ZSA Levels

ZSA L2410181

This level introduces the following corrections/enhancements: 

1. Correction of CSV field SMCPCPTS generated from SMF 225-1, which was avoiding CPC information to be loaded into asccpcdata table.

ZSA L2410151

This level introduces the following corrections/enhancements: 

1. Correction of timeout variable not properly initiated when there is no PARM in DXQUEUE JCL, causing wrong behavior of the Monitor subtask when it is dynamically activated.

ZSA 2409131

This level introduces the following corrections/enhancements: 

1. Increase in an internal buffer of DXPLTCP (ZSA V6.4 only).
2. PC routines used to get/put data into 64-bit memory of DXQUEUE have their serialization mechanism enhanced, changing API ISGRLE64 from unconditional to conditional. Included API ISGLPR64 to complement any serialization issue.
3. Correction for PC routine DXQCLOS that could close a wrong connection with DXQUEUE.
4. CSV produced from SMF 110-1 (CICS) now has appended 35 new fields presenting CPU measures more accurate, in microseconds. The previous CPU consumption fields continue to be presented in 16 microseconds units. 
5. Correction of SMF 225 CSV that could generate invalid data under special circumstances.

ZSA L2408061

1. Correction to do not issue a warning message when DXQUEUE has no PARM
2. Correction to properly get TIMEOUT statement from DXQUEUE PARM statement
3. Termsession message issued by DXPLTCP when ZSA Open requests to close a session
4. Correction of invalid characters on SMF 225 (ZAC) CSV

ZSA L2407301

The level name is L2407301 and it includes the following corrections/enhancements:

1. The CSV produced using WLM SMF 225 (created by ZAC) contained only the first Service Class of the Lpar. In this new Level, all Service Classes are present.
2. Review of the Logic and structure of Monitor subtask of DXQUEUE
3. New batch utility DXPLCMND to issue MVS commands
4. Command SHOWCNID was included in F DXQUEUE,HELP and had its layout changed
5. The JCL PARM of DXQUEUE now accepts the TIMEOUT sub parameter. If omitted, the default is TIMEOUT=60 (minutes). The TIMEOUT applies to MONITOR subtask and indicates after how much time orphan Connections must be cancelled.
   
6. New Modify command TIMEOUT=xxx  for DXQUEUE.

   
   

   
7. New Modify command SHOWTABL ALL for DXQUEUE. For ZETALY diagnosis.
   
   
   
8. New message indicating when MONITOR subtask is deactivated
    

ZSA L2404241

This level introduces the following corrections/enhancements: 

1. Compatibility with the SMF 225 produced by the new ZAC V4.5
2. Additional safeguards on routines that manage DXQUEUE 64-bit SLOTS   
3. DXQUEUE Monitor subtask reintroducing unconfirmed data received by ZSA-Connector in advance and not during the closing of the lost connection 
4. DXQUEUE now accepts PARM=MONITORON on JCL, which automatically activates the Monitor subtask during startup                             

ZSA L2402091

This level introduces the following corrections/enhancements: 

1. Correction for fields OPENTIME and CLOSETIME of SMF116-2 that were wrongly calculated 
2. Correction for fields SOR_BYTES_RECEIVED and SOR_RECEIVES of SMF110-2 that were wrongly moved asis to CSV 
3. Inclusion of fields SMF30ICS, SMF30ISB and SMF30HPT in SMF30 CSV 
4. Replacement of "," to ";" as separator of account field (SMF30ACT) in SMF30, simplifying the extraction of these variable fields in the Self Service parser.
   

ZSA L2312311

This level introduces the following corrections/enhancements:

1. For version 7.0 only, a new statement WLMAUTO= have been created to adjust the Service Class of both DXQUEUE and 
    DXSMF to SYSSTC. The default is Y and if the Service Class is modified, a new message will be issued.2)Complementing the modification introduced in L2311221, DXPLSMF batch utility now presents messages indicating ZAC and not ASC anymore. The selection of SMF records accepts both ASC or ZAC parameters. 
   
   
   
   3)Command F DXSMF,OPTIONS now includes information about buffers and subtasks
    
   4) New 43 fields introduced when processing SMF 71
2. 5)ZSA SMF exits modified to check if there is memory available before requesting it.   In case of lack of memory, a new message will be issued
     DXPL186W NO STORAGE AVAIL FOR DISCARD MESSAGE (U83)
   
    6)The DXQUEUE monitor of orphan CSV data was changed to verify these status every minute,instead of previous 3 minutes
   
   

ZSA L2311221

This level introduces the following corrections/enhancements:

1) DXQUEUE will issue message DXPL220W when invalid MODIFY command is issued 

  

ZSA L2311011

This level introduces the following corrections/enhancements:

1. Correction for SMF 116-1 and SMF 116-2. Field WTIDNID was saved into CSV record without proper translation 
2. Inclusion of message DXPL201I in DXSMF initialization for standardization with DXQUEUE and DXPLTCP

ZSA L2310201 

This level introduces the following corrections/enhancements:

1. Created new command SHOWMON for DXQUEUE, to indicate if Monitor Subtask is ACTIVE or not  

2. License will now be accepted in any position of member ZSAKEYxx

3. Field SMF70BDA was replaced by SMF70BDN to indicate the number of all logical processors of a Lpar (zIIP included)  

4. Additional Extended Counters were added to SMF 113 CSV record (For future use)  

ZSA L2307111 

This level introduces the following corrections/enhancements:

1. Batch utility DXDRAIN now recovers from eventual abends and closes the connection with DXQUEUE, not letting “orphan” CSV records.

2. DXQUEUE may now activate a subtask to kill connections not properly closed. By default this ZETALY Monitor Subtask is not activated when DXQUEUE is started.

       To activate it is necessary to issue command F DXQUEUE,MONITORON. It is also possible to deactivate it at anytime with command F DXQUEUE,MONITOROFF

3. There are 2 other new commands for DXQUEUE that should be used if requested by ZETALY: 

       F DXQUEUE,SHOWCNID which shows the connections active to DXQUEUE and F DXQUEUE,ABEND which abends DXQUEUE STC 

4. New messages added to DXQUEUE: 
5. DXPLTCP STC now informs the QueueID (QID=0 for CSV and QID=1 for binary) and ConnectionID (CID or CNID)  

Fixes

Zetaly - 6300- ZSA - Messages in DXQUEUE not deleted

ZSA L2305301

This level introduces the following corrections/enhancements: 

   1.Correction for SMF 110-2, field TQRPNITM that was incorrectly being moved asis to CSV. 

ZSA L2305091

Warning : Should be installed with the Zetaly Suite package of June. 

This level introduces the following corrections/enhancements : 

1. New fields SMF30CL8 and SMF30PSN at end of CSV record produced for SMF 30 subtypes 1 to 6. 
2. New field GMTOFFSET included at end of CSV records produced for SMF 110-2 

ZSA  L2303291 

This level introduces the following corrections/enhancements :

1. ZAC SMF records will be accounted as SMF 225, no matter the real SMF number. 
2. Exit DXSLOG will always be loaded, even if option -LOG is selected at DXSMF start. 

This change will allow option -LOG to be changed dynamically to +LOG and ZSA immediately starts to collect SYSLOG information.

Previously it was necessary a DXSMF restart.

Correction in CSV data generated for CICS STATISTICS STID 097.

There was a wrong size defined, what includes garbage data in CSV.

ZSA L2301201  

This level introduces the following corrections/enhancements :

1. Inclusion of field that contains the name of the Coupling Facility in all CSV records produced 

when parsing SMF 74 subtype 4. Previously this information was present only in XCCF CSV record, 

and now it is appended in XCRQ, XCPU, XCCA, XCPD, XCSD, XCSC  CSV records 

2. Correction in RECOVERY routine of DXSMF program. 

If an ABEND occurs, the recovery routine will treat it and finish DXSMF the way it should be, 

without letting garbage in common storage (ECSA). 

Fixes

Zetaly- 5444 - ZSA: Loss of records during DXSMF shutdowns

ZSA L2212201 

This level introduces the following corrections/enhancements :

1. Conforming DXSMF and DXQUEUE, DXPLTCP now presents initialization messages indicating Version/Level 

2.New message DXPL115I was inserted before messages DXPL178I as a result of SHOWSMF command.

Messages DXPL178I are now ordered by SMF number

3.(Internal Enhancement) There is now only one table of SMF types/subtypes and DXSMF Options, used by all programs.

This modification is necessary to implement this table in memory when ZSA V7 is released.

4.DXPL subsystem now checks if task DXQUEUE, which controls ZSA license, is active. 

Features

Zetaly-5229- Commands ZSA and versioning

ZSA L2211201 

This level introduces the following corrections/enhancements :

1. CICS Statistcs (SMF 110-2) now process informations about Programs Loaded (Orange Request)
2. DXSMF now accepts command SHOWSMF, which presents SMF counters of SMF records successfully processed by ZSA.

In response to this command, the following new messages are produced :

3. DXSMF also accepts command RESETSMF, which will clear the SMF counters, producing the following new message :

4. New messages DXPL180I in DXSMF, and DXPL280I in DXQUEUE are issued to complement messages DXPL173I and DXPL273I, when F DXSMF,H or F DXQUEUE,H is issued

5. Modifications in DXQUEUE buffers. Now, with the same amount of memory allocated, DXQUEUE

can save between 6% to 7% more data.

Fixes

Zetaly- 5225 -ZSA fatal error

ZSA L2209051

This Level introduces the following corrections/enhancements:

1. Members ACF2 and TSS were included in SAMPJCL
2. Program DXQUEUE was modified to accept modify command “?”, similar to ZAC product.
3. Program DXSMF was modified to accept modify commands “SHOWTIMEZ” and “UPDTIMEZ”

SHOWTIMEZ is used to  display the current TIMEZONE, while UPDTIMEZ is used to update TIMEZONE already in use by DXSMF when z/OS timezone changes (DST) to avoid recycling it.

4. Program DXCOLET was changed to accept a new optional DD DCOSYSIN. This new DD can override the statements

specified in PARM JCL statement. There is a new parameter GMTOFFSET specified in DCOSYSIN.

If DXCOLET executes in single mode (one step), GMTOFFSET is obtained fro z/OS and the statement is ignored.

Features

Zetaly-1456- Dino DASD Explorer - Incorrect Time Zone

ZSA L2208021 

This Level introduces the following corrections/enhancements:

1. Fix for abend S0C4 or S978-04 when processing SMF113 with very high values
2. Change of behavior in DXSMF.

Until now, message DXPL134W was the last one to indicate data loss. After that, new events of data loss

were not followed by any messages. From now on, new message DXPL135W will be issued on every 10000 CSV records not saved on DXQUEUE

data buffers.

Fixes

Zetaly-4179- Zetaly explorer - Data loss SMF records 

Zetaly-4329- ZSA update impact.

Zetaly-4332- ZSA - Abend 0C4 - SMF113

Features

Zetaly-4438- ZSI - Help calculating DXQUEUE and DXSMF memory increase.