Re: Question about Global Mirror/XRC
1) Is 'XRC' and 'Global Mirror' the same thing? YES. (2) I see questions posted in the past regarding 'GDPS/XRC' and z/VM not supporting timestamps. That is correct, XRC of zVM systems does not support timestamps, so you cannot recover to a sync'ed point in time, but you can just recover, from wherever you were. Is 'GDPS/XRC' a special XRC for GDPS? SORTOF. There is GDPS, an IBM Global Services offerering that manages the SDMPLEX, and XRC, and then there is just XRC. You can use GDPS and XRC, or you can just use XRC. GDPS requires Netview and SA/390. (3) Is there a version of XRC/Global Mirror that supports z/VM and linux guests? Again, sortof. All versions support Linux guests, as Linux does do timestamping. I don't think any version technically 'supports' z/VM as it isn't timestamped, but in our experience, it works fine. But then again, we are not a CMS user. I recommend you just try it. Place some VM and Linux dasd in XRC, let them copy, and then do your XRECOVER and IPL off the tertiaries to test it out. I don't know what TPC-R is. XRC is, put very simply, a long distance version of PPRC. So if PPRC is working fine, XRC, or Global Mirror, should as well. MA On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Smith, Ann (ISD, IT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are in the process of moving z/OS, z/VM and linux guests to new IBM dasd (DS8300). We are using PPRC XD - asynch to DR site. We had an issue with having to manually run FSCK against linux filesystems that we hoped could be helped by establishing global mirror. I am trying to get information on using global mirror with z/VM systems and have a couple of pretty basic questions. (1) Is 'XRC' and 'Global Mirror' the same thing? (2) I see questions posted in the past regarding 'GDPS/XRC' and z/VM not supporting timestamps. Is 'GDPS/XRC' a special XRC for GDPS? (3) Is there a version of XRC/Global Mirror that supports z/VM and linux guests? PPRC-XD working fine for z/VM and linux guests. z/VM and z/OS dasd are in same DS8300 so would need same global mirror. Flashcopies on z/VM (using a z/VM starter system) worked fine but now TPC-R is being tested (windows PC with GUI). If anyone could help me find doc on setting up global mirror so it can work for z/VM as well as z/OS it would be greatly appreciated. Anyone else using TPC-R to perform dasd functions for z/VM? Ann Smith Mainframe Systems Support -zVM and zLinux Support Integrated Technology Delivery IBM Global Service Integrated Operations At The Hartford Work phone: 860-547-6110 Pager: 800-204-6367 Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * This communication, including attachments, is for the exclusive use of addressee and may contain proprietary, confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, copying, disclosure, dissemination or distribution is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, delete this communication and destroy all copies. * -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: List FAQ etc
Actually, sniping is discouraged. Snipping is encouraged. :) MA On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 6:52 AM, Mark Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: SNIPING is encouraged! mark -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
APAR Opened and workaround
FYI, an apar has been opened (below) and a workaround is presented for an XRC suspend that occurs when formatting a VM minidisk. Mary Anne APAR= OA26125 SER=MS MSGANTX5104E XRC ANTX5104E RC=0901 DURING FORMAT OF A VM MINIDISK STAT= OPEN FESN0565517- CTID= TU0260 ISEV= 2 SB08/08/13 RC08/08/14 CL PD SEV= 2 PE= TYPE= F RCOMP= 5695DF117SYSTEM DATA MOV RREL= R1K0 FCOMP= PFREL= F TREL= T ACTION= SEC/INT= N DUP/ USPTF= PDPTF= DUPS 0 ERROR DESCRIPTION: ANTX5104E RC=0901 occurs while formatting a VM minidisk that is a primary in a XRC session, where XRC parameter PavVolumes is greater than 1. KEYWORDS: ANTX5104E RC=0901 NRFITF NRF NO RECORD FOUND ITF INVALID TRACK FORMAT MSGANTX5104E RC=901 RC0901 RC901 LOCAL FIX: 1. Change the PavVolumes parameter to 1 in the XRC parmlib member for future sessions, and use the XSET command to change the value of PavVolumes to 1 for the current sessions. - or - 2. Remove the pair from the XRC session before performing a format, then readd the pair after the format is complete. (recommended) -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: DFDSS Backups
According to the z/os 1.9 DSS Reference manual p688: It (the Standalone RESTORE command) cannot restore from tapes created by a DFSMSdss logical dump, from a DFSMSdss tracks dump using the CPVOLUME keyword, or from dump tapes produced by other utilities. FYI. MA On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:11 PM, Doug Shupe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Better check to see if the DFDSS Standalone restore supports CPVOLUME before going to far into the abyss! - Original Message - From: Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 4:40 PM Subject: Re: DFDSS Backups On Wednesday, 06/25/2008 at 01:26 EDT, Mark Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 8:41 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED] , Walters, Gene P [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -snip- I don't know that they use CPFORMAT to format the DASD before telling me it's available. Should they? Yes, since that is what will make the volume available to z/OS. Actually, you can format any CP volume from z/OS. A user volume (one that does NOT contain directory, T-disks, parm disks, paging, spooling, or other CP-managed extents) can be formatted by ICKDSF CPVOLUME or INIT on z/OS, as CP only looks at the volser on a standard VOL1 label. For CP-owned disks, you should format it using ICKDSF CPVOLUME FORMAT. I believe that CPVOLUME and INIT do not write the same style of VTOC. A CPVOLUME will appear to have no available space. An INITed volume, OTOH, appears empty except for the catalog. (I'm too lazy to test that theory.) So while you CAN init with INIT, you SHOULD init with CPVOLUME. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Vexxing Rexx
Ok, first off, I know it's spelled vexing. But that doesn't look as nice. :) I'm having fun with rexx today. First, I'll tell you the problem I'm trying to solve, in case theres a better way, then I'll tell you the problem I'm having in my rexx exec. Problem: I have 50 some linuxes all sending their logs to vmsysu:conlog:*linuxname. *As it gets fuller, I'd like to know which linux is spewing the most log. Right now I do a dirlist and go in to each one looking for who has the most records. I'd like to be able to total it up. Maybe even (gasp) write a report. So I start with an itty bitty rexx exec. I'm just going to look at linux1 and try to total it. With apologies to Kris for my atrocious rexx coding, here it is: totrec = 0 SET FILESP CONLOG ACCESS .LINUX1 K 'pipe (endchar ?)', 'CMS FLIST * * K (NOCLEAR | STEM SFSREC.'; Do i = 1 to sfsrec.0 parse var SFSREC.i FNAME FTYPE FMODE FRECL FLEN FREC FBLK FDT FTM totrec = totrec + FREC End say 'LINUX1 Total Records: ' totrec RELEASE K Exit; It seemed pretty simple to me. Of course it didn't work. So I tried some PIPE commands in CMS. PIPE CMS LISTF * * A | file list a works. Creates the file named FILE LIST A However, PIPE CMS FLIST * * A | file list a doesn't work. Doesn't put it in the file, but does display it on my screen. Normally, I'd just go with the output of listf. However, it doesn't have size info. Any suggestions? Does FLIST not work in Pipes? How would I know that? (Looked thru the rexx manual, pipes manual, cms cmds manual.) Thanks as always! Mary Anne -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Vexxing Rexx
Thanks all. listfile * * k (alloc noheader worked. So I guess it wasnt' vexxing rexx. Or even a tripe pipe. :) MA On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Scott Rohling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LISTFILE is the command to use - as John Hanley said - with the DATE or ALLOC option. FLIST puts you into XEDIT -- you're taking control away from your pipe and handing it to another command. You don't want to call anything that throws you into a fullscreen environment and requires input.. LISTFILE is the 'command line' method and what you want to use if you're automating and wanting to grab command output. Scott Rohling On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 7:28 AM, Ian S. Worthington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: listfile and filelist are two different commands. One writes a text list, the other a 3270 panel (though iirc one of them can be persuaded to operate in the other mode? Check the options). There is a solution for your problem but I'm away from my cms system at the moment. I'll check later (unless someone here knows the answer off the top of their head). i -- Original Message -- Received: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:19:53 PM BST From: Mary Anne Matyaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Vexxing Rexx Ok, first off, I know it's spelled vexing. But that doesn't look as nice. :) I'm having fun with rexx today. First, I'll tell you the problem I'm trying to solve, in case theres a better way, then I'll tell you the problem I'm having in my rexx exec. Problem: I have 50 some linuxes all sending their logs to vmsysu:conlog:*linuxname. *As it gets fuller, I'd like to know which linux is spewing the most log. Right now I do a dirlist and go in to each one looking for who has the most records. I'd like to be able to total it up. Maybe even (gasp) write a report. So I start with an itty bitty rexx exec. I'm just going to look at linux1 and try to total it. With apologies to Kris for my atrocious rexx coding, here it is: totrec = 0 SET FILESP CONLOG ACCESS .LINUX1 K 'pipe (endchar ?)', 'CMS FLIST * * K (NOCLEAR | STEM SFSREC.'; Do i = 1 to sfsrec.0 parse var SFSREC.i FNAME FTYPE FMODE FRECL FLEN FREC FBLK FDT FTM totrec = totrec + FREC End say 'LINUX1 Total Records: ' totrec RELEASE K Exit; It seemed pretty simple to me. Of course it didn't work. So I tried some PIPE commands in CMS. PIPE CMS LISTF * * A | file list a works. Creates the file named FILE LIST A However, PIPE CMS FLIST * * A | file list a doesn't work. Doesn't put it in the file, but does display it on my screen. Normally, I'd just go with the output of listf. However, it doesn't have size info. Any suggestions? Does FLIST not work in Pipes? How would I know that? (Looked thru the rexx manual, pipes manual, cms cmds manual.) Thanks as always! Mary Anne -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Vexxing Rexx
Advice is always welcome. Not always understood, but welcome. You hit the nail. I cannot get it to access the file. I have: 'ACCESS .'usernm' K Also tried 'CMS ACCESS .'usernm' K Say 'ACCESS .'usernm' K' shows: ACCESS .LINUX1 K which works when I type it in cms. :( MA On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Scott Rohling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some unsolicited advice: Put single quotes around the SET, ACCESS, and RELEASE statements in your code. Anything not in quotes is interpreted by REXX as a variable and it will try and resolve it. Luckily, REXX returns the name of the variable itself if a variable is not initialized. However, a set = at the top of your code would kill your SET statement, for example. I can also see the .LINUX1 giving REXX some trouble w/o quotes around the statement... Anyway - FWIW - Scott On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 7:49 AM, Mary Anne Matyaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks all. listfile * * k (alloc noheader worked. So I guess it wasnt' vexxing rexx. Or even a tripe pipe. :) MA On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Scott Rohling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LISTFILE is the command to use - as John Hanley said - with the DATE or ALLOC option. FLIST puts you into XEDIT -- you're taking control away from your pipe and handing it to another command. You don't want to call anything that throws you into a fullscreen environment and requires input.. LISTFILE is the 'command line' method and what you want to use if you're automating and wanting to grab command output. Scott Rohling On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 7:28 AM, Ian S. Worthington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: listfile and filelist are two different commands. One writes a text list, the other a 3270 panel (though iirc one of them can be persuaded to operate in the other mode? Check the options). There is a solution for your problem but I'm away from my cms system at the moment. I'll check later (unless someone here knows the answer off the top of their head). i -- Original Message -- Received: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:19:53 PM BST From: Mary Anne Matyaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Vexxing Rexx Ok, first off, I know it's spelled vexing. But that doesn't look as nice. :) I'm having fun with rexx today. First, I'll tell you the problem I'm trying to solve, in case theres a better way, then I'll tell you the problem I'm having in my rexx exec. Problem: I have 50 some linuxes all sending their logs to vmsysu:conlog:*linuxname. *As it gets fuller, I'd like to know which linux is spewing the most log. Right now I do a dirlist and go in to each one looking for who has the most records. I'd like to be able to total it up. Maybe even (gasp) write a report. So I start with an itty bitty rexx exec. I'm just going to look at linux1 and try to total it. With apologies to Kris for my atrocious rexx coding, here it is: totrec = 0 SET FILESP CONLOG ACCESS .LINUX1 K 'pipe (endchar ?)', 'CMS FLIST * * K (NOCLEAR | STEM SFSREC.'; Do i = 1 to sfsrec.0 parse var SFSREC.i FNAME FTYPE FMODE FRECL FLEN FREC FBLK FDT FTM totrec = totrec + FREC End say 'LINUX1 Total Records: ' totrec RELEASE K Exit; It seemed pretty simple to me. Of course it didn't work. So I tried some PIPE commands in CMS. PIPE CMS LISTF * * A | file list a works. Creates the file named FILE LIST A However, PIPE CMS FLIST * * A | file list a doesn't work. Doesn't put it in the file, but does display it on my screen. Normally, I'd just go with the output of listf. However, it doesn't have size info. Any suggestions? Does FLIST not work in Pipes? How would I know that? (Looked thru the rexx manual, pipes manual, cms cmds manual.) Thanks as always! Mary Anne -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Vexxing Rexx
Hi Tom. That looks to be just what I need, unfortunately, I can't download things here. As an update though, here's what the final product looks like: /* rexx */ 'SET FILESP CONLOG' 'PIPE ' MALINUX CTRL A ' | sort | STEM rec.' Do i = 1 to rec.0 parse var rec.i vmname usernm ipaddr TOTBLK = 0 'SET CMSTYPE HT' 'ACCESS .'usernm' K' 'CMS LISTFILE * * K (alloc noheader | STEM sfsrec.' Do j = 1 to sfsrec.0 parse var SFSREC.j FNAME FTYPE FMODE FRECL FLEN FREC FBLK TOTBLK = TOTBLK + FBLK End SET CMSTYPE RT' say usernm ' Total Blocks: ' TOTBLK End 'RELEASE K' Exit; MALINUX CTRL file looks like: VMLPAR LINUX1 9.1.1.1 VMLPAR LINUX2 9.1.1.2 etc. Note that this does not work with Address Command. :( Thanks everyone. It's very nice to have rexx success. MA On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Huegel, Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oops should be: 'pipe cms listfile * * k (date noh | tabulate by 1-8 sum 40-44 | console' -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mary Anne Matyaz Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 8:20 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Vexxing Rexx Ok, first off, I know it's spelled vexing. But that doesn't look as nice. :) I'm having fun with rexx today. First, I'll tell you the problem I'm trying to solve, in case theres a better way, then I'll tell you the problem I'm having in my rexx exec. Problem: I have 50 some linuxes all sending their logs to vmsysu:conlog:*linuxname. *As it gets fuller, I'd like to know which linux is spewing the most log. Right now I do a dirlist and go in to each one looking for who has the most records. I'd like to be able to total it up. Maybe even (gasp) write a report. So I start with an itty bitty rexx exec. I'm just going to look at linux1 and try to total it. With apologies to Kris for my atrocious rexx coding, here it is: totrec = 0 SET FILESP CONLOG ACCESS .LINUX1 K 'pipe (endchar ?)', 'CMS FLIST * * K (NOCLEAR | STEM SFSREC.'; Do i = 1 to sfsrec.0 parse var SFSREC.i FNAME FTYPE FMODE FRECL FLEN FREC FBLK FDT FTM totrec = totrec + FREC End say 'LINUX1 Total Records: ' totrec RELEASE K Exit; It seemed pretty simple to me. Of course it didn't work. So I tried some PIPE commands in CMS. PIPE CMS LISTF * * A | file list a works. Creates the file named FILE LIST A However, PIPE CMS FLIST * * A | file list a doesn't work. Doesn't put it in the file, but does display it on my screen. Normally, I'd just go with the output of listf. However, it doesn't have size info. Any suggestions? Does FLIST not work in Pipes? How would I know that? (Looked thru the rexx manual, pipes manual, cms cmds manual.) Thanks as always! Mary Anne -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
What's in my spool?
Hello all. I have two VM LPARs, each with a mod9 spool. One is at 4% utilization and one is at 26%. I have run SFPURGER and perfkit option 7 shows nothing major on either. Both have several NSS's that are the largest according to perfkit. Q RDR OPERATNS shows no records for dumps. There are a few open linux consoles with 2-3K records on LPAR2. So what else can be using up spool in LPAR2? Granted, it's not an alarming usage, but I'd like to know what else to watch for. Thanks! Mary Anne -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: What's in my spool?
Ah, thanks John. One has 73485, the other 468941. I guess it allocates dump space based on, usage or something? Setting dump off shows a spool usage of 1%. Mary Anne On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Romanowski, John (OFT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: do CP Q DUMP and see if the pages set aside for a dump file account for the spool discrepancy. q dump DASD 2213 dump unit CP IPL pages 182601 This e-mail, including any attachments, may be confidential, privileged or otherwise legally protected. It is intended only for the addressee. If you received this e-mail in error or from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, do not disseminate, copy or otherwise use this e-mail or its attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete the e-mail from your system. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mary Anne Matyaz Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 7:36 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: What's in my spool? Hello all. I have two VM LPARs, each with a mod9 spool. One is at 4% utilization and one is at 26%. I have run SFPURGER and perfkit option 7 shows nothing major on either. Both have several NSS's that are the largest according to perfkit. Q RDR OPERATNS shows no records for dumps. There are a few open linux consoles with 2-3K records on LPAR2. So what else can be using up spool in LPAR2? Granted, it's not an alarming usage, but I'd like to know what else to watch for. Thanks! Mary Anne -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Running Oracle on GT 2 IFLs
There's a relatively new whitepaper on large memory configurations that also has some CPU info. MA http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/WP101151 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: NEW TOPIC -- Workload move from z/OS to z/Series Linux
Hi Alan. We have moved about 3 small and 2 large Oracle applications over from z/OS. Mary Anne On Jan 31, 2008 8:56 PM, Alan Ackerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My original topic was completely hijacked by disucssion of ZIIPS and ZAAP so I am going to try again. Please no more ZIIPs and ZAAPs. (Frankly, my dear, ...) Has anyone actually moved workload from z/OS to z/Linux? So far I got only one response, someone who moved TSM from z/OS to z/Linux. I got some good suggestions. Thank you! Someone asked what we run on z/OS. I don't know. It seems a bit strange that a VM system programmer is being asked to do this. I will no doubt find out one of these days. But so far I have to report that no one is doing this except one shop. Alan Ackerman Alan (dot) Ackerman (at) Bank of America (dot) com -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Workload move from z/OS to z/Linux
The only definitive reference I have comes from within oracle's metalink, which you have to be signed up for: Oracle Database on z/OS Support Status The final patch set for Oracle Database 10g Release 2 will be the last release Oracle delivers for the z/OS platform. Customers can continue to run the terminal patchset release of Oracle Database 10g Release 2 on z/OS for as long as they want with support options to meet both their current and future needs. Oracle will not be delivering an Oracle Database 11g release for z/OS. Here's a link to a guy who blogged the metalink post: http://www.zseriesoraclesig.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=194sid=7bbd301cf7899f5d6c32e2a2c5e9efe4 Mary Anne On Jan 29, 2008 10:39 PM, Mark Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 8:50 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mary Anne Matyaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oracle is a great one as Oracle will no longer be supporting the z/OS platform. Do you have a public reference you can cite for that? It would be good to be able to point that out to people as needed. Mark Post -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Workload move from z/OS to z/Linux
Oracle is a great one as Oracle will no longer be supporting the z/OS platform. MA On Jan 29, 2008 8:00 PM, Rich Smrcina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What sort of workloads are being run on z/OS that can also run on Linux for System z? Websphere, Domino, DB2, Oracle? All of these are potentially good workloads for Linux on System z, but determining if they would be a good fit based the workload is the challenge. Alan Ackerman wrote: I have been asked by my management to find workloads that we can move from z/OS to Linux on zSeries. The idea is to take advantage of the lower prices IBM charges for IFL engines as opposed to standard engines. Has anyone done this? If so, what workloads and/or products are good candidates for such a move? Thanks! Alan Ackerman alan (dot) ackerman (at) bank of america (dot) com -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- Rich Smrcina VM Assist, Inc. Phone: 414-491-6001 Ans Service: 360-715-2467 rich.smrcina at vmassist.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/richsmrcina Catch the WAVV! http://www.wavv.org WAVV 2008 - Chattanooga - April 18-22, 2008 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Dynamic configuration changes
Can you add a CPU while it's running? From the linux side, I mean? We couldn't figure out how to get linux to recognize a new cpu. Mary Anne On Nov 7, 2007 11:14 AM, Mark Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ray Mansell wrote: I have a feeling this is something that rarely happens, but how common is it for Linux servers running in a virtual machine to change their configuration on the fly? For example, although it is obviously possible to LINK or DETACH virtual devices while the server is running, does it ever happen in practice? Yes Ray, when adding extra DASD to a non-stop server, and of course a lot more in a testing environment, we even add and remove CPUs for different tests. Mark -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHMeRU+CA7PBRBnXQRAlTlAKC3LoqKNA9zSXgBsG6lC+TKW07FbgCfXxn2 Hjh95ebUXz4YLTCeTwlR0f8= =Y4h8 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Philosophical: Linux vs. AIX
It's ironic, isn't it, that the argument the AIX guy is using is the same one we used against AIX and Windows way back when'Yes, they may be quicker for small things, but they have no security, no RAS, no management tools, etc'. That's what makes them quick and agile, not having all those cumbersome extras. Add all that stuff in and you get a much more complex system to run. That's what z/OS was when AIX was an infant, and what AIX is now that Linux is a toddler. MA On 10/18/07, Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! Allow me to stick in my two credits. AIX is fine. For simple server farms that run workloads that still haven't been brought over to Linux. Or even to Solaris. But for truly massive activities like banking, such as running an ATM service machine, Linux is perfect. Oh and thank you Marcy for suggesting the opening paragraph for this e-mail. I suspect that my bank does use Linux for doing something, but I'm not prepared to ask. Its bulletproof, it does do things that most of us haven't even thought of yet. Well include me in that group. I know from previous discussions from those of you I have met at trade shows and other events that the penguin does do things I would not have thought of previously. And as for AIX/390, I did meet the teem behind AIX/370, and did discuss a few things with them. I was pleasantly surprised by its removal from a list of products available for the family of machines that were the S/370 machines, and did not even ask when an AIX/390 wasn't suggested, or so it seemed. However what did prompt you, Adam, to even suggest that one of us should not ask? And of course John is right regarding the supplier collection. There are scads of them. I run Slackware here, on Intel. But in a pinch I wouldn't mind installing Debian, but only for a customer. Same goes for the lizard who works with Novell. (I couldn't resist Mark I've got two of them here watching me work.) Red Hat however is a special case. I would need to receive extreme hazard pay for that one. (That by the way is a reference to Ringworld. I leave it to all of you to guess where the phrase surfaces and who said it.) It must be Friday someplace. -- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Force will be with you. Always. Obi-Wan Kenobi -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 9:37 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Philosophical: Linux vs. AIX John wrote: One of the nice things about Linux is the choice of supplier. You can buy packages including support from RH and Novell, you can install Debian free of charge and get support where you like. Ask here, and someone will stick up his hand. And it has become so popular that should you run into things, chances are that someone else has too and Google will return your answer. We're not the only large bank running our ATMs through it either :) So, yes, mission critical is happening. Marcy Cortes This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Summerfield Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 5:42 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Philosophical: Linux vs. AIX One of the nice things about Linux is the choice of supplier. You can buy packages including support from RH and Novell, you can install Debian free of charge and get support where you like. Ask here, and someone will stick up his hand. -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please do not reply off-list -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For
Re: Copying zVM and zLinux Logs to MVS GDG dataset
Someone in IBM had a paper that detailed this, basically called CONLOG. I'm checking to see if it's ok to post it. But basically, you you do a SPOOL CONS CONLOG START EOF in each Linux's profile exec. Nightly, we do a 'bump' by issuing a SPOOL CONS CLOSE then the SPOOL CONS CONLOG START EOF again to all the linuxes. This sends the log to an ID that you set up called CONLOG. In CONLOG then who is constantly running, you do a WAKEUP function (WAKEUP +2(RDR)) that wakes up when reader comes in, and processes it. From there you can receive it, then FTP. (Here's my FTP): queue 'userid password' queue 'put profile.exec VM.GDG(+1) queue 'quit' 'FTP 9.1.1.1' Mary Anne (Finally able to give something back to the list...you've come a long way baby) On 9/20/07, Dave Kutz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not a Linux user and know very little of zVM. I am responsible for zOS TCPIP. But maybe someone can provide a How to. I'd like to have our zVM and zLinux logs reset every morning and sent over to a z/OS GDG dataset automatically so that we have a history of what happened. We do this today for the zOS console messages. My zVM sys programmer responded with this comment Not very easily. Each item running under z/VM has it's own log and one operator log. With Linux, I set up a seperate log. To get the task you need to issue a close console command for each individual task. With that, it gets spooled to the PRT queue. From there we need to get it to the RDR queue then to a mini-disk. From there we would have an ftp job to grab the listing and put it into a GDG. The problem is to get something scheduled to trigger the close console and to then to transfer it to each queue then the minidisk. Has anyone out there come up with a easier automated way to cut the logs and willing to share? Thank you Dave -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Copying zVM and zLinux Logs to MVS GDG dataset
John, normally I get nothing but the secuser messages, unless there is a reboot, then I get all of those message. A quick scan of my logs shows a dasd(eckd): I/O status report for device 0.0.1149, so I guess you get those too. Basically, you don't need it when all is well... but you really need it when all is not well. Mark, a prop setup may be better...when I asked an IBMer this is what he gave me, so that's what I implemented. :) MA On 9/20/07, Mark Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 11:06 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marcy Cortes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Somethings like kernel dying only seem to appear on the console, or so it seems. I find them very necessary. Wouldn't having the PROP SVM set up as SECUSER for all the Linux guests do this much more elegantly? Mark Post -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: GDPS/XRC for z/VM and Linux volumes
We haven't really tested the GDPS Automation part, but XRC is working pretty well for us, and we have brought up VM and Linuxes at the D/R site. GDPS WILL automate the activation of the LPAR so as long as you have everything set to come up automagically from there you should be fine. The only thing I'm still having trouble with is doing an SFS FILESERV GENERATE while the volumes are in XRC. That was giving me a RC901 and crashing the SDMplex, but IBM has opened an APAR for that. Mary Anne On 6/28/07, Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday, 06/28/2007 at 04:04 AST, Richards.Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately, my backup site is about 500 miles away. PPRC is not an option here. Does TSA for Linux also require PPRC? Are there any plans to support GDPS/XRC customers? Yes, it requires PPRC. PPRC V2 has Global Mirror for long-distance connections. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Mini-survey: Linux usability
An ispf like editor on linux would be great. :) MA On 6/12/07, Spann, Elizebeth (Betsie) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The kicker for me in my first install was formatting the Linux disk w/out having a Linux system. Having to drop out of the text based menus and figure out how to format and then return to the install. B -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Duerbusch Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 3:01 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Mini-survey: Linux usability Background... I started with SLES7 on z/VM 4.2 on a MP3000 H30. Now up to SLES9 on z/VM 5.2 on a z/890 plus an IFL. The initial, first, worst fight I had, had to do with installing from some media, on some other foreign (foreign to me, being a VM and VSE type for 30+ years). I first used Win/98 and mounted CDs there. I think I was using Samba. Eventually, I got the networking issues straight and I could install SLES7, which I did over an over (practice makes perfect and I was trying out different machine configurations). This was on a 10 mb LAN. 3-4 hours and it was done (I would be doing other work during this time.) A year passed. Time for some more images. SLES8 was now available. However, I was now on Win/2000. Samba didn't work so well. Many days of fighting this. Finally went to the FTP route. Got a freebie FTP server, and had many trials and tribulations in using it. Networking isn't my knowledge base. And SLES8 had different install options and features. Some nice, some good, but it all looked different. It took a lot of time to realize that I did know what I was doing. However, it still took me a long time to give up on the Samba option and go to a FTP server. Another couple years passed. SLES9 was now available. FTP didn't seem to work anymore. I never figured out what the problem was. But I could still install SLES8. So I created a FTP server from SLES8 to store the SLES9 images on. SLES9 didn't seem to install much differently then SLES8, and it was much faster (no vswitch at that time, just routed thru VM's TCPIP stack). We need something, that can take a dummy like myself and drop down a Linux image, preconfigured and preloaded with the Linux images so a person can do the install from a fast, reliable place. And then documentation on how to install a Linux image, based on this preconfigured/preloaded server. Plus, documentation on how to upload new Service Packs and new releases to this server. About as close to free beer as you can get, without actually having a beer G. Some of the many problems I hit, besides changing PC platforms: Some PC based software didn't understand the long file format of Linux. I think that was mostly on Win/98. I don't know if there is any PCs now that have that type of problem. The default FTP server in SLES8 is configured not to allow you to use that FTP server as a source for a SLES install. You have to know you need to change the FTP config file to allow this. My notes are: Joe /etc/vsftpd.conf Uncomment: Local_enable = yes Write_enable = yes Save Chroot_local_user=yes Required for ftp server for zLinux install During installation, when entered *s390x/sles9root*, it gets translated to */s390x/sles9root*. For install to work, it must remain in the suse9 subdirectory and not changed to be off of root. All the Redbooks on installing zLinux, assume that the servers you are using to install from, are properly setup. Well, this dummy, in which my FTP server experience was limited to the VM FTP server and the default configuration for the CSI FTP server on VSE, there was a lot of knowledge that had to be gained for a Linux FTP server, in order to make it useful. So I was in a Catch-22. My knowledge wasn't sufficient on FTP servers to configure one properly. However, to have a FTP server running to test with, I needed a FTP server to be running. Many times, I put it down and went to other projects for a few months. Then, comes firewalls. From my PC, I can basically do anything I need to. But not from the mainframe. YOU (Yast Online Update), just isn't going to work. The network guys are Windows oriented. They also have very major concerns about viruses. Rightly so, as when a virus hits our PC network (4,000 PCs in a City Wide WAN), it takes months to fix the problems. For access outside of the firewall, they want antivirus software installed. Which we don't have. What I keep thinking of, is some Windows based software, that can pull all the new fixes from Novell, and send them up to a mirror residing on zLinux for distirbution via YOU to my zLinux images. Doable...yes. Do I have time? No. It would be nice to have a drop in solution. And yes, we do have a Novell maintenance contract (and we had a SUSE one prior to that). Next topic: TAPE DRIVES Damn it. We are mainframe. We have Ficon and Escon attached tape drives. They may be behind a VTS. They may be managed by a robotic unit.
Re: Mini-survey: Linux usability
The what? MA On 6/13/07, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mary Anne Matyaz Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 6:27 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Mini-survey: Linux usability An ispf like editor on linux would be great. :) MA You don't like THE? Granted, more like Xedit than PDF EDIT. But, what do I know? I actually like vim! -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology The information contained in this e-mail message may be privileged and/or confidential. It is for intended addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other use of this communication is strictly prohibited and could, in certain circumstances, be a criminal offense. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by reply and delete this message without copying or disclosing it. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Mini-survey: Linux usability
Yeah, was kidding John. :) Should've smiled. MA On 6/13/07, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mary Anne Matyaz Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 7:55 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Mini-survey: Linux usability The what? MA THE == The Hessling Editor http://hessling-editor.sourceforge.net/ -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology The information contained in this e-mail message may be privileged and/or confidential. It is for intended addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other use of this communication is strictly prohibited and could, in certain circumstances, be a criminal offense. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by reply and delete this message without copying or disclosing it. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Ain't our spouses and SOs grand?
One time at band camp On 5/31/07, Stephen Frazier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But music majors are Geeks also. They are just geekish in an artistic way. :0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I studied music in university. Geekdom came later. David -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: shutdown -r now on VM 5.1
Brad, PTF UM31428 is not marked in error, so if it did not fix your problem either IBM isn't aware of a continuing problem or is is possible you are not using the appropriate load module? If not, suggest you open a pmr. Mary Anne On 5/30/07, Brad Hinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw a reference to this issue early last year on this list (before I subscribed), but never saw a resolution. With PTF UM31428 applied to VM 5.1, shutdown -r now is still hanging. Looks like it may be in a DIAG 44 loop. Was this fixed in 5.1, and does anyone know the PTF/APAR that fixed it? I don't see this behavior in VM 5.2. Thanks, -- Brad Hinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Technical Account Manager Red Hat, Inc. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: IBM GDPS and zVM DASD
Robert, I'm not familiar with hyperswap at all, but GDPS/XRC should run fine with VM. We have tested IPLing VM from the tertiary disks at a DR site that were xrc'ed. Mary Anne On 4/5/07, RPN01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What can anyone out there tell me about ³Globally Dispersed Parallel Sysplex² for zOS, and zVM sharing DASD with that environment? The zOS team here is actively looking at it (I¹m in the meeting w/ IBM right now), but by the sounds of it, zVM is totally screwed; If something causes zOS to hiperswap, (like a quarterly test of the procedure) zVM is either left standing on DASD running unmirrored, or just crashes because it can no longer access any DASD at all. Is anyone running in this environment? If so, what are the implications to zVM? I really don¹t have a ³comfortable feeling² about this at all. It doesn¹t seem like a well thought-out product, if it won¹t support all of IBM¹s environment... -- .~.Robert P. Nix Mayo Foundation /V\RO-OC-1-13 200 First Street SW / ( ) \ 507-284-0844 Rochester, MN 55905 ^^-^^ - In theory, theory and practice are the same, but ³Join the story... Ride Ural.² in practice, theory and practice are different. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: IBM GDPS and zVM DASD
Can you tell me what versions and levels of the various opsys involved are required? May be moot, since we run CSE. Z/OS 1.6 with GDPS 3.2 and Z/VM 5.2 with RHEL 4.3. MA -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: IBM GDPS and zVM DASD
What can anyone out there tell me about ³Globally Dispersed Parallel Sysplex² for zOS, and zVM sharing DASD with that environment? Probably the first thing I should have told you is that it's Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex. :) David is correct, Netview and SA/390 are required for GDPS. MA -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: gnupg 2.0.1
Not to be picky, but, I think it's picky, not pickey. picky. *Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)*. Random House, Inc. 09 Jan. 2007. Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/picky MA On 1/8/07, Tom Duerbusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pickey, pickey, pickeyone little character G. Thanks, that was it. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: FDR backups of Linux volumes?
Also - is it normal for the volume serial to be 0X followed by the device number? fdasd or dasdfmt, one, will by default set the volser to 0Xdevno. So, yes. :Warning ON VM Newbie Answering a question We do a dasdfmt command with the -l option to add a volume name. Example: dasdfmt -b 4096 -y -f /dev/dasdb -l vol001 Now when you view it from MVS it shows as vol001 :Warning OFF -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: backing up a logical volume
Let me add another twist for you gurus...imagine you have a 2T database and the veritas solution over the network takes too long. You don't have any tapes on VM and you want to use the VTS on MVS. What would you do? Mary Anne On 12/7/06, LJ Mace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are using adrdssu for all backups. We currently do a full system backup on Fridays. we are looking at doing just the backup area. thanks Mace --- Mark Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are you running for backup on the mainframe now? Most vendors provide agents for Linux/390 systems to do over-the-network backups. I know David has proposed using Bacula, but if you already have something in place that can be slightly expanded to cover your Linux guests, then that would probably be a much easier path to follow. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of LJ Mace Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 2:50 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: backing up a logical volume We are running linux on z/vm. We are going to be backing up up our db2 and custom areas on a daily basis, and place it on a logical vol within the linux server, that isn't a problem. What management wants to do is to back that data up daily to some kind of media and ship it offsite. The lgv will be ~30g(15 3390-3). Currently we backup the linux prod servers only on Friday nights as we have time to shut them down to do clean backups. Here is where my inexperinece shows. We don't have TSM on the mainframe so that isn't an option. I'm lost as to how to backup this to somewhere w/o shutting down linux daily and where to back it up to. Any and all help is GREATLY appreciated. thanks Mace -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
