Re: Request for SMF data

2008-05-08 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 05/07/2008 at 03:51 EDT, Wakser, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If anyone can share some real SMF data from a z/OS system, please contact me privately - not through the list, Thanks, in advance. Since you're looking for z/OS SMF data, you should ask in IBM-MAIN. Alan Altmark

Re: Request for SMF data

2008-05-08 Thread Wakser, David
Alan: Probably, but I don't belong (subscribe) there - and I figured there were plenty of z/VM shops that hosted z/OS systems also. If you think this was an inappropriate place to make this request, I apologize. David Wakser -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System

Re: Owner of a page

2008-05-08 Thread Rich Greenberg
On: Wed, May 07, 2008 at 09:44:45PM -0400,Marty Zimelis Wrote: }My recollection is that there's only an allocation bit map on a } page-extent basis. The only way I can think of to track down the page is to } figure out what the CCPV value* is for the page, then traverse all the } PGMBKs for

Re: Hipersockets - xposted to VM-L IBM-Main

2008-05-08 Thread Mark Pace
Does anyone have a z/OS guest running under z/VM using Hipersockets? I am still unable to get my z/OS guest under z/VM to communicate over Hipersockets. The z/OS running in an LPAR works perfectly. -- Mark Pace Mainline Information Systems

Re: Request for SMF data

2008-05-08 Thread Alan Altmark
On Thursday, 05/08/2008 at 08:38 EDT, Wakser, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Probably, but I don't belong (subscribe) there - and I figured there were plenty of z/VM shops that hosted z/OS systems also. If you think this was an inappropriate place to make this request, I apologize. I wouldn't

Re: Hipersockets - xposted to VM-L IBM-Main

2008-05-08 Thread Mark Pace
No, no messages, other than that the device initialized okay. EZZ4313I INITIALIZATION COMPLETE FOR DEVICE IUTIQDFF I know the CHPID works, because TCP/IP in that z/VM works with the Hipersockets. q chpid ff Path FF online to devices 0720 0721 0722 0723 0724 0725 0726 0727 Path FF online to

Hipersocket tools?

2008-05-08 Thread Mark Pace
Are there any tools for working with Hipersockets? Like being able to Query VSWITCH? Is it possible to determine what LPAR/IP Stack is connected to a Hipersocket lan? Determine IP address as such, much like Query VSWITCH DETAILS??? -- Mark Pace Mainline Information Systems

Re: Hipersockets - xposted to VM-L IBM-Main

2008-05-08 Thread Brian Nielsen
On Thu, 8 May 2008 08:45:21 -0400, Mark Pace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have a z/OS guest running under z/VM using Hipersockets? I am still unable to get my z/OS guest under z/VM to communicate over Hipersockets. The z/OS running in an LPAR works perfectly. Verify that the CHPID of

Re: Owner of a page

2008-05-08 Thread Schuh, Richard
Is there not an indication of which disk a page is on? That would be sufficient for this purpose. You would not need to know where is on the disk. Regards, Richard Schuh -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marty Zimelis

Re: Owner of a page

2008-05-08 Thread Schuh, Richard
This is a page disk. CP will do the screaming. After all, it is a CP_Owned disk. And if it screams, its next action will undoubtedly cause the DRAIN to complete :-) Regards, Richard Schuh -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Re: My 45th Anniversary at SRU

2008-05-08 Thread Michael Coffin
Wow - 2 full years? I've been doing VM (exclusively) for 26 years, and I am but a mere Pawn... :) -Mike -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mary Anne Matyaz Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 10:09 AM To:

Re: VSWITCH VLAN-aware not connecting

2008-05-08 Thread Richard Clapper
I'm replying to both Rich and Marcy. Thanks for your thoughts. Regarding the real switch port, I understand it is set up (i.e. configured??) to route all network-defined VLANs, including 304, to the switch port of the OSA. Marcy, I am expecting the VSWITCH to do the tagging, so you confirmed

Re: Reading/Writing To Remote Network File Shares (Samba?)

2008-05-08 Thread Michael Coffin
Thanks Richard and Mary Ellen, I'll give NFS a look. Unfortunately, my client considers NFS an unsafe technology so even if it can do what I need I'll have an uphill fight with the security auditors (but that has never stopped me in the past.). :) -Mike -Original Message- From: The

How does z/VM obtain time ?

2008-05-08 Thread Smith, Ann (ISD, IT)
I am not sure what the options are for external timers and I think the z9's and probably z10's have some new way of obtaining time. We currently have external timers that are somehow magically connected to the zVM lpars. The timers obtain time from a naval observatory. Anyway, electricians managed

Re: Hipersocket tools?

2008-05-08 Thread Bruce Hayden
There isn't any details information like you're looking for. You just have q osa type hipers to see what guests your hipersockets subchannels are attached to, and which ones are free. On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Mark Pace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any tools for working with

Re: How does z/VM obtain time ?

2008-05-08 Thread Dave Jones
Hi, Ann. If you have the 'prompt' IPL option enabled, when you first bring up CP it asks you (prompts) for the date and time. I am unaware of any optional piece of hardware that would allow VM to automatically set it's clock via an accurate electronic source such as the Navy Observatory.

Re: Owner of a page

2008-05-08 Thread Schuh, Richard
And if there are pages of an SDF (the VTAM segment and CMS NSS are good examples) on the disk, expect more than a crash of a single user when you flip the switch.:-) Regards, Richard Schuh -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Re: Reading/Writing To Remote Network File Shares (Samba?)

2008-05-08 Thread Dave Jones
Hi, Mike. Not only is NFS 'unsfe', it's also a very 'chatty' protocolyou might want to keep an eye on your bandwidth usage at the beginning.. Michael Coffin wrote: Thanks Richard and Mary Ellen, I'll give NFS a look. Unfortunately, my client considers NFS an unsafe technology so

Re: How does z/VM obtain time ?

2008-05-08 Thread David Kreuter
I classify how the hardware gets the time as unknown at least by me. There is an orderable feature for the hardware to get the time via STP (server time protocol - not the other two things -) but I don't have any direct experience with. Don't think the hardware for z/vm really reaches out to

Re: How does z/VM obtain time ?

2008-05-08 Thread Romanowski, John (OFT)
Ann, If you don't use the z/VM IPL prompt to change it's LPAR'as TOD clock then z/VM's LPAR gets its TOD clock set equal to the External Time Reference (ETR) or on z10 Server Time Protocol (STP) time at LPAR-activation time if you're using an ETR or STP, and thereafter the LPAR's TOD drifts a

Re: Hipersocket tools?

2008-05-08 Thread Mark Pace
Thanks, Bruce. It would be nice to be able to view other LPAR connections. Maybe IBM should look into something on the HMC that could display all connections on a Hipersocket CHPID. On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Bruce Hayden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There isn't any details information like

Re: Owner of a page

2008-05-08 Thread David Kreuter
read-only nss/dcss pages are most certainly paged out. They are not reloaded from spool. read-write nss/dcss pages different story they are read in fresh from spool Finding which nss pages are on a disk is probably a smaller control block chase than going through the vmdbk chain. Looked at

RSCS LPR ??

2008-05-08 Thread Huegel, Thomas
I have a report that has some simple carraige control in it SKIP to CH 1 (line 2) and CH 12 (line 44). I want to print this report on a LPR printer via RSCS. How do I get the printer detect the CH 12 and skip to CH 1. Thanks

VM - Network best practices

2008-05-08 Thread Gary M. Dennis
We need to put together something approaching a production network environment for Windows® under z/VM testing. We don't believe a 500 seat environment would generate any more network traffic or for that matter be any more complex than the network definitions for a z/VM Linux server colony. Has

Re: VM TCP/IP Secure Telnet

2008-05-08 Thread Tim Joyce
Hey Guys, Well I got my SSLSERV up and started to update my PROFILE TCPIP to add a secure port to test with, then I remembered our session manager (Macro 4 - TUBES) intercepts port 23 for telnet and uses the port for TUBES. I found out that TUBES DOES NOT support, nor plan to support, secure

Re: VM - Network best practices

2008-05-08 Thread Dave Jones
Hi, Gary. Gary M. Dennis wrote: We need to put together something approaching a production network environment for Windows® under z/VM testing. Well, I don't know how you are going to get Windows to run on z/VM, but assuming you can..:-) We don't believe a 500 seat environment

Re: How does z/VM obtain time ?

2008-05-08 Thread Smith, Ann (ISD, IT)
Thanks John. We use an external timer. I just wondered if after they replace the cables do I have to do anything like a POR (power on reset) for the lpar to get it's time refreshed from the external timer. I will check the doc you mention here. You say zVM doesn't keep in synch but I wonder if

Re: VM TCP/IP Secure Telnet

2008-05-08 Thread Dave Jones
Hi, Tim. Take a look at these two products. 1) Session (Arty Ecock) (http://ukcc.uky.edu/%7Etools/1998/session.vmarc) 2) YVETTE (Chip Coy) (http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/yvette.vmarc) They're both free, and I believe will provide session management functions similar to TUBES,

Re: RSCS LPR ??

2008-05-08 Thread Fran Hensler
Tom - I believe that RSCS LPR will only detect ASA control characters. There is no ASA control character for skip to channel 12. To get to line 44 you would have to count lines and print blank lines after the last detail line to get to line 44. /Fran Hensler at Slippery Rock University of

Re: Owner of a page

2008-05-08 Thread Bill Holder
You're correct, Marty, there are no back pointers from the allocation structures for a particular paging slot or volume back to the virtual p age or pages that reside there. The problem with scanning the PGMBKs is, of course (in addition to there being lots and lots of them), that PGMBKs are

Re: How does z/VM obtain time ?

2008-05-08 Thread Smith, Ann (ISD, IT)
Thanks agin. The doc has what I needed. I need to ACTIVATE the zVM lpars. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Romanowski, John (OFT) Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 12:40 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: How does z/VM

Re: Owner of a page

2008-05-08 Thread Bill Holder
Sections of NSSes and DCSSes that have never been referenced by any user still reside only on the original SPOOL space they were saved to. For initial reads from SPOOL, NSS and DCSS pages are blocked in large (up t o half a meg, I believe) paging blocks, so if one page is touched, the whol e

Re: Owner of a page

2008-05-08 Thread Bill Holder
Well, that's not entirely true, actually. R/W NSS/DCSS pages are general ly treated exactly like R/O NSS/DCSS pages, for most normal uses. Where it gets a little strange is when you've got, for example, a page range that is defined SW (Shared Writeable), but is loaded exclusively (non-shared),

Re: VM TCP/IP Secure Telnet

2008-05-08 Thread Tim Joyce
Hey Ed, I am using TUBES 4.500E . There is a TUBES setting: TCP YES STN3270 23 This has TUBES intercept port 23 from VM TCPIP so if you telnet to your VM TCPIP stack port 23 you get a TUBES menu! Tim -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: VM TCP/IP Secure Telnet

2008-05-08 Thread Tim Joyce
Looks good .. Thanks Dave! Tim -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Jones Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 2:14 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: VM TCP/IP Secure Telnet Hi, Tim. Take a look at these two products.

Re: Hipersockets - xposted to VM-L IBM-Main

2008-05-08 Thread Brian Nielsen
pedantic In your VTAM TRLE, do the READ, WRITE, and DATAPATH addresses match the addresses you have dedicated to your z/OS guest (724, 725, and 726 in you r case)? Are those addresses and paths online in your z/OS image? Is the VTAM TRLE active? /pedantic I don't know if a z/OS virtual

Re: RSCS LPR ??

2008-05-08 Thread Jim Bohnsack
I've got a carriage control paper tape punch if you need to use it. Better yet, you send me the tape and I'll punch it. I hate it when someone borrows my punch and doesn't return it. :-) Jim Huegel, Thomas wrote: I have a report that has some simple carraige control in it SKIP to = CH

Re: Coding the port statement in the TCPIP profile.

2008-05-08 Thread Huegel, Thomas
Alan, Not to disagree with you but... this is from the TCPIP admin book chapter 22 for the SSLADMIN STORE command. label is the label to be associated with this CA certificate in the certificate database. This label can be any unique string up to 200 characters. It cannot begin or end with a

Re: VM TCP/IP Secure Telnet

2008-05-08 Thread Ed Zell
Hey Ed, I am using TUBES 4.500E . There is a TUBES setting: TCP YES STN3270 23 This has TUBES intercept port 23 from VM TCPIP so if you telnet to your VM TCPIP stack port 23 you get a TUBES menu! Tim Cool Tim, thanks for the info. I am not on TUBES 4.x, so that is not

Re: Hipersockets - xposted to VM-L IBM-Main

2008-05-08 Thread Mark Pace
For Hipersockets I do not create a TRLE, only for an OSA adapter. At least that works on my z/OS system running in an LPAR. Options in the User direct OPTION MAINTCCW LNKNOPAS DEVINFO DEVMAINT DIAG98 NOMDCFS RMCHINFO OPTION STGEXEMPT SVC76VM Yes they are online. That is also weird because

RSCS LPR ??

2008-05-08 Thread Les Geer (607-429-3580)
I have a report that has some simple carraige control in it SKIP to CH 1 (line 2) and CH 12 (line 44). I want to print this report on a LPR printer via RSCS. How do I get the printer detect the CH 12 and skip to CH 1. RSCS LPR exit LPRXONE does handle a skip to channel 1 opcode, converting

Re: Hipersockets - xposted to VM-L IBM-Main

2008-05-08 Thread Brian Nielsen
On Thu, 8 May 2008 16:18:52 -0400, Mark Pace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For Hipersockets I do not create a TRLE, only for an OSA adapter. At least that works on my z/OS system running in an LPAR. You're right, no TRLE. I got carried away. Options in the User direct OPTION MAINTCCW LNKNOPAS

Re: RSCS LPR ??

2008-05-08 Thread Huegel, Thomas
OK thanks Les.. I guess my question was poorly worded, I don't want to skip to CH 12, just to CH 1.. I should have left the CH 12 stuff out it was confusing.. Tom -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Les Geer (607-429-3580) Sent:

Batch Machines Accounting Records

2008-05-08 Thread Schuh, Richard
I notice in the type 01 accounting records that there are all zeros in the Connect Time and the Milliseconds of CPU time buckets for the VMBATnn ids (IBM's batch facility). Are these machines treated differently by the accounting routines? Without writing an exit routine, is there any way to

Re: VM TCP/IP Secure Telnet

2008-05-08 Thread David Boyes
Well I got my SSLSERV up and started to update my PROFILE TCPIP to add a secure port to test with, then I remembered our session manager (Macro 4 - TUBES) intercepts port 23 for telnet and uses the port for TUBES. They may not support it in TUBES, but the stack is doing all the work anyway,

Larry J Brown is out of the office.

2008-05-08 Thread Larry J Brown
I will be out of the office starting 05/08/2008 and will not return until 05/12/2008. I will respond to your message when I return. This e-mail is intended only for its addressee and may contain information that is privileged, confidential, or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you have

Re: VM - Network best practices

2008-05-08 Thread Alan Altmark
On Thursday, 05/08/2008 at 02:03 EDT, Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which IBM PUB is a definitive cookbook on this? I would start here: [snip] Don't forget the z/VM Connectivity book in the z/VM library. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott

Re: Owner of a page

2008-05-08 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Bill Holder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem with scanning the PGMBKs is, of course (in addition to there being lots and lots of them), that PGMBKs are themselves pageable, and so Fortunately they run a performance monitor that makes the job a bit easier.

IPL of cart failed

2008-05-08 Thread Graeme Moss
G'day Listers, When trying to ipl a CA HiDRO stand alone restore cart at a new data centre (for VM) the ipl of the cart failed. The person in charge said this had happened before when trying to ipl a Linux system install cart as well. The other lpars are running MVS. From the Problem