Randy Burton is out of the office until Mon. 1/7/2008

2008-01-02 Thread Randy Burton
I will be out of the office starting 01/02/2008 and will not return until 01/07/2008. I will be out of the office on Thu. 1/3 & Fri. 1/4, returning on Mon. 1/8. I will have no access to voice mail or Email during this time. If you need assistance while I am out, please contact John Hoffler ([EMA

Re: CMS TSM admin client

2008-01-02 Thread Thomas Kern
And because of the pricing of z/OS cycles, some managers are beginning to forget their blue tattoos and switch to brand X backup/restore products when they see that the zlinux TSM is still not as fully featured as MAINFRAME software should be. Tape management and shared drives have been such a

Re: CMS TSM admin client

2008-01-02 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 01/02/2008 at 09:36 EST, Thomas Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So TSM needs to change to become a real full-fledged MAINFRAME product. I understand the point, but the z/OS version of TSM is the "mainframe" version of the product. The Linux version of TSM is designed for distri

Re: CMS TSM admin client

2008-01-02 Thread Thomas Kern
So TSM needs to change to become a real full-fledged MAINFRAME product. It's about time. /Tom Kern Alan Altmark wrote: snipped ... Further, TSM would have to change to integrate tape management with mainframe tape management systems. That is, it would need to use something like the new

CAVMEN Meeting on Thursday, January 24, 2008

2008-01-02 Thread Chicago Area VM (and Linux) Enthusiasts
The first quarter meeting of the Chicago Area VM (and Linux) Enthusiasts will be held on Thursday, January 24, 2008. The Final Agenda is included below. -- Meeting Location: This quarter's meeting will be held at the Hewitt Associates 'East Campus' located at 100 Half Day Road, in L

Re: CMS/MVS Toolkit

2008-01-02 Thread James Vincent
Dowling Group recently dropped the product which is unfortunate but understandable since the client base is very small and no one has been asking for it. It is fairly stable and unless major changes are done in the z/OS catalog (which is entirely possible at any given release) it should continue to

Re: CMS TSM admin client

2008-01-02 Thread Mike Walter
> Would be nice. Otherwise, I guess it's left as an exercise to the user to emulate something that TSM _does_ understand. Such as license fees? 8-{~ IMHO regarding the Tivoli products that run on or interface to z/VM and Linux for System z: "Tivoli - an IBM unholy-owned company." Not a typo.

Re: CMS TSM admin client

2008-01-02 Thread David Boyes
> Further, TSM would have to change You could have stopped here... 8-(. > to integrate tape management with > mainframe tape management systems. That is, it would need to use > something like the new eRMM APIs that can talk to z/OS tape managers. Would be nice. Otherwise, I guess it's left as

Re: Kerberos on z/VM: To Be or not to Be?

2008-01-02 Thread David Boyes
> Now on to Kerberos > Is anyone Out There actively building CMS Kerberos apps or who is > depending on the z/VM Kerberos daemon for outboard Kerberos apps? I still support several Kerberized CMS apps, although with the known compromises in Kerberos 4, I've been getting a lot of pressure to e

Kerberos on z/VM: To Be or not to Be?

2008-01-02 Thread Alan Altmark
Hello, all. A Happy New Year to everyone. I hope that 2008 brings you peace and prosperity. Every now and then we re-evaluate the services z/VM provides. In case you didn't notice, z/VM 5.3 dropped support for ROUTED, leaving MPROUTE as the only supported dynamic routing daemon. We also dr

Re: CMS/MVS Toolkit

2008-01-02 Thread Jefferson Davis
FYI, We did get in touch with the vendor and they were able to provide the info that we needed. Thanks, Jeff -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Walter Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 9:22 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU

Re: FTP Append

2008-01-02 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 12/31/2007 at 12:07 EST, "Schuh, Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Then I guess FT it will be. I cannot really climb into either, as source > is distruibuted with neither. I would be asking IBM to do all of the > climbing. Eh? Source to most of TCP/IP is available, including the F

Re: CMS TSM admin client

2008-01-02 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 01/02/2008 at 10:44 EST, Aria Bamdad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But I am not using FICON attached tape. I use an ESCON attached 3590 > that is in reality a SCSI drive but connected to a ESCON attached > controller. Whether ESCON or FICON, it doesn't matter. IBM likes to invent n

Re: FTP Append

2008-01-02 Thread Schuh, Richard
Chuckie must have really been busy spreading doubt and confusion in the Support Center. They are having trouble verifying the we are entitled to support for that: Operating System named TCP/IP Product named TCP/IP Communication Server named TCP/IP Etc., etc. etc. I have

Re: CMS/MVS Toolkit

2008-01-02 Thread Mike Walter
Ed, When Jeff asked, I looked in my "ISV" favorites; but the one for "Unlimited Software Resources (a Dowling Group Company)" now ends up at "Unlimited Software.com" which has no mainframe products. How "Unlimited" is that!!? Google was not much help. I don't have a need for their CMS/MVS To

Re: CMS TSM admin client

2008-01-02 Thread Mark Post
>>> On Wed, Jan 2, 2008 at 10:41 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Aria Bamdad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -snip- > But I am not using FICON attached tape. I use an ESCON attached 3590 > that is in reality a SCSI drive but connected to a ESCON attached > controller. Same difference. The channe

Re: CMS/MVS Toolkit

2008-01-02 Thread Edward M. Martin
Hello Jeff, I sent the info you need to Unlimited Software Resources. They are friends of mine (and old company). Great product and does wonderful stuff from z/VM for the OS systems. Ed Martin 330-588-4723 ext 40441 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating Syste

Re: CMS TSM admin client

2008-01-02 Thread Aria Bamdad
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:06:47 -0700 Mark Post said: On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 2:21 PM, in message ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Aria Bamdad ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:=20 >-snip- >> Why is it that z/Linux can talk to a channel attached 3590 but TSM >> can't? > >According to one of my contacts, it's beca

CMS/MVS Toolkit

2008-01-02 Thread Jefferson Davis
Does anyone have the CMS/MVS Toolkit product from Unlimited Software Resources? We need to apply a new product key but have no documentation and cannot figure out how to do it. TIA Jefferson Davis