Because our problem, apparently, is related to DB2/SQL, I decided to post it at this section of the forum. If, by any chance, any forum moderator/administrator concludes that it should be posted elsewhere, please, move it to the appropriate section.
We are moving our TDSz-1.8.0 (Tivoli Decision Support for z/OS, version 1.8.0) from a z/OS-1.9 + DB2-V8 environment to a z/OS-1.13 + DB2-V10 one.
TDSz works intertwined with DB2/SQL. In a extremely brief explanation, TDSz reads any kind of log (SMF, IMS, CICS, DCOLLECT, or any other log the user could define the records) and populates DB2 tables with the data.
We have TDSz working for many years now in the z/OS-1.9 environment, and successfully installed it in the z/OS-1.13, including the DB2 tables needed, copied data (from z/OS-1.9) using DB2 unload/load and where able to access this data through TDSz panels or TDSz jobs.
The problem arises when we try to feed new data, using the COLLECT function of TDSz to read data from a log (we tried with many diferent SMF logs and some DCOLLECT logs). As far as I can understand (but not totally sure about that), the COLLECT somehow is “translated” into DB2 INSERTs.
The COLLECT job (it doesn’t matter wich log we use as input and wich DB2 tables as output) always end with the message:
DSNT408I SQLCODE = -302, ERROR: THE VALUE OF INPUT VARIABLE OR PARAMETER NUMBER 1 IS INVALID OR TOO LARGE FOR THE TARGET COLUMN OR THE TARGET VALUE
For sure, the values are not invalid or too large, and besides that, the collect, with the same logs and DB2 tables works perfectly well in the z/OS-1.9 environment.
I’m posting this problem here in the hope that some DB2/SQL user could have received the same SQLCODE but the reason for that was not what the sqlcode text says.
Any other hint/suggestion will be also very much appreciated. Please, note I understand TDSz reasonably well, but from DB2/SQL only as much as needed in order to interact with TDSz.
Thanks in advance!
Joined: 27 Oct 2009 Posts: 2446 Location: Netherlands, Amstelveen
Maybe the following is relevant to you :
3. Processing SMF data generated by DB2 10 for z/OS subsystems
You must apply maintenance to your TDSz system before processing data produced by DB2 10 for z/OS. TDSz support for processing SMF data generated by DB2 10 for z/OS is provided by the following APARs:
■PM18699 provides toleration support for DB2 10 for z/OS data.
■PM25741 provides support for DB2 10 z/OS compressed records.
if that were possible, I would have certainly done
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"Processing SMF data generated by DB2 10 for z/OS subsystems"
we are not using DB2 SMF records; we use mainly RMF/MVS/VSAM SMF records and a few others, like DCOLLECT, IMS, etc. Collecting any of them results in the same problem (SQLCODE=-302).
Just emphasizing observation from the initial post: Exactly the same collects works perfectly well in the z/OS-1.9 + DB-v8 environment.
I posted this same problem in an IBM Forum for TDSz. A few days ago I received following info that I would like to share with everybody:
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You need to first put on the PTFs for APARs PM47009 and PM50083 (and all their pre-requisite PTFs) to upgrade your new TDSz to zOS V1R13 toleration support level, before you collect V1R13 SMF records. When you put on these PTFs, please follow the HOLD actions carefully.
In our condition of an IBM business partner we most probably will go through a longstanding process to get all the needed PTFs. But, as soon as we get and install them, I will post informing the results.
