Gotcha's involved in relabeling CP-Owned volumes?

2008-10-20 Thread RPN01
I need to relabel some volumes, including page and spool volumes... Are things such as the checkpoint and warmstart data strictly done based on the position in the CP-Owned list? Or will the actual volume labels matter, if the SYSTEM CONFIG has been adjusted prior to the shutdown and re-IPL? I

Re: VM Virtual CPUs and Threaded CMS Applications

2008-10-20 Thread Gary M. Dennis
I appreciate your insight. When you state: ³ If you¹re not invoking CMS services from non-base threads² What precisely do you mean by CMS services? Are you referring specifically to the services defined in ³CP Programming Services² OR any call to CMS? This has the potential to derail what we

Re: The correct way to shutdown z/Linux Guest Softly

2008-10-20 Thread Dave Jones
Hi, Terry. Yes, you should definitely be shutting down the Oracle database instances in a clean manner before shutting down Linux itself. Oracle does not like having the rug pulled out from under it Have a good one. Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) wrote: Hi, Lately we have had

Re: VM Virtual CPUs and Threaded CMS Applications

2008-10-20 Thread Bob Bolch
All execution of CMS linkage interfaces (CMSCALL, SVC 204, SVC202, etc.) and most common direct branch interfaces to CMS services executed on a non-base CPU result in running intercept code that switches that thread back to the base CPU for execution of the service. Another way to say it is that

Re: Gotcha's involved in relabeling CP-Owned volumes?

2008-10-20 Thread Kris Buelens
Warm Ckpt are independent of CP Owned, fully defined in SYSTEM CONFIG. Spool page are indeed dependent on order in CP Owned list. Do not forget to change the labels in the CP directory too. This should be the last step before shutdown-reipl, otherwise no *new* LINK commands will work due to

Re: Question about a user volume

2008-10-20 Thread Richard Corak
Not exactly. Changing the contents of the CP_OWNED statement, including deletion, affects only that statement. But that's not as simple as it might appear. Spool files can span CP_OWNED volumes, so if CP needs to fetch the next record for the spool file by going to the volume at slot 'n', and

Re: The correct way to shutdown z/Linux Guest Softly

2008-10-20 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Here is part of my shutdown/startup instructions for Operations: 1. When the Oracle server is to be taken down, using PUTTY, logon in as oracle 2. emctl stop dbconsole 3. sqlplus ‘/ as sysdba’ 4. sql shutdown 5. exit 6. lsnrctl stop 6. After the Oracle

ZVM Linux losing WINS

2008-10-20 Thread Dean, David (I/S)
We have Novell 10.2 zLinux on 5.2 ZVM running a SAMBA domain controller handling authorization. This centralized authorization hands out SAMBA shares on multiple zLinux servers as well as several AIX servers. Communication from the zLinux box is through a vswitch setup on the ZVM. This has

Re: Question about a user volume

2008-10-20 Thread Jim Bohnsack
OK, but if in deleting the Slot 5 statement and then tidying up by renumbering the subsequent slot statements so that there are no gaps in the slot numbers and if one of the later slots, Slot 6 for example, was a spool volume, then it would be in a different relative number, wouldn't it?

Re: ZVM Linux losing WINS

2008-10-20 Thread Tom Duerbusch
In the same area, but not your problem... I had a weird problem, that I was thinking that someone was automagically updating the DNS servers with my Samba machines. Sometimes it happened, sometimes it didn't. The Network guys got on this, and found that if I specified in the Samba

Re: Question about a user volume

2008-10-20 Thread Marty Zimelis
I think there may be different interpretations of what deleting an entry in the CP_OWNED list means. I *think* Richard Corak means replacing a VOLSER entry with the Reserved keyword, _not_ compressing the list after deleting an entry. The pointers to SPOOL files from the Warm Start area and

Re: ZVM Linux losing WINS

2008-10-20 Thread David Boyes
One case similar to this that I saw involved a MS patch inadvertently changing Windows name resolution away from NetBEUI in a client configuration as part of a network driver update. Did anything like that just get pushed out? Also, are you configuring regular DNS? Modern (post Win2K)

Re: detect VMREAD or CPREAD

2008-10-20 Thread Hal Schmitigal
You can use the READCHEK function in Performance Toolkit to get the following status conditions of a virtual machine. Note that your PERFSVM must be in monitor mode, collecting data. See HELP FCX CBASVMCF. So you could, for example, create a small EXEC to watch a list of critical service

Re: RXSSL / Charlotte Problem

2008-10-20 Thread James Johnson
Thomas Kern wrote: I just tried Charlotte/RXSSL from my IFL system to the web server on the VM system on the other side of the system. I do not get an abend but I do get this message: SSL Alert: HANDSHAKE_FAILURE My copy of RXSSL is: RXSSLMODULE T1 V 39080 4 11 4/21/00

Re: z/VM SSL Usage

2008-10-20 Thread Mark Pace
1) Strictly Telnet. 2) 6 3) no idea. On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Bill Bitner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The z/VM Development Lab is looking for some information regarding z/VM SSL server usage (this is the SSL for use with the VM TCP/IP stack). If you currently use the z/VM SSL server or

Re: Question about a user volume

2008-10-20 Thread Schuh, Richard
I have those m-disks on the IPL volume, so there is never a problem. If it isn't available, then neither is the nucleus. ;-) Regards, Richard Schuh -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rich Greenberg Sent: Friday,

Re: VM Virtual CPUs and Threaded CMS Applications

2008-10-20 Thread Schuh, Richard
Be careful of IUCV. There is an entire chapter of CP Programming Services devoted to IUCV in an MP configuration. Regards, Richard Schuh Each CP service defines how it executes on a non-base processor. Things like IUCV and most

Re: RXSSL / Charlotte Problem

2008-10-20 Thread Thomas Kern
I found that line in SSSREXX REXX and fixed it. I tried again and got an SSL Alert: HANDSHAKE_FAILURE message. I then looked further and saw the CERTDB stuff and checked for our CA (Entrust), it wasn't there. I use d SSLADMIN to export the cert from SSLSERV, since I had to add it there whe n

Re: RXSSL / Charlotte Problem

2008-10-20 Thread James Johnson
Thomas Kern wrote: I found that line in SSSREXX REXX and fixed it. I tried again and got an SSL Alert: HANDSHAKE_FAILURE message. I then looked further and saw ... The SSL Alert: HANDSHAKE_FAILURE message lead me to believe that the error is occurring early in the negotiation process. Before

Re: RXSSL / Charlotte Problem

2008-10-20 Thread Thomas Kern
Our SSLSERV is set up for FIPS mode. Here is a display of the SSLSERV STATUS that shows the allowed algorithms. We seem to always be using 3DES_168_SHA as the cipher suite. I will look for the trace/debug setting. ssladmin query status Maximum number of sessions: 100

Re: z/VM 5.2.0 on z10

2008-10-20 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Thank you for your suggestions of reasons to run 5.3.0 and 5.4.0. I had already presented them to management, but I have been instructed to use 5.2.0. My only hope of changing management's mind is to give him reasons NOT to use 5.2.0. Reasons to use the newer releases have not been persuasive.

Re: z/VM 5.2.0 on z10

2008-10-20 Thread Marcy Cortes
Does better performance fly? Silly mgmt :) This isn't windoze - no reason to hang back like that. Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or

Re: z/VM 5.2.0 on z10

2008-10-20 Thread Dean, David (I/S)
Bank of America...and management drives a 10 year old Ford for stability, right? David Dean Information Systems *bcbstauthorized* -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of O'Brien, Dennis L Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 3:43 PM

Cost accounting for Linux guest running under z/VM

2008-10-20 Thread Juarez, David T.
We are in the process of getting ready to add production Linux guest and we need to know how you are charging back the customer for running Linux under z/VM. We currently charge a fixed fee per month for small, medium and large based on the size of the individual server's memory, cpu, and

Re: z/VM 5.2.0 on z10

2008-10-20 Thread Schuh, Richard
Tell your management that you will sick Alan Ackerman on them if they will not let you install 5.3 or 5.4. :-) Regards, Richard Schuh -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of O'Brien, Dennis L Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008

Re: Cost accounting for Linux guest running under z/VM

2008-10-20 Thread Barton Robinson
The best model is one I heard last week at the ibm conference. One large well known installation charges only for prime shift, with 3 different rates based on types of service. All charges are based on resource consumption. With the usage charges and prime shift only charges, users are

Re: Cost accounting for Linux guest running under z/VM

2008-10-20 Thread McBride, Catherine
Interesting thread. Thanks. Cathy McBride Manager, Mainframe/Midrange Support Kable News Company, Inc (815) 734-5905 [EMAIL PROTECTED] We're still in this together! -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Barton Robinson Sent: Monday,

Re: z/VM 5.2.0 on z10

2008-10-20 Thread Jack Woehr
O'Brien, Dennis L wrote: There's nothing in 5.3.0 or 5.4.0 that we MUST have. SMAPI was carried over gnarly RPC through 5.2 .. After 5.3 it's vanilla TCP sockets. So if you ever want to use PigIron http://pigiron.sourceforge.net to automate guest provisioning (or anything else) from

Some REXX help

2008-10-20 Thread Huegel, Thomas
I copied this line from the REXX VM/REFERENCE It is from a sample SOCKETS SERVER exec (page 16.2). When I try to execute it I get errors. I have not seen code like this before, I wonder if anyone can explain the technique to me? if restnotsym;='' then call error 'E', 24, 'Invalid parameters

Re: Some REXX help

2008-10-20 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Huegel, Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if restnotsym;='' then call error 'E', 24, 'Invalid parameters specified' Its the restnotsym;=''that I don't understand. \= or /= Someone expected that to be substituted by the not sign Rob

Re: Some REXX help

2008-10-20 Thread Doug Breneman
The notsym; is supposed be a not symbol when it gets printed in the book. This means that this line is supposed to be If rest is not equal to null then call error... On my keyboard, this is If rest ^= '' then call error... You can also use for not equal. I will contact the z/VM

Re: Some REXX help

2008-10-20 Thread Schuh, Richard
Ah, but the semicolon makes it two Rexx statements. The same as If restnotsym; ='' then call ... Your syntax will be better if you remove the ; Regards, Richard Schuh -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob van der Heij

Re: Cost accounting for Linux guest running under z/VM

2008-10-20 Thread Thomas Kern
I have done it 3 1/2 times. The first time was in FORTRAN under VM/370 R5. Two times at this job using paid-for products (VMAccount and CA-JARS). Both were too much information for management and not enough of the right information for me. The 1/2 time was much more recent thanks to a special

Re: Some REXX help

2008-10-20 Thread Alan Ackerman
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:06:48 -0700, Schuh, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrot e: Ah, but the semicolon makes it two Rexx statements. The same as If restnotsym; ='' then call ... Your syntax will be better if you remove the ; Regards, Richard Schuh Standard HTML entities like gt; and lt; start

Re: VM Virtual CPUs and Threaded CMS Applications

2008-10-20 Thread Alan Ackerman
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:43:00 -0400, Bob Bolch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All execution of CMS linkage interfaces (CMSCALL, SVC 204, SVC202, etc.) and most common direct branch interfaces to CMS services executed on a non-b ase CPU result in running intercept code that switches that thread back to