Re: OT: If you use linkedin.com...

2011-08-11 Thread David Boyes
I don't know about you, but if they want to use my name and face, I expect them to rent it by the hour. I don't know about you, but I would not give up my sysprog job ... ;-) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid

OT: If you use linkedin.com...

2011-08-10 Thread David Boyes
You may want to read this. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/11/linkedin_privacy_stuff_up/ I don't know about you, but if they want to use my name and face, I expect them to rent it by the hour.

Re: z/vm page packs at DR

2011-08-09 Thread David Boyes
You will need spool space, so you might as well copy it (or keep a small spool area available only with the NSS files, JUST for DR). Time to resubmit that requirement for disk support for SPXTAPE.

Re: z/vm page packs at DR

2011-08-09 Thread David Boyes
Note that CP FLASHCOPY has a LABEL option to let copy the disk and change the label in a single operation. If the target volumes have been PRE-labeled, you can use the SAVELABEL option. Do you happen to know if that requires a specific level of the flashcopy firmware, or is it done in CP? I

Re: Question about Linux shutdown

2011-08-05 Thread David Boyes
SIGNAL SHUTDOWN (if configured in the Linux guest) will run the equivalent of shutdown -h now, so as long as you provide the Linux guest time enough to execute a normal shutdown, it's safe to do that. 90 seconds may not be enough time - do a test shutdown manually to determine a rough idea of

Re: VM Workshop -- Locations

2011-08-03 Thread David Boyes
Has the VM Workshop replaced WAVV? Jim That's an open question. WAVV is still going to happen this year, but with Bernie Pugh gone, the future of WAVV is kind of uncertain. The WAVV admin list has been mucho silent recently. -- db

Re: VM Workshop -- was fantastic!

2011-08-02 Thread David Boyes
University of Wisconsin would be a good choice for next year... Strong VM ties (TCP/IP) there too. Madison is one of my favorite places in the US, but it tends to be hard to get to cheaply (cheap is a big factor for Workshop). Current discussion has University of Kentucky as top candidate,

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

2011-08-02 Thread David Boyes
Now *that* is cool. Because I wanted the most accurate clock yet least expensive clock I coul d get, I built my own GPS clock and use the pulse-per-second (PPS) signal w ith GPSD to build my own NPTD stratum zero time source that gives my system super accurate time. How come Z hardware

Re: anyone running ILMT?

2011-08-02 Thread David Boyes
Yes, it does seem like very odd install location (/var!) and will probably require us to add space to every server (grr). How can something that does so little take so much! I'd apar that. There's no excuse for code in /var. Data maybe, but not code. C'mon IBM. There's conventions for this

Re: anyone running ILMT?

2011-08-02 Thread David Boyes
however there are two files that are placed in /etc (tlmagent.ini and tlmlog.properties). Ditto here -- c'mon, IBM. /etc/tlm, not just dumping them in /etc.

Re: VM Workshop -- was fantastic!

2011-08-02 Thread David Boyes
I'll also point out that Monsieur Martin hosted another of the better workshops Back In The Day. The Bates Mountain Inn in Fayetteville has a niche all its own in the Workshop sagas As does getting mooned by the locals while riding on a steam train to Rudy, BFE, Arkansas. You had to be

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. o

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

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: Ficon CTC's between LPAR's in same Box

2011-07-25 Thread David Boyes
Only on days whose names end in y. On 7/24/2011 at 02:38 AM, David Boyes dbo...@sinenomine.net wrote: I have a rather twisted sense of humor some times. SOME times?

Re: SFTP on z/VM 5.4 and 6.1

2011-07-25 Thread David Boyes
No. You'd need our sftp client for that. The native client does ftps, not sftp. On Jul 25, 2011, at 11:32, Davis, Larry (National VM/VSE Capability) larry.dav...@hp.com wrote: Does the FTP Client in VM allow you to transfer to a SFTP site and if so is there a redbook on this process

Re: Ficon CTC's between LPAR's in same Box

2011-07-24 Thread David Boyes
The “Shimon doc”? Sounds impressive! I like it. But perhaps even better: The Shimon Protocol That sounds more formal, and a lot like a Robert Ludlum book title! ☺ Or, given the big movie premier recently: “The Shimon Protocol and the IODEF of Fire” Mike Walter The Protocols of the

Re: Ficon CTC's between LPAR's in same Box

2011-07-21 Thread David Boyes
You can use only the two chpids to connect all the partitions. Use the Shimon doc to design all the conections. With FICON, no need to define Chpids as CNC/CTC, all must be FC. And the Control Units and IODEVICE can be FCTC. If someone will give me the updates, I’ll reformat the paper and

Where is PPS EXEC?

2011-07-20 Thread David Boyes
On a standard RSCS install, where do PPS EXEC and PPS XEDIT land? -- db

PostScript errors from RSCS output?

2011-07-20 Thread David Boyes
Thanks, Alan. I'm getting some annoying issues with RSCS printing to printers using the CUPS PostScript conversion (to non-PS datastreams). The separator page prints OK some of the time, and aborts about half-way into the page the rest of the time (and the job totally fails). From the CUPS

Re: Ficon CTC's between LPAR's in same Box

2011-07-19 Thread David Boyes
Replied by (mine, not so good) memory, see the IOCP manuals for details... ;-) __ Clovis Shimon Lebowitz wrote a very nice paper on how to do this with ESCON channels; the FICON configuration is less complicated, but Shimon covers that discussion

Re: Running RHEL 4.6 guests on z196 under z/VM 5.4

2011-07-14 Thread David Boyes
On the 196 we have access to, we're running Centos 4.4 through 4.8 guests, which is pretty much functionally equivalent, so I think as long as you're not running them in LPARs, you should be fine. From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Martin, Terry

Hey! A PC guy who actually did the homework!

2011-07-14 Thread David Boyes
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/14/brief_history_of_virtualisation_part_2/ Somebody who actually gets it that there was a world before the PC. Few minor nits, but overall an actually decent article on the role VM played in prefiguring virtualization before VMWare. Recommended reading for

Re: Default PROFILE EXEC for DISKACNT?

2011-07-12 Thread David Boyes
Hum. I'd never noticed that. THANKS. -- db DISKACNT profile exec is the same for EREP and OPERSYMP. These 3 machines uses the same copy, by default ... Regards, __ Clovis

Re: TPF and PAX numbers

2011-07-11 Thread David Boyes
It definitely was at one point. That's why travel agents call it a record locator. From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Phil Smith III Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 12:46 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: TPF and PAX numbers A long, long time

Default PROFILE EXEC for DISKACNT?

2011-07-11 Thread David Boyes
Fat fingered a ERASE command and nuked the PROFILE EXEC on a brand new system (before I had VM:Backup configured). Anywhere I can get a copy of the file?

Re: Two simple TCPIP / FTPSERVE questions.

2011-07-06 Thread David Boyes
Very simple way: set up a small Linux instance and install Nagios on it. Configure a FTP probe in Nagios, and configure a notification to a user on the VM system. The Nagios system will test the FTP server by connecting and attempting to transfer a small file periodically. If it fails, it sends

Re: Two simple TCPIP / FTPSERVE questions.

2011-07-06 Thread David Boyes
Depending on how the FTP server fails, you might also see it in your performance monitor... Also true. OTOH, there are failure modes (such as the one Colin mentioned about getting unhappy with a minidisk) that won't show up in the console log or will show misleading symptoms (large buffer

Re: Two simple TCPIP / FTPSERVE questions.

2011-07-06 Thread David Boyes
David, I am afraid we are in lock down here (essential maintenance only) so no chance of installing a new LINUX server. However, I could use your idea from an existing hartbeat server between VM systems. World work, I'd think. That'd also catch the socket timeout delay problem if/when you

Re: Two simple TCPIP / FTPSERVE questions.

2011-07-06 Thread David Boyes
been wearing your Linux appliance hat too long. Much lighter-weight would be a few lines of Rexx with or without Romney's FTP package, running periodically as a task in your automation solution or a standalone (CMS) VSM. Perhaps. OTOH, up and usefully running in less than 10 minutes with no

Re: IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for z/VM Announcement

2011-07-06 Thread David Boyes
Don't know if you all saw this. I was hoping that when IBM bought them, they might enhance the VM product. Instead, they killed it. Sigh. Figures. That VSAM thing is the killer prereq -- everything that started life on MVS requires it as a prereq, and thus is doomed to destruction.

Re: IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for z/VM Announcement

2011-07-06 Thread David Boyes
As I mentioned back in 2009 (what? you don't remember?), CMS still supports the Alternate VSAM Emulator added in 1985. It was specifically invented to enable Something Else to get control when VSAM macros were used. SQL/DS exploited it back in the day, if memory serves, but I don't know if

Re: IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for z/VM Announcement - End of Service - 12/31/2012

2011-07-06 Thread David Boyes
However, the Mayan calendar may be a better model. Right, sure. It hasn't had a chance to be wrong... yet. Somewhere (the 'net?) I happened across an article by a well-respected researcher, stating that the Mayan calendar continues on just fine. We'll see... maybe the Mayan guy's chisel

Re: Varsity Inn North South University Plaza - VM Workshop Hotels

2011-06-28 Thread David Boyes
There used to be a VMWKSHP list at Marist. Dunno if it's still active.

Re: SHUTTRAP

2011-06-28 Thread David Boyes
You will not find any published information on the mechanism. There is a tiny amount of information in the POP manual in the external interrupt section on the original LPAR deactivation signal and what's supposed to happen when it triggers, but the end comment is that the effect will be

Re: Last Workshop Re: VM Workshop - Session Grid Now Available

2011-06-27 Thread David Boyes
That is genuinely cool. Can we write your bosses a thank you letter? From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Jonathan Quay Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 7:31 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Last Workshop Re: VM Workshop - Session Grid Now

Re: RMSMASTR and shutdowns

2011-06-24 Thread David Boyes
Does anyone else think this should be considered a defect? I do! I do! Sadly, that doesn't mean much. Me too. No program product should be permitted to interfere with a clean shutdown of the system as a whole. As pointed out by Kris on prior occasions, you can use UCOMDIR NAMES to

Re: Question regarding zVM and CF when running in a LPAR

2011-06-23 Thread David Boyes
As a follow-up to this (for those interested), this turned out to be a hardware problem. The HMC's hard drive had crashed and communications was totally messed up. The CE promptly got things under control Suddenly I had a flash of the scene in Monty Python's Life of Brian after Brian

Re: VM Workshop - Session Grid Now Available

2011-06-23 Thread David Boyes
May a rusty old geezer attend? I retired 19+ years ago and have not had an opportunity to use VM or a mainframe since. However, during my VM days I had the opportunity to attend most VM Workshops as well as most Share meetings and I really miss those days. Are there any VMers from the

Re: Moving on

2011-06-22 Thread David Boyes
Drat. Now I'll have to go swap my investments somewhere else that has people I can trust working for them. Wish someone had leaked the info early; you deserve a retirement book. Best wishes - you've always been a great test of an idea at scale. Hope you have something fun and interesting

Re: Backup and Restore Manager V1.2 startup problem

2011-06-21 Thread David Boyes
*** Received device 0181, a 3590-11 which is empty or not ready. write-enabled, and positioned at load point. *** Return code 32 attempting to obtain VOL1 label. *** TAPE DVOL1 replied: DMSP2C431E TAP1(181) VOL1 label missing You gave it a unlabeled tape. BRM expects IBM SL tapes. You need to

Re: Problems at DR test

2011-06-21 Thread David Boyes
1) This is the default value for Operator_Consoles in the SYSTEM CONFIG file (and probably most shops do not delete or change the last two entries): Operator_Consoles 0020 0021 0022 0023 0E20 0E21 1020 , System_3270 System_Console As I understand it, the Operating System

Re: Problems at DR test

2011-06-21 Thread David Boyes
There's no reason why CP could not issue TERM CONMODE 3270, as Linux does when instructed to use a 3270 console. Even CMS issues TERM CONMODE 3215 when it IPLs. I mean, really, mom... all the cool OSes do itwhine 8-) -- db PS- it's been one of those days. Laugh it up.

Re: z/VM page space

2011-06-14 Thread David Boyes
On 6/14/11 12:03 PM, David Boyes dbo...@sinenomine.net wrote: I suspect that it would be possible to tweak the page device list in real storage to remove the volume in question, run the CP page list in real core and force a page in/page out sequence for pages on the volume in question

Re: z/VM page space

2011-06-14 Thread David Boyes
On 6/14/11 1:20 PM, Schuh, Richard rsc...@visa.com wrote: An absolute prereq, not just a safety one. If it is not already draining, then there would be nothing to prevent new pages from being written on the device. Yeah. Playing with it on the whiteboard indicated that. Probably the only safe

Re: z/VM page space

2011-06-14 Thread David Boyes
On 6/14/11 1:45 PM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com wrote: And now you know why DRAIN MIGRATE doesn't exist. :-) Although SNAPDUMP does something awfully similar in concept -- there's probably some thinking that could be borrowed there. Doing the same kind of system suspend might be the

Re: CPU Dedicate

2011-06-07 Thread David Boyes
On Jun 6, 2011, at 10:53 AM, Mark Lorenc mlor...@us.ibm.commailto:mlor...@us.ibm.com wrote: My impression is there is not much use of that function, but I would like to find out for sure if there is. Feel free to contact me offline: mlor...@us.ibm.commailto:mlor...@us.ibm.com Rarely, as it

Re: HMC security (was: zvm directions)

2011-06-01 Thread David Boyes
The Unified Resource Manager's Storage Administrator function includes the ability exporting the WWPN configuration and importing an access list based on it. (Sorry, I haven't personally used it, yet, so I can't comment further.) Yes, it can. It's pretty much useless. Trouble is, none of

Re: EXECIO DISKW Question

2011-06-01 Thread David Boyes
We want write a REXX EXEC , that do a Update in place. Another words, I need, read the record 1 from the file, and then rewrite the same record. Is possible? In addition to reading the manuals that Alan suggested, you should look for the RXFILEIO package on the VMWorkshop tapes. It

Re: HMC security (was: zvm directions)

2011-05-26 Thread David Boyes
The bogosity index is extremeloy high on this one. But it's certainly a common one. I can think of at least a dozen sites that have heard this requirement from IBMers. I've always thought the proper solution to this was to add a badge reader to the HMC to allow IBMers to enable these ids

Re: Short circuit SMTP

2011-05-25 Thread David Boyes
users in the SMTP config for such things). From: David Boyes Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 10:57 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: RE: Short circuit SMTP Change the DNS servers in the stack pointed to by VM SMTP (the NSINTERADDR lines) to some IP address that does not have a DNS server

Re: Short circuit SMTP

2011-05-24 Thread David Boyes
Change the DNS servers in the stack pointed to by VM SMTP (the NSINTERADDR lines) to some IP address that does not have a DNS server running. SMTP will receive the messages, queue them, but not deliver anything because nothing can be resolved. This assumes you don't have a DNS lookup enabled

Re: uploading C code to VM

2011-05-18 Thread David Boyes
As you can imagine, the 72 characters per line restriction is a problem. Has anybody else found a way to automate the conversion that they can share? As mentioned in another thread, I do have THE and REXX on my Linux which could be used. If you have Emacs installed on your Linux, look at the

Re: Using EMC Clariion SCSI disk with Linux

2011-05-09 Thread David Boyes
So with that being said, it appears the optics are the problem? That's certainly the first problem to kill. Do you agr= ee that there is no such thing as long wave on open system switches? It's rare for open systems (mostly appears in geo-plex-like situations), but it certainly does

Re: Duplicate IPs on VSWITCHes - Feature or Defect

2011-05-02 Thread David Boyes
Are these layer 2 or layer 3? If layer 2, then they are (and should be) paying zero attention to the IP address. Layer 2 cares only about MAC addresses. Layer 3 is more subtle. Technically a real switch should attempt only to insert the address in the forwarding table and then the latest entry

Re: Duplicate IPs on VSWITCHes - Feature or Defect

2011-05-02 Thread David Boyes
The situation is that the IPs were registered on one VSWITCH, and passed on to real switches in the external network. Later, another host registered the same IPs on a different VSWITCH, which failed to pass them on to the external network (rejected because they were dups). The 2nd VSWITCH

Re: How do I assemble a CP EXIT ?

2011-05-02 Thread David Boyes
You need the High Level Assembler product (extra cost) or the Dignus assembler (also extra cost) to build the module. The MACLIB statements are documented in the discussion of the exit. The old F-level ASSEMBLE command cannot build current CP modules correctly.

Re: Tapeless segment tranfser between LPARs?

2011-04-21 Thread David Boyes
There's also adding your support to the outstanding requirement for SPXTAPE to support disk transfer (or better yet, a PIPE-friendly input/output stream so we can connect it with anything we want). Your local IBMer can get your organization on the list as supporting the requirement. Doesn't

Re: DB2 running in a Linux enviornment

2011-04-21 Thread David Boyes
Optimal use of personnel Efficient overcommitment of resources Conservation of limited LPAR resource (even on the biggest boxes, you can only have so many) Network efficiency and redundancy Built in automation function (PROP) Rapid recovery using standard tools (ADRDSSU lets you put the whole

Re: Tapeless segment tranfser between LPARs?

2011-04-21 Thread David Boyes
Speaking of which, IBM: Any progress on getting the PIPE-friendly DDR shipped as the default DDR? That would be *WAY* cool for 6.2 -- db -Original Message- From: David Boyes Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 1:43 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: RE: Tapeless segment

Re: Detaching A disk from z/Linux guest dynamically

2011-04-20 Thread David Boyes
If the 191 is only used at Linux boot, you can change the directory entry and then login to the VM userid running the Linux system and: BEGIN (if you get a CP READ) #CP DET 191 #CP LINK * 191 191 MR #CP DISC (assuming your LINEND char is #) If you are actually using the disk during runtime,

Re: Detaching A disk from z/Linux guest dynamically

2011-04-20 Thread David Boyes
Ok I got it. Before I contacted the list I had tried doing the '#CP REL A (DET' from the guest. It did not take saying it was unknown command sort of what you get when you are issuing a command that the user's class does not allow. So I thought that the user did not have authority to do

Re: z/VM RedHat Virtual Machine Memory abend

2011-04-20 Thread David Boyes
Check the amount of paging space you have defined for the VM system. You can define a virtual machine far bigger than you can actually use if you have insufficient paging space. The guest will work for a while, until it tries to access a page that can't be supported with backing store, and you

Re: z/VM RedHat Virtual Machine Memory abend

2011-04-20 Thread David Boyes
Check the amount of paging space you have defined for the VM system. Is this a brand new VM install right out of the box? If so, then this is most likely to be the problem. 48G of real, plus the default paging areas in a brand new VM install add up to just about 52G or so, depending on whether

Re: sclp_config: cpu capability changed.

2011-04-19 Thread David Boyes
What model of CEC? If it's a z10 or a z196, it might be some of the power-saving features kicking in. That message can also occur if capacity-on-demand has modified the system capability (although it's usually rare to see it on a IFL). From: The IBM z/VM Operating System

Re: Backout PTF(s) applied

2011-04-19 Thread David Boyes
However, I don't think my question(s) were answered in that RED alert unless it describes to me how best to backout ptfs applied. Call the support center is the best answer. Those folks actually understand SES well enough to tell you how to do it without screwing things up. If you don't

Re: Departing

2011-04-15 Thread David Boyes
I will miss all the friends I made over the last 45 years. Good night, sweet prince, and angels sing thee to thy rest. - Hamlet. Keep in touch. -- db

Re: Dirmaint : cards ordre

2011-04-14 Thread David Boyes
I've used a variation of this technique for many years as well. It works well for both DIRMAINT and VM:Secure/VM:Direct. This also makes sure that the user management product is internally consistent and at current release data formats at all times. From: The IBM z/VM Operating System

Re: Running REXX compiled in z/OS in CMS

2011-04-14 Thread David Boyes
For C/C++, COBOL, and PL/I that is true on z/VM also. We ship the LE runtime libraries for these as part of the z/VM base. The ancient FORTRAN product for z/VM is not LE-enabled. Wonder what it would take to get the REXX compiler so enabled? I guess we have to be careful what we wish for,

Re: z/VM user group in RTP, NC?

2011-04-14 Thread David Boyes
Come to the Dark Side. We have cookies. *grin* -- db From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill Munson Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 11:14 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: z/VM user group in RTP, NC? The closest one I know of is in

Re: Running REXX compiled in z/OS in CMS

2011-04-13 Thread David Boyes
One thing that HP does for VMS is ship all the runtime libraries for all their compilers (even the weird ones like BLISS and PROLOG) as part of the base OS. That way ISV vendors (or the base OS vendor) don't have this kind of problem. Paying to create, free to use always seemed like a good

Re: IBM Announcements Today

2011-04-12 Thread David Boyes
I'm sure it's an improvement in blade server management but it's not like they announced an IFW... Which is already available. 8-) -- db

Re: IBM Announcements Today

2011-04-12 Thread David Boyes
On Tuesday, 04/12/2011 at 12:17 EDT, David L. Craig d...@radix.net wrote: Now we get to wait for the announcements of licensing and support fees for all the various software available for this platform. That has the potential to take the bloom off the rose. IBM is forthright in saying

Re: IBM Announcements Today

2011-04-12 Thread David Boyes
My point was that the pricing model should not be *different*. Other parts of IBM clearly did NOT get that memo. But, I see your point. Simple. :-) As Pain in Hercules would put it: If. If is good. --d b

Re: Service level

2011-04-11 Thread David Boyes
On 4/11/11 9:29 AM, Bob Bates robert.ba...@wellsfargo.com wrote: If one gets the PSP buckets and put them on at the same time as the RSU, as one should, wouldn't it always show the ++? Yes, but that's as it should. RSU is the basic level set of service level, and if you add the PSP bucket on top

Re: Sevice level

2011-04-11 Thread David Boyes
On 4/11/11 11:54 AM, Schuh, Richard rsc...@visa.com wrote: That would be nice. It ought to also have a way to answer Marcy's question, Has PTF xxx been applied to the system (or, perhaps, to a specified module)? without having to wade through a list of the universe of PTFs. PIPE COMMAND SERVICE

Re: Sevice level

2011-04-10 Thread David Boyes
What I would like: 1) a flag for the output of Q CPLEVEL that indicates that additional service beyond the displayed level has been applied. Something like 8801++. Applying the next RSU would reset the flag until the next PTF outside the RSU is applied. 2) a new option to SERVICE that does

Re: FTP Problem

2011-04-08 Thread David Boyes
Did they check firewall configuration on the Windows boxes? The default settings for the Windows firewalls don't permit FTP.

Re: XEDIT question

2011-04-07 Thread David Boyes
Have a look at XCOL from the vm download library. You could probably use that as a starting place. From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Huegel Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 9:50 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: XEDIT question Yes I

Re: z/VM and Linux

2011-04-01 Thread David Boyes
Right, but unless I'm mistaken, z/VM workload is GP only. The Linux workload is IFL only (or should be). There's nothing in the code that cares what kind of processor it runs on. There are licensing issues with CMS workload (and running VSE and z/OS guests) in that it's really expensive to run

Re: Supporting Dot.1q trunk in z/Linux

2011-03-24 Thread David Boyes
If you are using a VSWITCH with a trunk port on the physical switch, you are already doing 802.1q trunking between VM and the network. CP is doing it for you. Why in heaven's name do they want the Linux guests doing .1q trunking? That's a recipie for VLAN jumping, which they will have fits

Re: RSCS Problem - return code=- 1 error number=54 (Connection reset by peer)

2011-03-24 Thread David Boyes
Explicitly code it. If you are using TA=0, then streams MUST be 1. If you are using TA=1, you have to spell out all 7 streams.

Re: RSCS Problem - return code=- 1 error number=54 (Connection reset by peer)

2011-03-24 Thread David Boyes
=YES STREAMS=7 TA=1 BUFF=3976 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of David Boyes Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 1:20 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: RSCS Problem - return code=- 1 error number=54 (Connection reset by peer) Explicitly code

Re: MONWRITE

2011-03-24 Thread David Boyes
There's two kinds of monitors: things that happen all the time that you periodically want to take a sample to get a sense of what's going on (like CPU usage), and things that don't happen all the time but post specific events when they DO happen. These events are usually things you'd want to

Dale's VERPASS exit and other goodies

2011-03-23 Thread David Boyes
Dale's VERPASS code is available for download from http://download.sinenomine.net/community/zvm/dale-smith/ Tom Huegel's Japan pictures have moved to http://download.sinenomine.net/community/zvm/tom-huegel/ If anyone has useful VM-related goodies, please let me know and we'd be happy to

Re: SMTP authentication?

2011-03-21 Thread David Boyes
This appliance can connect to a VSWITCH? Yes. It will tolerate both layer 2 and layer 3 VSWITCHes. And how will my SMTP talk to it? Over CTC? HS? What we suggest for front-ending these older VM TCP services is that you get another IP address from your networking folks (just one is

Re: Temp SFS environment

2011-03-17 Thread David Boyes
All that brings a subsidiary question : is it important to preserve the machine xc in the VMSERVx directories (I should read the doc I think...) ? You need the XC mode setting if you want SFS to use VM dataspaces to map parts of the data into memory (which would be consistent with the

Re: A Data Center near Tokyo Japan

2011-03-17 Thread David Boyes
Tom, if you'll send them to me, I'll put them out on the WWW download site here. From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Carroll, William D Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 3:20 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: A Data Center near Tokyo Japan

Re: Temp SFS environment

2011-03-17 Thread David Boyes
Wasn't the original poster trying to do this with virtual disk(s)? And if that's the case it has a high potential of being in memory anyway? Or did I miss something. Steve In this case, it probably doesn't matter at all, but that's the reason the XC mode setting is in the VMSERVx directory

Re: A Data Center near Tokyo Japan

2011-03-17 Thread David Boyes
Tom's pictures are available at http://download.sinenomine.net/thugel-japan-pics/ I put both his original PPT file and a PDF version up. All I can say is: wow. You guys got REALLY lucky. --db

Re: Social Security Confronts IT Obsolescence

2011-03-15 Thread David Boyes
Knowing a fair amount about that facility, the infrastructure issues are quite real, particularly the cooling issues during the summer. There were several incidents last summer when a fair number of the discrete and blade chassis went into thermal shutdown due to heat zones exceeding 95-110

Re: SMTP authentication?

2011-03-10 Thread David Boyes
On 3/10/11 12:59 PM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com wrote: I was going to mention that as a solution, but I would suggest that Shimon first take the issue to his network people and let them decide what they want to do. If their answer is to use a relay and they want it on zLinux, then

Re: SMTP authentication?

2011-03-10 Thread David Boyes
I hope this is not based on a very new linux. I see that the new ones cannot run on my somewhat antiquated z890. It should work fine on a z890 (it was built on a 7060-H70 and tested on a z800, so it should be OK). Give me a few days to package it up and put it somewhere for you. It can also

Re: RSU, PSP - which do I choose?

2011-03-10 Thread David Boyes
Order PTF UV97540 and you will got lastest RSU for z/VM 5.4. (1008) This is good advice and gets you most of the way. Since RSUs are collections of recommended service made at a specific point in time, make sure you also order the PSP bucket for that RSU to catch anything after the RSU date

Re: Sending files to JES

2011-03-08 Thread David Boyes
SPOOL PUN TO RSCS TAG DEV PUN zos SYSTEM PUNCH fn ft fm ( NOH Explanation: SP PUN TO RSCS sets the destination of the PUNCH command on the VM side. RSCS knows to look at the tag data of the incoming files to decide what to do with them. TAG DEV PUN zos SYSTEM sets the tag data destination

Re: Sending files to JES

2011-03-08 Thread David Boyes
Alternatively, the TCPNJE add-on-extra to RSCS will allow submission through NJE. The user part of the process is the same, though. In both cases, the file has to end up in RSCS' virtual reader; the transport between VM and z/OS is transparent to that process. If the z/OS system was

Re: Virtual Lock File

2011-03-08 Thread David Boyes
On 3/8/11 12:57 PM, Wandschneider, Scott scott.wandschnei...@infocrossing.com wrote: I have a SVM called VDISKS the creates and initializes a virtual lock file for four VSE guest to use. After a short time, VDISKS is logged off by the system. All is fine if at least one VSE remains logged on,

Re: Sending files to JES

2011-03-08 Thread David Boyes
On 3/8/11 1:00 PM, Les Koehler vmr...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: He didn't specify it was a job. That opens a whole new can of worms: JCL, pswd etc. Not the problem of the NJE transport. It's just got to get the file from system A to system B. Content and payload correctness are left as an exercise

Re: Creating a Second IP Stack

2011-03-08 Thread David Boyes
On 3/8/11 1:27 PM, Ron Schmiedge ron.schmie...@gmail.com wrote: IIRC, the TCPIP person who led me through this was musing that they really should document how to do this in the manuals, since so many people ask the same question. I have not gone to look at the recent books. Would be a nice

Re: Sending files to JES

2011-03-08 Thread David Boyes
Use the VM SENDFILE command: SENDFILE fn ft fm TO user AT zos On the z.OS side, use the TSO RECEIVE command to receive the file. SENDFILE takes the original file and encodes it to fit into a series of 80 byte cards, carrying enough metadata to reassemble the file in it's original form on the

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