Ok, I understand this is old and everyone wants to know why. Try to forget
that and recall
how you defined that IBM 6262 printer 20 years ago. Here's my situation:
CHPID PATH=(CSS(0),EA),PARTITION=((P1),(=),REC),PCHID=1EA,*
TYPE=CVC
CNTLUNIT
when you want VM
to print on it, and if you simply pass the priter to a guest, no IMAG is
required at all: it is then the guest's responsability to control FCB etc.
2009/10/29 Mary Anne Matyaz mam...@gmail.com
Ok, I understand this is old and everyone wants to know why. Try to
forget
, but on a system I can't reach until Monday...
The IMAG is not important yet, it comes into play only when you want VM
to print on it, and if you simply pass the priter to a guest, no IMAG
is required at all: it is then the guest's responsability to control FCB
etc.
2009/10/29 Mary Anne
] *On
Behalf Of *Mary Anne Matyaz
*Sent:* Thursday, October 29, 2009 4:48 PM
*To:* IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
*Subject:* Re: Dang Printer
It's a very real and very dirty used IBM 6262 model 22. It even came with
manuals.
MA
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:27 PM, August Carideo august.cari
Hi all. I recall a powerpoint chart from a few years ago on zSeries Linux
that featured an 18 wheeler truck and
a small car. It said that depending on what you needed to move, the 18
wheeler may be more
efficient. I can't seem to find it anywhere...does anyone recall the
presentation or the chart?
immediately by reply e-mail and delete this
message. Thank you for your cooperation.
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Plus the DVHXLV9666T isn't documented...that I could find.
MA
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.comwrote:
On Friday, 10/02/2009 at 01:12 EDT, joe.dipi...@frit.frb.org wrote:
Thank you for your immediate response. I see that the maint id had 11F
disk
accessed
Did someone put a #cp disc in the profile exec?
MA
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Frank M. Ramaekers framaek...@ailife.comwrote:
I have done this many times before, but today when I attempt to logon to
PERFSVM (to change some settings), I get:
l perfsvm
ENTER PASSWORD (IT WILL NOT APPEAR
I am blonde, so take this with a grain of salt butI don't get it.
2009 = 7D9.
20090328 = 1328dd8
Admittedly I am not a math wizard. What am I missing?
MA
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Rob van der Heij rvdh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Frank M.
SIS is Service Information link on IBMLINK.
Mary Anne
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Gentry, Stephen
stephen.gen...@lafayettelife.com wrote:
What is SIS?
*From:* The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] *On
Behalf Of *Mary Anne Matyaz
*Sent:* Thursday, July 16
Steve, PK91353 shows up for me in SIS.
Mary Anne
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 4:32 PM, 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
Terry, check in SDSF on MVS and see if a stc is running named FTP*
something.
If it is, then maybe you have a firewall intercepting things. Can you ping
the MVS address
from VM?
Mary Anne
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR)
terry.mar...@cms.hhs.gov wrote:
I am
Pretty good list, Tom, I would add:
1) Reporting for the auditors (racf violations, etc)
2) Get EREP running and be able to produce reports in case the CE's need
them
This includes the collection of erep data, of course.
3) Hopefully you already have a scheduler or vmserve to run nightly
Valerie,
I can take a couple of these questions, hopefully others will jump in on the
ones I can't answer. On the 'END' statement, I found that documented for the
diskmap utility as well, so I changed all mine to the actually cylinder
address. In the long run I found it easier to be able
to see
Rich, I'll take 9129, z/VM security and integrity. Not sure that I can be at
the share bear session though, is that ok?
Mary Anne
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Rich Smrcina rsmrc...@wi.rr.com wrote:
SHARE in Austin less than two weeks away! There are plenty of sessions
left for charing.
I prefer to have such data stored in the object directory where it can be
interrogated, updated, and supported by a wide variety of Interested
Parties
Except Humans, of course. :)
MA
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.comwrote:
On Tuesday, 02/10/2009 at 09:12
HA HA ha ha!!!
Seriously? I don't have any experience with WAS, but Oracle is a definite
memory lover.
MA
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:08 AM, David Kreuter
dkreu...@vm-resources.comwrote:
with the effect of diminishing the value of virtualizing on this
platform. Over commit ratios of 1.5
Hello all. While we're on the subject of DASD today, I finally got my chpids
to access the production dasd from the
D/R machine z/VM 5.4 lpar. I tried to accept a big range, and maint hung up.
I waited a half hour, then tried to
force him. No joy. So I removed the dasd from the not accepted list,
Do you mean not on VM? I'd assume z/OS supports it since the SDM's are ok.
I did find a nasty looking Interface Control Check msg, so that's an avenue
to pursue.
MA
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
On Tuesday, 11/25/2008 at 11:43 EST, Mary Anne Matyaz
I guess my biggest concern is that it hangs the userid, and basically the
system, as I can't get it to shutdown cleanly. Then I have to force start.
MA
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Mary Anne Matyaz [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Do you mean not on VM? I'd assume z/OS supports it since the SDM's
I use the ping to make sure that it isn't up on another lpar.
MA
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Kris Buelens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Or, also exploit the deadman diagnose feature that came with one of the
more recent z/VM releases. This diagnose tells CP that the virtual machine
must do
I think you need to compare Linux in a z/VM LPAR versus Linux Native, and
determine if one has more i/o overhead than the other. I think the answer is
going to be 'minimal'.
As someone said, and I have observed, my CP%CPU runs at 2-3%.
As for MDC, I've been curious about that lately. About a week
Scott said:
I never have had a problem with SFS that was not caused by dumb stuff,
backups failing etc.
Agreed, but it's still a problem. And one that I don't seem to have with
minidisks. I use SFS for linux console logs. The logs are also FTP'd
elsewhere, this is just my easy-access 30 day log.
Hello all. We're bouncing around an idea to change the way we allocate Linux
guests. Currently, we have a mdisk that
has all of the Linux 191 disks on. We then have separate 200 disks (mod9's).
We're thinking of combining the two, such
that we have a 1 cylinder 191 mdisk, then 10015 cylinders for
Well, they just have a small profile exec that executes the more detailed
one off of a shared disk. So I'm ok there.
MA
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Rich Smrcina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mary Anne Matyaz wrote:
Hello all. We're bouncing around an idea to change the way we allocate
Linux
Sorry, I see that you think I have a shared 191. I don't, I just have them
all smooshed onto
one volume, versus being on the 200 volume.
MA
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Rich Smrcina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mary Anne Matyaz wrote:
Hello all. We're bouncing around an idea to change
are the same, but
in practice, theory and practice are different.
On 10/28/08 11:13 AM, Mary Anne Matyaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all. We're bouncing around an idea to change the way we allocate
Linux guests. Currently, we have a mdisk that
has all of the Linux 191 disks on. We then have
Colin,
Inactivity timeout is a system wide setting. The only workaround I
could come up with is this:
If your system is like mine, it is a lot of linux guests, a few
batchlike system userids, and a few system programmers. See if they
will allow you to change the interval to the maximum, 254, and
It sounds dumb, but the biggest thing for us with 5.4 is the ability
to add memory without an IPL. Also the
increase in memory supported from 128 to 256.
MA
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Colin Allinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is just my own observation.
We have been very early
' xlastacc
end
End
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 6:56 AM, Mary Anne Matyaz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Colin,
Inactivity timeout is a system wide setting. The only workaround I
could come up with is this:
If your system is like mine, it is a lot of linux guests, a few
batchlike system userids
://www.vm.ibm.com/perf/reports/zvm/html/530stor.html
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 7:20 AM, Mary Anne Matyaz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It sounds dumb, but the biggest thing for us with 5.4 is the ability
to add memory without an IPL. Also the
increase in memory supported from 128 to 256.
MA
MDISK 123 3390 000 END 540RES MR
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Guest, Darren
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I've been a bad systems programmer and might have deleted the definition of
MDISK 123 under MAINT! :-(
None of the backups I've got have a definition in their either. Not sure if
Aria, I believe Mainline does it.
http://www.mainline.com/_web/home/index.html
Mary Anne
2008/10/7 Aria Bamdad [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks August.
Aria.
If your VM system is at 101% memory usage, and you are overcommitted by
about 14%, is it worthwhile to add
a vdisk to a linux for swap space, or better just to add main memory to the
linux?
MA (Looking for opinions, thoughts, rationalizations, whatever. :)
I know I'm probably going to regret this, but, how can that be? I said VM
memory usage, right?
Not Linux
MA
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Barton Robinson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Best practices is to use Vdisk for swap, and reduce linux virtual machine
sizes - not to buy more REAL z/VM
information doesn't
either. So if that's the case, what information are you using to make
decisions?
Mary Anne Matyaz wrote:
I know I'm probably going to regret this, but, how can that be? I said VM
memory usage, right?
Not Linux
MA
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Barton Robinson
Terry,
Below is a profile xedit that makes xedit very similar to ispf edit. That
may help. I also add
a 'CP SET PF12 RETRIEVE BACKWARD' in my profile exec to make the retrieve
key work.
/* PROFILE XEDIT for general use*/
arg fn ft fm ( options
'SET MSGLINE ON 3 9 OVERLAY'
'SET SCALE OFF '
Just an update. I finally got the DVD's yesterday. Intererstingly, I also
got a 3590 tape. :)
The internet orders are still sitting there.
Mary Anne
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Rob van der Heij [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Schuh, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Scott et al,
We also use not accepted for the MVS stuff because we definitely NEVER want
it online, and as I recall, certain interrupts, or channel offline/online
would cause VM to go out and sense it again and bring it online. (But maybe
we didn't have the offline at the time).
We have:
Devices,
Do people really have Linux systems that run 7 x 24?
YES. But I get an outage once a quarter. Usually.
Uh, I've never seen Linux use LESS memory. It always wants more. :) I'm
happy
with the ability to add memory.
MA
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Schuh, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, it can add, but not subtract without LPAR deactivation. Let me know
when the ability to dynamically
Gary, if it runs native windows, will it also then run x86 linux? That seems
to be one of the barriers for us, that z/linux may not support certain x86
linux
applications.
Thanks,
Mary Anne
Gary M. Dennis wrote:
Z/VOS is a CMS application. The glass-side user will only see Windows via
RDC
It says it won't stop working, but the license agreement is for 90 days. It
also says
it's only for z10.
MA
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Schuh, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is just angry at you ;-)
Regards,
Richard Schuh
-Original Message-
From: The IBM z/VM
Checkout the MAILIT package.
http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/descript.cgi?MAILIT
Mary Anne
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Wandschneider, Scott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am looking for a *very* simple procedure to send eMail from a CMS REXX
EXEC.
Does anybody have something they
.
Mary Anne Matyaz wrote:
Checkout the MAILIT package.
http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/descript.cgi?MAILIT
Mary Anne
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Wandschneider, Scott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am looking for a *very* simple procedure to send eMail from a CMS REXX
EXEC
Congrats Fran. You gave Joe Paterno a run for his money.
Sir Terry the Weaver
Where do I get one of these names? I've been doing VM fulltime for 2 years
now, what are the requirements?
without benefit of a browser. I felt
the certificate's Align Center and fonts worthy of a non-plain text post.)
*Mary Anne Matyaz [EMAIL PROTECTED]*
Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
05/07/2008 09:08 AM
Please respond to
The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM
Marcy, we are using them. No problems at all with RHEL 4 or 5 linux. We are
not using the pavs yet though.
Mary Anne
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 12:36 AM, Marcy Cortes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK, I really mean mod 9 of around size 65,000 cylinders or so (54G), if
you want to get technical.
Lionel,
You can wrap your file in the IEBGENER jcl and ftp it, then the file will be
in the output queue.
Like so in the file you ftp to the intrdr:
//jobname
//gen exec pgm=iebgener, region=0m
//sysprint dd sysout=*
//sysin dd dummy
//sysut1 dd *
This is the text of the file I'd like to send
Also, you may need a dcb on the sysut2 dd to keep your 254 byte lrecl. Try
//sysut2 dd sysout=g,dcb=(lrecl=254,blksize=254,recfm=fb)
MA
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Mary Anne Matyaz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Lionel,
You can wrap your file in the IEBGENER jcl and ftp it, then the file
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080226/ibm_new_mainframe.html?.v=5
AP
IBM Rolls Out New Mainframe
Tuesday February 26, 7:36 am ET
By Jordan Robertson, AP Technology Writer
IBM Rolls Out New Mainframe, Reflects Company's Focus on Data Center Costs
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- IBM Corp. rolls out a new mainframe
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080226/ibm_new_mainframe.html?.v=5
AP
IBM Rolls Out New Mainframe
Tuesday February 26, 7:36 am ET
By Jordan Robertson, AP Technology Writer
IBM Rolls Out New Mainframe, Reflects Company's Focus on Data Center Costs
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- IBM Corp. rolls out a new mainframe
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080226/ibm_new_mainframe.html?.v=5
AP
IBM Rolls Out New Mainframe
Tuesday February 26, 7:36 am ET
By Jordan Robertson, AP Technology Writer
IBM Rolls Out New Mainframe, Reflects Company's Focus on Data Center Costs
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- IBM Corp. rolls out a new mainframe
Brian, when you say 'bounced the VM lpar'...did you deactivate and activate
the LPAR?
Something we found that for some reason takes a lot of Xstore is VDISKs...do
you use
them regularly?
Mary Anne (PSU '85)
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Brian France [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Folks,
You know, I've been thinking about this and I just don't think I buy this
article, or this hoopla that we've heard for several years about the aging
mainframer and how to replace them and how scarce they are. I just don't see
that many job openings for MVS or VM. And I sure don't see skyrocketing
WHAT the he!! are youns talking about???
MA
On Feb 20, 2008 11:31 AM, Schuh, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That is a personal preference. It belongs wherever you like it. One of
the really good things about XEDIT is that it is customizable. My
preference is on the left.
Regards,
It shows a z/HE as the CPC NAME.
Damnit, I'm sick of this chauvenistic crap! Isn't there one female in
Pougkeepsie?? For crying out loud, why can't it be a z/HER or a z/SHE for
once!!!
Mary Anne
(Tongue planted firmly in cheek)
Do you regret getting us started on this tangent yet?
Uh, yes. Though most of these have been very entertaining. :)
MA
Richard,
You can make them not accepted and then use the set devices accepted command
to bring them online without an ipl, as long as you have enabled the set
devices accepted command in system config.
MA
On Dec 24, 2007 2:53 PM, Schuh, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
NotAccepted will not work
My linuxes aren't enabled to connect to perfkit, but if they were, I
would think that
the following command would work:
vmcp vmcx perfsvm storage
or
mcp vmcx perfsvm user
Mary Anne
On Nov 6, 2007 10:16 AM, Shedlock, George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone developed any code, code fragment,
Yes, we use the same control cards for racfice for the VM Racf records that
we do for the
MVS Racf records.
MA
On 10/11/07, Lionel B. Dyck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK - I figured that.
But are the z/VM RACF records mapped the same as the z/OS RACF records ?
thanks
We run a lot of things off of the system name, so it needs to be the same,
whether we are on processor A, processor B as real dr or processor B as test
DR.
MA
On 10/5/07, RPN01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That seems a lot of work, when you could just ask the system who it is,
and
set the
Hello all. I need a few lines of code for a D/R situation. I need to know,
in VM and Linux, if we are in a real D/R or in a
test D/R.
My plan is to default to a real D/R situation, then, if it's a test,
execute a command from operator
that asks if it is a test, and if so, place a variable
to update IP stacks.
Brian Nielsen
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 09:29:51 -0400, Mary Anne Matyaz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all. I need a few lines of code for a D/R situation. I need to kno
w,
in VM and Linux, if we are in a real D/R or in a
test D/R.
My plan is to default to a real D/R situation
there is a reasonable chance they know
what to do :-)
Ron
On 10/3/07, Mary Anne Matyaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks All. Here's what I've come up with. I'm going to allow everything
to
come up on D/R without intervention if it is a real disaster. If I am
testing, I will allow it all to come up, and
IP
Chapter 4 of * z/VM V5R2.0 Getting Started with Linux on System z9 and
zSeries ** SC24-6096-01
*is pretty good, but it doesn't talk about integrating it with RACF, if
you're using that. There is a
class on that though, ZV200. Here's a link to the manual:
Good news, after flashcopy yesterday and xrecover today, VM and both linuxes
that I checked came up at the DR site today. On VM, perfkit is fine, my
spool files are there, but I did have to do a cold start. Pretty slick.
MA
On 5/21/07, Mary Anne Matyaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We didn't seem
We didn't seem to have a problem with them. We only really have CMS,(I
think, I'm a newbie. Maybe performance monitor too?) and it was fine. And
we only really have two real users, sysprogs. I *have* had to rebuild the
cms nss after a full volume restore before, so I would have (hopefully)
We run GDPS and have successfully IPL'ed VM on the tertiary volumes. We
haven't tried a linux yet.
MA
On 5/15/07, RPN01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Our site is considering GDPS, and we've come to the conclusion that z/VM
must be a non-participant. Our current plan is to move z/VM on to its own
The JES2 1.7 Init and Tuning Guide says:
NJE protocols support an Escon Basic Mode CTC (BCTC and a 3088 CTC) but do
not
support an ESCON CTC (SCTC)
P 263
MA
On 5/8/07, Les Geer (607-429-3580) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am trying to determine if there is still a restriction that an ESCON
CTC
You could look at the operator's console log, which is either in his reader
or goes into prop if you have that running. Q IPLPARMS is also helpful.
MA
On 4/12/07, Little, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Where would I find it -- or -- how would I find the IPL options (ie.
warm, noautolog, etc)
Hello list. In the past I have added several page volumes to several VM
systems, never having updated the user known as $PAGE$ in user direct that
appears to have the first Page volume in there. Since I am working fine
right now, I am hesitant to add the second volume to this userid. I have
You may want to look at the SFPURGER CMS Utility also...you can specify the
number of days and it will purge all old stuff. SFPURGER is documented in
the CMS Commands and Utilities Reference at:
I remember writing a loader in college that used 512 BYTE page sizes. :)
MA
On 3/10/07, Phil Smith III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.drdobbs.com/dept/64bit/197801624 is a very interesting article
about how the CBE works. The fact that you've gotta do everything in 256K
chunks brings a
You can ddr it and then relabel it prior to IPLing the copy. Just change
user direct and system config on the copy. There is an example of relabeling
in the cookbook p 57.
MA
On 3/7/07, David Kreuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... but you should take any means necessary to avoid duplicate
PROTECTED] *On
Behalf Of *Mary Anne Matyaz
*Sent:* Wednesday, March 07, 2007 10:36 AM
*To:* IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
*Subject:* Re: Spool/page devices online at ipl
You can ddr it and then relabel it prior to IPLing the copy. Just change
user direct and system config on the copy. There is an example
updated the system
config and relabelled the dasd a couple of weeks ago. It came up, said it
couldn't find spool and deleted it all.
--
*From:* The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On
Behalf Of *Mary Anne Matyaz
*Sent:* Wednesday, March 07, 2007 10:36 AM
32760 on a mod 27. The 27 is to a 9 as the 9 is to a 3. :)
MA
On 3/6/07, Ed Zell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How many cylinders in a mod 9?
There are 10,017 cylinders on a 3390-9 (3339*3).
I am not sure about the other ones you mention.
Ed Zell
(309) 674-8255 x-107
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
.
You can use z/OS DFDSS to backup the z/VM and z/VSE dasd but (IMHO) it is
not a wise solution because of the restore considerations. With enough
practice you could make it work.
What are the restore considerations? We use this all the time, backing up
and restoring a vm system from z/os, with
By sensitive, perhaps they meant classified. The article stated that at was an unclassnetwork that was hit. So no classified info was stolen. So what info was stolen? We don't know yet. MA
On 7/12/06, Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This can't be
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