Re: Extension of MAINT 190 (S-DISK)
Kris, I would also be interested in SESCOMP. Regards, Fox On Mon, 19 May 2008 18:09:43 +0200, Kris Buelens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You forget the VMSES PARTCAT: I've got entries in VMSES PARTCAT for all the things I store on 19E, even y own code gets a dummy prodid. VMFCOPY can then be used to copy all files of a prodid. And, I wouldn't be me if I hadn't coded an exec to help with the task: my SESCOMP first compares VMSES PARTCAT with LISTFILE and helps you to add missing entries in VMSES PARTCAT. You do that for the old and new disk. The you can tell SESCOMP to compare the PARTCATs of two minidisks; it produces a list prodids and number of files; PF-keys allow to copy or FILELIST files of a prodid. This way, merging two minidisks is quickly done. Ask and you shall be given. But, indeed: most products live on a separate minidisk (like GDDM 191, DITTO 191, ...), only stuff that needs to be available to everyone lives on our 19E. Examples: RAC, VMBACKUP, VMTAPE, some local helpfiles. -- Kris Buelens, IBM Belgium, VM customer support =
Re: mixed case messages
Since one might have as many as RDR files, this EXEC could be inadequate to retrieve everything. Consider a QUERY FILES first. Even though the output from QUERY RDR isn't 100 bytes, I use the extra size for self-defense. /* R E X X */ Address Command 'PIPE CP QUERY FILES *', '| SPECS W2' , '| VAR N' 'PIPE CP' 100*N 'Q RDR * ALL', '| drop 1', '| xlate 54-71 a-z a', '| locate 54-71 a', '| spec w2 1', '| stem files.' Richard Corak
Re: mixed case messages
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Richard Corak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since one might have as many as RDR files, this EXEC could be inadequate to retrieve everything. Consider a QUERY FILES first. Even though the output from QUERY RDR isn't 100 bytes, I use the extra size for self-defense. For CP QUERY commands, CMS Pipelines has the strategy to extend the buffer automagically when the response does not fit, and repeat the query until it worked. That mechanism is disabled when you specify a buffer size yourself. The lines don't really get longer, but you could end up with more spool files than when you issued the first query. You might want to connect the secondary output of the stage to see whether the response is incomplete. With the Q FILES in your code, a class D user would be on the very safe side... :-) Rob PS The automatic extending of the buffer only works for QUERY commands. I wasted a long evening when part of the output of a DISPLAY was disappearing...
Re: mixed case messages
Good point, but for QUERY commands PIPE's CP stage will re-issue the command (with a larger buffer) if the default buffer is too small. But, as a Q RDR is relatively costly, this repetition can indeed be avoided by specifying a buffer. To insert between both pipes: if n='NO' then files.0=0 else 2008/5/20 Richard Corak [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Since one might have as many as RDR files, this EXEC could be inadequate to retrieve everything. Consider a QUERY FILES first. Even though the output from QUERY RDR isn't 100 bytes, I use the extra size for self-defense. /* R E X X */ Address Command 'PIPE CP QUERY FILES *', '| SPECS W2' , '| VAR N' 'PIPE CP' 100*N 'Q RDR * ALL', '| drop 1', '| xlate 54-71 a-z a', '| locate 54-71 a', '| spec w2 1', '| stem files.' Richard Corak -- Kris Buelens, IBM Belgium, VM customer support
BACKING up VMTAPE's AUDIT and TMC
where do I find the VMTBKP EXEC to backup VMTAPE's AUDIT and TMC disks.. _ Change the world with e-mail. Join the i’m Initiative from Microsoft. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Join/Default.aspx?source=EML_WL_ChangeWorld
XEDIT and non-printables
Whilst (carefully) xediting a file containing mixed printable and non-printable characters I've found that certain x'11' characters have been changed to x'40's. Any ideas what the cause might be would be most welcome. ian ... Ian S. Worthington, MBCS. me: http://isw.me.uk/ photos: http://gallery.isw.me.uk/ Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, sed dulcius pro patria vivere, et dulcissimus pro patria biber. Ergo, bibiamo pro salute patriae.
Re: XEDIT and non-printables
Depends on what you mean by carefully. Whenever you overtype any character on a line, the whole line is processed and many times unprintable characters get translated. I learned EDIT (before there was full screen) and I always resort to using c/stringin/stringout/ commands or ALTER bytein byteout commands when editing a file that has unprintables in it. Just to be safe. Bob Bates Enterprise Hosting Services - Enterprise Virtualization - z/VM and z/Linux w. (469)892-6660 c. (214) 907-5071 This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian S. Worthington Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 9:48 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: XEDIT and non-printables Whilst (carefully) xediting a file containing mixed printable and non-printable characters I've found that certain x'11' characters have been changed to x'40's. Any ideas what the cause might be would be most welcome. ian ... Ian S. Worthington, MBCS. me: http://isw.me.uk/ photos: http://gallery.isw.me.uk/ Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, sed dulcius pro patria vivere, et dulcissimus pro patria biber. Ergo, bibiamo pro salute patriae.
Re: BACKING up VMTAPE's AUDIT and TMC
Clifford, Look on the VMRMAINT 158 disk. The files associated with administration should be there. If not, look in the VMTAPE MDISKS file on the VMRMAINT 192 disk. The line that has TVMSI in the beginning identifies the disk these files should be loaded on. Yvonne CA From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of clifford jackson Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 10:22 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: BACKING up VMTAPE's AUDIT and TMC where do I find the VMTBKP EXEC to backup VMTAPE's AUDIT and TMC disks.. Change the world with e-mail. Join the i'm Initiative from Microsoft. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Join/Default.aspx?source=EML_WL_ChangeW orld
Re: VSWITCH question
You could also add the SET VSWITCH GRANT statements to AUTOLOG1's profile (prior to RACF/VM or your ESM's autologging, as TCPIP and such should be autologged in AUTOLOG2 profile exec in that case) OR you could add a profile for the GRANT statements via RACF/VM or your ESM if you have one and are really tight on security requirements. Doug -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System on behalf of Hodge, Robert L Sent: Fri 16-May-08 18:45 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: VSWITCH question XAUTOLOG the VSWITCH controller userids; typically DTCVSW1 and DTCVSW2. Add the the XAUTOLOG of DTCVSW1 and DTCVSW2 to the PROFILE EXEC on the A-disk on AUTOLOG1 or AUTOLOG2 for the next IPL of the z/VM system. Add define and modify statements to the z/VM SYSTEM CONFIG for the next time z/VM is IPL'ed. DEFINE VSWITCH SWITCH1 RDEV devno CONNECT MODIFY VSWITCH SWITCH1 GRANT userid From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Allen Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 4:21 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: VSWITCH question I have an OS/390 guest running under z/VM 5.2 using 3 dedicated OSA addresses. The OS/390 guest is IPL'd using the system residence pack. I would like to have the OS/390 guest use a z/VM VSWITCH. I have a copyrighted 2004 IBM Corporation document showing four (4) steps. Step 1. Define the switch : CP DEFINE VSWITCH SWITCH1 RDEV devno CONNECT Step 2. Authorize a connection: CP SET VSWITCH SWITCH1 GRANT userid Step 3. Define a virtual Network Interface Card: CP DEFINE NIC F00 Step 4. Plug NIC into switch: CP COUPLE F00 TO SYSTEM SWITCH1 I have done steps 1 and 2 manually. I have put a NICDEF statement in the USER DIRECT file for the OS/390 guest: NICDEF 104 TYPE QDIO DEV 3 LAN SYSTEM SWITCH1 Is there anything else I need to do ? ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. **
Re: BACKING up VMTAPE's AUDIT and TMC
I think it's usually the VMRMAINT 158 minidisk ... Log on to VMRMAINT ... issue VMIADM ... select VM:Tape from the list of products ... from the Tasks list select TLIBR. This will access the disks needed to run backups, reports, etc. against the TMC and AUDIT files. If you have addtional questions or problems, just call CA VM Support ... JR (Steven) Imler CA Senior Software Engineer Tel: +1 703 708 3479 Fax: +1 703 708 3267 [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of clifford jackson Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 10:22 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: BACKING up VMTAPE's AUDIT and TMC where do I find the VMTBKP EXEC to backup VMTAPE's AUDIT and TMC disks.. Change the world with e-mail. Join the i'm Initiative from Microsoft. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Join/Default.aspx?source=EML_WL_ChangeW orld
Re: XEDIT and non-printables
You can instruct CMS to translate non-printables: SET NONDISP is the default. With this setting: when XEDIT encounters a char in a position on a changed line, it keeps the non-printable if it was non-printable before, otherwise it becomes a . Hence: if you delete of insert characters that make the move, the non-printable is lost and replaced by a . (a 3270 can't tell XEDIT what happened in a field, XEDIT can only know which fields got changed) I also learned that this nice theory doesn't work if running with SET TEXT ON or SET APL ON, every non-printable becomes a if you touch the line. Therefore: - avoid touching lines with non-printables - set the NONDISP character to something else than , best a character you cannot type on the keyboard (and not a blank like you seem to have). 2008/5/20 Bob Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Depends on what you mean by carefully. Whenever you overtype any character on a line, the whole line is processed and many times unprintable characters get translated. I learned EDIT (before there was full screen) and I always resort to using c/stringin/stringout/ commands or ALTER bytein byteout commands when editing a file that has unprintables in it. Just to be safe. Bob Bates Enterprise Hosting Services - Enterprise Virtualization - z/VM and z/Linux w. (469)892-6660 c. (214) 907-5071 This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian S. Worthington Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 9:48 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: XEDIT and non-printables Whilst (carefully) xediting a file containing mixed printable and non-printable characters I've found that certain x'11' characters have been changed to x'40's. Any ideas what the cause might be would be most welcome. ian ... Ian S. Worthington, MBCS. me: http://isw.me.uk/ photos: http://gallery.isw.me.uk/ Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, sed dulcius pro patria vivere, et dulcissimus pro patria biber. Ergo, bibiamo pro salute patriae. -- Kris Buelens, IBM Belgium, VM customer support
Re: VSWITCH question
Someone commented that it was somewhat clunky, but what we've been doing for the grants is to add two COMMAND statements to each guest's CP Directory entry (actually via an include); the first does the grant for the user, and the second does a couple to connect up the vSwitch, if it isn't already connected. Before this, each new Linux guest had to be added to either the SYSTEM CONFIG (problematic) or AUTOLOG1 (time consuming), and either method allows the person doing it to forget, make a mistake or make some typo in the addition that could cause problems much later during the next IPL, at which time it will take at least a short time to diagnose and repair. Having the whole thing taken care of in one entry in the CP Directory, and included in each guest that needs it, is much less prone to any errors someone (such as me) might tend to make. It's one less thing to remember when creating a new Linux guest. -- Robert P. Nix Mayo Foundation.~. RO-OE-5-55 200 First Street SW/V\ 507-284-0844 Rochester, MN 55905 /( )\ -^^-^^ In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, theory and practice are different. On 5/20/08 10:40 AM, Ponte, Doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could also add the SET VSWITCH GRANT statements to AUTOLOG1's profile (prior to RACF/VM or your ESM's autologging, as TCPIP and such should be autologged in AUTOLOG2 profile exec in that case) OR you could add a profile for the GRANT statements via RACF/VM or your ESM if you have one and are really tight on security requirements. Doug -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System on behalf of Hodge, Robert L Sent: Fri 16-May-08 18:45 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: VSWITCH question XAUTOLOG the VSWITCH controller userids; typically DTCVSW1 and DTCVSW2. Add the the XAUTOLOG of DTCVSW1 and DTCVSW2 to the PROFILE EXEC on the A-disk on AUTOLOG1 or AUTOLOG2 for the next IPL of the z/VM system. Add define and modify statements to the z/VM SYSTEM CONFIG for the next time z/VM is IPL'ed. DEFINE VSWITCH SWITCH1 RDEV devno CONNECT MODIFY VSWITCH SWITCH1 GRANT userid From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Allen Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 4:21 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: VSWITCH question I have an OS/390 guest running under z/VM 5.2 using 3 dedicated OSA addresses. The OS/390 guest is IPL'd using the system residence pack. I would like to have the OS/390 guest use a z/VM VSWITCH. I have a copyrighted 2004 IBM Corporation document showing four (4) steps. Step 1. Define the switch : CP DEFINE VSWITCH SWITCH1 RDEV devno CONNECT Step 2. Authorize a connection: CP SET VSWITCH SWITCH1 GRANT userid Step 3. Define a virtual Network Interface Card: CP DEFINE NIC F00 Step 4. Plug NIC into switch: CP COUPLE F00 TO SYSTEM SWITCH1 I have done steps 1 and 2 manually. I have put a NICDEF statement in the USER DIRECT file for the OS/390 guest: NICDEF 104 TYPE QDIO DEV 3 LAN SYSTEM SWITCH1 Is there anything else I need to do ? ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. **
Re: XEDIT and non-printables
I have seen this before. The x'11' seems to be special 'sometimes'. I just tried it with x3270 and did not have a problem. The last time I hit it was many years ago about the time I was using either extra or a real 3270 device so I think it is hardware or emulator related. (I really think it was back on real hardware.) Tony Thigpen -Original Message - From: Ian S. Worthington Sent: 05/20/2008 10:48 AM Whilst (carefully) xediting a file containing mixed printable and non-printable characters I've found that certain x'11' characters have been changed to x'40's. Any ideas what the cause might be would be most welcome. ian ... Ian S. Worthington, MBCS. me: http://isw.me.uk/ photos: http://gallery.isw.me.uk/ Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, sed dulcius pro patria vivere, et dulcissimus pro patria biber. Ergo, bibiamo pro salute patriae.
Re: XEDIT and non-printables
Tony: FWIW, I seem to recall that emulator cards (IRMA) gave me a problem with x'11'. David Wakser -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Thigpen Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 12:58 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: XEDIT and non-printables I have seen this before. The x'11' seems to be special 'sometimes'. I just tried it with x3270 and did not have a problem. The last time I hit it was many years ago about the time I was using either extra or a real 3270 device so I think it is hardware or emulator related. (I really think it was back on real hardware.) Tony Thigpen
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Re: XEDIT and non-printables
Xedit will never send X'11' to a 3270 when present in data, everything below X'40' is replaced by the non-disp character. 3270 control characters do exist below x'40': Start field, Set Buffer address, .. But I don't know these by heart. 2008/5/20 Wakser, David [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Tony: FWIW, I seem to recall that emulator cards (IRMA) gave me a problem with x'11'. David Wakser -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Thigpen Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 12:58 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: XEDIT and non-printables I have seen this before. The x'11' seems to be special 'sometimes'. I just tried it with x3270 and did not have a problem. The last time I hit it was many years ago about the time I was using either extra or a real 3270 device so I think it is hardware or emulator related. (I really think it was back on real hardware.) Tony Thigpen -- Kris Buelens, IBM Belgium, VM customer support
Re: XEDIT and non-printables
Checking my 3270 Reference Summary after blowing the dust off I see - x'11' is 'Set Buffer Address' - the next two bytes are the address on the screen where following characters are displayed. Kris Buelens wrote: Xedit will never send X'11' to a 3270 when present in data, everything below X'40' is replaced by the non-disp character. 3270 control characters do exist below x'40': Start field, Set Buffer address, .. But I don't know these by heart. -- Stephen Frazier Information Technology Unit Oklahoma Department of Corrections 3400 Martin Luther King Oklahoma City, Ok, 73111-4298 Tel.: (405) 425-2549 Fax: (405) 425-2554 Pager: (405) 690-1828 email: stevef%doc.state.ok.us
Accounting and indicate user CPU time counters
Question about time counters. In the Type 1 Accounting records, the following values can be found: 33-36 Milliseconds of processor time used, including time for supervisor functions 37-40 Milliseconds of virtual CPU time used With an INDICATE USER command, I can get these: VTIME=mmm:ss indicates the total virtual time for the user, in minutes and seconds . TTIME=mmm:ss indicates the total virtual and simulation time for the user, in minutes and seconds. Two questions. 1) Are these really coming from the same internal control block (and what is that called)? 2) In what case would my VTIME be greater than my TTIME? We are seeing accounting records where the virtual time (37-40) is greate r than the processor time + supervisor functions (33-36). My common sense i s telling me that shouldn't happen, but maybe that is 'normal' to happen sometimes. And boy wouldn't it be nice if all these things used the same names and descriptions to avoid confusion! Thanks, __ Tom Stewart Infrastructure Analyst John Deere - z/OS Support Services [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XEDIT and non-printables
If you need to edit data with non-printables, ensure that you have IMAGE set to OFF - this will stop XEDIT from trying to treat occurrences of x'05' as TAB characters and x'16' as backspace characters. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Frazier Sent: Wednesday, 21 May 2008 5:16 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: XEDIT and non-printables Checking my 3270 Reference Summary after blowing the dust off I see - x'11' is 'Set Buffer Address' - the next two bytes are the address on the screen where following characters are displayed. Kris Buelens wrote: Xedit will never send X'11' to a 3270 when present in data, everything below X'40' is replaced by the non-disp character. 3270 control characters do exist below x'40': Start field, Set Buffer address, .. But I don't know these by heart. -- Stephen Frazier Information Technology Unit Oklahoma Department of Corrections 3400 Martin Luther King Oklahoma City, Ok, 73111-4298 Tel.: (405) 425-2549 Fax: (405) 425-2554 Pager: (405) 690-1828 email: stevef%doc.state.ok.us
Re: XEDIT and non-printables
And don't forget 'SET CASE MIXED RESPECT' when editing binary data. /Tom Kern Gillis, Mark wrote: If you need to edit data with non-printables, ensure that you have IMAGE set to OFF - this will stop XEDIT from trying to treat occurrences of x'05' as TAB characters and x'16' as backspace characters. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Frazier Sent: Wednesday, 21 May 2008 5:16 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: XEDIT and non-printables Checking my 3270 Reference Summary after blowing the dust off I see - x'11' is 'Set Buffer Address' - the next two bytes are the address on the screen where following characters are displayed. Kris Buelens wrote: Xedit will never send X'11' to a 3270 when present in data, everything below X'40' is replaced by the non-disp character. 3270 control characters do exist below x'40': Start field, Set Buffer address, .. But I don't know these by heart.
Re: XEDIT and non-printables
CASE MIXED IGNORE is as good 2008/5/20 Thomas Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED]: And don't forget 'SET CASE MIXED RESPECT' when editing binary data. /Tom Kern Gillis, Mark wrote: If you need to edit data with non-printables, ensure that you have IMAGE set to OFF - this will stop XEDIT from trying to treat occurrences of x'05' as TAB characters and x'16' as backspace characters. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Frazier Sent: Wednesday, 21 May 2008 5:16 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: XEDIT and non-printables Checking my 3270 Reference Summary after blowing the dust off I see - x'11' is 'Set Buffer Address' - the next two bytes are the address on the screen where following characters are displayed. Kris Buelens wrote: Xedit will never send X'11' to a 3270 when present in data, everything below X'40' is replaced by the non-disp character. 3270 control characters do exist below x'40': Start field, Set Buffer address, .. But I don't know these by heart. -- Kris Buelens, IBM Belgium, VM customer support
Re: Accounting and indicate user CPU time counters
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Tom Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And boy wouldn't it be nice if all these things used the same names and descriptions to avoid confusion! But they are different... http://www.vm.ibm.com/pubs/cp530/VMDBK.HTML The source for this is the VMDBK for the user, where you have VMDTTIME and VMDVTIME in TOD format. Q TIME (and IND USER) show the total usage since the start of the session. But the account records are not cumulative so there's VMDATTMP and VMDAVTMP that hold the VMDTTIME and VMDVTIME at the last ACNT. There will be errors due to rounding and truncation, but I don't see how that could make your VTIME larger than your TTIME. If the difference is significant, I'd say something is broken. Rob
Re: XEDIT and non-printables
Many thanks to all. Made appropriate changes to the profile and re-edited successfully this time. i
Re: Mystery paging
IIRC, pages read from SPOOL-resident DCSSs are counted as paging I/O, so the scenario you describe in your third paragraph is certainly a possibility. Marty -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Holder Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 3:30 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Mystery paging The dataspace usage is certainly a good thing to check, but there are at least a couple of other possibilities: The paging rate numbers are across time, whereas the Q ALLOC PAGE output is instantaneous. It could be that there's a low volume of paging to/from paging DASD going on, but the pages that are read in are immediately changed, which would cause CP to discard the copy out on paging DASD when CP notices the page change. So it needn't be the same page read 13 times a second, it could be a bunch of different pages which are then immediately changed, for which CP then discards the paging DASD copy. I'd have to check, but it seems possible that demand paging of spool pages from (and even possibly to) spool volumes could account for this, I'd have to check how those get counted. In particular, if you have a very lightly used NSS or DCSS, that only tends to be loaded by one user at a time, and it is frequently purged and then reloaded, the initial page fault block reads from spool might show up like this. - Bill Holder z/VM development, IBM
Re: VSWITCH question
On Tuesday, 05/20/2008 at 02:37 EDT, RPN01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone commented that it was somewhat clunky, but what we've been doing for the grants is to add two COMMAND statements to each guest's CP Directory entry (actually via an include); the first does the grant for the user, and the second does a couple to connect up the vSwitch, if it isn't already connected. Before this, each new Linux guest had to be added to either the SYSTEM CONFIG (problematic) or AUTOLOG1 (time consuming), and either method allows the person doing it to forget, make a mistake or make some typo in the addition that could cause problems much later during the next IPL, at which time it will take at least a short time to diagnose and repair. Having the whole thing taken care of in one entry in the CP Directory, and included in each guest that needs it, is much less prone to any errors someone (such as me) might tend to make. It's one less thing to remember when creating a new Linux guest. Or the NICDEF plus a single entry in your ESM. RACF has authorization controls for VSWITCHes, Guest LANs, and VLAN IDs. Set it and forget it. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
