Re: ongoing rush to the new, 40+ yr old virtual machine technology

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to alt.folklore.computers as well. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007s.html#40 ongoing rush to the new, 40+ yr old virtual machine technology IBM Ships 10,000th Storage Virtualization Engine

Re: Adding OSA devices to a vSwitch...

I believe you can do it without using the disconnect. I tried this on a system that was not very active and it worked fine. Hans -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ronald van der Laan Sent: November 16, 2007 3:48 AM To:

Re: Question about SMAPI

The SMAPI server requires a directory manager, and DirMaint has been enhanced to work with the new server. From IBM's perspective, there is no reason to not go there just yet. One reason might be that your provisioning product supports the RPC server but does not (yet?) support the SMAPI

Re: dirm needpass no

From DirMaint Support: What they have done is made every command be not prompted for a password. Which of course is not the way DirMaint typically runs. Someone, probably on the listserv, told them in the past they could alter the cmds file to remove them from password authorization.

Re: Guest access to z9 DVD drive

If you're using SLES, use the DDR starter system install server. The throughput of an internal VSWITCH or GLAN is a vast improvement over FTP to the HMC.

Re: Guest access to z9 DVD drive

On Friday, 11/16/2007 at 08:51 EST, Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, I don't believe z/VM 5.3 provides any way for a guest to access the DVD drive in the HMC. Sorry. Correct. I know the DVD drive in the HMC is a tantalizing morsel, but it is a device that belongs to the HMC, not the

Re: CPU usage data

Mary Zervos wrote: Our director wants a report on our cpu usage asap as our mainframe might be heading out the door. We used to run Real Time Monitor. We're currently at z/VM 4.4. Any ideas on what I could quickly fire up to monitor our system. I take it accounting data, which would show CPU

Re: Guest access to z9 DVD drive

Hi, Susan. No, I don't believe z/VM 5.3 provides any way for a guest to access the DVD drive in the HMC. Sorry. Susan Zimmerman wrote: Hi all, new with 5.3 is guest access to the HMC ASCII console. Does anyone know if z/VM provides guest access to the DVD drive? Thanks in advance. susan

Re: Notice for z/VM Red Alerts

John, All of the transactions for the page change notify function get handled b y www.vm.ibm.com. I don't understand how an error on my end could cause yo u to see a DNS error on clicking the Submit button. After all, DNS must have worked for you immediately prior, because we served the

Re: Can we move existing z/OS processing to z/Linux

ESALPS runs on IFLs, does lots of network monitoring/performance management functions. Alan Ackerman wrote: I received the following question from my management: - The question is being asked: can we move existing

Re: dirm needpass no

Thanks Colleen. Could you please pass this response back to DirMaint Support? This is our production system, and we certainly want to control who can issue DirMaint commands. The question is the best way to do this. In general we want to make things secure, but also easy to use for the few

Re: Question about SMAPI

All true, and I agree. Marcy didn't ask about specific products, and I did not mean to imply anything about exploiter products and/or releases; my intent was to clarify things relative to the SMAPI server virtual machines and z/VM releases. John Franciscovich z/VM Development Well, I guess it

Re: dirm needpass no

Thanks Colleen. Could you please pass this response back to DirMaint Support? I agree with what Alan recommended a week ago now, please open a problem with the IBM support center and work directly with level 2. Thanks Best Regards, Les Geer IBM z/VM and Linux Development

Re: dirm needpass no

I passed this onto DirMaint support and they have asked that you open a PMR. Colleen M Brown IBM z/VM and Related Products Development and Service Les Geer (607-429-3580) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 11/16/2007 04:36 PM Please respond to

Re: dirm needpass no

On Friday, 11/16/2007 at 03:25 EST, Mark Bodenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is our production system, and we certainly want to control who can issue DirMaint commands. The question is the best way to do this. In general we want to make things secure, but also easy to use for the

Re: CMS Pipelins - can SPEC reformat a field with decimal

On Nov 15, 2007 10:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: great - i got that to work in my PIPE. thanks for the direction. The arithmetic in SPEC is somewhat designed after the IBM 407 Accounting Machine. You will fine a few references to that in The Book (the CMS/TSO Pipelines: Author's Edition -