Re: z/VM 3.1 FTP

2007-03-09 Thread Peter . Webb
Hi Neil, There is no configuration file setting that I know of. Instead, use the PASSIVE FTP subcommand at the start of your FTP session to set passive mode on. Peter -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neil Carson Sent:

Re: 4.4 Gigabit (fibre) OSA

2007-03-09 Thread Eric Schadow
Lee How is the OSA defined OSE or OSD.? Try a Q ccuu ID and a Q CCUU and post the details. eric At 08:54 PM 3/8/2007, you wrote: Hi all, I have a 4.4 system that's moving to a new z9 and when they try to start the TCP/IP connection through the new OSA gigabit (fiber, not copper), they

Re: Multiple VM SMTP servers

2007-03-09 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
We have 5 on one stack and 3 on another stack but I know not why. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aria Bamdad Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 5:05 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Multiple VM SMTP servers Hi, Is anyone

Re: Issuing HX from Rexx

2007-03-09 Thread RPN01
My assumption was that he just wanted to get out of the currently running program, rather than returning to the calling routine, in which case, exiting, possibly with a non-zero return code might fill the bill. Now, if the subroutine were called by other means, then an exit might still get you

Re: Issuing HX from Rexx

2007-03-09 Thread David Kreuter
Well you could I suppose one could write a CMS MODULE that does a B 14 and call it - that will certainly kill the running programs, but all hell would break loose - Not that I'm recommending this. David From: The IBM z/VM Operating System on behalf of RPN01

OSA question

2007-03-09 Thread Westlund, Mats (Mainframe servers)
Why is the home address for the ESC1 link placed in the OSA for device DEVGEF11 that is connected to another network DEVICE CIP1 CLAW 7F00 LTCPIP TN19C10 NONE 20 20 4096 4096 LINK ESC1 IP 0 CIP1 DEVICE DEVGEF11 OSD 3DB0 NONROUTER AUTORESTART LINK

Jeff Beck is out of the office.

2007-03-09 Thread Jeff Beck
I will be out of the office starting 03/09/2007 and will not return until 03/12/2007. I will be out of the office Friday 3/9 and will return Monday 3/12. I will respond to your note after 3/12. Thank you.

DFDSS and an IFL

2007-03-09 Thread Brian Ferguson
I've got a site that is trying to use their VM system (4.4 on an IFL) to stage MVS volumes for disaster recovery. They dump the MVS system off using DFDSS, and restore them onto the disaster system using standalone DFDSS under VM This way they don't need to actually run and licence MVS on the

Re: TIMEZONE

2007-03-09 Thread Mike Walter
Nothing's wrong your suggestion. It's better and I'll change my code. Background: IIRC it's just that I had it written to go through the spring of 2042 (the fall of 2042 is after the TOD clock wraps). Then I discovered that CPSYNTAX accepts dates in 2042, but CP balks at IPL for any dates

Re: DFDSS and an IFL

2007-03-09 Thread Eric Schadow
Brian I am pretty sure that IFL's can only run z/VM and Linux. HCPMCV1459E The virtual machine is placed in check-stop state due to a system=20=20=20=20= =20=20=20=20=20=20=20 malfunction with CPU 00.=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=

Re: TIMEZONE

2007-03-09 Thread Jeff Henry
On 3/9/07, Mike Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... and IBM has better things to work on than something 35 years from now, ... That's what everybody was saying back in 1965 about the y2k problem. :-)

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Re: DFDSS and an IFL

2007-03-09 Thread Mark Pace
Correct. An IFL will not run z/OS, or z/VSE code. On 3/9/07, Eric Schadow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian I am pretty sure that IFL's can only run z/VM and Linux. -- Mark Pace Mainline Information Systems

Re: 4.4 Gigabit (fibre) OSA

2007-03-09 Thread Edward M. Martin
Hello Lee, I am running a Gigabit with the card defined as QDIO on a z890 running zVM 4.3 (yes 5.2 is waiting here too). The card came defined as QDIO. But I did apply lots of PTF's to ensure that the z890 and the QDIO stuff would run. Take a look here

Re: TIMEZONE

2007-03-09 Thread Nick Laflamme
Jeff Henry wrote: On 3/9/07, *Mike Walter* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... and IBM has better things to work on than something 35 years from now, ... That's what everybody was saying back in 1965 about the y2k problem. :-) And because they said that, them

EXECSTAT priority

2007-03-09 Thread Phil Smith III
I'm wondering what priority means in HELP EXECSTAT: With the RESident Option: Code Meaning 0 Exec exists in storage. Register 1 contains pointer to the fileblock. 4 Exec exists in storage and there is another one on dasd that has a higher priority. Register 1 contains a

Re: EXECSTAT priority

2007-03-09 Thread Don Russell
Well, here's my idea... (no proof though) To me higher priority would mean it is the one that runs so even if there is a copy in storage, it won't be run, instead favoring the higher priority copy on DASD. I don't know where/how the priority gets set though... :-( (Perhaps an

Re: TIMEZONE

2007-03-09 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Back in the '70s I was part of a group that spec'ed out a replacement mainframe. $1 million dollars for each MB of ram. That was when a million was a lot of money. Programmers cost about $14,000 a year. Got two bits unused in your data structure? Make them flag bits. And, of course, the

Re: EXECSTAT priority

2007-03-09 Thread Rich Greenberg
On: Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 08:46:56AM -0800,Don Russell Wrote: } Well, here's my idea... (no proof though) } } To me higher priority would mean it is the one that runs so even } if there is a copy in storage, it won't be run, instead favoring the } higher priority copy on DASD. } } I don't

Re: EXECSTAT priority

2007-03-09 Thread Jim Bohnsack
I remember there being a thread on this or a related topic, altho I doubt if the subject would match, back in about 1998 on VMESA-L. Jim Rich Greenberg wrote: On: Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 08:46:56AM -0800,Don Russell Wrote: } Well, here's my idea... (no proof though) } } To me higher priority

When applying a Service Corrective

2007-03-09 Thread Sikich, Frank J.
Has anyone come across when issuing the put2prod that the system netid file on 190 disk is overwritten. I have had to recover this file twice now when putting on a PTF. Is this file being copied from somewhere else that I don't know about. Thanks Frank J. Sikich Jr. EPS - MVS Support, but

Re: EXECSTAT priority

2007-03-09 Thread Jim Vincent
It has to do with the CMS SET INSTSEG setting. If the critter in question lives on a disk higher in the file mode of the INSTSEG setting, then that copy is going to get the priority. For instance ours is normal set to file mode L. I set it to A and copied FILELIST EXEC from the 190 to my A

Re: When applying a Service Corrective

2007-03-09 Thread Kim Goldenberg
Sikich, Frank J. wrote: Has anyone come across when issuing the put2prod that the system netid file on 190 disk is overwritten. I have had to recover this file twice now when putting on a PTF. Is this file being copied from somewhere else that I don't know about. Yes - the 490 disk, which

Re: When applying a Service Corrective

2007-03-09 Thread Michael Donovan
Frank, Check the copy of SYSTEM NETID on the MAINT 490 minidisk. PUT2PROD will first rebuild the CMS nucleus on the 490 disk and then copy the contents of MAINT 490 to MAINT 190. If the SYSTEM NETID file on 490 is different than your 190 copy, this could explain why you have to keep recovering

Re: EXECSTAT priority

2007-03-09 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 03/09/2007 at 11:35 EST, Phil Smith III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm wondering what priority means in HELP EXECSTAT: With the RESident Option: Code Meaning 0 Exec exists in storage. Register 1 contains pointer to the fileblock. 4 Exec exists in storage and

Re: OSA question

2007-03-09 Thread Miguel Delapaz
Without getting into too much detail (mostly because I can't remember the history), the z/VM TCP/IP stack sends ALL of the IP addresses in its HOME list down to any OSA that it is attached to. Changes have been made to the OSA driver in z/VM 5.3.0 such that this no longer occurs. Regards,

Re: Multiple VM SMTP servers

2007-03-09 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 09:02:16 -0500 Aria Bamdad said: That helps thanks. I have 2 more questions: 1-If I move the outgoing servers to a different port, I also need to tell all my clients to send mail on that port. That's kind of a pain. Would it make sense to just add servers to port 25 and let

Re: TIMEZONE

2007-03-09 Thread Stephen Frazier
Back then we used 1 a character year, 0-9 was 1950-1959, A-J was 1960-1969 and K-T was 1970-1979. If you want to know why look at the punch card code. 0-9 was a single punch. A-J was a + (12 punch) with a 0-9. K-T was a - (11 punch) with a 0-9. We knew that this would break in 1980 but we

Re: VM second level

2007-03-09 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
When the OS/390 guys ask me why I do VM I respond, Because I cannot handle the real world! -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Parmelee, Phil Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 1:45 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: VM second

Re: DFDSS and an IFL

2007-03-09 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 03/09/2007 at 09:14 CST, Brian Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They have dumped the MVS volumes to tape using DFDSS. And are attempting to use a standalone version of DFDSS to place the volumes onto DASD attached to the VM image. DFDSS is a z/OS utility and z/OS is not licensed

Re: DFDSS and an IFL

2007-03-09 Thread Mike Walter
But I don't understand how restoring under VM and then IPLing MVS in another LPAR or on another nearby CEC is any faster than restoring in the LPAR and then IPLing the restored system in an LPAR. They are serial activities. They are serial activities. True in an LPAR. But VM offers this

Re: TIMEZONE

2007-03-09 Thread Jim Bohnsack
Stephen Frazier wrote: Back then we used 1 a character year, 0-9 was 1950-1959, A-J was 1960-1969 and K-T was 1970-1979. If you want to know why look at the punch card code. 0-9 was a single punch. A-J was a + (12 punch) with a 0-9. K-T was a - (11 punch) with a 0-9. We knew that this would

Re: DFDSS and an IFL

2007-03-09 Thread Jim Bohnsack
A gotcha if you are intending to get a starter system up and running with the *MVS *version of DFDSS or ADRDSSU or whatever it's called is that it cannot restore a CPVOL initialized disk. Says so right there in the ADRDSSU manual. We are doing our D/R with the idea of getting up a small

Re: Multiple VM SMTP servers

2007-03-09 Thread David Boyes
Is anyone running multiple VM SMTP servers to address problems with mail agents getting timeouts because VM SMTP is busy? I have in the past. You can run multiple servers listening on the same port by specifying multiple PORT statements in the TCPIP profile for port 25 with different userids.

Re: DFDSS and an IFL

2007-03-09 Thread David Boyes
But I don't understand how restoring under VM and then IPLing MVS in another LPAR or on another nearby CEC is any faster than restoring in the LPAR and then IPLing the restored system in an LPAR. They are serial activities. Restoring a 1 pack VM system, then doing multiple DFDSS restores

Re: DFDSS and an IFL

2007-03-09 Thread Tony Harminc
Alan Altmark wrote: DFDSS is a z/OS utility and z/OS is not licensed to run on IFLs. As you've discovered, there is a reason we don't license z/OS to IFLs: it won't run. If you plan to restore an MVS system from VM, use DDR to back it up. DDR is designed to run on any type of CPU.

Re: DFDSS and an IFL

2007-03-09 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 03/09/2007 at 05:30 EST, David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Restoring a 1 pack VM system, then doing multiple DFDSS restores allows you to have multiple restores occur in parallel, up to the number of tape drives you have available, which dramatically speed up the restore

Re: DFDSS and an IFL

2007-03-09 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 03/09/2007 at 05:30 EST, Tony Harminc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Altmark wrote: DFDSS is a z/OS utility and z/OS is not licensed to run on IFLs. As you've discovered, there is a reason we don't license z/OS to IFLs: it won't run. If you plan to restore an MVS system from

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-09 Thread Alan Ackerman
That use of orthogonal is common in computer science. Axes at right ang les (orthogonal) are used to represent independent variables. These variables can be manipulat ed independently. So in this sense orthogonal and independent are similar. But in computer sc ience they talk about orthogonal

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-09 Thread Alan Ackerman
No, finite fields cannot be ordered. In any ordered field 1 2 3 4 ..., which implies the field must be infinite. (If it were to loop around, it would violate the axio ms defining an ordering.) On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 16:23:45 -0600, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] s.com wrote: It may be possible

Re: High Level Assembler

2007-03-09 Thread Alan Ackerman
On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 11:45:25 +1100, Graeme Moss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fellow Listers, I have been asked if we need High Level Assembler. We have three exits that I know of - VMSECURE but this can be done in REXX. - RACF (I have read CMS Assembler is OK) - RSCS - still to be examined Does

Re: Issuing HX from Rexx

2007-03-09 Thread Alan Ackerman
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 08:09:32 -0600, RPN01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My assumption was that he just wanted to get out of the currently runnin g program, rather than returning to the calling routine, in which case, exiting, possibly with a non-zero return code might fill the bill. Now, if the

Re: Multiple VM SMTP servers

2007-03-09 Thread Alan Ackerman
On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 17:05:28 -0500, Aria Bamdad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is anyone running multiple VM SMTP servers to address problems with mail agents getting timeouts because VM SMTP is busy? I was planning on adding one more SMTP server listening at the same port . Is there a way to