Re: z/VM usability

2007-05-04 Thread Alan Altmark
On Thursday, 05/03/2007 at 07:35 EST, Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, no new pipelines stages. That's simply b.splease see Rob van der Heij's What's New with CMS Pipelines presentation from the zExpo last month. There are at least 5 new Pipes stages that have been introduced

RSCS help needed

2007-05-04 Thread James M
backup guy here again in need of assistance... Last night one of the rscs links froze. Q F showed one file at the top in sending mode with many behind in waiting status. Purged the sending file, stop/start the link and files were again moving. Now I've been told to provide an explanation.

Re: RSCS help needed

2007-05-04 Thread Kris Buelens
RSCS can use SNA, CTC or TCP/IP as transport mechanism for a link to another NJE site, it depends on your setup. Example SM RSCS Q VMKBMB01 Link Name Status Type VMKBMB01 connectTCPNJE which is for TCP/IP, the other linktypes are SNANJE or NJE. If it is a link driving a printer, it

Re: RSCS help needed

2007-05-04 Thread James M
OK - thanks. Seems to be nje w/dedicated ctc. I think I found a clue. 09180,07/05/03 16:46:00 RSCS SYS1 : 16:46:00 DMTNTR930E LINK SYS2 STR EAM 2 DENIED -- INSUFFICIENT SPOOL SPACE , I assuming this means the remote system (SYS2) has run out of spool

Re: RSCS help needed

2007-05-04 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
Seems to be nje w/dedicated ctc. dedicated ctc? I am guessing that you mean that the RSCS machine has a *virtual* ctc coupled to the host machine running the second level VM? If you really have a *hardware* ctc connecting the two VM instances (regardless of whether they are in the same LPAR,

Re: Network changes - more detail

2007-05-04 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
THANK YOU!! :-) On Friday, 05/04/2007 at 03:10 ZE2, Shimon Lebowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically: I want to be sure that I understand this correctly - can the cable that connects the router to the 2216 be unplugged from the 2216 and plugged into the OSE, and still work

VM-VTAM/VSCS question

2007-05-04 Thread Colin Allinson
The background to this question is that we have 95% of our VM users accessing the system via TCPIP TELNET sessions. However we have a handful of remote users still accessing us via SNA and efforts to convert these to IP seem to continually meet roadblocks. For a number of reasons we want to

Re: z/VM usability

2007-05-04 Thread Dave Elbon
I'm currently engaged in moving a bunch of things from VM/CMS to Linux. Most of it is written in Rexx with a lot of Pipelines. The Rexx part has proved to be pretty easy -- ooRexx is mostly compatible and mostly an improvement. The Pipeline part is a lot tougher. I sure wish CMS Pipelines could

Re: z/VM usability

2007-05-04 Thread Colin Allinson
barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So question: If there was a web/browser interface on z/vm that would support a complete interactive CMS environment, would that be of interest? It's not that difficult (says the guy that tells other people to do the work). We already take 3270 CMS applications

Re: Spool Area Full

2007-05-04 Thread James M
Now I must put all this theory to work. (my heart's thumping) I've been ordered to add more spool to a critical second level guest because of a rscs problem I reported in a new message today. Before I do it I want to double check to make sure I've got everything right. (It's been years since I

Re: TCPIP/VM Problem

2007-05-04 Thread Dave Jones
Sergio, it might be of more help if you could post the console log from the TCPIP virtual machine. It can be found in the TCPMAINT's reader queue. Sergio Lima wrote: Hi List, We try run TCP/IP under VM for the first time. When give LOGON on TCP/IP Machine, the TCPRUN exec don't work,

TCPIP/VM Problem

2007-05-04 Thread Sergio Lima
Hi List, We try run TCP/IP under VM for the first time. When give LOGON on TCP/IP Machine, the TCPRUN exec don't work, so, We put TRACE R in this EXEC, and received a bad result, like this : Ready; T=0.01/0.01 08:44:42 profile DMSACP723I D (198) R/O DMSACP723I E (591) R/O

Re: Spool Area Full

2007-05-04 Thread Kris Buelens
It seems all right for the spool Ough, but what do I see? link * cf1 cf1 mw You should never link in MW mode if you like the data on a CMS minidisk, never, never, never (or almost never). So, change that into link * cf1 cf1 m of link * cf1 cf1 mr The advantage of linking MR is that you

Re: TCPIP/VM Problem

2007-05-04 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 05/04/2007 at 12:03 ZW3, Sergio Lima [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List, We try run TCP/IP under VM for the first time. When give LOGON on TCP/IP Machine, the TCPRUN exec don't work, so, We put TRACE R in this EXEC, and received a bad result, like this : : Logic error - contact

Re: Spool Area Full

2007-05-04 Thread Mike Walter
See suggestions below, prefixed by: sugg-- You left out some specific commands, but it looks as if you are aware of them and just wanted more of an overview. You have the major points covered in good order. Nice memory! (Did I remember to say Nice memory!?). Mike Walter Hewitt Associates

Re: z/VM usability

2007-05-04 Thread Dave Jones
Hi, Alan. Thanks for taking the time to respond in an intelligent and thoughtful manner to my rather ranting-style post. I appreciate it. Alan Altmark wrote: On Thursday, 05/03/2007 at 07:35 EST, Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, no new pipelines stages. That's simply b.splease

Re: Spool Area Full

2007-05-04 Thread Paul B. Nieman
One minor thing out of order... You should probably update the first level directory entry for the second level guest before committing the disk to the second level guest's use. Probably not gonna bite you if you do it afterward, but, ... Also, depending upon your volser naming scheme and

Re: Spool Area Full

2007-05-04 Thread George Haddad
Rich Greenberg wrote: On: Fri, May 04, 2007 at 11:59:16AM -0400,James M Wrote: } Ok will do. thanks } another question.. } Because I'm paranoid and have no idea what type of backup the vm guy has on } this system I've decided to ddr the two cpowned volumes to a backup disk } defore adding the

Re: TCPIP/VM Problem

2007-05-04 Thread Sergio Lima
Dave, I forgot this, good idea. I will get this file and next put here. Thanks for now. Sergio Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: Sergio, it might be of more help if you could post the console log from the TCPIP virtual machine. It can be found in the TCPMAINT's reader

Re: TCPIP/VM Problem

2007-05-04 Thread Sergio Lima
Dave, I forgot this, good idea. I will get this file and next put here. Thanks for now. Sergio Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: Sergio, it might be of more help if you could post the console log from the TCPIP virtual machine. It can be found in the TCPMAINT's reader

Re: Spool Area Full

2007-05-04 Thread Mike Walter
WARM and CKPT cylinders are described by SYSTEM CONFIG. E.g. System_Residence, Checkpoint Volid ESP54A From CYL 21 For 9 , Warmstart Volid ESP54A From CYL 30 For 9 The USER DIRECT (or whatever you're using for Directory Management) describes where MAINT's CF1, CF2, and CF3

VSCS PSW

2007-05-04 Thread Alain Benveniste
When our MVS guys logon to VM, VSCS is called. We have a assembler which is used to make the password invisible when the VM screen appears (we can on ly see 'logon userid'). This pgm is very old and I would like to replace to a new one. I would like to know if a sample exist for such a thing or

Re: Spool Area Full

2007-05-04 Thread James M
Thanks for all the help everyone. It's comforting to know there are people out there who care. I've added the spool volume without problems. Before I did... spxtape dump spool all ddr 123 to tape ddr 124 to tape sent user direct diskmap to my id on 1st level sent system config to my 1st level id

Re: z/VM usability

2007-05-04 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 05/04/2007 at 10:45 EST, Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And how many time have we told you *not* to use big words like hyperbole or sophisticated literary devices like similes and metaphors; you're dealing with VM-ers here, after all..;-) Erudite VMers, of course.

Re: Spool Area Full

2007-05-04 Thread Mike Walter
Thanks for the confirmation that you've completed the task. It's not all that often that those offering guidance on the list actually hear back when the task at hand is done. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the

Re: VSCS PSW

2007-05-04 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 05/04/2007 at 12:31 EST, Alain Benveniste [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When our MVS guys logon to VM, VSCS is called. We have a assembler which is used to make the password invisible when the VM screen appears (we can only see 'logon userid'). This pgm is very old and I would like to

Re: VM-VTAM/VSCS question

2007-05-04 Thread David Boyes
PVM might be an answer. It had both SNA and scripting capabilities, and its a pretty decent session manager. NVAS would have been another option, but it requires VSAM, so prob not viable over the long term. If you had to roll your own, the IBM CCL code does have API libraries for some SNA

Re: VM-VTAM/VSCS question

2007-05-04 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 05/04/2007 at 03:18 AST, David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PVM might be an answer. It had both SNA and scripting capabilities, and its a pretty decent session manager. PVM comes with an SNA session manager (PVMG). The LU name you have associated with VSCS could be moved to

Re: VSCS PSW

2007-05-04 Thread Rich Greenberg
On: Fri, May 04, 2007 at 12:31:00PM -0500,Alain Benveniste Wrote: } When our MVS guys logon to VM, VSCS is called. We have a assembler which is } used to make the password invisible when the VM screen appears (we can only } see 'logon userid'). This pgm is very old and I would like to replace to

Re: VM-VTAM/VSCS question

2007-05-04 Thread Paul Raulerson
There is at least one VTAM session manager on the CBT tapes. I don't know what it would take to port it to run under VM, but.. the price is right and it comes with source. SOL is the name of the thing I think. -Paul ---BeginMessage--- PVM might be an answer. It had both SNA and scripting

Re: VM-VTAM/VSCS question

2007-05-04 Thread Thomas Kern
Isn't YVETTE also supplied strictly OCO with the three obligatory sample exits? If source code were available some enhancements like SNA functions (whatever they were talking about), TCP connectivity to other YVETTE servers, CTC connectivity to other systems (VTAM on z/OS?), or maybe inbound ssh

Re: Spool Area Full

2007-05-04 Thread Ivica Brodaric
James, Kris and others already covered it, but I'll stress it once more: get into the habit of always using MR instead of MW. Then if you realy need MW, you will stop and think. And think again. I agree with George re backing up CF1. Always backup CF1 that has been tested with IPL onto CF2