Re: MONWRITE files

2008-03-12 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:04 PM, Hamilton, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We've tried feeding the perf toolkit trend files into MXG however we > have been told MXG will only process raw MONITOR data (4096 > records)...that's what I have been told. So 'they' have not told the full story. M

Re: MONWRITE files

2008-03-12 Thread Hamilton, Brian
Eginhard, Thank you very much for your reply. You are correct, I'm looking at strictly collecting data for capacity planning. The data will be fed into MXG which runs on a z/OS 1.7 host. We've tried feeding the perf toolkit trend files into MXG however we have been told MXG will only process raw

Re: DirMaint PURGE question

2008-03-12 Thread KEETON Dave * OR SDC
Kris - thanks for the DRM package tip! I grabbed it and used it to clean things out. Thanks to Bruce for your response as well! Regards, Dave -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kris Buelens Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 12:16

Re: Need help to swap CMS Level 20 to CMS Level 22 for few users on z/VM

2008-03-12 Thread Kris Buelens
The CMS level is defined by the 190 disk they linked, and the NSS they IPLed. Please verify that, IBM's default installations do not provide a standard method to get this mix. - IND USER can tell what NSS wat IPLed - Q MDISK USER xxx 190 LOCATION tells what 190 disk was linked 2008/3/12, Sus

Re: DirMaint PURGE question

2008-03-12 Thread Kris Buelens
Part of my DRM package on VM's download lib is DIRMW. You enter DIRMW and you'll get a selection list of all Workunit and WUCCFAIL requests, including the command issuer and the command that was issued. You can then XEDIT, Retry, Query or Erase the files. With QUERY you get a chance to see easil

Need help to swap CMS Level 20 to CMS Level 22 for few users on z/VM

2008-03-12 Thread Sushil Andre
Hi, I am new to z/VM and I have few users on z/VM with CMS Level 20 and others with CMS Level 20. Now I want to swap those users from CMS Level 20 to CMS Level 22. Can anybody help me? Thanks & Regards, Sushil Andre

Re: listing active user directory

2008-03-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Kris, I now have also a FORMAT EXEC, which rejects to format certain minidisks, such as MAINT 191, MAINT CF1 and so on. Other thing which has happened to me, was to shutdown the wrong of two VMs at 11am. Since then I disable with AUTOLOG1 the CP SHUTDOWN at IPL and have an exec, which chec

Re: Disaster Recovery Scenarios

2008-03-12 Thread Kris Buelens
Something we do: when the daily disaster backup is taken, the server stores a file with a certain name on AUTOLOG1's 191. As soon as the AUTOLOG1 191 is DDRed, the file is removed. The PROFILE EXEC of AUTOLOG1 & AUTOLOG2 checks for this file. If it is found a QUERY is sent to the operators, askin

Re: DirMaint PURGE question

2008-03-12 Thread Bruce Hayden
That is a failure of an Add Minidisk request - and it is telling you that it can't find a free space ("gap") to allocate the disk in. Check your EXTENT CONTROL file for the GRPLNX group and see if it has free space. Frequently an error purging an id is due to cleaning up the minidisks, and the pro

Re: NETDATA QUERY rc 5 from zOS output

2008-03-12 Thread pfa
How is your virtual reader (00C) set? What class, hold/nohold - there are a few things you can look at. Something else you might do is detach and redefine it (ie- DETACH 00C and DEFINE RDR 00C) and try it again. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 03/12/2008 01:11 PM Plea

DirMaint PURGE question

2008-03-12 Thread KEETON Dave * OR SDC
Hi Everyone, I'm new at using DirMaint, so please excuse the ignorance of my question. I have a user account I created that I can't seem to purge correctly. I told it to purge the account, but it hasn't completed yet. It's been several days and I'm not sure why it hasn't completed yet. There are

Re: SHARE 110 Linux and z/VM related presentations

2008-03-12 Thread Mark Post
>>> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 3:07 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Rempel, Horst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Mark, > I am unable to open the presentation '9111 Romney White Using New CP > Features in z/VM 5.3'. > I get a message that the pdf is corrupted. > Please would you be so ki

Re: NETDATA QUERY rc 5 from zOS output

2008-03-12 Thread Ken Vance
Thanks. I will take a look at the exec process, it could be that it is getting stuck on the PRT files before it gets to the PUN files. Ken

Re: NETDATA QUERY rc 5 from zOS output

2008-03-12 Thread Kris Buelens
NETDATA uses the first RDR file available with the current SPOOL 000C setting. So, issue Q V C to see which class is available, and then if class is not * issue CP Q R * CLASS class; else CP Q R * The first file in the CP Q response is what NETDATA tries to read In this case you show the r

NETDATA QUERY rc 5 from zOS output

2008-03-12 Thread Ken Vance
Hi, I have opened a PMR with IBM, but they may have gone home for the day. We have an exec that submits jobs to MVS, and then checks the output when it comes back. The exec uses the NETDATA QUERY command, and this has been working without any issues. The zOS 1.7 system was recently updated wi

Re: Impromptu XEDIT Survey

2008-03-12 Thread Schuh, Richard
Actually, the only correct answer is that t is up to individuals to place it wherever it suits them best. There is not a "one size fits all" answer. That is one reason for their being a PROFILE XEDIT. Regards, Richard Schuh From: The IBM z/VM

Re: Network connectivity issue

2008-03-12 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 03/12/2008 at 07:33 EDT, "McBride, Catherine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A colleague has a situation where some remote locations can't telnet to the > mainframe. Others can. The locations that can't connect via internal IP > address can connect successfully using the same emu

Re: Impromptu XEDIT Survey

2008-03-12 Thread Stanley Rarick
It depends on the data, and sometimes it should be off. Huegel, Thomas wrote: Where does the prefix field belong? On the left? or On the right?

Re: Disaster Recovery Scenarios

2008-03-12 Thread Mike Walter
Before building a second data center for D.R. (and other reasons), we assigned a MAINT DDD disk to contain all the EXECs and files required during D.R. It provided a single place to keep all the moving parts. It also made it easy to TAPE DUMP that disk after D.R. with all the changes made dur

Re: fsck/fdisk issues under z/VM

2008-03-12 Thread Romanowski, John (OFT)
for ECKD dasd use fdasd, not fdisk Use fdisk for FBA dasd This e-mail, including any attachments, may be confidential, privileged or otherwise legally protected. It is intended only for the addressee. If you received this e-mail in e

Re: making DIAG 250 work

2008-03-12 Thread Richard Troth
Thanks for the responses. I had not gotten as far as man-handling the config files like Bruce suggested. Doing that today does not seem to help the situation. I also explicitly listed dasd_mod_diag (and the rest) in /etc/sysconfig/kernel and then re-ran 'mkinitrd' and 'zipl'. No joy. (The driv

Re: SFS memory use question

2008-03-12 Thread Colin Allinson
"Imler, Steven J" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote :- > Try this on the SFS server console: > .show lock user * > THERE IS NO LOCK ACTIVITY FOR ANY USERS > DMS5BC3065I Operator command processing complete Yes, I can do that via Secondary Console. It seems to show locks for FTPSERVE all the time and,

fsck/fdisk issues under z/VM

2008-03-12 Thread Guest, Darren
Hi, I've just installed our first RHEL4.4 Linux under z/VM 5.3 (RSU 0703) and we have a slight issue with the fdisk and fsck commands in that they don't recognise the partitions on the 3390 minidisks that Linux is using for it's dasda disk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# fdisk -l Note: sector size i

Re: Disaster Recovery Scenarios

2008-03-12 Thread Long, Dennis
I too echo your comments. To match your current production site, you need to build a duplicate system with duplicate data. A system that in a moment's notice, can take over and continue running production with minimum impact to your users. After doing D/R for the last 13 years, I use the floo

Re: SFS memory use question

2008-03-12 Thread Imler, Steven J
Colin, Try this on the SFS server console: .show lock user * THERE IS NO LOCK ACTIVITY FOR ANY USERS DMS5BC3065I Operator command processing complete JR JR (Steven) Imler CA Senior Software Engineer Tel: +1 703 708 3479 Fax: +1 703 708 3267 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: Disaster Recovery question

2008-03-12 Thread Alain Benveniste
We have 1 VM and 20 MVS. At DR site we have a IBM VM used to restore our VM hypervisor. The VM volumes for the hypervisor are the same DASD we used into prod. We say that all the cpowned dasd are absolutely required for our DR VM. (Us, we use Hidro to restore, so the catalog is on a cpowned dasd

SFS memory use question

2008-03-12 Thread Colin Allinson
We have a problem where one of our SFS servers runs out of (virtual) memory blocks. Because of the size of the server the memory reclaim process takes so long that system functions are hung long before that completes. We have a fair idea what is happening. Some users are accessing and SFS dire

Re: Disaster Recovery Scenarios

2008-03-12 Thread Colin Allinson
I tend to agree with all those that say it is difficult to keep your production system in step with your physical infrastructure at DR. You also have the whole pain of doing stand-alone restores to get started. My cut would be to have a simple VM hypervisor (that has simple restore facilities)

Re: Disaster Recovery Scenarios

2008-03-12 Thread Thomas Kern
My take on the DR scenarios is that unless you are building your own recovery site to match your production site, you can never guarantee the device addressing. So, you need to build address configuration changes in to your DR Plan. You may not need to change some addresses from exercise to exercis

Network connectivity issue

2008-03-12 Thread McBride, Catherine
A colleague has a situation where some remote locations can't telnet to the mainframe. Others can. The locations that can't connect via internal IP address can connect successfully using the same emulator and the real IP address. We tested using several different 3270 emulators, with the same re

Re: MONWRITE files

2008-03-12 Thread Eginhard Jaeger
Brian, the 'Q MONITOR' output you included appears to be just the information related to 'event' data, i.e. data collected by the monitor whenever a specific event occurs, as opposed to 'sample' data which is collected at fixed time intervals, and whose domain status would have been shown on the

AW: SHARE 110 Linux and z/VM related presentations

2008-03-12 Thread Rempel, Horst
Hello Mark, I am unable to open the presentation '9111 Romney White Using New CP Features in z/VM 5.3'. I get a message that the pdf is corrupted. Please would you be so kind to check if s9111rw.pdf is damaged. Thank you for giving us a chance to read the presentations! kind regards Horst Remp