Re: Using SAMBA / NFS for data interchange between Windows and Linux - any reservations?
Sorry, not answering your question ... but appending my own to it ... We do lots of ftps as well and using NFS/SAMBA sounds like an interesting alternative. However, we just went through an audit and one of the requirements that came out of that is that all transfers have to be encrypted. So we're using ftp with TLS/SSL encryption. Does SAMBA/NFS encrypt data? --Stephen Ranga Nathan wrote: I am proposing an architecture that will do away with myriad FTPs within our network and replace it with a simple LAN based file sharing using SAMBA / NFS / NAS. The FTPs have been a little flaky and processes did not always check success / failure of FTP. I am hoping that LAN based file sharing will eliminate these issues. There are no more than 10 servers at this time involved in this file sharing. When succcessful, we could extend it across the board to all our system that interchange data. What I am not sure if how SAMBA / NFS perform under heavy load? Are there any gotchas? I would also like to bring in SMB file sytem from z/OS. For this to happen, I need to demonstrate success with SAMBA. BTW, I have used SAMBA for a number of years without any issues, other than Windows highjacking the execute bit for archive turning text files into executables! But this will be the first time I will be trying it in corporate production, mission-critical environment. __ Ranga Nathan / CSG Systems Programmer - Specialist; Technical Services; BAX Global Inc. Irvine-California Tel: 714-442-7591 Fax: 714-442-2840 -- 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: Mainframe REXX EXEC to logon to zVM Linux instance and issue commands
Miller, Ila wrote: Is it possible to write a mainframe REXX exec which will logon to a zVM Linux instance and issue commands. If so, can you be specific in how to do it? We have a generic SSH thing that we do to run commands on our Sun servers from our job scheduler. It probably would work with Linux under z/VM too ... I have a somewhat outdated document at http://www.Lava.Net/~syo/RemoteExecutionWithSSH.pdf that kinda explains what we do. Hope this is useful. -Stephen -- -- --- Stephen Y. Odo Senior Systems Programmerphone: (808)956-2383 Information Technology Services FAX: (808)956-2412 University of Hawai'ie-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Region Registrar home phone: (808)847-1076 American Youth Soccer Organization Honolulu Region 178 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- -- 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: Are there any NJE/NRJE interoperability tools for Linux to submit jobs to z/OS?
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 10:14 am, James Melin wrote: The flexibility requirement really requires us to have the ability to have Linux trigger events on z/OS. To schedule jobs from our job scheduler on remote Solaris platforms we've been using SSH. Basically, scheduler runs a batch job that logs in via SSH (using public/private keys so no passwords are sent in the clear) to run scripts. Scripts set a return code that gets picked up by the job scheduler. So scheduling stuff on our Solaris boxes looks like a simple batch job to our scheduler. To go the other way, i.e. trigger something on OS/390 (yes, our production is still OS/390 -- we're working on upgrading), we run syslogd on the mainframe which sends stuff to /dev/console. This shows up as regular console messages and our automation product picks up on them to trigger an event. -Stephen -- -- --- Stephen Y. Odo Senior Systems Programmerphone: (808)956-2383 Information Technology Services FAX: (808)956-2412 University of Hawai'ie-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Region Registrar home phone: (808)847-1076 American Youth Soccer Organization Honolulu Region 178 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- -- 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: x3270 cut'n'paste?
Nix, Robert P. wrote: Use the mouse to highlight the text. Middle mouse button copies the text, middle mouse button pastes it back in at the cursor. Doesn't seem to work outside of x3270 though (like into a Gnome editor or such...) seems to work fine here ... I can paste stuff into Mozilla mail, StarOffice, etc. using this method ... the tricky part is making sure you don't highlight something in your target window before doing the paste ... -- 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 pricing (was URGENT! really low performance. A related question...)
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 10:41:05 -0800, Fargusson.Alan wrote: I don't really want to defend IBM pricing, but gross margin is not the same as profit. It is much more expensive per customer to maintain software that has a small installed base than software that has a large installed base. The number of bugs found is only slightly less for a small installed base. That being the case, wouldn't it make sense for IBM to try to maximize the size of the installed base? And wouldn't better pricing help in that regard? I'd also guess that whether I'm running on a small box or a very large box, the cost for maintaining the software I run will be the same. So why do they charge me more if I buy a bigger box? Of course, I could be totally clueless on these issues (nothing new for me). So feel free to ignore this. -- Stephen --- Stephen Y. Odo Senior Systems Programmerphone: (808)956-2383 Information Technology Services FAX: (808)956-2412 University of Hawai'ie-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Region Registrar phone: (808)847-1076 American Youth Soccer Organization FAX: (808)847-1076 Honolulu Region 178 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
Re: Down time
On Mon, 03 Feb 2003 10:39:50 -0500, richard truett wrote: I've learned through experience that the S/390 platform is held to a much higher standard than even Sun, HP or AIX UNIX systems. Even though those systems approach the acquisition costs of a S/390 they are judged as if they were a 'cheap' Windows machine. There appears to be a double standard today in the IT industry. And it is a standard that is never explained when management is pressed for a reason. It's real simple ... end-users EXPECT that behavior. Hence, when there are outages, they don't complain. Management will tolerate these outages because they aren't getting complaints. The smallest glitch on our OS/390 system will prompt many calls to our CIO. Management will not tolerate such hiccups because they are getting phone calls whenever they happen. --- Stephen Y. Odo Senior Systems Programmerphone: (808)956-2383 Information Technology Services FAX: (808)956-2412 University of Hawai'ie-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Region Registrar phone: (808)847-1076 American Youth Soccer Organization FAX: (808)847-1076 Honolulu Region 178 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
Re: Down time
On Mon, 03 Feb 2003 10:12:01 -0500, Abruzzese, Pat wrote: I know this is off the board but I would like to know why is the mainframe's down time limited when the client/servers seem to going down whenever. In the middle of the morning, afternoon or night unscheduled. My VM/ESA 2.4.0 was IPL'ed 1/09/2002 and have been up since. I will take it down this Sunday to put Z/VM 4.3.0 in service. Why are there two sets of standards??? It's called managing expectations. Our Sun servers go down a lot. But users have become accustomed to it so they don't get bent out of shape by it. It is expected behavior on those systems. If our OS/390 system hiccups, we start getting calls immediately because our users expect it to never have such problems. It would be interesting if we ever get authorization to run Linux on our mainframe ... it might change expectations ... -- Stephen --- Stephen Y. Odo Senior Systems Programmerphone: (808)956-2383 Information Technology Services FAX: (808)956-2412 University of Hawai'ie-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Region Registrar phone: (808)847-1076 American Youth Soccer Organization FAX: (808)847-1076 Honolulu Region 178 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
Re: 2074 and the HMC
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:58:22 -0500, David Boyes wrote: I'm holding out for the optional rotating light feature (order sub featurs to select crystal blue, sunshine yellow or deep red), with sysplex timer connection for convenient event management for Linux on z/OS...8-( that's another sore spot ... sysplex timer ... is that the only way to get a s/390 or zSeries system to stay in sync with the rest of the world? we can't run stuff like ntp on OS/390 to sync us to our local time source so the mainframe is the only machine on campus that isn't in step with everything else. if it is, why do I have to buy one separately? does Linux/390 also have this limitation? or can I run an ntp client on Linux/390 and sync with our local time source? --- Stephen Y. Odo Senior Systems Programmerphone: (808)956-2383 Information Technology Services FAX: (808)956-2412 University of Hawai'ie-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Region Registrar phone: (808)847-1076 American Youth Soccer Organization FAX: (808)847-1076 Honolulu Region 178 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
