z/VM 6.1 - IBM Preview Letter..

2009-07-07 Thread Ivan Warren
Found this little link in my weekly announcement summary : http://www.ibm.com/vrm/newsletter_10576_5350_121006_email_DYN_1IN/fremt106679968 Basically, it's z/VM 6.1.. Don't know if anyone had said anything about it previously.. Anyway.. the most striking feature I see in this literature is

Re: Setting up a caching name server.

2009-07-07 Thread Frank M. Ramaekers
Alan, That was my mistake, I had brought up an old 2.3 system to pull information from and inadvertently used it's TCP/IP stack (that wasn't up). (I'm on z/VM 5.4.) Okay, I've changed NSINTERADDR to point to our internal DNS (actually DC's). ; NSINTERADDR 127.0.0.1 NSINTERADDR 10.1.2.50

Re: Setting up a caching name server.

2009-07-07 Thread Alan Altmark
On Tuesday, 07/07/2009 at 08:54 EDT, Frank M. Ramaekers framaek...@ailife.com wrote: Okay, I've changed NSINTERADDR to point to our internal DNS (actually DC's). ; NSINTERADDR 127.0.0.1 NSINTERADDR 10.1.2.50 NSINTERADDR 10.1.2.4 I still can't get it to resolve host names. The ping,

Re: z/VM 6.1 - IBM Preview Letter..

2009-07-07 Thread William D Carroll
Also, Did you catch this part of the announcement IBM Europe, Middle East, and Africa Marketing Announcement ZA09-0015 So sorry everyone else, we have to wait this time around, no 6.1 for us yet :) William 'Doug' Carroll Mainframe Systems Eng Sr I Global Technology Infrastructure ECS Core

Re: z/VM 6.1 - IBM Preview Letter..

2009-07-07 Thread Rich Smrcina
Ivan Warren wrote: Found this little link in my weekly announcement summary : http://www.ibm.com/vrm/newsletter_10576_5350_121006_email_DYN_1IN/fremt106679968 Basically, it's z/VM 6.1.. Don't know if anyone had said anything about it previously.. Anyway.. the most striking feature I see

Re: z/VM 6.1 - IBM Preview Letter..

2009-07-07 Thread Alan Altmark
On Tuesday, 07/07/2009 at 02:25 EDT, Ivan Warren i...@vmfacility.fr wrote: Found this little link in my weekly announcement summary : http://www.ibm.com/vrm/newsletter_10576_5350_121006_email_DYN_1IN/fremt106679968 Basically, it's z/VM 6.1.. Don't know if anyone had said anything about

Re: z/VM 6.1 - IBM Preview Letter..

2009-07-07 Thread Marcy Cortes
Those are Statements of Direction, not in 6.1. But good stuff!!! Hurry up and bring on 6.2! (if that is what they are in!). 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

Re: Setting up a caching name server.

2009-07-07 Thread Frank M. Ramaekers
: : DMSZETRR: Number of Question RRs: 1 DMSZETRR: Question 1: DMSZETRR: IBM.COM DMSZETRR: Type (0X001C) T_ Class (0X0001) C_IN DMSZETRR:

Re: z/VM 6.1 - IBM Preview Letter..

2009-07-07 Thread Schuh, Richard
I hope that Linux is the first, not the only, guest O/S that can be supported by Guest Relocation. Regards, Richard Schuh * *z/VM Live Guest Relocation* IBM intends to further strengthen single system image support by providing live guest relocation. This is planned

Re: Setting up a caching name server.

2009-07-07 Thread Frank M. Ramaekers
Now it's looking like it's a routing/firewall problem. I can resolve and ping the intranet. Thanks for your help! Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. Systems Programmer MCP, MCP+I, MCSE RHCE American Income Life Insurance Co. Phone: (254)761-6649 1200 Wooded Acres Dr.

Re: z/VM 6.1 - IBM Preview Letter..

2009-07-07 Thread Hodge, Robert L
I interpret the following to say that V6.1 will only run on a z10. Correct/Incorrect? This release implements a new Architecture Level Set (ALS) available only on the IBM System z10 Enterprise Class server and System z10 Business Class server and future generations of System z(r) servers.

Re: z/VM 6.1 - IBM Preview Letter..

2009-07-07 Thread Bill Munson
It was probably going to be OFFICIALLY announced at SHARE in August ? Now you have gone and spoiled the surprise ! Bill Munson Sr. z/VM Systems Programmer Brown Brothers Harriman CO. 525 Washington Blvd. Jersey City, NJ 07310 201-418-7588 President MVMUA http://www2.marist.edu/~mvmua/

Re: z/VM 6.1 - IBM Preview Letter..

2009-07-07 Thread Rich Smrcina
Correct. Hodge, Robert L wrote: I interpret the following to say that V6.1 will only run on a z10. Correct/Incorrect? This release implements a new Architecture Level Set (ALS) available only on the IBM System z10 Enterprise Class server and System z10 Business Class server and future

Re: z/VM 6.1 - IBM Preview Letter..

2009-07-07 Thread Mark Pace
See Alan's response. True. We wanted to exploit instructions that are available only on the z10. On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Hodge, Robert L robert.l.ho...@lmco.comwrote: I interpret the following to say that V6.1 will only run on a z10. Correct/Incorrect? This release implements a

Re: z/VM 6.1 - IBM Preview Letter..

2009-07-07 Thread Mr. Woofer
Is this GDPS/VM??? Alan Altmark wrote: On Tuesday, 07/07/2009 at 02:25 EDT, Ivan Warren i...@vmfacility.fr wrote: Found this little link in my weekly announcement summary : http://www.ibm.com/vrm/newsletter_10576_5350_121006_email_DYN_1IN/fremt106679968

Re: Updated paper available - Sharing and maintaining SLES 10 SP2 Linux under z/VM

2009-07-07 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Russel, Have you been successful with the install over an OSA defined on a layer 2 network? We are running z/VM 5.4 with the latest PTF’s and SUSE 10 SP2 trying to perform the install using the IBM scripts. It is failing every time during the re-boot phase of the install. If you are asking

Re: z/VM 6.1 - IBM Preview Letter..

2009-07-07 Thread Jim Bohnsack
I get the US IBM Announcements and this was in it today. http://www.ibm.com/vrm/newsletter_10577_5037_121009_email_DYN_1IN/gvuhb33457147 Jim William D Carroll wrote: Also, Did you catch this part of the announcement=0D=0AIBM Europe, Middle= East, and Africa Marketing Announcement

Re: z/VM 6.1 - IBM Preview Letter..

2009-07-07 Thread Marcy Cortes
Nope, but you can buy that today if you really wanted to. It's called GDPS/PPRC Multiplatform Resiliency for System z (Cross Platform Disaster Recovery) http://ew.share.org/client_files/callpapers/attach/SHARE_in_Orlando/S5247NL094447.pdf (GDPS/VM would be a much easier to understand/remember

Re: z/VM 6.1 - IBM Preview Letter..

2009-07-07 Thread Alan Altmark
On Tuesday, 07/07/2009 at 12:27 EDT, Mr. Woofer mrwoo...@swbell.net wrote: Is this GDPS/VM??? Not really, no. GDPS is a collection of Services offerings that create an automated recovery HA/DR environment for System z (site failover, I/O failover, ...) with special focus on z/OS. GDPS

Re: z/VM 6.1 - IBM Preview Letter..

2009-07-07 Thread Huegel, Thomas
Or later .. is it time for z11 yet?? -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Rich Smrcina Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 10:32 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: z/VM 6.1 - IBM Preview Letter.. Correct. Hodge, Robert L

Rick Bourgeois

2009-07-07 Thread Schuh, Richard
It is a sad day for the VM community. One of our Knights, Rick Bourgeois, has passed away. Rick supplied niche products, VPARS and VTAPE, that enabled the large scale development and testing of applications for the TPF environment. His creations were absolutely essential to that environment.

Re: z/VM 6.1 - IBM Preview Letter..

2009-07-07 Thread Mike Walter
z11? And you call yourself a __SYSPROG__!!? Wouldn't the next model be a zA? ;-) Oh, that's right... there are probably rooms full of IBM marketeers who don't speak geek yet pick the next model names. Nevermind. For that matter, z/VM Version 6.1? What happened to Version 6.0? Doesn't

Re: z/VM 6.1 - IBM Preview Letter..

2009-07-07 Thread russell . gendreau
Well we have been trying to set this up under z/VM 5.4 with suse10 sp 2 on a layer 2 switch with no luck. So I guess we should hold off until 6.1 is available :-) Anyone having any luck with the ability to move Linux guests from one z/VM to another while retaining it's IP and MAC address? We

Re: z/VM 6.1 - IBM Preview Letter..

2009-07-07 Thread Mark Post
On 7/7/2009 at 3:31 PM, russell.gendr...@custserv.com wrote: Well we have been trying to set this up under z/VM 5.4 with suse10 sp 2 on a layer 2 switch with no luck. So I guess we should hold off until 6.1 is available :-) I doubt this has anything to do with the version of z/VM you're

Re: z/VM 6.1 - IBM Preview Letter..

2009-07-07 Thread Mike Rydberg
Sounds like a re-birth of VM/CMS Unlimited's Single System Image product from VM/SP 5 and HPO 5 days. I am guessing that Romney W. may have something to do with this :) Mike Brocade Communications -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu]

Re: z/VM 6.1 - IBM Preview Letter..

2009-07-07 Thread Huegel, Thomas
Wouldn't it be zB ? :) -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Mike Walter Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 2:36 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: z/VM 6.1 - IBM Preview Letter.. z11? And you call yourself a

Re: z/VM 6.1 - IBM Preview Letter..

2009-07-07 Thread russell . gendreau
Already have, just hoping someone may have this working; or are we trying to do something that really has not been done or proven in a production business environment. I will say I believe the issue is more then likely with the linux guest install script or something related to the install of the

Re: z/VM 6.1 - IBM Preview Letter..

2009-07-07 Thread Schuh, Richard
In the days of O/S 360, the even numbered releases were the bad ones. Was it perhaps because of the team alignments? We went from O/S MFT R15 to R17 and then to R21 and had very little trouble with any of them. On the other hand, the people I knew who installed R16 and R20 had all sorts of

Re: z/VM 6.1 - IBM Preview Letter..

2009-07-07 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Mike, zA would come after z9, not z10.    Dennis A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week..  -- General George S. Patton -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System

Re: z/VM 6.1 - IBM Preview Letter..

2009-07-07 Thread Alan Altmark
On Tuesday, 07/07/2009 at 03:33 EDT, russell.gendr...@custserv.com wrote: Well we have been trying to set this up under z/VM 5.4 with suse10 sp 2 on a layer 2 switch with no luck. So I guess we should hold off until 6.1 is available :-) Anyone having any luck with the ability to move Linux

Rick Bourgeois

2009-07-07 Thread Phil Smith III
Richard Schuh wrote: It is a sad day for the VM community. One of our Knights, Rick Bourgeois, has passed away. Rick supplied niche products, VPARS and VTAPE, that enabled the large scale development and testing of applications for the TPF environment. His creations were absolutely essential to

Re: z/VM 6.1 - IBM Preview Letter..

2009-07-07 Thread Mark Post
On 7/7/2009 at 4:12 PM, russell.gendr...@custserv.com wrote: Already have, just hoping someone may have this working; or are we trying to do something that really has not been done or proven in a production business environment. I've done it a number of times on my z/VM guest, and never saw

Re: Rick Bourgeois

2009-07-07 Thread Dave Jones
My condolences to his family and friends.. Schuh, Richard wrote: It is a sad day for the VM community. One of our Knights, Rick Bourgeois, has passed away. Rick supplied niche products, VPARS and VTAPE, that enabled the large scale development and testing of applications for the TPF

Re: Updated paper available - Sharing and maintaining SLES 10 SP2 Linux under z/VM

2009-07-07 Thread russell . gendreau
Hi Mike, No luck yet. We are watching the install run now and we can see the MAC address that was assigned along with it's IP address when we display the vswitch with details. We changed the porttype from trunk to access and defined the NIC. We should find out shortly if the install is

Re: z/VM 6.1 - IBM Preview Letter..

2009-07-07 Thread Mike Walter
Dennis, You win the kewpie doll! I was wondering how long it would be before a REAL SYSPROG would notice that. Of course... I planted it that way to see who was paying attention. That's my story and I'm sticking to it! ;-) blush After a z10, it would always be a z11 if IBM suddenly

Re: z/VM 6.1 - IBM Preview Letter..

2009-07-07 Thread Ivan Warren
Mike Walter wrote: After a z10, it would always be a z11 if IBM suddenly switched over to binary, right? Then a z100, etc... Let's try to make sense of the marketroids branding system.. 1st, let's look at the facts : In chronological order, and excluding the 'BC' class systems (z800,

Re: z/VM 6.1 - IBM Preview Letter..

2009-07-07 Thread David Boyes
After a z10, it would always be a z11 if IBM suddenly switched over to binary, right? Then a z100, etc... Well, actually, assuming any reasonably rational base, 11 would always follow 10. The question gets interesting when you reach n symbols in a single position (assuming zero as minimum).

Bo Decker III is out of the office.

2009-07-07 Thread Bo Decker III
I will be out of the office starting 07/07/2009 and will not return until 07/11/2009. I will respond to your message when I return.