Re: New z/VM 5.2.0 Manuals May 2006

2006-09-29 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 09/29/2006 at 07:41 EST, Alan Ackerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you! Could you post the updated .bks file there, too? Or send me a copy? > Softcopy Librarian isn't happy with out a bookshelf file. The content of the bookshelf hasn't changed. That is, there are no new book

Re: Question on Infoprint

2006-09-29 Thread P. Raulerson
It usually means to invert the image from left to right, or top to bottom depending. -Paul   - Original Message - From: Roger Bolan To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 12:30 PM Subject: Re: Question on Infoprint It depends what you are

Re: New z/VM 5.2.0 Manuals May 2006

2006-09-29 Thread Alan Ackerman
Thank you! Could you post the updated .bks file there, too? Or send me a copy? Softcopy Librarian isn't happy with out a bookshelf file. On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:07:40 -0400, Alan Altmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: >In response to this, the z/VM publications team has added a link on >http://www.

Fw: New z/VM 5.2.0 Manuals May 2006

2006-09-29 Thread Dennis Schaffer
FWIW, the z/OS v1.8 manuals are available this afternoon so they were only a couple of hours late. I guess I'll forgive them for that. Dennis - Forwarded by Dennis Schaffer/MutualOMA on 09/29/2006 05:39 PM -

Re: FCP Tape?

2006-09-29 Thread Tom Duerbusch
I did find in the IBM 3592-E05 manuals: The linux that supports the encription keys: System z RHEL 4 System z SLES 9 Tom Duerbusch THD consulting

Re: Running z/OS with disconnected console

2006-09-29 Thread Mike Walter
We have an ancient (soon top be replaced) OS/390 guest that comes up at each z/VM system IPL via and AUTOLOG command in AUTOLOG2. It runs completely disconnected, and VM:Operator (could be PROP) responds to OS/390 prompts with appropriate replies to get it fully up (no human operator actions) with

Re: FCP Tape?

2006-09-29 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 09/29/2006 at 04:20 AST, David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday, 09/29/2006 at 01:42 AST, David Boyes > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > AFAIK, you also can't set or enable the encryption keys on the 3592s > > > from Linux (or anything except z/OS AFAICT). > > > > You don'

Re: FCP Tape?

2006-09-29 Thread Thomas Kern
How does CP know which keys to set in which tape drives for which jobs in which guests? I haven't gotten to look at any of the manuals yet, but if you can point me at the right manual, it will delay my asking more convoluted questions. /Tom Kern On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:02:10 -0400, Alan Altmar

Re: FCP Tape?

2006-09-29 Thread David Boyes
> On Friday, 09/29/2006 at 01:42 AST, David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > AFAIK, you also can't set or enable the encryption keys on the 3592s > > from Linux (or anything except z/OS AFAICT). > > You don't need to. CP will handle that on behalf of all guests who don't > know how to do it

Re: FCP Tape?

2006-09-29 Thread David Boyes
> I'm not sure I care about channel attached tape libraries from Linux. > It would be nice, but not necessary, in this case. > I'm more concerned that Suse can read/write to an IBM 3490 virtual > tape. > Since I can't mount a particular VTS tape from Linux, I was thinking of > having a CMS type pro

Re: New z/VM 5.2.0 Manuals May 2006

2006-09-29 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 09/29/2006 at 10:01 EST, Dennis Schaffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've generally thought that the VM group was one of the better IBM groups > for communicating with the Softcopy folks (or maybe they just don't update > their manuals very much between releases). However, it appear

Re: RTM question

2006-09-29 Thread Romanowski, John (OFT)
I ran RTM unsupported on VM5.1 64-bit; couldn't on 5.2 due to control block changes in VM5.2. Try it if you're running 5.1. This e-mail, including any attachments, may be confidential, privileged or otherwise legally protected. It is inten

RTM question

2006-09-29 Thread Jim Bohnsack
I know that RTM and PRF aren't supported on z/VM V5 and I have the Performance Tool Kit installed and running on 4.4, but after using RTM for 25 years or so, it's going to be hard to switch. Does RTM just flat out not work on V5 or do just some things not work correctly? In particular, I depe

Re: FCP Tape?

2006-09-29 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 09/29/2006 at 01:42 AST, David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > AFAIK, you also can't set or enable the encryption keys on the 3592s > from Linux (or anything except z/OS AFAICT). You don't need to. CP will handle that on behalf of all guests who don't know how to do it themselves.

Re: RACF error msg

2006-09-29 Thread David Boyes
David Boyes Sine Nomine Associates > Administrative confusion rarely results in > improved security! "First thing we do, we shoot all the lawyers." 8-) -- db

Re: TAPEMAP source?

2006-09-29 Thread Jon Brock
The only source I have is the MVS code from CBT file 299. (I sorta forgot this was the VM list when I sent my first reply recommending the CBT. Heh.) Jon I tried the CBT site, but did not find the downloaded tapemap.xmi useful. But then... I did not spend much time trying. Be interesting to

Re: FCP Tape?

2006-09-29 Thread Tom Duerbusch
I'm not sure I care about channel attached tape libraries from Linux. It would be nice, but not necessary, in this case. I'm more concerned that Suse can read/write to an IBM 3490 virtual tape. Since I can't mount a particular VTS tape from Linux, I was thinking of having a CMS type process contr

Re: New z/VM 5.2.0 Manuals May 2006

2006-09-29 Thread Miguel Delapaz
Alan, > Does anyone have a list of the new manuals (and their filenames)? See: http://www.vm.ibm.com/pubs/ > Did the existence of these new manuals ever get announced anywhere? Yes, it was in the announcement letter for the post-5.2.0 PTFs (IBM z/VM V5.2 — New function added in support of IBM

VM/VSE Systems Programmer

2006-09-29 Thread william JANULIN
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Re: RACF error msg

2006-09-29 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 09/29/2006 at 11:57 EST, "Harding, Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also look at the SYSSEC macro description in the Macros and Interfaces > manual. Changes do require reassembling HCPRWA and building a new CP > nucleus, so Alan's method is much simpler. To clarify, SYSSEC is intend

Re: FCP Tape?

2006-09-29 Thread David Boyes
> I wonder how hard it would be to write a Linux application (my first > choice is in REXX), to take a tape file (perhaps FTPed from a VTS > controlled volume), and start stacking files on an FCP attached tape. To actually write the files for NL tapes, dd is included. If you want labeled tapes, gr

Re: Question on Infoprint

2006-09-29 Thread Roger Bolan
It depends what you are doing.  For some post-processing equipment it might matter because the equipment might be binding the documents along a particular edge, for example. Regards,        Roger Bolan IBM Printing Systems Division Visit our Web site at http://www.ibm.com/printers. The IBM z

Re: FCP Tape?

2006-09-29 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Darn.. The problem I'm facing, is that all of our 390 tapes was suppose to be handled by the VTS. But we need to copy tapes to produce tapes for offsite storage. We have a pair of IBM 3590 B11 drives that VM and VSE can copy tapes to. But now that we are looking at IBM 3592-E05 (encription enab

Re: Question on Infoprint

2006-09-29 Thread Roger Bolan
Hi Rick, You don't give enough details here.   If this is line data being printed with PSF with a FORMDEF and PAGEDEF, then PPFA allows you to specify ROTATION of 0, 90, 180, or 270  for the page.   If you are using DCF Script to format AFP data, you can use the logical device type to choose the

Re: Question on Infoprint

2006-09-29 Thread Roger Bolan
I just realized that you asked this question in the IBMVM group, so that eliminates Printway as a possibility. Regards,        Roger Bolan IBM Printing Systems Division Visit our Web site at http://www.ibm.com/printers.

Re: New z/VM 5.2.0 Manuals May 2006

2006-09-29 Thread Julian Wall
And the Manuals were glued on the Spline! Julian Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] 601-479-7460 Rob van der Heij wrote: On 9/29/06, Brian Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I remember on (too) many occasions laying out the manuals and TNL's and going through the "this page replaces page n", "discard p

Re: FCP Tape?

2006-09-29 Thread David Boyes
> But it seems, I could have a FCP connection from the z/890 to the > FC-SAN switchthingie...and then I should have access to those tape > drives. Right? And these drives should be able to be used by our > Linux images (provided the images have the right support). Only from Linux, correct.

Re: RACF error msg

2006-09-29 Thread achang
  Thank you all ! ! Ann "Alan Altmark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "The IBM z/VM Operating System" 09/29/2006 12:37 PM Please respond to "The IBM z/VM Operating System" To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Re: RACF error msg On Friday, 09/29/2006 at 11:42 AST, [E

FCP Tape?

2006-09-29 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Our proposed VTS just got a lot bigger. The Open Systems group wanted a robotic tape system for their backups. Management suggested that we combine efforts. So not, where it is not "scrap everything you knew", it is time to learn all the stuff that I didn't bother reading during the initial prop

Re: RACF error msg

2006-09-29 Thread Harding, Mike
Also look at the SYSSEC macro description in the Macros and Interfaces manual. Changes do require reassembling HCPRWA and building a new CP nucleus, so Alan's method is much simpler. Mike Harding EDS VM National Capability 134 El Portal Place Clayton, Ca. USA 94517-1742 * phone: +01-925-672-

Re: Question on Infoprint

2006-09-29 Thread David Boyes
> I do believe that maybe someone was messing with you. > 180-degree Rotation means just flip the paper, right? Actually, this might be legitimate. If you assume normal orientation for landscape output as 0 degrees rotation (top of page at inside margin), rotating the output 180 degrees puts

Re: RACF error msg

2006-09-29 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 09/29/2006 at 11:42 AST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Mike, > Thanks for the info, > MAINT is in the RACF database, I can run a LU for maint. > How do I turn off RDR protection in the global option ? > or How do I find it whether RDR protection is enabled in the RACF ? RAC SE

Re: Question on Infoprint

2006-09-29 Thread Adam Thornton
On Sep 29, 2006, at 8:02 AM, Rich Greenberg wrote: On: Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 09:18:25AM -0500,Mike Walter Wrote: } Nah, you have to put the paper in the printer sideways. } } Sorry... should have resisted that, but failed. It's Friday, folks! :-) Not sideways. He wants it turned 180 degre

Re: New z/VM 5.2.0 Manuals May 2006

2006-09-29 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 9/29/06, Brian Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I remember on (too) many occasions laying out the manuals and TNL's and going through the "this page replaces page n", "discard pages n-m" routine. Did you ever see the TNL that provided tab pages for a manual? (I think OV/VM) Insert page 1

Re: RACF error msg

2006-09-29 Thread achang
Mike, Thanks for the  info, MAINT  is in the RACF database, I can run a LU for maint. How do I turn  off  RDR protection in the  global  option ? or How do I find it whether  RDR protection is  enabled in the RACF ?   Ann Chang (212) 578 - 8297(O) (212) 578 - 9877(Fax) "Harding, Mike" <[E

Re: New z/VM 5.2.0 Manuals May 2006

2006-09-29 Thread Brian Nielsen
On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:01:59 -0500, Dennis Schaffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If the various >groups within IBM will cooperate with the zSeries Softcopy folks, IBM's >customers' jobs will be a lot easier. >However, it appears that >communication hasn't happened yet for these latest updates. A

Re: RACF error msg

2006-09-29 Thread Harding, Mike
It sounds like (1) you have RDR protection enabled in your racf global opts and (2) you don't have a profile for maint in your racf database.  I would start by defining maint to racf with the adduser (AU) command (from a sufficiently privileged userid).   Mike Harding EDS VM National Capabil

Re: Question on Infoprint

2006-09-29 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 09/29/2006 at 05:33 ZE3, Shimon Lebowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But seriously, to get 180-degree rotation, > isnt it enough to just look at the page upside down? Now you guys cut that out! Imagine a map that splits across the page. I think you would be upset if the publisher m

RACF error msg

2006-09-29 Thread achang
There is a statement in the directory entry of  Linux userid,  CONSOLE 009 3215 T MAINT When I issue: cp sp con close to maint   from the userid, I got:                           RPIMGR031E RESOURCE MAINT SPECIFIED BY SPOOL COMMAND NOT FOUND Do I  need to define some resource in RACF ? We ar

Re: New z/VM 5.2.0 Manuals May 2006

2006-09-29 Thread Dennis Schaffer
Tony, You're right. This site doesn't normally publish books for new versions until the version is GA; but, I guess z/OS v1.8 is GA today so they are behind. It'll be interesting to see how long it takes them to catch up. Dennis

Re: New z/VM 5.2.0 Manuals May 2006

2006-09-29 Thread Tony Harminc
Dennis Schaffer wrote: > I've generally thought that the VM group was one of the > better IBM groups for communicating with the Softcopy folks > (or maybe they just don't update their manuals very much > between releases). However, it appears that communication > hasn't happened yet for these

Re: Question on Infoprint

2006-09-29 Thread Rich Greenberg
On: Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 09:18:25AM -0500,Mike Walter Wrote: } Nah, you have to put the paper in the printer sideways. } } Sorry... should have resisted that, but failed. It's Friday, folks! :-) Not sideways. He wants it turned 180 degrees, so the paper would have to be put in upside down. :

Re: New z/VM 5.2.0 Manuals May 2006

2006-09-29 Thread Dennis Schaffer
Alan, No, you're not the only one who uses BookManager (or BookServer / LibraryServer) and you're not the only one who uses Softcopy Librarian to manage books. The beauty of this common repository is that we, the customer, don't have to know the sites of the VM books and the z/OS books and the CI

Re: Question on Infoprint

2006-09-29 Thread Edward M. Martin
hello Everyone, I do believe that maybe someone was messing with you. 180-degree Rotation means just flip the paper, right? Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-588-4723 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ext. 40441 > -Original Message- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL P

Re: Question on Infoprint

2006-09-29 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
But seriously, to get 180-degree rotation, isnt it enough to just look at the page upside down? Shimon On 29 Sep 2006 at 9:18, Mike Walter wrote: > > > Nah, you have to put the paper in the printer sideways. > > Sorry... should have resisted that, but failed. It's Friday, folks! > :-) > > Mike W

Re: Question on Infoprint

2006-09-29 Thread Mike Walter
Nah, you have to put the paper in the printer sideways. Sorry... should have resisted that, but failed.  It's Friday, folks!  :-) Mike Walter "Rick Stetser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "The IBM z/VM Operating System" 09/25/2006 11:11 AM Please respond to "The IBM z/VM Operating Syste