REXEC question

2008-07-17 Thread Fox Blue
Dear all, I set up the REXEC daemon on z/VM 5.3 and wanted to do a logon of a useri d RVMCP with my own credentials. For this the RVMCP directory entry has a LOGONBY option that names my own userid. When I do a LOGON RVMCP BY myuser then it works well. However when I do t his via rexec such as

How to see which mdisks are linked by whom

2008-06-20 Thread Fox Blue
Dear all, May be a stupid beginners question: Is it possible to see who (which virt ual machine) actually links currently to mdisks on a certain physical volume? For example: I do a q dasd VMUSR7 and get DASD 312E CP System VMUSR7 4. That means 4 machines have a link t o this volume. But

Re: How to see which mdisks are linked by whom

2008-06-20 Thread Fox Blue
Rob, Thank you very much. This is exactly what i needed. Best Regards, Fox.

SIZE of CSE area for dasd models bigger 3390-9

2008-06-12 Thread Fox Blue
Dear all, I am not sure how big the CSE Area need to be on DASD bigger than 3390-9. The planing manual shows only 3390-9, which has in fact 9 cylinders. How big the CSA Area need to be on 3390-27 and 3390-54? Thank you very much. Best regards, Fox

Re: SIZE of CSE area for dasd models bigger 3390-9

2008-06-12 Thread Fox Blue
That is clear now, thank's a lot. BR Fox

Re: Real device number assignments

2008-05-31 Thread Fox Blue
Also in our organisation we have the same real device numbers on all CECs and LPARs. In order to reduce the number of addresses we are consolidating data on bigger volumes. Best regards, Fox

Move multiple minidisks via dirmaint

2008-05-26 Thread Fox Blue
Dear all, I would like to move multiple minidisks from several userids to another physical volume. I used DIRMAINT CMDISK operator for doing this. However what makes me wondering is, if there is a possibility not to re-specify the size of the respective minidisk. I want only to move the

Moving multiple minidisk to new volume

2008-05-26 Thread Fox Blue
Dear all, I have a question regarding the moving of multiple minidisks of several users via DIRMAINT. I saw in the documentation that I have always to respecify the size of th e minidisk in the CMDISK command. I think this is quite errorprone since I have first to check the size from the

Re: Extension of MAINT 190 (S-DISK)

2008-05-20 Thread Fox Blue
Kris, I would also be interested in SESCOMP. Regards, Fox On Mon, 19 May 2008 18:09:43 +0200, Kris Buelens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You forget the VMSES PARTCAT: I've got entries in VMSES PARTCAT for all the things I store on 19E, even y own code gets a dummy prodid. VMFCOPY can then be

Extension of MAINT 190 (S-DISK)

2008-05-19 Thread Fox Blue
Dear all, What is the correct procedure for extending the MAINT 190 (S-Disk)? My MA INT 190 is 82% full and I would like to prepare myself for the case of extend ing it. It can be that we install some products (like DCF) that reside on the S-Disk. Is allocation of a new mini disk and a DDR

Re: Extension of MAINT 190 (S-DISK)

2008-05-19 Thread Fox Blue
On Mon, 19 May 2008 14:43:09 +0200, Rob van der Heij [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK thank you, correct. But then I would like to extend the question with regard of the Y-Disk. Is a simple CMS copy enough or is special attention needed. Fox On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Fox Blue [EMAIL

Re: Extension of MAINT 190 (S-DISK)

2008-05-19 Thread Fox Blue
Kris, thank you very much for the info. Focusing now on Y-DISK. Is a simple cop y of the files enough after formating the new Y-DISK or are there onher pit falls? Fox Extending the S-disk is seldom done, because not that easy. Most people would place extra products on the Y-disk (19E), or

Re: Extension of MAINT 190 (S-DISK)

2008-05-19 Thread Fox Blue
Hi Mike, Thank you for this hint. Well I am also much more in favour to do the installation on a separate disks, however in my case IBM install instructions of the SDO (Semi-VMSES/E Licenced Products) tell to install it on MAINT 19E. Therefore I do it in the recommended way but only for IBM

RSU Plans

2008-04-07 Thread Fox Blue
Dear all, I think it would be nice when IBM would update the page regarding availability of the next RSUs. (http://www.vm.ibm.com/service/rsu/rsuplan .HTML) Would be interested when for DIRMAINT or RACF an RSU level will be made available. BR Fox

Re: Adding temp space

2008-04-02 Thread Fox Blue
Dear all, You were right, of course. I overlooked this totally as my emulation wind ow was overlayed by another window. Because of the lot of comments in the MA INT directory it is bigger than all my other enties. Thanks so much for this help. BR Florian

Questions on DIRMAINT

2008-03-17 Thread Fox Blue
Hello all, I have just set up the DIRMAINT on my system and have following question regarding the definition of full pack minidisk. Up to now (without DIRMAINT) I defined dummy users to own the special are as like cylinder 0 of Volumes, SPACE and SPOOL areas. In the USER DIRECT file I coded

Re: VM source code

2008-03-05 Thread Fox Blue
I succeed to install the source code feature some weeks ago. My question would be, if there is some guidence to start working with it? For instance: how is do I know which source file does what, where to star t. Guessing some example: Write code supporting access of a LINUX filesystem

X Disk in SFS

2008-02-22 Thread Fox Blue
Dear all, I am currently busy to understand the capabilities of SFS. Started in the late 80ies as system programmer we had VM/SP but there was no SFS. Since one year I am working on a z/VM installation and have to catch up with all th e new facilities in VM. I am wondering what would be best

X Disk in SFS

2008-02-22 Thread Fox Blue
Dear all, Thank you very much indeed for your great contributions and hints on this issue. I appreciate them very much. And I must say that I am very impress ed about this mailing list. It will help me really to improve my knowledge o n z/VM. Thanks a lot. Fox

Re: CMS Programming: How to sort files entries retrieved by DMSGETDF

2008-01-28 Thread Fox Blue
The directory entries MAY be sorted. The documentation for DMSGETDF is silent on the subject of file ordering, so a usage note that say they ar e NOT sorted would be as inappropriate as one that says they ARE sorted. CMS sorts the directory only on ACCESS and RELEASE. New files added always

Re: CMS Programming: How to sort files entries retrieved by DMSGETDF

2008-01-28 Thread Fox Blue
, but in practice, theory and practice are different. On 1/27/08 2:04 AM, Fox Blue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kris, Well it is a R/W minidisk. It is the 191 of the machine. Yesterday, I was also playing around with the LISTFILE command. It see ms that it retrieves the file names in the same

Re: CMS Programming: How to sort files entries retrieved by DMSGETDF

2008-01-27 Thread Fox Blue
Kris, Well it is a R/W minidisk. It is the 191 of the machine. Yesterday, I was also playing around with the LISTFILE command. It seems that it retrieves the file names in the same unordered way. Regarding to your proposal, I wanted to program a CMS module that should not become dependent

Re: CMS Programming: How to sort files entries retrieved by DMSGETDF

2008-01-27 Thread Fox Blue
On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 07:42:57 -0600, Mike Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Mike, This is true. I encountered the following: Since I am still programming, I am using cms command run to start the program. This produces a LOAD MAP f ile and therefore it changes the file directory of the 191

Re: CMS Programming: How to sort files entries retrieved by DMSGETDF

2008-01-27 Thread Fox Blue
Kris, This is very kind of you. Well sure it can wait a week. Thanks, BR Fox