Re: Writing a screen scrolling shell
I've done similar things in the past but in different ways: - routed all messages to z/OS where it was handled by the automation pack age there - used SA IOM (formerly AF/Remote) which would allow you to do all that a nd more, including the automation side of things. A very nice tool - possibly you could use ISPF which allows for the display to hold until a new message is received whereupon it is updated. Never tried it under VM but have done similar under z/OS numerous times Seb.
Re: REXX and Panels
There is always Fullscreen CMS, aka CMS Windows... Seb
Re: Replicating z/VM documentation
What would be really nice is to be able to download the actual Infocenter as you can do with some other products such as WebSphere. You need to downlo ad the IEHS (IBM Eclipse Help System) and a couple of plugins and then the Infocenter for the product. I do this on both Windows and Linux and it sa ves me a lot of time. See: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/was/library/v70/ndss/in dex.html Seb.
Re: PIPEDDR
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:44:56 -0500, Huegel, Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wr ote: On the VM download page there is a tool 'PIPEDDR'. In the description of this tool it mentions that it can use a 'TERSE' pipestage, then goes on to mention that this is only available on internal IBM systems .. duh !! Anyone know how one could get a hold of such an internal pipestage? Well there's a DETERSE MODULE on the 5E5 disk but I wonder if TERSE has anything to do with the TRSMAIN package available for zOS systems which PACKs and UNPACKs data so that it is compressed (I only mentions this because its gets delivered in a dataset with TERSE in the name: PTFLCG.TERSE409.LOADLIB) Seb
Re: 2107 mystery
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 14:53:21 EDT, Martha McConaghy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wr ote: Now, the z/OS guys are suggesting that I gen the 2107 volumes as unsupported in VM to fix the problem. I'm not sure what they mean by that, but I don't like the sound of it. Anyone seen this problem or have any insight into it? I had exactly the same problem with a zOS guest under zVM. We went throug h the route of adding the entries to the directory entry but to no avail, I tried in foreground TSO, in batch, checking for PTFs, installing PTFs and so on and still got no joy. It was to do with the level of zOS we were runni ng, when we upgraded the system from 1.2 to 1.6 it worked fine. Seb.
Re: Regaring cmm_pages
On Mon, 2 Jul 2007 00:23:42 -0500, Alan Ackerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure what you are trying to do with WAKEUP. WAKEUP is used to receive messages, not send them. If all you want is to do is send the SMSG to MAC2, then AFAIK, to send them as well using a WAKEUP TIMES file where you can speci fy time, day, date,etc .and stack a command to run at that time which could be an SMSG (a long way of doing it I know)or even something like this: done = 0 Do While done = 0 'WAKEUP +30:00 (CONS QUIET' wakeuprc = Rc Select When wakeuprc = 2 Then 'SMSG USER1 Time for a coffee!' When wakeuprc = 6 Then Done = 1 End End So that you can tell yourself to have a break every 30 minutes from all t hat hard work :-) Seb
Re: Building NonRACF CP Module
I've had to do this where RACF was shared with MVS systems. If the MVS systems went down then VM was pretty much stuffed so we then just needed to IPL with the alternate CPLOAD module. Naturally no RACF was available but the way VM is built its pretty much secure for the average user. In fact googling showed a posting from me about this: http://listserv.uark.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind9711L=ibmvmT= 0P=34282 Seb
Re: Mainframe Consoles
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:57:54 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are looking at replacing our Multiprise 2000 with a z9, and the issue of replacing the console terminals has come up. Currently, we have 3 3290 gas plasma terminals with 4 screens on each for our VSE guests, and a 3472 terminal for VM. We actually need the equivalent of 12 terminals sessions. We plan on using OSA-ICC for the new consoles. It does not look practical to stuff 12 17-inch LCD monitors into our console area. We experimented with multiple BlueZone terminal emulator sessions on a 37-inch LCD monitor, but the result was not very readable. What are other sites doing for consoles? Suggestions, caveats? Peter A couple of suggestions: - have you looked at the Microsoft Virtual Desktop Manager (at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx) which allows you to have 4 desktops. Not brilliant but could be helpful - how about using Linux instead where you can have multiple desktops? Admittedly you have to switch between them which might not be ideal for y ou - an outboard tool such as AF/Remote which can work as a console controll er with multiple messages being fed into one screen (you'll need to do a bit of work there) IIRC, the gas plasma screens were in fact not allowed in many European countries due to emissions from them. I used one in the UK and thought it was pretty nifty though. Seb.
