Re: anyone running ILMT?

2011-08-01 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
>"Updating the number of processors on Linux390 >If the total number of processors or shared processors in your environment >changes, you need to update this information >for all agents influenced by >this change. Otherwise, the system will display wrong information." >You also have to tell it w

Re: Separate virtual switch controllers

2011-07-21 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
efinitions with a CONTROLLER * and two RDEV devices. Also you can use VLAN's to reduce the number of Ports and isolate the traffic through a switch. Larry Davis From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of O'Brien, Dennis L Sent: Thursday, July

Separate virtual switch controllers

2011-07-21 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
We are working on a project to provide Internet access to select Linux guests on z/VM. The network team plans to use separate OSA's and virtual switches for this. For the initial testing, there will be one OSA and virtual switch for the presentation zone and a separate OSA and virtual switch f

Re: Question on SHUTDOWNTIME

2011-06-23 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
I think I saw one of our systems take 78 seconds to shut down recently, but AFAIK, we don't have software to capture the shutdown messages. If I'm thinking of the right system, it has over 5000 devices.  

Re: z/VM 5.4 FTP Installation ... ? ...

2011-06-11 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Jeff, The class B requirement is there because the instructions tell you to ATTACH the DASD to the installation guest. Obviously, if you put the DASD in the directory, you don't need to issue an ATTACH command. Dennis O'Brien "If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the

Re: Dynamic Activation of New IODF

2011-06-07 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
We used to have z/VM-only boxes here. The z/OS people maintained the IOCP using HCD on z/OS. They exported the gens to the z/VM CEC's through the HMC. I don't know the details on how they did it. I know that they maintained our gen, and it did not involve them sending files or logging on to z/V

Re: service all status ptf

2011-06-01 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
>That sounds a tad odd to me. There's nothing (after installation) in >DMS/CMS that requires R/W access to any of the CMS system disks. DMS/CMS might not require R/W access, but if the PPF specifies a link mode of MR, that would do it. I have seen a PPF for another product that had an unneces

Re: Coloring the STATUS area

2011-05-13 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Wolfgang, I use a different STATAREA color for most systems. We have more than 21 systems, and I don't like blinking, so there are a few duplicates. I don't see the problem that you described. My status area color always stays what it should be. Perhaps your terminal emulator is at fault?

Re: VM question - QIDLE

2011-04-11 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Velocity Software has an ESAFORCE component which can force idle users. I imagine it could just list them, too. Dennis "If you give a mouse a cookie, he's going to ask for a glass of milk." From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto

Re: 2nd level z/VM 5.4 installation

2011-02-17 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Sherry, The only way to get 4500 cylinders from a 3390-3 is to put two of them in an SFS filepool. If you already have this set up, then the rest is relatively easy. You can use the "VM minidisk" install method with minor changes. Upload the files to SFS with your terminal emulator, then foll

Re: 2nd level z/VM 5.4 installation

2011-02-17 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Sherry, Note that what I was referring to in my previous note and what Alan describes below are not the same thing. You can do what Alan described, using the VM FTP server to serve the files. You can also install from a VM minidisk without using any FTP server. You can get the files on the mi

Re: 2nd level z/VM 5.4 installation

2011-02-17 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Sherry, Instead of installing direct from an FTP server, you can put the files on a VM minidisk and install from there. To do that, the minidisk must have at least 4500 cylinders. Back when DVD installation was first introduced (z/VM 5.1.0, I think), we only had 3390-3 disks on VM, so I tried

Re: Watson

2011-02-15 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
If Moore's Law holds for another 20 years, we could all have Watson running on our desktop PC's. Alex Trebek said Watson has something like 2800 processors and 15 TB of RAM. I'm not sure if that was 2800 cores, or the equivalent of 2800 PC's (presumably dual or quad-core).   

Re: CMS disk weirdness between processors

2011-01-18 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Martha, Maybe minidisk cache is active on one of the systems. Did you define the DASD as Shared?     Dennis 18 Jan 1911, one hundred years ago today, Eugene Ely makes the firs

August SHARE location?

2011-01-10 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Has the location for the August SHARE been announced? If it has, it's not on the SHARE web site.    Dennis "Perhaps if Mayor Michael Bloomberg spent less tim

Re: Toolsrun function without RSCS

2011-01-04 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
We have the master copy of our tools disk in SFS on one system. Each system has a local copy on minidisk. A job on each system accesses the master and applies updates to the local copy every night. If the SFS master isn't available, no harm is done to the copies.

Re: General CMS minidisks and SFS on PAV DASD?

2010-12-20 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Mike, We use PAV for volumes containing CMS minidisks. We turned it on a few months ago on a system that we acquired with our last merger, and the user was quite pleased. It took a couple of hours off of their nightly batch. PAV is also on for volumes that contain SFS minidisks. It doesn't h

z9 clock speed

2010-12-17 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
A question came up today about the clock speed of the various System z models. The context is some application software that's licensed by the speed of the CPU. Apparently, there's a big price difference (measured in millions) if the speed is over 1.5 GHz or so. I dug around on IBM's web site

Re: Expanded storage question

2010-12-17 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Philip, What's your paging rate with this configuration? 18 paging volumes seems low for this amount of storage.    Dennis "Christmas dawned clear and cold;

Re: Vswitch Grant as a CMD in User's Directory?

2010-12-09 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
>>You would HAVE to buy an ESM, whether from IBM or CA. >Or have IBM include a basic awful one (eg, RACF) in the price of VM and be done with it. Including a basic one that can be replaced with Something Else would make everybody (IMHO) happy. The internal cost of including RACF can't be that larg

Re: Shopz Function

2010-11-17 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
I'm not a number. I'm a free man. Dennis "In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane." -- Mark Twain From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Neale Ferguson Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 09:55 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject:

Re: BRP

2010-11-10 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Richard, We're using disk replication on HDS DASD for disaster recovery. We were able to reduce a script that had about 30 steps to one that isn't much more complicated than: 1. Suspend replication 2. IPL 3. Answer one question: is this a test or a real disaster? 4. Ce

Re: Copying SFS filespaces from one pool to another

2010-10-19 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
A filepool administrator can create aliases on behalf of any user. The syntax is the same as the general user command. The major restriction on aliases is that they can't cross filepools. If you move one user to a new pool, he can't have aliases in the new pool pointing to base files in the o

Re: Virtualizing a z10

2010-10-08 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
>Can you confirm that extended support contracts are available for z/VM 5.4? >Our solution provider is aware of them for z/OS, but not for z/VM 5.4. >Brian Nielsen Unfortunately, I can confirm that they are available for z/VM 5.2. I have no reason to doubt that they will be available for 5.4

Re: Backing off a PTF

2010-10-06 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
I just had to do this for a TCP/IP PTF. There was nothing wrong with the PTF. One of our network people was simply afraid of it (the SSL server changes). PUT2PROD did not roll the updated components into production. It said there was nothing to do. I had to manually copy 5VMTCP40 491 and 492 t

Re: z/VM ISFC links

2010-10-05 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Mark, You need a real CTC with both ends connected to the same system. You ACTIVATE ISLINK for one end on the first-level system. You ATTACH or DEDICATE the other end on first level to the virtual machine for the second-level system. You then ACTIVATE ISLINK for that device on the second-level

Re: Maximum Virtual Storage

2010-10-01 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Gary, It depends on your hardware. From Bill Bitner's z/VM System Limits SHARE presentation: Virtual machine size: - Supported/Tested 1 TB (240) - Hardware limits * z10 8TB * z9 1TB * z990 256GB * z900 256GB That's for one virtual machine. There's also a guest real limit of 8 TB im

Re: Mixed page volume sizes

2010-09-30 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
In our case, we're talking about going from 76 GB to 140 GB. We're trying to stay ahead of requirements, so suggestions such as "look at your performance monitor" don't really work. The workload that will use the additional capacity hasn't arrived, yet. I need to submit my disk requirements f

Re: z/VM ISFC links

2010-09-30 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Mark, ISFC links can be ESCON CTC or FICON CTC. I don't know why Hipersockets aren't supported, but they're not. If you really want to share SFS filepools between LPAR's on the same CEC without using a CTC, you could set up IPGATE using TCP/IP over a Hipersocket. Note that IPGATE is not officia

Mixed page volume sizes

2010-09-29 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
On of our z/VM 5.4.0 systems is about to grow to 140 GB of storage. Given our target overcommit ratio of 3:1, and IBM's advice to keep paging space no more than 50% full, this should just about fit onto 240 or 248 3390-3 sized volumes. My question is what will happen the next time we add stora

Re: Applying Maintenance - Best Practice

2010-09-23 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
PUT2PROD was changed awhile back so that it doesn't bounce TCPIP. I don't recall when it was changed, but I know that it doesn't bounce TCPIP on z/VM 5.4.0.     Dennis "A slip

Re: Applying Maintenance - Best Practice

2010-09-23 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
I put all maintenance on a second-level system and test it before putting it on a production system. Sometimes the nature of the change is such that it won't get much of a test on a guest, but I still do it. Dennis "A slipping sear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you le

Re: VM64814 information

2010-09-22 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
hen the TOD clock is initialized, you will receive message HCP986I "TOD Clock Synchronized via STP." Hope this helps, Matt Matthew J. Rosato z/VM I/O Development

Re: Checking For Maintenance

2010-09-22 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
SERVICE ALL STATUS will tell you if you ran PUT2PROD for a PTF. Here's an example: service all status PK97438 VMFSRV2760I SERVICE processing started DASD 0491 LINKED R/W; R/O BY14 USERS DASD 0492 LINKED R/W; R/O BY14 USERS VMFSRV1226I TCPIPSFS (5VMTCP40%TCPIPSFS) APAR PK97438 (PTF UK5953

Central vs. expanded storage

2010-09-22 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
I heard from a couple of performance people at SHARE that we should have 20% to 25% of the total storage in an LPAR configured as expanded storage. Naturally, that's a guideline and the proper amount varies by workload. What should I look at to determine if we have enough expanded storage? We

Re: VM64814 information

2010-09-21 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
ope this helps, Matt Matthew J. Rosato z/VM I/O Development From: "O'Brien, Dennis L"

Re: Virtualizing a z10

2010-09-21 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
eases. But, of course, perhaps the necessary configuration wasn't 'ready for prime time' :-) Les O'Brien, Dennis L wrote: > IBM will sell you a virtual z10. The virtualization is so good that it > looks just like a real one. The price is even the same. > > > &g

Re: VM64814 information

2010-09-21 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
ng. VM64816 will bring along a few internal changes, but nothing that would prevent you from using XRC timestamping today. Thanks, Matt Matthew J. Rosato z/VM I/O Development

Re: Virtualizing a z10

2010-09-21 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
IBM will sell you a virtual z10. The virtualization is so good that it looks just like a real one. The price is even the same. Seriously, the answer is no. Dennis "A slipping sear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you least expect it. That would make you quite unpopula

Re: DEFINE HYPERPAV requirement

2010-09-21 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
nal Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of O'Brien, Dennis L Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2010 12:43 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: [IBMVM] DEFINE HYPERPAV requirement I prefer to have all device-related statements for guests i

VM64814 information

2010-09-21 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
I understand that VM64814 adds XRC timestamp support. The PTF's are available. The z/VM platform update at SHARE mentioned that there would be a SYSTEM CONFIG change to activate it. Where do I find information on that? The recent SSL changes had a nice web page with all the details, and one

DEFINE HYPERPAV requirement

2010-09-18 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
I prefer to have all device-related statements for guests in the directory, even those that are only defined by commands, such as HyperPAV aliases. I'm running into the restriction that the combined length of all COMMAND statements cannot exceed 3071 characters. Currently, each HyperPAV alias

Re: VM Console

2010-09-03 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
I put CP SET SYSOPER * in OPERATOR's PROFILE EXEC. That way, OPERATOR will become the system operator when it logs on. We run VM:Operator here, so I also issue QUERY SYSOPER in the TITLE exit, which runs once a minute. If it's not set, the exit sets it. If it's set to someone else, the exit wri

Re: XRC timestamps for z/VM

2010-08-26 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
al server to another? Marcy -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 1:18 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: [IBMVM] XRC timestamps for z/VM On Thursday, 08/26/2010 at 03:39 E

Re: z/VM 5.4 or 6.1 on new z10

2010-08-26 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
> z/VM 6.1 is needed for Z196 hardware. z/VM 5.4 will not run on it. Incorrect. z/VM 5.4 will run on a z196. z/VM 5.3 and earlier will not. Dennis "A few mor

XRC timestamps for z/VM

2010-08-26 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
The z/VM Platform Update session at SHARE in Boston said that XRC timestamps were coming soon (Sep-Nov) for z/VM. Will that be for both 5.4 and 6.1, or 6.1 only? As we saw with the SSL server changes, what was said in the session is not necessarily definitive.

Re: Disaster Recovery TCPIP Address Issue

2010-08-12 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
I use an exit in "node" DTCPARMS that checks the DR status using the CPU serial number, e.g. .*--- .* Add user exit to stack startup .*--

Re: HCD

2010-07-20 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
When we had VM-only machines, the z/OS people had a way of doing HCD updates through the HMC. They didn't send any files to VM. I don't know the details on how that's done. Dennis "If I could not go to heaven but with a [political] party, I would not go there at all." -- Thomas Jeffe

Re: ICKDSF format of new DASD

2010-07-20 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Marcy, I use ICKDSF to format all new DASD that is assigned to a VM LPAR, whether it's a new purchase or transfer from z/OS. It might not be necessary, but it doesn't hurt. I run eight format jobs in parallel using VM:Batch, so it doesn't take very long.  

Re: Devices OFFLINE at IPL

2010-07-15 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
The drawback to Mike's approach is that your system name changes at your DR site. That would cause more problems than it would solve for us.     Dennis O'Brien "If I could not

Re: Artical should be read 'zNEXT'

2010-07-08 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
>Note that this article is from Maureen O'Gara, who bears the same resemblance to a journalist that an 8086 does to a z10. She's consistently snide for no reason, and makes things up as she goes along when she doesn't have the facts. Ah, the Rita Skeeter of computer journalism. Dennis

Re: SFS Blocks to Cylinders

2010-06-09 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
>Can someone tell me how many SFS blocks there are per 3390-3 cylinder? I have >a user wanting the equivalent of 300 cylinders of SFS Directory space. Scott, There are 180 4k-blocks per 3390 cylinder (any size 3390). SFS uses 4k blocks.  

Re: Automated Logoff of CMS user

2010-06-01 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Be careful with FORCE DISC. If the user has any VM:Schedule jobs scheduled for his userid, they won't run if the userid has been left idle and disconnected.     Dennis O'Brien

Re: IBM to buy Sterling Commerce

2010-05-24 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
>http://finance.yahoo.com/news/IBM-to-buy-ATTs-Sterling-unit-apf-3343842118.html?x=0 >Well now maybe Connect:Direct for VM will get SSL and DNS support and lose the >VSAM stuff?!! Unless IBM gives it to their Tivoli unit, in which case mainframe support will languish for a few years and then

Re: Windows Enabler Appliance on System z Now Available

2010-05-06 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Interesting. Is this related to Mantissa's z86VM project? Dennis "The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing." -- Jean-Baptiste Colbert, 17th-century French minister of finance From:

Re: VTS Devices

2010-04-22 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Richard, QUERY TAPE DETAILS will tell if a drive is in an IBM library. I'm not sure if it can tell the difference between a virtual and physical drive. We don't have any physical drives in IBM libraries on VM. Here are the responses from a physical drive in an STK silo followed by an IBM VTS dri

Re: z/VM SSL server

2010-03-06 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Stephen, Here's what my systems have. These limits came from the starter system. I didn't change them. q limits for sslserv vmsys UseridStorage Group 4K Block Limit 4K Blocks Committed Threshold SSLSERV 21800

Re: Using HCD on an IFL-only Machine

2010-02-18 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Mark, I honestly don't remember if we had to POR. We haven't had z/VM on 2064's for quite awhile now. With 2084 and later machines, we've always had at least one LPAR running z/OS on each box. I don't think that's a policy, it's just the way things have worked out. Dennis "See, I'm a

Re: Using HCD on an IFL-only Machine

2010-02-18 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
We used to have z/VM-only machines here. The IOCP was maintained by the z/OS people using HCD. They had a method of using the HMC to import the configuration into the z/VM machine. We didn't use an IODF, just an IOCP. These were 2064's in basic mode, but I would imagine that the process still w

Re: VM support and 9672

2010-02-17 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
>You could load up Linux 390 on that box. Run Hercules on Linux, >Emulate a z10 and run z/VM 6.1. 1. Performance would be terrible. 2. I doubt IBM would license z/VM 5.x or z/VM 6.1 on a processor that can't normally run it.  

Re: First time DR excercise

2010-02-02 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Mike has a lot of good ideas here, but I'll comment on a couple of minor points. 1. We have multiple VM systems in our shop, so changing the node name during a disaster would cause more problems than it would solve. We have too much code that does things like "If node = 'VMSYS1' Then Do ..." to

Re: z/VM 6.1 Install

2010-02-02 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Richard Schuh wrote, >Dennis, You said 16 hours to upload the files. Are you using a 56KB dial-up >connection? >My PC is about 1000 miles from the VM system, so I thought it >might be slower than the >33 minutes it took. I was hoping for something >better than 16 hours, but I didn't >expect it

Re: z/VM 6.1 Install

2010-02-02 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
that? Mea culpa: I have not looked. Or do we have to download the (probably big honkin') files to a PC, unzip them there, and then transfer them back to z/VM? I hope not! Mike Walter Hewitt Associates The opinions expressed herein are mine alone, not my employer's. "O'Brien

Re: z/VM 6.1 Install

2010-02-02 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
mechanism. (Their > OS may not _work_ when you get done, but the install is a > relative breeze.) > > Seriously, the "easy" way takes three different operating > systems to upgrade one of them? I think I see Richard's > problem: he was only using two ... :-/ &

Re: z/VM 6.1 Install

2010-02-01 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Richard, I think the TERS files are the RSU. My order download link has expired, so I can't go back and check. The install files are in ZIP format. I have four ZIP files: cd813250.zip contains the system image DVD install files for CKD DASD. CD813260.ZIP contains the system image DVD i

Different PROFILE TCPIP for DR

2010-01-28 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
I'm setting up a DR process for a new system. I need to use a different PROFILE TCPIP when the system is up in the DR site. I know that the easy and wrong way is to update TCPIP's PROFILE EXEC to copy the correct PROFILE TCPIP to the A-disk. I'm trying to do it the right way, by using a serve

Re: z/VM 6.1 Delivery

2010-01-22 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of O'Brien, Dennis L Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 3:38 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: z/VM 6.1 Delivery Richard, The instructions assume that you download the ZIP fi

Re: z/VM 6.1 Delivery

2010-01-22 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Richard, The instructions assume that you download the ZIP files to Windows machine, and upload to your VM system from there. If you have a Linux guest on VM, you might be able to download the files to it, instead. Dennis O'Brien "See, I'm a man of simple tastes. I like dynamite, and gu

FCP Redbooks

2009-12-17 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Our storage architect asked me about using FCP channels for Linux on z/VM. Are there any good Redbooks or other documentation that's recent? He couldn't find anything that mentioned z10. He's particularly interested in limits (guests/LUN's/device addresses per channel, etc). CP Planning and

Re: 3390-9's for paging

2009-12-01 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
ave a look at how busy your current page packs are today. Then we can predict something. (eg if you hardly ever page, you will not notice a difference) 2009/12/1 O'Brien, Dennis L mailto:dennis.l.o%27br...@bankofamerica.com> > Our storage architect is trying to get us to use 3390-9'

3390-9's for paging

2009-12-01 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Our storage architect is trying to get us to use 3390-9's instead of 3390-3's for paging. I know that z/VM doesn't use PAV or HyperPAV for paging, and that more devices means more concurrent I/O's. Has anyone actually tried changing from 3390-3's to one-third as many 3390-9's? If you have, wa

HUR

2009-11-19 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Is anyone successfully mirroring DASD using Hitachi Universal Replicator (HUR) for a z/VM environment with Linux guests? I know that there are challenges because z/VM doesn't timestamp its I/O but Linux does. I'm being told that HUR doesn't support Linux timestamps. Is that true? Allegedly,

Re: Shared DASD across multiple VM lpars

2009-11-16 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
We share DASD between two z/VM LPAR's, and have guests set up so they can log on to either one. We use the Cross-System Link (XLINK) feature of CSE to make sure that they don't try to run on both LPAR's at once. Dennis "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good o

Re: Shared DASD across multiple VM lpars

2009-11-16 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Single System Image is not in z/VM 6.1. It's a Statement of Direction, which means IBM intends to put it in a future release, but isn't promising anything. Dennis "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be bett

Re: VM:Account & MAINT's 123 disk

2009-11-16 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
No, VM:Account does not need a write link to the object directory. VM:Secure and VM:Director are the only VM:Manager products that need a write link to the object directory. MAINT 123 will show up as OS-formatted when you access it under CMS. That’s normal.

Performance Toolkit setup

2009-11-13 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
I'm setting up Performance Toolkit according to the instructions in "Getting Started with Linux on System z" for z/VM 5.4.0. This is just for a proof of concept, so I'm starting with the defaults. The PROFILE EXEC for MONWRITE on page 144 contains the following MONITOR EVENT commands: 'CP MONITO

Re: SFS and CP Question

2009-11-11 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
CP SEND CP VMSERVR DETACH xxx. You need to be the secondary user or have privilege class C. Dennis "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It ma

Re: Pass Phrases

2009-11-02 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
It was in the 5.3 base. Dennis "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may a

Re: SYSTEM NETID update

2009-11-02 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Frank, Update SYSTEM NETID on MAINT 490. PUT2PROD copies the 490 to the 190 after the S-disk is serviced. If you need to change SYSTEM NETID and don't have any service to apply, make the update on both disks. Dennis "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of

Re: Does zVM 5.2 support z/OS 1.10 or z/OS 1.11

2009-11-02 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Anson, z/VM 5.2.0 is out of support from IBM, so it doesn’t officially “support” anything. If it works, it works, but if it doesn’t, you won’t be able to open a problem call. z/VM 5.2.0 went out of support on 30 Apr 2009. If those z/OS releases came out before that time, there’s a good chanc

Re: Standalone dump procedure

2009-10-30 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Frank, The standalone dump program cannot be placed on the sysres, but it can be on another CP-owned volume. Our convention is to place it on the first page volume.          Dennis O'Brien My computer beat me at chess, but it was no match for me in kickb

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

2009-10-23 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
>I don't know what "zVM0" is, so I can't answer your question. Reading the whole sentence, (zVM0 was meant to be (zVM). He just didn't hold the shift key down for the right paren. Yes, I know it should be z/VM.          Dennis My computer beat me at che

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

2009-10-21 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
>So if that's all there is, why would anyone bother to install z/VM 6.1? 1. To keep your capacity planning people from moving your system to an old z9 that they're trying to find a use for. 2. Performance improvements for virtual switch. 3. To have something to put on your performance plan.   

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

2009-10-20 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Pricing didn't change, unless the price of one Value Unit changed, which I doubt. I compared the 6.1 and 5.4 announcements. They both use Value Unit exhibit VUE021.          Dennis O'Brien My computer beat me at chess, but it was no match for me in kick

Re: zVM 'disk wiping'

2009-10-08 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
CA VM:Tape has an exit that can instruct the service machine to perform a DSE on scratch mounts. If you have the product, you could just enable the exit and scratch mount all of the tapes that you want to discard.          Dennis My computer beat me at c

Re: TXT2PDF problem

2009-10-06 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Jim, Try raising the virtual storage to 2047M, assuming your system is big enough to handle that. If that's not enough, you'll need to find another solution. Dennis My computer beat me at chess, but it was no match for me in kickboxing.

Re: some RACF and CP questions

2009-09-24 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
5-1. The ESM hook into CP is configured by replacing the HCPRPx stubs in CP. It's not in a configuration file. There might be a Product record in your SYSTEM CONFIG file to enable RACF, like there is for RSCS, but that doesn't prove that RACF is active. 5-2. The Journaling statement in SYSTEM

Re: TDISK and SYSTEM CONFIG question.

2009-09-17 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
What "security problems" in T-Disk? If you enable Clear_TDisk, there's no security problem. Even if the system crashes while confidential data is on a T-disk, it's cleared at IPL time before the T-disk space is eligible to be given to users.          De

Re: TDISK and SYSTEM CONFIG question.

2009-09-16 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Stephen, If you Enable the Clear_Tdisk feature, all system T-disk space is cleared at IPL time the entire T-disk is cleared when it's detached, and if you attach a new T-disk volume to SYSTEM, all space on that volume is cleared. Turn on the feature, IPL, then detach one of your T-disk volumes fr

Re: VM lockup due to storage typo

2009-09-15 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Lee, Do the userid you were trying to log onto and your external security manager both have OPTION QUICKDSP in the directory? Your operator userid should also have QUICKDSP.          Dennis O'Brien My computer beat me at chess, but it was no match for me

Re: Denver SHARE Presentations on linuxvm.org

2009-09-11 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
A vendor at Denver SHARE had a couple of booth babes and a big inflatable dinosaur. I don’t recall what product they were selling. The booth babes could be identified by their Flintstones attire and because I overheard one of them asking, “What’s the name of this conference. Is it SHARE?”.

Re: Resizing TDSK on active system

2009-09-03 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Mike, The statement, "Since TDISK are in your CP_Owned list, they can't be brought offline on a running system" is incorrect. There's no restriction on detaching CP Owned volumes from system, as long as no space is in use. Frank stated that as one of his assumptions. Once it's detached, you c

Re: Resizing TDSK on active system

2009-09-03 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Frank, Yes. Detach the volume from the system, attach it to yourself, change the allocation map, and reattach to the system. CP will read the new allocation map when you attach.          Dennis O'Brien My computer beat me at chess, but it was no match f

Re: Duplicate hipersocket device addresses

2009-09-02 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
ing with IBM on this problem. On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 7:45 PM, O'Brien, Dennis L mailto:dennis.l.o%27br...@bankofamerica.com> > wrote: We're starting to test hipersockets between Linux guests on z/VM and z/OS systems in separate LPAR's. z/OS is having intermittent trouble pinging

Duplicate hipersocket device addresses

2009-09-01 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
We're starting to test hipersockets between Linux guests on z/VM and z/OS systems in separate LPAR's. z/OS is having intermittent trouble pinging one of the four Linux guests, but is fine with the other three. All four Linux guests have no trouble pinging z/OS. Someone suggested that the devi

Re: NOLOG Option in the Directory

2009-09-01 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Howard, A password of NOLOG does not allow AUTOLOG or XAUTOLOG. Set the password to AUTOONLY if you want to allow AUTOLOG/XAUTOLOG but not LOGON. Dennis O'Brien I couldn't remember how to throw a boomerang, but eventually it came back to me

Re: Stand-alone IPL of a Virtual tape

2009-08-25 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Ismael, You can issue the mount command from another LPAR. If the other LPAR is z/VM, this can be a VMTAPE MOUNT or DFSMSRM MOUNT command. If you have only one z/VM LPAR, then you'll have to issue the mount from z/OS. I don't know the command for that. Another option is to have a small sys

Re: Looking for someone to SHARE their Disaster Recovery story

2009-08-21 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Oops. That wasn't meant for the list. Dennis I couldn't remember how to throw a boomerang, but eventually it came back to me. From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of O'Brien

Re: Looking for someone to SHARE their Disaster Recovery story

2009-08-21 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Rick, Are you asking about session 9146? I'm responsible for z/VM disaster recovery at my site. We're just getting started with Linux on z, so we don't have disaster recovery for Linux guests, yet. We have DR for CMS applications, and we also host z/OS guests as part of the z/OS DR process.

Re: SSL DTCSSL022E message on SSLSERV

2009-08-04 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
er immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation." -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of O'Brien, Dennis L Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 9:26 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Sub

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