Re: Machine type xref

2009-07-14 Thread Jim Bohnsack
When I was new in IBM, late 60's, I would get a sales manual update every week or so.  A lot of the updates were instructions to "discard this page".  It wasn't long before I realized I was throwing away history.  I started keeping a "discard" sales manual which I still have.  It does not have

VM information needed

2009-07-14 Thread AForsyth
Good Evening, I support Operations Manager under zVM which is pretty new to me. I am in the Automation group and all of our products up until now have been either Mainframe or Web based. We use the minidisk as opposed to SFS. I have wrote some very basic rule defitions and schedules but I w

Re: Machine type xref

2009-07-14 Thread Alan Altmark
On Tuesday, 07/14/2009 at 01:36 EDT, David Boyes wrote: > Sales Manual app on IBMlink. It used to be more complete, but IBM took out a > lot of the older stuff (boo hiss!) not too long ago. The Sales Manual is available via the Offering Information tool at http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/index.

Re: Machine type xref

2009-07-14 Thread David Boyes
> Does anyone know of a document that provides a xref between numeric IBM > machine types, and an english description of what than machine is? Sales Manual app on IBMlink. It used to be more complete, but IBM took out a lot of the older stuff (boo hiss!) not too long ago. (seriously, guys, does

Re: EREP recordings

2009-07-14 Thread Feller, Paul
We merge the z/VM and z/OS EREP data. All of the data is archived to tape on z/OS. Paul Feller AIT Mainframe Technical Support -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Frank M. Ramaekers Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 8:39 AM

Re: Replicating z/VM documentation

2009-07-14 Thread Brian Nielsen
I have a couple quick and dirty KEDIT macros that I run against the HTML index page to build COPY commands that will copy the cryptic file name from the CD to another drive and name it as the manual number and title (taking care of special characters in the process). Brian Nielsen On Mon,

Machine type xref

2009-07-14 Thread Huegel, Thomas
Does anyone know of a document that provides a xref between numeric IBM machine types, and an english description of what than machine is? Something like this: TYPE DESCRIPTION 3490 TAPE DRIVE 3390 DISK STORAGE 9672 MF COMPUTER 029 KEYPUNCH 2560 MFCM <--- don't get m

Re: EREP recordings

2009-07-14 Thread Edward M Martin
Hello Frank, We have a EREP EXEC that creates the reports and clear the EREP file. Then we use a modified EMAIL EXEC (MAILEREP EXEC) to email the reports to the 3-4 people. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System

Re: EREP recordings

2009-07-14 Thread Marcy Cortes
>I can't remember the last time a CE asked for an EREP report. Just last week here. Proved useful. We keep the data, generate the reports on demand. Marcy "This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the

Re: NETSTAT and PIPES

2009-07-14 Thread Feller, Paul
I get the same results from the command line and from the exec. Paul Feller AIT Mainframe Technical Support From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Gentry, Stephen Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 7:11 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: NETSTAT and

Re: NETSTAT and PIPES

2009-07-14 Thread Gentry, Stephen
I'll have to re-visit this at a later time. I (we) converted to 5.4 this past weekend and I'm doing a post install "mop up". Thanks to all who replied. Steve -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Tuesday, Ju

Re: EREP recordings

2009-07-14 Thread Huegel, Thomas
I run the reports and clear the recorder weekly. I leave the reports in the print queue and let SFPURGER purge them after 60 days. Even that may be overkill, I can't remember the last time a CE asked for an EREP report. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...

Re: NETSTAT and PIPES

2009-07-14 Thread Gentry, Stephen
--> Running this: * * * Top of File * * * /* */ 'vmfclear' address command 'PIPE COMMAN

Re: REXX and Panels

2009-07-14 Thread Michael Coffin
Wow! XMENU/E - I haven't used that (excellent!) product in probably 20 years! The ability for it to "wakeup" was one of the major features I preferred over DMS/CMS at the time (but there were many others, I recall it being an excellent product - glad to hear it is still around!). I've been using

Re: EREP recordings

2009-07-14 Thread Rich Smrcina
Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: What do you do with EREP recording information? Right now, it is simply filling up EREP's 191 disk. Do you run reports? What do you use for the reporting parameters? Do you archive it to tape/disk? TIA, Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. Systems Programmer MCP,

Re: EREP recordings

2009-07-14 Thread Robert Payne
We run reports monthly and save for the CE if anything prompts a service call. Trash if not, no archive. Bubba

EREP recordings

2009-07-14 Thread Frank M. Ramaekers
What do you do with EREP recording information? Right now, it is simply filling up EREP's 191 disk. Do you run reports? What do you use for the reporting parameters? Do you archive it to tape/disk? TIA, Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. Systems Programmer MCP, MCP+I, MCSE & RHCE American

Re: REXX and Panels

2009-07-14 Thread Peter . Webb
I have used Winmaker from the VM downloads page and found it quite easy to use. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Veilleux, Jon L Sent: July 13, 2009 07:35 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: REXX and Panels I am ju

Re: NETSTAT and PIPES

2009-07-14 Thread Alan Altmark
On Tuesday, 07/14/2009 at 08:53 EDT, "Gentry, Stephen" wrote: > Yes, that is what I?m trying to do and it works. That is to say the pipe doesn?t > abend or fail. What happens is I get different results when I run it from > an EXEC (with the PIPE command in it) vs. when I run it from the co

Re: NETSTAT and PIPES

2009-07-14 Thread Gentry, Stephen
Yes, that is what I'm trying to do and it works. That is to say the pipe doesn't abend or fail. What happens is I get different results when I run it from an EXEC (with the PIPE command in it) vs. when I run it from the command line. Steve From: The IBM z/V

Re: Replicating z/VM documentation

2009-07-14 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Sebastian Welton wrote: > What would be really nice is to be able to download the actual Infocenter as > you can do with some other products such as WebSphere. You need to download > the IEHS (IBM Eclipse Help System) and a couple of plugins and then the > Infocen

Re: Replicating z/VM documentation

2009-07-14 Thread Sebastian Welton
What would be really nice is to be able to download the actual Infocenter as you can do with some other products such as WebSphere. You need to downlo ad the IEHS (IBM Eclipse Help System) and a couple of plugins and then the Infocenter for the product. I do this on both Windows and Linux and it s

Re: Updating z/VM

2009-07-14 Thread Chip Davis
> On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:21:29 -0400, Alan Altmark > wrote: > >> Installation of z/VM 6.1 will be just like installation of prior releases. On 7/13/09 22:39 C. Lawrence Perkins said: Rats; and I was hoping I could swear off swearing :-) ... or as Lloyd Bridges (McCroskey) said in "Airplane",

Re: NETSTAT and PIPES

2009-07-14 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 3:52 AM, Feller, Paul wrote: > Is this what you are trying to do? > > > > 'pipe command NETSTAT TELNET | stem sve1.' > > 'pipe stem sve1. | > sve TEXT A' > > 'browse sve TEXT A' If so, then it is probably more practical to do - straight from the command line pipe command