Re: SAN questions

[Brian France]

We are NOT using SVC anymore. We moved to dedicated FCP's using NPIV
that connect to the san. Storage group zones in our WWPN's and they keep
track of the storage via some method but we as well keep our own doc
regarding what each image has. We have Omegamon that we use to watch our
z/VM and MFL arena.  We do not use EDEV. Think I may have played with it
once long time ago. Don't really know much about it...

We've even modified our shared root scripts so that IF we move say our
PROD vm image our other frame the images will recognize that we're on
the DR lpar and load in the correct WWPN's via a different cms file
since that frame points to other ports on the san. Provided the storage
group with the other frames WWPN's on those same CHPIDs and they have us
pre-zoned.



On 7/14/2011 2:15 PM, Rick Troth wrote:

gang --

To those using SAN with Linux-on-z,
are you using direct "guest in the fabric" (dedicated FCPs,
where Linux sees the storage)?  How do you keep track of storage?
Is there an SVC in the mix?  What do you like about it?  (or dislike)
Are you using EDEV?  Why or why not?

I plan to update my "SAN for z/VM" (and zLinux) presentation for
the workshop.  Would like to hear some current tails and terrors.

Thanks.

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Re: Question on FCP and IODF devices

[Brian France]

 We used to use FCP connected disks to an SVC. EACH and every linux
image could see each others data.  We've now moved off the SVC to native
shark disks. On the HMC, we turned on NPIV for each of the 4 chpids that
connect us to the SAN. NPIV assigns an individual WWPN for EACH address
so that you can assign (zone) on your shark each linux image connection.

On 10/4/2010 11:00 AM, Jean Nelson wrote:

Question:

We have gotten SAN (FCP) working with a couple of z/Linux Servers.

Right now we have:

CHPID PATH=(98),PARTITION=((VMP1)),TYPE=FCP
CNTLUNIT CUNUMBER=A800,PATH=(98),UNIT=FCP
IODEVICE ADDRESS=(A800),CUNUMBR=(A800),UNIT=FCP

CHPID PATH=(99),PARTITION=((VMP1)),TYPE=FCP
CNTLUNIT CUNUMBER=A801,PATH=(99),UNIT=FCP
IODEVICE ADDRESS=(A801),CUNUMBR=(A801),UNIT=FCP

We attach A800 and A801  to the z/LINUX machine and everything works just
fine.

Now we want to have multiple SAN disks on the same Channels  (CHPID 98 and
CHPID 99)

CHPID PATH=(98),PARTITION=((VMP1)),TYPE=FCP
CNTLUNIT CUNUMBER=A800,PATH=(98),UNIT=FCP
IODEVICE ADDRESS=(A800,64),CUNUMBR=(A800),UNIT=FCP

CHPID PATH=(99),PARTITION=((VMP1)),TYPE=FCP
CNTLUNIT CUNUMBER=A900,PATH=(99),UNIT=FCP
IODEVICE ADDRESS=(A900,64),CUNUMBR=(A900),UNIT=FCP


So we have 64 devices on Channel 98 and 64 devices on Channel 99.

My question is this?

If on the SAN side , if they define a disk on PATH 98 , do ALL of the 64
address defined in the IODF see the WWPN/LUN?
(Or on a specific Port that equates to PATH/CHPID 98 on the on the
mainframe side)

If we have 8 zLinux servers defined under z/VM , we would need   8
separate device address (one for each z/LINUX) to gain access to that SAN /
Path.

I haven't been able to find a lot of documentation on this...
They just give you the IODF definition and not a whole lot of explination
on the details on HOW (if any) the device addresses work with the SAN
(WWPN/LUN)

We have been able to get a WWPN/LUN combination working on the SAN (PATH 98
and PATH 99).

Just looking for some help from some people that have setup SAN disks
attached to z/LINUX (not  EDEV's).

Thanks again in advance!
Jean


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Re: VMWARE to own SUSE LINUX?

[Brian France]

 Well I figured someone would already have asked this so maybe I'm just
a little to far there ( paranoia wise ) but - IF this is true, would
they stop the sles 390 code possibly viewing z/VM and IBM a
competition...  Just wondering...

On 9/17/2010 9:30 AM, Tully, Phil wrote:

I saw this on Slashdot today:
"According to the Wall Street Journal, VMware is attempting to acquire Novell's SUSE Linux 
operating system business. This move would give VMware a full stack of enterprise 
software
  and allow it to establish itself as a full-blown infrastructure and software 
vendor  in direct competition 
with Red Hat."



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Re: FCP, NPIV, D/R, oh my...

[Brian France]

/etc/fstab
/etc/mtab

  That would be the mount's being removed

/etc/sysconfig/hardware/hwcfg's

/etc/lvm/.cache

 this one? If so why?

Mark Post wrote:

On 3/25/2010 at 09:05 AM, Brian France  wrote:


So am guessing YAST updates some other config file or what ever that I
have yet to determine. Not sure it really matters if YAST is gonna work
this nicely.



For educational purposes, try to find out what file that was:
find /etc -type f -mtime -2

That will find all files under /etc that have been modified in the last 48 hours.  Adjust 
the "-2" as needed, depending on when you made the change in YaST.


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Re: FCP, NPIV, D/R, oh my...

[Brian France]

Mark, et al,

 Figured I'd share what we found testing setting up our fcp access
to the mirrored lun.

 It appears as tho performing a vi on the /etc/sysconfig/hardware/hwcfg
file of choice and adding the wwpn and lun id does not give us the 2nd
lun. Even after a reboot of the image.

 BUT utilizing YAST which works really nice now in that by selecting
the device under zfcp config, and having our storage admin zone us
correctly, we were able to configure BOTH our primary wwpn/lun and the
mirrored version using the find wwpn button and find lun button. We
mount only the primary and access works. I then unmounted it, admin
broke pprc, and then mounted the mirrored one as the full access lun it
works nicely. Have yet to have him break pprc without unmounting but
will do that in the coming week.

 So am guessing YAST updates some other config file or what ever that I
have yet to determine. Not sure it really matters if YAST is gonna work
this nicely.

Mark Post wrote:

On 3/23/2010 at 01:48 PM, Brian France  wrote:


So at the bottom of this file I have -

#Configured zfcp disks
ZFCP_LUNS="
0x5005076306380644:0x40554004"

I would change it to be =
ZFCP_LUNS="
0x5005076306380644:0x40554004
0x5005076306388644:0x40554004"

This would add a second possible WWPN instead of 0644 t0 be 8644, YES?



Looks good to me.


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Re: FCP, NPIV, D/R, oh my...

[Brian France]

Mark,
   THANK YOU!  We're gonna be testing this out tomorrow

   First coming up under the "establilshed" wwpn, then I'm gonna alter
that wwpn in the config file, my storage admin will break pprc, and then
we'll reboot the image to pick up the new wwpn pointing at the mirrored
copy.

Mark Post wrote:

On 3/23/2010 at 01:48 PM, Brian France  wrote:


So at the bottom of this file I have -

#Configured zfcp disks
ZFCP_LUNS="
0x5005076306380644:0x40554004"

I would change it to be =
ZFCP_LUNS="
0x5005076306380644:0x40554004
0x5005076306388644:0x40554004"

This would add a second possible WWPN instead of 0644 t0 be 8644, YES?



Looks good to me.


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Re: FCP, NPIV, D/R, oh my...

[Brian France]

So at the bottom of this file I have -

#Configured zfcp disks
ZFCP_LUNS="
0x5005076306380644:0x40554004"

I would change it to be =
ZFCP_LUNS="
0x5005076306380644:0x40554004
0x5005076306388644:0x40554004"

This would add a second possible WWPN instead of 0644 t0 be 8644, YES?

Mark Post wrote:

On 3/23/2010 at 01:31 PM, Brian France  wrote:


Think I may have found it - /etc/sysconfig/hardwarefollowed by a
file name which in my case is - hwcfg-zfcp-bus-ccw-0.0.e801



Right.  Be careful with the list of LUNs, etc.  It's actually one long quoted 
string, broken over multiple lines, with the trailing double quote at the end 
of the last line.


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Re: FCP, NPIV, D/R, oh my...

[Brian France]

Think I may have found it - /etc/sysconfig/hardwarefollowed by a
file name which in my case is - hwcfg-zfcp-bus-ccw-0.0.e801

Mark Post wrote:

On 3/23/2010 at 08:38 AM, Brian France  wrote:


Mark,
The port_add were the WWPN resides is a write only file system. I
see no way of adding a second WWPN to that file. Can you point me to
some documentation or give me some pointers please?



That's not the configuration file, you're talking about something under /sys.  
What release are you running, as it will determine the specifics?


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Re: FCP, NPIV, D/R, oh my...

[Brian France]

Yes I was. SLES10 sp2

Mark Post wrote:

On 3/23/2010 at 08:38 AM, Brian France  wrote:


Mark,
The port_add were the WWPN resides is a write only file system. I
see no way of adding a second WWPN to that file. Can you point me to
some documentation or give me some pointers please?



That's not the configuration file, you're talking about something under /sys.  
What release are you running, as it will determine the specifics?


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Re: FCP, NPIV, D/R, oh my...

[Brian France]

Mark,
   The port_add were the WWPN resides is a write only file system. I
see no way of adding a second WWPN to that file. Can you point me to
some documentation or give me some pointers please?

Mark Post wrote:

On 3/22/2010 at 11:23 AM, Brian France  wrote:


We have two z9 frames and 2 ds8300 in separate bldgs. In one bldg is our
test VM/MFL and the other our prod. We mirror the dasd in our prod bldg
back to our test. Is there a how to doc for setting up a MainFrameLinux
image ahead of time to failover to the mirrored copy? Or for that
matter, if one knew  the ds8300 prod server was coming down, how does
one set up the MFL images to find the mirror? It sure appears to me as
tho you can not specify "extra" wwpns to a chpid.



Actually, you can do just that.  Put both sets of WWPNs in the configuration 
file and whichever ones the system finds is what it will use.


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FCP, NPIV, D/R, oh my...

[Brian France]

We have two z9 frames and 2 ds8300 in separate bldgs. In one bldg is our
test VM/MFL and the other our prod. We mirror the dasd in our prod bldg
back to our test. Is there a how to doc for setting up a MainFrameLinux
image ahead of time to failover to the mirrored copy? Or for that
matter, if one knew  the ds8300 prod server was coming down, how does
one set up the MFL images to find the mirror? It sure appears to me as
tho you can not specify "extra" wwpns to a chpid.
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Re: DS8300, NPIV, setup...

[Brian France]

Well I got it down to JUST the following commands - What I found is
something somewhere changed, either us now being sles10, not sles9,
and/or going from SVC to native along with no NPIV and now NPIV. Dunno
and at this point, I got it working smoothly so I'm happy.

AFTER the lun is expanded -

 1. Reboot the image OR Remove the devices COMPLETELY from zFCP

  I've found that I personally like the ( sorry to say this )
microsloth touch here and just reboot otherwise the next step becomes
your first.

 2. umount thefilesystem

 3. e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/lunofchoice

 4. resize2fs /dev/mapper/lunofchoice

 5. mount thefilesystem



Robert J Brenneman wrote:

oops - re lun expansion:

I've done it, but I've always had to drive all the devices completely
out of the SCSI stack and re add them to get them to rescan and find
the extra space. I don't think Linux normally supports lun expansion
gracefully.

I'm sure someone will speak up to correct me if I'm mistaken, or just
don't know the right magic.



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Re: DS8300, NPIV, setup...

[Brian France]

Robert,
   By looking in /sys/bus/ccw/drivers/zfcp/0.0.e801/online , it's
equal to 1 so I believe to be online. These luns, FCP devs, and all are
currently running a test DB2 image and being used quite a bit for
training this week. My storage admin did get back to me and verified we
are at code level 3 so Mr. Harder's suggestion that we need to be level
4 or up could be true. OR are you doing what we are and y'all are seeing
the log in?

Regarding the other issue of lun expansion with this setup, have y'all
ever done it and do you know the steps taken?

Robert J Brenneman wrote:

OK - next thing that comes to mind is that the FCP devices don't
actually attempt to log in to the san until you vary them online
within linux.

If your FCP device is 0f01 then: chccwdev -e 0.0.0f01

Once you've done that - you should see the device login with the NPIV
WWPN on the san switch, in addition to the native WWPN of the FCP
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Re: DS8300, NPIV, setup...

[Brian France]

Robert,
  Yes sir we are going thru a FC switch. NPIV is working to our
knowledge. The two area's of concern were the "no port login" for our
images on the san, ( BUT that may have been addressed my Mr. Harder ,
THANK YOU!! ) and what would be the process of lun expansion.  Don't
know if what we're seeing with that is correct or not.

Robert J Brenneman wrote:

Are you connected directly into the DS8300 or going through a FC switch?

I believe you must be going through a switch for NPIV to work.

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DS8300, NPIV, setup...

[Brian France]

Folks,
   We currently have our FCP attached storage to our DS8300 running
thru SVC. No NPIV. We are trying to set up now to be Native DS8300 using
NPIV. We have a lun attached (actually 4 on on image and 1 on another )
which seem to be working but our storage admin is NOT seeing the images
actually "port log in" to the storage. In addition to that, in our
testing of lun expansion, it appears as tho when he expands the lun we
loose the partition information ( we're not sure of this one yet ).

What follows is how we were doing lun expansion and the added steps it
seems to require. We're looking for any one who's done DS8300, NPIV,
MainFrameLinux(MFL), and lun expansion.

Our past procedure to expand a lun attached via SVC running SLES9 looks
like this:

1.After the lun is expanded reboot the image.
2. Unmount the disk
3. fsck.ext3 /dev/sd?
4. fdisk /dev/sd?
p - to display the partition
d - to delete it
n - to create the new one
p - primary
1 - for part 1
take the defaults for 1st/last cyl prompts
w - write it out
5. e2fsck -f /dev/sd?
6. resize2fs /dev/sd?
7. mount /dev/sd?

This all worked as I said using SVC, DS8300, no NPIV and sles9 AND still
does as long the image is NOT rebooted...

Now when I do it with native DS8300, NPIV and SLES 10 sp2 I have
additional steps to do and I see an anomaly in that there is no
partition to print or delete when going thru the resize steps in number 4.

The additional steps are -

8. reboot the image which will not mount the resized file system due to
added /dev/sd?1 and 2 and /dev/mapper/luninfo-part1
9. We then delete the /dev/sd?1 and 2 plus a new /dev/mapper/lun info-part1
10. Remove the zfcp info
11. readd the zfcp info
12. recreate the mount point.
13. mount the file system and then all is well.


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Re: VM/Linux-BKUP-Restore-Recovery

[Brian France]

Here we do exactly the same AND we also take weekly backups from our
z/OS system using FDR classic to take full volume dumps of all our
volumes related to VM and MainFrameLinux. We realize those are fuzzy
but like them.

At 10:33 AM 2/17/2009, Graves, Aaron wrote:

At Citi, we are using the FDR UpStream product from Innovation Data
Processing to take file-level backups on zLinux.  We run the server
side on z/OS, with the agent on zLinux.  The backups run across a
hipersocket connection between zLinux and z/OS, using the existing
z/OS tape infrastructure.


Aaron Graves
SVP Citi Architecture and Technology Engineering / Technology Infrastructure
1919 Park Ave
Weehawken, NJ  07086
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Re: Systems management - quick survey?

[Brian France]

At 01:00 PM 7/8/2008, you wrote:

On Tuesday, 07/08/2008 at 12:47 EDT, Brian France <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> THANX! I know but you do with what you have. Backups go thru a
> hipersocket from MFL/z/VM to z/OS.

You do with what you have as long as you have a Get Out Of Jail Free card
in your pocket.  That is, a management-approved exemption from any
security requirement that you cannot fulfill w/o an ESM.

> Yes, Sorry should have been more specific. It's the WWPN issue. I
> want to be able to ipl our prod vm and mfl on another frame and have
> it pick up the dasd. I was wondering what would happen if I just
> encoded the FCP access on a similar chpd/dev or maybe the same chpd
> but different devices since we mirror the frames. Comments? Ideas?

The chpid isn't important, per se, except that it dictates the WWPN.  (And
with NPIV, each *subchannel* on the chpid gets its own WWPN.)  You need to
know, in advance, the WWPN that the hosts will use and authorize them in
the SAN fabric.


  Thanx Alan. Looks like I need to do some reading on NPIV. By the
way, I'm pretty sure, thos you have me second guessing, that if you
have several chpds on a frame, they all have the same WWPN which
comes from the machine.



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Re: Systems management - quick survey?

[Brian France]

At 12:10 PM 7/8/2008, Alan Altmark wrote:

On Tuesday, 07/08/2008 at 11:30 EDT, Brian France <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > - Security (authentication, authorization, audit)
>
> Directory only.

(sigh)  This means you cannot audit the activites of a virtual machine and
your passwords are stored in cleartext.  Your backups contain the same
cleartext data unless you are using encrypting tape drives.


  THANX! I know but you do with what you have. Backups go thru a
hipersocket from MFL/z/VM to z/OS.



> ANYBODY have any ideas on how to share FCP dasd between two physical
> systems? We have one frame for test z/VM and MFL and one frame for
> prod z/VM and MFL. Our current thought would be to take down our test
> z/VM and MFL's and boot our prod z/VM and MFL's if needed. BUT, we
> loose our FCP dasd. This is an 8300 with SVC.

You can share FCP dasd as long as the zoning and the controllers allow the
contact.  Remember that when you swap machines, the WWPN on the m/f will
be different.  Maybe you have a WWPN authorization or more general zoning
issue?


 Yes, Sorry should have been more specific. It's the WWPN issue. I
want to be able to ipl our prod vm and mfl on another frame and have
it pick up the dasd. I was wondering what would happen if I just
encoded the FCP access on a similar chpd/dev or maybe the same chpd
but different devices since we mirror the frames. Comments? Ideas?



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Re: Systems management - quick survey?

[Brian France]

> In preparing some z/VM course material, I found myself having to define
> "z/VM system management".  It turns out that you have:
> - Provisioning (real and virtual)

 We are utilizing Shared-Root, therefore we picked up various
scripts and modified as needed ( if any ).

>
> - Human operations (IPL, shutdown, health inquiry, dump processing, ...)

IPL - by hand
no dump processing - haven't seen one yet. KNOCK WOOD!!!
health inquiry - sys admins

>
> - Automated operations

We utilize our z/OS packages of CA-7 and FDR/Upstream for backups and
job scheduling
Inhouse scripting for automated FTP's.

>
> - Security (authentication, authorization, audit)

Directory only.

>
> - Performance monitoring and management

Perf Tool Kit, RMFDDS ( green and web), Omegamon XE for VM and Linux
( green and web )

>
> - Backup/Archive

FDR/Upstream using CA-7, VTAPE, CA-1.

>
> - Disaster planning and recovery

PPRC and backups
VSWITCH fail over

ANYBODY have any ideas on how to share FCP dasd between two physical
systems? We have one frame for test z/VM and MFL and one frame for
prod z/VM and MFL. Our current thought would be to take down our test
z/VM and MFL's and boot our prod z/VM and MFL's if needed. BUT, we
loose our FCP dasd. This is an 8300 with SVC.

>
> - Availability management (probably tied with disaster planning)

zilch, nada

>
> - Problem determination and Service (patching)

we sys admins
patching on a 1/4ly basis unless deemed a big risk

>
> - Software and configuration change control
>
 Subversion for Apps.


At 03:39 PM 7/7/2008, Michael MacIsaac wrote:

Hello list,

I'm preparing for a SHARE presentation (week of Aug 11, San Jose, CA) on
z/VM and Linux systems management. If you use Linux and z/VM on System z,
do you have time for a quick survey?

I tried to categorize what's available today into 4 main areas (I
apologize if I your software is not on the list, or if it listed as "Dead
or dying" but is not. I do not also plan to address performance
management).  Here is the survey:

---snip---
Systems management software used:
1) Open source software:
 _ Hobbit
 _ Nagios
 _ Other ___
2) Priced software:
 _ CSL-Wave
 _ IBM Systems Director/Tivoli Provisioning Manager
 _ Mainstar Provisioning Expert (formerly Rocket Software)
 _ Other ___
3) Dead or dying (??):
 _ Aduva OnStage/Director
 _ Levanta
 _ Other ___
4) Roll your own systems management - comments:

What is your greatest need in z/VM and Linux systems management? :

Comments on z/VM and Linux systems management in general:
---snip---

Reply on or off-list. Your feedback is appreciated. Thanks.

  (845) 433-7061

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Re: dasdfmt -d cdl and FDR volume backup

[Brian France]

At 09:43 AM 3/14/2008, Michael MacIsaac wrote:

Hello list,

A related queston ...

> let me try a CPFMTXA frst.
Whenever I get the opportunity to use new DASD, the first thing I do is
CPFMTXA every cylinder of every volume. This is because I've shot myself
in the toe a few times by *not* doing it (and that hurts :). Once a
"virgin" volume has been CPFMTXA'd it can be dasdfmt'd for Linux for
FORMAT'd for CMS and never has to be CPFMTXA'd again (from experience).

But, if a virgin volume is not CPFMTXA'd and just dasdfmt'd (or
FLASHCOPY'd or DDR'd from another volume), there is no error.  Also the
volume (minidisk) will seem to be OK, and Linux can be installed, etc.
But, Strange Things happen to these volumes - like Linux will not always
boot cleanly, etc.


 Mike,
What I've done is DDR'd a volume from one to a new one and
what I've seen is the vtoc info is carried along so it looks to me
like VM and or Linux is seeing a duplicate volume even tho the volume
label looks different. I'm guessing this is more me than bug in that
I don't have some parameter right.

 AND in the long run, I totally agree with what you said
above, CPFMTXA EVERY cyl of EVERY new volume. This lessens the pain greatly...


Has anyone seen this behavior? If so does anyone know why this happens?
Also could it be argued there is a bug somewhere?  Thanks.

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Re: dasdfmt -d cdl and FDR volume backup

[Brian France]

We use CPFMTXA to format our 3390 dasd first under VM. This places a
vtoc on it that our z/OS system can then see and FDR can use. I've
seen the term "dummy vtoc" used. Then for linux we format the dasd
with dasdfmt. We use minidisks on a volume so there are usually
several mini disks for linux on a 3390 volume.
We must do the CPFMTXA or FDR on z/OS will NOT do the backup correctly.

At 08:54 AM 3/14/2008, you wrote:

We are finally getting rolling on our Zlinux project under z/VM. It
is our understanding that formating a 3390-3 with dasdfmt -d cdl
should allow us to then backup this volume with FDR. That's what the
man pages say and I heard it at Share. We tried it and the FDR is
falling with a user abend U888 complaining about the vtoc. I used
the following to format:


dasdfmt -b 4096 -d cdl -f /dev/dasdk -l LNX009 -p -y

What have I missed?

Thanks

Bobby Bauer
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Re: Linux under Z/Series

[Brian France]

At www.vm.ibm.com is a wealth of info. There is a manual there -
Getting Started with Linux on zSeries which is really a cookbook to
set it all up. There are also several Redbooks on various flavors of
Linux. We chose Suse some 3-4 years ago.

At 02:27 AM 1/28/2008, you wrote:

Hi,
What are the step required to intall Linux under Z/series and which Linux
system should be installed under Z/890.
Please advice.
Regards
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Re: FDR/Upstream for Backups - Anyone using it?

[Brian France]

That's what we do. Route our backups from z/OS to a backup linux
server that NFS mounts the directory of choice, moves the data to
z/OS and put it to tape under CA-1 control. By the way, my coworker
reminded me that an MTU 1500 is the hipersocket choice. He and FDR
worked on that issue if I remember correctly.

At 03:04 PM 11/8/2007, David Boyes wrote:

> Recently, I received a brochure from FDR, touting their new backup
system,
> known as Upstream. From reading the brochure, it seems that the main
part
> runs in z/OS, while there are clients that run in each Linux virtual
> machine. The clients communicate with the main program in z/OS via
> hipersockets. It allows file-based backups and restores, rather than
> volume-based backups, as we do now.
> My question is, does anyone here have any experience with this
product?
> Any comments?

If you use FDR on the z/OS side, it's a great choice in that it
leverages a lot of z/OS infrastructure in a good way.

As you note later in your message, the catch is getting hipersockets set
up between the LPARs, which is a gigantic PITA. You may want to set up a
"backup" guest LAN or VSWITCH on the VM side, and use one VM or Linux
guest as a router between the backup guest LAN and ONE hipersocket
connection (so you don't have to figure out how to define a bunch of
them). Some of the earlier hardware also has a limited number of
hipersockets, so you don't want to waste them. Upstream only cares that
it can get IP packets between Linux and z/OS, so you don't have to
connect everything you want to back up directly to the hipersocket.

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Re: FDR/Upstream for Backups - Anyone using it?

[Brian France]

Paul,
  It's what we're using to do our backups AND run scripts on linux
images from jobs scheduled on our z/OS system running CA-7. Any ?'s
please feel fee to contact us.

At 12:38 PM 11/8/2007, you wrote:

Like probably many of you, we are running a z-series processor
(z890). We have one LPAR running z/OS 1.7 (going to 1.9 in the
not-too-distant-future), and another LPAR running z/VM 5.2 with a
couple of SUSE Linux clients.

Our problem has been backups. We have a 3949 Automated tape library
and Virtual Tape Server on the z/OS side, but nothing but a couple
of stand-alone 3490 drives that can be varied online to either LPAR,
on the z/VM side. Presently we do backups by shutting down all the
Linux systems, via the Wakeup utility, every night and running
backups from the z/OS side. This has many drawbacks, but it works.

Recently, I received a brochure from FDR, touting their new backup
system, known as Upstream. From reading the brochure, it seems that
the main part runs in z/OS, while there are clients that run in each
Linux virtual machine. The clients communicate with the main program
in z/OS via hipersockets. It allows file-based backups and restores,
rather than volume-based backups, as we do now.

My question is, does anyone here have any experience with this
product? Any comments?

On a related note, can anyone direct me to any documentation or
Redbooks that explain how to create and use hipersockets in z/VM? I
think I understand the 10,000 foot view; hipersockets allow PR/SM to
create high-speed data channels for transferring data between
LPARS'. I've seen the 1 foot level, in the form of the RDEVICE
statemtent in the System COnfig file. I'm looking for something in
the 10-100 foot level; All the steps, in some, but not excruciating,
detail, that are necessary to create and use hipersockets. We
already have several defined in our IOCS, but neither z/OS or z/VM
is set up to use them.

Thanks,
Paul Noble, Systems Programmer
Cuyahoga County Information Service Center

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Re: anyone gotten Omegamon XE to work?

[Brian France]

Yes. Thos it's not configured yet how I'd like it to be. No time for
me to pursue that.

At 12:19 PM 6/28/2007, you wrote:

Hi Listers.

Just curious to know if anyone has gotten Omegamon XE to work.

thanks...

susan

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Re: IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) Monitoring Server and Portal Server

[Brian France]

THAT's it!!!

At 03:28 PM 5/30/2007, you wrote:

>>> On Wed, May 30, 2007 at  3:11 PM, in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brian France <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I believe ITM 6.1 could be installed on a 64bit mach but utilizing a
> command to place you in 31 bit mode. Sorry, don't have the doc handy
> but if I get a chance I'll look it up.

I believe you're talking about the s390-32 RPM.  According to the
package info:
s390 is a simple utility to set the 32bit personality on 64bit s390x
machines. this creates an environment for the specified program (shell)
and all child processes. In the created environment, uname -m returns
s390, so all utilities believe they are running on a 32bit machine.

s/32bit/31bit/ for correctness.


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Re: IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) Monitoring Server and Portal Server

[Brian France]

I believe ITM 6.1 could be installed on a 64bit mach but utilizing a
command to place you in 31 bit mode. Sorry, don't have the doc handy
but if I get a chance I'll look it up.

At 01:26 PM 5/30/2007, Marcy Cortes wrote:

If you can get away with not installing the 31bit version, do it.  The
fewer distros you have, the less maintenance work you have.  Do these
Tivoli things require it?

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Swap size to Memory size...

[Brian France]

Folks,
   I have an image that is 1280m. It's swap space is 464m. Is that a
good ratio? The image has chewed up according to Perftoolkit 75% of
it. I was thinking a bigger swap space as opposed to more memory
which is what I being pressured to do. Response times seems great.
This image is running DB2 and Tamino (SAG data base) and some other
things. I just was sure if there was a good rule of thumb to follow
regarding image size and swap space. THANX!!!


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CMDISK on a MainFrameLinux volume...

[Brian France]

Folks,
  This is posted to BOTH the VM group and the Linux390 group.

 I have a need to increase a minidisk for a Linux image. I believe the
CMDISK command will do what I want and I think I understand it but...

1). This is NOT a root partition I'm adding to, so do I need to have the
Linux image down?

2). It appears to me that CMDISK doesn't just append to the end of the
existing minidisk, that it requires the full amount of new space and moves
all data there so that may answer number one in that yes it does require
the image down.

3). Given both above, is there anything I need to do in YAST to accomplish
this?

So, If I issue the following command, my /mountpoint file system will be
copied from 1-2000 on my volume to say 2001-7000 on same volume where space
is. I can then just IPL the linux image and it will find it. Yes?

dirm for linux4 cmdisk 170 x autov 5000 zvmws1



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Re: Secure file transfers: thoughts on zLinux as server for MVS sysplex?

[Brian France]

We use FDR/Upstream here to move data between z/OS and MainFrameLinux using
hipersockets. On the MFL image, we then encrypt the data using PGP and FTP
it. The reverse works quite nicely too. What we like about Upstream is that
we use CA-7 to schedule the job on the z/OS image and Upstreams agent
monitors the job on both the z/OS and MFL image.

At 03:47 PM 1/9/2006, you wrote:

MVS access: that's where the question of practicality arises.  One can ftp
the file to the Linux image and if it heads across a hipersocket it can't
be sniffed therefore it needs not be encrypted.  That leaves the
authentication issue to be dealt with, but I admit I haven't given that a
great deal of thought.  Once the file is there a scheduler agent or
something similar can initiate the transfer from Linux to the final
location.  One can reverse the flow and the situation is changed very
little, the agent lets the MVS system know to retrieve the file once it
arrives at the Linux image.

OpenSSH on MVS uses OpenSSL software encryption routines and can consume a
lot of cycles.   That workload would likely be less expensive out of the
sysplex where it would not inflate all the related yet totally uninvolved
software license fees.




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I don't understand how installing a Linux/390 system running SSH is
going to allow your MVS systems to access the data.  Besides, if running
SSH on your Linux system is good enough, why isn't running SSH on your
MVS systems good enough?


Mark Post

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We are looking to eliminate password authentication and, probably,
encrypt all production file transfers on our internal network.

Our Unix engineers are loathe to install SSL enabled ftp clients but
instead wish to exploit OpenSSH.  As a matter of fact, all our new Unix
machines will be built with ftp disabled.  OpenSSH is not the best
solution for our MVS installation, so we look at alternatives.

One thought is to implement a zLinux image and use it as an ssh server
for the MVS sysplex.  Is this a practical idea?  How are others
approaching this issue, if one is unable to influence the Unix engineers
to install an SSL enabled ftp client?

Thanks...

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Re: SUSE Linux for 390

[Brian France]

We got a 6 mos trial version from them back about year or so. If they have
one of those still available wouldn't that do it?

At 02:51 PM 10/19/2005, you wrote:

Is there a freely available (without support) version of SUSE Linux for
390?  My company would like to evaluate it and then decide whether we
want to run a supported production Linux image.

Thanks,

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Re: AW: Fwd: SLES9 losing network connectivity

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At 05:47 AM 6/21/2005, you wrote:

HI,

the QIOASSIST problem occured in our installation with VM440.
We installed PTFs:
UM31170, UM31340, UM31370
Due to the conversion to VM510 we ran only 3 weeks with these ptf's -
without a new occurrence of the error.

VM510 was shipped with the appropriate ptf's installed (I don't know the
numbers).


  While we haven't lost connectivity with our SLES9 and or SLES8 images,
installing SLES9 is/has been an adventure for connectivity. It takes
several to many tries to install a SLES9 image in that pinging the gateway
doesn't happen until after several tries. Once past that, we've seen no
problems and we are a z/VM 5.1 shop. Now not knowing where the problem is
I'd still say something in either SLES9, z/VM 5.1 or the OSA code needs fixed.



So I don't know if there are any more needed/available.
Regards
Leonard



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Do you have QIOASSIST  on ?
After setting NOQIOASSIST on the OSA addresses, we got rid of a similar
problem under zVM440.
'DEDICATE 710 710 NOQIOASSIST'.  There should be some pfts comming soon.
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Re: SLES 9 install, AGAIN!!!...

[Brian France]

Uriel,
  It's under z/VM 5.1. I figuring something changed on my lap top when I 
upgraded Redhat versions. It has to be that cause SLES 9 installed before. 
I use FTP to my lap top, but after CD1 is done, it will not eject. THANX, 
I'm gonna try and look closer at my config with Redhat.


At 11:34 AM 6/17/2005, you wrote:





Brian:
are you doing an install under VM or LPAR?
I might be able to help if it is an LPAR install via NFS.  I have done
SLES9 a few times by now on a z890.

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How can an install process like SLES 8 be so nice, and the newer release is
a total pain in the arse? Just about two months ago I asked a ? on SLES 9,
it dealt with it not finding the install path. So, I get that answered and
actually get SLES 9 64 installed. Now, I have a new guy here and want to
show him how it's done. So, we've fought through the "can't ping the
gateway issues", enter the relative path, set it all up and start the
install. Now, after CD1 is done, it asks for the 2nd, and the danged thing
will NOT unmount. We thought we had it figued out a couple of times, but it
won't do it. I did upgrade my laptop from Rehat AS 3 to AS 4 since I did
the install of SLES 9 and that is the only difference I can come up with.
Checked the VSFTPD config and don't see anything outa whack. So, any
ide'ers as to why it won't unmount?


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SLES 9 install, AGAIN!!!...

[Brian France]

How can an install process like SLES 8 be so nice, and the newer release is
a total pain in the arse? Just about two months ago I asked a ? on SLES 9,
it dealt with it not finding the install path. So, I get that answered and
actually get SLES 9 64 installed. Now, I have a new guy here and want to
show him how it's done. So, we've fought through the "can't ping the
gateway issues", enter the relative path, set it all up and start the
install. Now, after CD1 is done, it asks for the 2nd, and the danged thing
will NOT unmount. We thought we had it figued out a couple of times, but it
won't do it. I did upgrade my laptop from Rehat AS 3 to AS 4 since I did
the install of SLES 9 and that is the only difference I can come up with.
Checked the VSFTPD config and don't see anything outa whack. So, any
ide'ers as to why it won't unmount?


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Re: SLES) install problem

[Brian France]

I just went and looked up the relative path. Had it wrong. Sorry, still 
trying to grasp this new stuff. Here it is...../../mnt/cdrom


At 08:03 AM 6/9/2005, Brian France wrote:

At 07:38 AM 6/9/2005, you wrote:

Hello,

I have problem installing SLES9 on a IBM 990 with z/VM 4.4.
When the installation starts it can't reach the gateway (The ping test 
fails).

This happens 95% of the times i'm trying.

When it works as it should the installation fails anyway on 75% saying 
"Installing boot loader..." and then it hangs.

What am I doing wrong?


  On the "Installing boot loader..", it's a relative path thing. 
/../thenyourmountpoint should get ya past that one. I may not have that 
completely correct but if you check the archives in the last month or two 
you will see some posts on that one.


  The other I had too at one time. I suspected it to be my SLES 8 image 
not sharing the vswitch in my vm 5.1 system. BUT, never proved that as I 
did take down my SLES 8 image and it worked but also believe later I 
installed one with it up. Sorry...




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Re: SLES) install problem

[Brian France]

At 07:38 AM 6/9/2005, you wrote:

Hello,

I have problem installing SLES9 on a IBM 990 with z/VM 4.4.
When the installation starts it can't reach the gateway (The ping test fails).
This happens 95% of the times i'm trying.

When it works as it should the installation fails anyway on 75% saying 
"Installing boot loader..." and then it hangs.

What am I doing wrong?


  On the "Installing boot loader..", it's a relative path thing. 
/../thenyourmountpoint should get ya past that one. I may not have that 
completely correct but if you check the archives in the last month or two 
you will see some posts on that one.


  The other I had too at one time. I suspected it to be my SLES 8 image 
not sharing the vswitch in my vm 5.1 system. BUT, never proved that as I 
did take down my SLES 8 image and it worked but also believe later I 
installed one with it up. Sorry...




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Re: SLES 9 install problems

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I've saw several anomalies with a sles 9 install.

First - Yes on the relative path. Had to use it.

Two - I could NOT for the life of me get the VNC to work. I even increased
the storage to something like 1024m. Somewhere I read info that VNC used
some figure. SO, I tried SSH and that worked. I was getting the info you
are seeing below.

Suggest you try SSH with the relative pathing and I think it will work for you.

At 09:53 AM 5/25/2005, you wrote:

Well try specifying a relative path instead of an absolute path,
../../mnt/cdrom
Check the Mike MacIsaac code mentioned in a few previous discussions on
setting up an install directory tree.
David

Campbell, Breck wrote:


When installing from the CDROM via FTP we can only get to the place where we
make a terminal choice, we get this, which indicates that the system isn't
loaded completely.  Any suggestions??:

Is the following correct?

Installation Source: ftp
IP-Address: 159.105.194.44
Directory: /mnt/cdrom

Yes/No:yes
Please enter the username for the FTP-access (for anonymous just press
enter):
Please enter the password for the FTP-Access (for anonymous just press
enter):
Is the following correct?

FTP User:
FTP Password:

Yes/No:yes
Which terminal do want to use?

1) X-Window
2) VNC (VNC-Client or Java enabled Browser)
3) ssh
Choice:2
Please enter the Password for VNC-Access (6 to 8 characters):xxxl
ramdisk /dev/ram0 freed




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SCSI subsystem initialized
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Starting hardware detection...
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GPG, SLES 9 64 bit...

[Brian France]

I had GPG working on SLES 8 3x bit with no problems. But, upon installation
of SLES 9 I continually get a message that "Not enough random bytes
available. Please do some other work to give the OS a chance to collect
more entropy! (Need 300 more bytes)."
So, I attempt to do more work but nothing seems to work. Ideas?


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SLES 9 boot failing on dasd issue...

[Brian France]

I added new dasd to an image, used it with no problems, but ended up 
booting the image for some reason and now it's stuck on the following 
messages. I am not all that adept yet at this Linux stuff so I'm hoping 
this isn't something where I have to re-install it as that's what I'm 
thinking.


Ý/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /Concur¨ fsck.ext3 -a /dev/dasdc1
fsck.ext3: No such device or address while trying to open /dev/dasdc1
Possibly non-existent or swap device?
fsck.ext3 /dev/dasdc1 failed (status 0x8). Run manually!

So, I only have access thru the z/VM image at boot time and I can logon to 
root, but then there seems to be no way to edit anything. VI is quite ugly 
at that point I ass/u/me under 3270 emulation. SO, I'm hoping there are 
commands that I can either remove this dasd and try to add it again, or 
something else that fixes why it can't be found. I did look before a boot 
of it and it's in my z/VM directory for that image. I did a google search 
but nothing really jumped out so I try here now. THANX in advance...



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Re: HIPER socket definition

[Brian France]

IF you haven't added them to your image under the z/vm user directory
either by a specific DEDICATE statement OR a CP ATTACH  to linux  I
think would do this.
At 10:57 AM 5/18/2005, you wrote:
  We are trying to define HIPER sockets on RedHat Enterprise version 4.
We are running under z/VM 5.1. When we try to initialize the devices with
ifup we are getting the error below.
ifup hsi0
qeth device hsi0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.
Below are the contents of the ifcfg-hsi0 file
DEVICE=hsi0
IPADDR=172.16.80.21
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
ONBOOT=no
NETTYPE=qeth
SUBCHANNELS=0.0.F00C,0.0.F00D,0.0.F00E
TYPE=Ethernet
PORTNAME=HIPERPF0
GATEWAY=172.16.80.21
Does anyone know what the problem might be?
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Re: sles9 installation problem

[Brian France]

Me too I did. Just last week. BUT, there was great post that fixed my
problem. Seems that 9 dumps you in your home directory. It needs a relative
path. So, for instance, I needed to put /../../mnt/cdrom which is where I
was intalling from. Prior to 9, like on Suse 8 I used just /mnt/cdrom. Hope
this helps.
At 10:39 AM 4/29/2005, you wrote:
Hello all,
i'm trying to install SLES9 on hercules. I have no prob to boot from cd and
start YAST, but when I have to select the software packages, I have a "media
error". During the pre-installation phase I specified to run the installation
from a FTP server, so I don't understand why the system cannot fetch the data
from the server.
any idea regarding this issue?
thanks in advance,
Fausto
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Re: SLES9 installation via FTP...

[Brian France]

THANK YOU!!  After reading the install stuff again, and seeing this
I now understand. AND, it worked like a champ.
At 02:18 PM 4/22/2005, Jerry Whitteridge wrote:
The SLES9 ftpserver requires a relative path. I had to
specify ../../SLES9/INSTALLROOT in the ftp path instead
of /SLES9/INSTALLROOT.
 After that everything worked OK -- it appears that the ftp server drops
you into /home/&UID and that it uses that as the root for the FTP
directories.
On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 12:13 -0500, Tom Duerbusch wrote:
> I went thru the same garbage.  Worked fine with Sles8, but not Sles9.  I
> thought it might be a network problem so I installed another Sles8
> image, and made it an FTP server for SLES9 installation.  Same problem.
>
> Turns out that the solution, in my case, was to change the FTP server
> to allow a client to "chroot_local_user=YES".  And then it worked fine.
> This was using VSFTPD.
>
> I didn't try going back to Win/2000 and change the FTP server I had
> there (assumming that it has the same parameter), but that did the trick
> for me.
>
> Tom Duerbusch
> THD Consulting
>
> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/22/05 10:08 AM >>>
> Folks,
> We finally made our purchase of Suse linux. Been running some Suse
> 8
> images on and off for some time in an evaluation. Closed off to the
> outside
> world cause I couldn't keep them patched. Now I can. SO, I get the box
> and
> it's Suse 9 enterprise 64 bit. Okay what the hey, I figure I might as
> well
> install it. Well after fighting off network issues, VLAN unaware 8
> images
> -vs- VLAN aware 9 image, I get the yast portion. I was used to using
> VNC,
> but I can't get that to fire up YAST, so I switch to SSH. OKAY, now I
> have
> YAST running and all my disk stuff and partitioning, but it can't find
> the
> install stuff. I get a Cannot read package data from installation
> media.
> Error no proposal. So I search some and I find some posts on it
> regarding
> specific drive paths and a pointer of some doc that I find on cd1. SO,
> is
> it really true that I can no longer just FTP from a cdrom on my lap
> top,
> that I'm going to have to copy the cd's to a place and make sure the
> paths
> are correct? IF so, why did an install process that was so danged easy
> migrate to this? I'm highly urinated on a Friday at this point.
>
>
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SLES9 installation via FTP...

[Brian France]

Folks,
   We finally made our purchase of Suse linux. Been running some Suse 8
images on and off for some time in an evaluation. Closed off to the outside
world cause I couldn't keep them patched. Now I can. SO, I get the box and
it's Suse 9 enterprise 64 bit. Okay what the hey, I figure I might as well
install it. Well after fighting off network issues, VLAN unaware 8 images
-vs- VLAN aware 9 image, I get the yast portion. I was used to using VNC,
but I can't get that to fire up YAST, so I switch to SSH. OKAY, now I have
YAST running and all my disk stuff and partitioning, but it can't find the
install stuff. I get a Cannot read package data from installation media.
Error no proposal. So I search some and I find some posts on it regarding
specific drive paths and a pointer of some doc that I find on cd1. SO, is
it really true that I can no longer just FTP from a cdrom on my lap top,
that I'm going to have to copy the cd's to a place and make sure the paths
are correct? IF so, why did an install process that was so danged easy
migrate to this? I'm highly urinated on a Friday at this point.
Brian W. France
Systems Administrator (Mainframe)
Pennsylvania State University
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Re: OT - z/OS and ACF2 - OMVS id cancelled due to max violations

[Brian France]

In ACF2, for it to actually check HFS(USS) data sets for access rules, you
have to turn some options on. It by default does not check those types of
data sets. That being said, it will report the access under the Open
Edition events section. That access is by the traditional Unix attributes
that are on the data set. ie - rwxrwxrwx or what ever they may be. I didn't
think those violations would count towards a LID being suspended. I'm
ass/u/me/ing that it was TCPIP that had the problems by what you've said.
One thing to know is that you can restart your OMVS(USS) system WITHOUT an
IPL. F OMVS,SHUTDOWN and then a F OMVS,START should take care of that. That
should in theory give you back TCP access. I forget what level of z/OS that
became available but know that it was at z/OS 1.3 and up. If you want to
talk offline since this is not the correct list, please contact me off list.
At 11:42 PM 3/15/2005, you wrote:
Though this is a z/VM mailing list, I hope someone will be able to shed
some light on this bizarre problem that I have difficulty explaining.
We defined a dataset that I think (!) we perhaps created as a HFS dataset.
We did not do anything else (no read or update)  with it. We had not set
up any ACF2 rules for it.
But somehow we are getting ACF2 violations on accesses from USS. When the
violations exceeded the limit, USS id was cancelled by ACF2 causing all
TCP/IP and USS dependent tasks to abend. We had to re-IPL the LPAR.
We had to delete the dataset before re-IPLing for fear of another
incident!
I am guessing that because we set it up as a HFS (unintentionally), any
access by backup jobs or via ISPF was considered as coming from USS. Since
the ACF2 rules were not set up, it caused violations and the consequent
results.
We do not remember if we set it up as a normal or HFS dataset. That
evidence is gone. But my theory is that it was set up as HFS with no ACF2
rules and any access to it was considered as coming from USS.
This is bizarre. We are splitting hair to find out why and how it
happened.
Any clues welcome :-)
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how to "vi" to regain a bad image...

[Brian France]

People,
   In playing around today with MDISKS, sharing between linux instances,
adding dasd to instances, I made a boo boo. I accidentally did a #cp logoff
and not a disc. So, I booted the instance but it comes back in a safe mode
due to me in the process of adding dasd to it, saying it can't mount the
"new" dasd cause it might have a bad superblock. It tells me to repair it
manually and reboot. So I figure since I can log in as root, and change
over to r/w mode, I'll just undo my changes, and start over. Well, vi,
3270, it's not pretty. SO, before I up and nuke this instance and start
over, it made me curious if I was missing some way to repair it. I figure
sometime in the future I will probably need it to fix a production
instance. Is there another way to edit, remove my changes, and reboot the
instance? THANX!
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Re: Linux for zSeries 31 bit/ 64 bit

[Brian France]

I believe so. I remember for Suse anyways a Compat package. BUT, there
where some that didn't. Like we were looking at WebSphere Business Edition
v5.5. It said it required 31 bit, but we tried the compat package and they
did NOT lie, it did not work.
At 11:59 AM 4/28/2004, you wrote:
How about the other way around?  Can you run 31-bit applications on 64-bit
Linux?
"Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night:
God said, 'Let Newton Be!' and all was light." - Alexander Pope
"It did not last; the Devil howling 'Ho!
Let Einstein Be!' restored the status quo."- John Collings Squire
"God Rolled his dice, to Einstein's great dismay:
'Let Feynman Be!' and all was clear as day."   - Jagdish Mehra
Gordon W. Wolfe, Ph. D.
VM Technical Services, The Boeing Company
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> Subject:  Re: Linux for zSeries 31 bit/ 64 bit
>
> You cannot run a 64 bit application on 31 bit Linux for zSeries.  The
64 bit version has compatibility modules for 31 bit applications.
>
> I am not sure how one develops 31 bit apps. on a 64 bit system.  I
think you have to use the cross development compilers by specifying the
31 bit architecture on the command line for the compile.
>
> Your questions make perfect sense.  I would be interested in knowing if
you figure out how to build 31 bit apps. on a 64 bit system.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Taraka Srinivas Kumar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 6:55 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Linux for zSeries 31 bit/ 64 bit
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Am new to the group. Hope to have some good discussions.
>
> We are using 64 bit SuSE Linux for zSeries.
> Is it possible to run 64-bit linux developed applications on a 31-bit
Linux for zSeries ?
> Do we need to make sure that the correct libraries are used in the
64-bit Linux environment while application development , so that
application can be run on 31 bit linux later?
> 64-bit SuSE linux provides s390(31 bit)  as well as s390x(64 bit)
packages. . So do i need to set my path or any other env
variables to point to 31 bit libraries ?
>
> Finally, Are my questions making any sense ?
>
>
> Regards,
> Srinivas.
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Re: term "zLinux" copyrighted by whom?

[Brian France]

Mark, et al,
  I see the word mark is "Z/LINUX". A capital Z, not a little z. Does that
matter? Just curious...
At 11:50 AM 4/28/2004, you wrote:
Well, it didn't take all that long to find this:
http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=eut3tj.2.14
Mark Post
-Original Message-
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike
Walter
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 9:36 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: term "zLinux" copyrighted by whom?
Jim and Mark,
I often hear that some name is copyrighted or trademarked, but when
searching don't find evidence of such claim. Maybe making the claim is
enough to scare off would-be users.  I've been dealing with another name
(completely off-subject) which has been in use for 75 or so years, but which
was never copyrighted or trademarked by anyone, much less the claiming
organization (at least my searches find no evidence of such action - but
them I'm not a copyright or trademark attorney).
"zLinux" didn't turn up when searching the following sites, either.  Maybe
it's pending.  If not, maybe whomever beats a path to the Copyright Office
could claim it?  The sites are:
http://www.copyright.gov/records/ http://www.uspto.gov/main/trademarks.htm
Mike Walter
Hewitt Associates
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Subject: term "zLinux" copyrighted by whom?
The official Big Blue legal position on the term
"zLinux" is that it is copyrighted by "another
company" and one should use the terms "Linux for
zSeries" or "Linux for s/390".
Anyone know who the other company is?
=
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Subject: Re: term "zLinux" copyrighted by whom?
Turbolinux
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Re: Recommended memory for a VM LPAR

[Brian France]

From what I've seen, and then some. Currently I have a 2gig lpar running
z/VM 4.3, and 5 images. The biggest one is a WebSphere Commerece Business
Edition V5.5 instance.
At 03:42 PM 4/1/2004, you wrote:
Because of the timing of a meeting with IBM and SuSE and our own
maintenance schedule, we re-carved the memory on our z/800 to create a 2 gb
linux lpar, a 1 gb linux lpar and my 768 mb twiddling LPAR.
Then things happened and a schedule for IBM to come in and do a bunch of
stuff (loan us an IFL, for instance) was created. If we'd had the meeting
last week I'd have been able to crate an almost 4 GB lpar under which to
run VM., as it stands, untl the end of May, I am stuck with 2 GB.
Is that enough for VM and a handful of virtual penguins?

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Re: need a how to...

[Brian France]

Bill, Neal, all,
THANX!!  Here's what a INDICATE QUEUE EXP shows:
 INDICATE QUEUE EXP
TCPIP Q0 PS  0806/0286 .I.. -.1375 A00
MAINT Q1 R00 1241/0600 .I.. -.1067 A00
LINUX2Q3 PS  00018189/00021777   .0173 A00
LINUX3E3 PS  00418246/00492299   16908 A00
AND, Neal, thanx for the SRM parameters. I now remember in my feeble brain
a discussion sometime ago on an image doing something similar, and some
STORBUF changes where mentioned which aleviated that persons problems. I
will try them.
To some else, sorry, I can't remember all you kind folks yet, I'll get the
freebie monitor and see what I can do with it. We only have about 33 days
left in this trial. Also, I'll lower my storage and add some expanded to vm.
Again, THANX!!!

At 11:35 AM 2/11/2004, Bill Bitner wrote:
You could also try the CP INDICATE QUEUE EXP command. One of the common
gotchas is the formation of an eligible list. The CP command above
will give you something like:
TCPIP Q0 PS  6196/5746  -199.9 A02
BITNERQ1 R00 0819/0795 .I.. -179.9 A02
KREINTA   Q3 IO  2629/3353  -.0721 A00
ABBEY Q3 R01 00022163/00022162   .0199 A01
CORAK2Q3 PS  00075799/00075799 ..D.  9 A02
CORAK2   MP07 Q3 PS  /   9 A02
EDLLNX1   Q3 PS  6052/6052   9 A02
VMLINUX1  Q3 PS  1258/1258   9 A02
EDLLNX2   Q3 PS  00010855/00010855 ..D.  9 A00
DCEPKBLD  Q3 PS  00019142/00019142   9 A02
SSLSERV   Q3 PS  3502/3478   9 A02
VMLINUX   Q3 PS  4832/4832 ..D.  9 A00
If you were to see an "E3" instead of "Q3" that would be an
indication of the virtual machine being held in the eligible
list because the scheduler feels that to run the virtual
machine, it would overload system resources.
See also
http://www.vm.ibm.com/perf/tips/linuxper.html
for some discussion on this and links to other info.
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Re: need a how to...

[Brian France]

At 10:59 AM 2/11/2004, Ferguson, Neale wrote:
How big is the machine (real and virtual)?
 I have 2 gig allocated to the IFL. In my USER DIRECT I have 2 gig
allocated to this image. WCBE requires 1 gig and my e folks stated that 2
would be best.
What are your SRM settings (Q
SRM)?
q srm
IABIAS : INTENSITY=90%; DURATION=2
LDUBUF : Q1=100% Q2=75% Q3=60%
STORBUF: Q1=125% Q2=105% Q3=95%
DSPBUF : Q1=32767 Q2=32767 Q3=32767
DISPATCHING MINOR TIMESLICE = 5 MS
MAXWSS : LIMIT=%
.. : PAGES=99
XSTORE : 0%


 What does IND Q
ind q
TCPIP Q0 PS  0801/0253 MAINT Q1 R00 1241/0600
LINUX3Q3 PS  00418246/00492551 LINUX2E3 PS  00018128/00021725



show you (and IND Q EXP)?
ind q exp
TCPIP Q0 PS  0801/0253 .I.. -.9318 A00
MAINT Q1 R00 1241/0910 .I.. -.8206 A00
LINUX3Q3 PS  00418246/00492551   .0054 A00
LINUX2E3 PS  00018128/00021725   5273. A00
CP IND
AVGPROC-003% 01
MDC READS-01/SEC WRITES-01/SEC HIT RATIO-100%
STORAGE-094% PAGING-0001/SEC STEAL-000%
Q0-1 Q1-0   Q2-0 EXPAN-001 Q3-2 EXPAN-001
At this point, the image has returned. I've been experimenting with some of
these commands but alas where can I find the meaning of it all?






-Original Message-
I have an SLES8 31 bit image attempting to run WeSphere Commerce Business
Edition v5.5 under z/VM 4.3 on an IFL. At this moment, and unfortunately
others this image locks up. I can't access it at all at times ( and this is
one of them ) for over an hour or more. Is there a z/VM command that I can
use to look at what it's doing from MAINT? We are trialing here so (that I
know of) I have know performance tool to see what's going on.


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need a how to...

[Brian France]

THIS IS CROSS POSTED to the LINUX-390 LIST.

I have an SLES8 31 bit image attempting to run WeSphere Commerce Business
Edition v5.5 under z/VM 4.3 on an IFL. At this moment, and unfortunately
others this image locks up. I can't access it at all at times ( and this is
one of them ) for over an hour or more. Is there a z/VM command that I can
use to look at what it's doing from MAINT? We are trialing here so (that I
know of) I have know performance tool to see what's going on.
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Re: SLES8 31-bit Vs 64-bit, how to choose

[Brian France]

Okay, let me please carry this one further.
Is there a command in either Linux or z/VM
that I can tell what's running? Like 31bit
vs 64.
At 01:23 PM 10/8/2003 -0400, you wrote:
Hi all,

How does one know when/how 31-bit or 64-bit is selected for the
installation of SuSE SLES8 for S/390 and zSeries? I saw one hit on Google
mentionning the need to IPL SLES8 rather than IPL SLES8X to ensure 31-bit
but that leaves me clueless. Apparently there is only one set of CD media.
One more question. On developerworks, we find mention of OCO modules for
SLES8 GA-level and for SLES8 SP2. Does anyone know the difference?
Thanks and best regards.

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adding dasd under SUSE Enterprise 8...

[Brian France]

Can someone please point me in the right direction. I've installed SUSE
8 under VM 4.3. During the install I used three DASD, a,b, and c. I want
to add another file system on different dasd, format it and add a mount point.
I can't for the life of me find where. I thought YAST would be the spot, but
there under SYSTEM, Partitioner, it says something to the effect of editing
initrd by ssh'ing in. Well, I've found initrd under /boot, but it sure
doesn't appear
editable. I have the mini disk under this linux id in vm and I've even rebooted
the image. So, please point me some where to figure this out. THANX
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Re: Suse YOU updates

[Brian France]

Here I believe is what I did:

rpm -Uvh *.rpm

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
At 12:31 PM 6/19/2003 +0100, you wrote:
Without knowing what you did and where it is hard to comment.

David



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David,
 I am confused here. I am very new to this Linux stuff admittedly.
Just installed RedHad 9 on a lap top in the last month. Have this
young guy here who has "grown up" on Linux. With his help after
the install, I went to a site, entered a command (RPM) with some
flags, then did various apt get commands. SO, am asking what am
I missing in your statement below? It appears to me that apt-get
also works for RedHat.
At 08:26 AM 6/19/2003 +0100, you wrote:
>No, apt-get only comes with Debian and Debian derived distributions (e.g.
>Knoppix) .  It relies on a repository format for holding all the DEB files
>on central servers and Redhat and SuSE do not provide such repositories.
>Apt-get removes what is for other distributions usualy a manual process -
>dependancy resolution.
>
>David
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> Tom Duerbusch
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>Ok, but what I really haven't caught on to yet, is apt-get available for
>Suse Linux or is the utilities that come with Suse that do the comprable
>things...better?
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>BTW, at 7:45 PM, it looks like the Suse website is cleared sufficient
>for me to get a wack at it.
>
>Tom Duerbusch
>THD Consulting
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>David Goodenough wrote:
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> >Your understanding of apt-get is not quite right.
> >
> >The Debian equivalent of rpm is dpkg, both deal with the installation,
> >upgrade and removal of packages.
> >
> >The equivalent of Yast in the Debian world is either dselect or tasksel,
>or
> >if you are using KDE then kpackage can front either rpm or dpkg.
> >
> >apt-get is all about resolving dependancies, and given a knowledge of
what
> >is currently available from the repositories and what is installed,
>working
> >out what needs to be downloaded in order to install or update a given
item
> >or to update those items already installed.  This does not quite exist
in
> >the rpm system, even with Yast as its front end.  It is this function
>which
> >makes Debian worth having - no more dependacy hell.
> >
> >David
> >
> >
> >
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> >Tom Duerbusch
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> >Now I think I know what apt-get does.  It seems to be a Debian version
> >of RPM (for Redhat and Suse), which, I think, YaST is a nice shell
> >around RPM (for Suse users).
> >
> >So apt-get and RPM are command line versions with YaST being an
> >interactive frontend.
> >
> >For those keeping track with the home version, I've been downloading
> >for 28 hours and have obtained 3.97 MBs so far from the Suse Maintenace
> >Web site.
> >
> >I now see the need for what I assume most shops are doing, of
> >automatically downloading new Suse material every night.  Rather have
> >the machine do the retrys, instead of me.
> >
> >Perhaps Suse should go back to sending out quarterly CDs if they don't
> >want to beef up their electronic distribution system.
> >
> >A few weeks ago, I started the query on how Penguin

Re: Suse YOU updates

[Brian France]

David,
I am confused here. I am very new to this Linux stuff admittedly.
Just installed RedHad 9 on a lap top in the last month. Have this
young guy here who has "grown up" on Linux. With his help after
the install, I went to a site, entered a command (RPM) with some
flags, then did various apt get commands. SO, am asking what am
I missing in your statement below? It appears to me that apt-get
also works for RedHat.
At 08:26 AM 6/19/2003 +0100, you wrote:
No, apt-get only comes with Debian and Debian derived distributions (e.g.
Knoppix) .  It relies on a repository format for holding all the DEB files
on central servers and Redhat and SuSE do not provide such repositories.
Apt-get removes what is for other distributions usualy a manual process -
dependancy resolution.
David



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Ok, but what I really haven't caught on to yet, is apt-get available for
Suse Linux or is the utilities that come with Suse that do the comprable
things...better?
BTW, at 7:45 PM, it looks like the Suse website is cleared sufficient
for me to get a wack at it.
Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
David Goodenough wrote:

>Your understanding of apt-get is not quite right.
>
>The Debian equivalent of rpm is dpkg, both deal with the installation,
>upgrade and removal of packages.
>
>The equivalent of Yast in the Debian world is either dselect or tasksel,
or
>if you are using KDE then kpackage can front either rpm or dpkg.
>
>apt-get is all about resolving dependancies, and given a knowledge of what
>is currently available from the repositories and what is installed,
working
>out what needs to be downloaded in order to install or update a given item
>or to update those items already installed.  This does not quite exist in
>the rpm system, even with Yast as its front end.  It is this function
which
>makes Debian worth having - no more dependacy hell.
>
>David
>
>
>
>
>Tom Duerbusch
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>18/06/2003 16:46
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>Linux on 390 Port
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>Now I think I know what apt-get does.  It seems to be a Debian version
>of RPM (for Redhat and Suse), which, I think, YaST is a nice shell
>around RPM (for Suse users).
>
>So apt-get and RPM are command line versions with YaST being an
>interactive frontend.
>
>For those keeping track with the home version, I've been downloading
>for 28 hours and have obtained 3.97 MBs so far from the Suse Maintenace
>Web site.
>
>I now see the need for what I assume most shops are doing, of
>automatically downloading new Suse material every night.  Rather have
>the machine do the retrys, instead of me.
>
>Perhaps Suse should go back to sending out quarterly CDs if they don't
>want to beef up their electronic distribution system.
>
>A few weeks ago, I started the query on how Penguin Farms (Penguins
>don't live on farms, they live off the ice shelf on the ocean.  Perhaps
>Penguin Farms should be Sea of Penguins?), anyway, how sites with
>multiple Linux systems, keeps their systems up to date and at the same
>maintenance levels.  Like download everything from Suse and your images
>are updated from your site.  It seems to me that YOU from the Suse site,
>is pretty much unreliable and a failure.
>
>
>
>Tom Duerbusch
>THD Consulting
>
>
>apt-get and jigdo are both nice to help. I presume most are familiar
>with what apt-get does.
>
>
>


Brian W. France
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Pennsylvania State University
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