A huge thank you to CA for hosting the meeting.

Apologies:

Roger Fowler (IBM Uk Ltd)

Ron Byers(Experian)

Roy Harrop(NATS)

Mike Fitzgerald (Fitz Software)

1. Minutes of previous meeting and matters arising.
No matters arising.

2. GUIDE Business

Annual Conference was discussed:

Location: Hilton Brighton - This looks unlikely due to cost of delegate rooms and car parking
Date 30/31st October 2008
Suggested 3 session for z/OS upgrades.Mark Wilson to agree content

Workshops for consideration IPCS, RMF 72, System REXX

Mark requested more customer experiences for future LSG meeting and Conference

A session that allowed customers to talk for 10 minutes at a time was discussed/considered

LSWG Meetings:
Next meeting will hopefully be in IBM Warwick on either the 20th, 21st or 22nd May 2008.

We also received a few ideas for future presentations and they were:

• Paging rules of Thumb
• Top 10 performance Misconceptions
• SMF Type 70 records - What, Where, Why, etc.....

3. Announcements
CA Mainframe Roadmap and beyond event; see details below.

4. Experiences
None

5. Presentations
Much Ado about CPU - Martin Packer (IBM UK Ltd)
The presentation can be found here : Here
Comments:  Howard Rogers (Tesco) Raised requirement for SAP (system Assist Processors) reporting.

IBM Storage Updates - Robin Edwards (IBM UK Ltd)
The presentation can be found here : Here

Memory Matters  – Martin Packer (IBM UK Ltd)
The presentation can be found here : Here

IBM Updates – Mark Wilson (LSWG-Chairman)
The presentation can be found here : Here

Comments: System z/Roadshow 4th March  -17th  March 2008, details and agenda to be circulated when available.

Vendor Updates:
FDR/Innovation – Richard Suggit (Innovation)
The presentation can be found here : Here

Informatica – Phil Line (Informatica)
The presentation can be found here : Here

ISIS Papyrus – Marek Baldy (ISIS Papyrus)
The presentation can be found here : Here

Macro4 – David Chalmers (Macro4)
The presentation can be found here : Here

Opentech - Tony Sinfield (Opentech Systems)
The presentation can be found here : Here

SSH – Richard Lawrence (SSH)
The presentation can be found here : Here

6. Hints and Tips

Contributed by Simon Hutchings (Nationwide):

• On CA-VTAPE  R11.5 SP3. We've been running fine for a while and then got abends with a Title of SVTSIRB04E which was an 0C4 in SVTSSRV. No other messages. It stooped VTAPE dead. We needed a R12 compatibility fix of QO90444 to resolve the problem.
• On z/OS 1.9, going from 1.7, we were unloading our SystemPac and ipling on our test system in a hurry and got a repeating abend for a new STC, CEA – (Common Event Adapter) - when we first IPL'ed which prevented the IPL from going any further. We had to re-ipl off 1.7, add CEA to RACF and then IPL off 1.9 again. This requirement was not in the SystemPac manuals/process. It was in the 1.9 Migration guide but in our hurry we missed it. For Full Function this new STC requires a UID of 0 and SPECIAL! However minimum mode which is ‘no Special’ or OMVS worked fine for us.

Contributed by Paul Arnerich (TSD)

• Raised concern over IBM product documentation, it appears that the trend in IBM is to cease distribution of manuals, but there does not seem to be a consistent approach with some manuals being provided in INFOCENTER only e.g. SMP/E manuals. IBM GSE Rep to follow up
  

7. Events

CA Mainframe Roadmap and beyond event. Details can be found here:

http://www.caemea.com/uk/site_page.cfm?dx=R44140T&sp_id=118&tx=wb&spg=2