shopz and RSU
Shopz sends me an email anytime there is a new RSU available for z/OS. I've looked and have not found anywhere to get an email for when there is a new z/VM RSU. Does anyone know if this is possible? -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: VM TCP/IP I/O error?
Do you process your EREP data? It should be there. On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Horlick, Michael michael.horl...@cgi.comwrote: Hello, Thanks. I think the last time it was looked at they didn't find anything (but I don't know all the details) . I assume something is recorded somewhere, right? Michael Horlick CGI Montreal From: The IBM z/VM Operating System on behalf of Marcy Cortes Sent: Fri 20/05/2011 2:09 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: VM TCP/IP I/O error? Call your IBM CE! Marcy From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Horlick, Michael Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 11:00 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: [IBMVM] 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 -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: Anyone use The Hessling Editor (THE), an Xedit/Kedit look-alike, for off-line VM code development or personal use?
http://hessling-editor.sourceforge.net/ On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Jim Bohnsack jab...@cornell.edu wrote: 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 -- James Bohnsack (972) 596-6377 home/office (972) 342-5823 cell -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: Is there a free evaluation copy of Linux for z/VM?
In a word - sharing. In LPAR mode you can run 1 linux per LPAR. Under VM can share the memory, CPU/IFL, DASD and run lots of linux. On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Ward, Mike S mw...@ssfcu.org wrote: I have a question. Sorry for hijacking this post. If Linux can run in LPAR mode? What is the advantage of running VM and Linux under it? -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Dave Jones Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 9:51 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Is there a free evaluation copy of Linux for z/VM? Hi, Jim. Yes there are free evaluation copies of Linux for z/VM available from the major vendors, plus there are non-commercial versions of Linux for s390Debian, Fedora, Centos, for example. I can point you in the right direction if you would like further information. Yes, the is also a Linux on S/390 mailing list that discusses running Linux on both an LPAR and as a guest of z/VM. To subscribe to the LINUX-390 discussion, send e-mail note to: lists...@vm.marist.edu In the body of the note, write only the following line SUBSCRIBE LINUX-390 your-name-here Have a good one, too. DJ On 04/04/2011 09:43 AM, Hughes, Jim wrote: Is there a free evaluation copy of Linux for z/VM? There are rumors from those flying at 50,000 feet that we may be asked questions about Linux on z/VM. On the other hand, would it be a proper use of this forum to post the questions here or is there a Linux for z/VM list? 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. -- Dave Jones V/Soft Software www.vsoft-software.com Houston, TX 281.578.7544 == This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to which they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: Dynamically adding page space
ATTACH 100C TO SYSTEM On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] baue...@mail.nih.gov wrote: I’m trying to dynamically add a page pack to our z/VM system and I’ve got a situation that I don’t have in my notes. z/VM 5.4 on a z9 I’ve formatted the volume (3330-3) as a page volume and defined a cpowned slot for it. def cpowned slot 10 VMPPG5 But when I display cpowned, it show as offline: q cpowned Slot Vol-ID Rdev Type Status 1 VMPRES 1003 OwnOnline and attached 2 VMPSPL 1004 OwnOnline and attached 3 VMPPAG 1002 OwnOnline and attached 4 VMPW01 1005 OwnOnline and attached 5 VMPW02 1006 OwnOnline and attached 6 VMPPG2 10E5 OwnOnline and attached 7 VMPW03 10EF OwnOnline and attached 8 VMPPG3 108F OwnOnline and attached 9 VMPPG4 109C OwnOnline and attached 10 VMPPG5 OwnOffline However: q 100c DASD 100C VMPAG5 So what have I missed? Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474 -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
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.comwrote: 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: Tape drives : MVS VM
Basically all you did was tell the OSs that the devices were not being shared. If you did not specifically limit the access to a particular LPAR then all the LPARs can see because the CHPID is shared. On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Alain Benveniste a.benveni...@free.frwrote: Hi, We did a P.O.R this weekend. We added DASD rdev, the only thing we are supposed to do and now we can vary online a same rdev to both MVS VM. We check back the modifications. The chpid are shared, the rdev are shareable=NO in the MVS IODEF. We don't know where to look at. We changed something... but what ! We have one z800 with 2 lcss. z/OS1.10 z/VM530. Any idea Alain Benveniste -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: Sharing files between two z/OS guest machines
Or connect your systems via JES/NJE and use the TRANSMIT / RECEIVE commands. Or connect via TCP on hipersockets and again connect via JES/NJE or FTP the files. On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 7:54 AM, Mike Hammock m...@hammocktree.us wrote: Actually, the latest version of zPDT does support zVM's Virtual Coupling. It does not require any underlying hardware support and it works reasonably well (I've run some tests on our systems). The Sysplex environment is a bit complex, especially from an operational point of view and is not for the faint of heart, but it works. When I set up uPDT systems for our customers I have a 'owner' VM with full pack definitions for the disks to be shared (normally only a subset of all disks) with MWV and each 'using' VM has a MW link to these full-pack minidisks. Yes, the default zOS HCD/IOCDS defines the disks as shared. Mike Hammock ITC -- From: Marcy Cortes marcy.d.cor...@wellsfargo.com Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 11:18 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Sharing files between two z/OS guest machines Tom, I doubt you'll be able to use VM's virtual coupling facility if you don't have the underlying HW support for it. It actually grabs the CF stuff out of the HW and runs that in a virtual machine. Marcy -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Hebert Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 7:53 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: [IBMVM] Sharing files between two z/OS guest machines Stephan, zPDT is a z Series emulator running under Linux on 64 bit x86 machines. As such there is no hardware coupling facility. It's for development only, not production capable and distributed primarily to IBM business partners like us who develop third party software for mainframes. zPDT is essentially a VM environment and it does not offer a coupling facility either. zPDT is an excellent fit for our purposes, which is development only, but not very flexible or dynamic. So we run z/VM 5.4 on it and then several z/VSE and z/OS machines under VM. What we tried so far is dedicating a volume to a dummy guest, OBJDUMMY. Like this: MDISK A80 3390 DEVNO A80 MWV Then in each guest z/OS machine we put in something like this: LINK OBJDUMMY A80 A80 MW Is this safe? What happens if two developers open the same z/OS library dataset member on this A80 unit? Will the second one entering be denied in SPF? If not what happens if they both store their changes? We have been unable to find decent behavioral documentation in this regard. If the locking does not go down to the member level, we may set up VM's virtual coupling facility. It's not recommended for production but we aren't a production shop. I wonder if anyone out there has an opinion in this area. Thanks, Tom Hebert -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Stephen Powell Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 8:23 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Sharing files between two z/OS guest machines On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 18:27:26 -0500 (EST), Tom Hebert wrote: Please forgive me if I am asking in the wrong place or if you have answered this question before. We have a z1090 (otherwise known as a zPDT machine). It has no SYSPLEX hardware. We have several z/OS guests at various release levels for QA purposes. Copying files between guests is getting a little bothersome. What is the best, safe way to share MVS files between the guest z/OS machines? This is really more of a z/OS question than a z/VM question, but some z/VM facilities do (or can) come into play. I'll be the first to admit that I don't know a whole lot about the SYSPLEX environment, but I'm not sure what you mean when you say It [the z1090] has no SYSPLEX hardware. Do you mean, for example, that it has no coupling facility? I know that z/VM can create a virtual SYSPLEX environment between virtual machines. I've never tried to do it, but I've heard that it can be done. And I'm not sure but I don't think any special hardware is needed. But I could be wrong. Check out the manuals. Assuming for the moment that a virtual sysplex is not an option, traditional methods of file sharing between MVS systems, such as GRS, RESERVE/RELEASE, etc., can be used in virtual machines. You can define full-pack minidisks and have the guests link to them, rather than dedicating DASD packs to a single guest. By using V in the link access mode in the directory entry you enable virtual reserve/release. Make sure that the DASD is defined in MVS as shared dasd. hth -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: Contemplating upgrading 2105-800 to DS6800
I thought the DS6800 was withdrawn from marketing. On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:01 AM, Frank M. Ramaekers framaek...@ailife.comwrote: Yes, we did that and it was seamless. Best advice use fibre (and as many as you can afford). I don’t know if your 2105 is ESCON or Fibre attached. Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. -- *From:* The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] *On Behalf Of *Nigel Salway *Sent:* Monday, March 07, 2011 4:12 PM *To:* IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU *Subject:* Contemplating upgrading 2105-800 to DS6800 Dear Friends, I am considering replacing a 1 TB 2105-800 shark with a 1TB DS6800. Does anyone have experience with such an upgrade? Any warnings, tips or comments? TIA Nigel Salway _ 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
Re: zLinux OS disk read-only
*M* Multiple-write access. Write access is established unless another user holds a write, a stable (SR, SW, SM) or an exclusive (ER, EW) mode access to the disk. Looks like some other VM has that disk linked in write mode. On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Perez, Steve S sspe...@corelogic.comwrote: The disk is defined as follows. This is an excerpt from the CP directory: IPL 200 . LINK RHMASTER 199 199 RR MDISK 200 3390 1 10016 LX53B5 M Unfortunately, the console log did not get spooled so I don't know what the log would have indicated for that disk when the guest machine came up. That's on my follow-up list. The guest machine is IPL'd off of its OS (disk 200) disk when it comes up (in its CP Directory) so I need to find a way to spool the console when it starts and not later after it has gone through its initialization. Thanks, Steve -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of RPN01 Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 2:33 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: zLinux OS disk read-only How is the disk defined in the CP Directory entry (i.e. What is the mode of the disk), and what is in the console log when the user was logged in that could give a clue about the status of the disk when the user was initialized? The mode will tell you the condition(s) that could lead to it being read only (other users having it read/write or even read only), and the log may even tell you which or how many users gummed up the works, or when things when oval on you. In any case, it had to have happened at some point, and there has to be a footprint, if you keep your logs. -- Robert P. Nix Mayo Foundation.~. RO-OC-1-18 200 First Street SW/V\ 507-284-0844 Rochester, MN 55905 /( )\ -^^-^^ In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, theory and practice are different. On 3/1/11 2:23 PM, Steve Perez sspe...@corelogic.com wrote: Hello All, Has anyone run into a situation where the zLinux OS disk has become READ- ONLY access? We are running z/Linux under z/VM 5.4 Redhat 5.4. My zLinux Admin were doing compares between the production environment versus the Test D/R environment and noticed it. He issued the following on the prod zLinux guest environment: # mount -o remount,rw /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol00 mount: block device /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol00 is write-protected, mounting read-only Since we are testing our D/R process at the moment for the z/VM LPAR we are unsure at this point whether that is a contributing factor. It shoul d not be but we can't rule it out. We paused our PPRC/Global mirroring fro m the z/OS side before starting the D/R activities to perform recovery of the z/VM z/Linux. The problem was found while in the middle of verifying/comparing environments on the zLinux side. I can link to the minidisk that is used to IPL that zLinux guest and it shows R/W when I issue Q LINKS. All other minidisks owned by that zLinux guest are R/W a s well. From my perspective (z/VM) all looks good. Any input would be appreciated, if anything to rule out that PPRC/GM woul d have contributed to this. Thanks. Steve. ** This message may contain confidential or proprietary information intended only for the use of the addressee(s) named above or may contain information that is legally privileged. If you are not the intended addressee, or the person responsible for delivering it to the intended addressee, you are hereby notified that reading, disseminating, distributing or copying this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message by mistake, please immediately notify us by replying to the message and delete the original message and any copies immediately thereafter. Thank you. ** CLLD -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: IPL the new z/VM 5.4 System
When you log on, #CP Q V DASD and verify the correct devices are attached at the addresses you think they should be. On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Sherry Everhart severh...@maccnet.comwrote: Hello again. :) I successfully completed INSTDVD last night and continued this morning with the steps for the new system IPL (p 118 in the Guide for Automated Installation and Service version 5 release 4). I logged back on to the user from which I executed INSTDVD, and followed the steps to IPL (i.e. system clear, terminal conmode 3270, etc.). When I tried to IPL the new z/VM system: ipl fea clear loadparm 0009 I got the message: HCPCLT040E Device 0FEA does not exist Is there something special I have to do (other than the steps outlined in Step 4) to setup the user to IPL the new z/VM system? Here are the dasd addresses: DASD 0FEA 540RES DASD 0FEB 540SPL DASD 0FEC 540PAG DASD 0FED 540W01 DASD 0FEE 540W02 Thanks for the help. Sherry E. -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: Xedit question
I would shift every line right on space. Then change the first space to your sting c/ /Q DA /* On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) terry.mar...@cms.hhs.gov wrote: Hi I have a bunch of lines in a file and I want to insert in the beginning of each line a Q DA command: EX: 09 B32D70 10 B32D80 11 B32D81 12 B32D82 13 B32D83 I want to insert the following command Q DA in front of each entry. What is the best way to do this using xedit? Q DA B32D70 Terry Martin LockHeed Martin - CITIC z/OS and z/VM Performance and Tuning - Operating System Support Cell - 443 632-4191 Desk - 443 348-2102 -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: Xedit question
Sorry missed the numbers at the beginning. Shift left 2 and you remove the numbers leaving the space needed for the same change command. On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Mark Pace pacemainl...@gmail.com wrote: I would shift every line right on space. Then change the first space to your sting c/ /Q DA /* On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) terry.mar...@cms.hhs.gov wrote: Hi I have a bunch of lines in a file and I want to insert in the beginning of each line a Q DA command: EX: 09 B32D70 10 B32D80 11 B32D81 12 B32D82 13 B32D83 I want to insert the following command Q DA in front of each entry. What is the best way to do this using xedit? Q DA B32D70 Terry Martin LockHeed Martin - CITIC z/OS and z/VM Performance and Tuning - Operating System Support Cell - 443 632-4191 Desk - 443 348-2102 -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: Defining FCP devices to z/VM
Define CHPID, Control Unit, and I/O Devices all as type FCP. On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Crabtree, Anne D anne.d.crabt...@wv.govwrote: I maintain one operating system configuration in z/OS HCD which includes my z/OS lpars, as well as, my linux ifl. If I want to access storage on a FCP device from the linux IFL, what, specifically, do I have to add to HCD on the z/OS side? (just channel paths?) What, specifically, so I have to add to SYSTEM CONFIG on the z/VM side? (EDEVICE statements?) Does anyone know if any of the SHARE sessions (in Anaheim) would help me address this? Anne D. Crabtree System Programmer WV Office of Technology Data Center 1900 Kanawha Blvd East Charleston, WV 25305 (304)558-5914 ext 58292 (304)558-1441 fax -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: Defining FCP devices to z/VM
Define any VM lpars as type VM. On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Brian France b...@psu.edu wrote: I make mine VM. Are you running VM or just linux in an lpar? On 2/18/2011 11:15 AM, Crabtree, Anne D wrote: It won’t let me define FCP devices on the z/os side because my config is type MVS. Anne D. Crabtree System Programmer WV Office of Technology Data Center 1900 Kanawha Blvd East Charleston, WV 25305 (304)558-5914 ext 58292 (304)558-1441 fax *From:* The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDUIBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] *On Behalf Of *Mark Pace *Sent:* Friday, February 18, 2011 10:52 AM *To:* IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU *Subject:* Re: Defining FCP devices to z/VM Define CHPID, Control Unit, and I/O Devices all as type FCP. On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Crabtree, Anne D anne.d.crabt...@wv.gov wrote: I maintain one operating system configuration in z/OS HCD which includes my z/OS lpars, as well as, my linux ifl. If I want to access storage on a FCP device from the linux IFL, what, specifically, do I have to add to HCD on the z/OS side? (just channel paths?) What, specifically, so I have to add to SYSTEM CONFIG on the z/VM side? (EDEVICE statements?) Does anyone know if any of the SHARE sessions (in Anaheim) would help me address this? Anne D. Crabtree System Programmer WV Office of Technology Data Center 1900 Kanawha Blvd East Charleston, WV 25305 (304)558-5914 ext 58292 (304)558-1441 fax -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems -- -- Brian W. France Systems Administrator (Mainframe) Pennsylvania State University Administrative Information Services - Infrastructure/SYSARC Rm 25 Shields Bldg., University Park, Pa. 16802 814-863-4739 b...@psu.edu To make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. Carl Sagan -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: z/VM 6.2 release date?
With the z/OS 1.13 announcement today out of the way, hopefully we will see an announcement on the next z/VM release soon. On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Rich Smrcina r...@velocitysoftware.comwrote: On 02/15/2011 09:56 AM, Tom Huegel wrote: Has anyone heard of a release date for 6.2? If you follow the 18 month (between releases) scenario April would be the target month. The next release has not been announced, so a date is not available. -- Rich Smrcina Velocity Software, Inc. http://www.velocitysoftware.com Catch the WAVV! http://www.wavv.org WAVV 2011 - April 15-19, 2011 Colorado Springs, CO -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: z/VM Hardware Configuration Question
I would cable it up and use it! Then if one fails you fail over immediately, no loss of I/O or downtime while our cabling up the new one. On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Sherry Everhart severh...@maccnet.comwrote: Hello, Everyone. This is my first post to this User Group. Thanks in advance for your help. I have a question… We are running five VSE guests under VM and recently experienced a hardware failure. This has led us to investigate the possibility of installing a “spare” so that we’re not down if we have another failure in the future. Is it possible to configure an installed piece of hardware to be used (for redundancy) in case another one fails? Let’s say that I want a FICON card that is not cabled up to be available for use, without an IOCP change (i.e. POR) in case the FICON card I’m using goes bad. I need it to be available to all the same devices as the one that’s cabled and configured so that I can pull the cable off the bad and put it on the empty one. But the problem I’ve run into is the “build” of the IODF fails with the following message: *ICP ICP230I CONTROL UNIT 0440 PREVIOUSLY DEFINED Any help would be appreciated. Thank you, Sherry *Sharon J. Everhart | Sr. Systems Programmer*** *MACC | *111 Admiral Drive *|* PO Box 700 *|* Blair NE 68008-0700 Office: 402.533.5138 *|* www.maccnet.com -- Confidentiality Notice: The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you receive this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: Support Element (SE) vs HMC and IP Addresses
The SEs each have an IP address, and the HMC has an IP address on their own private network. The HMC may also have another NIC that can be connected to another network, say to reach the outside world, or allow you to access from your own private network. On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:00 AM, George Henke/NYLIC george_he...@newyorklife.com wrote: HMC emulates an SE, but does it have separate IP addresses, separate interfaces, or are they the same as the SE? Does the SE have IP addresses or are they only for the HMC? -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: Support Element (SE) vs HMC and IP Addresses
AFAIK an SE has only one IP address. On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:13 AM, George Henke/NYLIC george_he...@newyorklife.com wrote: ty, Mark, this is very helpful. Does an SE have more than 1 IP address as well? *Mark Pace pacemainl...@gmail.com* Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 01/19/2011 10:03 AM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Re: Support Element (SE) vs HMC and IP Addresses The SEs each have an IP address, and the HMC has an IP address on their own private network. The HMC may also have another NIC that can be connected to another network, say to reach the outside world, or allow you to access from your own private network. On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:00 AM, George Henke/NYLIC * george_he...@newyorklife.com* george_he...@newyorklife.com wrote: HMC emulates an SE, but does it have separate IP addresses, separate interfaces, or are they the same as the SE? Does the SE have IP addresses or are they only for the HMC? -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: Dynamically adding 3390's
Assuming that z/OS controls the IOCP throught HCD share the CHPID and the Devices with the VM partition. On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Hughes, Jim jim.hug...@doit.nh.gov wrote: We want to define a new controller for some new dasd volumes on our DS8100. Our Z/OS z10 system has them defined and is working with them quite nicely. Our z890 z/VM system doesn't have them in its IOCP. I've checked the z/VM system using CP Q DYN STAT and discovered it does allow dynamic io reconfiguration. So, my question is how do I get the new dasd online to z/VM? It will use existing paths to the DS8100. There are 8 devices on this new path. I've never done this sort of thing to a running system and have a certain respect for keeping it up and working. Experimenting is not an option for me. Thanks in advance for hints, tips, and an education. James R. Hughes TSG, Problem Solver NH Department of Information Technology 603-271-5586(w); 603-491-3071(c) www.nh.gov/doit 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. It is fun to do the impossible. -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: Dynamically adding 3390's
No I'm sorry, I read but didn't comprehend that there were 2 separate Z systems. You can dynamically add everything from z/VM, however I've used HCD on z/OS so long now that I'm afraid I can't help with the proper CP commands to add the devices in z/VM. On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Hughes, Jim jim.hug...@doit.nh.gov wrote: Two separate systems sharing a DS 8100. The z10 and z890 don’t share an HCD. I cannot vary something online to the z890 that doesn’t exist. Am I making sense or missing the point you are trying to make? James R. Hughes TSG, Problem Solver NH Department of Information Technology 603-271-5586(w); 603-491-3071(c) www.nh.gov/doit 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. It is fun to do the impossible. -- *From:* The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] *On Behalf Of *Mark Pace *Sent:* Wednesday, January 05, 2011 2:45 PM *To:* IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU *Subject:* Re: Dynamically adding 3390's Assuming that z/OS controls the IOCP throught HCD share the CHPID and the Devices with the VM partition. On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Hughes, Jim jim.hug...@doit.nh.gov wrote: We want to define a new controller for some new dasd volumes on our DS8100. Our Z/OS z10 system has them defined and is working with them quite nicely. Our z890 z/VM system doesn't have them in its IOCP. I've checked the z/VM system using CP Q DYN STAT and discovered it does allow dynamic io reconfiguration. So, my question is how do I get the new dasd online to z/VM? It will use existing paths to the DS8100. There are 8 devices on this new path. I've never done this sort of thing to a running system and have a certain respect for keeping it up and working. Experimenting is not an option for me. Thanks in advance for hints, tips, and an education. James R. Hughes TSG, Problem Solver NH Department of Information Technology 603-271-5586(w); 603-491-3071(c) www.nh.gov/doit 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. It is fun to do the impossible. -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: Another teaser...
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Rich Smrcina r...@velocitysoftware.comwrote: Excellent! On both counts! What Rich said! -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: Vswitch Grant as a CMD in User's Directory?
I do the same. Since I have so many VSE z/OS guests I find it easier to keep all my JCL and editing in CMS and submit to the appropriate guest. Better than having 5 or 6 Telnet sessions open to various guests. On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:57 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: I loved CMS many years ago. I no longer work for a company with z/VM. Haven't for years. Using CMS and RSCS to submit jobs to MVS (yes, that long ago - MVS 3.8!) was so much better than TSO it wasn't even funny. Now I'm using a Linux desktop and writing code which allows me to use it for some things instead of TSO. OpenSSH is really helping on that. But I'm getting off-topic. -- 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 George Henke/NYLIC Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 10:53 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Vswitch Grant as a CMD in User's Directory? Some companies in the past preferred to confine application programmers to CMS due to the large overhead of TSO address spaces thereby realizing savings in CPU and storage. CMS is not as well liked as TSO/ISPF by application programmers, but given CPU price sensitivity these days, it may not be such a bad idea and, who knows, it might even convert them z/VM. Bill Munson william.mun...@bbh.com Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 12/10/2010 10:57 AM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Re: Vswitch Grant as a CMD in User's Directory? Tom, as Mike said there are a lot of companies I know of that are using CMS applications for day to day work and the DATA resides on VM they are using FOCUS for report generation , as well as MAILBOOK for e-mail and interoffice file transfers , and some are using VM:Backup and VM:Archive and the Shared File System for numerous versions of Source Code like GDG's on TSO and submitting their compiles and assembles to VM:Batch for processing. There is still a lot of WORK being done on VM and these companies are not running any other OS as a guest of these VM systems. They might and do have other VM's for running LINUX or VSE . Granted it is a vast minority of what it was 10, 15, and 20 years ago. munson From:Tom Huegel tehue...@gmail.com To:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Date:12/10/2010 09:16 AM Subject:Re: Vswitch Grant as a CMD in User's Directory? Sent by:The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Does anyone run applications in z/VM? Isn't the 'protected data' owned by some other OS (z/OS, z/VSE, zLINUX). It seems that the high level security effort belongs in those OS's. z/VM just needs to keep those systems isolated and NOT be able to circumvent their security procedures. On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 2:46 AM, Les Koehler vmr...@tampabay.rr.com mailto:vmr...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Back in the old days, I recall a finance type person saying something like: The Gold Standard is that it should take collusion between two or more people to defraud the company. If we apply that to IT, then shouldn't pswds for privileged userids that can access/change financial data be long enough that TWO sysprogs can each be given half a pswd so they both have to be present to make a change? Les Alan Altmark wrote: On Thursday, 12/09/2010 at 12:01 EST, Tom Huegel tehue...@gmail.com mailto:tehue...@gmail.com wrote: Does it really matter? SOX is just another way congress has come up with to destroy the American economy, and in fact the American way of life. When you read the law, you find that SOX is simply a way to hold executives responsible for the financial statements issued by their companies. Assuming no ill intent (no comments, please!), that means trustworthy data. That flows downhill, as all such things must, until we start talking about access controls and audit mechanisms for financial data. That is, knowing who has the means and the opportunity to access
Re: Hanging when dialing z/OS guests
Under z/OS - vary the consoles online. Be sure they are defined to VTAM as local non-sna and that major node is active. On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Scott Rohling scott.rohl...@gmail.comwrote: Didn't see a question anywhere but - If spool is at 98% - you need to clean it up - quickly! Use SPOOLPIG or SPOOLCHN tools from the z/VM downloads page and find out where the big files are. A runaway or looping guest that is spitting out messages can cause spool to fillup as the console log grows ... something to look for as well. The INDICATE commands don't show any issues that I can see. Your subject is 'hanging when dialing z/OS guests'.. Are there consoles available to dial to? Under z/VM - you need to ENABLE consoles to be available for dialing -- not sure what the equivalent is for z/OS. Scott Rohling On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 7:19 AM, George Henke/NYLIC george_he...@newyorklife.com wrote: Able to logon to MAINT np, but Spool is 98%. ind AVGPROC-049% 01 XSTORE-01/SEC MIGRATE-/SEC MDC READS-00/SEC WRITES-00/SEC HIT RATIO-000% PAGING-1/SEC STEAL-000% Q0-7(0) DORMANT-00024 Q1-0(0) E1-0(0) Q2-0(0) EXPAN-001 E2-0(0) Q3-2(0) EXPAN-002 E3-0(0) PROC -049% CP LIMITED-0 ind queues SY92TEST Q0 PS 00098545/00096481 MAINTSYS Q0 R00 1440/1067 VSCS Q0 PS 0150/0128 SY91TEST Q0 PS 00129168/00129163 CFSRV02 Q0 PS 00017794/00017773 MPROUTE Q0 PS 0246/0225 CFSRV04 Q0 PS 00038478/00038457 CFSRV03 Q0 PS 0138/0117 CFSRV05 Q0 PS 9058/9037 CFSRV01 Q0 PS 0618/0597 VLINUX2 Q3 PS 00025072/00025058 VLINUX3 Q3 PS 00043218/00043204 VLINUX1 Q3 PS 00038802/00038788 VTAM Q0 PS 0421/0395 SY90TEST Q0 PS 00128934/00126872 SY79TEST Q0 PS 00131072/00131072 -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: Streamlining the IPL
From Operator Q TERM and see if the more 0 0 is in fact being set. On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 3:55 PM, George Henke/NYLIC george_he...@newyorklife.com wrote: Everything looks good except for 'MORE processing. Although the OPERATOR screen does not got to HOLD, it waits the default 50 seconds before scrolling to the next screen. It seems to be ignoring the first 0 in TERM MORE 0 0 Whether I use 2 TERM commands or 1 the result is the same. From OPERATOR's PROFILE EXEC: Address Command 'SYNONYM SYN' 'CP TERMINAL MODE VM' 'CP SPOOL CONSOLE * START' 'CP SET RUN ON' *'CP TERM HOLD OFF MORE 0 0'* 'CP SET PF11 RETRIEVE FORWARD' 'CP SET PF12 RETRIEVE BACKWARD' 'CP SET PF23 RETRIEVE FORWARD' 'CP SET PF24 RETRIEVE BACKWARD' Is the SET RUN ON perhaps interfering? It should be noted this is a PoC at Level 2 Perhaps this difference in behavior is connected with that. Or is this how it is supposed to work?. *Dave Jones d...@vsoft-software.com* Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 11/11/2010 11:09 AM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Re: Streamlining the IPL Hi, George. To get CP to automatically IPL with no operator prompts for what kind of IPL to do and to set the date and time, add the following to the FEATURES statement in the production SYSTEM CONFIG file: ENABle AUTO_WARM_IPL, To have the TERM MORE 0 0 and TERM HOLD OFF commands automatically be issued at IPL time, you can either: 1) have the OPERATOR user id IPL CMS (with PARM AUTOCR specified) and then have the PROFILE EXEC file issue the CP TERM commands, or 2) add the COMMAND directory control statement to OPERATOR's user directory entry like so: COMMAND TERM MORE 0 0 COMMAND TERM HOLD OFF if you do not want OPERATOR running CMS. Have a good one. On 11/11/2010 09:52 AM, George Henke/NYLIC wrote: ty, Kris and Alan, but what happens when the IPL prompts for Change Date/Time? Can the prompt be surpressed? Also, what is the best way to issue the TERM command? *Kris Buelens kris.buel...@gmail.com* Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 11/11/2010 10:47 AM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Re: Streamlining the IPL TERM HOLD OFF MORE 0 0 2010/11/11 George Henke/NYLIC george_he...@newyorklife.com mailto:george_he...@newyorklife.com Is there a way to prevent the Level 1 operator console screen from entering MORE or HOLDING state so that the IPL will continue uninterupted by operator intervention? SET RUN ON will not. -- Kris Buelens, IBM Belgium, VM customer support -- Dave Jones V/Soft Software www.vsoft-software.com Houston, TX 281.578.7544 george_he...@newyorklife.com -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: Streamlining the IPL
You should see something like this. q term LINEND # , LINEDEL OFF, CHARDEL OFF, ESCAPE , TABCHAR OFF LINESIZE 140, ATTN OFF, APL OFF, TEXT OFF, MODE VM, HILIGHT OFF CONMODE 3215, BREAKIN IMMED , BRKKEY PA1 , SCRNSAVE OFF AUTOCR ON , *MORE 000 000, HOLD OFF* , TIMESTAMP OFF, SYS3270 OFF Ready; T=0.01/0.01 16:09:25 On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 3:55 PM, George Henke/NYLIC george_he...@newyorklife.com wrote: Everything looks good except for 'MORE processing. Although the OPERATOR screen does not got to HOLD, it waits the default 50 seconds before scrolling to the next screen. It seems to be ignoring the first 0 in TERM MORE 0 0 Whether I use 2 TERM commands or 1 the result is the same. From OPERATOR's PROFILE EXEC: Address Command 'SYNONYM SYN' 'CP TERMINAL MODE VM' 'CP SPOOL CONSOLE * START' 'CP SET RUN ON' *'CP TERM HOLD OFF MORE 0 0'* 'CP SET PF11 RETRIEVE FORWARD' 'CP SET PF12 RETRIEVE BACKWARD' 'CP SET PF23 RETRIEVE FORWARD' 'CP SET PF24 RETRIEVE BACKWARD' Is the SET RUN ON perhaps interfering? It should be noted this is a PoC at Level 2 Perhaps this difference in behavior is connected with that. Or is this how it is supposed to work?. *Dave Jones d...@vsoft-software.com* Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 11/11/2010 11:09 AM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Re: Streamlining the IPL Hi, George. To get CP to automatically IPL with no operator prompts for what kind of IPL to do and to set the date and time, add the following to the FEATURES statement in the production SYSTEM CONFIG file: ENABle AUTO_WARM_IPL, To have the TERM MORE 0 0 and TERM HOLD OFF commands automatically be issued at IPL time, you can either: 1) have the OPERATOR user id IPL CMS (with PARM AUTOCR specified) and then have the PROFILE EXEC file issue the CP TERM commands, or 2) add the COMMAND directory control statement to OPERATOR's user directory entry like so: COMMAND TERM MORE 0 0 COMMAND TERM HOLD OFF if you do not want OPERATOR running CMS. Have a good one. On 11/11/2010 09:52 AM, George Henke/NYLIC wrote: ty, Kris and Alan, but what happens when the IPL prompts for Change Date/Time? Can the prompt be surpressed? Also, what is the best way to issue the TERM command? *Kris Buelens kris.buel...@gmail.com* Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 11/11/2010 10:47 AM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Re: Streamlining the IPL TERM HOLD OFF MORE 0 0 2010/11/11 George Henke/NYLIC george_he...@newyorklife.com mailto:george_he...@newyorklife.com Is there a way to prevent the Level 1 operator console screen from entering MORE or HOLDING state so that the IPL will continue uninterupted by operator intervention? SET RUN ON will not. -- Kris Buelens, IBM Belgium, VM customer support -- Dave Jones V/Soft Software www.vsoft-software.com Houston, TX 281.578.7544 george_he...@newyorklife.com -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: No IPL VSWITCH Connectivity
7zip and/or winrar should have no problems with it. On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 2:08 PM, George Henke/NYLIC george_he...@newyorklife.com wrote: Here is what I get when I try to download. Sorry for the screen shot, but it was the only way I could capture the data. I don't see an option for binary. If I click on open nothing happens. If I cleck on download it gives me a file I cannot unzip. Peazip, however, was able to unzip it. *Frank M. Ramaekers framaek...@ailife.com* Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 11/03/2010 01:54 PM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Re: No IPL VSWITCH Connectivity I just did (on a Linux server though) and had no problems. Are you sure you issued a BINARY before the download? Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. -- *From:* The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] *On Behalf Of *George Henke/NYLIC* Sent:* Wednesday, November 03, 2010 10:29 AM* To:* ib...@listserv.uark.edu* Subject:* Re: No IPL VSWITCH Connectivity I am trouble downloading and unziping the course. Something about invalid archive library for Winzip. *Tom Huegel tehue...@gmail.com* Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 11/03/2010 11:25 AM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Re: No IPL VSWITCH Connectivity BTW Kris's selfstudy courses on the download page are EXCELLENT. On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 6:06 AM, Kris Buelens *kris.buel...@gmail.com*kris.buel...@gmail.com wrote: If using ADDRESS COMMAND makes a difference, the most common cause is that you've got a CP EXEC somewhere on a minidisk accessed by AUTOLOG1. SYNONYMs and SET IMPCP can influence command execution too with ADDRESS CMS (or PIPE CMS), but occur less often. You could read lesson 3 in our Telecourse (free, selfstudy): *http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/descript.cgi?TCVM1*http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/descript.cgi?TCVM1 2010/11/2 George Henke/NYLIC *george_he...@newyorklife.com*george_he...@newyorklife.com Tom: * I think you may have found the problem.* * You use ADDRESS COMMAND CP SET VSWITCH.* * I do not reset the REXX CMS ENVIRONMENT to the COMMAND ENVIRONMENT with ADDRESS COMMAND.* Normally that is not a problem for CP commands, but in this case SET is also a CMS command and without the ADDRESS COMMAND prefix it may be getting processed as a CMS SET command, instead of a CP SET VSWITCH command and so the GRANTS may never really be getting issued even though they appear to be, they get Command Completed. From AUTOLOG1 Console, last IPL: * 68 *-* 'CP SET VSWITCH LNXVSW1 GRANT VLINUX1'* CP SET VSWITCH LNXVSW1 GRANT VLINUX1 * Command complete* 69 *-* 'CP SET VSWITCH LNXVSW1 GRANT VLINUX2' CP SET VSWITCH LNXVSW1 GRANT VLINUX2 Command complete 70 *-* 'CP SET VSWITCH LNXVSW1 GRANT VLINUX3' CP SET VSWITCH LNXVSW1 GRANT VLINUX3 Command complete 71 *-* 'CP SET VSWITCH LNXVSW1 GRANT VLINUX4' CP SET VSWITCH LNXVSW1 GRANT VLINUX4 Command complete 72 *-* 'CP SET VSWITCH LNXVSW1 GRANT VLINUX5' CP SET VSWITCH LNXVSW1 GRANT VLINUX5 Command complete * Without the ADDRESS COMMAND prefix could it be that the GRANTS are being ignored even though they have the CP prefix.* * What do you think?* *Tom Huegel **tehue...@gmail.com* tehue...@gmail.com** Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System *ib...@listserv.uark.edu*IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 11/02/2010 03:52 PM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System *ib...@listserv.uark.edu*IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU To *ib...@listserv.uark.edu* IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Re: No IPL VSWITCH Connectivity I have my VSWITCHES defined in the SYSTEM CONFIG file and all of the ADDRESS COMMAND CP SET VSWITCH VSWITCH1 GRANT vmuserid's in AUTOLOG1, followed immediatly by XAUTOLOG LINUX1... LINUX2 ... LINUX etc. SUSE 10 SP2 .. I have no CP SLEEP commands and never had a problem. For what it's worth I do not connect my TCPIP to a VSWITCH. On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) * terry.mar...@cms.hhs.gov* terry.mar...@cms.hhs.gov wrote: Ok, my point was that you would not be able to connect the network and if you can’t connect to the network having the VSWICTH defined does not mean much at least not for me. *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*IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] *On Behalf Of *Miguel Delapaz* Sent:* Tuesday, November 02, 2010 1:51 PM *
Re: Reply CONSOLE when run ZOS under ZVM
I'm not sure about his specific problem, but things to take into account. The default recall key for z/OS is PA1 which the default key for CP READ. A couple of things that I add to my USER DIRECT entry for all z/OS guests. COMMAND TERM BRKKEY PF12 COMMAND TERM BREAKIN GUESTCTL COMMAND SET RUN ON The BRKKEY will change the CP READ to PF12, leaving PA1 for z/OS console recall. Changing the BREAKIN to GUESTCTL will limit some of the times that z/VM interupts the console On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Sergio Lima sergiovm...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello List, A friend have a question, but, his is not in this list, and for this reason I try do a favour ask this question for him. He try run ZOS under ZVM, and when need give a response (reply), the CMS machine stay under CP READ, and for this reason the IPL can't continue. I said that give CP TERM CON 3270, but still don't run. Someone already have this problem? Thanks very much Sergio . -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: Reply CONSOLE when run ZOS under ZVM
I don't know why you are seeing a CP READ for a z/OS prompt. Is this terminal defined to z/OS as a console? Since it's in a CP READ you may try entering *B*egin. then try the R 0,I On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Sergio Lima sergiovm...@hotmail.comwrote: Hello Mark and George, First thanks very much from your help. He do there what you said, but still don't work. So he send the console , and I do a copy past : CP Q TERM LINEND # , LINEDEL OFF, CHARDEL OFF, ESCAPE , TABCHAR OFF LINESIZE 080, ATTN OFF, APL OFF, TEXT OFF, MODE VM, HILIGHT OFF CONMODE 3270, BREAKIN GUESTCTL, BRKKEY PF12 , SCRNSAVE OFF AUTOCR ON , MORE 050 010, HOLD ON , TIMESTAMP OFF, SYS3270 OFF CP IPL A80 LOADPARM 0A82CS *IEA247I USING IEASYSCS FOR z/OS 01.09.00 HBB7740 ISG313I SYSTEM IS INITIALIZING IN GRS NONE MODE. RING OR STAR CONFIGURATION KE YWORDS IN GRSCNF00 ARE IGNORED. IEA598I TIME ZONE = W.06.00.00 IXC414I CANNOT JOIN SYSPLEX ADCDPL WHICH IS RUNNING IN MONOPLEX MODE: CONFIGURA TION REQUIREMENT IXC404I SYSTEM(S) ACTIVE OR IPLING: ADCD H * IXC420D REPLY I TO INITIALIZE SYSPLEX ADCDPL, OR R TO REINITIALIZE XCF. REPLYING I WILL IMPACT OTHER ACTIVE SYSTEMS. H Prompt text: R 00, CP READ ZVM_BRT He can't responde to ZOS machine, because when entry the command, receive : R 00,I HCPCMD001E Unknown CP command: R Thanks, Sergio -- Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 10:00:41 -0400 From: george_he...@newyorklife.com Subject: Re: Reply CONSOLE when run ZOS under ZVM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Sergio: You need to CP SET RUN ON which allows the z/OS guest virtual machine to run without an interrupt for CP READ. *Mark Pace pacemainl...@gmail.com* Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 11/01/2010 09:52 AM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Re: Reply CONSOLE when run ZOS under ZVM I'm not sure about his specific problem, but things to take into account. The default recall key for z/OS is PA1 which the default key for CP READ. A couple of things that I add to my USER DIRECT entry for all z/OS guests. COMMAND TERM BRKKEY PF12 COMMAND TERM BREAKIN GUESTCTL COMMAND SET RUN ON The BRKKEY will change the CP READ to PF12, leaving PA1 for z/OS console recall. Changing the BREAKIN to GUESTCTL will limit some of the times that z/VM interupts the console On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Sergio Lima *sergiovm...@hotmail.com*sergiovm...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello List, A friend have a question, but, his is not in this list, and for this reason I try do a favour ask this question for him. He try run ZOS under ZVM, and when need give a response (reply), the CMS machine stay under CP READ, and for this reason the IPL can't continue. I said that give CP TERM CON 3270, but still don't run. Someone already have this problem? Thanks very much Sergio . -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: No IPL VSWITCH Connectivity
Hmm. I have all my GRANTs in the SYSTEM CONFIG, not in autolog1. Is your TCPIP using the VSWITCH or is it a controller for the VSWITCH? On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 3:18 PM, George Henke/NYLIC george_he...@newyorklife.com wrote: I just noticed that in my AUTOLOG1 PROFILE EXEC, TCPIP is XAUTOLOGed just before the GRANTS. Could it be that VSWITCH is not ready until TCPIP is fully logged on, the TCPIP stack built? Do I need a delay in my AUTLOG1 PROFILE EXEC after the XAUTOLOG of TCPIP to make this happen? 'CP XAUTOLOG TCPIP' 'CP SET VSWITCH LNXVSW1 GRANT VLINUX1' 'CP SET VSWITCH LNXVSW1 GRANT VLINUX2' 'CP SET VSWITCH LNXVSW1 GRANT VLINUX3' 'CP SET VSWITCH LNXVSW1 GRANT VLINUX4' 'CP SET VSWITCH LNXVSW1 GRANT VLINUX5' 'CP SLEEP 10 SEC' 'CP XAUTOLOG VLINUX1' 'CP XAUTOLOG VLINUX2' 'CP XAUTOLOG VLINUX3' *Mark Pace pacemainl...@gmail.com* Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 11/01/2010 03:13 PM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Re: No IPL VSWITCH Connectivity The 2 entries I have in my system config. 1 for layer 2 and 1 for layer 3. Both work at IPL. DEFINE VSWITCH VSWTCH1 RDEV 0600 CONTR * ETH Define VSWITCH VSWTCH3 RDEV 0604 CONTR * IP On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 3:07 PM, George Henke/NYLIC * george_he...@newyorklife.com* george_he...@newyorklife.com wrote: After IPL we can destroy the VSWITCH: det vswitch lnxvsw1 Then issue the same commands as in the IPL below and everything connects. Why? Are there some restrictions, considerations, for defining the VSWITCH at IPL time? SYSTEM CONFIG: define vswitch lnxvsw1 portname lnxvsw1 rdev 9004 AUTOLOG1: PROFILE EXEC: 'CP SET VSWITCH LNXVSW1 GRANT VLINUX1' 'CP SET VSWITCH LNXVSW1 GRANT VLINUX2' 'CP SET VSWITCH LNXVSW1 GRANT VLINUX3' 'CP SET VSWITCH LNXVSW1 GRANT VLINUX4' 'CP SET VSWITCH LNXVSW1 GRANT VLINUX5' 'CP SLEEP 10 SEC' 'CP XAUTOLOG VLINUX1' 'CP XAUTOLOG VLINUX2' 'CP XAUTOLOG VLINUX3' -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: No IPL VSWITCH Connectivity
Just manually logon to the linux guest to see if it is connecting to the vswitch. On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 4:09 PM, George Henke/NYLIC george_he...@newyorklife.com wrote: Aubry, I thought the same as you, but I AUTOLOG1 does have privclass (B): I am not quite sure where or how to check the LINUX logs. *USER AUTOLOG1 AUTOLOG1 32M 32M ABCDEG* AUTOLOG OP1 MAINT ACCOUNT 9 SYSTEM MACH ESA IPL 190 CONSOLE 009 3215 SPOOL 00C 2540 READER * SPOOL 00D 2540 PUNCH A SPOOL 00E 1403 A LINK MAINTSYS 190 190 RR MDISK 191 3390 2000 001 540RES MR RAUTOLOG WAUTOLOG MAUTOLOG *Burch, Aubrey D Mr CIV DISA CDB12 denny.bu...@csd.disa.mil* Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 11/01/2010 04:04 PM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Re: No IPL VSWITCH Connectivity George, From the info you've given it sounds like the VSWITCH is being created but the GRANT command within the AUTOLOG1 exec is failing. Check your LINUX log to see if there is an error on the NIC while trying to initialize. If so you might want to check to make sure that AUTOLOG1 has the required privclass (B) to issue the SET VSWITCH command. Regards, Denny Burch z/VM and z/LINUX Systems DISA DECC Mechanicsburg 717 605-1181 (dsn) 430-1181 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of George Henke/NYLIC Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 15:43 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: No IPL VSWITCH Connectivity My controllers. DTCVSW1,2 are AUTOLOGed before the GRANTS, but there is only a 10 sec sleep. 'CP XAUTOLOG GCS' 'CP XAUTOLOG DTCVSW1' 'CP XAUTOLOG DTCVSW2' 'CP SLEEP 10 SEC' 'CP XAUTOLOG NETVIEW' 'CP XAUTOLOG NETSPY' 'CP XAUTOLOG OPERSYMP' 'CP XAUTOLOG RSCSSERV' 'CP XAUTOLOG VTAM' Also TCPIP IUCVs to VSWITCH. Does that mean TCPIP is acting as the CONTROLLER and must be up before the GRANTS? USER TCPIP TCPIP 128M 256M ABG INCLUDE TCPCMSU OPTION QUICKDSP SVMSTAT MAXCONN 1024 DIAG98 APPLMON SHARE RELATIVE 3000 IUCV ALLOW IUCV ANY PRIORITY IUCV *CCS PRIORITY MSGLIMIT 255 IUCV *VSWITCH MSGLIMIT 65535 * CHANGE SPECIAL FROM 9104 TO 9108 PER SAM 9/30/09 SPECIAL 9108 QDIO 3 SYSTEM OSALAN LINK 5VMTCP40 491 491 RR LINK 5VMTCP40 492 492 RR LINK TCPMAINT 591 591 RR LINK TCPMAINT 592 592 RR LINK TCPMAINT 198 198 RR MDISK 191 3390 2258 005 540W02 MR RTCPIP WTCPIP MTCPIP Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 11/01/2010 03:34 PM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Re: No IPL VSWITCH Connectivity On Monday, 11/01/2010 at 03:10 EDT, George Henke/NYLIC george_he...@newyorklife.com wrote: After IPL we can destroy the VSWITCH: det vswitch lnxvsw1 Then issue the same commands as in the IPL below and everything connects. Why? Are there some restrictions, considerations, for defining the VSWITCH at IPL time? SYSTEM CONFIG: define vswitch lnxvsw1 portname lnxvsw1 rdev 9004 I suggest that you remove the PORTNAME LNXVSW1. It isn't needed and it can create unnecessary confusion. AUTOLOG1: PROFILE EXEC: 'CP SET VSWITCH LNXVSW1 GRANT VLINUX1' 'CP SET VSWITCH LNXVSW1 GRANT VLINUX2' 'CP SET VSWITCH LNXVSW1 GRANT VLINUX3' 'CP SET VSWITCH LNXVSW1 GRANT VLINUX4' 'CP SET VSWITCH LNXVSW1 GRANT VLINUX5' 'CP SLEEP 10 SEC' Why sleep 10 sec? The SET VSWITCH commands take effect immediately. 'CP XAUTOLOG VLINUX1' 'CP XAUTOLOG VLINUX2' 'CP XAUTOLOG VLINUX3' A VSWITCH establishes connectivity to the outside world once the controllers (DTCVSW1/2) are up. 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 -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: Highlighting in Rexx
Vista TN3270 does both. I'd look at your emulator. On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Les Koehler vmr...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: There are some attributes that a pc simply can't do, like underscore and blink. I certainly wouldn't be surprised if my recently acquired WC3270 emulator misbehaved in colorizing for VM. Les zMan wrote: On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Chip Davis c...@aresti.com wrote: I haven't seen a real 3278/9 in years, so I've discovered that there is a great variance in the ability of TN3270 emulators to properly respect/interpret those attribute characters, especially color. Huh? If it don't do 3270 datastreams, how is it a 3270 emulator -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: Testing TCPIP and VSWITCH at Level 2
Just attach a set of OSA triplets to your 2nd level guest for the VSWITCH. On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Dave Jones d...@vsoft-software.com wrote: Yes, it can, George, no problem. DJ On 10/11/2010 8:36 AM, George Henke/NYLIC wrote: Can TCPIP and VSWITCH, though isolated from Level 1, (as indicated by Brian Nielsen below) still be functional at Level 2 to shake down TCPIP maintenance before rolling it up to Level 1? Everything at Level 2 is a clone except VOLSERs. Brian Nielsen wrote: For TCP, what happens depends on what you have set up for your L2 guest. If you gave it access to a real hardware (OSA, hipersocket, etc) then you have other work to do to prevent IP conflicts. If instead you've given i t access to a disconnected VSWITCH and/or virtual LAN, then it won't cause any problems because it can't connect to anything. And, yes, defining GRAFs and using DIAL is a standard practice. George Henke/NYLIC 10/06/2010 10:46 AM To The IBM z/VM Operating SystemIBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Re: IPL VM/VM Issues I IPLed L2 COLD, because I did not have the extra SPOOL volumes yet to come up FORCE. So I do not have the SDF. I suppose I could SPXTAPE DUMP them from L1, except I do not have any tape. Can I redirect SPXTAPE to disk to port the SDF to L2?. Brian Nielsenbniel...@sco.idaho.gov Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating SystemIBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 10/05/2010 04:29 PM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating SystemIBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Re: IPL VM/VM Issues As others have pointed out, your L2 guest can't hurt your L1 system or other guests unless L2 has access to those disks. Stating it from a different angle - you should never give your L2 guest access to anything you don't want it to have access to. It's no different than keeping your z/OS and Linux guests from stepping on each other or your L1 system. Thi s guest just happens to be running VM. For your IPL, if you've DDR'd your SPOOL volumes from L1 to L2, there is no reason to do a COLD start. Do a FORCE start instead. Otherwise you need to rebuild or SPXTAPE LOAD the SDF files. For TCP, what happens depends on what you have set up for your L2 guest. If you gave it access to a real hardware (OSA, hipersocket, etc) then you have other work to do to prevent IP conflicts. If instead you've given i t access to a disconnected VSWITCH and/or virtual LAN, then it won't cause any problems because it can't connect to anything. And, yes, defining GRAFs and using DIAL is a standard practice. Something you might want to look into is setting up your system so it recognizes whether it's at L1 or L2 or at DR so that it does the right thing for that situation. There's several ways to do that, but you've gone down the path of diverging your L2 system from your L1 system. At m y site I have it setup so that I can DDR my L1 system into my L2 guest, int o a couple different setups at my DR site, or into some unknown site, and i t comes up the way I want it to in each instance even if the others are running. It makes life easier. What you're doing is a great learning experience, and eventually you'll see the value in making your multiple systems easier to manage. Brian Nielsen On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 15:28:01 -0400, George Henke/NYLIC george_he...@newyorklife.com wrote: L2 is a cloned L1 directory except for the volsers in the Directory and CF Parm files which have all been made unique, ie 540 becoming 54X. I plan to ipl as follows: system reset term conmode 3270 set mach esa I 125b clear loadparm 009 START COLD DRAIN To be safe, I suppose I should also add NOAUTO. L1 runs 5 z/OS machines and 3 Linuxes. They could be corrupted at L1 if I tried to bring them up in L2 at the same time without GRS, MIM, or some other serialization product. I doubt TCPIP will work at L2 without some reconfiguring. So I should define some GRAFs and dial them. Not sure if my L2 entry in the L1 Directory needs 54XRES, 54XPAG, 54XSPL , 54XW01, 54XW02 or whether I can just specify the IPL vplume, 54XRES, and CP finds the rest from the Parm disk. -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: z/VM ISFC links
So now I'm trying to define a shared CTC environment so that I can connect a real CTC to a 2nd level vm. It was working when I dedicated the CHPID to each partition. Now that I am sharing the CHPIDs between LPARS the the 2400 range will not come online to either LPAR. Messages and relevant pieces of IOCDS is below. q chpid 24 Path 24 offline to devices 2400 2401 2402 2403 2404 2405 2406 2407 Path 24 offline to devices 2408 2409 240A 240B 240C 240D 240E 240F Path 24 offline to devices 2410 2411 2412 2413 2414 2415 2416 2417 Path 24 offline to devices 2418 2419 241A 241B 241C 241D 241E 241F Ready; T=0.01/0.01 11:13:41 q path 2400 Device 2400, Status OFFLINE CHPIDs to Device 2400 (PIM) : 24 Physically Available (PAM) : + Online (LPM) : - Legend + Yes - No Ready; T=0.01/0.01 11:13:44 vary on 2400 HCPCPN6283I Device 2400 cannot be varied online because no channel path is available. HCPCPN6785E Unable to identify device 2400 dynamically. 1 device(s) specified; 0 device(s) successfully varied online Ready(06785); T=0.01/0.01 11:14:00 CHPID PATH=(CSS(0),14),SHARED,PARTITION=((BP,IT),(=)),* PCHID=271,TYPE=CTC CHPID PATH=(CSS(0),24),SHARED,PARTITION=((BP,IT),(=)),* PCHID=272,TYPE=CNC CNTLUNIT CUNUMBR=1400,PATH=((CSS(0),14)),UNITADD=((00,032)), * UNIT=SCTC IODEVICE ADDRESS=(1400,032),CUNUMBR=(1400),STADET=Y,UNIT=SCTC CNTLUNIT CUNUMBR=2400,PATH=((CSS(0),24)),UNITADD=((00,032)), * UNIT=SCTC IODEVICE ADDRESS=(2400,032),CUNUMBR=(2400),STADET=Y,UNIT=SCTC On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 1:25 PM, O'Brien, Dennis L dennis.l.o'br...@bankofamerica.com dennis.l.o%27br...@bankofamerica.comwrote: Mark, You need a real CTC with both ends connected to the same system. You ACTIVATE ISLINK for one end on the first-level system. You ATTACH or DEDICATE the other end on first level to the virtual machine for the second-level system. You then ACTIVATE ISLINK for that device on the second-level system. Dennis Decision is not a verb. *From:* The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] *On Behalf Of *Mark Pace *Sent:* Tuesday, October 05, 2010 09:57 *To:* IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU *Subject:* Re: [IBMVM] z/VM ISFC links Hi, Clovis - Thanks, but I knew how to do that. I've used VCTC between guests for years. What I needed, but apparently is not supported is a VCTC, connecting CP to a virtual machine for ISFC links. On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 12:40 PM, gclo...@br.ibm.com wrote: Now I'm trying to figure out how to define a virtual CTC between CP and the 2nd level VM. Mark, it is easy. On first level, define one Virtual CTC (FCTC, SCTC) into TCPIP (or another capable machine) to connect to second level VM. On second level VM, *define* and *couple* the Virtual CTC to first level TCPIP *before* his IPL (COMMAND into Directory is a good place to set it). After the IPL, DEDICATE the CTC (the second level thinks it is a REAL CTC) to his TCPIP machine. Done, you have the two TCPIPs connected by CTCs... Work fine also for VTAM machines, RSCS, PVM, zOS and so long... __ Clovis Pereira *Error! Filename not specified.*Mark Pace ---04/10/2010 10:06:05---Real CTC link are working between LPARs. I have a 2nd level VM that I dedicated a CTC address to tha *Error! Filename not specified.* From: *Error! Filename not specified.* Mark Pace pacemainl...@gmail.com *Error! Filename not specified.* To: *Error! Filename not specified.* IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU *Error! Filename not specified.* Date: *Error! Filename not specified.* 04/10/2010 10:06 *Error! Filename not specified.* Subject: *Error! Filename not specified.* Re: z/VM ISFC links *Error! Filename not specified.* Sent by: *Error! Filename not specified.* The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU -- Real CTC link are working between LPARs. I have a 2nd level VM that I dedicated a CTC address to that is also talking to the other LPAR. Now I'm trying to figure out how to define a virtual CTC between CP and the 2nd level VM. CP DEFINE CTC is for a virtual machine. VMA = LPAR VMB = 2nd level VMA guest VMC = LPAR VMA VMC ctc| ?| VMB --+ ctc On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Mark Wheeler mwheele...@hotmail.com wrote: In the Better Late (for John) Than Never department, the Redbook FICON CTC Implementation was published in 2001. Find it at http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp0158.pdf Mark Wheeler UnitedHealth Group -- Excellence. Always. If Not Excellence, What? If Not Excellence Now, When? Tom Peters, author of The Little BIG Things Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:25:24 +0200 From: jphartm...@gmail.com Subject: Re: z/VM ISFC links To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU When I set up
Re: IPL VM/VM Issues
http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/ http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/ On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 4:04 PM, George Henke/NYLIC george_he...@newyorklife.com wrote: Dave, Do you know where I can find the VMARC module? *Dave Jones d...@vsoft-software.com* Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 10/06/2010 03:23 PM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Re: IPL VM/VM Issues George, VMARC files should be uploaded to VM binary mode, recfm F, lrecl 80. To unpack the VMARC file, you'll need the VMARC module. The doc I mentioned is in the VMARC file, as well. Let me know if you have any more problems. On 10/06/2010 02:12 PM, George Henke/NYLIC wrote: Dave, I have downloaded SFB.VMARC. Is this a standard FTP FIXED BIN 1024 upload? I do not see the doc you mentioned. Dave Jones d...@vsoft-software.com Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 10/06/2010 12:16 PM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Re: IPL VM/VM Issues George, have a go at it and let me know what you thinkand please pay close attention to the restrictions and limitations mentioned in the doc file. Have a good one. On 10/06/2010 11:05 AM, George Henke/NYLIC wrote: tyvm, Dave. This is just what I need. Dave Jones d...@vsoft-software.com Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 10/06/2010 12:03 PM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Re: IPL VM/VM Issues I don't want to come across as bragging, but there is the SFB spool file backup/restore utility available now. It's: 1) free 2) backs up and restores SDF file to/from CMS files 3) can handle NSS as well as DCSS, IMG, RDR/PRT/PUN, NLS, SDFs 4) For RDR/PRT/PUN files, it groups all the UR spool files for a specific user into 1 backup file, so you don't have to manipulate each spool file individually. You can restore all of them at once or just specific ones. Yes, there are some caveats, and limitations on the NSS restore option but it seems to work for the majority of NSSs we've tried it against. You can download it from here: http://www.vsoft-software.com/downloads.html It's towards the bottom of the page. If anyone is interested in support for SFB, drop me a note, off-list, please. Thanks and have a good one. DJ On 10/06/2010 10:42 AM, RPN01 wrote: I think this is an issue that needs to be addressed. This is a critical set of files, which z/VM only has tools to back up to tape, and many sites no longer even have tape drives to use to create these tape backups. We no longer have any tape drives, real or virtual, attached to the systems, so SPXTAPE does us absolutely no good. -- Dave Jones V/Soft Software www.vsoft-software.com Houston, TX 281.578.7544 http://www.vsoft-software.com/downloads.html -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
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
Re: SFS - misunderstanding
Yes, I am an administrator for the file pool. On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Frank M. Ramaekers framaek...@ailife.comwrote: 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
Re: Multi Page/Spool Directory Defs
The entries for $PAGE$ $SPOOL$ are place holders so DIRMaint won't accidentally allocate space on these volumes and so that a DIRMap will show the space as used. I would update the $PAGE$ and $SPOOL$ entries to reflect the correct usage. Q ALLOC scans the disk allocation map to determine what is on a disk, it does not look at the USER DIRECT. On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 10:52 AM, George Henke/NYLIC george_he...@newyorklife.com wrote: My Level 1l PAGE and SPOOL disks have only the first volume defined in the Directory. * USER $PAGE$ NOLOG MDISK A03 3390 000 END 540PAG R * USER $SPOOL$ NOLOG MDISK B01 3390 000 END 540SPL R * Yet, Q ALLOC PAGE and SPOOL recognize a second volume for each: q alloc page EXTENT EXTENT TOTAL PAGES HIGH% VOLID RDEV STARTEND PAGES IN USE PAGE USED -- -- -- -- -- -- 540PAG 10BA 1 3338 600840 198644 395999 33% 540PG2 12CD 1 10016 1761K 184565 364318 10% -- -- SUMMARY2347K 383209 15% USABLE 2347K 383209 15% Ready; T=0.01/0.01 10:49:47 q alloc spool EXTENT EXTENT TOTAL PAGES HIGH% VOLID RDEV STARTEND PAGES IN USE PAGE USED -- -- -- -- -- -- 540SPL 106C 1 3338 600840 506931 600840 84% 540SP2 101B 1 3338 600840 597514 600840 99% -- -- SUMMARY1174K 1079K 91% USABLE 1174K 1079K 91% Ready; T=0.01/0.01 10:49:56 Is this how is should be? -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: z/VM ISFC links
Hi, Clovis - Thanks, but I knew how to do that. I've used VCTC between guests for years. What I needed, but apparently is not supported is a VCTC, connecting CP to a virtual machine for ISFC links. On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 12:40 PM, gclo...@br.ibm.com wrote: Now I'm trying to figure out how to define a virtual CTC between CP and the 2nd level VM. Mark, it is easy. On first level, define one Virtual CTC (FCTC, SCTC) into TCPIP (or another capable machine) to connect to second level VM. On second level VM, *define* and *couple* the Virtual CTC to first level TCPIP *before* his IPL (COMMAND into Directory is a good place to set it). After the IPL, DEDICATE the CTC (the second level thinks it is a REAL CTC) to his TCPIP machine. Done, you have the two TCPIPs connected by CTCs... Work fine also for VTAM machines, RSCS, PVM, zOS and so long... __ Clovis Pereira [image: Inactive hide details for Mark Pace ---04/10/2010 10:06:05---Real CTC link are working between LPARs. I have a 2nd level VM tha]Mark Pace ---04/10/2010 10:06:05---Real CTC link are working between LPARs. I have a 2nd level VM that I dedicated a CTC address to tha From: Mark Pace pacemainl...@gmail.com To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Date: 04/10/2010 10:06 Subject: Re: z/VM ISFC links Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU -- Real CTC link are working between LPARs. I have a 2nd level VM that I dedicated a CTC address to that is also talking to the other LPAR. Now I'm trying to figure out how to define a virtual CTC between CP and the 2nd level VM. CP DEFINE CTC is for a virtual machine. VMA = LPAR VMB = 2nd level VMA guest VMC = LPAR VMA VMC ctc| ?| VMB --+ ctc On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Mark Wheeler *mwheele...@hotmail.com*mwheele...@hotmail.com wrote: In the Better Late (for John) Than Never department, the Redbook FICON CTC Implementation was published in 2001. Find it at * http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp0158.pdf*http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp0158.pdf Mark Wheeler UnitedHealth Group -- Excellence. Always. If Not Excellence, What? If Not Excellence Now, When? Tom Peters, author of The Little BIG Things Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:25:24 +0200 From: *jphartm...@gmail.com* jphartm...@gmail.com Subject: Re: z/VM ISFC links To: *ib...@listserv.uark.edu* IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU When I set up something similar in a 6-lpar VM system almost 10 years ago, it took me quite some time to get the CTC defined correctly in the IOCP so that I had n-to-n connectivity. Of course this was in the days of stand-alone IOCP. I hope you have better tools. j. On 30 September 2010 19:00, Mark Pace *pacemainl...@gmail.com*pacemainl...@gmail.com wrote: I see that now. 1st criteria for this test is to share SFS across LPARs. 2nd was to start learning about what will be involved with SSI. So I guess I'm sticking to ISFC. Glad I have extra ESCON and FICON CHPIDs. Guess I'll start with ESCON as I also have extra cables, no extra FICON cables. On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Rob van der Heij * rvdh...@gmail.com* rvdh...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Mark Pace * pacemainl...@gmail.com* pacemainl...@gmail.com wrote: I think I'll also look into IPGATE. But that does not do ISFC ... -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: IPL VM/VM Issues
As long as your L2 system doesn't have the disks attached for your z/OS and Linux guests, they will fail to start, so no issues with corruption. However I would probably use NOAUTOLOG just to be safe. TCPIP will need to be changed, at least the IP address, before starting it up. Defining GRAF and dialing to the guest is the way to go until you modify TCPIP. Not sure what you mean about defining the DASD volumes in the L1 directory. If you are dedicating the devices, then you don't need to specify the volsers. If you are using minidisks (full or partial) then you have to define them for the 2nd level to find them. On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 3:28 PM, George Henke/NYLIC george_he...@newyorklife.com wrote: L2 is a cloned L1 directory except for the volsers in the Directory and CF Parm files which have all been made unique, ie 540 becoming 54X. I plan to ipl as follows: system reset term conmode 3270 set mach esa I 125b clear loadparm 009 START COLD DRAIN To be safe, I suppose I should also add NOAUTO. L1 runs 5 z/OS machines and 3 Linuxes. They could be corrupted at L1 if I tried to bring them up in L2 at the same time without GRS, MIM, or some other serialization product. I doubt TCPIP will work at L2 without some reconfiguring. So I should define some GRAFs and dial them. Not sure if my L2 entry in the L1 Directory needs 54XRES, 54XPAG, 54XSPL, 54XW01, 54XW02 or whether I can just specify the IPL vplume, 54XRES, and CP finds the rest from the Parm disk. -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: z/VM ISFC links
Real CTC link are working between LPARs. I have a 2nd level VM that I dedicated a CTC address to that is also talking to the other LPAR. Now I'm trying to figure out how to define a virtual CTC between CP and the 2nd level VM. CP DEFINE CTC is for a virtual machine. VMA = LPAR VMB = 2nd level VMA guest VMC = LPAR VMA VMC ctc| ?| VMB --+ ctc On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Mark Wheeler mwheele...@hotmail.comwrote: In the Better Late (for John) Than Never department, the Redbook FICON CTC Implementation was published in 2001. Find it at http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp0158.pdf Mark Wheeler UnitedHealth Group -- Excellence. Always. If Not Excellence, What? If Not Excellence Now, When? Tom Peters, author of The Little BIG Things Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:25:24 +0200 From: jphartm...@gmail.com Subject: Re: z/VM ISFC links To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU When I set up something similar in a 6-lpar VM system almost 10 years ago, it took me quite some time to get the CTC defined correctly in the IOCP so that I had n-to-n connectivity. Of course this was in the days of stand-alone IOCP. I hope you have better tools. j. On 30 September 2010 19:00, Mark Pace pacemainl...@gmail.com wrote: I see that now. 1st criteria for this test is to share SFS across LPARs. 2nd was to start learning about what will be involved with SSI. So I guess I'm sticking to ISFC. Glad I have extra ESCON and FICON CHPIDs. Guess I'll start with ESCON as I also have extra cables, no extra FICON cables. On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Rob van der Heij rvdh...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Mark Pace pacemainl...@gmail.com wrote: I think I'll also look into IPGATE. But that does not do ISFC ... -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
z/VM ISFC links
From the connectivity manual - *VM domain controllers must use channel-to-channel (CTC) links to be attached to* *other VM domain controllers in the CS collection. The VM domain controllers may* *be running ISFC or VM PWSCF to participate in the CS collection.* Are these links ESCON CTC or FICON CTC - or does it matter? Why doesn't ISFC take advantage of Hipersockets? You've got this high speed network built in to System Z, seems odd that I have to use old fashioned hardware connections. -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: z/VM ISFC links
Ah! Us single CEC guys always forget about that! I think I'll also look into IPGATE. On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.comwrote: On Thursday, 09/30/2010 at 11:23 EDT, Mark Pace pacemainl...@gmail.com wrote: From the connectivity manual - VM domain controllers must use channel-to-channel (CTC) links to be attached to other VM domain controllers in the CS collection. The VM domain controllers may be running ISFC or VM PWSCF to participate in the CS collection. Are these links ESCON CTC or FICON CTC - or does it matter? It doesn't mater. Why doesn't ISFC take advantage of Hipersockets? You've got this high speed network built in to System Z, seems odd that I have to use old fashioned hardware connections. Because that wouldn't let you connect two CECs, and you already have FICON/ESCON infrastructure. 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 -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: z/VM ISFC links
I see that now. 1st criteria for this test is to share SFS across LPARs. 2nd was to start learning about what will be involved with SSI. So I guess I'm sticking to ISFC. Glad I have extra ESCON and FICON CHPIDs. Guess I'll start with ESCON as I also have extra cables, no extra FICON cables. On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Rob van der Heij rvdh...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Mark Pace pacemainl...@gmail.com wrote: I think I'll also look into IPGATE. But that does not do ISFC ... -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: z/VM ISFC links
I tossed VTAM to the curb many years ago. I don't want to go back. On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Mark Wheeler mwheele...@hotmail.comwrote: Mark, You could also (shudder) use AVS to access SFS on remote systems, assuming you have VTAM. Nowhere near as easy to set up as ISFC, not to mention performance (if that's a concern). Set up a CS Collection with ISFC. You won't regret it. Mark Wheeler UnitedHealth Group -- Excellence. Always. If Not Excellence, What? If Not Excellence Now, When? Tom Peters, author of The Little BIG Things -- Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:00:48 -0400 From: pacemainl...@gmail.com Subject: Re: z/VM ISFC links To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU I see that now. 1st criteria for this test is to share SFS across LPARs. 2nd was to start learning about what will be involved with SSI. So I guess I'm sticking to ISFC. Glad I have extra ESCON and FICON CHPIDs. Guess I'll start with ESCON as I also have extra cables, no extra FICON cables. On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Rob van der Heij rvdh...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Mark Pace pacemainl...@gmail.com wrote: I think I'll also look into IPGATE. But that does not do ISFC ... -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: z/VM ISFC links
HCD in z/OS. I've done a lot of CTC setup in the past. So this was easy. The connection part was painless. Define the CTCs, vary online and do an ACTIVATE ISLINK ccuu So now the difficult part most be defining the resources. On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 1:25 PM, John P. Hartmann jphartm...@gmail.comwrote: When I set up something similar in a 6-lpar VM system almost 10 years ago, it took me quite some time to get the CTC defined correctly in the IOCP so that I had n-to-n connectivity. Of course this was in the days of stand-alone IOCP.* I hope you have better tools.* j. On 30 September 2010 19:00, Mark Pace pacemainl...@gmail.com wrote: I see that now. 1st criteria for this test is to share SFS across LPARs. 2nd was to start learning about what will be involved with SSI. So I guess I'm sticking to ISFC. Glad I have extra ESCON and FICON CHPIDs. Guess I'll start with ESCON as I also have extra cables, no extra FICON cables. On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Rob van der Heij rvdh...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Mark Pace pacemainl...@gmail.com wrote: I think I'll also look into IPGATE. But that does not do ISFC ... -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: RMS Errors
In the USER DIRECT STDEVOPT LIBRARY CTL On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 1:17 PM, KEETON Dave * SDC dave.kee...@state.or.uswrote: I wanted to post this to the list before opening an ETR with IBM. I have a 2nd-level 5.4 system I'm trying to set with DFSMS/VM's RMS component to talk to a virtual tape library. The drives are DEDICATED through the USER DIRECT entry. The system can SEE the drives as Tape drives when the devices are queried, but when RMS starts, it fails with the following errors: DMSACP723I D (192) R/O DMSACC724I 192 replaces D (192) DMSACP723I D (192) R/O 10:12:01 * MSG FROM RMSMASTR: DFSMS IS STARTING Name EntryUserword Origin Bytes Amode (Attributes) FSMDFSMS 01DDF988 01D88000 001A3368 31 PIPE 01803712 01F665A0 01803712 31 PIPMOD0180 01F665A0 0180 0008F960 31 SYSTEM SERVICE IMMCMD DMSRTPRC 0179D9A0 0179D9A0 00040340 31 SYSTEM PERM DMSRTMSG 017DDCE0 017DDCE0 0610 31 SYSTEM PERM NAMEFSYS 011D9460 01F61E58 011D9460 31 SYSTEM SERVICE NAMEFIND 011D9460 01FCE3A8 011D9460 31 SYSTEM SERVICE NAMEFUSE 011D9460 01F60E58 011D9460 31 SYSTEM SERVICE RXSOCKET 01897568 018973B8 00012A60 31 SYSTEM SERVICE DMSWRS015FC218 015FC218 3BD8 31 SYSTEM FSMBBV3053I All DFSMS local APPC/VM resources initialized FSMRMBLC== Diag 254 is available TAPE 40CE ATTACHED TO RMSMASTR 40CE FSMBAC2006E Library I/O error; reason code = 3800, request identifier = 0, devic e = 40CE, library = FSMBAC2019E Sense Data = C040802700201000B3204000CE1F062 0F6290E00 TAPE 40CE DETACHED BY RMSMASTR TAPE 40CF ATTACHED TO RMSMASTR 40CF FSMBBD2241W Device 40CE could not be initialized FSMBAC2006E Library I/O error; reason code = 3800, request identifier = 0, devic e = 40CF, library = FSMBAC2019E Sense Data = C040802700201000B3204000CE1F062 0F6290F00 TAPE 40CF DETACHED BY RMSMASTR FSMBBD2241W Device 40CF could not be initialized FSMSMS3203I RMSMASTR is running When I look up the error FSMBAC2006E I don't find a lot of help. :-( The RMCONFIG DATA file contains the two drive addresses, 40CE 40CF. The DGTVCNTL DATA file contains the RM_AUTO_LIBRARY value it should to find the VTS. Any suggestions? Thanks, Dave -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: Question about DFSMS/VM - RMS
That's a pretty broad request. There are DFSMSRM commands to mount tapes. You might user VM Tape Manager in conjunction with DFSMS/RMM to get a complete solution to managing volumes in the library. On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Sergio Lima sergiovm...@hotmail.comwrote: Hello List, We are running here : z/VM Version 5 Release 4.0, service level 0903 (64-bit) , ant We have a new mission here, that is deploy the RMS (Removable media services). We already look some documentation, and don't k now the better way to start this. Our hardware machine is a 3494, and We need understand how work the Tape Library, mount, and other thinks. Can someone please give the direction? Thanks and Best Regards, Sergio Lima Costa Sao Paulo - Brazil -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: Question about DFSMS/VM - RMS
Yes - From IBM Tape Manager for z/VM 5697-J08 On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Sergio Lima sergiovm...@hotmail.comwrote: Hello Mark, The VM Tape Manager is a product? Thanks, Sergio -- Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 13:36:51 -0400 From: pacemainl...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Question about DFSMS/VM - RMS To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU That's a pretty broad request. There are DFSMSRM commands to mount tapes. You might user VM Tape Manager in conjunction with DFSMS/RMM to get a complete solution to managing volumes in the library. On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Sergio Lima sergiovm...@hotmail.comwrote: Hello List, We are running here : z/VM Version 5 Release 4.0, service level 0903 (64-bit) , ant We have a new mission here, that is deploy the RMS (Removable media services). We already look some documentation, and don't k now the better way to start this. Our hardware machine is a 3494, and We need understand how work the Tape Library, mount, and other thinks. Can someone please give the direction? Thanks and Best Regards, Sergio Lima Costa Sao Paulo - Brazil -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Listfile
Does LISTFILE have a default sort order? The help file doesn't mention in what sequence files are listed. -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: Listfile
It had appeared that it was alpha / numeric, but then I would get an odd one at the end. Thanks for confirming that there is not a true sequence. I'll just run the LISTFILE through a PIPE and sort it how I want it. Thanks, Mike. On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Michael Harding mhard...@us.ibm.comwrote: It does not. Any apparent order is an artifact of how it accesses in-storage directories. For RO minidisks they'll be ordered since their directories are, but for R/W minidisks files written since the disks were accessed may appear out of sequence. -- Mike Harding z/VM System Support mhard...@us.ibm.com mike.b.hard...@kp.org mikehard...@mindless.com (925) 926-3179 (w) (925) 323-2070 (c) IM: VMBearDad (AIM), mbhcpcvt (Y!) The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU wrote on 09/21/2010 10:02:47 AM: From: Scott Rohling scott.rohl...@gmail.com To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Date: 09/21/2010 10:03 AM Subject: Re: Listfile Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU As far as I know - it's alphabetical (A-Z,0-9). Scott Rohling On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Mark Pace pacemainl...@gmail.com wrote: Does LISTFILE have a default sort order? The help file doesn't mention in what sequence files are listed. -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: VSM - TCPIP
AMEN. My father is retired IBMer and we moved a lot. My stint with IBM was to short to have been moved. On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Jim Bohnsack jab...@cornell.edu wrote: IBM-I've Been Moved---even if not relocated. Jim On 9/15/2010 9:28 PM, Chip Davis wrote: And I guess Scott has the honor of the last IBMVM problem solved by Alan as a developer... :-/ I hope Alan enjoys the deeper, more direct experience he's going to have with us. If it weren't for all the traveling... -Chip- -- James Bohnsack (972) 596-6377 home/office (972) 342-5823 cell -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: CP unresponsive on certain guests
Depending on your workload, that is not very much paging space at all. Is it enough to back up all the defined virtual storage? On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Daniel Tate daniel.t...@gmail.com wrote: EXTENT EXTENT TOTAL PAGES HIGH% VOLID RDEV STARTEND PAGES IN USE PAGE USED -- -- -- -- -- -- VM6PG1 9F86 1 10016 1761K 1175K 1761K 66% VM6PG2 9F87 0 0180180180 100% -- -- SUMMARY1761K 1175K 66% USABLE 1761K 1175K 66% Ready; T=0.01/0.01 11:56:46 On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Mike At HammockTree m...@hammocktree.us wrote: (I use MAINT too much..) If your SRM STORBUFF values are as you say, then STORBUFF is unlikely to be causing the problem, although still possible. The next time the problem occurs, do the CP IND and check for an Eligible list. If the E3 numbers are non-zero, then try raising the STORBUFF values further, as Davd suggested (300% 300% 300%). Mike - Original Message - From: Daniel Tate daniel.t...@gmail.com To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 11:42 AM Subject: Re: CP unresponsive on certain guests CP Q ALLOC PAGE gives me invalid option - alloc. I didnt set the SRM variables; the consultant who initially came in to set this up might have. On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Mike At HammockTree m...@hammocktree.us wrote: Yeah, that is probably where he needs to end up Dave, but I'm a little hesitant to recommend the 300% for Q3 without feeling more comfortable about his paging subsystem... Moving a couple of large guests from the E-list to in-Q could cause a increase in paging that he may or may not be configured to handle. Mike - Original Message - From: Dave Jones d...@vsoft-software.com To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 11:08 AM Subject: Re: CP unresponsive on certain guests Actually, Mike, he may be better off (a bit, at least) by setting STORBUFF 300 300 300. On 09/16/2010 09:58 AM, Mike At HammockTree wrote: Since the STORBUF setting is exactly the values I suggested, I suspect you applied the SET SRM STORBUFF 300% 250% 200% prior to doing the Q SRM With the current setting for STORBUFF, are you still experiencing the problem? Also, on a related note, what does your zVM paging system look like? The output of CP Q ALLOC PAGE will provide the information Mike - Original Message - From: Daniel Tate daniel.t...@gmail.com To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 10:52 AM Subject: Re: CP unresponsive on certain guests Output of Q SRM q srm IABIAS : INTENSITY=90%; DURATION=2 LDUBUF : Q1=100% Q2=75% Q3=60% STORBUF: Q1=300% Q2=250% Q3=200% DSPBUF : Q1=32767 Q2=32767 Q3=32767 DISPATCHING MINOR TIMESLICE = 5 MS MAXWSS : LIMIT=% .. : PAGES=99 XSTORE : 0% Ready; T=0.01/0.01 09:49:05 On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Dave Jones d...@vsoft-software.com wrote: Hi, Daniel. The answer to your first question is to use the CP FORCE command (HELP CP FORCE will tell you all about it.) The VM user id issuing the FORCE command needs to have privilege class A as well. Usually this is done from either MAINT or OPERATOR. The answer to your second question is a bit more difficult, I'm afraid. As Marcy has already suggested, what does a Q SRM command show? My first guess would be that your SLES11 guest is falling into Q3 and never given an opportunity to run. To find out *why* the guest is not able to run, you need the services of a good z/VM performance monitor.IBM offers the Performance Monitor (it comes bundles with z/VM, but it's an extra cost offering) and Velocity Software (http://www.velocity-software.com/) has a very good suite of products as well. IMHO it' practically impossible to run a modern production grade z/VM-zLinux system without a good performance monitor to help solve issues like the one your having now. On 09/15/2010 05:14 PM, Daniel Tate wrote: We're starting to run apps on the servers now. From time to time a guest will become unresponsive - to be more precise, ,the CP will not respond to commands, and neither will the guest OS (SLES11). not even #CP LOGOFF is acknowledged. from another login, CP INDIIC LOAD shows no appreciable load. Two questions from this: 1) how would I force a logoff of a user from another user? Is this possible? 2) if we are not paging and the IFLs are not loaded (2-3% utilization as a matter of fact) what could the bottleneck be? -- Dave Jones V/Soft Software www.vsoft-software.com Houston, TX 281.578.7544
Re: FTP PUT
put profile.exec 'mvsfile' FTP defaults to the A disk unless you cd to another mdisk. On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Aisik Chang a829...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, listers, I has been long time for FPT PUT to create a pds member, What's the syntext for that on VM; put profile.exec.a 'mvstest.test.ftped' STOR 'mvstest.test.ftped' 550 MVSTEST.TEST.FTPED is a partitioned data set and no member was specified on the STOR command. Thanks for your help, Ann -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
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.comwrote: 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
Re: Second TCPIP MDISK 191 Format
Has the minidisk been formatted? On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Lesseg, Jon jon.les...@pacificorp.comwrote: I’m creating a second TCPIP machine and am having trouble accessing the 191 mdisk to format it from MAINT. My USER DISKMAP is updated and active: TCPIPV 191 3390 08222 08226 5 I’m able to link to it using: LINK TCPIPV 191 291 SR, but the access command returns: access 291 r DMSACP112S R(291) device error What am I missing here? 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. == -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
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.comwrote: 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
ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/common/ssi/ecm/en/tsd00063usen/TSD00063USEN.PDF ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/common/ssi/ecm/en/tsd00063usen/TSD00063USEN.PDFThe 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: VSWITCH defined VSE TCP/IP fails
A couple of things On the DEFINE VSWITCH you only need to specify the 1st address of the triplet. On the NICDEF add LAN SYSTEM switchNameand it will be coupled automatically when you logon. example NICDEF 061C TYPE QDIO DEVICES 3 LAN SYSTEM VSWTCH3 OR SPECIAL 061C QDIO 3 SYSTEM VSWTCH3 On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Frank M. Ramaekers framaek...@ailife.comwrote: No problem. Originally, I had on z/VSE machine with 3 addresses used for TCP/IP. I wished to move this to a layer-3 VSWITCH for redundancy purposes. (Much of the following was derived from the IBM Redbook “Linux on IBM eserver zSeries and S/390: VSWITCH and VLAN Features of z/VM 4.4”) 1) Define the VSWITCH *a. **define vswitch vswitchname rdev ccuu1 ccuu2 ccuu3* b. –and- add the same statement to ‘SYSTEM CONFIG’ file (Remember ccuu1 ccuu2 ccuu3 represent a set of 3 address to be used) 2) Granting access to the VSWITCH *a. **set vswitch vswitchname grant userid* b. –and- add *Modify VSwitch vswitchname GRAnt userid* to ‘SYSTEM CONFIG’ c. – or – add the *set vswitch* command in the AUTOLOG1 startup 3) Defining the simulated NICs a. *for userid cmd define nic ccuu4 qdio* b. –and- add to the directory for *userid*: NICDEF *ccuu4* TYPE QDIO DEVICES 3 (a above can be skipped, but the userid would have to be logged off then on) 4) Attaching the simulated NIC with *couple ccuu4 to system vswitchname *(This will need to be performed each time the virtual machine is logged on.) (Don’t think I missed anything) Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. -- *From:* The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] *On Behalf Of *Billy Bingham *Sent:* Tuesday, August 31, 2010 7:51 AM *To:* IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU *Subject:* Re: VSWITCH defined VSE TCP/IP fails Frank, Would you be willing to share the steps you used to create the VSWITCH? Thanks, Billy On 30 Aug 2010 at 8:11, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: Thanks, that helpsthe difference between an upCOUPLEd and a COUPLEd VSWITCH: UnCOUPLEd: AR 0015 MAC: 02-00-01-00-00-0E LAN: * NoneMFS: 8992 COUPLEd (and not yet initialized): AR 0015 MAC: 02-00-01-00-00-0E VSWITCH: SYSTEM VSWAILT ...and initialized: * cp q v nic aa0 details AR 0015 Adapter 0AA0.P00 Type: QDIO Name: UNASSIGNED Devices: 3 AR 0015 MAC: 02-00-01-00-00-0E VSWITCH: SYSTEM VSWAILT AR 0015 RX Packets: 49 Discarded: 0 Errors: 0 AR 0015 TX Packets: 42 Discarded: 0 Errors: 0 AR 0015 RX Bytes: 2450 TX Bytes: 2884 AR 0015 Connection Name: Session Established AR 0015 Device: 0AA0 Unit: 000 Role: CTL- READ AR 0015 Device: 0AA1 Unit: 001 Role: CTL- WRITE AR 0015 Device: 0AA2 Unit: 002 Role: DATAvPort: 0065 Index: 0065 AR 0015 Options: IPv4 AR 0015 Unicast IP Addresses: AR 0015 10.1.20.2MAC: 02-00-01-00-00- 0E AR 0015 1I40I READY Thanks Alan! Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 3:33 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: VSWITCH defined VSE TCP/IP fails On Friday, 08/27/2010 at 04:28 EDT, Frank M. Ramaekers framaek...@ailife.com wrote: * cp q v nic aa0 details AR 0015 Adapter 0AA0.P00 Type: QDIOName: UNASSIGNED Devices: 3 AR 0015 MAC: 02-00-01-00-00-0ELAN: * None And there you have it. The adapter is not COUPLED, as indicated by the * None. An uncoupled NIC is the equivalent of an unplugged ethernet cable. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott _ 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. _ 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
Re: VSWITCH defined VSE TCP/IP fails
Learned something today - I didn't realize there could be 2 backup triplets. Sorry for raising the SNR! ;-) On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.comwrote: On Tuesday, 08/31/2010 at 10:11 EDT, Mark Pace pacemainl...@gmail.com wrote: A couple of things On the DEFINE VSWITCH you only need to specify the 1st address of the triplet. That's not a triplet. It's a specification of a primary and two backup OSA triplets. E.g. RDEV 1E00 1F00 2000. On the NICDEF add LAN SYSTEM switchNameand it will be coupled automatically when you logon. example NICDEF 061C TYPE QDIO DEVICES 3 LAN SYSTEM VSWTCH3 OR SPECIAL 061C QDIO 3 SYSTEM VSWTCH3 Please use NICDEF instead of SPECIAL. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: VSWITCH defined VSE TCP/IP fails
When did VSE pick up layer 2 support? On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.comwrote: On Tuesday, 08/31/2010 at 10:32 EDT, Billy Bingham billy.bingham...@suddenlink.net wrote: What makes this a Layer-3 VSWITCH vs a Layer-2? If the VSWITCH is defined with the ETHERNET option, it is layer 2. If you let it default to (or specify) the IP option, it is layer 3. Only z/OS is limited to layer 3. Everyone else (with current software) can use layer 2. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: VSWITCH defined VSE TCP/IP fails
DEFINE VSWITCH VSWTCH1 RDEV 0600 CONTR * *ETH*-* Layer 2 * Define VSWITCH VSWTCH3 RDEV 0604 CONTR ** IP* -*Layer 3* On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Billy Bingham billy.bingham...@suddenlink.net wrote: What makes this a Layer-3 VSWITCH vs a Layer-2? Thanks, Billy On 31 Aug 2010 at 9:04, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: No problem. Originally, I had on z/VSE machine with 3 addresses used for TCP/IP. I wished to move this to a layer-3 VSWITCH for redundancy purposes. (Much of the following was derived from the IBM Redbook “Linux on IBM eserver zSeries and S/390: VSWITCH and VLAN Features of z/VM 4.4”) 1)Define the VSWITCH a.define vswitch vswitchname rdev ccuu1 ccuu2 ccuu3 b.–and- add the same statement to ‘SYSTEM CONFIG’file (Remember ccuu1 ccuu2 ccuu3 represent a set of 3 address to be used) 2)Granting access to the VSWITCH a.set vswitch vswitchname grant userid b.–and- add Modify VSwitch vswitchnameGRAnt userid to ‘SYSTEM CONFIG’ c.– or – add the set vswitch command in the AUTOLOG1 startup 3)Defining the simulated NICs a.for userid cmd define nic ccuu4 qdio b.–and- add to the directory for userid: NICDEF ccuu4 TYPE QDIO DEVICES 3 (a above can be skipped, but the userid would have to be logged off then on) 4)Attaching the simulated NIC with couple ccuu4 to system vswitchname (This will need to be performed each time the virtual machine is logged on.) (Don’t think I missed anything) Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Billy Bingham Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 7:51 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: VSWITCH defined VSE TCP/IP fails Frank, Would you be willing to share the steps you used to create the VSWITCH? Thanks, Billy On 30 Aug 2010 at 8:11, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: Thanks, that helpsthe difference between an upCOUPLEd and a COUPLEd VSWITCH: UnCOUPLEd: AR 0015 MAC: 02-00-01-00-00-0E LAN: * NoneMFS: 8992 COUPLEd (and not yet initialized): AR 0015 MAC: 02-00-01-00-00-0E VSWITCH: SYSTEM VSWAILT ...and initialized: * cp q v nic aa0 details AR 0015 Adapter 0AA0.P00 Type: QDIO Name: UNASSIGNED Devices: 3 AR 0015 MAC: 02-00-01-00-00-0E VSWITCH: SYSTEM VSWAILT AR 0015 RX Packets: 49 Discarded: 0 Errors: 0 AR 0015 TX Packets: 42 Discarded: 0 Errors: 0 AR 0015 RX Bytes: 2450 TX Bytes: 2884 AR 0015 Connection Name: Session Established AR 0015 Device: 0AA0 Unit: 000 Role: CTL- READ AR 0015 Device: 0AA1 Unit: 001 Role: CTL- WRITE AR 0015 Device: 0AA2 Unit: 002 Role: DATAvPort: 0065 Index: 0065 AR 0015 Options: IPv4 AR 0015 Unicast IP Addresses: AR 0015 10.1.20.2MAC: 02-00-01-00-00- 0E AR 0015 1I40I READY Thanks Alan! Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 3:33 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: VSWITCH defined VSE TCP/IP fails On Friday, 08/27/2010 at 04:28 EDT, Frank M. Ramaekers framaek...@ailife.com wrote: * cp q v nic aa0 details AR 0015 Adapter 0AA0.P00 Type: QDIOName: UNASSIGNED Devices: 3 AR 0015 MAC: 02-00-01-00-00-0ELAN: * None And there you have it. The adapter is not COUPLED, as indicated by the * None. An uncoupled NIC is the equivalent of an unplugged ethernet cable. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott _ 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. _ 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
Re: Defining VSWITCH difficulties
No it's not. I share my OSA with z/OS. z/OS needs a portname, z/VM does not. On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Sterling James ssja...@dstsystems.comwrote: It is needed if you share an OSA port with zOS. From: Mike Walter mike.wal...@hewitt.com To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Date: 08/27/2010 01:46 PM Subject: Re: Defining VSWITCH difficulties Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU -- Um, uh... then why not simply remove the PORT argument from the z/VM manuals and from the command syntax itself - issuing an error message (unsupported operand) when it is specified? I'll submit an RCF if it will help with that part. :-) That would not help the issue with Linux guests, but there would be one less bullet in the chamber, no? Respectfully, Mike Walter Hewitt Associates The opinions expressed herein are mine alone, not my employer's. *Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com* Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 08/27/2010 01:38 PM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Re: Defining VSWITCH difficulties On Friday, 08/27/2010 at 12:26 EDT, George Henke/NYLIC george_he...@newyorklife.com wrote: 09:26:39 DTCOSD310E VSWITCH-OSD device VSWAILT181DDEV: Missing or incorrect required port name 09:26:39 DTCOSD082E VSWITCH-OSD shutting down: The VSWITCH expects, requires a port name for 181D. Either the Portname or the Port number which defaulted to P0 is wrong. You can specify port number as 181d.Px You may want to try a QUERY VSWITCH RDEV 181D for more information. I've been harping on this since port names became optional in October 2003 (7 years ago!): DO NOT SPECIFY A PORT *NAME* in Linux or z/VM IP or VSWITCH configurations! Yes, they are required in z/OS, but that's a z/OS Comm Server issue. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott -- 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. - Please consider the environment before printing this email and any attachments. This e-mail and any attachments are intended only for the individual or company to which it is addressed and may contain information which is privileged, confidential and prohibited from disclosure or unauthorized use under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, or copying of this e-mail or the information contained in this e-mail is strictly prohibited by the sender. If you have received this transmission in error, please return the material received to the sender and delete all copies from your system. -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: VSWITCH defined VSE TCP/IP fails
Is it a layer 2 or 3 vswitch? VSE and z/OS only support layer3. :( On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Frank M. Ramaekers framaek...@ailife.comwrote: The VSWITCH seems to be defined just fine and the NICDEF added to the directory of the z/VSE. From z/VSE: * cp q v aa0-aa2 AR 0015 OSA 0AA0 ON NIC 0AA0 UNIT 000 SUBCHANNEL = 003A AR 0015 0AA0 DEVTYPE OSA CHPID 03 OSD AR 0015 0AA0 MAC 02-00-01-00-00-0E CURRENT AR 0015 0AA0 QDIO-ELIGIBLE QIOASSIST-ELIGIBLE AR 0015 OSA 0AA1 ON NIC 0AA0 UNIT 001 SUBCHANNEL = 003B AR 0015 0AA1 DEVTYPE OSA CHPID 03 OSD AR 0015 0AA1 QDIO-ELIGIBLE QIOASSIST-ELIGIBLE AR 0015 OSA 0AA2 ON NIC 0AA0 UNIT 002 SUBCHANNEL = 003C AR 0015 0AA2 DEVTYPE OSA CHPID 03 OSD AR 0015 0AA2 QDIO-ELIGIBLE QIOASSIST-ELIGIBLE But when the CSI TCP/IP stack tries to initialize, it receives: G1 0484 0S39I ERROR DURING OSA EXPRESS PROCESSING,REASON=0035 CUU=0AA0,RETCODE=E080 G1 0487 0003: IPL605E Unable to Initialize IJBOSA, return code: 122 G1 0487 0003: IPL609E Unable to initialize OSA Express, Link: AILLAN0 G1 0487 0004: IPL491I OSA-X link AILHIS0 started as 10.1.20.2 G1 0487 0005: IPL491I OSA-X link AILVSW0 started as 192.168.199.2 (The AILVSW0 is a previous defined VSWITCH that is internal only to communicate between VMs. And this has been working for quite some time now.) There is nothing notable on the DTCVSWn consoles. The error message description is less than hepful: *REASON = X’0035’ *The Startlan function failed. This is most likely indicated by RETCODE=E080. Thoughts? 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. -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: VSWITCH defined VSE TCP/IP fails
Did you Grant access to the vswitch? On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Frank M. Ramaekers framaek...@ailife.comwrote: Layer 3. Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. -- *From:* The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] *On Behalf Of *Mark Pace *Sent:* Friday, August 27, 2010 2:29 PM *To:* IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU *Subject:* Re: VSWITCH defined VSE TCP/IP fails Is it a layer 2 or 3 vswitch? VSE and z/OS only support layer3. :( On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Frank M. Ramaekers framaek...@ailife.com wrote: The VSWITCH seems to be defined just fine and the NICDEF added to the directory of the z/VSE. From z/VSE: * cp q v aa0-aa2 AR 0015 OSA 0AA0 ON NIC 0AA0 UNIT 000 SUBCHANNEL = 003A AR 0015 0AA0 DEVTYPE OSA CHPID 03 OSD AR 0015 0AA0 MAC 02-00-01-00-00-0E CURRENT AR 0015 0AA0 QDIO-ELIGIBLE QIOASSIST-ELIGIBLE AR 0015 OSA 0AA1 ON NIC 0AA0 UNIT 001 SUBCHANNEL = 003B AR 0015 0AA1 DEVTYPE OSA CHPID 03 OSD AR 0015 0AA1 QDIO-ELIGIBLE QIOASSIST-ELIGIBLE AR 0015 OSA 0AA2 ON NIC 0AA0 UNIT 002 SUBCHANNEL = 003C AR 0015 0AA2 DEVTYPE OSA CHPID 03 OSD AR 0015 0AA2 QDIO-ELIGIBLE QIOASSIST-ELIGIBLE But when the CSI TCP/IP stack tries to initialize, it receives: G1 0484 0S39I ERROR DURING OSA EXPRESS PROCESSING,REASON=0035 CUU=0AA0,RETCODE=E080 G1 0487 0003: IPL605E Unable to Initialize IJBOSA, return code: 122 G1 0487 0003: IPL609E Unable to initialize OSA Express, Link: AILLAN0 G1 0487 0004: IPL491I OSA-X link AILHIS0 started as 10.1.20.2 G1 0487 0005: IPL491I OSA-X link AILVSW0 started as 192.168.199.2 (The AILVSW0 is a previous defined VSWITCH that is internal only to communicate between VMs. And this has been working for quite some time now.) There is nothing notable on the DTCVSWn consoles. The error message description is less than hepful: *REASON = X’0035’ *The Startlan function failed. This is most likely indicated by RETCODE=E080. Thoughts? 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. -- 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
Re: z/VM 5.4 or 6.1 on new z10
Here, Here!! On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.comwrote: On Thursday, 08/26/2010 at 11:49 EDT, Horlick, Michael michael.horl...@cgi.com wrote: We are currently running z/VM 5.2 and have z/VM 5.4 under test in a second level machine. We are pretty stable in our environment. There is a possibility within a year or so that we will be getting a z10. Should we go to 5.4 or 6.1? Are they any advantages in waiting for the new box and installing 6.1 on it (bypassing 5.4)? If you wait, then you will be upgrading software and hardware at the same time. It's generally preferable to change only one of those at a time. Since z/VM 5.4 supports z10, I suggest you upgrade your existing machine to 5.4 and then slide your z10 in underneath later. THEN you can move up to 6.1 at your convenience with no loss of support. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
CMS file date
Can I manipulate the date of a CMS file? I want to test a program that deletes files older than a certain date. In linux I can use *touch* to set the date to whatever I choose. -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: CMS file date
Thanks everyone. I was not expecting complete code. The pointer to DMSPLU is all I expected. On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Fran Hensler f...@zvm.sru.edu wrote: I use DMSPLU which comes with CMS but I don't think it is documented. DMSPLU fn ft fm mm/dd/yy HH:MM:SS /Fran Hensler at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania USA for 47 years mailto:f...@zvm.sru.edu http://zvm.sru.edu/~fjh +1.724.738.2153 Yes, Virginia, there is a Slippery Rock -- On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:14:14 -0400 Mark Pace said: Can I manipulate the date of a CMS file? I want to test a program that deletes files older than a certain date. In linux I can use *touch* to set the date to whatever I choose. -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: SAMBA: memory problem
Mark's question was WHY are you building from source? Why not use the pre-built code that came with your distribution? On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Alain Benveniste a.benveni...@free.frwrote: I have downloaded the tar from the samba site and i am basically following the install procedure where it is said that if you come from a tar, bypass step 1, execute step 2. That's my case... Am I wrong ? Here is the howto file: Step 1: download Samba4 --- If you have downloaded the Samba4 code via a tarball released from the samba.org website, Step 1 has already been completed for you. For testing with the version released in the tarball, you may continue on to Step 2. Note that the references below to the top-level directory named samba4 will instead be based on the name of the tarball downloaded (e.g. samba-4.0.0alpha3 for the tarball samba-4.0.0alpha3.tar.gz). There are 2 methods of doing this: method 1: rsync -avz samba.org::ftp/unpacked/samba_4_0_test/ samba4 method 2: git clone git://git.samba.org/samba.git samba4; cd samba4 git checkout -b v4-0-test origin/v4-0-test; cd .. both methods will create a directory called samba4 in the current directory. If you don't have rsync or git then install one of them. Since only released versions of Samba contain a pregenerated configure script, you will have to generate it by hand:: $ cd samba4/source $ ./autogen.sh Note that the above rsync command will give you a checked out git repository. So if you also have git you can update it to the latest version at some future date using:: $ cd samba4 $ git pull origin v4-0-test Step 2: compile Samba4 -- Recommended optional development libraries: - acl and xattr development libraries - gnutls - readline Run this:: $ cd samba4/source $ ./configure $ make Step 3: install Samba4 -- Run this as a user who have permission to write to the install directory (defaults to /usr/local/samba). Use --prefix option to configure above to change this. :: # make install Alain Le 17 août 2010 à 22:20, Mark Post a écrit : On 8/17/2010 at 04:04 PM, Alain Benveniste a.benveni...@free.fr wrote: I took a look in the archive and SAMBA topics seem very old... There is a link on the IBM site with nothing behind... I would like to know if someone realized a complete install of Samba or if it is imply impossible... I am in the step where I have to execute the ./configure but I This tells me you're trying to build Samba from source, not install it. Do you really want to do that? If so, why not use the version shipped with your distribution? Mark Post -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: CMS file date
Understood. Thanks. On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Les Koehler vmr...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Watch out! The date of a file is the date it was last written, *not* accessed! There's an old, old, story of the MHV IBM manager that wanted to save (then) expensive disk space, so he ordered that all CMS systems with files older than some dd/mm/yy be erased from *all* disks by Operations Staff. In less than four hours almost everyone on the internal network had a copy of Martie's FIXDATE and it's default operation was to use today's date! Rumor had it that some beginner Sysprog wiped out irrecoverable documentation of an important corporate project that was 5 years old and had been set aside due to other priorities. Les Mark Pace wrote: Can I manipulate the date of a CMS file? I want to test a program that deletes files older than a certain date. In linux I can use *touch* to set the date to whatever I choose. -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: DR Backup using DFDSS
If you are going to DDR, or DFDSS for that matter, the linux should be down. If you take a DDR dump while the guest is still up and running your restore has a good chance of not running. On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Frank M. Ramaekers framaek...@ailife.comwrote: I don’t know if a different product is what you have in mind. We use FDR (Innovation) to back up z/OS, z/VSE, z/VM and z/Linux DASD. Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. -- *From:* The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] *On Behalf Of *Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) *Sent:* Thursday, August 12, 2010 9:44 AM *To:* IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU *Subject:* DR Backup using DFDSS Hi I have a dilemma. All of my z/Linux DASD volumes are formatted for a VTOC on cylinder zero so that I can leverage the z/OS DFDSS backups of these volumes. No problem, however I am getting this one guest ready for DR and as such running DFDSS on z/OS to accomplish this. This particular guest has 2 volumes that do not have z/OS VTOC (Dedicating them in the Directory entry) therefore DFDSS receives the *ADR307E*: error message basically because there is no z/OS VTOC. I know I could use DDR on z/VM to get around this but the problem is that these volumes are in use and I need to attach them to whatever machine I am going to do the DDR from and cannot go to another LPAR because these particular volumes were not gen’ed to be accessible from any other LPAR but the production (separation requirement). So is there any way I can get these backed up given the above? Thanks *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* * * *[image: cid:image001.jpg@01C97FB5.5EAFD6C0]*** _ 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
Re: z/OS Guest not activating OSA connection
Has the z/OS guest been Granted access? When you logon onto the guest do you see the virtual nic being created and connecting to the vswitch? On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Neale Ferguson ne...@sinenomine.netwrote: I have a z/OS 1.9 guest whose TCPIP is attempting to activate an OSA connection to a vSwitch. It starts activating but stays in this state: IST486I STATUS= ACTIV, DESIRED STATE= ACTIV IST087I TYPE = LEASED , CONTROL = MPC , HPDT = YES IST1954I TRL MAJOR NODE = OSATRL1 IST1715I MPCLEVEL = QDIO MPCUSAGE = SHARE IST1716I PORTNAME = ADM1ETPLINKNUM = 0 OSA CODE LEVEL = F4F2 IST1577I HEADER SIZE = 4096 DATA SIZE = 0 STORAGE = ***NA*** IST1221I WRITE DEV = 0401 STATUS = ACTIVE STATE = ONLINE IST1577I HEADER SIZE = 4092 DATA SIZE = 0 STORAGE = ***NA*** IST1221I READ DEV = 0400 STATUS = ACTIVE STATE = ONLINE IST1221I DATA DEV = 0402 STATUS = OPEN.PEND STATE = N/A IST1724I I/O TRACE = OFF TRACE LENGTH = *NA* IST1717I ULPID = TCPIP IST1815I IQDIO ROUTING DISABLED IST1500I STATE TRACE = OFF IST314I END On the z/VM (5.4 0901) side I see: VSWITCH SYSTEM VSWITCH2 Type: VSWITCH Connected: 3Maxconn: INFINITE PERSISTENT RESTRICTEDETHERNET Accounting: OFF VLAN Unaware MAC address: 02-00-00-00-00-02 State: Ready IPTimeout: 5 QueueStorage: 8 Isolation Status: OFF Portname: ADM1ETPRDEV: 1340.P00 Controller: DTCVSW2 VDEV: 1340 VSWITCH Connection: RX Packets: 13 Discarded: 0 Errors: 0 TX Packets: 410Discarded: 0 Errors: 0 RX Bytes: 1299 TX Bytes: 58526 Device: 1340 Unit: 000 Role: DATA vPort: 0001 Index: 0001 Unicast IP Addresses: 172.17.16.5 MAC: 08-00-20-D9-99-58 Remote : : Adapter Owner: ZOS19NIC: 0400.P00 Name: UNASSIGNED RX Packets: 0 Discarded: 0 Errors: 0 TX Packets: 0 Discarded: 0 Errors: 0 RX Bytes: 0TX Bytes: 0 Device: 0402 Unit: 002 Role: DATA vPort: 0066 Index: 0066 Eventually it times out with the following message: 00- 08.51.16 STC00349 EZZ4310I ERROR: CODE=8010302E REPORTED ON DEVICE - ADM1ETP. DIAGNOSTIC CODE: 03 - 08.51.16 STC00349 EZZ4315I DEACTIVATION COMPLETE FOR DEVICE ADM1ETP Looking up the IP and SNA codes manual 8010302e is interpreted as: Permanent error with LLC layer not being able to register its home address As a z/OS neophyte, I'm not sure what is missing from my config. The TCPIP definition is: DEVICE ADM1ETP MPCIPA NONROUTER LINK OSDLIPAQENET ADM1ETP Neale -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: z/OS Guest not activating OSA connection
That would be the problem. z/OS and VSE require a layer 3 vswitch. On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Riedel, Alexander alexander.rie...@f-i-ts.de wrote: Are you sure, that you want to connet a z/OS to an Layer2 VSWITCH? Does z/OS not need an Layer3 ? *From:* The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] *On Behalf Of *Neale Ferguson *Sent:* Tuesday, August 10, 2010 5:07 PM *To:* IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU *Subject:* Re: z/OS Guest not activating OSA connection Yes, there’s the following statement in the SYSTEM CONFIG: MODIFY VSWITCH VSWITCH2 GRANT ZOS19 There’s a NICDEF statement in the user directory entry, and the Q VSWITCH VSWITCH2 DET below shows the guest connecting. On 8/10/10 11:03 AM, Mark Pace pacemainl...@gmail.com wrote: Has the z/OS guest been Granted access? When you logon onto the guest do you see the virtual nic being created and connecting to the vswitch? On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Neale Ferguson ne...@sinenomine.net wrote: VSWITCH SYSTEM VSWITCH2 Type: VSWITCH Connected: 3Maxconn: INFINITE PERSISTENT RESTRICTEDETHERNET Accounting: OFF VLAN Unaware MAC address: 02-00-00-00-00-02 State: Ready IPTimeout: 5 QueueStorage: 8 Isolation Status: OFF Portname: ADM1ETPRDEV: 1340.P00 Controller: DTCVSW2 VDEV: 1340 VSWITCH Connection: RX Packets: 13 Discarded: 0 Errors: 0 TX Packets: 410Discarded: 0 Errors: 0 RX Bytes: 1299 TX Bytes: 58526 Device: 1340 Unit: 000 Role: DATA vPort: 0001 Index: 0001 Unicast IP Addresses: 172.17.16.5 MAC: 08-00-20-D9-99-58 Remote : : Adapter Owner: ZOS19NIC: 0400.P00 Name: UNASSIGNED RX Packets: 0 Discarded: 0 Errors: 0 TX Packets: 0 Discarded: 0 Errors: 0 RX Bytes: 0TX Bytes: 0 Device: 0402 Unit: 002 Role: DATA vPort: 0066 Index: 0066 -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: SLES11 PARMFILE entries not being read correctly
Depending on the missing Parameter, you may then get prompted for many more parms. I believe that the offending parm was PortNum or Macaddress. On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Bhemidhi, Ashwin ashw...@ti.com wrote: I did encounter similar problem installing RedHat Linux 5.4. The installer was not reading the Conf/PARM(?) file and was prompting for the values to be entered. The installer bug, apparently, shows up when the guest had only one virtual CPU defined and the work around, at least for me, was to define 2 virtual CPUs just for the installation. If this work around solves your issue then do remember to take off unnecessary virtual CPU after the installation/upgrade. Regards, Ashwin Bhemidhi -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Tom Duggan Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 10:27 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: SLES11 PARMFILE entries not being read correctly I'm posting here since the initial execution of the SLES 11 upgrade happe= ns in a z/VM virtual machine prior to establishing a Linux session. Apologies if this is inappropriate; I will post to the Linux 390 list if needed (I'm having major difficulties posting to ANY list, so I'm not even going to attempt cross/multiple postings g) So, on to the issue... I saw in an earlier post(sometime last year) someone having a *similar* problem as I am : The user was supplying values for Portname and NameServer, but still gett= ing prompts during the install. The response to the user was to supply a null value in the PARMFILE for t= he two parameters in question, and to supply 0 (or 1 depending on the configuration of the card) for Portno= as this could possibly suppress = the prompt for the DNS server. My issue is that I'm supplying a null value for portname as it is not defined on the card, and I am supplying an address for NameServer and sti= ll receiving prompts. I'm reading through Section 4.4 The parmfile - Automating the System Configuration in the SLES 11 Deployment Guide, and not seeing anything ab= out how to supply null values. This isn't a show-stopper, but I'm looking to completely automate this portion of the SLES 11 install. If it doesn't happen, c'est le vie. Thanks! -Tom -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: Pushing replies to Linux SLES 11 upgrade from a REXX EXEC
A config file with all the prompts and responses is what you're looking for. Something like this RAMDISK_SIZE=98304 ROOT=/DEV/RAM1 RO INIT=/LINUXRC TERM=DUMB HostIP=nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn Hostname=host.domain Gateway=nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn Nameserver=nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn InstNetDev=osa Netmask=255.255.255.0 Broadcast=nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn OsaInterface=qdio OsaMedium=eth ReadChannel=0.0.0100 WriteChannel=0.0.0101 DataChannel=0.0.0102 portname=SWCH1 Install=http://nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn/sles10-sp2 OSAHWAddr='' PortNo=0 Usevnc=1 layer2=1 vncpassword=password On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Tom Duggan dugg...@emigrant.com wrote: I hope this gets through...(and a Hello! from a new member if it does!) I've been assigned a recent project of trying to automate the initial responses of a SLES 11 upgrade to servers running under z/VM 5.3. I'm trying to automate the replies up until the point in the process where SSH is launched to start yast. I've tried PUSH and QUEUE without success. I'm more of a VM'er than Linuxite and just looking for a nudge in the right direction. I'm working on a 3270 emulator macro (Passport PC to Host) at present, which is a little tedious. What I'm seeing is after the guest machine's reader is IPL'd, CMS goes away and we're in a Linux environment, no? -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: ipl tcpip
You can not share the same triplet, you will need another triplet. However, I would suggest putting your stacks on a vswitch and giving the triplet to the vswitch, then you can use the same virtual address on the two stacks. On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Dean, David (I/S) david_d...@bcbst.comwrote: Can anyone share their profile tcpip and dtcparms file to accomplish this two stack setup? Can I share the same OSA address 9800-9802 or do I have to define 3 more? And any holes I am going to fall in? -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Rob van der Heij Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 5:14 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: ipl tcpip On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Dean, David (I/S) david_d...@bcbst.com wrote: Thanks, I will take a look at auditor; the temporary TCPIP outage is not a problem. I have no way other than TCPIP to connect without physically going into our Secure Area where the HMC lives. As folks mention, a 2nd stack is the most flexible (also if you made a mistake in the configuration files). And be aware that for most configuration changes in VM TCP/IP, you really don't have to restart the stack... | Rob - Please see the following link for the BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee E-mail disclaimer: http://www.bcbst.com/email_disclaimer.shtm -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: New Job
Good luck, Tom. On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Tom Huegel tehue...@gmail.com wrote: 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. -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: zVM 5.4, OS/390 2.10 and OSA
Sounds like a question for your IBM CE. He should be able to tell you exactly what was in the microcode upgrade. On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Daniel Allen dal...@serena.com wrote: We have a OS/390 2.10 guest machine running under zVM 5.4 on z9BC . The OSA addresses are natively attached to the OS/390 2.10 guest. Last week before the weekend upgrade, there was not a problem getting to the OS/390 2.10 guest. However, during the weekend upgrade, we went from 16G to 32G and a microcode upgrade. Now it takes about 5 minutes from the time I launch the PCOM session to when I receive the TN3270 screen. Did the microcode upgrade mess with the OSA ? I don’t know what the microcode upgrade was. -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: z/VM OSA with z/OS guest
How can I dedicate 7E0-7E2 to three guest at one time? You can't. You would need a triplet for each z/OS guest. You can attach/dedicate each triple as v addresses 7E0-7E2. OR use a VSWITCH using 7E0-7E2 - then define a virtual NIC to each z/OS as 7E0-7E2 connected to the vswitch. On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Charles Grady charles.gr...@dol.state.ga.us wrote: Hello Fellow Listers; In need of some help with z/VM and TCPIP for z/OS guest. Here’s the backgroung: 1) When running 5 z/OS LPARs the z/OS systems use the same OSA address, such as 7D0 but have different IP addresses in their IP Parms. This works and has worked well for a long period of time here. 2) We now need to have three z/OS guest machines up and running under z/VM with full IP capability. My communication wiz guy has been in touch with IBM and has been told that you have to set the OSA up that way under z/VM too. How can I dedicate 7E0-7E2 to three guest at one time? It sounds like a communications disconnect to me, but what do I know. At current time, I have each z/OS guest with his own triplet of unique OSA addresses. Each one will work fine UNTIL they are all up and running, at which time, we start seeing “console hangs” and what appears to be machine lockups. Some times they will eventually clear themselves, sometimes not. And it rotates as to which z/OS guest system hangs. 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. ** -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: ipl tcpip
2074 or OSA-ICC access? On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Dean, David (I/S) david_d...@bcbst.comwrote: How can I remotely bounce TCPIP without using by HMC? I want to send a command, say from maint, that would shut it down and subsequently bring it back. 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 -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: ipl tcpip
If I need to get on our system without TCPIP I connect via the OSA-ICC, then I look like a local-nonsna terminal. Bounce TCPIP and then reconnect using TCPIP. On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Dean, David (I/S) david_d...@bcbst.comwrote: OSA -- *From:* The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] *On Behalf Of *Mark Pace *Sent:* Friday, July 30, 2010 12:00 PM *To:* IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU *Subject:* Re: ipl tcpip 2074 or OSA-ICC access? On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Dean, David (I/S) david_d...@bcbst.com wrote: How can I remotely bounce TCPIP without using by HMC? I want to send a command, say from maint, that would shut it down and subsequently bring it back. 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 -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems - Please see the following link for the BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee E-mail disclaimer: http://www.bcbst.com/email_disclaimer.shtm -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
rexx stem
I'm having writers (programmers) block today. Is there a way to pass a REXX stem to XEDIT? -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: rexx stem
well I've created a stem in REXX. I want to call XEDIT to present a menu using the data from that stem. On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:26 AM, zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com wrote: pass meaning what? Insert it into the file? On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Mark Pace pacemainl...@gmail.comwrote: I'm having writers (programmers) block today. Is there a way to pass a REXX stem to XEDIT? -- zMan -- I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: rexx stem
Thanks everyone for the input, and Mike for such a detailed example. On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Mike Walter mike.wal...@hewitt.comwrote: XEDIT macros can be, and usually are nowadays, written in REXX. You might want to think a bit more about the flow of what's happening. But to answer your question more directly, inside the XEDIT macro you are calling from the EXEC you can execute a pipe to get the variables of the calling exec. For example... /* your called XEDIT macro might contain... */ address COMMAND , 'PIPE (NAME GetCallerVars)' , '| REXXVARS 1' , /* Access caller's vars */ '| STRNFIND /s/' ,/* Skip source name */ '| SPECS W2-* 1' ,/* Drop 'n' and 'v' prefix */ '| JOIN 1 / /' , /* Var Name and Value into 1 */ '| STRFIND /'xfn'./' , /* Just our xfn. vars*/ '| NOT CHOP BEFORE STRING /./' , /* Lop our xfn, keep .xxx */ , /* Load them as 'c.' so we can easily tell from our vars*/ '| SPECS +~C+ 1' ,/* Bld: /C */ 'WORD 1 NEXT' , /* /C.name */ '+~+ NEXT' , /* /C.name/ */ 'WORD 2-* NEXT' , /* /C.name/value*/ '| STRIP TRAILING' , '| VARLOAD DIRECT' /* Restore caller's vars in here */ Now all the calling exec's variables are available in the XEDIT macro, prefixed by c. For example, if the calling exec was named FORMARK EXEC, and began with: address 'COMMAND' parse source xos xct xfn xft xfm xcmd xenvir . ... and the called XEDIT macro was named $FORMARK, and began with that, too... In the called XEDIT macro, xfn xft xfm would be $FORMARK XEDIT fm, while c.xfn c.xft and c.xfm would be FORMARK EXEC fm. If the calling exec has lots of variables you may want to trim down the number that you feed into the VARLOAD stage. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates The opinions expressed herein are mine alone, not my employer's. *Mark Pace pacemainl...@gmail.com* Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 07/29/2010 09:28 AM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Re: rexx stem well I've created a stem in REXX. I want to call XEDIT to present a menu using the data from that stem. On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:26 AM, zMan *zedgarhoo...@gmail.com*zedgarhoo...@gmail.com wrote: pass meaning what? Insert it into the file? On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Mark Pace *pacemainl...@gmail.com*pacemainl...@gmail.com wrote: I'm having writers (programmers) block today. Is there a way to pass a REXX stem to XEDIT? -- zMan -- I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems -- 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. -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
Re: rexx stem
Thank you, Kris. 1 stem was all I need for this job. 'PIPE stem mystem. 1 | stem mystem.' worked perfectly. On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Kris Buelens kris.buel...@gmail.comwrote: Mike, I want to tell that your example is a bit (very) oldfashioned. A simple REXXVARS was indeed the solution, you can do the same a bit easier by using REXXVARS TOLOAD. It produces records like /varname/varcontents (John doesn't guarantee the / will be the delimiter) So you could code: address '' 'PIPE REXXVARS TOLOAD', '|Strfind MYSTEM.', '| A second remark: if the stem one wants to get has numbered suffixes (like is often the case), there is no need to have PIPE obtain all variables from the calling exec. This would do to copy it into the current exec/macro: address '' 'PIPE STEM mystem. 1 |STEM mystem.' 2010/7/29 Mike Walter mike.wal...@hewitt.com XEDIT macros can be, and usually are nowadays, written in REXX. You might want to think a bit more about the flow of what's happening. But to answer your question more directly, inside the XEDIT macro you are calling from the EXEC you can execute a pipe to get the variables of the calling exec. For example... /* your called XEDIT macro might contain... */ address COMMAND , 'PIPE (NAME GetCallerVars)' , '| REXXVARS 1' , /* Access caller's vars */ '| STRNFIND /s/' ,/* Skip source name */ '| SPECS W2-* 1' ,/* Drop 'n' and 'v' prefix */ '| JOIN 1 / /' , /* Var Name and Value into 1 */ '| STRFIND /'xfn'./' , /* Just our xfn. vars*/ '| NOT CHOP BEFORE STRING /./' , /* Lop our xfn, keep .xxx */ , /* Load them as 'c.' so we can easily tell from our vars*/ '| SPECS +~C+ 1' ,/* Bld: /C */ 'WORD 1 NEXT' , /* /C.name */ '+~+ NEXT' , /* /C.name/ */ 'WORD 2-* NEXT' , /* /C.name/value*/ '| STRIP TRAILING' , '| VARLOAD DIRECT' /* Restore caller's vars in here */ Now all the calling exec's variables are available in the XEDIT macro, prefixed by c. For example, if the calling exec was named FORMARK EXEC, and began with: address 'COMMAND' parse source xos xct xfn xft xfm xcmd xenvir . ... and the called XEDIT macro was named $FORMARK, and began with that, too... In the called XEDIT macro, xfn xft xfm would be $FORMARK XEDIT fm, while c.xfn c.xft and c.xfm would be FORMARK EXEC fm. If the calling exec has lots of variables you may want to trim down the number that you feed into the VARLOAD stage. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates The opinions expressed herein are mine alone, not my employer's. *Mark Pace pacemainl...@gmail.com* Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 07/29/2010 09:28 AM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Re: rexx stem well I've created a stem in REXX. I want to call XEDIT to present a menu using the data from that stem. On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:26 AM, zMan *zedgarhoo...@gmail.com*zedgarhoo...@gmail.com wrote: pass meaning what? Insert it into the file? On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Mark Pace *pacemainl...@gmail.com*pacemainl...@gmail.com wrote: I'm having writers (programmers) block today. Is there a way to pass a REXX stem to XEDIT? -- zMan -- I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems -- 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. -- Kris Buelens, IBM Belgium, VM customer support -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
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: Dasd Volser standards documented
Yep, I understand that. Once the volume is copied and put online the old volume is clipped. Since I'm both the z/VM guy and the z/OS guy (and vse and linux) I have no one to blame but myself. On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Michael MacIsaac mike...@us.ibm.comwrote: Mark, And with the ease of copying DASD via Flashcopy, I move volumes from device to device for various reasons, Well sure, so do I. I either FLASHCOPY starting at cylinder 1, or if I need the entire disk copied, I relabel (clip) the target volume per the convention after the copy. FLASHCOPYing the entire volume without clipping one volume afterwards guarantees duplicate volsers. If there are any z/OS systems that also have access that DASD, the z/OS IPL process will stop when duplicate volsers are found (as I understand it). This gets the z/OS people mad at us z/VM people. That's *one* reason I always try to avoid duplicate volsers. FWIW... Mike MacIsaac mike...@us.ibm.com (845) 433-7061
Re: Dasd Volser standards documented
From ICKDSF VOLID(serial) Writes the volume serial number in the volume or minidisk label. *For serial, substitute 1 to 6 alphanumeric characters for the volume serial number. If fewer than six characters are specified, the serial is left-justified, and the remainder of the field is padded with blanks (X'40').* On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Philip Tully tull...@optonline.netwrote: I appreciate the responses, but the specifics are I am looking for are what should not be used. I think we all have enough experience to know we should use and '*' in the volser, but are these kind of restrictions documented?
Re: question to mixed CP an IFL in one LPAR
It works. We did it here for a few weeks before rolling out z/VM 6.1. Note that when you have a mixture of IFL and CP in the same LPAR you need to make some DIRECTORY changes to a guest to make it run on the IFL. On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 3:41 AM, Rob van der Heij rvdh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Franz Josef Pohlen fjpohlen-maill...@gmx.de wrote: Hello listers, an IBMer has told me that a mixture of CPs and IFLs in one LPAR are supported on z10 not only with z/VM 6 but also with zVM 5.4. Is this correct? I thought that for those environments you must have z/VM 6. Your IBMer is correct. Be aware of the required licenses. It's probably most attractive if you already had both sides of the z10 licensed for z/VM 5.4 and want to lower your operating cost by having just one single image. | Rob -- Mark Pace Mainline Information Systems 1700 Summit Lake Drive Tallahassee, FL. 32317
Re: question to mixed CP an IFL in one LPAR
Yes you define in the DIRECTORY if a guest will run on an IFL. If you do not change anything, then the guest will run on a CP by default. On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Schuh, Richard rsc...@visa.com wrote: Do you not control whether a Linux guest is dispatched on IFLs or regular CPUs via the directory? If a guest can only run on IFLs and not regular CPUs because of this, do the license fees increase if a Linux workload is melded in with a regular workload instead of running it in a separate LPAR? When did the IFL become faster than a regular CPU? Regards, Richard Schuh -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Dave Jones Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 8:06 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: question to mixed CP an IFL in one LPAR Franz, the IBM-er is right, you can mix CP and IFL in a single LPAR with either z/VM 5.4 or 6.1..if you are running 6.1, your system must be a z10. However, even if it is technically possible to mix engines, I generally recommend that you limit your Linux LPARs to IFLs only. It guarantees that all work in the LPAR will be dispatched on the faster IFL engines, and may have financial implications with respect to software licensing charges. On 07/14/2010 02:34 AM, Franz Josef Pohlen wrote: Hello listers, an IBMer has told me that a mixture of CPs and IFLs in one LPAR are supported on z10 not only with z/VM 6 but also with zVM 5.4. Is this correct? I thought that for those environments you must have z/VM 6. -- Dave Jones V/Soft www.vsoft-software.com Houston, TX 281.578.7544 -- Mark Pace Mainline Information Systems 1700 Summit Lake Drive Tallahassee, FL. 32317
Re: TRLE with Vswitch
Does the PORTNAME match the name of the vswitch? From where can you PING the MVS TCPIP? On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Pelletier, Daniel daniel.pellet...@uconn.edu wrote: We are in the process of installing zOS V1R7 on our z10 BC machine. We are attempting to connect Our MVS TCPIP, running as a guest to VM, via VSWITCH to a QDIO OSA. We get the OSA address’s Allocated and busy and we can ping the MVS TCPIP and that works fine. We cannot ping or connect To any other hast outside of the MVS TCPIP. The following is what we have coded in the TCPIP stack And in the VTAM TRLE; Device Link statement; DEVICE QDOSA1 MPCIPA LINK OSA1 IPAQENET QDOSA1 Home Statement; 137.99.26.9OSA1 Beginroutes Statement; BEGINROUTES ROUTE 137.99.26.9/27= OSA1MTU1500 ROUTE DEFAULT 137.99.26.1 OSA1MTU 1500 ENDROUTES VTAM TRLE NODE; A07TRLE VBUILD TYPE=TRL TRLED00 TRLE LNCTL=MPC, x READ=(FD00), x WRITE=(FD01), x DATAPATH=(FD02), x PORTNAME=QDOSA1, x MPCLEVEL=QDIO Are we missing something or have something out of order?? We would appreciate any help/suggestions in pointing out what is wrong or missing. TIA Dan -- Mark Pace Mainline Information Systems 1700 Summit Lake Drive Tallahassee, FL. 32317
Pipe question
I'm trying to rewrite an old exec into a pipe. While testing I had the pipe write the output to the console and it's working as expected. I replaced | console with | TEMP DATA A1 and it does not create the file. change it to console and it works again. Am I missing something obvious? Do i = 1 to files.0 'PIPE ', '' files.i '|', 'casei zone 1-* locate /'LookFor'/ |', 'specs /'files.i'/ 1 |', 'unique |', ' TEST DATA A1' end -- Mark Pace Mainline Information Systems 1700 Summit Lake Drive Tallahassee, FL. 32317
Re: Pipe question
Thanks, Alan - That was it. On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.comwrote: On Friday, 07/09/2010 at 09:25 EDT, Mark Pace mpac...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to rewrite an old exec into a pipe. While testing I had the pipe write the output to the console and it's working as expected. I replaced | console with | TEMP DATA A1 and it does not create the file. change it to console and it works again. Am I missing something obvious? Do i = 1 to files.0 'PIPE ', '' files.i '|', 'casei zone 1-* locate /'LookFor'/ |', 'specs /'files.i'/ 1 |', 'unique |', ' TEST DATA A1' end I think you want instead of .With , the file is erased if there are no input records. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott -- Mark Pace Mainline Information Systems 1700 Summit Lake Drive Tallahassee, FL. 32317
Re: Pipe question
Thanks, Rob - After years and years of ignoring Pipes, I decided this week I was going to learn how to use them. I found some excellent documentation, thanks to you and others, and have dived head first into the pool. But even with the Authors Edition, and Pipelines Visualized, I'm still struggling with multi-stream plumbing. I just need more practice and see good examples. On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Rob van der Heij rvdh...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Mark Pace mpac...@gmail.com wrote: and it does not create the file. change it to console and it works again. Am I missing something obvious? As Alan points out, you need to append rather than replace the file. But since it is Friday, you might learn a bit of mult-stream plumbing instead... Rather than calling the pipeline in a loop, you could make a single pipe do all the files: 'PIPE (end \)', '\ stem files.', '| o: fanout', '| pad 25', '| j: juxtapose', '| test data a', '\ o:', '| getfiles', '| locate anycase /'LookFor'/', '| j:' Depending on the number of files you're handling, you might even notice the speedup. But more important is that it makes it much easier to extend the process and do other things with the data. Rob -- Mark Pace Mainline Information Systems 1700 Summit Lake Drive Tallahassee, FL. 32317
Re: Pipe question
I signed up for CMSPIP-L yesterday. Haven't seen any traffic on it yet. On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Rob van der Heij rvdh...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Mark Pace mpac...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Rob - After years and years of ignoring Pipes, I decided this week I was going to learn how to use them. I found some excellent documentation, thanks to you and others, and have dived head first into the pool. But even with the Authors Edition, and Pipelines Visualized, I'm still struggling with multi-stream plumbing. I just need more practice and see good examples. The papers from Melinda on the Pipelines Home Page are classics. The Pluning On does multi-stream. And we should probably discuss those things on CMSPIP-L instead... Sir Rob the Plumber -- Mark Pace Mainline Information Systems 1700 Summit Lake Drive Tallahassee, FL. 32317
Re: Artical should be read 'zNEXT'
When I read any of this from someone other than MOG, then, I'll believe it. On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Chip Davis c...@aresti.com wrote: But it does send the message that her image is important, although my reaction is more the bubble-headed bleach-blonde, come on at five... -Chip- On 7/8/10 17:17 Dave Jones said: No, it's to stop male readers dead in their tracks and actually read the article, Marcy:-). It worked on me. DJ On 07/08/2010 12:15 PM, Marcy Cortes wrote: LOL. And what's with the dark glasses and hair blowing in the wind? Is that supposed to enhance credibility? From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of O'Brien, Dennis L Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 10:13 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: [IBMVM] Artical should be read 'zNEXT' Note that this article is from Maureen O'Gara, who bears the same resemblance to a journalist that an 8086 does to a z10. She's consistently snide for no reason, and makes things up as she goes along when she doesn't have the facts. Ah, the Rita Skeeter of computer journalism. -- Mark Pace Mainline Information Systems 1700 Summit Lake Drive Tallahassee, FL. 32317
Re: Speaking of VSWITCHES
Try SET VSWITCH VSWITCH1 CONNECT On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 4:22 PM, McBride, Catherine cmcbr...@kable.comwrote: Somebody rebooted the switch that our OSA cards are plugged into. Our VSWITCH tried to recover by failing over from VSWITCH1 to VSWITCH2. Unfortunately, both of them terminate at the same physical switch and now we can't get either one to activate. Output of Q VSWITCH looks like this: q vswitch VSWITCH SYSTEM VSWITCH1 Type: VSWITCH Connected: 12 Maxconn: INFINITE PERSISTENT RESTRICTEDNONROUTER Accounting: OFF VLAN Unaware MAC address: 02-00-00-00-00-01 State: Initialization in progress IPTimeout: 5 QueueStorage: 8 Isolation Status: OFF RDEV: 0800.P00Controller: NONE Error: Detached RDEV: 0810.P00Controller: NONE Error: Path severed RDEV: 0860.P00Controller: NONE Error: Path severed VSWITCH SYSTEM VSWITCH2 Type: VSWITCH Connected: 0Maxconn: INFINITE PERSISTENT RESTRICTEDNONROUTER Accounting: OFF VLAN Unaware MAC address: 02-00-00-00-00-02 State: Initialization in progress IPTimeout: 5 QueueStorage: 8 Isolation Status: OFF RDEV: 0803.P00Controller: NONE Error: Detached RDEV: 0813.P00Controller: NONE Error: Path severed RDEV: 0863.P00Controller: NONE Error: Path severed I've tried attaching the RDEV's to DTCSW1 and DTCSW2, and autologged both of these as well. Queries of the RDEVS show the following: OSA 0800 ATTACHED TO DTCVSW1 0800 DEVTYPE OSA CHPID F0 OSD Ready; T=0.01/0.01 15:13:52 q 810 OSA 0810 ATTACHED TO DTCVSW1 0810 DEVTYPE OSA CHPID F1 OSD Ready; T=0.01/0.01 15:13:55 q 860 OSA 0860 ATTACHED TO DTCVSW1 0860 DEVTYPE OSA CHPID F2 OSD Ready; T=0.01/0.01 15:14:01 The CHPIDS are online. We even popped the cover and looked at the blinking lights on the cards. DTCVSW1, DTCVSW2, and TCPIP are all logged on and active. I've tried varying off and varying on the devices, RESET, READY, etc. Any suggestions late on a Friday afternoon? -- Mark Pace Mainline Information Systems 1700 Summit Lake Drive Tallahassee, FL. 32317
Re: Speaking of VSWITCHES
I wouldn't think would have to reset the OSA, but if the disconnect and connect do not work I would try varying off/on the CHPID. On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Marcy Cortes marcy.d.cor...@wellsfargo.comwrote: How about set vswitch xx disconnect and then set vswitch xx connect ? From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of McBride, Catherine Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 1:35 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: [IBMVM] Speaking of VSWITCHES It got errors that the devices were already attached to DTCVSW1. So I detached them manually and re-executed the SET VSWITCH command again, and now we have q vswitch VSWITCH SYSTEM VSWITCH1 Type: VSWITCH Connected: 12 Maxconn: INFINITE PERSISTENT RESTRICTEDNONROUTER Accounting: OFF VLAN Unaware MAC address: 02-00-00-00-00-01 State: Initialization in progress IPTimeout: 5 QueueStorage: 8 Isolation Status: OFF RDEV: 0800.P00Controller: NONE RDEV: 0810.P00Controller: NONE RDEV: 0860.P00Controller: NONE VSWITCH SYSTEM VSWITCH2 Type: VSWITCH Connected: 0Maxconn: INFINITE PERSISTENT RESTRICTEDNONROUTER Accounting: OFF VLAN Unaware MAC address: 02-00-00-00-00-02 State: Initialization in progress IPTimeout: 5 QueueStorage: 8 Isolation Status: OFF RDEV: 0803.P00Controller: NONE Error: Detached RDEV: 0813.P00Controller: NONE Error: Path severed RDEV: 0863.P00Controller: NONE Error: Path severed At least no errors but it still isn't working. Initialization in progress From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Pace Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 3:24 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Speaking of VSWITCHES Try SET VSWITCH VSWITCH1 CONNECT On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 4:22 PM, McBride, Catherine cmcbr...@kable.com wrote: Somebody rebooted the switch that our OSA cards are plugged into. Our VSWITCH tried to recover by failing over from VSWITCH1 to VSWITCH2. Unfortunately, both of them terminate at the same physical switch and now we can't get either one to activate. Output of Q VSWITCH looks like this: q vswitch VSWITCH SYSTEM VSWITCH1 Type: VSWITCH Connected: 12 Maxconn: INFINITE PERSISTENT RESTRICTEDNONROUTER Accounting: OFF VLAN Unaware MAC address: 02-00-00-00-00-01 State: Initialization in progress IPTimeout: 5 QueueStorage: 8 Isolation Status: OFF RDEV: 0800.P00Controller: NONE Error: Detached RDEV: 0810.P00Controller: NONE Error: Path severed RDEV: 0860.P00Controller: NONE Error: Path severed VSWITCH SYSTEM VSWITCH2 Type: VSWITCH Connected: 0Maxconn: INFINITE PERSISTENT RESTRICTEDNONROUTER Accounting: OFF VLAN Unaware MAC address: 02-00-00-00-00-02 State: Initialization in progress IPTimeout: 5 QueueStorage: 8 Isolation Status: OFF RDEV: 0803.P00Controller: NONE Error: Detached RDEV: 0813.P00Controller: NONE Error: Path severed RDEV: 0863.P00Controller: NONE Error: Path severed I've tried attaching the RDEV's to DTCSW1 and DTCSW2, and autologged both of these as well. Queries of the RDEVS show the following: OSA 0800 ATTACHED TO DTCVSW1 0800 DEVTYPE OSA CHPID F0 OSD Ready; T=0.01/0.01 15:13:52 q 810 OSA 0810 ATTACHED TO DTCVSW1 0810 DEVTYPE OSA CHPID F1 OSD Ready; T=0.01/0.01 15:13:55 q 860 OSA 0860 ATTACHED TO DTCVSW1 0860 DEVTYPE OSA CHPID F2 OSD Ready; T=0.01/0.01 15:14:01 The CHPIDS are online. We even popped the cover and looked at the blinking lights on the cards. DTCVSW1, DTCVSW2, and TCPIP are all logged on and active. I've tried varying off and varying on the devices, RESET, READY, etc. Any suggestions late on a Friday afternoon? -- Mark Pace Mainline Information Systems 1700 Summit Lake Drive Tallahassee, FL. 32317 -- Mark Pace Mainline Information Systems 1700 Summit Lake Drive Tallahassee, FL. 32317
Re: can you make the CP ignore the # symbol?
Perhaps changing the linend char to something else? q term *LINEND #* , LINEDEL OFF, CHARDEL OFF, ESCAPE , TABCHAR OFF LINESIZE 140, ATTN OFF, APL OFF, TEXT OFF, MODE VM, HILIGHT OFF CONMODE 3215, BREAKIN IMMED , BRKKEY PA1 , SCRNSAVE OFF AUTOCR ON , MORE 050 010, HOLD ON , TIMESTAMP OFF, SYS3270 OFF On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Daniel Tate daniel.t...@gmail.com wrote: I have urgent need to make it ignore that symbol and print it to the guest through a 3270 client. I am a z/VM beginner, so forgive me if this is something insanely simple. -- Mark Pace Mainline Information Systems 1700 Summit Lake Drive Tallahassee, FL. 32317
Re: z/VM 5.4 CHPID Device question - IOCDS ??
Sounds like the ACTIVATE command in z/OS did not complete successfully. Check your z/OS console. On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 6:44 AM, Gregg reed.gr...@gmail.com wrote: may need to see chpid/cu and device statements in the iodf but assuming all that is correct, might (any) devices be notaccepted/sensed in the system config? see HELP CPSET DEVICES. On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Charles Grady charles.gr...@dol.state.ga.us wrote: Hello- we have the following configuration on a Z9 processor: 5-z/OS LPARS 1-z/VM LPAR. The IOCDS and all configurations are managed from one of the z/OS LPARs. We recently updated the IODFs to reflect that there are now OPTICAL DRIVES online to the z/VM LPAR. The IODF has been activated to all LPARs. The problem— we can NOT see the devices anywhere on the z/VM side. Not on the HMC on in z/VM. The CHPIDS were 1F 4F and the devices were 950-958. Even when we went to the ACTIVATE frame on the HMC—Nothing there. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks, Charles GDOL ** 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. ** -- Gregg Reed No Plan, survives execution -- Mark Pace Mainline Information Systems 1700 Summit Lake Drive Tallahassee, FL. 32317
