Re: IODF question
Check to insure that your z/VM system is included in the access list for the CHPID attached to the control unit defined to the 1B00-1B0F devices. Joseph Di Pippo Operating Systems Programmer III FRIT Computing Services z/OS, z/VM, Hardware Support 1-201-531-3820 From: Daniel Allen dal...@serena.com To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Date: 08/04/2010 06:50 PM Subject:Re: IODF question Sent by:The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU The command ?DELETE RDEV 1B00-1B0F? did not work. I did a ?VARY OFF SUB 1B00-1B0F?. That command worked. Then I did a ?SET RDEV 1B00-1B0F TYPE 3278?. That command worked. Then I did a ?VARY ON SUB 1B00-1B0F? and it worked. Then I did a ?VARY ON 1B00? and got the following message: HCPCPN6283I Device 1B00 cannot be varied online because no channel path is available. I am sure that there is no 3174 plugged in. Once it gets plugged in, I should be able to vary on the addresses. Is that correct ? From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 3:27 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: IODF question If you didn't go down, then delete the rdev (delete rdev command) and then do the define rdev and 'set rdev type 3270_display although, if you did a POR and shutdown VM, given what you have in system config, all should be fine. Is there anywhere else, autolog2 maybe?, where you did set set rdev ? From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Daniel Allen Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 3:24 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: [IBMVM] IODF question This is the only thing in the SYSTEM CONFIG file that says anything about devices: /**/ /*Status of Devices */ /**/ Devices , Online_at_IPL -, Sensed - From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 3:15 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: IODF question No. Is there sometihing in your SYSTEM CONFIG file that suggests they are? From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Daniel Allen Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 3:13 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: [IBMVM] IODF question We build and activate our IODF using z/OS HCD. z/VM 5.3 and 5.4 recognize the change. In our z/OS IODF, we have addresses 1B00-1B0F as 3278-2 devices. However, according to z/VM 5.4, addresses 1B00-1B0F are DASD devices. Last weekend, we did a POR (Power On Reset). Is there something in z/VM 5.4 that does not allow certain addresses to be 3278-2 devices ?
Re: New z/VM Red Alert posting
Hello All, It's come to my attention that attendees at this week's SHARE have been informed that only a 610 level SSL Scalability and Enhancement PTF would be provided. For the record, PTFs for both the 540 and 610 levels will be m ade available. Regards, Mark Cibula (z/VM TCP/IP Support)
Pushing replies to Linux SLES 11 upgrade from a REXX EXEC
I hope this gets through...(and a Hello! from a new member if it does!) I've been assigned a recent project of trying to automate the initial responses of a SLES 11 upgrade to servers running under z/VM 5.3. I'm trying to automate the replies up until the point in the process where SSH is launched to start yast. I've tried PUSH and QUEUE without success. I'm more of a VM'er than Linuxite and just looking for a nudge in the right direction. I'm working on a 3270 emulator macro (Passport PC to Host) at present, which is a little tedious. What I'm seeing is after the guest machine's reader is IPL'd, CMS goes away and we're in a Linux environment, no?
Re: Pushing replies to Linux SLES 11 upgrade from a REXX EXEC
A config file with all the prompts and responses is what you're looking for. Something like this RAMDISK_SIZE=98304 ROOT=/DEV/RAM1 RO INIT=/LINUXRC TERM=DUMB HostIP=nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn Hostname=host.domain Gateway=nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn Nameserver=nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn InstNetDev=osa Netmask=255.255.255.0 Broadcast=nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn OsaInterface=qdio OsaMedium=eth ReadChannel=0.0.0100 WriteChannel=0.0.0101 DataChannel=0.0.0102 portname=SWCH1 Install=http://nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn/sles10-sp2 OSAHWAddr='' PortNo=0 Usevnc=1 layer2=1 vncpassword=password On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Tom Duggan dugg...@emigrant.com wrote: I hope this gets through...(and a Hello! from a new member if it does!) I've been assigned a recent project of trying to automate the initial responses of a SLES 11 upgrade to servers running under z/VM 5.3. I'm trying to automate the replies up until the point in the process where SSH is launched to start yast. I've tried PUSH and QUEUE without success. I'm more of a VM'er than Linuxite and just looking for a nudge in the right direction. I'm working on a 3270 emulator macro (Passport PC to Host) at present, which is a little tedious. What I'm seeing is after the guest machine's reader is IPL'd, CMS goes away and we're in a Linux environment, no? -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: Pushing replies to Linux SLES 11 upgrade from a REXX EXEC
On Thursday, 08/05/2010 at 09:37 EDT, Tom Duggan dugg...@emigrant.com wrote: I hope this gets through...(and a Hello! from a new member if it does!) I've been assigned a recent project of trying to automate the initial responses of a SLES 11 upgrade to servers running under z/VM 5.3. I'm trying to automate the replies up until the point in the process where SSH is launched to start yast. I've tried PUSH and QUEUE without success. I'm more of a VM'er than Linuxite and just looking for a nudge in the right direction. I'm working on a 3270 emulator macro (Passport PC to Host) at present, which is a little tedious. What I'm seeing is after the guest machine's reader is IPL'd, CMS goes away and we're in a Linux environment, no? That's exactly right. Automation if this sort requires TWO virtual machines. One drives the other via the Single Console Image Facility (SCIF): UserA: CP SET SECUSER USERB UserB: CP SEND CP USERA IPL 999 UserB: watches for a prompt UserB: CP SEND USERA Answer number 1 UserB: watches for another prompt UserB: CP SEND USERA Answer number 2 and so on. All command output and other virtual machine console I/O is sent to UserB. UserB can trap it with the WAKEUP command or other home-grown solutions. There are commercial automation offerings such as IBM Operations Manager for z/VM that have this kind of thing already built into them (among other capabilities). You tell them what user(s) to watch, what to watch for, and how to respond. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
Re: Pushing replies to Linux SLES 11 upgrade from a REXX EXEC
You've already received good responses to the original question. But there may be more when the question is looked at from a different direction. Why would you need a script to reply to upgrade prompts? Could you not have one golden image Linux server disk that is cloned for each server to use (or linked R/O)? That's the beauty of running under z/VM... you can have one Linux system disk, all linked read-only by many servers. Then individual server upgrades are made simply by changing a LINK statement in their directory entry, shutting them down. logging them off, and XAUTOLOGing them back on. They come up with the new (presumable well-tested) Linux distro maintenance. Obviously, there are a lot of steps involved to get to that point - but it should be worth the effort of you have many Linux servers - you will save lots of disk space - you know that all servers are running the same exact tested/audited system - upgrade implementations become extremely easy (and more successful) There are many IBM Redbooks, Redpapers, and other doc related to this method. There is a 100% chance of someone else sharing (before the end of the day) pointers to current-state methods to do this. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates The opinions expressed herein are mine alone, not my employer's. Tom Duggan dugg...@emigrant.com Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 08/05/2010 08:09 AM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Pushing replies to Linux SLES 11 upgrade from a REXX EXEC I hope this gets through...(and a Hello! from a new member if it does!) I've been assigned a recent project of trying to automate the initial responses of a SLES 11 upgrade to servers running under z/VM 5.3. I'm trying to automate the replies up until the point in the process where SSH is launched to start yast. I've tried PUSH and QUEUE without success. I'm more of a VM'er than Linuxite and just looking for a nudge in the right direction. I'm working on a 3270 emulator macro (Passport PC to Host) at present, which is a little tedious. What I'm seeing is after the guest machine's reader is IPL'd, CMS goes away and we're in a Linux environment, no? The information contained in this e-mail and any accompanying documents may contain information that is confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, or if this message has been addressed to you in error, please immediately alert the sender by reply e-mail and then delete this message, including any attachments. Any dissemination, distribution or other use of the contents of this message by anyone other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited. All messages sent to and from this e-mail address may be monitored as permitted by applicable law and regulations to ensure compliance with our internal policies and to protect our business. E-mails are not secure and cannot be guaranteed to be error free as they can be intercepted, amended, lost or destroyed, or contain viruses. You are deemed to have accepted these risks if you communicate with us by e-mail.
BFS problem
I'm trying to run PUT2PROD on the latest maintenance, RSU 1002 for z/VM 5.4, and have hit a BFS roadblock. While PUT2PROD is working on TCPIP, I'm seeing a BFS error for LDAPSRV. The LDAPSRV id, the POSIXGROUP statements, and the LDAPSRV POSIXINFO are the same as when they were delivered from IBM with 5.4. I'm getting the following error in the PUT2PROD $CONS: DTCPRD3021I TCP2PROD processing started DTCPRD3018I No options in effect DTCPRD3040I Issuing command: VMFSIM QUERY SERVP2P PPF TDATA :COMPNAME TCPIPP2P :PRODID (STEM !VMF DTCPRD3006I Product ID in effect: 5VMTCP40%TCPIP DTCPRD3012I Obtaining PPF :DCL. information... DTCPRD3019I Processing file(s) for: BFS LDAPSRV LOADBFS I -- BFS RC=0 from EXEC OPENVM UNMOUNT / DMSOVO2129E GID not found for system ERROR: RC=32 from EXEC OPENVM OWNER /../VMBFS:VMSYS:LDAPSRV/ system LDAPSRV DTCPRD3038E LOADBFS command completed with RC = 1 Any suggestions as to what I can do with this would be appreciated. BFS is an absolute mystery to me. Jim -- James Bohnsack (972) 596-6377 home/office (972) 342-5823 cell
Re: BFS problem
On Thursday, 08/05/2010 at 11:08 EDT, Jim Bohnsack jab...@cornell.edu wrote: I'm trying to run PUT2PROD on the latest maintenance, RSU 1002 for z/VM 5.4, and have hit a BFS roadblock. While PUT2PROD is working on TCPIP, I'm seeing a BFS error for LDAPSRV. The LDAPSRV id, the POSIXGROUP statements, and the LDAPSRV POSIXINFO are the same as when they were delivered from IBM with 5.4. I'm getting the following error in the PUT2PROD $CONS: DTCPRD3021I TCP2PROD processing started DTCPRD3018I No options in effect DTCPRD3040I Issuing command: VMFSIM QUERY SERVP2P PPF TDATA :COMPNAME TCPIPP2P :PRODID (STEM !VMF DTCPRD3006I Product ID in effect: 5VMTCP40%TCPIP DTCPRD3012I Obtaining PPF :DCL. information... DTCPRD3019I Processing file(s) for: BFS LDAPSRV LOADBFS I -- BFS RC=0 from EXEC OPENVM UNMOUNT / DMSOVO2129E GID not found for system ERROR: RC=32 from EXEC OPENVM OWNER /../VMBFS:VMSYS:LDAPSRV/ system LDAPSRV DTCPRD3038E LOADBFS command completed with RC = 1 Any suggestions as to what I can do with this would be appreciated. BFS is an absolute mystery to me. Perhaps you have an ESM running and the ESM is in charge of posix stuff? E.g. in RACF, if you enable it to manage POSIX stuff by coding the ICHNGMAX macro in HCPRWA, you have to 'ADDGROUP system' with an OVM segment that has GID 0. (And that would have been done for you when you ran RPIDIRCT at enablement time.) Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
Re: BFS problem
The statements are the same, but does that mean that group system is in fact defined? Check for that group in your POSIXGROUP statements. The DMSOVO2129E message says it's looking for a GID, the number behind the name. Forgive me if you already know this. A lot of VMers are still new to POSIX things like UID numbers and GID numbers and the very idea of putting them into the CP Directory. I think it was a brilliant stroke and very well implemented, though it took me some time to become fully indoctrinated with what the Endicott team had done. -- R; On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 11:08, Jim Bohnsack jab...@cornell.edu wrote: I'm trying to run PUT2PROD on the latest maintenance, RSU 1002 for z/VM 5.4, and have hit a BFS roadblock. While PUT2PROD is working on TCPIP, I'm seeing a BFS error for LDAPSRV. The LDAPSRV id, the POSIXGROUP statements, and the LDAPSRV POSIXINFO are the same as when they were delivered from IBM with 5.4. I'm getting the following error in the PUT2PROD $CONS: DTCPRD3021I TCP2PROD processing started DTCPRD3018I No options in effect DTCPRD3040I Issuing command: VMFSIM QUERY SERVP2P PPF TDATA :COMPNAME TCPIPP2P :PRODID (STEM !VMF DTCPRD3006I Product ID in effect: 5VMTCP40%TCPIP DTCPRD3012I Obtaining PPF :DCL. information... DTCPRD3019I Processing file(s) for: BFS LDAPSRV LOADBFS I -- BFS RC=0 from EXEC OPENVM UNMOUNT / DMSOVO2129E GID not found for system ERROR: RC=32 from EXEC OPENVM OWNER /../VMBFS:VMSYS:LDAPSRV/ system LDAPSRV DTCPRD3038E LOADBFS command completed with RC = 1 Any suggestions as to what I can do with this would be appreciated. BFS is an absolute mystery to me. Jim -- James Bohnsack (972) 596-6377 home/office (972) 342-5823 cell
Re: BFS problem
Jim, To continue with Rick Troth's note ... make sure the following statements exist in your CP directory GLOBALDEFS POSIXGROUP system 0 POSIXGROUP staff1 POSIXGROUP bin 2 POSIXGROUP sys 3 POSIXGROUP adm 4 POSIXGROUP mail 6 POSIXGROUP security 7 POSIXGROUP nobody 4294967294 * USER ROOT NOLOG 32M 128M G POSIXINFO UID 0 GNAME system * USER DAEMON NOLOG 32M 128M G POSIXINFO UID 2 GNAME staff * USER BIN NOLOG 32M 128M G POSIXINFO UID 2 GNAME bin * USER SYS NOLOG 32M 128M G POSIXINFO UID 3 GNAME sys * USER ADM NOLOG 32M 128M G POSIXINFO UID 3 GNAME adm * USER NOBODY NOLOG 32M 128M G POSIXINFO UID 4294967294 GNAME nobody -- These entries are all shipped in the default CP directory, but maybe they were removed or commented out in yours? If they are present and you have an ESM running, then you need to do what Alan Altmark described in his post. Cheers! Mike Donovan From: Jim Bohnsack jab...@cornell.edu To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Date: 08/05/2010 11:12 AM Subject:BFS problem Sent by:The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU I'm trying to run PUT2PROD on the latest maintenance, RSU 1002 for z/VM 5.4, and have hit a BFS roadblock. While PUT2PROD is working on TCPIP, I'm seeing a BFS error for LDAPSRV. The LDAPSRV id, the POSIXGROUP statements, and the LDAPSRV POSIXINFO are the same as when they were delivered from IBM with 5.4. I'm getting the following error in the PUT2PROD $CONS: DTCPRD3021I TCP2PROD processing started DTCPRD3018I No options in effect DTCPRD3040I Issuing command: VMFSIM QUERY SERVP2P PPF TDATA :COMPNAME TCPIPP2P :PRODID (STEM !VMF DTCPRD3006I Product ID in effect: 5VMTCP40%TCPIP DTCPRD3012I Obtaining PPF :DCL. information... DTCPRD3019I Processing file(s) for: BFS LDAPSRV LOADBFS I -- BFS RC=0 from EXEC OPENVM UNMOUNT / DMSOVO2129E GID not found for system ERROR: RC=32 from EXEC OPENVM OWNER /../VMBFS:VMSYS:LDAPSRV/ system LDAPSRV DTCPRD3038E LOADBFS command completed with RC = 1 Any suggestions as to what I can do with this would be appreciated. BFS is an absolute mystery to me. Jim -- James Bohnsack (972) 596-6377 home/office (972) 342-5823 cell
Re: Pushing replies to Linux SLES 11 upgrade from a REXX EXEC
On 8/5/2010 at 09:09 AM, Tom Duggandugg...@emigrant.com wrote: I'm trying to automate the replies up until the point in the process where SSH is launched to start yast. Is this really an upgrade from a prior version, or a new install? As others have pointed out, the parmfile will get you to the point of SSH running without any scripting. If it is a brand new install, then you really want to use AutoYaST. Beginning with SLES11, a complete AutoYaST file, coupled with the (declared) use of VNC will allow you to perform completely unattended installs. That is, you don't have to connect via SSH or VNC for the install to run from start to finish. Mark Post Novell Technical Support
