Question about PMSMFEX

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I am experimenting with writing our PMAM records to SMF instead of to
the IDMS log, for performance reasons. My question is about PMSMFEX,
the CA-supplied Culprit program that archives the performance monitor
records from the SMF file. PMSMFEX is working as advertised - my
SMF-derived reports look identical to the ones derived from the log.
But PMSMFEX runs for hours each night, and requires 10 or more scratch
tapes for the Culprit SYS008 file. Is this normal? Is there any to
speed it up?

Kay Rozeboom
State of Iowa
Information Technology Enterprise
Department of Administrative Services
Telephone: [phone] Fax: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

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VTERM/VTAM
"Hello,

I have been asked to post this by my supervisor. Thanks for your
indulgence.

""is anyone running VTERM/VTAM under IDMS, say setting up multiple logical
sessions
to access VM & VSE""

Fred

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Re: VTERM/VTAM
"""Hill, Fred"" <[e-mail]> wrote:

""is anyone running VTERM/VTAM under IDMS, say setting up multiple

logical sessions to access VM & VSE""

Hi Fred -

We never ran VTERM but I can tell you what we DID run - BIM-WNDOW from
Ben Moyle. It was very easy to set up and use and, as you might guess
if you have any other of Ben's products, the support was excellent.
Since BIM's acquisition by CSI in 2002 after Ben's death, I have no
reason to believe that any of this has changed as the BIM employees
themselves interviewed all the prospective buyers and chose CSI
themselves, and those I am still in touch with today appear to be happy
with everything.

Here's a link to the documentation, FWIW:

ftp://bimsrvic.bimoyle.com/download/Product-Manuals/CSI-WNDOW/Wndow%204.
5.pdf

Hope this is helpful.

Mike

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Reloading data to a sorted set
"Hello List,

I have a question dealing with the mass loading of records.

We will be extracting all of the member records from a sorted set. (sort
seq. DSC by store date duplicates first) After our Database group
initializes and resizes our area. We will then be re-storing a portion of
the member records. We are trying to figure out the most efficient way to
reload the data.

<<...OLE_Obj...>>

We are currently planning to unload the member records oldest to newest for
each of the owner records. One idea we had was to ask our DBA staff to
create a temporary subschema for the load of these records so that the
member record would be stored first as shown below. Thinking that IDMS
would have to do less work if it didn't have to maintain the sorted set.

<<...OLE_Obj...>>

So, our first question is does this idea have any merit? Secondly we would
ask if this is not the best way to go about unloading and reloading this
data while maintaining the sequence of the records how should we be
attacking it?

Thanks,

Scott Van Der Heyden
State of Iowa
Dept. Of Human Services

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Re: Reloading data to a sorted set
"Either
Extract the members with the owner DBkey.
Extract the Owners with their DBkey.
Match owner and member records and add CALC key to Member record file.
or
In one program
Read each owner extract to one file,
Read all members for each owner extract to another file and store
with CALC key.

Then

Initialize the area and resize it.
Using IDMSCALC, calculate the new dbkey for the owners both for the owner
file and the member file.
Sort the two files by the calculated DBkey.
Load the owners.
Load the members. Remember to obtain CALC for each new owner to get them
connected correctly.

You can merge the two files and store the owners then the members for each
owner, all you need is to identify the record type.

By loading all the owners first then the members you reduce the amount of
CALC overflows, but increase the amount of via overflows. In either case
you will probably get about the same impact on performance.

Not knowing how many member records you are getting rid of, I would suggest
that you consider deleting the members you don't want. Then run an
unload/reload to resize the area afterwards.

Tommy Petersen




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Hello List,

I have a question dealing with the mass loading of records.

We will be extracting all of the member records from a sorted set. (sort
seq. DSC by store date duplicates first) After our Database group
initializes and resizes our area. We will then be re-storing a portion of
the member records. We are trying to figure out the most efficient way to
reload the data.

<<...OLE_Obj...>>

We are currently planning to unload the member records oldest to newest for
each of the owner records. One idea we had was to ask our DBA staff to
create a temporary subschema for the load of these records so that the
member record would be stored first as shown below. Thinking that IDMS
would have to do less work if it didn't have to maintain the sorted set.

<<...OLE_Obj...>>

So, our first question is does this idea have any merit? Secondly we
would
ask if this is not the best way to go about unloading and reloading this
data while maintaining the sequence of the records how should we be
attacking it?

Thanks,

Scott Van Der Heyden
State of Iowa
Dept. Of Human Services

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Re: Reloading data to a sorted set
"I would suggest you think about a user-owned index instead of a sorted
set for efficiency reasons.

Dan Miley
Lockheed Martin