CMSVMLIB problem

2009-09-01 Thread Tony Bergenza
Hi, we are facing problem with our cmsvmlib when IPLed as II level vm 5.4 DMSDCS1083E Saved segment CMSVMLIB does not exist i cms 07:31:35 HCPCLT044E System CMS does not exist How to fix this problem?

Re: Duplicate hipersocket device addresses

2009-09-01 Thread Alan Altmark
On Tuesday, 09/01/2009 at 07:45 EDT, "O'Brien, Dennis L" wrote: > We're starting to test hipersockets between Linux guests on z/VM and z/OS > systems in separate LPAR's. z/OS is having intermittent trouble pinging one of > the four Linux guests, but is fine with the other three. All four Li

Duplicate hipersocket device addresses

2009-09-01 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
We're starting to test hipersockets between Linux guests on z/VM and z/OS systems in separate LPAR's. z/OS is having intermittent trouble pinging one of the four Linux guests, but is fine with the other three. All four Linux guests have no trouble pinging z/OS. Someone suggested that the devi

Re: Retrieving a VM Packed file

2009-09-01 Thread Alan Altmark
On Tuesday, 09/01/2009 at 04:05 EDT, Pete Borton wrote: > All I can say is 'It works for me' - as long as the CMS file was text in the > first place of course (sorry forgot that bit in my first response! Why would > you pack a binary file anyway ?). I've just tested it and it works fine. It >

Re: Scripting FTP

2009-09-01 Thread Mike Walter
Far easier is to use the (free)VMFTP package described earlier. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates (Sent from the wee keyboard on a Blackberry.) - Original Message - From: "Wakser, David" [david.wak...@infocrossing.com] Sent: 09/01/2009 02:44 PM MST To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: S

Re: Scripting FTP

2009-09-01 Thread Wakser, David
You'll have to show the whole EXEC, if you really want us to figure it out. Following is one that works fine in z/VM 5.3 (it transfers VM to VM, so ignore the SENDSITE command and use what you need). Is it possible that the size of the VM is too small? David Wakser arg fn ft fm . /* file to

Scripting FTP

2009-09-01 Thread Frank M. Ramaekers
Can you script FTP? Help doesn't mention it. If I attempt to QUEUE the commands from a REXX program, I get: VM TCP/IP FTP Level 540 AMPX014I PROTECTION EXCEPTION

Re: Retrieving a VM Packed file

2009-09-01 Thread Pete Borton
This is the command format: IND$FILE PUT fn ft fm ( ASCII CRLF RECFM F LRECL 1024 Pete -Original Message- From: Peter Borton Sent: 01 September 2009 21:04 To: 'The IBM z/VM Operating System' Subject: RE: Retrieving a VM Packed file All I can say is 'It works for me' - as long as the

Re: Virtual Tape Systems

2009-09-01 Thread Edward M Martin
Hello P S (zosw...@gmail.com), As scared as I get talking in front of groups, I am hoping to present at WAVV next year. I am finding that it may come down to how support and questions are handled. I am starting to see the Same basic functions with just different philosophic viewpoints of how

Re: MIPS CAPPING & z/VM Equivalent

2009-09-01 Thread Barton Robinson
If you have the ability to capture CPU seconds consumed (a good performance monitor does this), then it is an easy calculation assuming you know the power of your IFL: (CPU Seconds / time) * MIPSRating Paul, Thomas wrote: Hi We are in the process of migrating Websphere applications from z/OS

Re: Retrieving a VM Packed file

2009-09-01 Thread Pete Borton
All I can say is 'It works for me' - as long as the CMS file was text in the first place of course (sorry forgot that bit in my first response! Why would you pack a binary file anyway ?). I've just tested it and it works fine. It definitiely WON'T work for binary files. VM packed files are Fixed 1

Re: Reaction of z/VM when losing a page dataset

2009-09-01 Thread Marcy Cortes
You do want to spread your paging over as many LCU's as possible for performance reasons, but those can all be on the same DS8000. The one box really can act like more than one controller. And rare, well, if it was, then why would you pprc mirror anyway? (locally that is :). We're not allowe

Re: NOLOG Option in the Directory

2009-09-01 Thread Anthony Pignataro
Nope! Tony Pignataro IBM Information Technology Services America DB2/VM Support From: Howard Rifkind To:

Re: more RAM for DB2

2009-09-01 Thread Roland P. Chung
Hello Graves, you should only concern with 2 buffer settings: NPAGBUF and NDIRBUF. Especially the NPAGBUF - the more the merrier.   DB2 only works on data in its buffers. It will move data from DASD when it does not find what it is looking for in the buffers. So, the more buffer allocated, the b

Re: FTP Translation

2009-09-01 Thread Schuh, Richard
Thanks all for trying to help - now, it is working as desired using the same commands and files as yesterday. There were some automatic updates from the PC wizards (very much like the one from Oz, if you ask me), and now the quotes survive the FTP. Many other things are now working better, too,

Re: more RAM for DB2

2009-09-01 Thread Graves Nora E
Thanks! We do use VM Dataspaces, but the TARGETWS parameter does need to be updated. Nora Graves From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Kris Buelens Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 1:00 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU

z/Linux Statistics

2009-09-01 Thread Paul, Thomas
Hi Anybody can help me with some rationale into these info...what may be the threshold to trigger an alert? ZLA1N101 : 12% overhead • File name : D:\zLinux\GClogs\gc.zla1n101.log • Number of verboseGC cycles : 1 • Number of Garbage Collections : 1404 • Number of

MIPS count - please help to translate

2009-09-01 Thread Paul, Thomas
Hi I'm trying to explain these from z/OS in terms of z/VM world... can anybo dy help? For z/Linux, as seen in the report, the MIPS consumed were: ZLA1N101: 190 ZLA1N102: 212 ZLA1N120: 5 ZLA1N118:

Re: Retrieving a VM Packed file

2009-09-01 Thread Alan Altmark
On Tuesday, 09/01/2009 at 12:54 EDT, Pete Borton wrote: > I have successfully retrieved IND$FILE files transferred to a PC as text by > using LRECL 1024 on the IND$FILE RECEIVE options. There are three problems inherent in transferring binary data as text: 1. Non-reversible translations. 2. Dat

Re: NOLOG Option in the Directory

2009-09-01 Thread Schuh, Richard
No, look at the AUTOONLY password. See http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/HCSG0B20/3.2.57?SHELF=hcsh2a91&DT=20070423114140 Regards, Richard Schuh From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Howard

Re: NOLOG Option in the Directory

2009-09-01 Thread Thomas Kern
NOLOG is the special password that indicates this userid can NEVER be log ged on. AUTOONLY is the one to use for server virtual machines to be xautologged and never allowed on a terminal. LBYONLY is the one to use for shared virtual machines where you want the user to be validated by their own u

MIPS CAPPING & z/VM Equivalent

2009-09-01 Thread Paul, Thomas
Hi We are in the process of migrating Websphere applications from z/OS to z/Linux under VM. I have questions, if you can answer these questions, it'll be greatly apprciated. 1. Under z/OS environment MIPS capping was implemented. Is there equivalent in z/VM - I know of Share (abs & rel),

Re: NOLOG Option in the Directory

2009-09-01 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Howard, A password of NOLOG does not allow AUTOLOG or XAUTOLOG. Set the password to AUTOONLY if you want to allow AUTOLOG/XAUTOLOG but not LOGON. Dennis O'Brien I couldn't remember how to throw a boomerang, but eventually it came back to me

NOLOG Option in the Directory

2009-09-01 Thread Howard Rifkind
If the nolog option is included in a user directory entry can autolog1 log that user id on?   Can that user id be xautologged?   Thanks

Recall: Retrieving a VM Packed file

2009-09-01 Thread Pete Borton
Peter Borton would like to recall the message, "Retrieving a VM Packed file".

Re: more RAM for DB2

2009-09-01 Thread Kris Buelens
If your DB2 uses VM Dataspaces, it will profit of tyhe extra storage your z/VM system has, but, you may have to check DB2's TARGETWS parameter, this can limit the storage DB2 can occupy, simplified: if DB2 finds out it has more pages resident than that number, it will tell CP to get rid of some of

Re: Retrieving a VM Packed file

2009-09-01 Thread Pete Borton
I have successfully retrieved IND$FILE files transferred to a PC as text by using LRECL 1024 on the IND$FILE RECEIVE options. Not sure about FTP though. Regards, Peter Borton -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Suleiman Sh

Re: Retrieving a VM Packed file

2009-09-01 Thread Suleiman Shahin
I was hoping to hear that from someone else so I can appeal! But now it's final! Thanks. Suleiman Shahin > > Unlikely. If was transferred with translation table STANDARD (likely), > the file is toast. The translations in STANDARD are not reversible. > > Alan Altmark > z/VM Development > IB

Re: Retrieving a VM Packed file

2009-09-01 Thread Alan Altmark
On Tuesday, 09/01/2009 at 12:29 EDT, Suleiman Shahin wrote: > Someone ftped a packed CMS file to a network disk as text. > > Is there a way to retrieve back to CMS in an a usable form? Unlikely. If was transferred with translation table STANDARD (likely), the file is toast. The translations

Retrieving a VM Packed file

2009-09-01 Thread Suleiman Shahin
Greetings, Someone ftped a packed CMS file to a network disk as text. Is there a way to retrieve back to CMS in an a usable form? Thanks. Suleiman Shahin _ Windows Live: Keep your friends up to date with what you do online.

more RAM for DB2

2009-09-01 Thread Graves Nora E
Cross-posted to VM/ESA and DB2 lists. I'm running DB2 7.5 under z/VM 5.4 (both are the current releases). We have a brand-new z10 processor. My Systems Programmer has offered me 1 Gig of RAM, up from our current Virtual Storage of 384 Meg for the production database. I'd like to take advant

Re: Reaction of z/VM when losing a page dataset

2009-09-01 Thread Barton Robinson
The problem with putting all your paging volumes on one DS-8000 then becomes performance. Your paging devices will now be sharing physical disks. When you write pages out to multiple "page devices", then all of the I/O is then going to the same set of hardware. From a performance perspective,

Re: Reaction of z/VM when losing a page dataset

2009-09-01 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Florian wrote: > This is what I expected. I fear also that the chance is doubled to crash the > system when the PAGING volumes are spread on both DS-8000. So I will correct > this soon. I used to joke that it would be best to put all our critical resources on a sin