Re: Replacement for PKZIP on VM

2008-01-14 Thread Dave Jones
Hi, James. Leland Lucius has ported both zlib and bzlib over to the IBM zSeries systems. It make take a little bit of work to make them into a replacement for PKZIP, but it might be worth the effort (especially considering the license fees PKZIP cahrges for their product) You can them

Re: Hipersockets

2008-01-14 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 01/14/2008 at 12:07 EST, Karl Kingston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I need to research some more or something but we had the following: CHPID F0 has hipersockets 7100-710F defined CHPID F1 has hipersockets 7200-720F defined. Just created a Linux system and assigned it

Re: can't get VSE stack reconnected thru VM

2008-01-14 Thread phillip
Rich, i see this for the problem vse: Device SP9D Type: CTC Status: Ready Queue size: 0 CPU: 0 Address: 0C06 Link SP9Type: CTC Net number: 0 BytesIn: 0BytesOut: 0 Forwarding: Enabled Broadcast Capability:

Re: Hipersockets

2008-01-14 Thread Karl Kingston
The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU wrote on 01/14/2008 01:15:53 PM: On Monday, 01/14/2008 at 12:07 EST, Karl Kingston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I need to research some more or something but we had the following: CHPID F0 has hipersockets 7100-710F defined

Re: can't get VSE stack reconnected thru VM

2008-01-14 Thread Rich Smrcina
NETSTAT DEV, or if your VM is current enough ifconfig. What level of VSE are you running? You may be able to connect it directly to the VSwitch and eliminate the hop. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: we had a switch get accidently rebooted this morning. i have VM's TCPIP connected thru a VSWITCH

Re: can't get VSE stack reconnected thru VM

2008-01-14 Thread phillip
CTCA 0C06 3088 COUPLED TO SP9 0C07 SUBCHANNEL = 001E CTCA 0C07 3088 COUPLED TO SP9 0C06 SUBCHANNEL = 001F CTCA 0D06 3088 COUPLED TO SP9 0647 SUBCHANNEL = 0020 CTCA 0D07 3088 COUPLED TO SP9 0646 SUBCHANNEL = 0021 is there anyway to reset them? prg Phillip Gramly Systems

DB2 Client to DB2/UDB: Code pages

2008-01-14 Thread Tom Duerbusch
I don't recall reading much of a discussion about this, so here it goes. Older releases of DB2 for VM and VSE had a default code page of 37 (in the USA). And if you have been migrating DB2 since then, you may still be at code page 37. The default code page for DB2 for VM and VSE since V7(?),

Re: Hipersockets

2008-01-14 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 01/14/2008 at 01:44 EST, Karl Kingston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So you're saying I can have up to 16 hipersocket LAN Segments. How many hipersockets can I have in a CHPID? Terminology is ambiguous here, because it gets misused. A HiperSocket is a CHPID TYPE=IQD (or a z/VM Guest

Re: can't get VSE stack reconnected thru VM

2008-01-14 Thread Rich Smrcina
You can DETACH and COUPLE them again. But that will destroy the connection and I'm not sure if you can bring a connection up on VSE without bouncing the stack. That may not be an issue in your case, since your connectivity is lost anyway. To get it back in VM use an obeyfile to start those

Re: can't get VSE stack reconnected thru VM

2008-01-14 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 01/14/2008 at 02:36 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i shut down all my VSE stacks, then shutdown VM's TCPIP and restarted all the stacks just like we do at system startup. still cannot reach the problem VSE. the COUPLEs are all in place, so what else can be missing? In a

Re: Hipersockets

2008-01-14 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 01/14/2008 at 02:47 EST, Karl Kingston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last question: Is there any benefit to having hipersockets defined for VM guest to guest communication? The guests are also all connectde to a vswitch.I can see the need for hipersockets when you need to

Re: Hipersockets

2008-01-14 Thread Karl Kingston
The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU wrote on 01/14/2008 02:01:29 PM: On Monday, 01/14/2008 at 01:44 EST, Karl Kingston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So you're saying I can have up to 16 hipersocket LAN Segments. How many hipersockets can I have in a CHPID? Terminology

Re: Hipersockets

2008-01-14 Thread Thomas Kern
Can a vswitch be created with a hipersocket port instead of an OSA port? /Tom Kern On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:59:35 -0500, Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In general, I would say no, but there are always exceptions. If you have tons of data streaming in/out of a guest, then you *may*

Re: can't get VSE stack reconnected thru VM

2008-01-14 Thread Mike Walter
Phil, I was wondering the same thing. Maybe it's just that Alan's getting older, or it's Monday... but it's more likely that Chuckie got his hands on a large shipment of Adam Thornton's 180 Proof Magic Cough Syrup, Snake Oil, Intergalactic Gear and Hemorrhoid Lubricant and has been

Re: can't get VSE stack reconnected thru VM

2008-01-14 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 01/14/2008 at 03:32 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: one address is 0C06 (charlie) and one is 0D06 (dog) where do you see two with the same address? LOL. I don't. Now. :-) Never mind. (That's a good thing since I would be hard pressed to explain how it would work!) (cough)

Re: Hipersockets

2008-01-14 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 01/14/2008 at 03:36 EST, Thomas Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can a vswitch be created with a hipersocket port instead of an OSA port? No. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott

Re: Hipersockets

2008-01-14 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 01/14/2008 at 03:01 EST, Mark Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That would be what Guest LANs are for, or disconnected VSWITCHes. You can define Guest LANs in either QDIO or HiperSocket modes. Not too much benefit of one type over the other these days. Alan likes disconnected

Re: Hipersockets

2008-01-14 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Alan Altmark wrote: Hi, Because a host requires 3 devices (subchannels) to connect to a HiperSocket, ... Why does it need 3 SCs, as in what is the third for? Is there some (low level) documentation on this? /bz -- Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb

Re: Hipersockets

2008-01-14 Thread David Kreuter
even addr device: read data device even+1 device: write data device some other address: data transfer device hipersockets and osa qdio both utilize the qdio protocol. I like to think of the qdio protocol as using whats good about I/Os (starting and interrupts) while not actually using I/O to

Re: Hipersockets

2008-01-14 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 01/14/2008 at 06:25 EST, Bjoern A. Zeeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because a host requires 3 devices (subchannels) to connect to a HiperSocket, ... Why does it need 3 SCs, as in what is the third for? It uses one subchannel to receive commands from the host (write control), one

Re: Dynamically defining ESCON CTC

2008-01-14 Thread Ken Watson
It seems to me that CUADD=0 is valid when the CHPIDs are DEDICATED. Shimon Lebowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 01/13/2008 08:56 AM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc