Re: External Page Usage

2006-08-10 Thread Steve Gentry
We were running 4.3. We are running 5.2 now. We didn't notice any increase in PAGE pack use, i.e, increased paging or physically using more page space. PAGE space allocation remained the same. Steve G. Schuh, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System

Re: A question about z/VM and windoze

2006-08-10 Thread =?iso-8859-1?Q?Larry_Macioce?=
Thank you to all that replied. I guess I was wrong and it can be done. Bu t if done, it is done poorly. I'll do some reseach on Bochs(?) and report to my management with what yo u said and what I found out. thanks Mace

Re: A question about z/VM and windoze

2006-08-10 Thread Dave Jones
You're welcome, Mace. Information on Bochs can be found here: http://bochs.sourceforge.net/ Let us know what your research reveals and how your management reacts. DJ =?iso-8859-1?Q?Larry_Macioce?= wrote: Thank you to all that replied. I guess I was wrong and it can be done. But if done,

Re: MP3000 for sale

2006-08-10 Thread Scott Ray
What model exactly and how much? From: The IBM z/VM Operating System on behalf of Antoon Vekeman Sent: Thu 8/10/2006 2:53 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: MP3000 for sale We have migrated our MP3000-P30 to a FLEX/ES environment. We offer the = MP3000

Re: A question about z/VM and windoze

2006-08-10 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 8/10/06, Adam Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So the answer, in any practical terms, is no, you can't do that. Unless the new POO has a Start Intel Execution instruction ;-p

Re: A question about z/VM and windoze

2006-08-10 Thread Neale Ferguson
Wrong is not a fair description. I can put my love spuds in the open mouth of a lion and hit him on the head. If you said I couldn't you'd be wrong, but it makes about as much sense as trying to run x86 apps on a zSeries. -Original Message- Thank you to all that replied. I guess I was

Re: A question about z/VM and windoze

2006-08-10 Thread Macioce, Larry
LOVE SPUDShahahahahaha My youngest son(when playing ball and get hit) calls them Mcnuggets I take it as putting a Yugo engine in a Lambo. It will make the car run but not well. Thanks Mace -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Re: z/VM 5.2 Dumps

2006-08-10 Thread John Franciscovich
Does Standalone Dump use the same formula? Is it smart enough to understand CP control blocks, or does it just dump all of storage? Standalone Dump dumps all resident, non-zero pages. This includes both CP and non-CP pages. The VM Dump Tool recognizes that CP has been dumped and allows the same

Re: Secure access to resources

2006-08-10 Thread Alan Altmark
On Thursday, 08/10/2006 at 07:24 AST, Imler, Steven J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can use the VM:Tape USERSECR EXIT (assembler only) for a non-RACF solution. If you can issue CMS commands in the exit, then you can custom-build a RACF solution. The program would have to take as input the

Re: Secure access to resources

2006-08-10 Thread Alan Altmark
On Thursday, 08/10/2006 at 10:49 ZE2, Colin Allinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We use RACF as our ESM and I wondered if there was any API interface that could be called by user code to check validity of an access to a resource (I am not aware of such a beast). Yes. You will have to write

Re: Secure access to resources

2006-08-10 Thread Imler, Steven J
If RACF defers to you, what do you do? Also, you can use generic profiles to, for example, deny access to all tapes except those specifically defined and PERMITed. Continue with normal VM:Tape authorization processing, which includes calling the USERSECR EXIT if the site has coded one and

Re: Secure access to resources

2006-08-10 Thread Alan Altmark
On Thursday, 08/10/2006 at 10:42 AST, Imler, Steven J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If RACF defers to you, what do you do? Also, you can use generic profiles to, for example, deny access to all tapes except those specifically defined and PERMITed. Continue with normal VM:Tape authorization

Re: Secure access to resources

2006-08-10 Thread Imler, Steven J
RESERVE/RELEASE on the volume in response to an ENQ/DEQ. Some tape managers (e.g. IBM Tape Manager for z/VM) can talk to DFSMSrmm on z/OS if you want to use the z/OS tape catalog. I would guess that VM:Tape has an equivalent function. (JR?) Unfortunately ... not yet. I'm sure Mike W.

Re: Who has the tape drive ASSIGNed?

2006-08-10 Thread Imler, Steven J
Jim, Sorry for the misunderstanding ... You are correct. The only system that can UNASSIGN the drive is the system that ASSIGNED it to itself (the purpose of the ASSIGN in the nutshell). The on one system reference I mentioned in my response to Alan was relative to the fact that his site runs

Re: External Page Usage

2006-08-10 Thread Schuh, Richard
More curiosity than anything. That seemed to be a drastic change in a number and I was wondering if it was normal or an indicator of a potential problem. I suspect it was the change in algorithm. Also, we have seen the number of TPF users increase by over 25% since we removed the 2G constraint.

Re: A question about z/VM and windoze

2006-08-10 Thread Adam Thornton
On Aug 10, 2006, at 6:56 AM, Macioce, Larry wrote: I take it as putting a Yugo engine in a Lambo. It will make the car run but not well. More like putting a moped engine in a locomotive, really. Adam

Re: IOCP Module

2006-08-10 Thread Macioce, Larry
I had a similar problem . I upgraded my hcd but it didn't look as if it took. What you can try is 1)go into your hcd main panel and go to option 7(Query supported hardware and installed UIMs) 2)then 1(List supported processors)page through it and it will show you all processors that can be

Re: IOCP Module

2006-08-10 Thread Rick Barlow
Yes. You just need to add the appropriate parm to the IOCP invocation to tell it which parser to use. IXP is used to cause IOCP to write an IOCDS for an non-EMIF processor IZP is used to cause IOCP to write an IOCDS for an EMIF-capable processor IYP is used to cause IOCP to write an IOCDS for a

Re: IOCP Module

2006-08-10 Thread Brian Nielsen
You could use the ICP version of IOCP. It supports 2094. Brian Nielsen On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:10:45 -0400, Mark Pace, Mainline Information Syste m [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Should I be able to run the IOCP module against an IOCP deck created for a different processor than I am currently

Re: VM Hipersockets

2006-08-10 Thread Brian France
Sorry, I only use Hiper sockets from MainFrameLInux to z/OS so no coding in VM. BUT, in case ya haven't seen it before, try this Redbook... http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg246816.pdf At 01:38 PM 8/10/2006, you wrote: Anyone have a sample DTCPARMS file they would share with me for a

Re: IOCP Module

2006-08-10 Thread Edward M. Martin
Hello Mark, Yes you should be able to IOCP filename ( ICP or XXX and then other parameters From the IOCP manual ICP specifies that the ICP version of IOCP is to process the command options and input file to generate an IOCDS. ICP refers to the first three characters of the

Re: External Page Usage

2006-08-10 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
We ran into something like this when we went from 4.4 to 5.1. We actually ran out of page space. IBM pointed us to a page in a manual that said we should have enough page spa ce for the sum of the size all our virtual machines. We Bit the bullet and got more page packs. I don't remember

Re: PDSE Support in CMS

2006-08-10 Thread Jim Bohnsack
Christine--I'm not an MVS type, so I don't really know much about MVS's PDS or PDSE support. I have heard, tho, that the PACKLIB support in FCOPY from the VM download page can be, in some ways, thought to be similiar (is that enough of a disclaimer?) to an MVS PDS. I've used FCOPY and the

Re: VM Hipersockets

2006-08-10 Thread Mark Pace, Mainline Information System
:nick.TCPIP:type.server :class.stack :attach.0600-0602,0700-0702 0600-0602 are OSA devices 0700-0702 are Hipersocket devices. Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems 1700 Summit Lake Drive Tallahassee, FL. 32317 Office: 850.219.5184

Re: VM Hipersockets

2006-08-10 Thread Kreiter, Chuck
Thanks. I was trying to use two lines instead of one. That worked wonderfully. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Pace, Mainline Information System Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 1:43 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU

Re: Who has the tape drive ASSIGNed?

2006-08-10 Thread Alan Ackerman
Don Angle here pointed out that the VARY OFF GLOBAL won't work if the system that holds the ASSIGN is down. We think the ASSIGN bit gets reset when the system is IPLed, but not before. Is this correct? Thu, 10 Aug 2006 11:23:06 -0400, Imler, Steven J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim, Sorry

Re: Who has the tape drive ASSIGNed?

2006-08-10 Thread Jim Bohnsack
Could be even more brutal and get 3420 drives. Then you didn't have to bother trying to figure out who owned the ASSIGNment bit. Everyone did :-) Jim At 03:08 PM 8/10/2006, you wrote: Then there is the brute force method of IMLing the control unit. -Original Message- From: The IBM

Re: Who has the tape drive ASSIGNed?

2006-08-10 Thread Schuh, Richard
But the cartridges wouldn't fit. Regards, Richard Schuh -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jim Bohnsack Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 12:19 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Who has the tape drive ASSIGNed?

DYNVM, RMSMASTR, and VGLIBSRV

2006-08-10 Thread william JANULIN
To list(s); We are in the process of migrating a VM/VSE system that currently uses the 3494 VTS. The user is currently in the process of phasing out the VTS. However, going forward, we want to utilize the 3494 ATL without using the VTS. Currently I have these three machines down. At some

Re: DYNVM, RMSMASTR, and VGLIBSRV

2006-08-10 Thread Imler, Steven J
In theory, you should only need to update the list of real device addresses and the Library Name(s) (and serial number) if any of those items change from what they were when running with the 3494 VTS, in each product's configuration files. JR (Steven) Imler CA Senior Software Engineer Tel: +1

Re: PDSE Support in CMS

2006-08-10 Thread Dave Jones
Isn't the PDS(E) file store somewhat like a CMS minidisk file structure, in that there are two directories at the beginning of the space, and files can be added, deleted and modified *without* the need for a separate compression step every now and then? DJ Jim Bohnsack wrote: Christine--I'm

Re: OpenExtensions Application Setup

2006-08-10 Thread Dave Jones
Thanks for pointing that out, Julie. I really dislike the idea of using names for things like error messages if the software still returns a numeric code when it fails. I think I see what the problem here ismake sure that you have the LE run time library (SCEERUN) available at

Re: Signal support

2006-08-10 Thread David Boyes
SHUTTRAP could be easily modified to run as a CMS MT root child process. The new code would run as a separate process within CMS and not interfere with concurrent processes. I use the root child trick to run CMS commmands as background tasks. There are some restrictions for background