Some extra remarks
1. To be precise: the 1 means there is one active minidisk on that
pack. If 2 would be shown, it could be 2 different minidisks or two users
linked to the same minidisk (or even 1 user with 2 links to a single
minidisk.
2. CP Q SYSTEM addr will tell you which
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 6:32 AM, Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
VMXEVENT profiles contain members that describe the control and audit
characteristics of each CP command, diagnose, and system event. With them
you can pre-define settings to be used in certain situations (esp. audit)
and
The fact that it is ³CP OWNED² and not ³CP SYSTEM² would lead me to wonder
about your statement ³Being that the volume is already labeled should I
assume that it has allocated to lets say PERM?². I wouldn¹t make such an
assumption, especially if someone took the trouble to put it in the CP Owned
Friends,
A friendly reminder of the MVMUA meeting next week.
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July 16, 2008
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Donnelly Hall - Room 237
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A little OT.. but last night I saw a commercial on TV featuring a couple of
thugs saying they just stole 50 million credit cards etc and the 'techie'
guy said he couldn't break into the system because, amoung other things, it was
protected by RACF... the commercial ends with the thugs
I download files to our Z/VM system in binary. The files on the windows
ftp server are in ascii.
Then I run a PIPE to deblock the file and convert to ebcidic.
Here is a snippet:
address command PIPE ( endchar ? ) ,
!workfile| ,
Hi, Jim.
Looks like you have been bitten by the different ways Windows and Unix
terminate records in ASCII files.Windows uses the convention of 'cr-lf'
(x'0d0a') while Unix uses a single 'cr'.
You could simply edit the ASCII file on your PC, using and editor that can
saveASCII files in
(I am trying this email again, been having some
problem posting)
Alan said:
3. DEFINE VSWITCH, specifying one or more available OSAs. Those OSAs (a)
SHOULD NOT be shared with any other stack or LPAR, and (b) MUST all go to
the same LAN segment.
Question 1:
I want to move to VSWITCH for
A previous file I encountered uses '0A' as the record delimiter. This
whackjob file uses '0D' as the record delimiter.
I have the '0d0a' and '0a' cases covered. Now I need to programmatically
deal with '0d' as the delimiter too.
Jim Hughes
603-271-5586
Its kind of
Jim Hughes wrote:
I download files to our Z/VM system in binary. The files on the windows
ftp server are in ascii.
snip
This works fine when the records are delimited by '0d0a' or '0a'.
Last night I received a file whose records are delimited by '0d'. Things
broke because the file wasn't
How about changing all '0d0a' to '0a' and all '0d' to '0a' and then you
have one case to handle?
/Tom Kern
Hughes, Jim wrote:
A previous file I encountered uses '0A' as the record delimiter. This
whackjob file uses '0D' as the record delimiter.
I have the '0d0a' and '0a' cases covered. Now I
This approach assumes the data blocks are already split at record
boundaries. The last record of a block could span to the first record
of the next block.
DEBLOCK operates on an input byte stream instead of data blocks.
I could replace the split with the deblock linend 0a.
I'll test it a see
Jim,
it looks like you have a Mac user to deal witharen't they a pain? :-)
Windows record termination: x'0d0a'
Unix record termination: x'0a'
Mac record termination: x'0d'
So simply ban the use of Macs there and your problem is solved.
DJ
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From:
I've ran my test data through this PIPE and it appears to solve the
problem:
/* */
!written = 0
!deleted = 0
address command PIPE ( endchar ? ) ,
IFSDE binary a | ,
change x0d0a x0a|,
change
We run z/VM 520 and use PROPST to filter messages to the OP1 console. We filter
several commands including ATTACHED and DETACHED commands.
I would like to filter other messages such as ATTACHED and DETACHED from going
to the LOG FILE (LGYYMMDD XX) on Operator's 191 MDISK. In reading the CMS
I was attempting to show the usefulness of stems. I did a quick and dirt
y
assignment of values in the example because how the values got there was
not what I was trying to show. In putting together a simple example
quickly from several real EXEC's I made some compromises.
In many of my
I think that the stem solution, below, should be taken in the spirit of
fun, as it was undoubtedly meant. It appears to have been an extreme,
absurd example of how one can overcode a solution. (Why do it in a
single statement if you can write a chapter in a book to do the same
thing?) Strunk and
In PROP, logging is all or nothing. VM:Operator has a NOLOG option, I
don't know about IBM Operations Manager.
At the other hand: DASD isn't that expensive, incomplete log files
make debugging less easy. Alternatively, you could postprocess the
log file of the previous day and code a PIPE
Personally I think ATTACH and DETACH (and others too i.e. DIAL) should have a
NOMSG type option to just eliminate the message alltogether.
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of Kris Buelens
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 11:00 AM
To:
Alan may have fits over giving such power to users at logon time.
Regards,
Richard Schuh
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Huegel, Thomas
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 9:05 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject:
DASD space is not the issue. While reviewing these logs, debugging
other problems is slowed due to the volume of ATT/DET commands. Tapes
being attached or detached is usually not a problem.
Ray
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of
Is there a way to change the 90% spool space highwater mark? If so,
where is it documented?
Thanks.
Jim Hughes
603-271-5586
Its kind of fun to do the impossible. (Walt Disney)
You might consider using the CP SILENTLY command. From the help file for
SILENTLY:
Examples
1. To attach device 1234 to user MVS and suppress the messages sent to
the
issuer, to the user who is the object of the ATTACH, and to the
system
operator:
a. Enable the
I have a CLEANLOG XEDIT macro to remove various messages from console
logs. It shows a selection panel.
Things one can remove:
- All LOGON/LOGOFF messages
- All or many RSCS messages
- SCIF messages of users you indicate
- Various VMOPER macro messages
- ...
It really deletes the lines from the
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Subject: South Dakota migrates off mainframe; chaos ensues
From this week's TechTarget
On Jul 9, 2008, at 9:25 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
it looks like you have a Mac user to deal witharen't they a
pain? :-)
...
So simply ban the use of Macs there and your problem is solved.
Dear Dave,
Bite me.
Sincerely,
Adam
The other side of that coin is to ban everything except Macs :-)
Regards,
Richard Schuh
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Thornton
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 9:47 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re:
On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 12:52:54 -0400, Hughes, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Adam is pretty sensitive isn't he?
I wish someone would create a WHOPPER to compete with a MAC.
The computer in the movie War Games was called the WOPR.
Brian Nielsen
I believe that there is no external to change this. The message HCPPGT401I
is from HCPPGT which checks for 90%. In addition, a value of 90 is
hardcoded in the HCPMES message repository.
From the message repository:
040102 I 90 percent of all spooling space is in use.
If the value could
Thanks Doug.
Jim Hughes
603-271-5586
Its kind of fun to do the impossible. (Walt Disney)
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Doug Breneman
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 12:54 PM
To:
On Wednesday, 07/09/2008 at 12:23 EDT, Hughes, Jim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a way to change the 90% spool space highwater mark? If so,
where is it documented?
No, there's no way to change it. You can set up a simple server to QUERY
ALLOC SPOOL every so often if you'd like to use a
That is our approach.
Thanks Alan.
Jim Hughes
603-271-5586
Its kind of fun to do the impossible. (Walt Disney)
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=Behalf Of Alan Altmark
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Alan or Chuckie?
I'm not 100% sure, so Steve Imler may have to chime in, but if your
using VM:Tape, VM:Backup, et al, these products may look for certain
messages to be posted before doing something else. Of course if you
don't use the CA products or DFSMS, this probably doesn't apply.
Steve
On Wednesday, 07/09/2008 at 12:05 EDT, Huegel, Thomas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Personally I think ATTACH and DETACH (and others too i.e. DIAL) should
have a
NOMSG type option to just eliminate the message alltogether.
Bite your tongue and perish the thought. DIAL??? That is a class ANY
I told you that Alan would be upset by the notion.
Regards,
Richard Schuh
-Original Message-
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 10:28 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: The
Steve,
Actually, generally speaking the CA VM products do not require these
messages to function. And, in fact it is standard practice at many
shops who run VM:Operator to do exactly this ... remove the noise of
ATTACH and DETACH from the operator console.
That being said, you may need these
Richard,
You were right on with that one.. You get a point.
But I'd rether VTAM/CICS worry about that stuff, I don't really care to see a
message that just says 'L007 DIALED TO VTAM1' that tells me nothing.
Here is an idea that'll cause nightmeres.
Turn off logging for operator (PROP) filter
I know that this is not a CA forum; however, CA's web site is extremely
slow today. Slow as in minutes to navigate from one page to the next. We
have been asked to supply the maximum block lengths for backups written
by both VM:Backup and Hidro. I cannot find them anywhere I have managed
to look
Richard,
Assume the MAX to be 65,535 for both VM:Backup and HiDRO ...
JR (Steven) Imler
CA
Senior Software Engineer
Tel: +1 703 708 3479
Fax: +1 703 708 3267
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
I have been asked not to make that assumption. I need confirmation.
Regards,
Richard Schuh
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Imler, Steven J
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 10:47 AM
To:
If you use IBM Operations Manager for z/VM, you can have your cake and ea
t
it, too. You can create rules to suppress specific messages from the
console of one or more service machines, so when you view the console usi
ng
Operations Manager, the noise has been reduced. But the message will
Or you can use IBM Operations Manager for z/VM to monitor spool space.
With V1.3 that just came out in June, we've added support for spool
monitoring. See the DEFSMON command in Chapter 6 of the Admin Guide:
http://www.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/zvm/operations/library.html
Tracy Dean, IBM
On
OK ... I'll confirm that both VM:Backup and HiDRO can/may write a MAX
blocksize of 65,535. That's not to say they always do.
JR (Steven) Imler
CA
Senior Software Engineer
Tel: +1 703 708 3479
Fax: +1 703 708 3267
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: The IBM z/VM
Thanks.
Regards,
Richard Schuh
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Imler, Steven J
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 11:00 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: Max Blocksizes
Is anyone using Macro4 TUBES in conjunction with CA Top Secret (z/VM
and/or z/VSE)? What we would like to do is have TUBES interface with Top
Secret z/VM and pass TUBES automated signon scripts to Top Secret z/VSE.
This would allow us to continue to have 1 password for mainframe access
on our
A long time ago, far far away, one of the guys who worked with me did
that in the VMSCHED machine with ran which WAKEUP. I've forgotten at
what level of spool utilization he started putting out messages, but an
important component of what he did was to not only measure spool
utilization but
And by way of sharing (not a salesman), CA's VM:Spool does all that
(customizable percent full, rate of change, who's using up SPOOL, etc.) and
lots more.
Mike Walter
Hewitt Associates
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From: Jim Bohnsack [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 07/09/2008 03:13 PM AST
To:
I will contact you off-list.
David Wakser
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Tim Joyce
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 3:07 PM
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Is anyone
Even with fewer, extremely large cats, herding them is quite a
challenge.
Regards,
Richard Schuh
-Original Message-
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Bohnsack
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 12:39 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Actually I have to agree with Alan, I too like to see logging on the
operator log and lots of it. In fact, i'd like to see even more than we
have now. How about the network guy who has changed the vswitch configs
and then we have to guess what he had changed? Or what about some user
who has
The DEFSMON command in Operations Manager for z/VM that I referred to
earlier supports triggers for both a range of % full (e.g. between 80 and
100%, or even 0 and 10% if that's important to you) as well as a sudden
increase in % full (e.g. jumping more than xx% in the last n minutes.)
Tracy
On Wednesday, 07/09/2008 at 10:11 EDT, Shimon Lebowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Question 1:
I want to move to VSWITCH for the double-OSA failover
capability. But I have 2 VM LPARs, and 2, not 4, OSAs.
Assuming this picture:
(Richard: Please use monospace fon, or paste into Notepad) :-)
Thank you, Richard. That is exactly what I was trying to illustrate.
I'm a big fan of Rexx stems and PARSE, and regularly exploit their power. But
there comes a time when one must eschew elegance (and perhaps some efficiency)
on behalf of the poor schmuck who will need to read, understand,
Is there a way to query this?
Particularly the one that got chosen by putting FNn in the LOADPARM
field on the HMC?
Marcy Cortes
Team Lead, Enterprise Virtualization - z/VM and z/Linux
http://ehs.homestead.wellsfargo.com/Mainframe/zSS/zSE/zVM-zLinux/Pages/defa
ult.aspx
Enterprise Hosting
No, that will tell me if sapl screen entry or salipl set them.
What will tell me what it is if it was done from the HMC?
FWIW, GDPS/PPRC Hyperswap (xDR) + GDPS/XRC leaving me trying to figure
out where I am (meaning VM and linux who tags along on VM parms) and
what network I have available in
And a corollary to that question...
I know the system config can have a say command.
But is there also a stop or exit or abort?
i.e. is there a way to say whoa, this system config does not belong on
this CPU - I'm not where I wanted to be! - disable wait me?
Marcy
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On Wednesday, 07/09/2008 at 08:24 EDT, Marcy Cortes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a way to query this?
Particularly the one that got chosen by putting FNn in the LOADPARM
field
on the HMC?
Check QUERY IPLPARMS.
Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott
On Wednesday, 07/09/2008 at 10:21 EDT, Marcy Cortes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No, that will tell me if sapl screen entry or salipl set them.
What will tell me what it is if it was done from the HMC?
Actually, QUERY IPLPARMS tells you what parameters CP will use for a
SHUTDOWN REIPL or an abend
Yay! It does - even the ones specificed from the loadparm FNnn and
not just the ones specified on SAPL screens and via SALIPL. I just
tested on a very recent release of VM.
Ok... Onto the next thingie..
Marcy
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you are
Marcy,
You could also QUERY CPUID to find out where you are, but if you run in
the same place for DR tests and real DR, that won't distinguish between
the two.
Dennis
A pistol! Are you expecting trouble Sir? No Miss, were I expecting
Yeah, that's one of the concerns... Same place for diaster test as real
disaster, but differnet IP configurations there and no xDR Hyperswap
(which is in control of your system config names --- i.e. must be SITE1
SITE2) in either of those scenarios but only on the prod (mirrored)
environment.
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