Without having any knowledge about either the device or CP... and no
doubt this is obvious to most, but may be confusing for some. The two
highlighted phrases are not related.
The "invalid address" is from the trace itself. It is normal to have
the 07 and 0F with a data length 1, but CP concludes t
Need some help that how to to use ATL 3590 for VM volume back up.
Regards
My personal recommendation is Filezilla. Go to sourceforge.net. It's open
source, free, no commercial licensing restrictions (oh, and it works very
well). With over 41,000,000 downloads at sourceforge alone, you can see it
is well endorsed.
Pat Downs
-Original Message-
From: The IBM z/
I need to move our one and only SFS user from a z/VM 4.4 system
to a z/VM 5.3 system on a new mainframe. The quickest
way I can see?.Fileserv backup the VMSYSU file pool and
send the file from the old VMSERVU 305 (data disk) to the
new VMSERVU user 305. Sound right?
Thanks,
Mary Zervos
VM
Mary,
If you have VMBACKUP then use that to restore the User to the new
system...it will restore all data, authorisations etc...I have used it ma
ny
times to restore whole filespaces when consolidating SG2 and never had a
problem
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Mary Zervos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I need to move our one and only SFS user from a z/VM 4.4 system
> to a z/VM 5.3 system on a new mainframe. The quickest
> way I can see?.Fileserv backup the VMSYSU file pool and
> send the file from the old VMSERVU 305
I have a NCC account and am able to log onto that just fine. For some
reason it just won't download the ISO files (neither SP1 nor SP2). When
I click the download button it downloads a file of 0 bytes. When I use
FlashGet, that's where I see the authorization error. I can download
the other rel
Dave,
Thanks for your idea but we do not have VMBACKUP.
Mary
Dave de Noronha wrote:
Mary,
If you have VMBACKUP then use that to restore the User to the new
system...it will restore all data, authorisations etc...I have used it many
times to restore whole filespaces when consolidating SG2 and ne
Ok, so reality check folks before y'all start drooling about jobs and can think you can
run 47000 windows servers under VM. In Linux we learned that running compiled code
"natively" on "z", megahertz is megahertz and a CPU intensive task would always run faster
on Intel than on "z" (until we go
> Samples are just that, samples, not Holy Writ from ${DIETY}. You can,
of
> course, choose to do anything you like.
Well, as the author, I rather like the idea of saying "let us turn to
chapter 2 of the Gospel of Installation"... 8-) YMMV.
The idea with the 15x separation was to have a smal
Could you please provide more information about what you would like help
with. The topic is rather broad; do you need assistance with the
hardware, the tape manager, or the backup software?
Peter
-Original Message-
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of
We just activated Dirmaint and gone thru the first section of the Dirmaint
program directory and are up to the point of testing the installation. I have
completed the testing of Dirmaint which looks O.K.
The Testing the Installation procedure now takes you on to verifying DIRMSAT
and DATAMOVE
Gary, if it runs native windows, will it also then run x86 linux? That seems
to be one of the barriers for us, that z/linux may not support certain x86
linux
applications.
Thanks,
Mary Anne
> Gary M. Dennis wrote:
>
> Z/VOS is a CMS application. The glass-side user will only see Windows via
>> R
No you don't have to worry about DIRMSAT for sure.. DATAMOVE only if you
want DIRMAINT to copy/resize/clean disks for you.. (I recommend DATAMOVE!)
Scott Rohling
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:02 AM, Howard Rifkind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> We just activated Dirmaint and gone thru the first sect
I just wanted to more clearly define this exciting topic per Gary Dennis
"In Q1 2009 Mantissa will deliver a system that permits unaltered Windows
operating systems to run under z/VM."
I'm keenly interested is an understatement,
Bob
Thank, Alan. Your analysis confirms my faded memories of the channel and
device protocols. I will pass the information on.
Actually, there is no BOT and there is no tape. The vendor chose to
reply like a tape drive to the roll-call for reasons unknown to me. I
speculate that it is because tape u
Say... could it be that the virtualized silver tape reflector fell off the
beginning or end of the virtualized tape? And are you sure that the
virtualized silver tape reflector is on opposite edges of the shiny
surface of the virtualized tape media? I can't remember which edge gets
the leadin
I don't want our hardware folks to have to go into the bay and turn the
device around or use a twisted pair to connect it. :-)
Alan, When you said the error is being raised by path 2 to the device,
were you referring to a chpid? The response to a query paths command
shows only one path.
Reg
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Mike Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Say... could it be that the virtualized silver tape reflector fell off the
> beginning or end of the virtualized tape? And are you sure that the
> virtualized silver tape reflector is on opposite edges of the shiny surface
Me too...but don't ask why???
Do you know if there will be a free eval available? How do we get our hands on
a copy?
T.Y.
>>> Bob Heerdink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 7/23/2008 10:25 AM >>>
I just wanted to more clearly define this exciting topic per Gary Dennis =
"In Q1 2009 Mantissa will deliver
T.Y.
>>> Scott Rohling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 7/23/2008 10:08 AM >>>
No you don't have to worry about DIRMSAT for sure.. DATAMOVE only if you want
DIRMAINT to copy/resize/clean disks for you.. (I recommend DATAMOVE!)
Scott Rohling
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:02 AM, Howard Rifkind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wednesday, 07/23/2008 at 11:24 EDT, "Schuh, Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Actually, there is no BOT and there is no tape. The vendor chose to
> reply like a tape drive to the roll-call for reasons unknown to me. I
> speculate that it is because tape units can be written to and read fro
Richard,
Perhaps the DETACH command with the LEAVE option might avoid the
REWIND/UNLOAD problem with this device.
Mike Rydberg
Brocade
-Original Message-
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Schuh, Richard
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 10:23 AM
To:
But Sir Rob the Plumber, even the old 3420 drives had internal
incandescent lights in the tape path to shine on the reflector. No need
for external light to reflect on the strip!
One might only presume that the hardware manufacturer of this pseudo
virtualized tape drive has installed virtualiz
It is not a tape at all. Neither is it a disk. It is an encryption
device that responds to sense commands like it is a tape unit.
A bit of history of the device
* Generation 1 was parallel channel connected. It required an RDEVICE
statement saying that it was a 3420 model 7. When one was detache
I had considered it, but there are two problems:
1. Logoff (voluntarily or by FORCE) goes through the DETACH code without
LEAVE
2. DETACH ... LEAVE requires Class B.
Regards,
Richard Schuh
> -Original Message-
> From: The IBM z/VM Operating System
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Be
The earliest generation, the 3420-07, used the virtualized lights. I
think it was really old vacuum tubes from the 30 minute rewind time.
They had to warm up before there was enough light to be detected. ;-)
The newest generation is said to be a 3490. However, its responses to
SenseId and RDC mak
On Wednesday, 07/23/2008 at 11:46 EDT, "Schuh, Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Alan, When you said the error is being raised by path 2 to the device,
were
> you referring to a chpid? The response to a query paths command shows
only
> one path.
I think that's the local "adapter" numbe
I hope it means something to the vendor.
Regards,
Richard Schuh
> -Original Message-
> From: The IBM z/VM Operating System
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark
> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 9:37 AM
> To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
> Subject: Re: Interpreting Trace
>
On Wednesday, 07/23/2008 at 11:47 EDT, Rob van der Heij
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But Sir Mike! The modern 3480 cartridge does not do shiny bits
> anymore. After all, the cartridge is closed so there is no light that
> will go in to shine ;-) The control unit is smart enough to count the
> o
Please see original thread: Nice idea in blog: Should we toss x86
architecture
This was our post to the zd net blog.
"Maybe we already have.
In Q1 2009 Mantissa will deliver a system that permits unaltered Windows
operating systems to run under z/VM. Using a desktop appliance running RD
C,
u
To be more explicit, the command is FILEPOOL UNLOAD.
From a SFS administrator id, assuming "JOEUSER" is the file space you w
ant
to move, access the 193 disk and issue
- FILEDEF UNLOAD DISK JOEUSER UNLOAD where is large enough to
contain the file space
- FILEPOOL UNLOAD FILESPACE JOEUSER VMS
Am I the only one being annoyed by the way IBM implemented their
visitor statistics? There seem to be (javascript) things connecting to
sites with surfstats and such. At least on my browser (Mozilla) they
have a negative effect that it prevents navigation on the page until
it has fully loaded. My i
I'm a little late to this discussion, but there are a couple things I
wanted to respond to:
> Thanks! That explains why I filled it up and how big it should be. Did
> I miss it, or is it really not in book?
> -Rob
There is a section titled "DASD Space Needed for Control Data Backup" in
Chapter
On Tuesday, 07/22/2008 at 02:30 EDT, Rob van der Heij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Rob van der Heij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> > The description of this process does not look like it was for
production use.
>
> Maybe we need SFS to be enhanced to access the
Is it 1987 again? I presume that this was not someone at the VM Support
center.
In case you were not around in 1987, it was the year that John Akers
declared to be "the year of the customer"; however, he failed to
communicate that to some of his employees. It wasn't until 1988 or 1989
that the ans
How does one go about determining the 'capacity' of a Hipersocket
connection/interface between z/OS- z/VM?
Steve Mitchell
Sr Systems Software Specialist
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas
(785) 291-8885
'There are no degrees of Honesty-you're either Honest or you're not!
CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE:
I also find (aside from where Tom's suggestion is needed)
that it is helpful for the VMID of the SFS server to match
the name of the filepool it serves.
-- R; <><
On Wednesday, 07/23/2008 at 02:59 EDT, Steve Mitchell
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How does one go about determining the 'capacity' of a Hipersocket
> connection/interface between z/OS- z/VM?
Measure it. It is a function of CPU.
I don't know if sub-cap machines run HiperSockets at full speed o
Measure it. It is a function of CPU.
Where might I find some guidance on how to accomplish that? In Therory "I
understand what you are expressing" In Practice "I dont have much of a
clue about how to go about it".
Steve Mitchell
Sr Systems Software Specialist
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas
(
> -Original Message-
> From: The IBM z/VM Operating System
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark
> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 3:07 PM
> To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
> Subject: Re: Hipersocket Capacity
>
> On Wednesday, 07/23/2008 at 02:59 EDT, Steve Mitchell
> <[EMAIL
Thanks to your excellent interpretation of the trace, the vendor has
re-examined their microcode and found where they were indeed causing the
UC. They are working on a fix. (And they once told me that the TRSOURCE
and console were not useful in solving this problem. Out of nothing
comes something.)
We are running 8.2 in 64-bit with SP3. However,
I plan on installing SLES 10 SP2 under z/VM 5.3 as
a new install.
Thanks,
Alyce
-Original Message-
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Mark Post
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 3:51 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSE
On Wednesday, 07/23/2008 at 04:15 EDT, "McKown, John"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just some thoughts on this. From what I understand, a hipersocket is
> really a way to "move" data from one memory location in one LPAR to
> another memory location on another LPAR in the same CEC.
Or to the same
On Wednesday, 07/23/2008 at 04:22 EDT, "Schuh, Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Thanks to your excellent interpretation of the trace, the vendor has
> re-examined their microcode and found where they were indeed causing the
> UC. They are working on a fix. (And they once told me that the TRSO
Hello!
Rob, it happens that you are not the only one who is annoyed by those
dratted things. They make the site unavailable during loading when it's
being loaded by IE, and it drags on Mozilla, both on Linux and Windows.
About the only good thing about the site is its good lucks, it has an easy
to
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:25 PM, Sue Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You can direct the control data backup to another file pool using the
> explicit directory name and thus, avoid the access, and the problem of the
> access going away.
> Eg. fileserv defbackup disk backup data fpname:usernam
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:31 PM, Alan Altmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Use an ENDCMD nucleus extension to check for and re-access any missing
> directories.
You mean in the SFS server to catch it when it falls in CMS Ready ? Yuck.
And it's way more useful than just there. When we ran CMS ap
This does beg the question, is there any significant performance
difference when writing to the filemode vs. writing to an unaccessed
directory?
Regards,
Richard Schuh
> -Original Message-
> From: The IBM z/VM Operating System
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob van der He
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Steve Mitchell
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Measure it. It is a function of CPU.
>
> Where might I find some guidance on how to accomplish that? In Therory "I
> understand what you are expressing" In Practice "I dont have much of a
> clue about how to go about i
>
> Reminds me of the customer who measured the OSA bandwidth by copying
> the ISO image from one Linux machine to the other with "scp" (burning
> his shared IFL by encrypting and decrypting the file).
>
That's how one Linux (on Intel) expert "proved" to management that
"hipersockets are slower th
SHARE in San Jose is getting very close. There are still plenty of
sessions that are in need of chairs. We can really use your help to
step up to volunteer.
Your job is to meet the speaker (if you haven't already), introduce the
speaker to the audience, keep discussions on topic, count atten
On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 10:25:53 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ftware.com>
wrote:
>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'
>
And, of course, m
On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 12:52:54 -0400, Hughes, Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr
ote:
>Adam is pretty sensitive isn't he?
>
>I wish someone would create a WHOPPER to compete with a MAC.
>
>There is hope for the MAC users yet. The hackers have decided there are
>enough MAC's around to start creating virus
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