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

2009-07-08 Thread Phil Smith III
Mike Walter wrote: snip For that matter, z/VM Version 6.1? What happened to Version 6.0? Doesn't everyone know that odd-numbered versions are considered unlucky? Can't have Version 6 Release 0 ... ya know? ...phsiii

TCPIP Gateway entry question

2009-07-08 Thread jose raul baron
Hi list, we are having lots of trouble on defining a new type B IP address with subnetting under z/VM 4.4 Net Address: 172.24.131.160 Netmask: 255.255.255.224 = 27 mask bits Wildcard:0.0.0.31 Minimum IP address: 172.24.131.161 Maximum IP address: 172.24.131.190 Broadcast address: 172.24.131.191

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

2009-07-08 Thread RPN01
If I remember the story correctly, you won't see a version such as 6.0, because in IBM wisdom, this would imply that there would be following releases (due to the decimal). Now why it's ok to have 6.1, and why that doesn't carry the same implication, I don't know. -- Robert P. Nix Mayo

PERFSVM question

2009-07-08 Thread Jim Bohnsack
We saw a bunch of logon attempts a night ago to userid ADMINIST which I do not have defined in the directory. There were about 2,500 over the course of 2 hours. They were apparently not coming in thru an emulator, so that pretty much leaves the web interface to Performance Toolkit. Is there

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

2009-07-08 Thread Ethan Lanz
IBM's use of V6.1 is shorthand for Version 6 Release 1. The first release of each version is necessarily Release 1. What IBM avoids (IIRC) is *Version* 1, as that implies a future version, presumably with substantial upgrades. On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:35 AM, RPN01 nix.rob...@mayo.edu wrote:

Re: PERFSVM question

2009-07-08 Thread Rich Smrcina
Jim Bohnsack wrote: We saw a bunch of logon attempts a night ago to userid ADMINIST which I do not have defined in the directory. There were about 2,500 over the course of 2 hours. They were apparently not coming in thru an emulator, so that pretty much leaves the web interface to

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

2009-07-08 Thread Jack Woehr
Ethan Lanz wrote: The first release of each version is necessarily Release 1. To people who learned programming from Rexx. To those of us who use assembler, Forth, C, Java, it would be Release 0 :) -- Jack J. Woehr# I run for public office from time to time. It's like

Re: TCPIP Gateway entry question

2009-07-08 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 07/08/2009 at 09:53 EDT, jose raul baron jba...@calculo-sa.es wrote: Hi list, we are having lots of trouble on defining a new type B IP addresswith subnetting under z/VM 4.4 Net Address: 172.24.131.160 Netmask: 255.255.255.224 = 27mask bits Wildcard:0.0.0.31 Minimum IP

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

2009-07-08 Thread Mark Pace
Um - z/OS V1 R 1-10 to this point. On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Ethan Lanz llel...@gmail.com wrote: IBM's use of V6.1 is shorthand for Version 6 Release 1. The first release of each version is necessarily Release 1. What IBM avoids (IIRC) is *Version* 1, as that implies a future

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

2009-07-08 Thread Schuh, Richard
Only if you are counting bits, bytes, words, etc., and then only if it is an offset you are counting. Who thought of using offset instead of ordinal numbers, anyway? Regards, Richard Schuh -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu]

Don India - Out of Office

2009-07-08 Thread Donald India
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Re: z/VM 6.1 - IBM Preview Letter..

2009-07-08 Thread Jack Woehr
Schuh, Richard wrote: Only if you are counting bits, bytes, words, etc., and then only if it is an offset you are counting. Who thought of using offset instead of ordinal numbers, anyway? The Almighty started on the zero'th day. After he did his work, the earth was without form and void,

Re: PERFSVM question

2009-07-08 Thread David Boyes
Simple answer: put a Linux guest in front of the VM TCP stack with the old address as the external address, renumber the VM stack to a RFC1918 address on an internal guest lan, and enable IP Masquerade in iptables. That gets you all sorts of useful info, and lets you shut them down cold. Add

Moderator intervention Re: [IBMVM] z/VM 6.1 - IBM Preview Letter..

2009-07-08 Thread IBMVM Moderator
Dearest colleagues: The ongoing discussion has, I think, served to prove what I have believed all along: That we are, each and every one of us, exceptionally clever, witty, well-read and profoundly insightful individuals. If you will forgive the interruption, may I humbly suggest that this

Re: PERFSVM question

2009-07-08 Thread Jim Bohnsack
Easy for you to say. Jim David Boyes wrote: Simple answer: put a Linux guest in front of the VM TCP stack with the old = address as the external address, renumber the VM stack to a RFC1918 address= on an internal guest lan, and enable IP Masquerade in iptables. That gets = you all sorts

Re: PERFSVM question

2009-07-08 Thread Adam Thornton
On Jul 8, 2009, at 11:15 AM, David Boyes wrote: Simple answer: put a Linux guest in front of the VM TCP stack with the old address as the external address, renumber the VM stack to a RFC1918 address on an internal guest lan, and enable IP Masquerade in iptables. That gets you all sorts of

Re: PERFSVM question

2009-07-08 Thread Adam Thornton
On Jul 8, 2009, at 11:15 AM, David Boyes wrote: Simple answer: put a Linux guest in front of the VM TCP stack with the old address as the external address, renumber the VM stack to a RFC1918 address on an internal guest lan, and enable IP Masquerade in iptables. That gets you all sorts of

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

2009-07-08 Thread David Boyes
z/OS being the current poster child I can just see the rain-drenched vista of the Poughkeepsie IBM plant in the poster with a soaking wet z10 sitting on the lawn out front, with the word Give. in a big white square at the bottom of the poster. -- db

Re: PERFSVM question

2009-07-08 Thread Jim Bohnsack
I very cleverly log from 06:00 until 18:00. Saves space in the HISTLOG files, you know. :-[ Jim Rich Smrcina wrote: Jim Bohnsack wrote: We saw a bunch of logon attempts a night ago to userid ADMINIST which I do not have defined in the directory. There were about 2,500 over

Re: PERFSVM question

2009-07-08 Thread Adam Thornton
On Jul 8, 2009, at 12:03 PM, Jim Bohnsack wrote: Easy for you to say. How about She sells sea shells by the seashore? Adam

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

2009-07-08 Thread Ethan Lanz
At which point it was released as Day 1! :) On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Jack Woehr j...@well.com wrote: Schuh, Richard wrote: Only if you are counting bits, bytes, words, etc., and then only if it is an offset you are counting. Who thought of using offset instead of ordinal numbers,

Denny Refsnider is out of the office

2009-07-08 Thread Denny Refsnider
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Re: z/VM 6.1 - IBM Preview Letter..

2009-07-08 Thread Jack Woehr
Ethan Lanz wrote: At which point it was released as Day 1! :) You win! -- Jack J. Woehr# I run for public office from time to time. It's like http://www.well.com/~jax # working out at the gym, you sweat a lot, don't get http://www.softwoehr.com # anywhere, and you fall asleep

IBM DS6800 maintenance

2009-07-08 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Has anyone tried a non-IBM maintenance provider for one of the IBM DS disk subsystems? Are there companies that do this? Our 4 year warranty is up on our IBM DS6800. We are required to go out on bids, if it makes sense. It only makes sense, to spend the XX hours for the bid process, if

Re: PERFSVM question

2009-07-08 Thread David Boyes
Easy for you to say. Sent Jim a set of iptables rules that should do the job. Would anyone else find a VM-based screening/firewall virtual machine useful? Would you contribute time or money to it's creation? If so, let me know off-list and I'll see what we can coordinate. We've been running

Second moderator intervention Re: [IBMVM] z/VM 6.1 - IBM Preview Letter..

2009-07-08 Thread IBMVM Moderator
Ladies, gentlemen: Enough, please. In the immortal words of my father during long family road trips, please don't make me have to pull this car over to the side of the road! Pretty please? -dan.

Re: PERFSVM question

2009-07-08 Thread Jim Bohnsack
I've seen logon attacks thru FTPSERVE before and, as I remember, looking at the FTPSERVE console showed the activity. I've seen 3 different attempts in the last couple of weeks and the FTPSERVE console doesn't show a thing. Jim Adam Thornton wrote: On Jul 8, 2009, at 11:15 AM, David Boyes

Re: PERFSVM question

2009-07-08 Thread Chip Davis
2,500 tries over 2 hours is not an attempt to break in, that's a denial-of-service attack. Apparently there was a pretty big DOS attack on a number of Federal and other websites starting on July 4. They hit a ton of sites, and if you stayed up, you did better than the Treasury Department,

Re: PERFSVM question

2009-07-08 Thread Edward M Martin
Hello Everyone, There have been major attacks on South Korea and other government sites over the world. You may have been caught up in it. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu]

DFSMS/VM Minidisk Placement

2009-07-08 Thread Joe . DiPippo
When installing DFSMS/VM RMSONLY, where does one usually place the minidisks described in Chapter 5 of the Program Directory? On the system 5xxw01/5xxw02 or on an installation defined volume? Looking for help with best practices... Joseph Di Pippo Operating Systems Programmer III FRIT

Re: PERFSVM question

2009-07-08 Thread Mark Post
On 7/8/2009 at 2:55 PM, Chip Davis c...@aresti.com wrote: 2,500 tries over 2 hours is not an attempt to break in, that's a denial-of-service attack. One attempt every 3 seconds (roughly)? I doubt it. Sounds like a script kiddie to me. Mark Post

Re: DFSMS/VM Minidisk Placement

2009-07-08 Thread Gentry, Stephen
I place mine on one of the two mentioned disks in your posting. My reason is that we use DDR to backup the SYSRES packs (SYSRES packs, all disk drives needed for initial restore at our disaster recover site). I haven't looked at DFSMS in a while but some of the files MUST reside on the SFS

Re: DFSMS/VM Minidisk Placement

2009-07-08 Thread Thomas Kern
I put the initial installation on the maintenance volumes (5xxW01, 5xxW02, etc) and then copy the necessary minidisks to my production volumes (VMxRES, VMxnnn, etc). On my system, the 5xxRES, 5xxWnn volumes belong to my maintenance system that I run second level. If I inherited an existing system

Re: PERFSVM question

2009-07-08 Thread Chip Davis
Not if it's waiting on a response from the victim and immediately resending. That's harder to automatically recognize and guard against. A PING flood, otoh... Besides, it wasn't clear that the attack was sustained or in spurts, which could have raise the effective frequency. -Chip- On