Re: DB2 running in a Linux enviornment

2011-04-21 Thread Gentry, Stephen
Rogério, what mainframe/hardware are you running this on? IFL? z/VM? Thanks, Steve From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Rogério Soares Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 11:38 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: DB2 running in a Linux

Re: DB2 running in a Linux enviornment

2011-04-21 Thread Gentry, Stephen
enviornment Actually we running with Z196 with Z/VM 6.1, on a lpar with 200GB of Storage and 20 IFLS On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Gentry, Stephen stephen.gen...@lafayettelife.com wrote: Rogério, what mainframe/hardware are you running this on? IFL? z/VM? Thanks, Steve From: The IBM z

Re: Error : DMSITS135S Maximum SVC depth 200 has been exceeded

2011-04-19 Thread Gentry, Stephen
Amar, we just had this happen on a totally different program. What was happening was the user had created an EXEC on there A disk that was identical to the name on another disk. When they run their EXEC, it basically kept calling itself causing recursion and exceeding available SVC's So, look

Re: Will it run ?

2011-04-11 Thread Gentry, Stephen
at 08:26 EDT, Gentry, Stephen stephen.gen...@lafayettelife.com wrote: One reason may be that 6.1 is sun downed before 5.4. All be it by a few months, so my point may be mute. That wouldn't make any sense. Long before 6.1 goes EOS, there will be a new release. Alan Altmark z/VM and Linux

Re: VM CONSOLE on the 9672

2011-04-07 Thread Gentry, Stephen
Are you talking about a 9672 which is at least 2 if not at least 3 generations old? What would be the most current version of VM that box could run? From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Kris Buelens Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 7:08 AM To:

Re: Will it run ?

2011-04-07 Thread Gentry, Stephen
One reason may be that 6.1 is sun downed before 5.4. All be it by a few months, so my point may be mute. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 6:16 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU

Re: Temp SFS environment

2011-03-17 Thread Gentry, Stephen
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 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of David Boyes

Re: SFS question

2011-03-14 Thread Gentry, Stephen
Ivica and others. Thank you for the help. Increasing the size of the control disk fixed the problem. Steve From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Ivica Brodaric Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 8:12 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: SFS

Re: Making sure vmsys: is up...

2011-03-14 Thread Gentry, Stephen
Bob, we use the following PIPE technique: Pipe Literal +30 | Delay | Pipestop The 30 is seconds. VMSERVS comes up pretty quick, but I can still understand a need to momentarily pause. Steve From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of RPN01 Sent:

Re: SFS question

2011-03-11 Thread Gentry, Stephen
So far, thanks to all who have replied. I'm going over various numbers and need some clarification. In the CMS Pool Planning guide, Estimate Max Pool Size, the formula is: maximum enrolled users = 300 * (# system defined users / # system active users) If I understand the definitions correctly

SFS question

2011-03-10 Thread Gentry, Stephen
I'm getting the following error on a DMSCLOSE: 51010 - No space for data left in catalog space. I am writing a group of files, 733 of them, to an SFS pool Does the error message mean that I don't have enough room in storage group 1? TIA Steve

Re: SFS question

2011-03-10 Thread Gentry, Stephen
Thta's what I'd conclude too. Try Q FILEPOOL STORGRP (or use SFSULIST, it shows the summary too) 2011/3/10 Gentry, Stephen stephen.gen...@lafayettelife.com I'm getting the following error on a DMSCLOSE: 51010 - No space for data left in catalog space. I am writing a group of files, 733 of them

Re: VM/CMS Training Material

2011-03-01 Thread Gentry, Stephen
Does anyone know where SLFTEACH can be down loaded? I've looked at the VM Package download page and did some googleing but find a place to down load. Thanks, Steve -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Sherry Everhart Sent:

Re: VM/CMS Training Material

2011-03-01 Thread Gentry, Stephen
:Gentry, Stephen stephen.gen...@lafayettelife.com To:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Date:03/01/2011 09:05 AM Subject:Re: VM/CMS Training Material Sent by:The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Does anyone know where

Re: VM/CMS Training Material

2011-03-01 Thread Gentry, Stephen
is mentioned here: http://web.utk.edu/~mnewman/ibmguide05.html which is for the University of Tennessee Computing Center. The site appears to be outdated, but it's really nice! Les Gentry, Stephen wrote: The google search did bring up hits at education institutions (i.e. colleges, universities), One

Re: VM/CMS Training Material

2011-03-01 Thread Gentry, Stephen
No, it is not something you are allowed to share. Licensed Material -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Sherry Everhart Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 10:39 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: VM/CMS Training

SFS question

2011-01-04 Thread Gentry, Stephen
How can I tell what users and/or what files are in a storage group? I'd prefer to know users but can trace it back if I know what files. Thanks, Steve

Re: SFS question

2011-01-04 Thread Gentry, Stephen
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 9:20 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: SFS question Steve, grab Kris Buelen's SFSULIST tool from the VM download page; it does exactly what you are looking for. Have a good one. On 01/04/2011 08:13 AM, Gentry, Stephen wrote: How can I tell what users

Re: Movable Feasts

2010-12-29 Thread Gentry, Stephen
So it would appear. At least it works for me. I didn't know about the % (w/o quotes). I learned something today. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Les Koehler Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 11:01 AM To:

ooREXX, was : Mandatory ESMs?

2010-12-20 Thread Gentry, Stephen
Chip, does ooREXX support PIPES? -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Chip Davis Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 11:10 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Mandatory ESMs? At the risk of ignoring his assertion about

Re: DEV vs. DASD

2010-12-01 Thread Gentry, Stephen
My guess is that since you specified VOLID for 2102, VM assumes DASD. With the others, you haven't qualified, so to speak, so to VM a device is just a device. You can dedicate any device address to a user (my caveat, ok, maybe not any, but I'm not aware of any that you can't. Although I did

Re: DDR multivolume tape as output

2010-11-30 Thread Gentry, Stephen
Coming in a little late on this conversation. A couple of questions. What are the virtual tapes defined as in the VTS? 3480's (I hope not), 3590's? ( J cartridge to be specific). Taking your comments literally, you did not use the COMPRESS option on the DDR statement. Using the compress

Re: DDR multivolume tape as output

2010-11-30 Thread Gentry, Stephen
that defeat the compression on the 3590s? Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Gentry, Stephen Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 7:59 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: DDR

EXECLOAD, etc

2010-11-01 Thread Gentry, Stephen
I've EXECLOAD'd some files into storage that are not of the file type EXEC or XEDIT. EXECLOAD didn't fuss about the file types. When I issue and EXECMAP command, the files loaded are listed but there usage count is 0 (zero). I've used the loaded files extensively, so I know their being

Re: z86VM on Youtube

2010-10-08 Thread Gentry, Stephen
It's shows z/VM ver 5.3, so it's fairly recent. Time stamp on the video shows 4/13/2009. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Dave Jones Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 9:13 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: z86VM

Re: Question about DFSMS/VM - RMS

2010-10-07 Thread Gentry, Stephen
I have observed that when a tape is loaded into the I/O station, upon trying to close the door, it will not close easily. Of course this may not stop some determined operator/whomever from closing the I/O station door. I have heard stories from CE's that, with MUCH effort, the door can be

Re: Checking For Maintenance

2010-09-22 Thread Gentry, Stephen
VMFINFO 8-) -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Dave Jones Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 4:06 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Checking For Maintenance George, try using the VMINFO tool...it's a menu

Re: TCP2PROD Failure

2010-09-21 Thread Gentry, Stephen
The LDAP server needs BFS to store information. BFS support is part of SFS. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Marty_Penhorwood?= Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 3:09 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU

Re: DEDICATED DASD - How to backup?

2010-09-20 Thread Gentry, Stephen
Can the guest be shutdown to do a backup? If so, try defining a full pack minidisk on the dedicated drive and then use vm:backup to backup the minidisk. Does the guest OS have a backup utility? (You didn't mention what the OS of the guest is). From: The IBM z/VM Operating System

Re: BookManager format softcopy

2010-09-18 Thread Gentry, Stephen
I doubt it. To labor intensive. Maybe if they get an intern(s) from some college, they might do it. From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Rick Barlow Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010 11:07 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: BookManager

Re: z196 = z10?

2010-08-24 Thread Gentry, Stephen
ergo names are just labels we assign to objects. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 8:50 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: z196 = z10? On Tuesday, 08/24/2010 at 08:20

Re: 3270 Emulator Cards

2010-08-24 Thread Gentry, Stephen
Pricey too. They must think they have something special. From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 11:54 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: 3270 Emulator Cards An actual IRMA card at Amazon:

Re: Trying to Learn z/Linux ISHELL Scripting

2010-08-18 Thread Gentry, Stephen
There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. Steve

Re: EREP Reporting

2010-08-04 Thread Gentry, Stephen
This is what we do as well, plus we use VM:Schedule to run it automagically. Steve From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Martin Magat Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 7:18 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: EREP Reporting Hi You may

Re: how is the machine capacity resetted to normal state after activation of cbu record

2010-06-15 Thread Gentry, Stephen
The cbu is turned on via the HMC (I think). When you're done, you turn it off and the machine goes back to normal state. We've done this a few times and production VM stays up, doesn't hick-up or anything. Same thing for when we turn it off. That's how it works for us. YMMV Steve

Re: DFSMS install

2010-05-27 Thread Gentry, Stephen
What are you going to use DFSMS for? ATL management? I ran into this issue but it doesn't affect us. We only use DFSMS for ATL management. Seemed that if you used all the bells and whistles of DFSMS then you needed 3380s. In addition, I think IBM recommends the use of SFS for all the file

Re: Shutting Down Linux Guest

2010-05-20 Thread Gentry, Stephen
You could write a REXX EXEC to issue a signal shutdown for each of the respective Linux guests. That way you would type the name of the EXEC (one command) and let the EXEC do the rest. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of

SAVEFD

2010-05-06 Thread Gentry, Stephen
With the speed of z9's and z10's and the speed of DASD subsystems, is there much of a need to use SAVEFD anymore? I guess if a minidisk had extremely high utilization then it might. Thoughts? Thanks, Steve

NFS mount point display

2010-04-29 Thread Gentry, Stephen
We recently had a network audit reveal the names of the mount points on our VM system (z/VM 5.4). The command they use is showmount -e ip.address It showed all the mount points I have defined to NFS on VM. Is there a way to prevent these mount points from being displayed when showmount is

Re: NFS mount point display

2010-04-29 Thread Gentry, Stephen
, Gentry, Stephen stephen.gen...@lafayettelife.com wrote: We recently had a network audit reveal the names of the mount points on our VM system (z/VM 5.4). The command they use is showmount ?e ip.address It showed all the mount points I have defined to NFS on VM. Is there a way

shopzseries

2010-04-12 Thread Gentry, Stephen
I'm sorry to post this to the list but I am getting no satisfaction from the normal support phone numbers when I contact shopzseries with log on problem. I keep getting past off to another person. The last person I was in contact with told me to call the support number I started with. So, if

Re: shopzseries

2010-04-12 Thread Gentry, Stephen
What should I look for? ServiceLink? If so, it is not displayed on the web page. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Charles Grady Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 8:49 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: shopzseries

Re: shopzseries

2010-04-12 Thread Gentry, Stephen
-7588 President - MVMUA http://www2.marist.edu/~mvmua/ VM Project Officer - SHARE http://www.linkedin.com/in/BillMunson Gentry, Stephen stephen.gen...@lafayettelife.com Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 04/12/2010 09:47 AM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating

Re: shopzseries

2010-04-12 Thread Gentry, Stephen
= Peter -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Gentry, Stephen Sent: April 12, 2010 09:57 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: shopzseries When I go to that screen and log in, I get a screen whose title is: Purchase/upgrade

Re: shopzseries

2010-04-12 Thread Gentry, Stephen
: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 9:11 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: shopzseries On Monday, 04/12/2010 at 08:25 EDT, Gentry, Stephen stephen.gen...@lafayettelife.com wrote: I?m sorry to post

Re: shopzseries

2010-04-12 Thread Gentry, Stephen
- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Gentry, Stephen Sent: April 12, 2010 10:17 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: shopzseries When I go to that screen and log in, I get a screen whose title is: Purchase/upgrade tools. There is nothing

Re: shopzseries

2010-04-12 Thread Gentry, Stephen
...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Gentry, Stephen Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 9:17 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: shopzseries When I go to that screen and log in, I get a screen whose title is: Purchase/upgrade tools. There is nothing on the screen that mentions ServiceLink, nor in the drop down

Re: shopzseries

2010-04-12 Thread Gentry, Stephen
afore mentioned web pages. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 9:11 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: shopzseries On Monday, 04/12/2010 at 08:25 EDT, Gentry, Stephen

Re: VMLINK behavior

2010-03-23 Thread Gentry, Stephen
I was able to replicate this. Don't use the +1 option, just use * (asterisk) With the +1 option the virtual address that vmlink assigns starts at 1 Each subsequent issue of vmlink increments the virtual address vmlink assigns. Guess what happens when you have 9 assigned and you add 1 to that? The

Re: VMUTIL PARM Question

2010-03-16 Thread Gentry, Stephen
Green screens are environmentally friendly, right? -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Bill Munson Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 10:23 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: VMUTIL PARM Question I keep telling you I am

z/VM SSL server

2010-03-06 Thread Gentry, Stephen
Has anyone set up the SSL server in z/VM 5.4? There are a couple of BFS that need to be set up and I was wanting to know an approximate size, (number of blocks) to define. They would be: SSLSERV - SSL server work file GSKSSLDB - SSL key database I would think either one would need to be very

Boulder Pub site

2010-03-03 Thread Gentry, Stephen
Is anyone having problems with the Boulder publication website? I get an IBM webpage that indicates it is not available. Steve

Re: Boulder Pub site

2010-03-03 Thread Gentry, Stephen
: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 2:00 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Boulder Pub site On 03/03/2010 12:55 PM, Gentry, Stephen wrote: Is anyone having problems with the Boulder publication website? I get an IBM webpage that indicates it is not available. Steve I had a RACF book open

Re: Boulder Pub site

2010-03-03 Thread Gentry, Stephen
Hewitt Associates The opinions expressed herein are mine alone, not my employer's. Gentry, Stephen stephen.gen...@lafayettelife.com Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 03/03/2010 12:55 PM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU

Re: Boulder Pub site

2010-03-03 Thread Gentry, Stephen
, not my employer's. Gentry, Stephen stephen.gen...@lafayettelife.com Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 03/03/2010 01:05 PM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Re: Boulder Pub site

Re: PIPE FOR TAKE 3 SPOOL IDS

2010-02-25 Thread Gentry, Stephen
I think you want to use a stem instead of a var -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Victor_Hugo_Ochoa?= Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 4:20 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: PIPE FOR TAKE 3 SPOOL IDS

Re: DB2 Server for VM with VMDSS enabled

2010-02-10 Thread Gentry, Stephen
Roland, or anyone for that matter. I would like to order all PTF's, FIXES, etc for DB 7.5 running on zVM 5.4. As many of you have experienced, I have chased my tail on RESOURCELINK and SHOPZSERIES to no avail. TIA Steve From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu]

IBMLIB TXTLIB

2010-01-20 Thread Gentry, Stephen
I'm trying to locate this TXTLIB on my z/VM 5.4 system but can't find it. What z/VM products would this library have been shipped with? Further, we use the C language infrequently and when I try to do a CMOD, it fusses because it can't find IBMLIB TXTLIB Thanks, Steve

Re: The return of the mainframe....

2010-01-16 Thread Gentry, Stephen
No T-Shirt but I still have the mouse pad. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Nick Laflamme Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2010 8:57 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: The return of the mainframe On Jan 15, 2010,

Re: advise on a simple REXX script to automate FTP from zVM to Linux server

2010-01-15 Thread Gentry, Stephen
Thanks for posting Bruce. I was having a heck of a time converting some of the special characters. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Bruce Hayden Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 8:42 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU

Re: postscript to pdf

2009-12-18 Thread Gentry, Stephen
. It is not a pure CMS application however. Aria From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Gentry, Stephen Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 1:27 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: postscript to pdf Does anyone know of a program/utility/whatever

postscript to pdf

2009-12-17 Thread Gentry, Stephen
Does anyone know of a program/utility/whatever that will run on VM that will convert a postscript file to a pdf file? I know there is an html to pdf; that is not what I want. Ideally, it would be written in Rexx and/or assembler. I also have Cobol available and C+ on the mainframe. I've

VM 5.4 and OBEYFILE processing

2009-12-12 Thread Gentry, Stephen
I created a file that contains the PORT section of the TCPIP PROFILE. I added a couple of new ports and ran it through OBEYFILE processing. Responses back indicated that everything worked ok. However, my application, a web server, doesn't see the new ports and thus won't start. I've done this

OBEYFILE and NETSTAT, never mind. Do'h!

2009-12-12 Thread Gentry, Stephen
It helps if you have your CONFIG file defined AND named correctly. (Thought sure I did that too). Steve

Re: CPACF and z/VM

2009-12-09 Thread Gentry, Stephen
, thanks. Steve -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 5:06 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: CPACF and z/VM On Monday, 12/07/2009 at 02:19 EST, Gentry, Stephen

CPACF and z/VM

2009-12-07 Thread Gentry, Stephen
I'm trying to determine if a backup utility is using CPACF. The utility says it is, but CPU utilization implies, to me, that it isn't. The results I get when I issue a QUERY CRYPTO command: q crypto Crypto Adjunct Processor Instructions are

Re: CPACF and z/VM

2009-12-07 Thread Gentry, Stephen
: CPACF and z/VM On Monday, 12/07/2009 at 01:17 EST, Gentry, Stephen stephen.gen...@lafayettelife.com wrote: I?m trying to determine if a backup utility is using CPACF. The utility says it is, but CPU utilization implies, to me, that it isn?t. The results I get when I issue a QUERY CRYPTO

Re: LDAP server

2009-11-11 Thread Gentry, Stephen
...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 5:33 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: LDAP server On Tuesday, 11/10/2009 at 04:16 EST, Gentry, Stephen stephen.gen...@lafayettelife.com wrote: I?m trying to set up the LDAP server in VM 5.4. I?m using

Re: LDAP server

2009-11-11 Thread Gentry, Stephen
. . . . Steve -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 12:58 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: LDAP server On Wednesday, 11/11/2009 at 09:22 EST, Gentry, Stephen stephen.gen

LDAP server

2009-11-10 Thread Gentry, Stephen
I'm trying to set up the LDAP server in VM 5.4. I'm using the redbook, Security on z/VM, chap. 3, z/VM LDAP server. I've pretty much taken all the defaults, as shown in the chapter, except I'm not using RACF, therefore, no ESM. When I issue the following: ldapmdfy -h 10.15.1.160 -D cn=llAdmin

SYSTEM CONFIG file and slots

2009-11-09 Thread Gentry, Stephen
I had an unexpected occurrence this past weekend. I needed to add to 2 volumes to the cp owned list in the SYSTEM CONFIG file. I try to keep the list in volume order. I inserted the two volumes and thus pushed everything else down on the list, thus changing the slot assignment. Of the volumes

Re: SYSTEM CONFIG file and slots

2009-11-09 Thread Gentry, Stephen
, November 09, 2009 12:00 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: SYSTEM CONFIG file and slots On 11/9/2009 at 9:48 AM, Gentry, Stephen stephen.gen...@lafayettelife.com wrote: -snip- My question is: does VM keep track of slot assignments? I wouldn't think so, but . . . Absolutely. It's been

Re: SYSTEM CONFIG file and slots

2009-11-09 Thread Gentry, Stephen
The question begs to be asked, Why is it done this way? (cue historians and philosophers). It seems a little restrictive and not in the spirit of VM, that being flexibility. Thanks, Steve From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Bob Bates Sent:

Re: SYSTEM CONFIG file and slots

2009-11-09 Thread Gentry, Stephen
A spool file can span spool volumes, and we need a way to identify the volume where each piece of the file is located. That explains why VM fussed about some specific spool entries and not others. Those specific entries must span volumes. Question: if I would have entered a GO instead of STOP,

Re: DIAG 0

2009-10-15 Thread Gentry, Stephen
Of Gentry, Stephen Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 1:42 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: DIAG 0 Greetings. Could someone provide me with the layout of the 40 bytes returned when a DIAG 0 is issued? Or, IOW, what is returned and how is it formatted

Re: Access Linux Files From CMS

2009-10-15 Thread Gentry, Stephen
I'd like to mention a caveat. It's been my experience that NFS and BFS aren't the fast thing running. It's ok for small files but for big files, like 2 or 3 gig and above, it is painfully slow. We looked at off loading some file backup processing from our open systems to VM and copying the files

DIAG 0

2009-10-14 Thread Gentry, Stephen
Greetings. Could someone provide me with the layout of the 40 bytes returned when a DIAG 0 is issued? Or, IOW, what is returned and how is it formatted? I've google'd and look through some manuals but haven't come up with anything. Thanks, Steve

vmlink and assembler

2009-10-07 Thread Gentry, Stephen
I'm needing to issue a vmlink command from within an assembler program. What I would like returned in some parameter list or rc(return code) is the file mode. If it's done with an rc , the rc could be 1 thru 26 corresponding to A thru Z. Has anyone done anything like this and if so would you be

Re: TDISK and SYSTEM CONFIG question.

2009-09-18 Thread Gentry, Stephen
of T-DISK to a permanent location, from which you could use other utilities to recover the data, track by track, without relying on CMS. Gentry, Stephen wrote: I guess I should have read Richard's response closer. So, I'll echo Dennis's question as well. What security problem? We do

Re: TDISK and SYSTEM CONFIG question.

2009-09-18 Thread Gentry, Stephen
: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Rob van der Heij Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 8:49 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: TDISK and SYSTEM CONFIG question. On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Gentry, Stephen stephen.gen...@lafayettelife.com wrote

Re: TDISK and SYSTEM CONFIG question.

2009-09-17 Thread Gentry, Stephen
Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 6:51 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: TDISK and SYSTEM CONFIG question. On Wednesday, 09/16/2009 at 07:14 EDT, Gentry, Stephen stephen.gen...@lafayettelife.com wrote

Re: TDISK and SYSTEM CONFIG question.

2009-09-17 Thread Gentry, Stephen
happy to copy the contents of T-DISK to a permanent location, from which you could use other utilities to recover the data, track by track, without relying on CMS. Gentry, Stephen wrote: I guess I should have read Richard's response closer. So, I'll echo Dennis's question as well. What

TDISK and SYSTEM CONFIG question.

2009-09-16 Thread Gentry, Stephen
There is an option in the SYSTEM CONFIG file to clear the T-DISK. It is in the FEATURES list and CLEAR_TDISK can be either ENABLED or DISABLED. The manual states that it clears only cylinder 0 (zero) or the first eight blocks on the temporary minidisk when it detaches the minidisk. Do they mean

Re: VM lockup due to storage typo

2009-09-15 Thread Gentry, Stephen
What Lee doesn't mention is how long he waited before doing the IPL. Had he waited to see what happens maybe VM would have finally come around, so to speak. We all have different thresholds of pain. I think I would have done what Lee did, long day, not really wanting to wait around to see if VM

Re: How much memory?

2009-09-14 Thread Gentry, Stephen
2gb would be a good starting point. When we did a POC, we had a little over 7gb available and we could run 3 Linux guests, running DB2, comfortably. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Vince Getgood Sent: Monday, September

Re: DEFINE MDISK

2009-07-30 Thread Gentry, Stephen
be the primary system operator or the user's OPTION directory statement must include the DEVMAINT option. From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Gentry, Stephen Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 4:51 PM To: IBMVM

DEFINE MDISK

2009-07-29 Thread Gentry, Stephen
Is anyone having problems with the DEFINE MDISK command? I get the following: define mdisk as 1c14 1 5 zz1c14 HCPDEF003E Invalid option - MDISK I am a class A user. We're running VM 5.4 0902 Thanks, Steve

Re: apar searching

2009-07-22 Thread Gentry, Stephen
, Gentry, Stephen stephen.gen...@lafayettelife.com wrote: Does anyone know if open apars will show up in a search on Resource Link? IIRC, they don't unless it is yours. Trying to get info on PK91353. DB2 7.5 related. Thanks, Steve

apar searching

2009-07-15 Thread Gentry, Stephen
Does anyone know if open apars will show up in a search on Resource Link? IIRC, they don't unless it is yours. Trying to get info on PK91353. DB2 7.5 related. Thanks, Steve

Re: NETSTAT and PIPES

2009-07-14 Thread Gentry, Stephen
A' 'browse sve TEXT A' This works for me. Paul Feller AIT Mainframe Technical Support From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Gentry, Stephen Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2009 8:48 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: NETSTAT

Re: NETSTAT and PIPES

2009-07-14 Thread Gentry, Stephen
-- Running this: * * * Top of File * * * /* */ 'vmfclear' address command 'PIPE

Re: NETSTAT and PIPES

2009-07-14 Thread Gentry, Stephen
, July 14, 2009 9:21 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: NETSTAT and PIPES On Tuesday, 07/14/2009 at 08:53 EDT, Gentry, Stephen stephen.gen...@lafayettelife.com wrote: Yes, that is what I?m trying to do and it works. That is to say the pipe doesn?t abend or fail. What happens is I get

Re: NETSTAT and PIPES

2009-07-13 Thread Gentry, Stephen
command /* Be sure to execute what we need */ 'PIPE COMMAND EXEC TELNET 2009/7/13 Gentry, Stephen stephen.gen...@lafayettelife.com (I tried to post this to the cms pipes list but it was rejected) I have a simple EXEC that pipes the output of the NETSTAT command to a stem

SYSPROF.EXEC

2009-07-12 Thread Gentry, Stephen
Yes, I know it's preferred that users don't modify this EXEC. Everytime we go to a new release of VM, I have to modify this EXEC. We running vm 5.2 and modifications worked fine on that release. The same mods do not work on 5.4. IIRC I can access the S disk as another fmode, for example E. I

Re: SYSPROF.EXEC

2009-07-12 Thread Gentry, Stephen
so you don't lose your mod during a maintenance upgrade. Good luck. From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Gentry, Stephen Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2009 12:50 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: SYSPROF.EXEC Yes, I know it's preferred that users

NETSTAT and PIPES

2009-07-12 Thread Gentry, Stephen
(I tried to post this to the cms pipes list but it was rejected) I have a simple EXEC that pipes the output of the NETSTAT command to a stem. If I issue NETSTAT in a normal CMS session, I get the results back that I expect. When run it in an EXEC containing a PIPE, I get errors from the

NSS question

2009-07-10 Thread Gentry, Stephen
Is it possible to have duplicate, active entries in the NSS? (sort of a trick question; it appears that we do.) See below: *NSS 0014 NSS A 0258 10/23 22:06:14 GUICSLIB DCSS MAINT *NSS 0059 NSS A 0258 10/23 22:06:14 GUICSLIB DCSS MAINT I am pretty sure I did this by

Re: NSS question

2009-07-10 Thread Gentry, Stephen
[mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Gentry, Stephen Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 1:45 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: NSS question Is it possible to have duplicate, active entries in the NSS? (sort of a trick question; it appears that we do

Re: DFSMS/VM Minidisk Placement

2009-07-08 Thread Gentry, Stephen
I place mine on one of the two mentioned disks in your posting. My reason is that we use DDR to backup the SYSRES packs (SYSRES packs, all disk drives needed for initial restore at our disaster recover site). I haven't looked at DFSMS in a while but some of the files MUST reside on the SFS

OT: IBM Systems Journal and JORD

2009-06-24 Thread Gentry, Stephen
I'm a little disappointed. IBM is now charging for the IBM Systems Journal and Journal of Research and Development. Although I wasn't an avid reader of these journals, I would check them from time to time for interesting topics, usually when new hardware came out, etc. I guess everybody has

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