Re: OT: CICS poster (was Poster of computer hardware events?)

2007-11-09 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 11/09/2007 at 04:42 EST, Steve Marak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have one of those (somewhere), and even more coincidentally, was > thinking of it for reasons entirely unrelated to this thread just > yesterday. How I came to have it is more ironic than coincidental, given > how litt

Re: dirm needpass no

2007-11-09 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 11/09/2007 at 03:50 EST, Jim Bohnsack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to be able to switch to the z/VM 5.3 level of DIRMAINT > without having to try to explain to the userid admin people that before > that can do something to the directory, they have to issue the DIRM > NEEDPA

Re: dirm needpass no

2007-11-09 Thread Jim Bohnsack
Ron--I'd be happy to do that if it worked. I tried, however, from my id that DIRMAINT accepted, and issued the command DIRM FOR MAINT NEEDPASS NO and nothing happened. I would think that it should work, but that does not do the job. Jim Ron Schmiedge wrote: Jim, Couldn't you use the "big h

Re: Controlling MONWRITE and the size of its 191 disk

2007-11-09 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Nov 9, 2007 9:34 PM, Roger Lunsford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The PERFKIT can create HISTORY DATA files, which can be looked at > as "condensed monitor data" files. The PERFKIT can also process these That's not really the same. Those are just a small set of (system wide) metrics that are k

Re: Controlling MONWRITE and the size of its 191 disk

2007-11-09 Thread Roger Lunsford
The PERFKIT can create HISTORY DATA files, which can be looked at as "condensed monitor data" files. The PERFKIT can also process these data files via the PERFKIT MENU OPTION 32 HISTORY DATA FILES. Within the ACUM HISTSUM and the MMDD HISTLOG I can see the CPU Utilization on each monitor

Re: Kedit (Was changing privclass of SHUTDOWN)

2007-11-09 Thread Fran Hensler
Wow, I've learned something about Windows on the VM discussion list. Thanks Rich and Brian. /Fran Hensler at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania USA for 44 years [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1.724.738.2153 "Yes, Virginia, there is a Slippery Rock" On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 15:49:20 -

Re: dirm needpass no

2007-11-09 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Jim, Couldn't you use the "big hammer" approach and update the needpass value for all your user admin people from someone who can, like MAINT? A list of the users combined with enough EXEC DIRMAINT commands in one exec, run it and go on to something else? I recall having to do that for a differen

Re: Querying virtual processors

2007-11-09 Thread Rich Greenberg
On: Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 01:17:23PM -0800,Raymond Noal Wrote: } Rich, } } I have a virtual machine for a z/OS system and I defined 3 virtual IPs in the directory for this virtual machine. } } Q CPUS } 00: CPU 00 ID FF01AC8E20948000 (BASE) CP CPUAFF ON } 00: CPU 01 ID FF01AC8E20948000 ST

OT: CICS poster (was Poster of computer hardware events?)

2007-11-09 Thread Steve Marak
Mark, I have one of those (somewhere), and even more coincidentally, was thinking of it for reasons entirely unrelated to this thread just yesterday. How I came to have it is more ironic than coincidental, given how little I know - or ever knew - about CICS. I've never seen another, although t

Re: dirm needpass no

2007-11-09 Thread Jim Bohnsack
It's NPW0 after issuing DIRM NEEDPASS NO. With the previous level of DIRMAINT that I used (at least previous for me--probably came with z/VM4.3 or 4.4) users in the AUTHFOR list didn't have to do that. I vaguely recall, however that when we put in 4.3, having some kind of authorization proble

Re: Querying virtual processors

2007-11-09 Thread Mark Post
>>> On Fri, Nov 9, 2007 at 4:05 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rich Smrcina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Q V CPUS Ah. I had tried q v cpu, but not plural. Seems a little inconsistent. q v nic q v ctc q v osa Ah well. Thanks. (BTW, q v all works too, but I was trying to avoid looking t

Re: Querying virtual processors

2007-11-09 Thread Raymond Noal
Rich, I have a virtual machine for a z/OS system and I defined 3 virtual IPs in the directory for this virtual machine. Q CPUS 00: CPU 00 ID FF01AC8E20948000 (BASE) CP CPUAFF ON 00: CPU 01 ID FF01AC8E20948000 STOPPED CP CPUAFF ON 00: CPU 02 ID FF01AC8E20948000 STOPPED CP CPUAFF ON

Re: Querying virtual processors

2007-11-09 Thread Rich Greenberg
On: Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 01:59:40PM -0700,Mark Post Wrote: } I've got a couple of z/VM 5.1 guests, and they both have privilege classes B and G. I would like to be able to query how many virtual processors CP has defined for me at any given point in time. (No real reason, I'm just trying to l

Re: Querying virtual processors

2007-11-09 Thread Schuh, Richard
And "IND USER userid" can be done from a different user that has class E privileges. Regards, Richard Schuh -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 1:06 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Sub

Re: dirm needpass no

2007-11-09 Thread Rich Greenberg
On: Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 03:50:43PM -0500,Jim Bohnsack Wrote: } I'm still having problems with NEEDPASS. I have every id that acts as } an admin to the directory or as a system support person listed as } authorized for every DIRMAINT command in AUTHFOR CONTROL. I don't see } Kris's connection

Re: Querying virtual processors

2007-11-09 Thread Marcy Cortes
IND USER should tell you. Marcy Cortes "This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If

Re: Querying virtual processors

2007-11-09 Thread RPN01
Would "Q VIRTUAL CPUS" be what you're looking for? -- .~.Robert P. Nix Mayo Foundation /V\RO-OE-5-55200 First Street SW /( )\ 507-284-0844 Rochester, MN 55905 ^^-^^ - "In theory, theory and practice are the same, but

Re: Querying virtual processors

2007-11-09 Thread Rich Smrcina
Q V CPUS Mark Post wrote: I've got a couple of z/VM 5.1 guests, and they both have privilege classes B and G. I would like to be able to query how many virtual processors CP has defined for me at any given point in time. (No real reason, I'm just trying to learn new stuff, and the topic has

Querying virtual processors

2007-11-09 Thread Mark Post
I've got a couple of z/VM 5.1 guests, and they both have privilege classes B and G. I would like to be able to query how many virtual processors CP has defined for me at any given point in time. (No real reason, I'm just trying to learn new stuff, and the topic has come up on the Linux-390 mai

Re: Questions about LUN DASD volumes

2007-11-09 Thread Imler, Steven J
Alain, I think the only way you could do this from z/VM (the mainframe) is if the "LUN DASD" was configured as FBA devices ... if it's native Linux, I think the only way it can be accessed on the mainframe is by dedicating it to a z/Linux system. JR (Steven) Imler CA Senior Software Engineer Tel:

Re: dirm needpass no

2007-11-09 Thread Jim Bohnsack
I'm still having problems with NEEDPASS. I have every id that acts as an admin to the directory or as a system support person listed as authorized for every DIRMAINT command in AUTHFOR CONTROL. I don't see Kris's connection in his posting re: the 1x0CMDS file. The authorization level require

Re: Kedit (Was changing privclass of SHUTDOWN)

2007-11-09 Thread Rich Greenberg
On: Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 01:24:14PM -0500,Fran Hensler Wrote: } I too do much of my VSE work in CMS and KEDIT. There's no } need to dwell on the wonders of XEDIT but there is not much } said about KEDIT. I'm using 1.5 which has been around since } Windows 95 and I've never found a bug. All of

Re: Questions about LUN DASD volumes

2007-11-09 Thread Raymond Noal
I forgot to add this to my previous reply - The Q DASD DETAILS command only works for real devices, not mini disks. HITACHI  DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PR

Re: Questions about LUN DASD volumes

2007-11-09 Thread Raymond Noal
Alain, Mini disks are defined in your IOCDS/IODF as though they were real DASD devices. Mini disks will appear as 3390's to your operating system running in a virtual machine. Of course, their size/capacity will be that of the mini disk definition. If by LUN DASD you are referring to iSCSI dev

Re: Kedit (Was changing privclass of SHUTDOWN)

2007-11-09 Thread Brian Nielsen
On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 13:24:14 EST, Fran Hensler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >KEXX is great too. The only thing lacking is PIPES. Yeah, I miss pipes there, but I still love it. >Are you aware of the LaunchKE user contribution for KEDIT? >This is from the readme.txt: > >LaunchKE is a simple ye

Questions about LUN DASD volumes

2007-11-09 Thread Alain Benveniste
Hi all, We have a new requirement where we would like to be able to backup/restor e LUN DASD from open for a test. OPEN is an other world for me. So I would like to know how I should code LUN DASD (METALUN ?) into IOCP and how a MDISK would look like too. A copy/paste would be great. And what q d

Kedit (Was changing privclass of SHUTDOWN)

2007-11-09 Thread Fran Hensler
Tom, Ed and Brian - I too do much of my VSE work in CMS and KEDIT. There's no need to dwell on the wonders of XEDIT but there is not much said about KEDIT. I'm using 1.5 which has been around since Windows 95 and I've never found a bug. All of our power users have KEDIT installed. KEXX is g

Re: Wakeup and Shuttrap

2007-11-09 Thread Brian Nielsen
On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 10:15:36 -0600, Thomas Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is this PSW code (x0FFF) the >indicator to CP that SHUTDOWN has completed? If it is, how can I nicely load >the same indicator when my SVM has completed its shutdown processing? Sorry, I mis-read your question the fi

Re: Wakeup and Shuttrap

2007-11-09 Thread Thomas Kern
A CLASS G linux guest only needs to signal CP that ITS own shutdown processing has been completed and apparently the x0FFF in the PSW does th at. An SVM or Operator or Sysprog that issued the SIGNAL SHUTDOWN command wil l get the HCPSIG2113I message when the target SVM has completed its shutdow n

Re: Wakeup and Shuttrap

2007-11-09 Thread Brian Nielsen
Logging off seems like a pretty good signal. :-) You can put any CP command you want in the VMPOFF, so you could use MSG or SMSG to send a signal back to a shutdown SVM, which could wait until all guests have reported in before it issues the real CP SHUTDOWN. Brian Nielsen On Fri, 9 Nov 2007

Re: CP Recording problem

2007-11-09 Thread James M
Thanks and I'll try to keep in mind that cp has been designed with punishment algorithm's On Nov 9, 2007 11:06 AM, Alan Altmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday, 11/09/2007 at 10:35 EST, James M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A while back I had a problem in which a class g user was inadverte

Re: Changing privclass of SHUTDOWN

2007-11-09 Thread Brian Nielsen
On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 10:43:18 -0600, Ed Zell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I still try to keep all of my stuff, for support of my VSE >> systems, DB2, Linux, under CMS. Perhaps I'm one of the last >> ones that use CMS. > >Tom, > > You are not alone my friend. I also keep just about everything

Re: Wakeup and Shuttrap

2007-11-09 Thread Thomas Kern
My current linux setup works just fine without adding the VMPOFF=LOGOFF . If it is DISCONNECTED when SIGNAL SHUTDOWN arrives, it shuts down, loads tha t disable wait PSW and CP logs it off. When I am logged onto it and use the CLASS G version of SIGNAL SHUTDOWN, linux shuts down, loads the disable

Re: Changing privclass of SHUTDOWN

2007-11-09 Thread Ed Zell
> I still try to keep all of my stuff, for support of my VSE > systems, DB2, Linux, under CMS. Perhaps I'm one of the last > ones that use CMS. Tom, You are not alone my friend. I also keep just about everything related to our VSE systems in CMS. We don't use ICCF for anything but apply

Re: Poster of computer hardware events?

2007-11-09 Thread Tom Duerbusch
If we didn't have caching controllers and we were still on the 370 I/O subsystem, would we still be concerned about RPS misses now a days? I think most disk drives have 512K of cache on them. My understanding is that you don't read/write directly to the disk anymore, but to the drive cache. An

Re: Changing privclass of SHUTDOWN

2007-11-09 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Perhaps not, but the people that make the decisions on what to devote resources to, have "people" to do the grunt work. And, perhaps with the number of installs the z/VM development group does, it is highly documented all your "local' modifications. But in any case, you are running with the

Re: Wakeup and Shuttrap

2007-11-09 Thread Brian Nielsen
On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 10:15:36 -0600, Thomas Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Now I have to clean it up just a bit more. Which brings up the next tangent >on this discussion. When I signal a linux SVM to shutdown, CP reports th at >the linux SVM has signalled its termination. When I am logged onto

Re: CP Recording problem

2007-11-09 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 11/09/2007 at 10:35 EST, James M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A while back I had a problem in which a class g user was inadvertently > given iucv abilities and started cp account recording. > The directory for that user was corrected removing the IUCV statements. > I then stopped recordi

CP Recording problem

2007-11-09 Thread James M
A while back I had a problem in which a class g user was inadvertently given iucv abilities and started cp account recording. The directory for that user was corrected removing the IUCV statements. I then stopped recording and purged the records for the userid in question. End of story...I thought.

Re: CP Recording problem

2007-11-09 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
According to HELP RECORDING you have to do a COLD restart. Do not hold my feet to the fire, but FORCE may work. As part of the z/VM system generation process, your system programmer may have indicated which virtual machines would retrieve records of a designated type. CP recording system services

Re: Wakeup and Shuttrap

2007-11-09 Thread Thomas Kern
I do not get any EXT 4000 interrupts for the CSL calls to query the SFS servers. I like this work around. Just use SHUTTRAP to enable for SIGNAL SHUTDOWN and let WAKEUP and the driving exec handle the rest. Much nicer, cleaner. Here is what it looks like: 89 *-* 'WAKEUP +5 ( RDR CONS SMS

Re: Poster of computer hardware events?

2007-11-09 Thread Gregg
Marty, It didn't make it into the margins of "amdahl presents VM/ESA PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP", copyright 1992, Amdahl Corporation, In its original binder, I might add, that I have here. The copy I have at home (everybody keeps a complete set of manuals at both data centers, no?) has more notes. I'll

Re: Poster of computer hardware events?

2007-11-09 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Nov 9, 2007 3:00 PM, Phil Smith III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Schuh, Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Don't forget that Marty's note mentioned the word "miss" in conjunction > >with "RPS" > > Right...so an "RPS miss" is when your rock/paper/scissors doesn't work out > for you... We

Re: Changing privclass of SHUTDOWN

2007-11-09 Thread Phil Smith III
On Thursday, 11/08/2007 at 10:27 EST, "Huegel, Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Although I do think that sometimes they get a little case of 'If it ain't > broke, don't fix it' syndrome. Well...there's a lot to be said for compatibility. Work with *IX apps for a few releases and see. Or

Re: Poster of computer hardware events?

2007-11-09 Thread Phil Smith III
"Schuh, Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Don't forget that Marty's note mentioned the word "miss" in conjunction >with "RPS" Right...so an "RPS miss" is when your rock/paper/scissors doesn't work out for you... Back on topic, thanks for the reminiscences; I'll pass it along, see if that ri

Re: Wakeup and Shuttrap

2007-11-09 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Nov 9, 2007 2:33 PM, Kris Buelens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I added a trace myself and I think I understand: when you have some SFS > direcory accessed, and something changes in it (a file added/removed a Grant > affecting you), the SFS server tells you once "something has changed", > involv

Re: Wakeup and Shuttrap

2007-11-09 Thread Kris Buelens
I added a trace myself and I think I understand: when you have some SFS direcory accessed, and something changes in it (a file added/removed a Grant affecting you), the SFS server tells you once "something has changed", involving an EXT4000. The SFS client code will later pool the server to find o

Re: Poster of computer hardware events?

2007-11-09 Thread Mark Pace
On Nov 8, 2007 2:40 PM, Mike Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Marty asked: "*RPS miss (show of hands: who remembers what that was?*)" > > Not being in the office tomorrow, it's Friday a day early for me. So how > 'bout: > > - *R*ock *P*aper *S*cissors > - *R*evolutions *P*er *S*econd > - *R*

Re: Wakeup and Shuttrap

2007-11-09 Thread Thomas Kern
Thanks, I will look into it when I get into the office. I don't think the Hobbit code actually accesses any directories itself and I have mine installed on a minidisk. But I will have to check it when Hobbit is installed in an SFS allocation. /Tom Kern /301-903-2211 Kris Buelens wrote: I'd s

Re: Wakeup and Shuttrap

2007-11-09 Thread Kris Buelens
I'd say: test it, look at subroutine Extrn_event: and code a SAY when you get a 4000 interrupt, than you can see how often it happens in your environment. I know we can live with the number. You don't get an EXT 4000 interrupt for each SFS call, far from that. From what I tested, I see that one

Re: Wakeup and Shuttrap

2007-11-09 Thread Thomas Kern
Well, at least I did not make some silly error. When you use WAKEUP to trap the EXT interrupts, do you get alot of the EXT 4000 interrupts queued up when some exec that gets called as a TIMER event needs to query an SFS server via CSL calls? Hobbit client DISK function reports on CP allocation

Re: Poster of computer hardware events?

2007-11-09 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
marty zimelis wrote: Phil, Unless there was something else out there (a poster or whatever), that would have been me doing a riff in my VM Performance classes, first for Amdahl, then for Velocity. Your buddy's time frame is about right (15 years ago). I was attempting to emphasize the impact

Re: Wakeup and Shuttrap

2007-11-09 Thread Kris Buelens
I've been reading and testing: - I get WAKEUP's RC 6 too, but when calling WAKEUP again, it directly exist with RC 1. So, the SHUTTRAP signal triggers 2 WAKEUP events: COSN & SMSG. Removing the CONS option doesn't do anything. - SHUTTRAP does not work like ADDRESS CMS, (so an eventual