SLES7 Apache 1.3.20 Was4 plugin

2003-11-21 Thread Monteleone
Hello



I systematically get a "Segmentation Fault 11" from Apache when i try to
use the eapi version of mod_app_server_http.so  (WebSphere Plugin). I
ran with Loglevel Debug from apache and Trace mode for WAS, and it seems
that Apache fail down before any conversation with WAS.



Has somebody already got success with Apache 1.3.20 and WAS 4 ons SLES7
?



The only way I found is working without EAPI.



TIA.



Bests regards.



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Re: Linux CDL pack and RVA free space collection.

2003-11-21 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 23:39, Jim Sibley wrote:

> So this seems to be release dependent and there IS AN
> EXPOSURE if you have a lower release that SLES8 SP3. I
> don't know what would happen with RedHat. I'll try
> that after I get an RHEL3 system running.

And if this is the case, the difference would be the release
that you used to format the disk... I would not expect the
Linux dasd driver of an upgraded SLES 8 SP3 to go out and fix
the layout of your existing disks.

> Bottom line still seems to be - don't run DDSR on your
> CDL formatted volumes!

And this is assuming the DDSR tooling looks at the same numbers
that you look at and stays out when the number says 100%.
On VM we don't have the equivalent of a VTOC and I recall that
the RVA tool would use the CP directory to find any tracks that
were not mapped by a mini disk definition. Very interesting if
you have some areas not covered by dummy mini disk extents.

A bit on topic: While there is no Linux version of such a tool
available, I think Dougie measured that a similar effect can be
achieved by filling the disk with some temporary dummy file that
can be compressed very good (nulls or blanks). The same should
work for SFS pools where a lot of file activity takes place.

Rob


Re: Gartner on SCO

2003-11-21 Thread John Summerfield
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, James Melin wrote:

> Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 15:18:39 -0600
> From: James Melin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: Linux on 390 Port <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Gartner on SCO
>
> http://www3.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?doc_cd=118545
>
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/34123.html


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Re: RHELv3.0 install probs

2003-11-21 Thread Post, Mark K
I didn't see anything like that during the beta testing.  I would say call
Red Hat, or post your question to the Taroon mailing list.


Mark Post

-Original Message-
From: Wilson, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 6:38 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RHELv3.0 install probs


We've just become the proud owners of RHEL v 3.0

 but, we're having install probs...

anaconda fails w/ the following error:

bega:/home/ewilson $> cat anaconda_error.txt
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 1081, in ?
intf.run(id, dispatch, configFileData)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 471, in run
dispatch.gotoNext()
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 157, in gotoNext
self.moveStep()
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 225, in moveStep
rc = apply(func, self.bindArgs(args))
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 160, in readPackages
grpset = method.readComps(hdrlist)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/installmethod.py", line 64, in readComps
return self.readCompsViaMethod(hdlist)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/image.py", line 42, in readCompsViaMethod
return groupSetFromCompsFile(fname, hdlist)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/hdrlist.py", line 900, in groupSetFromCompsFile
for pnevra in (grpset.groups["base"].packages.keys() +
KeyError: base

> /usr/lib/anaconda/hdrlist.py(900)groupSetFromCompsFile()
-> for pnevra in (grpset.groups["base"].packages.keys() +
(Pdb)


It is failing before I get a choice of packages.  Any one else having this
issue?




Cheers;

E!

-
Eric Wilson

Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.
One Busch Place
1CC-8
St. Louis, MO


Re: Linux CDL pack and RVA free space collection.

2003-11-21 Thread Don Mulvey
>Well, I'm not sure if I'm coming or going on this!

You and me both :)

>I just formatted a volume CDL on another RVA with
>SLES8 SP2 and it shows 0% USED and 50,083 tracks FREE!

First off ... could somebody tell me what an RVA is?

If you just formatted a cdl disk then it should only have 2 dscbs in the
vtoc; a type 4 vtoc descriptor and a type 5 freespace descriptor.  So the
info seems fine.

>The other volume I formatted was with SLES8 SP3 and it
>showed 100% USED and 0 tracks FREE!

Somebody has to ask ... are you sure you typed in cdl rather than ldl?  Can
you confirm that it is indeed cdl and there isn't a bug that produced an
ldl volume?

>So the MVS guy wasn't wrong after all! He was looking
>at a volume I had formatted CDL with SLES8 SP2.

>So this seems to be release dependent and there IS AN
>EXPOSURE if you have a lower release that SLES8 SP3. I
>don't know what would happen with RedHat. I'll try
>that after I get an RHEL3 system running.

Doesn't make any sense.  If you reformat a volume your gunna reblock and
refresh: ipl records, vol label record and the vtoc itself.  A format
doesnt create any type 1 dscbs.  If there is a bug that resulted in an ldl
volume ... even if you specified cdl ... then this would make sense.  I am
assuming that RVA (whatever it is) looks for any/all type 5 dscbs if the
vtoc track is available.  If it thinks the vtoc track is missing (ldl
volume) then my guess is that it would declare no datasets and %100 free.

>Bottom line still seems to be - don't run DDSR on your
>CDL formatted volumes!


-Don


Re: DHCP settings

2003-11-21 Thread Post, Mark K
Dave,

This is way, way old, but I was wondering if you have anything that I can
use?  (Perhaps just for internal use, not necessarily for publishing on the
web site?)

Thanks,

Mark

-Original Message-
From: Dave Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 6:14 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: DHCP settings


Gang,
there has been a number of requests for our simple Linux network
setup application, and Mark Post has very graciously offered to post
it on the LINUXVM.ORG web site.

The code is not in a ready-to-distribute state at the moment, little
to no documentation, for example. I'll put some time in this weekend
to get it ready, and then send the package to Mark. Keep an eye
on the LINUXVMORG web page, and you can then download it from there.

Hope that this satisfies everybody. Good luck and enjoy.
Dave Jones
V/Soft Software, Inc.
18502 Purdy Ct.
Houston, TX 77084
(281) 578-7544 (voice)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


signal shutdown

2003-11-21 Thread Monteleone
Hello



Is it possible to send a signal shutdown from a REXX/CMS to a Linux
guest ?



I don't want to force the guest but just send to it a normaly shutdown.



TIA



 Gerard MONTELEONE

 Ingenieur Systeme & Reseau

* 04.95.23.68.09 / 06.87.72.70.32

  S.I.TE.C zi du Vazzio

 20090 AJACCIO Cedex

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Re: Linux CDL pack and RVA free space collection.

2003-11-21 Thread Ledbetter, Scott E
RVA=Ramac Virtual Array.  RVA is (was) a disk subsystem engineered by
StorageTek and sold by IBM roughly from 1996->2000.  It uses a unique log
structured file layout to present 1024 3380 or 3390 images to the hosts,
while potentially not actually having enough backend disk storage to hold
1024 3390-3's worth of data.  Thus the 'Virtual' name.   I say
'potentially', because one feature of the RVA is that data is hardware
compressed on the channel interfaces as the data is transferred into the
box.  If the data is compressible enough, you could easily store 1024
volumes worth of data.  At a very high level, you can think of it as being
similar to virtual memory in an operating system.  On a 31-bit OS, you can
have hundreds of address spaces that all think they have access to 2GB of
memory, while in reality the hardware itself may not even have 2GB of
physical memory to work with.

One of the challenges of this type of architecture is communicating to the
hardware when a track on a volume is not 'really' being used by the OS or an
application.  Because the backend disk pool is shared among all of the 1024
volumes at a track granularity, a track of residual data that once belonged
to a now deleted file is just taking up space on the backend disk pool.
Thus, there needs to be some way for the OS to notify the hardware that a
track is really freespace and not valid data.

To cut to the chase, the issue is this:  there is a process that RVA users
can run that will read the MVS VTOC for every online volume and for every
single track not covered by a DSCB representing valid data, a command will
be issued to the subsystem to return those tracks to the pool of freespace
on the backend disk.  Those tracks are GONE, and the data ain't coming back.


If a volume is a CDL volume, or a VM volume with an OS VTOC, and there is
not a dummy dataset entry in the VTOC that covers the entire area of the
volume that really contains Linux or VM data, there is a great risk.  If the
process called Interval DDSR (which runs in an address space on MVS
controlled by the user) runs against that volume, you could lose your Linux
of VM data. The structure of the control statements for Interval DDSR is
such that it is very easy to code them to run against every online volume by
default.  This is why I recommended that any VM or Linux volumes that might
ever be brought online to MVS be specifically excluded from Interval DDSR
processing, because no good can come from it.

There is a similar process that can run against a minidisk on VM, but that
is a command-only process.  If a user issues the command against a Linux
minidisk, they must specifically direct the process to a minidisk.

Everything I have said is applicable to the IBM RVA, the STK "Iceberg" 9200,
SVA(Shared Virtual Array) 9393, SVA 9500, SVA V960, SVA V2X, SVA V2X2 and
SVA V2XF.

It is my understanding that the CDL volume format is actually a product of
the IBM provided DASD drivers. The individual partitions and their
corresponding cylinder ranges are represented by Format 1 DSCB's in the
VTOC. There should be no danger to your Linux partitions under normal
circumstances, but I think it would be a great idea for the partitioning
code that builds the CDL VTOC to cover the areas not taken by partitions
with a dummy dataset.

With a CDL volume online to MVS,  you do run the risk that the datasets
could be accidentally deleted from the CDL volume from the MVS side.  This
would not delete the partitions themselves, but the next time Interval DDSR
ran the data would disappear because they would be seen as freespace.

Scott Ledbetter
StorageTek






-Original Message-
From: Don Mulvey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 7:12 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux CDL pack and RVA free space collection.


>Well, I'm not sure if I'm coming or going on this!

You and me both :)

>I just formatted a volume CDL on another RVA with
>SLES8 SP2 and it shows 0% USED and 50,083 tracks FREE!

First off ... could somebody tell me what an RVA is?

If you just formatted a cdl disk then it should only have 2 dscbs in the
vtoc; a type 4 vtoc descriptor and a type 5 freespace descriptor.  So the
info seems fine.

>The other volume I formatted was with SLES8 SP3 and it
>showed 100% USED and 0 tracks FREE!

Somebody has to ask ... are you sure you typed in cdl rather than ldl?  Can
you confirm that it is indeed cdl and there isn't a bug that produced an ldl
volume?

>So the MVS guy wasn't wrong after all! He was looking
>at a volume I had formatted CDL with SLES8 SP2.

>So this seems to be release dependent and there IS AN
>EXPOSURE if you have a lower release that SLES8 SP3. I
>don't know what would happen with RedHat. I'll try
>that after I get an RHEL3 system running.

Doesn't make any sense.  If you reformat a volume your gunna reblock and
refresh: ipl records, vol label record and the vtoc itself.  A format doesnt
create any type 1 dscbs.  If there is a bug tha

Re: Gartner on SCO

2003-11-21 Thread Phil Payne
> People pay big bucks to hear Gartner say that SCO has no viable software business, 
> and has
gone into the IP litigation business. When will Boies have a seat on the board?

Sybil Fawlty, more like.

--
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Re: SCO Vs IBM

2003-11-21 Thread Phil Payne
> Phil, that sounds familiar to me. Can you post a location for that?

It's a first-hand account.

You can find MUCH more by going to http://groups.google.com and searching on 
"demon.service".
Then click on "search in this newsgroup" and enter "godfrey".  You'll get nearly 8,000 
hits -
you may see my name in quite a few of them.

> I know, (don't ask me how!), that Demon, is one of the larger UK based service 
> providers.

It was one of the very first - almost a club that got together to buy themselves a 
small
network and link it to the internet - the customers were and still are referred to as
"subscribers" because that's literally how it started.  Some benefits - SMTP mail 
delivery
(the server ran on the subscriber's system - Demon ran the client) and fixed IP 
addresses.  It
grew very rapidly at first, but has since been blown into the weeds by just about 
every other
provider.

It's now called "Thus plc" - the change of name causing me to remark that "a company 
that
wants to be a major player on the Internet has successfully chosen a name that makes it
invisible to most search engines".

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Re: signal shutdown

2003-11-21 Thread Dave Jones
You should be able to use the CP command SIGNAL SHUTDOWN from a class A or C
user id to accomplish this..

Dave Jones
Sine Nomine Associates
Houston
- Original Message -
From: "Monteleone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 9:31 AM
Subject: signal shutdown


> Hello
>
>
>
> Is it possible to send a signal shutdown from a REXX/CMS to a Linux
> guest ?
>
>
>
> I don't want to force the guest but just send to it a normaly shutdown.
>
>
>
> TIA
>
>
>
>  Gerard MONTELEONE
>
>  Ingenieur Systeme & Reseau
>
> * 04.95.23.68.09 / 06.87.72.70.32
>
>   S.I.TE.C zi du Vazzio
>
>  20090 AJACCIO Cedex
>
>  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>


Re: signal shutdown

2003-11-21 Thread Post, Mark K
If you use the bootshell program all you need to do is make the CMS user the
SECUSER for the Linux system, and do a "cp send halt" command to it.
http://reason.marist.edu/patches/bootshell-1.3.cc
http://linuxvm.org/patches/s390/bootshell-1.3-1.diff


Mark Post

-Original Message-
From: Monteleone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 10:32 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: signal shutdown


Hello



Is it possible to send a signal shutdown from a REXX/CMS to a Linux
guest ?



I don't want to force the guest but just send to it a normaly shutdown.



TIA



 Gerard MONTELEONE

 Ingenieur Systeme & Reseau

* 04.95.23.68.09 / 06.87.72.70.32

  S.I.TE.C zi du Vazzio

 20090 AJACCIO Cedex

 [EMAIL PROTECTED]


Re: Gartner on SCO

2003-11-21 Thread Peter Webb, Toronto Transit Commission
And the SCO legal team appears to be led by Basil Fawlty. ;)

> -Original Message-
> From: Phil Payne [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 10:30 AM
> To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject:  Re: Gartner on SCO
>
> > People pay big bucks to hear Gartner say that SCO has no viable software
> business, and has
> gone into the IP litigation business. When will Boies have a seat on the
> board?
>
> Sybil Fawlty, more like.
>
> --
>   Phil Payne
>   http://www.isham-research.com
>   +44 7785 302 803


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Re: SCO Vs IBM

2003-11-21 Thread John Campbell
Not being "in the loop" on the case, I'll make a comment w/r/t "court of
law" definitions.  I think I can add this w/o entanglements since I'm
discussing basic principles here.

I learned the hard way (custody issues w/ my wife's ex-in-laws who had a
penchant for child-snatching 20+ years ago) I had no choice but to learn
about how civil cases work.

In a civil case the plaintiff holds the advntage having gotten the judge's
ear FIRST... and the burden of proof usually lands the defandant(s).  Even
in Family Court.

In criminal court my understanding is that the state ties a hand behind
it's back because it already *has* too great an advantage, hence the need
to require proof of guilt.

So, in a civil case, the plaintiff starts out holding the high ground.

Have I muddied the water enough?


John R. Campbell, Speaker to Machines (GNUrd)  {813-356|697}-5322
Adsumo ergo raptus sum
MacOS X: Because making Unix user-friendly was easier than debugging
Windows.
IBM Certified: IBM AIX 4.3 System Administration, System Support


Re: SCO Vs IBM

2003-11-21 Thread Phil Payne
> In a civil case the plaintiff holds the advantage having gotten the judge's
> ear FIRST... and the burden of proof usually lands the defendant(s).  Even
> in Family Court.
>
> In criminal court my understanding is that the state ties a hand behind
> it's back because it already *has* too great an advantage, hence the need
> to require proof of guilt.
>
> So, in a civil case, the plaintiff starts out holding the high ground.

Following Lord Wolff's reforms, the word "complainant" is now used in the UK rather 
than
"plaintiff".

In an English criminal case, the burden of proof is "beyond reasonable doubt" and the
prosecution has to prove guilt.  The defendant does not have to prove innocence but 
obviously
can shoot down some or all of the prosecution's case.

In a civil action, it's a "balance of probabilities" and it's much more two-sided, but 
the
complainant still has to prove a case.

What surprised me was the thoroughness of the "discovery" process.  It took over a 
year in the
case I was involved in. The Queen's Bench Division of the High Court does not like 
surprises,
and you have to reveal everything you plan to depend on in your case.  The opposition 
gets to
see it too.  Then you have to define what damages you expect, and the defendants can 
choose to
pay a sum into court.

If you refuse their offer and go to trial, you face a "litigation risk".  If what you 
are
awarded is more than was paid in, the defendant pays all costs.  If what you are 
awarded is
less than was paid in, you pay the costs.

In the Godfrey case the action was for GBP15,000 - about $25,000.  One of Demon's 
tactical
mistakes was paying in a derisory sum - ISTR GBP2,500?  Godfrey won his case implicitly
because Demon settled out of court - which meant that Demon paid the legal costs - 
around a
quarter of a million.

SCO is really a long way out on a shaky limb - betting the company doesn't begin to 
describe
it.  I don't think there's a real issue for SCO users, since their installed base is 
about the
only asset they have apart from the disputed IP and it will be sold off by the 
creditors to
achieve the best return.  Probably to Novell.  Perhaps even before the action starts.

--
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Re: SCO Vs IBM

2003-11-21 Thread Adam Thornton
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 11:08, Phil Payne wrote:
> I don't think there's a real issue for SCO users,

..since there are only about four of them.

Oh, hush my mouth!

Adam


Re: SCO Vs IBM

2003-11-21 Thread Chris Cox
Adam Thornton wrote:
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 11:08, Phil Payne wrote:

I don't think there's a real issue for SCO users,


..since there are only about four of them.

Oh, hush my mouth!

That's the problem with the Linux community.  I can assure
you that your numbers are a full order of magnitude
off!
I'm pretty sure they have 40 :-)

Many of those are probably unaware that they are still
SCO customers though... and some are probably being
sued by SCO and wish they had never heard of them.
If you want to know what SCO is really worth.. check
out ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3638988871&category=4619


Re: SCO Vs IBM

2003-11-21 Thread Geiger, Michael
>SCO is really a long way out on a shaky limb - betting the company doesn't begin to 
>describe
it.  I don't think there's a real issue for SCO users, since their installed base is 
about the
only asset they have apart from the disputed IP and it will be sold off by the 
creditors to
achieve the best return.  Probably to Novell.  Perhaps even before the action starts.<

What does SCO have to lose?  It is playing totally with OPM.  If it wins, executive 
mgmt gets paid handsomely. If they lose, it's off to some other company for an even 
bigger slice of the shareholders pie. WIN-WIN... for executive management.

Michael A. Geiger


Accessing DB2 connect from Websphere on a separate LPAR

2003-11-21 Thread James Melin
Does anyone have any idea on how to get WebSphere on one Linux instance to
talk to DB2 connect on a diff Linux instance? I've only been able to make
it work when both are local. Sine the desktop can connect to that DB2
connect, what am I missing


Re: Linux CDL pack and RVA free space collection.

2003-11-21 Thread Jim Sibley
Don wrote:

> First off ... could somebody tell me what an RVA is

Well, if you have an RVA or if you are curious, read
on. If you don't have an RVA or don't care, never mind
;-)

It is the Storage Tech Iceberg Technology developed in
the late 1980' specially for MVS environments. After
the RAMAC III, IBM had a remarketing agreement with
Storage Tech to rebrand the device as an IBM 9393
Ramac Virtual Array and was IBM's main dasd offering
for mainframes for several years. When shark was
announced, the agreement was discontinued. Its a
common piece of hardware in may zSeries shops. Today,
it is cheap to acquire, so many people still use it.

It uses a Log Structured Array to map virtual tracks
to the back end raid array hardware. This is analogous
to a paging in MVS. As in MVS, a track is not
allocated on the hardware until it is written to.

The technology is based on several assumptions true
for an MVS environment 1) The VTOC extent maps may say
the data set has been allocated with so much space,
but in reality, only a small park of it is used, and
2) free space really takes up space on a volume, and
3) there are a lot of repeated characters (mostly
blanks) on MVS volumes.

Typically, MVS volumes may be run at 50% full because
of the need to expand without abending a process.

In addition, they added space compression, to get the
repeated characters compressed out.

The net effect is that the REAL hardware space
occupied for a volume can be zero (0) to a real full
volume. In MVS, the volumes get up to 66% compression
of the data and the packs are only 50% full.

Storage Tech took this one step further. Since they
are  do not have to have all the space on a volume
reserved on the hardware, they only back the virtual
space with a fracture of the real hardware space. For
example, on one of my RVA's I have 512 3390-3 volumes
defined for a virtual capacity of 1.4 Terabytes.
However, the real dasd on the RVA is only 219 GB! So
the assumption is that there will  be 6.3
"overalloction" of the pack due to compressible data
and unused free space.

Actually, quite brilliant when you think about it.
Remember, this is late 1980's technology when disk
drives were still expensive and RAID technology was
new. I don't anyone uses this approach now because the
disk drives are so cheap. Vendors are using RAID10 now
- mirrored raid5, so there is actually twice has much
disc hardware that is needed for recovery purposes.

If you look at an MVS VTOC, the extent map may show
that the pack is full and for conventional dasd and
most vendors implementations, the space is reserved,
though it may not be actually used.

This then brings up question of garbage collection.
There is an interface between MVS allocation and the
RVA called IXFP in the IBM RVA that communicates
allocations and free up of space between MVS and the
RVA. There is also dynamic dasd space reclamation
(DDSR) that runs periodically, interrogates the VTOC,
and frees any free tracks based on the VTOC. This is
the exposure that we are talking about. Depending upon
what IXFP interrogates in the VTOC, there is a data
loss exposure. I have seen no reports that anyone has
tested this, just recommendations that you keep your
Linux DASD seperate from your other OS.

>Somebody has to ask ... are you sure you typed in cdl
rather than ldl?

Simple to check - if you vary an LDL volume on to MVS,
you get an "I/O error" because you do not have a VTOC
and it does not come online. If you vary a CDL volume
on to MVS, the volume will vary online. Since I could
read the VTOC under MVS, it was obviously a CDL
volume.

To add insult to injury, if you try to allocate an MVS
data set to the CDL volume inadvertently, some levels
of MVS abend the task and mess up the VTOC so the pack
cannot be varied back online.

>Doesn't make any sense.  If you reformat a volume
your >gunna reblock
>and
>refresh: ipl records, vol label record and the vtoc
>itself.  A format
>doesnt create any type 1 dscbs.  If there is a bug
>that resulted in an
>ldl
>volume ... even if you specified cdl ... then this
>would make sense.  I
>am
>assuming that RVA (whatever it is) looks for any/all
>type 5 dscbs if
>the
>vtoc track is available.  If it thinks the vtoc track
>is missing (ldl
>volume) then my guess is that it would declare no
>datasets and %100
>free.

Yes, there is a bug! Since when do bugs make sense?
I'm trying to track its extent and what releases of
MVS and Linux that might have problems.

However, I thought it fair to warn the other RVA users
of the potential exposure.




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Re: Gartner on SCO

2003-11-21 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine
I don't care which member of the Fawlty Towers household ends up
there, they know more about life, and reality then the current
collection of do-dos. 

Besides, I imagine everyone here remembers what Gartner said about the
Y2K problem? And how the group solved their own problems? The
credibility for Gartner is on sand. Flowing sand.
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> -Original Message-
> From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of
> Phil Payne
> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 10:30 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Gartner on SCO
> 
> > People pay big bucks to hear Gartner say that SCO has no viable
software
> business, and has
> gone into the IP litigation business. When will Boies have a seat on
the board?
> 
> Sybil Fawlty, more like.
> 
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