Re: VM Workshop -- was fantastic!

2011-08-01 Thread Kent E. Taylor
Let me echo Dave's remarks. As you may perhaps recall, I asked a while back if an old geezer who retired over twenty years ago could attend. The answer was yes, so I went. I knew that the technical sessions would be over my head because much of the stuff didn't even exist when I was working.

Re: Time off running z/VM 5.4 1101 on z196 for first time

2011-08-01 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 08/01/2011 at 05:06 EDT, Rob van der Heij wrote: > On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Alan Altmark wrote: > > > o The SE BOC will be steered the match the CEC TOD instead of making large > > jumps, avoiding a Paradox that could destroy the universe. > > I would not be suprised to fin

Re: Time off running z/VM 5.4 1101 on z196 for first time

2011-08-01 Thread Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR)
Thanks for the explanation Alan it is much appreciated! Thank You, Terry Martin Lockheed Martin CMS - CITIC 3300 Lord Baltimore Drive, Suite 200, 21244  Engineering Computing Mainframe Support Cell - 443 632-4191 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LIS

Re: anyone running ILMT?

2011-08-01 Thread Marcy Cortes
That'd be my choice too. If I had one. Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information her

Re: anyone running ILMT?

2011-08-01 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
>"Updating the number of processors on Linux390 >If the total number of processors or shared processors in your environment >changes, you need to update this information >for all agents influenced by >this change. Otherwise, the system will display wrong information." >You also have to tell it w

anyone running ILMT?

2011-08-01 Thread Marcy Cortes
I'm a little afraid of this new agent :) It's supposed to monitor IBM licenses of SW. But apparently isn't smart enough to get what it needs out of /proc/sysinfo and you have to tell it how many IFLs you have and whether they are shared. And if you change the number of IFLs: "Updating the numbe

VM Workshop -- was fantastic!

2011-08-01 Thread David Boyes
For those of you who didn't make it you missed a great time. Great food, interesting people, a lot of hallway "what if we did this?" conversations, and general good fun all around. Best $100 I've spent all year. We're going to do it again next year, site TBD, but definitely gonna happen.

Re: Orlando SHARE Presentation - Resume Writing

2011-08-01 Thread David Boyes
> I'd love to have been a fly on the wall in the Board meeting when they > decided how to reconcile this session with the "no headhunting at SHARE" > rule they always had. Probably just put it in PDEV and didn't really sweat it, I'd guess. Learning how to write a useful resume isn't really headh

Re: Orlando SHARE Presentation - Resume Writing

2011-08-01 Thread Nick Laflamme
On Aug 1, 2011, at 1:12 PM, Joe Gallaher wrote: > I would like to invite anyone attending next week's SHARE conference in > Orlando to come to my session on "How to Write a Resume for a Mainframe > Systems Programmer" (session 9780). It is the fourth time I have given this > presentation at SHARE

Re: Time off running z/VM 5.4 1101 on z196 for first time

2011-08-01 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Alan Altmark wrote: > o The SE BOC will be steered the match the CEC TOD instead of making large > jumps, avoiding a Paradox that could destroy the universe. I would not be suprised to find the "steering" to be more conceptually speaking. The common approach with

Re: Time off running z/VM 5.4 1101 on z196 for first time

2011-08-01 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 08/01/2011 at 02:30 EDT, David Boyes wrote: > Sounds like it would be worth teaching NTP to treat the CEC TOD clock as a > stratum 2 time source. For zBX purposes, the need for common time is to get logs properly sequenced. It doesn't have to be ultra-accurate, just "close enough"

Re: MONVU REXX required but not packaged?

2011-08-01 Thread Daniel Bewley
Just what I was looking for. Thanks! On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Scott Rohling wrote: > I believe Bill's MONVIEW package has MONVU REXX: > > http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/descript.cgi?MONVIEW > > Scott Rohling > > > On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Daniel Bewley wrote: > >> Anyone

Re: MONVU REXX required but not packaged?

2011-08-01 Thread Scott Rohling
I believe Bill's MONVIEW package has MONVU REXX: http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/descript.cgi?MONVIEW Scott Rohling On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Daniel Bewley wrote: > Anyone out there who can guide me to a package for or including this? I > downloaded the REORDMON archive from the

MONVU REXX required but not packaged?

2011-08-01 Thread Daniel Bewley
Anyone out there who can guide me to a package for or including this? I downloaded the REORDMON archive from the z/VM package collection, and it lists this as included in the readme, but it is not there. Likewise, I cannot find any reference to it in other packages. Thanks, Daniel Bewley

Re: Time off running z/VM 5.4 1101 on z196 for first time

2011-08-01 Thread David Boyes
> Starting the z196 GA2 upgrade and the z114: > o The SE BOC will sync to the CEC TOD once an hour instead of once a day, > improving CEC TOD accuracy after POR. > o The SE BOC will be steered the match the CEC TOD instead of making large > jumps, avoiding a Paradox that could destroy the universe.

Re: Time off running z/VM 5.4 1101 on z196 for first time

2011-08-01 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 07/29/2011 at 08:36 EDT, Rich Greenberg wrote: > On: Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 08:00:12PM -0400,Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) > Wrote: > > } Do You mean at the IPL prompt? If so no I don't think we did. > > Well, thats why they are off. The 2 CPUs clocks are independant of each > ot

Re: Orlando SHARE Presentation - Resume Writing

2011-08-01 Thread Betsy Jeffery
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Orlando SHARE Presentation - Resume Writing

2011-08-01 Thread Joe Gallaher
I would like to invite anyone attending next week's SHARE conference in Orlando to come to my session on "How to Write a Resume for a Mainframe Systems Programmer" (session 9780). It is the fourth time I have given th is presentation at SHARE and it contains a lot of useful information and samples

Re: Modifying the System Clock on a Running VM System

2011-08-01 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 07/29/2011 at 08:58 EDT, Rob van der Heij wrote: > Uh, I'd say it has not desirable effect. CMS uses CP for the seconds, > and TOD for the smaller bits... You're right; I shouldn't say "no effect." CMS' mixed use of CP and TOD time does affect the accuracy of CMS time values. But f

AUTO: Jocelyn Blais is in vacation until August 15/ Jocelyn Blais est en vacance jusqu'au 15 aout (returning 14/08/2011)

2011-08-01 Thread Jocelyn Blais
I am out of the office until 14/08/2011. Bonjour, Je serai absent du bureau en vacance jusqu'au15 aout 2011. Pour toute urgence veuillez contacter votre representant logiciel. A bientôt, Jocelyn Blais Hi, I am out of the office, in vacation, until June 27, 2011. For emergencies please conta