Re: Setting DIRM NEEDPASS NO in a LOGONBY user

2009-02-12 Thread David Boyes
Amen! Hear Hear. On 2/12/09 11:03 AM, Jim Bohnsack jab...@cornell.edu wrote: I think whether NEEDPASS YES is still needed is an it depends and should be left to the customer. What is needed, however, is a re-engineering or a redesign or rethinking of how and where it is defined in DIRMAINT.

Re: LPR printing

2009-02-11 Thread David Boyes
We're trying to use the LPR command from a z/VM 5.4 system to print to a windows print server. The problem we're having is we'd like the print file to be identified with a user different from the logon user. Is there some kind of option on the LPR command or global variable to achieve this? I

Re: Paging

2009-02-11 Thread David Boyes
On 2/11/09 2:07 PM, Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) terry.mar...@cms.hhs.gov wrote: Hi Thanks to all for your thoughtful input. I think I see the issue now and it does appear to be a formatting problem. When I formatted the pack using CPFMTXA I did the following: When I was prompted to do

Re: Paging

2009-02-10 Thread David Boyes
Did you format the new paging disks with DSF or CPFMTXA before you attached them to SYSTEM? If you didn't, then that's the cause of the problem. received the following error just before the guest came down: HCP415E Six continuous paging errors have occurred on DASD volume

Re: Paging

2009-02-10 Thread David Boyes
Work - 410 786-0386 terry.mar...@cms.hhs.gov From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of David Boyes Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 2:56 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Paging Did you format the new paging disks with DSF or CPFMTXA

Re: Philosophical question...

2009-02-03 Thread David Boyes
On 2/3/09 10:55 AM, Wakser, David david.wak...@infocrossing.com wrote: Why would you even, for a second, doubt your sanity? Vendor is trying to invoke ³not tested configuration² clauses and doing other assorted whining to avoid providing a fix. I want to get a consensus response from the

Re: Philosophical question...

2009-02-03 Thread David Boyes
On 2/3/09 11:19 AM, Mike Walter mike.wal...@hewitt.com wrote: Is this the vendor's long-term answer, requiring old code to support their app? Yes, or at least a modified code package that uses the same name as a package supplied with the OS. They also recommend bypassing dependency checking to

Re: Philosophical question...

2009-02-03 Thread David Boyes
On 2/3/09 11:57 AM, Mark Post mp...@novell.com wrote: On 2/3/2009 at 11:27 AM, David Boyes dbo...@sinenomine.net wrote: On 2/3/09 11:19 AM, Mike Walter mike.wal...@hewitt.com wrote: -snip- They also recommend bypassing dependency checking to force installation of this package, which strikes

Philosophical question...

2009-02-03 Thread David Boyes
Background: Upgrading a system to current level. Have a vendor product that insists on the installation of a backlevel component application that causes the configuration and service management system to report errors in the configuration. Vendor insists that the backlevel component is the only

Re: Re-labeling CP-Owned volumes on a live system

2009-01-30 Thread David Boyes
On 1/30/09 3:03 PM, joe.dipi...@frit.frb.org joe.dipi...@frit.frb.org wrote: Since I am a new to the VM world and have not had a lot of hands on experience, this may come across as a dumb question. How would one go about re-labeling VM system volumes if you are using DIRMAINT? 1.

Re: FTP over HiperSockets network

2009-01-23 Thread David Boyes
On 1/23/09 11:02 AM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com wrote: On Friday, 01/23/2009 at 12:20 EST, Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) terry.mar...@cms.hhs.gov wrote: Is anyone running FTP on z/VM connecting to FTP server on z/OS over a HiperSockets network? If so can you share with me the

Re: zvm 5.2 storage limits, zlinux?

2009-01-22 Thread David Boyes
I would suggest splitting it when you can¹t meet your recovery time objective for the server if it tanks completely. It depends completely on how fast you can recover. Consider also that there may be logical break points in the directory tree that you could address using the Microsoft DFS

Re: SPXTAPE

2009-01-22 Thread David Boyes
You have to capture the messages and parse for: SPXTAPE DUMP COMMAND COMPLETED ON VDEV vdev(WITH ERRORS) or the error variations listed in the help file. This is one of the major reasons why I want a SPXTAPE version that can be input or output to a PIPE.

Re: SPXTAPE

2009-01-22 Thread David Boyes
On 1/22/09 5:20 PM, James Stracka (DHL US) james.stra...@dhl.com wrote: Or a WAIT option with return codes. Except that doesn¹t get rid of the tape requirement...8-)

Re: OSA layer 2 protocol connections...

2009-01-21 Thread David Boyes
I just tried this. If you have an external switch connecting the two VSWITCHes, then this seems to work fine. They¹re all one layer 2 collision domain, and the external switch seems to glue everything together properly. If you don¹t have an external switch and you have to use VM TCPIP or a Linux

Re: Sharing the RACF database in CSE

2009-01-15 Thread David Boyes
On 1/15/09 11:11 AM, Florian Bilek florian.bi...@gmail.com wrote: I am planning to setup RACF in a CSE environemnt. The CSE is on two different processors. I have read in the Program Directory that in this c ase the RACF database mustn't be on a CSE formatted volume since it uses real

Re: Sharing the RACF database in CSE

2009-01-15 Thread David Boyes
On 1/15/09 11:25 AM, Lionel B. Dyck lionel.b.d...@kp.org wrote: Couldn't you define a very small 3390 volume for this purpose in the storage subsystem so that at least you're waste is less Yeah. Minidisks by any other name, but It¹s just annoying that RACF is so VM-hostile.

Re: Private Subnet for Hipersocket connections

2009-01-14 Thread David Boyes
Don¹t do this. It will cause all sorts of random problems that you¹ll deeply regret later. There are three reserved address spaces in RFC 1918 (192.168.x.x, 172.12.x.x, and 10.x.x.x). I strongly doubt they are using all of these ‹ particularly the 172.12 space seems to be rarely used. If you

Re: First install of 5.4: 2 questions

2009-01-14 Thread David Boyes
Another data point: Apparently this is a overall problem. We've gotten several reports that the DVDs contain only the base code, and the RSUs did not ship with it. On 1/14/09 11:23 AM, Marcy Cortes marcy.d.cor...@wellsfargo.com wrote: Sounds like IBM SW distribution has screwed up.

Re: Private Subnet for Hipersocket connections

2009-01-14 Thread David Boyes
If you know that the environment will never need to talk to a specific subnet, you can overload a subnet, but it¹s a bad idea overall. If you use it, you will need to insert specific routes in the systems that use the interconnection. You can insert host routes in a init script so that it can be

Re: Private Subnet for Hipersocket connections

2009-01-14 Thread David Boyes
On 1/14/09 11:32 AM, Rob van der Heij rvdh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 5:17 PM, David Boyes dbo...@sinenomine.net wrote: Don't do this. It will cause all sorts of random problems that you'll deeply regret later. Tee hee hee. The random problems are expected when your

Re: Private Subnet for Hipersocket connections

2009-01-14 Thread David Boyes
How many systems do you need to connect? A few class Cs is a fair amount of address space (1 class C is 253 usable addresses), and you can easily optimize the use of addresses using NAT or a virtual router, etc. IPv6 is an interesting option, but keep in mind that there will need to be some kind

Re: Relationship question

2009-01-11 Thread David Boyes
On 1/9/09 9:02 PM, Jim Bohnsack jab...@cornell.edu wrote: No! Please! Alan's explanation of service naming brought back memories of trying to make sense out of partial differential equations before I went into a more simple life, playing with IBM S/360 computers. Adding in Sun would

Re: Ethernet vswitch definition

2009-01-09 Thread David Boyes
On 1/8/09 6:09 PM, KEETON Dave * SDC dave.kee...@state.or.us wrote: I have need for multiple VLAN memberships also. I keep running into issues with routing when I have more than one VLAN configured. Does anyone have any pearls of wisdom in this area? Any docs for advanced VLAN networking with

Re: Relationship question

2009-01-09 Thread David Boyes
On 1/9/09 11:52 AM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com wrote: [stuff about how the service naming goes together (for sufficiently complex versions of together)] You know, I could introduce you to some guys at Sun. Together, you guys could collaborate to make this *really* confusing...

Fwd: [IP] Creating a rogue CA certificate

2008-12-31 Thread David Boyes
Interesting new attack on SSL-based security - compromise the CA infrastructure. Begin forwarded message: -- Forwarded Message From: InfoSec News ale...@infosecnews.org Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:08:14 + To: i...@infosecnews.org i...@infosecnews.org Subject: [ISN] Creating a rogue

Re: SSL Certificats

2008-12-26 Thread David Boyes
Start from scratch unless you still have the VM file you originally imported. The old code didn't really have a usable export capability (it was in the OCO part of the SSLSERV code so we couldn't do much about it), and if you can't get it to IPL, you're not really going to be able to do much with

TAFOT: *country*?

2008-12-18 Thread David Boyes
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 music there in Endicott? -- db

Re: PTF providing CMS based SSL support

2008-12-12 Thread David Boyes
Mark, does that mean the SPE 2 tape is available, or just these individual PTFs? On 12/12/08 4:46 PM, Mark Cibula cibul...@us.ibm.com wrote: Hello Everyone, All PTFs that pertain to enablement of the z/VM 540 SSL server are now available and can be ordered. The complete list is available

Re: Strange OSPF problem

2008-12-11 Thread David Boyes
If there is a Cisco box with layer 3 function enabled on the other side of the OSA, do a 'show route ospf' in enable mode and let's see what it looks like for the 5.2 and 5.4 cases. I have a VM TCPIP stack running level 520 on a z/VM 5.4.0 system. It is connected to an OSA on one side and a

Re: Web servers for VM

2008-12-09 Thread David Boyes
Please take a look at the the TcpSStatus call in the TCP/IP Programming Reference to see if it has the details you are wanting. That is one of the APIs for which no C equivalent exists, though it is possible to use the output of NETSTAT SOCKETS to convert a socket number to a connection

Re: Compare VM files

2008-12-09 Thread David Boyes
The COMPARE command provides a simpleminded way to determine if two files are different, but it gets easily confused. The XCOMPARE utility from Cornell (on many VM Workshop tapes) proves more sophisticated comparisons, including the ability to generate CMS UPDATE-compatible files (similar to the

Re: New RACF passwords

2008-12-09 Thread David Boyes
Slurpd is a very effective way to replicate a LDAP database into another LDAP. On 12/9/08 8:19 AM, Rothman, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well actually we are looking into LDAP. However management prefer that the LDAP live on Linux. Our programmers use work station based tools and have to

Re: Web servers for VM

2008-12-09 Thread David Boyes
On 12/9/08 10:30 AM, Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TcpSStatus contains the state information maintainted by the stack in cooperation with the SSL server. I wanted to know if the state information it returns it is sufficient to meet the needs of Mr. Ackerman's programmers. If so, it

Re: .zVos System z/VM Connectivity - Men or Mice

2008-12-09 Thread David Boyes
1. A second level VM system running on the Dallas First level. 2. On that second level system there are two server machines which have to be able to communicate with a z/Vos management console in Birmingham via HTTP. Can machines on the 2nd level system reach your existing terminals via IP

Re: CPFMTXA Multiple drives

2008-12-08 Thread David Boyes
You can batch up the commands for ICKDSF (the guts of CPFMTXA) to do multiple drives in series, but CMS is a single tasking OS. You can only do them serially, or you need to use multiple userids. (note that it doesn¹t have to be MAINT ‹ you can attach the disks to other userids from a privileged

Re: CPFMTXA Multiple drives

2008-12-08 Thread David Boyes
Another thought: If your disk subsystem supports snapshot, format one ³template² disk using CPFMTXA, attach it to a suitably privileged ID, attach the new disk to your id, SNAPSHOT from the template to the new disk, then run ICKDSF CPVOL FORMAT for just cylinder 0 giving the new label and CP

Re: CPFMTXA Multiple drives

2008-12-08 Thread David Boyes
On 12/8/08 11:50 AM, Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On a related note, keep an eye out for our FlashCopy SE (Space Efficient) support coming to a theater near you in time for Christmas. It will make this and a lot of other disk-related activities easier: - Copies that only contain

Re: TRANS13 , IND$FILE and CA-TPX

2008-12-04 Thread David Boyes
Note that CUT and DFT only matter for real coax. Not applicable to IP connections. Do you know the previous LOGMOD entry he was using on SNA? I think you needed to have extended data streams turned on for IND$FILE to work (and I think the IP stuff always provides that bit in response to a RSF).

Re: DFSMS/VM Migration to ML2

2008-12-02 Thread David Boyes
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 11:07:47 -0500, Les Geer (607-429-3580) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately there is no longer a supported TSM server for z/VM. Since the TSM/VM version was the only one which ever supported IUCV, is there any chance of bundling it with the DFSMS code?

Re: Web servers for VM

2008-12-02 Thread David Boyes
I think this is the httpd server on the VM download page (or it used to be there). I think the one on the IBM page is the one that Brian Wade did. Anyway, I have Webshare. I don't think it handles SSI's very well or at all.  (I'm not being critical, just an observation - sure wish it

Re: Dec 3 Live Virtual Class - Big Blue Goes Green: Update on Project Big Green

2008-12-02 Thread David Boyes
On 12/2/08 10:17 PM, Alan Ackerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed it on my Mac, so maybe this time I can watch it from my Mac? Does it work on a Mac? (The last iteration tried to run on my Mac but hung.) The test meeting ran fine on my G4 and the newer Intel Macbook.

FYI: Update on ESM QUERY requirement from last WAVV

2008-12-01 Thread David Boyes
-0500 To: David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: WAVV200802 Hi David, I have received the following update regarding your WAVV Requirement, User Group Number - WAVV200802 Document Status - Recognized Title - Provide query capability for active external security manager (ESM) IBM agrees

Re: Virus Software for z/VM

2008-11-27 Thread David Boyes
On 11/26/08 1:47 PM, Michael Coffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me play devil's advocate for just a minute. WHAT would actually constitute a virus in a VM/CMS environment? We don't have the backdoors and automatic program execution stuff that comes out of Redmond, so you don't have to worry

Re: A question on multiple nicdefs

2008-11-26 Thread David Boyes
I am a bit confused. If I use the #cp commands this is permanent ? I am looking for a temporary fix so I can test , then later place the needed statements into the directory. No, you're correct -- if you do it with #CP (or vmcp), it's temporary until the userid logs off. Once you get it the

Re: new VSMDCSS in z/VM 5.4

2008-11-26 Thread David Boyes
One of my acquaintances went through the Foreign Intelligence Language Institute in Monterey during a past life and had to learn some *really* obscure Native American and Inuit dialects, most of which have less than 100 living speakers. Wouldn't say what they were for, but some of the

Re: Virus Software for z/VM

2008-11-26 Thread David Boyes
On 11/26/08 10:24 AM, clifford jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there such athing as Virus Software for z/VM like Norton is for Windows and such I smell a boilerplate auditor recommendation. We built one for email, and nobody was really all that interested. Intel-based viruses

Re: new VSMDCSS in z/VM 5.4

2008-11-25 Thread David Boyes
On 11/24/08 7:12 PM, Schuh, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It reads like the userid is nnn. I do not know where anyone got the idea that the verb predicate for subject syntax was good or natural. Is there any spoken language that uses this type of syntax? (Where is that mother camel?) And

Re: LOGONBY - limit of 8 userids.

2008-11-25 Thread David Boyes
You probably know this, but I think that¹s a compelling argument for a ESM and using ESM groups to manage LOGONBY authorization. It¹s going to be a lot cheaper to get VM:Secure (dir mgmt and ESM all in one) than to hack something up yourself. Use DIRM/RACF if you must, but buy it rather than build

Re: Sharing PPRC devices with z/OS

2008-11-25 Thread David Boyes
On 11/25/08 11:38 AM, Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In this case, think of z/OS as z/VM's errand boy. :-) He's a big boy, with chubby cheeks, to be sure, but slave to the whims of VM. A. Oh, z/OS! z/OS! Another drink, if you please. Be sure to put an umbrella in it. A

Re: new VSMDCSS in z/VM 5.4

2008-11-25 Thread David Boyes
On 11/24/08 10:07 PM, O'Brien, Dennis L Dennis.L.O'[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As to the alleged difficulties of configuring SFS, I don't see it. I opened the book, read it, and configured SFS. It wasn't hard. If you don't understand VM at all, then everything is hard. If you do understand

Re: Volumes across channel extenders

2008-11-25 Thread David Boyes
In the dim past, I had to run some 3370s over channel extenders. Try setting the MIH to about 30 seconds ‹ it may not completely fix it, but it might make things a little better. On 11/25/08 1:07 PM, Mary Anne Matyaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess my biggest concern is that it hangs the

Re: A question on multiple nicdefs

2008-11-25 Thread David Boyes
Sure you can define more NICs. Log into the virtual machine for each guest. #CP DEFINE NIC blah bla BEGIN #CP DISC Then you can ssh in and activate the new NIC in YaST. Make sure that you add the new NIC address to the CP directory entry for the guest so it shows up on the next logoff/logon of

Re: A question on multiple nicdefs

2008-11-25 Thread David Boyes
, David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure you can define more NICs. Log into the virtual machine for each guest. #CP DEFINE NIC blah bla BEGIN #CP DISC Then you can ssh in and activate the new NIC in YaST. Make sure that you add the new NIC address to the CP directory entry for the guest

Re: new VSMDCSS in z/VM 5.4

2008-11-25 Thread David Boyes
On 11/25/08 5:19 PM, Schuh, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It worked in WWII, but I would be willing to bet that the Soviet Union and perhaps other countries had/have people trained in Navajo in their intelligence organizations. It probably would not work again. One of my acquaintances went

Re: new VSMDCSS in z/VM 5.4

2008-11-24 Thread David Boyes
Bob Bolch wrote: The support for the System Management API servers is enhanced in 5.4.0 to use this writable saved segment for inter-process communications, rather than use SFS to communicate between the SMAPI request servers and the worker machines. I wonder what prompted them to do

Re: new VSMDCSS in z/VM 5.4

2008-11-24 Thread David Boyes
On 11/24/08 1:06 PM, John Franciscovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My vote's with Bob. Hard-coding stuff like this seems like a user requirement in the making -- somebody is going to want to have control over the name. Same problem in DFSMS with hard-coding VMSYS:. Just to clarify, the name of

Download for LARS Batch System code archive

2008-11-21 Thread David Boyes
The LARS Batch code is available for download from http://download.sinenomine.net/cmsbatch. AWSTAPE and VMARC formats are available. If anyone else would like to make older packages available, please let me know and we'll be happy to make them available at no charge. Happy downloading. --

Re: z/VM Virtualization Video

2008-11-20 Thread David Boyes
Interesting bit of editing: during the entire Linux discussion, all we see is a z/OS master console. 8-) On 11/20/08 12:02 PM, Bill Munson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good one, but this is a Better VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIkuUCjRbUkNR=1

Re: XML on VM

2008-11-19 Thread David Boyes
There is XMLPARSE on the VM download page. It's a pipeline filter that creates a Rexx structure from a well formed XML document. I've experimented with it but never used it for anything significant. http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/descript.cgi?XMLPARSE

Automatic logoff after a delay

2008-11-19 Thread David Boyes
There was an IBM PRPQ called RESLIM that did something like this in the distant past, but I don't think it was brought forward into the z/VM era. You could probably do this with Performance Toolkit (I think it has the idle session monitor information; I'd have to look it up), but there may be a

Re: XML on VM

2008-11-19 Thread David Boyes
It doesn't look like I can use LPR to send the XML document to my reader queue. I keep getting truncated at 80 bytes. I can FTP the file without any problems, but I sure liked the WAKEUP (RDR as the method to drive the server. Enable NJE in RSCS and use that instead.

Re: XML on VM

2008-11-19 Thread David Boyes
If you are not already paying the full license fee for RSCS, you'll need to speak with your IBM marketeers before enabling RSCS' NJE capabilities for production work (maybe even for test?). Proper license management is always the responsibility of the admin. There are also alternatives that

Re: #CP STOP vs. Linux shutdown for disk snapshots

2008-11-19 Thread David Boyes
Completely unsafe. Linux probably will have data in memory that has not yet been committed to disk, so your snapshot probably will not be complete or consistent. You need an agent inside the Linux guest that is conscious of where data actually is at the moment to get a clean and consistent backup.

Re: XML on VM

2008-11-19 Thread David Boyes
The from platform is WIN/XP. Not a problem if you can specify the command used to print the file. We have NJE for Windows.

Re: Purdue Univ Batch System

2008-11-18 Thread David Boyes
Sure. Send them to me and I'll put them up. On 11/18/08 1:54 PM, Thomas Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't looked at the copyright statements, but it seemed freely distributable when I first got a copy. I don't know for sure, but it may have been on a Waterloo Mods tape for a couple of

Re: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 Starter System for IBM System z

2008-11-18 Thread David Boyes
I've tried IE 6 and FireFox 2.0.0.6. In both cases the FTP transfer started and it no sooner started and then finished. The resultant file of the transfer was only 1K for what should have been an 2-3GB source file. IE6 is known to fail reliably. Firefox 2 should work, although 3 is obviously

Re: Z/Vm 4.3 EOS ?

2008-11-18 Thread David Boyes
It's dead, Jim. 8-) AFAIK, all the 32-bit only versions are dead and gone out of service. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of August Carideo Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 4:55 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Z/Vm

Re: Number os SSL connections

2008-11-17 Thread David Boyes
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. We also have an alternative that does not have the limitation. On 11/17/08

Re: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 Starter System for IBM System z

2008-11-17 Thread David Boyes
I use IE7 or Firefox 3. Both seem to work acceptably. Safari works too, but the other two are more common. On 11/17/08 7:53 PM, Raymond Noal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark, What do you recommend someone use to download files from the Novell site for zSeries Linux files? I've tried MS

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

2008-11-13 Thread David Boyes
If you need SSL on z/VM 5.4 right now, please contact me offline. We have a solution available that can provide it (as well as some additional features like firewalling and auditing). On 11/13/08 9:17 AM, Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Mark. As things stand right this moment, you

Re: Header file to COBOL copybook?

2008-11-13 Thread David Boyes
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? There's an Irish company called Risaris that markets a tool to convert various kinds of data structures from different environments

Re: ASCII Console for Liunx Guests

2008-11-12 Thread David Boyes
I am not sure but I think to remember that there was a discussion about a sort of ASCII console for z/LINUX Guests under z/VM. I think it was a z/VM SVM that uses IUCV to connect to the serial consol es of a z/LINUX Guest. Is there some news on such a facility such as availability, costs

Re: List of messages candidates for automation

2008-11-11 Thread David Boyes
CP Messages and Codes is probably a good place to start. I've got some airplane time coming up, so I'll have a look and see if we can be systematic about this and start a fairly comprehensive list. IBM, is there a location where all the message codes currently defined are available? I suppose I

Re: List of messages candidates for automation

2008-11-11 Thread David Boyes
On 11/11/08 8:58 AM, Jihad K Kawkabani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not have a VM system up yet, I will be installing it in December. I am just doing planning at this time. I like how you think. Too few people plan for automation these days. I think the question is what you plan to use the

Re: List of messages candidates for automation

2008-11-11 Thread David Boyes
That'd be a great starting point. I'd like a copy. On 11/11/08 1:59 PM, Mike Harding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I went through this exercise a few months back, working first through Messages and Codes and picking out those messages I thought to be of interest for our shop. As we use IBM's

Re: SERIAL NUMBER OF AN ALTERNATE CPU

2008-11-10 Thread David Boyes
Q CPUID should do the trick, if you¹re talking about getting the info to authorize running the product on another CPU. The response should look something like: CPUID = FFnn Where: FF = running in a virtual machine nn = the CPUID of the machine you¹re running on = the

Re: Virtual machine 'escape'

2008-11-04 Thread David Boyes
It seems our colleagues doing virtualization on Intel have another possible security concern to worry about now. By far the biggest concern related to virtual machine security is the threat of a virtual machine escape. A virtual machine escape is a theoretical type of attack in

Re: Virtual machine 'escape'

2008-11-04 Thread David Boyes
Not just possible; proven. It's been done on an Intel Pacifica chipset, and there was an excellent paper in IEEE Transactions on Computer Systems on how it was done. Sorry, remembered the journal wrong. Was in the Black Hat USA 2007 proceedings. My technical article slushpile is getting too

Re: Virtual machine 'escape'

2008-11-04 Thread David Boyes
What effect would this same hack have on the intended target if the x86 system being targeted was running as a guest under z/VM? Wouldn't the ill effects be reduced by the wall between virtual guests inherent with z/VM? It would be unlikely to be effective, IMHO, because it would need to be

Re: What's on a tape?

2008-11-01 Thread David Boyes
TAPEMAP. Should be available on any of the VM Workshop tapes; won't report density correctly on post-3490 drives, but will produce a summary report of just about everything else you might need. Contact me offlist if you can't find a copy. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating

Re: Linux guest 191/200 disk question

2008-10-30 Thread David Boyes
On a similar but disparate subject: Why do we have to use tape to move SDF type files from one system to another? I just want to move CMS, GCS and the various system files from one system within CSE to another... But to do it, I have to have a tape drive. It's the only use I have for a tape

Re: Message transport services

2008-10-30 Thread David Boyes
David Boyes wrote: Well, JMS is a Java thing, so CMS-only solutions are pretty much out. Did the MQSeries client for CMS die? MQ is very nice. I'm not sure if anyone put the final stake in it's heart, but it hasn't gotten any attention recently. As (I think) Dave Jones said, it's still

Re: Message transport services

2008-10-29 Thread David Boyes
Well, JMS is a Java thing, so CMS-only solutions are pretty much out. You'll probably have to write an app that uses SMAPI to create the userids. Jack Woehr's pigiron gadget will make that a lot easier. Most of the SMAPI docs are Linux oriented but it's just a template, so CMS users are

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

2008-10-27 Thread David Boyes
Wouldn't you most likely need a VPN connection to the cell phone? It may work at work if the cell is connected to the work WIFI but most everyone nowadays has fire walls to get thru. Don't know if this got through; data connectivity is spotty in Europe. There is a Cisco VPN client in the

Re: z/VM JAVA VM

2008-10-27 Thread David Boyes
Before anyone gets *too* carried away, understand that zAAPs and zIIPs are for z/OS workloads only. You can't IPL on them and CMS-MT won't dispatch any work on them. My point was to find a way to make use of them that might open the way to making them useful to VM work. It would obviously

Re: z/VM JAVA VM

2008-10-27 Thread David Boyes
My point was to find a way to make use of them that might open the way to making them useful to VM work. It would obviously require IBM to permit them to be used by non-z/OS workload if it were to happen. Ah. OK. Their purpose is to offload cycles from MSU-based processors in order to

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

2008-10-27 Thread David Boyes
The HTC VX6800 running Windoze Mobile Pro 6.1 already supports a Bluetooth keyboard and has literally 12 or 15 terminal emulators. Also, Verizon Wireless Broadband is now at 3.1 MBPS which is faster than ATT's service for the iPhone. Very true. HTC does some very nice hardware engineering --

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

2008-10-24 Thread David Boyes
Yeah. There are two versions, a free and a pay version. It works pretty well if you can deal with scrolling the screen. If you have an external video adapter, it's a lot more useful. Now, if Apple would ever support a Bluetooth keyboard profile rather than the onscreen one, then it'd be a darn

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

2008-10-24 Thread David Boyes
The pay version lets you set unusual screen sizes. On 10/24/08 10:18 AM, Rob van der Heij [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Found over on the IBM-MAIN list.looks interesting: http://www.mochasoft.dk/iphone_tn3270.htm What,

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

2008-10-24 Thread David Boyes
On 10/24/08 11:01 AM, Tom Duerbusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is the first thing I've seen that would make me want to get an iPhone. Are there TN3270 applications available for other products, such as Blackberry? Or is this rather unique? They exist for most Windows Mobile phones, and

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

2008-10-24 Thread David Boyes
Which version of VM? Check out the SSL Enabler docs we wrote; that has a simplified version of the process if you're working with 5.3 or earlier. On 10/24/08 11:12 AM, Michael Coffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, Does anyone know if there is a Redbook, Whitepaper or other good

Re: z/VM JAVA VM

2008-10-23 Thread David Boyes
Would be a clever way to actually make the zAAP specialty engine useful to a z/VM system. Someone would have to write a Java operating system, and I don't know if the zAAPs can actually do I/O. Still, SET MACHINE JAVA would be interesting. Except that the zAAP would only be relevant if you

Re: z/VM JAVA VM

2008-10-22 Thread David Boyes
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 engine useful to a z/VM system. Someone would have

Re: z/VM JAVA VM

2008-10-22 Thread David Boyes
I don't know much about CP's multiple virtual engine support or about CMS multi-tasking, but could an adjunct engine controlled by CMS multi-tasking be a path to using zAAPs for JAVA under VM? Given how UP-oriented and master-processor oriented a lot of CMS-MT is, and the fact you'd still have

Re: ZVM Linux losing WINS

2008-10-20 Thread David Boyes
One case similar to this that I saw involved a MS patch inadvertently changing Windows name resolution away from NetBEUI in a client configuration as part of a network driver update. Did anything like that just get pushed out? Also, are you configuring regular DNS? Modern (post Win2K)

Re: z/VM JAVA VM

2008-10-17 Thread David Boyes
There was one in the distant past. IBM discontinued it at about Java 1.2. You could probably still get it via RPQ, but it's not very useful at this point. Does a JAVA VM for z/VM (CMS) exists? Only asking for curiosity to play a round.

WAVV requirements submitted for two issues discussed here recently.

2008-10-17 Thread David Boyes
. -- db David Boyes Sine Nomine Associates

Re: z/VM SSL Usage

2008-10-17 Thread David Boyes
The z/VM Development Lab is looking for some information regarding z/VM SSL server usage (this is the SSL for use with the VM TCP/IP stack). If you currently use the z/VM SSL server or plan to use it in the next few years, we'd like to hear from you to help guide some design decisions.

Re: Question about a user volume

2008-10-17 Thread David Boyes
No. The only reason to make a volume CP-owned is if there is actually a CP data area (like page or spool, etc) on the volume. Everything else should be normal user volumes. -- db From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

<    1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   >