Re: REXX DATE - Julian and Centry

2009-07-30 Thread Mike Walter
: BUSTED!:-) But it's still an ugly practice to use rexx reserved words/keywords/sub-keywords as variable names. One day (or: sleepy night) when one least expects it, anyone using that ugly practice will regret it. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are min

Re: REXX DATE - Julian and Centry

2009-07-30 Thread Mike Walter
avoid using reserved keywords. This one was an aberration. Thanks for pointing it out so that everyone benefits. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. Brian Nielsen Se

Re: REXX DATE - Julian and Centry

2009-07-30 Thread Mike Walter
> I hate to see a keyword used as a variable name I must be blind today... which rexx keyword is being used as a variable name in the following posts? Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hew

Re: REXX DATE - Julian and Centry

2009-07-29 Thread Mike Walter
/* Tomorrow */ nextjdate=left(date('O',when,'B'),2)||right(date('D',when,'B'),3,0) Executive summary: when performing date math, rexx's "Base" date can be your friend. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed

Re: RSU 0902

2009-07-29 Thread Mike Walter
e beginning just to be 100% certain. It won't re-apply service that was already applied, but it should re-build anything that wasn't quite completed the first time. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinion

Re: VTAM Abend 0C4 under Z/VM

2009-07-28 Thread Mike Walter
t;possible". On the other hand, IBM sales people are often very happy to loan hardware and software for trial periods. It can't hurt to ask yours, or contact IBM or an IBM partner to ask. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necess

Re: VTAM Abend 0C4 under Z/VM

2009-07-28 Thread Mike Walter
luck! Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. "Sergio Lima" Sent by: "The IBM z/VM Operating System" 07/28/2009 01:00 PM Please respond to "The IBM

Re: RSU 0902

2009-07-27 Thread Mike Walter
can be used to "separate the chaff from the wheat". But I like to see the whole story, especially if anything seems to have gone wrong. What you do then depends on what you observe in the MSGLOG files. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone an

Re: VTAM Abend 0C4 under Z/VM

2009-07-27 Thread Mike Walter
learn from each other's problems/mistakes and solutions. Thanks! Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. "Sergio Lima" Sent by: "The IBM z/VM Operating Syste

Re: RSU 0902

2009-07-27 Thread Mike Walter
And closing the loop... how'd it go, Scott? Did SERVICE RESTART fix it all up once MAINT was given the privclass (or ESM authorization once you got that far) that it had when IBM shipped it? Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necess

Re: RSU 0902

2009-07-24 Thread Mike Walter
24, 2009 9:39 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: RSU 0902 It was visible in the first append: BLDNUC had 490 in R/W 2009/7/24 Mike Walter Before SERVICE RESTART, read paragraphs 2-3 below to ensure that nothing else has the 490 disk linked R/W. If none other than MAINT has it R/W you

Re: RSU 0902

2009-07-24 Thread Mike Walter
Before SERVICE RESTART, read paragraphs 2-3 below to ensure that nothing else has the 490 disk linked R/W. If none other than MAINT has it R/W you should be good to go. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates (Sent from the wee keyboard on a Blackberry.) - Original Message - From

Re: RSU 0902

2009-07-23 Thread Mike Walter
stand link mode 'M'. Between those pieces of info you'll probably figure out what to do on your own. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates (Sent from the wee keyboard on a Blackberry.) - Original Message - From: "Wandschneider, Scott" [scott.wandschnei...@infocrossing.

Re: Find command

2009-07-23 Thread Mike Walter
DoLR should not be updated. Sysprogs often have a different role to perform and should do their level best to ensure that their work does not affect other details. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or polici

Re: VTAM Abend 0C4 under Z/VM

2009-07-22 Thread Mike Walter
re are CP directory examples and other tips related to running (more than one) z/OS under z/VM. Have you opened a PMR with IBM to determine the cause of the VTAM abend in z/OS while it is running under z/VM? Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and

Re: VTAM Abend 0C4 under Z/VM

2009-07-22 Thread Mike Walter
esses. Besides, you already showed the password to the whole world in your post). We also noted that you only have CTCs for z/OS to use for networking. Was that intentional, or are you maybe missing one or more (usually three) DEDICATE statements for OSA's? Mike Walter Hewitt Associate

Re: Invoking a pre-processor EXEC

2009-07-20 Thread Mike Walter
Check out Kent Fiala's "DIREXEC" on the IBM VM Download page: http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/descript.cgi?DIREXEC That DIREXEC VMARC package should do exactly what you wish, and explains that the included FMEXEC is syntactically easier to use for minidisk files. Mik

Re: HCPLGA361E LOGOFF/FORCE pending for user MAINT

2009-07-12 Thread Mike Walter
of canceled (see: CP HALT rdev) - if logon HERE works, count your blessings. Let us know how it goes. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates (Sent from the wee keyboard on a Blackberry.) - Original Message - From: "Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR)" [terry.mar...@cms.hhs.gov]

Re: SYSPROF.EXEC

2009-07-12 Thread Mike Walter
) keeps it from obfuscating the actual code, and makes is easy to find and print. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates (Sent from the wee keyboard on a Blackberry.) - Original Message - From: "Gentry, Stephen" [stephen.gen...@lafayettelife.com] Sent: 07/12/2009 12:45 PM AST To: IBMVM@LIST

Re: VM history question

2009-07-12 Thread Mike Walter
in his astonishingly complete personal records. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates. (Sent from the wee keyboard on a Blackberry.) - Original Message - From: "Chip Davis" [c...@aresti.com] Sent: 07/12/2009 04:01 PM GMT To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: VM history question Oh,

Re: z/VM 6.1 - IBM Preview Letter..

2009-07-07 Thread Mike Walter
BM suddenly switched over to binary, right? Then a z100, etc... Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. "O'Brien, Dennis L" Sent by: "The IBM z/VM Opera

Re: z/VM 6.1 - IBM Preview Letter..

2009-07-07 Thread Mike Walter
hallenge for Early Support Program customers. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. "Huegel, Thomas" Sent by: "The IBM z/VM Operating System" 07/07/

Re: CP Query wildcards

2009-07-02 Thread Mike Walter
hen testing something, PICKPIPE gives you an easy means of doing so. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. "Dean, David (I/S)" Sent by: "The IBM z/VM Opera

Re: CP Query wildcards

2009-07-01 Thread Mike Walter
I sent an offline reply to David with the following, but it seems the needs may be wider. It has the pre-req of the CMS Pipelines Runtime Library (Pipes RTL, available at: http://vm.marist.edu/~pipeline/ Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not

Re: Selecting multi-line console messages from a log file

2009-06-23 Thread Mike Walter
rator, or something else? Mike Walter Hewitt Associates (Sent from the wee keyboard on a Blackberry.) - Original Message - From: "Fred Schmidt" [fred.schm...@nt.gov.au] Sent: 06/24/2009 10:51 AM ZE9B To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Selecting multi-line console messages from a

Re: PROBLEMA WITH INSTALLATION OF ISFP/PDF

2009-06-23 Thread Mike Walter
aries to the Y-disk and used the following home-grown ISPFIDEF EXEC to get everything accessed appropriately. As we say in the U.S. - "Your Mileage May Vary". Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opini

Re: PROBLEMA WITH INSTALLATION OF ISFP/PDF

2009-06-22 Thread Mike Walter
(or wherever you place it, ensuring that the PDF EXEC points to the right place), then there may be another problem. After all, for some reason it is trying to issue those error messages. Remember to keep a 'virgin' copy of IBM's distributed "PDF EXEC" in case you ne

Re: PROBLEMA WITH INSTALLATION OF ISFP/PDF

2009-06-21 Thread Mike Walter
Sorry, spellchecker was a little too aggressive; ...TXTLIB's, MACLIB's and LOADLIB's ... Mike (Sent from the wee keyboard on a Blackberry.) - Original Message ----- From: Mike Walter Sent: 06/21/2009 12:32 PM EST To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: PROBLEMA WITH INSTA

Re: PROBLEMA WITH INSTALLATION OF ISFP/PDF

2009-06-21 Thread Mike Walter
I'm not in the office today, so can only guess. Are all the Txt, Mailings, Loadings, etc. referenced by the PDF EXEC accessed at the time it runs? Mike Walter Hewitt Associates (Sent from the wee keyboard on a Blackberry.) - Original Message - From: Victor Hugo Ochoa

Re: Using DVD to restore an existing z/VM?

2009-06-19 Thread Mike Walter
e a matter of getting your security officer to sign off on something s/he doesn't really understand. If you still think it's a good idea (and it *does* have merit), "do you want encryption with that order"?:-) Any other considerations to discuss before making recommendatio

Re: Using DVD to restore an existing z/VM?

2009-06-19 Thread Mike Walter
drives that little laptops can handle, right? :-) Let us know how you fare with larger flash drives. Be sure that your actually try to open the files, not just see the directory list of them. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent

Re: Trace I/O for a 3490 tape drive

2009-06-17 Thread Mike Walter
amp; walkers, but the group is dropping a few bits from even ESCON channel members they age. FICON channels will get their turn some day, too. Is it Friday yet? At least it's CAVMEN (right here at Hewitt Associates) tomorrow! ;-) Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein a

Re: VMBackup question

2009-06-16 Thread Mike Walter
ght not be obvious from the doc. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. * Prolog; See Epilog for additional information * Exec Name - $COMMAND EXEC (VMTA

Re: FTP of CMS file as attachment - PJBR

2009-06-16 Thread Mike Walter
Have you tried: SENDFILE fn ft fm TO addressee (SMTP MIME And... what is the "- PJBR" appended to the "Subject:" of your posts? Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt As

Re: Specifying a specific console UCB while logging on to a guest

2009-06-04 Thread Mike Walter
Have you checked: XAUTOLOG userid ON rdev Not sure from home which z/VM release it came on, but it sure has been handy on 5.4.0. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates (Sent from the wee keyboard on a Blackberry.) - Original Message - From: "Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR)"

Re: Clean Linux Guest Shutdown

2009-06-03 Thread Mike Walter
think that I'll add a "CP QUERY SIGNALS" to the end of our SHUTDOWN EXEC). If you're looking at the VM console log to determine if guests are getting shutdown within the allotted time, that saves time searching Linux syslogs to get the same information. Mike Walter Hewitt Ass

Re: Clean Linux Guest Shutdown

2009-06-03 Thread Mike Walter
Have you updated each Linux guest so that they are registered to receive and respond to the SIGNAL SHUTDOWN service? Check your Linux distribution for the proper means to register for the SIGNAL SHUTDOWN service, and how to respond appropriately. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions

Re: Any idea? Dirmaint error by detach 123 disk(540RES)

2009-05-29 Thread Mike Walter
>Atheletic Training Department "Atheletic"? It is unfortunate that you're not located next door to the English Department. ;-) And yes, I make more than my own fair share of typos. - but it's still Friday. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates (Sent from the wee k

Re: IBM 1401

2009-05-29 Thread Mike Walter
ortunity at a little levity on a Friday afternoon). Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. "Marcy Cortes" Sent by: "The IBM z/VM Operating System" 05/29/

Re: IBM 1401

2009-05-29 Thread Mike Walter
uch higher, there was enough residual power from the dish to wipe the computer's core memory clean. Memory was reloaded (back on track now) from dependable paper tape. Someone was stationed outside the computer hut for the rest of that day until it could be turned around with the door faced AW

Re: IBM 1401

2009-05-29 Thread Mike Walter
paper tape?), being forever lost to permit these technical details to remain? :-) Obviously, over the years Lynn has kept more records than a radio station (oops: wrong media -- and now: wrong era). Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not

Re: listing of hyper apars for z/vm 5.4 with rsu 0901

2009-05-26 Thread Mike Walter
E FAILS IF MULTIPLE SUBTASKS WAITING_ VM64540 UR1 3/24/09 EMPLOY SOCKET CANCEL() WITHOUT REPLY() But you can also subscribe to Red Alerts as a was to be automatically notified in a pro-active basis as new Hipers are published. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine

Re: Initializing 3590 tapes?

2009-05-21 Thread Mike Walter
Perchance was this 3590C tape degaussed? I seem to remember earlier (years ago) posts about 3590's becoming expensive paperweights on VM systems when they were degaussed and there was no neighboring, friendly z/OS system nearby to re-init them. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opi

Re: CSLCALL TRACE

2009-05-15 Thread Mike Walter
that message string, and display the match with the matching file ID? Mike Walter Hewitt Associates (Sent from the wee keyboard on a Blackberry.) - Original Message - From: "Schuh, Richard" [rsc...@visa.com] Sent: 05/15/2009 04:13 PM MST To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: CSL

Re: Minidisk layout map

2009-05-14 Thread Mike Walter
Not graphical, but are you aware of the IBM-supplied commands: DISKMAP and DIRMAP Mike Walter Hewitt Associates -- "Karl Kingston" Sent by: "The IBM z/VM Operating System" 05/14/2009 10:30 AM Please respond to "The IBM z/VM Operating System" To IBMVM

Re: Please excuse my ignorance

2009-05-13 Thread Mike Walter
ay read/write minidisk of the volume on which the specified minidisk or cylinder/block resides. A user with this option is also authorized to execute any function protected by the DEVINFO and MAINTCCW options. For more information about DIAGNOSE code X'E4', see the z/VM: CP Programming Ser

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

2009-05-12 Thread Mike Walter
security admin issues. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates (Sent from the wee keyboard on a Blackberry.) - Original Message - From: "Bob Bates" [robert.ba...@wellsfargo.com] Sent: 05/12/2009 04:48 PM EST To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Oops and finding passwords on a system...

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

2009-05-12 Thread Mike Walter
.) The "INCLUDE IBMDFLT" does not (and had better not) include "OPTION DEVMAINT". Could there perhaps be some confusion between "DEVMAINT" and "MAINTCCW"? Mike Walter Hewitt Associates "Scott Rohling" Sent by: "The IBM z/VM Operati

Re: z/VM 5.4 install

2009-05-12 Thread Mike Walter
ive is just not worth the hassle here. Besides, I'm a throwback to tape (going back to round, 8-track, 1600BPI tape installs). Mike Walter Hewitt Associates The information contained in this e-mail and any accompanying documents may contain information that is confidential or otherwise pro

Re: z/VM 5.4 install

2009-05-12 Thread Mike Walter
Clifford, I've never seen "binary f 1028" used when installing z/VM or downloading files from IBM, its always been "BINary Fix 1024". Can you explain from where that recommendation came? Is it in a pub, on a web site, or elsewhere? Mike Walter Hewitt Associates &

Re: VTS issues

2009-05-10 Thread Mike Walter
s, more fully filling the new real tapes, and freeing up whole real tapes for re-use. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates "Suleiman Shahin" Sent by: "The IBM z/VM Operating System" 05/10/2009 06:55 PM Please respond to "The IBM z/VM Operating System" To IBMVM@LIS

Re: VTS issues

2009-05-10 Thread Mike Walter
Mount times for scratch tapes or recall of existing files? Mike Walter Hewitt Associates (Sent from the wee keyboard on a Blackberry.) - Original Message - From: "Suleiman Shahin" [s_s_sha...@hotmail.com] Sent: 05/10/2009 06:54 PM GMT To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject:

Re: InformationWeek survey

2009-05-08 Thread Mike Walter
Sure... go ahead... reduce the odds of my winning a touch iPod by sharing this with the whole world (at least the whole world that MATTERS!) ;-) Mike Walter "Glenn Knickerbocker" Sent by: "The IBM z/VM Operating System" 05/08/2009 01:25 PM Please respond to "The

Re: Test for Valid Whole Number

2009-05-06 Thread Mike Walter
Regardless of the number digits, this should work: If verify(checkme,'0123456789')>0 the say 'The value was not all numeric.' Mike Walter Hewitt Associates "James Stracka (DHL US)" Sent by: "The IBM z/VM Operating System" 05/06/2009 12:37 P

Re: I need to assemble RSCS exits

2009-05-05 Thread Mike Walter
that ENABLEs the product. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates (Sent from the wee keyboard on a Blackberry.) - Original Message - From: Steve Harman [steve.har...@mutualofomaha.com] Sent: 05/05/2009 04:17 PM EST To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: I need to assemble RSCS exits I'm a n

Re: Shutdown REIPL

2009-05-01 Thread Mike Walter
After a brief discussion of the previous smaller sizes during a SHARE "Linux and VM Technical Steering Committee" meeting a few years ago, IBM changed the distributed z/VM checkpoint and warmstart sizes to the max 9 cyls each. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates (Sent from the wee key

Re: How can I make my TCPIP run?

2009-04-30 Thread Mike Walter
statements for that, unless that's your OSA address. If you are using 600-602 for OSA and NIC, just change references for the virtual NIC addresses in the CP directory for TCPIP, and the files on TCPMAINT 198. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates (Sent from the wee keyboard on a Blackberry.)

Re: SWAPGEN

2009-04-30 Thread Mike Walter
warning is to pop up properly when they are used (as Barton mentioned), test that warning by causing swap to the failover disk (VDISK -or- real disk, regardless), and then react promptly when something sets off the alert in production. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Disclaimer: What I -don't- k

Re: GGEOOL?

2009-04-27 Thread Mike Walter
't register for me today. I read the first line from left to right, then went to the second line. It's Monday, after all! Enough nits picked for today. ;-) Mike Walter Hewitt Associates "Tom Duerbusch" Sent by: "The IBM z/VM Operating System" 04/27/2009 04:03

Re: GGEOOL?

2009-04-27 Thread Mike Walter
Thanks, Neale and Rich! The implications of the multi-line display eluded me. Yet another reason to not like Mondays! ;-) Mike Walter Hewitt Associates "Rich Smrcina" Sent by: "The IBM z/VM Operating System" 04/27/2009 11:03 AM Please respond to "The IBM z/VM

GGEOOL?

2009-04-27 Thread Mike Walter
GGEOOL Am I missing some joke? Is that some short-hand Morse code? Or has someone hacked into Google.com? :-) Mike Walter Hewitt Associates The information contained in this e-mail and any accompanying documents may contain information that is confidential or otherwise protected from disclo

Re: Installing IBM z/VM to Hercules

2009-04-22 Thread Mike Walter
> in a corner under the bush I knew that Africa was pretty exotic, but bushes with corners? Now that's just wrong. ;-) Mike Walter Hewitt Associates The information contained in this e-mail and any accompanying documents may contain information that is confidential or otherwise p

Re: adding more PAGE volumes

2009-04-21 Thread Mike Walter
wrong, then run CPFMTXA on that volume again asking to ALLOC, but only to display it. You don't really need to change anything if it was done perfectly. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates "Robert Payne" Sent by: "The IBM z/VM Operating System" 04/21/2009 02:50 PM P

Re: adding more PAGE volumes

2009-04-21 Thread Mike Walter
And then: CP START DASD rdev ALL or: CP START VOLid volser ALL Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Greg Dyrda Sent by: "The IBM z/VM Operating System" 04/21/2009 02:13 PM Please respond to "The IBM z/VM Operating System" To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject

Re: VM 5.4 now what?

2009-04-14 Thread Mike Walter
ext migration, any MDISKs on the local sysres will be carefully examined for changed files. It should make identifying those changed files a lot easier next time. We're about to migrate one system to a fully maintained z/VM 5.4.0 next week. The best advice I can give you is to have

Re: Problem with PEEK Command - update

2009-04-02 Thread Mike Walter
s like big screens with many lines - perhaps to laugh at old sysprogs who can't read the tiny typeface! :-) Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Sent from the wee keyboard on a Blackberry. - Original Message - From: "Raymond Noal" [raymond.n...@hds.com] Sent: 04/02/20

Re: 5.4 Install curiosity

2009-04-01 Thread Mike Walter
commands will work against it. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. "David Boyes" Sent by: "The IBM z/VM Operating System" 04/01/2009 11:51 AM Please resp

Re: today in VM history

2009-03-20 Thread Mike Walter
f VM, read Melinda Varian's thorough paper "VM and the VM Community: Past, Present, and Future", currently at: http://www.princeton.edu/~melinda/25paper.pdf Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the o

Re: SHUTDOWN REIPL

2009-03-20 Thread Mike Walter
ually correct and helpful posts I've made of the years. :-( Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. "Schuh, Richard" Sent by: "The IBM z/VM Operating System

Re: SHUTDOWN REIPL

2009-03-19 Thread Mike Walter
Do Anything You Want at Alice's Restaurant"! Sometimes one just needs to find the proper incantation. ;-) Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. "Schuh, Ric

Re: Anne Altman...

2009-03-18 Thread Mike Walter
Rather that post her personal contact info in eternity on this list, try going to: http://www.ibm.com/contact/employees/us/ You can look up any IBM employee worldwide. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or

Re: Quick Guides (was: Please tell me I did something stupid)

2009-03-18 Thread Mike Walter
o prevent a crash caused by missing one of those critical preflight checklist item. Even so, if they are doing the installation for a customer, those date/timestamps in the margin of the Guide and the matching console logs, might provide their customer with the evidence that permits them with

Re: SEGGEN failure

2009-03-17 Thread Mike Walter
form the same quick search function on even those disks not currently accessed via: FINDFILE * * * (TODAY ISO All the changed files (on accessed disks) will show right up, making the detective work somewhat less tedious. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mi

Re: Puzzle or what?

2009-03-17 Thread Mike Walter
t to disk, the NetData format is 'unraveled' into the same format as it was before being packed up by SENDFILE. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. "Suleiman Sha

Deeper and deeper into the REXX rabbit hole - Signal on ERROR messages

2009-03-13 Thread Mike Walter
#x27;s a fairly perverted line of code, but not unseen. So... does anyone have some pretty rock-solid examples of Error, Syntax, and Novalue subroutines that they'd be willing to share? Too bad that the rexx manuals don't provide some nice, proven, tried-and-tested samples what

Re: Total VDISK space allowed

2009-03-13 Thread Mike Walter
rick in this area is that the VDISK defined in the directory is not subject to the defined User Limit. So you can give some servers a large VDISK but still not allow everyone to get one like that -- Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessaril

Re: Utility Question

2009-03-05 Thread Mike Walter
cal mods on a non_IBM disk) */ 'ACCESS 193 U' /* VM Utilities and loadmaps*/ 'ACCESS 3B2 V' /* VM Sample utilities */ 'ACCESS 500 R' /* IBM-provided service disk (SERVLINK files) */ 'ACCESSM0 ON'/* See filemode0 files

Re: VM FTP Question

2009-03-05 Thread Mike Walter
Ah, well... to reply to myself (is that a sign of insanity?), and to save you searching for it, here's the Fran's Slippery Rock web site from which you can download VMFTP and many other excellent, free z/VM software tools. http://zvm.sru.edu/~DOWNLOAD/ Mike Walter Hewitt

Re: VM FTP Question

2009-03-05 Thread Mike Walter
Fran Hensler's Slippery Rock FTP site. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. "Tracy, David" Sent by: "The IBM z/VM Operating System" 03/05/2009 0

Re: IP error

2009-03-03 Thread Mike Walter
Is his full title: "Vlan "the impaler" Altmark"? Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. "Rob van der Heij" Sent by: "The IBM z/VM Ope

Re: IP error

2009-03-02 Thread Mike Walter
An ALAN connection!!?? Wait until Chuckie hears about that! He'll want a CHUCKIE connection of his own! Oh, wait. That 'A LAN' looked connected in the font it appeared in. Chuckie can breath easy. ;-) Mike Walter - Original Message - From: "Dave Jon

Re: SHARE in Austin

2009-02-26 Thread Mike Walter
he company can't afford my travel, with those college expenses staring us in the face I can't either. :-( Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. "MacIntyre, Cor

Re: SHARE in Austin

2009-02-26 Thread Mike Walter
*Why* did my forebears stop heading west when they got to Chicago!?? At least I don't have to mow the grass yet! Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. "Dave Jones&qu

Re: VTAM 4.2 PDF manuals

2009-02-18 Thread Mike Walter
enter was pretty useless when searching on "VTAM 4.2" Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. "Hughes, Jim" Sent by: "The IBM z/VM Operating System&q

Re: VM Live migration

2009-02-11 Thread Mike Walter
ng a guest for later quick restart ("kickstart", if that's not trademarked) is intriguing. Could you supply a business case wherein such a quickstart would provide real value to any/your business? Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not

Re: Adding Slots for CP volumes in the System Config file

2009-02-11 Thread Mike Walter
Thanks, Kris - of course, you're right. Because I always add many Reserved slots, that practice lead me to 'mis-remember'. Thanks again. Maybe the next z/VM release will come with all 255 slots allocated or pre-Reserved? ;-) Mike Walter Hewitt Associates - Original Mes

Re: Adding Slots for CP volumes in the System Config file

2009-02-10 Thread Mike Walter
I "believe" that there are CP commands to DEFINE new CP_OWNED slots dynamically. But I'm sitting on the couch typing on a Blackberry, so have not checked the CP Commands and Utilities manual. I'm getting older and could be misremembering. Mike Walter Hewitt Associa

Re: Paging

2009-02-10 Thread Mike Walter
ter. You can then dynamically bring it online and CP START it for paging. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates - Original Message - From: "Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR)" [terry.mar...@cms.hhs.gov] Sent: 02/10/2009 10:53 PM EST To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Paging

Re: Adding Slots for CP volumes in the System Config file

2009-02-10 Thread Mike Walter
need CP_Owned slots for volumes with CP space allocated thereon. Volumes with all PERM space do not need to be in the CP_Owned list. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates - Original Message - From: "Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR)" [terry.mar...@cms.hhs.gov] Sent: 02/10/2009 11:00

Re: Paging

2009-02-10 Thread Mike Walter
same time every Monday morning. Good learning experience, but not good for that year's salary merit increase. :-( Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. Brian Nielsen Se

Re: Philosophical question...

2009-02-10 Thread Mike Walter
Chuckie, Was that supposed to be funny? I'll have to ask my wife. Sir Mike the Prestidigitator AKA: Husband and Dad "Alan Altmark" Sent by: "The IBM z/VM Operating System" 02/03/2009 12:17 PM Please respond to "The IBM z/VM Operating System" To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Re

Re: Short user description in sample CP directory

2009-02-10 Thread Mike Walter
an application svm. Installed product svms would probably have a 'contactid' of MAINT. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. "Kris Buelens" Sent by:

Re: lOGON WITH OUT ipL'ing

2009-02-06 Thread Mike Walter
uded a line reading: 'CP LOGOFF'. That usually happened right around April 1. ;-) It also, briefly, as long as people remembered, resulted in better security protocols; no unattended logged on terminals for a while. Until next year. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expre

Re: Philosophical question...

2009-02-03 Thread Mike Walter
Mark Post replied... >>> On 2/3/2009 at 11:27 AM, David Boyes wrote: > On 2/3/09 11:19 AM, "Mike Walter" wrote: -snip- > They also "recommend" bypassing dependency > checking to force installation of this package, which strikes me as flat out &

Re: Philosophical question...

2009-02-03 Thread Mike Walter
ys result in better code, shipped sooner (can you spell "VM/XA SF", or even just "VM/XA"?). Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. "David Boyes"

Re: Re-labeling CP-Owned volumes on a live system

2009-01-30 Thread Mike Walter
rning curve, and good for your career . If it was too easy, everyone would do it! ;-) Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. "Quay, Jonathan (IHG)" Sent by: "

Re: Another day, another job (or, "The Song of the Gypsy Programmers")

2009-01-27 Thread Mike Walter
ll your contributions over the many long years. I am 100% certain that you have helped me overcome more than just one "challenge" in all that time. Warmest regards, Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the

Re: VM:Schedule utility

2009-01-15 Thread Mike Walter
SYS IRBDB A to the old system's VMSCHED 1B0 disk (with REPLACE, after all you should still have the "VMSCHED -1IRBDB" file there, right?). Then bring up that VMSCHED on the old system. Then copy the NEWSYS IRBDB file to the hew systems' VMSCHED 1B0 disk as VMSCHED IRBDB

Re: Sorting monitor data?

2009-01-15 Thread Mike Walter
7;s are a sequence number (easily generated with a PIPEs "SPECS" stage). When you are ready to run them into CP3KVMXT, first sort on that prefix, and stripping it before re-writing them all as one large file. But that seems to defeat the purpose of writing the file in smaller pieces, no?

Re: LOGO CONFIG

2009-01-12 Thread Mike Walter
d: CP REFRESH LOGOVSM VSCS */ /* mrw 03/17/99 */ Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates.

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