RACF and access to minidisk

2011-04-12 Thread Florian Bilek
Dear all, Just a question regarding z/VM RACF protection of access to a minidisk. A LINUX guest tries to access another minidisk which is protected by a RACF profile. It is not authorized to link the minidisk and the link request fails. When I authorize that guest on the RACF profile the link

Re: RACF and access to minidisk

2011-04-12 Thread Florian Bilek
Dear all, Thanks for the feedback. 1.) The VMMDISK class is NOT RACLISTED. 2.) The profile looks as stated below. 3.) I added LINADM to the permission list. 4.) Before LINADM was recycled, RACF told: ICH408I USER(LINADM ) GROUP(SYS1) NAME(## CLONSET4.201 CL(VMMDISK )

Question to CMS plumbers (PIPE)

2011-03-16 Thread Florian Bilek
Dear all, Maybe it is the wrong forum but I do have a z/OS related question: In the documentation of the CMS pipelines there is alwas a reference that it supports TSO z/OS as well. However I am not able to find a clear indication if this is still the case or it is mentioned only for historical

Re: Question to CMS plumbers (PIPE)

2011-03-16 Thread Florian Bilek
Thanks for the feedback. I will forward the question to my IBM representative. Let's see what that Delivery offering means. I read about this in the Author's Guide. I think even the Batch pipes are not going to be further improved, There should be some sort of unsupport ed way as it is done in

Re: Second screen in a z/VM CMS session

2010-07-08 Thread Florian Bilek
Rob, I would also be interested to get this code. Florian On Wed, 7 Jul 2010 10:41:15 -0400, Alex lba...@verizon.net wrote: is this code available, if so from where? Alex - Original Message - From: Rob van der Heij rvdh...@gmail.com To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Sent: Wednesday,

Second screen in a z/VM CMS session

2010-07-05 Thread Florian Bilek
Dear all, I am wondering if there is a utility available that would allow to use a dialed screen to a VM running CMS? As I understand, there is the possibility to make multitasking applications under CMS. Also full screen is supported nowadays. It would be great to have on one screen a REXX

Re: Second screen in a z/VM CMS session

2010-07-05 Thread Florian Bilek
-Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Florian Bilek Sent: July 5, 2010 13:15 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Second screen in a z/VM CMS session Dear all, I am wondering if there is a utility available that would

Re: ODP: Second screen in a z/VM CMS session

2010-07-05 Thread Florian Bilek
2010 20:39:24 +0200, Kolasinski Piotr p_kolasin...@compfort.pl wrote: -Wiadomo¶æ oryginalna- Od: The IBM z/VM Operating System w imieniu Florian Bilek Wys³ano: Pn 2010-07-05 19:14 Do: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Temat: Second screen in a z/VM CMS session Dear all, I am wondering

3390-3 DASD Paging devices still needed?

2010-06-21 Thread Florian Bilek
Dear all, We are intending to migrate from a DS8100 to a new DS8700 and consider to quit with 3390-3 DASD addresses during this migration. I remember that there was always the saying that paging devices should reside on 3390-3 since the paging code was specially optimized for those devices, I

Re: 3390-3 DASD Paging devices still needed?

2010-06-21 Thread Florian Bilek
PAV on paging volumes. So, for high paging rates, the more volumes the better. Kris Buelens 2010/6/21, Florian Bilek florian.bi...@gmail.com: Dear all, We are intending to migrate from a DS8100 to a new DS8700 and consider to quit with 3390-3 DASD addresses during this migration. I

Re: Question on PIPEprogram THREEWAY

2010-04-28 Thread Florian Bilek
Hi Mike, Thank you for this information. As you say, I am concerned to modify and/ or use features from pipes that are not in the original delivery. We had already bad experiences using features not clearly supported by IBM in operational environments. So we are quite reluctant to use other

Re: Question on PIPEprogram THREEWAY

2010-04-28 Thread Florian Bilek
Scott, Thank you for that hint. That sample does exactly what I wanted to do. I must say that I am a little bit overwhelmed with the functionality of spe c. It has great functionality. Kind regards, Florian

Question on PIPEprogram THREEWAY

2010-04-27 Thread Florian Bilek
/second/, ! console, ?t:, ! literal /third/, !console return -- Best regards Florian Bilek

Questions on RSCS and LINUX users

2009-10-15 Thread Florian Bilek
Dear all, I wonder if there is a way that would allow to address a specific LINUX userid on an LINUX guest under z/VM by RSCS. To my understanding it is possible to address a system and a user from external system (such as z/OS) that would result in a z/VM system id and a VM user/guest running

Re: Questions on RSCS and LINUX users

2009-10-15 Thread Florian Bilek
other things in the NETDATA header. 2009/10/15 Florian Bilek florian.bi...@gmail.com Dear all, I wonder if there is a way that would allow to address a specific LIN UX userid on an LINUX guest under z/VM by RSCS. To my understanding it is possible to address a system and a user fro m

Re: Questions on RSCS and LINUX users

2009-10-15 Thread Florian Bilek
Kris, When DEST will be extractable, that would be perfect. Thank you. Kind regards, Florian

Question on z/VM LAN (VSWITCH) Routing

2009-09-30 Thread Florian Bilek
Dear all, I have the following situation on my z/VM system: There is a switch VMSWI1 to this switch all the LINUX systems and the z/VM stack is connected. The network is 151.100.1.0/24 VSWITCH SYSTEM VMSWI1 Type: VSWITCH Connected: 17 Maxconn: INFINITE PERSISTENT RESTRICTED

PPRC commands under z/VM

2009-09-15 Thread Florian Bilek
Dear all, I need to establish several PPRC pairs between two DS-8000 at our local site for our z/VM system. There is a lot of information around about this matter but unfortunately it is still not totally clear to me, if there are native z/VM commands for manageing the PPRC pairs or do I need to

Re: PPRC commands under z/VM

2009-09-15 Thread Florian Bilek
Hi Kris, Thank you. That would be great. Kind regards, Fox

Reaction of z/VM when losing a page dataset

2009-08-31 Thread Florian Bilek
Dear all, I am wondering about the reaction of z/VM in case it would lose one or two page datasets. The reason is that I have a configuration with two DS-8000 where the page datasets are spread all over those two machines. DS-1 has the sysres, spool, and some page datasets and DS-2 it has

Re: Question to PAV on Minidisks

2009-07-21 Thread Florian Bilek
Hello Steve, Thanks for answering my question. I checked it out. The MINIOPT after a LINK statement does not work as MINIOPT is according to the CP Planning and Administration guide an extension to the MDISK direct ory statement. Furthermore it cannot be coded in a PROFILE statement in the C P

Question to PAV on Minidisks

2009-07-20 Thread Florian Bilek
CLONSET 201 under another LINUX guest: USER CHARLIE 1G 2G G . LINK CLONSET1 201 201 RR User Charlie has no PAV ALIASES for the linked devices. Is it possible to get pav aliases also for linked minidisks? Thanks in advance. -- Best regards Florian Bilek

Re: Must be Friday: Mainframe USBs!

2009-03-07 Thread Florian Bilek
Would be interesting to format an USB device in ECKD mode. Is this possible ??? ;-) Probably that goes only together with an FICON attached USB-Reader costing only 250.000$ allowing for ONE USB stick at a time. Great ;-) -- Best regards Florian Bilek

Using VTOD

2009-01-30 Thread Florian Bilek
Dear all, Due to historical reasons we run our host systems on local time (CET/CETS = EAST +1h/+2h). Well, all the years this served well but due to some services that require UTC we have to change now to UTC. In a first stage we would like to run only those services necessary with UTC. In

Re: Using VTOD

2009-01-30 Thread Florian Bilek
Hello Rob, That's working. Thanks a lot. Regards, Florian

Sharing the RACF database in CSE

2009-01-15 Thread Florian Bilek
Dear all, 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 reserve/release CCWs. Therefore I can put it only on a real

Re: Sharing the RACF database in CSE

2009-01-15 Thread Florian Bilek
Dear all, Thanks a lot for this real quick answers. Have hoped to avoid a reconfiguration of the storage subsystem. Seems there would be some room for future enhancement of this issue ;-) Best regards, Florian

Re: Setting a code page in z/VM

2009-01-04 Thread Florian Bilek
Alan, Kris, Thank you very much indeed for your explanations. I switched to 924 code page and now the C-source from the IVP is shown correctly on the PersCom. I will check for the other consequences on this. For z/VM this is probabl y not a problem yet as I am only at the beginning and do not

Re: Setting a code page in z/VM

2009-01-03 Thread Florian Bilek
a C-program those characters do not match the codepoints the C-Compiler is expecting. How can this be addressed? Best regards, Florian On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 02:22:57 -0500, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com wrote: On Wednesday, 12/31/2008 at 01:39 EST, Florian Bilek florian.bi...@gmail.com

Setting a code page in z/VM

2008-12-31 Thread Florian Bilek
Dear all, I am just trying to figure out what has to be done to use code page 273 o r 1141 correctly under z/VM? I can not find a config statement aside from the character default statem ent but there is no real code page statement. Does the code page setting come from the LE setup? Best

Installing PTF for TCPIP (Enabling SSL Server)

2008-12-14 Thread Florian Bilek
Dear all, I have noted that APAR PK65850 for enabling the CMS SSL Server is closed and a PTF is available. I ordered and downloaded the PTF. However I am not totally sure how to apply this PTF. Up to now I had only appied the stacked RSU from MAINT. When I try to run a VMFREC ppf 5VMTCP40

Re: DFSMS/VM Migration to ML2

2008-12-02 Thread Florian Bilek
Dear Les, OK! Does that mean there is no official ML2 support for DFSMS/VM or are there alternative tools? Regards, Florian On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 11:07:47 -0500, Les Geer (607-429-3580) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed DFSMS/VM. During the study of the planning guide I saw that all

Dirmaint

2008-11-19 Thread Florian Bilek
can't DATAMOVE this not for me? Is this room for future enhancements? -- Best regards Florian Bilek

Re: Dirmaint

2008-11-19 Thread Florian Bilek
Kris, Thanks for this excellent explanateion. However it seems quite unsatisfactory. Would it worth to place a FITS request to extend this functionality? I think DDR should be used from DIRMAINT. It is quite cumbersom to do it manually and that is why I have Dirmaint. Best regrads, Florian

ASCII Console for Liunx Guests

2008-11-12 Thread Florian Bilek
Dear all, 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,

z/VM JAVA VM

2008-10-17 Thread Florian Bilek
Dear all, Does a JAVA VM for z/VM (CMS) exists? Only asking for curiosity to play a round. Thank you very much in advance. Best regards, Florian

ISFC - Questions

2008-10-08 Thread Florian Bilek
Dear all, Some weeks ago I was busy setting up an ISFC connection between my two z/VMs. Meanwhile I succeeded in this task. However, I have still some quesions. Maybe I miss some documentation but z/VM connectivity manual is not too specific for my taste. I have established a CTC connection

SPXTAPE alternatives

2008-10-06 Thread Florian Bilek
Dear all, Are there alternatives for SPXTAPE? I would like to copy the single pack spool with the saved segments from t he newly installed z/VM 5.4 to a spool area that consists of several disks. I would like to avoid regenerating those shared segments. Doing this, I would like to use a

Re: SPXTAPE alternatives

2008-10-06 Thread Florian Bilek
Hi Dave, This is great! Thank you very much. It is exactly what I was looking for. BR Florian On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 08:00:06 -0500, Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] w rote: Hi, Florian. You might want to try using the SFB utility that can backup and restore NSS as well as DCSS type segments.

Re: CSE and VMSERVx

2008-08-27 Thread Florian Bilek
the ISFC collection. To make an SFS server available globally: - the filepool ID must be unique (the userid is of no importance) - the filepool ID must not start with VMSYS - the GLOBAL parameter must be coded in the server's DMSPARMS file 2008/7/22 Florian Bilek [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dear all, What

Re: CSE and VMSERVx

2008-08-27 Thread Florian Bilek
/rolled back. You should not activate the IS-link before the resources are made unique, otherwise some things may stop working. But, as far as I know, SFS and DB2/VM are the only users of CRR, so only their users could get in trouble. 2008/8/27 Florian Bilek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear all, Last

Re: REXEC question

2008-08-02 Thread Florian Bilek
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:47:19 -0400, Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday, 07/17/2008 at 07:50 EDT, Fox Blue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I set up the REXEC daemon on z/VM 5.3 and wanted to do a logon of a userid RVMCP with my own credentials. For this the RVMCP directory entry has a

CSE and shared directory

2008-07-28 Thread Florian Bilek
Dear all, I am working now, thanks to Kris, with SysAffin in the Directory. In principle this works fine but I have now an issue with the DISKMAP utilit y. The report run on one system shows space of the disk as free where a SysAffin is coded for another system. IMHO this will lead to

Switching System Users DISKACNT and EREP to other ids

2008-07-28 Thread Florian Bilek
Dear all, Is it possible to switch the functions of the system userids such as EREP or DISKACNT to other machines without IPL? As far as I know those names are defined in the system config file of the z/VM instance. Is it possible to change the values stated there on the fl y? Best

CSE and VMSERVx

2008-07-22 Thread Florian Bilek
Dear all, What is the right approach to define VMSERVx machines to work in CSE? When the directory is shared and the names of those machines MUST be the same on all the z/VM instances there is a conflict since they use all the same minidisks. I couldn't find too much information about this.

Re: CSE and VMSERVx

2008-07-22 Thread Florian Bilek
Kris, thank you for this info. But isn't it the case that e.g. DFSMS/VM need th ose SFS servers and if so, I thought the name MUST always be the original one . If this is not the case than fine. Does it mean that the DFSMS an be run from other SFS servers as well? Best regards, Florian

Re: TSAF - Supported Links

2008-07-21 Thread Florian Bilek
Hello Kris, Thanks for that information. I will have a look on ISFC. First, I have to get me some CTCs ;-) Best regards, Fox