Re: support mod-27

2006-10-04 Thread Kris Buelens
I think it does A couple of ideas to find it out experimentally: - have a look at $DASD$ CONSTS S, it list maximum sizes of all supported DASDs - just try: add a minidisk with the size of a mdl 27 and run DIRECTXA, not supported if DIRECTXA complains about the size. Kris, IBM Belgium, VM

Re: LOGMSG

2006-10-04 Thread Robert Payne
Title: LOGMSG Company name only. -Original Message-From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Huegel, ThomasSent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 8:38 AMTo: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDUSubject: LOGMSG Good morning all. I am just a little courious

One last question, before aiming at my foot...

2006-10-04 Thread Nix, Robert P.
Title: One last question, before aiming at my foot... What is the layout of Cylinder zero on the 520RES pack? What tracks contain SAL, and are there other tracks reserved there? Are there any unforeseen issues with having the 520RES appear as an XLINK shared volume? XLINK FORMAT defaults

Re: Odd CSE problem...

2006-10-04 Thread Nix, Robert P.
That was it. Thanks John... -- .~.Robert P. Nix Mayo Foundation /V\RO-OC-1-13 200 First Street SW /( )\ 507-284-0844Rochester, MN 55905 ^^-^^ - In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, theory and

Re: support mod-27

2006-10-04 Thread Nix, Robert P.
We're completely mod-27 now, and moved to these before implementing zVM 5.2, so yes, 5.1 does support them. -- .~.Robert P. Nix Mayo Foundation /V\RO-OC-1-13 200 First Street SW /( )\ 507-284-0844Rochester, MN 55905 ^^-^^ - In

Re: LOGMSG

2006-10-04 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 10/04/2006 at 08:37 EST, Huegel, Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am just a little courious about how some of you might use(or not use) the LOGMSG data in your z/VM systems. I see the LOGMSG used to convey: - Notify users of future system outages (not very useful in a

Re: LOGMSG

2006-10-04 Thread Christy Brogan
We use it to notify our users of upcoming outages.. Christine Brogan - TPF/VM Systems Support Information Technology Services Americas Phone: 623-505-5366, Cell: 623-512-5883, IBM tieline 273-4647 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Huegel, Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Huegel, Thomas [EMAIL

Re: Hobbit RPMs for s390/s390x

2006-10-04 Thread Thomas Kern
I just found out that our BigBrother system admins are preparing a Hobbit server. So now I need to build a Hobbit client package for my SLES 9 and SLES 10 guests and for my z/VM systems. /Tom Kern /301-903-2211 On Wed, 6 Sep 2006 14:35:44 -0500, Rich Smrcina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrot e: The

Re: Hobbit RPMs for s390/s390x

2006-10-04 Thread Rich Smrcina
Building the client is very easy (much easier than the server). If you prefer RPMs I have them for SLES9 (unfortunately the last time I checked the package maintainer did not put them on sourceforge, although I sent them to him). I don't have a SLES10 handy, so I do not know if they will

A mainframe 'windows'

2006-10-04 Thread Huegel, Thomas
Check this out. Is IBM building a mainframe 'windows' for only $100 million what can one expect? http://apnews.excite.com/article/20061004/D8KHJQ500.html[Huegel, Thomas] ella for Spam Control has removed 7390 VSE-List messages and set aside 4984 VM-List

Re: Hobbit RPMs for s390/s390x

2006-10-04 Thread Thomas Kern
When I found out they wanted to migrate to Hobbit, I offered them a SLES on z system for it, but they already had it installed on a spare server. I h ave downloaed the Hobbit source rpm from sourceforge and was going to do the config with the client parameter and build it on both SLES9 and

Re: One last question, before aiming at my foot...

2006-10-04 Thread David Kreuter
Title: RE: [IBMVM] One last question, before aiming at my foot... Hi Robert: cyl 0 trk 0 rec 1 contains ipl text as need by the hardware ; 0 0 2 contains 4k of SAPL code; 0 0 3 label info; 0 0 4 alloc data. The rest of sapl is tucked away on cyl 0 track 13 and maybe 14. Track 2 seems to be

Re: LOGMSG

2006-10-04 Thread Schuh, Richard
Notify users of upcoming outages or of important activities that are about to or have recently happened (such as new release level, switch from old to new CMS as default, etc.). Typically, the SYSTEM LOGMSG file is a short-lived file.Most of the year, there is no logmsg. Regards, Richard

Re: Hobbit RPMs for s390/s390x

2006-10-04 Thread Rich Smrcina
No gotcha's that I'm aware of. When building from source if you're on a z890 or z990 you may want to consider changing the make files to add the compiler tuning options (you can do this on SLES10 for a z9 also). A new all-in-one patch was just released for Hobbit that includes all of the

Re: support mod-27

2006-10-04 Thread Schuh, Richard
This is one of those things that would be a nice-to-have addition to the reply from a QUERY rdev or QUERY DASD vser command. It undoubtedly is not worth modifying the command just for this, but could be easily added when other modifications are being made to the command. I have an EXEC that I

Re: support mod-27

2006-10-04 Thread Hodge, Robert L
The following CP command displays the size of a DASD device. CP Q DASD DETAILS rdev -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 10:14 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re:

Re: support mod-27

2006-10-04 Thread Brian Nielsen
Q DASD raddr DETAILS reports the number of cylinders. Brian Nielsen On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 09:13:56 -0700, Schuh, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : This is one of those things that would be a nice-to-have addition to the reply from a QUERY rdev or QUERY DASD vser command. It undoubtedly is not

Re: support mod-27

2006-10-04 Thread Brian Nielsen
Sorry, got the syntax backwards. Should be: Q DASD DETAILS raddr Brian Nielsen On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 11:24:44 -0500, Brian Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Q DASD raddr DETAILS reports the number of cylinders. Brian Nielsen

Re: support mod-27

2006-10-04 Thread Schuh, Richard
I wish all my wishes were fulfilled that easily. :-) I can scrap my EXEC. Regards, Richard Schuh -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brian Nielsen Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 9:26 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject:

Re: support mod-27

2006-10-04 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Now that is worth something. It comes back with the number of cylinders, not just model. It use to be that model ment somethingthe number of cylinders you could expect. But I've hit too many times, and I've done it also, had the dasd system create small packs. Perhaps it was due to a

Re: support mod-27

2006-10-04 Thread Brian Nielsen
Yeah. I've scrapped a lot of code myself after IBM implemented functionality that made it obsolete. (Anyone want code to dynamically change the LOGO on VM/370 or VM/SP?) Brian Nielsen On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 09:40:00 -0700, Schuh, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : I wish all my wishes were

No subject

2006-10-04 Thread Jim Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Huegel, Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: A mainframe 'windows' Check this out. Is IBM building a mainframe 'windows' for only $100 million what can one expect? http://apnews.excite.com/article/20061004/D8KHJQ500.html Thomas: This is not new news, and the $100 million covers a lot

IBM Announces Five-Year March to Mainframe Simplification

2006-10-04 Thread Jim Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Here is the IBM press release link for this. Note that this is ALL about z/OS (at this time). http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/20384.wss Jim

Re: support mod-27

2006-10-04 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 10/04/2006 at 11:51 EST, Tom Duerbusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that is worth something. It comes back with the number of cylinders, not just model. It use to be that model ment somethingthe number of cylinders you could expect. But I've hit too many times, and

Can z/OS guest on z/VM use a real ETR?

2006-10-04 Thread Don W.
Is there a way for a z/OS system running as a guest on a z/VM 5.2 system utilize the real ETR (External Timer Reference)?

Re: One last question, before aiming at my foot...

2006-10-04 Thread Nix, Robert P.
Title: One last question, before aiming at my foot... Actually, your math's just a hair flawed (not your fault); we're on a mod-27. -- .~. Robert P. Nix Mayo Foundation /V\ RO-OC-1-13 200 First Street SW /( )\ 507-284-0844 Rochester, MN 55905 ^^-^^ - "In theory, theory and

look at ZOS dasd via VM?

2006-10-04 Thread Duane Weaver
I have a zOS volume meant for a zOS guest I need to examine and I cannot put over on our zOS system due to duplicate volsers. IS there anyway in VM to look at the list of files on a zOS volume? duane

Re: look at ZOS dasd via VM?

2006-10-04 Thread Thompson, Ken
You can use the CMS LISTDS command to view a list of the files on the volume. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Duane Weaver Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 3:09 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: look at ZOS dasd via

test

2006-10-04 Thread Barton Robinson
did we fix our dns? can i send to the listserv now? If you can't measure it, I'm Just NOT interested!(tm) // Barton Robinson - CBW Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Velocity Software, IncMailing Address: 196-D Castro Street

Re: look at ZOS dasd via VM?

2006-10-04 Thread Tony Harminc
McKown, John wrote: IS there anyway in VM to look at the list of files on a zOS volume? duane I think that CMS can do that. Just LINK or ATTACH the disk to your CMS logon, ACCESS it as a letter, then do a FILELIST on it. I doubt very much that CMS supports or understands indexed

Re: test

2006-10-04 Thread Schuh, Richard
Yep. Regards, Richard Schuh -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Barton Robinson Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 2:20 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: test did we fix our dns? can i send to the listserv now?

Re: test

2006-10-04 Thread Bates, Bob
Looks like you did. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Barton Robinson Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 4:20 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: test did we fix our dns? can i send to the listserv now? If you can't

Accesses Denied

2006-10-04 Thread Schuh, Richard
I just got a report that a firewall blocked over 500K attempts to send e-mail from our VM system to the internet on Monday. So far, I have drawn a blank looking for the perpetrator. Is there any place in VM's TCPIP complex where something like this is logged? Before anyone asks, z/VM 5.2.0

job listings

2006-10-04 Thread william JANULIN
To list; What is the name of the website that contains the VM/VSE job listings? Thks, Bill J. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: job listings

2006-10-04 Thread Wakser, David
Title: RE: job listings http://www.velocitysoftware.com/ David Wakser -Original Message- From: william JANULIN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 6:57 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: job listings To list; What is the name of the website that

Re: look at ZOS dasd via VM?

2006-10-04 Thread dave
z/FM from Cestrian software can do that, you can view flat files, VTOCs, PDS, etc. z/FM can be ipl-ed on the bare iron, so it's useful in a DR situation as well. More info is here: http://www.cestrian.com/ DJ - Original Message Follows - From: Thompson, Ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: look at ZOS dasd via VM?

2006-10-04 Thread Schuh, Richard
Look at the LISTDS command. It will do it. Regards, Richard Schuh -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Duane Weaver Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 1:09 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: look at ZOS dasd via VM? I

Re: Accesses Denied

2006-10-04 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 10/04/2006 at 03:13 MST, Schuh, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just got a report that a firewall blocked over 500K attempts to send e-mail from our VM system to the internet on Monday. So far, I have drawn a blank looking for the perpetrator. Is there any place in VM's

Re: support mod-27

2006-10-04 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Thanks That did show ending gaps, but dirmap isn't a rexx exec that I could modify I have diskmap modified to display the device type and the VSE volid, for minidisks: VOLUME USERID CUU DEVTYPE START ENDSIZE VM300B $ALLOC$300B 3380