Re: CLONEBKP: New package at zVM/downloads

2011-06-15 Thread Bob Levad
Greetings and Nice work! I definitely plan on stealing (borrowing) a couple of your routines. Your process is similar in many respects to what we do here (though your code is much prettier). Ours flash-copies the CP volumes with the savelabel parameter to our backup disk volumes every night

Re: SET SHARE ABSOLUTE/RELATIVE

2011-02-07 Thread Bob Levad
We use absolute shares for VSE machines with limithard during the day and remove the limit from production at night. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Robert Payne Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 1:06 PM To:

Re: A little OT z/LIINUX

2010-09-20 Thread Bob Levad
Tom, Check your PuTTY SSH tab to be sure you are using SSH protocol version 2. Version 1 will not work with SUSE or SLES. Bob From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Tom Huegel Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2010 6:42 AM To:

Re: FW: logoff/force pending due to incomplete logon here

2009-11-10 Thread Bob Levad
: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 4:39 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: FW: logoff/force pending due to incomplete logon here On Tuesday, 11/03/2009 at 04:45 EST, Bob Levad ble...@winnebagoind.com wrote: I don't know if others have seen this behaviour, but I've seen discussion of logoff/force

Re: FW: logoff/force pending due to incomplete logon here

2009-11-04 Thread Bob Levad
: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 4:39 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: FW: logoff/force pending due to incomplete logon here On Tuesday, 11/03/2009 at 04:45 EST, Bob Levad ble...@winnebagoind.com wrote: I don't know if others have seen this behaviour, but I've seen discussion of logoff/force

FW: logoff/force pending due to incomplete logon here

2009-11-03 Thread Bob Levad
I don't know if others have seen this behaviour, but I've seen discussion of logoff/force pending recently and found nothing similar in a quick internet search. I had the HCP361E message for a user and incidentally found that I had a logical session that I had started to logon here with, but

Re: z/VM 6.1 G.A. targeted for this Friday, Oct 23

2009-10-22 Thread Bob Levad
Here is a link to an article from February 1988 that has a bit of a description. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0SMG/is_n2_v8/ai_6289666/ Bob -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: Thursday,

Re: VM lockup due to storage typo

2009-09-18 Thread Bob Levad
I think the real problem here is that when CP is thrashing about for whatever reason, it can be very hard to get control of a VM prompt to manually fix things. Perhaps if CP could determine that some resource is being sorely abused, it could degrade the offending machine at least to the point

Re: Download Vm Tape

2009-09-03 Thread Bob Levad
Our VM requirements are not huge, so we flashcopy most of our VM volumes at night to back up volumes with different labels. These copies are also dumped to tape for a second opinion for DR. Our third System Config minidisk (CF3), with a different system id, points to these alternate volsers

Re: Validation of user id

2009-08-18 Thread Bob Levad
/*** * query if user is valid * ***/ trace 'o' parse upper arg address command logon. = arg userid /* check pun

Re: HCPDDR704E error attempting to copy res volume

2009-06-04 Thread Bob Levad
Don't forget to relabel the volume(s) after the ddr. Duplicates can get you into trouble. Bob _ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Romanowski, John (OFT) Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 10:11 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re:

Re: New CMS based SSLSERV problem... DTCSSL300E

2009-04-24 Thread Bob Levad
If anyone is interested, we were able to get Host on Demand TN3270 working to the CMS SSL server with some help from HOD Support. Contact off-list for details. Bob -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Ackerman Sent:

Re: Must be Friday: Mainframe USBs!

2009-03-09 Thread Bob Levad
In the distant past, we had a device called a Fast Paging Unit attached to our 4381. This had many large boards each containing many dozens of small memory chips. It was channel attached and emulated a partial 3380. We allocated it to HPO swapping ala Vista's USB ReadyBoost. Bob

Re: Paging subsystem

2008-12-10 Thread Bob Levad
We are on DS8100, so we created a bunch of 3390-1s for paging. Bob. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Duerbusch Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 11:01 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Paging subsystem IF you

Re: Switching between Xedit screens.

2008-11-21 Thread Bob Levad (641-585-6770)
To go backwards in the ring, set up an XB (or other name) xedit as follows. /* Xedit previous file in the ring */ trace 'o' 'command extract /ring/' lastfile = ring.0 'command xedit 'left(ring.lastfile,20) Exit Bob -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: What to do when my A disk is full

2008-11-07 Thread Bob Levad (641-585-6770)
If you are just a little bit brave and the user is logged on, you can comment out the old 191 in the directory and create the new 191 at the same time, then: CP DEFINE 191 D191. /* make room for new 191 */ ACC D191 C /* access old data

Re: a wakeup exec

2008-08-08 Thread Bob Levad (641-585-6770)
Very basic exec to get rdr files, no rexx niceties here. /***/ trace 'i' receive: 'wakeup (noext rdr' 'execio 2 cp ( lifo string QUERY RDR * ALL' if rc ^= 0 then signal receive pull origin spid . . . . . . . name type dist

Re: ADD VIRTUAL MEMORY DYNAMICALLY

2008-08-06 Thread Bob Levad (641-585-6770)
I just retired a Marist installation had been running for just short of 8 years through 3 mainframes. It was a secondary DNS server, so it definitely ran 7x24x365. _ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Pace Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Re: FLASHCOPY performance to a DS6800 DASD

2008-07-16 Thread Bob Levad (641-585-6770)
Ed, I'm sure I'll be corrected if my understanding is in error. The FLASHCOPY proceeds in the background, but the source is available for use immediately as writes to un-copied portions of the source volume are logged and held until the flashcopy completes. Also, reads of uncopied areas of

Re: listing active user directory

2008-03-11 Thread Bob Levad
While these may not help you if you format your directory source disk, you could modify it to do some copies to other disks instead of or in addition to the renames. These were written in the 80's and I'm sure a plumber could make them pretty. Bob.

Re: Impromptu XEDIT Survey

2008-02-20 Thread Bob Levad
'SET CMDLINE TOP' 'SET PREFIX NULLS LEFT' 'SET NUMBER ON' 'SET SCALE ON 3' 'SET CURLINE ON 4' 'SET ENTER IGNORE COMMAND CURSOR HOME PRIORITY 30' 'SET MSGLINE ON -1 10 OVERLAY' 'SET FULLREAD ON' 'SET SPILL WORD' 'SET TOFEOF ON' 'SET STAY ON' 'SET WRAP ON' This electronic transmission and any

Re: TN3270 sessions

2008-02-12 Thread Bob Levad
Note that some paramaters (in my case on zVM 5.2 - the port parm of the internalclientparms section) in the profile tcpip cannot be implemented on the fly with OBEYFILE, so be prepared for the need to bounce your IP stack. Bob -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System

Re: How can I find if a user is defined in the directory (without looking!)?

2007-10-29 Thread Bob Levad
A little exec: /*** * query if user is valid * ***/ trace 'o' parse upper arg address command logon. = arg userid