Re: WAVV Re: VM Workshop -- Locations
Hello Everyone, Now that I am over to the z/OS side, I wish that the z/OS people had something as good as WAVV. The lectures at WAVV are verbal IBM REDBOOKS.Hands on with people that have actually done the work. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 Ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Hans Rempel Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 1:35 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: WAVV Re: VM Workshop -- Locations I concur with Bill. I might have shouted louder by bolding ABSOLUTELY NOT. WAVV has excellent presentations, many IBM presentations are the same and given by the same people that present at SHARE and IBM tech conference. WAVV is not restricted to z/VM and z/LINUX. It also has a third track for z/VSE. See website www.wavv.org WAVV fees are $400 for 3 ½ days of full sessions. Starting Friday evening with SPLASH and finishing Tuesday at noon. I was really hoping to go to the VM workshop this year but the timing, long weekend in CANADA, prevented me. I'm looking forward to attend the VM workshop next year, hopefully in June, but I will still be attending WAVV. Hans From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill Munson Sent: August-03-11 1:02 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: WAVV Re: VM Workshop -- Locations ABSOLUTELY NOT WAVV is still going strong munson 201-418-7588 From:Jim Bohnsack jab...@cornell.edu To:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Date:08/03/2011 12:52 PM Subject:Re: VM Workshop -- Locations Sent by:The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Has the VM Workshop replaced WAVV? Jim On 8/3/2011 12:20 PM, Tom Huegel wrote: --000e0ce0d6b0d0875404a99c3e9a Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I was not able to attend this year due to a scheduling conflict. I was wondering, if it is not a secret, about how many did manage to attend? On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Len Diegelldie...@aol.com wrote: ** If you are interested in location selection, I'd suggest contacting Bill Munson to get on next year's committee. You can see from the thread, everyone has some thoughts about it. This year's committee met the day before the event to discuss next year's options. That's one of the reasons it's important to have good representation on the committee. Several locations were considered, including some of those mentioned here. The list also included Washington State, Michigan State, Richmond, Austin, U. of RI, Chicago, Boston, SUNY Binghamton, Penn State etc.. This is how we selected OSU for 2011 and it was agreed that we should at least consider the following when selecting the next location(s): 1.) Inexpensive (relatively speaking) to get there. Not just to the airport, but from the airport to the campus. 2.) University locations only (non-commercial/corporate) to avoid/neutralize conflicts of some sort. 3.) Towards the center of the country to avoid losing attendees from the opposite coast. 4.) Airport relatively close to the campus (like less than 30 minutes if possible) 5.) Excellent Facilities at a reasonable price. Each attending committee member had 2 votes (first and second choice). U. of Kentucky, OSU, and U. of Nebraska (Omaha campus) took the top 3 votes in that order. Bill's 2012 committee is already working on these for next year. It's not always possible to get the dates, price, etc, which is the reason for the backups. BTW, Rice, UT(Austin), Michigan State, U of Arkansas, UMKC, were also on the short list. So plenty of options were on the table. I hope this helps. Len In a message dated 8/2/2011 6:11:43 P.M. Central Daylight Time, ric...@panix.com writes: On: Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 01:44:33PM -0500,David Boyes Wrote: } University of Wisconsin would be a good choice for next year... Strong VM ties (TCP/IP) there too. } Madison is one of my favorite places in the US, but it tends to be hard to get to cheaply (cheap is a big factor for Workshop). Current discussion has University of Kentucky as top candidate, Ohio State again, or University of Nebraska, but I'd go to Madison in a heartbeat. Nothing fixed in stone yet - we gotta go out and check it out -but UK did some awesome Workshops in the past. Those folks know how to throw a party - the BBQ at the last one was legendary. } In order not to derail this list, I'd strongly encourage anyone who's interested in VM Workshop to sign up for the VMWKSHOP mailing list (at vm.marist.edu). Better yet, volunteer! Gets you free shirt, first shot at the beer, fame... well, at least for lots of tech dudes. 8-) Please also consider furthur south so I could go. Mabe Orlando. Is there a VM using school in south Florida? -- Rich Greenberg Sarasota, FL, USA richgr atsign panix.com + 1 941 378
Re: WAVV Re: VM Workshop -- Locations
Hello Mike, My problem is that the z/OS people all talk about 'this the way it should be', or 'well, that is not the way it should work'. They live in world at is very constrained compared to z/VM and z/VSE. Oh and the other that gets me is, 'I don't know that option, I never use it'. Been hearing that one a lot. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 Ext 35050 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Mike Walter Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 4:40 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: WAVV Re: VM Workshop -- Locations Well, Ed. there *is* a very active z/OS program at SHARE. The next SHARE is next week (beginning Sunday evening August 7, at Disneyworld). SHARE is not as cheap as WAVV, nor the VM Workshop, but the education is terrific. I wish my employer had not cut our training budget. Mike Walter Aon Corporation The opinions expressed herein are mine alone, not my employer's. From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Edward M Martin Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 3:23 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: WAVV Re: VM Workshop -- Locations Hello Everyone, Now that I am over to the z/OS side, I wish that the z/OS people had something as good as WAVV. The lectures at WAVV are verbal IBM REDBOOKS. Hands on with people that have actually done the work. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 Ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Hans Rempel Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 1:35 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: WAVV Re: VM Workshop -- Locations I concur with Bill. I might have shouted louder by bolding ABSOLUTELY NOT. WAVV has excellent presentations, many IBM presentations are the same and given by the same people that present at SHARE and IBM tech conference. WAVV is not restricted to z/VM and z/LINUX. It also has a third track for z/VSE. See website www.wavv.org WAVV fees are $400 for 3 ½ days of full sessions. Starting Friday evening with SPLASH and finishing Tuesday at noon. I was really hoping to go to the VM workshop this year but the timing, long weekend in CANADA, prevented me. I'm looking forward to attend the VM workshop next year, hopefully in June, but I will still be attending WAVV. Hans From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill Munson Sent: August-03-11 1:02 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: WAVV Re: VM Workshop -- Locations ABSOLUTELY NOT WAVV is still going strong munson 201-418-7588 From: Jim Bohnsack jab...@cornell.edu To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Date: 08/03/2011 12:52 PM Subject: Re: VM Workshop -- Locations Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Has the VM Workshop replaced WAVV? Jim On 8/3/2011 12:20 PM, Tom Huegel wrote: --000e0ce0d6b0d0875404a99c3e9a Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I was not able to attend this year due to a scheduling conflict. I was wondering, if it is not a secret, about how many did manage to attend? On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Len Diegelldie...@aol.com wrote: ** If you are interested in location selection, I'd suggest contacting Bill Munson to get on next year's committee. You can see from the thread, everyone has some thoughts about it. This year's committee met the day before the event to discuss next year's options. That's one of the reasons it's important to have good representation on the committee. Several locations were considered, including some of those mentioned here. The list also included Washington State, Michigan State, Richmond, Austin, U. of RI, Chicago, Boston, SUNY Binghamton, Penn State etc.. This is how we selected OSU for 2011 and it was agreed that we should at least consider the following when selecting the next location(s): 1.) Inexpensive (relatively speaking) to get there. Not just to the airport, but from the airport to the campus. 2.) University locations only (non-commercial/corporate) to avoid/neutralize conflicts of some sort. 3.) Towards the center of the country to avoid losing attendees from the opposite coast. 4.) Airport relatively close to the campus (like less than 30 minutes if possible) 5.) Excellent Facilities at a reasonable price. Each attending committee member had 2 votes (first and second choice). U. of Kentucky, OSU, and U. of Nebraska (Omaha campus) took the top 3 votes in that order. Bill's 2012 committee is already working on these for next year. It's not always possible to get the dates, price, etc, which is the reason for the backups. BTW, Rice, UT(Austin), Michigan State, U of Arkansas, UMKC, were also on the short list. So plenty of options were on the table. I hope this helps. Len In a message dated 8
Re: Modifying the System Clock on a Running VM System
Hello Kris, z/VSE has the TIME ZONE=VM AR command that will cause the current VM-ZONE to be applied immediately, However the manual does indicate that EVENTUALLY active partition ZONE settings will be adjusted. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 Ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Kris Buelens Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 1:40 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Modifying the System Clock on a Running VM System That makes that CP will display a good time, but it will not help the guests: guests get their time by using the STCK instruction and apply their timezone setting. Exceptions: * VSE running with TIMEZONE VM. But, I doubt it will use the changed time without an IPL * Some parts of CMS use CP's time, other parts also use STCK And, if this VM system is connected to other VM systems and one uses SENDFILE to exchange files, strange things will happen to the file's timestamps. The reason is that when the files are sent to the VM spool, their timetamp is changed to UTC. On the receiving system, the UTC timestamp is converted to local time. Now you'd have a whole number of hours as difference between the sent and received file. After such a change you'd have whole hours +/- 4 minutes. At my former customer's installation (where we had up to 20 VM systems, in many timezones, only CMS), an operator wanted to be clever and changed the timezone to correct the clocks without asking me. The result for the file's timestamp was not fine at all. The timezone was quickly reset. 2011/7/28 Wandschneider, Scott scott.wandschnei...@wipro.com We have a host VM system (z/VM 5.4 0902) that is located on the east coast of the USA with a time zone of WEST 04.00.00 however the actual TOD clock is behind by four (4) minutes. Scheduling an IPL is difficult as this system hosts many clients. To adjust the TOD clock, without an IPL, it has been suggested that I issue the following two commands, which appears to have worked on a second level 2.4 VM/ESA system. Comments and suggestions from this group would be appreciated. DEFINE TIMEZONE EDT WEST 03.56.00 SET TIMEZONE EDT Thank you, Scott R Wandschneider Systems Programmer 3|| Technology Infrastructure Services, Wipro || 11707 Miracle Hills Drive, Omaha, NE, 68154-4457|| ': 402.963.8905 || Ë:847.849.7223 || : scott.wandschnei...@wipro.com **Think Green - Please print responsibly** Confidentiality Note: This e-mail, including any attachment to it, may contain material that is confidential, proprietary, privileged and/or Protected Health Information, within the meaning of the regulations under the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act as amended. If it is not clear that you are the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this transmittal in error, and any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, including any attachment to it, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately return it to the sender and delete it from your system. Thank you. -- Kris Buelens, IBM Belgium, VM customer support
Re: Moving On
Good bye Richard. I have always been amazed at the knowledge you have. Take care. Ed Martin direct: 330-363-5050 internal Extension: 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 7:01 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Moving On In just a few minutes, I will be checking out of the Visa hotel (or perhaps asylum - they put up with me for 13+ years). I want to thank everyone who sent their congratulations and well wishes, and to reiterate my thanks to the everyone on who has helped me over the years (going back to the pre-Mitre Scheduler and the VM SHARE Tape days ). I may not rejoin the list until I have moved, am settled in, and have started enjoying my 7 day weekends. I am looking forward to reestablishing my connection with the group. Regards, Richard Schuh
Re: IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for z/VM Announcement - End of Service - 12/31/2012
Yea the same guy was wrong before too. But this time he was supposed to be more accurate. YOL! Ed Martin direct: 330-363-5050 internal Extension: 35050 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 4:11 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for z/VM Announcement - End of Service - 12/31/2012 Yeah, then there was that other nut-case who predicted EoW for May 21 of this year. He didn't admit that he had made a mistake until well after that day. However, the Mayan calendar may be a better model. Regards, Richard Schuh -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Roger Hawkinson Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 12:50 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for z/VM Announcement - End of Service - 12/31/2012 It won't matter, Marcy. EoW (End of World) set to end on Dec. 21, 2012. CR reviewed/approved for that event. Roger Operating Systems Engineer, z/VM and Linux on IBM System z Enterprise Hosting Services, Mainframe/Midrange Services Wells Fargo Bank | 1220 Concord Ave | Concord, CA MAC A0314-029 Tel 925-686-7317 | Cell 415-238-1358 hawki...@wellsfargo.com 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:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 12:38 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for z/VM Announcement Don't know if you all saw this. I was hoping that when IBM bought them, they might enhance the VM product. Instead, they killed it. Sigh. -- The purpose of this email is to advise you of a change in status of IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for z/VM. This information is date sensitive. If you are not currently responsible for these products within your organization, please immediately forward this email to the responsible individual(s). As the e-business and information technology landscapes are changing, Sterling Commerce must adapt its offerings to match current requirements. We are therefore announcing the phased withdrawal of some of our current products and services. Details: -The decision to end service of IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for z/VM was made as a result of the product's dependence on the IBM VSE/VSAM module for z/VM which is no longer supported by IBM. -End of Service - 12/31/2012 - The product will no longer be supported by IBM You will have two choices: -Migrate to another IBM Sterling Connect:Direct platform by the End of Service date. -Continue using IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for z/VM beyond the end of service date without continued IBM/Sterling Support. More information is available on the Sterling Commerce Customer Center site linked here: Connect Products End of Life Migration/Entitlement Page (Please note, you need a username and password to enter the site) Your IBM sales representative can help provide you with additional information on IBM/Sterling offerings. Regards, Rob Hall IBM Sterling MFT Product Management ster...@us.ibm.com
Re: IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for z/VM Announcement
It still works under z/VM 5.3 service level 0703. I did find some idcams listcat functions that were 'inaccurate'. Ed Martin direct: 330-363-5050 internal Extension: 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Huegel Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 5:14 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for z/VM Announcement Other than to say 'it was a buisness decision' has IBM ever actually said why they killed VM-VSE/VSAM?? What the heck, it still works in VSE .. On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 1:58 PM, David Boyes dbo...@sinenomine.net wrote: Don't know if you all saw this. I was hoping that when IBM bought them, they might enhance the VM product. Instead, they killed it. Sigh. Figures. That VSAM thing is the killer prereq -- everything that started life on MVS requires it as a prereq, and thus is doomed to destruction. Convenient excuse to kill off more CMS applications.
Re: IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for z/VM Announcement - End of Service - 12/31/2012
My friends and I have speculated on the fact he decided it was time to go fishing. Ed Martin direct: 330-363-5050 internal Extension: 35050 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Rich Greenberg Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 5:46 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for z/VM Announcement - End of Service - 12/31/2012 On: Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 04:30:59PM -0500,Mike Walter Wrote: } However, the Mayan calendar may be a better model. } } Right, sure. It hasn't had a chance to be wrong... yet. Somewhere (the 'net?) I happened across an article by a well-respected researcher, stating that the Mayan calendar continues on just fine. We'll see... maybe the Mayan guy's chisel just wore down? I saw a cartoon a while ago showing 2 Mayans talking. One asked the other why the calendar ended in 2012, and the reply was thats where we ran out of space on the stone tablet. -- Rich Greenberg Sarasota, FL, USA richgr atsign panix.com + 1 941 378 2097 Eastern time. N6LRT I speak for myself my dogs only.VM'er since CP-67 Canines: Val, Red, Shasta, Zero Casey (At the bridge) Owner:Chinook-L Canines: Red Cinnar (Siberians) Retired at the beach Asst Owner:Sibernet-L
Re: Moving on
Hello Richard Schuh, It was nice working with you when I was at Dowling. I did learn a lot. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 Ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 12:51 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Moving on After 48 years in the industry, involved with VM for the last 38 of them, I will be retiring early next month. I don't think it is possible to find a better group of people than the VM List. The professionalism, the willingness, even eagerness, to help others is outstanding. You have made my job easier. I wish you all the best. It has been nice, sometimes even fun, to know and work with such an exemplary group of people. Regards, Richard Schuh
Re: CLONEBKP: New package at zVM/downloads
Hello Everyone, On the z/VSE side the commands will show the relationships of source to target volume. IXFP STATUS STATUS,CUU I am sure there is a z/VM query command but I can't find it (again). Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 Ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Scott Rohling Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 1:34 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: CLONEBKP: New package at zVM/downloads It will likely fail, with a message that the target is not in the required state and is the target of an existing flashcopy...until the background copying finishes -- you won't be able to flash to the same target. Scott Rohling On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Alain Benveniste a.benveni...@free.fr wrote: What would happen if we have flashcopy and we execute the same command 2 times in sequence ? Alain Envoyé de mon iPhone Le 17 juin 2011 à 17:44, Tom Duerbusch duerbus...@stlouiscity.com a écrit : To throw another tangent to this On z/VSE, FCOPY detects the present of FLASHCOPY and will use FLASHCOPY when available and it makes sense to use it. I got plenty of calls from Operations when a DS8100 was brought in and we intended to phase in FLASHCOPY. FCOPY phased it in, very quickly G. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Scott Rohling scott.rohl...@gmail.com 6/16/2011 3:45 PM No - the CP FLASHCOPY command only works with the flashcopy feature on the DASD -- it will simply fail if it's not enabled. You may have been using a 'wrapper' EXEC that did that for you a while ago or something. Even if FLASHCOPY is specified for an option in the CLONEBKUP tool - I would suggest it fall back to DDR if flashcopy fails -- as it will if you are copying dasd that are on different subsystems.. Scott Rohling On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Davis, Larry (National VM/VSE Capability) larry.dav...@hp.com wrote: I Believe Flashcopy uses DDR, if Flashcopy is not available on the subsystem, But that was a while ago. Larry Davis** *From:* The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] *On Behalf Of *Scott Rohling *Sent:* Thursday, June 16, 2011 4:16 PM *To:* IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU *Subject:* Re: CLONEBKP: New package at zVM/downloads key word 'option' .. it's pretty easy to code for doing either a flashcopy or ddr, whether passed as an option, or even detected automatically (try a flash and if it fails do the ddr). Scott Rohling On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Mark Post mp...@novell.com wrote: On 6/16/2011 at 08:06 AM, Frank M. Ramaekers framaek...@ailife.com wrote: 1 suggestion: FLASHCOPY option (to replace DDR) Which would then break on all the systems where it hasn't been purchased. Mark Post
Re: VM TCP/IP I/O error?
Hello Michael Horlick, Did you look at the HMC to see if there are any messages? Or if the card has any flashing lights? Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 Ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Horlick, Michael Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 2:00 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: VM TCP/IP I/O error? Greetings, This morning we received the following message on the console of a TCPIP machine: DTCPKT089I Device LCS3: LAN task net type 1 adapter number 0 was interrupted; restarting device I was told by IBM that this is a hardware issue presumably on the OSA card. How can I find out the cause of this problem? No messages seems to appear anywhere else. Thanks, Michael Horlick CGI Montreal
Re: Anyone use The Hessling Editor (THE), an Xedit/Kedit look-alike, for off-line VM code development or personal use?
Hello Tony, Have you looked at NoteBook+? I use it a lot for the z/VSE, and z/VM stuff. And now z/OS TSO stuff too. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 Ext 35050 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Tony Thigpen Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 9:22 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Anyone use The Hessling Editor (THE), an Xedit/Kedit look-alike, for off-line VM code development or personal use? I always run mine in xedit compatibility mode because I am normally editing mainframe source files. I know there are other capibilities, but I seldom need to edit 'special files' so I just use gedit for those. (I wish they had not dropped kedit with this new version of KDE.) Tony Thigpen -Original Message - From: Les Koehler Sent: 05/18/2011 07:09 PM What do mean by a 'true pc editor'? I'm sure MarkH edits make files all the time! It's probably a question of what constitutes a 'line-end' sequence when writing files. SET EOLOUT can be used to change it. Les Tony Thigpen wrote: http://hessling-editor.sourceforge.net/ I used it for some pc file editing, but some linux files require that I use a 'true' pc style editor. (Like when editing 'make' files.) Tony Thigpen -Original Message - From: Jim Bohnsack Sent: 05/18/2011 10:35 AM Where can THE be gotten? I've heard of it, but have never had it or tried it. Is it usable as a general purpose PC editor or is it really only usable as a PC resident mainframe tool? Jim On 5/17/2011 11:50 PM, Les Koehler wrote: If you use THE for your own stuff, I'd like a direct email if you'd like to exchange information. Anyone using it to offload VM work to the pc, or considering doing so, I have a wealth of macros to make it as much like Xedit as I can, while at the same time taking advantage of the capabilities of a pc and no 3270 restrictions. Tell us about your VM work on this thread, why you chose THE, or pose questions that I, or others, might be able to help answer. If you're familiar with Kedit, THE can mimic it quite well, *and* it uses either ooRexx or Regina as its macro language. I wasn't sure about posting this, but Dan assures me that as long as it's VM related, it's welcome! Les
Re: Nothing today?
Just Rain up here. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 Ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Frank M. Ramaekers Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 4:10 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Nothing today? No posts today? Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. Systems Programmer MCP, MCP+I, MCSE RHCE American Income Life Insurance Co. Phone: (254)761-6649 1200 Wooded Acres Dr. Fax: (254)741-5777 Waco, Texas 76701 _ This message contains information which is privileged and confidential and is solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any review, disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this in error, please destroy it immediately and notify us at privacy...@ailife.com.
Re: FTP Problem
Hello Peter Webb, Have you resolved this problem? Can you FTP out from the z/VM system? Sorry I have been out the last couple of days. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 Ext 35050 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Quay, Jonathan (IHG) Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 2:19 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: FTP Problem Also look at chapters 7, 8 and 9 in the z/VM TCP/IP Diagnosis Guide version 5 release 3, which will show you how to do packet trace and format the results, and also FTP server traces. If you see the VM FTP server try to open a connection back to the windows box on a different port, and you never get a response, that would be a big clue. You can also get IBM support to help you read those traces. They love to do stuff like that. claimer is property of the TTC and must not be altered or circumvented in any manner.
Re: Encryption Rekey on TS1120 (3592-E05)
Hello Steve, We are using the same under 5.3 . We were told not to change the key but use the default. Let me know when you get it working. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 Ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Steve Mondy Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 10:56 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Encryption Rekey on TS1120 (3592-E05) Has anyone used the 'rekey' function under z/VM on a TS1120? We have an IBM 3494/VTS/Library with 3592-E05s and z/VM 5.4. The rekey support was added in z/VM 5.3 but we are unable to get it to work. I am in the process of having our IBM CE check the microcode level on the drives. Is there a trick to getting this to work or am I missing something? No matter what I try the results are some type of error and the key is not changed. Yes, these are key labels in my key store. q ta details 704 TAPE 0704 SEQUENCE NUMBER 12311 LIBPORT 2 ENCRYPTION CAPABLE ACTIVE KEY LABEL(S): (L) ekmcert031010a (L) ekmcert031010b ATTACHED KEY LABEL(S): DEFAULT INACTIVE KEY LABEL(S): DEFAULT Ready; T=0.01/0.01 10:38:10 set tape 704 rekey EKMCERT030911A HCPSTA9968E Key alias not found: EKMCERT030911A Ready(09968); T=0.01/0.01 10:38:35 q ta details 704 TAPE 0704 SEQUENCE NUMBER 12311 LIBPORT 2 ENCRYPTION CAPABLE ACTIVE KEY LABEL(S): (L) ekmcert031010a (L) ekmcert031010b ATTACHED KEY LABEL(S): DEFAULT INACTIVE KEY LABEL(S): DEFAULT Ready; T=0.01/0.01 10:48:08 Steve H. Mondy Mainframe Technical Support Manager Open Solutions Inc. 3900 Essex Lane, Suite 400 Houston, TX 77027-5100 Office 713-965-8457 Cell281-409-2870 Fax713-965-8405 Email steve.mo...@opensolutions.com www.bank.opensolutions.com http://www.bank.opensolutions.com/ www.opensolutions.com http://www.opensolutions.com/ NOTICE: This e-mail is intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise exempt from disclosure. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify us by replying to the original message at the listed email address. Thank You.
Re: formatting 3390s for VSE
Hello Phil, Use the INSTALL parameter of ICKDSF. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 Ext 35050 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Phillip Gramly Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 1:40 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: formatting 3390s for VSE I have reclaimed some minidisks from defunct zLinux machines. i used ICKDSF on VSE to put a VOLID and VTOC on them, but i can still see old data on the tracks (using FAQS) Do I need to format these drives on CMS to clear the old data? Or can i just let vse write over the tracks as they begin to get used? -- Phillip Gramly Systems Programmer Communications Data Group Champaign, Illinois
moving members to a z/OS system
Hello Everyone, I have some 30-40 members that need to be migrated to a z/OS system - far, far, away. And I am dealing with z/OS people (I am not impressed). What is the easiest way to send these files to them that will make it very easy for them to load into a PDS? Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 Ext 35050
Re: moving members to a z/OS system
Hello Mark, We do not have a RSCS/JES connection yet ( I may attempt to create one) and I can FTP, but I was wondering if there was niffy way to send files to a z/OS system That would build a PDS/E for them. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 Ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Pace Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:37 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: moving members to a z/OS system If you have an RSCS/JES connection you can use SENDFILE. If a TCPIP connection you could do FTP. On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Edward M Martin emar...@aultman.com wrote: Hello Everyone, I have some 30-40 members that need to be migrated to a z/OS system - far, far, away. And I am dealing with z/OS people (I am not impressed). What is the easiest way to send these files to them that will make it very easy for them to load into a PDS? Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 Ext 35050 -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: moving members to a z/OS system
Hello Rob, Thank you very much. As you can see I am learning about the file structures as I move this stuff. I think I understand. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 Ext 35050 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Hamilton, Robert Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 11:19 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: moving members to a z/OS system FTP will do it for you; the MPUT subcommand will let you send any number of files. You could specify the target directory as the z/OS PDS, and then use MPUT to send everything at once. I'd try that first; it works when the client is Unix or a PC, although those clients usually have some kind of name-mapping subcommands to help you out. R; Rob Hamilton Chemical Abstracts Service From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 11:00 AM To: IBMVM@listserv.uark.edu Subject: Re: moving members to a z/OS system FTP a job to the JES2 internal reader executing PGM=IEBUPDTE. IEBUPDTE can populate the target PDS/E on the mainframe with your VM data. Mark Jacobs On 03/15/11 10:49, Edward M Martin wrote: Hello Mark, We do not have a RSCS/JES connection yet ( I may attempt to create one) and I can FTP, but I was wondering if there was niffy way to send files to a z/OS system That would build a PDS/E for them. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 Ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Pace Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:37 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: moving members to a z/OS system If you have an RSCS/JES connection you can use SENDFILE. If a TCPIP connection you could do FTP. On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Edward M Martin emar...@aultman.com wrote: Hello Everyone, I have some 30-40 members that need to be migrated to a z/OS system - far, far, away. And I am dealing with z/OS people (I am not impressed). What is the easiest way to send these files to them that will make it very easy for them to load into a PDS? Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 Ext 35050 -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems -- Mark Jacobs Time Customer Service Tampa, FL The best baker among the cobblers is Yankele the tailor. Confidentiality Notice: This electronic message transmission, including any attachment(s), may contain confidential, proprietary, or privileged information from Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society (ACS). If you have received this transmission in error, be advised that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. Please destroy all copies of the message and contact the sender immediately by either replying to this message or calling 614-447-3600.
Re: moving members to a z/OS system
Hello John and Everyone else, Thank you all. The changing of the directory to the PDS/E was the biggest thing I did not know you could do. All of this will help and I will build a rexx to do it all. Y OOH! Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 Ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 11:32 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: moving members to a z/OS system Ah! ftp zossystem zosuser password mkdir cms.pds cd cmd.pds prompt mput * I'm not sure about the mput syntax on this. I don't have z/VM, so I cannot test. The PDS ends up with RECFM=VB LRECL=256 on my system. You can specify the dataset characteristics using a QUOTE SITE command quote site lrecl=??? blksize=??? recfm=??? pri=??? sec=??? dir=??? cylinders where ??? is replaced with the appropriate numbers for lrecl, blksize, recfm (VB or FB), primary space, secondary space, and directory blocks respectively. John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Edward M Martin Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 9:50 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: moving members to a z/OS system Hello Mark, We do not have a RSCS/JES connection yet ( I may attempt to create one) and I can FTP, but I was wondering if there was niffy way to send files to a z/OS system That would build a PDS/E for them. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 Ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Pace Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:37 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: moving members to a z/OS system If you have an RSCS/JES connection you can use SENDFILE. If a TCPIP connection you could do FTP. On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Edward M Martin emar...@aultman.com wrote: Hello Everyone, I have some 30-40 members that need to be migrated to a z/OS system - far, far, away. And I am dealing with z/OS people (I am not impressed). What is the easiest way to send these files to them that will make it very easy for them to load into a PDS? Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 Ext 35050 -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: zVM User Definitions
Hello Wally, There is a LOGONBY parameter (and others) that will allow certain people to logon and use their own password. And the VM Operator will get a message indicating who logon on. We have that log spooled and then send daily to a location for auditing. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 Ext 35050 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Vogtmann, Wallace B Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 11:28 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: zVM User Definitions We're new to zVM. Have the system operational with standard IBM supplied User/Guest definitions. For example, we've implemented RACF, DIRMAINT, PERF TK (soon Omegamon XE). Our security folks don't really like us logging in as MAINT, TCPMAINT, RACMAINT, etc. to do our changes - can't really tell who is doing what. Plus it's hard to have good/secure passwords when need to have multiple real users login to multiple guests, etc. Is there any examples of what would be good definitions for (1) standard system programmer guest accounts and (2) standard service machines? What RIGHTS and ACCESS definitions should be standard. We only plan on running Linux guests and standard IBM/3rd party tools, so just need a few Users/Guests that have the appropriate access for SysProg support, etc. Basically, we have the system in and operational, but NOW how should we REALLY have it setup to run/manage it securely and effectively. Any RedBooks? I've looked, but don't see any that fit the bill. Thx - Wally Vogtmann - Technical Services - wvogt...@tcfbank.com Disclaimer This email may contain privileged and/or confidential information that is intended solely for the use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, you are strictly prohibited from disclosing, copying, distributing or using any of the information contained in the transmission. If you received this communication in error, please contact the sender (“Company”) immediately and destroy the material in its entirety, including all electronic and hard copies. This communication may contain nonpublic personal information about consumers which is subject to restrictions under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. You may not directly or indirectly reuse or disclose such nonpublic personal information for any purpose other than to provide the services for which you are receiving the information. There are risks associated with the use of electronic transmission. The sender of this information does not control the method of transmittal or any service providers and the sender assumes no duty, liability, or obligation for the security, receipt, or any third party interception of this transmission. The Company reserves the right to amend statements made herein in the event of a mistake. Unless expressly stated herein to the contrary, only agreements in writing signed by an authorized officer of the Company may be enforced against it.
Re: z/VM Tape Hardware Questions
Hello Jim, We are running z/VM 5.3 and z/VSE 4.1.2 with the same configuration that you have. The EKM is a LINUX server on the 3592. There are some hardware issues that the IBM CE and I figured out. But they are working well. The command QT will show the status on the drives. The CST5 indicate that the cartridge is not encrypted yet. A CST5/E will indicate the cartridge has encrypted data. AR 0015 680 560B 3592-E05 31 UNUSED CST5 BOV 11:00:09 AR 0015 681 560B 3592-E05 37 UNUSED CST5 BOV 11:00:09 Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Ray Waters Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 10:17 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: z/VM Tape Hardware Questions We are running z/VSE 4.2 and z/VM 540 and we encrypt our 3592 tapes. We run two EKM platforms. The primary EKM server runs under Windows and the secondary EKM server runs on ZLINUX under z/VM. Ray Waters -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Hughes, Jim Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 8:53 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: z/VM Tape Hardware Questions We are running a z10 and z/VM 5.4. It is time get some new tape drives. The hardware we are looking at acquiring are: 3592-C06 TS1120 Tape Controller 3592-E05 IBM TS1120 Tape Drive 1) Do z/VM z/VSE support the proposed tape drives writing encrypted data to the tapes? 2) According to the SC24-7320-02 red book, we need to run an out-of-band tape controller connection to an EKM server running on z/OS or another EKM platform. Earlier in the same document, there is a statement that (Section 2.1, document page 25, 1st full paragraph) says we must purchase TPC-BE (whatever that is) to gain access to an open systems EKM. If anyone is using these devices would you care to comment on these two statements? If you have any suggestions or other things we need to consider, please share them. Thanks in advance. Jim Hughes Consulting Systems Programmer Mainframe Technical Support Group Department of Information Technology State of New Hampshire 27 Hazen Drive Concord, NH 03301 603-271-5586Fax 603.271.1516 Statement of Confidentiality: The contents of this message are confidential. Any unauthorized disclosure, reproduction, use or dissemination (either whole or in part) is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately and delete the message from your system. NOTICE: This e-mail is intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise exempt from disclosure. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify us by replying to the original message at the listed email address. Thank You.
Re: Wait code 000a00000000000f
Hello Tom, Very interesting. From a Google search, it would seem that The code 000A000F means that the IPL text could not be found. But this is referencing Linux. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Huegel Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 11:53 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Wait code 000a000f This is the entire message.. It happens before there are any console messages to indicate z/VM is even starting.. Central processor (CP) 0 in partition TPFTVM, entered disabled wait state. The disabled wait program status word (PSW) is 000a000f. Central storage bytes 0-7 are: 000a000f. On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 8:46 AM, George Henke/NYLIC george_he...@newyorklife.com wrote: Is not the wait state code sometimes the SVC number it is running at the time which in this case would be the ERREXCP SVC 15? Tom Huegel tehue...@gmail.com Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 01/19/2011 11:37 AM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Re: Wait code 000a000f Mike, I found the same description you did '000A' is ESA/390 mode but nothing matching the 'f''. This is z/VM 5.4 with RSU 1003. I am IPLing native (LPAR) on a z9. I have other systems running the same level z/VM without any problem.. I am sure it is something I have done. It would be nice if the message was documented, so I would know where to look. It is not urgent today I have backups so I am running now. I need it to work by the time the z196 comes online in a couple of weeks. Tom On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 8:18 AM, Mike Walter mike.wal...@aonhewitt.com wrote: I *do* have the z/VM CP Messages and Codes 5.4.0 manual handy. Page 149 explains the 000A as a machine running in ESA/390 mode. But there is no corresponding HCP015W, or HCP00FW message (the latter of which, with a hex value, would start a whole new thread). Can you tell us more about _what_ you are IPLing? Is it CP on 1st level, CP on 2nd level, CMS, or some utility program - on what size virtual machine, in what mode (provide output from CP Query SET). That info might help point someone in the right direction. Also, what's the proper level of urgency? :-) Mike Walter Aon Corporation The opinions expressed herein are mine alone, not my employer's. Rich Greenberg ric...@panix.com Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 01/19/2011 10:05 AM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Re: Wait code 000a000f On: Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 07:59:23AM -0800,Tom Huegel Wrote: } Does anyone have a clue as to what this hard wait code is? .. } 000a000f. } I can't find this one in the messages and codes book? } It is probably a configuration error of some type. } It happens at IPL. } And yes I did make many changes.. I don't have a messages and codes book handy, but forget the a and look for CP wait state 15 (x'f'). -- Rich Greenberg Sarasota, FL, USA richgr atsign panix.com http://panix.com/ + 1 941 378 2097 Eastern time. N6LRT I speak for myself my dogs only.VM'er since CP-67 Canines: Val, Red, Shasta, Zero Casey (At the bridge) Owner:Chinook-L Canines: Red Cinnar (Siberians) Retired at the beach Asst Owner:Sibernet-L 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.
Re: Knock, knock, ...
Hello Frank, There have been a lot. Last one was about CMS disk weirdness between processors Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Frank M. Ramaekers Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 1:12 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Knock, knock, ... I haven't see a post on here since Friday.Is everyone just being quiet? Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. Systems Programmer MCP, MCP+I, MCSE RHCE American Income Life Insurance Co. Phone: (254)761-6649 1200 Wooded Acres Dr. Fax: (254)741-5777 Waco, Texas 76701 _ This message contains information which is privileged and confidential and is solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any review, disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this in error, please destroy it immediately and notify us at privacy...@ailife.com.
Re: CMS disk weirdness between processors
Hello Martha, Would you not have to re-access the mdisk on the z9 after the z10 updated the file? To be able to read it. And if you did write to the disk from the z9, would that not cause all sorts of data errors? You know like who has the real file and what file is being updated where? Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Martha McConaghy Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 12:16 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: CMS disk weirdness between processors I'm in the process of migrating our production LPARs from a z9 to a z10 and I've found a bit of weirdness. Since the z10 has been around awhile, I assume this isn't anything new, but I wonder why it is happening. I've found that a CMS minidisk that is created while on the z9, is readable by a VM system on the z10. However, if (from the z10) a fle is modified, that file is no longer readable by the CMS system on the z9. I get a DMSXIN104S error code 3 when trying to read the file. Moreover, if (from the z9), I try to write a new file to the disk, I get a different error, and CMS crashes. (All of these z/VM systems are the same by the way, z/VM 5.4.0 RSU 1001.) I've always been able to share disks between systems on different processors before, so I wonder what is different now? I've got a z990 that I still have to maintain and this is going to make life more difficult. Martha
Re: Correct TYPETERM/TERMINAL for VM VTAM DLOGMOD D4B3290??
Hello Beth, Are you using an Terminal Autoinstall program? I believe that you are. During initial install (connection) on that particular CICS, you should see some sort of message like CADL DFHZC5966 I 01/14/11 09:09:40 P1CICS INSTALL started for TERMINAL ( SY08 ) SYSID (PRD1) (Module : DFHBSTZ ). CADL DFHZC6935 I 01/14/11 09:09:40 P1CICS Autoinstall for terminal SY08 with NETNAME TSY08using model or template CADLVSE3278Q successful. Depending on your Autoinstall program you will have a Model/TEMPLATE (VSE3278Q in the example). Either adjust the template to have UCTRAN=YES or adjust the autoinstall program to pick the a different model/template based on your requirements. There is a D3290001 Dlogmod in the ISTINLCM, or SP3290EN and SP3290ES in IESINCLM on the our z/VSE 4.1.2 system. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Beth Beggs Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 8:45 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Correct TYPETERM/TERMINAL for VM VTAM DLOGMOD D4B3290?? Hello, all! I am setting up VTAMLSTs for users to dial directly into VM = VTAM to access our applications. I am fighting the correct TYPETERM and = TERMINAL settings for my CICS tables. I am running CICS TS 1.1 and zVSE = 4.1. The CICS TS for VSE/ESA RDO doc does not list explicit models for = this zVM DLOGMOD - and when I improvise, I am not getting the correct terminal settings on CICS. I am particularly interested in the UCTRAN value. Users are not experiencing UCTRAN=YES and that is what I need. = Any help greatly appreciated!
Re: VSAM BACKUP RESTORE
Hello Paul, Thanks for the info. We are looking to move some 300-500 files from z/VSE to a z/OS system. I am worried about the performance of the migration. Really just the time it will take. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Feller, Paul Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 5:28 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: VSAM BACKUP RESTORE If all you want to do is backup/restore the file on z/OS you could also use DFDSS (ADRDSSU). Paul Feller AIT Mainframe Technical Support From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Edward M Martin Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 4:02 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: VSAM BACKUP RESTORE Hello Ken, Thank you. It is something we have been planning on. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Ken Thomas Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 4:49 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: VSAM BACKUP RESTORE I always preferred REPRO IFILE, OFILE for backups. Add a BUFND=xx (# of data buffers) parameter... Note: VSAM defaults to 2. From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Edward M Martin Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 4:45 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: VSAM BACKUP RESTORE Hello Ken, Thanks. I rarely use Export/Import as BACKUP/RESTORE is available on our z/VSE system. BACKUP/RESTORE has a very good performance record. Isn't EXPORT/IMPORT similar to REPRO performance-wise? I will look into EXPORT/IMPORT. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Ken Thomas Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 4:32 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: VSAM BACKUP RESTORE z/OS IDCAMS à EXPORT, IMPORT. From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Edward M Martin Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 4:29 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: VSAM BACKUP RESTORE Hello Everyone, I am asking this cross-list because many of you all have z/OS. z/VSE has IDCAMS BACKUP/RESTORE as part of the product. BACKUP/RESTORE is a high buffered/high performance VSAM backup and restore. Does z/OS IDCAMS have BACKUP/RESTORE? Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050
Re: VSAM BACKUP RESTORE
Hello Tony, Nope. We are in NorthEast Ohio and they are in California. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Tony Thigpen Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 10:03 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: VSAM BACKUP RESTORE Are they on the same box? (Can you share DASD?) Tony Thigpen -Original Message - From: Edward M Martin Sent: 01/12/2011 06:55 AM Hello Paul, Thanks for the info. We are looking to move some 300-500 files from z/VSE to a z/OS system. I am worried about the performance of the migration. Really just the time it will take. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 *From:* The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] *On Behalf Of *Feller, Paul *Sent:* Tuesday, January 11, 2011 5:28 PM *To:* IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU *Subject:* Re: VSAM BACKUP RESTORE If all you want to do is backup/restore the file on z/OS you could also use DFDSS (ADRDSSU). *Paul Feller* *AIT Mainframe Technical Support* *From:* The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] *On Behalf Of *Edward M Martin *Sent:* Tuesday, January 11, 2011 4:02 PM *To:* IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU *Subject:* Re: VSAM BACKUP RESTORE Hello Ken, Thank you. It is something we have been planning on. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 *From:* The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] *On Behalf Of *Ken Thomas *Sent:* Tuesday, January 11, 2011 4:49 PM *To:* IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU *Subject:* Re: VSAM BACKUP RESTORE /I always preferred REPRO IFILE, OFILE for backups. / / / /Add a BUFND=xx (# of data buffers) parameter... _Note_: VSAM defaults to 2. / / / *From:* The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] *On Behalf Of *Edward M Martin *Sent:* Tuesday, January 11, 2011 4:45 PM *To:* IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU *Subject:* Re: VSAM BACKUP RESTORE Hello Ken, Thanks. I rarely use Export/Import as BACKUP/RESTORE is available on our z/VSE system. BACKUP/RESTORE has a very good performance record. Isn't EXPORT/IMPORT similar to REPRO performance-wise? I will look into EXPORT/IMPORT. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 *From:* The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] *On Behalf Of *Ken Thomas *Sent:* Tuesday, January 11, 2011 4:32 PM *To:* IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU *Subject:* Re: VSAM BACKUP RESTORE /z/OS IDCAMS //à// EXPORT, IMPORT. / / / *From:* The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] *On Behalf Of *Edward M Martin *Sent:* Tuesday, January 11, 2011 4:29 PM *To:* IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU *Subject:* VSAM BACKUP RESTORE Hello Everyone, I am asking this cross-list because many of you all have z/OS. z/VSE has IDCAMS BACKUP/RESTORE as part of the product. BACKUP/RESTORE is a high buffered/high performance VSAM backup and restore. Does z/OS IDCAMS have BACKUP/RESTORE? Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050
Re: VSAM BACKUP RESTORE
Hello Tony, Thanks. I will have to look at this solution. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Tony Thigpen Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 12:30 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: VSAM BACKUP RESTORE Maybe: Assuming the other end does NOT have VM: EXPORT all the files to a special vse disk pack, DDR the pack to tape, Use TCP/IP to transfer the tape file to CA, have them recreate the tape and restore it there. (Send them a stand-alone DDR tape.) Then IMPORT of the pack. DDR can be set to not dump empty tracks and to compress. If they have VM, then you could use some of the DDR-to-TCP utilities on the VM web site. Tony Thigpen -Original Message - From: Edward M Martin Sent: 01/12/2011 10:08 AM Hello Tony, Nope. We are in NorthEast Ohio and they are in California. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Tony Thigpen Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 10:03 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: VSAM BACKUP RESTORE Are they on the same box? (Can you share DASD?) Tony Thigpen -Original Message - From: Edward M Martin Sent: 01/12/2011 06:55 AM Hello Paul, Thanks for the info. We are looking to move some 300-500 files from z/VSE to a z/OS system. I am worried about the performance of the migration. Really just the time it will take. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 *From:* The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] *On Behalf Of *Feller, Paul *Sent:* Tuesday, January 11, 2011 5:28 PM *To:* IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU *Subject:* Re: VSAM BACKUP RESTORE If all you want to do is backup/restore the file on z/OS you could also use DFDSS (ADRDSSU). *Paul Feller* *AIT Mainframe Technical Support* *From:* The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] *On Behalf Of *Edward M Martin *Sent:* Tuesday, January 11, 2011 4:02 PM *To:* IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU *Subject:* Re: VSAM BACKUP RESTORE Hello Ken, Thank you. It is something we have been planning on. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 *From:* The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] *On Behalf Of *Ken Thomas *Sent:* Tuesday, January 11, 2011 4:49 PM *To:* IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU *Subject:* Re: VSAM BACKUP RESTORE /I always preferred REPRO IFILE, OFILE for backups. / / / /Add a BUFND=xx (# of data buffers) parameter... _Note_: VSAM defaults to 2. / / / *From:* The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] *On Behalf Of *Edward M Martin *Sent:* Tuesday, January 11, 2011 4:45 PM *To:* IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU *Subject:* Re: VSAM BACKUP RESTORE Hello Ken, Thanks. I rarely use Export/Import as BACKUP/RESTORE is available on our z/VSE system. BACKUP/RESTORE has a very good performance record. Isn't EXPORT/IMPORT similar to REPRO performance-wise? I will look into EXPORT/IMPORT. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 *From:* The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] *On Behalf Of *Ken Thomas *Sent:* Tuesday, January 11, 2011 4:32 PM *To:* IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU *Subject:* Re: VSAM BACKUP RESTORE /z/OS IDCAMS //à// EXPORT, IMPORT. / / / *From:* The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] *On Behalf Of *Edward M Martin *Sent:* Tuesday, January 11, 2011 4:29 PM *To:* IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU *Subject:* VSAM BACKUP RESTORE Hello Everyone, I am asking this cross-list because many of you all have z/OS. z/VSE has IDCAMS BACKUP/RESTORE as part of the product. BACKUP/RESTORE is a high buffered/high performance VSAM backup and restore. Does z/OS IDCAMS have BACKUP/RESTORE? Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050
Re: VSAM BACKUP RESTORE
Hello Sergio Lima, Yes, if you would, please sent the program. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Sergio Lima Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 1:45 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: VSAM BACKUP RESTORE Hello Ed, Days ago, we wrote a REXX here that generate a REPRO jcl, reading the LISTCAT output. This system was doing to convert legacy files from 3490 to 3592. This files need able to be used under ZOS. If you want this program, send a email, that We send to you. Might be useful for you. Regards, Sergio Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:08:24 -0500 From: emar...@aultman.com Subject: Re: VSAM BACKUP RESTORE To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Hello Tony, Nope. We are in NorthEast Ohio and they are in California. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Tony Thigpen Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 10:03 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: VSAM BACKUP RESTORE Are they on the same box? (Can you share DASD?) Tony Thigpen -Original Message - From: Edward M Martin Sent: 01/12/2011 06:55 AM Hello Paul, Thanks for the info. We are looking to move some 300-500 files from z/VSE to a z/OS system. I am worried about the performance of the migration. Really just the time it will take. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 *From:* The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] *On Behalf Of *Feller, Paul *Sent:* Tuesday, January 11, 2011 5:28 PM *To:* IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU *Subject:* Re: VSAM BACKUP RESTORE If all you want to do is backup/restore the file on z/OS you could also use DFDSS (ADRDSSU). *Paul Feller* *AIT Mainframe Technical Support* *From:* The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] *On Behalf Of *Edward M Martin *Sent:* Tuesday, January 11, 2011 4:02 PM *To:* IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU *Subject:* Re: VSAM BACKUP RESTORE Hello Ken, Thank you. It is something we have been planning on. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 *From:* The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] *On Behalf Of *Ken Thomas *Sent:* Tuesday, January 11, 2011 4:49 PM *To:* IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU *Subject:* Re: VSAM BACKUP RESTORE /I always preferred REPRO IFILE, OFILE for backups. / / / /Add a BUFND=xx (# of data buffers) parameter... _Note_: VSAM defaults to 2. / / / *From:* The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] *On Behalf Of *Edward M Martin *Sent:* Tuesday, January 11, 2011 4:45 PM *To:* IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU *Subject:* Re: VSAM BACKUP RESTORE Hello Ken, Thanks. I rarely use Export/Import as BACKUP/RESTORE is available on our z/VSE system. BACKUP/RESTORE has a very good performance record. Isn't EXPORT/IMPORT similar to REPRO performance-wise? I will look into EXPORT/IMPORT. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 *From:* The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] *On Behalf Of *Ken Thomas *Sent:* Tuesday, January 11, 2011 4:32 PM *To:* IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU *Subject:* Re: VSAM BACKUP RESTORE /z/OS IDCAMS //à// EXPORT, IMPORT. / / / *From:* The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] *On Behalf Of *Edward M Martin *Sent:* Tuesday, January 11, 2011 4:29 PM *To:* IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU *Subject:* VSAM BACKUP RESTORE Hello Everyone, I am asking this cross-list because many of you all have z/OS. z/VSE has IDCAMS BACKUP/RESTORE as part of the product. BACKUP/RESTORE is a high buffered/high performance VSAM backup and restore. Does z/OS IDCAMS have BACKUP/RESTORE? Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050
VSAM BACKUP RESTORE
Hello Everyone, I am asking this cross-list because many of you all have z/OS. z/VSE has IDCAMS BACKUP/RESTORE as part of the product. BACKUP/RESTORE is a high buffered/high performance VSAM backup and restore. Does z/OS IDCAMS have BACKUP/RESTORE? Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050
Re: VSAM BACKUP RESTORE
Hello Ken, Thanks. I rarely use Export/Import as BACKUP/RESTORE is available on our z/VSE system. BACKUP/RESTORE has a very good performance record. Isn't EXPORT/IMPORT similar to REPRO performance-wise? I will look into EXPORT/IMPORT. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Ken Thomas Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 4:32 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: VSAM BACKUP RESTORE z/OS IDCAMS à EXPORT, IMPORT. From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Edward M Martin Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 4:29 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: VSAM BACKUP RESTORE Hello Everyone, I am asking this cross-list because many of you all have z/OS. z/VSE has IDCAMS BACKUP/RESTORE as part of the product. BACKUP/RESTORE is a high buffered/high performance VSAM backup and restore. Does z/OS IDCAMS have BACKUP/RESTORE? Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050
Re: VSAM BACKUP RESTORE
Hello Ken, Thank you. It is something we have been planning on. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Ken Thomas Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 4:49 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: VSAM BACKUP RESTORE I always preferred REPRO IFILE, OFILE for backups. Add a BUFND=xx (# of data buffers) parameter... Note: VSAM defaults to 2. From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Edward M Martin Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 4:45 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: VSAM BACKUP RESTORE Hello Ken, Thanks. I rarely use Export/Import as BACKUP/RESTORE is available on our z/VSE system. BACKUP/RESTORE has a very good performance record. Isn't EXPORT/IMPORT similar to REPRO performance-wise? I will look into EXPORT/IMPORT. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Ken Thomas Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 4:32 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: VSAM BACKUP RESTORE z/OS IDCAMS à EXPORT, IMPORT. From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Edward M Martin Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 4:29 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: VSAM BACKUP RESTORE Hello Everyone, I am asking this cross-list because many of you all have z/OS. z/VSE has IDCAMS BACKUP/RESTORE as part of the product. BACKUP/RESTORE is a high buffered/high performance VSAM backup and restore. Does z/OS IDCAMS have BACKUP/RESTORE? Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050
Re: How can get the Week day ?
Hello Everyone,
Just a note on DATE('B') from the Help screens.
For BASE there is a note
NOTE: The base date of 1 January 0001 is determined by extending
the current Gregorian calendar backward (365 days each
year, with an extra day every year that is divisible by 4
except century years that are not divisible by 400). It
does not take into account any errors in the calendar
system that created the Gregorian calendar originally.
Ed Martin
Aultman Health Foundation
330-363-5050
ext 35050
-Original Message-
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On
Behalf Of Chip Davis
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 7:28 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: How can get the Week day ?
Well, not quite, unless you're using a VERY non-ANSI-Standard version
of Rexx. :-)
Say Date('U',0,'B') -- 01/01/01
But you're right about the C for Century; it was always better to
think of it as the Roman numeral for 100. It still suffered from the
same boundary issues as the old Julian date, just not as frequently.
The fact is, Date('C') is not even legal at Rexx Language Level 4.00
(much less ANSI Standard) which has been around for quite a while now.
So the best option is to simply forget about the Date('C') option in
the first place and use Date('B') instead. If you have existing code
that you need to convert, you can establish the Date('C') epoch as a
constant (now 730119) offset to the Date('B') value.
-Chip-
On 1/4/11 22:25 Schuh, Richard said:
It is right with the DATE(B) function - 01/01/1001.
All the technicalities aside, forget about the word Century and view
the letter C as an abstraction for the described function. Then,
everything is consistent, even if technically incorrect.
*From:* *George Henke/NYLIC*
tyvm, Chip, for the explanation. So this century really began in
Jan 1, 2001, not 2000. Interesting.
*From:* *Chip Davis c...@aresti.com*
Technically, the first year of each century is cc01, not cc00.
On 1/3/11 16:03 George Henke/NYLIC said:
Not quite sure what is the difference between the number of
days
since
the beginning of the century and the number of days since the
most
recent year ending in '00' unless going back or ahead more than
a
century or 2.
But I suppose there is a difference or it would have been moot.
*Chip Davis c...@aresti.com*
Be careful with Date('C'). It doesn't really give you the
number of
days in the current century (as it was originally documented).
It
returns the number of days since the beginning of the most
recent
year
ending in '00', e.g. '2000'.
On 1/3/11 14:25 George Henke/NYLIC said:
REXX also has a nifty function called Century Day that
simplifies things
by working in century days, days since the beginning of the
century,
rather than days since the beginning of the year.
Re: How can get the Week day ?
Hello Sergio,
Here is our TODAY EXEC to give you all types of information.
/* REXX IS THIS YEAR A LEAP YEAR ? */
ADDRESS COMMAND
SAY DATE()' DATE EXPRESSED NORMALLY'
SAY DATE('B') ' DATE EXPRESSED AS DAYS SINCE 01/01/0001 '
SAY DATE('C') ' DATE EXPRESSED AS DAYS SINCE 01/01/2000 '
SAY DATE('D') ' NUMBERS OF DAYS THIS YEAR'
SAY DATE('J') 'JULIAN DATE'
SAY DATE('E') ' EUROPEAN DATE FORMAT'
SAY DATE('W') ' DAY OF THE WEEK '
SAY DATE('M') ' MONTH '
SAY DATE('N',,,'/',) ' NORMAL DATE WITH SLASHES'
SAY DATE('O') ' ORDERED DATE'
SAY DATE('U') ' U DATE'
Ed Martin
Aultman Health Foundation
330-363-5050
ext 35050
-Original Message-
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On
Behalf Of Chip Davis
Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 9:56 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: How can get the Week day ?
Be careful with Date('C'). It doesn't really give you the number of
days in the current century (as it was originally documented). It
returns the number of days since the beginning of the most recent year
ending in '00', e.g. '2000'.
If you are doing any sort of arithmetic with dates, your best bet is
Date('Basedate'), especially if your dates might span a century
boundary.
-Chip-
On 1/3/11 14:25 George Henke/NYLIC said:
RTIN_
Re: Strange response time problems (also posted on VSE-L)
Hello Dave, Not sure what is happening, but on the system that is happening, Since FAQS is not responding, can you message AR, F1, VTAM, etc on the way down to FAQS partition? If AR does not respond, look to z/VM. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Wakser, David Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 12:18 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Strange response time problems (also posted on VSE-L) No, FAQS is not the problem - we normally never have more than 1 or 2 FAQS users at a time, and most of the time there are NO users. CICS and TCP/IP also seem to be asleep. I only brought up FAQS to attempt to portray how the system fails to respond. David Wakser From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Ron Schmiedge Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 11:52 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Strange response time problems (also posted on VSE-L) Is FAQS the problem? Are the VSE consoles responding when FAQS is not? How many FAQS users do you have? I have a vague memory (and no books at hand) of a limit to the number of FAQS users you can have. On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Wakser, David david.wak...@infocrossing.com wrote: No, that is not the problem. This is a VERY low-usage system. Even when it seems to be asleep, its CPU usage is less than 2% (from both the VM and VSE perspectives). David Wakser From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Frank M. Ramaekers Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 10:01 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Strange response time problems (also posted on VSE-L) Are we sure it's VM? Are there any partitions with a high priority than FAQS (that could be dominating the CPU)? Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Wakser, David Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 8:54 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Strange response time problems (also posted on VSE-L) All: We are running 2 2.3 VSE systems under z/VM 5.4 on a Z800 CPU. We are experiencing periods of time when VSEs do not respond at all (e.g. cannot get in via FAQS from CMS, etc.), even though nothing is running in the VSE system and the z/VM system is not very busy. At other times, we have excellent response times, though conditions on either the guests or the z/VM host didn't seem to change. We do not have any z/VM monitors (except Explore, which is not set up properly), and we have even tried QUICKDSP, without success. Is anyone aware of any PTFs that address this strange behavior? We believe it started when the system was upgraded to z/VM 5.4. David Wakser Confidentiality Note: This e-mail, including any attachment to it, may contain material that is confidential, proprietary, privileged and/or Protected Health Information, within the meaning of the regulations under the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act as amended. If it is not clear that you are the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this transmittal in error, and any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, including any attachment to it, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately return it to the sender and delete it from your system. Thank you.
3592-e05 encrypted tapes
Hello Everyone, Is there anyway to set a 3592 drive to be encrypted by default under z/VM? Example the add statement on the 3592 for z/VSE would have a mode of x'0b' on the add statement. ADD 680:681,TPA,0B I want to set 680 and 681 to be encrypted as default under z/VM. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050
Re: 3592-e05 encrypted tapes
Hello Eric, We found that the TKLM was configured incorrectly. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Eric R Farman Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 3:33 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: 3592-e05 encrypted tapes Hi Ed, Tape encryption is enabled on z/VM via operands on the ATTACH command. It can also be enabled by setting up the encryption settings with the SET RDEVice command, where they would be picked up automatically on the ATTACH. Details are available in the appropriate help files, the CP Planning and Administration manual, and a presentation I've given in the past: http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/farman/EXPOTAPE.PDF http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/farman/EXPOTAPE.PDF Hope that helps. Regards, Eric Eric Farman z/VM I/O Development IBM Endicott, NY (607)429-4958 (tie 620) From: Edward M Martin emar...@aultman.com To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Date: 12/17/2010 02:06 PM Subject: 3592-e05 encrypted tapes Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Hello Everyone, Is there anyway to set a 3592 drive to be encrypted by default under z/VM? Example the add statement on the 3592 for z/VSE would have a mode of x’0b’ on the add statement. ADD 680:681,TPA,0B I want to set 680 and 681 to be encrypted as default under z/VM. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050
Re: Mandatory ESMs?
Unfortunately, I must agree. There is so much talent out there that just needs an outlet and systems to work on. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 3:56 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Mandatory ESMs? I realize this isn't really a fair comment, but I'll say it anyway. It's why the z is going down the toilet so far as number of installations are concerned. There is no way for poor techies to contribute to the z ecosystem any more. Companies, such as the one I work for, don't want employees wasting time and money on the z (in my case using MSUs for non productive work. MSUs cost real money.). I definitely cannot afford a z development system of my own (and zPDT is so encumbered that it is not for poor techies like me). And people wonder why Intel is taking over the world with their less advanced architecture? The only z machine I can afford is Hercule-390. And I can't get a z/VM or any other z licensed OS on that platform. I know why, but still. So, for techie fun, I use Linux/Intel. I can afford it. Wish it were otherwise. But IBM's apparent attitude appears to be: If IBM can't make some money directly from you, then you can just go somewhere else. So I have. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 2:37 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Mandatory ESMs? On Monday, 12/13/2010 at 11:12 EST, Dave Jones d...@vsoft-software.com wrote: As far as getting the new z/OS PL/I compiler over to z/VM, I'd be happy if IBM just offered it unsupported on CMS, with only a short bit of documentation noting the differences between usage in the z/OS and CMS environments, much like what IBM now does with the z/OS C/C++ port to CMS. Any problems with the compiler would have to be recreated on z/OS before IBM would take an APAR. I think that this approach might help make a business case, as it would cut down on IBM's up front costs significantly. Cost avoidance does not a business case make. Business cases are made based on projected sales and profitability, and that business case is weighed against others vying for the same resources. And as you know, IBM doesn't offer experimental licenses such as you describe. A product either goes out the door as a supported product, or it doesn't go at all. Occasionally IBM does offer beta programs that are similar to what you describe, but those are within the context of having intent to release a fully supported product. After all, it takes manpower to create unsupported programs, too. That's just The Way Things Are. Alan Altmark z/VM and Linux on System z Consultant IBM System Lab Services and Training ibm.com/systems/services/labservices office: 607.429.3323 alan_altm...@us.ibm.com IBM Endicott
Re: Off Topic: DS8100 DASD question
Hello Jim, I believe that it is similar to the DS6800. There is no backup of the configuration. It was described as worthless as everything is stripped (raid 5). The configuration would not be transferable. I have my own documentation. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Hughes, Jim Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 3:45 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Off Topic: DS8100 DASD question We have an IBM DS8100 storage system. I've added some volumes and decided I would like to backup the new configuration. I cannot locate any commands or instructions in the manual about backing up the configuration to DVD or a USB device. If there is a DS8100 site reading this and you've backed up your current configuration, would you share the steps with me? I've asked our local IBM Support Engineer and he wasn't sure how to do it. Best regards, Jim Hughes 603-271-5586 It is fun to do the impossible.
Re: 3592 cart iocp
Hello Kris, That is exactly what I had in my old notes. Just wondered if that was ever fixed. Thank you. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Kris Buelens Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 5:02 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: 3592 cart iocp The rule was that the range defined in IOCP for **control units** had to cover the range that was plugged in by the HW CE. The ranges of defined devices is not important. The reason is that control units can tell something to the OP sys using any address it has been defined. When such a message arrives and CP can not match it to a control unit range it knows, the message is thrown away. Often leading to missing interrupts. So: - for control units: define the full range - for devices: define what you have (or plan to have in a short time) That's how I always worked, and still do. 2010/11/5 Edward M Martin emar...@aultman.com Hello everyone, Just a question about the IOCP gen of 3592 drives. We are getting two IBM System Storage TS1120 Tape Drive Model E05 (3592 E05) with encryption. Do I need to generate a full range of devices? Seems that I remember that z/VM likes to have full ranges even If we physically only have 2 drives. CHPID PCHID=161,PATH=61,TYPE=CNC,SHARED .ESCON 3590 CHPID PCHID=171,PATH=71,TYPE=CNC,SHARED .ESCON 3590 * * *C H A N N E L61, 71* * IBM 3592 TAPE DRIVES * * * CU280CNTLUNIT CUNUMBR=280,PATH=(61), X UNITADD=((00,16)),UNIT=3590 CU680CNTLUNIT CUNUMBR=680,PATH=(71), X UNITADD=((00,16)),UNIT=3590 D0680IODEVICE ADDRESS=(680,02),CUNUMBR=(280,680),UNIT=3590,X UNITADD=00 Or should this be D0680IODEVICE ADDRESS=(680,16),CUNUMBR=(280,680),UNIT=3590,X UNITADD=00 Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 -- Kris Buelens, IBM Belgium, VM customer support
3592 cart iocp
Hello everyone, Just a question about the IOCP gen of 3592 drives. We are getting two IBM System Storage TS1120 Tape Drive Model E05 (3592 E05) with encryption. Do I need to generate a full range of devices? Seems that I remember that z/VM likes to have full ranges even If we physically only have 2 drives. CHPID PCHID=161,PATH=61,TYPE=CNC,SHARED .ESCON 3590 CHPID PCHID=171,PATH=71,TYPE=CNC,SHARED .ESCON 3590 * * *C H A N N E L61, 71* * IBM 3592 TAPE DRIVES * * * CU280CNTLUNIT CUNUMBR=280,PATH=(61), X UNITADD=((00,16)),UNIT=3590 CU680CNTLUNIT CUNUMBR=680,PATH=(71), X UNITADD=((00,16)),UNIT=3590 D0680IODEVICE ADDRESS=(680,02),CUNUMBR=(280,680),UNIT=3590,X UNITADD=00 Or should this be D0680IODEVICE ADDRESS=(680,16),CUNUMBR=(280,680),UNIT=3590,X UNITADD=00 Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050
Re: 3592 cart iocp
Hello George, I was just thinking about that. I was wondering if the unit numbers on the controllers have to match the IODEVICE units. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of George Henke/NYLIC Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 3:27 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: 3592 cart iocp It is usually a good idea to predefine a full range of devices, control units, etc, to avoid future changes, dynamic or static, to the IOCDS. Edward M Martin emar...@aultman.com Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 11/05/2010 03:20 PM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject 3592 cart iocp Hello everyone, Just a question about the IOCP gen of 3592 drives. We are getting two IBM System Storage TS1120 Tape Drive Model E05 (3592 E05) with encryption. Do I need to generate a full range of devices? Seems that I remember that z/VM likes to have full ranges even If we physically only have 2 drives. CHPID PCHID=161,PATH=61,TYPE=CNC,SHARED .ESCON 3590 CHPID PCHID=171,PATH=71,TYPE=CNC,SHARED .ESCON 3590 * * *C H A N N E L61, 71* * IBM 3592 TAPE DRIVES * * * CU280CNTLUNIT CUNUMBR=280,PATH=(61), X UNITADD=((00,16)),UNIT=3590 CU680CNTLUNIT CUNUMBR=680,PATH=(71), X UNITADD=((00,16)),UNIT=3590 D0680IODEVICE ADDRESS=(680,02),CUNUMBR=(280,680),UNIT=3590,X UNITADD=00 Or should this be D0680IODEVICE ADDRESS=(680,16),CUNUMBR=(280,680),UNIT=3590,X UNITADD=00 Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050
Re: 3592 cart iocp
Hello G. Clovis, We are getting one controller with the two drives. I will use your gen. thanks. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of gclo...@br.ibm.com Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 4:03 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: 3592 cart iocp Ed, Check if you are receiving two controllers with 1 drive each (as coded in your IOCP) or one controller with 2 drives. In the second case, the better IOCP is: CU280 CNTLUNIT CUNUMBR=280,PATH=(61,71), X UNITADD=((00,16)),UNIT=3590 D0680 IODEVICE ADDRESS=(680,16),CUNUMBR=(280),UNIT=3590, X UNITADD=00 __ Clovis Inactive hide details for George Henke---05/11/2010 17:27:05---It is usually a good idea to predefine a full range of devices, George Henke---05/11/2010 17:27:05---It is usually a good idea to predefine a full range of devices, control units, etc, to avoid futur From: George Henke/NYLIC george_he...@newyorklife.com To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Date: 05/11/2010 17:27 Subject: Re: 3592 cart iocp Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU It is usually a good idea to predefine a full range of devices, control units, etc, to avoid future changes, dynamic or static, to the IOCDS. Edward M Martin emar...@aultman.com Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 11/05/2010 03:20 PM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject 3592 cart iocp Hello everyone, Just a question about the IOCP gen of 3592 drives. We are getting two IBM System Storage TS1120 Tape Drive Model E05 (3592 E05) with encryption. Do I need to generate a full range of devices? Seems that I remember that z/VM likes to have full ranges even If we physically only have 2 drives. CHPID PCHID=161,PATH=61,TYPE=CNC,SHARED .ESCON 3590 CHPID PCHID=171,PATH=71,TYPE=CNC,SHARED .ESCON 3590 * * * C H A N N E L 61, 71 * * IBM 3592 TAPE DRIVES * * * CU280 CNTLUNIT CUNUMBR=280,PATH=(61), X UNITADD=((00,16)),UNIT=3590 CU680 CNTLUNIT CUNUMBR=680,PATH=(71), X UNITADD=((00,16)),UNIT=3590 D0680 IODEVICE ADDRESS=(680,02),CUNUMBR=(280,680),UNIT=3590, X UNITADD=00 Or should this be D0680 IODEVICE ADDRESS=(680,16),CUNUMBR=(280,680),UNIT=3590, X UNITADD=00 Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050
Re: VTAM USSMSG10 buffer location assistance
Hello Rick Barlow, We just had a discussion of determining the locations on the screen. We have the same USSTAB screen coded for Buffer=M1. MESSAGES USSMSG MSG=0,TEXT='COMMAND COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY' USSMSG MSG=1,BUFFER=M1 USSMSG MSG=2,BUFFER=M1 USSMSG MSG=3,TEXT='ERROR IN XSUSSTAB, PRESS ENTER' USSMSG MSG=4,TEXT='APPLICATION NOT ACTIVATED, PRESS ENTER' USSMSG MSG=5,BUFFER=M1 USSMSG MSG=6,TEXT='LOGON ALREADY PENDING' USSMSG MSG=7,TEXT='LOGON FAILED. PRESS ENTER' USSMSG MSG=8,TEXT='INSUFFICIENT STORAGE IN XSVTAM' USSMSG MSG=9,TEXT='MAGNETIC CARD DATA ERROR' USSMSG MSG=10,BUFFER=M1 USSMSG MSG=11,TEXT='VTAM SESSION HAS ENDED' USSMSG MSG=12,TEXT='REQUIRED PARAMETER OMITTED' USSMSG MSG=13,TEXT='ECHO TEST - %' USSMSG MSG=14,TEXT='VTAM MESSAGE % NOT DEFINED' There are some very knowledgeable people on screens. And Resource Definition Reference Version 4 Release 2 for MVS/ESA, VM/ESA, and VSE/ESA Document Number SC31-6498-01 Program Number 5695-117 (MVS/ESA) 5654-010 (VM/ESA) 5686-065 (VSE/ESA) File Number S370/4300/30XX-50 6.0 Chapter 6. User-Defined Tables and Data Filter Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Rick Barlow Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 2:23 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: VTAM USSMSG10 buffer location assistance I am looking for someone who can point me to a reference that might help me to modify a USSMSG10 screen that is coded using screen buffer locations. Before anyone comments on still having VTAM on VM, let me say that the reason we are doing this is to add a message to the screen to inform the users that VTAM is going away - soon. I know that the declarations probably include a 3270 data stream command and a location within the screen buffer. I am trying to locate documentation that might help. I am including a brief code snippet. DC X'11C14F1D60' Line 2 Col 1 Normal DC C'@' DC X'11C16F' Line 2 Col 32 DC C'DATA CENTER NORTH' * DC X'11C2F7' Line 3 Col 24 DC C'TEST AND DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM (CDC)' Can anyone point me to documentation or a possible contact who might be able to steer me in the right direction? Thank you Rick Barlow Nationwide Insurance
Re: VTAM USSMSG10 buffer location assistance
Hello Rick, Here is a REXX that I used to calculate the addresses on the z/VSE USSTAB. Works well. Mike Pace sent this to the list. Here's a rexx exec I use to calculate HEX address from a given row and column /* * *\ Name: BUFADDR Version: 1.0 Author: M.Pace Function: Calculate the buffer address from a row and column Comments: This is for a 80 column screen only. History: \* * */ arg row col buffaddr = ((row - 1) * 80) + (col - 1) hex = d2x(buffaddr) bin = x2b(hex) bin8 = right(bin,12,'0') h1 = '11' || right(bin8,6) h2 = '11' || left(bin8,6) b1 = b2x(h1) b2 = b2x(h2) say b2 b1 exit 0 Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 4:00 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: VTAM USSMSG10 buffer location assistance On Thursday, 10/21/2010 at 02:23 EDT, Rick Barlow rrhbar...@gmail.com wrote: I am looking for someone who can point me to a reference that might help me to modify a USSMSG10 screen that is coded using screen buffer locations. Before anyone comments on still having VTAM on VM, let me say that the reason we are doing this is to add a message to the screen to inform the users that VTAM is going away - soon. I know that the declarations probably include a 3270 data stream command and a location within the screen buffer. I am trying to locate documentation that might help. I am including a brief code snippet. DC X'11C14F1D60' Line 2 Col 1 Normal DC C'@' DC X'11C16F' Line 2 Col 32 DC C'DATA CENTER NORTH' * DC X'11C2F7' Line 3 Col 24 DC C'TEST AND DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM (CDC)' Can anyone point me to documentation or a possible contact who might be able to steer me in the right direction?
Re: SFS - misunderstanding
Hello Kris, Would you send that newsletter to me too, please? Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Kris Buelens Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 9:55 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: SFS - misunderstanding That's something left over from the early SFS days in 1988: one wanted to make SFS as transparently as possible to old programs: old programs check a bit in CMS' disk table (ADT), and if that bit tells R/W they suppose they can write to it. Not always so with SFS, maybe you can write to file 1 on a directory, but not to file 2. Therefore: ACCESS of some one else's directory turned the R/W flag off in the ADT. To make usage at all possible: - XEDIT and COPYFILE were changed to check the SFS authority, and not the ADT bit - ERASE and RENAME: if you code a filemode: they continue to check the ADT bit; if you code a dirid: they check the SFS authority of the file. Later was added ACCESS xxx (FORCERW and FORCERW, makes it possible to set the ADT bit they way you want FILELIST and DIRLIST got a READWRITE option. Even later: people (like Rob?) complained that XEDIT and COPYFILE could still overwrite files in a directory accessed as R/O. So was the SET RORESPECT born. I'll send you VM Newsletter 4 that we sent to the Belgian VM community back in 1995. SFS Auhtorities was the main subject of nr 4. 2010/10/5 Mark Pace pacemainl...@gmail.com Yes, I am an administrator for the file pool. On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Frank M. Ramaekers framaek...@ailife.com wrote: Are you the administrator for the file pool? Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Pace Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 7:10 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: SFS - misunderstanding I admit that I've always stayed away from SFS. But recently I've decided to use it to share files between VM systems. Here is something I don't understand. I access a SFS, it shows as R/O, yet I can edit and save a file, but then can't erase it?! What am I missing that allows me to edit a file on a R/O accessed SFS? acc vmuser:ddisk. d DMSACR723I D (VMUSER:DDISK.) R/O Ready; T=0.01/0.01 08:09:27 q disk d LABEL VDEV M STAT CYL TYPE BLKSZ FILES BLKS USED-(%) BLKS LEFT BLK TOTAL - DIR D R/O -- 4096 281 - - - xedit test data d I changed and saved the file. Ready; T=0.01/0.01 08:06:08 erase test data d DMSERS037E Filemode D is accessed as read/only Ready(00036); T=0.01/0.01 08:07:33 -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems _ This message contains information which is privileged and confidential and is solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any review, disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this in error, please destroy it immediately and notify us at privacy...@ailife.com. -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems -- Kris Buelens, IBM Belgium, VM customer support
Re: How DIRMAINT Work ?
Hello Kris, DIRMAP part of the CMS Utilities Feature 1.1, along with FLIST, WAKEUP, VMSIZE, USERID, SFPURGER, and the others. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Kris Buelens Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 2:29 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: How DIRMAINT Work ? I tell over and over again: forget about DISKMAP, use DISKMAP instead. DIRMAP used to be billable (part of IPF, later CUF), so the poor-man's solution, DISKMAP EXEC, was created. I've got a document describing differences in more details , and I give some hints about how to manage the CP Directory (like a FULLPACK user with an MDISK for every disk. 2010/10/4 Scott Rohling scott.rohl...@gmail.com Because the DISKMAP utility is unaware of the size of the 'real' disk - so END is meaningless to it. I always encourage folks to not use END except under specific circumstances. If there is a reason other than laziness to specify END -- then use it. Otherwise, list the number of cylinders specifically. Oh - and it can pose a danger if you rely on DISKMAP to tell you what is already allocated and these disks don't show up. You might want to try DIRMAINT FREE and DIRMAINT USED commands instead of DISKMAP. (The thread is about DIRMAINT after all ;-) Scott Rohling On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 10:10 AM, George Henke/NYLIC george_he...@newyorklife.com wrote: Minidisks with the END option specified are not included in a DISKMAP when the command, DISKMAP USER is entered. What is the reason for this? Does this pose a danger when updating the directory directly, no pun intended? :-) Ray Waters ray.wat...@opensolutions.com Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Kris Buelens
Re: moving between split screens
Hello Tom, Ron, Bill, and everyone else that answered. I appreciate everyone's patience with me. I keep asking old questions. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Tom Duerbusch Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 3:54 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: moving between split screens Never mind. Over/under split screens could certainly use a PF key to tab from command line to command line of the next screen. I've been using the side by side split screens for too long G. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Ron Schmiedge ron.schmie...@gmail.com 10/4/2010 2:22 PM Ed, This list provided the answer a couple of years ago: 'command set pf02 before SOS TABCMDF' Add to your PROFILE XEDIT and PF2 will tab to the other command line of a split screen set up by the SCREEN 2 command. On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Edward M Martin emar...@aultman.com wrote: Hello Everyone, Is there a command that I can set in Xedit PF key to all me to jump between split screens? In the ICCF editor, I set PF2ED Cursor Input. Then when I have two or more members up on the screen, I can press the PF2 key to jump to next screen cmdline. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050
Re: z/VM ISFC links
Hello Mike, Wasn't that covered in the z/Universe announcement? Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Mike Walter Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 5:16 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: z/VM ISFC links TCP/IP is old technology? What about the bits and bytes it relies on - why can't IBM replace those with negatively and positively charged photons? They'd be a lot faster! Gee, I hope I'm hinting at some secret announcement letter pending for the z/NT, which would naturally be followed by the z/XP, and then (skipping some more nightmares) eventually the z/7, right!? %-}~ But then.. light does go wy back to the very beginning. ;-) Mike Walter Hewitt Associates The opinions expressed herein are mine alone, not my employer's. And before we trod too far down this old technology path, thereby invoking the inestimable wrath of our intrepid moderator, I believe that David Boyes has already won the contest hands down with the post: ---snip--- Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 13:58:16 -0400 From: David Boyes dbo...@sinenomine.net Subject: Re: programmer biographies (was a long time ago: Immediate instructions ) Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com wrote: -snip- I'm sure *someone* will speak up and say, Well *I* worked on a Babbage's first difference engine. Knew the man well. He was a geek's geek. Whoever speaks up, my hat's off to you. You win! It's more likely someone will have claimed to helped build Stonehenge, or aligned the pyramids, or Well, this light thing worked out OK in the labs, so we kicked it upstairs to the Big Guy for product announcement. The customer tests with the Let There Be Light campaign seemed positive, so we told him to run with it... 8-) ---snip--- Michael MacIsaac mike...@us.ibm.com Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 09/30/2010 01:07 PM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Re: z/VM ISFC links still stuck with 30 year old technology (CTC) Yeah, and we're still stuck with that 30 year old TCP/IP technology :)) Mike MacIsaac mike...@us.ibm.com (845) 433-7061 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.
Re: Applying Maintenance - Best Practice
Hello George, Yes as long as your 2nd level machine has the disk attached to it. Now the usual warning that you are running with two sets of CP labeled disks. If anything happens that cause you to Reipl z/VM you could have some issues. Look back at the archives and you will find how to adjust the names of your 2nd level z/VM system. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of George Henke/NYLIC Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 4:34 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Applying Maintenance - Best Practice Can I bring up z/VM Level 2 wiith the same cloned volser's, directory, and CF parm disks as z/VM Level 1 as long as I point to the cloned 540RES and FORCE start when I IPL? I have DDRed my 540RES, 540W01, 540W02, Level 1 disks to separate disks and they now have the same volsers. Do I need to also DDR the PAG and SPL disks or can I just FORCE start with empty disks. The directory and CF parm disks came over with 540RES. Since the names have not changed Is their referential integrity still intact?
Re: Virtualizing a z10
Hello Les, I suspect that maybe the did just that. Then zapped around the piece they wanted. Seems that Paul Kelly zapped the supervisor to get around something like that back in the 80's. Or was it Dennis Cox? Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Les Koehler Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 4:37 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Virtualizing a z10 It's certainly hard to believe that IBM built the hardware and software for a z10 *without* fist emulating both in a virtual environment! After all, that's what gave VM a renewed life when they tried to kill it... MVS had to have it to test new releases. But, of course, perhaps the necessary configuration wasn't 'ready for prime time' :-) Les O'Brien, Dennis L wrote: IBM will sell you a virtual z10. The virtualization is so good that it looks just like a real one. The price is even the same. Seriously, the answer is no. Dennis A slipping sear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you least expect it. That would make you quite unpopular in what's left of your unit. -- August 1993 issue of PS Magazine, preventive maintenance magazine of the US Army From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of George Henke/NYLIC Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 12:23 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: [IBMVM] Virtualizing a z10 I have just installed z/VM 61 level 2 on a 2094 which I believe is a z9. It is not surpiseing that when I try to ipl I get a wait state code of 9030 because it does not like the architecture level. I don't suppose there is any way of virtualizing aournd this.
Re: Virtualizing a z10
Hello Everyone, Just trying to remember. Hey in NYC, Frank Hughes is another one that did that. But we all worked together. Frank was worked for Noble Loans, Dowling, and McKinsey. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of George Henke/NYLIC Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 4:50 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Virtualizing a z10 It would appear from Googling wait state 9030 and z/vm 6.1, that bit 44, the PFPO bit, of the PSW just needs to be flipped to make z9 impervious to z/VM 6.1. There seems to be considerable interest in the subject.. Edward M Martin emar...@aultman.com Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 09/21/2010 04:44 PM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Re: Virtualizing a z10 Hello Les, I suspect that maybe the did just that. Then zapped around the piece they wanted. Seems that Paul Kelly zapped the supervisor to get around something like that back in the 80's. Or was it Dennis Cox? Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Les Koehler Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 4:37 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Virtualizing a z10 It's certainly hard to believe that IBM built the hardware and software for a z10 *without* fist emulating both in a virtual environment! After all, that's what gave VM a renewed life when they tried to kill it... MVS had to have it to test new releases. But, of course, perhaps the necessary configuration wasn't 'ready for prime time' :-) Les O'Brien, Dennis L wrote: IBM will sell you a virtual z10. The virtualization is so good that it looks just like a real one. The price is even the same. Seriously, the answer is no. Dennis A slipping sear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you least expect it. That would make you quite unpopular in what's left of your unit. -- August 1993 issue of PS Magazine, preventive maintenance magazine of the US Army From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of George Henke/NYLIC Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 12:23 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: [IBMVM] Virtualizing a z10 I have just installed z/VM 61 level 2 on a 2094 which I believe is a z9. It is not surpiseing that when I try to ipl I get a wait state code of 9030 because it does not like the architecture level. I don't suppose there is any way of virtualizing aournd this.
Re: Calculating a date in the future
Hello Mike,
This is an exec to calculate days back. Just do add instead of
subtract.
Pick your format for the output
/* REXX COMPUTE THE DATE INFORMATION FROM DAY TO DAY PAST */
ARG INPUT2 INPUT1
IF INPUT1 = ' '
THEN INPUT1 = DATE(S)
SAY 'INITIAL DATE IS START DAY IN STANDARD DATE FORMAT ' INPUT1
SAY 'THE NUMBER OF DAYS BACK ' INPUT2
SAY 'INITIAL DATE IS START DAY IN NORMAL DATE FORMAT '
DATE('N',INPUT1,'S')
SAY 'INITIAL DATE DATE EXPRESSED AS DAYS SINCE 01/01/0001'
DATE('B',INPUT1,'S')
SDATE = DATE('B',INPUT1,'S')
EDATE = SDATE - INPUT2
SAY 'INITIAL DATE DATE MINUS ' INPUT2 ' BACK EXPRESSED AS DAYS SINCE
01/01/0001 ' EDATE
SAY 'INITIAL DATE DATE MINUS ' INPUT2 ' BACK EXPRESSED STANDARD FORMAT
' DATE('S',EDATE,'B')
SAY 'INITIAL DATE DATE MINUS ' INPUT2 ' BACK EXPRESSED NORMAL FORMAT
' DATE('N',EDATE,'B')
SAY 'INITIAL DATE DATE MINUS ' INPUT2 ' BACK EXPRESSED EUROPEAN FORMAT
' DATE('E',EDATE,'B')
SAY 'INITIAL DATE DATE MINUS ' INPUT2 ' BACK EXPRESSED ORDERED FORMAT
' DATE('O',EDATE,'B')
SAY 'INITIAL DATE DATE MINUS ' INPUT2 ' BACK EXPRESSED MONTH
' DATE('M',EDATE,'B')
SAY 'INITIAL DATE DATE MINUS ' INPUT2 ' BACK EXPRESSED DAY OF THE WEEK
' DATE('W',EDATE,'B')
NDATE = DATE('S',EDATE,'B')
BYEAR = SUBSTR(NDATE,1,4)
SAY 'INITIAL DATE DATE MINUS ' INPUT2 ' BACK EXPRESSED AS DAYS OF THE
YEAR ' DATE('D',NDATE,'S')
NDAYS = DATE('D',NDATE,'S')
DYEAR = SUBSTR(NDATE,3,2)
SAY 'INITIAL DATE DATE MINUS ' INPUT2 ' BACK YEAR IS
' BYEAR
SAY 'INITIAL DATE DATE MINUS ' INPUT2 ' BACK EXPRESSED AS JULIAN
' DYEAR||NDAYS
exit
Ed Martin
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Subject: Calculating a date in the future
Greetings,
I would like to determine a date in the future through an EXEC.
Example: We IPL VM every 28 days. Last time was Sept 8,2010. I would
like to determine the date of the next VM IPL. Have the same need for
VSE IPL and CICS re-boot times.
Thank you,
Mike Horlick
CGI Montreal
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Re: Automated Logon (autofill userid and password) using TN3270 of TCP/IP for VM or Logical Device
Hello Alan, I agree with you totally. And we are the ones with the password repository call, yep you guess it, a file on MAINT's 2CC disk. I have been passing all you wonderful comments on to our compliance and unit directors. They are looking for a Chuckie at IBM! Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 3:12 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Automated Logon (autofill userid and password) using TN3270 of TCP/IP for VM or Logical Device On Monday, 09/20/2010 at 02:47 EDT, David Boyes dbo...@sinenomine.net wrote: No one has mentioned the super-handy SESSION yet. SESSION allows you to define and manage LDEV sessions from a existing CMS logon (if on the same system). I don?t think it would be terrifically hard to add the ability to read the session authentication details from a file to SESSION. : If you?re going to store PWs in a file, SFS is probably a slightly (note: *slightly*) safer option. Gives you a bit more granular access control. I encourage folks NOT to create anything that makes it easier to store unencrypted passwords. I'd rather have an APPC/IUCV-based password server that will return a user's password if the requester hase been authorized to retrieve it. It could supply a RACF PassTicket or the value out of the directory. (The app doesn't care which it is.) (Almost) ANYTHING is better than creating password repository that must be audited and managed. (gag) Alan Altmark z/VM and Linux on System z Consultant IBM System Lab Services and Training ibm.com/systems/services/labservices office: 607.429.3323 alan_altm...@us.ibm.com IBM Endicott
Re: DEDICATED DASD - How to backup?
Hello Dave, Can you SNAP over to disks that you can access via VM? Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of KEETON Dave * SDC Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 4:48 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: DEDICATED DASD - How to backup? I have a guest OS running on 3380 DASD. All of the DASD is defined with DEDICATE statements to that guest only. I'm now trying to determine how to backup that guest. I have the CA VM:Backup (with HiDRO) product, but I'm told it probably won't work because the guest has no minidisks. We have a VTS here, so all the data will be written to virtual tape using the DFSMS/VM (RMS) and CA's VM:Tape. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Dave Keeton
Re: Moving on (please don't panic)
Hello Alan, All well said and good luck. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Pace Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 11:06 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Moving on (please don't panic) What, Asiff, said! On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 11:05 AM, ASIFF AMAHED asiff...@gmail.com wrote: Good luck in your New adventure, and thank you ones again for all your help over the years. On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com wrote: Effective September 16th, after nearly 28 years in VM Development, I am moving to a new role as a member of IBM Lab Services and Training. There I will be part of the team that helps you, our clients, successfully bring Linux to System z, both from a traditional consolidation perspective, as well as exploitation of System z and z/VM's emerging technologies. I don't make the move lightly or easily, but it serves both my own goals and IBM's. I will continue to reside in Endicott with my friends in Development, I will still annoy them with questions, and I will continue to exert my influence over product plans. By being in Lab Services, however, those questions and that influence will hopefully be the result of deeper, more direct experience with you. While I'm here, let me pause to again publicly thank my colleagues for their many years of support. They always have taken the time to educate me (over and over sometimes!) so that I can pass that knowledge on to you. I will continue to hang out here and I will still see you at conferences. What *will* change? Well, I'll be on the road more, so you'll get fewer near-real-time answers from me on the listservers. (sigh) Oh, and I'll be making more recommendations that you get a Services contract with Yours Truly and the Chuckster to help you. (Hmmm do I get to charge twice?) :-D See you in the funny papers. Alan Altmark IBM z/VM Development (for 14 more days) -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
3590 cartridge cost
Hello Everyone, We are looking into 3590 cartridges (I would prefer Virtual tape). Would you all mind sharing the cost of a 3590 cartridge? Thank you, Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050
3590 systems
Hello Everyone that has 3590 connections to their zSeries, We are looking into 3590 cartridge drives. I am having some issues understanding the IBM numbers. Please check what I think these numbers are. 3584-L22base frame is this just the rack to hold everything 3592-E05tape drives these are the actual drive that reads the cartridge 3592-J70Enterprise Tape Controller is the controller that connect the drives to the Ficon/Escon To the tape drives 3593-F05Library Controller FrameThis is the actual frame that holds the J70 and E05 inside the 3584-L22 frame 3593-L05Library Manager not sure what this really does other than Model L05 - single library manager. Maximum of 2 (redundancy only) per 3593 System Am I correct on what I have? Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050
Re: 3590 systems
Hello Mark, Can you explain a little more? I knew that the 3490e/3490 were different but I did not know that the 3590 and 3592 carts were different. Thanks for the info, Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Pace Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 12:55 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: 3590 systems The 3592 tape cartridge is a physically different tape than the 3590 cartridge. On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Edward M Martin emar...@aultman.com wrote: Hello Everyone that has 3590 connections to their zSeries, We are looking into 3590 cartridge drives. I am having some issues understanding the IBM numbers. Please check what I think these numbers are. 3584-L22base frame is this just the rack to hold everything 3592-E05tape drives these are the actual drive that reads the cartridge 3592-J70Enterprise Tape Controller is the controller that connect the drives to the Ficon/Escon To the tape drives 3593-F05Library Controller FrameThis is the actual frame that holds the J70 and E05 inside the 3584-L22 frame 3593-L05Library Manager not sure what this really does other than Model L05 - single library manager. Maximum of 2 (redundancy only) per 3593 System Am I correct on what I have? Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: 3590 systems
Thank you. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Pace Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 2:30 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: 3590 systems ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/common/ssi/ecm/en/tsd00063usen/TSD00063USEN.PDF The 3590 has an exposed leader block catch. The 3592 has a little sliding door, no idea how it works. But you can see by the picture in the PDF that is physically different. On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Edward M Martin emar...@aultman.com wrote: Hello Mark, Can you explain a little more? I knew that the 3490e/3490 were different but I did not know that the 3590 and 3592 carts were different. Thanks for the info, Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Pace Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 12:55 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: 3590 systems The 3592 tape cartridge is a physically different tape than the 3590 cartridge. On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Edward M Martin emar...@aultman.com wrote: Hello Everyone that has 3590 connections to their zSeries, We are looking into 3590 cartridge drives. I am having some issues understanding the IBM numbers. Please check what I think these numbers are. 3584-L22base frame is this just the rack to hold everything 3592-E05tape drives these are the actual drive that reads the cartridge 3592-J70Enterprise Tape Controller is the controller that connect the drives to the Ficon/Escon To the tape drives 3593-F05Library Controller FrameThis is the actual frame that holds the J70 and E05 inside the 3584-L22 frame 3593-L05Library Manager not sure what this really does other than Model L05 - single library manager. Maximum of 2 (redundancy only) per 3593 System Am I correct on what I have? Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: EREP Reporting
Hello Jon L. We use the EREP machine itself. Logon the disconnect EREP system, issue the #cp EXT to stop. Run the exec's to generate the reports into the proper RDR queue. Email the reports to IBM/OPTS manager/lead Operator via another exec. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Lesseg, Jon Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 5:52 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: EREP Reporting Hello VM List. I'm trying to get reporting operational for EREP data. At your shop what user runs CPEREPXA to generate report? I could use MAINT, but is this the way it's done or is there another user that is preferred? TIA, Jon L. -- This email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else, unless expressly approved by the sender or an authorized addressee, is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action omitted or taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you believe that you have received this email in error, please contact the sender, delete this e-mail and destroy all copies. ==
Re: z/VM z/VSE
Hello Frank, It seems to me that we had the Hi-Level Assembler like that and it was changed by IBM back to two costs. I will check again. Please let me know if you find out differently. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Berry van Sleeuwen Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 5:17 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: z/VM z/VSE Yes, it's still true. At least we have VTAM and DITTO on that condition. Look at your software order. You need to order the product with it's VSE product number. So for instance 5686-065 ACF-VTAM-VM-multidomain. Regards, Berry. Op 03-08-10 16:15, Frank M. Ramaekers schreef: I have z/VSE 4.2.1 and z/VM 5.4. Back when I had VSE/ESA and VM/ESA, some costs benefits could be gleaned from having similar products in both OS's on the same physical machine. Products that come to mind are High-level assembler, ACF/VTAM and possibly DITTO. Is this still true? My first priority is acquiring an assembler for z/VMit seems to be one product, but I don't know if I have to pay for it twice (z/VM and z/VSE). Thanks, Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. Systems Programmer MCP, MCP+I, MCSE RHCE American Income Life Insurance Co. Phone: (254)761-6649 1200 Wooded Acres Dr. Fax: (254)741-5777 Waco, Texas 76701 _ This message contains information which is privileged and confidential and is solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any review, disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this in error, please destroy it immediately and notify us at privacy...@ailife.com.
Re: New Job
Hello Tom, Well, good luck! You will do well. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Tom Huegel Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 9:23 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: New Job Today I start my new job. It has been eight months in the making.. I sure hope I still remember my z/VM stuff... If I forgot anything, there is always this list for help.
Re: Dasd Volser standards documented
Hello Everyone, We do use the last 3 digits example DS6900 is real dasd 0900. But the naming convention has to be set my your sites standards and balanced against what you need and what you do with your DASD. In our case, we make sure that Operators/Applications/Systems/CE/outside IBM VMer's/etc. can come in and look to see where All dasd are and where they are connected. And yes YMMV! Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Pace Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 9:21 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Dasd Volser standards documented And with the ease of copying DASD via Flashcopy, I move volumes from device to device for various reasons, VOLSERs with the device address does not work for me. YMMV. On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Rob van der Heij rvdh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Michael MacIsaac mike...@us.ibm.com wrote: In the Virtualization Cookbooks, some of which are Redbooks and thus IBM documents, we recommend using the last four characters of the volser as the DASD rdev. If this convention is followed it guarantees unique labels and makes it easy to know which DASD is which. But that leaves only two That's definitely not the old school tradition where we were told to avoid volser based on real device address. You'd name the volume after the data or purpose, not on where it is sitting. Today it's probably less common to find a volume restored on another HDA when you get back in the office. Since your approach probably will have exceptions too, you'll have to use the right info anyway (rather than code 'DETACH' substr(volser,2) for example - the lookup stage is your friend for that...) | Rob
Re: SFTP versus FTPS
Hello Mark, I agree. But they are OPIE's. ;-) Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 5:04 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: SFTP versus FTPS On 7/23/2010 at 04:39 PM, Edward M Martin emar...@aultman.com wrote: Plus I have some Opie that indicates that they want SFTP and . SFTP, for our purposes here at name removed , is for Implicit SSL connections. FTPS, is for SSH connections which we don't accept at all in fact. They've got that exactly backward. FTPS has no relationship to SSH at all. sftp is the command included with OpenSSH. Mark Post
Re: SFTP versus FTPS
Hello Alan, Thank you very much. We do not have any in-house z/OS people. We are just gathering information. I do thank you all for the information. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 5:11 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: SFTP versus FTPS On Friday, 07/23/2010 at 04:41 EDT, Edward M Martin emar...@aultman.com wrote: Ok I need some comments and guidance. FTP using the SSH is not what we want, I believe. That is called sftp and is what the IBM Ported Tools gives you. We want FTP/SSL or FTPS (implicit SSL). Which from my earlier question about FTP and TCP/IP on z/OS is not in the BASE TCP/IP suite. z/OS *does* include FTP/SSL (via System SSL) and FTPS (via AT-TLS). There may be other FMIDs that have to be installed. I'm not an MVS guru. Alan this statement would this be the part of the IBM PORTED Tools that you are talking about (see below). If it is then, That would SFTP and not the FTP/SSL (FTPS) that we require. TCP/IP is part of z/OS Communications Server (nee VTAM). It is not a part of the base z/OS. It is a charge feature of z/OS. sftp is available for z/OS, but must be ordered. It is part of the OpenSSH port ( 5655-M23). It is free. This version of sftp only support z/OS UNIX files. I don't worry too much about the fact that you can snap out things like RACF and TCP/IP. You really need to talk to your in-house z/OS folks to know what they have/haven't ordered/installed. ?. SFTP, for our purposes here at name removed , is for Implicit SSL connections. FTPS, is for SSH connections which we don?t accept at all in fact. ? Feel free to correct them. SFTP has only one meaning: file transfer using an ssh tunnel. FTPS can be either RFC 4217 (dynamic) or implicit SSL (a la https). Some ftps clients are smart enough to connect in clear-text and find out if the server supports RFC 4217 and, if not, disconnect and reconnect with implicit SSL. But given that a lot of people don't believe or know that FTP is secure (they live in the distant past), they feel free to use sftp and ftps and 'secure ftp' interchangeably. I even saw a web browser incorrectly process an ftp:// URL, using binary transfers for text data, on the bogus assumption that they are the same. Morons. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
Re: New standard for networking help
Hello Everyone, I have been following this conversation with great interest. I like Rob have been on both sides of Conversation. Now I am the customer with the documentation. Having good documentation helps everyone involved, and good change management (of some sort) helps debug issues. I have noticed that I always have 'Almost' enough information, but it is 'you need a little more'. (I hope that I never caused that much problem for my customers but) Is there a check list that we could come up with that would be a standard, short list of documentation? Or is this just a pipe dream? Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Rob van der Heij Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 8:55 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: New standard for networking help On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com wrote: Bottom line, it enabled me to discover the problem in about 5 minutes - the NATIVE and default VLAN on DEFINE VSWITCH had the same value. With so many people getting excited, I feel un irresitable urge to assume my position on the peanut gallery this Friday afternoon... Well that may be true, but at what expense for the customer? From my current position, I obviously welcome any effort the customer is willing to put in to increase my efficiency and improve the quality of my response. And I do expect that most of those 17 pages was their normal documentation that they maintain for the system anyway. But one should ask how long that customer has been fighting the problem to make them think it required such extensive documentation. And if it only took you 5 minutes to browse those 17 pages (certainly not read it all) and find the cause and post to the mailing list, is it clear enough in the books to prevent the problem from happening. But in a former life as customer, I soon realized that vendors were asking for extensive documentation and experiments only to buy time (so once you had things collected, they could tell you that you have a really old level and could you try with the latest version). An automated program to generate such documentation with no effort - or worse, even before the vendor asks for it - really defeats the purpose... :-) Seriously, I doubt such a tell me all you know program will improve things. Especially since it only shows what the customer defined, not what he meant to define or should have defined. Much of what you can collect just is not needed in most cases. Like in this case, having the Rick's list of 16,000 volumes would not have made Alan's task any easier (depending on the layout of that list, he would have told us 285 pages of documentation to be the norm :-) Don't get me wrong. I do value some kind of standard form or checklist for each specific problem area. But I would focus on the 10% of the information that resolves 90% of the questions. My experience is that 3 questions is about the maximum you can do (beyond that, people seem to think it's multiple choice and they answer just one or two of them :-) | Rob
Question to about SFTP
Hello Everyone, This is a question about the 'other' IBM OS.I am hoping that you all will know this answer. Does z/OS have TCP/IP as part of the base system, and does z/OS have SFTP too? Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050
Re: Question to about SFTP
Hello Mark and Catherine, Thank you. I saw the Ported Tools on Google but I was not sure what is considered base. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Wheeler Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 11:37 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Question to about SFTP Yes, and yes. FTP/TLS is part of TCP/IP. sftp is a component of OpenSSH, which comes as part of Ported Tools. Mark Wheeler UnitedHealth Group Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:20:52 -0400 From: emar...@aultman.com Subject: Question to about SFTP To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Hello Everyone, This is a question about the 'other' IBM OS.I am hoping that you all will know this answer. Does z/OS have TCP/IP as part of the base system, and does z/OS have SFTP too? Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 The New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. Get started. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL :ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_3
SFTP versus FTPS
Hello Everyone, Ok I need some comments and guidance. FTP using the SSH is not what we want, I believe. We want FTP/SSL or FTPS (implicit SSL). Which from my earlier question about FTP and TCP/IP on z/OS is not in the BASE TCP/IP suite. Alan this statement would this be the part of the IBM PORTED Tools that you are talking about (see below). If it is then, That would SFTP and not the FTP/SSL (FTPS) that we require. TCP/IP is part of z/OS Communications Server (nee VTAM). It is not a part of the base z/OS. It is a charge feature of z/OS. sftp is available for z/OS, but must be ordered. It is part of the OpenSSH port ( 5655-M23). It is free. This version of sftp only support z/OS UNIX files. (It is amazing that the simple definition of SFTP versus FTPS can cause me so much grief on a Friday afternoon at 16:20. And I am leaving so expect a late response.) Here is the Wikipedia definitions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SFTP I think that I am getting confused with SecureFTP for VSE (CSI's product and the one we want) which by definition is FTPS. FTP using SSL and TLS. Plus I have some Opie that indicates that they want SFTP and . SFTP, for our purposes here at name removed , is for Implicit SSL connections. FTPS, is for SSH connections which we don't accept at all in fact. FTPS that matches what I have in WS_FTP PRO. This is what WS-FTP has Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050
Re: DISKACNT records
Hello Everyone, How much overhead does this add to the overall system? Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Aria Bamdad Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 11:22 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: DISKACNT records Is it possible you have turned off Journaling Facility? Issue CP Q JOURNAL and check your SYSTEM CONFIG file. Aria From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Frank M. Ramaekers Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 11:14 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: DISKACNT records I'm only finding '01', '02' (mostly) and '0B' records generated. I was hoping for some '04' records. Does anyone know why I wouldn't get any of these? (password violations) Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. Systems Programmer MCP, MCP+I, MCSE RHCE American Income Life Insurance Co. Phone: (254)761-6649 1200 Wooded Acres Dr. Fax: (254)741-5777 Waco, Texas 76701 _ This message contains information which is privileged and confidential and is solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any review, disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this in error, please destroy it immediately and notify us at privacy...@ailife.com.
Re: Goodbye, Farewell and Amen
Hello Rich, I am always amazed at the cost of SAP and salaries commanded by SAP programmers. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Rich Smrcina Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 8:58 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Goodbye, Farewell and Amen Cross-posted to vse-l and ibmvm. Sorry for duplications. I am saddened to announce that today I am shutting down the mainframe at Grede Foundries in Milwaukee, WI. Grede was one of the Linux for S/390 poster children when the mainframe port was first available around Christmas, 1999 from Marist. There were a couple attempts to eliminate the mainframe over the years, first with Peoplesoft; more recently with SAP. The SAP implementation had a fair potential of actually being moved to the mainframe (it was sourced remotely), but wasn't financially feasible. *NOT* due to hardware or software requirements, but due to the need to hire local SAP expertise. I started at Grede in 1996 after their systems programmer moved on. I left in the fall of 2001 for VM Assist, and supported their VM, VSE and Linux systems in a consulting role, until today. After formatting the data on the Shark, VM1 and VM2 will be shut down for the last time. -- Rich Smrcina Phone: 414-491-6001 http://www.linkedin.com/in/richsmrcina Catch the WAVV! http://www.wavv.org WAVV 2011 - April 15-19, 2011 Colorado Springs, CO
Re: Am I not supposed to use this size?
Hello Suleiman Shahin, The 30051 cylinder disk would be a 3390-mod 27 correct. 3390-mod 9 is 10017 cylinders. Is the mdisk not available on the z/VSE 4.1 system, or is it disabled? Can you do a * CP Q V cuu of the disk when it is not available? And please do a VOLUME cuu. It would be interesting to see what each system thinks is the status of the mdisk. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Suleiman Shahin Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2010 10:03 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Am I not supposed to use this size? First time I use this odd size and wondered if it was acceptable to zVM 5.3 ND Zvse 4.1. I will look for the offending party. Thanks. Suleiman Shahin Just as a pure WAG here, I suspect that whatever process (AUTOLOG1?) attaches the real disk containing this (not-so)minidisk to system is running After the log on of the VM that wants it. Hotmail has tools for the New Busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. Learn more. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL :ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_1
Re: Question about XEDIT
Hello Alan, Thank you . Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 4:49 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Question about XEDIT On Thursday, 06/10/2010 at 04:47 EDT, Mark Pace mpac...@gmail.com wrote: Only by modification. I did this at past datacenter. ALL /target/ LinesBefore LinesAfterDefault to 0 if LinesBefore or After are not provided. Go to the VM Download Library and get the GD-XEDIT package from Kris. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
Re: Question about XEDIT
Hello Mark, Modification? What part? Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Pace Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 4:47 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Question about XEDIT Only by modification. I did this at past datacenter. ALL /target/ LinesBefore LinesAfterDefault to 0 if LinesBefore or After are not provided. On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Edward M Martin emar...@aultman.com wrote: Hello Everyone, I have a question about showing lines during XEDIT. I have a large file. I do an 'ALL /CATALOG' to find all the catalog statements. CATALOG SETRC.PROCREPLACE=YES 7 line(s) not displayed CATALOG TACAEIMD.PROCDATA=YES REPLACE=YES 58 line(s) not displayed CATALOG TACAEMMD.PROCDATA=YES REPLACE=YES 61 line(s) not displayed SET SHADOW OFF removes the lines that indicate the number of lines not displayed CATALOG SETRC.PROCREPLACE=YES CATALOG TACAEIMD.PROCDATA=YES REPLACE=YES CATALOG TACAEMMD.PROCDATA=YES REPLACE=YES Is there a way to DISPLAY more than the one line with the CATALOG statement? I would like to see the three or four lines before and after the CATALOG line. Is this even possible? Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 -- Mark Pace Mainline Information Systems 1700 Summit Lake Drive Tallahassee, FL. 32317
Question about XEDIT
Hello Everyone, I have a question about showing lines during XEDIT. I have a large file. I do an 'ALL /CATALOG' to find all the catalog statements. CATALOG SETRC.PROCREPLACE=YES 7 line(s) not displayed CATALOG TACAEIMD.PROCDATA=YES REPLACE=YES 58 line(s) not displayed CATALOG TACAEMMD.PROCDATA=YES REPLACE=YES 61 line(s) not displayed SET SHADOW OFF removes the lines that indicate the number of lines not displayed CATALOG SETRC.PROCREPLACE=YES CATALOG TACAEIMD.PROCDATA=YES REPLACE=YES CATALOG TACAEMMD.PROCDATA=YES REPLACE=YES Is there a way to DISPLAY more than the one line with the CATALOG statement? I would like to see the three or four lines before and after the CATALOG line. Is this even possible? Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050
Re: MONDCSS segment update
Hello David, You can do a Q NSS MAP to see if it will overlay anything you are going to use. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Dean, David (I/S) Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 3:31 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: MONDCSS segment update Is it safe to change MONDCSS sizes on running system, i.e., I won't run over memory being used somewhere else? David M. Dean Information Systems BlueCross BlueShield Tennnessee - Please see the following link for the BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee E-mail disclaimer: http://www.bcbst.com/email_disclaimer.shtm
Re: What does the job market look like out there?
Hello Everyone It is very tight. We are hiring COBOL consultants with McKesson HealthCare background for our projects, but we still will not hire permanently. On the Positive (and negative too) side, once you are hired we do not lay off, and we have great healthcare insurance through our own company, AultCare (online plug). Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Tom Huegel Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 11:33 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: What does the job market look like out there? It's a tight market. I've been looking for over six months now. On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Paul Raulerson p...@raulersons.com wrote: I've been totally buried for the past 14 months in what seemed like a never ending waterfall of projects. Only a few of them were related to z/VM and z/Linux. It seems like the machine here just runs itself, and is so stable there is little need to spend time working on it. I love managing projects, but I really love managing projects on the mainframe. :) I was thinking it might be time to take stock of what options are available in the mainframe z/VM world. Are there positions out there for folks with five or six years of z/Linux and moderate z/VM experience? Or is the market so darn tight that it would be best to not even think of making a change? I suppose I could go back to programming CICS or whatever, but I am not sure I am willing to take the pay cut that would involve. -Paul
Re: OS390 Guests using GRS and Sharing DASD with virtual RESERVE/RELEASEbgggtggncv under z/VMnjxjgj
Gort is back! Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of David Boyes Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2010 10:16 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: OS390 Guests using GRS and Sharing DASD with virtual RESERVE/RELEASEbgggtggncv under z/VMnjxjgj Klaatu Baratu Nicto? On May 23, 2010, at 2:49 AM, Alain Benveniste a.benveni...@free.fr wrote: Ccghhjjkkjjkkjvjhjjklknbvvbbbvvknbkbbbnbs:.. WkfbbSfffjjh Envoyé de mon iPhone Le 22 mai 2010 à 22:30, Kris Buelens kris.buel...@gmail.com a écrit :
Re: Saga continues..
Hello Carlos Bodra, I would have to agree with Billy. z/VM 4.4.0 with the correct PTF's will see the DS6800. While I am not sure that VSE/ESA 2.3.1 will handle the DS6800 properly, I would suspect that VSE/ESA will handle it well if you MDISK everything. We are on z/VM 5.3 and z/VSE 4.1.2, both show the 1750 device type but the QUERY DASD DETAILS 904 shows the DEVTYPE = 3390-0A. From our z/VM 5.3 CMS q dasd details 904 0904 CUTYPE = 1750-E8, DEVTYPE = 3390-0A, VOLSER = DS6904, CYLS = 3339 CACHE DETAILS: CACHE NVS CFW DFW PINNED CONCOPY -SUBSYSTEM YY Y -N N -DEVICE Y- - YN N DEVICE DETAILS: CCA = 04, DDC = -- DUPLEX DETAILS: -- CU DETAILS: SSID = 0002, CUNUM = 0230 Ready; T=0.01/0.01 14:28:06 And from z/VSE 4.1.2 VOLUME 904 XCM EDMA 14:28:41 AR 0015 CUU CODE DEV.-TYP VOLID USAGE SHAREDSTATUSCAPACITY AR 0015 904 6E 1750-500 DS6904 USEDSHARED 3339 CYL AR 0015 1I40I READY 14:28:41 Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 -Original Message- From: owner-vs...@lehigh.edu [mailto:owner-vs...@lehigh.edu] On Behalf Of Carlos Bodra Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 1:29 PM To: VSE Discussion List Subject: Saga continues.. Hi... After got fix from Ingolf Salm for VSE/ESA runs under z10 BC, saga continues. Customer has MP3000 7060-H50 with internal disks. They are formated as 3390-3 only. Since DS6000 Interoperability matrix show that z/VM 4.4.0 is supported, no problem on zVM side. My question now is: Will VSE/ESA 2.3.1 support volumes defined on DS6800 (all 3390-3 - no large volumes). Any hint about? Thanks in advance for comments. Carlos Bodra
Re: z/VM Library - PDF redirection error
Hello Neale, I am on IE 8 and everything just worked. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Neale Ferguson Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 10:00 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: z/VM Library - PDF redirection error When I go to http://www.vm.ibm.com/library/ and click on entries within the z/VM PDF List category (e.g. http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/zvmpdf/#zvm53) I get: ³Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.² I've never had problems with these links before. Neale
Re: Luminex vtape
Hello Jim, I have been evaluating VTAPE systems. I am going to query Luminex next. Can you elaborate on the SPXTAPE problem? Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Jim Bohnsack Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 11:42 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Luminex vtape We have Luminex vtape. The Luminex code provides tape support emulating IBM 3590 drives with the actual hardware being on Sun dasd. Everything seems to work with the exception of SPXTAPE. Does anyone else have Luminex vtape? Has anyone found anything that does not work? Jim -- James Bohnsack (972) 596-6377 home/office (972) 342-5823 cell
Re: Scrubbing DASD
Hello Everyone, I would suggest the ICKDSF REVAL or INSTALL for real DASD (not supported on the 1750 - DS6800). Seems to me that ICKDSF INIT with purge and some other parameters would do what you want. Or reformat the Ds6800 using the Storage Manager software. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of clifford jackson Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 10:36 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Scrubbing DASD Catherine, can you send me that information also i am retiring an IBM DS6800 DASD set. offline at cliffordjackson...@msn.com Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:46:00 -0500 From: cmcbr...@kable.com Subject: Re: Scrubbing DASD To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Depends upon which type of DASD you have. If you're using a SAN, use the SAN's manager tools to reformat the DASD, 3 passes will do. Or, you can have IBM come in and scrub it for you. Your regular customer engineer can perform the reformatting at the SAN level for you. If you truly require DoD-level cleansing and a certificate stating as such, another division of IBM can come in and do that for you I can send you the particulars off-list if you want them. It is expensive. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Peter E. Carrier Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 8:40 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Scrubbing DASD Hi Folks, Haven't been on here in a while. I have missed you guys ;) MIT will finally be shutting down it's zVM systems that have been running remotely at Blue Hill Data's datecenter for the past couple of years. I am looking into what I'll need to do to do a reasonably thorough DASD scrubbing, thorough enough to satisfy the new privacy regulations, etc. I assume I'll be using ICKDSF to do the dirty work, and am looking for suggestions for which commands, how many passes, etc. to do. Thanks in advance! Peter The New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. Get started. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL :ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_3
Re: Scrubbing DASD
Hello Scott, That is what I was missing. The TRKFMT will work in the DS6800 too (1750) . You must have the required CYLRANGE parameter: specify a range of cylinders and ERASEDATA with (IIRC) Cycles of 3 or more. Would someone please verify this? The TRKFMT command performs track-related functions on a subset of a volume. When data is no longer needed, the ERASEDATA parameter overwrites a specified track or range of tracks, and upon completion performs an erase. The TRKFMT command can be used for 2105, 2107, 1750, 3380, 3390 and 9345 devices (except for devices attached to 3880 control units, and 3990-CJ2). Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Rohling Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 11:08 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Scrubbing DASD From an old post on the same subject: If you are using ICKDSF, you can use TRKFMT function with the CYCLES and ERASEDATA to do multiple passes. Scott Rohling On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Edward M Martin emar...@aultman.com wrote: Hello Everyone, I would suggest the ICKDSF REVAL or INSTALL for real DASD (not supported on the 1750 - DS6800). Seems to me that ICKDSF INIT with purge and some other parameters would do what you want. Or reformat the Ds6800 using the Storage Manager software. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of clifford jackson Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 10:36 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Scrubbing DASD Catherine, can you send me that information also i am retiring an IBM DS6800 DASD set. offline at cliffordjackson...@msn.com Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:46:00 -0500 From: cmcbr...@kable.com Subject: Re: Scrubbing DASD To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Depends upon which type of DASD you have. If you're using a SAN, use the SAN's manager tools to reformat the DASD, 3 passes will do. Or, you can have IBM come in and scrub it for you. Your regular customer engineer can perform the reformatting at the SAN level for you. If you truly require DoD-level cleansing and a certificate stating as such, another division of IBM can come in and do that for you I can send you the particulars off-list if you want them. It is expensive. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Peter E. Carrier Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 8:40 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Scrubbing DASD Hi Folks, Haven't been on here in a while. I have missed you guys ;) MIT will finally be shutting down it's zVM systems that have been running remotely at Blue Hill Data's datecenter for the past couple of years. I am looking into what I'll need to do to do a reasonably thorough DASD scrubbing, thorough enough to satisfy the new privacy regulations, etc. I assume I'll be using ICKDSF to do the dirty work, and am looking for suggestions for which commands, how many passes, etc. to do. Thanks in advance! Peter The New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. Get started. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL :ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_3
Re: shopzseries
Hello Stephen Gentry, IBMLINK is a purchase item for a specific name. Your manager will have to give you the sign on name and password. ShopZSeries should be using your email address and whatever password you made when registered. I would suggest bring up your IE Browser, delete all the temp files and cookies, shutdown the browser and restart. That should get rid of the all ready signed on situation. I do believe that ShopZSeries is very easy and gets the correct RSU you will need. Finally, Call the IBM support line and start a Problem with IBM for ShopZSeries or IBMLINK if you have issues with either one. Let us know what happens. Ed Marin From: The IBM z/VM Operating System on behalf of Gentry, Stephen Sent: Mon 4/12/2010 10:59 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: shopzseries What prompted the phone call to support: I tried to log on to Shopzseries and got an error. Basically, logon rejected, go register. I know I'm registered because I've used Shopzseries within the past 3 months to check on some service. So, I accused myself of poor typing skills and tried again. Same results, can't log on. I went to ResourceLink and was able to log on with the user id and password that I used with Shopzseries. I meandered around in ResourceLink until I came to a webpage about ordering service. That page had a link to Shopzseries and since I was already logged in, I thought it would take me straight into Shopzseries. Well, it did, sort of, but I had to log in to Shopzseries. What??? So, I try the log in process again. Same results, can't log in, go register. Ok, I'll register. I go to that web page, type in the userid (and other required info) I used for ResourceLink and I get an error stating that userid is already in use. What??? Then why won't it let me logon. I did the reset password route. Shopzseries still wouldn't let me log in. The contact support loop ensued. IIRC, IBM went through a process of allowing users to use the same password across all afore mentioned web pages. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 9:11 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: shopzseries On Monday, 04/12/2010 at 08:25 EDT, Gentry, Stephen stephen.gen...@lafayettelife.com wrote: I?m sorry to post this to the list but I am getting no satisfaction from the normal support phone numbers when I contact shopzseries with log on problem. I keep getting past off to another person. The last person I was in contact with told me to call the support number I started with. So, if anyone knows who can be contacted regarding logging on to shopzseries that is not level 1 (one) support, I?d appreciate the information. This is NOT an intent to start a flame thread regarding shopzseries, I just want to log on, get the RSU I need so I can do my job. Call again. When you get to Level 2, tell them what happened. If they can't deal with it, ask to speak to the Duty Manager. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
Re: acm/vmware
Yep, and remember the commercials about how someone ‘stole’ the servers, and it turned out they were all together on the IBM Blade servers. You do not see any commercials for any IBM z boxes or z software. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Howard Rifkind Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 10:54 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: acm/vmware Well the simple reason you see VMware all over the place is because there are 10-100 times or more PC type computers and IBM server type computers which can easily run VMware. Seton Hall University dumped their mainframe and now is running the entire IT operation on some what larger IBM servers and blades; seems to be working for them. BTW, they tied me to the mainframe when they rolled it out the door along with my job. It is what it is… --- On Wed, 3/31/10, Barton Robinson bar...@vm1.velocity-software.com wrote: From: Barton Robinson bar...@vm1.velocity-software.com Subject: acm/vmware To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Date: Wednesday, March 31, 2010, 11:07 AM The listserv sent me a message my post didn't go out, so try again. If you go to conferences such as CMG (Computer Management Group), that has been a mainframe organization (meaning MVS or z/OS) since it started, our VM has never been represented, but VMWare now has many sessions. It's depressing to see 80 people in entry level performance session for VMWare and no z/VM sessions on the agenda of a mainframe conference. Early this year I was hearing ads for VMWare on the local radio station. I can only assume that VM is being outmarketed worldwide (or at least that VMWare is being marketed worldwide and VM is not marketed publicly at all). It doesn't matter if our mousetrap is better if nobody is out there trying to get mindshare (marketing). Preaching/grumbling to the choir doesn't change anything. So when was the last time that any of you tried to get a case study published showing how great your accomplishments are using z/VM? There are very few published stories (sorry games on z don't impress bean counters or executives, it's rather demeaning), we need REAL business case studies showing the value of z/VM to real companies. If we get enough and executives do a google search on VM, maybe they will find something useful? There are many places to post and publish. Even twitter or blogs would be helpful in getting mindshare.
Re: Moving On
Welcome Back. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Ivica Brodaric Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 11:05 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Moving On I am glad to announce that after long holidays I started a new job at BNZ (formerly known as Bank of New Zealand), Auckland. New job, new city, new country. z/VM, RHEL, z10 EC's, a fairly new installation and a lot of interesting work to be done. It was too late to join my new colleagues for a trip to Seattle, but I'm sure those of you who are at SHARE will treat them well. Long live VM! Ivica Brodaric Technical Services BNZ
Re: GCS Session managers
Hello Tom, We are using CA-VTERM. I am not sure if BIM has anything. CA-VTERM is a non-VTAM z/VM multi session manager. But it can be 1) used as console 2) As many sessions as you want. 3) keeps all sessions active 4) dials to any place you want 5) does terminals but has restrictions Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Tom Duerbusch Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 6:17 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: GCS Session managers Currently we are running TUBES/GCS session manager. Well, seems the company that took over Macro/4 is raising prices, as in double. So, we are now looking at other VM/VTAM session managers. Multiple TN3270 sessions really is going to be a hard sell. We have some users that have 10-15 sessions active. Also, we have some coax users So, what products are out there, that: 1. Can be used as VSE Consoles (i.e. dial vse 01f) and can support IPL'ing VSE systems. 2. Can switch between about two dozen sessions. 3. Can keep all the sessions active, if the PC/Terminal is disconnected. 4. Would be nice to do cross domain to VSE VTAM for CICS sessions. 5. Support 3270 Model 2 thru Model 5 terminals. A lot cheaper than $20K per year for Tubes/GCS. Thanks Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting
Re: Question about VSE List
Hello Sergio Lima Costa, Do you mean the FTP site? ptf.boulder.ibm.com Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Sergio Lima Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 4:09 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Question about VSE List Hello List. Someone know, the address (if still exist) from VSE ? Thanks very much Sergio Lima Costa Sao Paulo - Brazil Transforme-se em personagens engraçados. Conheça o novo site de I Love Messenger. http://ilm.windowslive.com.br/?ocid=ILM:ILM:Hotmail:Tagline:1x1:Tagline
Re: z/VM and TCPIP printers ?
Hello Charles Grady, If you have TCP/IP running on Z/VM, you can use the SENDFILE command to send the file as an attachment directly to someone. Sendfile fname ftype fmode email address ( mime ascii-attach subj 'call it what you want' Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Charles Grady Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 9:38 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: z/VM and TCPIP printers ? OK here we go again. We have a gut level z/VM system running 5.4.0. No RCSC. I need a way to print some z/VM configuration info for documentation purposes. (screen shots are getting old) IS there a way to use Network printers from the z/OS LPAR? Where would I find the doc, if any? Thanks in advance ** GDOL CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This transmission may contain confidential information protected by state or federal law. The information is intended only for use consistent with the state business discussed in this transmission.If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or the taking of any action based on the contents is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please delete this email and notify the sender immediately.Your cooperation is appreciated. **
Re: IBMLINK
I think you are right. Looks like it was IBM themselves. www-304bluecoat.ahe.pok.ibm.com [129.33.205.96] Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 9:59 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: IBMLINK I saw it briefly last night too. And then it sotpped. Someone in IBM must have made a booboo. Marcy 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:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 4:18 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: [IBMVM] IBMLINK Typed in www.ibm.com/ibmlink this morning and it is now https://www-304bluecoat.ibm.com with a certificate that Firefox doesn't trust. Anybody else seeing this? Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474
Re: IPL Z/VM With old System Config
Hello Billy, I think we have all done something similar. That is why a Second Level system is sooo nice! Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Billy Bingham Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 5:54 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: IPL Z/VM With old System Config I was able to use the CPVOLUME LABEL NOVERIFY VOLID(nn) UNIT() to clip the labels to the new format. After I did that I was able to re-IPL and everything came on line. I had a copy of the USER DIRECT with the new format VOLSERs and I have that as my USER DIRECT file no. Thanks for the suggestions and help. I think I seen the following saying on the list (Or something similar): Your gun, your foot :) Billy On 22 Feb 2010 at 16:31, Billy Bingham wrote: I should have stated that the actual VOLSERS are the old 540... labels. I need to be able to re- label them to the new format. Billy On 22 Feb 2010 at 16:23, Billy Bingham wrote: Talk about shooting yourself in the foot :) I was trying to relabel all my 540... DASD to Bx (x-type of DASD . IE: P = page, etc) I had updated my directory to reflect the new DASD volsers, but I determined I was missing something and so I backed it out, but I forgot to update the directory using DIRECTXA. I had previosly updated my SYSTEM CONFIG file with the new DASD VOLSERs, but when I backed the changes out of the directory I forgot to update my SYSTEM CONFIG file. So what I have is a directory on DASD pointing to the new VOLSERs and also a SYSTEM CONFIG pointing to the new VOLSERs, but the actual VOLSERs don't match the old 540... VOLSERs. Is there a way to use the ICKSADSF that's available on the CF1 DASD to clip just the VOLSERs on the DASD? Billy On 22 Feb 2010 at 15:36, Mike Walter wrote: IPL from the HMC specifying a LOADPARM of your preferred console. When you LOAD the LPAR, that console should display the SALIPL screen something like (I include the COMMENTS section those IPL PARAMETERS I am most likely to need some day and will surely forget in a crunch): ---snip--- STAND ALONE PROGRAM LOADER: z/VM VERSION 5 RELEASE 1.0 DEVICE NUMBER: 0F00 MINIDISK OFFSET: EXTENT: 1 MODULE NAME: CPLOAD LOAD ORIGIN: 1000 IPL PARAMETERS ---COMMENTS- -- Some possible IPL PARAMETERS section (above) entries: CONS=ccuu PROMPT --- Used most often NOEXITS FN=system FT=config PDNUM=ParmDiskNum PDVOL=ParmDiskVolser PDOFF=ParmDiskcylOffset -- 9= FILELIST 10= LOAD 11= TOGGLE EXTENT/OFFSET ---snip--- In the IPL PARAMETERS section, enter: FT=CONF0222 Then press F10 and the IPL will begin - as long as you actually followed the steps in the z/VM Guide for Automated Installation and Maintenance to create the Stand Alone Loader program. If you did not, you'll probably get a Wait State 1010 - telling you have you do not have a console at the address given in the LOADPARM. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates The opinions expressed herein are mine alone, not my employer's. Billy Bingham billy.bingham...@suddenlink.net Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 02/22/2010 03:17 PM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject IPL Z/VM With old System Config Hello all, What is the parameter to IPL VM using an old copy of the SYSTEM CONFIG file. I Have SYSTEM CONF0222 on the CF1 disk and I want to revert back to it for an IPL. Billy 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
Re: Adding different sized page volumes
Hello Mark, I have been always told that PAGE and SPOOL volumes should be kept separate from all other drives. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Wheeler Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 10:01 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Adding different sized page volumes Greetings all, We need to add more page volumes (for both space and actuators) but are fresh out of 3390-9's. If we throw 3390-27's into the mix, should they be fully allocated as PAGE, or just cyls 1-10016? Will I start a religous war if I also ask about the latest recommendation for page volume space utilization? Max of 25%? 50%? It Depends? Best regards, Mark Wheeler UnitedHealth Group Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. Sign up now. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469229/direct/01/
MDC versus Disk CACHE was RE: eliminating locks in VSE
Hello Rich, I am sure that I have asked this question before. With the physical CACHE available on most DASD subsystems, is MDC still a good performance enhancement for MDISK If you are not paging? Or is there a chance of a MDC hit and a Cache hit at the sametime. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Rich Smrcina Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 7:33 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: eliminating locks in VSE On 02/16/2010 06:25 PM, Phillip Gramly wrote: What kind of data? VSAM, SAM, or Libraries? mostly SAM. but some VSAM as well. If your minidisks are taking advantage of minidisk cache, you may be better off leaving them the way they are. That is, if you have enough storage available for MDC and aren't doing significant paging. -- Rich Smrcina Phone: 414-491-6001 http://www.linkedin.com/in/richsmrcina Catch the WAVV! http://www.wavv.org WAVV 2010 - Apr 9-13, 2010 Covington, KY
Re: MDC versus Disk CACHE was RE: eliminating locks in VSE
Hello Everyone, Thank you all for the answers. It has been something that I just could not get settled in my mind. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Rich Smrcina Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 11:27 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: MDC versus Disk CACHE was RE: eliminating locks in VSE Kris and Marty have great points. Also each workload is different, you may or may not get sufficient benefit from it, depending upon your access pattern and hit ratio (which Kris mentioned). Regarding RECORDMDC, you may want to check the old VSE performance papers by Wolfgang Kraemer, I seem to recall there may have been some resolution to this issue at some point in the past. On 02/17/2010 09:56 AM, Kris Buelens wrote: MDC works at storage speed; controller cache needs to get out the z. Ages ago (but still a bit valid to see gross orders) Disk = 30 msec CU Cache= 3 msec Storage = xx nsec An MDC cache hit is also less costly in CPU than a real IO. But, MDC with a very poor hitratio makes you consume too much CPU. Extra advantage MDC: when the wanted data are not in the MDC, CP reads the whole track. Good for sequential processing. bad for random access. Then you might want to look at using RECORDMDC instead (but, I thinks that's only for CMS formatted minidisks, no help for VSE). -- Rich Smrcina Phone: 414-491-6001 http://www.linkedin.com/in/richsmrcina Catch the WAVV! http://www.wavv.org WAVV 2010 - Apr 9-13, 2010 Covington, KY
Re: VSWITCH
Hello Billy DTCVSW1 and DTCVSW2 are the ones supplied by IBM. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Billy Bingham Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:35 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: VSWITCH Mark, What is machine VSWITCH? Is it a service machine of some sort? Billy On 17 Feb 2010 at 12:25, Mark Pace wrote: Rather than adding a NICDEF to the USER DIRECT I use the SYSTEM DTCPARMS .** :nick.TCPIP :type.server :class.stack :attach.0720-0722 - Connect real OSA :vnic.0620 system vswtch1 - Define a NIC and attach to VSWITCH On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Dave Jones d...@vsoft-software.com wrote: Nope, that's all you need in the SYSTEM CONFIG file to get CP to create a VSWITCH at IPL time. DJ On 02/17/2010 10:52 AM, Billy Bingham wrote: I have the following in my SYSTEM CONFIG file: define vswitch vsw1 rdev 021C 0220 Do I need to attach 21C - 21E and 220 - 222 to any machine? Thanks, Billy On 16 Feb 2010 at 13:28, Scott Rohling wrote: oops -- that HOME statement should be: HOME 10.68.0.6 255.255.255.0 VMVSWD You point to the 'LINK' (VMVSWD in this case).. I cut the line short in my last post. Scott On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Scott Rohlingscott.rohl...@gmail.com wrote: Ok - Before I show the TCPIP PROFILE -- here is a line from the TCPIP directory entry: NICDEF A000 TYPE QDIO LAN SYSTEM VSW1 Our system has a VSWITCH called VSW1 .. TCPIP will use address A000 to connect to it. In PROFILE TCPIP: DEVICE VMVSW OSD A000 PORTNAME VMVSW PORTNUMBER 0 AUTOR LINK VMVSWD QDIOETHERNET VMVSW MTU 1492 . . HOME 10.68.0.6 255.255.255.0 VMVSW . . START VMVSW Really - just exactly like an OSA (it's a virtualized OSA) -- the only difference is where your device comes from --- a virtual NIC attached to a VSWITCH, instead of a dedicated OSA. You can make the switch by simply changing the directory entry for TCPIP.. (just make sure TCPIP has been granted access to the vswitch!) Use the same address as you used for your OSA and use it on the NICDEF statement. Bring TCPIP down and up again - done. Scott On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Billy Binghambilly.bingham...@suddenlink.net wrote: Scott, Can you send me the TCPIP PROFILE that you have setup to use Vswitches? Thanks, Billy On 16 Feb 2010 at 11:40, Scott Rohling wrote: Agreed -- I like connecting TCPIP to the VSWITCH and letting the controllers manage the OSA's. It's also nice to be able to recycle TCPIP without affecting Linux guests. Scott On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Mark Pacempac...@gmail.com wrote: Yes. It can be done either way. You can connect TCPIP to it's own OSA connection, or connect TCPIP to the vswitch. There may be good reasons for not having TCPIP connected to the vswitch, but I don't know what they would be. With vswitch having automatic fail- over when it has multiple OSA addresses, it's the way I run. On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Billy Binghambilly.bingham...@suddenlink.net wrote: Hello all, Risking the old saying that it's better to have someone think you're stupid than to open your mouth and remove all doubt... but :) I'm confused about Vswitches on z/VM... sorta. I know you define the Vswitch in the System Config file, but does the TCPIP guest running on z/VM also use that Vswitch or does TCP/IP use it's own OSA connection and other Liniux guests (In this case) use the Vswitch? Is there a 'cookbook' available for setting up Vswitches? Any hints and tips appreciated. Billy -- Mark Pace Mainline Information Systems 1700 Summit Lake Drive Tallahassee, FL. 32317 -- Dave Jones V/Soft www.vsoft-software.com Houston, TX
Re: Number of MOD-27 Cylinders for a z/Linux guest
Hello Yea IBM has the BIG-3390 and the FAT-3390 and other names for the large drives. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 4:46 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Number of MOD-27 Cylinders for a z/Linux guest Yes, I followed up with my IBM DS8100 support folks and it just so happens that with the DS8100 when you ask for a MOD27 it says to calculate as 3x a MOD9(10017 = 30051). But yes any number of cylinders up to the max of 32,760 would be fine assuming a MOD27. Call it what you want. Thank You, Terry Martin Lockheed Martin - Citic z/OS and z/VM Performance Tuning and Operating Systems Support Office - 443 348-2102 Cell - 443 632-4191 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Rohling Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 4:33 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Number of MOD-27 Cylinders for a z/Linux guest I think this whole post got confused :-)No one said a 3390-27 is 30051 cylinders.I said that I would consider making one 30049 cylinders since that equates to 3 3390-9 plus cylinder 0 for a volume label. (3x10016 + 1) A supposed 'standard' 3390-27 is 32760 cyls -- but past 3390-9 -- it's really arbitrary and can be 'whatever you like'... Scott On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Rob van der Heij rvdh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 6:38 PM, zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com wrote: Right, my guess is that someone said 27 = 3 x 9 = 3 x 10016 = 30048. Then they added one for cyl0, then they got confused about origin 0/origin 1 and wound up at 30050. Who's confused? A 3390-3 at 3339 cylinders, one for CP and an almost full pack mini disk is 3338 cylinders. So 3390-27 is 30051 cylinders. If you give the guest a pseudo full pack, that's minus one for CP, so 30050 Rob
Re: Movin On...
Congratulations. You always do well! Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Rich Smrcina Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 8:16 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Movin On... Cross posted to vse-l, ibmvm and linux-390; sorry for dups. As of February 1, 2010 I've taken a position with Velocity Software, Inc. It is with a heavy heart that I leave VM Assist after 5+ years. Working with Bob Kusche has been a absolutely wonderful experience. Lately, I've also had the great pleasure to work with David Kreuter of VM Resources, LTD. David has great knowledge of VM and networking and is a fantastic resource. I plan to still attend SHARE and WAVV and will see you all there! Thanks. -- Rich Smrcina Velocity Software, Inc. Phone: 414-491-6001 http://www.velocitysoftware.com Catch the WAVV! http://www.wavv.org WAVV 2010 - Apr 9-13, 2010 Covington, KY
Re: MP2000 OSA Card
Hello Bill, Do you have anything plugged into the OSA cards? If I remember correctly, the MP2000 OSA cards needed to have the terminator installed or needed to be wired to the network for the card to sense anything. Otherwise it would be offline. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Billy Bingham Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 8:22 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: MP2000 OSA Card I changed my IOCDS defintions to this: CNTLUNIT CUNUMBR=0300,PATH=(34),UNIT=OSA IODEVICE ADDRESS=(0300,04),CUNUMBR=(0300),UNIT=OSA IODEVICE ADDRESS=(030F),UNITADD=FE,CUNUMBR=(0300),UNIT=OSAD When I do a Q 30F I get: OSA 030F FREE But when I do a Q 300 I get: OSA 0300 OFFLINE And I cannot bring it online at all not matter what I try. This VM is so old I'm not sure if OSA/SF is installed and even if it is I've never used it under VM. Billy On 26 Jan 2010 at 5:20, Neil Carson wrote: Billy, I have seen the other posts and maybe they are correct. but We have an mp2003 with two OSA in it one a 10mb osa and the other a OSA FENET 100. We have recurring problems with the 10mb osa where it will not come online and the only solution I have found is to do a complete power down/off of the whole box. Just doing a POR does not even reset it takes a complete power off/down. Our OSA 10mb gets into this so called hung state when the LAN switch it is plugged into is rebooted (for what ever reason). There has been a couple of times where a LAN guy has applied new firmaware to the LAN switch and the only way I could get the OSA 10mb working again is to completely power down the MP2003-202. And yes before doing this I tried varying off the path, chipd , etc reloading the OAT etc but none of them did the trick. The only thing that does a complete reset of the card is a power down. (at least in my case) It should only be noted that this only happens to our 10mb OSA card which is older (generation) than our 100mb OSA FENET card. The switch the 100 is plugged into can be rebooted but the OSA 100 (is smart enough (so to speak) to recover) I do not know if the my scenario abovetotally to you situation. Thanks Neil Billy Bingham billy.bingham...@suddenlink.net 1/25/2010 6:19 PM Hello all, Trying to IPL VM/ESA 2.4 on an old MP2000. The box IPLs OK, but when tring to vary the OSA online I get the HCPCPN6283I... message. I do a QUERY on the device and VM shows it as an OSA, but it's offline. Any ideas? Thanks, Billy
Re: The return of the mainframe....
Unfortunately, it is one of those, you have to know that the job is available. Read ‘connections’. And as many have found out, if you have a job you can find another one, but if you are now working you can’t find them anywhere. IMHO of course. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Howard Rifkind Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 4:45 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: The return of the mainframe O.K. the mainframe is back…IBM mainframe revenue was down around 9% last year. Who is adding mainframes to their computing inventory these days? Organizations are banging on IBM’s door to order mainframes…of any flavor! So where are the jobs to support these new processors? --- On Fri, 1/15/10, Dave Jones d...@vsoft-software.com wrote: From: Dave Jones d...@vsoft-software.com Subject: The return of the mainframe To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Date: Friday, January 15, 2010, 9:01 PM Interesting article in The Economist about the return of the mainframe. The return of the mainframe Back in fashion http://www..economist.com/businessfinance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15276714 http://www.economist.com/businessfinance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15276714 (watch for line wrap) -- Dave Jones V/Soft www.vsoft-software.com Houston, TX 281.578.7544
