Re: Newbie question

2009-07-10 Thread Sterling James
Thanks for the information. I learned something; now, I can go home. - Please consider the environment before printing this email and any attachments. This e-mail and any attachments are intended only for the individual or company to which it is addressed

Re: Newbie question

2009-07-10 Thread Chip Davis
I heard he was "hiking the Appalachian Trail" ... -Chip- On 7/10/09 18:53 Alan Altmark said: As an aside, I thought he-who-will-not-be-named was on, um, "extended leave for unspecified personal reasons".

Re: NSS question

2009-07-10 Thread P S
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Gentry, Stephen < stephen.gen...@lafayettelife.com> wrote: > Ok, just read the HELP info. Thanks. > > Why does VM/CP/NSS/? allow both entries to be active? How does it know > which one to use? First one it finds? > CP. And you've sort of answered the 2nd (of 4

Re: DIRMAINT on 2nd Level System

2009-07-10 Thread Scott Rohling
Not so much that you 'go back' to USER DIRECT - as 'start out with' it when you build a new system..Gotta have a valid one online before you can hope for any of the guests (like DIRMAINT) to work. Best of luck moving forward! Scott On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Le Grande Valerie < valeri

Re: Newbie question

2009-07-10 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 07/10/2009 at 02:33 EDT, "Schuh, Richard" wrote: > Sorry, but it can pull; just the externals - use PARSE EXTERNAL instead of You're right, of course. I leave the office for a couple of hours and You-Know-Who sneaks in for some Fun & Games at my expense. (sigh) As an aside, I tho

Re: DIRMAINT on 2nd Level System

2009-07-10 Thread Le Grande Valerie
What I hear from Scott's answer is that I have to go back to using USER DIRECT which is the only way I could figure out. I just thought maybe I was missing some zVM "smoke and mirrors" trick to get DIRMAINT updated somehow. Thanks, Scott. This will keep me moving forward.

Re: Newbie question

2009-07-10 Thread Schuh, Richard
Sorry, but it can pull; just the externals - use PARSE EXTERNAL instead of PARSE PULL Regards, Richard Schuh > -Original Message- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark > Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 10:53 AM > To: IBMVM@LI

Re: Stand Alone Dump

2009-07-10 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 07/10/2009 at 12:58 EDT, "Wandschneider, Scott" wrote: > Does anyone have a working procedure for an MVS system, running under VM, that > they are willing to share. The dump must be to DASD. It's pretty much the same procedure. Use the steps outlined in Procedure A of chapter 4

Re: Newbie question

2009-07-10 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 07/10/2009 at 12:56 EDT, Sterling James wrote: > If I have a quest, usera, running a rexx exec, REXX1, while disconnected, and > userb (priv c) issues a "SEND USERA REXX2"; > Where is the "REXX2" queued? Or how can rexx1 pull that command so it will not > execute when REXX1 ends?

Re: DIRMAINT on 2nd Level System

2009-07-10 Thread Scott Rohling
You can put the directory for the 2nd level guest online from 1st level before you bring it up: - Shutdown 2nd level guest - ATTACH the 2nd level guest sysres to your userid as 123 - Using your USER INPUT file: DIRECTXA USER INPUT A - Detach 123 - IPL 2nd level guest -- it will be running wi

Re: Newbie question

2009-07-10 Thread Scott Rohling
REXX2 is queued as console input.. A Do Queued();pull .;end before REXX1 exits should kill it.. Scott On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Sterling James wrote: > > If I have a quest, usera, running a rexx exec, REXX1, while disconnected, > and userb (priv c) issues a "SEND USERA REXX2"; > Whe

Newbie question

2009-07-10 Thread Sterling James
If I have a quest, usera, running a rexx exec, REXX1, while disconnected, and userb (priv c) issues a "SEND USERA REXX2"; Where is the "REXX2" queued? Or how can rexx1 pull that command so it will not execute when REXX1 ends? Thanks, - Please consider th

Re: NSS question

2009-07-10 Thread Gentry, Stephen
Ok, just read the HELP info. Thanks. Why does VM/CP/NSS/? allow both entries to be active? How does it know which one to use? First one it finds? From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: Friday,

Stand Alone Dump

2009-07-10 Thread Wandschneider, Scott
List Members, Below is the procedure we successfully use to create a stand-alone dump of a hung or misbehaving VSE guest machine. Does anyone have a working procedure for an MVS system, running under VM, that they are willing to share. The dump must be to DASD. Thanks in advance. 1. Log on

DIRMAINT on 2nd Level System

2009-07-10 Thread Le Grande Valerie
Hello group, I want to bring up a separate DIRMAINT on a 2nd Level system because we want to start using RACF and want a place to experiment. Do I need to set up a USER DIRECT file on the 2nd level Maint 2CC volume first so that the system will come up and then start DIRMAINT as if it were

NSS question

2009-07-10 Thread John Franciscovich
>I am pretty sure I did this by restoring, using SPXTAPE, the NSS twice. > >My question or assumption is that I thought, when a duplicate entry is >restored, it would flagged the existing > >one as purged/deleted/removable (what ever the correct term is).=20 > >Could someone explain this? By def

Re: Which vm software to use?

2009-07-10 Thread Mary Zervos
Hi again Ivan, Thank you for writing this code for us. It has worked beautifully. Can I possibly ask you to help us take this code one step further (since I've never used the Wakeup Module before). Here's what we have (step 1 below) and what we need the new code to do (step 2 below). 1)

Re: NSS question

2009-07-10 Thread Jim Bohnsack
Steve--Yes, it is possible to have duplicates and not have the older entry flagged as being to be purged. I don't remember which one's have to be manually handled, perhaps the DCSS's. I know that in resaving CMS, the older CMS NSS always get flags as being purged and will stay there in that s

Re: NSS question

2009-07-10 Thread Bob Bates
Yup, use Q NSS USERS GUICSLIB to see who is accessing which one and then PUR NSS xxx the one not being used. It's a cleanup I've done many times when I've restored all the NSS files and there were still some out there from before whatever happened that made me need to restore them. Bob Bates E

Hidro and Migrated SFS files

2009-07-10 Thread Kris_Buelens
A customer I'm starting to support is using Hidro and would like to short en their backup process a bit. They do have old files that are probably no longer needed. As I know that VM:Backup skips the backup of migrated files, with VM:Back up an easy solution would be to implement DFSMS SFS managem

NSS question

2009-07-10 Thread Gentry, Stephen
Is it possible to have duplicate, active entries in the NSS? (sort of a trick question; it appears that we do.) See below: *NSS 0014 NSS A 0258 10/23 22:06:14 GUICSLIB DCSS MAINT *NSS 0059 NSS A 0258 10/23 22:06:14 GUICSLIB DCSS MAINT I am pretty sure I did this by

Re: NSS question

2009-07-10 Thread Schuh, Richard
SPXTAPE LOAD can create multiple active entries. It is in the HELP for SPXTAPE. Regards, Richard Schuh From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Gentry, Stephen Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 1:45 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.