BMC Mainframe: Parallel Sysplex Concepts & Facilities

What is sysplex?
Not a new concept
So what's new?
'Before' and 'After' sysplex
XCF sysplex requirements
Components of the XCF sysplex
Server Time Protocol
Clock synchronization techniques
XCF sysplex definitions
XCF sysplex services
The parallel sysplex
The parallel sysplex concept
Signaling and Status Monitoring services
Group services
Couple Data Sets
XES availability with SFM

The Coupling Facility (CF)
What parallel sysplex adds to the picture
Cross-system Extended Services (XES)
Different types of multi-system data sharing

Parallel sysplex data sharing
The PLEXCFG parameter
Program-to-program communication with parallel sysplex

Sysplex installation planning
Determine system names
Examples of setting system names
Determine overall sysplex configuration
The sysplex name
Couple Data Sets
The sysplex Couple Data Set
The parallel sysplex Couple Data Sets
Example of the formatting utility
Output from the formatting utility
Alternate Couple Data Sets
Sysplex Couple Data Set considerations
Determine detection intervals
Determine transport classes
Transport class attributes

Determine signalling paths
LOCAL sysplex messages
Sysplex group names and members
The CFRM policy
CFRM policy definition
Planning CFRM - identification and structure size
XES Structure Services
XES Structure Services
XES Assembler macros
Selecting a CF for a structure
Updating CFRM
The SFM policy
XCFPOLxx for PR/SM
CLOCKxx

Parallel sysplex exploiters
Old functions, new techniques - system software & database systems
The 'real' parallel sysplex
Workload distribution - not a new concept
Workload distribution - exploiters
WLM and dynamic networking
VSAM Record Level Sharing (RLS)
RACF and sysplex
Sysplex-wide DAE
MVS System Console Processing (MCS)
Defining MCS consoles
MCS message processing - sysplex
Automatic Tape Switching (ATS)
Global Resource Serialization (GRS)
GRS Fully Connected Complex and sysplex
GRS star
GRS star setup definitions

Star configuration RNL management
Sysplex-related JES features
The JESXCF facility
Communication via JESXCF
VTAM exploitation
Generic Resources requirements
CICS exploitation
TSO generic resources
Batch in a parallel sysplex with WLM
The solution - WLM managed batch
What WMB does not do
What WMB manages
DB2 exploitation
IMS exploitation
TSO/E and SYS1.BRODCAST
MVS System Logger
System Logger overview

What Parallel Sysplex initialisation problems
Sysplex operational problems
Sysplex Timer problems
Couple Data Set problems
Abend X'00C'
Loss of a system in a sysplex
Planning for sysplex failures
XES availability with SFM
The SFM policy

SFM policy parameters
Creating an SFM policy
Automatic Restart Manager (ARM)
Automatic Restart Manager objectives
IPL of a sysplex
The SETXCF command
SETXCF command examples
The VARY XCF command

What is sysplex?
Not a new concept
So what's new?
'Before' and 'After' sysplex
XCF sysplex requirements
Components of the XCF sysplex
Server Time Protocol
Clock synchronization techniques
XCF sysplex definitions
XCF sysplex services
The parallel sysplex
The parallel sysplex concept
Signaling and Status Monitoring services
Group services
Couple Data Sets
XES availability with SFM

The Coupling Facility (CF)
What parallel sysplex adds to the picture
Cross-system Extended Services (XES)
Different types of multi-system data sharing

Parallel sysplex data sharing
The PLEXCFG parameter
Program-to-program communication with parallel sysplex

Sysplex installation planning
Determine system names
Examples of setting system names
Determine overall sysplex configuration
The sysplex name
Couple Data Sets
The sysplex Couple Data Set
The parallel sysplex Couple Data Sets
Example of the formatting utility
Output from the formatting utility
Alternate Couple Data Sets
Sysplex Couple Data Set considerations
Determine detection intervals
Determine transport classes
Transport class attributes

Determine signalling paths
LOCAL sysplex messages
Sysplex group names and members
The CFRM policy
CFRM policy definition
Planning CFRM - identification and structure size
XES Structure Services
XES Structure Services
XES Assembler macros
Selecting a CF for a structure
Updating CFRM
The SFM policy
XCFPOLxx for PR/SM
CLOCKxx

Parallel sysplex exploiters
Old functions, new techniques - system software & database systems
The 'real' parallel sysplex
Workload distribution - not a new concept
Workload distribution - exploiters
WLM and dynamic networking
VSAM Record Level Sharing (RLS)
RACF and sysplex
Sysplex-wide DAE
MVS System Console Processing (MCS)
Defining MCS consoles
MCS message processing - sysplex
Automatic Tape Switching (ATS)
Global Resource Serialization (GRS)
GRS Fully Connected Complex and sysplex
GRS star
GRS star setup definitions

Star configuration RNL management
Sysplex-related JES features
The JESXCF facility
Communication via JESXCF
VTAM exploitation
Generic Resources requirements
CICS exploitation
TSO generic resources
Batch in a parallel sysplex with WLM
The solution - WLM managed batch
What WMB does not do
What WMB manages
DB2 exploitation
IMS exploitation
TSO/E and SYS1.BRODCAST
MVS System Logger
System Logger overview

What Parallel Sysplex initialisation problems
Sysplex operational problems
Sysplex Timer problems
Couple Data Set problems
Abend X'00C'
Loss of a system in a sysplex
Planning for sysplex failures
XES availability with SFM
The SFM policy

SFM policy parameters
Creating an SFM policy
Automatic Restart Manager (ARM)
Automatic Restart Manager objectives
IPL of a sysplex
The SETXCF command
SETXCF command examples
The VARY XCF command

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