Richard,
Congratulations! Thanks for sharing so many of your experiences with all
of us, as well as keeping us honest with your (sometimes tough) questions
:-)
Now it's time to enjoy yourself after many years of hard work.
John Franciscovich
z/VM Development
library (*IMG file) on the second level system
or the type of printer you define.
John Franciscovich
z/VM Development
before, during,
or after I say it or think it ...
or it may not
:-)
John Franciscovich
of a virtual machine that is forcibly
disconnected.
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commands.
John Franciscovich
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to remove the files
from the volume and restore them to other spool volumes.
http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/descript.cgi?SPFPACK
John Franciscovich
z/VM Development
If you don't get the syntax right on the SPXTAPE LOAD you can always to it
again (being careful not to re-load files a second time, of course).
You can use the NODUP operand on SPXTAPE LOAD to prevent loading of the
same files more than once.
John Franciscovich
z/VM Development
:
- The device addresses to change
- The volsers to change
These make it easy to copy a system and its spool.
John Franciscovich (not a historian or philosopher, just a developer)
z/VM Development
for the explanation.
You're welcome.
John Franciscovich
z/VM Development
statement.
You didn't specify a slot number but the slot was implicit in the
order you specified the volumes, and it mattered :-)
John Franciscovich
z/VM Development
,
There is not an allocation type for DUMP, but there is a DUMP operand
on the CP_OWNED statement in the system configuration file.
This tells CP to reserve all of the SPOL space on that volume for dumps.
John Franciscovich
z/VM Development
We used the SET TIMEZONE command to set the desired timezone as during
the upgrade to 5.4 the TIMEZONE_BOUNDARY statements were not set to the
desired TZ. The boundary statements have been corrected but I am
wondering if there is some way to have the system config file re-read to
put the corrected
in your CP_Owned list are filled in
with Reserved slots, whether you specify them or not. Defining
Slot 255 as Reserved will cause all of the slots between your
last volume and 255 to be defined as Reserved.
John Franciscovich
z/VM Development
on the list, though not sure exactly when it might
appear...
John Franciscovich
z/VM Development
files (or all files) from a tape for
which no dump log is available, you should check to make sure that
duplicate files were not loaded. If this happens, check the files to
determine which should be kept and purge the unnecessary files.
John Franciscovich
z/VM Development
OPERATOR's PRT to your own RDR:
TRANSFER OPERATOR PRT to * RDR
John Franciscovich
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culprit if the problem is caused by an overflow of this area.
The maximum size of both the checkpoint and warmstart areas is
9 cylinders.
John Franciscovich
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be restored if you continue with a FORCE start.
John Franciscovich
z/VM Development
However, at least I can assume (I hope) that there is no
problem with V5 loading files dumped by V4 SPXTAPE.
Right? :-)
Right. No PTFs required, as someone else suggested. In the unlikely event
that you do encounter a problem with this, please contact the Support
Center.
John Franciscovich
z/VM
and warmstart
areas, then you should be able to shut down your old system and IPL the
new one with a warm start and have all of your spool files restored.
Of course, it's always a good idea to back them up before shutting down
just in case.
John Franciscovich
z/VM Development
-- - Reserved
Ready;
John Franciscovich
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to clarify, the name of the DCSS is not hard-coded; it is
configurable with the Server_DCSS parameter the SMAPI server
configuration file (DMSSICNF COPY).
John Franciscovich
z/VM Development
,
This is in fact documented in the 5.4.0 version of the Systems Management
Application Programming (SMAPI) manual. It is the Server_DCSS variable,
in section The Server Configuration File in Chapter 4 (page 21-22 in
the PDF).
(Not to say that the doc can't be improved :) ).
John Franciscovich
z
files which also reside in
spool space:
SPXTAPE DUMP vdev NSS ALL
etc., or
SPXTAPE DUMP vdev SDF ALL
to dump all types of system data files.
There are many other variations of these commands. See the
CP Command and Utilities Reference for more details.
John Franciscovich
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to you offline (it will come from [EMAIL PROTECTED] ).
I have a older presentation somewhere that digs deeper into the
internals, but I'll have to dig around for it.
John Franciscovich
z/VM Development
be freed without an IPL.
Thanks for any assistance!
Scott Rohling
DEFINE CPOWNED SLOT nnn RESERVED
John Franciscovich
z/VM Development
DATEFORMAT ISODATE/etc SYSTEM
to change the default date format system-wide without an IPL.As always,
if you do this, you also want to add the system config file statement
so the same date format is in effect the next time you IPL.
SET DATEFORMAT has been in the system since VM/ESA 2.2.0
John
.
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a record qualifier on each statement
that is unique to one system or the other.
John Franciscovich
z/VM Development
entering the command(s) be sufficient?=20
You shouldn't need SET RDEVICE CLEAR, but the device must be varied
offline before you issue SET RDEVICE:
---
VARY OFF
SET RDEVICE TYPE .
VARY ON
---
John Franciscovich
z/VM Development
this, but if
everything works as expected, you should not need to restore anything.
Whether you actually do a backup and how much of the spool you backup is
entirely up to you.
John Franciscovich
z/VM Development
in the
checkpoint area that hasn't been processed by the time the difference
in the CP_Owned list is detected.
In any event, I agree that a spool file backup is a good idea before
attempting this change.
John Franciscovich
z/VM Development
of the current SYSTEM CONFIG in a file called
SYSBACK CONFIG (for example).
2) Make your changes to file SYSTEM CONFIG and IPL.
3) If need be, you can revert to SYSBACK CONFIG by specifying
fn=SYSBACK in the IPL Parameters section of the SAPL screen when you
re-IPL.
John Franciscovich
z/VM Development
Chris Casey has not retired just was at 2 MVMUA meetings this year.
Chris has not retired.
John Franciscovich
z/VM Development
All true, and I agree. Marcy didn't ask about specific products, and
I did not mean to imply anything about exploiter products and/or
releases; my intent was to clarify things relative to the SMAPI server
virtual machines and z/VM releases.
John Franciscovich
z/VM Development
Well, I guess
.
The z/VM 5.3 announcement includes the following Statement of Direction:
IBM intends to withdraw support for the RPC/CSL interface from the
Systems Management API server in a future z/VM release.
John Franciscovich
z/VM Development
No. The -- in the response means that version of the command
(IBM Class A, PrivClasses A) is not active. The output shows
that only a user with PrivClass Z can issue SHUTDOWN.
John Franciscovich
z/VM Development
I want to change the SHUTDOWN command privclass to Z and Z only. Here
Congrats to all of the new Knights and Dames!
John Franciscovich
Sir John the Rectifier
Moments ago, on August 15th, 2007 at VM's 35th birthday party at SHARE in
San Diego, CA, the following new Companions were inducted into the Order of
the Knights of VM:
no effect on which PARM disk is used at IPL time.
John Franciscovich
z/VM Development
OK Thanks. I thought so.
Being the backup guy and still a bit unsure of myself I need to get to the
bottom of a potential problem.
A while back you may remember I had to add a spool volume on the fly.
I thought I had
there ARE
parameters FN= and/or FT= specifying that name.
John Franciscovich
z/VM Development
q cpload indicates parm disk 3 (cf3) which is in fact the disk holding the
system config I modified with the new spool volume.
-James
Spool is the only thing you could mess up.
And remember that system data files are saved in spool space, so
included with spool (and the potential to be messed up)
are NSS, DCSS, IMG, UCR, NLS, and TRF files.
John Franciscovich
z/VM Development
since the files you may think you are saving will be lost.
John Franciscovich
z/VM Development
some action.
John Franciscovich
z/VM Development
Point of order...
If you're going to dump and restore the spool, and IPL Clean, is there
really a need to drain the volume? What purpose in the sequence would it
serve?
True, but if you use the SPFPACK tool as Alan mentioned, you can dump
and restore only the files that have information on that
CLEAN means clean, it deletes all files from spool and other special
files
as NSS and other. You should use CLEAR, that only deletes spool files
but
Keep intact NSS files.
Use COLD to delete spool files but keep your NSS files. There is no
CLEAR IPL.
John Franciscovich
z/VM Development
is the printer type). The control file has
have the names of the FCBs and character sets that are defined in the
image library for your printer.
John Franciscovich
z/VM Development
it with
SPXTAPE should work fine.
John Franciscovich
z/VM Development
True, as long as you have not used SET IPLPARMS to change IPL parameters
that might cause a different version of a module with the same name to
be found on another PARM disk.
John Franciscovich
z/VM Development
That is correct sir.
Does the soft IPL done following an ABEND act the same when
True, as long as you have not used SET IPLPARMS to change IPL parameters
that might cause a different version of a module with the same name to
be found on another PARM disk.
John Franciscovich
z/VM Development
That is correct sir.
Does the soft IPL done following an ABEND act the same when
. If the userid is either of the CSE exclusion
lists, the default is AT *, otherwise it is AT ALL. The system
operator and CVM are automatically included in the CSE exclusion
lists.
John Franciscovich
z/VM Development
CSECOM system1
Once the CSECOM tasks synchronize the systems, the CSE functions that
you said are not working yet will be working.
John Franciscovich
z/VM Development
commands to be issued as it does in hard abend dumps.
John Franciscovich
z/VM Development
Hard Abend Dumps.
John Franciscovich
z/VM Development
Ah, but the dump only includes CP storage and not that belonging to the
users. That was the reasoning behind the statement, again IIRC.=20
Regards,
Richard Schuh
-Original Message-
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL
Without an IPL
/shameless plug
John Franciscovich
z/VM Development
and solution are below. And yes, it WILL be
on an RSU.
John Franciscovich
z/VM Development
-
* USERS AFFECTED: Users of SPXTAPE
over to CPLOAD64.
There is also an IPL parameter, ARCH390, which you could use to force
CPLOAD to run CPLOAD32 regardless of the environment.
John Franciscovich
z/VM Development
between releases. SPXTAPE and restore of your files
isn't necessary, though I would always recommend backing up your data
as a precautionary measure.
John Franciscovich
z/VM Development
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