You wound me, good sir.
I'm entirely in favor of anything that's good for the ongoing health and
happiness of z/VM. Cheers, huzzah, bravissimo, and congratulations to
all those involved in a successful workshop! VM has a long-established
tradition of being long on community while being
Bernard:
You can access list archives at http://listserv.uark.edu/archives/ibmvm.html
These archives incorporate list traffic from present day back to
January, 1994.
Kind regards,
-dan.
Daniel P. Martin
dmar...@gizmoworks.com / modera...@gizmoworks.com
IBMVM List Janitor
On 4/13/2011 2
A non-zero return code from QUERY FILEPOOL STATUS filepool indicates
the target filepool is off-air. Brace for a flood of response messages
if the filepool *is* on-air.
On 3/14/2011 3:34 PM, RPN01 wrote:
Is there a good or widely accepted way to wait in autolog1 until the
vmsys: pool is up
.
Daniel P. Martin -- IBMVM List Janitor
modera...@gizmoworks.com / dmar...@gizmoworks.com
On 3/9/2011 10:52 AM, Ed Zell wrote:
Good morning.
I would like to use this URL to search the archives,
but it wants me to enter my LISTSERV password. I
have been subscribed since 1998 and don't have a clue
Definitely NOT trying to inspire another I remember when all we had
were zeroes to bang together, because ones hadn't been invented yet!
conversation, but... I learned to despise VOLSERs associated with real
device addresses when I was still too young to legally buy my own beer.
It seemed
Neale: I received the following on the IBMVM moderator in-box. Rather
than pass to the list, I've opted to pass to you directly...
-dan.
On 3/24/2010 12:52 PM, Neale Ferguson wrote:
A gentle reminder that the next meeting of Hillgang will take place on
Friday 26 March, in Herndon Virginia
See, kids, this is what happens when you try to handle correspondence
under the influence of cold medicine...
Nothing going on in here. Please move along.
*sigh*
-dan.
On 3/25/2010 6:46 PM, Daniel P. Martin wrote:
Neale: I received the following on the IBMVM moderator in-box.
Rather than
Well, yes, the semicolon does work... but if you're going to have to
do new work to hack the way DDR parses statements anyhow, REXX-ish
syntax would certainly be a desirable approach. Not that I have any
delusions about the development process being at all democratic, but if
you're
wrote:
On Thursday, 03/11/2010 at 03:19 EST, Daniel P. Martin
dmar...@gizmoworks.com wrote:
Well, yes, the semicolon does work... but if you're going to have to
do new work to hack the way DDR parses statements anyhow, REXX-ish
syntax would certainly be a desirable approach. Not that I
Slashdot Article:
IBM has released a new mainframe server that doesn't include its z/OS
operating system. This Enterprise Linux Server line supports Red Hat or
Suse. The system is packaged with mainframe management and
virtualization tools. The minimum processor configuration uses two
*cough*SHARE requirement?*cough*
Marcy Cortes wrote:
See a thread on this list with subject Sanity check? from Oct 2007 for what
happened when I did the same thing ;)
You probably filled page space.
I still think IBM should refuse to IPL a guest that will cause such harm.
Marcy
This
It appears to have been a slow weekend - at least on the mailing list.
Take a look at the list archives here...
http://listserv.uark.edu/archives/ibmvm.html
...to confirm whether or not you're receiving missives posted to the list.
-dan.
Michael Coffin wrote:
Hi Folks,
Is it just me,
The problem subscription was removed from the list Sunday evening.
The show's over, folks. Please move along.
-dan.
On Jun 9, 2009, at 10:53, Schuh, Richard rsc...@visa.com wrote:
3.5 billion ought to do it. :-)
Regards,
Richard Schuh
-Original Message-
From: The IBM z/VM
Try it without the trailing '.' -- i.e., query limits for maint
vmsys. The syntax seems a bit capricious, in that the file pool is
accepted either with or without a trailing ':', but the file space name
doesn't tolerate anything but user ID only.
-dan.
Shimon Lebowitz wrote:
Hi,
I am a bit
Alternate URL, not requiring Jack's authentication credentials:
http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewiStockNews/articleid/3009969
-dan.
Jack Woehr wrote:
BNZ deploys Red Hat's Enterprise Linux 5 on IBM System z mainframes
You're saying a vendor should update their product just to accommodate
service updates to some other critical portion of the infrastructure?
Come on, David... that's just crazy talk. ;-)
Bad Vendor. No biscuit!!!
-dan.
David Boyes wrote:
Background:
Upgrading a system to current level.
Alan:
I suspect you've got web caching wackiness of some sort tangled up with
this. My view of http://listserv.uark.edu/archives/ibmvm.html has
December 2008 at the top of the list.
-dan.
Alan Ackerman wrote:
Oddly enough, December is not there yet. December 1 is on the November page. The
Successful escapes from the confines of the architecture are,
historically, few and far between. For a non-privileged user who is
using (or abusing) z/VM on a modern System z platform to accomplish such
ends would be an extraordinary feat. I say extraordinary feat only
because I'm inherently
See, folks, this is the part where I come across like I'm all
humor-deficient... I'm pretty sure that piercings and belly-button lint
aren't terribly relevant to the stated topic of the list.
It's all about the signal-to-noise ratio, kids. Please resist the urge
to push this one back up the
esteemed membership -- including those of us who may well have
the adjective enormous justifiably ascribed -- is perhaps not the most
appropriate venue for ongoing non-technical discussions of this nature.
May we now please drop this thread?
Yours,
-dan.
Daniel P. Martin - IBMVM List Janitor
Dear colleagues:
Your poor, beleaguered list moderator can not help but notice that
certain components of this topic have strayed far afield from the
declared subject and even farther from the generally technical nature of
our chats.
Ladies and gentlemen, this horse is dead. The carcass is
or otherwise, via e-mail at
either [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED], or via open
discussion on this list.
Kind regards,
-dan.
Daniel P. Martin -- IBMVM List Moderator
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lionel B. Dyck wrote:
Apologies if this has already been hashed out in the non-Digest
Ladies, gentlemen, please... While I'm not quite at the For the love
of God, Montressor! level of exhaustion on this topic, I beg you all:
Please, let's allow this thread to die a peaceful, noble, dignified death.
Your humble moderator and list janitor,
-dan.
a problem to me as the list
moderator, as long as they don't degrade the signal-to-noise ratio of
traffic on the list, and more importantly as long as they don't generate
complaints for our hosts at the University of Arkansas.
Here endeth the thread, please.
-dan.
Daniel P. Martin - IBMVM
And now, a harrumph from our moderator:
Ladies, gentlemen, PLEASE: Let's drop this thread and move on with the
stated business of the list.
Kind regards,
-dan.
Rick Giz wrote:
Ah, okay.
But surely you can find plenty of entry-level people to work for the $35K,
or actually even less.
From today's AP wire:
--- cut here ---
Donald Michie and Anne McLaren
LONDON (AP) -- British artificial intelligence expert, Donald Michie,
and an ex-wife, leading geneticist Dame Anne McLaren, have died in a car
crash.
Michie, 84, and McLaren, 80, were killed Saturday when their car veered
There's an article in the IBM Systems Journal, some time in the late
1970's, that discusses what amounts to a penetration test study of that
vintage of VM. If I recall correctly, the authors exposed some
interesting quirks in the I/O subsystem as the major exposure to mischief.
I've got a
protection against penetration efforts.
--- tear here --
You can find the article at this URL:
http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/151/ibmsj1501H.pdf
-dan.
Daniel P. Martin wrote:
There's an article in the IBM Systems Journal, some time in the late
1970's, that discusses what amounts
And now, a note from our moderator:
None of this seems to have much of anything to do with the stated topic
of the list. Could those interested in further discussion on Superbowl
effluvia kindly take the thread off-list?
Most humbly yours,
-dan.
Daniel P. Martin - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IBMVM
The list is configured to decline attachments as a spam / virus
mitigation measure. Please cut/paste as text instead of image data.
Kind regards,
-dan.
Daniel P. Martin - IBMVM List Janitor
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Larry_Macioce?= wrote:
A question was submitted on the board and I
Dear colleagues:
Please try this alternate URL:
*http://tinyurl.com/ynfpxo*
-dan.
Marty Zimelis wrote:
Hi Dave,
First, I don't think IBM is branching out into the healthcare area. (One
assumes you meant patent infringement.)
Second, I'm with Richard Schuh. I can't get the URL
Perhaps Care and Feeding of SFS, also?
-dan.
David Kreuter wrote:
1. dynamic i/o
2. network tracing
3. second the motion for DIRMAINT
4. rudiments of CP and CMS debugging including dump tools and
interactive commands
5. system shutdown
6. TSAF and/or CSE
David
The IBM z/VM Operating System
That's not a fault. That's an ADD-induced Oooohhh Shiny moment.
*ahem* At any rate, rather than continue to punish the rest of the
audience, perhaps we should allow this thread to wind down?
-dan.
Jon Brock wrote:
Hmmm. Fromt he article:
The faults of youth are retained along
Not at all. It's easy. I log in between 07:00-07:30, and back out
around 22:00-23:00. This home office thingie is GREAT!
Deadlines are for wimps. :-P
-dan.
Jim Bohnsack wrote:
Dan--Do you have too much time on your hands?
Jim
At 04:32 PM 6/27/2006, you wrote:
On a whim, I searched the
Archives are available at:
http://listserv.uark.edu/archives/ibmvm.html
With content back to January, 1994.
-dan.
Daniel P. Martin - IBMVM List Janitor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
william JANULIN wrote:
To list:
What is the archive url for the VM list?
Thks,
Bill J
customer dance,
-dan.
Alan Altmark wrote:
On Thursday, 03/30/2006 at 10:03 CST, Daniel P. Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maybe a better question is: Does RPCGEN support the newer C/C++
compiler?
Dan, we compile RPCGEN using the C/C++ compiler. My worry is that you
upgraded the VM
[Editorial correction to subject line - the affected system is z/VM 5.1,
not 5.2...]
I've wondered much the same thing as we've continued to pick at this
issue. Unfortunately, I don't have access to a copy of the
older-generation C compiler to compare results with. My [currently
unfounded]
SET _EDC_KEEP_EMSG Y
Issuing the GLOBALV command this way will place that in your
LASTING GLOBALV which will stick around forever. So, you
only need to do this once.
Cheers!
Mike Donovan
Daniel P
, thanks to all who have responded!
-dan.
Alan Altmark wrote:
On Thursday, 03/30/2006 at 10:03 CST, Daniel P. Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maybe a better question is: Does RPCGEN support the newer C/C++
compiler?
Dan, we compile RPCGEN using the C/C++ compiler. My worry is that you
I've learned to never be afraid to admit ignorance and ask questions of
those who are better informed, so here goes...
I'm trying to get RPCGEN to build the necessary hooks for the System
Management API on z/VM 5.1. Both before and after applying the 5104
RSU, things fail mid-way through the
-of-the-box z/VM 5.1
SDO install.
-dan.
Alan Altmark wrote:
On Tuesday, 03/28/2006 at 04:16 CST, Daniel P. Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm trying to get RPCGEN to build the necessary hooks for the System
Management API on z/VM 5.1. Both before and after applying the 5104
RSU, things
Ooodles of personality. Both of them. What's the problem?
Adam Thornton wrote:
On Mar 16, 2006, at 3:25 PM, Dave Jones wrote:
Yeah, well, Alan A. isn't the only one here that has personality
problems.:-)
Alan doesn't have a personality problem, and I'm CERTAINLY NOT going
to tell
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