Unix System Services

2013-03-15 Thread gsg
Not familiar with USS, so I have a dumb question. What is the normal setup for USS? Is the norm to have the LPARs under the root? How do you setup your USS environment? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access ins

Unix System Services question

2016-03-21 Thread Scott Ford
All, How do i find the volume where '/usr/local/' lives ? I think it might be ZFS , but how can i tell ..and how do i increase the filesystem where it lives ? Scott Idmworks -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Unix System Services

2013-03-15 Thread Neubert, Kevin
Rather than asking you questions about your environment, you probably want to take a look at UNIX System Services Planning (GA22-7800), Chapter 7. Sharing file systems in a sysplex, Illustrating file systems in single system and sysplex environments. It's about 5 pages with illustration

Unix System Services - strace

2023-05-03 Thread Neale Ferguson
Under Linux I use the strace command to trace system calls to see, for example, what files are trying to be opened. Is there an equivalent method under Unix System Services? Neale -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Unix System Services migration

2022-09-29 Thread Brian Chapman
How are most shops handling USS management and migration? For many years, there has been a strong sentiment in my shop against utilizing USS (security and scalability were always cited as the primary reasons) and we were only allowed to utilize USS with IBM and ISV software installs. Things are ch

Unix System Services Automount - why?

2017-02-24 Thread R.S.
I'm trying to find a reason to use automount facility. Is it better than static mount of all needed filesystems? -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland --- Treść tej wiadomości może zawierać informacje prawnie chronione Banku przeznaczone wyłącznie do użytku służbowego adresata. Odbiorcą może

Re: Unix System Services question

2016-03-21 Thread Bigendian Smalls
Check out the zfsadm command for info on the volume. It's likely a mount point at /usr. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/#!/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.ioea700/ioea7zcmd1008032.htm Chad > On Mar 21, 2016, at 4:41 PM, Scott Ford wrote: > > All, > > How do i find the volume whe

Re: Unix System Services question

2016-03-21 Thread Neubert, Kevin
Assuming it is an aggregate... Browse parmlib or issue D OMVS,F and search for it, etc. If you have access, UNIX System Services shell command df would be quicker--df -v /usr/local. Check for secondary extents, if applicable, then take a look at zfsadm grow. Example, grow your aggregate one

Re: Unix System Services question

2016-03-22 Thread Jousma, David
, Grand Rapids, MI  49546 MD RSCB2H p 616.653.8429 f 616.653.2717 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Scott Ford Sent: Monday, March 21, 2016 5:41 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Unix System Services question All

Re: Unix System Services question

2016-03-22 Thread Jousma, David
616.653.8429 f 616.653.2717 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jousma, David Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2016 7:47 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Unix System Services question More specifically the command: df -vk

Re: Unix System Services question

2016-03-22 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2016 5:24 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: (External):Unix System Services question W dniu 2016-03-21 o 22:59, Jesse 1 Robinson pisze: > What I did. > > 1. Get in

Re: Unix System Services question

2016-03-22 Thread R.S.
UA.EDU] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2016 5:24 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: (External):Unix System Services question W dniu 2016-03-21 o 22:59, Jesse 1 Robinson pisze: What I did. 1. Get into ishell from Opt 6 2. Type /usr/local/ 3. In my case, I apparently have nothi

Re: Unix System Services - strace

2023-05-03 Thread Attila Fogarasi
there an equivalent method > under Unix System Services? > > Neale > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with

Re: Unix System Services - strace

2023-05-03 Thread Neale Ferguson
I found the bpxtrace command but while its output is full of FCN… fcntl and FCN… write they are almost the only functions generating trace records. The app is opening quite a lot of files but I see no evidence in the trace. -- F

Re: Unix System Services - strace

2023-05-03 Thread David Geib
Detailed OMVS tracing is described here https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=trace-sysomvs-component It is low-level, and will require either external writer or SVC dump of OMVS+dataspaces to capture. Options SYSCALL and FILE will capture file activity. Be aware when filtering sysomvs

Re: Unix System Services - strace

2023-05-03 Thread Neale Ferguson
Thanks! I’ll take a read. Detailed OMVS tracing is described here https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=trace-sysomvs-component -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@l

Re: Unix System Services - strace

2023-05-03 Thread Neale Ferguson
I was able to run a trace: TRACE CT,ON,COMP=SYSOMVS *05 ITT006A SPECIFY OPERAND(S) FOR TRACE CT COMMAND. R 5,OPTIONS=(SYSCALL,FILE),END IEE600I REPLY TO 05 IS;OPTIONS=(SYSCALL,FILE),END ITT038I ALL OF THE TRANSACTIONS REQUESTED VIA THE TRACE CT COMMAND WERE SUCCESSFULLY EXECUTED. Ran the comm

Re: Unix System Services - strace

2023-05-04 Thread David Geib
The sysomvs ctrace data is written to OMVS dataspaces (z/OS 2.4 and below) or to 64-bit storage (above the bar) at z/OS 2.5 OR to dataset(s) defined for an external writer. If not using an external writer, you must capture an SVC dump of OMVS+dataspaces. In either case - SVC dump or dataset f

Re: Unix System Services migration

2022-09-29 Thread Seymour J Metz
See "Chapter 7. Sharing file systems in a sysplex" in z/OS 2.5 UNIX System Services Planning, GA32-0884-50. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf

Re: Unix System Services migration

2022-09-29 Thread Carmen Vitullo
took me some time to get this setup and managed the way we needed but it works well. the IBM doc Unix system services planning is where I found all the sample processes I needed to setup the shared filesystem and the best practice for parmlib and system setup https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos

Re: Unix System Services migration

2022-09-29 Thread Carmen Vitullo
that's a better reference - I have a PDF saved on my work PC somewhere, but this looks about the same Carmen On 9/29/2022 8:05 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote: See "Chapter 7. Sharing file systems in a sysplex" in z/OS 2.5 UNIX System Services Planning, GA32-0884-50. -- Shmuel (S

Re: Unix System Services migration

2022-09-29 Thread Brian Chapman
t; On 9/29/2022 8:05 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote: > > See "Chapter 7. Sharing file systems in a sysplex" in z/OS 2.5 UNIX > System Services Planning, GA32-0884-50. > > > > > > -- > > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > > &

Re: Unix System Services Automount - why?

2017-02-24 Thread Lucas Rosalen
Cześć Radosław, In my shop's case we have over 1000 user-filesystems, so we use automount to only mount the filesystem when the user logons. It would be impractical for us to keep that huge amount of mount statements in BPXPRMxx and to keep it up-to-date with new users. I've also worked on a smal

Re: Unix System Services Automount - why?

2017-02-24 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2017-02-24 o 16:37, Lucas Rosalen pisze: Cześć Radosław, In my shop's case we have over 1000 user-filesystems, so we use automount to only mount the filesystem when the user logons. It would be impractical for us to keep that huge amount of mount statements in BPXPRMxx and to keep it up-t

Re: Unix System Services Automount - why?

2017-02-24 Thread John McKown
2017-02-24 9:19 GMT-06:00 R.S. : > I'm trying to find a reason to use automount facility. > Is it better than static mount of all needed filesystems? > ​Personally, I use it for "ease of administration". I can make a single control file, /etc/auto.master which "controls" a set of directories. In

Re: Unix System Services Automount - why?

2017-02-24 Thread Jousma, David
Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Friday, February 24, 2017 10:19 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Unix System Services Automount - why? I'm trying to find a reason to use automount facility. Is it better than static mount of all needed filesy

Re: Unix System Services Automount - why?

2017-02-24 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 24 Feb 2017 16:50:23 +0100, R.S. wrote: >W dniu 2017-02-24 o 16:37, Lucas Rosalen pisze: > > I've also worked on a smaller shop where all users' directories were > defined in one single filesystem. In this case, we didn't use automount. That's my setup: single (not so big) filesystem for

Re: Unix System Services Automount - why?

2017-02-24 Thread Lucas Rosalen
Hi Tom, Last bit of your answer is exactly what this thread led me to think: Why not using automount to get service filesystems mounted when applying maintenance, for example? Currently we have these mounts hard coded in one "service-only" BPXPRMxx that we call before applying anything. I'm think

Re: Unix System Services Automount - why?

2017-02-24 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 24 Feb 2017 16:15:42 +, Jousma, David wrote: >I static mount permanent filesystems. User filesystems (i.e. their home >directory) are automounted with a relatively short life before being >unmounted. We also run NFS Client on the mainframe to open systems servers, >and all of th

Re: (External):Unix System Services question

2016-03-21 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
21, 2016 2:41 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Unix System Services question All, How do i find the volume where '/usr/local/' lives ? I think it might be ZFS , but how can i tell ..and how do i increase the filesystem wh

Re: (External):Unix System Services question

2016-03-22 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2016-03-21 o 22:59, Jesse 1 Robinson pisze: What I did. 1. Get into ishell from Opt 6 2. Type /usr/local/ 3. In my case, I apparently have nothing mounted there, so I see only Type Perm Changed-PST8PDT --Size Filename _ Dir 755 2013-05-24 22:568192 .

Re: (External):Unix System Services question

2016-03-22 Thread Scott Ford
Guys, I just did a df -v /usr/local and found the Vsam dataset name..this is great Scott On Tuesday, March 22, 2016, R.S. wrote: > W dniu 2016-03-21 o 22:59, Jesse 1 Robinson pisze: > >> What I did. >> >> 1. Get into ishell from Opt 6 >> 2. Type /usr/local/ >> 3. In my case, I apparently have

z/OS Unix System Services Backups

2013-05-23 Thread Mike Schwab
n AIX, FDR Upstream Unix, CA Disk Backup and Restore for Unix System Services, Others? -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive a

Build problems under Unix System Services

2023-03-19 Thread Neale Ferguson
I am building a static version of ncurses (don’t ask) and there are a couple of problems I note: 1. The xlc include search order defaults to -I/usr/include as the 1st place to search (despite what the man page for c89 says) whereas other *IX systems search the user specification first then

Re: z/OS Unix System Services Backups

2013-05-23 Thread Ed Jaffe
and Restore for Unix System Services, Others? After IBM stabilized TSM for z/OS at the 5.5 level, we deployed a hipersocket-connected RHEL Linux for z image where we currently run TSM 6.2. What's nice is that we can still use TSM clients on z/OS for both backup and administrative purpose

Re: z/OS Unix System Services Backups

2013-05-23 Thread Mark Jacobs
while the application is running? TSM on AIX, FDR Upstream Unix, CA Disk Backup and Restore for Unix System Services, Others? We backup all of our zFS file systems with ADRDSSU logical backups and have never had any problems. Can you post a sample DFDSS job step (with control cards) for peop

Re: z/OS Unix System Services Backups

2013-05-23 Thread van der Grijn, Bart (B)
Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mike Schwab Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2013 12:58 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: z/OS Unix System Services Backups z/TSM has been obsolete, is going out of support, and may or may not work on z/OS 2.1. We backup the root system on

Re: z/OS Unix System Services Backups

2013-05-23 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 5/23/2013 at 01:17 PM, Ed Jaffe wrote: > After IBM stabilized TSM for z/OS at the 5.5 level, we deployed a > hipersocket-connected RHEL Linux for z image where we currently run TSM > 6.2. What's nice is that we can still use TSM clients on z/OS for both > backup and administrative purp

Re: z/OS Unix System Services Backups

2013-05-23 Thread Mark Jacobs
IBM has a stripped down version of TSM that executes on zOS that does the actual tape I/O. TSM on another platform connects to the TSM running on zOS. According to IBM, TSM on zOS is a no-charge version as long as you're licensed for TSM elsewhere. Mark Jacobs On 05/23/13 13:43, Mark Post wr

Re: z/OS Unix System Services Backups

2013-05-23 Thread Mike Schwab
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Mark Jacobs wrote: > > We backup all of our zFS file systems with ADRDSSU logical backups and have > never had any problems. Can you post a sample DFDSS job step (with control > cards) for people to look at? > > -- > Mark Jacobs -SPRX054 STEP02 04 4905

Re: z/OS Unix System Services Backups

2013-05-23 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 5/23/2013 10:43 AM, Mark Post wrote: After IBM stabilized TSM for z/OS at the 5.5 level, we deployed a hipersocket-connected RHEL Linux for z image where we currently run TSM 6.2. What's nice is that we can still use TSM clients on z/OS for both backup and administrative purposes and TSM still

Re: z/OS Unix System Services Backups

2013-05-23 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 5/23/2013 10:46 AM, Mark Jacobs wrote: IBM has a stripped down version of TSM that executes on zOS that does the actual tape I/O. TSM on another platform connects to the TSM running on zOS. Order number? -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831 Parkview Drive North El Segu

Re: z/OS Unix System Services Backups

2013-05-23 Thread Mark Jacobs
@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z/OS Unix System Services Backups On 5/23/2013 10:46 AM, Mark Jacobs wrote: > IBM has a stripped down version of TSM that executes on zOS that does > the actual tape I/O. TSM on another platform connects to the TSM > running on zOS. Order number? -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix

Re: z/OS Unix System Services Backups

2013-05-23 Thread R.S.
work while the application is running? TSM on AIX, FDR Upstream Unix, CA Disk Backup and Restore for Unix System Services, Others? Harbor Backup aka Betasystems aka Tantia pax BTW: IMHO the real problem is ADRDSSU operates at filesystem level, so lacks granularity at file/directory level. You

Re: Build problems under Unix System Services

2023-03-20 Thread Linda Chui
Hi, (Posting on behalf of a colleague) The initial question about include files, that depends on what was used for the #include in the source. If it was something like #include “abc.h” then it should take the current directory first (see the LSEARCH option defaults). Only if they used the #inc

Re: Build problems under Unix System Services

2023-03-21 Thread Neale Ferguson
The initial question about include files, that depends on what was used for the #include in the source. If it was something like #include “abc.h” then it should take the current directory first (see the LSEARCH option defaults). Only if they used the #include form in the source would they get t

Re: EXTERNAL: Unix System Services migration [Internal]

2022-09-29 Thread Usher, Darrold
022 7:54 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: EXTERNAL: Unix System Services migration How are most shops handling USS management and migration? For many years, there has been a strong sentiment in my shop against utilizing USS (security and scalability were always cited as the primary reasons

Unix System Services file listings under ISPF vs ISHELL

2014-07-16 Thread David Magee
I've gotten use to using ISHELL which displays the contents of a directory ignoring case sensitivity. ISPF can't do it that way ... you have to look through all the lower case names before getting to the upper case names. IBM ISPF recommended submitting an rfe in developerworks. Here is the link

Use of shared library region for Unix System Services.

2023-08-18 Thread Colin Paice
By setting attribute +l onto .so files (and dlls) you can load them into common shared storage. So once it has been loaded, it is available to everyone. I can see this would be great for Java .so files at application startup. I can find little documentation on doing this. Is it recommended? Is t

Re: Unix System Services file listings under ISPF vs ISHELL

2014-07-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 11:34:11 -0500, David Magee wrote: >I've gotten use to using ISHELL which displays the contents of a directory >ignoring case sensitivity. ISPF can't do it that way ... you have to look >through all the lower case names before getting to the upper case names. IBM >ISPF reco

Re: Unix System Services file listings under ISPF vs ISHELL

2014-07-18 Thread David Magee
I was leaving the implementation up to IBM. The current ISPF file listing is done using ISPF DM tables which does not provide any collating sequence options that the user can tweak. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

EDC5167I Access to the UNIX System Services version of the C RTL is denied

2012-10-01 Thread Charles Mills
I've got a C++ program -- trying to use GSK for the first time, FWIW -- that is running POSIX(ON) in z/OS batch and is receiving the above error on the first GSK call. I've read the manual description of the message but I don't quite understand what they are trying to tell me. I'm not the guy res

How is the name for UID=0 chosen in directory listing in Unix System Services

2017-05-03 Thread Jantje.
Dear Listers, I have 55 users (mostly for deamons, but not all) having UID=0. When I do a ls -l on any directory, I see the files belonging to root (owner uid = 0) are attributed to belong to one user ID out of that list of 55. I know the UID is what is holding the single truth about ownership,

Re: EDC5167I Access to the UNIX System Services version of the C RTL is denied

2012-10-01 Thread Kirk Wolf
Is there more than one main() program? If so and they run in the same enclave, then they need to use the same C RTL. How are you setting POSIX(ON)? At run time? We generally set this option in each compile unit, via a #pragma: #pragma runopts(POSIX(ON)) Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http:/

Re: EDC5167I Access to the UNIX System Services version of the C RTL is denied

2012-10-01 Thread Charles Mills
A.EDU] On Behalf Of Kirk Wolf Sent: Monday, October 01, 2012 11:56 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: EDC5167I Access to the UNIX System Services version of the C RTL is denied Is there more than one main() program? If so and they run in the same enclave, then they need to use the same C RT

Re: EDC5167I Access to the UNIX System Services version of the C RTL is denied

2012-10-01 Thread Kirk Wolf
t; Behalf Of Kirk Wolf > Sent: Monday, October 01, 2012 11:56 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: EDC5167I Access to the UNIX System Services version of the C > RTL is denied > > Is there more than one main() program? If so and they run in the same > enclave, the

Re: EDC5167I Access to the UNIX System Services version of the C RTL is denied

2012-10-01 Thread Charles Mills
th RPTOPTS and my C library call are working. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Kirk Wolf Sent: Monday, October 01, 2012 2:31 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: EDC5167I Access to the UNIX System Servic

Re: How is the name for UID=0 chosen in directory listing in Unix System Services

2017-05-03 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 3 May 2017 04:54:41 -0500, Jantje. wrote: > >I have 55 users (mostly for deamons, but not all) having UID=0. When I do a >ls -l >on any directory, I see the files belonging to root (owner uid = 0) are >attributed to belong to one user ID out of that list of 55. I know the UID is >what i

Re: How is the name for UID=0 chosen in directory listing in Unix System Services

2017-05-04 Thread Bruce Wells
On Wed, 3 May 2017 08:38:23 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >On Wed, 3 May 2017 04:54:41 -0500, Jantje. wrote: >> >>I have 55 users (mostly for deamons, but not all) having UID=0. When I do a >>ls -l >>on any directory, I see the files belonging to root (owner uid = 0) are >>attributed to belong

Re: How is the name for UID=0 chosen in directory listing in Unix System Services

2017-05-05 Thread Jantje.
On Thu, 4 May 2017 07:44:48 -0500, Bruce Wells wrote: >On Wed, 3 May 2017 08:38:23 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >>It should improve in z/OS 2.3: >> >> http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/5/897/ENUS217-085/index.html&request_locale=en I will definitely like