Re: RACF Console Logs

2009-10-26 Thread Adam Thornton
On Oct 26, 2009, at 4:32 PM, Schuh, Richard wrote: That's the way IBM delivers it :-) In the case of OPERATOR, watch out for OPERATIONS authority - some people naiively give OPERATOR too much authority. Do you leave its password set to OPERATOR too? I mean, after all, that's the way IBM

Well, *finally*!

2009-10-09 Thread Adam Thornton
On my very very last day at work at Sine Nomine, guess what I finally got, courtesy of David and Margarete? That's right. A pony. Actually, quite a few ponies. http://www.flickr.com/photos/17339...@n00/3996384848/ I'll attach it too, but I think that will get stripped--so use the flickr

Re: z/VM Linux on Cp

2009-10-07 Thread Adam Thornton
On Oct 7, 2009, at 9:18 AM, Wakser, David wrote: Adam: Please explain, for those of us not yet involved in Linux, why it's not cost effective. For example, if we already have z/VM running, there is no additional cost involved. David Wakser Maybe I'm undercaffeinated. Since it's in

Adam is moving on...

2009-10-06 Thread Adam Thornton
Some of you know this already, and some of you don't: Last month, I was offered a great opportunity at another organization that will allow me to focus my career in a way I have been interested in for quite a while. I accepted that position, knowing that my customers at SNA would be in

Re: LOGOFF/FORCE PENDING

2009-10-01 Thread Adam Thornton
On Oct 1, 2009, at 2:46 PM, Schuh, Richard wrote: After several hours, but before a dump could be taken, Tried metamucil? Adam

Re: VM lockup due to storage typo

2009-09-18 Thread Adam Thornton
On Sep 18, 2009, at 9:11 AM, David Boyes wrote: I think we're all in violent agreement on that point. Now, the question is what is the best way to put a safety on that gun? Oooh! Oooh! Pick me! Mandatory User Access Control dialog boxes that pop up and make you click OK any time you

Re: VM lockup due to storage typo

2009-09-17 Thread Adam Thornton
On Sep 17, 2009, at 1:58 PM, Bill Holder wrote: I'd agree with that point in cases where it's less clear, but in this case, it's perfectly clear that the user action would have been harmless if not for the administrator typo Yabbut Administrator typo is not a failure mode the operating

Re: VM lockup due to storage typo

2009-09-17 Thread Adam Thornton
On Sep 17, 2009, at 5:36 PM, David Boyes wrote: Whether it should march off a cliff without at least questioning the order is the question at hand. Of course it should. Yes, my Unix is showing. Adam

Re: Download Vm Tape

2009-09-02 Thread Adam Thornton
On Sep 2, 2009, at 9:37 AM, Alan Altmark wrote: I don't recommend going into production with any system that has default dasd labels or passwords. But that's just me. Passwords I can see. But changing DASD labels? How come? If it's security-through- obscurity, then it's not very

Re: Retrieving a VM Packed file

2009-09-02 Thread Adam Thornton
On Sep 2, 2009, at 1:35 PM, David Boyes wrote: I think my list of “must-haves” would be: VMARC the PIPE-friendly DDR TRACK plastic pipes XCOL CHARLOTT *I* really like CUA2001, but, uh, that's just my perversity. Adam

Re: Download Vm Tape

2009-09-02 Thread Adam Thornton
On Sep 2, 2009, at 3:13 PM, Schuh, Richard wrote: I think it goes more to separating production from installation/ maintenance. It the volsers are different, changing something on the system must be deliberate. Accidental update is very difficult. Alan is big on data integrity, well ... as

Re: How to tell how many linux running on z/VM?

2009-08-14 Thread Adam Thornton
On Aug 14, 2009, at 11:42 AM, Alan Altmark wrote: IPL 190 PARM NOSPROF INSTSEG NO Who am I? :-) With that line, most likely Chucky. Adam

Re: z/VM 6.1 and Hercules on Z9

2009-07-29 Thread Adam Thornton
On Jul 29, 2009, at 8:48 AM, Edward M Martin wrote: Hello Adam, I can say that I was told, in no uncertain terms, from IBM that it is illegal to run VM/ESA and up under Hercules. That was a while back, and things may have changed but I have never seen anything to the contrary.

Re: z/VM 6.1 and Hercules on Z9

2009-07-29 Thread Adam Thornton
On Jul 29, 2009, at 1:50 AM, Dave Wade wrote: I seem to recall it being mentioned somewhere that after the PSI debacle IBM amended the license terms to specifically prohibit the use of zVM under Emulation of any kind thus closing this loophole. Even if it's on the same processor? That

Re: z/VM 6.1 and Hercules on Z9

2009-07-28 Thread Adam Thornton
On Jul 28, 2009, at 4:25 PM, Edward M Martin wrote: I can say that, 1) it is illegal to run z/VM (pick a version) under Hercules, 2) they do not like it, and 3) they do not have any sense of humor. Perfectly fine to run it under Hercules on the processor z/VM is licensed to. Adam

Re: z/VM 6.1 and Hercules on Z9

2009-07-28 Thread Adam Thornton
On Jul 28, 2009, at 6:32 PM, John McKown wrote: On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Adam Thornton wrote: On Jul 28, 2009, at 4:25 PM, Edward M Martin wrote: I can say that, 1) it is illegal to run z/VM (pick a version) under Hercules, 2) they do not like it, and 3) they do not have any sense

Re: REXX and Panels

2009-07-13 Thread Adam Thornton
On Jul 13, 2009, at 6:46 AM, Thomas Kern wrote: Many years ago, IBM had a package, I think it was called REXX/CUA. I am not in the office today or I could give you the product number. We wrote several menued execs using it. I don't remember the price, if there was a price. It was ALL in

Re: PERFSVM question

2009-07-08 Thread Adam Thornton
On Jul 8, 2009, at 11:15 AM, David Boyes wrote: Simple answer: put a Linux guest in front of the VM TCP stack with the old address as the external address, renumber the VM stack to a RFC1918 address on an internal guest lan, and enable IP Masquerade in iptables. That gets you all sorts of

Re: PERFSVM question

2009-07-08 Thread Adam Thornton
On Jul 8, 2009, at 11:15 AM, David Boyes wrote: Simple answer: put a Linux guest in front of the VM TCP stack with the old address as the external address, renumber the VM stack to a RFC1918 address on an internal guest lan, and enable IP Masquerade in iptables. That gets you all sorts of

Re: PERFSVM question

2009-07-08 Thread Adam Thornton
On Jul 8, 2009, at 12:03 PM, Jim Bohnsack wrote: Easy for you to say. How about She sells sea shells by the seashore? Adam

Re: CP Query wildcards

2009-07-01 Thread Adam Thornton
On Jul 1, 2009, at 2:33 PM, Richard Troth wrote: By the way ... Unix cheats. The shell expands all wildcards, which I have always said is a mistake because it presumes on the context. The shell can only expand wildcards that are filenames. Not everything you might want to wildcard is a file.

Re: Last release for 3420s?

2009-06-05 Thread Adam Thornton
On Jun 5, 2009, at 1:08 PM, Stephen Frazier wrote: Some people who have tried 3420's on z/VM 5.3 said they work. However IBM is no longer testing 3420 code and if it ever stops working they may not fix it. Finding the actual 3420 hardware that still works is getting difficult. :)

Re: HCPDDR704E error attempting to copy res volume

2009-06-04 Thread Adam Thornton
On Jun 4, 2009, at 9:21 AM, Edward M Martin wrote: Typically Maint has 540RES as 123 MR. I should not answer questions before coffee. Yeah, there already *IS* a covering minidisk, isn't there? Question: is it actually safe to DDR the RES volume from a live system to another system? I

Re: HCPDDR704E error attempting to copy res volume

2009-06-04 Thread Adam Thornton
On Jun 4, 2009, at 9:14 AM, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] wrote: I’m attempting to clone our pilot VM system to a production lpar since it looks like a couple of applications might actually have a real future (a quiet hurray!). Attempting to copy the res volumes fails q 127a DASD 127A CP

Re: Clean Linux Guest Shutdown

2009-06-03 Thread Adam Thornton
On Jun 3, 2009, at 12:43 PM, Robert J McCarthy wrote: I am trying to develop a shutdown procedure to cleanly shutdown my linux guests, prior to shutting down vm. Reading the documentation in the virtualization cookbook for SLES10 and the vm CP COMMANDS manual; I have setup the following :

Re: What we must do before we claim the zlinux server is in production stage?

2009-06-02 Thread Adam Thornton
On Jun 2, 2009, at 11:51 AM, Tom Duerbusch wrote: A lot of it also depends on local practices. 1. Backupsscheduled..and monitored. And RESTORED, whether you need to or not, on some schedule. A good test, I'd say, is to pick ten files at random from the backup catalogue every so

Re: What we must do before we claim the zlinux server is in production stage?

2009-06-02 Thread Adam Thornton
On Jun 2, 2009, at 7:57 PM, Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) wrote: Yes, just having some fun! It's not Friday, so fun is not permitted here. Move along. Adam

Re: Any idea? Dirmaint error by detach 123 disk(540RES)

2009-05-29 Thread Adam Thornton
On May 29, 2009, at 6:31 PM, Alan Altmark wrote: I really must get cracking on the z/VM Auditor's Field and Survival Guide [Free cudgel included at no extra charge! Now contains the most common phrases heard from z/VM security weasels in the wild, including such hits as I'm gonna whap you

Re: Was I confused? L2 Guest LAN, z/VM 5.4

2009-05-15 Thread Adam Thornton
On May 15, 2009, at 2:14 PM, Miguel Delapaz wrote: Adam, What does NETSTAT DEV say? Well, *IT* says that my interface there is not working, and TCPIP startup bears this out: Device ETH1Type: OSDStatus: Inactive Queue size: 0 CPU: 0 Address: 7008

Re: Was I confused? L2 Guest LAN, z/VM 5.4

2009-05-15 Thread Adam Thornton
On May 15, 2009, at 2:29 PM, Miguel Delapaz wrote: Adam, Transport Type: IP This says your NIC is defined as Layer 3. 14:55:58 DTCOSD355E OSD device ETH1: Possible LAN transport misconfiguration detected during OSD device initialization. This says you tried to attach a Layer 3 NIC to

Re: Was I confused? L2 Guest LAN, z/VM 5.4

2009-05-15 Thread Adam Thornton
On May 15, 2009, at 3:22 PM, O'Brien, Dennis L wrote: Adam, You don’t specify layer 2 or 3 on the NICDEF. You specify it on your DEFINE LAN or DEFINE VSWITCH statement. Yeah, but I DID that: Here's the L3 LAN: LAN SYSTEM GLAN1Type: QDIOConnected: 1Maxconn: INFINITE

Re: Was I confused? L2 Guest LAN, z/VM 5.4

2009-05-15 Thread Adam Thornton
On May 15, 2009, at 3:24 PM, Miguel Delapaz wrote: I defined it to TCPIP with DIRM NICDEF and I don't see any way to specify whether I mean Layer 2 or Layer 3. I just defined it as QDIO. I think my cough syrup is failing me. How do I tell DIRMAINT, no, really, QDIO *ETHERNET* ?

Re: Was I confused? L2 Guest LAN, z/VM 5.4

2009-05-15 Thread Adam Thornton
On May 15, 2009, at 3:36 PM, David Kreuter wrote: Why are you picking on poor ole DIRMAINT? It's CP that doesn't support it in the NICDEF statement! not DIRMAINT - OK, so, look, surely I'm not the first person to want to do this. How do I couple a virtual machine's virtual NIC to a Layer 2

Re: Was I confused? L2 Guest LAN, z/VM 5.4

2009-05-15 Thread Adam Thornton
On May 15, 2009, at 4:09 PM, Miguel Delapaz wrote: OK, so, look, surely I'm not the first person to want to do this. With the ETHERNET option on the QDIOETHERNET LINK statement (in case you missed my other note) Yay! Thank you! (Your other note hadn't arrived quite yet.) I now have

Re: LTO4 tapes attached via FCP

2009-05-14 Thread Adam Thornton
On May 14, 2009, at 3:27 PM, Marcy Cortes wrote: I wonder if anyone is attaching a LTO4 (Linear Tape Open, Generation 4), via FCP, to a z9 or z10 running zVM 5.4? Yes, to SLES 10 SP 2 on both a z9 and z10 under zVM 5.4, via NPIV to I10K SAN switch. And if yes, are there any zVM utilities

Re: Shared File System Interface

2009-05-03 Thread Adam Thornton
On May 3, 2009, at 3:39 AM, Malcolm Beattie wrote: David Boyes writes: On 5/1/09 4:20 PM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com wrote: Morituri te Salutant! :-) Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, sed dulcius pro patria vivere, et dulcissimum pro patria bibere. Ergo, bibamus pro

Re: SWAPGEN

2009-04-26 Thread Adam Thornton
On Apr 26, 2009, at 9:44 PM, Martin, Terry R. (LOCKHEED MARTIN Performance Engineering/CTR) (CTR) wrote: Hi I am using SWAPGEN to define by z/Linux VDISKS I also want to define a real disk for swap. My question is can I use SWAPGEN to define a swap on real DASD? If you have an example

Re: Secure FTP

2009-04-04 Thread Adam Thornton
On Apr 4, 2009, at 11:19 AM, Alan Altmark wrote: On Saturday, 04/04/2009 at 12:10 EDT, Chip Davis c...@aresti.com wrote: On 4/3/09 17:29 Alan Altmark said: It was a tupo. Wow, that's impressive! tupo by itself is a 'meta-typo' but coupled with its reference to two releases of z/VM,

Re: Problem with PEEK Command - update

2009-04-03 Thread Adam Thornton
On Apr 3, 2009, at 1:50 PM, Raymond Noal wrote: I would like to thank all of you who responded. I was really surprised at how the majority of you made the leap from using PEEK to TCPIP data buffers. Well, it's highly intuitive, after all. Adam

Re: Guest Billing

2009-04-02 Thread Adam Thornton
On Apr 2, 2009, at 9:15 AM, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Greg_Dyrda?= wrote: We currently bill for Linux on a per guest basis. I'm wondering what approach others are taking. Specifically, I'm wondering if it is possibl e to bill at the process level and if anyone else is billing that way. If you want

h3270 Phun Phact

2009-03-20 Thread Adam Thornton
If you have h3270 pointing at a recent s3270, then you can get SSL support for free by specifying: L:hostname:portnum instead of just hostname in the connect to field. Other Phun Phact: you're probably going to have to edit your Tomcat (or whatever) policy to allow the h3270 program to

Re: New CMS based SSLSERV problem... DTCSSL300E

2009-03-19 Thread Adam Thornton
On Mar 19, 2009, at 8:57 AM, Alan Altmark wrote: On Thursday, 03/19/2009 at 08:39 EDT, Mrohs, Ray ray.mr...@usdoj.gov wrote: Thanks Alan. Unfortunately our site is standardized on the Rumba client, and the centrally managed upgrades happen once a blue moon. It looks like it might be a

Re: Please tell me I did something stupid

2009-03-18 Thread Adam Thornton
On Mar 18, 2009, at 3:10 AM, Rob van der Heij wrote: Bad idea to throw them away. But I would be happy with a summary chapter in the book that has the scenario for those who are not completely new to z/VM installation. It strikes me that, given that we have several versions' worth of

Re: Please tell me I did something stupid

2009-03-18 Thread Adam Thornton
On Mar 18, 2009, at 10:13 AM, Alan Altmark wrote: Checklists and other preparatory advice, based on real-world experience, are ponies of a different color. They would definitely be a value- add, providing *guidance* (opinion) where IBM can usually only provide a *procedure*. Hey, man,

Re: z/VM 5.4 Installation from DVD Failure - PJBR

2009-03-17 Thread Adam Thornton
On Mar 17, 2009, at 5:56 AM, Rob van der Heij wrote: Are you sure the disk is R/W and that it is the right size? I tried to do it from the quick ref guide and found that it was missing some of the steps that you need (and are only in the real book). You mean the missing 22cc and 2cf1

Re: z/VM 5.4 Installation from DVD Failure - PJBR

2009-03-17 Thread Adam Thornton
On Mar 17, 2009, at 11:23 AM, Rob van der Heij wrote: It really does not have to be in MAINT - you don't want to run the 2nd level system in MAINT anyway, so why mess with things. It's also only needed briefly in the process, so for me 3 T-disks would be fine. And in theory when you ship the GA

Please tell me I did something stupid

2009-03-17 Thread Adam Thornton
I just installed a virgin z/VM 5.4 with all products on filepool rather than on minidisk. I only tweaked it enough to get a TCPIP stack up and running so that I could FTP the RSU over to it, DETERSE it, and apply service. I've done literally nothing else to the system. 0 * * * Top

Re: Please tell me I did something stupid

2009-03-17 Thread Adam Thornton
On Mar 17, 2009, at 2:43 PM, Neale Ferguson wrote: The component is cpsfs or cmssfs ... Not cp or cms which are for minidisks. I just tried to run SERVICE ALL RPTF0168 Which, you know, *should* be able to figure it out. It has in the past. Adam

Re: Please tell me I did something stupid

2009-03-17 Thread Adam Thornton
On Mar 17, 2009, at 2:53 PM, O'Brien, Dennis L wrote: Adam, It looks like SERVICE is trying to service LE instead of LESFS. There are a couple of items in the PSP bucket that have to do with SFS, but the descriptions aren't an exact match for this problem. Did you read all of the ZVM540

Re: Please tell me I did something stupid

2009-03-17 Thread Adam Thornton
On Mar 17, 2009, at 5:03 PM, Alan Altmark wrote: On Tuesday, 03/17/2009 at 04:11 EDT, Adam Thornton athorn...@sinenomine.net wrote: All I did was download the RSU and then follow the Service Procedure paragraph on the Quick Install Guide. Because there's only so much you can put on one

Re: Total VDISK space allowed

2009-03-13 Thread Adam Thornton
On Mar 13, 2009, at 10:54 AM, Martin, Terry R. (LOCKHEED MARTIN Performance Engineering/CTR) (CTR) wrote: Rob, I am setting these disks up using SWAPGEN. I am adding enough to total about 4G(This is about what my paging subsystem will handle). This is the test that we spoke of! SWAPGEN

Re: Total VDISK space allowed

2009-03-13 Thread Adam Thornton
On Mar 13, 2009, at 1:06 PM, Martin, Terry R. (LOCKHEED MARTIN Performance Engineering/CTR) (CTR) wrote: Hi Adam, What is the format of the SWAPGEN command if you use it in the directory I currently issue SWAPGEN in the PROFILE of the z/Linux guest. You use SWAPGEN in PROFILE. It's just

Re: Total VDISK space allowed

2009-03-13 Thread Adam Thornton
On Mar 13, 2009, at 3:47 PM, Rich Smrcina wrote: I was one of the users that requested this. The advantage is that the size of the VDISKs are then controlled by the directory entry. You don't need to have special handling in the PROFILE EXEC for each virtual machine if a different size is

Re: SHARE in Austin

2009-02-28 Thread Adam Thornton
On Feb 28, 2009, at 2:02 PM, Rick Troth wrote: On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Jim Bohnsack wrote: There should be a SHARE Economic Stimulus Plan for the poor companies (and universities) who are cutting their budgets. I live just north of Dallas (Plano) and offered to pay my own transportation,

Re: z/VM 5.4.0 RSU 801 - System Abend Code - VAI008

2009-02-25 Thread Adam Thornton
On Feb 25, 2009, at 2:58 PM, Raymond Noal wrote: Dear list, Does anyone know what this system abend code is – VAI008? The CP Codes manual only says that the abend code is issued by module HCPVAI and that this module is object code only with no source available. The codes manual makes no

Re: SSLSERV question

2009-02-17 Thread Adam Thornton
On Feb 17, 2009, at 4:21 PM, Alan Altmark wrote: On Tuesday, 02/17/2009 at 01:41 EST, clifford jackson cliffordjackson...@msn.com wrote: I am in the process of building a SSLSERV virtual machine, under z/VM 5.3 SLU 801, using SLES 9 SP3. ONE question is there a Red book for this process?..

Re: zvm 5.2 storage limits, zlinux?

2009-01-21 Thread Adam Thornton
On Jan 21, 2009, at 2:34 PM, Dean, David (I/S) wrote: We have a virtual zLinux SUSE 10.1 file server on zVM 5.2 that currently supplies over 600 Gigs of DASD (SAMBA 3 file storage) to end users. Is there a point (technical or logical) when we should build a second server rather than

Re: Private Subnet for Hipersocket connections

2009-01-14 Thread Adam Thornton
On Jan 14, 2009, at 10:43 AM, David Boyes wrote: This is also why Sun stopped using real addresses in their documentation examples. Too many people actually set their systems up to run using Sun's actual address space and when they connected to the public Internet, Extremely Weird Things

Re: [IP] Creating a rogue CA certificate

2008-12-31 Thread Adam Thornton
On Dec 31, 2008, at 4:34 PM, David Boyes wrote: Interesting new attack on SSL-based security - compromise the CA infrastructure. Amazing that CAs still use MD5. I would have expected Thawte, anyway, to know better. Adam

Re: TAFOT: *country*?

2008-12-18 Thread Adam Thornton
On Dec 18, 2008, at 8:51 AM, David Boyes wrote: On 12/17/08 9:09 PM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com wrote: Thank you for running the test. As Garth Brooks says, Thank God for unanswered prayers. :-) Chuckie listens to *country*? Much becomes clearer. 8-) Do they have both kinds of

Re: Starting an exec on a remote machine

2008-12-04 Thread Adam Thornton
On Dec 4, 2008, at 7:32 PM, Marcy Cortes wrote: Personally, I'd like that product to work hand-in-hand with our existing VM:Backup product which we z/VM'ers control on our own. (Anyone at CA listening) Yes, what he said! If anyone on the list is interested in building a solution

Re: Web servers for VM

2008-12-02 Thread Adam Thornton
On Dec 2, 2008, at 11:17 AM, Dave Jones wrote: Another limitation is that WEBSHARE does not support SSL, just plain HTTP. The RSK-based one from IBM doesn't either. Yeah, but it'd be trivial to wrap it in SSLSERV. It's a well-behaved protocol, not like FTP. Adam

Re: LOGONBY - limit of 8 userids.

2008-11-25 Thread Adam Thornton
On Nov 25, 2008, at 9:43 AM, Alan Altmark wrote: 2) they must change as CP changes. [free advice: changes are a- comin', rollin' 'round the bend.] Should we be using Folsom Prison Blues or Dylan's Slow Train as our model? Adam

Re: Sharing PPRC devices with z/OS

2008-11-25 Thread Adam Thornton
On Nov 25, 2008, at 10:38 AM, Alan Altmark wrote: Oh, z/OS! z/OS! Another drink, if you please. Be sure to put an umbrella in it. A blue one. No no, not sky blue, but one of azure. You're such a dear. Now go on and play - I'll call again if I need you. This is disturbing for very many

Re: Number os SSL connections

2008-11-17 Thread Adam Thornton
On Nov 17, 2008, at 10:32 PM, David Boyes wrote: You can try. 8-) The code up to and including the 5.3 release won't go much over 192, even with current service. We have a version of the SSL Enabler appliance that reflects the latest IBM code if you want to try it. Note: latest == latest

Re: Header file to COBOL copybook?

2008-11-13 Thread Adam Thornton
On Nov 13, 2008, at 7:53 AM, Phil Smith III wrote: Anyone have any tools for converting C header (H) files to COBOL copybook files? Or experience doing so? Does a bottle of Scotch and another bottle of aspirin count as a tool? (MicroFocus COBOL for Unix had a tool to do this: H2cpy) Adam

Re: SWAPGEN not working for FBA

2008-11-07 Thread Adam Thornton
On Nov 7, 2008, at 4:30 PM, Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) wrote: Hi I am trying to use the SWAPGEN EXEC to create a FBA SWAP file by adding it to the PROFILE EXEC of the Linux guest. However it seems to keep taking the default of DIAG. Since I do not have the DIAG drivers on my

Re: Slow SSH response

2008-11-05 Thread Adam Thornton
On Nov 5, 2008, at 8:19 AM, Steve Mitchell wrote: The puzzle: Why did the SSH process fail? I'm not certain where to look for an explanation. I've checked the Velocity reports, VM was doing some paging during both of these times, could that have done it? CPU consumption was not

Re: Recycle yourself

2008-10-30 Thread Adam Thornton
On Oct 30, 2008, at 10:44 AM, Schuh, Richard wrote: I would like to see how that would be implemented, the die and come back part, without some external agent being involved. This is getting way too theological for me. Adam

Re: Reliability of SFS?

2008-10-29 Thread Adam Thornton
On Oct 29, 2008, at 12:56 PM, Alan Altmark wrote: SFS has been around for 21 years No! That's impossible! Why, that would mean that I'moh, dear. Adam

Re: Linux guest 191/200 disk question

2008-10-28 Thread Adam Thornton
On Oct 28, 2008, at 12:32 PM, Tom Duerbusch wrote: 1. As has been said, you don't need a R/W disk to IPL. R/O is good. SFS directory is even better. 2. Once you IPL Linux, you are not in CMS anymore. You won't be doing anything with your a-disk anymore. So make it easy on your self,

Re: Linux guest 191/200 disk question

2008-10-28 Thread Adam Thornton
On Oct 28, 2008, at 1:36 PM, Tom Duerbusch wrote: I must of missed the first part of the conversation Why would you want Linux to have access to your A-disk? There might be reasons, but inquiring minds want to know, and deleted the original posts G. Handy for building systems where you

Re: TN3270 for Apple's iPhone....

2008-10-24 Thread Adam Thornton
On Oct 24, 2008, at 9:11 AM, Dave Jones wrote: Found over on the IBM-MAIN list.looks interesting: http://www.mochasoft.dk/iphone_tn3270.htm David's already using it. He says it's pretty good. Me, I'm getting a G1. I crushed my MDA when I fell on it, and T- Mobile has been OK so far.

Re: Redbook or Whitepaper For Deploying SSL on z/VM

2008-10-24 Thread Adam Thornton
On Oct 24, 2008, at 10:12 AM, Michael Coffin wrote: Hi Folks, Does anyone know if there is a Redbook, Whitepaper or other good reading for deploying SSL on z/VM for the first time? I'm trying to follow the instructions in the TCP/IP Planning Guide, but I have to confess as a first-timer

Re: z/VM JAVA VM

2008-10-22 Thread Adam Thornton
On Oct 22, 2008, at 3:04 PM, David Boyes wrote: times earlier, if you want JAVA support on VM, you should install a Linux guest and use the up-to-date levels on there. Java itself is a virtual machine. Maybe a z/Java guest someday? Would be a clever way to actually make the zAAP specialty

Re: Question

2008-09-30 Thread Adam Thornton
On Sep 30, 2008, at 1:13 PM, Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) wrote: As a matter of fact that is one of the commonalties of these hosts. There is Oracle Clustering going on in these hosts. Can you explain more about this? Well, I don't know exactly how Oracle does it. But I do know,

Re: Question

2008-09-29 Thread Adam Thornton
On Sep 29, 2008, at 3:54 PM, Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) wrote: Hi Over the last month or so we have had CHECK SUM ERRORS on 3 of our z/ Linux hosts. This error stops the Linux host from coming back up after a re-boot or log off. After working with REDHAT they found that there was 2

Re: WAIT STATE

2008-09-14 Thread Adam Thornton
On Sep 14, 2008, at 3:33 PM, Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) wrote: Hi I am having a little problem maybe you can see what I am doing wrong! I defined the mdisk starting at 38 ending at 159 for my parmfile: q v 195 DASD 0195 3390 53DRES R/W159 CYL ON DASD 514B SUBCHANNEL = 000E

Re: question to backup of osa-icc settings

2008-09-01 Thread Adam Thornton
On Sep 1, 2008, at 7:04 PM, David Kreuter wrote: HMC worksheet? Who fills that in? What's wrong with a napkin? This one has mustard on it. At least, I *hope* it's mustard. Adam

Re: VM size for a 2nd level VM

2008-08-28 Thread Adam Thornton
On Aug 28, 2008, at 10:54 AM, Duane Weaver wrote: Well here is the scoop. We acting as a DR site for another university. The other university wants to bring in their zVM 5.3 and run it under our zVM 5.2 system. Our z800 is running in basic mode with 1 lpar, running the zVM 5.2. Shouldn't

Re: Request for information: Installation Summary Cards

2008-08-28 Thread Adam Thornton
On Aug 28, 2008, at 8:07 PM, Alan Altmark wrote: The Court of Opinion and Assizes is now in Session. Recall that we have two one-sheet (two pages, front back) tri-fold installation summary cards: one for tape and one for DVD (1st and 2nd level). The questions: 1. Do these cards have value?

Re: Where Do I Go From Here?

2008-08-22 Thread Adam Thornton
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 08:19:22PM -0400, David Boyes wrote: If you truly still need 370 mode, you're going to be hard pressed to find a system that will still run true 370 mode. Most (if not all) the modern systems no longer have true 370 mode microcode. Howeveron a modern z9 you can

Re: DDR'ing 3390 DASD To Remote Location

2008-08-19 Thread Adam Thornton
On Aug 19, 2008, at 1:39 PM, Fran Hensler wrote: On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:21:40 -0400 Jiri Stehlik said: http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/descript.cgi?DRPC The FTPPUT and FTPGET PIPE stages were also included and documented at the above address. I have the latest CMS PIPLINES but it

Re: DDR'ing 3390 DASD To Remote Location

2008-08-19 Thread Adam Thornton
On Aug 19, 2008, at 1:48 PM, David Boyes wrote: Well, far be it from me that I suggest that VM Development begin to talk to themselves. You lot 're odd enough to begin with...8-) As Zork so eloquently put it, Talking to yourself is said to be a sign of impending mental collapse. Adam

Re: DDR'ing 3390 DASD To Remote Location

2008-08-19 Thread Adam Thornton
On Aug 19, 2008, at 2:29 PM, Fran Hensler wrote: On Aug 19, 2008, at 1:39 PM, Fran Hensler wrote: I have the latest CMS PIPLINES but it doesn't include FTPGET and FTPPUT. I can't find them on the IBM Download site either. Where can I get them? On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:48:20 -0500 Adam

Re: Linux Commands

2008-08-15 Thread Adam Thornton
On Aug 15, 2008, at 8:58 AM, Rich Greenberg wrote: On: Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:03:14PM -0500,Adam Thornton Wrote: } On Aug 14, 2008, at 9:34 PM, Paul Raulerson wrote: } } (1) Learn vi. } } Heretic. Adam may call me a heretic also but I agree with Paul. While there are many other editors

Re: Linux Commands

2008-08-14 Thread Adam Thornton
On Aug 14, 2008, at 7:08 PM, Thomas Kern wrote: When CMS HELP first came out, the group I was with built a process to format and print all of the Help files into our own books. It would be nice if there was a process to format and print all of the MAN pages that are resident on an

Re: Linux Commands

2008-08-14 Thread Adam Thornton
On Aug 14, 2008, at 9:34 PM, Paul Raulerson wrote: (1) Learn vi. Heretic. Adam

Re: Safety Reminder: If you are planning disk upgrades, make sure you switch your Linux guests to by-path IDs in /etc/fstab BEFORE you switch

2008-08-12 Thread Adam Thornton
On Aug 12, 2008, at 11:47 AM, Stephen Frazier wrote: Two questions that anyone who is new enough to need your reminder will ask are: What default do you suggest? When changing it, how should it be changed? The old timers here will know the answers. *I* suggest using the /dev/disk/by-path

Re: Safety Reminder: If you are planning disk upgrades, make sure you switch your Linux guests to by-path IDs in /etc/fstab BEFORE you switch

2008-08-12 Thread Adam Thornton
On Aug 12, 2008, at 12:25 PM, Thomas Kern wrote: I have been using /dev/dasd?1 where ? goes from a to zz. Is by-path the /dev/disk/0.0.0591 syntax? Yeah, although it's more like /dev/disk/by-path/ccw-0.0.0591-part1 these days. Ada,

Re: OT: Alan has a pony.

2008-08-12 Thread Adam Thornton
On Aug 12, 2008, at 4:31 PM, David Boyes wrote: I would just like to point out that Alan Altmark’s long-standing wish for a pony has been satisfied. A brown and white pony has been delivered, and he has no need for further ponies. 8-) Uh oh. See, it wasn't Alan who wanted the pony. It

Re: SWAPGEN EXEC

2008-08-07 Thread Adam Thornton
On Aug 7, 2008, at 4:28 AM, Berry van Sleeuwen wrote: Hello List, The past day I have tried to get the new version of SWAPGEN into my VM but no success so far. I have tried every way I can do a filetransfer but every time I end up in a file I can't use on VM. Can anyone send me the

Re: SSL connection problem after IPL

2008-08-06 Thread Adam Thornton
On Aug 6, 2008, at 7:37 AM, Tim Joyce wrote: Hey guys, I've been using secure telnet through a SSLSERV for many months now. After we IPLed over the weekend, it stopped working. The SSLSERV machine is up a communicating with SSLADMIN commands. The certificate looks correct. NETSTAT CO

Re: SSL connection problem after IPL

2008-08-06 Thread Adam Thornton
On Aug 6, 2008, at 9:35 AM, Tim Joyce wrote: Hey Adam, Thanks for the reply. Here is my DF command: df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/dasda1 139368127316 12052 92% / tmpfs63040 0 63040 0% /dev/shm

Re: Nice idea in blog: Should we toss x86 architecture - NOT.

2008-08-01 Thread Adam Thornton
On Jul 31, 2008, at 5:08 PM, Gary M. Dennis wrote: z/VOS translates guest OS code during initial execution. Code fragment storage, lookup, disposal and reuse for primary and sibling guests are addressed in a patent application. Suffice it to say that we don't interpret or emulate massive

Re: Loosing IP after IPL: CTC free

2008-08-01 Thread Adam Thornton
On Aug 1, 2008, at 10:09 AM, Rob van der Heij wrote: On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And while I'm halucinating, I would have a command that adds and deletes users from an autolog list. The list is in the warm start area. No requirement for AUTOLOG1

Re: ADD VIRTUAL MEMORY DYNAMICALLY

2008-07-28 Thread Adam Thornton
On Jul 28, 2008, at 2:43 PM, Schuh, Richard wrote: No. Redefining virtual memory causes a virtual system reset. It takes an IPl after that. You can update the directory to allow additional, but you cannot redefine the virtual storage of a running machine without causing the reset.

Re: CSE and VMSERVx

2008-07-25 Thread Adam Thornton
On Jul 25, 2008, at 7:36 AM, Rob van der Heij wrote: Resist the idea to use VMSYS* filepools for other purposes. Any time saved by hijacking the VMSERVU configuration to hold your own data is normally paid back later at a less convenient moment. I consider myself more than usually tolerant of

Re: Nice idea in blog: Should we toss x86 architecture - NOT.

2008-07-25 Thread Adam Thornton
On Jul 25, 2008, at 8:48 AM, McKown, John wrote: -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary M. Dennis Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 9:34 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Nice idea in blog: Should we toss x86 architecture

Re: CSE and VMSERVx

2008-07-25 Thread Adam Thornton
On Jul 25, 2008, at 10:40 AM, Schuh, Richard wrote: It doesn't seem that difficult, just follow the instructions. It may be drudgery, but the cookbook does work ;-) OK. Compare to adding more storage to ZFS or adding more storage to a Linux LVM2 volume. Sure, I'm not having to manually

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