Re: Problem with PEEK Command - update

2009-04-03 Thread Alan Altmark
On Thursday, 04/02/2009 at 08:30 EDT, Rob van der Heij rvdh...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm... could it be that the RSU also made a databufferpoolsize from TCPIP disappear? Screens much larger than deity created them in the beginning may result in transfers that don't fit in the default buffer size.

Re: Problem with PEEK Command - update

2009-04-03 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com wrote: Too bad the telnet server doesn't send an error message back to the client and wait 5 seconds before killing the connection. I thought there was PTF UM090401 published for TCP/IP VM last Wednesday for this? It will in

Re: Problem with PEEK Command - update

2009-04-03 Thread Kris Buelens
soapbox Is this yet another reason that IBM should not distribute such files as compiled REXX, so the user could diagnose similar problems? /soapbox When the VM lab was about to put only compiled EXECs on the S-disk I explicitely asked to have the old (non-compiled) version too for

Re: Problem using the PEEK Command

2009-04-03 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
We (I) did the front/back end a bit differently. Since I want to supply a profile for ALL users, not only those who set a new default, I named my frontend PROF (not only for peek), and renamed IBM's to PIBM. It works just like you say: -PROFPEEK XEDIT A -Commands to customize. -'MACRO

Dynamically adding an authorised operator for RSCS

2009-04-03 Thread Horlick, Michael
Hi, Occasionally we have had a request to add an authorised operator for RSCS. We usually change the RSCS CONFIG and wait till the next VM IPL (the only time we re-cycle RSCS). Is there a way to dynamically add an authorised operator for RSCS? Thanks, Mike Horlick CGI Montreal

Re: Guest Billing

2009-04-03 Thread =?iso-8859-1?Q?Greg_Dyrda?=
Thanks Barton. I will check that out. Thank-you also to everyone who contributed. The reason I asked in the first place was that we have had a situation where a monitor product running in Linux will get in a bind and start eating alot of cpu and we then have to adjust the billing. I have

Re: look at service machine cons log

2009-04-03 Thread Joseph . Beiter
the spool close for my object machine appears to process w.out issue. however where am I to find the result? The command suggests the cons will be sent back to the user defined byyour_id however I can discover nothing in my rdr q. Any thoughts ? James Stracka (DHL US)

Re: Dynamically adding an authorised operator for RSCS

2009-04-03 Thread Bob Bates
I believe it was in VM 5.3 that the use of RSCSAUTH started. It reroutes commands through to RSCS so you can change the authorizations without having to bounce it. Never used it myself, just read some about it. Bouncing RSCS isn't that big a deal for as few times as I have done it. I just pick

Re: look at service machine cons log

2009-04-03 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 4:17 PM, joseph.bei...@frit.frb.org wrote: the spool close for my object machine appears to process w.out issue. however where am I to find the result?   The command suggests the cons will be sent back to the user defined byyour_id however I can discover nothing in my

Re: Dynamically adding an authorised operator for RSCS

2009-04-03 Thread Horlick, Michael
Hello Bob, We are at z/VM 5.2. We have a pretty busy RSCS system during the day. I was hoping without a bounce. Thanks, Mike From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Bob Bates Sent: April 3, 2009 10:18 AM

Re: look at service machine cons log

2009-04-03 Thread Joseph . Beiter
The console spooling may not be started, or it may be spooled to someone else. You probably need to put a SPOOL CON START in the PROFILE EXEC of the virtual machine. Virtual machine output after the START will go into the spooled console. Rob Yes, that was correct and now corrected.

Re: Dynamically adding an authorised operator for RSCS

2009-04-03 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 04/03/2009 at 09:38 EDT, Horlick, Michael michael.horl...@cgi.com wrote: Occasionally we have had a request to add an authorised operator for RSCS. We usually change the RSCS CONFIG and wait till the next VM IPL (the only time we re-cycle RSCS). Is there a way to dynamically

Re: look at service machine cons log

2009-04-03 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 04/03/2009 at 10:21 EDT, Rob van der Heij rvdh...@gmail.com wrote: You probably need to put a SPOOL CON START in the PROFILE EXEC of the virtual machine. Virtual machine output after the START will go into the spooled console. Or COMMAND SPOOL CONS TO whomever START in the

Secure FTP

2009-04-03 Thread Davis, Larry
are there currently any CMS options for performing Secure FTP transfers? Larry Davis The Nielsen Company

Re: Dynamically adding an authorised operator for RSCS

2009-04-03 Thread Kris Buelens
As far as I know, RSCS authorizations is the only thing one cannot dynamically change, and I think DIRMAINT's can either. I guess security reasons make such a feature is not implemented. 2009/4/3 Horlick, Michael michael.horl...@cgi.com Hi, Occasionally we have had a request to add an

Re: Dynamically adding an authorised operator for RSCS

2009-04-03 Thread David Boyes
On 4/3/09 10:35 AM, Horlick, Michael michael.horl...@cgi.com wrote: We are at z/VM 5.2. We have a pretty busy RSCS system during the day. I was hoping without a bounce. Create a DVM running PROP, and authorize the DVM in the RSCS config file. You can then change the auth file for the PROP DVM

Re: Secure FTP

2009-04-03 Thread Thomas Kern
PGP Encrypt FTP - Sendfile - MAILIT etc PGP Decrypt /Tom Kern Davis, Larry wrote: are there currently any CMS options for performing Secure FTP transfers? Larry Davis The Nielsen Company

Re: Monitor versus accounting data

2009-04-03 Thread Barton Robinson
Ok, let's go through this one at a time. See inserted comments. Alan Ackerman wrote: Creating new thread. 1. The folks that receive the data at my shop are z/OS folks. Historicall the capture ratio of MVS was really poor. The notion was that you should use SMF data and never RMF data. I

Re: Secure FTP

2009-04-03 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 04/03/2009 at 10:38 EDT, Davis, Larry larry.davis.consult...@nielsen.com wrote: are there currently any CMS options for performing Secure FTP transfers? The z/VM 5.4 FTP client and server support SSL, if that meets your needs. (Prior releases have only FTP server-side support for

Re: Monitor versus accounting data

2009-04-03 Thread Lionel B. Dyck
Barton said: Transaction records are cut at logon/logoff, that is how we get 100.00% capture ratio. Nothing is lost. Question: Is there a interval record to capture the data should the system go south unexpectedly and/or the user is forced off (or is the logoff record cut at force) ?

Re: Secure FTP

2009-04-03 Thread Larry Scollard
Greetings, My z/VM 5.3 FTP client also supports the (secure options for SSL/TLS. Larry Scollard University of Tennessee, Knoxville On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 11:19:40 -0400 you said- On Friday, 04/03/2009 at 10:38 EDT, Davis, Larry larry.davis.consult...@nielsen.com wrote: are there currently any

Re: Monitor versus accounting data

2009-04-03 Thread Barton Robinson
logoff record happens when the virtual machine leaves the building, forced or voluntarily. Lionel B. Dyck wrote: Barton said: Transaction records are cut at logon/logoff, that is how we get 100.00% capture ratio. Nothing is lost. Question: Is there a interval record to capture the data

Re: Monitor versus accounting data

2009-04-03 Thread Lionel B. Dyck
But not if the lpar (z/vm) leaves the building without saying goodbye Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist Enterprise Platform Services, Mainframe Engineering KP-IT Enterprise Engineering 925-926-5332 (8-473-5332) | E-Mail: lionel.b.d...@kp.org AIM: lbdyck | Yahoo IM: lbdyck Kaiser Service

Re: Monitor versus accounting data

2009-04-03 Thread Schuh, Richard
And accounting data would not be lost under the same circumstances? Regards, Richard Schuh From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Lionel B. Dyck Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 8:52 AM

Re: Monitor versus accounting data

2009-04-03 Thread Barton Robinson
If the LPAR leaves the building, then the data that is captured is valid for the previous hour. The data for the current hour contains data each minute for the top 10 consumers - so for the current partial hour, capture ratio might only be 95%, and would have to be recovered from the

Re: File System - If you had everything, where would you put it?

2009-04-03 Thread Jeff Savit
Gary M. Dennis wrote: 1. How does OpenSolaris zfs utilize the storage tier on System z? Are the disks allocated to zfs pool(s) simply reserved CMS formatted disks? Exactly that: minidisks used by OpenSolaris on z port (sirius for short) are CMS-formatted and RESERVE-d minidisks. That way

Re: Dynamically adding an authorised operator for RSCS

2009-04-03 Thread Horlick, Michael
Actually that works fine. I told the helpdesk user that they can issue the command through VM:Operator. Thanks, Mike -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of David Boyes Sent: April 3, 2009 10:59 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU

Re: Secure FTP

2009-04-03 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 04/03/2009 at 11:42 EDT, Larry Scollard pa8...@utkvm1.utk.edu wrote: My z/VM 5.3 FTP client also supports the (secure options for SSL/TLS. You're right, of course. It was a tupo. Thanks for catching it! z/VM 5.3 and 5.4 have SSL/TLS support in both the FTP client and the server.

Re: Monitor versus accounting data

2009-04-03 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 04/03/2009 at 12:01 EDT, Schuh, Richard rsc...@visa.com wrote: And accounting data would not be lost under the same circumstances? Under those circumstances (pull the plug) all unread accounting data is lost. On a SHUTDOWN or abend, unread accounting data is written to the

Re: Problem with PEEK Command - update

2009-04-03 Thread Raymond Noal
Dear Chuckie, I must apologize for upsetting you so. It too was shocked, as in shocked and awe which escalated to shock and ah, S**T!!! What was I thinking? Upon encountering a problem when using the PEEK function from within a RDRLIST display, I should have immediately thought of my TCP/IP

Re: Problem with PEEK Command - update

2009-04-03 Thread Adam Thornton
On Apr 3, 2009, at 1:50 PM, Raymond Noal wrote: I would like to thank all of you who responded. I was really surprised at how the majority of you made the leap from using PEEK to TCPIP data buffers. Well, it's highly intuitive, after all. Adam

Re: Help mounting tape on IBM ATL

2009-04-03 Thread Peter . Webb
I had to do this last week. This is what I did. 1) Inserted the tape in the tape library I/O station. The tape had no barcode, so the robot detected it, but could not identify it, so the robot left it in the I/O station. 2) Went to the tape library web interface as an administrator: a) Clicked

Re: Problem with PEEK Command - update

2009-04-03 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 04/03/2009 at 02:50 EDT, Raymond Noal raymond.n...@hds.com wrote: I would like to thank all of you who responded. I was really surprised at how the majority of you made the leap from using PEEK to TCPIP data buffers. Rule #239: When you hear hoofbeats, think zebras. Since zebra

Re: Problem with PEEK Command - update

2009-04-03 Thread Edward M Martin
As is said by Admiral Rickover It is obvious to the most casual observer To which we muttered under our breath 'yea, right' Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of

Re: File System - If you had everything, where would you put it?

2009-04-03 Thread Gary M. Dennis
Jeff, What I was trying to determine if there was a way to use ZFS on OpenSolaris System z as a high speed space management vehicle while bypassing conventional transport layers? For example, let¹s say there existed a way to push data to the IO appliance cross-memory (guest to ZFZ, ZFS to

Diagnose X'248' - Copy to Primary

2009-04-03 Thread Gary M. Dennis
Can anyone comment on the overhead (or lack thereof) relating to use of this diagnose. Thanks --. .- .-. -.-- Gary Dennis 0 ... living between the zeroes... 0

Re: Diagnose X'248' - Copy to Primary

2009-04-03 Thread Dave Jones
Well, since it's just a move of data from one address space to another, I would suspect (but I have no numbers to back this up) that the overhead would be minimal. Gary M. Dennis wrote: Can anyone comment on the overhead (or lack thereof) relating to use of this diagnose. Thanks --. .-

Re: Problem with PEEK Command - update

2009-04-03 Thread James Stracka (DHL US)
Is it just this location or do others have this problem? I issue PEEK to look at a file in the READER. At the bottom of the screen is: 1= Help 2= Add line 3= Quit 4= Tab 5= Clocate6= ?/Change 7= Backward 8= Forward 9= Receive 10= Rgtleft 11= Spltjoin 12= Cursor I

Re: Problem with PEEK Command - update

2009-04-03 Thread Kris Buelens
That's a modified PROFPEEK XEDIT, or a DEFAULTS command that changed the fname of PEEK's Profile (issue DEFAULTS LIST PEEK to find out).. Seting a PFkey to discard something is bad habit, and then not even update the PF description line is even worse. I really wanting a PFkey to delete something,

Re: Problem with PEEK Command - update

2009-04-03 Thread Edward M Martin
Hello Jim, I have Hello Jim, From FullScreen CMS, I do a PF9 to get to the RDRLIST. Pick one and Peek. Did a Q PF PF1 BEFORE MACRO HELP CMS PEEK PF2 BEFORE SOS LINEADD PF3 ONLYCOMMAND QUIT PF4 BEFORE TABKEY

Re: Diagnose X'248' - Copy to Primary

2009-04-03 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 04/03/2009 at 03:55 EDT, Dave Jones d...@vsoft-software.com wrote: Well, since it's just a move of data from one address space to another, I would suspect (but I have no numbers to back this up) that the overhead would be minimal. Since it is a DIAGNOSE, you will automatically be

Re: File System - If you had everything, where would you put it?

2009-04-03 Thread Dave Jones
Would you consider a mechanism like IUCV or shared data address spaces as acceptable methods to send data back and forth between z/VOS guests and a file server of some sort? Gary M. Dennis wrote: Jeff, What I was trying to determine if there was a way to use ZFS on OpenSolaris System z as a

Re: Problem with PEEK Command - update

2009-04-03 Thread James Stracka (DHL US)
Ed and Kris, I am told this is a vanilla z/VM 5.2.0 system. The only thing changed is DMSNGP and ACF2/VM. And from what I have seen, it is vanilla. And from what I have seen, that is it. The original installer is out today, on Monday we shall have a chat. And, yes, I did check DEFAULTS LIST

Re: Problem with PEEK Command - update

2009-04-03 Thread Schuh, Richard
I agree with both Ed and Kris - an unmodified profile does indeed set PF4 to TABKEY. Quit shooting yourself in the foot. :-) Regards, Richard Schuh -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Edward M Martin Sent: Friday,

Re: Problem with PEEK Command - update

2009-04-03 Thread James Stracka (DHL US)
It might be my foot, but it is not my bow and arrow. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 2:15 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Problem with PEEK Command - update I

Re: File System - If you had everything, where would you put it?

2009-04-03 Thread Gary M. Dennis
Either would work, but a shared address space would seem to be the most lightweight approach. On 4/3/09 3:57 PM, Dave Jones d...@vsoft-software.com wrote: Would you consider a mechanism like IUCV or shared data address spaces as acceptable methods to send data back and forth between z/VOS

Re: File System - If you had everything, where would you put it?

2009-04-03 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 04/03/2009 at 03:38 EDT, Gary M. Dennis gary.den...@mantissa.com wrote: What I was trying to determine if there was a way to use ZFS on OpenSolaris System z as a high speed space management vehicle while bypassing conventional transport layers? For example, let?s say there

Re: File System - If you had everything, where would you put it?

2009-04-03 Thread Gary M. Dennis
Something along these lines Guests pull on read Servers pull on write Async only --. .- .-. -.-- Gary Dennis Mantissa 0 ... living between the zeroes ... 0 On 4/3/09 4:26 PM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com wrote: On Friday, 04/03/2009 at 03:38 EDT, Gary M. Dennis

Re: Performance Toolkit question

2009-04-03 Thread Austin, Alyce (CIV)
I'm trying to find the z/VM 5.4 Performance Toolkit references. I've only been successful in finding the one for 5.3. Are they in a special place? Thanks, Alyce -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Rich Smrcina Sent:

Re: File System - If you had everything, where would you put it?

2009-04-03 Thread Gary M. Dennis
As it is written. Guests pull from the server on read requests and servers pull from the guests on write requests. We seem to be missing an interrupt sequence don¹t we? Gary On 4/3/09 6:15 PM, Jeff Savit jsa...@gmail.com wrote: Do you mean 'pull' or 'poll' on read, or 'push' on write? :-)

Re: File System - If you had everything, where would you put it?

2009-04-03 Thread Jeff Savit
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 18:32:10 -0500, Gary M. Dennis gary.den...@mantissa.c om wrote: As it is written. Guests pull from the server on read requests and ser vers pull from the guests on write requests. We seem to be missing an interrupt sequence don't we? Gary Okay, got it. Ultra-traditional

Re: Performance Toolkit question

2009-04-03 Thread Dave Jones
No, Alyce. They're in the usual place for IBM VM publications: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/Shelves/hcsh Have a good one. Austin, Alyce (CIV) wrote: I'm trying to find the z/VM 5.4 Performance Toolkit references. I've only been successful in finding the one for 5.3.

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2009-04-03 Thread Tom Burgess
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