Re: Oops and finding passwords on a system...

2009-05-12 Thread Marcy Cortes
? Is this considered a security hole (though one that proved very useful today...) -- Robert Nix -- Mayo Clinic (shortened signature) On 5/12/09 2:55 PM, Marcy Cortes marcy.d.cor...@wellsfargo.com wrote: Oops. Make that Q MDISK USER DIRMAINT 1DB LOC Marcy This message may contain

Re: DIRMAINT 'regions'

2009-05-12 Thread Marcy Cortes
David wrote: Also good ole datamove will do the proverbially choke if it is told to go and format, or clonedisk to a missing volume. No way... Still? That was when I worked with dirmaint in the late 80's. No one got a requirement through that it be kinder/gentler to the users since then??!!??

Re: OT: Undocumented from Hidro

2009-05-04 Thread Marcy Cortes
Well, you send the files to SYBMON but you have to SMSG HIDRO to get the answers. Maybe you smsg'd the wrong guy? Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy,

Re: OT: Undocumented from Hidro

2009-05-04 Thread Marcy Cortes
ah, ok. I get it. You could open a request and ask Fran or Kitty. I messed around with trying to automate some of it too and luckily didn't have to finish it :) Got z/OS to do those jobs and now XRC. Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not

Re: Shutdown REIPL

2009-05-01 Thread Marcy Cortes
: SHUTDOWN RIPL ucb I have seen this on some CNR tests because you are IPLing using a different volume where the checkpoint area is on a different area of the volume. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent

Shutdown REIPL

2009-05-01 Thread Marcy Cortes
Operations made me curious today. The said sometimes when we do our SHUTDOWN REIPL thing on the disaster test systems, they have to enter FORCE. Auto_Warm_IPL is on. Does it do that because of a new CPLOAD module? This is the only relevant message: 12:12:10 HCPWRM904E System recovery failure;

Re: Shutdown REIPL

2009-05-01 Thread Marcy Cortes
as in the System Configuration file for System Residence. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 2:47 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Shutdown REIPL Nope, it was me doing the shutdown reipl

Re: Shutdown REIPL

2009-05-01 Thread Marcy Cortes
I think John has the answer. How big are your checkpoint and warm start areas? 9 cyl. As big as it gets. Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy,

Re: RSCS Connections

2009-04-24 Thread Marcy Cortes
[mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 9:34 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: RSCS Connections Richard wrote: All of the RSCS links to MVS systems (we have many more that the MVS1-plex) are TCPNJE. (Les can probably attest to the amount

Re: RSCS Connections

2009-04-24 Thread Marcy Cortes
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: [IBMVM] RSCS Connections I set up z/OS 1.9 from the AD CD (June 2008) to talk from JES2 to my z/VM and (z and non-z) Linux systems using TCPNJE. There were no additional PTFs I needed to apply to make it work. On 4/24/09 12:53 PM, Marcy Cortes marcy.d.cor

Re: Question on SERVICE EXEC and PUT2PROD

2009-04-21 Thread Marcy Cortes
Neither service or put2prod are disruptive to the guests. It's the shutdown that will be :) Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any

Re: 5.4 Install curiosity

2009-04-01 Thread Marcy Cortes
0901 was released last week (aka 5403) http://www.vm.ibm.com/service/rsu/stk540.html Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any

Re: VM 5.4 first/second level installation

2009-03-30 Thread Marcy Cortes
Setting up the VM FTP server is not all that difficult - see the TCP/IP Planning and Install guide. Unless of course your company forbids FTP servers... You'll get much better throughput there compared to using the emulation tranfers as well as the ability to do lists. Marcy This message

Re: VM 5.4 first/second level installation

2009-03-30 Thread Marcy Cortes
and who can use trial software without asking the lawyers first either?!! Joe may find it easier just to get his VM ftp server cleared through security, perhaps by agreeing to keep it up for only a short period of time and maybe with an exit in place to allow only him access. And I'm not

VMSERVS and RMSMASTR

2009-03-25 Thread Marcy Cortes
An observation... VMSERVS registers himself for signal shutdowns and shuts himself down nicely UNLESS You also use RMSMASTR to support your ATLs and VTSs. Then it never gets shutdown nicely and you wait the full shutdown timeout value... Sigh... Seems like RMSMASTR should be registering

Re: DDR i/o error on 3592s

2009-03-25 Thread Marcy Cortes
Well, it appears this problem is something in DDR is conflicting with our Channel Extension equipment. Making CMS files out of the disk images with CMSDDR and using tape dump on those is working at the moment. Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you

Re: VMSERVS and RMSMASTR

2009-03-25 Thread Marcy Cortes
I wanted to point out that if IBM is going to ship stuff that enables iself to shutdown nicely, it shouldn't also be shipping a component that prevents that out of the box. Personally, I don't care if vmservs shuts down nicely. It exists for rmsmastr's config files to live somewhere (yes, a

Re: DDR i/o error on 3592s

2009-03-24 Thread Marcy Cortes
It does look like the first mdisk is restored. There is a readable label on it. But now I'm now pretty sure it is the drives and not my jobs since they restored using the same tape of drive on a different system. Off to figure out what the difference is in the HW and if I can make the powers

DDR i/o error on 3592s

2009-03-23 Thread Marcy Cortes
Am I doing something wrong here? I'm dumping a bunch of mdisks to tape: 'rew 181' 'tape dvol1' queue 'sysprint cons' queue 'prompt off' queue 'in 100 dasd' queue 'out 181 tape

Re: New CMS based SSLSERV problem... DTCSSL300E

2009-03-19 Thread Marcy Cortes
I haven't personally done it, but others in our organization are using Attachmate Extreme Rel 9.0 Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take

Re: SHUTDOWN REIPL

2009-03-19 Thread Marcy Cortes
Do you have a local address for yourself via OSA-ICC,9074, or something else? We have been known to deal with the long distance and busy ops this way: shutdown reipl iplparms cons=0315where 315 is my local session and then once you get the sapl screen put prompt cons=0315 So you have

Re: DIRMAINT

2009-03-19 Thread Marcy Cortes
I'd open a PMR with IBM. You paid for support with that product. Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message

Re: DIRMAINT

2009-03-19 Thread Marcy Cortes
[mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 9:40 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: [IBMVM] DIRMAINT On Thursday, 03/19/2009 at 11:52 EDT, Marcy Cortes marcy.d.cor...@wellsfargo.com wrote: I'd open a PMR with IBM. You paid for support

Re: SHARE attendees - Any Update on the Live Guest Migration?

2009-03-11 Thread Marcy Cortes
Altmark Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 2:49 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: [IBMVM] SHARE attendees - Any Update on the Live Guest Migration? On Tuesday, 03/10/2009 at 11:50 EDT, Marcy Cortes marcy.d.cor...@wellsfargo.com wrote: We've had a lot of success with the ESPs. I'm know a few

Re: SHARE attendees - Any Update on the Live Guest Migration?

2009-03-10 Thread Marcy Cortes
There's Early Ship Programs. You could contact your IBM'ers and see if there's any starting in the near or distant future that you could participate in. That's usually a good way to get good stuff early :) Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you

Re: SHARE attendees - Any Update on the Live Guest Migration?

2009-03-10 Thread Marcy Cortes
like arrows in your back for being a pioneer and/or if you have a not very critical system you could put Early Ship code on, I'd stay away. Jim Marcy Cortes wrote: There's Early Ship Programs. You could contact your IBM'ers and see if there's any starting in the near or distant

Re: FW: Estimated speed/duplex values for virtual NICs

2009-03-09 Thread Marcy Cortes
FWIW, The channel bonding stuff (SuSE 10) seems to also care about speed/duplex values and can't get them from a dedicated OSA either. It complains and goes on its merry way: bonding: bond0: Warning: failed to get speed and duplex from eth0, assumed to be 100Mb/sec and Full Marcy

Re: Must be Friday: Mainframe USBs!

2009-03-09 Thread Marcy Cortes
I could have written the exact the same story - just need to strike the and TPF words and the word airline.. Ah if only we had this IBMVM list back then, we could have commiserated together. The most fun was losing the volume with the directory on a Friday afternoon. Nowadays, none of that

Re: Using LBYONLY

2009-03-03 Thread Marcy Cortes
We use vmsecure password someuser (byonly It puts a special comment in the directory. Appropriate LOGONBY rules are then created. Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must

Clear_Tdisk question

2009-02-24 Thread Marcy Cortes
We have XRC choking on a VM tdisk volume. Its mod 3 - tdisk 1-3338. When clearing Tdisk, does VM write 1 4096 byte record per track? XRC support is trying to figure out what's going on. Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the

Re: Clear_Tdisk question

2009-02-24 Thread Marcy Cortes
] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 1:04 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Clear_Tdisk question We have XRC choking on a VM tdisk volume. Its mod 3 - tdisk 1-3338. When clearing Tdisk, does VM write 1 4096 byte record per track? XRC support is trying

Re: Clear_Tdisk question

2009-02-24 Thread Marcy Cortes
Is it possible to not include T-disk space in the remote copy? Its been talked about, but there's like a 1100 volumes in production (and their 1100 mirrors). And only a handful of tdisk volumes... The coding is way easier without having to figure out where we stashed the tdisk vols. But if VM

Re: Clear_Tdisk question

2009-02-24 Thread Marcy Cortes
-Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 2:08 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Clear_Tdisk question Apparently does writes 1 4096 byte record on a detach. Onto the next

Re: Short user description in sample CP directory

2009-02-10 Thread Marcy Cortes
Would be nice if there was some consistent key like IBM Supplied or z/VM Component in the description. That way we can make a list from the new install and compare it to the list on the current system. That'd allow us to more easily identify ones that went away as well so we're not carrying them

Re: Short user description in sample CP directory

2009-02-10 Thread Marcy Cortes
directory On Tuesday, 02/10/2009 at 11:38 EST, Marcy Cortes marcy.d.cor...@wellsfargo.com wrote: Would be nice if there was some consistent key like IBM Supplied or z/VM Component in the description. That way we can make a list from the new install and compare it to the list on the current system

Re: Paging

2009-02-10 Thread Marcy Cortes
We've seen this messages on a new system that we build that didn't have enough page space (yet). You probably need some more paging volumes - add up the sum of all the virtual machines and multiple by 2 and add *at least* that much space, more if you are using vdisk for swap.Try to keep the

Re: Paging

2009-02-10 Thread Marcy Cortes
terry.mar...@cms.hhs.gov -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 2:22 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Paging We've seen this messages on a new system that we build

Re: Paging

2009-02-10 Thread Marcy Cortes
I'm pretty sure, like 99.5%, that you can see this error by running out and not just screwing up your space somehow. IBM could probably tell you for sure probably... Remember, by the time you issue the q alloc, the situation could have already come and gone. You didn't say say now much real

Re: Linux Guest 'swapping'

2009-01-28 Thread Marcy Cortes
That's been my experience as well. You may want to look at the vm.swappiness setting. We changed it from 60 to 20 because some of the applications swap space seemed to just grow and grow and grow and CPU would start to creep up too. Dropping to 20 removed all the issues. I'm not sure why and we

Re: Linux Guest 'swapping'

2009-01-28 Thread Marcy Cortes
Technology z/OS z/VM Systems - Performance and Tuning Cell - 443 632-4191 Work - 410 786-0386 terry.mar...@cms.hhs.gov -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 2:34 PM To: IBMVM

Re: Heads Up - z/OS 1.10 DFDSS DUMP's of z/VM and z/Linux volumes fail silently

2009-01-27 Thread Marcy Cortes
Thank you Fred! Very timely for us. FYI - Our IBM Technical Advocate says the target date is now March 9 and it is now flagged HIPER. Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you

Re: Sharing the RACF database in CSE

2009-01-15 Thread Marcy Cortes
Don't put the primary and backup on the same dasd. The whole point of the backup is to have a good database in case you get a h/w failure on the primary volume. Seems that with modern DASD, one never gets a volume failure anymore. You either lose nothing or you lose the whole darn subsystem

Re: Sharing the RACF database in CSE

2009-01-15 Thread Marcy Cortes
If you have GDPS available to you, No real reserve/release allowed with GDPS/PPRC Hyperswaps :) Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take

Re: First install of 5.4: 2 questions

2009-01-14 Thread Marcy Cortes
I thought the RSU always shipped with it. Are you sure it's not one of those double jewel cases with both in one container? Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not

Re: First install of 5.4: 2 questions

2009-01-14 Thread Marcy Cortes
package box was shipped the same day. Sure would be nice if there was an .ISO of the RSU available for download...( hint, hint.) Mike C. M. (Mike) Hammock Sr. Technical Support IBM System Z Solutions Mainline Information Systems (404) 643-3258 mhamm...@mainline.com Marcy

Re: First install of 5.4: 2 questions

2009-01-14 Thread Marcy Cortes
a day at this point. Mike C. M. (Mike) Hammock Sr. Technical Support IBM System Z Solutions Mainline Information Systems (404) 643-3258 mhamm...@mainline.com Marcy Cortes marcy.d.cor...@w ellsfargo.com

Re: VSWITCH LINUX Connection Problem

2009-01-12 Thread Marcy Cortes
You'll need to give the server authority to the vswitch first: set vswitch vswitch1 grant novstart Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or

Re: VSWITCH LINUX Connection Problem

2009-01-12 Thread Marcy Cortes
in your previous post I saw netmask 255.255.0.0. Are you sure that is correct? Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based

Re: WebSphere CPU starvation Message

2009-01-12 Thread Marcy Cortes
First, open a problem with IBM WAS support. Start right away - WAS is not z/VM :) We saw this once upon a long time ago. I'll have to ask a WAS admin here if she remembers this one. But it wasn't a shortage of cpu on either Linux or VM here. It was some WAS tuning thing. Do you have

Re: WebSphere CPU starvation Message

2009-01-12 Thread Marcy Cortes
From the WAS 6.1 documentation: CPU starvation messages in the system log file CPU starvation detected error messages are displayed in the system log file whenever there is not enough physical memory available to allow the high availability manager threads to have consistent runtimes. When

Re: Ethernet vswitch definition

2009-01-08 Thread Marcy Cortes
Yes, there is a ptf for that. I'll have to go looking for the number. Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this

Re: SLES10-SP2 Guest on VSWITCH w/2 VLANs

2008-12-15 Thread Marcy Cortes
You are right - you do need the vlan's on the grant. My mistake! Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this

Re: Strange OSPF problem

2008-12-11 Thread Marcy Cortes
Any errors on the MPROUTE console? We've found that when things go bad, MPROUTE usually has a complaint. You may want to turn on debug too. Could both your MPROUTE and your zebra be advertising the same routes? We inadvertantly did that with a /30 vipa subnet and it didn't matter until we

Re: OSA layer 2 protocol connections...

2008-12-10 Thread Marcy Cortes
5.3 TCPIP does not support a layer 2 interface. You'll have to wait for 5.4 Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on

Re: OSA layer 2 protocol connections...

2008-12-10 Thread Marcy Cortes
] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 8:05 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: [IBMVM] OSA layer 2 protocol connections... On 12/10/2008 at 10:19 AM, Marcy Cortes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 5.3 TCPIP does not support a layer 2 interface. You'll have to wait for 5.4

Re: IFL consumption

2008-12-09 Thread Marcy Cortes
If it has more than 1 virtual cpu it can. Even if you have 1 virtual cpu, you will be dispatched on both, but you won't be able to consume more than 1 IFL's worth. Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive

Re: STD versus IFL

2008-12-07 Thread Marcy Cortes
I don't think you can tell on 5.2. Time to upgrade. 5.3 tells you: ind AVGPROC-020% 06 XSTORE-00/SEC MIGRATE-/SEC MDC READS-06/SEC WRITES-05/SEC HIT RATIO-094% PAGING-0/SEC STEAL-000% Q0-3(0) DORMANT-00037 Q1-5(0)

Re: Starting an exec on a remote machine

2008-12-04 Thread Marcy Cortes
Personally, I'd like that product to work hand-in-hand with our existing VM:Backup product which we z/VM'ers control on our own. (Anyone at CA listening) Yes, what he said! Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or

Re: Configuartion question

2008-12-04 Thread Marcy Cortes
Terry wrote: We are moving toward taking our POC into production. Good job! If I had my druthers and had only 1 box, I would have a systems programmers LPAR (mine mine mine), a LPAR that ran all of test/dev linuxen, and 1 prod LPAR that ran all of prod. If you do have servers that can't go

Re: Sharing PPRC devices with z/OS

2008-11-25 Thread Marcy Cortes
When a VM system has the PPRC secondaries online, a path group is formed with them. z/OS can't use them when this is the case. You just need to simply vary them offline from VM. Best to not include them in the gen for the lpar totally, but if that is not possible, put them in the system config

Re: Sharing PPRC devices with z/OS

2008-11-25 Thread Marcy Cortes
The SA Linux piece handles the error detection, communication with SA390, and the CP HYPERSWAP command at the right times. Which still feels backwards... The guest controlling the hypervisor in big serious matters like i/o ... :) Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged

Re: Sharing PPRC devices with z/OS

2008-11-25 Thread Marcy Cortes
Martin wrote: So, it's the secondary volumes that cause the problem and not the primary volumes? Yes, I believe so, but take all your z/OS volumes offline from z/VM. You don't want them there anyway (and it will keep the z/OS guys from blaming you for one of their problems :). But, if they

Re: VLAN-Aware VSWITCH Linux Guest

2008-11-25 Thread Marcy Cortes
] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 4:12 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: VLAN-Aware VSWITCH Linux Guest Post the results of a q vswitch details, please. And also route and ifconfig from linux. Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged

Re: new VSMDCSS in z/VM 5.4

2008-11-24 Thread Marcy Cortes
I'd like more reliance on SFS for our own stuff. But it needs to be highly available (run on more than 1 VM system at a time). It also needs to work over IP in a vendor supported manner. Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or

Re: VLAN-Aware VSWITCH Linux Guest

2008-11-24 Thread Marcy Cortes
Post the results of a q vswitch details, please. And also route and ifconfig from linux. Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any

Re: z/VM 5.4.0 CMS commands are now mixed case

2008-11-18 Thread Marcy Cortes
Was your default language set to UCENG before? (Q LANG) Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any

Re: z/VM 5.4 and VM:Secure

2008-11-18 Thread Marcy Cortes
Absolutely. For quite a few months now. Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information

Re: Page Space

2008-11-13 Thread Marcy Cortes
You didn't say how much real memory you have. Presumably less than 60G :) You either add enough real memory or you add enough page space to hold them all (at less that 50% occupied. I don't think there are miracles available in this scenario. Marcy This message may contain confidential

Re: Page Space

2008-11-13 Thread Marcy Cortes
-Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 10:29 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Page Space You didn't say how much real memory you have. Presumably less than 60G

Re: Risk of Adding a Paging Volume

2008-11-13 Thread Marcy Cortes
Low. We add paging volumes all the time to running systems. Lower than a paging volume with errors for sure. Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy,

Re: Page Space

2008-11-13 Thread Marcy Cortes
. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 10:29 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: [IBMVM] Page Space You didn't say how much real memory you have. Presumably less than 60G

Re: OSA/SF on z/VM 5.4

2008-11-10 Thread Marcy Cortes
To followup: Apar VM64552 is now available which fixes a NUCXDROP bug. The OSA/SF modules were built incorrectly because of this. The fix needs to be applied and the osa/sf modules rebuilt. Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the

Make me abend, please

2008-11-07 Thread Marcy Cortes
Hello, I want to create a CP abend for testing. What's the easiest way? Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this

Re: Make me abend, please

2008-11-07 Thread Marcy Cortes
: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 16:19 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: [IBMVM] Make me abend, please Hello, I want to create a CP abend for testing. What's the easiest way? Marcy This message may

Re: I/O Overhead - z/VM versus VMWARE

2008-11-01 Thread Marcy Cortes
Do you have Reed Mullen's presentation? I can't remember where I saw it last, but it covers the different flavors of virtualization. There was also another at SHARE in Aug that compared/contrasted the various kinds of virtualizatoin. Marcy Cortes Team Lead, Enterprise Virtualization - z/VM

Re: Constraint of zVM on number of Devices Support

2008-10-31 Thread Marcy Cortes
We have more than that in our disaster recovery environment and we don't do anything to segregate VM from z/OS there. So, VM is ok with that - it does take longer to IPL though. For production, we separate out by LCU's (VM owns its own) and we restrict the gen so that z/VM can't see the z/OS

Re: TCPIP for z/VM 5.4

2008-10-30 Thread Marcy Cortes
I'm a fan of the big bang method myself. It's always worked well for us. I like knowing that what I'm running is what IBM actually ran for an extended period of time. Just my 2 cents. Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee

Re: TCPIP for z/VM 5.4

2008-10-30 Thread Marcy Cortes
] On Behalf Of Rich Smrcina Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 12:27 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: TCPIP for z/VM 5.4 Marcy Cortes wrote: I'm a fan of the big bang method myself. It's always worked well for us. I like knowing that what I'm running is what IBM actually ran

Re: Recycle yourself

2008-10-29 Thread Marcy Cortes
It would be a cool function to have in CP! Submit a requirement! Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message

Re: Very Slow Linux Running Second Level z/VM

2008-10-22 Thread Marcy Cortes
: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Rifkind Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 3:46 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: [IBMVM] Very Slow Linux Running Second Level z/VM yes --- On Tue, 10/21/08, Marcy Cortes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From

Re: Connecting and testing a new pair of OSAs and new vswitch

2008-10-21 Thread Marcy Cortes
The simplest way is really just to go edit the directory entry and log it off and back on.Patrick must be using some really horrible directory manager! ;) Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this

Re: Connecting and testing a new pair of OSAs and new vswitch

2008-10-21 Thread Marcy Cortes
I think you'll need something to create the files /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/sysconfig/hardware for your new device. Yast will do that. Or you can do it manually. Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to

Re: Connecting and testing a new pair of OSAs and new vswitch

2008-10-21 Thread Marcy Cortes
Ah, that looks familiar. Your vswitch is of type ETHERNET Do you have QETH LAYER 2 option enabled? Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take

Re: Very Slow Linux Running Second Level z/VM

2008-10-21 Thread Marcy Cortes
Is he on the eligible list? (ind queues)? Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information

Re: z/VM 5.2.0 on z10

2008-10-20 Thread Marcy Cortes
Does better performance fly? Silly mgmt :) This isn't windoze - no reason to hang back like that. Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or

Re: DIAG D4

2008-10-16 Thread Marcy Cortes
Do you need a grant surrogate perhaps? Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information

Re: Monitoring the backup OSA on the vswitch

2008-10-15 Thread Marcy Cortes
Oct 2008 15:48:10 -0500, Marcy Cortes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How are folks monitoring their backup osa's on the vswitch? How do you know they haven't lost connectivity and won't be there when you need it?= (asking because, well, yeah, that can happen :) Marcy

Re: VSWITCH question

2008-10-14 Thread Marcy Cortes
Is the 2nd vswitch up - show us Q VSWITCH 2ndone DETAILS. Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any

Monitoring the backup OSA on the vswitch

2008-10-13 Thread Marcy Cortes
How are folks monitoring their backup osa's on the vswitch? How do you know they haven't lost connectivity and won't be there when you need it? (asking because, well, yeah, that can happen :) Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the

Re: Monitoring the backup OSA on the vswitch

2008-10-13 Thread Marcy Cortes
: 0C50 VDEV: 0C50 Controller: DTCVSW2 BACKUP Larry Davis -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 4:48 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Monitoring the backup OSA on the vswitch How

OSA/SF on z/VM 5.4

2008-10-10 Thread Marcy Cortes
Has anyone tried this on 5.4? Seems to abend for me. Opening a PMR, but I thought I'd check with here as well. Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy,

Re: OSA/SF on z/VM 5.4

2008-10-10 Thread Marcy Cortes
for? David From: The IBM z/VM Operating System on behalf of Marcy Cortes Sent: Fri 10/10/2008 5:42 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: [IBMVM] OSA/SF on z/VM 5.4 Has anyone tried this on 5.4? Seems to abend for me. Opening a PMR, but I thought I'd check

Re: Paging volumes, size vs. number

2008-10-03 Thread Marcy Cortes
Probably depends on how much you plan to page! Do you plan to overcommit memory like 6:1 or keep it sane? How robust does your paging system need to be? We were in a situation where we had 100 servers (1/2 fat webshere) on a system with only 28G. To 100 mod 3 on DS8000 over 8 channels, we

Re: Tracking Hot Spots

2008-10-01 Thread Marcy Cortes
What kind of virtual machine? For something like Websphere, you could use Introscope. Velocity will tell you percentage of time spent running / i/o wait / page wait if you want to know from a VM view. Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not

Re: DASD VOLUME SIZES

2008-09-26 Thread Marcy Cortes
If anyone is interested, this will create a file on your a-disk listing all your DASD with real addresses and cylinder counts. File to make - LISTDASD EXEC: /* List all DASD by real address, volser, and num cylinders */ 'pipe CP Q DASD ALL',

Re: DASD VOLUME SIZES

2008-09-26 Thread Marcy Cortes
on that dasd but your prod will fail with a 'no more space available'. Alain Le 25/09/08 19:21, « Howard Rifkind » [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Suggestion all good thanks folks... Marcy Cortes [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/25/2008 1:10 PM Q DASD DETAILS

LACP implementation

2008-09-25 Thread Marcy Cortes
We're trying to implement LACP and cannot get it to work. The VM side is reporting Status: ErrorReason: LACP not enabled on partner Does anyone have working examples of the CISCO side definitions that they'd be willing to share? Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or

Re: DASD VOLUME SIZES

2008-09-25 Thread Marcy Cortes
Q DASD DETAILS Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have

Re: VSWITCH

2008-09-18 Thread Marcy Cortes
and third LPAR's TCP/IP virtual machine started. So, what's the secret?? TIA HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes

Can't detach a DASD device from system

2008-09-14 Thread Marcy Cortes
What is wrong with this device? Why can't I detach it from system? q de33 DASD DE33 CP SYSTEM V8XES1 0 Ready; T=0.01/0.01 11:43:51 det de33 system

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