Personally, I prefer just dumping CP storage. I can't recall ever having to examine user storage when working on a CP problem. Neither can I remember ever having to send a VMDUMP of user storage to IBM or any other vendor. Besides, the potential for really large CP dumps is there in the 5.2 system. The last problem we had when converting to 5.2 had the same general symptom as a problem reported by another customer. When I tried sending our dump to the vendor, the receiving disk filled up 3 hours into the FTP. Luckily, the vendor was able to process partial dumps, and was able to confirm that our problem matched the bug reported earlier by IBM, so we were able to get a ready-made fix.
Regards, Richard Schuh > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Marcy Cortes > Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 9:58 AM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: z/VM 5.2 Dumps > > > Reminds me of a dump I sent in shortly after we put Charlotte up on VM > oh about 10 years ago?!. IBM L2 politely informed me that one of our > users may have been reading some non-banking business related > stuff :o) > > I know our z/OS guys are having to send them in encrypted now > and I was > waiting on our IBM person to come back with the story about VM. We > have the same requirement (or I'll be in the paper with Richard). > > > Marcy Cortes > > > This message may contain confidential and/or privileged > information. If > you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the > addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any > action based on > this message or any information herein. If you have received this > message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail > and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation." > > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Jim Bohnsack > Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 09:50 > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: [IBMVM] z/VM 5.2 Dumps > > That's probably preferable to seeing newspaper headlines > talking about a > > privacy leak at Visa with the accompanying article saying > "Richard Shuh, > > who was fired for sending a Visa customer's SSN to IBM...." :-) > > Jim > > At 12:32 PM 8/14/2006, you wrote: > >Here, the security folks would require us to edit any dump, removing > any = > >sensitive information, that is to be seen by an outsider if user > storage = > >were to be included. We would also have to encrypt any > unedited dump = > >that is stored on dasd or tape. Not to mention that 56GB dumps are = > >larger than we would ever want to store for very long, anyway :-) > > > >Regards, > >Richard Schuh > > Jim Bohnsack > Cornell Univ. > (607) 255-1760 >
