Re: New mainframe redbook

2006-08-02 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
On 1 Aug 2006 at 22:34, Adam Thornton wrote: Man, it sucks to be you, said the fat lion. I went to White Plains. I ate an IBM Middle Manager a day, and no one ever even noticed. In the Israeli version of that story, the lion was caught when he ate The person in charge of making

Re: s/VM tape sharing with z/OS via RMM

2006-08-02 Thread Tracy Dean
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:56:23 -0500, Mike Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone been able to interface VM:Tape to permit sharing tapes with z/OS -- specifically using the z/OS IBM DFSMSrmm database (a VSAM file )? RMM has a field labeled RVVMUSE, which is apparently used by tapes reserved

Re: Draft outline for z/VM New Parents Guide posted

2006-08-02 Thread Mike Walter
While this is a terrific collaborative project for the VM Community at Large, would it be helpful to schedule a working BOF (Birds of a Feather) session at SHARE Baltimore in a week and a half? A lot can of thoughts can be considered and discussed in an hour or two compared to wading through

Re: Draft outline for z/VM New Parents Guide posted

2006-08-02 Thread Bill Munson
Mike, I was just thinking the same thing munson -Original Message- From: Mike Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Aug 2, 2006 9:55 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Draft outline for z/VM New Parents Guide posted While this is a terrific collaborative project for the VM Community

Re: New mainframe redbook

2006-08-02 Thread Jon Brock
Rabbit season! Manager season! Rabbit season! Manager season! Shoot! Shoot! BANG! Jon snip IT managers generally run about 30-35 cents a pound, and about 12 miles per hour, top speed. They're usually in season from August through October, with the young ones appearing in April or May.

IBM Policy When Running in DR Mode

2006-08-02 Thread Michael Coffin
Title: Message Hi Folks, I've got a call into my local rep, but if any IBM'ers are hanging out and know the answer to this question I'd appreciate it if you could respond ASAP (privately if you prefer). I have a client that had to implement their Disaster Recovery plan and relocate to a

Re: IBM Policy When Running in DR Mode

2006-08-02 Thread Paul Goodwin
What piece of software is it you're concerned about? Just the OS? Paul Goodwin Michael Coffin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IBM Policy When Running in DR Mode

2006-08-02 Thread Michael Coffin
OS (z/VM 4.4) and all Licensed Program Products (DB2, VM Batch, Ditto, RXSQL, REXX Compiler, etc.). Michael Coffin, President MC Consulting Company, Inc. 57 Tamarack Drive Stoughton, Massachusetts 02072 Voice: (781) 344-9837FAX: (781) 344-7683 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.mccci.com We employ

Re: DTCPKT049I

2006-08-02 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 08/02/2006 at 12:53 AST, Neale Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone enlighten me as to what this message means? I know it's just informational but there's no entry in the Messages manual: DTCPKT049I Device LCSD: PCCA reports home hardware address 0011251E2228 for

VM TCP/IP Routing Question

2006-08-02 Thread Dennis Schaffer
Hi, Our network folks noticed that one of our zLinux systems is driving a lot of packet retransmissions, caused mainly because packets are being received out-of-sequence, outside the target workstation's response window (I hope I'm getting the terminology correct here). Going one step further,

Re: DTCPKT049I

2006-08-02 Thread Mike Walter
Neale, Haven't you been paying attention all these years to Chuckie!? All TCP/IP messages are self-explanatory and self-documenting. That's why you cannot find it in the manuals. Yes, Chuckie, we already know... what do you want, useful messages are new features? ;-) Beats me. Mike Walter

Re: VM TCP/IP Routing Question

2006-08-02 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis Schaffer Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 12:27 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: VM TCP/IP Routing Question Hi, Our network folks noticed that one of our zLinux

Re: VM TCP/IP Routing Question

2006-08-02 Thread Miguel Delapaz
Dennis, When more than one path to a destination exists, and they have the same cost (as defined by the routing protocol), z/VM TCP/IP will round robin packets to that destination through the available paths. For static routing, this behavior is controlled by the EQUALCOSTMULTIPATH parameter on

Re: VM TCP/IP Routing Question

2006-08-02 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 08/02/2006 at 12:26 EST, Dennis Schaffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our network folks noticed that one of our zLinux systems is driving a lot of packet retransmissions, caused mainly because packets are being received out-of-sequence, outside the target workstation's response

Re: Draft outline for z/VM New Parents Guide posted

2006-08-02 Thread David Boyes
If you do so, schedule it later in the week and announce it here. That way those of us who don't go to SHARE can arrange to attend. 50 miles isn't far, but it does take some advance planning... While this is a terrific collaborative project for the VM Community at Large, would it be helpful to

Re: DTCPKT049I

2006-08-02 Thread David Boyes
That's the LCS device driver interrogating the LCS and returning the hardware MAC address of the specified adapter. If it's not in the docs, RCF it. David Boyes Sine Nomine Associates -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: Draft outline for z/VM New Parents Guide posted

2006-08-02 Thread David Kreuter
alas I will have left Baltimore by then - keep me posted - Jim Vincent wrote: I got the ball. I will get it scheduled hopefully for Thursday at 6pm (if there is a room available) and will post with details once it is done. ___ James Vincent Systems

Re: VM TCP/IP Routing Question

2006-08-02 Thread Dennis Schaffer
Alan Altmark wrote on 08/02/2006 01:02:34 PM: You need to get the Linux guests directly on the VSWITCH and get out of the virtual router business. The VSWITCH will be responsible for managing OSA redundancy at a physical level rather than an IP routing level. Alan, Thanks for your response.

Re: VM TCP/IP Routing Question

2006-08-02 Thread Dennis Schaffer
John/Miguel, Thanks for your responses. EqualCostMultiPath seems to be exactly what's causing this behavior. In theory, it seems EqualCostMultiPath would be ideal behavior to load-balance network traffic between the adapters, which seems like a good thing. However, I hadn't considered the

Re: SUSE LINUX ifconfig - need permanent command

2006-08-02 Thread Rich Smrcina
Why is that 'no dice' on S/390 Linux? I've used YaST alot to make network config changes on Linux on the mainframe. Jim Vincent wrote: Generally one would use yast to make network changes on a Linux server, but no dice on s390 Linux. The way I know works is to update the

Re: Programmable Operator

2006-08-02 Thread Kris Buelens
Yes, both MSG and SMSG have length restrictions. An MSG can be longer than an SMSG: MSG is around 229, SMSG (to send via RSCS) 132. So, TELL to a local ystem can send longer commands than TELL to a remote system. My RxServer package allows to create servers that can execute commands. It

Re: VM TCP/IP Routing Question

2006-08-02 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 08/02/2006 at 02:11 EST, Dennis Schaffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please understand that each of my OSA adapters are connected to different IP subnets (because, my network folks say, that provides optimum redundancy: completely different network hardware, from the OSA to the

Re: VM TCP/IP Routing Question

2006-08-02 Thread Dennis Schaffer
Miguel Delapaz wrote on 08/02/2006 01:00:40 PM: Dennis, When more than one path to a destination exists, and they have the same cost (as defined by the routing protocol), z/VM TCP/IP will round robin packets to that destination through the available paths. For static routing, this behavior

Re: VM TCP/IP Routing Question

2006-08-02 Thread David Boyes
Would a direct VSWITCH connection to the zLinux server (running RHEL AS 4) be more flexible in this area? In other words, is the Linux TCP/IP stack (w/ Zebra/OSPF) be more flexible? Miguel, I don't really expect you to answer this part of the question because you're not supposed to be a

Re: SUSE LINUX ifconfig - need permanent command

2006-08-02 Thread Jim Vincent
Mppmmppthpfpp... ugh! Had to take my foot out of my mouth. Yes, I did know Yast -can- be done, via a VNC connection right? The usual case I get involved in is when the nic is DOA and I am doing it all via the 3270 console. I stand humbly corrected! I've been hanging around Troth too long

Secondary FTP Server Help

2006-08-02 Thread Adam Thornton
So, I've set up ftpserv2, which I want to listen on port 990 of my secondary stack, which is TCPIP2. z/VM 4.4. In his SNAVM5 DTCPARMS file (this is on node SNAVM5, natch), I've got :Nick.FTPSERV2 :Type.server :Class.ftp :Parms.port 990 Which seems to be what I want, according to p. 41 of

Re: Secondary FTP Server Help

2006-08-02 Thread Miguel Delapaz
Adam, Interesting. That little example is wrong (and it's still wrong in the 5.2.0 doc). See the information on the SRVRFTP CONFIG file in the chapter on configuring the FTP server. The PORT specification goes in there. Regards, Miguel Delapaz z/VM TCP/IP Development The IBM z/VM Operating

HCPA2F2234E Message

2006-08-02 Thread Tom Cluster
We have a Shark, and we've been getting HCPA2F2234E LINK FAILURE messages with increasing frequency. The messages point to the Shark by model and serial number. The message text says: A link-maintenance information record has been written to LOGREC in response to the reporting of a

Re: SUSE LINUX ifconfig - need permanent command

2006-08-02 Thread Hans Rempel
The NETCONFIG and NETCFG commands appear to work in other Linux flavors. Why would Novel/SUSE not make it available, especially for 3270 access, so life is a little easier than editing the control files. I'm not big on VI or using CAT but I did complete my task of updating the file. VNCSERVER

Re: VM TCP/IP Routing Question

2006-08-02 Thread Marcy Cortes
Dennis's network people must hang out with mine or read the same doc or something. They too want OSAs on their very own little subnets. I finally managed to get them to take 1 port off each card on the test box so that I could at least test VSWITCH. Still haven't approached the subject about

Re: HCPA2F2234E Message

2006-08-02 Thread David Boyes
We have a Shark, and we've been getting HCPA2F2234E LINK FAILURE messages with increasing frequency. The messages point to the Shark by model and serial number. The message text says: A link-maintenance information record has been written to LOGREC in response to the reporting of a

Re: Secondary FTP Server Help

2006-08-02 Thread Thomas Kern
I am at home now, but will check my config stuff tomorrow at work and will bundle them together and send them to you. /Tom Kern /301-903-2211 --- Adam Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, I've set up ftpserv2, which I want to listen on port 990 of my secondary stack, which is TCPIP2.

Re: Secondary FTP Server Help

2006-08-02 Thread Adam Thornton
On Aug 2, 2006, at 5:54 PM, Thomas Kern wrote: I am at home now, but will check my config stuff tomorrow at work and will bundle them together and send them to you. Thanks I now have things apparently working, except that when I ask for a list of files, I never get any data, and the

Re: Secondary FTP Server Help

2006-08-02 Thread Thomas Kern
That is the problem I get with most clients that claim to support implicit FTPS. I will also check my settings for Secure_FTP client and let you know what they are. I think I also set the secured FTP server to do a unix style list of files. /Tom Kern /301-903-2211 --- Adam Thornton [EMAIL

Re: Secondary FTP Server Help

2006-08-02 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 08/02/2006 at 06:04 MST, Adam Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I now have things apparently working, except that when I ask for a list of files, I never get any data, and the connection times out. Which is strange, since I'm sure I'm in passive mode, and so the server should