Episode 27 "And Another Thing" show notes.  Long show note are here.

Follow up

• Additional System Recovery Boost enhancements:
  
  
  
  • Sysplex partitioning recovery: Boosts all surviving systems in the sysplex as they recover and takes on additional workload following the planned or unplanned removal of a system from the sysplex.
  
  
  
  


• Two more portable software instances: Db2 and IMS added to Shopz on Aug 20, 2020, in addition to CICS (Dec 2019).

ASK MPT

Martin was asked about which systems in a System Recovery Boost Speed Boost situation get their GCPs sped up to full speed.

Mainframe - Trying out Ansible for driving z/OSMF Workflows

• Marna's been learning about Ansible and how it can drive z/OSMF work. So far with z/OSMF Workflows, from ansible-galaxy collection for ibm.ibmzoszosmf


• Needed lots of assistance from two gracious Poughkeepsie system testers (massive thanks to Marcos Barbieri and Daniel Gisolfi !!)
  
  
  
  • Learning about an Ansible
  
  
  
  


• Encountered two kinds of problems:


• Security issues connecting the Linux environment to a large Poughkeepsie System Test z/OSMF environment


• Workflow-related: duplicate instances when part of the playbook ran ok, and selecting an automated workflow.

Performance - So You Don't Think You're An Architect?

• Brand new presentation for 2020, builds on the “who says what SMF is for?” slide in "How To Be A Better Performance Specialist"


• Presentation talks about 3 layers


• The Top Layer - Machines, Sysplexes And LPARs


• The Middle Layer - Workloads And Middleware: Spikes, Restarts, Cloning, Topology, Software Levels


• The Bottom Layer - Application Components: Db2 and MQ Accounting Trace, DDF topology, data sets


• Fulfilling the definiton Of Architecture? Understand what's really going on and valuable to system architects

Topics - Notifications

• They are unsolicited messages appearing on the device, generally interruptions whether wanted or not.


• Examples of what is received and where/
  
  
  
  • IFTTT still a favorite of Marna's, mentioned in Episode 23 “The Preview That We Do” Topics topic. Martin just subscribed to Premium, but at a low-ball price.
  
  
  
  


• How do you manage them to reduce their number.


• An advanced topic is how you can generate your own


• On iOS the Pushcut app: a webhook from eg IFTTT can cause a notification


• On Android we have MacroDroid.

Customer requirements

• Customer Requirement 138729 : z/OS Console message help support JES2 messages
  
  
  
  • IBM response: This RFE has been delivered via APAR PH24072 at end of June 2020. It's available on both V2R3 and V2R4. The JES2 message prefix such as $ can be setup in "Configure Message Help" dialog in z/OSMF Console UI.
  
  
  
  

On the blog

• Martin's blog posts are here


• Marna's blog posts are https://blog.share.org/Article/tag/marnas-musings

So it goes.