Re: Where are the logs?

2008-01-29 Thread Alan Altmark
On Tuesday, 01/29/2008 at 09:27 EST, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, the TCPIP logs are in the TCPMAINT RDR queue but nothing is current. Everything is before the re-ipl. 1. Logon to TCPMAINT 2. NETSTAT CP CLOSE CONS 3. A RDR file will arrive from TCPIP 4. RDRLIST If

Re: recovering VSWITCH if real switch dies

2008-01-29 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 01/28/2008 at 06:08 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AIX had connectivity once the physical switch was back online. our zVM 4.4 vswitch did not - thus the question of how to get it back. AIX 5.3 has VIO servers which allow for failover between network connections - but, no - it

Re: Where are the logs?

2008-01-29 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
Exactly, current console logs for TCPIP. Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474 -Original Message- From: Dave Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 9:07 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU

Booting of a different parm disk....

2008-01-29 Thread Brian France
Folks, I've been informed that we're moving to new physical dasd probably next week. So, I think this will work but was looking for verification Backup current System config to from cf1 to cf2. Change system config to new CUA's. We're moving one for one 2000 - 4000. Update CF1

Booting of a different parm disk....

2008-01-29 Thread John Franciscovich
There are a number of ways you can do this using the Stand-Alone Program Loader (SAPL) screen at IPL time. You can optionally display this screen by specifying a 3270-capable console address in the LOADPARM field of your hardware console (or on the IPL command). Rather than specifying the

Re: Booting of a different parm disk....

2008-01-29 Thread Brian France
At 10:56 AM 1/29/2008, John Franciscovich wrote: There are a number of ways you can do this using the Stand-Alone Program Loader (SAPL) screen at IPL time. You can optionally display this screen by specifying a 3270-capable console address in the LOADPARM field of your hardware console (or on

Re: Booting of a different parm disk....

2008-01-29 Thread Mike Walter
As usual, Kris is correct. But I've always taken a slightly different approach: 1) Get R/W access to the CF1 disk as, for example, I. 2) COPYFILE SYSTEM CONFIG I -1SYSTEM CONFIG O (OLDDATE 3) XEDIT SYSTEM CONFIG I 4) Make needed changed, and FILE it knowing that you still have -1SYSTEM CONFIG I

Re: Where are the logs?

2008-01-29 Thread Tracy Dean
Since Bob mentioned CA VM:Spool, I should also point out IBM's solution f or viewing live consoles: IBM Operations Manager for z/VM. Operations Manager allows you to view and interact with the console of a disconnected service machine (including a Linux guest, of course) from yo ur own VM

Re: Booting of a different parm disk....

2008-01-29 Thread Kris Buelens
Yes indeed, that's enough. And, if CF1 and CF2 are allocated as PARM, no need to remember the cylinder numbers, just say the n'th PARM disk in the EXTENT field 2008/1/29, Brian France [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Folks, I've been informed that we're moving to new physical dasd probably next week.

Re: Where are the logs?

2008-01-29 Thread Claudio Testore
Check TCPIP print queue. Current console log should be there in OPEN status. You need to close that spool file to receive it in TCPMAINT reader. - Mensaje original De: Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Enviado: martes 29 de enero de 2008, 12:26:19

Re: Where are the logs?

2008-01-29 Thread Dave Jones
Bobby, what kind of current 'logs' are you looking for? Perhaps the console logs from OPERATOR or TCPIP? Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] wrote: We are new to z/VM (5.3 on a z9) and I have a basic question. How do I access the current logs? I can see in RDRLIST under MAINT for instance, a file

Where are the logs?

2008-01-29 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
We are new to z/VM (5.3 on a z9) and I have a basic question. How do I access the current logs? I can see in RDRLIST under MAINT for instance, a file for MAINT that appears to be the log for yesterday but I don't see anything for this morning after I re-ipled. Bobby Bauer Center for

Re: Where are the logs?

2008-01-29 Thread Dave Jones
By default, I believe, the console logs for the TCPIP virtual machine are spooled to TCPMAINT. Go look in it's rdr queue. Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] wrote: Exactly, current console logs for TCPIP. Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD

Re: Where are the logs?

2008-01-29 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
Yes, the TCPIP logs are in the TCPMAINT RDR queue but nothing is current. Everything is before the re-ipl. Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474 -Original Message- From: Dave Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Where are the logs?

2008-01-29 Thread Bob Bates
I suspect you are talking about the OPEN console logs, which you can't look at unless you either close them (#CP SPOOL CONS CLOSE) which will move them to a reader where they can be PEEKed or RECEIVEd, OR I have always had CA's VM:SPOOL which allows an authorized user to browse spool files of

Re: Where are the logs?

2008-01-29 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
There it is! That is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for the info. Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474 -Original Message- From: Alan Altmark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Re: Not in Plan response to requirements

2008-01-29 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Jan 29, 2008 9:45 PM, Huegel, Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It may be a requirement to ask IBM to prepare better 'rejection documentation'. But in the end, you'd like IBM not to reject the requirements, but implement them... Making it harder to reject them is a way to influence the

Re: Not in Plan response to requirements

2008-01-29 Thread Alan Altmark
On Tuesday, 01/29/2008 at 03:24 EST, David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After having written up a lot of the requirements discussed here and submitting them through a recognized user group, I received a number of rejection notices with a reason of ?not in plan?. Could someone at IBM

Re: Not in Plan response to requirements

2008-01-29 Thread Huegel, Thomas
It may be a requirement to ask IBM to prepare better 'rejection documentation'. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Boyes Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 2:22 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Not in Plan response to

Re: Where are the logs?

2008-01-29 Thread Kris Buelens
You can also get a little help from my URLIST tool, part of: http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/descript.cgi?LISTSG You'd issue URLIST TCPIP and get an RDRLIST-like list of the RDR, PRT and PUN queue of TCPIP. The open console file will be included; URLIST doesn't provide anything to view

Not in Plan response to requirements

2008-01-29 Thread David Boyes
After having written up a lot of the requirements discussed here and submitting them through a recognized user group, I received a number of rejection notices with a reason of not in plan. Could someone at IBM explain this reason a little further? I thought the point of user requirements was

Re: Not in Plan response to requirements

2008-01-29 Thread David Boyes
But in the end, you'd like IBM not to reject the requirements, but implement them... Making it harder to reject them is a way to influence the trade-off, but not the most efficient way. Yes. The basic tradeoff I'd hope for is that the response at least be thoughtful enough to tell us why the

Re: Not in Plan response to requirements

2008-01-29 Thread David Boyes
Sometimes a requirement does not pass Go or collect $200 and is rejected or accepted outright. Of course, business needs change all the time, so a Rejection or Acceptance is no guarantee that it will never see the light of day or that it will be in release n+1. But remember that our