What shocked me in that article, was this:
As any logical person who has seen Karen Black's
Trilogy of Terror or any one of the Chucky movies
will recognize, these events prove one thing:
These teddy bears are evil. Somehow, they have
obtained the ability to possess their owners' minds
As far as I know the customer is not allowed to make any changes to the
software of an HMC. There is an upgrade process from the IBM support
which does it. I had one customer who has bought a used z800 with an
OS/2 HMC. During the refresh of the patches the IBM technician also
reinstalled the
Folks,
I whipped a couple of wikipedia article about VM subjects a few month ago.
Nothing fancy really, but I realize it'd probably be nice if those get
reviewed and possibly checked for accuracy, corrected if necessary, etc..
The 2 articles are :
The CP SIGNAL SHUTDOWN command has helped to clarify our problem. It
appear that the problem may be in the way linux shuts itself dowm. With t
he
command, it appear that everthing works as designed from a vm standpoint;
however linux never seems to complete it's shutdown. Although a guest is
It's far worse than we think. Try a Google search of evil teddy
bears. 1,230,000 hits. Yikes.
Now try good teddy bears. 23,600,000 hits. That makes me feel so
much better.
At least when it comes to teddy bears, good triumphs over evil at a
ratio of about 19:1.
From Wikipedia:
The teddy
I played around with LOGONBY and FTP and found something a little strange.
Context: z/VM 5.4 with RACF installed, CP deferring to RACF for almost
everything.
RACF profile SURROGAT LOGONBY.TESTUSER exists, with the ACL not including
TESTUSER itself.
CP logon allows users in the ACL to log
On Wednesday, 06/10/2009 at 10:54 EDT, Mark Bodenstein m...@cornell.edu
wrote:
RACF profile SURROGAT LOGONBY.TESTUSER exists, with the ACL not
including
TESTUSER itself.
...
FTP logon allows users in the ACL to use testuser.by.surrogate to log
on
to TESTUSER as expected, but DOES allow
We start/stop oracle with an init.d script so oracle's start/stop is part of
Linux's boot and shutdown sequence.
-Original Message-
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On
Behalf Of Robert J McCarthy
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 8:46 AM
To:
John,
When you shutdown your linux guest, do you use a CP SIGNAL SHUTDOWN
command to tell linux to shutdown, or do you manually shutdown linux.
Our manual shutdown appears to work, but when we try to automate it with
the CP SIGNAL SHUTDOWN from vm; linux appears to send a response to vm
saying
RPIMGR031E RESOURCE MAINT.CF1 SPECIFIED BY LINK COMMAND NOT FOUND
RPIMGR031E RESOURCE MAINT.CF2 SPECIFIED BY LINK COMMAND NOT FOUND
RPIMGR031E RESOURCE MAINT.CF3 SPECIFIED BY LINK COMMAND NOT FOUND
RPIMGR031E RESOURCE MAINT.190 SPECIFIED BY LINK COMMAND NOT FOUND
RPIMGR031E RESOURCE MAINT.2CC
Did you complete all the steps in the program directory? In
particular, did you run RPIDIRCT to scan your current directory and
did you run RPIBLDDS to load this output file into your initial
database?
You can find the program directory at http://www.vm.ibm.com/progdir/5vmrac40.pdf
On Wed, Jun
Is it possible to download the entire z/VM manuals from ISO's somewhere?
Thanks,
Frank M. Ramaekers Jr.
Systems Programmer MCP, MCP+I, MCSE RHCE
American Income Life Insurance Co. Phone: (254)761-6649
1200 Wooded Acres Dr.Fax: (254)741-5777
Waco, Texas
How about http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/zvmpdf/
-Original Message-
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On
Behalf Of Frank M. Ramaekers
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 10:00 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: z/VM 5.4 manuals ISO?
Is
I can't remember the name of the utility offhand, but I'm pretty sure there
is an EXEC that will generate an initial RACF list of commands to define all
the users and minidisks. Beware that the definitions may not be what your
security people want them to be - so you may want them to examine the
Thanks Alan.
In the interest of good citizenship I'll open a Sev 3 PMR.
Regarding NOPASSWORD, we do typically use that for SVMs, etc. Not this
time because of what I was testing.
Mark
At 11:32 AM 6/10/2009, Alan Altmark wrote:
FTP logon allows users in the ACL to use testuser.by.surrogate
Do you have Linux set up to honor the signal (usually some updates inittab
and zipl.conf)? You have to direct the signal to call a script that will
issue the shutdown command...
Scott
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Robert J McCarthy
bob.mccar...@custserv.com wrote:
John,
When you
I CP FORCE guest WITHIN nn
Like CP SIGNAL SHUTDOWN that triggers the linux's inittab CTRLALTDEL entry.
What do you mean when you say linux appears to send a response to VM
saying it has completed shutdown; but apparently it really hasn't ?
Is that sent response just a message on the guest's
You could use IBM Softcopy Librarian to download both book manager and PDS
formats.
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/df/ebrsclwj.exe
Steve H. Mondy
Mainframe Technical Support Manager
Open Solutions Inc.
3900 Essex Lane, Suite 400
Houston, TX 77027-5100
Office 713-965-8457
Cell
On Wednesday, 06/10/2009 at 12:36 EDT, Frank M. Ramaekers
framaek...@ailife.com wrote:
Is it possible to download the entire z/VM manuals from ISO's somewhere?
IBM does not provide ISO images of the z/VM Softcopy Publications DVD.
Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott
John,
I am sorry I wasn't clear. VM and linux are communicating :
When I enter the CP SIGNAL SHUTDOWN command from MAINT linux begins
shutting down. A short time later vm receives the termination from linux
and writes the following message to the vm MAINT log :
HCPSIG2113I User ZORACLE2 has
On Wednesday, 06/10/2009 at 01:33 EDT, Tom Duerbusch thdbu...@swbell.net
wrote:
I don't think UDB uses zIIP engines. They use IFL engines. Performance
seems
to be good, especially over hipersockets.
Boy, this conversation has taken an intresting turn. :-) The question is
whether DB2
Yes. I generate RPDIRCT SYSUT1 from Dirmaint.
And I rpibildds it.
Then I am able to login Maint.
Here is I saw the error.
Sunny Hu
Information Management
W.C.B. Alberta
(780) 498-4739
sunny...@wcb.ab.ca
Bruce Hayden bjhay...@gmail.com
Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System
If you were using VM:Secure, you would do it via the Rules Facility. Is there
anything equivalent in RACF?
Regards,
Richard Schuh
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf
Of Dave Keeton
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009
On Wednesday, 06/10/2009 at 02:01 EDT, Robert J McCarthy
bob.mccar...@custserv.com wrote:
John,
I am sorry I wasn't clear. VM and linux are communicating :
When I enter the CP SIGNAL SHUTDOWN command from MAINT linux begins
shutting down. A short time later vm receives the termination from
It
appears that linux sends the termination response to vm before it has
really completed it's (linux)shutdown. In linux's inittab we have
shutdown -h coded.
But your example shows a automatic reboot and the system trying to come back
up. Something else is wrong... do you specify
We have the shutdown -
h
in
the inittab.
Hmm. But you are still getting the shutting down for reboot message, which
seems odd to me. I think there's something funny in your init scripts for
starting/stopping Oracle -- there should be something there that makes the
shutdown process
You could use IBM Softcopy Librarian to download both book manager and
PDS formats.
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/df/ebrsclwj.exe
That will get you the individual files. I think he's asking if .iso images of
the entire collection can be downloaded in one swell foop (analogous to the
On 6/10/2009 at 2:19 PM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com wrote:
-snip-
Boy, this conversation has taken an intresting turn. :-)
I would tend toward calling it surreal.
Mark Post
What does your RPDIRCT SYSUT1 look like (Please don't append it here!)?
Does it look like it was generated properly? Are the RDEFINE for the MAINT
disks in there? Any errors during any of these processes?
Scott
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:42 AM, sunny...@wcb.ab.ca wrote:
Yes. I generate
David,
The reboot was 3 hours later when the guest was manually brought up
after the corrupted filesystem was fixed. The last message received at
shutdown was :
Jun 7 02:02:48 zoracle2 syslog-ng[1780]: syslog-ng version 1.6.8 going
down
We did not have vmpoff=LOGOFF in the parm lines. The
RACF doesn't have a limit on the number of surrogate users that can
use the 'by' option of logon.
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Dave Keetondave.kee...@state.or.us wrote:
I'm trying to determine if RACF will allow me to bypass the 8 user
limitation imposed with the LOGONBY attribute of the
RACF lets you define as many LOGONBY users for a target userid as you like.
RDEFINE SURROGAT LOGONBY.PERFSVM UACC(NONE)
and here we permit the staff to doLOGON PERFSVM BY staffx at z/VM logon
screen:
PERMIT LOGONBY.PERFSVM CLASS(SURROGAT) ID(STAFF1) ACCESS(READ)
PERMIT
Yes, this will work in RACF:
If using RACF, when you define the user as
LOGONBY, it can by default no longer be logged on to with its own
password (what is normally what you'd want). But, with an extra
command you can restore that possibility:
1. Define TERRY as LOGONBY
RAC RDEFINE
On Wednesday, 06/10/2009 at 02:16 EDT, Dave Keeton
dave.kee...@state.or.us wrote:
I'm trying to determine if RACF will allow me to bypass the 8 user
limitation
imposed with the LOGONBY attribute of the USER DIRECT entry. I need to
add
operations staff to a virtual machine so they can
Bob,
I think it's as the others said, Linux is shutting down the way you told it to
do but not the way you intend it to do:
Here's how we shutdown a disconnected sles 10 oracle server gracefully here,
hope the example helps you:
/etc/inittab has a record to run 'shutdown -h now' in response
On 6/10/2009 at 3:15 PM, Robert J McCarthy bob.mccar...@custserv.com
wrote:
-snip-
We did not have vmpoff=LOGOFF in the parm lines. The linux guests were
in a vm DSC status. We were not logged into any of them. I did notice
however that the guests were all logged off of vm once the vm
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 7:42 PM, sunny...@wcb.ab.ca wrote:
Then I am able to login Maint.
Here is I saw the error.
If you get the errors during the logon of MAINT, it looks like the
MDISK class is active. I have seen that before so it might very well
be the default. The RPIDIRCT most likely
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Romanowski, John
(OFT)john.romanow...@cio.ny.gov wrote:
PERMIT LOGONBY.PERFSVM CLASS(SURROGAT) ID(STAFF1) ACCESS(READ)
Do yourself a favor and connect the various individuals to RACF groups
and then permit these groups to the logonby profiles. Even when you
( resent to correct my /etc/init.d/rc.3/ to /etc/init.d/rc3.d/)
Bob,
I think it's as the others said, Linux is shutting down the way you told it to
do but not the way you intend it to do:
Here's how we shutdown a disconnected sles 10 oracle server gracefully here,
hope the example helps you:
I used
dirm user withpass
Rpidirct user withpass z a
The file is the same like what RACF Program Directory describe: ADDUSER
RDEFINE
Permit.
NO error when issue Vmfview service
I only want to establish the simple and basic RACF without share database.
Do I have the
Dave,
Using RACF you can have hundreds of logonby users, or you can group users
and authorize those groups to do logonby to a server.
We normally have a racf group for the system programmers, and grant that
racf group access to the logonby profiles for the server userids.
A similar setup is used
Please post the console messages from post syslog going down.
Marcy
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Sent: Wed Jun 10 14:15:06 2009
Subject: Re: [IBMVM] Clean Linux Guest Shutdown
Did the RPIDIRCT SYSUT1 file contain RDEFINE statements for all the
minidisks? Did you have DIRMAINT send you the complete directory file
(DIRM USER WITHPASS) or did you try to read it directly from one of
the disks? Something obviously went wrong - maybe you should IPL your
old system from parm
Thanks to Rob everyone else who responded. I'm pretty new to RACF as
well, so your examples helped out a lot.
Regards,
Dave
-Original Message-
From: Rob van der Heij rvdh...@gmail.com
Reply-to: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject:
Sunny,
Looks like you ran the DIRM USER command to get the copy of the directory
that was passed to RPIDIRCT to create the RACF commands. However, it does
not look like you ran the RPIBLDDS to actually update the RACF database
since you indicated running VMFVIEW SERVICE. Can you confirm you
John,
We checked the linux scripts on several guests with what you sent us
and our scripts are very similar. We went through the process with one
test linux /oracle guest and reviewed the log. This guest came down
cleanly without any issues. Oracle shutdown down normally, all within
about 30
On Wednesday, 06/10/2009 at 04:07 EDT, sunny...@wcb.ab.ca wrote:
I used
dirm user withpass
Rpidirct user withpass z a
The file is the same like what RACF Program Directory describe: ADDUSER
RDEFINE
Maybe you just need to do a refresh? I'm not a RACF expert, but RACF often
needs a SETROPTS REFRESH of some things (but you'd think such things would
be handled by this process)
Your not having a permission problem -- RACF is saying the resources haven't
been defined yet.. which sounds like
Thanks, makes a lot of sense, I'll pass that on to our RACF admin.
-Original Message-
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On
Behalf Of Rob van der Heij
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 3:31 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: LOGONBY 8 user
In RPIDIRCT SYSUT1 I do have
RDEFINE VMMDISK MAINT.CF1 OWNER(MAINT) UACC(NONE)
PERMIT MAINT.CF1 CLASS(VMMDISK) RESET ID(MAINT) AC(ALTER)
Thanks Rod, Scott and Jon, My errors is gone now. :)
I guess the way I did :
log in IBMUSER
Rac SETROPTS
Hi Dave,
We have 15 users shared to be used for support purpose and a great number
of users sharing them.
You can define a GROUP and CONNECT those users to them.
Abraços / Best regards
Edi Lopes Alves
IBM Global Accounts (IGA)
z/VM Systems Base, Vicom Program Products Support
ITIL Foundation
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