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cicsprog
PostPosted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 1:22 pm    Post subject: Any z/OS v6 Open APARs or bad contact admin going on? Reply with quote

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My MVS team is shipping MQ v6 (on SYSRES) from our sandbox to the 100 z/OS MQM's on test and prod LPARS that I SysAdmin. I've taken it for a pretty good spin on the sandbox LPARs. The IBM mainteance level is RSU0704.

We are large users of MQ components that touch CICS, IMS, use CAF, CLUSTERing, etc. However, no SHARED Queues (yet).

Anybody have any open PMRs or big problems going on for z/OS MQ v6? I like my sleep.
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PeterPotkay
PostPosted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 5:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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We have been at 6.0 for about a year. I sleep easy.

Early on we found a bug that casued a FAST channel to bomb when a message in a very specifc size (something odd like between 31,456 and 31,789 bytes). Once we fixed that last summer, smooth sailing.


I review this page daily for new problems that we may have to consider for all platforms:

http://www-1.ibm.com/support/search.wss?rs=171&apar=include&tc=SSFKSJ&tc=SSWHKB&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=en&sort=desc&p=2&dc=DB520+D800+D900+DA900+DA800&dtm
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zpat
PostPosted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 2:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I have an open PMR which has been assigned an APAR number, but it's fairly obscure.

APAR PK46118
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belchman
PostPosted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 11:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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We had an incident where an MQ App was allowed to pass a negative MSG_LENGTH (via buffer overwrite) upon put which caused channel to abend. IBM fixed to prevent channel abend if negative value passed.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 6:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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6.0 on z/OS - If the messages are non persistent and the MQPUT happens without the syncpoint option while there is an outstanding MQGET with wait without syncpoint, the message is passed in memory. Better performance. But Queue Statistics are bypassed! You enqueue and dequeue counts don't get incremented.

Beware if you rely on queue statistics for chargeback based on message volume. MQ 6.0 on z/OS breaks it for the scenario described above! Its "not a bug, its by design". Uh, yeah.

But there is a fix you can ask for that makes it act like 5.3.
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cicsprog
PostPosted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 10:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I get an intermittent 2055 from a CSQUTIL MAKEDEF in our nightly backups. This problem seems to have raised it head in several releases though.

But so far v6 has been clean for us. That should be the kiss of death.
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jeevan
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PeterPotkay wrote:
6.0 on z/OS - If the messages are non persistent and the MQPUT happens without the syncpoint option while there is an outstanding MQGET with wait without syncpoint, the message is passed in memory. Better performance. But Queue Statistics are bypassed! You enqueue and dequeue counts don't get incremented.

Beware if you rely on queue statistics for chargeback based on message volume. MQ 6.0 on z/OS breaks it for the scenario described above! Its "not a bug, its by design". Uh, yeah.

But there is a fix you can ask for that makes it act like 5.3.


I have to do performance test ( find enqueue and dequeue count) on zos. Is there any utility /way to do that? This would be a great help.
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