z/Journal article

[Hooker, Don - OIT]

For those of you who don't get the z/Journal e-Newsletter and who may
remember the article I said I would write at the last WAVV conference   
(and for those of you who care or are interested), it will not be in the
hardcopy magazine but it is on the z/Journal web site ( www.zjournal.com
).

It is on Shutting Down VSE via z/VM Signal Shutdown command and FAQS.

Thanks to Bob Thomas and Amy Novotny for getting it out.

Thanks too, to Bob Romeril and Jim Hughes here for helping me put it
together.  

Re: PIPEDDR

[Hooker, Don - OIT]

Tom, VSE *does* have a TERSE utility (at least since z/VSE 3.1).  It can
be used on library members that are not type DUMP or PHASE.  See the
z/VSE 3.1 System Utility Guide.

VMFBLD NUCTARG TAPE

[Hooker, Don - OIT]

We are at z/VM 5.2.   I am trying to create an IPLable CP nucleus on
tape.

 

I attached a tape to MAINT as 182, issued a VMFSETUP ZVM CP command and
then:

 

VMFBLD PPF ZVM CP cpload * NUCTARG TAPE (all 

 

I get:

VMFBLD2760I VMFBLD processing started


VMFSIP2453I Table 5VMCPR20 SRVAPPS H is a subset of table 5VMCPR20
SRVAPPS G   

VMFBLD1851I Reading build lists


VMFBLD2182I Identifying new build requirements


VMFBLD2182I New build requirements identified


VMFBLD1851I (1 of 1) VMFBDNUC processing CPLOAD EXC31556 J, target is
BUILD7 49

(K)


VMFBDN2215E Invalid build list option NUCTARG TAPE for build list CPLOAD


EXC31556


VMFBLD1851E (1 of 1) VMFBDNUC completed with return code 12. Some
objects were 

not built


VMFBLD2180I There are 5 build requirements remaining


VMFBLD2760I VMFBLD processing completed unsuccessfully


Ready(8); T=7.92/8.02 14:12:41


 

How do you make this work?

 

TIA

Re: VMFBLD NUCTARG TAPE

[Hooker, Don - OIT]

Thanks for looking into it, Raymond.  But you'd think if they yanked
support for it, they would also take the time to remove it from HELP
VMSES VMFBLD.

Re: How to determine the creation date of open spool file RSCS printer issue

[Hooker, Don - OIT]

What's the matter with using SMSG RSCS Q F SHOW FN ORIGI or SMSG RSCS Q
F SHOW DESTI ORIGI ?

Re: TCPIP4VSE and z/VM OSAX QDIO VSWITCHHW

[Hooker, Don - OIT]

Hi Ed. Yes, I got it working. I needed PTF UD52628 and the
OSAX coupled to the VSWITCH.

Re: ICC problem on z890

[Hooker, Don - OIT]

Thomas, though I have not personally seen it, Ive
been told we experienced the same problem here with our 

VSE consoles. We no longer use the ICC sessions for
them. Apparently the VM consoles did not suffer.

I believe several people at the last WAVV mentioned having
the same problem. I think they said that if they varied the

CHIPD offline and then online again that the consoles
could recover.

Deterse

[Hooker, Don - OIT]

Has anyone had any problems using DETERSE on z/VM 5.2? This
is what Im getting:



deterse vptf4185 bin z um31619 servlink a ( replace

Ready(01001); T=0.01/0.01 16:42:02 



TIA - Don

Re: Deterse

[Hooker, Don - OIT]

Thanks, Marcy. I was trying use a pipe to deblock it, but
wasnt getting it right.

Your pipe worked like a charm and I was able to deterse the PTFs.



Thanks very much. 

Don 

TCPIP4VSE and z/VM OSAX QDIO VSWITCHHW

[Hooker, Don - OIT]

We are still having problems getting the above communications working.
On our VSE 2.62 systems that is.  IBM recommended some PTFs:

UD52153 was already applied.  I was getting:

IPN631I Control has been passed to the TCP/IP engine  
0016: IPL605E Unable to Initialize IJBOSA, return code: 1 
0016: IPL609E Unable to initialize OSA Express, Link: VM_TCPIP
0P27I I  UNKNWN DEV SYSXXX=D00
CCSW=0871200E000100 CCB=00
SNS= 8200 

IBM also recommended UD52628 but I found UD52332 first which seemed to
describe our symptoms so
I applied that first (despite it being superceded by UD52628) but when I
continued to have problems,
I went ahead and applied UD52628.  Then I was getting:

IPL605E Unable to Initialize IJBOSA, return code: 57472  
IPL609E Unable to initialize OSA Express, Link: VM_TCPIP 

I installed z/VSE 3.11 and tested it there and it worked fine.

The trouble is we need to get it working on our VSE 2.62 systems.
Does anybody on VSE 2.6 have it working?

I tried copying the IJBOSA phase from the z/VSE 3.11 system to a VSE
2.62 system and I get:

0S39I ERROR DURING OSA EXPRESS PROCESSING,REASON=0035 
 CUU=0D00,RETCODE=E080 
 0S02I A CANCEL OR CANCEL ALL MACRO WAS ISSUED 
 0S00I SUB SPINCPU  CANCELED   

Here are some definitions:

In PROFILE EXEC for the VSE:

CP DEF NIC D00 TYPE QDIO DEV 3

VSE IPL ADD statement:

ADD  D00:D02,OSAXQDIO to VSWITCH for acc to VM TCPIP

In AUTOLOG1 PROFILE EXEC:

'CP SET VSWITCH DTCVSW1 GRANT DTCVSW1'  
'CP SET VSWITCH DTCVSW1 GRANT TCPIP'
'CP SET VSWITCH DTCVSW1 GRANT VSETSG1'  

Here is result of a Q VSWITCH:

q vswitch dtcvsw1 details acc

VSWITCH SYSTEM DTCVSW1  Type: VSWITCH Connected: 1Maxconn: INFINITE

  PERSISTENT  RESTRICTEDNONROUTER Accounting: OFF

  VLAN Unaware

  State: Ready

  IPTimeout: 5 QueueStorage: 8

  Portname: UNASSIGNED RDEV: B000 Controller: DTCVSW1  VDEV:  B000

  Portname: UNASSIGNED RDEV: C000 Controller: DTCVSW1

Authorized userids:

  DTCVSW1  SYSTEM   TCPIPVSEDEV2  VSETSG1  ZVSEBASE

VSWITCH Connection:

  RX Packets: 4108339Discarded: 4  Errors: 0

  TX Packets: 7319948Discarded: 0  Errors: 0

  RX Bytes: 1102773999   TX Bytes: 9321899949

  Device: B002  Unit: 002   Role: DATA

Adapter Owner: TCPIPNIC: E000  Name: UNASSIGNED

  RX Packets: 4108343Discarded: 0  Errors: 0

  TX Packets: 7319955Discarded: 0  Errors: 0

  RX Bytes: 1102774777   TX Bytes: 9321900961

  Device: E002  Unit: 002   Role: DATA

  Options: Broadcast Multicast IPv4 VLAN

Unicast IP Addresses:

 

MORE...
OITDC01   
  10.128.254.57MAC: 02-00-00-00-00-01  
  172.16.32.2  MAC: 02-00-00-00-00-01  
  172.30.8.11  MAC: 02-00-00-00-00-01  
  172.30.8.52  MAC: 02-00-00-00-00-01  
Multicast IP Addresses:
  224.0.0.1MAC: 01-00-5E-00-00-01  
Ready;


So once again, does anyone have this working on a VSE 2.62 system under
z/VM 5.2?
Does anyone have any ideas how I can get it to work?

Thanks in advance,
Don  

Re: TCPIP4VSE and z/VM OSAX QDIO VSWITCH

[Hooker, Don - OIT]

Oops... I forgot to include my TCPIP definition:

DEFINE LINK,ID=VM_TCPIP,TYPE=OSAX,DEV=(D00,D01),MTU=8192, - 
DATAPATH=D02,FRAGMENT=NO,PORTNAME=UNASSIGNED

(I also tried it with DEFINE ADAPTER 0).

TIA,
Don

Re: TCPIP4VSE and z/VM OSAX QDIO VSWITCH

[Hooker, Don - OIT]

Thanks to all who replied. Yes the problem was the NIC was
not coupled to the VSWITCH.



Up and running.



Thanks again.

Don

TCPIP4VSE and z/VM OSAX QDIO VSWITCH

[Hooker, Don - OIT]

FINALLY we are licensed to run TCPIP4VSE!



We are trying to get it to get to the network via a virtual
NIC TYPE QDIO associated with a

VSWITCH under z/VM 5.2.



However, I cant get it to initialize. 



I did upgrade TCPIP to 1.5E on our VSE/ESA 2.62 systems.




Here are some definitions:

In the VM directory entry for the VSE guest:



nicdef D00 type QDIO dev 3 lan system dtcvsw1



In the VSE IPL proc:



ADD D00:D02,OSAX,EML (I had 1st tried
it w/o the ,EML  same results)



In VM SYSTEM CONFIG:



Define vswitch dtcvsw1 rdev b000 c000 connect controller
dtcvsw1, 

 IP vlan
unaware




In IPINITxx.L:



DEFINE LINK,ID=VM_TCPIP,TYPE=OSAX,DEV=(D00,D01),MTU=8192,
- 

DATAPATH=D02,IPADDR=172.30.8.53,FRAGMENT=NO,PORTNAME=UNASSIGNED



(Should the IP address used here be the same as VSEs
IP address?).



When TCP4VSE comes up, I get:



T1 0137 IPN631I Control has been passed to the TCP/IP
engine 

T1 0137 0001: IPL605E Unable to Initialize IJBOSA, return
code: 1 

T1 0137 0001: IPL609E Unable to initialize OSA Express,
Link: VM_TCPIP

AR 0014 0P27I I UNKNWN DEV
SYSXXX=D00



CCSW=06CB280E000100
CCB=00


 SNS=
8200




I opened an ETR with IBM and they referred me to a couple of
APARS but they do not seem applicable.



Any ideas? Do the definitions look correct? I
cant find the return code for IPL605E anywhere.

Does anyone know what it means? (Leo?)



Thanks in advance,

Don Hooker

Msg 1QBEI

[Hooker, Don - OIT]

Help all 



We upgraded to a z.890 and z/VM 5.2 this weekend. Tonight
one of our VSE jobs attempting to spool print to VM is getting:



F1 0001 1QBEI INTERNAL MACRO CALL CPCOM FAILED
IN PHASE=IPW$$LW , RC=7 

 FOR CSEK631 18177 ON
LST,02E 21:13:30

F1 0001 1Q33I STOPPED
LST,02E 21:13:30



Ive tried pointing it to different virtual printers
iwith the sam results. The output viewed via FAQS looks fine.



Any ideas or suggestions?



TIA

Explore/VM on z/VM 5.2

[Hooker, Don - OIT]

We are migrating from z/VM 3.1 to z/VM 5.2. We are having
multiple problems with C/A Explore/VM. 

It is a level EXPLORE 4.3 G0402 SP03. Is anyone else
running this combination and experiencing any problems?



TIA

VSE lock file question

[Hooker, Don - OIT]

We are in the process of migrating to a new CPU. The
applications people want to run their test

VSE on the new box concurrently with all the other systems
still running on the old box.



After some discussion it was decided that we would just put
the VSE lock file on a physical

DASD volume. (Currently it is on a VM VDISK).



However, I remembered a problem I had with a new external
lock file in a multiple CPU and 

VSE environment 24 years ago. The problem was the result of
one of the CPUs having more

than one path to the DASD where the lock file resided.



Is this still a problem? Each CPU here has at least 4 paths
to all the DASD.



Thanks in advance,

Don



P.S. I subscribe in digest mode, so please reply directly
as well as to the list. 

WAVV transportation airport to hotel

[Hooker, Don - OIT]

Hi, all. Is anyone renting a car for the WAVV conference
that would be willing to share a passenger to the hotel?



My flight is scheduled to arrive in Chatanooga at 3:58 PM on
Friday the 7th. 



Thanks,

Don