Re: New Forum Available for Discussing IBM's Operations Manager for z/VM

2008-02-27 Thread Phil Smith III
Lionel B. Dyck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those using or interested in using IBM's Operations Manager for z/VM I have created a Google Group for mutual support and self-help. This is an experiment to see if this group will be useful - if not it can easily be ignored or deleted. Apologies if

FW: Has IBM provided a link to the z10 POPs?

2008-02-27 Thread McKown, John
In case anybody wanted a link to the new Principles of Operation (-06). -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology The information contained in this e-mail message may be privileged and/or

Re: New Forum Available for Discussing IBM's Operations Manager for z/VM

2008-02-27 Thread Lionel B. Dyck
Apologies if this has already been hashed out in the non-Digest stream, but: why create a new list? Why not discuss it here? ...phsiii The only reason is that you can post files in that forum and it is a focused place for them. Not to detract from this listserv - it was just a thought to

Re: New Forum Available for Discussing IBM's Operations Manager for z/VM

2008-02-27 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
The powers that be blocked that site. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lionel B. Dyck Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 9:55 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: New Forum Available for

Moderator comment Re: [IBMVM] New Forum Available for Discussing IBM's Operations Manager for z/VM

2008-02-27 Thread Daniel P. Martin
Dear colleagues: I am entirely in favor of whatever model best addresses the need to support ongoing useful discussion, either in this forum or any other venue. As members of the VM community, we are all ultimately dining at the same table. The list configuration for IBMVM is set to

PPRC

2008-02-27 Thread Marcy Cortes
Question for those of you using PPRC. We're about to jump in. Do you need to keep offline in system config the secondaries? And have 2 system configs in case you need to run off the secondaries? Marcy Cortes This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not

Re: PPRC

2008-02-27 Thread Mark Wheeler
Marcy, I have an exec which runs in AUTOLOG1 at IPL, plus every half-hour (in case something changes while you're running), to vary off all but my primary DASD volumes. Looks like: VM_DASD_addrs = '1000-10FF 1100-11FF 1910-1917' 'PIPE(name DASDOFF endchar ?)|', 'CP Q DASD ALL |', 'SPLIT ,

Re: New Forum Available for Discussing IBM's Operations Manager for z/VM

2008-02-27 Thread Lionel B. Dyck
I'll bow to the group and will remove the forum and focus the questions/etc to this listserv. thx and sorry for the bother Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist Enterprise Platform Services, Mainframe Engineering KP-IT Enterprise Engineering 925-926-5332 (8-473-5332) | E-Mail: [EMAIL

Re: PPRC

2008-02-27 Thread Judson West
We use z/OS HCD to define our I/O configuration. The secondary volumes are offline there. When in a D/R situation, we re-cable the secondary into the primary CHPIDs and re-IPL (small shop). -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marcy

Interface control checks

2008-02-27 Thread Marcy Cortes
Twice in the last 4 weeks, we've had a problem on a random CHPID (bad GBIC or something like that), that generated hundreds (thousands) of: HCPERP602I DASD DE3E AN INTERFACE CONTROL CHECK OCCURRED HCPERP6303I SENSE = INVALID HCPERP6304I IRB = 04C24017

Re: PPRC

2008-02-27 Thread Kris Buelens
We have primary and secondary both online, since ages... The HW protects you for mistakes: you cannot write to/read from the secondaries. 2008/2/27, Judson West [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We use z/OS HCD to define our I/O configuration. The secondary volumes are offline there. When in a D/R

Re: PPRC

2008-02-27 Thread Marcy Cortes
Kris wrote: We have primary and secondary both online, since ages... The HW protects you for mistakes: you cannot write to/read from the secondaries. Cool! Just what I hoped would happen. Thanks Kris! Marcy Cortes This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If

Re: PPRC

2008-02-27 Thread Mark Wheeler
Well... my z/OS folks have had issues managing devices when the secondaries are inadvertantly online to VM. Dunno the details. Mark Wheeler, 3M Company Marcy Cortes

Re: Directory shuffling

2008-02-27 Thread Horlick, Michael
Greetings, FYI, I opened a PMR regarding the issue of directory entry shuffling that was happening to me. Some responses from IBM: quote Well this behavior is built into DirMaint. DirMaint has to sort entries is some order mostly based upon CP rules. DirMaint tries to associate LINK and

Re: Interface control checks

2008-02-27 Thread Schuh, Richard
Because. Regards, Richard Schuh -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 9:39 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Interface control checks Twice in the last 4 weeks,

Re: Interface control checks

2008-02-27 Thread Mike Walter
To finish Richard's sentence; Because... ... that's what PROP, VM:Operator, and the IBM named version of VM:Operator (sorry, don't remember the product name) are for. Some customers may not want even a redundant CHPID brought offline because experience has taught them that flaky CHPIDs will

Re: PPRC

2008-02-27 Thread RPN01
We run something similar, but only in AUTOLOG1 or by special request. We look through the complete list of DASD addresses, looking for CP Owned and CP System devices. Anything that doesn't match either of these, and isn't already offline, is varied offline. Counts are produced at the end. With a

Re: PPRC

2008-02-27 Thread Mark Wheeler
The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU wrote on 02/27/2008 12:44:15 PM: Well... my z/OS folks have had issues managing devices when the secondaries are inadvertantly online to VM. Dunno the details. Mark Wheeler, 3M Company I checked with aforementioned z/OS folks... If the