I opened a thread here 6 months ago, Applying Maintenance - Best
Practice, which is in the archives.
It contains many helpful instructions on exactly how to apply maintenance
including setting up a Level 2, VM under VM, to initially IVP your
maintenance. Maintenance should rarely be applied
There's no doubt that, if you can afford it, it's a good idea to take
one of the commercial options.
Failing that, I'd strongly recommend having a look at the PIPELINE
stage called STARMON - it's very easy to set up a data-collector based
around STARMON.
(A search of the archives using the
Thanks2 D. Boyes for the explanation!
Sharing: FYI: noted from article: PCMAG.COM by Lance Ulanoff:
From end of article: Microsoft, Symantec, ASUS and everyone else making
technology for consumers, I have a warning for you: IBM and Watson have just
put you on notice. Your customers
Hi Billy,
First you can look at MONWRITE within VM itself. It writes all records
to disk. Process it wth MONVIEW (on the VM download pages).
We have an own process. Main reason is we want to enable all MONITOR in
VM so we can monitor all parameters online. But we only want to write
selected
Hello Everyone,
I need some clarification. I'm trying to figure out how to use DVDs to
install z/VM 5.4 under z/VM 5.2. In Chapter 4, Plan Your DVD
Installation, in the Guide for Automated Installation and Service, unde
r
Installation methods, Second-level Installation, one of the User ID
Your not...you need a bigger 3390!I just did the install for 6.1 via
FTP. Is that viable for you?
Frank M. Ramaekers Jr.
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On
Behalf Of Sherry Everhart
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 1:36
You're not installing from a VM minidisk - you're installing from a DVD ..
no? So you can ignore this part...
There are some other disks that you need defined (a 22CC and others as I
recall) -- and I always just defined them using temp space to do the
install:
DEF T3390 22CC 5
FORMAT 22CC B
Hello Listers,
If I have DEVICE addresses in the SYSTEM CONFIG file to be OFFLINE_AT_IPL
,
is there to dynamically have those devices varied online or override at
IPL of a zVM 5.4 ?
Thanks,
Steve.
I should clarify and say that to install from 'DVD' - .. you can have the
DVD mounted under any workstation/server (including the HMC) that is
accessible to z/VM via the network so FTP can be used to do the install and
retrieve the zVM parts.I myself typically just use a .iso file mounted
CP VARY ON address ??
Scott Rohling
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Steve Perez sspe...@corelogic.com wrote:
Hello Listers,
If I have DEVICE addresses in the SYSTEM CONFIG file to be OFFLINE_AT_IPL,
is there to dynamically have those devices varied online or override at
IPL of a zVM 5.4
If you don't want to change your SYSTEM CONFIG file to specify those
devices as ONLINE_AT_IPL, you could vary the devices online in your
AUTOLOG1 profile exec.
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On
Behalf Of Steve Perez
Sent: Thursday,
You could also have a second config file that includes the devices in the
online_at_ipl list. When you ipl, put a console address in the LOADPARMS area
(or as the LOADPARM parameter if you are ipling 2nd level) and specify the
alternate config file name in the SALIPL screen. If the devices are
Unfortunately we are not at the point where we can issue the VARY online
command. The system (Test DR z/VM environment) cannot continue because the
OFFLINE_AT_IPL statement contains the address of the PAGE volumes. So we are
thinking that having the PAGE volume addresses included in the
As a Note: You can mount an .ISO under Windows using freeware (I use
Virtual CloneDrive from SlySoft.com).
Frank M. Ramaekers Jr.
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On
Behalf Of Scott Rohling
Sent: Thursday,
You can actually mix them:
Devices ,
Online_at_IPL -,
Offline_at_IPL 000C-000E,
Offline_at_IPL 0170-0179,
Offline_at_IPL 0500-053F,
:
:
Frank M. Ramaekers Jr.
Sherry,
Instead of installing direct from an FTP server, you can put the files on a VM
minidisk and install from there. To do that, the minidisk must have at least
4500 cylinders.
Back when DVD installation was first introduced (z/VM 5.1.0, I think), we only
had 3390-3 disks on VM, so I tried
What is the command to override that OFFLINE_AT_IPL statement in the SALIPL
screen ? Or can we ?
Thanks,
Steve
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf
Of Frank M. Ramaekers
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 2:10 PM
Do you have a different system config file that has your page packs as
online? You could use the SAIPL screen to point to that config file.
Do you have spare packs that are online at ipl? You could format them
as page and clip them to the volsers you system is expecting for its
page packs, then
You specify the filename of the desired CONFIG file in a provided space.
Regards,
Richard Schuh
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf
Of Perez, Steve S
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 12:14 PM
To:
I do not have another filename to specify. I can create one at a later time
after we finish this test because we have a time frame to get this test to
work, but in the meantime, is there an override command to the DEVICES
OFFLINE_AT_IPL statement in the SYSTEM CONFIG that I can use through the
On Thursday, 02/17/2011 at 02:37 EST, Sherry Everhart
severh...@maccnet.com wrote:
I need some clarification. I'm trying to figure out how to use DVDs to
install z/VM 5.4 under z/VM 5.2. In Chapter 4, Plan Your DVD
Installation, in the Guide for Automated Installation and Service,
under
Sherry,
Note that what I was referring to in my previous note and what Alan describes
below are not the same thing. You can do what Alan described, using the VM FTP
server to serve the files. You can also install from a VM minidisk without
using any FTP server. You can get the files on the
The overrides in the SAPL only permit to enter another filename to influence
OFFLINE/ONLINE, no special keyword. But, what's so difficult in copying
your current SYSTEM CONFIG in eg TEST CONFIG, make your changes and
specifying FNAME=TEST in the SAPL screen?
2011/2/17 Perez, Steve S
Hi Scott,
I have a userid, VM54INST defined in the directory already:
USER VM54INST 256M 256M ABCDEFG
INCLUDE MACCPROF
OPTION LNKNOPAS
MDISK 0191 3390 1201 10 EM0F05 MR RVM54INS WVM54INS
MDISK 3390 1211 5 EM0F05 MR RVM54INS WVM54INS
MDISK 222C 3390 1216 5 EM0F05 MR
Oh, you don't have TCP/IP on your 1st level VM?
Frank M. Ramaekers Jr.
-Original Message-
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On
Behalf Of Sherry Everhart
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 2:56 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: 2nd level
Mike,
The answer to both those question is 1) yes 2) no.
Our DR remote location has 2 LPARs dedicated for our DR Testing. One LPAR is
for z/OS and the other for z/VM.
I will keep your recovery scenario/suggestion in mind. It looks like something
that can be useful in the future when the
But what about the tiger? :)
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Frank, no, we don't have TCP/IP running on 1st level VM. (At least I
don't think so!)
And I don't understand the Filepool method that Alan spoke of either.
Sorry, Alan, but mostly when you tell me things it all sounds a bit like
when Charlie Brown's teacher talks (Good grief... :))
To see if you have TCPIP running - try:
VMLINK TCPMAINT 592
IFCONFIG
If you get a response showing an IP address, etc -- then TCPIP is probably
running --
Try PING xx.xx.xx.xx(where xx.xx.xx.xx is the IP address IFCONFIG gave
you).
If you really don't have TCPIP -- then you will have to
Sherry,
The only way to get 4500 cylinders from a 3390-3 is to put two of them in an
SFS filepool. If you already have this set up, then the rest is relatively
easy. You can use the VM minidisk install method with minor changes. Upload
the files to SFS with your terminal emulator, then
vmlink tcpmaint 592
DMSVML2060I TCPMAINT 592 linked as 0121 file mode Z
Ready;
ifconfig
DTCIFC2605E TCP/IP stack TCPIP is not available
Ready(00012);
It's not running. :(
Steve,
If I understand correctly your DASD is mirrored to your offsite location.
If so the 1-pack recovery system would/could be mirrored there as well.
Then there would be no need to keep a DDR tape dump of that volume there.
But when preparing for D.R. both belts and suspenders (and offsite
On Thursday, 02/17/2011 at 04:15 EST, Sherry Everhart
severh...@maccnet.com wrote:
Frank, no, we don't have TCP/IP running on 1st level VM. (At least I
don't think so!)
And I don't understand the Filepool method that Alan spoke of either.
Sorry, Alan, but mostly when you tell me things it
On Thursday, 02/17/2011 at 03:18 EST, Schuh, Richard rsc...@visa.com
wrote:
You specify the filename of the desired CONFIG file in a provided space.
On SAPL: fn=filename
On the LOADPARM: FNxx (yep, limited to 6 chars in filename)
Alan Altmark
z/VM and Linux on System z Consultant
IBM
On Thursday, 02/17/2011 at 05:48 EST, Mike Walter
mike.wal...@aonhewitt.com wrote:
If you're reading this and are new to z/VM, take one thing away... build
a
stable (tested and rarely changed) 1-pack z/VM recovery system. It
could save
your job one day (or dark night).
The truly
Thanks, Alan and all who have responded. It has been a learning experience and
appreciate everyone's input.
Kind Regards,
Steve
-Original Message-
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf
Of Alan Altmark
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 5:53 PM
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