Between... [More]
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DFSORT - Now With Extra Magical Ingredients
Thanks to Scott Drummond for reminding me of last Autumn's DFSORT Function PTFs - UK90025 and UK90026. They're mentioned in the preview for z/OS Release 13 so now is not such a bad time to be talking about them. So let me pick out a few highlights: Translation Between ASCII And EBCDIC, And To And From Hex and Binary For a long time DFSORT has been able to translate to upper case (TRAN=LTOU), to... [More]
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My Slides Are Ready For Vienna
I wouldn't want you to decide not to come to Vienna , just because I've made my slides available on Slideshare: I'd hope you'd come to Vienna anyway. It's a great place and it's going to be a great conference. Lots of people can't make Vienna and I don't suppose having the slides to hand is going to tilt the playing field significantly away from coming if you weren't going to anyway. I don't... [More]
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Batch Architecture, Part One
First a word of thanks to Ferdy for his insightful comment on Batch Architecture, Part Zero . And also to my IBM colleague Torsten Michelmann for his offline note on the subject. As I indicated in Part Zero I hoped to talk about jobs in a subsequent post. And this is that post. In particular I want to discuss Viewing jobs as part of distinct applications, and Generating a high-level understanding... [More]
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IBM System z Technical University - Vienna, May 2-6
I'm working on my presentations for System z Technical University - Vienna, May 2-6 and I'm reviewing the agenda. As well as my four presentations there are lots of other goodies. These range from the Management level down to the purely technical. (I guess mine are towards the latter end of the scale - but I'd say there's lots of pressure on us all to work on cost so detailed information on e.g.... [More]
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When Display Commands Aren't Good Enough
There've been times in the past when a request for extra data in SMF has been met by "you can issue a DISPLAY command to get that".
(Another variant is "you can go to the HMC for that".) I'm here to tell you why I don't think that's a brilliant answer: Such a command is a point-in-time thing.
Systems nowadays are much more dynamic than they were. Something as simple as... [More]
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DFSORT Does JOIN
A new set of function was recently made available for DFSORT via PTFs UK51706 and UK51707. In this post I want to talk about the new JOINKEYS function, and try to add a little value by discussing some performance considerations. I've had the code for a couple of months and have played with it but not extensively. So much of what follows is based on thinking about the function (described in this... [More]
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DDF Performance - Version 3 - but still highly relevant
I've just submitted a set of slides to Slideshare. They're not mine, they're not new, they're not even in a modern format. But they are a very good presentation worth preserving... In 1993 Curt Cotner presented a set of slides on the new DDF Inactive Thread support in Version 3 of DB2. It's still highly relevant and this support was the base on which the Version 4 WLM classification line item was... [More]
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DB2 Data Sharing and XCF Job Name
Back in z/OS R.9 RMF Parallel Sysplex New Fields (in 2007) I mentioned a new field: R742MJOB (XCF Member Job Name.) At the time I had no real customer data so I could only espouse the HOPE that this field would be useful. (When I asked for it to be added to the SMF 74 Subtype 2 record it seemed to me it probably would be.) Now that z/OS R.9 is "mainstream" I'm seeing lots of data at this level.... [More]
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