Re: Anyone know much about z/VM?

2008-12-13 Thread David Logan
Thanks Sam! I'll sign up for it, but let me tell you, between two very kind folks here and myself, I have exactly what I need for today. Man, *that* was a challenge! :) David Logan Manager of Product Development, Pitney Bowes Business Insight http://centrus.com W: (720) 564-3056 C: (303) 818-82

Re: Memory Instrumentation - was "largest parallel sysplex around?"

2008-12-13 Thread Roy Hewitt
Martin Packer wrote: My mantra is "machines should be self-documenting" and in that vein I perceive value in RMF "learning" how to get things like: Installed Memory and how much of that is purchased. HSA Size (and yes I know it's fixed 16GB on z10) How much memory each LPAR has reserved. Mart

Re: Anyone know much about z/VM?

2008-12-13 Thread Knutson, Sam
Hi David, While IBM-MAIN is good for general queries you will find the VM guru's on VMESA-L vmes...@listserv.uark.edu The VMESA-L mailing list is general discussion list for VM-related topics of all kinds. To subscribe, send an email to lists...@listserv.uark.edu [1] with the text: SUBSCRIBE

Re: Anyone know much about z/VM?

2008-12-13 Thread Mark L. Wheeler
David, Now that everyone knows where to find your MAINT password... you may want to ensure that it is properly secured. In particular, change all passwords (logon and mdisk) to something other than those which came on the install tape. Mark L. Wheeler IT Infrastructure, 3M Center B224-4N-20, St

Re: Anyone know much about z/VM?

2008-12-13 Thread David Logan
I found the disk map where everyones minidisks were mounted, so I started going through them one by one, since I happened upon the read password. And lo and behold, on minidisk 191, I found VMUSERS.DIRECT, and in there was the MAINT password! Thanks **MUCH** to everyone that helped me track this d

Re: Anyone know much about z/VM?

2008-12-13 Thread David Logan
I have hit upon the read password to maint 2cc. So where can I find the user directory now? I'm having trouble finding it still...apologies for the ignorance, it's been a hundred years since I've poked around VM, so I am having to learn my way around again. David Logan Manager of Product Developme

Re: Memory Instrumentation - was "largest parallel sysplex around?"

2008-12-13 Thread Fabio Massimo Ottaviani
Martin I think it's a very important issue. We'd need this information in SMF. In my activity I found systems suffering for strong paging activity while a lot of memory was offline because it was assigned (and forgotten) to eventually obsolete inactive recovery LPARs. Best regards Fabio At 21

Re: Memory Instrumentation - was "largest parallel sysplex around?"

2008-12-13 Thread Meral Temel (Garanti Teknoloji)
Martin, I think we should have these information...In addition to following information, which I spend many hours to find out the answer:Even try to use some macros available to read some of the lack of data from common area control blocks. * LPARs memory allocation with real addresses, it ca

Memory Instrumentation - was "largest parallel sysplex around?"

2008-12-13 Thread Martin Packer
As someone who sees A LOT of customer systems I regularly see customer machines with over 100GB purchased (and often well over 200GB installed but not all purchased). I see this information in Vital Product Data. Given that RMF Development put machine serial number in Type 70 for me I can pull

Re: Curiousity: largest parallel sysplex around?

2008-12-13 Thread R.S.
Edward Jaffe pisze: Eric Bielefeld wrote: Wait a minute. The i series is the AS400, right? (I hope I didn't get that wrong again). There is a bigger AS400 box than the largest z10EC? I find that hard to believe, but then what do I know. I believe the claim was merely that the largest i

Re: Anyone know much about z/VM?

2008-12-13 Thread David Logan
I sure don't. I have had two phone calls from you wonderful folks! The first got me into CMS. I had to: --- *pa1* to get out of whatever it was doing #cp system clear begin link maint 190 190 rr s link maint 193 193 rr y link maint 19e 19e rr y/s ipl cms ---

Re: Anyone know much about z/VM?

2008-12-13 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 12/13/2008 at 11:31 AM, David Logan wrote: -snip- > I am pretty sure it's a disk setup thing, but I'm not having much luck > finding what I need in the manuals. The manuals all assume that somebody > with the right setup has already done things right, and I am essentially > trying to get i

A Techie Goes to SHARE

2008-12-13 Thread Warner Mach
I happened to read IBM-Main when there was mention that, at the next SHARE, Sam Knutson would be doing his "Fully Wired Topics" presentation; and also that there would be sessions on the PDS and Review commands. So I will probably try to get to SHARE after all. . Then I received an official ma

Re: Anyone know much about z/VM?

2008-12-13 Thread Edward Jaffe
David Logan wrote: A systems programmer that had all of the keys to the kingdom suddenly left. I have a z/VM account that is being used for a z/OS operating system. It appears that I have all of the privileges that I need, I just need to figure out how to get into CMS so I can start looking aroun

Anyone know much about z/VM?

2008-12-13 Thread David Logan
A systems programmer that had all of the keys to the kingdom suddenly left. I have a z/VM account that is being used for a z/OS operating system. It appears that I have all of the privileges that I need, I just need to figure out how to get into CMS so I can start looking around the z/VM environmen

Re: Anyone using JAVA 6.0 on z/OS?

2008-12-13 Thread Richards, Robert B.
Bill, Not only here! To keep the biblical theme going...we see Tim's "revelations" all over Mainframe at: http://mainframe.typepad.com/ :-) The latest one with the chicken was pretty entertaining AND informativebut then again, I am easily amused! LOL Keep preaching, Tim! :-) Bob -Or

Andy Pesce is out of the office.

2008-12-13 Thread Andy Pesce
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2008-12-13 Thread James Obrizok
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2008-12-13 Thread Geoffrey K Smith
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