Re: HCPDPM1280E with STK 9840C Tape Drive
OK, this may seem a bit farfetched, but your control unit and device statements do not match up in terms of the number of unit address. The control unit statement defines 16 unit address and the IODEVICE statement defines one unit. You may have a situation where the physical control unit (knowing it has 16 devices) is trying to present an interrupt using a different unit address other than unit address zero. This is assuming that you do have 16 physical tape drives. Just a thought. Raymond E. Noal EMC² where information lives Phone: (508) 249-4076 Ext: 44076 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Jeff Gribbin Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 11:59 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: HCPDPM1280E with STK 9840C Tape Drive Hmm - thanks for the hint ... From OPERATOR ... HCPERP584I TAPE 0500 AN OPERATION WAS TERMINATED BECAUSE A HCPERP584I CAPABILITY CHECK OCCURRED HCPERP6300I SENSE DATA FORMAT = 04 MSG CODE = 01 HCPERP6301I CHANNEL COMMAND WORD COMMAND CODE = 01 HCPERP6303I SENSE = 804100D0 24202541 0001FF00 0017 HCPERP6303I 1790 40042301 68841310 HCPERP6304I IRB = 00C04017 6DF3D238 02001005 0080 HCPERP6305I USERID = MAINT HCPERP2216I CHANNEL PATH ID = 50 HCPERP2220I PHYSICAL CHANNEL PATH ID = 0100 HCPERP2252I TAPE 0500 PATH 50 NOT OPERATIONAL HCPERP2252I TAPE 0500 PATH 50 NOT OPERATIONAL HCPERP602I TAPE 0500 AN INTERFACE CONTROL CHECK OCCURRED HCPERP6303I SENSE = HCPERP6303I At first reading, PATH 50 NOT OPERATIONAL is bizarre - given that this is the only path to the device and that the device happily comes online, accepts CP REWIND commands and allows all the kinds of read operations that I have tried so far. Given that it's a problem only ever reported here once - and that a long time ago - and that there must be several folk successfully using these drives every day, I'm leaning towards some kind of configuration problem but I'm not seeing it. (It's going to be obvious with hindsight - I just hope that hindsight comes soon!) For info, here's the IOCP stuff ... CHPID PATH=(CSS(0),50),SHARED,* PARTITION=((ZO,ZOS1,ZOS2,ZOS3MAST,ZVMIFL1),(=)),* PCHID=100,TYPE=FC CNTLUNIT CUNUMBR=C500,PATH=((CSS(0),50)),UNITADD=((00,016)), * UNIT=3590 IODEVICE ADDRESS=(500,001),CUNUMBR=(C500),STADET=Y,UNIT=3590 And here's what VM sees ... q 500 id 16:30:28 TAPE 0500 3590-10 CU: 3590-60 q path 500 17:01:04 Device 0500, Status ONLINE 17:01:04 CHPIDs to Device 0500 (PIM) : 50 17:01:04 Physically Available (PAM) : + 17:01:04 Online (LPM) : + 17:01:04Legend + Yes - No q chpid 50 17:01:41 Path 50 online to devices 0500
Re: How to get Operator Log
Saurabh, If your MVS virtual machine is also your MVS operator's console and it's running in 3270 mode, there is no z/VM - CP log for this console. However, for your OPERATOR virtual machine which should have console spooling started and is a 3215 device type - you can either logon to OPERATOR and issue the command - 'SPOOL CONS CLOSE CL A TO *|USERID. Or if you are logged on to the MAINT virtual machine, issue this command - 'FOR OPERATOR CMD CP SPOOL CONS CLOSE CL A TO MAINT'. This will close the OPERATOR's console log and send it to MAINT's virtual reader where you can either RECEIVE it or just PEEK it. As to MVS, when you re-IPL the system, you should still have the SYSLOG file from the crash as either your current SYSLOG file or it's on the SPOOL volume where you can offload it to a disk data set. Hope this helps. Raymond E. Noal EMC² where information lives Phone: (508) 249-4076 Ext: 44076 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of saurabh khandelwal Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 3:23 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: How to get Operator Log Hello, Our MVS Guest's crash abruptly, the only message about it's reason is in zVM's Operator's Log, because these MVS are running under. Can anybody help me, how to see MVS colsole log and Operator log under zVM, so that I can check the reason for MVS crashes. Sorry, if I am posting this problem in the wrong forum. -- Thanks Regards Saurabh Khandelwal -- Thanks Regards Saurabh Khandelwal
Re: Dynamic Load of New Devices to VM
Frank, Just create a new IOCDS/IODF with your correction and then using z/OS issue an ACTIVATE command to dynamically change the IODF and/or to specify a new IOCDS to use for the next POR. z/VM should see the changes to your configuration as a result of the ACTIVATE command. I believe that even with z/VM not configured to use dynamic I/O reconfiguration, z/Vm will still be able to use devices in your new configuration, but don't hold me to it. Raymond E. Noal EMC² where information lives Phone: (508) 249-4076 Ext: 44076 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Frank Anderson Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 8:52 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Dynamic Load of New Devices to VM To anyone, We have a Z196 processor that's running MVS and VM/ Linux. We've created the IOCDS under MVS. The IOCDS is used by both MVS and VM. However, the system programmer didn't connect all of the devices to the VM system. The devices were connected only to MVS. Is there a way to dynamically add those devices to the VM/Linux system without doing a POR for the Z196?
Re: SHUTTRAP
Hello Richard, I believe the reason for your error message in using SHUTTRAP is that SHUTTRAP can only issue CMS commands and not CP commands. Is the message associated with your SHUTTRAP issuing a CP command? I had the same problem when my message was a CP command. As a test for SHUTTAP I issued the CMS command 'Q DISK' and it worked with no error message. Hope this helps. Raymond E. Noal EMC² where information lives Phone: (508) 249-4076 Ext: 44076 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 11:59 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: SHUTTRAP I just retrieved SHUTTRAP from the download page and tried it. In my first simpleminded try, the results were mixed. The signal shutdown did indeed trigger the command included with the shuttrap command. Then I got this: SHUTTRAP: Shutdown in 900 seconds DMSITP143T Addressing exception occurred at 81056162 in system routine WAITRD; re-IPL CMS 15:07:56 * MSG FROM RSCHUH1 : DMSDIE3550I All APPC/VM and IUCV paths have been severed. HCPGIR450W CP entered; disabled wait PSW 000A 80F3F752 There is nothing in the documentation that would lead me to believe that this is normal; however, the documentation consists solely of the HELP file and is pretty sparse in this area. I tried reassembling the module with the same results. z/VM 6.1 Service Level 1002 CMS 25, Service Level 002 Regards, Richard Schuh
Re: SHUTTRAP
Richard, You can use the CP command - 'Q SIGNALS' to make your determinations, as in - q signals Signalled Timeout UseridSignalSignal Status By Remaining LN192209 SHUTDOWN Enabled - - VMSERVR SHUTDOWN Enabled - - VMSERVU SHUTDOWN Enabled - - VMSERVS SHUTDOWN Enabled - - Happy parsing!! Raymond E. Noal EMC² where information lives Phone: (508) 249-4076 Ext: 44076 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 6:22 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: SHUTTRAP Given the lack of direction, I suppose that you can do almost anything, so long as you are consistent. There is no right or wrong, so logging off will work so long as the watchdog machine does not bring logged off users back on. Is there any way for a user to determine if it is being targeted alone, by a signal shutdown user userid or is included in a signal shutdown all? I suspect not, but I can see where that might be useful at times. Also, CP does notice when a user who has requested the shutdown signal logs off and cancels the request, does it not? It must because a virtual machine can log off at any time, regardless of the shutdown signal, and CP has to handle it correctly. Does CP disallow new logons when it receives signal shutdown all command? Regards, Richard Schuh -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 1:56 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: SHUTTRAP On Tuesday, 06/28/2011 at 03:10 EDT, Schuh, Richard rsc...@visa.com wrote: No only is it not obvious, so far I have been unable to find it in the documentation. You can specify a wait state code on the SHUTDOWN command and it can be anything between 1 and . I cannot find where the default is FFF. Is that a true system default or is it a code you have adopted for your use? You will not find any published information on the mechanism. I *observe* that if you SIGNAL SHUTDOWN to a 2nd level VM, it will load wait state FFF and the SIGNAL SHUTDOWN command gives a successful termination message. Draw your own conclusions. 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: Contention... II
Andre, You may want to consider changing the value for the HOLD to a lower number, say 10 or so. You can use the $T MASDEF command to do this while you are running. Issue the command to all members of the MAS. Raymond E. Noal EMC² where information lives Phone: (508) 249-4076 Ext: 44076 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Andre Massena Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 7:38 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Contention... II I should have added this information in the first mail: MASDEF: MASDEF SHARED=CHECK, /* MULTI ACCESS SPOOL CHECK RESTART=YES,CKPTLOCK=ACTION, /* DORMANCY=(100,500), /* HOLD=1000, /* LOCKOUT=1000/* MEMBER(1) NAME=ADCD /* MEMBER(2) NAME=BDCD /* Both z/OS guests have an absolute share of 15% (z/VM) of a 900 MIPS z10, so I would surmise it is not a juice problem... Andre En réponse à Andre Massena andre_mass...@lavache.com : -- Début du message d'origine Hello all, have a bit of a problem here.. Doing a POC for a customer who wants to run a SysPlex under z/VM (5.4). Two members in the Plex both at z/OS 1.10 JES2 (same RSU). As per RMF, I am not seeing any bottlenecks in XCF or CPU usage, z/VM is not complaining either, no appreciable paging or CPU use. I am seeing however constant enqueues on the HASPxx DASD. The only place I am using DASD WRKALLEG is for the CF DASD. I am NOT using this option for the JES DASD as it were. As would be expected from the situation outlined above, the response times are abominable. Anyone had the same problem in the past? Replies much appreciated. Andre ** Cross-posted to IBM-Main also. ** www.lavache.com : l'email gratuit sans pub, vachement meuh. www.hugolescargot.com : coloriage, fiches recettes et bricolage, chansons, etc. www.jeux-gratuits.com : des jeux en ligne pour toute la famille. --- Fin du message d'origine - www.lavache.com : l'email gratuit sans pub, vachement meuh. www.hugolescargot.com : coloriage, fiches recettes et bricolage, chansons, etc. www.jeux-gratuits.com : des jeux en ligne pour toute la famille.
Re: FTP to the VM RDR
Dave, Try - [CD|CDW] userid.RDR Raymond E. Noal EMC² where information lives Phone: (508) 249-4076 Ext: 44076 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Tracy, David Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 1:58 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: FTP to the VM RDR All, Can any give me the FTP command to transfer to the Reader instead of mini-disk? Thank you... ...Dave
Re: FTP to the VM RDR
You are most welcome. Glad I could be of assistance. Raymond E. Noal EMC² where information lives Phone: (508) 249-4076 Ext: 44076 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Tracy, David Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 2:08 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: FTP to the VM RDR Ray, Works perfect. Thank you... ...Dave From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Raymond Noal Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 2:02 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: FTP to the VM RDR Dave, Try - [CD|CDW] userid.RDR Raymond E. Noal EMC² where information lives Phone: (508) 249-4076 Ext: 44076 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Tracy, David Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 1:58 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: FTP to the VM RDR All, Can any give me the FTP command to transfer to the Reader instead of mini-disk? Thank you... ...Dave
Re: Again IOCDS and dynamic activation.
Hello Tom, I believe that I am correct in stating the following: The configuration statements in the SYSTEM CONFIG file are used basically during z/VM IPL to create your system's configuration. A subsequent activation of a new IODF/IOCDS is not really associated to the SYSTEM CONFIG statements. Since you defined the real device numbers of 4xxx to only be offline at IPL (and IPL is the operative word here), upon activation of a new IOCDS/IODF, these devices are available to the system during device discovery and as a result become online. The best way to avoid this is to define the 4xxx devices as 'Not Accepted' causing z/VM not to pay any attention to these devices during IPL and activation processing. The SYSTEM CONFIG statements are used to create your working configuration for the current IPL of z/VM. Subsequent dynamic activations of new configurations do not necessarily adhere to the SYSTEM CONFIG statements with the 'Not Accepted' category being the exception. Hope this helps. Raymond E. Noal EMC² where information lives Phone: (508) 249-4076 Ext: 44076 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Huegel Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 9:18 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Again IOCDS and dynamic activation. I am having a problem with dynamic activation of the IOCDS by z/OS. This is what is in my SYS CONFIG file. Devices , Offline_at_IPL -, Sensed -, NotAccepted CC00-CDFF, Online_at_IPL 0020-002F, 00B0-00B2, D509-D50F, D52B-D52F and in my AUTOLOG1 profile. ADDRESS COMMAND CP SET DEVICES NOTACCEPTED '1000-' ADDRESS COMMAND CP SET NEW_DEVICES INIT OFF After IPL everything is fine, the devices I want ONLINE are online and those I want OFFLINE are offline. But when a new IOCDS is activated the group of devices I am trying to keep offline 4xxx become ONLINE.. The devices added by the new IOCDS (E0xx) are OFFLINE. Am I missing something? Is this the way it is supposed to work? Is there a way to prevent this from happening? Thanks
Re: REXXCPS EXEC
Chuckie, Chuckie, Chuckie, Smacking someone on the (back) of the head is not beaning them. The correct and more proper term is - Whisterpoot !!! Raymond E. Noal EMC² where information lives Phone: (508) 249-4076 Ext: 44076 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 2:22 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: REXXCPS EXEC On Friday, 06/10/2011 at 01:47 EDT, Mike Hammock m...@hammocktree.us wrote: Of course, pretty soon we may have to start using BIPS (Billions of .). Let's see, what word can we find that starts with B that means Meaningless? (yawn) (scratch) (scratch) I vote for Beaningless. It even pulls in: - Useless accounting (bean counters) - Smacking someone on the head (beaning them) (burp) -- Chuckie (snore)
Re: File System - If you had everything, where would you put it?
For some additional information regarding Linux and DCSS support and use, you may also want to review this document: http://download.boulder.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/dw/linux390/docu/l26d he00.pdf HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Doug Breneman Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 10:47 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: File System - If you had everything, where would you put it? Hi Gary, Dave Jones wrote: Note that in z/VM 5.4, a DCSS can live above the 31 bit bar, but it is still limited to the 2GB size. The DCSS above 2G support that went into z/VM 5.4 not only allowed them above the 2G line, but also allowed them to be 'concatenated' to appear to the a SLES guest to be greater than 2G. For information about what SLES 11 and SLES 10 with patches can do, a customer needs to refer to Chapter 19. z/VM DCSS device driver in the Device Drivers, Features, and Commands - November, 2008 book page 215 and can be found at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/development_documentati on.html There it states: Starting with z/VM 5.4, you can: v Locate a DCSS above 2047 MB v Set up DCSS devices with a size above 2047 MB by mapping multiple DCSSs to a single DCSS block device and on page 217, the syntax on the dcssblk.segments= statement shows : the colon (:) separates DCSSs within a set of DCSSs to be mapped to a single DCSS device. You can map a set of DCSSs to a single DCSS device if the DCSSs in the set form a contiguous memory space. So Dave is correct that z/VM 5.4 still limits the size of a DCSS to 2GB, but Linux can use a set of them so that multiple DCSSs look like one memory space that is greater than 2G. I know that this does not help you with Solaris. Doug Breneman z/VM Development IBM Endicott, NY
Re: z/VM Job Postings - thanks - got it.
Thank you Dave. From: The IBM z/VM Operating System on behalf of Dave Jones Sent: Sat 4/4/2009 4:54 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: z/VM Job Postings Raymond: http://www.velocity-software.com/jobs/ Raymond Noal wrote: Dear List, What is the URL to the web site for z/VM job postings? TIA -- Dave Jones V/Soft www.vsoft-software.com Houston, TX 281.578.7544
z/VM Job Postings
Dear List, What is the URL to the web site for z/VM job postings? TIA
Re: Problem with PEEK Command - update
Dear Chuckie, I must apologize for upsetting you so. It too was shocked, as in shocked and awe which escalated to shock and ah, S**T!!! What was I thinking? Upon encountering a problem when using the PEEK function from within a RDRLIST display, I should have immediately thought of my TCP/IP buffer specifications. The shame of it all. I promise to go out this weekend to my local bookstore and buy a copy of the z/VM for Dummies book, where upon I am sure I will find in the index: Problems with PROFPEEK XEDIT; see also TCPIP buffer definitions. I will also spend considerable time over the weekend pondering why, when I have my own private copy of PROFPEEK XEDIT on my 191 A-Disk, everything worked without giving any thought to TCPIP buffers. But, this will be an exercise left to the totally confused. Now I have to go and close my PMR with those kind folks at IBM who went to the trouble to duplicate my problem and reported back to me to go change my TCPIP buffer definitions. I am off to modify my TCPIP buffer specifications. Now let's see, that's MegaDataBuffer, VeryLargeDataBuffer, LargeDataBuffer, StandardDataBuffer, DataBuffer, SmallDataBuffer, TinyDataBuffer and finally NanoDataBuffer. (did I miss any?? :-)) Oh, yes, I missed one - DataBufferForUsersWithLargeScreenDefintions. There, got them all. I would like to thank all of you who responded. I was really surprised at how the majority of you made the leap from using PEEK to TCPIP data buffers. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 10:59 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Problem with PEEK Command - update On Thursday, 04/02/2009 at 08:19 EDT, Raymond Noal raymond.n...@hds.com wrote: Upon further investigation I have found that the problem with the PEEK command is associated with the user?s terminal screen size. I was using a terminal emulation screen sizeof 62X 160.If I change the terminal characteristics to 43 X 80, the problem does not occur. Please check your TCPIP console. You are probably getting a warning about transparent mode buffer overrun. The default data buffer size is 8K -- not large enough to hold the 9K+ bytes of a 62x160 screen. Use the statement: DataBufferPoolSize 160 12K to increase it. Also make you you have defined TinyDataBuffers and SmallDataBuffers, too. Otherwise the stack will waste a lot of memory on short transactions. (And you may need a larger TCPIP server to handle the additional memory. Keep an eye on the console for a week or so.) I am shocked, shocked I say, that you overlooked the z/VM 5.4 update to the description of the DataBufferPoolSize statement in the TCP/IP Planning book that says For Telnet connections, the size of regular data buffers may need to be increased in order to accommodate clients that use large screen sizes. ;-) Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
Problem using the PEEK Command
Dear Listers, I've encountered a strange situation using the PEEK command issued from the CMS Ready prompt. The same thing happens if I select a reader for to peek from within a RDRLIST display. I'll type in PEEK xx - where xx is some reader spool file number for this user. The result is as expected - I'm viewing the contents of the reader file. Now, if I depress any key that causes an AID interrupt (PFx, ENTER) - the virtual machine is disconnected. When I check on the OPERATOR's virtual machine spooled console log it says that the user was disconnected and 'FORCED BY SYSTEM'. What?? Now for more strangeness - if I perform the same operations on the MAINT virtual machine, everything works fine. If I do a FILELIST PEEK* * * from MAINT and OPERATOR, the list is the same and the files have the same date/time stamp. So, there is no user REXX EXEC that could be involved. The PEEK EXEC on the 190 S-Disk is compiled REXX (don't get me started again about compiled REXX) The date on the PEEK EXEC is 6/27/08 - time 10:02.12. Is anyone else having the same problem? Looks like PMR time. Oh, almost forgot. While I can't recall this ever being a problem before, I recently applied RSU 0901 with no problems. H-m-m-m-m-m- ??? And before you ask - it's not April 1st, today is April 2nd. May haps Chuckie is afoot!! C-H-U-C-K-I-E -- where arst thou? HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978
Re: Problem using the PEEK Command
B-I-N-G-O James wins the cigar! On the MAINT virtual machine where everything worked as expected, there was a PROFPEEK XEDIT file on the 191 A-Disk. For the other two machines that were encountering the problem, they only had a PROFPEEK XEDIT on their 190 S-Disk. I copied the PROFPEEK XEDIT from MAINT to the other two virtual machines on their 191 A-Disk, and now they work as expected. So, is the PROFPEEK XEDIT on the 190 S-DISK in error? I've opened a PMR with IBM. Stay tuned - film at eleven!! Thanks to all who have responded so promptly. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of James Stracka (DHL US) Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 2:24 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Problem using the PEEK Command Do you have a private copy of PROFPEEK XEDIT? From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Raymond Noal Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 2:21 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Problem using the PEEK Command Dear Listers, I've encountered a strange situation using the PEEK command issued from the CMS Ready prompt. The same thing happens if I select a reader for to peek from within a RDRLIST display. I'll type in PEEK xx - where xx is some reader spool file number for this user. The result is as expected - I'm viewing the contents of the reader file. Now, if I depress any key that causes an AID interrupt (PFx, ENTER) - the virtual machine is disconnected. When I check on the OPERATOR's virtual machine spooled console log it says that the user was disconnected and 'FORCED BY SYSTEM'. What?? Now for more strangeness - if I perform the same operations on the MAINT virtual machine, everything works fine. If I do a FILELIST PEEK* * * from MAINT and OPERATOR, the list is the same and the files have the same date/time stamp. So, there is no user REXX EXEC that could be involved. The PEEK EXEC on the 190 S-Disk is compiled REXX (don't get me started again about compiled REXX) The date on the PEEK EXEC is 6/27/08 - time 10:02.12. Is anyone else having the same problem? Looks like PMR time. Oh, almost forgot. While I can't recall this ever being a problem before, I recently applied RSU 0901 with no problems. H-m-m-m-m-m- ??? And before you ask - it's not April 1st, today is April 2nd. May haps Chuckie is afoot!! C-H-U-C-K-I-E -- where arst thou? HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978
Problem with PEEK Command - update
Dear Listers, Thanks to all who responded, even Chuckie. Upon further investigation I have found that the problem with the PEEK command is associated with the user's terminal screen size. I was using a terminal emulation screen size of 62 X 160. If I change the terminal characteristics to 43 X 80, the problem does not occur. Both terminal sessions were using the IBM provided PROFPEEK XEDIT from the 190 S-Disk. The application of RSU 0901 was done last week and the system has been re-IPL'ed since then and for sure CMS has been re-saved and IPL'ed. So, I do not think this is in relation to the application of the RSU. My apologies for casting any shadows / doubts on the RSU. If I use my version of the PROFPEEK XEDIT from my 191 A-Disk, the problem does not occur with either terminal screen size setting. soapbox Is this yet another reason that IBM should not distribute such files as compiled REXX, so the user could diagnose similar problems? /soapbox So, I will make the assumption that I have violated Chuckie's 38th rule of computing and I sincerely apologize. The PROFPEEK XEDIT seems to be W.A.D. Thanks to all of you again. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978
Re: z/VM and DS6000 Disks
Bruce, Never having to install z/VM from the DVD I can't really comment on what is and what is not considered supported devices for the installation process. You may want to verify the FCP and/or FBASCSI device types are supported devices by the installation process. EDEVICES are constructs available from an installed z/VM system. They may not be for the installation process. Unless the installation process allows you to define FCP devices I don't really see how you could use FCP devices for your initial installaion. Just my $0.02. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Heckler, Bruce Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 12:14 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: z/VM and DS6000 Disks Hi Everyone, First, let me preface the question by saying I'm mostly a z/OS weenie. = Last time I installed VM it came on 2400' reels. Our campus Department of= Fine Arts got a grant for a Z10 EC and Red Hat. (an interesting story for= later). Their support folks are more into Dell than anything Big Blue. S= o us old legacy dinosaurs got pressed into service. OK, now the question: We're failing in INSTDVD setting up the system volumes. We plug in the = addresses, PF5, reply y to confirm, and it thows us back into the panel= with a DMSXDC542E. I'm pretty sure but not 100% we've got the addresses = we need, switched. The IODF shows a string at 1000 for 240 with type FCP.= Related to it is another string beginning at 3000 with type FBASCSI. I = used the 1000 device addresses, but some of the new function IBM PMRs see= m allude the right ones should be at 3000 (FBASCSI). That'd also imply our = SET EDEVICEs are also wrong. Comments from anyone who've broken ground = with a DS6000 would be appreciated. Sooo Weee! Hook 'em Hogs!... from an old Arkie and UA gradicate...
Re: VM 5.4 Maintenance
The first PTF requires that the second PTF be applied before the first PTF can be applied. How did you order your maintenance? You should order any/all maintenance (PTF's / RSU's ) with the required co-regs, if-regs and pre-regs to avoid a problem like this. For now you will have to order the second PTF listed and receive it before you can continue with the application of the first PTF. HTH HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Wandschneider, Scott Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 2:59 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: VM 5.4 Maintenance Can someone tell me how to correct VMFAPP2100E? VMFAPP2760I VMFAPPLY PROCESSING STARTED VMFAPP2106I APPLY LIST HCPVM CONTAINS 2 PTFS THAT NEED TO BE APPLIED AND 7 PTFS THAT ARE ALREADY APPLIED VMFAPP2100E PTF UM32620 COULD NOT BE APPLIED BECAUSE PTF UM32520 HAS NOT BEEN RECEIVED VMFAPP2102I 2 OF 2 PTFS PROCESSED VMFAPP2105I VMFAPPLY PROCESSING COMPLETED UNSUCCESSFULLY. Scott R Wandschneider Senior Systems Programmer|| Infocrossing, a Wipro Company || 11707 Miracle Hills Drive, Omaha, NE, 68154-4457|| ': 402.963.8905 || Ë:847.849.7223 || :: scott.wandschnei...@infocrossing.com **Think Green - Please print responsibly** Confidentiality Note: This e-mail, including any attachment to it, may contain material that is confidential, proprietary, privileged and/or Protected Health Information, within the meaning of the regulations under the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act as amended. If it is not clear that you are the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this transmittal in error, and any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, including any attachment to it, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately return it to the sender and delete it from your system. Thank you.
Re: SCSIDISC SAMPEXEC on z/VM 5.4.0
Alan, Yes, I know it has been a loong time since IBM shipped all the source for a given product. This is when OCO started. So, be it. The 'inconsistency' is that historically and traditionally anything that IBM provided as a 'SAMPLE' was distributed as source code, be it assembler, rexx or whatever. Hence the implication for SCSIDISC SAMP(ple)EXEC being assumed to be REXX source code and not compiled REXX. Surely the code in SCSIDISC is not proprietary in regards to doing 'I/O' to FCP devices. Linux developers are doing this. Are the QDIO drivers in Linux OCO? HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 5:29 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: SCSIDISC SAMPEXEC on z/VM 5.4.0 On Wednesday, 03/18/2009 at 07:15 EDT, Scott Rohling scott.rohl...@gmail.com wrote: That does seem odd.. I would think it would be supplied named as EXEC in that case.. I agree it implies a 'sample' when named SAMPEXEC .. which is only useful when the 'sample' is human readable so you can see what a good sample looks like ;-) Inconsistent to say the least, but I'm not aware of the reasons (if any) behind not releasing the source. Maybe Chuckie knows.. ? We use filetype SAMP to indicate that the item is not a supported/documented part of the product, but is something we provide for you to use. Sometimes the point is the source, demonstrating how to do something, and other times it is the functionality. SCSIDISC falls into the latter category. It has been a lng time since we shipped the source to everything in the product, so I'm not sure what is inconsistent. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
Re: New CMS based SSLSERV problem... DTCSSL300E
Don't bother with the TCPRUNXT SAMPEXEC on the 591 disk - it's probably compiled REXX anyway!! :-) (sorry Chuckie, I couldn't pass up the opportunity) HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 2:25 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: New CMS based SSLSERV problem... DTCSSL300E On Thursday, 03/19/2009 at 04:23 EDT, O'Brien, Dennis L dennis.l.o'br...@bankofamerica.com wrote: Mark C, Thanks. I implemented your suggestion, and it works fine. Am I correct that whatever file I end up putting the :parms. tag in, I need to put all the parameters of :parms. there? We have about 20 systems to support. Ideally, I'd like to specify the EXEMPT parameter in SYSTEM DTCPARMS, which would be common to all nodes, and specify MAXSESSIONS in a node-specific file. Is there a way to do this? Remember that you can use the server exit facility (:Exit tag or TCPRUNXT EXEC) to generate tags at runtime. See Ch. 5. Look at TCPRUNXT SAMPEXEC on the 591 disk. You could use an exit that returns the correct :parms. whenever it starts a server of class ssl. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
Re: SCSIDISC SAMPEXEC on z/VM 5.4.0
Hi Scott, Yes, I agree. This goes against years of IBM tradition and history of IBM employees sharing sample code with the user community to highlight a new function/feature of an operating system or application. I look at Kris Buelens (and others) who have graciously shared code they developed for the use and benefit of all concerned. We all own them a debt of gratitude. As to Chuckie - while although he does dance to a different drummer, he is still a staunch IBM employee. So, if the mandate is not to distribute the source code I sincerely doubt he will go against company policy. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Rohling Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 4:15 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: SCSIDISC SAMPEXEC on z/VM 5.4.0 That does seem odd.. I would think it would be supplied named as EXEC in that case.. I agree it implies a 'sample' when named SAMPEXEC .. which is only useful when the 'sample' is human readable so you can see what a good sample looks like ;-) Inconsistent to say the least, but I'm not aware of the reasons (if any) behind not releasing the source. Maybe Chuckie knows.. ? Scott On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Raymond Noal raymond.n...@hds.com wrote: Dear List Members: Just to save you some time and grief, I'm passing this along. We have just started using FCP devices for our Linux (SuSE Red Hat) virtual machines running under our z/VM 5.4.0 system. In order to verify our hardware configuration and our switch configurations, I was able to use the SCSIDISC SAMPEXEC program found on MAINT's 2CC mini disk. To my surprise, the SCSIDISC SAMPEXEC is not REXX source code, but instead it is compiled REXX. I requested a copy of the REXX source for SCSIDISC, but IBM will not release the source code. A dark day in VM-land, for sure. As I said, just an FYI. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978
Re: SCSIDISC SAMPEXEC on z/VM 5.4.0
Scott, The response I received from IBM was the result of my opening an ETR on the subject. To protect the innocent, I did not mention the name of the IBM employee who works in the z/VM I/O Development group - if that's of any use. Welcome aboard !! HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Rohling Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 5:17 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: SCSIDISC SAMPEXEC on z/VM 5.4.0 Well - I'm a staunch IBM employee myself, though I try to remain neutral in this forum. My influence is limited, so not a great loss ;-) I think even Chuckie will agree that providing a SAMPEXEC without the source is a misnomer and a packaging issue at the least.. I'm still hoping this was simply a mistake and the source can actually be provided. I'm not sure what avenue you took to request the source - but maybe it's simply a misunderstanding. If not - then at least provide a rational reason why we shouldn't understand how this utility works (or even legalese if rational thought has been excluded). I'm with ya, Raymond ;-) Scott On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Raymond Noal raymond.n...@hds.com wrote: Hi Scott, Yes, I agree. This goes against years of IBM tradition and history of IBM employees sharing sample code with the user community to highlight a new function/feature of an operating system or application. I look at Kris Buelens (and others) who have graciously shared code they developed for the use and benefit of all concerned. We all own them a debt of gratitude. As to Chuckie - while although he does dance to a different drummer, he is still a staunch IBM employee. So, if the mandate is not to distribute the source code I sincerely doubt he will go against company policy. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Rohling Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 4:15 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: SCSIDISC SAMPEXEC on z/VM 5.4.0 That does seem odd.. I would think it would be supplied named as EXEC in that case.. I agree it implies a 'sample' when named SAMPEXEC .. which is only useful when the 'sample' is human readable so you can see what a good sample looks like ;-) Inconsistent to say the least, but I'm not aware of the reasons (if any) behind not releasing the source. Maybe Chuckie knows.. ? Scott On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Raymond Noal raymond.n...@hds.com wrote: Dear List Members: Just to save you some time and grief, I'm passing this along. We have just started using FCP devices for our Linux (SuSE Red Hat) virtual machines running under our z/VM 5.4.0 system. In order to verify our hardware configuration and our switch configurations, I was able to use the SCSIDISC SAMPEXEC program found on MAINT's 2CC mini disk. To my surprise, the SCSIDISC SAMPEXEC is not REXX source code, but instead it is compiled REXX. I requested a copy of the REXX source for SCSIDISC, but IBM will not release the source code. A dark day in VM-land, for sure. As I said, just an FYI. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978
Re: SCSIDISC SAMPEXEC on z/VM 5.4.0
My apologies to the z/VM I/O Development Group. I was wrong. The signature of the responder to my ETR said - CP Support. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 From: Raymond Noal Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 5:22 PM To: 'The IBM z/VM Operating System' Subject: RE: SCSIDISC SAMPEXEC on z/VM 5.4.0 Scott, The response I received from IBM was the result of my opening an ETR on the subject. To protect the innocent, I did not mention the name of the IBM employee who works in the z/VM I/O Development group - if that's of any use. Welcome aboard !! HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Rohling Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 5:17 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: SCSIDISC SAMPEXEC on z/VM 5.4.0 Well - I'm a staunch IBM employee myself, though I try to remain neutral in this forum. My influence is limited, so not a great loss ;-) I think even Chuckie will agree that providing a SAMPEXEC without the source is a misnomer and a packaging issue at the least.. I'm still hoping this was simply a mistake and the source can actually be provided. I'm not sure what avenue you took to request the source - but maybe it's simply a misunderstanding. If not - then at least provide a rational reason why we shouldn't understand how this utility works (or even legalese if rational thought has been excluded). I'm with ya, Raymond ;-) Scott On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Raymond Noal raymond.n...@hds.com wrote: Hi Scott, Yes, I agree. This goes against years of IBM tradition and history of IBM employees sharing sample code with the user community to highlight a new function/feature of an operating system or application. I look at Kris Buelens (and others) who have graciously shared code they developed for the use and benefit of all concerned. We all own them a debt of gratitude. As to Chuckie - while although he does dance to a different drummer, he is still a staunch IBM employee. So, if the mandate is not to distribute the source code I sincerely doubt he will go against company policy. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Rohling Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 4:15 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: SCSIDISC SAMPEXEC on z/VM 5.4.0 That does seem odd.. I would think it would be supplied named as EXEC in that case.. I agree it implies a 'sample' when named SAMPEXEC .. which is only useful when the 'sample' is human readable so you can see what a good sample looks like ;-) Inconsistent to say the least, but I'm not aware of the reasons (if any) behind not releasing the source. Maybe Chuckie knows.. ? Scott On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Raymond Noal raymond.n...@hds.com wrote: Dear List Members: Just to save you some time and grief, I'm passing this along. We have just started using FCP devices for our Linux (SuSE Red Hat) virtual machines running under our z/VM 5.4.0 system. In order to verify our hardware configuration and our switch configurations, I was able to use the SCSIDISC SAMPEXEC program found on MAINT's 2CC mini disk. To my surprise, the SCSIDISC SAMPEXEC is not REXX source code, but instead it is compiled REXX. I requested a copy of the REXX source for SCSIDISC, but IBM will not release the source code. A dark day in VM-land, for sure. As I said, just an FYI. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978
Re: Determining the mac address of the TCP/IP connection
NETSTAT ARP ALL - OR - If you have a vswitch installed and running - Q VSWITCH vswitch-name DETAILS HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Edward M Martin Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 12:08 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Determining the mac address of the TCP/IP connection Hello Everyone, Is there a netstat command to see the mac address a QDIO card on a z890 running TCP/IP? Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-588-4723 ext 40441
z/VM 5.4.0 RSU 801 - System Abend Code - VAI008
Dear list, Does anyone know what this system abend code is - VAI008? The CP Codes manual only says that the abend code is issued by module HCPVAI and that this module is object code only with no source available. The codes manual makes no attempt to give a description of what caused the abend. TIA HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978
Tracing FCP devices.
Dear List: I am trying to trace the creation of an EDEVICE by using TRSOURCE commands. It appears that there is no 'traditional' I/O done during this process. I used the following TRSOURCE commands: /* rexx */ /* */ 'CP TRSOURCE DROP SET FCP' /* */ 'CP TRSOURCE ID LUN0 SET FCP TYPE IO DEV C600 USER MAINT IODATA 128' /* */ 'CP TRSOURCE ENABLE SET FCP' /* */ I then issued the SET EDEVICE as follows: SET EDEVICE 200 TYPE FBA ATTR SCSI FCP_DEV C600 WWPN 50060E8003275403 LUN EDEVICE 200 was created and associated with FCP device C600. I then issued the CP commands: CP TRSOURCE DIABLE ALL CP TRSOURCE DROP ALL There was no TRFile created. This is starting to look like one has to do a 'cptrace' to capture any diagnostic data. The reason for my interest in this is because I can create an FCP device in my SuSE SLES 10 SP 2 virtual machine by attaching real (FCP) device C600 and I can use YAST == zFCP == Add to create a device using LUN zero, but I am not able to create (Add) a device using LUN 0001. Any assistance greatly appreciated. TIA HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978
Re: lOGON WITH OUT ipL'ing
Roger, Establish your tn3270 connection that displays your VM logo. Clear this screen using your clear key. Type - L vm_id noipl (ENTER) (Ex: L MAINT NOIPL) Now, IPL CMS. At the CMS IPL prompt type ACC ( noprof (ENTER) This will bypass running your PROFILE EXEC. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Wilson, Roger Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 11:50 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: lOGON WITH OUT ipL'ing I AM HAVING A SENIOR MOMENT HERE. I HAVE A CMS MACHINE THAT HAS FILLED UP IT'S B DISK. I would like to force the machine off then login without going through the profile exec because the profile exec runs another exec and goes back to sleep. I need to clean up the disk space. Then reipl the machine. Any help Sincerely, Roger Wilson
Re: OSA layer 2 protocol connections...
Mark, It looks like you and I are working on the same projects in regards to Linux and Open Solaris and layer 2 and layer 3 virtual switches. As to SuSE Linux, yes, it can work in layer 2 mode. This from Novell: You should just be able to edit the /etc/sysconfig/hardware/hwcfg-qeth-??? file and add this line: QETH_LAYER2_SUPPORT='1' Or, change the existing one that says QETH_LAYER2_SUPPORT='0' to that. I have yet to try this, so if you do, please let me know how it works for you. TIA and HTH HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Pace Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 11:44 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: OSA layer 2 protocol connections... Latest layer 2 / layer 3 vswitch question. Within z/VM 5.4, can I have 1 layer 2 switch for my guests that support only layer 2, and a layer 3 switch for linux and TCPIP? Both would be connected to the same OSA (z9) via different triplet addresses. Next thing I've got to figure out is how to change a running SuSE linux guest from a layer 2 vswitch to a layer 3 vswitch. On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Mark Pace mpac...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Alan. Guess I'll be changing that z/VM back to a layer 3 vswitch. Guess I'll get to try it when I get to my Linux only z/VM system. On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com wrote: On Tuesday, 12/16/2008 at 04:33 EST, Mark Pace mpac...@gmail.com wrote: Is layer 2 only available to z/VM TCPIP and linux? I'm getting errors on my z/VSE guest and I don't even want to bother starting my z/OS 1.9 guest if it's not going to work on the layer 2 vswitch. I'll just go ahead and change the vswitch and TCPIP back to layer 3. z/OS does not support Layer 2 (though I think they're working towards it). Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott -- Mark Pace Mainline Information Systems 1700 Summit Lake Drive Tallahassee, FL. 32317 -- Mark Pace Mainline Information Systems 1700 Summit Lake Drive Tallahassee, FL. 32317
Re: SSLSERV and TN3270
James, BlueZone does support SSL connections - you have a choice for SSL V3 from the Security Tab in the Session Configuration == TN3270 Configuration panels. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Sterling James Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 9:27 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: SSLSERV and TN3270 Please consider the environment before printing this email and any attachments. This e-mail and any attachments are intended only for the individual or company to which it is addressed and may contain information which is privileged, confidential and prohibited from disclosure or unauthorized use under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, or copying of this e-mail or the information contained in this e-mail is strictly prohibited by the sender. If you have received this transmission in error, please return the material received to the sender and delete all copies from your system.
Re: Performance Tool Kit - Activation
Thanks to all who responded. After doing some additional work on this problem, I realized that I did not have the resourceID specified for my system. I added the FCXRES00 parameter to my FCONRMT SYSTEMS file and I also created a UCOMDIR NAMES file. I was really asking about the undocumented message. Somehow this got twisted in to a discussion about ports. I am using port 81 as defined in my TCPIP PROFILE file. I can now access PERFSVM using a browser. Thanks again to all. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Kris Buelens Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 12:09 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Performance Tool Kit - Activation I don't think it is related to a port number, but as the message says to FCONRMT SYSTEMS. I found this on my former customer's test system. FCONRMT SYSTEMS B1 V 80 Trunc=80 !...+1+2+3+.. * * * Top of File * * * Cav PERFSVM Z/VM N FCXRES73 Centraal PERFSVM Z/VM N FCXRES75 Frankryk PERFSVM Z/VM N FCXRES86 Hongkong PERFSVM Z/VM N FCXRES79 InfoAsia PERFSVM Z/VM N FCXRES94 . Swim PERFSVM Z/VM N FCXRES72 * * * End of File * * * From that I canclude that the APPC resourceID is missing in Raymond's FCONRMT SYSTEMS. By default PTK registers itself as FCXRES00. Because I had multiple VM systems to monitor centrally, I used an UCOMDIR NAMES file to make the resourceIDs used by PTK unique. Without this Raymond should code blabla PERFSVM Z/VM N FCXRES00 The first word is wat PTK shows in its systems panel (uppercased, unless they implemented my suggestion) 2009/1/14 Jim Bohnsack jab...@cornell.edu Do you have a port number, I use 81, defined in PROFILE TCPIP? Gotta have that. Jim Raymond Noal wrote: Dear List, I am trying to activate the web interface for PTK. I am receiving a start up message - FCXAPF564I - which is not in the messages section of the PTF docs, nor can I find a hit for this message identifier on IBMLink. Here is the entire message: FCXAPF564I No APPC/VM or TCP/IP connections in FCONRMT SYSTEMS file Here are the contents of my FCONRMT SYSTEMS file: SCZVM540 PERFSVM Z/VM5.4 N SCZVM540 is the system identifier for this instance of z/VM as defined in the SYSTEM CONFIG file. Does anyone have any ideas?? PS - I have opened an ETR for the message identifier with IBM. TIA HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS=20 Raymond E. Noal=20 Senior Technical Engineer=20 Office: (408) 970 - 7978=20 -- Jim Bohnsack Cornell University (972) 596-6377 home/office (972) 342-5823 cell jab...@cornell.edu -- Kris Buelens, IBM Belgium, VM customer support
Performance Tool Kit - Activation
Dear List, I am trying to activate the web interface for PTK. I am receiving a start up message - FCXAPF564I - which is not in the messages section of the PTF docs, nor can I find a hit for this message identifier on IBMLink. Here is the entire message: FCXAPF564I No APPC/VM or TCP/IP connections in FCONRMT SYSTEMS file Here are the contents of my FCONRMT SYSTEMS file: SCZVM540 PERFSVM Z/VM5.4 N SCZVM540 is the system identifier for this instance of z/VM as defined in the SYSTEM CONFIG file. Does anyone have any ideas?? PS - I have opened an ETR for the message identifier with IBM. TIA HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978
Re: Local time w/SLES 10
Mark, If your virtual machine has the TODENABLE value coded in the OPTION statement that defines your virtual machine you can then use the SET VTOD command to set the TOD clock for your virtual machine. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 8:38 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Local time w/SLES 10 On 12/22/2008 at 8:58 AM, Steve Mitchell steve.mitch...@bcbsks.com wrote: We set the time on VM via the HMC to local time. This is almost always a bad idea for a mainframe. With our SLES 9 guests we had no problem with times. However with SLES 10 we do. -snip- How do we get the SLES10 guest to use local time as the SLES 9 did? The only safe way I can think of is to: - Tell z/VM that it is in timezone UTC - Tell Linux the hardware clock is in local time - Tell Linux it is in timezone UTC Mark Post
Re: Unable to PING the LINUX server
Also, make sure you have the ports available that you need. Every time I ask our network folks to give me a new IP address, I have to remind them what ports I need for the IP address they give me. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 11:02 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Unable to PING the LINUX server On 12/15/2008 at 1:38 PM, Ray Waters ray.wat...@opensolutions.com wrote: Newbie to LINUX. I am trying to bring up SUSE for the first time under z/VM 540. I have downloaded the SUSE LINUX for mainframes from NOVELL. Everything worked as it should during the install, except I cannot PING 172.16.24.129 from my VM userid WATERSR running on the same z/VM 540 system. I think maybe my NETWORK PARMS are incorrect but do not know. The VSWITCH seems fine. Any ideas why I cannot connect to LINUX? I tried using PUTTY and could not connect. Any ideas what I am doing wrong? Can you ping your default gateway from the Linux system? If so, then see if you can do a traceroute to your desktop IP address from the Linux system. If you can get to the next hop past your default gateway, then my first guess is that your firewalls aren't allowing incoming connections on FTP and SSH. -snip- COUPLE 340 SYSTEM VSWITCH1 (is this COUPLE needed???) Technically speaking, no. But, it doesn't hurt, and if at some point you are playing around testing something, and you decide (for whatever reason) to uncouple the NIC, then forget to re-couple it, this will save you some hassle. From the Linux system, what does ifconfig and route -n show? Mark Post
Re: PTF providing CMS based SSL support
David, I just checked on IBMLink and the APAR VM64471 (for z/VM 5.4.0) is still in certification. It looks like Mark's info is only for the SSL server. Too bad!!! HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of David Boyes Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 1:54 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: PTF providing CMS based SSL support Mark, does that mean the SPE 2 tape is available, or just these individual PTFs? On 12/12/08 4:46 PM, Mark Cibula cibul...@us.ibm.com wrote: Hello Everyone, All PTFs that pertain to enablement of the z/VM 540 SSL server are now available and can be ordered. The complete list is available at this URL : http://www.vm.ibm.com/related/tcpip/tcsslsvc.html Regards, Mark Cibula (z/VM TCP/IP Support)
Re: A question on multiple nicdefs
Mark, Just to let you know, I now have my SuSE SLES 10 SP2 system installed and up and (sorta) running. My previous problem was due to a 'senior moment' in specifying the gateway IP address. I spent most of last week installing my FTP server on a Windows platform and I must of had the gateway IP address for the FTP server stuck in my head. This morning I realized that the gateway address I was using for the Linux install was the wrong one. Boy, is my face red. Thanks for your time and assistance. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 12:07 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: A question on multiple nicdefs On 11/25/2008 at 2:52 PM, Macioce, Larry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -snip- So my question is can I assign multiple nicdefs to a single Linux server? Is there something else I can do to get to my end ?? You can have as many NICs defined to your Linux guest as you have real storage to support. Assuming the NICs are connected to different network segments (as in your case) it's called multi-homing. You don't have to put those definitions in the CP directory,however. You can dynamically define them either using the vmcp command from Linux or from the guest's VM console via #CP commands. I've done that many times over the last few years: #cp define nic #cp couple to system VSWITCHNAME And then from the Linux side, use YaST to configure it. It's entirely possible to do it manually, but tedious, and not permanent unless you create the appropriate /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-?? and /etc/sysconfig/hardware/hwcfg-qeth-??? files, which YaST does quite nicely. Mark Post
Re: How can we control how much CPU is used by each zLinux guest?
David, Take a look at the CP SET commands for QUICKdsp and SHARE. The SHARE command controls how and how much CP will dispatch a given virtual machine. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Juarez, David T. Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 1:21 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: How can we control how much CPU is used by each zLinux guest? What controls can be put in place to manage zLinux guests running under z/VM 5.3, so they do not saturate CPU and memory? Does the USER MSTOR parm really limit the zLinux guest to the amount coded? Thanks. David T. Juárez IT Specialist
Re: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 Starter System for IBM System z
I've tried IE 6 and FireFox 2.0.0.6. In both cases the FTP transfer started and it no sooner started and then finished. The resultant file of the transfer was only 1K for what should have been an 2-3GB source file. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Walter Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 5:20 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 Starter System for IBM System z To. Give Mark a head start: can you define neither of them works.? Some releases of IE are known to silently truncate files at 2G. What happens with Firefox. And what releases of each use you using? Mike Walter Hewitt Associates - Original Message - From: Raymond Noal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11/17/2008 04:53 PM PST To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 Starter System for IBM System z Mark, What do you recommend someone use to download files from the Novell site for zSeries Linux files? I've tried MS Internet Explorer and Mozilla/FireFox and neither of them works. TIA HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 8:28 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 Starter System for IBM System z Cross-posted to IBM-MAIN, IBMVM, and Linux-390 It's been what seems like forever coming, but Novell, David Boyes and I are happy to announce the immediate availability of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 Starter System for IBM System z. To provide an overview of what the starter system is for, I'll quote from the installation guide: The SUSE Enterprise Linux Server (SLES) Starter System is a pre-built installatiostuan server for SLES that can be installed on your z/VM system using CMS tools, eliminating the need for coordinating access to a separate Linux or Unix system elsewhere on your network and minimizing the impact of network-based installation on your internal and external networks. Typically, one of the biggest hassles of trying out mainframe Linux has been getting access to the installation media from the mainframe. Novell is providing the starter system, at no cost, to eliminate that hassle, and get you moving on your SLES10 proof of concept project faster. This will allow you to spend more time on the part of the project that your business really cares about: testing the applications you want to run on SLES for System z. It's important to understand that the starter system is intended to be used _only_ as an installation server. To again quote from the installation guide: The starter system image has been highly customized for use as an installation server for other SLES-based Linux servers running in virtual machines. The starter system is NOT suitable for general use and you should not attempt to use it for any other purpose. Note that the starter system does require having z/VM in-house. Doing it that way made the whole project much easier to tackle and get out the door in a reasonable period of time. If you don't already have z/VM, you need to do what a number of people have been saying for some time now: contact your IBM rep. and get a no-cost evaluation copy of z/VM. You'll be glad you did, because it will make your life much easier. To download the starter system, you need to have a Novell Customer Center account, just as for any other Novell product. If your organization doesn't already have an NCC account, it doesn't cost you anything to create one. (Prior to joining Novell, I created an NCC account, and I didn't get any spam as a result, so don't let that keep you from signing up.) Just go to https://secure-www.novell.com/selfreg/jsp/createAccount.jsp and fill in the form. Once you have your NCC account and password established, go to http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=M5V5-w8h2M0~ and click on the proceed to download button. You'll see a list of 12 files. One of them is a .iso file, which contains all the others. It's not necessary to download it, but we wanted to make things convenient for anyone that wanted to actually create a DVD for whatever reason. Before you download anything, I strongly recommend reading through the installation guide. It's viewable online, via the view button for Install instructions. Or, you can download the PDF (or .txt) file to your desktop by clicking on the download button for s10sp1.pdf, or s10sp1.txt. Hopefully, everything you'll need to know is contained in that document. We tried to proof the document and the process as carefully possible, and make it as clear as possible. If you have any suggestions for improvement, please send them to me
Re: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 Starter System for IBM System z
Installing FireFox 3.x is my planned next step. Thanks to all who responded. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Boyes Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 1:56 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 Starter System for IBM System z I've tried IE 6 and FireFox 2.0.0.6. In both cases the FTP transfer started and it no sooner started and then finished. The resultant file of the transfer was only 1K for what should have been an 2-3GB source file. IE6 is known to fail reliably. Firefox 2 should work, although 3 is obviously better.
Re: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 Starter System for IBM System z
Mark, What do you recommend someone use to download files from the Novell site for zSeries Linux files? I've tried MS Internet Explorer and Mozilla/FireFox and neither of them works. TIA HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 8:28 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 Starter System for IBM System z Cross-posted to IBM-MAIN, IBMVM, and Linux-390 It's been what seems like forever coming, but Novell, David Boyes and I are happy to announce the immediate availability of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 Starter System for IBM System z. To provide an overview of what the starter system is for, I'll quote from the installation guide: The SUSE Enterprise Linux Server (SLES) Starter System is a pre-built installatiostuan server for SLES that can be installed on your z/VM system using CMS tools, eliminating the need for coordinating access to a separate Linux or Unix system elsewhere on your network and minimizing the impact of network-based installation on your internal and external networks. Typically, one of the biggest hassles of trying out mainframe Linux has been getting access to the installation media from the mainframe. Novell is providing the starter system, at no cost, to eliminate that hassle, and get you moving on your SLES10 proof of concept project faster. This will allow you to spend more time on the part of the project that your business really cares about: testing the applications you want to run on SLES for System z. It's important to understand that the starter system is intended to be used _only_ as an installation server. To again quote from the installation guide: The starter system image has been highly customized for use as an installation server for other SLES-based Linux servers running in virtual machines. The starter system is NOT suitable for general use and you should not attempt to use it for any other purpose. Note that the starter system does require having z/VM in-house. Doing it that way made the whole project much easier to tackle and get out the door in a reasonable period of time. If you don't already have z/VM, you need to do what a number of people have been saying for some time now: contact your IBM rep. and get a no-cost evaluation copy of z/VM. You'll be glad you did, because it will make your life much easier. To download the starter system, you need to have a Novell Customer Center account, just as for any other Novell product. If your organization doesn't already have an NCC account, it doesn't cost you anything to create one. (Prior to joining Novell, I created an NCC account, and I didn't get any spam as a result, so don't let that keep you from signing up.) Just go to https://secure-www.novell.com/selfreg/jsp/createAccount.jsp and fill in the form. Once you have your NCC account and password established, go to http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=M5V5-w8h2M0~ and click on the proceed to download button. You'll see a list of 12 files. One of them is a .iso file, which contains all the others. It's not necessary to download it, but we wanted to make things convenient for anyone that wanted to actually create a DVD for whatever reason. Before you download anything, I strongly recommend reading through the installation guide. It's viewable online, via the view button for Install instructions. Or, you can download the PDF (or .txt) file to your desktop by clicking on the download button for s10sp1.pdf, or s10sp1.txt. Hopefully, everything you'll need to know is contained in that document. We tried to proof the document and the process as carefully possible, and make it as clear as possible. If you have any suggestions for improvement, please send them to me *off-list* and I'll take a look. For those of you that participated in the little survey that David and I initiated back in May, thank you. Your comments were very important in developing the business case for this tool and getting the funding for it approved. Also thanks to David Boyes and Adam Thornton of Sine Nomine Associates for doing the heavy lifting on this project. It was completed a lot faster (and most likely with better results) than if I had tried to do this on my own. Mark Post
Re: I/O Overhead - z/VM versus VMWARE
Hello Thomas, I would also appreciate a copy of this PDF. TIA HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick Leigh Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 9:23 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: I/O Overhead - z/VM versus VMWARE Hi Thomas, Could you send me a copy of this pdf presentation? Thanks P On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 6:28 AM, Huegel, Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the Z10-BC web announcement there was a comarison of Z/VM and VMware running LINUX guests. I have the PDF presentation if you want it I can send it to you.. Or it is probably not too difficult to find on IBM's web site. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alan Ackerman Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 6:25 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: I/O Overhead - z/VM versus VMWARE I got asked: Does z/VM impose non-insignificant overhead? Is it similar to VMware,= in which virtual I/O imposes significant overhead, but most processor and = memory access runs at close to native physical speed? I don't know anything about VMWARE so I could not answer the question. = I know that CCW Translation in VM costs significant cycles. I think FCP disks dedicated DASD fullpack minidisks small minidisks= . I would HOPE that the zSeries, with so much of virtualization built into = the hardware, would have lower costs than VMWARE, but I don't really kn= ow. Any takers? Are there any web sites that give performance comparisons VM versus VMWAR= E? Alan Ackerman= Alan (dot) Ackerman (at) Bank of America (dot) com
Re: I/O Overhead - z/VM versus VMWARE
Danny, Here you go - HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Danny Padilla Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 12:50 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: I/O Overhead - z/VM versus VMWARE Importance: High Raymond...can you send me a copy as well...Pleasethanks Danny Padilla (623) 255 1553 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Raymond Noal Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 11:26 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: I/O Overhead - z/VM versus VMWARE Hello Thomas, I would also appreciate a copy of this PDF. TIA HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick Leigh Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 9:23 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: I/O Overhead - z/VM versus VMWARE Hi Thomas, Could you send me a copy of this pdf presentation? Thanks P On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 6:28 AM, Huegel, Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the Z10-BC web announcement there was a comarison of Z/VM and VMware running LINUX guests. I have the PDF presentation if you want it I can send it to you.. Or it is probably not too difficult to find on IBM's web site. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alan Ackerman Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 6:25 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: I/O Overhead - z/VM versus VMWARE I got asked: Does z/VM impose non-insignificant overhead? Is it similar to VMware,= in which virtual I/O imposes significant overhead, but most processor and = memory access runs at close to native physical speed? I don't know anything about VMWARE so I could not answer the question. = I know that CCW Translation in VM costs significant cycles. I think FCP disks dedicated DASD fullpack minidisks small minidisks= . I would HOPE that the zSeries, with so much of virtualization built into = the hardware, would have lower costs than VMWARE, but I don't really kn= ow. Any takers? Are there any web sites that give performance comparisons VM versus VMWAR= E? Alan Ackerman= Alan (dot) Ackerman (at) Bank of America (dot) com
Re: z/VM 5.4.0 - SHUTDOWN HANGS
Colin, I would greatly appreciate it if you could provide any additional information on the problem you had during SHUTDOWN. Did IBM give you a PTF or what? Is there something you can give me to find this on IBMLINK? Doing a search for 'SHUTDOWN' on IBMLINK did not provide any help. I thank you in advance for your time and assistance. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colin Allinson Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 11:30 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: z/VM 5.4.0 - SHUTDOWN HANGS Raymond Noal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote :- SHUTDOWN processing starts and the last line displayed is for DISABLE ALL DEVICES. We have had a problem with various versions of z/VM 5.x (we are on 5.4 currently) where the DISABLE ALL DEVICES took an extremely long time on a 1st level system. When I say long, I mean looonnn (sometimes up to 45 minutes). We pinned the problem down to 2 boxes of 4096 non-IBM (SUN/STK) DASD that was giving different exception responses at this stage. There was disagreement because Sun/STK said they were doing it by the spec while IBM said differently. I would have to look up the details but we got a fix from IBM to exclude this range of DASD from exception processing during SHUTDOWN and we are now fine. Not sure if this is any help. Colin Allinson Amadeus Data Processing GmbH
z/VM 5.4.0 - SHUTDOWN HANGS
Dear List, Have any of you running z/VM 5.4.0 (RSU 0801) experienced a system hang during SHUTDOWN processing. This happens with z/VM 5.4 running in a second level virtual machine as well as in an LPAR. With 5.4 running in a second level virtual machine, TRACK shows the virtual machine in a disabled-run-supervisor state. SHUTDOWN processing starts and the last line displayed is for DISABLE ALL DEVICES. I've checked on IBMLINK with no success. Looks like it's PMR time. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978
Re: Reserve/Release
Steve, I'm a little confused by your reply for R/R processing. For minidisks, the MDISK statement in the directory allows you to specify access modes with MWV where the 'V' stands for CP's simulation of virtual R/R processing. In this case, for a minidisk, I always thought that CP would simulate the R/R processing but CP would also change the R/R CCW to a SENSE CCW. Moreover, if the real DASD where the minidisk is allocated is defined to CP as SHARED, CP was obligate to send the R/R CCW to the hardware. For dedicated DASD to a virtual machine, if the dedicated device is defined to CP as SHARED, the CP will pass the R/R CCW to the hardware. If the dedicated DASD is not defined as SHARED, CP will change the R/R CCW to a NOP or SENSE CCW, I can't remember which. I can't think of any configuration combination where CP would treat a R/R CCW as a command reject. OK, I know it's Friday and I may be having a really bad 'senior moment' here, so I would appreciate any clarification you have for this topic. TIA HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Wilkins Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 8:52 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Reserve/Release For minidisks (fullpack included): It will be rejected (Command Reject) For dedicated: It hits the iron (i.e., goes to the hardware). Steve Wilkins IBM VM Development
Re: VSWITCH
Marcy, YES is the easy answer. But this begs an even bigger question - HOW. I tried to do this but keep receiving error messages when my second and third LPAR's TCP/IP virtual machine started. So, what's the secret?? TIA HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 1:35 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: VSWITCH Yes. Marcy Cortes Team Lead, Enterprise Virtualization - z/VM and z/Linux http://ehs.homestead.wellsfargo.com/Mainframe/zSS/zSE/zVM-zLinux/Pages/ default.aspx Enterprise Hosting Services w. (415) 243-6343 c. (415) 517-0895 This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation. From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 1:08 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: [IBMVM] VSWITCH Hi I have a quick question. Can I use the same physical OSA address for a vswitch on two different LPARS? Thank You, Terry Martin Lockheed Martin - Information Technology z/OS z/VM Systems - Performance and Tuning Cell - 443 632-4191 Work - 410 786-0386 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OSA issue (VSWITCH) again
Daniel, Do you have a TRLE defined in your VTAMLST for your portname? HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Allen Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 8:59 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: OSA issue (VSWITCH) again I did that yesterday and it did not work. From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Quay, Jonathan (IHG) Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 8:54 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: OSA issue (VSWITCH) again I think that z/OS requires a portname and requires it to match the real underlying portname. I don't have any z/OS guests to test though. From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Allen Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 11:20 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: OSA issue (VSWITCH) again Today, I logged off the OS/390 system. I destroyed the VSWITCH via DETACH. I created the VSWITCH using the following command: DEFINE VSWITCH SWITCH1 RDEV 103 CONNECT I also issued the following command: SET VSWITCH SWITCH1 GRANT BH3A When I IPL'd the OS/390 guest BH3A, the following message was in the log: NIC 0104 is created; devices 0104-0106 defined The OS/390 guest came up normally. Here is the output from the 'Q VSWITCH SWITCH1 DET' : VSWITCH SYSTEM SWITCH1 Type: VSWITCH Connected: 1Maxconn: INFINITE PERSISTENT RESTRICTEDNONROUTER Accounting: OFF VLAN Unaware State: Ready IPTimeout: 5 QueueStorage: 8 Portname: UNASSIGNED RDEV: 0103 Controller: DTCVSW2 VDEV: 0103 VSWITCH Connection: RX Packets: 0 Discarded: 17 Errors: 0 TX Packets: 0 Discarded: 0 Errors: 0 RX Bytes: 0TX Bytes: 0 Device: 0103 Unit: 000 Role: DATA Adapter Owner: BH3A NIC: 0104 Name: PORTVM1 RX Packets: 0 Discarded: 0 Errors: 0 TX Packets: 0 Discarded: 0 Errors: 0 RX Bytes: 0TX Bytes: 0 Device: 0106 Unit: 002 Role: DATA Things are different from yesterday. However, I am still unable to connect to BH3A via a PCOM session. ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. **
Re: dial to 2nd level vm?
Duane, For your second level OS/390 - z/OS system, you need to code a TRLE entry in your VTAM definitions to allow the TCP/IP stack in OS/390 - z/OS to access your LAN. Did you do this? If you want to DIAL to your second level system, connect to your first level z/VM system and just DIAL ZOSLVL2 XXX where XXX is a device number defined as a SPECIAL device number in your second level system's configuration. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Duane Weaver Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 1:38 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: dial to 2nd level vm? We did a ENABLE ALL on the 2nd level and it did not help. We have not checked the RDEV's for addtional consoles that Deniis suggested. Duane At 04:10 PM 9/11/2008, you wrote: However, we are not able to DIAL to it. I put in some SPECIAL statements in definition within USER DIRECT which were of no help. I thinking there might be something on 2nd level VM system that needs to be changed or turned on. Suggestions? Did you do a CP ENABLE on the 2nd level system to make those devices active? Ed Zell Illinois Mutual Life (309) 636-0107 . CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you receive this e-mail in error, notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system.
Undocumented return code for message DTCOSD223E
Dear List: I receive a return code of 'E010 from SETRTG for IPv4' in message DTCOSD223E when my virtual switch virtual machine is XAUTOLOG'ed. I have RTFM'ed the TCP/IP Messages and Codes manual and also searched IBMLINK for this return code for this message - all to no avail. Have any of you encountered this return code or have any idea of where to go for further research? TIA HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978
Re: EDEVICE replacing a sensed device
Darren, I would think that you will have to change your IOCDS for the hardware configuration. You need one set of CHPIDs for the z/OS LPAR and its 8XXX device numbers and a separate set of CHPIDs for the z/VM LPAR and its 8XXX device numbers. Don't forget to exclude the CHPIDs from the access and candidate lists for the respective LPARs. You can have duplicate device numbers in your IOCDS, just not for the same LPAR. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Guest, Darren Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 10:36 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: EDEVICE replacing a sensed device Hi guys, We have a machine with two LPARs; one z/OS and one z/VM. The hardware config is done via z/OS and z/VM picks up devices automatically via sensing. We've recently added a number of new DASD devices at 8000-8FFF for the z/OS side. Unfortunately, z/VM uses an EDEVICE at 8000 to access some FCP disks. Now the EDEVICE can't be created as z/VM is sensing the DASD at 8000 and creating an RDEV for it. I can manually delete this and then create the EDEVICE but I really would like to do this automatically by having the EDEVICE statements in SYSTEM CONFIG. I've tried changing the DEVICES statement to not sense the 8000 device and not bring it online at IPL but none of this seems to work. NOTACCEPTED doesn't build an RDEV but then z/VM won't let me create an EDEVICE either!! Anyone know how I can stop z/VM creating an RDEV at 8000 so I can use it as an EDEVICE? Cheers, Darren This e-mail has come from Experian, the only business to have been twice named the UK's 'Business of the Year' === Information in this e-mail and any attachments is confidential, and may not be copied or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor disclosed to any third party without our permission. There is no intention to create any legally binding contract or other binding commitment through the use of this electronic communication unless it is issued in accordance with the Experian Limited standard terms and conditions of purchase or other express written agreement between Experian Limited and the recipient. Although Experian has taken reasonable steps to ensure that this communication and any attachments are free from computer virus, you are advised to take your own steps to ensure that they are actually virus free. Companies Act information: Registered name: Experian Limited Registered office: Talbot House, Talbot Street, Nottingham NG80 1TH Place of registration: England and Wales Registered number: 653331
Re: Lpar Vs VM
Fellow Listers, Based on the accurate and authoritative evidence provided in this forwarded e-mail, I would like to recommend that Alan Altmark be granted the most honorable and austere membership to the Knights of the z/VM Roundtable and from this day forward be recognized as Sir MVP (Multiple Virtual Personalities). All Ye in favour say AYE !!! ;-) HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 2:25 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Lpar Vs VM On Wednesday, 08/27/2008 at 03:43 EDT, Schuh, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan, How many alter egos do you have. First Chuckie, and now Br'er Rabbit. Seven, S!!! but we have a funny feeling that the only way we know there are seven is because there are actually eight of us. We feel like we're being WHAT WAS THAT? watched I DON'T KNOW. We could be wrong, DID YOU SEE IT? of course, but NO we have a strong system of checks SHUT UP - HE'S TYPING and balances. They're usually quiet, but I seem restless UH OH today for some reason. DAMN, HE HEARD US! HE KNOWS WE'RE HERE! EVERYBODY RUN!! The Usual Suspects z/VM Development IBM Endicott
Re: Assigning 3390 DASD for Use in a zLinux Filesystem
If the user wants to give the Linux guest a full volume mini disk, you can also use the DEVNO format of the MDISK statement in the directory. This avoids any concern regarding the real volume's volume serial number. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Nielsen Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 9:34 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Assigning 3390 DASD for Use in a zLinux Filesystem What the others have said, plus: if you're using an MDISK you shouldn't ATTACH the DASD. That's why the cylinder zero label would have changed when the Linux guest formatted the volume. If this is indeed what you did you'll want to remove the volume from the Linux guest and start again. Otherwise, that volume won't be available to the Linux guest the next time it logs off and on. Of course, you could change the MDISK to reflect the new label or change from an MDISK to a DEDICATE, but whatever you do should probably be consistent with all the other DASD allocations you do. Brian Nielsen On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:21:02 -0400, Robert J McCarthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are faily new in z/VM and zLinux and have a need to add additional DASD to a linux guest. I initialized the volumes under VM, attached them to the guest, and notified the linux adminstrator. He formatted the volumes under linux in preparation for use when the filesystem is expanded. Once the volumes were formatted, I noticed that the linux format had changed the volsers. Normally I format a volume under VM, add it to user direct with a MDISK statement with the beginning disk location at cylinder 1. We then recycle the guest, and the linux admin does his thing. In order to save downtime that will be required when we expand the filesystem, we would like to perform the linux formatting while the guest is up. I know that there is a DEFINE MDISK command, but it is a class A command and none of my linux guests are class A users. Any suggestions ?
Re: Shutdown wont complete.. What next..
The shutdown was done from the OPERATOR virtual machine. But, that does not mean that this virtual machine was the SYSOPER user. If OPERATOR was logged off and another virtual machine was logged on with class A priveledges, then this machine will be assigned the SYSOPER status. if by deact/act you mean your LPAR, no need to go that far. Just do an IPL with the CLEAR option from the HMC. From: The IBM z/VM Operating System on behalf of Suleiman Shahin Sent: Sun 8/17/2008 8:18 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Shutdown wont complete.. What next.. Hello, The shutdown Was from Operator. I can't think of anothr choice but deact/act. Thanks. Suleiman Shahin Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:12:00 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Shutdown wont complete.. What next.. To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Suleiman, More than likely who ever did the SHUTDOWN did this from a user-ID who was not the SYSOPER ID. The user who is the SYSOPER receives the shutdown processing messages. You are most likely safe in just doing your regular IPL for z/VM. You may be able to see the shutdown messages on the MESSAGES frame on the HMC. From: The IBM z/VM Operating System on behalf of Suleiman Shahin Sent: Sun 8/17/2008 8:08 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Shutdown wont complete.. What next.. Greetings Listers, The operator her did Shutdown reipl 90 minutes ago and the last message was SYSTEM SHUTDOWN STARTED.. What can be done to bring system back up. zVM 5.3 on 2096. Thanks. Suleiman Shahin Get ideas on sharing photos from people like you. Find new ways to share. Get Ideas Here! http://www.windowslive.com/explore/photogallery/posts?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Photo_Gallery_082008 Be the filmmaker you always wanted to be-learn how to burn a DVD with Windows®. Make your smash hit http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/108588797/direct/01/
Re: DASD Detached from SYSTEM after IPL on one LPAR but not the other
Terry, check the following: IOCDS definitions for the second LPAR. Was a new IOCDS created? SYSTEM CONFIG file for the PROD LPAR AUTOLOG1 Profile exec and all profile execs involved in bringing up the z/VM system in PROD LPAR Something must have been changed. I'm betting on the IOCDS. From: The IBM z/VM Operating System on behalf of Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) Sent: Sun 8/3/2008 6:48 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: DASD Detached from SYSTEM after IPL on one LPAR but not the other Hi I IPL'ed both of my z/VM 5.3 LPARS on Sunday. After the VAL/DEV LPAR was brought up I started to logon and IPL the Linux guests. I had no problems on this LPAR. Now, after I IPL'ed the PROD LPAR I started to bring up the PROD Linux guests. This time when I logged on the guests the guest could not access any of the MDISKS assigned to it. I looked and found that all of the MDISKS were no longer attached to SYSTEM. I know these were attached on Friday because I brought all of the Linux guests up without a problem. It seems that they were detached during the IPL. On the VAL/DEV LPAR the MDISKS for the Linux guests stayed attached to SYSTEM after the IPL. Does anyone know why the MDISKS were detached from the SYSTEM on my PROD LPAR after the IPL? Thanks, Terry
Re: downloading CMS files
You can also get a free secure FTP program from BlueZone. Just go to - www.bluezonesoftware.com/products and download their secure FTP program. It really works great. I've been using it for years for both z/OS and z/VM file transfers. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Rifkind Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 2:37 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: downloading CMS files Try downloading SmartFTP. Much better then WS-FTP... Fran Hensler [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7/22/2008 5:32 PM Yes, the free version was for educational and personal use. But it can no longer be installed, at the the last LE version can't. It phones home and you get a screen that suggests you buy WS_FTP Home. /Fran Hensler at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania USA for 45 years mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://zvm.sru.edu/~fjh +1.724.738.2153 Yes, Virginia, there is a Slippery Rock -- On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:03:26 -0400 Higgins, Neil S said: I think the free version of WS-FTP is only free for non-commercial use. There are plenty of freeware FTP tools for the desktop. _ LEGAL NOTICE Unless expressly stated otherwise, this message is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended for the addressee(s) only. Access to this E-mail by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not an addressee, any disclosure or copying of the contents of this E-mail or any action taken (or not taken) in reliance on it is unauthorized and may be unlawful. If you are not an addressee, please inform the sender immediately, then delete this message and empty from your trash.
Re: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 Starter System for IBM System z
David, I recently tried this route, but I believe I downloaded the Server 10 SP1 package. Where did you find or how did you obtain the Server SP2 package? Is it free? There is a problem with the SP1 version when you try to extract their version of VMARC. The manual tells you to enter the following: EXEC VMAEXEC EXTRACT A When you do this, you get a rexx runtime message say the there are unmatched quotes and/or right-parens. I would really like to use the SuSE distribution vs. RedHat. Any help greatly appreciated. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Boyes Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 12:44 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 Starter System for IBM System z Not that anybody is likely to care, but this is a facility to install z/Linux under z/VM using only CMS. It is a nice way to get a z/Linux system up quickly. It also makes a very nice upgrade server if you're moving from SLES 9 or previous SLES 10 releases. 8-)
Re: Some REXX exec help needed.
Howard, Is this what you want - 'EXECIO * CP (STRING SPOOL CONS CLOSE FOR OPERATOR'; HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Rifkind Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 2:29 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Some REXX exec help needed. I guess I should sit down and learn how to use the PIPE command. But in the mean time it appears that my EXECIO command isn't doing its thing. Hughes, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7/16/2008 5:24 PM It works for me. On the other hand why not make life easier on yourself and PIPE it: PIPE LITERAL CLOSE CONS OPERATOR | CP | Stem ans. Jim Hughes 603-271-5586 Its kind of fun to do the impossible. (Walt Disney) From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Rifkind Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 5:19 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Some REXX exec help needed. Yes it did as indicated below, but shouldn't this have appeared in the reader stack as shown by keying in the following at the console? CLOSE CONS OPERATOR CON FILE 0227 SENT TO OPERATOR RDR AS 0063 RECS 0017 CPY 001 T NOHOLD NOKEEP Ready; CP Q RDR OPERATOR ORIGINID FILE CLASS RECORDS CPY HOLD USERFORM OPERFORM DEST KEEP MSG E18823 0063 T CON 0017 001 NONE STANDARD STANDARD OFF OFF OFF Ready; Hughes, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7/16/2008 5:14 PM If the console was spooled, it went to operator. CP Q RDR OPERATOR and see if a console spool file is there. Jim Hughes 603-271-5586 Its kind of fun to do the impossible. (Walt Disney) From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Rifkind Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 5:13 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Some REXX exec help needed. This is what shows up during execution: 204 *-* 'EXECIO * CP (STRING CLOSE CONS OPERATOR' EXECIO * CP (STRING CLOSE CONS OPERATOR 205 *-* MAXLINES = QUEUED() 0 Hughes, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7/16/2008 5:09 PM Yes. Jim Hughes 603-271-5586 Its kind of fun to do the impossible. (Walt Disney) From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Rifkind Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 5:06 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Some REXX exec help needed. Thanks... Is my EXECIO statement valid? Hughes, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7/16/2008 5:03 PM MAKEBUF not MAKBUF hence the -3. Jim Hughes 603-271-5586 Its kind of fun to do the impossible. (Walt Disney) From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Rifkind Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 5:00 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Some REXX exec help needed. I have the following code in a REXX exec which if I recall worked without any issues in a prior life. 'MAKBUF' BUFFNUM = RC 'EXECIO * CP (STRING CLOSE CONS OPERATOR' The MAKBUF is returning an RC of -3 and the EXECIO statement isn't working but did in the past. I know this is crazy but all this started after I logged off and then back on. Any ideas as how to solve this will be appreciated. Thanks. _ LEGAL NOTICE Unless expressly stated otherwise, this message is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended for the addressee(s) only. Access to this E-mail by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not an addressee, any disclosure or copying of the contents of this E-mail or any action taken (or not taken) in reliance on it is unauthorized and may be unlawful. If you are not an addressee, please inform the sender immediately, then delete this message and empty from your trash. _ LEGAL NOTICE Unless expressly stated otherwise, this message is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended for the addressee(s) only. Access to this E-mail by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not an addressee, any disclosure or copying of the contents of this E-mail or any action taken (or not taken) in reliance on it is unauthorized and may be unlawful. If you are not an addressee, please inform the sender immediately, then delete this message and empty from your trash. _ LEGAL NOTICE Unless expressly stated otherwise, this message is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended for the addressee(s) only. Access to this E-mail by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not an addressee, any disclosure or copying of the contents of this
Re: Query what the name of the SYTEM CONFIG file used was?
QUERY IPLPARMS only seems to give you the data from the PARM section of the SAIPL screen. What if you wanted to know which extent was used? Is there a query for that parameter? HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 8:38 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Query what the name of the SYTEM CONFIG file used was? On Wednesday, 07/09/2008 at 08:24 EDT, Marcy Cortes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to query this? Particularly the one that got chosen by putting FNn in the LOADPARM field on the HMC? Check QUERY IPLPARMS. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
Re: Query what the name of the SYTEM CONFIG file used was?
Marcy, Right you are. Thanks for the info. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 7:51 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Query what the name of the SYTEM CONFIG file used was? Q CPLOAD will tell you that one. Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Raymond Noal Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 7:44 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: [IBMVM] Query what the name of the SYTEM CONFIG file used was? QUERY IPLPARMS only seems to give you the data from the PARM section of the SAIPL screen. What if you wanted to know which extent was used? Is there a query for that parameter? HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 8:38 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Query what the name of the SYTEM CONFIG file used was? On Wednesday, 07/09/2008 at 08:24 EDT, Marcy Cortes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to query this? Particularly the one that got chosen by putting FNn in the LOADPARM field on the HMC? Check QUERY IPLPARMS. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
Re: CP Owned Volume Question
Howard, First you have to find who has the current link to this volume. If it belongs to MAINT, then you can detach the virtual device number for this volume that is in use by MAINT. Once the query command shows that there are no users currently linked to this volume, then you can do the following: 1)detach 499 system 2)update your directory as needed for the additional mini disks on this volume 3)attach 499 system 4)directxa user - bring your updated directory online 5)either logoff and logon Maint to allocate the new mini disks to your virtual machine - or - use the LINK command to gain access to your new mini disks. Hope this helps. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Rifkind Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 2:41 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: CP Owned Volume Question I have a volume with a label of VPWK03 at address 499. Being that the volume is already labeled should I assume that it has allocated to lets say PERM? Volume shows up as follows: q 499 DASD 0499 CP OWNED VPWK03 1 I would think that being it is showing a '1' it is in use by system. I want to allocate a bunch of minidisks on the volume but am having problems getting it to be available. In the directory I have it define as a full pack mini under Maint. I'm getting the following: CPFMTXA 499 VPWK03 HCPCCF0040E DEVICE 0499 DOES NOT EXIST I haven't done this for a while. How can I get this resolved so I can start to allocate minidisks on the volume? Any help is appreciated. Thanks _ LEGAL NOTICE Unless expressly stated otherwise, this message is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended for the addressee(s) only. Access to this E-mail by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not an addressee, any disclosure or copying of the contents of this E-mail or any action taken (or not taken) in reliance on it is unauthorized and may be unlawful. If you are not an addressee, please inform the sender immediately, then delete this message and empty from your trash.
Re: Making Devices Available
Richard, It should not be that complicated. Issue the following to see if it applies to your system - HELP CPSET DEVICES - and check if you have the proper features statement(s) set. You should be able to issue - SET ACCEPTED rdev-rdev. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 3:19 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Making Devices Available We have some DASD devices that were, until a few minutes ago, in the Devices_NotAccepted list. I have made some of them accepted, both in the SYSTEM CONFIG and by command. Now, I am confronted with a DEFINE DEVICE command that, from the HELP files is as clear as murky water to me (the problem may well be between my ears). Is it as simple as DEFINE DEVICE F6EF-F6F7 UNITADD EF CUNUMBER DASD ( to be filled in when someone supplies the value from the IOCP - I do not have ready access)? Assuming that I get them defined, is all that is left varying them online? They will initially be attached to the user who is going to prepare them for use, so there will be no ATTACH to SYSTEM. Regards, Richard Schuh
Re: Question for old-timers
Jim, The control unit for a 1403 is a 2821 which is supported by HCD in my z/OS 1.8 system. The 2821 is also the control unit for the old 2540 card-reader/punch device. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Bohnsack Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 1:00 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Question for old-timers We're doing some work on a 2nd level MVS system for use at a D/R site and the MVS sysprog wanted to get some printed output. I figured that the easiest way was to have the 2nd lvl MVS system print to the default VM 1403 printer. Easy for me to say!! On the MVS side of the house, they needed to add a 1403 impact printer to the MVS IODEF. But since IODEF asked for a control unit and we had no idea at all what a 1403 printer control unit was called, we settled for a 3203 since it appears that the 3203 CU was the 3203. 3203's sort of complicate things, however, because of FCB and UCS image loading. If you define a 1403 printer, is the control unit 1403 as well? We can't seem to find a 1403 Functional Characteristics manual for some reason. Jim -- Jim Bohnsack Cornell University (607) 255-1760 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Trying to Learn z/Linux ISHELL Scripting
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: How to know if running as a guest
The z/OS command - D M=CPU - for a z/OS system running in a virtual machine does not show the first byte of the CPU-ID. This is from my z/OS system running in a virtual machine. D M=CPU IEE174I 13.19.16 DISPLAY M 230 PROCESSOR STATUS ID CPU SERIAL 00 + 01AC8E2094 01 + 01AC8E2094 02 + 01AC8E2094 You could write a program that issues CP commands using the DIAGNOSE instruction using subcode X'0008'. From: The IBM z/VM Operating System on behalf of McKown, John Sent: Thu 4/10/2008 11:45 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: How to know if running as a guest -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Claudio Testore Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 1:40 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: How to know if running as a guest Is there any z/OS command to know if the system is running under VM? Thanks. Claudio D M=CPU should do it. The first byte of the CPUID is FF. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology The information contained in this e-mail message may be privileged and/or confidential. It is for intended addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other use of this communication is strictly prohibited and could, in certain circumstances, be a criminal offense. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by reply and delete this message without copying or disclosing it.
Re: z/OS on z/VM Eligible List
David, What other virtual machines do you have running along with this z/OS virtual machine? What is your CPU utilization? Is the z/VM system's paging rate high? (albeit a relative number when comparing different systems) You can add the QUICKDSP parameter to the OPTION statement in the z/VM directory to keep this virtual machine on the dispatch list. When you say the console was unresponsive, which console are you referring to? Is this the z/OS virtual machine console or a z/OS console? Some additional performance related information would be of great assistance for the list members to better advise you. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Booher Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 11:49 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: z/OS on z/VM Eligible List Hi all, Today, for the first time ever, I had a z/OS go into z/VM's ELIGIBLE list. The z/OS stopped completely and the console was unresponsive. My questions is: how did it get there and how do I query z/VM to see what it is supposedly waiting for? Thanks, David Booher Quest Software
Re: VM source code
Leland, Dave is correct. You can download the 'Restricted and PL/X Source' files once you are licensed for z/VM. The restricted source is a no-charge option which can be ordered with your z/VM system or downloaded afterwards. To review the download and install instructions for the restricted source feature, go to: http://www.vm.ibm.com/install/srcinst.html Hope this helps. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Jones Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 1:49 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: VM source code Leland, I believe you now need to explicitly ask IBM for access to the source code. Once IBM verifies that you hold a valid license , they send you the url of a secure web site (with a user id and password) that you can access and download the source. Hope this helps. Leland wrote: Is the source code no longer distributed? If I'm remembering correctly, most of the source distributed with at least 4.3.0 or 4.4.0? Just got a moistened whistle while at SHARE and wanted to do a bit of casual reading. :-) Leland -- DJ V/Soft z/VM and mainframe Linux expertise, training, consulting, and software development www.vsoft-software.com
Re: RSCS and TCPNJE Question
Jerry, I don't have a TCPNJE setup as you do. When I had RSCS talking with other z/OS systems in other LPARs I used CTCs. However, to send a job to a z/OS LPAR I used this REXX/EXEC - 'cp spool 00d rscs'; 'cp tag dev 00d zs03jes2 job'; Of interest is to TAG your punch to the z/OS nodename (zs03jes2 in my case) and identify that the spooled file is to be given to z/OS as a job. Without using the JOB option, the file should end up on the z/OS spool, IIRC. HTH HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerry Whitteridge Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 1:50 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: RSCS and TCPNJE Question Seems to be my week to be full of questions. We are setting up RSCS to talk to z/OS over a TCPNJE link. We have successfully sent files from z/OS to VM using xmit and they end up in the rdr queue of the user as expected. If we send from VM to z/OS we are finding the files are hung up in the TCPIP rdr queue. Ready; T=0.01/0.01 14:46:18 sf profile exec to jwhi00v at sftec1 File PROFILE EXEC A1 sent to JWHI00V at SFTEC1 on 02/07/08 14:46:25 Ready; T=0.01/0.01 14:46:25 q rdr tcpip ORIGINID FILE CLASS RECORDS CPY HOLD USERFORM OPERFORM DEST KEEP MSG HMCCO00 0046 A PUN 0175 001 NONE STANDARD STANDARD OFF OFF OFF HMCCO00 0047 A PUN 0175 001 NONE STANDARD STANDARD OFF OFF OFF JWHIT00 0048 A PUN 0008 001 NONE STANDARD STANDARD OFF OFF OFF HMCCO00 0049 A PUN 0175 001 NONE STANDARD STANDARD OFF OFF OFF HMCCO00 0050 A PUN 0175 001 NONE STANDARD STANDARD OFF OFF OFF JWHIT00 0051 A PUN 0008 001 NONE STANDARD STANDARD OFF OFF OFF However display commands to JES2 on the z/OS side are sent (and responses delivered back) sucessfully. Can anyone give some pointers where to look. (Note ESM is RACF if it matters). Thanks Jerry Whitteridge Mainframe Engineering Safeway Inc 925 951 4184 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email Firewall made the following annotations. -- Warning: All e-mail sent to this address will be received by the corporate e-mail system, and is subject to archival and review by someone other than the recipient. This e-mail may contain proprietary information and is intended only for the use of the intended recipient(s). If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient(s), you are notified that you have received this message in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately. ==
z/VM Performance Toolkit for various z/VM 5.x releases
Dear List: We are in the process of negotiating a license for IBM's z/VM Performance Toolkit (PTK). I know that my current release of z/VM being 5.3.0 already ships the PTK as a disabled product in the SYSTEM CONFIG file. However, the first project that we need the PTK for will be on our z/VM 5.1.0 system platform. Do any of you run the z/VM 5.3.0 version of PTK on prior (5.1.0) systems? Is this doable? Thank you for your time and assistance. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978
Re: REquest for IOCP for DS6800 FICON Z890
Kevin, Edward, Would not - CU0130 CNTLUNIT CUNUMBR=0130,PATH=(30,31,40,41),CUADD=01, X UNITADD=((00,256)),UNIT=2105 DV800IODEVICE ADDRESS=(0800,256),CUNUMBR=(0130), X UNIT=3390 give you the same results?? HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward M. Martin Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 2:05 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: REquest for IOCP for DS6800 FICON Z890 Hello Kevin, Thanks that is what I was looking for. I have this right now. * CU0130 CNTLUNIT CUNUMBR=0130,PATH=(30),CUADD=01, X UNITADD=((00,256)),UNIT=2105 CU0140 CNTLUNIT CUNUMBR=0140,PATH=(40),CUADD=01, X UNITADD=((00,256)),UNIT=2105 CU0131 CNTLUNIT CUNUMBR=0131,PATH=(31),CUADD=01, X UNITADD=((00,256)),UNIT=2105 CU0141 CNTLUNIT CUNUMBR=0141,PATH=(41),CUADD=01, X UNITADD=((00,256)),UNIT=2105 CU0230 CNTLUNIT CUNUMBR=0230,PATH=(30),CUADD=02, X UNITADD=((00,256)),UNIT=2105 CU0240 CNTLUNIT CUNUMBR=0240,PATH=(40),CUADD=02, X UNITADD=((00,256)),UNIT=2105 CU0231 CNTLUNIT CUNUMBR=0231,PATH=(31),CUADD=02, X UNITADD=((00,256)),UNIT=2105 CU0241 CNTLUNIT CUNUMBR=0241,PATH=(41),CUADD=02, X UNITADD=((00,256)),UNIT=2105 DV800IODEVICE ADDRESS=(0800,256),CUNUMBR=(0130,0140,0141,0131),X UNIT=3390 DV900IODEVICE ADDRESS=(0900,256),CUNUMBR=(0241,0231,0230,0240),X UNIT=3390 * Ed Martin 330-588-4723 ext 40441 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neubert, Kevin (DIS) Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 4:39 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: REquest for IOCP for DS6800 FICON Z890 You definitely want and should take advantage of all four channels. Your CHPIDs look okay to me, but consider something like the following for your CNTLUNITs and IODEVICEs CU130CNTLUNIT CUNUMBR=130,PATH=(30), X UNITADD=((00,256)),CUADD=0,UNIT=2105 CU140CNTLUNIT CUNUMBR=140,PATH=(40), X UNITADD=((00,256)),CUADD=0,UNIT=2105 CU131CNTLUNIT CUNUMBR=131,PATH=(31), X UNITADD=((00,256)),CUADD=0,UNIT=2105 CU141CNTLUNIT CUNUMBR=141,PATH=(41), X UNITADD=((00,256)),CUADD=0,UNIT=2105 CUA30CNTLUNIT CUNUMBR=130,PATH=(30), X UNITADD=((00,256)),CUADD=1,UNIT=2105 CUA40CNTLUNIT CUNUMBR=140,PATH=(40), X UNITADD=((00,256)),CUADD=1,UNIT=2105 CUA31CNTLUNIT CUNUMBR=131,PATH=(31), X UNITADD=((00,256)),CUADD=1,UNIT=2105 CUA41CNTLUNIT CUNUMBR=141,PATH=(41), X UNITADD=((00,256)),CUADD=1,UNIT=2105 DV800IODEVICE ADDRESS=(0800,256),CUNUMBR=(130,140,131,141),X UNIT=3390,UNITADD=00 DV900IODEVICE ADDRESS=(0900,256),CUNUMBR=(A30,A40,A31,A41),X UNIT=3390,UNITADD=00 Regards, Kevin From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward M. Martin Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 12:19 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: REquest for IOCP for DS6800 FICON Z890 Hello Everyone, I am just getting the IOCP ready for a ds6800 connected to four ports on the Z890. I would like to some help with the IOCP. Even though we have to have LPAR, there is only one called PROD. The FICON cards are the 2320 FICON Express SX. Two 1 gig ports per card. I would like to have all four ports able to access all dasd. I am figuring to have the DS6800 formated for 30 3390 mod 3, 306 3390 mod 9, and 30 3390 mod 27. (366 devices) I know that am missing some RESOURCE PARTITION and various CSS commands. I am reading about them now. And I still have lots of questions. I would appreciate any insight and idea's. Than CHPID PCHID=130,PATH=30,TYPE=FC,SHARED .FICON DS6800 CHPID PCHID=131,PATH=31,TYPE=FC,SHARED .FICON DS6800 CHPID
Re: FTP
Richard, It works just fine - as in: put profile.exec 'noal.labsys.rexx(profile)' from my z/VM user-id to a z/OS PDS, which now has - BROWSENOAL.LABSYS.REXX(PROFILE) - 01.00 Command === * Top of Data ** /* */ SET CMSTYPE HT SYNONYM SYN 'CP TERM MODE VM' 'CP SET RUN ON' 'CP TERM TIMESTAMP OFF' 'CP SP CONS STOP CLOSE' 'CP PURGE * PRT CL T' SET PF12 RETRIEVE SET PF24 RETRIEVE 'CP LINK TCPMAINT 592 592 RR' ACCESS 592 T ACCESS 5E5 B ACCESS 2CC C ACCESS 51D D 'SET FILEPOOL VMSYS:' 'SET LDRTBLS 25' 'EXEC TERMOFF' SET CMSTYPE RT A copy of my CMS Profile Exec. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 3:38 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: FTP Is it possible to FTP a flat file on CMS to a member of a PDS, as below, on MVS? PUT fn.ft mvs.dsn(fn) Regards, Richard Schuh
Re: Questions about LUN DASD volumes
Alain, Mini disks are defined in your IOCDS/IODF as though they were real DASD devices. Mini disks will appear as 3390's to your operating system running in a virtual machine. Of course, their size/capacity will be that of the mini disk definition. If by LUN DASD you are referring to iSCSI devices, please review the attachment to this e-mail. It covers all of the topics relating to z/VM EDEV support. Good luck. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alain Benveniste Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 11:27 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Questions about LUN DASD volumes Hi all, We have a new requirement where we would like to be able to backup/restore LUN DASD from open for a test. OPEN is an other world for me. So I would like to know how I should code LUN DASD (METALUN ?) into IOCP and how a MDISK would look like too. A copy/paste would be great. And what q da xxx details would show ? Thanks Alain Benveniste Paris, France
z/TPF List Server
Dear Lists: Is there a list server for z/TPF? HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978
Re: Secure file transfer options?
Hi Steve, I think you responded to the wrong 'Ray'. The OP of the message was Ray Mrohs, and not me. Thanks for the info anyway. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Bireley Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 12:18 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Secure file transfer options? Hi Ray, If you choose a Unix SSFTP client or some kind of SSL/TLS FTP Proxy, make sure it uses the FIPS certified cryptography. OpenSSL is open source and recently received FIPS 140-2 certification. By default, any product that uses OpenSSL, built per the NIST security policy, meets the federal government requirement for encryption software. OpenSSL can be built with our without FIPS. The vendor or open source project can tell you if their product is build with the FIPS certified version. One of the requirements of FIPS is that the user should be able to tell if they are running with FIPS enabled, so it should be readily apparent. Here is the home page for the NIST Cryptographic Module Validation Program. You can find information about certified cryptographic modules. http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/index.html Steve Bireley Vice-President Product Development BlueZone Software 1-404-364-1731 www.bluezonesoftware.com www.rocketsoftware.com -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mrohs, Ray Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 10:58 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Secure file transfer options? Thanks for the tips Adam. Just for the record, The Secure FTP you suggested does work with 5.2 SSLSERV. Ray Mrohs U.S. Department of Justice 202-307-6896 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Thornton Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 4:53 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Secure file transfer options? On Oct 15, 2007, at 3:17 PM, Mrohs, Ray wrote: What are my options for encrypted file transfers between Solaris and z/VM 5.2? I have secure FTP running in VM, and a test using the FileZilla desktop client shows that it works. I'm not sure about Solaris yet, but the sftp client in Linux does not appear to work with VM's secure FTP. I'm suspecting that the Solaris results will be the same. I'd rather not use z/Linux as a relay between Solaris and VM, but if it's the only option, I will. The other client that needs to work is F-Secure FTP in Windows. sftp is not what VM gives you. sftp is an ftp-like command stream layered atop the ssh protocol. There is no native VM implementation of this, although we did produce an FTP-to-sftp broker a few years ago that did the trick (admittedly, transfers from the VM-hosted Linux guest to the VM system itself were in the clear, but all traffic on the actual wire outside the VM box were encrypted). I've had pretty good luck with a product called Secure FTP from Glub Tech. http://www.glub.com/products/secureftp/ I know it works with the z/VM 5.3 SSLSERV code in negotiated TLS mode. I don't remember offhand whether it works with 5.2 in implicit mode; I suspect I tested it, but I don't remember the results. There certainly *are* a few FTP clients for Linux that *can* cope with implicit SSL as provided by SSLSERV for the z/VM TCP/IP stack, and they should be easily buildable for Solaris. Since Secure FTP is written in Java, it should work fine on Solaris. I don't know about F-Secure FTP. I have not tested it. Adam
Re: Track on zVM 5.3
Jim, I have TRACKZ64 running on my z/VM 5.3.0.system. It works just fine. I did a straight download from the web site and uploaded to my z/VM system. I did not do any assemblies for TRACK. I am using the TRACKZ64 MODULE as supplied but just renamed TRACKZ64 to TRACK. Hope this helps. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Bohnsack Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 12:01 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Track on zVM 5.3 Has anyone gotten TRACK running on 5.3? I haven't tried to run it but I took the TRACKV52 package from (don't remember--probably Marist) and reassembled it this a.m. I have one assembly error in TRACKVMD. It's complaining about VMDDEDCP not being defined. That symbol is defined in HCPVMDBK in HCPOM1 on a 5.2 system but is an undefined fullword on 5.3. VMDDEDCP refers to a dedicated CPU. I can put in a local mod to get past that but I was wondering if anyone has already done it. I sent an email to Jim Vincent yesterday but have not gotten a response so he may be out of the office. If anyone has tried to run TRACK on 5.3, does it work?? Jijm -- Jim Bohnsack Cornell University (607) 255-1760 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Me thnks 'Chuckie' is afoot -
Peter,,
It turned out to be a TCP/IP configuration problem. There were two
PRIMARYINTERFACE statements and the second on had the 'erroneous' value
for the last octet. I changed the configuration file and now everything
is working just fine.
The same REXX Exec worked fine under z/VM. It was just the z/OS systems
having this problem.
Thanks.
HITACHI
DATA SYSTEMS
Raymond E. Noal
Senior Technical Engineer
Office: (408) 970 - 7978
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 5:58 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: Me thnks 'Chuckie' is afoot -
Hi Raymond,
Okay, let's get the obvious question out of the way first, you _are_
running this on the z/OS system, and not on VM?
Can you test this on another z/OS system to see if it is consistently
wrong? If consistently wrong, then that would suggest a bug.
Is z/OS REXX returning something 'extra' at the end of the data that
just looks like it is an extra '1'? (I have no z/OS manuals to check.)
Not very helpful, I know, but that's all I can think of.
Peter
-Original Message-
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Raymond Noal
Sent: September 6, 2007 16:46
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Me thnks 'Chuckie' is afoot -
Ok, you network gurus; I've got one for you -
The TCP/IP address of my z/OS 1.8 system is 111.222.333.11. (not really,
and yes, I know this is the VM list)
When I run this REXX Exec -
/* REXX */
SAY SOCKET('INITIALIZE','MYID')
SAY SOCKET('GETHOSTID');
EXIT;
The results are:
0 MYID 40 *INET
0 111.222.333.111
Why is the last octet coming back as '111' and not '11'?
TIA
HITACHI
DATA SYSTEMS
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Senior Technical Engineer
Office: (408) 970 - 7978
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Me thnks 'Chuckie' is afoot -
Ok, you network gurus; I've got one for you -
The TCP/IP address of my z/OS 1.8 system is 111.222.333.11. (not really,
and yes, I know this is the VM list)
When I run this REXX Exec -
/* REXX */
SAY SOCKET('INITIALIZE','MYID')
SAY SOCKET('GETHOSTID');
EXIT;
The results are:
0 MYID 40 *INET
0 111.222.333.111
Why is the last octet coming back as '111' and not '11'?
TIA
HITACHI
DATA SYSTEMS
Raymond E. Noal
Senior Technical Engineer
Office: (408) 970 - 7978
VMARC AND 64-EN/DE-CODE
Dear list: Newbie here with what seems to be a catch-22. I've downloaded the VMARCMOD.TXT file and the 64-ENCODE/DECODE.REXX files from the various download sites. In order to use 64DECODE I need to have VMARC available. In order to process the 64DECODE.REXX file, I need to have VMARC available. How do you break this chicken-and-the-egg problem? Is there some place else I can download these files ready for use? TIA HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978
Re: RSCS NJE SCTC to JES
Rick, In the z/OS version 1.8 JES / 2 Init and Tuning Guide it states - Channel-to-channel (CTC) connections are identical to BSC communications except CTC connections do not use EP or PEP. CTC connections are best suited for connections to nodes within the same computer facility. NJE protocols support an ESCON* Basic Mode CTC (defined to the hardware configuration dialog as BCTC) and a 3088 CTC, but do not support an ESCON CTC (defined to the hardware configuration dialog as SCTC). This is in section 5.1.1.3 I currently have a CTC connection between a z/OS 1.8 system and RSCS on a z/VM 5.2 system and the devices used are defined as BCTC. Hope this helps. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Barlow Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 5:03 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: RSCS NJE SCTC to JES I am trying to determine if there is still a restriction that an ESCON CTC between RSCS and z/OS JES must be defined as BCTC rather than SCTC. The last time I looked at this was 1999 and it was still a restriction. I know that RSCS V3R2 can handle SCTC between RSCS systems. I can't find anything in the RSCS documentation that says there is a restriction. I am not sure what z/OS JES book might have the information. I would also like to detemine if JES2 is any different from JES3. I need to do JES 2 today but may do JES 3 soon. Does anyone on the list happen to have such an NJE sonnection in use? Rick Barlow Systems Engineering Consultant Nationwide Services Co., Technology Solutions Mainframe, z/VM and System z Linux Support One Nationwide Plaza 3-20-13 Columbus OH 43215-2220 U.S.A Voice: (614) 249-5213Fax: (614) 677-0821 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VMFBLD NUCTARG TAPE
Don, I found this in the z/VM 5.2 VM/SES manual - 2. For z/VM Version 3 Release 1.0 and above, the CP nucleus can be built only with NUCTARG MODULE. Maybe the TAPE option is no longer supported. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hooker, Don - OIT Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 11:17 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: VMFBLD NUCTARG TAPE We are at z/VM 5.2. I am trying to create an IPLable CP nucleus on tape. I attached a tape to MAINT as 182, issued a VMFSETUP ZVM CP command and then: VMFBLD PPF ZVM CP cpload * NUCTARG TAPE (all I get: VMFBLD2760I VMFBLD processing started VMFSIP2453I Table 5VMCPR20 SRVAPPS H is a subset of table 5VMCPR20 SRVAPPS G VMFBLD1851I Reading build lists VMFBLD2182I Identifying new build requirements VMFBLD2182I New build requirements identified VMFBLD1851I (1 of 1) VMFBDNUC processing CPLOAD EXC31556 J, target is BUILD7 49 (K) VMFBDN2215E Invalid build list option NUCTARG TAPE for build list CPLOAD EXC31556 VMFBLD1851E (1 of 1) VMFBDNUC completed with return code 12. Some objects were not built VMFBLD2180I There are 5 build requirements remaining VMFBLD2760I VMFBLD processing completed unsuccessfully Ready(8); T=7.92/8.02 14:12:41 How do you make this work? TIA
Re: IODF
Anne, We use z/OS 1.8 in one LPAR to create our IOCDS/IODF files. We also have two LPARs running z/VM (5.1 and 5.2). The z/VM LPARs have no problem coexisting with the z/OS produced configuration files. Of note, the z/VM LPARs seldom have their configurations changed. But, bottom line, there are no problems... HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anne Crabtree Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 11:32 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: IODF I recently converted our IODF file via z/os to V5 format. Z/VM has not been IPL'd since the change. Is there any reason I should be concerned about this? Anne D. Crabtree System Programmer WV Dept of Administration - OT 304-558-5914 ext 8885 Fax 304-558-1351
Re: TCPNJE
Richard, Just curious, do you have PATHMGR=NO for your RSCS JES/2 NODE definition? HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 4:46 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: TCPNJE As far as I know, JES is aware of the state. Their side apparently has an autostart because whenever the link drops and RSCS restarts it from the VM side, the signs are done and the link reestablished for another 22 minutes. Regards, Richard Schuh -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Les Geer (607-429-3580) Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 2:12 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: TCPNJE You've gotta be kidding. That or your publications people are. The only mention of KEEPALIVE=3DYES in any RSCS manual is in a sample config file in Appendix B of the RSCS Planning and Installation. Is this one of those, It is so obvious we don't need to document it, things.=20 Where is the default documented? It is documented in the RSCS Planning and Installation manual although the option is KEEPALIV= (not keepalive) and the default is yes. So RSCS would have enabled keepalive for the socket session, that would probably be what is happening. From the other threads, if JES has defined an ITO= parameter, I would think they would have sent a signoff record when the link went down, not just leave the link in a 'gone' state. I bet something else is taking the link away. Is the JES side aware of the link state? Best Regards, Les Geer IBM z/VM and Linux Development
Re: PPRC and R/W Minidisks
The query dasd details command covers the basic information for a device. You also have a query duplex command and a query pav command. It would be nice to have the duplex/pav commands as options to the query dasd command. Maybe Chuckie can whip this up for us over the up coming holidays! :-) HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Judson West Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 2:13 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: PPRC and R/W Minidisks Thanks for that information, Alan. 2nd somewhat related question, we are paring up both VM and MVS volumes. My MVS counterpart is doing the MVS volumes (under a z/OS partition), and I'm doing the VM ones. When I issue the CP Q DASD DETAILS command on a MVS volume known to VM, I get the following results: q dasd details 400 0400 CUTYPE = 3990-EC, DEVTYPE = 3390-0C, VOLSER = DSMP01, CYLS = 10017 CACHE DETAILS: CACHE NVS CFW DFW PINNED CONCOPY -SUBSYSTEM YY Y -N N -DEVICE Y- - YN N DEVICE DETAILS: CCA = 00, DDC = 00 DUPLEX DETAILS: -- When this volume is queried on MVS, it shows that it is the primary of a duplexed pair. Why doesn't VM show this information also? - Judson West Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 1:45 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: PPRC and R/W Minidisks On Monday, 12/11/2006 at 12:04 PST, Judson West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to establish a PPRC pairing and DSF says that it wants me to link R/W to the primary fullpack minidisks. What is DSF going to do with those fullpack minidisks? Issue volume-related commmands to the disk controller, something only possible with FP minis or dedicated devices. Metro Mirror (nee PPRC) applies to an entire volume, not a minidisk. I am always nervous at these times... But that's why you backed up the volume before you started down this path. :-) Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
Re: IPLing DDR standalone on 7060
Tom, have you tried doing a SYSTEM RESET CLEAR operation just before you IPL DSF? From: The IBM z/VM Operating System on behalf of Tom Cluster Sent: Tue 8/8/2006 11:13 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: IPLing DDR standalone on 7060 I'm posting this on vse-l also. I have a tape with IPLable ICKDSF (r16) and DDR (from z/VM 4.2), in that sequence. When I IPL the tape on a 7060, using TN3270 session B on the OS/2 support element, I'm unable to get a response. No matter what attention key I press I get an X-System indication. (The support element is green because ICKDSF has IPLed okay. It's just that I'm unable to give it the interrupt it wants to find the console.) But then if I ipl the tape again, I have no trouble getting DDR. And then, if I rewind the tape, and IPL ICKDSF, I get the Press clear when ready prompt in the lower right-hand corner, and when I press CLEAR ICKDSF is up and running. So why can't I get ICKDSF to work when it's the first guy who's IPL'ed? - Tom. Tom Cluster County of Sonoma Santa Rosa, CA (707) 565-3384 (Tuesdays and Wednesdays only)
z/VM and SuSE Linux Ver 8
Dear Lists: Our z/VM and Linux testing goes in about 6 month cycles. The last time we used SuSE Linux under z/VM, we had z/VM 5.1. We are now using z/VM 5.2 at the 0501 RSU maintenance level. All of a sudden now (?), we can no longer connect to our Linux virtual machines using PuTTY. The network guys tell me that they can see the request going to the z/VM TCPIP address and being rerouted to the appropriate IP address for the Linux virtual machine, but there is no response from Linux. With my virtual Linux machine running I can not PING the z/VM TCPIP stack nor can I ping my Linux machine from the MAINT virtual machine. When I try to PING TCPIP from Linux, the Linux console stops working. Has anyone else had a similar problem? Have TCPIP parameters changed that much between z/VM 5.1 and 5.2? Here is my TCPIP profile statements DEVICE OSA0 OSD 00B0 PORTNAME OSACHP86 PRIROUTER LINK ETH0 QDIOETHERNET OSA0 DEVICE ZVMLAN1 OSD 10B0 PORTNAME ZVMLAN1 LINK ZVMLAN1 QDIOETHERNET ZVMLAN1 ; (End DEVICE and LINK statements) ; -- HOME 172.17.51.026 ETH0 172.17.230.1 ZVMLAN1 ; (End HOME Address information) ; -- PRIMARYINTERFACE ETH0 ; -- GATEWAY ; Network First Link MTU Subnet Subnet ; Address Hop Name Size Mask Value ; - --- - 172.17.50.1 = ETH0 1500 HOST ; 172 = ZVMLAN1 1500 0.255.255.0 0.17.230.0 172.17 = ZVMLAN1 1500 0.0.255.0 0.0.230.0 ; DEFAULTNET 172.17.50.1 ETH0 1500 0 ; (End GATEWAY Static Routing information) ; -- START OSA0 START ZVMLAN1 ; (End START statements) ; -- Here is the console log from the Linux IPL ..done Setting up network interfaces: lo ..done eth0 qdio: loading QDIO base support version 2 ($Revision: 1.145.4.1 $/ $Revision: 1.66.4.1 $) IPsec Security Association Database (SADB): initialized. IPsec Security Policy Database (SPD): initialized. IPsec PF_KEY V2: initialized IPv6 v0.8 (usagi-cvs/IPsec6 based StS) for NET4.0 IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver qeth: loading qeth S/390 OSA-Express driver ($Revision: 1.337.4.7 $/$Revision: 1 .113.4.2 $/$Revision: 1.42.4.1 $:IPv6:VLAN) qeth: allocated 0 spare buffers qeth: Trying to use card with devnos 0x10B0/0x10B1/0x10B2 qeth: Device 0x10B0/0x10B1/0x10B2 is an OSD Express card (level: V522) with link type Gigabit Eth (portname: ZVMLAN1) IP/Netmask: 172.17.230.2 / 255.255.255.0 ..done My Linux machine is IP address 172.17.230.2. There is also no PORT statement entry for port 22 (PuTTY SSH). I did not need one in z/VM 5.1. Has this changed in 5.2? Thanks in advance..
Re: DS6000
IS this 3390-9 attached to a virtual machine or is it a mini disk? If it's a mini disk, how is it defined - start cylinder and number of cylinders? HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Lab Manager, San Diego Facility Office: (858) 537 - 3268 Cell: (858) 248 - 1172 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 1:35 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: DS6000 Running VM 5.1 Anyone having trouble with plain ICKDSF in VM could writing VTOC record above the 3338 cylinder for a 3390-9?
