a report to the correct group. The
notifications built in to the ILMT server don't really provide a way to
do that (not that I could find anyway).
Anyway...just some tidbits on how we roll. :-)
Leland
And no, I never did figure out exactly how to configure the capacity
values so if you do
. We've
always used LDL disks for everything else. I just never saw the benefit.
Leland
A few years ago, I modified dasdfmt to allow specification of the
start and end track for formatting. I was using LDL formatted volumes
do I didn't have to worry about the VTOC.
Usage: ./dasdfmt [-htvyLVFk]
[-l volser | --label=volser]
[-b blocksize |
Here's my old patch for it. This was against 1.5.1, but shouldn't be
too difficult to bring up to date. IOW, I longer use it...
Leland
On 6/27/11 5:17 PM, Tom Huegel wrote:
Leland,
Is your updated version generally available?
Thanks
Tom
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Leland Lucius lluc
not seem to be documented and I can't find
anything about 'em on IBMLink, so I guess we just have to wait a while
longer.
Leland
On 4/13/2011 9:20 PM, Leland Lucius wrote:
On 4/13/11 8:46 PM, Dave Jones wrote:
Hi, Leland.
I don't know what plans VM development might have for supporting
%20Experiences%20Final%20Final.pdf
Thanks for the reference Gregg. I guess our performance dudes will just
have to be patient. :-)
Leland
? If available, what APAR(s) provide this
support?
Thanks much,
Leland
On 4/13/11 8:46 PM, Dave Jones wrote:
Hi, Leland.
I don't know what plans VM development might have for supporting the
hardware CPU Measurement Facility, like z/OS does with HIS, but I get
the impression that the CPU MF is meant to be used mostly by IBM h/w
support to detect and diagnose
I should know this, but my aging mushy stuff just isn't working for me today.
If we define multiple z/VM LPARs with dedicated IFLs, can those IFLs
be moved from one LPAR to another? Is it as simple as vary off...
and vary on...?
Thanks,
Leland
many of the SMAPI functions, but I'm glad I didn't just
stop with the functions I needed for the upgrade. I'm already using a
couple that I hadn't originally planned for smcli.
Leland
(Anyone have a sling? My arm is getting sore from patting myself on the
back. ;-D)
directly and leave out the
middleman.
Leland
On 2/12/11 3:29 PM, Michael MacIsaac wrote:
Leland,
Some of you folks might find this useful.
smcli looks very cool indeed - thanks!
Documentation is slim,
agreed :)) Do you have a sample /etc/smcli.conf and -T value that just
work? For example, I created a /etc/smapi.conf and tried
you'll have to use the builtin usage
information for each function and the System Management Application
Programming book from IBM.
Anyway, grab it here:
http://homerow.net/zvm/smcli
I hope someone finds if useful.
Leland
While checking the SETROPTS one of our auditors happened to notice that RACF
on z/VM no longer (or never has) supported the password MINCHANGE value.
Was it every there on z/VM? Why wouldn't it be supported on z/VM while it
is on z/OS?
Just curious.
Thanks,
Leland
Nevermind...he found his notes from the last audit and he had documented
the differences at that time.
Leland
On 11/12/10 5:06 PM, Leland Lucius wrote:
While checking the SETROPTS one of our auditors happened to notice that
RACF on z/VM no longer (or never has) supported the password
Does one exist?
Thanks,
Leland
Better yet, can the z/VM LDAP server be used to allow
user/group/password management between RACF on z/VM and TIM/TDI?
Thanks,
Leland
Ivan Warren wrote:
On 10/9/2010 8:50 PM, Leland Lucius wrote:
Better yet, can the z/VM LDAP server be used to allow
user/group/password management between RACF on z/VM and TIM/TDI?
Thanks,
Leland
TDI is pretty flexible..
It shouldn't be overly hard to do a DIRMAINT adapter..
Not knowing
Leland Lucius wrote:
Ivan Warren wrote:
On 10/9/2010 8:50 PM, Leland Lucius wrote:
Better yet, can the z/VM LDAP server be used to allow
user/group/password management between RACF on z/VM and TIM/TDI?
Thanks,
Leland
TDI is pretty flexible..
It shouldn't be overly hard to do a DIRMAINT
if I can get it working before going down some other crazy path.
Leland
/VM
softcopy production.
Personally, I much prefer searching and reading in BookManager format on
green screen. It's just easier on the old eyeball. But, I knew ghost
files would finally die one day.
Leland
-- --
SUMMARY 20 1 5% CKD
And I've done other updates since the message spewed forth without it
appearing again.
So, do I just ignore it???
Thanks,
Leland
throwing those directories in there wasn't the best use of DCSS space and,
if I continue to fiddle, will put more effort into identifying appropriate
candidates. (I'm thinking that /proc/*/maps would be a good source for
finding the candidates.)
Thanks,
Leland
or 20 guests under a
second level VM. That way I can more easily see memory footprints
without normal work getting in the way. I realize it'll run like a dog,
but that's fine since we know that mapping memory will always be faster
than copy operations (even from cache).
Thanks,
Leland
That's works just dandy.
Thanks much,
Leland
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Frank M. Ramaekers framaek...@ailife.comwrote:
Like this?
pipe literal k1 v1 k2 v2 k3 v3 k4 v4|split at blank| Join 1 / /|find
k3|spec w2 1|console
Frank M. Ramaekers Jr
I know, I'm probably being stupid here, but I just can't seem to figure it
out.
Given something like:
K1 V1 K2 V2 K3 V3 K4 V4
I want to be able pipe that V3 to a VAR stage. But it needs to be
relative to where K3 is so that:
K3 V3 K1 V1 K2 V2 K4 V4
would find V3 as well.
Thanks,
Leland
That's works just dandy.
Thanks much,
Leland
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Frank M. Ramaekers
framaek...@ailife.com mailto:framaek...@ailife.com wrote:
Like this?
pipe literal k1 v1 k2 v2 k3 v3 k4 v4|split at blank| Join 1 / /|find
k3|spec w2 1|console
Rob van der Heij wrote:
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Leland Lucius lluc...@homerow.net wrote:
Is there anyway to do it? I've tried using MTREXX, but the threads run
after each other. I've tried multiple stages, but they also run after each
other.
IIRC the trackread and trackwrite stages
Rob van der Heij wrote:
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Leland Lucius lluc...@homerow.net wrote:
Yepper, I'm to the point of just doing the single threaded, but, even if the
trackwrite used a DIAG, then I'd expect threading would get a chance between
DIAG calls. I've tried adding
Is there anyway to do it? I've tried using MTREXX, but the threads run
after each other. I've tried multiple stages, but they also run after
each other.
(Be gentle...a pipe is something I used to smoke with I was a teenager. ;-))
Thanks,
Leland
but
nothing there.
Is there a setting that we need to change to get these? How does does Linux
guests react to SIM messages?
Leland
We think we may have found the cause. It seems that one of our DASD
subsystems is producing the message, but the other is not. So our storage
lackey is checking with EMC as he seems to recall that there's a setting
that needs to be enabled.
Thanks much,
Leland
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 3:54 PM
in EREP, but that's not as
handy as the HCP403I message would be.
Thanks,
Leland
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Mike Walter mike.wal...@hewitt.com wrote:
1) What z/VM release and maintenance level?
2) Are you running PROP or some other PRO-like program (e.g CA's
VM:Operator, or IBM's z/VM
know...I can just test it myself, but it would be good to hear it
from the ppl that know for sure.
Thanks,
Leland
option is to display a properties dialog for each file prior to
adding it. This is the easiest and quickest to do since the dialog is
already present is and is already displayed if the input filenames
aren't in 8.8.2 format.
Leland
Mark Post wrote:
On 3/11/2010 at 12:59 PM, Leland Lucius lluc...@homerow.net wrote:
You can now create and/or update VMARC files on Linux, OS X, and
Windows. ASIS and LZW storage methods are currently supported and I'll
be adding S2 support after SHARE.
Download the update here:
http
Alan Altmark wrote:
On Wednesday, 02/17/2010 at 05:31 EST, Leland Lucius lluc...@homerow.net
wrote:
After varying off a processor, we received a disabled wait PSW of:
0bad0bad0bad0bad0bad0bad0bad0bad
Systems still active and we wouldn't have even known about it, but
someone
happened
you were able to get back into z/VM and Linux.
I'll yak at ya at the next user group meeting.
Leland
After varying off a processor, we received a disabled wait PSW of:
0bad0bad0bad0bad0bad0bad0bad0b
ad
Systems still active and we wouldn't have even known about it, but someone
happened to be digging around in the HMC and noticed.
Leland
:-D Same thing my mama used to tell me some 30 years ago. :-)
Leland
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 4:44 PM, David Boyes dbo...@sinenomine.net wrote:
“Don’t Do That”.
On 2/17/10 5:20 PM, Leland Lucius lluc...@homerow.net wrote:
After varying off a processor, we received a disabled wait PSW
After varying off a processor, we received a disabled wait PSW of:
0bad0bad0bad0bad0bad0bad0bad0bad
Systems still active and we wouldn't have even known about it, but someone
happened to be digging around in the HMC and noticed.
Leland
or documentation for recovery
procedures.
I didn't find any messages in Operator, nor did I get any LOGREC records.
It did call home, so maybe we'll find out something there...though I doubt
it.
Leland
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Ivan Warren i...@vmfacility.fr wrote:
Leland Lucius wrote:
After varying
'Ceptin that we're sharing all of the IFLs across several LPARs...
Leland
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Schuh, Richard rsc...@visa.com wrote:
If all LPARs using the same type of processor were running with dedicated
processors, I would not be surprised to see the one varied off to be put
Is there anyway to use GOMCMD from an EXEC that's running within an
Operations Manager server? All I get so far is a return code 36.
Basically, I need to issue OpMgr commands like DEFSCHD and DEFACTN from
the EXEC. Anyway to do it?
Thanks,
Leland
Tracy Dean wrote:
On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 07:43:45 -0600, Leland Lucius lluc...@homerow.net
wrote:
Is there anyway to use GOMCMD from an EXEC that's running within an
Operations Manager server? All I get so far is a return code 36.
Leland,
Today, Operations Manager does not allow GOMCMD to run
Y'all have convinced me, or should I say, have enabled me to proceed as
desired. ;-) No immediate guffaws at the idea is good enough for me.
Thanks much,
Leland
was thinking. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't
being more of an idiot than normal. :-)
Thanks much,
Leland
did not make a
difference until we IPL'd. We also reactivated the LPAR too just to be
safe. Don't really know if that was needed though.
Leland
examples of some simple examples of what
you can achieve with these new changes.
I've informed Lionel and forwarded him the manual changes, so I'd expect
there to be updated z/OS XMIT version soon. In the meantime, you could
extract the TXT2PDF EXEC from the tarball.
Leland
Here's what
it when the files are in reverse
order, so I'd like to sort them before feeding to CP3KVMXT.
Any idea on how I'd go about doing that?
Thanks,
Leland
been created. I can
fix the out-of-order issue for future collections, but I was hoping to
be able to feed CP3KVMXT a particularly nasty day we had recently.
Leland
a copy
of it and include it in the files processed by the program.
Just found that out. The MDATPEEK stage that CP3KVMXT uses requires
that control record. So, now I have something to work on the rest of
the day. :-)
Leland
memory leakage. But maybe there's a proper way of letting
REXX know that it wasn't used and should be discarded???
Thanks,
Leland
EPLIST isn't a easy enough.
EPLIST IS easy enough.
:-(
Leland
.
;-))
Leland
Fran Hensler wrote:
LeLand -
I have TXT2PDF running as a stage of a PIPE that reads input
from the RDR and sends it directly to RSCS or my FTP2HOME machine
where it gets FTP'd the the user's network home drive. I use the FORM
and DIST parameters to decide how to the files should be processed
Quoting Hughes, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
We did make a minor change to have the PDF open with bookmarks visable.
What was the change? If you'd like, I'l make it permanent as it sounds like a
useful addition.
You have done an excellent job Leland. Thanks.
Thanks much,
Leland
PDFQueueCntl
CALL PDFEndObj
Cool, already in there. You must have an older version as it was added
on June 30, of '02.
Leland
Alan Altmark wrote:
On Sunday, 09/28/2008 at 12:50 EDT, Leland Lucius [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
This would certainly make it easy and we wouldn't have to have any
non-standard scheduled touching of the ID. I'll have to ponder it a
little though since we do log onto a guest every so often to get
work just dandy for us.
Will give this a try if there's nobody mentions a RACF-way of doing it.
Thanks,
Leland
Alan Altmark wrote:
A possible compromise could be:
ALTUSER userid NOPHRASE NOPASSWORD
will completely remove the password and phrase.
- No one can logon directly to or use the id for authentication
- The user can still be XAUTOLOGed
- The user will never be revoked due to inactivity or too
Scott Rohling wrote:
Yes...
Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 27, 2008, at 5:48 PM, Thomas Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Could we still get onto that userid via LOGONBY?
Awesome, then that sounds like the way to go.
Thanks everyone!
Leland
USER MAINT AT TERMINAL
AC182D8F.
13ICH304D REPLY Y TO ACTIVATE USER OR N TO REVOKE USERID MAINT .
So, we have the notion of simply change our INACTIVE(45) to NOINACTIVE
(if we can get security to bite), but were wondering if there were other
options.
Thanks,
Leland
and then define static aliases in the user directory for the
guest...from the manual:
MDISK E100 3390 100 200 PAK002
MINIOPT PAVALIAS E101-E103
Will that work or are we stuck with having to define static aliases?
Thanks much,
Leland
So, it looks like we're stuck with static PAVs for now if we want to be
able to access a single volume via 3 addresses in the same guest?
Thanks much,
Leland
Steve Wilkins wrote:
Each control unit can be in either Hyperpav or static PAV mode; not both.
Therefore, you can define MDISK E100
?
Okay, okay...so we're a couple of paranoid sysprog wannabes...I knew I
shouldn't have smoked those alternative cigarettes when I was younger. :-)
Thanks much,
Leland
Thanks Rob and John. I'll set me up a 2nd level VM and give y'alls
ideas a try.
Leland
?
(Mind you, we are zLinux only.)
Leland
available.
So, we must be much smaller than everyone else, are too power hungry to
relinquish control, or we've just been very lucky. :-)
In any case, I still don't think they need access. And I'd wager they would
agree. :-)
Thanks again,
Leland
many a day on the bus stop in 20-30 below wind
chills. I'll have to agree about AZ though. :-)
Leland
...they let YOU into an Intelligence center? Who
would've thunk it...
Leland
:-D Just to make sure, that WAS a joke!!! :-D
the
password was revoked or something similar.
How do y'all handle MAINT with RACF. Is it really a major concern or am
I just being a fraidy cat?
Leland
This was all good stuff and to summarize...
We remove the password from MAINT using NOPASSWORD and we give us special
people LOGONBY. Don't know if we'll worry about the inactivity issue jus
t
yet, but we'll see.
Thanks a heap all,
Leland
Quoting Jim Bohnsack [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Leland--In addition to the following suggestions to use logonby is that
some time ago, auditors dinged us (them--it was before I arrived on the
scene) because the MAINT and other privileged userids had shared
passwords. Auditors don't like
the RDEF/PERMIT for other service/maintenance
userids.
--Mike
Ah, I got it now. I'll pass on your explanation to our RACF goddess. She'll
probably be wondering why I was asking y'all and not her anyway. :-)
Thanks again,
Leland
Quoting Rob van der Heij [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Leland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ah, I got it now. I'll pass on your explanation to our RACF goddess.
She'll
probably be wondering why I was asking y'all and not her anyway. :-)
Did you not get a we don't have
So, is it possible? We are a new installation, and have attempted to set
the DISKF in SYSSEC to DEFER. Unfortunately, no go.
What am I missing?
Leland
Thanks Alan and Tom. I'm going to attempt the mangled assembler method f
irst, just because
that sounds fun. Failing that, I'm a gonna zap the nucleus. Actually, t
hat sounds fun too. :-)
Thanks again,
Leland
On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 15:16:29 -0500, Thomas Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wr
ote:
The ZAP
Quoting Alan Ackerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Mon, 12 May 2008 01:07:04 -0500, Leland Lucius [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
It's not the best solution, but it does provide highlighting...just not
in
real time:
http://vm.marist.edu/~pipeline/index.html#QDI
And here's a mod I did
highlighting...just not in
real time:
http://vm.marist.edu/~pipeline/index.html#QDI
And here's a mod I did to it for REXX keywords:
http://homerow.net/zvm/qdi.htm
Leland
highlighting...just not in
real time:
http://vm.marist.edu/~pipeline/index.html#QDI
And here's a mod I did to it for REXX keywords:
http://homerow.net/zvm/qdi.htm
Leland
Thanks all. Found where to register and download in IBM ResourceLink if
anyone else is lookin'.
Leland
Is the source code no longer distributed? If I'm remembering correctly, most of
the source distributed with at least 4.3.0 or 4.4.0? Just got a moistened
whistle while at SHARE and wanted to do a bit of casual reading. :-)
Leland
this a configurable option via procfs and let us decide. :-)
Leland
On 12/3/07 12:15 PM, Jim Bohnsack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Leland Lucius wrote:
It sounds like a good idea and since Linux is open source, I suspect
that if you wrote it, Leland, we might use it.
The option would have to be on a per device basis since we'd still want
normal disk to use
volumes, but does VM have
to map all of that storage even if it doesn't get used?
So what do y'all think? Have I been drinking too much of Adam's cough
syrup?
Leland
without hitting the
problem, we did it twice in one day so we're fairly confident that we'll be
able to do it again. Especially since the second time was a more controlled
IPL (as in me starting guests 1 and 2 at a time).
Leland
Hi Marcy,
Thanks for the info. We go the test fix for 64297 (which they say includes
64269) last night and we hope to get a test window this weekend...if for
nothing else but to get a dump. But, if we can recreate it, we're gonna try
the fix after taking the dump.
Thanks again,
Leland
On 10
I am wondering if anyone has seen this when upgrading from VM 5.2 to VM 5.3. We
opened an ETR for our issue with IBM this morning. Yesterday we attempted to
upgrade to z/VM 5.3 0701 and ran into a problem that caused us to back out to
z/VM 5.2. After bringing up 10 service machines and roughly
::WWPN 5005076401E240ED Could Not be Closed
DEBUG::ERROR RC:5005076401E240ED THINCP()=-13
INFO::FCP SUB-CHANNEL 0999 RESET RC=0
INFO::END @ 30 Jul 2007 16:28:07
PROGRAM EXIT
Any ideas? Any way to find out what those error codes mean?
Thanks much,
Leland
Quoting Richard Troth [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Do you know the target WWPNs and LUNs that you want to use?
Yep, the 50060E8003AA070B below is the WWPN on the Hitachi. They've provided me
with the LUNs as well, but I'm too lazy to type 'em in. :-)
Leland
-- R;
- Original Message
0x5005076401e240ed, S_ID 0x00613b13,
adapter version 0x4, LIC version 0x607, FC link speed 2 Gb/s
zfcp: Switched fabric fibrechannel network detected at adapter 0.0.9000.
Then, when I try to add a port:
zfcp: port erp failed (adapter 0.0.9000, wwpn=0x50060e8003aa070b)
Thanks much,
Leland
Cool. That¹s what I sort of figured, but I really didn¹t have a clue. I
will talk with them tomorrow.
Thanks much,
Leland
On 7/30/07 5:39 PM, Eric R Farman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Leland,
So, the Discovery Tool cannot open the WWPN of the Hitachi (it makes sense
that it cannot
hipersockets?
What would the purpose be other than to satisfy some overdone security
requirements???
Any pointers to some industry recognized security certification (may) help.
Thanks much,
Leland
... :-(
Leland
So how would you folks set up a private network between 2 VMs (5.2)
runnnig, each running on a separate z/900?
We're gonna try out Oracle RAC and it requires a private network for it
s
Fusion reactor.
Thanks,
Leland
this evening, but you can
still get the file to read on the plane.
It works fine for me on Windows 2000, IE 5.5, and Acroreader 6.0. I do not have
reader set to open the pdf within IE...I prefer reader to upon standalone. I
suspect that's what's causing the issues for folks.
Leland
another burden to add to the heavy load.
Now that you mention it, I have that problem as home (XP, blah, blah) as well.
I'd forgotten about that. But, I tend to do the save and read method anyway.
Leland
fingers again.
Leland
???
Leland
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 15:21:02 -0500, Leland Lucius [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Interesting part is that if you shutdown Perfsvm and start it back up, i
t
says
that it requires sample data for the LPAR display. Could the info be in
the
sample records somewhere???
Like maybe here:
http
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