Re: Performence Toolkit not working.

2011-08-07 Thread Neale Ferguson
I think the question was: do you have multiple z/OS systems that are sharing dasd? On 8/7/11 2:09 PM, saurabh khandelwal sourabhkhandelwal...@gmail.com wrote: Volumes are shared between z/VM and z/OS . So in this case is it possible to get some more detail about MVS crash from z/VM. On Sun,

Re: VM workshop at OSU

2011-07-27 Thread Neale Ferguson
The OSU Union building is in High Street. Here are the directions from the website. They are correct as we are there now: http://ohiounion.osu.edu/visit_the_union/directions On 7/27/11 12:22 PM, Gentry, Steve steve.gen...@westernsouthernlife.com wrote: I'm attending this workshop and I am

Re: VM workshop at OSU

2011-07-27 Thread Neale Ferguson
BTW I will be tweeting (or trying to anyway) using the #vmworkshop tag during the week. On 7/27/11 12:22 PM, Gentry, Steve steve.gen...@westernsouthernlife.com wrote: I'm attending this workshop and I am not familiar with the area where it will be held. The 1739 N. High Street address

IBM 2nd Qtr

2011-07-19 Thread Neale Ferguson
From the press release: System z mainframe revenue up 61 percent; MIPS up 86 percent

Re: Moving on

2011-06-22 Thread Neale Ferguson
Best of luck Richard and thanks. On 6/22/11 6:18 PM, Marcy Cortes marcy.d.cor...@wellsfargo.com wrote: Congratulations and best of luck to you, Richard! The VM community loses a very long standing member indeed! Marcy

3590 assign problem

2011-04-28 Thread Neale Ferguson
X-posted - IBMVM LINUX-390 When we attach a tape drive (3590) to a Linux guest, the tape driver attempts to execute an assign operation on the device which is getting an error: TRACE TYPE IO, CPU TIME 12:08:25.022913 TRACEID = VMTAPE, TRACESET = TAPE, IODATA = 100 USER =

Re: 3590 assign problem

2011-04-28 Thread Neale Ferguson
Good point. I'll check that. On 4/28/11 1:17 PM, Brian Nielsen bniel...@sco.idaho.gov wrote: If your Linux guest is trying to do an assign, then you need to make sure VM doesn't do an assign during the Attach by using the NOASSIGN option of the ATTACH command.

Re: Mark your calendar for VM Linux Summer Workshop (July 2011)

2011-04-13 Thread Neale Ferguson
Look for VM Workshop group on Facebook. On 4/13/11 7:55 PM, David L. Craig d...@radix.net wrote: On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Pamela Christina in rainy endicott ny chris...@gdlvm7.vnet.ibm.com wrote: Hi, just wanted to get this on your calendarswork is underway to relaunch the VM

Re: Something wrong with my USERID

2011-04-06 Thread Neale Ferguson
#CP TERM MODE VM On 4/6/11 12:20 PM, Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) terry.mar...@cms.hhs.gov wrote: Hi I have something set wrong for my userid on this one LPAR and for the life can't see it. When I issue a basic command such as Q DISK I get the following: 12:14:28 q disk 12:14:28

Presentations from Hillgang

2011-03-21 Thread Neale Ferguson
Presentations from the last Hillgang meeting are available at http://www.sinenomine.net/node/722

Meeting RSVP

2011-03-11 Thread Neale Ferguson
If you haven¹t already RSVP¹d please do so as soon as practicable. We are trying to get numbers for catering. Neale

Re: Sending files to JES

2011-03-08 Thread Neale Ferguson
Alternatively, the TCPNJE add-on-extra to RSCS will allow submission through NJE. Neale On 3/8/11 12:34 PM, David Boyes dbo...@sinenomine.net wrote: SPOOL PUN TO RSCS TAG DEV PUN zos SYSTEM PUNCH fn ft fm ( NOH Explanation: SP PUN TO RSCS sets the destination of the PUNCH command on the VM

Hillgang Meeting

2011-03-08 Thread Neale Ferguson
The next meeting of the DC z/VM Linux User Group ³HILLGANG² will take place on March 16 at the CA offices in Herndon, VA. The meeting details may be found here: http://www.vm.ibm.com/events/hill0316.pdf Follow the directions in that document to RSVP. Neale

Hillgang - March Meeting

2011-02-23 Thread Neale Ferguson
with the zBX entities? - What type of control over the resources do I have from the different places ­ HMC, z/VM, z/Linux, blade? - What (other) problems is it solving? What additional software will I require? Neale Ferguson - Some Interest Technologies You Should be Looking at - ZeroMQ (0MQ

Re: Access to wiki.linuxvm.org

2011-02-04 Thread Neale Ferguson
My apologies. I replied to the wrong message, but the sentiment still holds! On Feb 4, 2011, at 18:25, Mark Post mp...@novell.com wrote: Cross-posted to Linux-390, IBMVM, and IBM-Main All, wiki.linuxvm.org has been under attack for about the last week from spammers and vandals. I think

Re: Another Info Request: SIGNAL SHUTDOWN process ...

2011-01-10 Thread Neale Ferguson
Go to VM download site (www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages) and look for SHUTTRAP. It will show you what needs to be done. On 1/10/11 10:24 AM, Jeff Gribbin jeff.grib...@gmail.com wrote: I've been hunting the doc's for more detail on how SIGNAL SHUTDOWN actual ly works - assuming that somewhere

Re: Another Info Request: SIGNAL SHUTDOWN process ...

2011-01-10 Thread Neale Ferguson
And POP won't tell you how to use the SERVC operation to register that you want to receive that particular signal. On 1/10/11 11:57 AM, Jeff Gribbin jeff.grib...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks guys - never would have found that by myself. ZArchitecture POP is n't exactly explicit on the matter but

Re: Strange response time problems (also posted on VSE-L)

2010-12-21 Thread Neale Ferguson
Actually, what does #CP IND Q show when the problem is occuring? On 12/21/10 12:17 PM, Quay, Jonathan (IHG) jonathan.q...@ihg.com wrote: Guest operating systems almost always live in Q3. Try bumping up the Q3 STORBUF. From: The IBM z/VM Operating System

CSL question

2010-12-17 Thread Neale Ferguson
I think I'm missing something obvious here but I've been staring at it so long I can't see the problem. The code fragment - char exsbuff[sizeof(exsh_t) + sizeof(exsf_t)]; int lExsbuff = sizeof(exsbuff); char *fName = PROFILE EXEC; int lFname = strlen(fName); int lCommit = 6; DMSCSL(DMSEXIST, rc,

Re: CSL question

2010-12-17 Thread Neale Ferguson
You are correct. I discovered that 10 minutes after asking the question. Tks anyway. On 12/17/10 11:50 PM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com wrote: I think you're missing the filemode. Without it, it's being interpreted as 'namedef1 namedef2'. Alan Altmark

Re: Mandatory ESMs?

2010-12-10 Thread Neale Ferguson
LE has been kept up to date, as have things like the binder to support functions like MPROUTE which were also ported from z/OS. This makes acquiring and maintaining things like this so much easier. I'm a long time CMS fan. In an earlier life we had a lot of complex apps centered on SQL/DS

Re: Shopz Function

2010-11-17 Thread Neale Ferguson
Hey, that's my number! On 11/17/10 12:49 PM, Schuh, Richard rsc...@visa.com wrote: In the Shopz new function announcement that I just received, the salutation was, Dear 52450 Schuh,. I am not sure that I will recognize it if someone calls me by my new first name. It will take some time

Re: RSU or PSU?

2010-10-21 Thread Neale Ferguson
Been there, done that, got the T-shirt! On 10/21/10 2:02 PM, George Henke/NYLIC george_he...@newyorklife.com wrote: Hold everything, I think Mike just led me to the problem. I believe I uploaded a COR file from my desktop instead of the 5407RSU file downloaded from SHOPZ. The difference in

Re: REXX that verify what MINIDISK is a file

2010-10-15 Thread Neale Ferguson
Years ago we used the alternative EXEC processor support to encrypt our execs and make these the ones the users executed. On 10/15/10 12:51 PM, gclo...@br.ibm.com gclo...@br.ibm.com wrote: Hi, A lot of years ago (VSE age), I saw a similar problem: how to protect an exec that puts controlled

Hillgang reminder

2010-10-12 Thread Neale Ferguson
A final reminder that the Greater DC area z/VM and Linux on z user group meets tomorrow. Details at: http://www.vm.ibm.com/events/hill1013.pdf * Understanding the IT Audit Process ­ Stan King, Information Technology Company * z/VM Single System Image and Guest Mobility Preview ­ John

Hillgang meeting - October 13

2010-09-29 Thread Neale Ferguson
The z/VM and Linux on z user group ³Hillgang² will meet on October 13 in Herndon Virginia at the CA offices. The agenda has been updated and may be found at http://www.vm.ibm.com/events/hill1013.pdf The PDF also contains logistical information regarding registering and directions. Neale Ferguson

Re: How is LOADPARM obtained?

2010-09-28 Thread Neale Ferguson
It uses the SERVC opcode which does things like read/write to the HMC, set masks to enable/disable signals like powerdown (how Linux intercepts the signal shutdown command), get loadparm, get configuration information etc. While some of the function is generic, I believe some is model specific.

Re: How is LOADPARM obtained?

2010-09-28 Thread Neale Ferguson
Some light reading regarding SERVC (but LOADPARM in particular): http://www.docstoc.com/docs/55135658/Method-And-System-For-Providing-A-Hardware-Machine-Function-In-A-Protected-Virtual-Machine---Patent-6681238 http://www.patentmine.com/grant/06253224_desc.html

Hillgang October Meeting

2010-09-08 Thread Neale Ferguson
The preliminary agenda for the October 13 meeting of Hillgang is available at: http://www.vm.ibm.com/events/hill1013.pdf We have a lot of great content (even more than usual that is): - Understanding the IT Audit Process ­ Stan King, Information Technology Company - z/VM Single System Image

Re: Moving on (please don't panic)

2010-09-02 Thread Neale Ferguson
Sounds like the sequel Spawn of Chucky! I must admit feeling sorry for Alan's wife who, by that logic, would be known as Bride of Chucky. Seriously though, congratulations Alan. Congrats! Hey, why doesn't Chuckie stay in dev, and you go on? Then we'd get the best of both worlds! ...phsiii

Re: CMS Pipelines for Windows

2010-08-29 Thread Neale Ferguson
No, it doesn't recognize the format. I suspect it's still x86 opcodes not CIL. (Yes, I've already tried it.) On 8/29/10 12:47 PM, Mark Post mp...@novell.com wrote: On 8/29/2010 at 12:14 PM, Scott Rohling scott.rohl...@gmail.com wrote: Nice! Any hope of it being ported to Linux? (or maybe

Re: CMS Pipelines for Windows

2010-08-29 Thread Neale Ferguson
Actually, I take back my last email. I haven't the time to do it at the moment but if someone did an install of it and then checked the stuff put in (presumably) Program Files, it might be a CIL app. I think I had tested the C++ runtime library and not the actual app. On 8/29/10 12:47 PM,

Re: Trying to get OSA online

2010-08-21 Thread Neale Ferguson
What does q 9701-9702 report? On Aug 21, 2010, at 11:15, Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) terry.mar...@cms.hhs.govmailto:terry.mar...@cms.hhs.gov wrote: Hi We just cabled OSA 9700 to our z10 it is on CHPID 39. I can VARY ON 9700 and it comes online and when I display it shows OSA 9700 FREE

z/OS Guest not activating OSA connection

2010-08-10 Thread Neale Ferguson
I have a z/OS 1.9 guest whose TCPIP is attempting to activate an OSA connection to a vSwitch. It starts activating but stays in this state: IST486I STATUS= ACTIV, DESIRED STATE= ACTIV IST087I TYPE = LEASED , CONTROL = MPC , HPDT = YES IST1954I TRL MAJOR NODE = OSATRL1 IST1715I

Re: z/OS Guest not activating OSA connection

2010-08-10 Thread Neale Ferguson
Good question. My z/OS knowledge is about as substantive as a Justin Bieber album. I just assumed z/OS could talk layer 2. On 8/10/10 11:15 AM, Riedel, Alexander alexander.rie...@f-i-ts.de wrote: Are you sure, that you want to connet a z/OS to an Layer2 VSWITCH? Does z/OS not need an Layer3 ?

Re: z/OS Guest not activating OSA connection

2010-08-10 Thread Neale Ferguson
Making it layer 3 was the answer tks. On 8/10/10 11:15 AM, Riedel, Alexander alexander.rie...@f-i-ts.de wrote: Are you sure, that you want to connet a z/OS to an Layer2 VSWITCH? Does z/OS not need an Layer3 ?

Re: rexx stem

2010-07-29 Thread Neale Ferguson
How is XEDIT being invoked. Are you running an EXEC that invokes XEDIT which then runs a macro? If you are trying to retrieve the vars from the EXEC then PIPE will let you do so by specifying an invocation number of the rexxvars stage, then use the varload stage to load them into the XEDIT

Re: New standard for networking help

2010-07-19 Thread Neale Ferguson
Here¹s an EXEC I use to do initial data gathering. I had updated it but have lost the latest copy. Anyway it¹s a start: /* */ CP.1 = 'Q ALL' CP.2 = 'Q CPLEVEL' CP.3 = 'Q SRM' CP.4 = 'Q ALLOC' CP.5 = 'Q ALLOC PAGE' CP.6 = 'Q ALLOC SPOOL' CP.7 = 'Q ALLOC TDISK' CP.8 = 'Q MDC' CP.9 = 'Q

Re: New standard for networking help

2010-07-19 Thread Neale Ferguson
Because it was quick and dirty. On 7/19/10 3:25 PM, Kris Buelens kris.buel...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry to be nitpicking on this good idea: * why expose to errors by not using ADDRESS COMMAND? * why throwing away any userid starting with VSM. Take this instead * 'PIPE CP Q NAMES', *

Hillgang reminder

2010-07-09 Thread Neale Ferguson
For those who are thinking about coming to the next Hillgang meeting in Herndon Virginia, please let me know soon so we can estimate numbers for catering. The agenda is available at: http://www.vm.ibm.com/events/hill0714.pdf

Re: RFEX EXEC Question

2010-07-07 Thread Neale Ferguson
'EXEC SENDFILE ' or proceed the command with address CMS The 'address command' prevents REXX (CMS actually) from looking for EXECs when it encounters a command. On 7/7/10 12:59 PM, Wandschneider, Scott scott.wandschnei...@infocrossing.com wrote: I have a REXX EXEC that process files in

Re: Z//VM 5.4, z890, and CPACF

2010-07-06 Thread Neale Ferguson
A z9 or better for STFLE, I believe. Not sure what bit in the STFLE corresponds to the CPACF feature but if it's within the first 32 then it's covered by STFL. On 7/6/10 11:38 AM, Hughes, Jim jim.hug...@doit.nh.gov wrote: I am trying to use Alan Altmark's program QCPACF to see if CPACF is

Hillgang Agenda

2010-07-06 Thread Neale Ferguson
The agenda for next week's Hillgang meeting is available at http://www.vm.ibm.com/events/hill0714.pdf Directions and registration details are included. Neale

Re: Large file transfer capacity

2010-07-01 Thread Neale Ferguson
What type of file system is on the PC? FAT, NTFS, ?? On Jul 1, 2010, at 10:58, Nikolai Dorozhko doros...@iba.bymailto:doros...@iba.by wrote: Hello collegues, developers. Trying to download/upload a CMS binary file 2G to PC under z/VM 4.4. VM FTP aborts when transfer reaches 2G,

Next Meeting Added download

2010-06-22 Thread Neale Ferguson
Cross-dressed I mean posted on Hillgang, IBMVM, and LINUX-390 The next meeting of Hillgang will be July 14th at CA in Herndon. I¹m still finalizing the agenda and am still open to suggestions or offers. At the moment our featured speaker will be Len Diegel of Velocity Software. Also, a few

Re: Can you help the Open Object Rexx Project?

2010-06-02 Thread Neale Ferguson
Sounds like an ideal project for the OSDL system based at Marist. This system is for open source developers to bring code to Linux on z. I do the development of Mono on a SLES10 system they provisioned for me. On Jun 2, 2010, at 16:14, Chip Davis c...@aresti.com wrote: As many of you are

Re: OS390 Guests using GRS and Sharing DASD with virtual RESERVE/RELEASEbgggtggncv under z/VMnjxjgj

2010-05-23 Thread Neale Ferguson
It's the special iPhone encryption app. It's perfectly readable from my iPhone. It says My hovercraft is full of eels. On May 23, 2010, at 8:48, Rob van der Heij rvdh...@gmail.commailto:rvdh...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Alain Benveniste

z/VM Library - PDF redirection error

2010-05-12 Thread Neale Ferguson
When I go to http://www.vm.ibm.com/library/ and click on entries within the z/VM PDF List category (e.g. http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/zvmpdf/#zvm53) I get: ³Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.² I've

Re: z/VM Library - PDF redirection error

2010-05-12 Thread Neale Ferguson
It worked for me this evening On May 12, 2010, at 21:39, Tony Thigpen t...@vse2pdf.com wrote: No such error here with Firefox 3.5.9 on Suse 11.2. Tony Thigpen -Original Message - From: Neale Ferguson Sent: 05/12/2010 09:59 AM When I go to http://www.vm.ibm.com/library/ and click

Hillgang reminder

2010-03-24 Thread Neale Ferguson
A gentle reminder that the next meeting of Hillgang will take place on Friday 26 March, in Herndon Virginia at the CA office. The meeting¹s agenda and directions are found at http://www.vm.ibm.com/events/hill0326.pdf.

Re: Moving On

2010-03-17 Thread Neale Ferguson
I've met your co-workers and they're a dangerous looking lot. Becareful! ;-) On 3/17/10 11:04 AM, Ivica Brodaric ivica.broda...@gmail.com wrote: I am glad to announce that after long holidays I started a new job at BNZ (formerly known as Bank of New Zealand), Auckland. New job, new city,

Hillgang 26 Mar

2010-03-10 Thread Neale Ferguson
Cross-posted The next meeting of Hillgang will be at CA¹s office in Herndon on Friday 26 March. Details may be found at http://www.vm.ibm.com/events/hill0326.pdf Neale

Re: 2 to 3 IFLs

2010-01-05 Thread Neale Ferguson
Won¹t adding an additional IFL to the z/VM system increase the license charge for your linux distribution?

Re: enhanced DAT facility

2009-10-30 Thread Neale Ferguson
Can guests use it under z/VM? On 10/30/09 3:33 PM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com wrote: No, you cannot persuade z/VM to use enhanced DAT (EDAT). Another religious war in the offing. One of the ways EDAT improves performance is by eliminating page tables (leaving more room in the

Hillgang reminder

2009-10-19 Thread Neale Ferguson
A reminder of the Hillgang meeting this Wednesday Oct 21 at CA¹s office in Herndon. If you haven¹t RSVP¹d please do so as we¹re trying to finalize catering from breakfast. The agenda and abstracts for the meeting may be found at: http://www.vm.ibm.com/events/hill1020.pdf Neale

Re: SVC 203

2009-10-16 Thread Neale Ferguson
#CP TR PROG 0 If it's a branch into garbage then #CP TR BR INTO garbagearea On 10/16/09 9:49 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: operation exception means you tried to execute an invalid opcode. It's been a long time since I've done any CMS programming. Do you get some

Hillgang meeting

2009-10-15 Thread Neale Ferguson
The next Hillgang meeting will take place on Wednesday October 21 at CA¹s office in Herndon Va. The details may be found here: http://www.vm.ibm.com/events/hill1020.pdf

Young Developers Get Old Mainframers¹ Jobs

2009-10-10 Thread Neale Ferguson
http://www.linuxtoday.com/high_performance/2009101000535NWBZ My co-worker, Tim, explained that our company, a major software vendor, is seeing its mainframe workforce rapidly approaching the age of retirement. Tim said IBM and most other firms whose businesses depend on mainframes are also

Re: Operator - vm 5.4

2009-09-18 Thread Neale Ferguson
If the user OPERATOR got logged off then the next class A user that logs onto the system becomes the system operator and will behave as you described. Can you check the system log to see what may have happened? On 9/18/09 4:17 PM, Steve Harman steve.har...@mutualofomaha.com wrote: Excellent -

Re: Operator - vm 5.4

2009-09-18 Thread Neale Ferguson
TERM MODE VM On 9/18/09 4:01 PM, Steve Harman steve.har...@mutualofomaha.com wrote: Last weekend I upgraded a 1-lvl system to 5.4 (from 5.2). Today when I log on to the system, I can't do most cms commands: 14:36:32 Q DISK 14:36:32 HCPCQV003E Invalid option - DISK 14:36:46

Re: SHARE blog.

2009-09-02 Thread Neale Ferguson
Hey Alan, it's about time you updated that picture on the blog. Last time you looked like that Tears for Fears were in the top 40. On 9/2/09 5:57 PM, Dave Jones d...@vsoft-software.com wrote: I've come across an interesting set of blogs about last week's SHARE meeting in Denver. They contain

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

2009-06-24 Thread Neale Ferguson
Tell us what your trying to filter and I bet you¹ll get several versions of an action routine from the list watchers that you can plug into PROP and it will create/append to a log on the fly. On 6/24/09 12:01 AM, Fred Schmidt fred.schm...@nt.gov.au wrote: Neale Ferguson said... Would

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

2009-06-24 Thread Neale Ferguson
fred.schm...@nt.gov.au wrote: Neale Ferguson said... Tell us what your trying to filter and I bet you¹ll get several versions of an action routine from the list watchers that you can plug into PROP and it will create/append to a log on the fly. OK, here goes (userid¹s and IP

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

2009-06-23 Thread Neale Ferguson
Would it be easier to create action routines for PROP so it will process the messages as they come in rather than post-processing them when the format may have changed? Neale

Re: z/VM V5R4.0 dISABLED WAIT PSW 9051

2009-04-30 Thread Neale Ferguson
I love the concept (pun intended) of CP having relations with anything: HCP9051W FlashCopy relations were found in CP-OWNED, non-PERM space. But see it suffers just like we do from time to time: Relations will be withdrawn. So I guess CP will have to apologize whether it was in the wrong or

Re: How Many Files Can Be on a Minidisk Before It Cannot be ACCESSed?

2009-04-29 Thread Neale Ferguson
How about using something like VMARC to zip files 1 week old into weekly archives on the same minidisk that are easily expanded when needed? On 4/29/09 12:44 PM, James Stracka (DHL US) james.stra...@dhl.com wrote: This application puts about 10,000 files a day on its minidisk. The

Re: GGEOOL?

2009-04-27 Thread Neale Ferguson
On my screen the code is split over two lines so that the you get: G G E O O L On 4/27/09 11:09 AM, Mike Walter mike.wal...@hewitt.com wrote: Google's home page is celebrating Samuel Morse's birthday today, by attempting to spell out GOOGLE in Morse code. At this time, the Google home

Re: RSCS Connections

2009-04-24 Thread Neale Ferguson
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...@wellsfargo.com wrote: I think they are in the process of

Re: 2A8 Diagnose Undocumented return code

2009-04-22 Thread Neale Ferguson
Device number in the EDCPL does not match the device number specified in bits 48-63 of Ry. On 4/22/09 4:37 PM, Gary M. Dennis gary.den...@mantissa.com wrote: While attempting a ³Establish Device Connection² we receive a CC 2 with a return code of x¹10¹ Anyone know what this means? The

Hillgang

2009-04-14 Thread Neale Ferguson
The agenda for the Hillgang meeting to be held on April 22 is posted at http://www.vm.ibm.com/events/hill0422.pdf Neale

Re: Changing text to postscript

2009-03-23 Thread Neale Ferguson
Does it have to be postscript or would PDF suffice? For postscript DCF (aka script) can create PS files. The TXT2PDF command does what it says: converts text to PDF. On 3/23/09 10:21 AM, Mary Zervos zer...@binghamton.edu wrote: Hello all, Does anyone know if there is software available on

z/OS 1.9 ADCD

2009-03-19 Thread Neale Ferguson
Excuse the (slightly) off-topic subject but since we¹re running z/OS under z/VM I am taking the liberty of posting. I have forgotten the password of the TSO user IBMUSER. I don't believe I changed it from when it was installed but I can't locate the ADCD documentation that would tell me. Neale

Re: z/OS 1.9 ADCD

2009-03-19 Thread Neale Ferguson
Thanks to all. I found that I had in fact changed the password at an earlier time but enough brain cells were left (after repeated attempts to drown them) to recall what I changed it to.

Re: Please tell me I did something stupid

2009-03-17 Thread Neale Ferguson
The component is cpsfs or cmssfs ... Not cp or cms which are for minidisks. On 3/17/09 3:36 PM, Adam Thornton athorn...@sinenomine.net wrote: I just installed a virgin z/VM 5.4 with all products on filepool rather than on minidisk. I only tweaked it enough to get a TCPIP stack up and

IBM 4Q

2009-01-20 Thread Neale Ferguson
Some encouraging news from IBM with its 4Q results. System z fell year-to-year but not by much: Fourth-Quarter 2008: Diluted earnings of $3.28 per share, up 17 percent; Net income of $4.4 billion, up 12 percent; Gross profit margin of 47.9 percent, up 3 points; Revenue of $27.0 billion, impacted

Network diagnose 2a8

2008-12-18 Thread Neale Ferguson
Folks, If you go to the z/VM 5.4 Information Center and lookup the CP Programming Services manual you will find a new diagnose 2a8 documented there. This is what we use in the OpenSolaris port for our layer 2 network driver. This is what came with VM64466 (and its follow-on): Privilege Class:

Diag 2a8...

2008-12-18 Thread Neale Ferguson
It would be remiss of me if I didn't congratulate those at IBM involved in creating and getting this bit of technology out to the masses. It really is a sweet bit of work. If anyone has had the pleasure(?) of reading the linux source code to see how the qdio driver works you will see that the

Re: z/VM Linux Cost effectiveness

2008-12-09 Thread Neale Ferguson
See: http://www.linuxvm.org/present/SHARE110/S9206uc.pdf This was a user who went the other way (AIX-Linux on z). On 12/9/08 2:57 PM, Steve Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having been a technician my entire career I don't posses much knowledge of the intricacies of the budgeting process.

Additional Hillgang session

2008-12-03 Thread Neale Ferguson
Bonus session for tomorrow - CA Products for z/VM ­ Old Dogs with New Tricks Linux on the mainframe has given z/VM new life. This presentation explores the evolution of CA¹s system management solutions for z/VM as invaluable tools for securing and managing z/VM environments. An overview of

Re: new VSMDCSS in z/VM 5.4

2008-11-26 Thread Neale Ferguson
I'll leave out comments about Intelligence and simply state that as an Australian we'd employ Strine or Rhyming Slang as the means of encrypting messages. On 11/26/08 8:55 AM, Rob van der Heij [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 3:56 AM, David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One

Hillgang Meeting

2008-11-26 Thread Neale Ferguson
The agenda for the Dec 4 meeting of ³Hillgang² is available at http://www.vm.ibm.com/events/hill1204.pdf

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

2008-11-18 Thread Neale Ferguson
Isn't it to do with the SET LANG option? One of the options is UCAMENG or something like that? This one is upper case only.

Guest LAN definition for z/OS guest

2008-11-18 Thread Neale Ferguson
For a guest LAN what is the device type used in the DEVICE statement for a z/OS guest? MPCOSA or MPCIPA (or something else)?

Re: Verify from z/VM that a Linux guest is up

2008-11-14 Thread Neale Ferguson
Q SYSOPER - you'll probably find that the user MAINT became the system operator as the normal one got logged off somehow and MAINT was the 1st CLASS A user to logon to the system. VM grants this user the mantle of system operator. Use SET SYSOPER to rectify. On 11/14/08 10:56 AM, Martin, Terry

Re: MAINT's 123 MDISK definition

2008-10-08 Thread Neale Ferguson
MAINT 123 is usually a full-pack minidisk that covers the volume that has the DRCT area on it (very often the 5xxRES pack). To be sure Q ALLOC DRCT to determine where the directory lives. On 10/8/08 9:50 AM, Guest, Darren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've been a bad systems programmer and

Re: OT: LPAR

2008-10-07 Thread Neale Ferguson
Brings a whole new meaning to flushing cache lines. On 10/7/08 11:30 AM, Rob van der Heij [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Somehow with posts that refer to partitions and hardware, gmail account is suggesting links to JackNob which provides Toilet Partitioning Hardware - :-) Rob (avoiding a

Immediate instructions (was nonames)

2008-08-01 Thread Neale Ferguson
Don't forget you now have fullword immediate instructions. Gcc will automatically generate them and I've used them a lot in our OpenSolaris port. On 8/1/08 12:05 PM, Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just hoping folks learned something new today. I'll be the first to admit that these new

Re: Do we need to reIPL vm to add dasd ?

2008-05-30 Thread Neale Ferguson
ATT A40E SYSTEM LNX015

Re: Trying to Learn z/Linux ISHELL Scripting

2008-05-29 Thread Neale Ferguson
There¹s also my introduction to scripting lab materials you should be able to find at http://linuxvm.org/present On 5/29/08 5:13 PM, Raymond Noal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Lists, Could any of you recommend reference material (web sites, manuals, redbooks/redpieces) so I could learn

Re: Getting Console Logs Files to z/OS from z/VM

2008-05-27 Thread Neale Ferguson
Yep since 1.7 I believe. On 5/27/08 10:12 AM, Michael Coffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi David, Does z/OS speak TCPNJE? I thought it had to be SNANJE (at least that was the deal back in 2002 when I last looked into this). Have the z/OS guys finally seen the light and provided a TCPNJE

Re: Displaying data space storage in a VMDUMP

2008-05-13 Thread Neale Ferguson
Shouldn¹t you be using VMDUMPTL? It has a command (VMDTSET) that allows you to specify an ASCE when doing displays of storage. Does anyone know how to display data space storage in DUMPSCAN? The DUMPSCAN DISPLAY command doesn¹t seem to know about ALETs.

Mike Cowlishaw at Hillgang

2008-04-10 Thread Neale Ferguson
agenda please see: http://www.vm.ibm.com/events/hill0424.pdf Neale Ferguson

Re: VTAM R.I.P.

2008-04-03 Thread Neale Ferguson
With all the bad mouthing that poor old VTAM has been copping I will jump to its defence. Some of the most interesting things I got to play with were due to it and GCS. First off we modified our OS/PLI 2.3 source code and added some function to GCS such that we could write apps in proper

Re: VTAM R.I.P.

2008-04-03 Thread Neale Ferguson
What type of things are you still using it for? On 4/3/08 5:52 PM, Burch, Aubrey Dennis CIV DISA GS4B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Coincidentally, our contracting office called me today because we are planning to expand our VTAM license to an IFL LPAR. It appears VTAM is available for IFLs only

SHARE

2008-03-20 Thread Neale Ferguson
Marcy, Are you able to reprise your session for San Jose at the Summer SHARE? If not, is there a new session you are interested in doing? Neale

Re: Any Rumors?

2008-02-19 Thread Neale Ferguson
On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 11:08 -0600, Adam Thornton wrote: On Feb 19, 2008, at 10:54 AM, Schuh, Richard wrote: Probably not. The abstract includes, What makes System z so special in 10 dimensions? You'll love the string handling capabilities. HAW HAW I SLAY ME. Sung to the tune

Re: Any Rumors?

2008-02-14 Thread Neale Ferguson
But they've taken the capacity-on-demand concept to the next level: when ever the systems get stressed new processing units (pus) break out to meet the demand. On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 13:56 -0600, Stephen Buckles wrote: Who would want to work on a z/IT? That sounds like it should be in your

Re: Any Rumors?

2008-02-14 Thread Neale Ferguson
Yes, but I believe the SRDL/SLDL instructions have been removed as there were problems with the new processors getting a bit on the side. On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 11:48 -0800, O'Brien, Dennis L wrote: OTOH, two of them coupled together in a parallel sysplex can be really hot.

Hillgang to be rescheduled

2007-10-04 Thread Neale Ferguson
All, Sorry for the last minute notice but due to some scheduling problems we're going to have to postpone the next Hillgang meeting. I'll be back with a new date as soon as I can. Neale

Hillgang reminder

2007-10-02 Thread Neale Ferguson
A reminder that the next meeting of Hillgang takes place on 9 October at the CA office in Herndon Virginia. The agenda is posted at http://www.vm.ibm.com/events/HILL1007.pdf

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