Multiple Channels to DASD

2010-05-20 Thread Billy Bingham
Hello all, Risking the old saying that it's better to have people think you're stupid than to open your mouth and remove all doubt :) If VM is doing I/O to one DASD volume only, say a DDR DUMP or RESTORE, and everything else is equal, will VM use multiple channels to get to the one volume,

Override file/modify command

2010-05-20 Thread Richard Corak
Also might try LOCATE CMDBK command Richard Corak

Re: Multiple Channels to DASD

2010-05-20 Thread Robert Payne
Good question Billy, I'm waiting to see what the responses are ! In my environment, the SAD screen will show all 4 FICON channels to the DASD with activity. What I don't know is it VM balancing the load or the SAP engine doing the I/O. Inquiring minds want to know ! LOL Bubba ... snip

Re: Override file/modify command

2010-05-20 Thread Wandschneider, Scott
Bruce, Is my modify command adding class S to FORCE and SHUTDOWN? I thought it was to *replace* class A with class S. What am I missing? From SYSTEM CONFIG file: MODIFY COMMAND SHUTDOWN PRIVCLASS S MODIFY COMMAND FORCEPRIVCLASS S Output

Re: Override file/modify command

2010-05-20 Thread Bruce Hayden
The modify command replaces (I think the actual term would be overrides) the current definition. So, if you use: MODIFY COMMAND SHUTDOWN PRIVCLASS S MODIFY COMMAND FORCEPRIVCLASS S then SHUTDOWN and FORCE have been removed from Class A and only users with Class S can use them. If you want to

Re: Override file/modify command

2010-05-20 Thread Wandschneider, Scott
Ok, I got it now - Thank you! Thank you, Scott -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Bruce Hayden Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 9:29 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Override file/modify command The modify

Shutting Down Linux Guest

2010-05-20 Thread Louis . Gaines
New Member I have ten Linux guest running under z/vm on z/os 5 are production and 5 are test is there away to bring down all the production with one command then let the shutdown command bring down the test guest. Thanks

Re: Shutting Down Linux Guest

2010-05-20 Thread Gentry, Stephen
You could write a REXX EXEC to issue a signal shutdown for each of the respective Linux guests. That way you would type the name of the EXEC (one command) and let the EXEC do the rest. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of

Re: Shutting Down Linux Guest

2010-05-20 Thread David Boyes
We wrote a tool to do this (SYSVINIT). You can define groups of virtual machines, specify dependencies so things come up in order, etc, etc. Free to the world. http://www.sinenomine.net/vm/s5init or search for it on www.sinenomine.net. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM

Re: Shutting Down Linux Guest

2010-05-20 Thread Scott Rohling
Actually - it's at: http://www.sinenomine.net/products/vm/s5i Sounds nice .. I'll be checking it out -- wrote something similar for internal IBM systems -- Scott Rohling On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 3:32 PM, David Boyes dbo...@sinenomine.net wrote: We wrote a tool to do this (SYSVINIT). You can

Re: Shutting Down Linux Guest

2010-05-20 Thread David Boyes
Darn; I was sure I fixed that. Oh, well. One of these days I'll get a minder to worry about such things. And I am Marie of Roumania. -- db From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Rohling Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 5:36 PM To: