PROP restart of OSA
Hi,
I have occasionally had an OSA go down, as happened today.
Here are the messages I got from user TCPIP on the operator
console:
* 05/05/08 *
06:37:34 DTCOSD309W RECEIVED ADAPTER-INITIATED STOP LAN
* 05/05/08 *
06:37:34 DTCOSD082E OSD SHUTTING DOWN:
06:37:34 DTCPRI385IDEVICE OSA-B5:
06:37:34 DTCPRI386I TYPE: OSD, STATUS: READY
06:37:34 DTCPRI387I ENVELOPE QUEUE SIZE: 0
06:37:34 DTCPRI388I ADDRESS: B500
06:37:34 DTCQDI001I QDIO DEVICE OSA-B5 DEVICE NUMBER B502:
06:37:34 DTCQDI007I DISABLE FOR QDIO DATA TRANSFERS
I would like to prepare a routine to be triggered when these
messages are seen by PROP. My problem is that the message
lines which describe a problem ('stop lan', 'shutting down',
'disable') do not include the device address or link name, and the
lines with the device do not mention the problem, but PROP
works on the basis of a single line.
How do other people deal with this?
Thanks,
Shimon
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Re: PROP restart of OSA
On Monday, 05/05/2008 at 08:03 EDT, Shimon Lebowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi,
I have occasionally had an OSA go down, as happened today.
Here are the messages I got from user TCPIP on the operator
console:
* 05/05/08 *
06:37:34 DTCOSD309W RECEIVED ADAPTER-INITIATED STOP LAN
* 05/05/08 *
06:37:34 DTCOSD082E OSD SHUTTING DOWN:
06:37:34 DTCPRI385IDEVICE OSA-B5:
06:37:34 DTCPRI386I TYPE: OSD, STATUS: READY
06:37:34 DTCPRI387I ENVELOPE QUEUE SIZE: 0
06:37:34 DTCPRI388I ADDRESS: B500
06:37:34 DTCQDI001I QDIO DEVICE OSA-B5 DEVICE NUMBER B502:
06:37:34 DTCQDI007I DISABLE FOR QDIO DATA TRANSFERS
I would like to prepare a routine to be triggered when these
messages are seen by PROP. My problem is that the message
lines which describe a problem ('stop lan', 'shutting down',
'disable') do not include the device address or link name, and the
lines with the device do not mention the problem, but PROP
works on the basis of a single line.
How do other people deal with this?
1. Add AUTORESTART to the DEVICE definition
or
2. Use a virtual NIC on a VSWITCH. The VSWITCH has better error recovery
than the stack. It also gives you the ability to have a second OSA on
stand-by without having to code dual interfaces in the stack.
In any case, you don't want PROP to handle this. A STOP LAN is the
result of a switch failing or being recycled, or a cable pull. A manual
restart won't help.
Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott
Re: whitehouse email
Seems that Oliver North got in trouble because there were off-site backups. Seems like that minor problem (having off-site backups) got fixed. Ed Martin 330-588-4723 ext 40441 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of O'Brien, Dennis L Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 7:18 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: whitehouse email The backups are kept safe and sound, right next to the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. But yeah, compared to the Clintons, the Bush regime has been remarkably scandal-free. Dennis It's 10:00 PM. Do you know where your backup tapes are? -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 16:13 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: [IBMVM] whitehouse email No backups are needed. They have done nothing wrong or illegal, and not much of historical importance. :-) Regards, Richard Schuh
Re: PROP restart of OSA
Yes, a manual restart does help.
I log in through a different connection and do
IFCONFIG SGLAN UP
That is what I want PROP to do too.
Original message
Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 08:38:04 -0400
From: Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: PROP restart of OSA
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
On Monday, 05/05/2008 at 08:03 EDT, Shimon Lebowitz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi,
I have occasionally had an OSA go down, as happened today.
Here are the messages I got from user TCPIP on the operator
console:
* 05/05/08 *
06:37:34 DTCOSD309W RECEIVED ADAPTER-INITIATED STOP LAN
* 05/05/08 *
06:37:34 DTCOSD082E OSD SHUTTING DOWN:
06:37:34 DTCPRI385IDEVICE OSA-B5:
06:37:34 DTCPRI386I TYPE: OSD, STATUS: READY
06:37:34 DTCPRI387I ENVELOPE QUEUE SIZE: 0
06:37:34 DTCPRI388I ADDRESS: B500
06:37:34 DTCQDI001I QDIO DEVICE OSA-B5 DEVICE NUMBER B502:
06:37:34 DTCQDI007I DISABLE FOR QDIO DATA TRANSFERS
I would like to prepare a routine to be triggered when
these
messages are seen by PROP. My problem is that the message
lines which describe a problem ('stop lan', 'shutting
down',
'disable') do not include the device address or link name,
and the
lines with the device do not mention the problem, but PROP
works on the basis of a single line.
How do other people deal with this?
1. Add AUTORESTART to the DEVICE definition
or
2. Use a virtual NIC on a VSWITCH. The VSWITCH has better
error recovery
than the stack. It also gives you the ability to have a
second OSA on
stand-by without having to code dual interfaces in the stack.
In any case, you don't want PROP to handle this. A STOP
LAN is the
result of a switch failing or being recycled, or a cable
pull. A manual
restart won't help.
Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott
VM TCP/IP Secure Telnet
Hey Guys, We are looking into using secure telnet on our z/VM 5.2 TCP/IP stack. When looking over info on the VM site, I found the following : Changes Introduced in TCP/IP Level 530 A new statement, SECURETELNETCLIENT, may now be specified in the TCPIP DATA file. This statement provides the default Telnet client security value to use when neither the SECURE nor NOSECURE option is specified on the Telnet command. Am I to infer from this that Secure telnet is not available with our current 5.2 release level? Is anyone using secure telnet out there that can point me in the right direction? Thanks, Tim Tim Joyce Sr. Systems Programmer / Project Leader Alex Lee, Inc. Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (828) 725-4448 Fax: (828) 725-4800
Re: whitehouse email
he was using PROFS so it was MF based and of course it was backed up Edward M. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To com IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Sent by: The IBM cc z/VM Operating SystemSubject [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: whitehouse email ARK.EDU 05/05/2008 09:20 AM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System [EMAIL PROTECTED] ARK.EDU Seems that Oliver North got in trouble because there were off-site backups. Seems like that minor problem (having off-site backups) got fixed. Ed Martin 330-588-4723 ext 40441 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of O'Brien, Dennis L Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 7:18 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: whitehouse email The backups are kept safe and sound, right next to the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. But yeah, compared to the Clintons, the Bush regime has been remarkably scandal-free. Dennis It's 10:00 PM. Do you know where your backup tapes are? -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 16:13 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: [IBMVM] whitehouse email No backups are needed. They have done nothing wrong or illegal, and not much of historical importance. :-) Regards, Richard Schuh
Re: PROP restart of OSA
Shimon,
I write VM:Operator macroes instead of PROP execs but this looks as if two
routines are needed.
The first would key off the DTCOSD309W message and set a session globalv
variable with the timestamp
The second would key of the DTCQDI001I message to check the time stamp in the
session globalv variable that it is the same as that of the DTCOSD309W message.
Then it would take action.
A perfectionist might say you have to check the seconds, and overflow to the
next minute, but my guess is all these have the exact same time. But...
Jim
-Original Message-
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Shimon Lebowitz
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 10:32 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: PROP restart of OSA
Yes, a manual restart does help.
I log in through a different connection and do
IFCONFIG SGLAN UP
That is what I want PROP to do too.
Original message
Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 08:38:04 -0400
From: Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: PROP restart of OSA
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
On Monday, 05/05/2008 at 08:03 EDT, Shimon Lebowitz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi,
I have occasionally had an OSA go down, as happened today. Here are
the messages I got from user TCPIP on the operator
console:
* 05/05/08 *
06:37:34 DTCOSD309W RECEIVED ADAPTER-INITIATED STOP LAN
* 05/05/08 *
06:37:34 DTCOSD082E OSD SHUTTING DOWN:
06:37:34 DTCPRI385IDEVICE OSA-B5:
06:37:34 DTCPRI386I TYPE: OSD, STATUS: READY
06:37:34 DTCPRI387I ENVELOPE QUEUE SIZE: 0
06:37:34 DTCPRI388I ADDRESS: B500
06:37:34 DTCQDI001I QDIO DEVICE OSA-B5 DEVICE NUMBER B502:
06:37:34 DTCQDI007I DISABLE FOR QDIO DATA TRANSFERS
I would like to prepare a routine to be triggered when
these
messages are seen by PROP. My problem is that the message lines which
describe a problem ('stop lan', 'shutting
down',
'disable') do not include the device address or link name,
and the
lines with the device do not mention the problem, but PROP works on
the basis of a single line.
How do other people deal with this?
1. Add AUTORESTART to the DEVICE definition
or
2. Use a virtual NIC on a VSWITCH. The VSWITCH has better
error recovery
than the stack. It also gives you the ability to have a
second OSA on
stand-by without having to code dual interfaces in the stack.
In any case, you don't want PROP to handle this. A STOP
LAN is the
result of a switch failing or being recycled, or a cable
pull. A manual
restart won't help.
Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott
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Re: VM TCP/IP Secure Telnet
Hi, Tim. I think what your are looking for is the VMSSL server. It can secure Telnet (TN3270) sessions to your z/VM system quite nicely, and it is supported on your release of VM. You can read more about it in Chapter 22 of the TCP/IP Planning and Customization Guide. It is somewhat of a pain to set up, as it requires you to go get and install a Linux distribution. The folks at Sine Nomine Assc. have created a nice VMSSL server enabler tool that speeds up the install process.you might want to take a look at that here: http://www.sinenomine.net/ Have a good one. Tim Joyce wrote: Hey Guys, We are looking into using secure telnet on our z/VM 5.2 TCP/IP stack. When looking over info on the VM site, I found the following : Changes Introduced in TCP/IP Level 530 A new statement, SECURETELNETCLIENT, may now be specified in the TCPIP DATA file. This statement provides the default Telnet client security value to use when neither the SECURE nor NOSECURE option is specified on the Telnet command. Am I to infer from this that Secure telnet is not available with our current 5.2 release level? Is anyone using secure telnet out there that can point me in the right direction? Thanks, Tim Tim Joyce Sr. Systems Programmer / Project Leader Alex Lee, Inc. Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (828) 725-4448 Fax: (828) 725-4800 -- DJ V/Soft z/VM and mainframe Linux expertise, training, consulting, and software development www.vsoft-software.com
Re: whitehouse email
Yes, but the operator who suggested to the FBI that they look at the backups ended up being fired. Phil Parmelee IBM Global Services VM/VSE Team Harrisburg, PA 717-526-1250 T/L 239-1250 [EMAIL PROTECTED] August Carideo [EMAIL PROTECTED] von.com To Sent by: The IBM IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU z/VM Operating cc System [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject ARK.EDU Re: whitehouse email 05/05/2008 10:40 AM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System [EMAIL PROTECTED] ARK.EDU he was using PROFS so it was MF based and of course it was backed up Edward M. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To com IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Sent by: The IBM cc z/VM Operating SystemSubject [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: whitehouse email ARK.EDU 05/05/2008 09:20 AM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System [EMAIL PROTECTED] ARK.EDU Seems that Oliver North got in trouble because there were off-site backups. Seems like that minor problem (having off-site backups) got fixed. Ed Martin 330-588-4723 ext 40441 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of O'Brien, Dennis L Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 7:18 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: whitehouse email The backups are kept safe and sound, right next to the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. But yeah, compared to the Clintons, the Bush regime has been remarkably scandal-free. Dennis It's 10:00 PM. Do you know where your backup tapes are? -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 16:13 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: [IBMVM] whitehouse email No backups are needed. They have done nothing wrong or illegal, and not much of historical importance. :-) Regards, Richard Schuh
Re: VM TCP/IP Secure Telnet
On May 5, 2008, at 9:54 AM, Dave Jones wrote: Hi, Tim. I think what your are looking for is the VMSSL server. It can secure Telnet (TN3270) sessions to your z/VM system quite nicely, and it is supported on your release of VM. You can read more about it in Chapter 22 of the TCP/IP Planning and Customization Guide. It is somewhat of a pain to set up, as it requires you to go get and install a Linux distribution. The folks at Sine Nomine Assc. have created a nice VMSSL server enabler tool that speeds up the install process.you might want to take a look at that here: http://www.sinenomine.net/ To modify what Dave Jones said a little: CLIENT versions of SSL-wrapped apps (that is, SSL-wrapped tn3270 and FTP) are not available until z/VM 5.3. tn3270 wrapped in SSL works fine with the SSLSERV enabler all the way back to z/VM 3.1 with the telnet *server* on z/VM. FTP is also possible, sorta, in 3.1-5.2, but basically you can only do implicit SSL and you can only protect the authentication stream, not the data channel. The nice thing is: there's a product out there, Glub Tech's Secure FTP wrapper, that's quite cheap ($250 for a single IP address, unlimited connections), that allows you to do secure FTP to *it* and will then do cleartext FTP out the back end, which is nice if you want to set up a Linux guest and a private network to z/VM behind that guest. That way, all the cleartext traffic on the wire is actually taking place in z/VM's memory and isn't on any externally- sniffable network at all. If you *do* have a secure last-hop network for z/VM, you can put the FTP wrapper on that network on an Intel Linux box and not have to burn your expensive zSeries cycles doing crypto, too. It all depends on what your requirements are. Adam
Reading/Writing To Remote Network File Shares (Samba?)
Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a way to mount for reading/writing under CMS a share on a remote server? This document: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg245330.html talks about Samba for VM/ESA - and says there is a Samba freeware package for VM/ESA that can be downloaded from the internet - but I sure can't find it (and Samba.org seems to know nothing about VM/ESA or z/VM). My objective is to mount disk space on a remote Linux server (using any available network protocols) such that a virtual machine running CMS can read/write to the location using standard CMS file I/O tools. Note that a remote SFS server is not an option as the remote location will not be running z/VM. Any ideas? Does anyone know where this Samba freeware package for VM/ESA lives? -Mike
Re: Reading/Writing To Remote Network File Shares (Samba?)
Neale Ferguson ported an old release of SAMBA to OpenVM years ago. That would give you a server on VM to which you could map from Windows. There is also, of course, the VM NFS server, which would let you mount VM content onto Linux or Unix. *But it sounds like you want CMS to be the client in this game, yes?* Let me heartily recommend the CMS NFS client built into OpenVM. I use this on a daily basis. Lets me share files in Linux land directly on CMS. I can use XEDIT on them, copy them to/from minidisks or SFS, literally anything one could do with a BFS file (an OpenVM file). I always mount NFS to CMS with translation. Depending on what you need to do, this may help or hurt. (As a rule, I don't do binary content via NFS from CMS, but that's just me.) The character set will always be an issue for this stuff. To use the CMS NFS client, you have to have a BFS root filesystem mounted. Then mount NFS directories into that tree. (The BFS root need not have a working shell and utilities for NFS to work, just a filespace with empty mountpoint directories.) The syntax is ugly, but you can program around it. (write an EXEC ... or a shell script!) On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Michael Coffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a way to mount for reading/writing under CMS a share on a remote server? This document: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg245330.html talks about Samba for VM/ESA - and says there is a Samba freeware package for VM/ESA that can be downloaded from the internet - but I sure can't find it (and Samba.org seems to know nothing about VM/ESA or z/VM). My objective is to mount disk space on a remote Linux server (using any available network protocols) such that a virtual machine running CMS can read/write to the location using standard CMS file I/O tools. Note that a remote SFS server is not an option as the remote location will not be running z/VM. Any ideas? Does anyone know where this Samba freeware package for VM/ESA lives? -Mike -- -- R;
Re: whitehouse email
They got into trouble because, at that time, PROFs had no option to EVER delete an email. Everything that ever came thru PROFs was always retrieveable. That is, unless you formatted over the disks and tapes. There was no method to selectively destroy emails. PROFs was modified afterwards to allow an authorized administrator to erase and completely eliminate emails based on a multitude of criteria. My source of info, is from the publically available trade magazines of the time. Not only in government was this a problem, but with litigation and corporations.. Time to enforce document retention policies. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting (I sure miss PROFs) Law of Cat Acceleration A cat will accelerate at a constant rate, until he gets good and ready to stop. Edward M. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5/5/2008 8:19 AM Seems that Oliver North got in trouble because there were off-site backups. Seems like that minor problem (having off-site backups) got fixed. Ed Martin 330-588-4723 ext 40441 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of O'Brien, Dennis L Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 7:18 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: whitehouse email The backups are kept safe and sound, right next to the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. But yeah, compared to the Clintons, the Bush regime has been remarkably scandal-free. Dennis It's 10:00 PM. Do you know where your backup tapes are? -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 16:13 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: [IBMVM] whitehouse email No backups are needed. They have done nothing wrong or illegal, and not much of historical importance. :-) Regards, Richard Schuh
Re: whitehouse email
Tom Duerbusch wrote: They got into trouble because, at that time, PROFs had no option to EVER delete an email. Everything that ever came thru PROFs was always retrieveable. Of course this time, they're lying. Not because we can prove it, but because the officials current administration lie even when there is no need to, with complete and casual disregard of law, custom, and what the Declaration of Independence calls a Decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind. -- Jack J. Woehr# Hipsters believe that irony has http://www.well.com/~jax # more resonance than reason. http://www.softwoehr.com # - Robert Lanham
Re: whitehouse email
PROFS had two formats for e-mail: documents and notes. It was documents that could not be deleted. Notes in the OFSLOGfl files could be deleted. Olie used documents. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Duerbusch Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 2:11 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: whitehouse email They got into trouble because, at that time, PROFs had no option to EVER delete an email. Everything that ever came thru PROFs was always retrieveable. That is, unless you formatted over the disks and tapes. There was no method to selectively destroy emails. . . . Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting (I sure miss PROFs) P.S. I miss OV/VM too! This message w/attachments (message) may be privileged, confidential or proprietary, and if you are not an intended recipient, please notify the sender, do not use or share it and delete it. Unless specifically indicated, this message is not an offer to sell or a solicitation of any investment products or other financial product or service, an official confirmation of any transaction, or an official statement of Merrill Lynch. Subject to applicable law, Merrill Lynch may monitor, review and retain e-communications (EC) traveling through its networks/systems. The laws of the country of each sender/recipient may impact the handling of EC, and EC may be archived, supervised and produced in countries other than the country in which you are located. This message cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free. This message is subject to terms available at the following link: http://www.ml.com/e-communications_terms/. By messaging with Merrill Lynch you consent to the foregoing.
VM Newbies with Operations Manager
Hi, hoping someone on the list can provide us with some guidance. We're new to VM and have installed Operations Manager in order to do some automation. The thing is, we don't know enough about VM to know what to automate. Anyone have recommendations? Or a list of typically-automated messages? Or anthing? Thanks, Val Phillips 404-588-8368 LEGAL DISCLAIMER The information transmitted is intended solely for the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of or taking action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this email in error please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. SunTrust and Seeing beyond money are federally registered service marks of SunTrust Banks, Inc. [ST:XCL]
Re: VM Newbies with Operations Manager
Tell us a little more about your system... What guests do you support? LINUX? z/OS? z/VSE? none of the above.. ? How about backups? ? -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Phillips.Val Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 1:47 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: VM Newbies with Operations Manager Hi, hoping someone on the list can provide us with some guidance. We're new to VM and have installed Operations Manager in order to do some automation. The thing is, we don't know enough about VM to know what to automate. Anyone have recommendations? Or a list of typically-automated messages? Or anthing? Thanks, Val Phillips 404-588-8368 LEGAL DISCLAIMER The information transmitted is intended solely for the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of or taking action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this email in error please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. SunTrust and Seeing beyond money are federally registered service marks of SunTrust Banks, Inc. [ST:XCL]
Re: FW: SWAPGEN version 0803
I've removed the extraneous line end from the copy on www.sinenomine.net. Should be happy now.
SFS
Hello List, I'm reviewing the installation requirements for the DFSMS/VM feature. I notice that it requires the VMSYS file pool. When I installed VM many months ago, I selected to install to minidisks instead of SFS. As a result, the SFS subsystem is not active or configured. My question: Is there a way to easily create the required SFS environment/pools or would re-installing VM and selecting SFS be required? Thanks...Chris
Re: VM Newbies with Operations Manager
Some of the more general things that we schedule Disaster recovery backups. Shared File Backups SPXTAPE backup of spool Scheduling SFPURGER to clean the spool files EREP processing Clearing the DISKACNT files Automatic cycling of certain machines Issue a SPOOL CONSOLE CLOSE to certain machines that never are cycled (to spin off their console logs) If you don't have a performance monitor, then to issue (every hour): CP IND QSYSOWN Q N Q FILEPOOL MINIDISK Q FILEPOOL CONNECT Then, as you get comfortable with it, and you have things with your guest machines, you might use Operations Manager to do scheduling of your guest machines, if they don't have their own scheduler. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Law of Cat Acceleration A cat will accelerate at a constant rate, until he gets good and ready to stop. Phillips.Val [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5/5/2008 1:46 PM Hi, hoping someone on the list can provide us with some guidance. We're new to VM and have installed Operations Manager in order to do some automation. The thing is, we don't know enough about VM to know what to automate. Anyone have recommendations? Or a list of typically-automated messages? Or anthing? Thanks, Val Phillips 404-588-8368 LEGAL DISCLAIMER The information transmitted is intended solely for the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of or taking action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this email in error please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. SunTrust and Seeing beyond money are federally registered service marks of SunTrust Banks, Inc. [ST:XCL]
Re: SFS
The VMSYS: filepool is there, it's where CMS, CP and a ton of other system code lives. From MAINT type: ACCESS VMSYS:DFSMS. Z You'll probably find it was already installed in the SDO. Even if it's not there you can execute: ACCESS VMSYS:MAINT. Z MAINT will definitely be there. Make sure VMSERVS is up and running (XAUTOLOG VMSERVS if it is not). -Mike -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hilliard, Chris Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 3:01 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: SFS Hello List, I'm reviewing the installation requirements for the DFSMS/VM feature. I notice that it requires the VMSYS file pool. When I installed VM many months ago, I selected to install to minidisks instead of SFS. As a result, the SFS subsystem is not active or configured. My question: Is there a way to easily create the required SFS environment/pools or would re-installing VM and selecting SFS be required? Thanks.Chris
Re: VM TCP/IP Secure Telnet
You have server support for SSL-wrapped telnet, via a Linux guest. The telnet client on VM doesn't gain that support until 5.3. The option you reference is just what you want the 5.3 client to default - secure or plaintext telnet. You still need the Linux guest, etc.
Re: SFS
You do not have to install VM into SFS in order to have the ability to use SFS for other purposes. Did you run INSTVM, SERVICE and PUT2PROD as specified in the Installation Guide? If so, the needed machines have been built. Do you allow AUTOLOG1 to run when you IPL? It usually starts the SFS service machines, VMSERVR and VMSERVS, needed for the DFSMS install. If those machines are running, you already have the needed environment for your DFSMS install. Regards, Richard Schuh From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hilliard, Chris Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 12:01 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: SFS Hello List, I'm reviewing the installation requirements for the DFSMS/VM feature. I notice that it requires the VMSYS file pool. When I installed VM many months ago, I selected to install to minidisks instead of SFS. As a result, the SFS subsystem is not active or configured. My question: Is there a way to easily create the required SFS environment/pools or would re-installing VM and selecting SFS be required? Thanks...Chris
Re: Reading/Writing To Remote Network File Shares (Samba?)
Use the CMS NFS client. It makes the remote system look like a BFS to CMS (with all the BFS weirdness that that implies).
Re: VM TCP/IP Secure Telnet
Oh, an easy one:-) Go grab the SNA VMSSL enabler tool. It will save you a lot of headaches, imho. Look on: www.sinenomine.net for more details on how to get it, etc. Tim Joyce wrote: Thanks for the responses! I understand that I will need a Linux guest for VMSSL. As this will be my first attempt at installing Linux, any recommendations on documentation and the best place to start with Linux, would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Tim From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Boyes Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 3:16 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: VM TCP/IP Secure Telnet You have server support for SSL-wrapped telnet, via a Linux guest. The telnet client on VM doesn't gain that support until 5.3. The option you reference is just what you want the 5.3 client to default - secure or plaintext telnet. You still need the Linux guest, etc. -- DJ V/Soft z/VM and mainframe Linux expertise, training, consulting, and software development www.vsoft-software.com
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Re: VM TCP/IP Secure Telnet
Hey Dave, I saw this link on your previous email, but it looked as if it would only work with z/VM 5.3 ! We are still 5.2 . We plan to migrate sometime this year, but not before I need to start on this secure telnet project. Thanks, Tim -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Jones Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 3:45 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: VM TCP/IP Secure Telnet Oh, an easy one:-) Go grab the SNA VMSSL enabler tool. It will save you a lot of headaches, imho. Look on: www.sinenomine.net for more details on how to get it, etc. Tim Joyce wrote: Thanks for the responses! I understand that I will need a Linux guest for VMSSL. As this will be my first attempt at installing Linux, any recommendations on documentation and the best place to start with Linux, would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Tim From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Boyes Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 3:16 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: VM TCP/IP Secure Telnet You have server support for SSL-wrapped telnet, via a Linux guest. The telnet client on VM doesn't gain that support until 5.3. The option you reference is just what you want the 5.3 client to default - secure or plaintext telnet. You still need the Linux guest, etc. -- DJ V/Soft z/VM and mainframe Linux expertise, training, consulting, and software development www.vsoft-software.com
Re: VM TCP/IP Secure Telnet
I saw this link on your previous email, but it looked as if it would only work with z/VM 5.3 ! We are still 5.2 . We plan to migrate sometime this year, but not before I need to start on this secure telnet project. Version 2.0 requires 5.3. Version 1.5 will work with 5.2 down to 3.1.
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Re: VM TCP/IP Secure Telnet
Ah, I will look into 1.5 then ... Thanks! Tim -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Boyes Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 3:51 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: VM TCP/IP Secure Telnet I saw this link on your previous email, but it looked as if it would only work with z/VM 5.3 ! We are still 5.2 . We plan to migrate sometime this year, but not before I need to start on this secure telnet project. Version 2.0 requires 5.3. Version 1.5 will work with 5.2 down to 3.1.
Re: VM TCP/IP Secure Telnet
On May 5, 2008, at 2:56 PM, Tim Joyce wrote: Ah, I will look into 1.5 then ... Thanks! Actually, 1.2 is the latest 1.x release currently available. There will probably eventually be a 1.3 release, but the updates are minor; if you're not going to have more than 120 simultaneous users connected via SSL-wrapped sockets, 1.2 should be adequate for you. Adam
SFS Locked Directory
Can anybody tell me how to unlock this directory? enroll user maint techsrv: (blocks 1000 storgroup 2 DMSJEN1137E Object is locked or in use, or there is an outstanding DMSJEN1137E lock or disable in the object's directory hierarchy Ready(00070); T=0.01/0.01 16:49:40 Set filepool techsrv: query filepool disable Object Type Object ID Disabled Creator ModeLink Status GROUP2 YES SFSBKUP SHARE LINKED Ready; T=0.01/0.01 16:50:35 filepool enable filespace mccserv DMSWFP3485I FILEPOOL processing begun at 17:11:12 on 5 May 2008. DMS5PU1206W No locks are held by you for file space MCCSERV DMSWFP3486I FILEPOOL processing ended at 17:11:12 on 5 May 2008. Ready(4); T=0.01/0.01 17:11:12 filepool enable filespace mccserv ( for sfsbkup DMSWFP3485I FILEPOOL processing begun at 17:11:29 on 5 May 2008. DMS5PU1206W No locks are held by SFSBKUP for file space MCCSERV DMSWFP3486I FILEPOOL processing ended at 17:11:29 on 5 May 2008. Ready(4); T=0.01/0.01 17:11:29 query lock techsrv:diskacnt. No locks are held on directory TECHSRV:DISKACNT. Ready; T=0.01/0.01 17:15:59 Thank you, Scott R Wandschneider Senior Systems Programmer Infocrossing, a WIPRO Company 11707 Miracle Hills Dr. Omaha, NE 68154 Office 402.963.8905
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Re: SFS Locked Directory
Here is an extract from the HELP for the message: HELP MSG DMSJEN1137E System Action: RC=31 or 70. RC=31- A rollback of active work has occurred. RC=70- The system status remains the same. User Response: Try to enter the command a few more times. If the lock persists, try to resolve the lock conflict. Note: The lock could go away before you resolve it. If this occurs, enter the command again, or resolve the lock conflict and then enter the command again. Otherwise, there is an explicit lock on either the file, the directory, the file space, or the storage group. To aid in resolving the locking conflict: 1. Determine if an explicit lock exists on the file (base file or alias on a file) or directory. Enter the QUERY LOCK command to find out which users have explicit locks for the file (base file or alias on a file) or directory, and ask them to remove the locks. 2. If no locks are held from the previous QUERY LOCK command, and you are trying to update or write to a file or directory, verify the directory is a DIRCONTROL directory. Do so by entering the QUERY DIRATTR command. If it is a DIRCONTROL directory, the directory might be accessed in read/write status by another user. Enter the QUERY ACCESSORS command to find if a user is accessing the directory R/W. If so, contact this user to release the directory, and enter the command again. 3. If you find no locks are held on the file or directory, or for a DIRCONTROL directory, it is not accessed R/W, there might be an outstanding disable lock on the file space or storage group. Enter the QUERY FILEPOOL DISABLE command to find out which users have created disable locks, and ask them to remove the locks, or contact your file pool administrator. Your return code was 70. I suspect that you are the administrator, so when you get to the end, start talking to yourself :-)I hope this helps. I have never run into this problem in over 20 years of using SFS, so I have no guarantees. There was lots of other information in the HELP response, so if it isn't in this extract, you might look at the parts that I have omitted. That is one of the nice features of VM, all of the messages are documented in the HELP files. Regards, Richard Schuh -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wandschneider, Scott Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 2:20 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: SFS Locked Directory Can anybody tell me how to unlock this directory? enroll user maint techsrv: (blocks 1000 storgroup 2 DMSJEN1137E Object is locked or in use, or there is an outstanding DMSJEN1137E lock or disable in the object's directory hierarchy Ready(00070); T=0.01/0.01 16:49:40 Set filepool techsrv: query filepool disable Object Type Object ID Disabled Creator ModeLink Status GROUP2 YES SFSBKUP SHARE LINKED Ready; T=0.01/0.01 16:50:35 filepool enable filespace mccserv DMSWFP3485I FILEPOOL processing begun at 17:11:12 on 5 May 2008. DMS5PU1206W No locks are held by you for file space MCCSERV DMSWFP3486I FILEPOOL processing ended at 17:11:12 on 5 May 2008. Ready(4); T=0.01/0.01 17:11:12 filepool enable filespace mccserv ( for sfsbkup DMSWFP3485I FILEPOOL processing begun at 17:11:29 on 5 May 2008. DMS5PU1206W No locks are held by SFSBKUP for file space MCCSERV DMSWFP3486I FILEPOOL processing ended at 17:11:29 on 5 May 2008. Ready(4); T=0.01/0.01 17:11:29 query lock techsrv:diskacnt. No locks are held on directory TECHSRV:DISKACNT. Ready; T=0.01/0.01 17:15:59 Thank you, Scott R Wandschneider Senior Systems Programmer Infocrossing, a WIPRO Company 11707 Miracle Hills Dr. Omaha, NE 68154 Office 402.963.8905
Re: PROP restart of OSA
On Monday, 05/05/2008 at 10:32 EDT, Shimon Lebowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, a manual restart does help. I log in through a different connection and do IFCONFIG SGLAN UP That is what I want PROP to do too. I could be mistaken (maybe Mary Ellen or Miguel can jump in here), but I think it worked only because the problem was repaired prior to your ifconfig up. Did you try the AUTORESTART? Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
Software on tape
I've been asked whether our z/VM systems could convert to using only virtual tape. One of the possible sticking points is vendor software. If necessary, we could keep a couple of manual tape drives around for software installs. I'm trying to determine if it's necessary. Have IBM or any other software vendors made statements of direction for offering alternatives to delivering software on tape? I know that z/VM itself has been available on DVD for the last 3 releases, and CA's VM:Manager products are downloadable. I see that z/VM and products on SDO are now downloadable, too. What about products not on SDO? Is tape the only choice for those? I tried to register for ShopzSeries to see what was actually downloadable, but was told my customer number doesn't exist. Perhaps customer numbers for Resource Link and ShopzSeries are not the same. Dennis O'Brien A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Re: Software on tape
We get our software from VSSI, Velocity-Software and CA via FTP. I have gotten an RSU and individual PTFs from IBM that way. I don't know about an initial distribution, though. About your customer number - has BoA started having its software sent to Charlotte because of the tax burden that CA imposes? If so, your old CA number customer will have been deleted this year. I know that mine did. It was supposed to have been changed over 2 years ago, but nobody told me (it was an MVS secret). The old number worked up to the end of last year. Regards, Richard Schuh -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of O'Brien, Dennis L Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 3:25 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Software on tape I've been asked whether our z/VM systems could convert to using only virtual tape. One of the possible sticking points is vendor software. If necessary, we could keep a couple of manual tape drives around for software installs. I'm trying to determine if it's necessary. Have IBM or any other software vendors made statements of direction for offering alternatives to delivering software on tape? I know that z/VM itself has been available on DVD for the last 3 releases, and CA's VM:Manager products are downloadable. I see that z/VM and products on SDO are now downloadable, too. What about products not on SDO? Is tape the only choice for those? I tried to register for ShopzSeries to see what was actually downloadable, but was told my customer number doesn't exist. Perhaps customer numbers for Resource Link and ShopzSeries are not the same. Dennis O'Brien A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Re: Software on tape
Richard, We have a CA customer number for each data center. My comment about ShopzSeries was related to IBM customer numbers. It's my understanding that California does not charge sales tax on downloads, but only if physical media is sent to California. We dealt with this when we were a California-based bank, before being acquired by NationsBank. Someone discovered the sales tax issue and asked us to use download whenever possible to avoid being taxed. Dennis A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill. -- Robert A. Heinlein -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 15:35 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: [IBMVM] Software on tape We get our software from VSSI, Velocity-Software and CA via FTP. I have gotten an RSU and individual PTFs from IBM that way. I don't know about an initial distribution, though. About your customer number - has BoA started having its software sent to Charlotte because of the tax burden that CA imposes? If so, your old CA number customer will have been deleted this year. I know that mine did. It was supposed to have been changed over 2 years ago, but nobody told me (it was an MVS secret). The old number worked up to the end of last year. Regards, Richard Schuh -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of O'Brien, Dennis L Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 3:25 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Software on tape I've been asked whether our z/VM systems could convert to using only virtual tape. One of the possible sticking points is vendor software. If necessary, we could keep a couple of manual tape drives around for software installs. I'm trying to determine if it's necessary. Have IBM or any other software vendors made statements of direction for offering alternatives to delivering software on tape? I know that z/VM itself has been available on DVD for the last 3 releases, and CA's VM:Manager products are downloadable. I see that z/VM and products on SDO are now downloadable, too. What about products not on SDO? Is tape the only choice for those? I tried to register for ShopzSeries to see what was actually downloadable, but was told my customer number doesn't exist. Perhaps customer numbers for Resource Link and ShopzSeries are not the same. Dennis O'Brien A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Re: Software on tape
Sorry - that CA was for California, not the vendor. I was referring to IBM customer numbers. Regards, Richard Schuh -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of O'Brien, Dennis L Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 3:44 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Software on tape Richard, We have a CA customer number for each data center. My comment about ShopzSeries was related to IBM customer numbers. It's my understanding that California does not charge sales tax on downloads, but only if physical media is sent to California. We dealt with this when we were a California-based bank, before being acquired by NationsBank. Someone discovered the sales tax issue and asked us to use download whenever possible to avoid being taxed. Dennis A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill. -- Robert A. Heinlein -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 15:35 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: [IBMVM] Software on tape We get our software from VSSI, Velocity-Software and CA via FTP. I have gotten an RSU and individual PTFs from IBM that way. I don't know about an initial distribution, though. About your customer number - has BoA started having its software sent to Charlotte because of the tax burden that CA imposes? If so, your old CA number customer will have been deleted this year. I know that mine did. It was supposed to have been changed over 2 years ago, but nobody told me (it was an MVS secret). The old number worked up to the end of last year. Regards, Richard Schuh -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of O'Brien, Dennis L Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 3:25 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Software on tape I've been asked whether our z/VM systems could convert to using only virtual tape. One of the possible sticking points is vendor software. If necessary, we could keep a couple of manual tape drives around for software installs. I'm trying to determine if it's necessary. Have IBM or any other software vendors made statements of direction for offering alternatives to delivering software on tape? I know that z/VM itself has been available on DVD for the last 3 releases, and CA's VM:Manager products are downloadable. I see that z/VM and products on SDO are now downloadable, too. What about products not on SDO? Is tape the only choice for those? I tried to register for ShopzSeries to see what was actually downloadable, but was told my customer number doesn't exist. Perhaps customer numbers for Resource Link and ShopzSeries are not the same. Dennis O'Brien A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Re: Software on tape
On Monday, 05/05/2008 at 06:26 EDT, O'Brien, Dennis L Dennis.L.O'[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have IBM or any other software vendors made statements of direction for offering alternatives to delivering software on tape? The products in the SDO, including z/VM itself, are available for download via ShopzSeries. No other products are available electronically and I don't anticipate a change in that any time soon. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
Re: SFS Locked Directory
Thanks Richard. I too have worked with SFS for, well since day one, a long time now. I have never had this situation. I tried all the suggestions, etc in HELP nothing worked. Any ideas? Thank you, Scott R Wandschneider Senior Systems Programmer Infocrossing Office 402.963.8905 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 4:43 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: SFS Locked Directory Here is an extract from the HELP for the message: HELP MSG DMSJEN1137E System Action: RC=31 or 70. RC=31- A rollback of active work has occurred. RC=70- The system status remains the same. User Response: Try to enter the command a few more times. If the lock persists, try to resolve the lock conflict. Note: The lock could go away before you resolve it. If this occurs, enter the command again, or resolve the lock conflict and then enter the command again. Otherwise, there is an explicit lock on either the file, the directory, the file space, or the storage group. To aid in resolving the locking conflict: 1. Determine if an explicit lock exists on the file (base file or alias on a file) or directory. Enter the QUERY LOCK command to find out which users have explicit locks for the file (base file or alias on a file) or directory, and ask them to remove the locks. 2. If no locks are held from the previous QUERY LOCK command, and you are trying to update or write to a file or directory, verify the directory is a DIRCONTROL directory. Do so by entering the QUERY DIRATTR command. If it is a DIRCONTROL directory, the directory might be accessed in read/write status by another user. Enter the QUERY ACCESSORS command to find if a user is accessing the directory R/W. If so, contact this user to release the directory, and enter the command again. 3. If you find no locks are held on the file or directory, or for a DIRCONTROL directory, it is not accessed R/W, there might be an outstanding disable lock on the file space or storage group. Enter the QUERY FILEPOOL DISABLE command to find out which users have created disable locks, and ask them to remove the locks, or contact your file pool administrator. Your return code was 70. I suspect that you are the administrator, so when you get to the end, start talking to yourself :-)I hope this helps. I have never run into this problem in over 20 years of using SFS, so I have no guarantees. There was lots of other information in the HELP response, so if it isn't in this extract, you might look at the parts that I have omitted. That is one of the nice features of VM, all of the messages are documented in the HELP files. Regards, Richard Schuh -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wandschneider, Scott Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 2:20 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: SFS Locked Directory Can anybody tell me how to unlock this directory? enroll user maint techsrv: (blocks 1000 storgroup 2 DMSJEN1137E Object is locked or in use, or there is an outstanding DMSJEN1137E lock or disable in the object's directory hierarchy Ready(00070); T=0.01/0.01 16:49:40 Set filepool techsrv: query filepool disable Object Type Object ID Disabled Creator ModeLink Status GROUP2 YES SFSBKUP SHARE LINKED Ready; T=0.01/0.01 16:50:35 filepool enable filespace mccserv DMSWFP3485I FILEPOOL processing begun at 17:11:12 on 5 May 2008. DMS5PU1206W No locks are held by you for file space MCCSERV DMSWFP3486I FILEPOOL processing ended at 17:11:12 on 5 May 2008. Ready(4); T=0.01/0.01 17:11:12 filepool enable filespace mccserv ( for sfsbkup DMSWFP3485I FILEPOOL processing begun at 17:11:29 on 5 May 2008. DMS5PU1206W No locks are held by SFSBKUP for file space MCCSERV DMSWFP3486I FILEPOOL processing ended at 17:11:29 on 5 May 2008. Ready(4); T=0.01/0.01 17:11:29 query lock techsrv:diskacnt. No locks are held on directory TECHSRV:DISKACNT. Ready; T=0.01/0.01 17:15:59 Thank you, Scott R Wandschneider Senior Systems Programmer Infocrossing, a WIPRO Company 11707 Miracle Hills Dr. Omaha, NE 68154 Office
Re: SFS Locked Directory
Go to your SFS administrator for help? The last time I had any real SFS problem, I had to send DDR dumps of my catalog to the Support Center so that my problem could be analyzed and zaps constructed to bypass the error. My problem was that referencing certain files abended CP. Your situation does not appear to be that dire, but if nobody else has a solution, about the only thing left is to open a PMR. Regards, Richard Schuh -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wandschneider, Scott Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 4:11 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: SFS Locked Directory Thanks Richard. I too have worked with SFS for, well since day one, a long time now. I have never had this situation. I tried all the suggestions, etc in HELP nothing worked. Any ideas? Thank you, Scott R Wandschneider Senior Systems Programmer Infocrossing Office 402.963.8905 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 4:43 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: SFS Locked Directory Here is an extract from the HELP for the message: HELP MSG DMSJEN1137E System Action: RC=31 or 70. RC=31- A rollback of active work has occurred. RC=70- The system status remains the same. User Response: Try to enter the command a few more times. If the lock persists, try to resolve the lock conflict. Note: The lock could go away before you resolve it. If this occurs, enter the command again, or resolve the lock conflict and then enter the command again. Otherwise, there is an explicit lock on either the file, the directory, the file space, or the storage group. To aid in resolving the locking conflict: 1. Determine if an explicit lock exists on the file (base file or alias on a file) or directory. Enter the QUERY LOCK command to find out which users have explicit locks for the file (base file or alias on a file) or directory, and ask them to remove the locks. 2. If no locks are held from the previous QUERY LOCK command, and you are trying to update or write to a file or directory, verify the directory is a DIRCONTROL directory. Do so by entering the QUERY DIRATTR command. If it is a DIRCONTROL directory, the directory might be accessed in read/write status by another user. Enter the QUERY ACCESSORS command to find if a user is accessing the directory R/W. If so, contact this user to release the directory, and enter the command again. 3. If you find no locks are held on the file or directory, or for a DIRCONTROL directory, it is not accessed R/W, there might be an outstanding disable lock on the file space or storage group. Enter the QUERY FILEPOOL DISABLE command to find out which users have created disable locks, and ask them to remove the locks, or contact your file pool administrator. Your return code was 70. I suspect that you are the administrator, so when you get to the end, start talking to yourself :-)I hope this helps. I have never run into this problem in over 20 years of using SFS, so I have no guarantees. There was lots of other information in the HELP response, so if it isn't in this extract, you might look at the parts that I have omitted. That is one of the nice features of VM, all of the messages are documented in the HELP files. Regards, Richard Schuh -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wandschneider, Scott Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 2:20 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: SFS Locked Directory Can anybody tell me how to unlock this directory? enroll user maint techsrv: (blocks 1000 storgroup 2 DMSJEN1137E Object is locked or in use, or there is an outstanding DMSJEN1137E lock or disable in the object's directory hierarchy Ready(00070); T=0.01/0.01 16:49:40 Set filepool techsrv: query filepool disable Object Type Object ID Disabled Creator ModeLink Status GROUP2 YES SFSBKUP SHARE LINKED Ready; T=0.01/0.01 16:50:35 filepool enable filespace mccserv DMSWFP3485I FILEPOOL processing begun at 17:11:12 on 5 May 2008. DMS5PU1206W No locks are held by you for file space MCCSERV DMSWFP3486I FILEPOOL processing ended at
Re: SFS Locked Directory
On Monday, 05/05/2008, Wandschneider, Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Richard. I too have worked with SFS for, well since day one, a long time now. I have never had this situation. I tried all the suggestions, etc in HELP nothing worked. Any ideas? Your output to QUERY FILEPOOL DISABLE showed: Object Type Object ID Disabled Creator ModeLink Status GROUP2 YES SFSBKUP SHARE LINKED Ready; T=0.01/0.01 16:50:35 The user SFSBKUP has disabled storage group (SG) 2, not an individual filespace. I think the contents of all filespaces with space on SG 2 will appear to be locked (because the physical storage is locked). Did SFSBKUP fail? If so, you need to do some recovery actions (consult documentation). This may require manually enabling the storage group. Or you need to satisfy whatever SFSBKUP is waiting on so that it can do whatever and release the locks. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
Re: SFS
Everyone has heard me say it before, but SFS is where the VM POSIX Byte File System (BFS) lives. As we bring new functionality to the platform, it often comes as a POSIX application, with LDAP being the most recent addition to the stable. We cannot afford to port POSIX applications to native CMS applications; it's too time consuming and the original authors won't support it. Where the issue is only config files on input (such as with MPROUTE) and, say, log files for output, we are able to host the application in such a way that we can redirect it to minidisk. But applications like the LDAP server are not amenable to such treatment since these actually depend on the hierarchical structure of the BFS. There is no minidisk-based alternative for such applications. (The LDAP clients were hosted to redirect to minidisk.) Nope, you don't have to deploy LDAP if you don't want to. But over time the water will rise behind the dam. There is more coming. So while I appreciate the frustration of having to worry about SFS when you haven't in the past, the time has come for us to exploit something we introduced over 20 years ago in VM/SP Release 6. Regards, Alan Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development
Re: Software on tape
We have one IBM customer number for Resource Link for our San Francisco data center and another for our Kansas City data center. Those are the only two in the US that have z/VM. Neither number worked for ShopzSeries. I have asked our IBM rep what I should use. Alan Altmark's answer was sufficient. There are products we can't get electronically. That's enough for me to tell the storage architect that we must have access to real tape drives. Dennis O'Brien A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill. -- Robert A. Heinlein -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 15:48 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: [IBMVM] Software on tape Sorry - that CA was for California, not the vendor. I was referring to IBM customer numbers. Regards, Richard Schuh -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of O'Brien, Dennis L Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 3:44 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Software on tape Richard, We have a CA customer number for each data center. My comment about ShopzSeries was related to IBM customer numbers. It's my understanding that California does not charge sales tax on downloads, but only if physical media is sent to California. We dealt with this when we were a California-based bank, before being acquired by NationsBank. Someone discovered the sales tax issue and asked us to use download whenever possible to avoid being taxed. Dennis A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill. -- Robert A. Heinlein -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 15:35 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: [IBMVM] Software on tape We get our software from VSSI, Velocity-Software and CA via FTP. I have gotten an RSU and individual PTFs from IBM that way. I don't know about an initial distribution, though. About your customer number - has BoA started having its software sent to Charlotte because of the tax burden that CA imposes? If so, your old CA number customer will have been deleted this year. I know that mine did. It was supposed to have been changed over 2 years ago, but nobody told me (it was an MVS secret). The old number worked up to the end of last year. Regards, Richard Schuh -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of O'Brien, Dennis L Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 3:25 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Software on tape I've been asked whether our z/VM systems could convert to using only virtual tape. One of the possible sticking points is vendor software. If necessary, we could keep a couple of manual tape drives around for software installs. I'm trying to determine if it's necessary. Have IBM or any other software vendors made statements of direction for offering alternatives to delivering software on tape? I know that z/VM itself has been available on DVD for the last 3 releases, and CA's VM:Manager products are downloadable. I see that z/VM and products on SDO are now downloadable, too. What about products not on SDO? Is tape the only choice for those? I tried to register for ShopzSeries to see what was actually downloadable, but was told my customer number doesn't exist. Perhaps customer numbers for Resource Link and ShopzSeries are not the same. Dennis O'Brien A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Re: SFS
Alan Altmark wrote: snip esnip Yeah, but anyone who was around in VM/SP R6 days remembers SFS as being something that you wanted to stay away from. Jim So while I appreciate the frustration of having to worry about SFS when you haven't in the past, the time has come for us to exploit something we introduced over 20 years ago in VM/SP Release 6. Regards, Alan Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development -- Jim Bohnsack Cornell University (607) 255-1760 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My 45th Anniversary at SRU
This is cross-posted to VSE-L and IBMVM-L. Today is my 45th anniversary in data processing at Slippery Rock University of PA. On May 6, 1963 I founded the Data Processing Center at the then Slippery Rock State College. The center consisted of one half-time key punch operator and me. My mission was to automate student registration by the fall semester and have class lists in the hands of faculty before the first class meeting. We had an arena style registration for 1996 students in three days. The class lists were produced after working 27 straight hours. We had Series 50 (half speed) IBM punched card tabulating equipment: One 024 keypunch, a 548 interpreter, 082 sorter, 085 collator, 514 reproducing punch and a 402 accounting machine that could print 50 lines per minute. The 402 could only add and subtract. Later we acquired a 604 calculator that could divide and therefore calculate QPA. All of these machines were programmed by wiring plugboards. In 1968 we installed an IBM System/360 Model 30 computer with 32K core memory and 14.5M of 2311 disk storage running DOS/360 Release 17. Now the 7.5 hour job of sorting course cards took 10 minutes! Six model 2260 terminals were purchased in 1972 and I designed an on-line student registration system (using FASTER, a forerunner of CICS) that is still in use today, under the covers, in the RockTalk system whereby students can register via telephone or on the web. For the first on-line registration that fall, all six terminals were setup in the Student Union. It took 3 days to register 5897 students. Students had to punch their programming assignments into cards until 1975 when I implemented IJS (Interactive Job Submission) to allow input and printing via DECwriters at a speed of 110 baud and eventually 300 baud. In 1985 SRU acquired an IBM 4361 computer with 12M main memory. I tailored the VM/SP Operating System Release 3 for student use of WATFIV, WATBOL, Pascal, C, Lisp, SPSS, ADA, Basic, Spitbol and Assist and two years later, Modula-2. The 1990 connection to BITNET brought email and file transfer capabilities with other universities. 1992 saw the acquisition of an IBM 9221-170 computer with 96M of main memory and SRU was finally able to connect to the Internet. Since 2003 VSE and VM are running on an 18-MIPS FLEX-ES system. I have enjoyed being a programmer, systems analyst and most of all a systems programmer. I have been honored by receiving the SRU President's Award for Outstanding Service in 1994 and being inducted into the Order of Knights of VM as Sir Fran of the Rock in 2007. I would like to hear from anyone who has had a career with a single employer running more than 45 years. /Fran Hensler at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1.724.738.2153 Yes, Virginia, there is a Slippery Rock
Sorting output from PIPE REXXVARS TOLOAD for dumping a stem variable
On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 19:45:36 -0800, Alan Ackerman wrote: (Was Re: Another PIPE how to) REXXVARS TOLOAD produces strings like /TABLE.0101/value -- only there is no guarantee that the delimiter will be a slash. So instead, I always use: PIPE rexxvars TOLOAD | pick 2.6 == /TABLE./ | ... Note that the order of the variables will be random, so you might want to use: PIPE rexxvars TOLOAD | pick 2.6 == /TABLE./ | sort | ... This, and the other proposed solutions to dumping stem variables' contents, do not sort the values correctly if there are more than 9 values. Eg:... A.0=12 A.1=a A.10=j A.11=k A.12=l A.2=b A.3=c A.4=d A.5=e A.6=f A.7=g A.8=h A.9=i This is presumably because the stem index value is variable length. I've mucked around trying to get the sort order correct, without success. Any ideas? Regards, Fred Schmidt Department of Corporate and Information Services (DCIS) Data Centre Services (DCS) Northern Territory Government, Australia
Re: SFS
-Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Bohnsack Sent: 06 May 2008 03:15 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: SFS Alan Altmark wrote: snip esnip Yeah, but anyone who was around in VM/SP R6 days remembers SFS as being something that you wanted to stay away from. Speaking as some one who was around in those days, but who only has peripheral involvement in VM these days, I would have said that for many applications SFS was a great tool. No one ever had enough 3380s, the floor space and power they used saw to that. Then when you physically carve them into MINIDISKS you waste a huge chunk of them, because every one has their own private chunk of free space. Where I worked we would have loved to give every one SFS A disk. One problem that slowed its deployment was getting IBM products to support it. I can see from http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/browse?fn=6SP02ft=PROB That VM/SP6 came out some time in early 89 (or perhaps late 88 which would give us 20 years of SFS, was it that long ago) But I can also see from:- http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/browse?fn=OVVMft=PROBargs=sfs#hit That almost three years later, in March 92 PROFS would not support SFS A disks. I don't think real PROFS ever supported SFS A disk, I think we had to have OV/VM for that... I must admit I now find it mildly amusing to have IBM telling us we need to use it Dave Jim So while I appreciate the frustration of having to worry about SFS when you haven't in the past, the time has come for us to exploit something we introduced over 20 years ago in VM/SP Release 6. Regards, Alan Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development -- Jim Bohnsack Cornell University (607) 255-1760 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SFS
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 7:37 AM, Dave Wade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That almost three years later, in March 92 PROFS would not support SFS A disks. I don't think real PROFS ever supported SFS A disk, I think we had to have OV/VM for that... I vaguely recall that support was in that they replaced the Q DISK (to check for some number of blocks free) by COPYFILE to try copy some dummy file to the A-disk and erase it again. Sigh... Rob
