Re: SFTP on z/VM 5.4 and 6.1

[McKown, John]

I am not too z/VM literate. However, sftp is a part of SSH (which is not SSL 
either). It is totally separate and distinct from FTP. FTPS (note the S is on 
the back, not front) is normal FTP over an SSL encrypted tunnel. And it is not 
sftp either.

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 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Davis, Larry 
 (National VM/VSE Capability)
 Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 10:30 AM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: SFTP on z/VM 5.4 and 6.1
 
 Does the FTP Client in VM allow you to transfer to a SFTP 
 site and if so is there a redbook on this process possibly?
 
 
 Larry Davis
 
 

Re: SFTP on z/VM 5.4 and 6.1

[McKown, John]

Didn't they tell you when you joined that there is a two Expresso minimum per 
day before posting questions? grin

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 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Davis, Larry 
 (National VM/VSE Capability)
 Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 11:25 AM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: Re: SFTP on z/VM 5.4 and 6.1
 
 Thanks, I believe my brain cells have warmed up and all this 
 is sounding very familiar to me now. 
 
 Larry Davis
 

Re: VM to zLinux Remote Execution

[McKown, John]

Just a question: If the CMS user and the zLinux are running on the same box, 
why not use a VM VLAN with a separate IP address and NIC than one used by the 
Outside World? That way, wouldn't it be possible for REXEC on zLinux to only 
LISTEN on the given IP address and so be safe as well? Just curious.

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 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark
 Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 12:59 PM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: Re: VM to zLinux Remote Execution
 
 On Friday, 07/22/2011 at 01:31 EDT, Tom Duerbusch 
 duerbus...@stlouiscity.com wrote:
  I'm trying to remotely execute a command with CMS as the 
 client and SLES 
 11 SP 
  1 as the server.
  
  All documentation I've found so far, shows how to do it 
 from Linux to 
 VM.
  
  Apparently the problem is, TCPIP for VM only has the 
 unsecured REXEC 
 client and 
  SLES 11 only has a secured sshd.
 
 ssh is not a secured version of rexec, but is a different protocol 
 entirely.  You can run rexecd on Linux if you want, but 
 you're going to 
 need to set up iptables to prevent connections from the 
 Outside World.  If 
 you don't do that, then your port security scanners are going 
 to find it 
 and report you to the Port Authority.  You will then be 
 carted off to the 
 stockade.
 
 Implicit is the assumption that 'remote' means 'guest on same 
 system or 
 CEC'.  You do not want to send or receive rexecd over real ethernet.
  
  I've searched the VM download page for a ssh client.
  I've done some Linux searches for how to dumb down sshd 
 (i.e. to allow 
  unsecured transfers).
  
  Of course, there might be program products available, but 
 unless they 
 would be 
  zero cost products, it's not going to happen in the short term.
 
 Sine Nomine has a CMS ssh, scp, and sftp client, but they're 
 not free. See 
 sinenomine.net.
 
 Alan Altmark
 
 Senior Managing z/VM and Linux Consultant
 IBM System Lab Services and Training 
 ibm.com/systems/services/labservices 
 office: 607.429.3323
 mobile; 607.321.7556
 alan_altm...@us.ibm.com
 IBM Endicott
 
 

Re: VM to zLinux Remote Execution

[McKown, John]

I'm not too up on zLinux because we don't have it or z/VM. But doesn't zLinux 
have support for the virtual reader? Could you spool a reader file to your 
zLinux instance's virtual reader and have some shell script on zLinux execute 
it? Kind of like how I remember CMSBATCH working back when I ran VM/370 (yes, 
that long ago). 

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 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Duerbusch
 Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 12:32 PM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: VM to zLinux Remote Execution
 
 I'm trying to remotely execute a command with CMS as the 
 client and SLES 11 SP 1 as the server.
 
 All documentation I've found so far, shows how to do it from 
 Linux to VM.
 
 Apparently the problem is, TCPIP for VM only has the 
 unsecured REXEC client and SLES 11 only has a secured sshd.
 
 I've searched the VM download page for a ssh client.
 I've done some Linux searches for how to dumb down sshd (i.e. 
 to allow unsecured transfers).
 
 Of course, there might be program products available, but 
 unless they would be zero cost products, it's not going to 
 happen in the short term.
 
 Thanks for any help
 
 Tom Duerbusch
 THD Consulting
 (Still on z/VM 5.2)
 
 

Re: Running REXX compiled in z/OS in CMS

[McKown, John]

IBM on z/OS does that too. It is LE. For better or worse. I am fairly sure that 
all the current IBM compilers on z/OS use LE as their run-time. COBOL, C, 
FORTRAN, and PL/I all do, I'm certain.

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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf 
Of David Boyes
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 4:09 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: Running REXX compiled in z/OS in CMS

One thing that HP does for VMS is ship all the runtime libraries for all their 
compilers (even the weird ones like BLISS and PROLOG) as part of the base OS. 
That way ISV vendors (or the base OS vendor) don't have this kind of problem.  
Paying to create, free to use always seemed like a good compromise to me.

-- db

(PS - at least one required system utility is written in each language to force 
the marketroids to continue this policy. Score one to the Visigoths.)

Re: Social Security Confronts IT Obsolescence

[McKown, John]

Hum, and the politicians just get to keep the money that I've been forced to 
pay into it for the last 30 years? That would be nice for them.

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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Tom Huegel
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 1:53 PM
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Subject: Re: Social Security Confronts IT Obsolescence

The solution is to eliminate the SSA altogether..

Re: Wait code 000a00000000000f

[McKown, John]

That is true regardless of the OS which you are trying to IPL. If there is a 
problem attempting to do the hardware load function, then the z microcode loads 
a hard wait of F. It is a hardware function.

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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Edward M Martin
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 11:06 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: Wait code 000a000f

Hello Tom,

Very interesting.  From a Google search, it would seem that

The code 000A000F means that the IPL text could not be found.

But this is referencing Linux.

Ed Martin
Aultman Health Foundation
330-363-5050
ext 35050
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Of Tom Huegel
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 11:53 AM
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Subject: Re: Wait code 000a000f

This is the entire message.. It happens before there are any console messages 
to indicate z/VM is even starting..

Central processor (CP) 0 in partition TPFTVM, entered disabled wait state.
The disabled wait program status word (PSW) is 000a000f.
Central storage bytes 0-7 are: 000a000f.
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 8:46 AM, George Henke/NYLIC 
george_he...@newyorklife.commailto:george_he...@newyorklife.com wrote:
Is not the wait state code sometimes the SVC number it is running at the time 
which in this case would be the ERREXCP SVC 15?


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Mike, I found the same description you did '000A' is ESA/390 mode but nothing 
matching the 'f''.
This is z/VM 5.4 with RSU 1003. I am IPLing native (LPAR) on a z9.
I have other systems running the same level z/VM without any problem..
I am sure it is something I have done. It would be nice if the message was 
documented, so I would know where to look.
It is not urgent today I have backups so I am running now.
I need it to work by the time the z196 comes online in a couple of weeks.

Tom
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 8:18 AM, Mike Walter 
mike.wal...@aonhewitt.commailto:mike.wal...@aonhewitt.com wrote:
I *do* have the z/VM CP Messages and Codes 5.4.0 manual handy.

Page 149 explains the 000A as a machine running in ESA/390 mode.
But there is no corresponding HCP015W, or HCP00FW message (the latter of
which, with a hex value, would start a whole new thread).

Can you tell us more about _what_ you are IPLing?  Is it CP on 1st level,
CP on 2nd level, CMS, or some utility program - on what size virtual
machine, in what mode (provide output from CP Query SET).  That info might
help point someone in the right direction.

Also, what's the proper level of urgency?  :-)

Mike Walter
Aon Corporation
The opinions expressed herein are mine alone, not my employer's.





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On: Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 07:59:23AM -0800,Tom Huegel Wrote:

} Does anyone have a clue as to what this hard wait code is? ..
} 000a000f.
} I can't find this one in the messages and codes book?
} It is probably a configuration error of some type.
} It happens at IPL.
} And yes I did make  many changes..

I don't have a messages and codes book handy, but forget the a and
look for CP wait state 15 (x'f').

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Re: ZOS Guest Console Not Working

[McKown, John]

I'm not a z/VM person. I'm a z/OS sysprog. I don't know how SuperSession works. 
A z/OS console is not BTAM, per se, a z/OS console is usually associated with a 
local non-SNA 3270 device. Note that the z/VM DIAL command (which is what I am 
used to) presents a 3270, however connected to z/VM, as a local non-SNA 3270. 
If this is the 3270 where you did a LOGON to start up the z/OS guest, then the 
console is likely in CONMODE 3215. That is the very old style printer keyboard 
console. z/OS does not support 3215 consoles any more at all. In this case, 
before IPL'ing z/OS, enter the command #CP CONMODE 3270 to set the console mode 
to 3270. If your z/OS guest first IPLs CMS (as many do), this will blow away 
CMS. And you'll need to enter the IPL  command where  is the virtual 
address of the z/OS IPL volume by hand.

Another possibility is that the CONSOLnn member of PARMLIB is messed up. Make 
sure that the CONSOLE statements either don't specify the USE parameter or it 
is set to USE(FC). USE(MS) and USE(SD) won't work right for a normal console.

Hope this was of at least some help. I only use z/VM when we do a D.R. test.

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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf 
Of George Henke/NYLIC
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 2:28 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: ZOS Guest Console Not Working

The ZOS console does not have the command line at the bottom.

There is no way to input data.

I can dial into TSO np, even look at the console in EJES (we are JES3), and 
everything else looks fine.

But just logging onto to ZOS guest through SuperSession and entering *b* shows 
the ZOS console output only without any command line at the bottom.

We do have a VTAM vsm, but ZOS consoles are BTAM, not VTAM terminals.

Re: Assembler Question

[McKown, John]

I guess this is to stop the no-so-smart. The first thing that comes to mind is 
to make some slight changes to cause confusion:


You have:

 MVC   MAQUINA+0(1),=XL1'E5'
 MVC   MAQUINA+1(1),=XL1'E2'
 MVC   MAQUINA+2(1),=XL1'C5'
 MVC   MAQUINA+3(1),=XL1'D3'
 MVC   MAQUINA+4(1),=XL1'C1'
 MVC   MAQUINA+5(1),=XL1'C2'

Simple change:

 MVC   MAQUINA+3(1),=XL1'D3'
 MVC   MAQUINA+4(1),=XL1'C1'
 MVC   MAQUINA+5(1),=XL1'C2'
 MVC   MAQUINA+0(1),=XL1'E5'
 MVC   MAQUINA+1(1),=XL1'E5'
 MVC   MAQUINA+2(1),=XL1'E2'

What shows up in the module would be: LABVSE. Looks reasonable, doesn't it? 
Now, to really mess up their minds: create a guest machine with that name. 
Monitor who actually sends something to it. Then beat them with an appropriate 
stick for being an idiot.

If you want to simply disguise the name, then I'd likely do something simple, 
such as:

 MVC   MAQUINA+0(1),=XL1'05'
 MVC   MAQUINA+1(1),=XL1'12'
 MVC   MAQUINA+2(1),=XL1'25'
 MVC   MAQUINA+3(1),=XL1'33'
 MVC   MAQUINA+4(1),=XL1'41'
 MVC   MAQUINA+5(1),=XL1'52'
 L 0,MAQUINA
 AL0,=X'E0D0A0A0'
 ICM   0,B'0101',MAQUINA+4
 AL0,=X'10802070'
 STCM  0,B'0101',MAQUINA+4

This last is a bit nasty to the casual observer. Especially the use of the ICM 
to make the bytes in the second part of the name not be next to each other. And 
putting in the unused data in the AL instruction which don't matter and which 
does nothing in particular, will really mess up someone's mind

But a smarty could still disassemble the module and do the instructions by hand 
to try to figure out what is going on. Either kill them or hire them as a 
forensic technician.




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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf 
Of Sergio Lima
Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 12:57 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Assembler Question

Hello List,

We wrote a sample ASSEMBLER Program  here under CMS, that will submit a JOB to 
VSE Machine, using the CP SPOOL PUNCH command.
Sorry, if you understand that here is not the good place to put this question.
The people ask to me, if is possible the name of CMS MACHINE not appear on the 
MODULE.

The program is this :

PUNCHA   CSECT
 USING PUNCHA,3
 USING FSCBD,4
 PRINT GEN
 LR3,15
 ST14,SAVE
*
 LA4,FSCB1
 MVC   FILENAME(8),8(1)
 MVC   FILETYPE(8),16(1)
 MVC   FILEMODE(8),24(1)
*
 MVC   FSCBFN,FILENAME
 MVC   FSCBFT,FILETYPE
 MVC   FSCBFM,FILEMODE
*
 MVC   MAQUINA+0(1),=XL1'E5'
 MVC   MAQUINA+1(1),=XL1'E2'
 MVC   MAQUINA+2(1),=XL1'C5'
 MVC   MAQUINA+3(1),=XL1'D3'
 MVC   MAQUINA+4(1),=XL1'C1'
 MVC   MAQUINA+5(1),=XL1'C2'
*
 WRTERMFILENAME,8
 WRTERMFILETYPE,8
 WRTERMFILEMODE,2
 WRTERMMAQUINA,8
*
 SR1,1
 LA1,DESTINA
 SVC   202
 DCAL4(1)
*
LECARD   FSREADFSCB=FSCB1,ERROR=EOF
*
 PUNCHCIOAREA
 WRTERMIOAREA,80
 B LECARD
*
EOF  LA1,CLOSEP
 SVC   202
 DCAL4(1)
 DCX'0700'
*
 LA1,SPCLOSE
 SVC   202
 DCAL4(1)
*
 MVC   MAQUINA,=CL8'SYSTEM  '
 LA1,DESTINA
 SVC   202
 DCAL4(1)
*
 L 14,SAVE
 BR14
*
SAVE DSF
*
FILENAME DSCL8
FILETYPE DSCL8
FILEMODE DSCL2
*
IOAREA   DSCL80
*
DESTINA  DS0D
 DCCL8'CP  '
 DCCL8'SPOOL   '
 DCCL8'PUN '
 DCCL8'TO  '
MAQUINA  DCCL8''
 DCCL8'CONT'
 DC8X'FF'
*
CLOSEP   DS0D
 DCCL8'CP  '
 DCCL8'CLOSE   '
 DC

Re: Copyfile with PACK on MVS ?

[McKown, John]

 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Rob van der Heij
 Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 3:22 AM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: Copyfile with PACK on MVS ?
 
 Friends,
 
 When a RECFM V file is transferred through download/upload with a PC,
 we need to protect the record layout. And when it's non-text you can't
 stick CRLF between the lines. On VM we normally have people use the
 PACK option of COPYFILE, which puts enough info in the file to restore
 the structure.
 
 What do people do on MVS? I thought a simple IEBGENER to convert to VB
 or whatever would do, but that does not seem to be common practice...
 does TERSE maybe put stuff in to retain the record structure? And does
 our DETERSE recover that?
 
 Thanks, Rob

You can use AMATERSE or TSO XMIT. AMATERSE only works for sequential datasets. 
XMIT works for both PDS and sequential. I use XMIT. There is something called 
XMITMANAGER for Winblows which can then manipulate that file if you need to on 
a Windows machine. I don't use it. 

In some cases, I just use z/OS UNIX files and pax.

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Re: Mandatory ESMs?

[McKown, John]

I realize this isn't really a fair comment, but I'll say it anyway. It's why 
the z is going down the toilet so far as number of installations are concerned. 
There is no way for poor techies to contribute to the z ecosystem any more. 
Companies, such as the one I work for, don't want employees wasting time and 
money on the z (in my case using MSUs for non productive work. MSUs cost 
real money.). I definitely cannot afford a z development system of my own (and 
zPDT is so encumbered that it is not for poor techies like me). And people 
wonder why Intel is taking over the world with their less advanced 
architecture? The only z machine I can afford is Hercule-390. And I can't get 
a z/VM or any other z licensed OS on that platform. I know why, but still. So, 
for techie fun, I use Linux/Intel. I can afford it. Wish it were otherwise. 
But IBM's apparent attitude appears to be: If IBM can't make some money 
directly from you, then you can just go somewhere else. So I have. 

--
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IT

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 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark
 Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 2:37 PM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: Re: Mandatory ESMs?
 
 On Monday, 12/13/2010 at 11:12 EST, Dave Jones 
 d...@vsoft-software.com 
 wrote:
  As far as getting the new z/OS PL/I compiler over to z/VM, 
 I'd be happy
  if IBM just offered it unsupported on CMS, with only a short bit of
  documentation noting the differences between usage in the 
 z/OS and CMS
  environments, much like what IBM now does with the z/OS 
 C/C++ port to 
 CMS.
  
  Any problems with the compiler would have to be recreated 
 on z/OS before
  IBM would take an APAR. I think that this approach might help make a
  business case, as it would cut down on IBM's up front costs 
 significantly.
 
 Cost avoidance does not a business case make.  Business cases 
 are made 
 based on projected sales and profitability, and that business case is 
 weighed against others vying for the same resources.
 
 And as you know, IBM doesn't offer experimental licenses 
 such as you 
 describe.  A product either goes out the door as a supported 
 product, or 
 it doesn't go at all.  Occasionally IBM does offer beta 
 programs that are 
 similar to what you describe, but those are within the 
 context of having 
 intent to release a fully supported product.  After all, it 
 takes manpower 
 to create unsupported programs, too.
 
 That's just The Way Things Are.
 
 Alan Altmark
 
 z/VM and Linux on System z Consultant
 IBM System Lab Services and Training 
 ibm.com/systems/services/labservices 
 office: 607.429.3323
 alan_altm...@us.ibm.com
 IBM Endicott
 
 

Re: Mandatory ESMs?

[McKown, John]

 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Tom Huegel
 Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 3:27 PM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: Re: Mandatory ESMs?
 
 Maybe we can get a Windoze version of CMS to do 
 developement... Dear Santa ... 

I would rather use Linux as a base. I hate and despise MS more than I ever have 
IBM (and I can get upset with them at times). I wouldn't do anything to help MS 
in any manner, form, or fashion.

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Re: Mandatory ESMs?

[McKown, John]

I have a vague memory of this. But I was under the impression that was was for 
development partners who had a business plan on how to then market their 
application to customers. Which indirectly benefitted IBM. And IBM had to 
approve your plan and you had to make reports on your progress to continue to 
gain benefit. Again, I understand that IBM is not a charity set up to allow 
techie nerds to play around with z/OS. And somebody has to foot the bill. 
Which I would do myself, if I could. But I can't. Perhaps I could mug George 
Soros? GRIN So I do foot the bill for what I can afford: Linux/Intel. I can 
even foot the bill for z/Linux by using Hercules-390, which is legal as far 
as I can tell.

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 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Tom Duerbusch
 Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 4:06 PM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: Re: Mandatory ESMs?
 
 What happened to
 
 IBM had a program.  If you were a developer, you could sign 
 up and have time on one of IBMs' mainframes.  Kind of like 
 the old time sharing services back in the '60s and '70s.
 
 It seems to me that it resurfaced with Linux development but 
 I haven't heard anything about it in, at least, 5 years.
 
 It seems to me that a time sharing option would be the first 
 rung of the ladder.  zPDT would be the second rung and your 
 own full system, would be the third rung.  A lot, not 
 everything, can be done with time sharing.
 
 Gee.  I wonder if z/VM could ever evolve into a time sharing system?  
 
 Tom Duerbusch
 THD Consulting
 
  McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com 12/13/2010 
 2:56 PM 
 I realize this isn't really a fair comment, but I'll say it 
 anyway. It's why the z is going down the toilet so far as 
 number of installations are concerned. There is no way for 
 poor techies to contribute to the z ecosystem any more. 
 Companies, such as the one I work for, don't want employees 
 wasting time and money on the z (in my case using MSUs for 
 non productive work. MSUs cost real money.). I definitely 
 cannot afford a z development system of my own (and zPDT is 
 so encumbered that it is not for poor techies like me). And 
 people wonder why Intel is taking over the world with their 
 less advanced architecture? The only z machine I can afford 
 is Hercule-390. And I can't get a z/VM or any other z 
 licensed OS on that platform. I know why, but still. So, for 
 techie fun, I use Linux/Intel. I can afford it. Wish it 
 were otherwise. But IBM's apparent attitude appears to be: 
 If IBM can't make some money directly from you, then you can 
 just go somewhere else. So I have. 
 
 --
 John McKown 
 Systems Engineer IV
 IT
 
 Administrative Services Group
 
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  -Original Message-
  From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
  [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark
  Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 2:37 PM
  To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 
  Subject: Re: Mandatory ESMs?
  
  On Monday, 12/13/2010 at 11:12 EST, Dave Jones 
  d...@vsoft-software.com 
  wrote:
   As far as getting the new z/OS PL/I compiler over to z/VM, 
  I'd be happy
   if IBM just offered it unsupported on CMS, with only a 
 short bit of
   documentation noting the differences between usage in the 
  z/OS and CMS
   environments, much like what IBM now does with the z/OS 
  C/C++ port to 
  CMS.
   
   Any problems with the compiler would have to be recreated 
  on z/OS before
   IBM would take an APAR. I think that this approach might 
 help make a
   business case, as it would cut down

Re: Vswitch Grant as a CMD in User's Directory?

[McKown, John]

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.

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 -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 the data, and knowing who has actually done so.  (I 
 leave it to others to talk about motive.)  Who, what, where, when.
 
 Unfortunately, IT security industry consultants have mangled 
 this laudable concept into a paranoia-inducing behemoth that 
 has people screaming in terror as it rampages across the 
 

Re: Mandatory ESMs?

[McKown, John]

 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Troth
 Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 3:28 PM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: Re: Mandatory ESMs?
 
 There is a GCC which runs on CMS.  I have not used it.  Perhaps those
 on this list who have will chime in.
 
 GCC is a volunteer project, so the CMS port (which is closely related
 to the MVS port) will lack some features of compilers from IBM or
 Dignus.
 
 -- R;   

I am not very up on the Dignus or IBM compilers. But, although a volunteer 
effort, the GCC is a fairly advanced C/C++ compiler. As well as FORTRAN and 
Ada. I am not 100% sure, but I think that IBM Germany does a lot with the Linux 
on z version of GCC.

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Re: Vswitch Grant as a CMD in User's Directory?

[McKown, John]

 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Tom Huegel
 Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 11:01 AM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: Re: Vswitch Grant as a CMD in User's Directory?
 
snip
 
 Don't you just love the airport scanners and patdowns?
 

As Paul Lynde said many, any years ago on Match Game

It's the only reason I fly! snide chortle

Seriously, I don't travel. And if I did, I would drive my own car. I wouldn't 
fly if __they__ paid __me__!

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Re: Attachment to acquire Novell....

[McKown, John]

From my personal viewpoint, I will hope that it means they may see a need for 
a more advanced 3270 emulator for the Linux desktop. x3270 works, but is a 
PITA to configure, IMO. I'd be willing to pay Windows prices for an excellent 
TN3270E emulator. Please, no wine!

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 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of David Boyes
 Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 10:28 AM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: Re: Attachment to acquire Novell
 
  http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Novell-draws-new-bid-of-22-apf-
  3492629705.html?x=0sec=topStoriespos=6asset=ccode=
 
 Well, at least Attachmate gets it wrt the importance of 
 mainframes 
 
 

Re: Attachment to acquire Novell....

[McKown, John]

 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Post
 Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 11:24 AM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: Re: Attachment to acquire Novell
 
  On 11/22/2010 at 11:36 AM, McKown, John 
 john.mck...@healthmarkets.com
 wrote: 
  From my personal viewpoint, I will hope that it means they 
 may see a need for 
  a more advanced 3270 emulator for the Linux desktop. x3270 
 works, but is a 
  PITA to configure, IMO. I'd be willing to pay Windows 
 prices for an excellent 
  TN3270E emulator. Please, no wine!
 
 Would you like some cheese with that whine?  Sorry, couldn't 
 resist.  :)
 
 
 Mark Post

Gouda. No brie! And __NO LIMBURGER__ unless you stay downwind!

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Re: Attachment to acquire Novell....

[McKown, John]

I have a good setup for x3270. I'm always open for something better. No, I 
don't have the talent to do it myself. Reading RFCs and converting them to 
something useful is beyond my ability. Perhaps if I did a tcpdump and looked 
at the traffic, I'd have a better idea of how it works.

John McKown 

Systems Engineer IV

IT

 

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 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Troth
 Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 11:39 AM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: Re: Attachment to acquire Novell
 
 X3270 is crude, granted.  But it is consistent, and it is the 
 only 3270 emulator that covers as many platforms. 
 
 I have offered my $HOME/.x3270pro repeatedly (not here), 
 though it is so old that I really don't remember all that is 
 in it ... or why.  This much I remember: F keys are PF keys, 
 Alt-1 is PA1, Alt-2 is PA2, and there are several key 
 combinations for Clear.  After that, it gets pretty easy.  
 The toughest part is dealing with the packaging, for which I 
 blame dpkg and RPM.  (Don't get me started.)  I will happily 
 send a copy off-list. 
 
 X3270 works on every contemporary platform where X windows 
 works, except maybe USS.  (But there is an 'xterm' for USS, 
 so ... who knows?)  We're talking all Linux, plus Solaris, 
 HPUX, presumably AIX, and certainly Windows (thanks to 
 CYGWIN, and does not require CYGWIN's X server, but can use 
 Hummingbird or Reflection (since we're talking about Attachmate)). 
 
 -- R;   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 11:36, McKown, John 
 john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote:
 
 
   From my personal viewpoint, I will hope that it means 
 they may see a need for a more advanced 3270 emulator for the 
 Linux desktop. x3270 works, but is a PITA to configure, IMO. 
 I'd be willing to pay Windows prices for an excellent TN3270E 
 emulator. Please, no wine!
   
   --
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   Systems Engineer IV
   IT
   
   Administrative Services Group
   
   HealthMarkets(r)
   
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-Original Message-
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System
[mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of David Boyes
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 10:28 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: Attachment to acquire Novell
   
 
 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Novell-draws-new-bid-of-22-apf-
 3492629705.html?x=0sec=topStoriespos=6asset=ccode=
   
Well, at least Attachmate gets it wrt the importance of
mainframes
   

 
 
 

Re: DDR Tape-to-Tape (3590 = 3490)

[McKown, John]

I'm not very z/VM literate. I am a z/OS sysprog who has done a fair number of 
installs, but not z/OS 1.12 so far. My best guess would be that you could use 
something like DITTO to copy individual files. But the result is going to be a 
mess so far as doing the installation is concerned. The reason is that the 
supplied jobs are tailored to the installation medium. I don't know the level 
of expertise your z/OS people have. When I installed z/OS 1.10, I used the 
Internet Download option and put the files on my Linux desktop. I could then 
NFS mount the Linux desktop filesystem to the driving z/OS 1.8 system. This 
allowed me to install z/OS 1.10 without needing a lot of UNIX filesystem space 
on z/OS DASD.

Why not just reorder with the proper media requirements? OK, the time may be a 
factor. That's why I went with the Internet download.

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 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Andre Massena
 Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 5:53 AM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: DDR Tape-to-Tape (3590 = 3490)
 
 Afternoon all,
 
 
 yes, we are going backwards..
 
 
 A customer of ours has received a z/OS 1.12 Serverpac on two 
 3590 cartridges.
 
 
 Cleverly, he does not possess such drives, only 3490 units.
 
 
 Would it be possible to do a DDR tape-to-tape copy using the 
 above as input and Tonnes of 3490's as output??
 
 
 The other alternative would be perhaps DITTO in z/OS batch, 
 but I want to try and be clever first... :)
 
 
 
 TIA and regards,
 
 
 
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Re: Looking for z/OS DB2 skill

[McKown, John]

Can't help, but try this Web site for some DB2 lists.

http://www.idug.org/cgi-bin/wa?HOME

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 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Roland P. Chung
 Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 7:23 AM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: Looking for z/OS DB2 skill
 
 * Cross posted to VSE-L  VM-L **
 
 Hello All, this may not be the right forum for z/OS, please 
 let me know where should I send this to.
 
 There is a job opportunity for z/OS DB2 + CICS skill to work 
 in BeiJing for 1 year. Option to extend. Please contact me 
 off list if interested.
 
 Regards,
 
 ...Roland
   
 

Re: FTP Question.

[McKown, John]

 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard
 Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 4:19 PM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: FTP Question.
 
 We have a process that transfers thousands of files from a 
 Linux guest in one LPAR to a CMS file in another. The 
 process, following a successful logon, goes like this:
  
 Cd dir1
 Mget *.* (replace
 Cd dir2
 Mget * * (replace
 Cd dir3
 Mget * * (replace
  
 The entire process is done via VMFTP. It takes a long time to 
 transfer all of the files. I read somewhere that a new data 
 path is created for each file. This appears to be where the 
 time is being spent. Is there any was to cut down on or 
 eliminate this time? It would seem to me to be much more 
 efficient if all of the data were transferred over the same 
 path without all of the reconnecting.
  
 In this case, the target disk is a large V-disk that has 
 nothing on it. The files get molested and moved to a more 
 permanent residence after all have been obtained.
  
  
 Regards, 
 Richard Schuh 

PMJI, I'm not very z/VM literate any more. My first thought is to have the 
remote sited package up the files into a single archive file (likeunto zip), 
transfer that archive file, then expand the archive on CMS. 

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Re: Tape Commands

[McKown, John]

 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Mike Walter
 Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 11:27 PM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: Re: Tape Commands
 
 It does work if VM and MVS share the CA-1 TMC, we do it when 
 needed.  You will need to change the FLAG1 field for that volser.
 
 Off the top of my head, I think the command is:
 VMTAPE EDIT volser REPLACE FLAG1 00
 
 I'll get the exact syntax in the morning.
 
 But that may not be enough to change the scratch status in 
 the virtual library - which may require its own commands?
 
 Mike Walter
 Aon Corporation

On z/OS, I update the TMC, then run CA-1 CTSSYNC command to tell the library 
about the change in status. I would guess that z/VM has an equivalent. Sorry 
for butting in.

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Re: Highlighting in Rexx

[McKown, John]

 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Les Koehler
 Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 1:17 PM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: Re: Highlighting in Rexx
 
 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

Why do you say it can underscore and blink? I have blinking text right now on 
my Hummingbird HostExplorer display going right now, giving me a headache! And 
I just changed it to be underscored using the CUAATTR attribute of USCORE.

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Re: IPL VM/VM Issues

[McKown, John]

Some do remote mirroring of DASD. Or use virtual tape where the virtual tape 
device is either remote or can be remotely mirrored.

For the truly unusual and cheap: MFNetDisk can emulate 3390 DASD on z/OS via 
a TCPIP connection to a server on a PC running MFNetDisk under either Linux or 
Windows. If you do that, then burn the PC files containing the emulated 3390s 
to DVD. Of course, this means a PC server at DR running MFNetDisk. And 
installing MFNetDisk on the floor system. I'm not too sure about this latter!

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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf 
Of Ward, Mike S
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 11:44 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: IPL VM/VM Issues

What does everyone without tape do for Disaster Recovery and Business 
Continuity?

From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf 
Of Mark Wheeler
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 3:00 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: IPL VM/VM Issues

 Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 14:34:03 -0500
 From: d...@vsoft-software.com
 Subject: Re: IPL VM/VM Issues
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU

 Frank, while I think having a simple virtual tape server for CNMS is a
 good idea, it wouldn't solve our problems with SPXTAPE; it does not use
 the normal CMS tape i/o routines to read/write tape. I believe it
 constructs it's own tape CCWs and bypasses all of CMS tape handling.

Most shops without access to real tape drives have already converted their 
tape applications to use things like VMFPLCD instead of VMFPLC2, CMSDDR 
instead of DDR, etc.  As Dave said, SPXTAPE is a different animal and the usual 
tricks to get around real tape issues aren't available.

Mark Wheeler
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Re: Multi Page/Spool Directory Defs

[McKown, John]

Try:

http://listserv.uark.edu/archives/ibmvm.html

but you need to set yourself up with a listserv userid and password. I'm having 
problems right now trying to do that.

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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf 
Of George Henke/NYLIC
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 11:49 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: Multi Page/Spool Directory Defs


What is the best way to access the threads here?

Sorry to ask such a basic question.



Brian Nielsen bniel...@sco.idaho.gov
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As others have mentioned, they are placeholders to prevent directory
managment software from allocating minidisks on them.

What I also noticed was that your PAGE space is a mix of DASD sizes.

Check out the recent thread discussing the pitfalls of doing so.  You
might want to fix that on your 1st level system.

Brian Nielsen

On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 10:52:50 -0400, George Henke/NYLIC
george_he...@newyorklife.com wrote:

My Level 1l PAGE and SPOOL disks have only the first volume defined in t
he
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?

Re: Is there a JAVA implementation for CMS?

[McKown, John]

 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of David Boyes
 Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 9:30 AM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: Re: Is there a JAVA implementation for CMS?
 
  But
  who
  is going to write it? It's
  not going to come from Sun/Oracle. Sun doesn't even provide 
 one for the
  M
  acintosh -- Apple
  does. There are a heck of a lot more Macs than copies of CMS.
 
 If you want it enough to contribute to the development, let's 
 talk offlist. We've done Java ports enough times now that we 
 should be able to do it fairly efficiently. 
 
  I don't know whether CMS JAVA truly supported 
 multi-threading, though,
  wh
  ile Java does. Could
  lead to problems porting Java to CMS. Does anyone know?
 
 I fired up a old 4.4 system that has it installed. No 
 references in the help about it, but I didn't try running any 
 code to verify it. I suspect it did something with CMS MT to 
 fake it since IBM wouldn't have been able to call it Java if 
 it didn't pass the Java language tests, which have 
 multithreading in there. 
 

Would this be true JAVA? I.e. from licensed source? Or a port of OpenJDK? 
Which I take it is somewhat different. Or am I, once again, out of my mind 
(please leave a voice message at the tone)?

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Re: Virtualizing a z10

[McKown, John]

If you are allowed to say, what particular z10+ only feature does 6.1 require? 
We aren't a z/VM shop, so I've not perused the z/VM manuals, if the answer is 
in there I apologize.

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 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark
 Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 9:25 AM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: Re: Virtualizing a z10
 
 On Tuesday, 09/21/2010 at 04:42 EDT, O'Brien, Dennis L 
 dennis.l.o'br...@bankofamerica.com wrote:
  z10's were available quite awhile before z/VM 6.1.0 was.  
 I'd find it 
 hard to 
  believe that the z/VM lab didn't have a real z10 to test 
 6.1.0 on.  I 
 suspect 
  there was a time when they emulated a z10 on a z9, but to 
 my knowledge, 
 IBM 
  doesn't make that software available to customers.
 
 (sorry - late to the party)
 
 z/VM 6.1 was indeed tested on a z10.  During its development 
 it ran on a 
 z9 right up to the point where the code that exploits z10 
 instructions was 
 added.  On that day, all z9 and earlier test systems could no 
 longer run 
 z/VM 6.1.  Since we knew that day was coming, we used the 
 previous capital 
 planning/budget cycle to upgrade/consolidate test machines.  
 At no time 
 did we emulate a z10 on a z9.
 
 When we say z/VM 6.1 requires a z10 or later we mean it.
 
 Alan Altmark
 
 z/VM and Linux on System z Consultant
 IBM System Lab Services and Training 
 ibm.com/systems/services/labservices 
 office: 607.429.3323
 alan_altm...@us.ibm.com
 IBM Endicott
 
 

Re: Virtualizing a z10

[McKown, John]

I somewhat agree. I'm confused by IBM's z philosophy. I remember when the 
S/370 arch was around and IBM was targetting from mid-size to large shops (4331 
was __small__!). Now the z people seem to be like Bentley dealers. If you're 
not a multimillionaire, you don't even need to consider a Bentley. But that's 
the way Bentley has always been. All of a sudden IBM z is like Ford deciding 
that the family car is too much of a bother, and only go with super-luxury 
models. Old joke: You want 10 million for a car!?! How many will buy that? 
Answer: I only need one!

And since it's only the PFD instruction (which the PoPs indicates has multiple 
subfunctions, some of which may be a NOP on some models), IBM hardware should 
be able to rather easily make a millicoded PFD instruction on all the z series 
machines which would be a NOP instead of a PIC 1. But I guess it isn't worth 
the development cost to them. shrug

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 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Ivan Warren
 Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 3:01 PM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: Re: Virtualizing a z10
 
 On 9/23/2010 7:26 PM, Alan Altmark wrote:
 
  No secret:  It uses the PREFETCH DATA instruction in the
  General-Instructions-Extensions Facility. Of course, since 
 developers are
  no longer shackled by the z900, they may use other z10+ 
 instructions at
  their discretion.
 
 rant
 Sheesh... Would it have been hard to add a TM (On the STFLE results) 
 around the PFD/PFDRL ? Don't tell me the labs decided to cast off an 
 entire line of (4 yo) machines (which cost $100K) for just *ONE* 
 instruction (and more than that - it's only for performance.. 
 PFD/PFDRL 
 have no operational impact other than performance).
 
 The underlying problem I see is that it is putting a severe dent in 
 people's mind as far as IBM's view of Invest in long lasting 
 technology is concerned.. z9 is what ? 4 years old ? and IBM 
 is already 
 issuing SCPs that are no longer compatible..
 
 I remember a time (yeah.. I'm an old geezer) where the time when IBM 
 would release SCPs that were no longer guaranteed to work on 
 system that 
 were more than 20 year old - or rather had been withdrawn 
 from marketing 
 for more than 20 years.. (I'm quite convinced that with some 
 effort, you 
 could have run VM/SP5 on a S/370 138.. And possible VM/ESA 
 S/370 option!)
 
 PS : We're not talking about the z900/z800.. or the 
 z990/z890.. But the z9 !
 /rant
 
 --Ivan
 
 

Re: DEDICATED DASD - How to backup?

[McKown, John]

Have software on the guest do the backup? You didn't say what OS it was running.

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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf 
Of KEETON Dave * SDC
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 3:48 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: DEDICATED DASD - How to backup?


I have a guest OS running on 3380 DASD. All of the DASD is defined with 
DEDICATE statements to that guest only. I'm now trying to determine how to 
backup that guest. I have the CA VM:Backup (with HiDRO) product, but I'm told 
it probably won't work because the guest has no minidisks. We have a VTS here, 
so all the data will be written to virtual tape using the DFSMS/VM (RMS) and 
CA's VM:Tape.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,
Dave Keeton

Re: DEDICATED DASD - How to backup?

[McKown, John]

Why use DEDICATE? You could possibly use MDISK with the DEVNO to make each disk 
a full volume minidisk. Then LINK to it RR from another guest, such as CMS and 
use DDR.

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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf 
Of KEETON Dave * SDC
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 3:56 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: DEDICATED DASD - How to backup?

I have a maintenance window of two days a month in which I COULD shutdown the 
guest, but it'll meet with resistance I'm sure. The hope was to back it up 
daily. There's a total of 42  3380 volume currently.

As to the OS, it's VM 3.1 ... yeah, old stuff! We're migrating a customer from 
their old mainframe. This is a temporary solution.

Dave


From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf 
Of Gentry, Stephen
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 1:53 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: DEDICATED DASD - How to backup?

Can the guest be shutdown to do a backup?  If so, try defining a full pack 
minidisk on the dedicated drive and then use vm:backup to backup the minidisk.
Does the guest OS have a backup utility?  (You didn't mention what the OS of 
the guest is).

From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf 
Of KEETON Dave * SDC
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 4:48 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: DEDICATED DASD - How to backup?


I have a guest OS running on 3380 DASD. All of the DASD is defined with 
DEDICATE statements to that guest only. I'm now trying to determine how to 
backup that guest. I have the CA VM:Backup (with HiDRO) product, but I'm told 
it probably won't work because the guest has no minidisks. We have a VTS here, 
so all the data will be written to virtual tape using the DFSMS/VM (RMS) and 
CA's VM:Tape.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,
Dave Keeton

Re: Moving On

[McKown, John]

 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Troth
 Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 12:21 PM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: Moving On
 
 This month, I will be leaving Nationwide Insurance and taking up work
 with Velocity Software.
 
 When I interviewed at Nationwide in late 2005, Paul Henry (then
 director over the mainframe guys) put it this way [insert thick
 Bostonian accent here] - We're serious about virtualization..  And
 so it is.  Nationwide is a heavy user of z/VM and Linux on System z,
 then as now doing very cool stuff with V12N.
 
 Working with Rick Barlow and James Vincent has been the most rewarding
 part of the job.  Those of you know know them by their reputations
 (through the VM and zLinux community and/or through SHARE) can only
 imagine what was my reality over the past four and one half years. And
 the team around us (whom most of you do not know) is phenominal: the
 most committed group I have thus far been privileged to be a part of.
 I will miss them.
 
 But now the time has come for me to go back to the development side of
 this game, supporting the software that makes virtualization actually
 work.  If you can't measure it ... well, you know.  So I am elated
 that on the 20th I'll start with Velocity, a company I have always
 respected with products of renown.  I am stoked!
 
 -- R;   
 

WOW. I am very jealous. Despite never having been in development, I loved VM 
when I was a sysprog on it (1980s). And I like Linux on my desktop and LAN at 
home. This place has some liking for Linux, but not zEnterprise.

--
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IT

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Re: BookManager format softcopy

[McKown, John]

 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of David Boyes
 Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 12:10 PM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: Re: BookManager format softcopy
 
 Sounds like a plan. I'd actually omit the Information Center 
 docs too -- they're almost impossible to use, really. 
 
  The z/VM Information Center and PDF files would still be produced.
 

I'm curious. I have a KindleDX expressly so that I can easily read PDF books 
which are US Letter or A4 sized. Given the upswing in other, smaller, ebook 
readers (and things like iPod touch and smartphones), would a mobi format be 
useful? Or perhaps even a PDF book which is formatted to A5 size instead of A4? 
Or, heavens!, even publish the documents in Linux docbook format and let us 
create the book in whatever format we like using docbook tools. OK, this last 
is likely going too far as IBM starts to lose some of its control over content.

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Re: z/VM LISTSERV Query

[McKown, John]

OOPS - that first one is for Utilities on z/VM. z/VM itself

mailto:lists...@listserv.uark.edu

subscribe ibmvm

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 Yes, I do. ... Oh, you want to know what it is? grin
 
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  Does anyone know a good LISTSERV for z/VM?
  
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Re: 3270 Emulator Cards

[McKown, John]

An actual IRMA card at Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Attachmate-Irma-3270-Adapter-Win95/dp/B51553

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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf 
Of Jeffry A. Kennedy
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 10:35 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: 3270 Emulator Cards

Are there any 3270 emulator cards out there anymore ? We have Forvus and can't 
get any support with an installation issue.

Re: How to copy a disk using a z/Linux guest

[McKown, John]

I use dd

dd if=/dev/... of=/dev/...

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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf 
Of Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR)
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 8:30 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: How to copy a disk using a z/Linux guest


Hi

I am trying to find out if there is a utility in z/Linux in my case RHEL 5.2 
that will allow me to copy a z/Linux formatted disk to another disk.

Also do you know if DDR cares rather there is a VTOC on a volume if it is used 
to backup the volume without a VTOC?

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

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Re: How to copy a disk using a z/Linux guest

[McKown, John]

Wouldn't doing a dd in the running Linux guest to a separate disk, then 
backing up that disk result in a good backup? Assuming that the application has 
synced its data, of course.

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 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of RPN01
 Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 9:47 AM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: Re: How to copy a disk using a z/Linux guest
 
 Flashcopy does not account for any disk buffers linux still 
 has cached and
 unwritten. It will mitigate the situation where the disk is 
 changing while
 it is being backed up.
 
 All in all, if you're talking about running images, full-pack 
 backups are
 basically worthless.
 
 -- 
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 507-284-0844   Rochester, MN 55905   /( )\
 -^^-^^
 In theory, theory and practice are the same, but
  in practice, theory and practice are different.
 
 
 
 On 8/16/10 9:38 AM, Hans Rempel h...@hmrconsultants.com wrote:
 
  If you have flashcopy on your dasd that may be your best 
 option. Use the
  vmcp z/Linux module to invoke the FLASHCOPY command.
  
  Hans 
  
  -Original Message-
  From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On
  Behalf Of Rich Smrcina
  Sent: August-16-10 9:37 AM
  To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
  Subject: Re: How to copy a disk using a z/Linux guest
  
DDR won't care.  It will take the VTOC with it.
  
  On 08/16/2010 08:29 AM, Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) wrote:
  
  Hi
  
  I am trying to find out if there is a utility in z/Linux 
 in my case RHEL
  5.2 that will 
  allow me to copy a z/Linux formatted disk to another disk.
  
  Also do you know if DDR cares rather there is a VTOC on a 
 volume if it is
  used to 
  backup the volume without a VTOC?
  
  /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/
  
  / /
  
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Re: DR Backup using DFDSS

[McKown, John]

This is a shear guess on my part. Have you tried using OFFLINDR? It is file 719 
on the CBT tape.

http://www.cbttape.org/cbtdowns.htm?showonlynew=false

This program appears to work more like DDR. It does not appear to require an OS 
VTOC.

John McKown
Systems Engineer IV
IT

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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

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Re: (Fwd) Curiosity Question: System Security

[McKown, John]

RACF, at least on z/OS, does not allow a GROUP to be a member of a group.. A 
RACF group can only contain RACF userids. Eg:

AG GROUP1
AG GROUP2
ADDUSER USER1

You can do a CONNECT of USER1 to GROUP1 and GROUP2. But you cannot do a CONNECT 
of GROUP2 to GROUP1.

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IT

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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf 
Of Billy Bingham
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 9:09 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: (Fwd) Curiosity Question: System Security

From a colleague on the vse-l mailing list.


Billy
--- Forwarded message follows ---
I only just this week discovered that the VSE BSM does not support 
group within group security.  Meaning, if you have two security groups of users 
-- say, IT managers and IT employees -- and you try to include the IT managers 
as IT employees just by adding the IT managers security group into the IT 
employees security group, then the VSE BSM (as currently implemented) will not 
return the correct access levels for the IT managers so defined.

  IBM Level 2 confirmed that this is a restriction of the VSE BSM and, they 
think, also of RACF (but they weren't 100% certain).  Can anybody familiar with 
RACF confirm or deny such a restriction?  Can anybody familiar with other 
top-notch security products confirm or deny whether those products, also, sport 
such a restriction?  It seems, to me, that group within group security would be 
such a commonplace thing to want to do that I'm surprised to find that the VSE 
BSM does not support this.

  Now, I do understand that such a defined sub-group would logically obtain 
the same access level as is defined for the main group.  I further understand 
that in order to obtain a different access level for such a sub-group that the 
sub-group would have to be defined directly, as a main group, to the security 
resource in question.  I also understand that, under the scenario I've 
described so far, this would result in the same group being defined twice to 
the same security  resource -- once as a sub-group and once as a main group.  
However, I don't see this as a problem because a main group definition should 
logically take precedence anyway.  I just object to having to always define 
only main groups in order to obtain the desired security access levels.

Sincerely,

Dave Clark

WinWholesale Group Services
3110 Kettering Boulevard
Dayton, Ohio  45439  USA
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Re: Question to about SFTP

[McKown, John]

TCP/IP is part of z/OS Communications Server (nee VTAM). It is not a part 
of the base z/OS. It is a charge feature of z/OS. sftp is available for z/OS, 
but must be ordered. It is part of the OpenSSH port ( 5655-M23). It is free. 
This version of sftp only support z/OS UNIX files. There in an OEM enhancement 
from Dovetailed Technologies which allows transferring of legacy datasets via 
sftp. This enhancement costs $0.00 and can be downloaded from 
http://dovetail.com . I strongly suggest getting this, along with the Co:Z 
utilities which are also gratis. If desired, you can purchase support for these 
products from Dovetailed. They are excellent people!

John McKown
Systems Engineer IV
IT

Administrative Services Group

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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf 
Of Edward M Martin
Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 10:21 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Question to about SFTP


Hello Everyone,

This is a question about the 'other' IBM OS.I am hoping that you 
all will know this answer.

Does z/OS have TCP/IP as part of the base system, and does z/OS have 
SFTP too?

Ed Martin

Aultman Health Foundation

330-363-5050

ext 35050

Re: SFTP versus FTPS

[McKown, John]

FTPS, which is FTP over TLS (SSL), is a part of z/OS TCPIP as delivered by IBM.

John McKown
Systems Engineer IV
IT

Administrative Services Group

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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf 
Of Edward M Martin
Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 3:39 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: SFTP versus FTPS

Hello Everyone,

Ok I need some comments and guidance.  FTP using the SSH is not what we want, I 
believe.
We want FTP/SSL or FTPS (implicit SSL).  Which from my earlier question about 
FTP and TCP/IP on z/OS is not in the BASE TCP/IP suite.

Alan this statement would  this be the part of the IBM PORTED Tools that you 
are talking about (see below).
If it is then, That would SFTP and not the FTP/SSL (FTPS) that we require.

TCP/IP is part of z/OS Communications Server (nee VTAM). It is not a part of 
the base z/OS. It is a charge feature of z/OS. sftp is available for z/OS, 
but must be ordered. It is part of the OpenSSH port ( 5655-M23). It is free. 
This version of sftp only support z/OS UNIX files.

(It is amazing that the simple definition of SFTP versus FTPS can cause me so 
much grief on a Friday afternoon at 16:20. And I am leaving so expect a late 
response.)

Here is the Wikipedia definitions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SFTP

I think that I am getting confused with SecureFTP for VSE (CSI's product and 
the one we want) which by definition is FTPS.
FTP using SSL and TLS.

Plus I have some Opie that indicates that they want SFTP and
.  SFTP, for our purposes here at name removed , is for Implicit SSL 
connections.  FTPS, is for SSH connections which we don't accept at all in 
fact. 

FTPS that matches what I have in WS_FTP PRO.

This is what WS-FTP has

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Ed Martin
Aultman Health Foundation
330-363-5050
ext 35050

Re: Artical should be read 'zNEXT'

[McKown, John]

I will be somewhat nasty. The author of that piece is, IMO, an idiot. Not 
from this article, but from articles she has written about the SCO vs. IBM 
lawsuit. As well as the ad hominem attacks she has made about PJ from Groklaw. 
Now, I think a blade server that could run zarch, power and x86 in a single 
box would be fantastic.

John McKown
Systems Engineer IV
IT

Administrative Services Group

HealthMarkets(r)

9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf 
Of Howard Rifkind
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 11:55 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Artical should be read 'zNEXT'

http://www.sys-con.com/node/1453414

Some information about the new Z machine(S).

Systems people! buckle you belts.  For some the ride over the last few years 
has been tough but it looks like it might get even worse should this article 
stand to have some teeth in it.

Some might have already have additional information about these machines, care 
to share?

Re: Test Return Code using FTP under VM/CMS

[McKown, John]

In your FTP1 EXEC, try replacing the line:

ftp 172.16.11.6

with

ftp 172.16.11.6 (EXIT




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IT

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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf 
Of Sergio Lima
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 12:34 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Test Return Code using FTP under VM/CMS

Hi List,

We made a EXEC here, that do a automation.
This exec work with WAKEUP RDR, then Receive files, and next do a FTP to a 
Windows Server Machine.

Here is the REXX code :

volta:
DO FOREVER
  'WAKEUP  (RDR '
   IF RC = 4 THEN DO
   'EXECIO * CP (STEM LINES.  STRING QUERY RDR * ALL'
end

Do i=1 to Lines.0

 if word(lines.i,1) = 'ORIGINID' then nop
 else do

 fn =  word(lines.i,1)
 numero =  word(lines.i,2)
 data   =  word(lines.i,8)
 hora   =  word(lines.i,9)
 ft =  substr(data,1,2) || substr(data,4,2) || ,
   substr(hora,1,2) || substr(hora,4,2)
 fm = a
 cp spool c nohold
 read fn ft a (replace
 if rc  0 then exit
 call FTP1 fn ft
 signal volta
 end

end

Here, the FTP1 EXEC :

/*   */
arg fn ft
queue anonymous a...@amailto:a...@a
queue put fn.ft.a fn.ft.printlog.txt
queue quit
ftp 172.16.11.6

if rc  0 then do
   cp msg operator  danger message ...   
   exit
   end

if rc = 0 then do
   call gravalog
   end

return

gravalog:

data = date(u)
hora = time()
campo = data || ' ' || hora || ' ' || fn || ' ' || ft
queue campo
'EXECIO 1 DISKW' printlog log a

return

If the FTP don't run well, We need get the Return Code, but when FTP fails the 
Return Code also was 0, this the test :

USER (identify yourself to the host):
USER anonymous
331 Anonymous access allowed, send identity (e-mail name) as password.
PASS 
230 Anonymous user logged in.
Command:
Local file not found or cannot be accessed.
Command:
QUIT
221
12 *-* if rc  0
  0
18 *-* if rc = 0
  1
   *-*  then
   *-*  do
19 *-*   call gravalog
24 *-*gravalog:
26 *-*data = date(u)
 06/16/10
27 *-*hora = time()

Anybody already used this ?

Thanks very much.

Sergio Lima Costa
Sao Paulo - Brazil



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Re: Tape Manager for z/VM

[McKown, John]

Can't find anything either. Does your z/VM system have IP connectivity to the 
z/OS system which is running the RMM Agent Started Task?

John McKown
Systems Engineer IV
IT

Administrative Services Group

HealthMarkets(r)

9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010
(817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf 
Of Mark Pace
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 1:58 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Tape Manager for z/VM

Does anyone know where error messages for Tape Manager are documented?
I've looked in the only 2 manuals I can find
IBM Tape Manager for z/VM Installation  Administration Guide 
V1R2http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/c189344a.pdf
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/c189344a.pdfIBM Tape Manager for 
z/VM User's Guide and Reference 
V1R2http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/c189349a.pdf
No luck finding - EUMTAP0236E TMRMM communication error - Rc 101 Rsn RMM AGENT 
CONNECTION ERROR

--
Mark Pace
Mainline Information Systems
1700 Summit Lake Drive
Tallahassee, FL. 32317

Re: Tape Manager for z/VM

[McKown, John]

Perhaps it is like the COBOL messages and codes. There is no need for a manual 
because the messages are so clear and complete that an explanation would be 
redundant. grin.

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IT

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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf 
Of Mark Pace
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 2:25 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: Tape Manager for z/VM

Yep, I have NJE/TCPIP connect between these 2.
The problem seems to be one side (z/OS wants a host name) the z/VM side wants 
IP addresses.  I have 2 connections, 1 a public IP address going over the OSA, 
and a private address that goes over Hipersockets.  I wanted to use the 
Hipersockets and put those IP addresses in the config, but on the z/OS side I 
filled in the host name, and it seems to have bound itself to the Public IP 
address.

So change z/VM to point at the Public IP addresses seems to have fixed the 
problem.

But seriously, why the heck are there no messages and codes?  I get an 
documented message from VM and nothing what so ever on the z/OS side.

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 3:16 PM, McKown, John 
john.mck...@healthmarkets.commailto:john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote:
Can't find anything either. Does your z/VM system have IP connectivity to the 
z/OS system which is running the RMM Agent Started Task?

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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
[mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDUmailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Mark Pace
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 1:58 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDUmailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Tape Manager for z/VM

Does anyone know where error messages for Tape Manager are documented?
I've looked in the only 2 manuals I can find
IBM Tape Manager for z/VM Installation  Administration Guide 
V1R2http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/c189344a.pdf
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/c189344a.pdfIBM Tape Manager for 
z/VM User's Guide and Reference 
V1R2http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/c189349a.pdf
No luck finding - EUMTAP0236E TMRMM communication error - Rc 101 Rsn RMM AGENT 
CONNECTION ERROR

--
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Mainline Information Systems
1700 Summit Lake Drive
Tallahassee, FL. 32317



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Re: Can you help the Open Object Rexx Project?

[McKown, John]

 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Chip Davis
 Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 3:14 PM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: Can you help the Open Object Rexx Project?
 
 As many of you are aware, several years ago IBM gave the 
 source code of Object 
 REXX to the Rexx Language Association to maintain and enhance 
 the language as an 
 Open Source Project http://www.oorexx.org with a CPL 1.0 
 license.  It currently 
 runs on:
  * 32-bit Windows platforms; Windows 
 9x/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista including server 
 products
  * 32-bit Linux distributions including RedHat, Fedora, Debian
  * x86 and Sparc Solaris in 32-bit mode on 64-bit processors
  * AIX 5.x in 32-bit mode
  * x86 and PPC MacOS X
  * z/Linux
 
 A recent inquiry to the ooRexx developers elicited this 
 response from David 
 Ashley, the ooRexx Project Manager:
 
Unfortunately, we lost our access to the zLinux system we 
 used to build the
 4.0.0 version of ooRexx. If you know of someone who can 
 grant us access to
 a zLinux partition somewhere, we would be glad to build a 
 version of 4.0.1
 for zLinux. Note that we need root access to the 
 partition so we can
 install the RPM for testing.
 
 Would anyone with the necessary resources be interested in 
 helping out?  If so, 
 please contact David Ashley wdash...@users.sourceforge.net.
 
 Thanks,
 
 -Chip Davis-

Wish I could help. However, it is quite possible to run z/Linux on Hercules/390 
on an Intel system (Linux or Windows). I think that many run CentOS. Of course, 
the OORexx people may not have the people to maintain yet another Linux 
environment.

--
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Re: IFL Problem

[McKown, John]

 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark
 Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 1:34 PM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: Re: IFL Problem
 
 On Tuesday, 05/25/2010 at 02:12 EDT, Marcy Cortes 
 marcy.d.cor...@wellsfargo.com wrote:
  Remove the CPU statement(s) from the directory entry.
  Put in there instead:
  
  COMMAND SET VCONFIG MODE LINUX
  COMMAND DEFINE CPU 0 TYPE LINUX
  COMMAND DEFINE CPU 1 TYPE LINUX
 
 You meant to say TYPE IFL, not TYPE LINUX:
  COMMAND DEFINE CPU 0 TYPE IFL
  COMMAND DEFINE CPU 1 TYPE IFL
 
 Alan Altmark
 z/VM Development
 IBM Endicott

Sounds like a requirement to me. After all, what else runs on an IFL? So it 
would make sense to have LINUX as an alias for IFL in that statement,

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Re: Windows Enabler Appliance on System z Now Available

[McKown, John]

 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of dave
 Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 3:58 AM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: Re: Windows Enabler Appliance on System z Now Available
 
 Another interesting question would be how does one go about
 licensing the needed software for a z10 from M$:-)
 
 DJ

Good question. I don't run Windows any more at all. What does the EULA say 
about the hardware upon which it is allowed to be run? If nothing in particular 
is mentioned, then I would think that a x86 emulator on any platform would be 
acceptable. The main thing I know about it is that MS wants to make sure that 
every running copy of Windows uses a unique license. Run 5 Windows systems on 5 
PCs, pay 5 costs. Run 5 Windows systems on 1 VMWare PC, pay 5 costs. Now, this 
latter is generally not done because VMWare customers usually have the 
equivalent of a site license or some such thing.

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Re: FTP of Nomad database files from VM to VM

[McKown, John]

I've not used z/VM in a long while. But back in the day, I would use the CMS 
COPY command with the PACK operand. I'd then transfer that (RSCS). Then have 
the far end do a CMS COPY UNPACK.

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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf 
Of Tracy, David
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 1:16 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: FTP of Nomad database files from VM to VM

All,
   I am attempting to FTP Nomad Database files from a VM(5.3) system to another 
VM(5.4) system. I have tried binary and EBCDIC without success... Has anyone 
had success doing this that you would like to share?
Thank you in advance...
...Dave

Re: Design screen under CMS

[McKown, John]

 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Ron Schmiedge
 Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 3:39 PM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: Re: Design screen under CMS
 
 DMS/CMS is still out there, according to the IBM z/VM web site.
 Product is 5684-113. We are still using it.
 
 Ron

Does ISPF/VM still exist? I used it long ago.

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Re: HiperSocket UCBs

[McKown, John]

Why not put the z/Linux systems on a VSWITCH with the z/OS system? No more UCB 
problems. One set of UCBs to the VSWITCH in each guest. Oh, z/OS is not under 
z/VM. Well, VSWITCH the z/Linux systems along with the z/VM TCPIP stack, then 
hipersocket the z/VM TCPIP stack with z/OS. I'm not too familar with this, but 
I'm sure that this, or something close to it, would address your needs. The 
only minus is the single point of failure in the z/VM TCPIP stack. But that is 
fairly low risk.

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IT

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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf 
Of Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR)
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 2:52 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: HiperSocket UCBs


Hi

I have a bit of a delima. We do a lot of talking from our z/OS system over to 
our z/VM z/Linux systems via HiperSockets. We have a request for about 20 more 
z/Linux guests all of which will have two HiperSockets CHPIDs (3 UCBS per guest 
off of the different CHPIDS). The issue is that I am using pretty much the max 
number of UCBs allowed. So I was wondering what folks are doing when they have 
these requirements but are at the max of allowable addresses within the 
HiperSockets CHPIDs. I know that I can share the spanned HiperSockets CHPIDs 
across different LPARS using the same UCBs as the other LPARS as long as I do 
not re-use them on the same LPAR I am ok. So maybe the way to go is to create 
another LPAR or two I don't know? Any help would be appreciated.

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

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Re: HiperSocket UCBs

[McKown, John]

 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark
 Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 3:25 PM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: Re: HiperSocket UCBs
 
snip
 You have
 - 16 HiperSocket chpids available
 - 64 control units per chpid
 - 256 devices (subchannels) per control unit
 - Providing up to 12K devices, spread across 16 chpids or all in one.
 - Yielding up to 4096 NICs
 
 Are you sure you're up against a HiperSocket maximum?  If you 
 have 4096 
 NICs, consider using VLANs.
 
 Alan Altmark
 z/VM Development
 IBM Endicott

Probably running into a limitation on the number of UCBs in a single z/OS LPAR.

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Re: HiperSocket UCBs

[McKown, John]

 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark
 Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 3:29 PM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: Re: HiperSocket UCBs
 
snip
 
 The VSWITCH does not support attachment of HiperSockets.
 
 Alan Altmark
 z/VM Development
 IBM Endicott

So you'd need a router machine to talk between the hipersocket to z/OS and 
the VSWITCH, right?

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Re: HiperSocket UCBs

[McKown, John]

 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark
 Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 3:48 PM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: Re: HiperSocket UCBs
 
 On Monday, 04/05/2010 at 04:35 EDT, McKown, John 
 john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote:
 
  So you'd need a router machine to talk between the 
 hipersocket to z/OS 
 and 
  the VSWITCH, right?
 
 Yes, which undoes all the performance benefit of HiperSockets 
 by funneling 
 all the traffic through a single guest.
 
 z/OS needs only 3 addresses per HiperSocket chpid, so I don't 
 understand 
 why adding more guests to existing chpids is creating a z/OS problem.
 
 Alan Altmark
 z/VM Development
 IBM Endicott

My brain has apparently left, leaving no forwarding address. grin/

You're right. There should only be a need for one set of z/OS UCB addresses to 
connect to each hipersocket CHPID. For some reason my brain was [not]thinking 
it was one set per z/Linux connection. But a hipersocket acts like a LAN 
connection, so everybody on the same CHPID cross communicates.

--
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IT

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Re: Question about VSE List

[McKown, John]

Google is your friend. Try: 
http://www.lehigh.edu/~wsm0/vse-l/vse-l_subscribe.shtml

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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf 
Of Sergio Lima
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 3:09 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Question about VSE List

Hello List.

Someone know, the address (if still exist) from VSE ?

Thanks very much

Sergio Lima Costa
Sao Paulo - Brazil


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Re: VM-L Online

[McKown, John]

http://listserv.uark.edu/archives/ibmvm.html

John McKown 

Systems Engineer IV

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 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Tim Joyce
 Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 8:47 AM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: VM-L Online
 
 Hey Guys,
 
 Is there a web address that can be used to search past VM 
 posts online?
 
 Tim
 
 
 
 Tim Joyce
 Sr. Systems Programmer / Project Leader 
 Alex Lee, Inc. 
 Email : tim.jo...@alexlee.com 
 Phone: (828) 725-4448  
 
 

Re: General Instruction Extension Facility

[McKown, John]

What I have been old is that those are new hard wired instructions (not 
millicoded). Therefore they will only be available on the z10, and not on older 
boxes. This was not an official IBM statement, just want other who are 
generally in the know said.

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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf 
Of Ken Vance
Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 9:31 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: General Instruction Extension Facility


Hi,

Is the General Instruction Extension Facility a z10 only feature, or can it be 
installed on older processors such as a 2084?

Thanks

Ken Vance
System Programmer/Analyst
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Re: What does this wait state PSW mean?

[McKown, John]

Personally, I prefer the wait of 0xdeadbeef

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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf 
Of Leland Lucius
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 4:21 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: What does this wait state PSW mean?

After varying off a processor, we received a disabled wait PSW of:

0bad0bad0bad0bad0bad0bad0bad0b
ad

Systems still active and we wouldn't have even known about it, but someone 
happened to be digging around in the HMC and noticed.

Leland

Re: Moving On

[McKown, John]

Good to hear. Even it is a more-or-less competitor.

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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf 
Of Mark Wheeler
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 9:29 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Moving On

Friends,

After 8 1/2 months of unplanned retirement, I am pleased to announce that I 
have started a new job at UnitedHealth Group, supporting z/VM and zLinux. Lots 
of good things happening here, and I'm working with a bunch of terrific people.

Thanks for all your support over the last year. I've never been prouder to be 
part of the VM community.

Very best regards,

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Re: VM support and 9672

[McKown, John]

 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Wayne Bickerdike
 Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 2:24 PM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: Re: VM support and 9672
 
 The absurdities of IBM's tactics to force hardware upgrades.
 
 Performance is relative. At my age, I don't perform as well 
 as in my 20's.
 
 In my 20's mainframes didn't perform as well as a 9672 running Linux
 with an emulated z10 and z/VM.
 
 I guess it just depends on what you want to do.
 
 Your doubts about IBM licensing are well founded. Something really
 stinks there...

I don't know that I agree. Supporting old software costs money. If there are 
not enough users, then it is not cost effective. On the other hand, although 
the old software can run on the new hardware, to make the new software run on 
the old hardware would either require only using the old instruction set, or 
dual pathing. Dual pathing the code costs more money and is harder to maintain. 
Using only the old instruction set means that people on the newer box don't get 
as much of an enhancement as they could.

And licensing to run on Hercules/390, which I would dearly love, could be 
consider bad in that: (1) Hercules/390 is not certified to run zArch 
properly; which would (2) increase diagnostic problems (or require a no 
support license); (3) could cut into hardware revenue on the low end. The 
good would be a no support, individual license for non-commercial purposes. 
But this would cut into the licenses of the new zPDT offering.

FOSS bigot, here.

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Re: subscription problem

[McKown, John]

Try subscribing via the web at

http://vm.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?VM-UTIL

at the extreme bottom of the page.

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 Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 12:08 PM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: subscription problem
 
 Hello,
 I am attempting to subscribe to the list under my new work email
 address,philip_tu...@adp.com. 
 I don't receive rejections but I also do not receive an email 
 allowing me to
 subscribe. Is the list closed?
 Phil Tully
 
 

Re: Operating System Messsages Console

[McKown, John]

 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Billy R. Bingham
 Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 11:39 AM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: Operating System Messsages Console
 
 Hello all,
 
 What would be the parameter for VM to use the 'Operating 
 System Messages' console that is available. I think it might 
 also be referred to as the Integrated Console.
 
 
 Thanks,
 
 Billy

The line mode console is SYSC. The 3270 mode console is SYSG.

--
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Systems Engineer IV
IT

Administrative Services Group

HealthMarkets(r)

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Re: Operating System Messsages Console

[McKown, John]

Sorry, I think that I was thinking on the IPLPARM in the HMC. Maybe. If I'm not 
too EggNogged up.

John McKown
Systems Engineer IV
IT

Administrative Services Group

HealthMarkets(r)

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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf 
Of Kris Buelens
Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 12:01 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: Operating System Messsages Console

In the SYSTEM CONFIG file it is SYSTEM_CONSOLE (as opposed to SYSTEM_3270 for 
SYSG).

2009/12/28 McKown, John 
john.mck...@healthmarkets.commailto:john.mck...@healthmarkets.com
 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System
 [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDUmailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of 
 Billy R. Bingham
 Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 11:39 AM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDUmailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: Operating System Messsages Console

 Hello all,

 What would be the parameter for VM to use the 'Operating
 System Messages' console that is available. I think it might
 also be referred to as the Integrated Console.


 Thanks,

 Billy

The line mode console is SYSC. The 3270 mode console is SYSG.

--
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Systems Engineer IV
IT

Administrative Services Group

HealthMarkets(r)

9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010
(817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell
john.mck...@healthmarkets.commailto:john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * 
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Re: Operating System Messsages Console

[McKown, John]

Can't directly answer how far back, but the VM/ESA 2.3 manuals mention SYSC

http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/hcsf2a01/1.6.1.1

No hits for SYSG in those manuals.

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IT

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 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Billy R. Bingham
 Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 1:43 PM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: Re: Operating System Messsages Console
 
 And one more question :)
 
 How far back does this go? IE: VM/ESA 2.4.0
 
 
 Billy
  Kris Buelens kris.buel...@gmail.com wrote: 
  As Loadparm: SYSC is less useful than SYSG
  Loadparm:
   *SYSG *= start the SAPL screen on the Integrated 3270 console
   *SYSC *= won't work, SAPL know 3270's only
   *CONSSYSG *= bypasses SAPL screen, but telles CP to use 
 the Integrated
  3270 console as console
   *CONSSYSC *= bypasses SAPL and tells CP to use this 
 linemode console as
  console.
  
  2009/12/28 McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com
  
Sorry, I think that I was thinking on the IPLPARM in the 
 HMC. Maybe. If
   I'm not too EggNogged up.
  
  
   *John McKown *
  
   *Systems Engineer IV*
  
   *IT*
  
  
  
   Administrative Services Group
  
   * *
  
   *HealthMarkets*(r)
  
   **
  
   9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010
  
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 recipient, please
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 of the original
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   issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, 
 Inc. -The Chesapeake
   Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance 
 Company of
   TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM
  
  
--
   *From:* The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] *On
   Behalf Of *Kris Buelens
   *Sent:* Monday, December 28, 2009 12:01 PM
  
   *To:* IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
   *Subject:* Re: Operating System Messsages Console
  
   In the SYSTEM CONFIG file it is SYSTEM_CONSOLE (as 
 opposed to SYSTEM_3270
   for SYSG).
  
   2009/12/28 McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com
  
 -Original Message-
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System
[mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Billy R. Bingham
Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 11:39 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Operating System Messsages Console
   
Hello all,
   
What would be the parameter for VM to use the 'Operating
System Messages' console that is available. I think it might
also be referred to as the Integrated Console.
   
   
Thanks,
   
Billy
  
   The line mode console is SYSC. The 3270 mode console is SYSG.
  
   --
   John McKown
   Systems Engineer IV
   IT
  
   Administrative Services Group
  
   HealthMarkets(r)
  
   9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010
   (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell
   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
  
  
  
  
  
   --
   Kris Buelens,
   IBM Belgium, VM customer support
  
  
  
  
  -- 
  Kris Buelens,
  IBM Belgium, VM customer support
 
 

Re: Operating System Messsages Console

[McKown, John]

Hum, found a VM/ESA 4.4 manual at:

http://www.vm.ibm.com/pubs/pdf/HCSF8A60.PDF

In the New Functions, it states:

quote
Integrated 3270 Console
z/VM 4.4.0 adds support for real and virtual integrated 3270 console devices. 
Real
support enables this device, which is provided through a Hardware Management
Console, to be used as a z/VM system operator console. This removes the
requirement to have an external 3270 device to install and service z/VM 4.4.0. 
The
z/VM Stand Alone Program Loader (SAPL) and stand-alone DASD Dump-Restore
(DDR) program support using the integrated 3270 console as a system operator
console. Virtual support enables testing of guest operating systems and 
utilities that
support the integrated 3270 console device.
quote

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IT

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 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Billy R. Bingham
 Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 1:43 PM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: Re: Operating System Messsages Console
 
 And one more question :)
 
 How far back does this go? IE: VM/ESA 2.4.0
 
 
 Billy
  Kris Buelens kris.buel...@gmail.com wrote: 
  As Loadparm: SYSC is less useful than SYSG
  Loadparm:
   *SYSG *= start the SAPL screen on the Integrated 3270 console
   *SYSC *= won't work, SAPL know 3270's only
   *CONSSYSG *= bypasses SAPL screen, but telles CP to use 
 the Integrated
  3270 console as console
   *CONSSYSC *= bypasses SAPL and tells CP to use this 
 linemode console as
  console.
  
  2009/12/28 McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com
  
Sorry, I think that I was thinking on the IPLPARM in the 
 HMC. Maybe. If
   I'm not too EggNogged up.
  
  
   *John McKown *
  
   *Systems Engineer IV*
  
   *IT*
  
  
  
   Administrative Services Group
  
   * *
  
   *HealthMarkets*(r)
  
   **
  
   9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010
  
   (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell
  
   john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com
  
  
  
   *Confidentiality Notice:* This e-mail message may contain 
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 recipient, please
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 of the original
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   issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, 
 Inc. -The Chesapeake
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 Company of
   TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM
  
  
--
   *From:* The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] *On
   Behalf Of *Kris Buelens
   *Sent:* Monday, December 28, 2009 12:01 PM
  
   *To:* IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
   *Subject:* Re: Operating System Messsages Console
  
   In the SYSTEM CONFIG file it is SYSTEM_CONSOLE (as 
 opposed to SYSTEM_3270
   for SYSG).
  
   2009/12/28 McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com
  
 -Original Message-
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System
[mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Billy R. Bingham
Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 11:39 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Operating System Messsages Console
   
Hello all,
   
What would be the parameter for VM to use the 'Operating
System Messages' console that is available. I think it might
also be referred to as the Integrated Console.
   
   
Thanks,
   
Billy
  
   The line mode console is SYSC. The 3270 mode console is SYSG.
  
   --
   John McKown
   Systems Engineer IV
   IT
  
   Administrative Services Group
  
   HealthMarkets(r)
  
   9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010
   (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell
   john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com
  
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Re: System Free Storage

[McKown, John]

 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Gregg
 Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 11:25 AM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: System Free Storage
 
 We've an application that gets HCPLIM6007I, and eventually 
 6008E or 6009E
 Short of logging off/on, is there a way for the logon to advise CP
 they nolonger need it?
 It seems to survive a CP IPL or CP SYSTEM CLEAR...
 The disconnected machines, don't appear to be doing any of the items
 mentioned under User Response in HCP6007I, but I do not have access to
 the source and they maybe issuing CP commands that consume free
 storage... aside from getting the source and trying any, is there any
 way to know ahead of time what CP commands those might be?
 
 
 --
 Gregg Reed

Just out of curiousity, have you tried doing a CP DEFINE STORAGE?

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IT

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Re: Freeware 3270 emulation on Windows XP to connect to z/VM

[McKown, John]

 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Tracy, David
 Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 2:08 PM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: Freeware 3270 emulation on Windows XP to connect to z/VM
 
 All,
   Is there a freeware 3270 emulation package anyone can recommend? 
 Thank you...
 ...Dave  
 

The only 100% free 3270 that I'm personally aware of is x3270. You can get it 
along with Cygwin, which it requires. It sucks. Get Tom Brennen's Vista or 
Jolly Giant's QWS3270. Both are good as well as inexpensive. I've even run 
qws3270 under WINE on Linux!

http://www.tombrennansoftware.com/

http://www.jollygiant.com/qws3270plus.html

Both allow you to download a free trial.

--
John McKown 
Systems Engineer IV
IT

Administrative Services Group

HealthMarkets(r)

9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010
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Re: Disabled Wait during z/OS guest machine IPL

[McKown, John]

This is a CMS problem, not a z/OS problem. Are you IPLing from a 3270 terminal, 
with XAUTOLOG. It is saying that CMS cannot talk to the terminal. When you IPL 
CMS, do you have the PARM AUTOCR on it so that CMS does not prompt for input?

Just a couple of ideas.

John McKown
Systems Engineer IV
IT

Administrative Services Group

HealthMarkets(r)

9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010
(817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf 
Of Anson
Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 9:20 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Disabled Wait during z/OS guest machine IPL

I defined a new z/OS 1.10 guest machine on zVM5.2.  When I tried to ipl the 
guest machine, i got a disable wait psw. Below is the detail information.

Is there anyone who knows how to resolve it? Thank you very much!

 22:09:53  * MSG FROM ZOS6F   : DMSCIT171T Permanent console error; re-IPL CMS
00: HCPGIR450W CP entered; disabled wait PSW 000A 80F1842C


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Re: 回复： Disabled Wait during z/OS guest m ac hine IPL

[McKown, John]

I'm not a real heavy in CMS or z/VM anymore, but the CP TERM CON 3270 
concerns me. When CMS is IPL'ed, the console is in 3215 emulation mode. After 
the TERM CON 3270, the console is in 3270 mode. And I don't think CMS likes you 
to change the terminal mode on the fly.

quote

Some programs reset the console mode internally. For instance, CMS requires a 
console mode of 3215 and sets CONMODE to 3215 when it is IPLed. You may not be 
aware that the console mode has been changed for you automatically. Problems 
result if you then start a program that requires the alternate console mode 
setting.

Therefore, you should remain aware of the significance of the console mode any 
time that you start a program in your virtual machine.

quote

from: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/hcse4b31/2.570




John McKown
Systems Engineer IV
IT

Administrative Services Group

HealthMarkets(r)

9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010
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john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com

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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf 
Of Anson
Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 9:37 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: 回复： Disabled Wait during z/OS guest mac hine IPL

Thanks, John!

I defined the ipl and related command in an exec file as below.

...
'CP TERM CON 3270'
'I 8B10 CLEAR LOADPARM 10066F'
...

And then logon to the virtual machine and execute this exec file in the cms.

I don't know what happened There are some other z/OS guest machines running 
under the same zVM


发件人： McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com
收件人： IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
已发送： 周四, 10 29, 2009 10:28:23 下午
主 题： Re: Disabled Wait during z/OS guest machine IPL

This is a CMS problem, not a z/OS problem. Are you IPLing from a 3270 terminal, 
with XAUTOLOG. It is saying that CMS cannot talk to the terminal. When you IPL 
CMS, do you have the PARM AUTOCR on it so that CMS does not prompt for input?

Just a couple of ideas.

John McKown
Systems Engineer IV
IT

Administrative Services Group

HealthMarkets(r)

9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010
(817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell
john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com

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insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. �CThe Chesapeake Life Insurance 
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf 
Of Anson
Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 9:20 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Disabled Wait during z/OS guest machine IPL

I defined a new z/OS 1.10 guest machine on zVM5.2.  When I tried to ipl the 
guest machine, i got a disable wait psw. Below is the detail information.

Is there anyone who knows how to resolve it? Thank you very much!

 22:09:53  * MSG FROM ZOS6F   : DMSCIT171T Permanent console error; re-IPL CMS
00: HCPGIR450W CP entered; disabled wait PSW 000A 80F1842C


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Re: z/VM 6.1 G.A. targeted for this Friday, Oct 23

[McKown, John]

 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Mike Walter
 Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 10:55 AM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: Re: z/VM 6.1 G.A. targeted for this Friday, Oct 23
 
 I don't have any IBM inside information, but I suspect that 
 there may be a 
 few reasons, including:
 
 1- It's an Architectural Level Set, requiring a z10.  A big deal.  A 
 version number increment may help make that more obvious (to 
 those with 
 IBM history).
 2- It's the base for the z/VM Single System Image statement 
 of direction. 
 A bigger deal.  Single System Image is going to be a MAJOR 
 change to z/VM.
 3- Because they can.  :-)
 
 Mike Walter
 Hewitt Associates
 The opinions expressed herein are mine alone, not my employer's.

Is Single System Image conceptually akin to z/OS's Parallel Sysplex?

--
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Re: SVC 203

[McKown, John]

 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Alain Benveniste
 Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 8:42 AM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: Re: SVC 203
 
 Alone in the world to still use it probably ;)
 
 Well, I assemble the source and genmod it with amode 24 with 
 a v stor  
 at 4M and it still doesn't work
 I still have a 'operation exception'...
 
 Any ideas ?
 Alain

operation exception means you tried to execute an invalid opcode. It's been a 
long time since I've done any CMS programming. Do you get some sort of report 
which shows the PSW? If so, what is the PSW, and what is the data around where 
it is pointing? Any chance your code is doing a wild branch? In z/OS, we get 
these when some base register is set to 0. This is usually when a statically 
linked subroutine is not resolved in the link.

Just some thoughts.

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Re: SVC 203

[McKown, John]

From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On 
Behalf Of Alain Benveniste
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 12:08 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: SVC 203


If it talks to someone...Here is the code.


Here is the code for CMSGETMN : 

 MACRO
N   CMSGETMN LV=,NSTAD=
N   IHBINNRA ,LV
 AH0,=H'7'
 SRA   0,3
 AIF   ('NSTAD' EQ '').STDERR
 DMSFREE DWORDS=(0),AREA=HIGH,TYPE=USER,ERR=LSYSNDX.£A
 B LSYSNDX.£C
LSYSNDX.£A   CH   15,=H'1'
 BENSTAD

HUH? if R15 is not 1, then you are guaranteed an exception by the following 
instruction. 
But you don't have NSTAND= in your invocation, so this doesn't matter in your 
case

 DCX''
LSYSNDX.£C DS   0H
 MEXIT
.STDERR  DMSFREE DWORDS=(0),AREA=HIGH,TYPE=USER,ERR=LSYSNDX.£

And here the ERR= points to the x'' of the supposed NOP instruction, again 
causing a program exception.
That would be the case if there is a problem reported by the DMSFREE function.

*  FOLLOWING TWO STATEMENTS MAKE A NOP INSTRUCTION
 DCX'4700'
LSYSNDX.£  DC   X''
 MEND


Here is the main source program:


CLDR TITLE 'DLNCLDR - STAIRS/CMS BOOTSTRAP LOADER ROUTINE'  
0100
*  CMS32
0200
*   5664-189   CMS32
0300
*   CONTAINS RESTRICTED MATERIALS OF IBM   CMS32
0400
*   (C) COPYRIGHT IBM CORP. 1984, 1989 CMS32
0500
*   LICENSED MATERIALS - PROPERTY OF IBM   CMS32
0600
*   REFER TO COPYRIGHT INSTRUCTIONSCMS32
0700
*   FORM NUMBER G120-2083  CMS32
0800
*  CMS32
0900
*   STAIRS/CMS RELEASE 2.0 CMS113   
1000
*  CMS32
1100
DLNCLDR  CSECT  
1200
 REGEQU 
1300
CC0  EQU   8
1400
CC1  EQU   4
1500
CC2  EQU   2
1600
CC3  EQU   1
1700
 USING *,R15
1800
 STR14,12(,R13) 
1900
 BALR  R10,0
2000
 USING *,R10
2100
 DLNCPYRT NAME='DLNCLDR'   CMS32
2200
* CHECK IF THERE IS A PARAMETER LIST
2300
 XRR6,R6   ZERO - NOT IN TEST MODECMS11 
2400
 CLI   8(R1),X'FF'IF NO PARAM LIST, 
2500
 BEGETSS GO GET SHARED SEGMENT  
2600
 LAR1,8(,R1)  IF YES, STEP REG 1
2700
 CLI   0(R1),C'(' NOW CHECK IF THERE IS A PAREN 
2800
 BNE   *+8   IF YES,
2900
 LAR1,8(,R1)STEP AGAIN  
3000
 CLI   0(R1),C'T' NOW CHECK IF 'TEST' MODE  
3100
 BNE   GETSN   NO - GET SHARED SEGMENT ‡VA43154 
3200
 LAR6,C'T' SIGNAL IN TEST MODECMS11 
3300
 B GETOWN  THEN LOAD OWN COPY CMS11 
3400
* GO GET SHARED SEGMENT 
3500
GETSNMVC   SEGNAME(8),0(R1)   MOVE SEGMENT NAME‡VA43154 
3600
GETSSLAR14,CONSTART 
3700
*ONSTART SSM   =X'00'  CMS113   
3800
CONSTART STENABLE INTTYPE=NONE CMS113   
3850
 LAR14,CONSTART  

Re: zVM 'disk wiping'

[McKown, John]

IMO, more than 1 pass is likely overkill. However, from a auditing standpoint, 
there are NSA guidelines about how many passes and the bit patterns necessary 
to make the data truly unrecoverable. Using advanced technology (like Abby on 
NCIS usesgrin), it is possible to read ghost images of previous bit 
patterns underneath the live data on the disk. That is because changing the 
data does not change 100% of all the underlying ferro-magnetic material.

But, again, this requires specialized equipment. However, such equipment is out 
there in the commerical world for doing disaster recovery of damaged media. So, 
it would be theoritically possible to sell a DASD array to another company 
which would then contract to one of these recovery specialists to recover the 
data. What likelihood is that? Minimal. It is more likely to be done on PC type 
DASD on a stolen laptop or some such. And, in that case, the solution is to use 
full DASD encryption. That is what we do on all the company laptops. That 
pretty much guarantees security.

John McKown
Systems Engineer IV
IT

Administrative Services Group

HealthMarkets(r)

9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010
(817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf 
Of Scott Rohling
Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 8:29 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: zVM 'disk wiping'

Working with a customer running Linux on zSeries under zVM...  discussing clean 
up of disk areas when a Linux server is removed.   The 'norm' according to the 
customer is to use anywhere from 3 to 35 'passes' to erase data, depending on 
sensitivity.   I'm wondering if anyone can provide input about how this relates 
to various cleanup available...   I'm confused on a couple of fronts:

-  I'm probably not understanding -- but writing 1's or 0's more than once to a 
disk area seems, well, silly.   Do 'passes' imply that each pass is covering 
more 'area' or something?   Whenever I do things like 0 a disk using the dd 
command -- I assume the entire disk is being written to and any subsequent dd 
commands are unnecessary and redundant.

- If we do a DIRM PURGE user CLEAN --  is that sufficient to meet any DoD 
rules, etc concerning securely wiping data?Same for CPFMTXA FORMAT and any 
other utilities used from zVM to 'clean' DASD...   does anyone actually run 
these more than once?

I'm sure I'm not understanding the context of 'passes' and just want to be able 
to talk intelligently as I can about how their concept of passes relates to how 
mainframe DASD is dealt with - especially at the zVM level.  This is always 
where I come to hear several points of view and get useful insight -- so any 
input would be most welcome!

Scott

p.s.  Considered posting this in Linux-390 .. but it's really more of a zVM 
thing to me - especially since I plan to use DIRMAINT CLEAN functions to remove 
Linux servers from zVM.

Re: zVM 'disk wiping'

[McKown, John]

IMO, more than 1 pass is likely overkill. However, from a auditing standpoint, 
there are NSA guidelines about how many passes and the bit patterns necessary 
to make the data truly unrecoverable. Using advanced technology (like Abby on 
NCIS usesgrin), it is possible to read ghost images of previous bit 
patterns underneath the live data on the disk. That is because changing the 
data does not change 100% of all the underlying ferro-magnetic material.

But, again, this requires specialized equipment. However, such equipment is out 
there in the commerical world for doing disaster recovery of damaged media. So, 
it would be theoritically possible to sell a DASD array to another company 
which would then contract to one of these recovery specialists to recover the 
data. What likelihood is that? Minimal. It is more likely to be done on PC type 
DASD on a stolen laptop or some such. And, in that case, the solution is to use 
full DASD encryption. That is what we do on all the company laptops. That 
pretty much guarantees security.

John McKown
Systems Engineer IV
IT

Administrative Services Group

HealthMarkets(r)

9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010
(817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell
john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com

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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf 
Of Scott Rohling
Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 8:29 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: zVM 'disk wiping'

Working with a customer running Linux on zSeries under zVM...  discussing clean 
up of disk areas when a Linux server is removed.   The 'norm' according to the 
customer is to use anywhere from 3 to 35 'passes' to erase data, depending on 
sensitivity.   I'm wondering if anyone can provide input about how this relates 
to various cleanup available...   I'm confused on a couple of fronts:

-  I'm probably not understanding -- but writing 1's or 0's more than once to a 
disk area seems, well, silly.   Do 'passes' imply that each pass is covering 
more 'area' or something?   Whenever I do things like 0 a disk using the dd 
command -- I assume the entire disk is being written to and any subsequent dd 
commands are unnecessary and redundant.

- If we do a DIRM PURGE user CLEAN --  is that sufficient to meet any DoD 
rules, etc concerning securely wiping data?Same for CPFMTXA FORMAT and any 
other utilities used from zVM to 'clean' DASD...   does anyone actually run 
these more than once?

I'm sure I'm not understanding the context of 'passes' and just want to be able 
to talk intelligently as I can about how their concept of passes relates to how 
mainframe DASD is dealt with - especially at the zVM level.  This is always 
where I come to hear several points of view and get useful insight -- so any 
input would be most welcome!

Scott

p.s.  Considered posting this in Linux-390 .. but it's really more of a zVM 
thing to me - especially since I plan to use DIRMAINT CLEAN functions to remove 
Linux servers from zVM.

Re: z/VM Linux on Cp

[McKown, John]

 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Charles Grady
 Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 9:10 AM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: z/VM Linux on Cp
 
 
 OK - this one will get a laugh if sure but --
 
 Will Linux run in an LPAR with only a CP and NO IFL ?
 
 I know that one most likely would not  run a like this for long,
 but being ask to install Linux PDQ in an LPAR that does NOT 
 have a IFL assigned.
 Thanks for the reply.

Yes. A CP can do everything that an IFL can do, plus a bit more (like run 
z/OS). When you get your IFL, all you need to do is change the LPAR defination 
to use the IFL instead of a CP and when you shutdown Linux/deactivate 
LPAR/activate LPAR/IPL Linux, the Linux system will run, as-is, on the IFL. 
I.e. you don't need to do anything to switch from using a CP to an IFL other 
than change the LPAR defination on the HMC, __no__ changes are needed in Linux 
if all you do is change the CP to an IFL.

--
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Systems Engineer IV
IT

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Re: z/VM Linux on Cp

[McKown, John]

 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of 
 mike.wawio...@barclays.com
 Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 9:20 AM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: Re: z/VM Linux on Cp
 
 It will very likely push up your software costs for all the 
 other LPARs on
 the same machine if you need to upgrade your standard CPs.
 
 In general, IFLs do not count towards z/OS or z/VM software 
 charging by IBM
 or ISVs. If you run z/VM and z/Linux in IFLs it is 'a good thing'.

However, if you run your z/OS LPARs in a Group Capacity and limit the MSUs, 
then any CP power above the MSU cap is not charged to your z/OS software bill. 
We are doing this right now.

--
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Systems Engineer IV
IT

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Re: Remove a DASD volume label...

[McKown, John]

 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Frank M. Ramaekers
 Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 9:27 AM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: Remove a DASD volume label...
 
 Is there a way to remove a volume label?  (ICKDSF only has a 
 way to ADD
 a label.)   I want to revert an initialized disk (actually a 
 FASTCOPY'ed
 disk) back to it's uninitialized state (or just remove the 
 label).  Oh,
 no DITTO under VM here :(
 
 Frank M. Ramaekers Jr.

Perhaps the easiest way would be to create an MDISK of 1 cylinder at cylinder 0 
on the device. Then put that MDISK as writable by a CMS user. Now do a CMS 
FORMAT on the MDISK. IIRC, the CMS FORMAT command will destroy the standard 
volume label. If not, then make the MDISK 2 cylinders in extend. Do the CMS 
FORMAT command on it. Now use DDR to copy the second cylinder of the MDISK over 
top of the first cylinder.

Just some thoughts from an ex-VM'er (many years ago).


--
John McKown 
Systems Engineer IV
IT

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Re: Duplicate hipersocket device addresses

[McKown, John]

Why bother with hipersockets? Why not just use the z/VM equivalent, the guest 
LAN?

http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/HCSC9B31/1.2.1.4

quote

A guest LAN represents a simulated LAN segment that can be connected to 
simulated network interface cards. There are two types of LAN segments: 
OSA-Express and zSeries HiperSockets. Each guest LAN is isolated from other 
guest LANs on the same system (unless some member of one LAN group acts as a 
router to other groups).

/quote

Or did I miss something and this is what you are doing and having problems with?

John McKown
Systems Engineer IV
IT

Administrative Services Group

HealthMarkets(r)

9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010
(817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf 
Of Mark Pace
Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 12:02 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: Duplicate hipersocket device addresses

Oh, okay.  My z/OS systems in LPARS work fine with Hipersockets.  The z/OS 
systems that are z/VM guest systems, not so much.

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 12:19 PM, O'Brien, Dennis L 
dennis.l.o'br...@bankofamerica.commailto:dennis.l.o%27br...@bankofamerica.com
 wrote:

The z/OS systems are in separate LPAR's.



 Dennis O'Brien



My computer beat me at chess, but it was no match for me in kickboxing.



From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
[mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDUmailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Mark Pace
Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 05:57
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDUmailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: [IBMVM] Duplicate hipersocket device addresses



I'm impressed that you have it intermittently working.  I've never gotten a 
Hipersocket connection in z/OS as a VM guest to work.  One of my colleagues is 
working with IBM on this problem.

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 7:45 PM, O'Brien, Dennis L 
dennis.l.o'br...@bankofamerica.commailto:dennis.l.o%27br...@bankofamerica.com
 wrote:

We're starting to test hipersockets between Linux guests on z/VM and z/OS 
systems in separate LPAR's.  z/OS is having intermittent trouble pinging one of 
the four Linux guests, but is fine with the other three.  All four Linux guests 
have no trouble pinging z/OS.  Someone suggested that the device addresses used 
have to be unique among all the LPAR's.  E.g. if z/OS in LPAR 1 allocates 
FC00-FC02, then I shouldn't allocate real FC00-FC02 on z/VM in LPAR 2 to a 
Linux guest, but should start with FC03 or FC04.  I've never heard of such a 
restriction, and the source of the advice is suspect.  Is there such a 
restriction?  I found a Redbook, e-Business Intelligence: Data Mart Solutions 
with DB2 for Linux on zSeries, SG24-6294-00, that used the same addresses on 
z/OS in one LPAR and a Linux guest in another LPAR.  Note that the z/OS TCP/IP 
configuration doesn't specify UCB's, just CHPID numbers, but z/OS allocates the 
lowest three UCB's on the CHPID.

If the device addresses aren't the problem, what else should I look at?  The 
TCP/IP configurations on the Linux guests are identical, except of course for 
the IP address.  The intermittently-working guest has an IP address that ends 
in .1.  I know that .1 addresses are customarily used for routers, but 
there are no routers in this configuration.

 Dennis O'Brien

My computer beat me at chess, but it was no match for me in kickboxing.



--
Mark Pace
Mainline Information Systems
1700 Summit Lake Drive
Tallahassee, FL. 32317



--
Mark Pace
Mainline Information Systems
1700 Summit Lake Drive
Tallahassee, FL. 32317

FW: Duplicate hipersocket device addresses

[McKown, John]

From: McKown, John
Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 12:11 PM
To: McKown, John
Subject: RE: Duplicate hipersocket device addresses

Well, I'm a idiot. I didn't notice that z/OS was running in an LPAR, not z/VM. 
Sorry for the stupid remark.

John McKown
Systems Engineer IV
IT

Administrative Services Group

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From: McKown, John
Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 12:08 PM
To: 'The IBM z/VM Operating System'
Subject: RE: Duplicate hipersocket device addresses

Why bother with hipersockets? Why not just use the z/VM equivalent, the guest 
LAN?

http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/HCSC9B31/1.2.1.4

quote

A guest LAN represents a simulated LAN segment that can be connected to 
simulated network interface cards. There are two types of LAN segments: 
OSA-Express and zSeries HiperSockets. Each guest LAN is isolated from other 
guest LANs on the same system (unless some member of one LAN group acts as a 
router to other groups).

/quote

Or did I miss something and this is what you are doing and having problems with?

John McKown
Systems Engineer IV
IT

Administrative Services Group

HealthMarkets(r)

9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010
(817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell
john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com

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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf 
Of Mark Pace
Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 12:02 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: Duplicate hipersocket device addresses

Oh, okay.  My z/OS systems in LPARS work fine with Hipersockets.  The z/OS 
systems that are z/VM guest systems, not so much.

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 12:19 PM, O'Brien, Dennis L 
dennis.l.o'br...@bankofamerica.commailto:dennis.l.o%27br...@bankofamerica.com
 wrote:

The z/OS systems are in separate LPAR's.



 Dennis O'Brien



My computer beat me at chess, but it was no match for me in kickboxing.



From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
[mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDUmailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Mark Pace
Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 05:57
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDUmailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: [IBMVM] Duplicate hipersocket device addresses



I'm impressed that you have it intermittently working.  I've never gotten a 
Hipersocket connection in z/OS as a VM guest to work.  One of my colleagues is 
working with IBM on this problem.

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 7:45 PM, O'Brien, Dennis L 
dennis.l.o'br...@bankofamerica.commailto:dennis.l.o%27br...@bankofamerica.com
 wrote:

We're starting to test hipersockets between Linux guests on z/VM and z/OS 
systems in separate LPAR's.  z/OS is having intermittent trouble pinging one of 
the four Linux guests, but is fine with the other three.  All four Linux guests 
have no trouble pinging z/OS.  Someone suggested that the device addresses used 
have to be unique among all the LPAR's.  E.g. if z/OS in LPAR 1 allocates 
FC00-FC02, then I shouldn't allocate real FC00-FC02 on z/VM in LPAR 2 to a 
Linux guest, but should start with FC03 or FC04.  I've never heard of such a 
restriction, and the source of the advice is suspect.  Is there such a 
restriction?  I found a Redbook, e-Business Intelligence: Data Mart Solutions 
with DB2 for Linux on zSeries, SG24-6294-00, that used the same addresses on 
z/OS in one LPAR and a Linux guest in another LPAR.  Note that the z/OS TCP/IP 
configuration doesn't specify UCB's, just CHPID numbers, but z/OS allocates the 
lowest three UCB's on the CHPID.

If the device addresses aren't the problem, what else should I look at?  The 
TCP/IP configurations on the Linux guests are identical, except of course for 
the IP address.  The intermittently-working guest has

Re: Console TERM STOP

[McKown, John]

 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Edward M Martin
 Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 11:00 AM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: Re: Console TERM STOP
 
 Hello,
 
 I am not anywhere near a z/OS system person, but every time 
 we lost the
 z/OS console on the old P390
 That console was dead until we re-IPLed the z/OS system.
 
 Ed Martin
On current z/OS systems, it should be as easy as entering the following 
command, say via SDSF:

V 1320,CONSOLE

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Re: PSP bucket site

[McKown, John]

That looks totally wrong to me. I get PSP buckets via IBMLink at 
http://www.ibm.com/ibmlink/link2 You need to have a signon for this. And it 
costs money.

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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf 
Of Crabtree, Anne D
Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 12:00 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: PSP bucket site

To review PSP bucket for z/osk I usually go to the following site (I thought):

HTTPS:/TECHSUPPORT/SERVICES.IBM.COM/SERVER/390.PSP390

I get a Web page not found screen.  Has this changed or have I typed 
something wrong??

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

Re: DDR and CPFMTXA commands

[McKown, John]

 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Mary Zervos
 Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 1:37 PM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: DDR and CPFMTXA commands
 
 Can someone please point me to the right manuals to find what 
 privilege 
 classes a user needs to use DDR and CPFMTXA.
 
 Thanks so much.
 
 Mary Zervos

z/VM books are at:

http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/Shelves/HCSH2AA1

DDR is described at:

http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/hcse4b31/3.7

CPFMTXA is described at:

http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/hcse4b31/3.4

Now, IIRC, these are not CP commands. They are CMS commands and are thus 
generally available to any CMS user. Of course, you must have access to the 
devices in order for them to work as you would want.

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Re: z/VM FTP Question

[McKown, John]

FTP user's information

http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/HCSK7B30/2.0

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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf 
Of Howard Rifkind
Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 12:26 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: z/VM FTP Question

Thanks Frank,

What do you mean by by CCUU or user:dirid.

Is CCUU the control unit number or device address and as far as user:dirid ???

Thanks


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From: Frank M. Ramaekers framaek...@ailife.com
Subject: Re: z/VM FTP Question
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Date: Friday, August 21, 2009, 1:16 PM

Yes, you should start FTPSERVE (if not automatically initialized by TCPIP).
Files are NOT transferred by drive letter, but by CCUU or user:dirid.

Frank M. Ramaekers Jr.



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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf 
Of Howard Rifkind
Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 12:00 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: z/VM FTP Question

I would like to use the FTP server in z/VM to FTP a large file from one z/VM to 
another z/VM.

I haven't used the FTP program in z/VM so I need some help with this.

I assue I have to start the FTPSERVE machine in both the source and target 
machines.

Then do I'm just use normal FPT commands to transfer the file from the source 
to the target?

I want the file to got to 'G' drive in the source machine'A' disk would 
also be O.K.

Thanks.


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Re: z/VM mode LPARs

[McKown, John]

 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Michael Coffin
 Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 7:43 AM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: Re: z/VM mode LPARs
 
 Hi Rob,
 
 I'm inclined to agree with you re: virtual CPU count should not exceed
 physical CPUs - since the maximum number of ACTIVE virtual CPUs can
 never exceed the total number of physical CPUs.  Thanks for the
 comments, I think I'll cut that number down accordingly.  :)
 
 -Mike

I can only think of one possible reason. That would be when a system only has a 
single engine. You might want to define two virtual CPUs so that if something 
hangs up (spin loop?) one virtual CPU, you might be able to get work 
dispatched on the other virtual CPU in order to do problem diagnostics and 
recovery. I don't know as much about Linux on System z, but I have had this 
sort of thing happen on z/OS when a high priority task basically locked up the 
CPU.

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Re: Chunk (RAW Block) access to DS8000 storage

[McKown, John]

 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of David Boyes
 Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 9:29 PM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: Re: Chunk (RAW Block) access to DS8000 storage
 
  
  On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 16:06, Gary M. 
 Dennisgary.den...@mantissa.com wrote:
  Does anyone know of a way to access very large chunks of 
 DS8000 storage
  without minidisk definitions?
  
  We are looking for a way to allocate substantial 
 increments of storage
  (several terabytes at a time) with the least  
 administrative overhead.
 
 Convince IBM to document the QDIO interface to the FCP 
 adapters. Short of
 that, the only way is to deconstruct the Linux QDIO support, 
 which (since
 it's GPLv2) will taint your product and force you to ship source code.
 
 -- db

Well, maybe and maybe not. Have one person look at the GPL'ed code and document 
the interface. Have a separate person (or team) develop a clean room 
implementation. GPL does not stop you from doing that. It only stops you from 
copying the actual code itself. Of course, IANAL, so take my position for what 
it is worth - not much.

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Re: REXX DATE - Julian and Centry

[McKown, John]

 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Frank M. Ramaekers
 Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 2:47 PM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: REXX DATE - Julian and Centry
 
 I don't understand why there is the following restriction on 
 the Date()
 function:
 
 NOTE:
 
 (1)  If the Century or Julian format is specified, then no 
 other options
 
  are permitted. These two formats are provided for compatibility
 with
  programs written for releases prior to VM/ESA(R) version 
 2 release
 
  1.1. It is recommended that they not be used for new programs.
 
 
 There are still some programs/systems that use Julian.  For instance,
 EREP requires DATE input in Julian.
 
 Having said that, how can I compute a day 90 days in the 
 past, specified
 in Julian (in REXX)?
 
 Frank M. Ramaekers Jr.

/* REXX */
TODAY1 = DATE('B')
MINUS90 = TODAY1 - 90
DDD = DATE('D',MINUS90,'B') /* DAY IN YEAR */
YY=LEFT(DATE('O',MINUS90,'B'),2)
YYDDD=YY||DDD

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Re: z/VM 6.1 and Hercules on Z9

[McKown, John]

 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Graeme Moss
 Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 4:04 PM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: z/VM 6.1 and Hercules on Z9
 
 The company I work for is very tight with money (eg they 
 don't pay me what I 
 would like to receive) and the section I work for (Software 
 Factory) only 
 gets hand-me-down mainframes. I can see the situation arising 
 where our 
 clients who are on a z10 will want z/VM 6.1 but the Software 
 Factory only 
 has a z9 to run on.
 
 Questions
 1/ Do you think z/VM 6.1 could be installed under Hercules 
 under Linux on a  z9 ?

If Hercules implements the z10 instructions, then I would guess it might run.

 2/ Do you think IBM would allow it since it is not production?

You'd need to ask IBM about that. My personal opinion would be that they would 
NOT allow it.

 
 Graeme 

I don't know your situation well enough, but if your clients require z/VM 6.1 
support, then your company needs to run z/VM 6.1. Which means a z10. Basically, 
tell your marketting department that someone is making a mistake by not 
having a z10 because that will decrease your sales to leading edge clients. 
And they are usually the larger clients.

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Re: Replicating z/VM documentation

[McKown, John]

 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Thomas Kern
 Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 9:43 AM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: Re: Replicating z/VM documentation
 
 As I need a regular IBM Manual, I read it from the CD/DVD the 
 first time
 and while I have it open, I use the File/SaveAs function to put a copy
 in my own manuals folder with a name I can recognize. Then when I am
 finished with it, I email a copy of that newnamed pdf to my 
 home address
 to populate my home copy of manuals.
 
 Some levels of Windows let you have a Title column in the file list
 window and ALL IBM manuals have a proper title tag in their 
 pdf copy. I
 just haven't played with it enough to have it on ONLY for the
 directories I want.
 
 /Tom Kern

I am a z/OS'er who hangs around here. I have a number of PDF manuals which I 
copied from the MVS CDs onto my Amazon KindleDX (nice, but pricey). At least on 
the MVS CDs, there are a number of XKS files. These files are book shelf type 
files which contain the file name of the PDF and the associated manual number 
and title. I wrote a small Perl script on Linux which parses the XKS files and 
does an ln command to create a file name like: manual.numbetitle.PDF . An 
example file name would be:

SC26-7396-10.zOS_V1R10_DFSMS_Installation_Exits.PDF

Since Windows cannot have two names for one file, this script would need to 
be massaged to do a rename, I guess.

I was working on a way to slurp down the current PDF files from IBM, but got to 
feeling bad about how much bandwidth I would consume, so I never tried.

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Re: CP Query wildcards

[McKown, John]

 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of David Boyes
 Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 9:11 PM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: Re: CP Query wildcards
 
  Wouldn't it be nice if you could  'ifconfig
  eth*'?
 
 You can in Plan 9. 8-)

Why can't someone write an ifconfig replacement which accepts something like:

ifconfig 'eth*'

The shell would not expand this due to the ' marks. The ifconfig command 
process would therefore see the asterisk. It would then need to do whatever to 
inquire on the available eth* interfaces and report on them.

This is almost like MS-DOS. The MS-DOS command prompt did not do any file name 
expansion, but passed the * on to the CP. Therefore, everything that wanted to 
accept wild cards had to implement the logic in themselves. I remember doing 
this.

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Re: My presentation

[McKown, John]

Neat presentation!

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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf 
Of Michael MacIsaac
Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 7:50 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: My presentation


Bill,

Here is my presentation:

Mike MacIsaac mike...@us.ibm.com   (845) 433-7061

Re: Which software to use?

[McKown, John]

 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Mary Zervos
 Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 8:02 AM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: Which software to use?
 
 First of all, thank you for all the answers I received on my initial 
 question.  I know I can always rely on this vm group.
 
 Second, let me clarify my initial question.  The professor's students 
 will be running virtual linux machines that will be logged on 
 for weeks 
 at a time.  The professor will use the data we collect to 
 create a cpu 
 usage graph for each student.  We will run a baseline user 
 with minimal 
 cpu usage for him to compare against the students' cpu usage.  The 
 professor is looking to see if his students are using their 
 own debian 
 desktop machines or their virtual linux machines for their class 
 assignments. 
 
 Hope this clarifies the question.
 
 Mary Zervos

Curiosity: Why would he care, so long at the students learn?

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Re: Using DVD to restore an existing z/VM?

[McKown, John]

 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark
 Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 5:17 PM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: Re: Using DVD to restore an existing z/VM?
 
snip
 
 I know what you said.  :-)  The procedure for building a DVD image 
 includes tools that you don't have, so you would then ask for 
 the tools. 
 But the procedure and tools have value.  And down the rabbit hole we 
 go   I KNOW how this story ends.  :-) 

And, from what I've seen, IBM does not like to give some things out to 
customers because it freezes what IBM can do in the future. Backward 
compatability is wonderful for customers and a royal pain for vendors as it can 
impact innovation. I wonder when/if Linux will ever suffer from the can't 
change that, the customers would revolt syndrome.

snip
 
 Alan Altmark
 z/VM Development
 IBM Endicott

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Re: Using DVD to restore an existing z/VM?

[McKown, John]

 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Huegel, Thomas
 Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 9:01 PM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: Re: Using DVD to restore an existing z/VM?
 
 I am liking the USB port idea even more. How cool would it be 
 to walk into a D/R site with just a couple of thumb drives in 
 your pocket to restore your whole z/VM system?

I wonder if FlexCUB from Fundamental Software would allow this? It is an Escon 
attached PC device which can emulate mainframe disk and tape. Of course, then 
the DR vendor has to have one around.

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Re: Last release for 3420s?

[McKown, John]

Hum, if I had to use a 3420, I'd likely get a SCSI version. Attach that to a 
FlexCUB controller. Have the FlexCUB emulate a 3490 drive on disk, then later 
copy the data to the 3420 via a FlexCUB command. Do the reverse to come the 
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Re: Linux Commands

[McKown, John]

 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Thornton
 Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 10:03 PM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: Re: Linux Commands
 
 On Aug 14, 2008, at 9:34 PM, Paul Raulerson wrote:
 
  (1) Learn vi.
 
 Heretic.
 
 Adam
 

No he isn't! He is a true believer! Let the editor flame wars begin!
grin

Actually any TRUE mainframe Linux user will use THE because it is a
clone of the only true mainframe full screen editor of any worth:
XEDIT

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OT: Date bug kills VMware systems | The Register

[McKown, John]

Gee, very interesting bug in VMWare.

quote
Irate VMware customers were left unable to power up their virtual
servers this morning because of a bug that killed their systems when the
clock clicked round to 12 August.

The bug was sent out to customers in ESX 3.5 update 2, VMware's latest
hypervisor, which went out on 27 July. The version could have been
downloaded and installed by thousands of customers since then.
/quote

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/12/vmware_12_august_esx_cockup/

Re: CMS Files to XMIT compatible datastream

[McKown, John]

 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Kern
 Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 11:43 AM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: Re: CMS Files to XMIT compatible datastream
 
 The purpose is to have a datafile that can be transferred to a PC for
 archival to a CD/DVD and viewed with the XMIT Manager program 
 under Windo=
 ws
 and when the user gets a new job at a z/OS installation, the 
 file can be
 uploaded to that system and properly used by the TSO RECEIVE command. 
  
 I cannot guarantee that the user will have an UNZIP at a new 
 z/OS job. =
 
  
 /Tom Kern

Just as an aside, the Java jar command can be used to create or
explode ZIP type files. Most z/OS shops should have Java. It's free.

jar xf some.file.zip

will eXtract the files from soe.file.zip

jar cf some.other.zip file1 file2 file3 ...

Will create a ZIP file containing the files.

I don't think it supports legacy z/OS datasets, only z/OS UNIX files.

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Re: z/VM 5.4 Workloads

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Our previous management wanted Windows only also. They even had a
hardware and software group lined up to convert all the z/OS systems to
equivalent Windows systems (some sort of automated process). Luckily for
us, MF Tech Services was allowed to ask questions (in writing). They had
few answers. (Q: How to debug a failure after the fact? A: recompile the
application with debugging turned on, then single step until the error
occurs again.)
 
Current management likes AIX (or so it seems). z/OS is still slated to
be sun setted, but with no time frame. I try to pitch z/VM and z/Linux
(we do have some RH/Intel systems), but nobody seems to want to hear.
 

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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Macioce, Larry
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 12:48 PM
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Subject: Re: z/VM 5.4 Workloads



I was lucky. We had a different management when I convinced them
to covert from OS/2 to  z/VM and Linux. At first, there was one person
who wanted the conversion to be windoze based , but we converted him.

If it would have been the last management team it would be all
windoze with no hope, in fact there was talk of getting rid of the
mainframe

Mace

 

Re: R.I.P -- BookMaster.....

[McKown, John]

 -Original Message-
 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Jones
 Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 2:19 PM
 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Subject: R.I.P -- BookMaster.
 
 Buried in all of the good news today about z/VM 5.4, z/OS, 
 etc, is this sad note:
   
 Software withdrawal: IBM Publishing Systems BookMaster 1.4.0, 
 IBM Publishing Systems 
 ProcessMaster VM Edition 1.3.0, and IBM Publishing Systems 
 ProcessMaster MVS Edition 1.1.0
 ( 
 http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/index.wss?DocURL=http://www-0
 1.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/2/897/ENUS908-152/index.htmlInfoT
 ype=ANInfoSubType=CAInfoDesc=Announcement+Letterspanelurl=i
 ndex.wss%3Fpaneltext=Announcement%20letter%20search)
 
 We still use BookMaster 1.4 here to build documents we 
 distribute to clients and such. I 
 think it's about the best way ever for doing computer related 
 documentation of most kinds.
 
 Wonder if we could ask the current product owners to put 
 these tools up on the VM download 
 web page, for use as is, where is? I would rely like to be 
 able to use ProcessMaster here 
 as well.
 
 -- 
 DJ

Would be nice. Not likely as IBM probably has a replacement product
and doesn't want to undercut sales of that. That is the exact reason
that I am a lover of Open Source.

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Re: ADD VIRTUAL MEMORY DYNAMICALLY

[McKown, John]

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 Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 4:08 PM
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 Subject: Re: ADD VIRTUAL MEMORY DYNAMICALLY
 
[snip]
 Anyway, I've been thinking about Linux pricing, that is, per 
 engine pricing.  
 Currently, we are being charged based on our single IFL 
 engine.  And since the IFL engine was alone in its own LPAR, 
 that would be reasonable.  But now, if we mix a 390 engine, 
 with the IFL engine in the same LPAR, would CP sechedule 
 Linux work on a 390 engine (assuming 390 engine wasn't too 
 busy)?  Then, would we be in violation of our licensing 
 agreements?  I sure wouldn't want to pay full engine price 
 for a 89 MIP, 390 engine G.
 
 Tom Duerbusch
 THD Consulting

I don't know for a fact, but I'll bet that z/VM will not allow you to
have a single guest run on both an IFL and a CP. I'd bet that the
directory for the user will need designate either CP or IFL. If this
were not true, then it might be possible to have z/OS in a mixed
envirnoment where it IPLs on a CP, but runs some user code on an IFL.
Some smart person MIGHT be able to hinky the dispatcher so that
supervisor state code only runs on the CP. But I'm likely wrong.

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