Re: z/VM PSP Buckets

2011-02-16 Thread Doug
On 2/16/2011 11:44, Billy Bingham wrote: All, Having never applied service of any kind to z/VM, what would be a WAG to apply say PSP or any hardware buckets. Thanks, Billy Billy, Applied RSU1002+PSP+z196 PTF's to 3 systems, tested in-house code, etc, ready to go in 2 days. Yes, I have bee

Re: z/VM 6.2 release date?

2011-02-16 Thread Bill Munson
John Maybe you can stop by Quebec and get Ann Maries plastic bat for prottection. Good luck Munson - Original Message - From: John Franciscovich [jfran...@vnet.ibm.com] Sent: 02/16/2011 05:43 PM EST To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: z/VM 6.2 release date? > Folks who atten

Re: z/VM 6.2 release date?

2011-02-16 Thread John Franciscovich
> Folks who attend John Franciscovich's presentation on SSI/LGR at SHARE can > try to make him reveal what he knows. Just surround him and poke him with > sharp sticks. See if he'll squeal. ;-) Things to do before I leave for SHARE: 1. Self-defense training a. Bananas- check

Re: Watson

2011-02-16 Thread Tom Huegel
He won. On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:53 PM, David Boyes wrote: > > I guess I didn't understand the problem..or didn't want to..LOL > > Thank you for the explanation Dr. B > > "Now, next week, Billy, we'll examine computational fluidity and the > definition of NP-hard complexity. " > > "GEE, Mr

Re: Watson

2011-02-16 Thread David Boyes
> I guess I didn't understand the problem..or didn't want to..LOL > Thank you for the explanation Dr. B "Now, next week, Billy, we'll examine computational fluidity and the definition of NP-hard complexity. " "GEE, Mr Wizard...can we?" -- db

Re: Watson

2011-02-16 Thread Larry Macioce
I guess I didn't understand the problem..or didn't want to..LOL Thank you for the explanation Dr. B Mace

Re: Watson

2011-02-16 Thread Dave Jones
Thanks for the explanation of the problem domain, Dr DB.; I appreciate it. On 02/16/2011 10:42 AM, David Boyes wrote: >> I, too, wished IBM would do more to highlight the z series >> capabilities in public forums, but Watson is a massively parallel >> system (2K+ cores, I believe), and I have my d

Re: New CHARLOTTe problem

2011-02-16 Thread Bruce Hayden
I'll repeat my answer given in the Pipelines mailing list: The "alternate library" is free and can be installed on any system. See more information at http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/rexx/rexxzseries/altlibrary.html and download it from http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=960&uid=

New CHARLOTTe problem

2011-02-16 Thread Frank M. Ramaekers
I can't seem to get the new CHARLOTTe (WW2) to run: i cms z/VM V5.4.02010-09-15 11:19 PIPINX086I CMS/TSO Pipelines, 5654-030/5655-A17 1.0112 (Version.Release/Mod) - Generated 3 Jul 2010 at 11:32:36. Source: Princeton Runtime Distribution Ready; T=0.02/0.02 12:13:52 acc vmsysa:

Re: z/VM PSP Buckets

2011-02-16 Thread August Carideo
we also had CA's Top-secret involved so after all was done had to follow that procedure also Bill Munson

Re: z/VM PSP Buckets

2011-02-16 Thread Bill Munson
If the GCS segment is updated with GCS or RSCS service you do not have to IPL z/VM. all you have to do is bring VTAM and or RSCS down and then recycle the GCS SVM . Bill Munson Sr. z/VM Systems Programmer Brown Brothers Harriman & CO. 525 Washington Blvd. Jersey City, NJ 07310 201-418-7588

Re: Watson

2011-02-16 Thread David Boyes
> Thank you for an excellent explanation, Dr. Boyes. One of the really interesting things about this problem is that there is work going on to revive the tag-architecture work from the early 1980s that was done at Symbolics and LMI to deal with associational-logic problems like this. Everything

Re: z/VM Monitor Records

2011-02-16 Thread Quay, Jonathan (IHG)
Have you looked at LINMON? http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/bkw/linmon.html From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Billy Bingham Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 9:22 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: z

Re: z/VM PSP Buckets

2011-02-16 Thread Peter . Webb
If you have never applied an RSU before, plan on three days so you can go through the instructions carefully, and check all the results. Once you have more experience, it can take less then a day if you are in a hurry. Watch out for changes to GCS. If you recycle a GCS machine after updating GCS, i

Re: z/VM PSP Buckets

2011-02-16 Thread August Carideo
I did a RSU this past weekend, and applied the PSP service on top of that ( which was automatically shipped when order RSU ) needed for Z/10 to Z/196 upgrade ( opted for it on 3592 cart ) all went well, I made sure I had a few dif types of back up's before started, ie: copied res to spare volume,

Re: Watson

2011-02-16 Thread McBride, Catherine
Thank you for an excellent explanation, Dr. Boyes. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of David Boyes Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 10:42 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Watson > I, too, wished IBM would do mo

Moderator intervention, Re: [IBMVM] Watson

2011-02-16 Thread IBMVM Moderator
*cough*way, way, way off-topic...*cough* On 2/16/2011 10:37 AM, Gregg Levine wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Marcy Cortes wrote: But it is! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto,_Kansas I kind of doubt it has 2 airports with a pop of 312. Marcy -Original Message- From: The I

Re: Watson

2011-02-16 Thread August Carideo
Ah never thought of that thanks Marcy Cortes To Sent by: The IBM IBMVM@LISTS

z/VM PSP Buckets

2011-02-16 Thread Billy Bingham
All, Having never applied service of any kind to z/VM, what would be a WAG to apply say PSP or any hardware buckets. Thanks, Billy

Re: Watson

2011-02-16 Thread David Boyes
> I, too, wished IBM would do more to highlight the z series capabilities > in public forums, but Watson is a massively parallel system (2K+ cores, > I believe), and I have my doubts as to whether or not a collection of > z10s could be integrated together tightly enough to meet the software's > req

Re: Watson

2011-02-16 Thread Gregg Levine
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Marcy Cortes wrote: > But it is! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto,_Kansas > I kind of doubt it has 2 airports with a pop of 312. > > Marcy > > -Original Message- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On > Behalf Of Aug

Re: Watson

2011-02-16 Thread Marcy Cortes
But it is! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto,_Kansas I kind of doubt it has 2 airports with a pop of 312. Marcy -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of August Carideo Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 7:24 AM To: IBMVM@LIST

Re: Watson

2011-02-16 Thread Dave Jones
The article did not say, William. I suspect that a review of IBM's Q4 financial reports would reveal how much USA and how much international business. DJ On 02/16/2011 09:51 AM, william JANULIN wrote: > How much of that business was US based as opposed to off-shore? > > --- On Wed, 2/16/11, Dave

Re: Watson

2011-02-16 Thread william JANULIN
How much of that business was US based as opposed to off-shore? --- On Wed, 2/16/11, Dave Jones wrote: > From: Dave Jones > Subject: Re: Watson > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2011, 10:11 AM > The mainframe certainly isn't dying, > from "Big-Iron Brouhaha" > (http:

Re: Watson

2011-02-16 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 02/16/2011 at 09:36 EST, Tom Huegel wrote: > Jeopardy is on at 3:30pm CST today, I think it is Watson's last day. > Maybe for an encore they could have Watson play chess against DeepBlue. > Port both Watson and DeepBlue to a virtualized z-platform and he could play > against hi

Re: Watson

2011-02-16 Thread August Carideo
and maybe the MF would have known Toronto is not a U.S. city LOL Tom Huegel To Se

Re: Dynamic i/o configuration

2011-02-16 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
I don't have a z10, but on my z890 I seem to remember that I needed to set dynamic on somewhere on the HMC. Possibly in the activation profiles? It's been a while... Shimon On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:07 PM, James Poirier wrote: > To enable DYNAMIC I/O CONFIGURATION on z10 running zvm 5.4 > a

Re: Watson

2011-02-16 Thread Dave Jones
The mainframe certainly isn't dying, from "Big-Iron Brouhaha" (http://esj.com/Articles/2011/02/15/Big-Iron-Brouhaha.aspx?Page=1): "Systems and Technology had fantastic performance, with 21 percent growth. We had growth in every platform, but the most impressive growth was in our System z mainframe

Re: z/VM Monitor Records

2011-02-16 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Billy Bingham wrote: > Hello all, > Does anyone have a procedure that they use to collect and process z/VM > monitor records that they would be willing to share? > > Thanks in advance, > Billy If you're interested in a commercial solution, make sure to get in touc

Re: Dynamic i/o configuration

2011-02-16 Thread Rogério Soares
You need check "Allow dynamic i/o changes on LPAR you wish on HMC.. i set it too on my SYSTEM CONFIG on lpar that you choose to be dynamic changes.. 0368 Features , 0372 Dynamic_IO ,/* configuration for dinamic I/I */ On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:07 PM, James Poirier

Re: Watson

2011-02-16 Thread Tom Huegel
Jeopardy is on at 3:30pm CST today, I think it is Watson's last day. Maybe for an encore they could have Watson play chess against DeepBlue. Port both Watson and DeepBlue to a virtualized z-platform and he could play against himself. On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 6:23 AM, Larry Macioce < larry.maci...

Re: z/VM Monitor Records

2011-02-16 Thread Dave Jones
Hi, Billy As a general suggestion, I would recommend you install and use one of the z/VM performance monitors that are available (IBM's PerfKit, or Velocity's ESAMON are two good ones). Raw z/VM monitor data can consume large amounts of DASD space, and dealing with it in a timely manner is a PITA,

Re: Watson

2011-02-16 Thread Larry Macioce
I am a little disappointed that IBM chose p7s to play on rather than a mainframe loaded with Linux. I think it would have given the mainframe a boost. I am in a PM class and heard from a classmate yesterday how the mainframe is dying. By placing watson on blades this just lends fuel to the fir

z/VM Monitor Records

2011-02-16 Thread Billy Bingham
Hello all, Does anyone have a procedure that they use to collect and process z/VM monitor records that they would be willing to share? Thanks in advance, Billy

Dynamic i/o configuration

2011-02-16 Thread James Poirier
To enable DYNAMIC I/O CONFIGURATION on z10 running zvm 5.4 am I correct in doing the following or is something else needed: 1) gen the IOCP with the following ---> IOCP MYIOCP (DYN WRTA0 2) Perform a POR and ipl 3) When z/vm is up SET DYNAMIC ON Thanks in advance for your help Jim

Re: Watson

2011-02-16 Thread zMan
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Quay, Jonathan (IHG) wrote: > I thought Watson did very well on questions that a human could answer with > Google.  Not so much on things that required making an inference.  The > "Toronto" gaffe shows he needs a couple more PTFs.   Wonder how Watson would > do

Re: Watson

2011-02-16 Thread Gentry, Stephen
I think Watson should say D'oh! (ala Homer Simpson) when Watson gets a wrong answer. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 5:27 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Watson O

Re: Watson

2011-02-16 Thread Gentry, Stephen
Skynet From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Huegel Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 5:04 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Watson I was just watching Jeopardy with Watson, IBM's 'thinking' computer. Quite amazing even though his occasi

Re: Watson

2011-02-16 Thread Quay, Jonathan (IHG)
I thought Watson did very well on questions that a human could answer with Google. Not so much on things that required making an inference. The "Toronto" gaffe shows he needs a couple more PTFs. Wonder how Watson would do on a fully configured z/196. From: