Re: Performence Toolkit not working.

[Neale Ferguson]

I think the question was: do you have multiple z/OS systems that are sharing 
dasd?


On 8/7/11 2:09 PM, "saurabh khandelwal"  wrote:

Volumes are shared between z/VM and z/OS . So in this case is it possible to 
get some more detail about MVS crash from z/VM.

On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 11:18 PM, Jeff Gribbin  wrote:
Just a thought ... you're not trying to share DASD between the z/OS (MVS) 
systems in a, 'risky' way, are you?

(Even more bizarre thought - you're not trying to share paging volumes between 
your z/VM systems, are you? This would certainly provide many opportunities for 
virtual machines to crash in peculiar ways.  I once accidentally shared a page 
dataset between two OS/VS1 systems - I can state categorically, it does not 
work!)

Jeff

Re: VM workshop at OSU

[Neale Ferguson]

BTW I will be tweeting (or trying to anyway) using the #vmworkshop tag during 
the week.


On 7/27/11 12:22 PM, "Gentry, Steve"  
wrote:

I'm attending this workshop and I am not familiar with the area where it will 
be held.  The 1739 N. High Street  address doesn't make sense when compared to 
the links provided on the workshop web page.  There are no addresses provided 
for any of the hotels.  Googleing wasn't much help. So, if anyone, whether 
attending or not, is familiar with the area, could you provide some directions. 
 You can respond on or off  line.
Thanks,
Steve

Re: VM workshop at OSU

[Neale Ferguson]

The OSU Union building is in High Street. Here are the directions from the 
website. They are correct as we are there now:

http://ohiounion.osu.edu/visit_the_union/directions


On 7/27/11 12:22 PM, "Gentry, Steve"  
wrote:

I'm attending this workshop and I am not familiar with the area where it will 
be held.  The 1739 N. High Street  address doesn't make sense when compared to 
the links provided on the workshop web page.  There are no addresses provided 
for any of the hotels.  Googleing wasn't much help. So, if anyone, whether 
attending or not, is familiar with the area, could you provide some directions. 
 You can respond on or off  line.
Thanks,
Steve

IBM 2nd Qtr

[Neale Ferguson]

>From the press release: System z mainframe revenue up 61 percent; MIPS up 86
percent

Re: Moving on

[Neale Ferguson]

Best of luck Richard and thanks.


On 6/22/11 6:18 PM, "Marcy Cortes"  wrote:

Congratulations and best of luck to you, Richard!  The VM community loses a 
very long standing member indeed!

Marcy

Re: 3590 assign problem

[Neale Ferguson]

Good point. I'll check that.


On 4/28/11 1:17 PM, "Brian Nielsen"  wrote:

If your Linux guest is trying to do an assign, then you need to make sure

VM doesn't do an assign during the Attach by using the NOASSIGN option of

the ATTACH command.

3590 assign problem

[Neale Ferguson]

X-posted - IBMVM & LINUX-390

When we attach a tape drive (3590) to a Linux guest, the tape driver
attempts to execute an assign operation on the device which is getting an
error:

TRACE TYPE IO, CPU   TIME 12:08:25.022913
TRACEID = VMTAPE, TRACESET = TAPE, IODATA = 100
USER = SLES10S2, I/O OLD PSW = 07041000 8000  001352BE
DEVICE = 0585, SCSW = 00C04017 7FFDC448 0E00  ** I/O ERROR **
ESW = 0080
I/O PRIORITIES: CHANNEL =   0, CURRENT = 100, ORIGINAL = 100
OUT-PRIORITIZED COUNT = 0
-> CCW(1) = B74B 7FFC6FA4, CCW ADDRESS = 7FFDC438
DATA =   00 *...*
-> CCW(2) = 0304 7FF8A058, CCW ADDRESS = 7FFDC440 ** IDA **

The subsequent sense reveals:
-> CCW(1) = 04200020 7FFEF810, CCW ADDRESS = 7FFEF7F0
DATA = 804800C0 20122041 0003FF00   **
 0010 2004 1011  **

On the linux side syslog shows:

kernel: TAPE_STD: 0.0.0181: assign failed - device might be busy

A search reveals a great candidate APAR for HCPTSS: VM63414, however, this
was a problem back in 2005 for z/VM 4.4 and we're on 5.4 RSU 0901. Before, I
go any further is this a problem anyone else has seen? If not, I'll go
through normal channels (actually I'll probably do it in parallel).

Neale

Re: Mark your calendar for VM & Linux Summer Workshop (July 2011)

[Neale Ferguson]

Look for VM Workshop group on Facebook.


On 4/13/11 7:55 PM, "David L. Craig"  wrote:

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Pamela Christina in rainy endicott ny
 wrote:

> Hi, just wanted to get this on your calendarswork is underway to
> relaunch the VM Workshop as the VM and Linux Workshop.

Where's the Like button? ;-)

Re: Something wrong with my USERID

[Neale Ferguson]

#CP TERM MODE VM


On 4/6/11 12:20 PM, "Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR)" 
 wrote:

Hi

I have something set wrong for my userid on this one LPAR and for the life 
can't see it.

When I issue a basic command such as Q DISK I get the following:

12:14:28 q disk
12:14:28 HCPCQV003E Invalid option - DISK

Presentations from Hillgang

[Neale Ferguson]

Presentations from the last Hillgang meeting are available at
http://www.sinenomine.net/node/722

Meeting RSVP

[Neale Ferguson]

If you haven¹t already RSVP¹d please do so as soon as practicable. We are
trying to get numbers for catering.

Neale

Hillgang Meeting

[Neale Ferguson]

The next meeting of the DC z/VM & Linux User Group ³HILLGANG² will take
place on March 16 at the CA offices in Herndon, VA. The meeting details may
be found here: http://www.vm.ibm.com/events/hill0316.pdf

Follow the directions in that document to RSVP.

Neale

Re: Sending files to JES

[Neale Ferguson]

Alternatively, the TCPNJE add-on-extra to RSCS will allow submission through 
NJE.

Neale


On 3/8/11 12:34 PM, "David Boyes"  wrote:

SPOOL PUN TO RSCS
TAG DEV PUN zos SYSTEM
PUNCH fn ft fm ( NOH

Explanation:

SP PUN TO RSCS sets the destination of the PUNCH command on the VM side. RSCS 
knows to look at the tag data of the incoming files to decide what to do with 
them. TAG DEV PUN zos SYSTEM sets the tag data destination fields to node zos 
(replace with the NJE name of your zos system) SYSTEM, which is normally the 
JES input processor (SYSTEM is a magic word for NJE). PUNCH fn ft fm (NOH takes 
your virtual card deck stored in fn ft fm (must be RECFM F, LRECL 80) and 
punches it to RSCS without any special headers (the NOHeader parm). CP tags the 
virtual card deck with the information from the TAG command, and it ends up in 
RSCS' virtual reader. RSCS looks at the tag data, slurps up the file and sends 
it to zOS.

All this is covered in the RSCS Users' Guide, albeit somewhat opaquely. Feel 
free to ask if you have more questions.

Hillgang - March Meeting

[Neale Ferguson]

The next Hillgang is scheduled for March 16 at the CA Offices in Herndon. So
far we have the following topics and speakers confirmed:

Lynn Wheeler - A History of VM Performance

Lynn will present a quick historical perspective on VM performance,
beginning in January of 1968 when he started work on CP/67.  He will touch
briefly on queue management, page thrashing controls, feedback algorithms,
microcode assists, page I/O subsystems, multiprocessor support, shared
segments, CP pathlengths, CMS file systems, virtual guests, page replacement
algorithms and how many of these areas evolved over the last twenty years.
Systems covered will be CP/67, VM/370, VM/370 Resource Manager PRPQ, VM/370
SEPP, VM/SP, and VM/HPO.
Speaker Bio: 
I began work on CP/67 while an undergraduate at Washington State University.
I joined IBM at Cambridge Scientific Center in 1970.  I worked primarily on
CP & VM operating system technology and algorithms while at Cambridge.
While at Cambridge, I released the VM/370 Resource Manager. I transferred to
IBM San Jose Research in 1977.  I continue to work primarily in the area of
SCP software.  Recently, I have been responsible for the SYSPAG changes that
were released with  VM/HPO3.4 and CMS Paging Access Method that are part of
VM/PC release 2.. 

Romney White - IBM zEnterprise Unified Resource Manager Overview - The Value
for z/VM

At the last Hillgang Richard Lewis introduced the z/VM Implementation of
URM. Today, Romney will deeper look at some of the technology and attempt to
address the following areas:
- How it would be used in a couple of different circumstances:
- Migrating external blades/servers to the new environment;
- Once all the pieces are in place how do they play together, in particular,
if I¹m a z/VM-z/Linux shop how can I share data with the zBX entities?
- What type of control over the resources do I have from the different
places ­ HMC, z/VM, z/Linux, blade?
- What (other) problems is it solving?
What additional software will I require?

Neale Ferguson - Some Interest Technologies You Should be Looking at

- ZeroMQ (0MQ) - an open source library of APIs that allow you to create
light-weight message queuing applications without the need for a full broker
infrastructure
- Alfresco - an Open Source Content Management System that supports CMIS
standard that allows documents to be added and manipulated programmatically.
A simple case study involving jobs from z/OS being converted to PDF and
archived will be described
- NoSQL - a misnomer that should be NoRel: an alternative to relational
databases that require no schema. An introduction to the Sones graphdb will
be used to illustrate this technology

Neale

Re: Access to wiki.linuxvm.org

[Neale Ferguson]

My apologies. I replied to the wrong message, but the sentiment still holds!

On Feb 4, 2011, at 18:25, "Mark Post"  wrote:

> Cross-posted to Linux-390, IBMVM, and IBM-Main
> 
> All,
> 
> wiki.linuxvm.org has been under attack for about the last week from spammers 
> and vandals.  I think I've got it largely under control for now.  The 
> attackers seemed to be using a zombie net, so a _lot_ of IP addresses are now 
> blocked at the firewall.  If you or someone you know cannot get to 
> wiki.linuxvm.org, please contact me off list with the IP address being used.  
> It may have been part of the zombie net, or an innocent bystander.  If the 
> former, you _really_ want that to get fixed.  If the latter, I can fix it for 
> you.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark Post

Re: Access to wiki.linuxvm.org

[Neale Ferguson]

I'll give it a go sometime over the weekend (depending on how the beer supply 
is going).

On Feb 4, 2011, at 18:25, "Mark Post"  wrote:

> Cross-posted to Linux-390, IBMVM, and IBM-Main
> 
> All,
> 
> wiki.linuxvm.org has been under attack for about the last week from spammers 
> and vandals.  I think I've got it largely under control for now.  The 
> attackers seemed to be using a zombie net, so a _lot_ of IP addresses are now 
> blocked at the firewall.  If you or someone you know cannot get to 
> wiki.linuxvm.org, please contact me off list with the IP address being used.  
> It may have been part of the zombie net, or an innocent bystander.  If the 
> former, you _really_ want that to get fixed.  If the latter, I can fix it for 
> you.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark Post

Re: Another Info Request: SIGNAL SHUTDOWN process ...

[Neale Ferguson]

And POP won't tell you how to use the SERVC operation to register that you want 
to receive that particular signal.


On 1/10/11 11:57 AM, "Jeff Gribbin"  wrote:

Thanks guys - never would have found that by myself. ZArchitecture POP is
n't
exactly explicit on the matter but from a reading of SHUTTRAP and a readi
ng
of POP I now see it to be a form of the Service Signal External Interrupt
.

Happily I don't need to code a handler solely from the information provid
ed
in POP - to do so would, I feel, be  "challenging".

Another one bites the dust :-)

Re: Another Info Request: SIGNAL SHUTDOWN process ...

[Neale Ferguson]

Go to VM download site (www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages) and look for 
SHUTTRAP. It will show you what needs to be done.


On 1/10/11 10:24 AM, "Jeff Gribbin"  wrote:

I've been hunting the doc's for more detail on how SIGNAL SHUTDOWN actual
ly
works - assuming that somewhere the process would be documented in terms
of
what the to-be-signalled guest has to do to establish the environment and

how CP actually transmits the signal to the said guest.

So far no luck - it's either in none of the, 'obvious' places or I've mis
sed it.

Would some kind soul that knows the answer please point me to the
appropriate doc?  No need to describe the process here - a pointer is rea
lly
exactly and all that I need.

With thanks once again in anticipation.

Jeff G.

Re: Strange response time problems (also posted on VSE-L)

[Neale Ferguson]

Actually, what does #CP IND Q show when the problem is occuring?


On 12/21/10 12:17 PM, "Quay, Jonathan (IHG)"  wrote:

Guest operating systems almost always live in Q3.  Try bumping up the Q3 
STORBUF.




From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf 
Of Wakser, David
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 10:21 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: Strange response time problems (also posted on VSE-L)

Already did that:

q srm
IABIAS : INTENSITY=90%; DURATION=3
LDUBUF : Q1=300% Q2=200% Q3=150%
STORBUF: Q1=300% Q2=200% Q3=150%
DSPBUF : Q1=32767 Q2=32767 Q3=32767
DISPATCHING MINOR TIMESLICE = 5 MS
MAXWSS : LIMIT=%
.. : PAGES=99
XSTORE : 0%


From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf 
Of Helmuth Teubl
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 10:06 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Strange response time problems (also posted on VSE-L)

Hi,
maybe SRM-Settings not OK? You should overcommit LDUBUFs and STORBUFs
The defaults are:
CP Q SRM
IABIAS : INTENSITY=90%; DURATION=2
LDUBUF : Q1=100% Q2=75% Q3=60%
STORBUF: Q1=125% Q2=105% Q3=95%
DSPBUF : Q1=32767 Q2=32767 Q3=32767
DISPATCHING MINOR TIMESLICE = 5 MS
MAXWSS : LIMIT=%
.. : PAGES=99
XSTORE : 0%
LIMITHARD METHOD: DEADLINE

Have a look, maybe try following settings:
q srm
IABIAS : INTENSITY=90%; DURATION=2
LDUBUF : Q1=300% Q2=200% Q3=100%
STORBUF: Q1=300% Q2=275% Q3=250%
DSPBUF : Q1=32767 Q2=32767 Q3=32767
DISPATCHING MINOR TIMESLICE = 5 MS
MAXWSS : LIMIT=%
.. : PAGES=99
XSTORE : 0%
LIMITHARD METHOD: DEADLINE

kind regards
Helmuth


David.Wakser---21.12.2010 15:54:15---All: We are running 2 2.3 VSE systems 
under z/VM 5.4 on a Z800 CPU.

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All:
We are running 2 2.3 VSE systems under z/VM 5.4 on a Z800 CPU. We are 
experiencing periods of time when VSEs do not respond at all (e.g. cannot get 
in via FAQS from CMS, etc.), even though nothing is running in the VSE system 
and the z/VM system is not very busy. At other times, we have excellent 
response times, though conditions on either the guests or the z/VM host didn't 
seem to change.

We do not have any z/VM monitors (except Explore, which is not set up 
properly), and we have even tried QUICKDSP, without success.

Is anyone aware of any PTFs that address this strange behavior? We believe it 
started when the system was upgraded to z/VM 5.4.

David Wakser

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Re: CSL question

[Neale Ferguson]

You are correct. I discovered that 10 minutes after asking the question. Tks 
anyway.


On 12/17/10 11:50 PM, "Alan Altmark"  wrote:

I think you're missing the filemode.  Without it, it's being interpreted
as 'namedef1 namedef2'.

Alan Altmark

CSL question

[Neale Ferguson]

I think I'm missing something obvious here but I've been staring at it so
long I can't see the problem. The code fragment -

char exsbuff[sizeof(exsh_t) + sizeof(exsf_t)];
int lExsbuff = sizeof(exsbuff);
char *fName = "PROFILE EXEC";
int lFname = strlen(fName);
int lCommit = 6;

DMSCSL("DMSEXIST", &rc, &reason, fName, lFname,
&exsbuff, lExsbuff, "COMMIT", lCommit);

The result of the CSL call is:
rc: 8 reason: 90530

Where 90530 = The namedef part of the file ID or dirname parameter does not
exist or was used incorrectly.

Why is fName being interpreted as a namedef rather than a filename/filetype
combination?

Neale

Re: Mandatory ESMs?

[Neale Ferguson]

LE has been kept up to date, as have things like the binder to support 
functions like MPROUTE which were also ported from z/OS. This makes acquiring 
and maintaining things like this so much easier.

I'm a long time CMS fan. In an earlier life we had a lot of complex apps 
centered on SQL/DS including an online credit union system. Our MIS that 
supported our VSE-based homegrown OLTP was written using SQL/DS, Rexx, a 3270 
Rexx interface (that could also drive the CMS GUI), and PL/I. We had a 
homegrown Dirmaint also built using SQL/DS and Rexx. When PL/I stopped being 
enhanced around 1996 we knew the writing was on the wall.

I'm particularly proud of our Rexx fullscreen tool that allowed you to drive 
the 3270 (either your CMS console, a dialed device or CMS GUI) using Rexx 
variables (e.g. If you had a field on the screen called Surname then to change 
its color the simply say colour_surname = 'RED' or its protection attribute the 
prot_surname='Y'). It supported multiple windows and so on. The syntax was 
straightforward unlike DMS and it had a very small footprint. It also allowed 
me to learn a lot about LE, PIPI and enclaves.

However, I know building apps based around logging on to a 3270 and the need to 
integrate with things like XML parsers like xerces mean that as an app hosting 
environment CMS's best day are behind it and that other than for nostalgic 
reasons (and the discipline to extract maximum function from a minimum if 
resources) I'm okay with it.

All those systems are gone now as, after a takeover, TPTB decided the Alpha and 
Itanium were the way of the future and 30+ years of collaboration with IBM and 
25+ years of VM ceased to be. Another couple of years later I think Linux would 
have complemented if nit supplanted our VSE systems, but it was not to be. I'm 
glad I left when the systems were in their prime and I didn't have to 
decommission our A$GREY, B$BLUE, C$BROWN and D$GREEN VM systems (they had those 
names for years and before they were LPARs, IBM used to supply the processors 
in those colours.

It must be Friday and I must be getting old to indulge in such nostalgia. Time 
for a drink or ten.

On Dec 10, 2010, at 18:41, "George Henke/NYLIC" 
mailto:george_he...@newyorklife.com>> wrote:

z/VM has LE ported over from z/OS.

So things cannot be all that bad in the world of CMS compilers.

"I have heard people rant and rave and bellow
 That we're done and we might as well be dead
 But I'm  only a cockeyed optimist
 And I can't get it into my head"

   Oscar Hammerstein


David Boyes mailto:dbo...@sinenomine.net>>
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mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU>>

12/10/2010 05:34 PM

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mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU>>



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Subject
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> GCC for CMS [snip]

Building a non-trivial program that involves existing libraries or code that 
must access things like CSL services is pretty hard to do with the CMS GCC 
port. It's a good tool for writing apps totally from scratch, but it's not 
something yet that I would rely on for really large mission-critical 
applications.  The generated code is still very conservative in the 
instructions it uses and what machine functions it can/does exploit, to it's 
detriment.

I'm concerned that there's no Enterprise COBOL, no more development on FORTRAN, 
no up to date PL/1… etc, etc. The IBM C/C++ compiler is still maintained and 
current, but only because it's necessary for CP development. You can't order 
CMS VSAM any longer, so there's no direct access file capability from the old 
compilers without directly interfacing to assembler yourself. Nothing's been 
touched in SQL/DS for VM for ages now. TSM is gone. 2/3 of the function of 
DFSMS/VM is pretty much gutted in terms of usability or functionality. ISPF/VM 
is ancient, and pretty much no longer maintained in any real sense (a lot has 
happened in ISPF since 3.2). No Java since 1.3 (although that's no real loss, 
IMHO). APL2 is frozen in time. Pascal is frozen in time (and only still exists 
to service the bits of the VM TCP stack that aren't in C or assembler).  Ditto 
RXSQL. Ditto Kerberos (the shipped K4 is nothing you'd want to build new apps 
on). Interactive Debugger? DMS/CMS? All pretty much in a zombie state. OpenVM? 
Not much to see there either — although we finally have some reason for BFS to 
exist with the new SSL server (not that it's all that much fun to use).

You're pretty much left with assembler, C, C++, XEDIT, REXX and CMS Pipelines 
as the supported application development languages on CMS.
That's a pretty powerful set of tooling by itself, but if you're trying to 
preflight applications and do development in the CMS world that is intended for 
other places and other uses, that's not much. 3 out of 6 aren't widely portable 
outside VM at all, and the other 3 

Re: Shopz Function

[Neale Ferguson]

Hey, that's my number!


On 11/17/10 12:49 PM, "Schuh, Richard"  wrote:

In the Shopz new function announcement that I just received, the salutation 
was,  "Dear 52450 Schuh,". I am not sure that I will recognize it if someone 
calls me by my new first name. It will take some time getting used to it.

Regards,
52450 (Richard) Schuh

Re: RSU or PSU?

[Neale Ferguson]

Been there, done that, got the T-shirt!

On 10/21/10 2:02 PM, "George Henke/NYLIC"  wrote:


Hold everything, I think Mike just led me to the problem.

I believe I uploaded a COR file from my desktop  instead of the 5407RSU file 
downloaded from SHOPZ.

The difference in attributes is a "dead giveaway":

9357956P SHIPTFSS T1 F  1024  13790  3448  9/23/10 17:34:59 
What I uploaded
5402RSU1 SERVLINK T1 V 655351118126  29466 12/05/08 10:40:44
 Previous 5402 RSU

And looking at my download folder on my desktop SHIPRSU1 has been left behind 
there.

Really sorry for wasting everyone's time such a stupid mistake.

But thank you all for all your help.

Re: REXX that verify what MINIDISK is a file

[Neale Ferguson]

Years ago we used the alternative EXEC processor support to encrypt our execs 
and make these the ones the users executed.


On 10/15/10 12:51 PM, "gclo...@br.ibm.com"  wrote:

Hi,
A lot of years ago (VSE age), I saw a similar problem: how to protect an exec 
that puts controlled programs in production.
That time, my solution was a simple ASSEMBLER  program (public) that links 
another mdisk (SUPPORT 11F if I remember correctly),  and calling the correct 
EXEC who did all the checks and finish detaching the mdisk.
The only problem was to recompile the program all the times when the mdisk 
password was changed.
I will search for this program source into my backups...  If found, I put the 
program in this list...

Hillgang reminder

[Neale Ferguson]

A final reminder that the Greater DC area z/VM and Linux on z user group
meets tomorrow. Details at: http://www.vm.ibm.com/events/hill1013.pdf

*  Understanding the IT Audit Process ­ Stan King, Information Technology
Company
*  z/VM Single System Image and Guest Mobility Preview ­ John Franciscovich,
IBM
*  IBM zEnterprise Unified Resource Manager: z/VM Implementation ­ Richard
Lewis, IBM
* Introducing the zPDT ­ Stan King, ITC

The 1st topic will be of particular interest to Federal agencies dealing
with the GAO - whether or not you're using z/VM or Linux.

Neale

Hillgang meeting - October 13

[Neale Ferguson]

The z/VM and Linux on z user group ³Hillgang² will meet on October 13 in
Herndon Virginia at the CA offices. The agenda has been updated and may be
found at http://www.vm.ibm.com/events/hill1013.pdf

The PDF also contains logistical information regarding registering and
directions.

Neale Ferguson

Re: How is LOADPARM obtained?

[Neale Ferguson]

Some light reading regarding SERVC (but LOADPARM in particular):

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/55135658/Method-And-System-For-Providing-A-Hardware-Machine-Function-In-A-Protected-Virtual-Machine---Patent-6681238
http://www.patentmine.com/grant/06253224_desc.html
http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5386512/description.html
http://www.patentvest.com/console/reports/docs/grant/05386512.html

This one was interesting: ISX/390 - I remember this one from the early days on 
Linux on z but heard not much since:
http://ip.com/patent/US6530078

Re: How is LOADPARM obtained?

[Neale Ferguson]

It uses the SERVC opcode which does things like read/write to the HMC, set 
masks to enable/disable signals like powerdown (how Linux intercepts the signal 
shutdown command), get loadparm, get configuration information etc. While some 
of the function is generic, I believe some is model specific.

Neale


On 9/28/10 11:11 AM, "Jeff Gribbin"  wrote:

> It is obtained using a mechanism that is not published beyond its use in
> Linux.  The best you can do is RTFC, and it is not a trivial process.
>
> Alan Altmark

Thankyou, Alan, for a definitive reply. What a strange thing to keep secret!

Regards
Jeff

Re: History Question (RSCS V2 Ship Date)

[Neale Ferguson]

VM/SP 4? 1986?


On 9/10/10 11:25 AM, "Jeff Gribbin"  wrote:

Can anyone recall offhand when RSCS Version 2 (the first one to run under

GCS rather than standalone) first shipped?

I'd offer a free beer at SCIDS to the first person to respond with a
verifiable and correct answer, but I understand that such behaviour is
discouraged nowadays.

Again, TIA.

Jeff

Hillgang October Meeting

[Neale Ferguson]

The preliminary agenda for the October 13 meeting of Hillgang is available
at: http://www.vm.ibm.com/events/hill1013.pdf

We have a lot of great content (even more than usual that is):

-  Understanding the IT Audit Process ­ Stan King, Information Technology
Company
-  z/VM Single System Image & Guest Mobility Preview ­ John Franciscovich,
IBM
-  z/VM 6.1 and Ensemble Management ­ Richard Lewis, IBM
-  Introducing the zPDT ­ Stan King, ITC

Re: Moving on (please don't panic)

[Neale Ferguson]

Sounds like the sequel "Spawn of Chucky"! I must admit feeling sorry for Alan's 
wife who, by that logic, would be known as "Bride of Chucky".

Seriously though, congratulations Alan.

Congrats! Hey, why doesn't Chuckie stay in dev, and you go on? Then we'd get 
the best of both worlds!

...phsiii

Re: CMS Pipelines for Windows

[Neale Ferguson]

Actually, I take back my last email. I haven't the time to do it at the moment 
but if someone did an install of it and then checked the stuff put in 
(presumably) Program Files, it might be a CIL app. I think I had tested the C++ 
runtime library and not the actual app.


On 8/29/10 12:47 PM, "Mark Post"  wrote:

>>> On 8/29/2010 at 12:14 PM, Scott Rohling  wrote:
> Nice!   Any hope of it being ported to Linux? (or maybe it drinks 'wine'?)

The download page shows it's a .NET application, so there's a good change mono 
will run it without modification.


Mark Post

Re: CMS Pipelines for Windows

[Neale Ferguson]

No, it doesn't recognize the format. I suspect it's still x86 opcodes not CIL. 
(Yes, I've already tried it.)


On 8/29/10 12:47 PM, "Mark Post"  wrote:

>>> On 8/29/2010 at 12:14 PM, Scott Rohling  wrote:
> Nice!   Any hope of it being ported to Linux? (or maybe it drinks 'wine'?)

The download page shows it's a .NET application, so there's a good change mono 
will run it without modification.


Mark Post

Re: Trying to get OSA online

[Neale Ferguson]

What does q 9701-9702 report?


On Aug 21, 2010, at 11:15, "Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR)" 
mailto:terry.mar...@cms.hhs.gov>> wrote:

Hi

We just cabled OSA 9700 to our z10 it is on CHPID 39.

I can VARY ON 9700 and it comes online and when I display it shows

OSA  9700 FREE

Now when I try to configure my VSWITCH to use it I get this:

CP DEFINE VSWITCH VSWAPPUB CONTROLLER * RDEV 9700.P0
VSWITCH SYSTEM VSWAPPUB is created
HCPSWU2838I Device 9700.P00 specified for VSWITCH VSWAPPUB is offline.

When I display the CHPID it looks good:

q chpid 39
Path 39 online to devices 9600 9700

Is there something I am missing here?

Terry Martin
Lockheed Martin
CITIC Contract
z/OS Operating System Support/Performance and Tuning
(443) 348-4196

Re: z/OS Guest not activating OSA connection

[Neale Ferguson]

Making it layer 3 was the answer tks.

On 8/10/10 11:15 AM, "Riedel, Alexander"  wrote:

Are you sure, that you want to connet a z/OS to an Layer2 VSWITCH? Does z/OS 
not need an Layer3 ?

Re: z/OS Guest not activating OSA connection

[Neale Ferguson]

Good question. My z/OS knowledge is about as substantive as a Justin Bieber 
album. I just assumed z/OS could talk layer 2.

On 8/10/10 11:15 AM, "Riedel, Alexander"  wrote:

Are you sure, that you want to connet a z/OS to an Layer2 VSWITCH? Does z/OS 
not need an Layer3 ?

Re: z/OS Guest not activating OSA connection

[Neale Ferguson]

Yes, there's the following statement in the SYSTEM CONFIG:

MODIFY VSWITCH VSWITCH2 GRANT ZOS19

There's a NICDEF statement in the user directory entry, and the Q VSWITCH 
VSWITCH2 DET below shows the guest connecting.


On 8/10/10 11:03 AM, "Mark Pace"  wrote:

Has the z/OS guest been Granted access?
When you logon onto the guest do you see the virtual nic being created and 
connecting to the vswitch?

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Neale Ferguson  wrote:

VSWITCH SYSTEM VSWITCH2 Type: VSWITCH Connected: 3Maxconn: INFINITE
PERSISTENT  RESTRICTEDETHERNET  Accounting: OFF
VLAN Unaware
MAC address: 02-00-00-00-00-02
State: Ready
IPTimeout: 5 QueueStorage: 8
Isolation Status: OFF
Portname: ADM1ETPRDEV: 1340.P00 Controller: DTCVSW2  VDEV:  1340
VSWITCH Connection:
RX Packets: 13 Discarded: 0  Errors: 0
TX Packets: 410Discarded: 0  Errors: 0
RX Bytes: 1299 TX Bytes: 58526
Device: 1340  Unit: 000   Role: DATA   vPort: 0001  Index: 0001
Unicast IP Addresses:
172.17.16.5  MAC: 08-00-20-D9-99-58 Remote
:
:
Adapter Owner: ZOS19NIC: 0400.P00 Name: UNASSIGNED
RX Packets: 0  Discarded: 0  Errors: 0
TX Packets: 0  Discarded: 0  Errors: 0
RX Bytes: 0TX Bytes: 0
Device: 0402  Unit: 002   Role: DATA   vPort: 0066  Index: 0066

z/OS Guest not activating OSA connection

[Neale Ferguson]

I have a z/OS 1.9 guest whose TCPIP is attempting to activate an OSA
connection to a vSwitch. It starts activating but stays in this state:

IST486I STATUS= ACTIV, DESIRED STATE= ACTIV
IST087I TYPE = LEASED , CONTROL = MPC , HPDT = YES
IST1954I TRL MAJOR NODE = OSATRL1
IST1715I MPCLEVEL = QDIO   MPCUSAGE = SHARE
IST1716I PORTNAME = ADM1ETPLINKNUM =   0   OSA CODE LEVEL = F4F2
IST1577I HEADER SIZE = 4096 DATA SIZE = 0 STORAGE = ***NA***
IST1221I WRITE DEV = 0401 STATUS = ACTIVE STATE = ONLINE
IST1577I HEADER SIZE = 4092 DATA SIZE = 0 STORAGE = ***NA***
IST1221I READ  DEV = 0400 STATUS = ACTIVE STATE = ONLINE
IST1221I DATA  DEV = 0402 STATUS = OPEN.PEND  STATE = N/A
IST1724I I/O TRACE = OFF  TRACE LENGTH = *NA*
IST1717I ULPID = TCPIP
IST1815I IQDIO ROUTING DISABLED
IST1500I STATE TRACE = OFF
IST314I END

On the z/VM (5.4 0901) side I see:

VSWITCH SYSTEM VSWITCH2 Type: VSWITCH Connected: 3Maxconn: INFINITE
PERSISTENT  RESTRICTEDETHERNET  Accounting: OFF
VLAN Unaware
MAC address: 02-00-00-00-00-02
State: Ready
IPTimeout: 5 QueueStorage: 8
Isolation Status: OFF
Portname: ADM1ETPRDEV: 1340.P00 Controller: DTCVSW2  VDEV:  1340
VSWITCH Connection:
RX Packets: 13 Discarded: 0  Errors: 0
TX Packets: 410Discarded: 0  Errors: 0
RX Bytes: 1299 TX Bytes: 58526
Device: 1340  Unit: 000   Role: DATA   vPort: 0001  Index: 0001
Unicast IP Addresses:
172.17.16.5  MAC: 08-00-20-D9-99-58 Remote
:
:
Adapter Owner: ZOS19NIC: 0400.P00 Name: UNASSIGNED
RX Packets: 0  Discarded: 0  Errors: 0
TX Packets: 0  Discarded: 0  Errors: 0
RX Bytes: 0TX Bytes: 0
Device: 0402  Unit: 002   Role: DATA   vPort: 0066  Index: 0066

Eventually it times out with the following message:

00- 08.51.16 STC00349  EZZ4310I ERROR: CODE=8010302E REPORTED ON DEVICE
-  ADM1ETP. DIAGNOSTIC CODE: 03
- 08.51.16 STC00349  EZZ4315I DEACTIVATION COMPLETE FOR DEVICE ADM1ETP

Looking up the IP and SNA codes manual 8010302e is interpreted as:

Permanent error with LLC layer not being able to register its home address

As a z/OS neophyte, I'm not sure what is missing from my config. The TCPIP
definition is:

DEVICE ADM1ETP  MPCIPA NONROUTER
LINK OSDLIPAQENET ADM1ETP

Neale

Re: rexx stem

[Neale Ferguson]

How is XEDIT being invoked. Are you running an EXEC that invokes XEDIT which 
then runs a macro? If you are trying to retrieve the vars from the EXEC then 
PIPE will let you do so by specifying an invocation number of the rexxvars 
stage, then use the varload stage to load them into the XEDIT environment where 
the macro can access them.


On 7/29/10 10:25 AM, "Mark Pace"  wrote:

I'm having writers (programmers) block today.  Is there a way to pass a REXX 
stem to XEDIT?

Re: New standard for networking help

[Neale Ferguson]

Because it was quick and dirty.


On 7/19/10 3:25 PM, "Kris Buelens"  wrote:

Sorry to be nitpicking on this good idea:

 *   why expose to errors by not using ADDRESS COMMAND?
 *   why throwing away any userid starting with "VSM".  Take this instead
 *   'PIPE CP Q NAMES',
 * '|StrNfind /VSM_-/',
 * '|SPLIT  1 after /,/',
 * '|CHOP 8',

  '|Stem name.'

Re: New standard for networking help

[Neale Ferguson]

Here¹s an EXEC I use to do initial data gathering. I had updated it but have
lost the latest copy. Anyway it¹s a start:

/* */
CP.1  = 'Q ALL'
CP.2  = 'Q CPLEVEL'
CP.3  = 'Q SRM'
CP.4  = 'Q ALLOC'
CP.5  = 'Q ALLOC PAGE'
CP.6  = 'Q ALLOC SPOOL'
CP.7  = 'Q ALLOC TDISK'
CP.8  = 'Q MDC'
CP.9  = 'Q VDISK'
CP.10 = 'Q FRAME'
CP.11 = 'IND'
CP.12 = 'IND Q'
CP.13 = 'Q VSWITCH ALL DETAILS'
CP.0  = 13 

User.1 = 'Q SHARE'
User.2 = 'Q QUICKDSP'
User.3 = 'IND USER'
User.0 = 3

'PIPE cms ERASE VM REPORT'

'PIPE (end ? name GETUSER)',
   '| cp Q N',
   '| split',
   '| strip',
   '| nfind VSM' ||,
   '| spec 1.8 1',
   '| strip',
   '| stem Name.'

do I_CP = 1 to CP.0
   'PIPE (name GETCP end ?)',
  '| cp' CP.I_CP,
  '| literal' CP.I_CP,
  '| append literal '
  '| >> VM REPORT A'
end

do I_User = 1 to User.0
   do I_Name = 1 to Name.0
   'PIPE (name GETUSER end ?)',
  '| cp' User.I_User Name.I_Name,
  '| literal' User.I_user Name.I_Name,
  '| append literal ',
  '| >> VM REPORT A'
   end
end

'PIPE (name GETSTSI)',
   '| cms EXEC STSI',
   '| literal STSI',
   '| append literal ',
   '| >> VM REPORT A'

exit

On 7/19/10 10:19 AM, "David Boyes"  wrote:

>> The point was not the format, but that the information was organized,
>> complete, and easy to read.
>> 
>> Alan Altmark
>> z/VM Development
>> IBM Endicott
> 
> I think you missed the intent of the suggestion. Often we see that people
> don't know what information might be useful to solve a problem. If there is
> some key information that makes solving problems easier, then having a
> guideline often helps people collect the right stuff to get the problem solved
> the first time around. Others have suggested a automated way; that's cool, but
> you have to define what you (IBM) need before you can automate anything. Then
> the REXX and Pipe fiends will take over and find a way to collect it. 8-)
> 
> Returning to the report in question, if that's the paradigm that you find
> useful, gut it of customer details, and let's see it. If nothing else, it will
> make a good example of what kind of things need to be collected.
> 
> -- db
> 

Hillgang reminder

[Neale Ferguson]

For those who are thinking about coming to the next Hillgang meeting in
Herndon Virginia, please let me know soon so we can estimate numbers for
catering. The agenda is available at:

http://www.vm.ibm.com/events/hill0714.pdf

Re: RFEX EXEC Question

[Neale Ferguson]

'EXEC SENDFILE '
 or proceed the command with address CMS

The 'address command' "prevents" REXX (CMS actually) from looking for EXECs 
when it encounters a command.

On 7/7/10 12:59 PM, "Wandschneider, Scott" 
 wrote:

I have a REXX EXEC that process files in the reader.  I begin the EXEC with:
Address Command

I have a sleep instruction that gets the following:
   35 *-* "SLEEP 30 SEC"
  >L>   "SLEEP 30 SEC"
  +++ RC(-3) +++

Also I have a sendfile instruction with the following results:
   >O>  "SENDFILE DH_VDUMP SM070710 Z To SYBLOG AT ZVM5VSE (LOG 
TYPE"
   +++ RC(-3) +++

What am I missing?

Hillgang Agenda

[Neale Ferguson]

The agenda for next week's Hillgang meeting is available at 
http://www.vm.ibm.com/events/hill0714.pdf

Directions and registration details are included.

Neale

Re: Z//VM 5.4, z890, and CPACF

[Neale Ferguson]

A z9 or better for STFLE, I believe. Not sure what bit in the STFLE corresponds 
to the CPACF feature but if it's within the first 32 then it's covered by STFL.


On 7/6/10 11:38 AM, "Hughes, Jim"  wrote:

I am trying to use Alan Altmark's program QCPACF to see if CPACF is installed 
on our z890.

I get a program check using the STFLE instructions.

My virtual machine is defined as ESA and again as XC and the same failure 
occurred.

Is there something else I need to do to the STFLE to work?

This is my first exposure to using CPACF.

Re: Large file transfer capacity

[Neale Ferguson]

What type of file system is on the PC? FAT, NTFS, ??

On Jul 1, 2010, at 10:58, "Nikolai Dorozhko" 
mailto:doros...@iba.by>> wrote:

Hello collegues, developers.

Trying to download/upload   a CMS binary file > 2G to PC   under  z/VM  4.4.

VM FTP aborts when transfer  reaches 2G,

IND$FILE downloads , but does not upload.

What to do ?   Will  the new VM releases help?


Nikolai Dorozhko,
IBA, Minsk, Belarus
e-mail:  doros...@iba.by

Next Meeting & Added download

[Neale Ferguson]

The next meeting of Hillgang will be July 14th at CA in Herndon. I¹m still
finalizing the agenda and am still open to suggestions or offers. At the
moment our featured speaker will be Len Diegel of Velocity Software.

Also, a few meetings ago Jim Moling presented on Cloning z/VM Systems. He
has sent me the materials that can be used to implement said cloning.
They're now available at https://www.sinenomine.net/cloneVM

Neale

Re: Can you help the Open Object Rexx Project?

[Neale Ferguson]

Sounds like an ideal project for the OSDL system based at Marist. This  
system is for open source developers to bring code to Linux on z. I do  
the development of Mono on a SLES10 system they provisioned for me.

On Jun 2, 2010, at 16:14, "Chip Davis"  wrote:

> 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 .
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Chip Davis-

Re: OS390 Guests using GRS and Sharing DASD with virtual RESERVE/RELEASEbgggtggncv under z/VMnjxjgj

[Neale Ferguson]

It's the special iPhone encryption app. It's perfectly readable from my iPhone. 
It says "My hovercraft is full of eels".

On May 23, 2010, at 8:48, "Rob van der Heij" 
mailto:rvdh...@gmail.com>> wrote:

On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Alain Benveniste 
<a.benveni...@free.fr>
 wrote:
Ccghhjjkkjjkkjvjhjjklknbvvbbbvvknbkbbbnbs:.. WkfbbSfffjjh

Envoyé de mon iPhone

I guess I don't want an iPhone then. You've become hard to understand. :-)

Re: z/VM Library - PDF redirection error

[Neale Ferguson]

It worked for me this evening

On May 12, 2010, at 21:39, "Tony Thigpen"  wrote:

> No such error here with Firefox 3.5.9 on Suse 11.2.
>
>
> Tony Thigpen
>
> -Original Message -
> From: Neale Ferguson
> Sent: 05/12/2010 09:59 AM
>> When I go to http://www.vm.ibm.com/library/ and click on entries  
>> within the
>> z/VM PDF List category (e.g.
>> http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/zvmpdf/#zvm53) I get:
>>
>> ³Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request f 
>> or this
>> address in a way that will never complete.²
>>
>> I've never had problems with these links before.
>>
>> Neale
>>
>>

z/VM Library - PDF redirection error

[Neale Ferguson]

When I go to http://www.vm.ibm.com/library/ and click on entries within the
z/VM PDF List category (e.g.
http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/zvmpdf/#zvm53) I get:

³Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this
address in a way that will never complete.²

I've never had problems with these links before.

Neale

Hillgang reminder

[Neale Ferguson]

A gentle reminder that the next meeting of Hillgang will take place on
Friday 26 March, in Herndon Virginia at the CA office. The meeting¹s agenda
and directions are found at http://www.vm.ibm.com/events/hill0326.pdf.

Re: Moving On

[Neale Ferguson]

I've met your co-workers and they're a dangerous looking lot. Becareful! ;-)


On 3/17/10 11:04 AM, "Ivica Brodaric"  wrote:

I am glad to announce that after long "holidays" I started a new job at BNZ 
(formerly known as Bank of New Zealand), Auckland. New job, new city, new 
country. z/VM, RHEL, z10 EC's, a fairly new installation and a lot of 
interesting work to be done.

It was too late to join my new colleagues for a trip to Seattle, but I'm sure 
those of you who are at SHARE will treat them well.

Long live VM!

Hillgang 26 Mar

[Neale Ferguson]

Cross-posted

The next meeting of Hillgang will be at CA¹s office in Herndon on Friday 26
March. Details may be found at http://www.vm.ibm.com/events/hill0326.pdf

Neale

Re: 2 to 3 IFLs

[Neale Ferguson]

Won¹t adding an additional IFL to the z/VM system increase the license
charge for your linux distribution?

Re: enhanced DAT facility

[Neale Ferguson]

Can guests use it under z/VM?


On 10/30/09 3:33 PM, "Alan Altmark"  wrote:

> No, you cannot persuade z/VM to use enhanced DAT ("EDAT").
> 
> Another religious war in the offing.   One of the ways EDAT improves
> performance is by eliminating page tables (leaving more room in the cache
> for Good Things) and speeding up the address translation process.  All
> "pages" are 1MB (the size of a segment).  When paging, that means you have
> to swap 256 4K pages at once, and they have to be contiguous in real
> memory.  So while you get some good benefits, memory fragmentation can
> create significant pain.

Hillgang reminder

[Neale Ferguson]

A reminder of the Hillgang meeting this Wednesday Oct 21 at CA¹s office in
Herndon. If you haven¹t RSVP¹d please do so as we¹re trying to finalize
catering from breakfast.

The agenda and abstracts for the meeting may be found at:
http://www.vm.ibm.com/events/hill1020.pdf

Neale

Re: SVC 203

[Neale Ferguson]

#CP TR PROG 0

If it's a branch into garbage then

#CP TR BR INTO 

On 10/16/09 9:49 AM, "McKown, John"  wrote:

> 
> "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.

Hillgang meeting

[Neale Ferguson]

The next Hillgang meeting will take place on Wednesday October 21 at CA¹s
office in Herndon Va. The details may be found here:

http://www.vm.ibm.com/events/hill1020.pdf

Young Developers Get Old Mainframers¹ Jobs

[Neale Ferguson]

http://www.linuxtoday.com/high_performance/2009101000535NWBZ

> "My co-worker, Tim, explained that our company, a major software vendor, is
> seeing its mainframe workforce rapidly approaching the age of retirement. Tim
> said IBM and most other firms whose businesses depend on mainframes are also
> dealing with this industry-wide problem.
> 
> "Since the 1980¹s, PC¹s and UNIX machines were supposed to have taken over the
> computing world, relegating mainframes to the scrap heap alongside rotary-dial
> telephones, suitcase-size boom boxes, and Plymouth Reliants. Indeed, most
> mainframes from that era have been consigned to the scrap heap ­ only to be
> replaced by bigger and faster mainframes.
> 
> "Today the number of mainframes is estimated to be 10,000. Since 2000, the
> processing power of mainframes has quadrupled in terms of MIPS. According to
> IBM, the top 25 world banks run mainframes, 80% of the world¹s corporate data
> resides or originates on mainframes, and 71% of global Fortune 500 companies
> are mainframe clients." 

Re: Errors executing simple commands

[Neale Ferguson]

You should check the reason why you are in that mode. If you logged on to
MAINT for example, then that indicates that the system operator user
(usually OPERATOR) has been logged off and you should find out why. Q
SYSOPER will tell you who the system thinks is the system operator.


On 9/23/09 5:36 PM, "Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR)"
 wrote:

> Thanks all for the help. That was the problem the terminal was in CP
> mode. Still learning this stuff but slowly getting there.

Re: Operator - vm 5.4

[Neale Ferguson]

If the user OPERATOR got logged off then the next class A user that logs
onto the system becomes the system operator and will behave as you
described. Can you check the system log to see what may have happened?


On 9/18/09 4:17 PM, "Steve Harman"  wrote:

> Excellent - thank you Kris.  I guess now the question is how I became
> operator.
> 
> We did have a problem with operator this morning and it got forced off by
>  
> system.  Now when I start it back up, it comes down again 15 minutes late
> r.
> 
> I'm pretty new to VM, I'm guessing operator got switched to me since I'm
> in 
> the operator list somewhere.
> 
> How do I switch it back?  Or am I off base here.  Thanks again Kris
> 
> 
> 

Re: Operator - vm 5.4

[Neale Ferguson]

TERM MODE VM


On 9/18/09 4:01 PM, "Steve Harman"  wrote:

> Last weekend I upgraded a 1-lvl system to 5.4 (from 5.2).
> 
> Today when I log on to the system, I can't do most cms commands:
> 
> 14:36:32 Q DISK  
>
> 14:36:32 HCPCQV003E Invalid option - DISK
> 14:36:46 ID  
>   
> 14:36:46 HCPCMD001E Unknown CP command: ID
> 14:36:52 X PROFILE EXEC A
>  
> 14:36:52 HCPCMD001E Unknown CP command: X
> 
> I can however do CP commands:
> 

Re: SHARE blog.

[Neale Ferguson]

Hey Alan, it's about time you updated that picture on the blog. Last time
you looked like that Tears for Fears were in the top 40.


On 9/2/09 5:57 PM, "Dave Jones"  wrote:

> I've come across an interesting set of blogs about last week's SHARE
> meeting in Denver. They contain some very insightful comments by someone
>   that is outside the mainframe culture, but very aware about what the
> mainframe can bring to the table:
> 
> http://dobbscodetalk.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&category=Mainframes&Itemi
> d=29

Re: Selecting multi-line console messages from a log file

[Neale Ferguson]

Are you really after all the security violations? If so, an accounting
record is cut for every violation. The log messages (by default) will only
print after 3 or more attempts. Similarly, if you are after all
logon/logoff/disconnect/reconnect records an accounting record is cut for
these also. On your system the user ACCOUNT is usually set up to receive
these messages. You can find the layout of these records in the CP docs. and
it is relatively trivial to process these records in a REXX or PIPE to
produce the reports or log files that you are after.


On 6/24/09 7:20 PM, "Fred Schmidt"  wrote:

>> > Neale Ferguson said...
> 
>> > 
> 
>> > Tell us what your trying to filter and I bet you¹ll get several
> 
>> > versions of an action routine from the list watchers that you can
> 
>> > plug into PROP and it will create/append to a log on the fly.
> 
> OK, here goes (userid¹s and IP addresses changed to protect the innocent) ...
> 
> &"*00 09:14:23 HCPJRL145I User XYZ at 999.999.999.999 issued a LOGON command
> with
> 
>  " 09:14:23 ..  an invalid password 003 times.  The limit is 003.
> 
> |"*00 09:40:34 HCPJRL145I User XYZ at 999.999.999.999 issued a LINK command
> with
> 
>  " 09:40:34 ..  an invalid password 003 times.  The limit is 003.
> 
> <" 09:41:21 GRAF L0005 LOGON  AS  XYZ  USERS = 18FROM 999.999.999.999
> 
> "" 09:43:44 GRAF L0005 LOGOFF AS  XYZ  USERS = 17
> 
> <" 09:56:33 GRAF L0004 RECONNECT  XYZ  USERS = 18FROM 999.999.999.999
> 
> "" 09:58:19 GRAF L0004 DISCONNECT XYZ  USERS = 18
> 
> Regards, 
> 
> Fred Schmidt
> 
> NT Government, Australia
> 
> 

Re: Selecting multi-line console messages from a log file

[Neale Ferguson]

Tell us what your trying to filter and I bet you¹ll get several versions of
an action routine from the list watchers that you can plug into PROP and it
will create/append to a log on the fly.


On 6/24/09 12:01 AM, "Fred Schmidt"  wrote:

> Neale Ferguson said...
> 
> Would it be easier to create action routines for PROP so it will process the
> messages as they come in rather than post-processing them when the format may
> have changed? 
> 
> I guess that may be possible, not that I know how to do that. It would also be
> possible to run an EXEC under the Performance Toolkit to process such messages
> as they arrive. However, I don¹t know that it would be easier. My preference
> is certainly to post-process the log files once a day, where I can specify on
> one place all the message types I am interested in seeing.
> 
> Regards, 
> 
> Fred Schmidt
> 
> NT Government, Australia
> 
> 

Re: Selecting multi-line console messages from a log file

[Neale Ferguson]

Would it be easier to create action routines for PROP so it will process the
messages as they come in rather than post-processing them when the format
may have changed? 

Neale

Re: z/VM V5R4.0 dISABLED WAIT PSW 9051

[Neale Ferguson]

I love the concept (pun intended) of CP having relations with anything:
>   HCP9051W  FlashCopy relations were found in CP-OWNED, non-PERM space.

But see it suffers just like we do from time to time:
> Relations will be withdrawn.

So I guess CP will have to apologize whether it was in the wrong or not!

Re: How Many Files Can Be on a Minidisk Before It Cannot be ACCESSed?

[Neale Ferguson]

How about using something like VMARC to "zip" files > 1 week old into weekly
archives on the same minidisk that are easily expanded when needed?


On 4/29/09 12:44 PM, "James Stracka (DHL US)"  wrote:

> This application puts about 10,000 files a day on its minidisk.  The
> application owner wants to keep a month's worth of data online.  Given
> 64 bytes per file and 14M usable, that is approximately 230,000 files.
> That would be exactly a full working month.
> 
> I am trying to convince the application owner to archive more frequently
> or go to a weekly basis as it is approaching an architectural limit.
> 
> By the way, there is noting wrong with either minidisk.  They just
> contain a large amount of small files.

Re: GGEOOL?

[Neale Ferguson]

On my screen the code is split over two lines so that the you get:
G   G  E
 O O L


On 4/27/09 11:09 AM, "Mike Walter"  wrote:

> Google's home page is celebrating Samuel Morse's birthday today, by
> attempting to spell out GOOGLE in Morse code.
> At this time, the Google home page displays:
> 
> --.  --.  .  --- --- .-..

Re: RSCS Connections

[Neale Ferguson]

I set up z/OS 1.9 from the AD CD (June 2008) to talk from JES2 to my z/VM
and (z and non-z) Linux systems using TCPNJE. There were no additional PTFs
I needed to apply to make it work.

On 4/24/09 12:53 PM, "Marcy Cortes"  wrote:

> I think they are in the process of rolling 1.10 to like 40 lpars.
> 
> Thanks much!

Re: 2A8 Diagnose Undocumented return code

[Neale Ferguson]

Device number in the EDCPL does not match the device number
specified in bits 48-63 of Ry.


On 4/22/09 4:37 PM, "Gary M. Dennis"  wrote:

> While attempting a ³Establish Device Connection² we receive a CC 2 with a
> return code of x¹10¹
> 
> Anyone know what this means? The documentation is the most recent CP
> programming services.
> 
> Thanks
> --.  .-  .-.  -.--
> 
> Gary Dennis
> Mantissa Corporation
> 
> 

CHUG/SHRUG

[Neale Ferguson]

Just found these tools on the IBM VM download site and thought they were
interesting. http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/descript.cgi?CHUG

CHUG is a script-directed test tool for VM. The input psuedo-language
includes a variety of features for control and results checking. Output
includes an HTML file with color coding to highlight errors. Inputs can be a
set of files with a hierarchical structure; the HTML output will match the
hierarchy and include appropriate links and result reports so that results
can be viewed at multiple levels.

CHUG control of the test UserID is total. Test scripts exist that IPL CMS,
that bring up a 2nd-level system, that even log the user off and back on.
Variables can be defined within scripts, and their values set in several
ways including screen scraping. A limited means of combining variables is
also available, e.g. concatenation and arithmetic operations. The string
manipulation functions of the REXX language may also be used to process
variables. There is some limited IF/THEN/GOTO control within the script.

While CHUG creates multiple types of output files, the output is best viewed
using a web browser. Color, shading, and links are used to display and
distinguish script commands, the resulting lines on the test user's screen
(a 24x80 3270-type terminal), and results deviating from the script's
expectation. A technical description of the technique for creating
hierarchical output is available.

SHRUG is a tool very similar to CHUG. It uses the same form of input files
and creates the same output files. But while CHUG logs on the test user
connected (that is, the test user is logged on to a logical 3270 terminal),
SHRUG logs on the user disconnected and works by SCIFing commands to the
test user. For much testing, the connected/disconnected status of the test
user does not matter, and the same input files work with both CHUG and
SHRUG. But there are some tests where it is essential that the test user be
connected (use CHUG) or be disconnected (use SHRUG). Because of the latter
need, we include SHRUG in this package as well. 

Hillgang

[Neale Ferguson]

The agenda for the Hillgang meeting to be held on April 22 is posted at
http://www.vm.ibm.com/events/hill0422.pdf

Neale

Re: Changing text to postscript

[Neale Ferguson]

Does it have to be postscript or would PDF suffice?

For postscript DCF (aka "script") can create PS files. The TXT2PDF command
does what it says: converts text to PDF.


On 3/23/09 10:21 AM, "Mary Zervos"  wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> Does anyone know if there is software available on z/vm that converts a
> text file to a postscript file?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Mary Zervos
> VM Systems Programmer
> Binghamton University
> 

Re: z/OS 1.9 ADCD

[Neale Ferguson]

Thanks to all. I found that I had in fact changed the password at an earlier
time but enough brain cells were left (after repeated attempts to drown
them) to recall what I changed it to. 

z/OS 1.9 ADCD

[Neale Ferguson]

Excuse the (slightly) off-topic subject but since we¹re running z/OS under
z/VM I am taking the liberty of posting.

I have forgotten the password of the TSO user IBMUSER. I don't believe I
changed it from when it was installed but I can't locate the ADCD
documentation that would tell me.

Neale

Re: Please tell me I did something stupid

[Neale Ferguson]

The component is cpsfs or cmssfs ... Not cp or cms which are for minidisks.


On 3/17/09 3:36 PM, "Adam Thornton"  wrote:

> I just installed a virgin z/VM 5.4 with all products on filepool
> rather than on minidisk.
> 
> I only tweaked it enough to get a TCPIP stack up and running so that I
> could FTP the RSU over to it, DETERSE it, and apply service.  I've
> done literally nothing else to the system.
> 
> 0 * * * Top of File * * *
> 1  
> 
> 2  SERVICE   USERID:
> MAINT
> 3  
> 
> 4 Date: 03/17/09Time:
> 15:30:04
> 5  
> 
> 6 ST:VMFSRV2195I SERVICE ALL RPTF0168
> 7 ST:VMFSRV2760I SERVICE processing started
> 8 ST:VMFSUI2760I VMFSUFIN processing started
> 9 ST:VMFSUI2760I VMFSUFIN processing started for product 5VMLEN40%LE
> 00010 ST:VMFSET2760I VMFSETUP processing started for SERVP2P LE
> 00011 ST:VMFSET2204I Linking MAINT 4C4 as 4C4 with the link mode MR
> 00012 SV:HCPLNM107E MAINT 04C4 not linked; not in CP directory
> 00013 SV:VMFSET1965E The command, CP LINK MAINT 4C4 4C4 MR "", failed
> with
> 00014 SV:return code 107
> 00015 ST:VMFSET2204I Linking MAINT 4C2 as 4C2 with the link mode MR
> 00016 SV:HCPLNM107E MAINT 04C2 not linked; not in CP directory
> 00017 SV:VMFSET1965E The command, CP LINK MAINT 4C2 4C2 MR "", failed
> with
> 00018 SV:return code 107
> 00019 ST:VMFSET2204I Linking MAINT 4D2 as 4D2 with the link mode MR
> 00020 SV:HCPLNM107E MAINT 04D2 not linked; not in CP directory
> 00021 SV:VMFSET1965E The command, CP LINK MAINT 4D2 4D2 MR "", failed
> with
> 00022 SV:return code 107
> 00023 ST:VMFSET2204I Linking MAINT 4A6 as 4A6 with the link mode MR
> 00024 SV:HCPLNM107E MAINT 04A6 not linked; not in CP directory
> 00025 SV:VMFSET1965E The command, CP LINK MAINT 4A6 4A6 MR "", failed
> with
> 00026 SV:return code 107
> 00027 ST:VMFSET2204I Linking MAINT 4A4 as 4A4 with the link mode MR
> 00028 SV:HCPLNM107E MAINT 04A4 not linked; not in CP directory
> 00029 SV:VMFSET1965E The command, CP LINK MAINT 4A4 4A4 MR "", failed
> with
> 00030 SV:return code 107
> 00031 ST:VMFSET2204I Linking MAINT 4A2 as 4A2 with the link mode MR
> 00032 SV:HCPLNM107E MAINT 04A2 not linked; not in CP directory
> 00033 SV:VMFSET1965E The command, CP LINK MAINT 4A2 4A2 MR "", failed
> with
> 00034 SV:return code 107
> 00035 ST:VMFSET2204I Linking MAINT 4B2 as 4B2 with the link mode MR
> 00036 SV:HCPLNM107E MAINT 04B2 not linked; not in CP directory
> 00037 SV:VMFSET1965E The command, CP LINK MAINT 4B2 4B2 MR "", failed
> with
> 00038 SV:return code 107
> 00039 ST:VMFSET2760I VMFSETUP processing completed unsuccessfully
> 00040 SV:VMFSUI1965E The command, VMFSETUP, failed with return code
> 100 when
> 00041 SV:issued with the argument(s): SERVP2P LE (LINK
> NOPROMPT
> 00042 SV:RETAIN D
> 00043 ST:VMFSET2760I VMFSETUP processing started for DETACH LE
> 00044 ST:VMFSET2760I VMFSETUP processing completed successfully
> 00045 ST:VMFSUI2760I VMFSUFIN processing completed unsuccessfully
> 00046 ST:VMFSUI1211I An Initial Restart Record has been created for
> package
> 00047 ST:RPTF0168 in the System-Level Restart Table
> 00048 SV:VMFSRV1965E The command, VMFSUFIN, failed with return code
> 100 when
> 00049 SV:issued with the argument(s): ALL ( NOPROMPT RSUENV
> 00050 SV:RPTF0168
> 00051 WN:VMFSRV2310W Service restart file, SERVICE $RESTART A, has
> been created
> 00052 WN:due to errors. Correct the errors, and restart
> SERVICE
> 00053 WN:using the following command:
> 00054 WN:SERVICE RESTART RPTF0168
> 00055 ST:VMFSRV2760I SERVICE processing completed unsuccessfully
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Someone please say "Adam, you're an idiot, you obviously forgot the
> " and not "Oh!  Wow.  Yeah, you're right!  The RSU
> doesn't actually work on filepool systems."
> 
> Reinstalling the system from scratch--while not technically
> challenging--*will* tick me off.
> 
> Adam
> 

IBM 4Q

[Neale Ferguson]

Some encouraging news from IBM with its 4Q results. System z fell
year-to-year but not by much:

Fourth-Quarter 2008:

Diluted earnings of $3.28 per share, up 17 percent;
Net income of $4.4 billion, up 12 percent;
Gross profit margin of 47.9 percent, up 3 points;
Revenue of $27.0 billion, impacted by strong U.S. dollar, down 6 percent,
down 1 percent adjusting for currency;
Software revenues up 3 percent, up 9 percent adjusting for currency; pre-tax
income up 15 percent;
Global Technology Services revenue down 4 percent, up 3 percent adjusting
for currency; pre-tax income up 35 percent;
Global Business Services revenues down 5 percent, flat adjusting for
currency; pre-tax income up 26 percent;
Services signings of $17.2 billion, 24 deals greater than $100 million;
Strategic outsourcing signings up 20 percent worldwide, up 44 percent in
North America.

:
:

³Revenues from the Systems and Technology segment totaled $5.4 billion for
the quarter, down 20 percent (16 percent, adjusting for currency). Systems
revenues decreased 18 percent (14 percent, adjusting for currency). Revenues
from the converged System p server products increased 8 percent compared
with the 2007 period. Revenues from System z mainframe server products
decreased 6 percent compared with the year- ago period. Total delivery of
System z computing power, which is measured in MIPS (millions of
instructions per second), increased 12 percent. Revenues from the System x
servers decreased 32 percent, and revenues from the legacy System i servers
decreased 92 percent. Revenues from System Storage decreased 20 percent, and
revenues from Retail Store Solutions decreased 28 percent. Revenues from
Microelectronics OEM decreased 34 percent.²

Diag 2a8...

[Neale Ferguson]

It would be remiss of me if I didn't congratulate those at IBM involved in
creating and getting this bit of technology out to the masses. It really is
a sweet bit of work. If anyone has had the pleasure(?) of reading the linux
source code to see how the qdio driver works you will see that the
abstraction provided by the new diagnose dramatically simplifies things.

Network diagnose 2a8

[Neale Ferguson]

Folks,
 If you go to the z/VM 5.4 Information Center and lookup the CP Programming
Services manual you will find a new diagnose 2a8 documented there. This is
what we use in the OpenSolaris port for our layer 2 network driver. This is
what came with VM64466 (and its follow-on):

Privilege Class: Any

Addressing Mode: 31-bit or 64-bit

DIAGNOSE code X'2A8' establishes a network connection on a z/VM simulated
network device in order to transmit and receive Ethernet frames. It provides
a virtual machine with device-independent access to a simulated NIC created
with a CP DEFINE NIC command that is coupled with a CP COUPLE command to
either an Ethernet VSWITCH or Ethernet QDIO guest LAN.

Neale 

Re: z/VM Linux Cost effectiveness

[Neale Ferguson]

See: http://www.linuxvm.org/present/SHARE110/S9206uc.pdf

This was a user who went the other way (AIX->Linux on z).


On 12/9/08 2:57 PM, "Steve Mitchell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Having been a technician my entire career I don't  posses much knowledge of
> the intricacies of the budgeting process.  Here in short is what I've been
> tasked with:  The support of our linux guests was moved to the UNIX (AIX)
> Admin group last year about this time.  They are now suggesting we move all
> the linux work to AIX because its 'cheaper' and 'more reliable'.  I've
> found and collected the conversation earlier this year regarding a 'costing
> method' for linux guest vs Intel servers, so I have that as a starting
> point.  If anyone has experience with the pros/cons of AIX vs z/VM/LINUX I
> would appreciate any information you can share. Aside from that any other
> 'food for thought' you can provide is greatly appreciated.  Our environment
> is essentially WebShpere App server and MQ, accessing DB2 data on z/OS.
> Yes, we are using Hipersocket connectivity to z/OS from Linux.

Additional Hillgang session

[Neale Ferguson]

Bonus session for tomorrow -

CA Products for z/VM ­ Old Dogs with New Tricks
 
Linux on the mainframe has given z/VM new life.  This presentation explores
the evolution of CA¹s system management solutions for z/VM as invaluable
tools for securing and managing z/VM environments.  An overview of the
products and their key features emphasizes the unique benefits to shops
implementing Linux guests under z/VM. Finally, the presentation takes a
brief look at the future of CA VM:Manager Management Suite for Mainframe
Linux products.

Hillgang Meeting

[Neale Ferguson]

The agenda for the Dec 4 meeting of ³Hillgang² is available at
http://www.vm.ibm.com/events/hill1204.pdf

Re: new VSMDCSS in z/VM 5.4

[Neale Ferguson]

I'll leave out comments about "Intelligence" and simply state that as an
Australian we'd employ "Strine" or Rhyming Slang as the means of encrypting
messages.


On 11/26/08 8:55 AM, "Rob van der Heij" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 3:56 AM, David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> One of my acquaintances went through the Foreign Intelligence Language
>> Institute in Monterey during a past life and had to learn some *really*
>> obscure Native American and Inuit dialects, most of which have less than 100
>> living speakers. Wouldn't say what they were for, but some of the Inuit ones
>> are *really* hard to distinguish words, let alone catch meaning.
> 
> Sounds like Neale... And I thought he was working for you ;-)
> 
> -Rob
> 

Guest LAN definition for z/OS guest

[Neale Ferguson]

For a guest LAN what is the device type used in the DEVICE statement for a
z/OS guest? MPCOSA or MPCIPA (or something else)?

Re: z/VM 5.4.0 CMS commands are now mixed case

[Neale Ferguson]

Isn't it to do with the SET LANG option? One of the options is UCAMENG or
something like that? This one is upper case only.

Re: Verify from z/VM that a Linux guest is up

[Neale Ferguson]

Q SYSOPER - you'll probably find that the user MAINT became the system
operator as the normal one got logged off somehow and MAINT was the 1st
CLASS A user to logon to the system. VM grants this user the mantle of
system operator. 

Use SET SYSOPER to rectify.


On 11/14/08 10:56 AM, "Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR)"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I am revisiting this now and I am having some trouble that someone might
> be able to help me with. From my test z/Linux host I am issuing:
> 
> vmcp msg operator I am up
> 
> But this  message keeps going to MAINT userid instead of OPERATOR which
> is where the command is telling it to go. Am I missing something?

Re: MAINT's 123 MDISK definition

[Neale Ferguson]

MAINT 123 is usually a full-pack minidisk that covers the volume that has
the DRCT area on it (very often the 5xxRES pack). To be sure Q ALLOC DRCT to
determine where the directory lives.


On 10/8/08 9:50 AM, "Guest, Darren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've been a bad systems programmer and might have deleted the definition of
> MDISK 123 under MAINT! :-(
> 
> None of the backups I've got have a definition in their either. Not sure if
> I've deleted it before backing up or if it's not normally in there (seems
> odd).
> 
> Does MAINT have a definition for a 123 mini-disk and if so, what is it??!!!

Re: OT: LPAR

[Neale Ferguson]

Brings a whole new meaning to "flushing cache lines".


On 10/7/08 11:30 AM, "Rob van der Heij" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Somehow with posts that refer to partitions and hardware, gmail
> account is suggesting links to "JackNob" which provides "Toilet
> Partitioning Hardware" -  :-)
> 
> Rob (avoiding a comment about pee-series LPAR)
> 

Immediate instructions (was "nonames")

[Neale Ferguson]

Don't forget you now have fullword immediate instructions. Gcc will
automatically generate them and I've used them a lot in our OpenSolaris
port.


On 8/1/08 12:05 PM, "Alan Altmark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just hoping folks learned something new today.  I'll be the first to admit
> that these new (NOT!) instructions don't come naturally to my fingertips.

Re: Do we need to reIPL vm to add dasd ?

[Neale Ferguson]

ATT A40E SYSTEM LNX015

Re: Trying to Learn z/Linux ISHELL Scripting

[Neale Ferguson]

There¹s also my introduction to scripting lab materials you should be able
to find at http://linuxvm.org/present


On 5/29/08 5:13 PM, "Raymond Noal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Dear Lists,
> 
> Could any of you recommend reference material (web sites, manuals,
> redbooks/redpieces) so I could learn something about writing scripts under
> ISHELL in a z/Linux environment?
> 
> TIA
> 
> HITACHI
>  DATA SYSTEMS 
> 
> Raymond E. Noal
> Senior Technical Engineer
> Office: (408) 970 - 7978
> 
> 

Re: Getting Console Logs & Files to z/OS from z/VM

[Neale Ferguson]

Yep since 1.7 I believe.


On 5/27/08 10:12 AM, "Michael Coffin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi David,
>  
> Does z/OS speak TCPNJE?  I thought it had to be SNANJE (at least that was the
> deal back in 2002 when I last looked into this).  Have the z/OS guys finally
> seen the light and provided a TCPNJE protocol?
>  
> When a client was getting rid of SNA on VM, we still needed to be able to
> "spool" files between VM (using RSCS) and z/OS.  Since z/OS did not (at that
> time, at least) support TCPNJE protocol I had to "roll my own" method which
> basically used LPD protocol for spooling between the two systems.  It worked,
> but not as seamlessly as just having a TCPNJE-driven link would have
> worked.

Re: Displaying data space storage in a VMDUMP

[Neale Ferguson]

Shouldn¹t you be using VMDUMPTL? It has a  command (VMDTSET) that allows you
to specify an ASCE when doing displays of storage.


> Does anyone know how to display data space storage in DUMPSCAN? The DUMPSCAN
> DISPLAY command doesn¹t seem to know about ALETs.

Mike Cowlishaw at Hillgang

[Neale Ferguson]

Hillgang, the DC-based z/VM and Linux user group, is holding its next
meeting on April 24 at the CA offices in Herndon Va. We especially thrilled
to announce that one of our featured speakers is Mike Cowlishaw, IBM Fellow,
Rexx/NetRexx author, and decimal arithmetic architect.

For the complete agenda please see:
http://www.vm.ibm.com/events/hill0424.pdf

Neale Ferguson

Re: VTAM R.I.P.

[Neale Ferguson]

What type of things are you still using it for?


On 4/3/08 5:52 PM, "Burch, Aubrey Dennis CIV DISA GS4B"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Coincidentally, our contracting office called me today because we are
> planning to expand our VTAM license to an IFL LPAR. It appears VTAM is
> available for IFLs only via special pricing.

Re: VTAM R.I.P.

[Neale Ferguson]

With all the bad mouthing that poor old VTAM has been copping I will jump to
its defence. Some of the most interesting things I got to play with were due
to it and GCS. First off we modified our OS/PLI 2.3 source code and added
some function to GCS such that we could write apps in proper multi-tasking
PL/I. We created some VTAM support routines and we were able to create a
system that allowed us to switch messages from our VSE systems to our
Series/1 (yes we had these babies too). When we phased out the Series/1s,
which were responsible for talking an async protocol to the racecourses
around the state to combine pools, we used the DATE support of NPSI to bring
that function into a virtual machine. I used to talk to VMSHARE using
another GATE-based NPSI application. All this was written in PL/I and served
us for years and made the company a lot of money.

Now as far as the joys of NCP generation and VTAM topologies, and SNA
protocols in general yes I am happy to live without them now. It reminds me
of an ancient joke:

John Akers answers the phone: Hello

Caller: John Akers?

JA: Yes.

Caller: John Akers of IBM?

JA: Yes.

Caller: John Akers of IBM, White Plains?

JA: Yes!

Caller: John Akers of IBM, White Plains, NY, USA?

JA: Yes, WTF do you want!!!

Caller: Just wanted to let you know how it feels to set up an SNA session.

SHARE

[Neale Ferguson]

Marcy,
 Are you able to reprise your session for San Jose at the Summer SHARE? If
not, is there a new session you are interested in doing?

Neale