Re: anyone running ILMT?

2011-08-01 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Updating the number of processors on Linux390 If the total number of processors or shared processors in your environment changes, you need to update this information for all agents influenced by this change. Otherwise, the system will display wrong information. You also have to tell it what

Separate virtual switch controllers

2011-07-21 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
We are working on a project to provide Internet access to select Linux guests on z/VM. The network team plans to use separate OSA's and virtual switches for this. For the initial testing, there will be one OSA and virtual switch for the presentation zone and a separate OSA and virtual switch

Re: Separate virtual switch controllers

2011-07-21 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
* and two RDEV devices. Also you can use VLAN's to reduce the number of Ports and isolate the traffic through a switch. Larry Davis From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of O'Brien, Dennis L Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 3:16 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU

Re: Question on SHUTDOWNTIME

2011-06-23 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
I think I saw one of our systems take 78 seconds to shut down recently, but AFAIK, we don't have software to capture the shutdown messages. If I'm thinking of the right system, it has over 5000 devices.  

Re: z/VM 5.4 FTP Installation ... ? ...

2011-06-11 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Jeff, The class B requirement is there because the instructions tell you to ATTACH the DASD to the installation guest. Obviously, if you put the DASD in the directory, you don't need to issue an ATTACH command. Dennis O'Brien If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the

Re: Dynamic Activation of New IODF

2011-06-07 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
We used to have z/VM-only boxes here. The z/OS people maintained the IOCP using HCD on z/OS. They exported the gens to the z/VM CEC's through the HMC. I don't know the details on how they did it. I know that they maintained our gen, and it did not involve them sending files or logging on to

Re: Coloring the STATUS area

2011-05-13 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Wolfgang, I use a different STATAREA color for most systems. We have more than 21 systems, and I don't like blinking, so there are a few duplicates. I don't see the problem that you described. My status area color always stays what it should be. Perhaps your terminal emulator is at fault?

Re: VM question - QIDLE

2011-04-11 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Velocity Software has an ESAFORCE component which can force idle users. I imagine it could just list them, too. Dennis If you give a mouse a cookie, he's going to ask for a glass of milk. From: The IBM z/VM Operating System

Re: 2nd level z/VM 5.4 installation

2011-02-17 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Sherry, Instead of installing direct from an FTP server, you can put the files on a VM minidisk and install from there. To do that, the minidisk must have at least 4500 cylinders. Back when DVD installation was first introduced (z/VM 5.1.0, I think), we only had 3390-3 disks on VM, so I tried

Re: 2nd level z/VM 5.4 installation

2011-02-17 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Sherry, Note that what I was referring to in my previous note and what Alan describes below are not the same thing. You can do what Alan described, using the VM FTP server to serve the files. You can also install from a VM minidisk without using any FTP server. You can get the files on the

Re: 2nd level z/VM 5.4 installation

2011-02-17 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Sherry, The only way to get 4500 cylinders from a 3390-3 is to put two of them in an SFS filepool. If you already have this set up, then the rest is relatively easy. You can use the VM minidisk install method with minor changes. Upload the files to SFS with your terminal emulator, then

Re: Watson

2011-02-15 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
If Moore's Law holds for another 20 years, we could all have Watson running on our desktop PC's. Alex Trebek said Watson has something like 2800 processors and 15 TB of RAM. I'm not sure if that was 2800 cores, or the equivalent of 2800 PC's (presumably dual or quad-core).   

Re: CMS disk weirdness between processors

2011-01-18 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Martha, Maybe minidisk cache is active on one of the systems. Did you define the DASD as Shared?     Dennis 18 Jan 1911, one hundred years ago today, Eugene Ely makes the

August SHARE location?

2011-01-10 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Has the location for the August SHARE been announced? If it has, it's not on the SHARE web site.    Dennis Perhaps if Mayor Michael Bloomberg spent less

Re: Toolsrun function without RSCS

2011-01-04 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
We have the master copy of our tools disk in SFS on one system. Each system has a local copy on minidisk. A job on each system accesses the master and applies updates to the local copy every night. If the SFS master isn't available, no harm is done to the copies.

Re: General CMS minidisks and SFS on PAV DASD?

2010-12-20 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Mike, We use PAV for volumes containing CMS minidisks. We turned it on a few months ago on a system that we acquired with our last merger, and the user was quite pleased. It took a couple of hours off of their nightly batch. PAV is also on for volumes that contain SFS minidisks. It doesn't

Re: Expanded storage question

2010-12-17 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Philip, What's your paging rate with this configuration? 18 paging volumes seems low for this amount of storage.    Dennis Christmas dawned clear and cold;

z9 clock speed

2010-12-17 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
A question came up today about the clock speed of the various System z models. The context is some application software that's licensed by the speed of the CPU. Apparently, there's a big price difference (measured in millions) if the speed is over 1.5 GHz or so. I dug around on IBM's web

Re: Vswitch Grant as a CMD in User's Directory?

2010-12-09 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
You would HAVE to buy an ESM, whether from IBM or CA. Or have IBM include a basic awful one (eg, RACF) in the price of VM and be done with it. Including a basic one that can be replaced with Something Else would make everybody (IMHO) happy. The internal cost of including RACF can't be that large.

Re: Shopz Function

2010-11-17 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
I'm not a number. I'm a free man. Dennis In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane. -- Mark Twain From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Neale Ferguson Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 09:55 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject:

Re: BRP

2010-11-10 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Richard, We're using disk replication on HDS DASD for disaster recovery. We were able to reduce a script that had about 30 steps to one that isn't much more complicated than: 1. Suspend replication 2. IPL 3. Answer one question: is this a test or a real disaster? 4.

Re: Copying SFS filespaces from one pool to another

2010-10-19 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
A filepool administrator can create aliases on behalf of any user. The syntax is the same as the general user command. The major restriction on aliases is that they can't cross filepools. If you move one user to a new pool, he can't have aliases in the new pool pointing to base files in the

Re: Virtualizing a z10

2010-10-08 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Can you confirm that extended support contracts are available for z/VM 5.4? Our solution provider is aware of them for z/OS, but not for z/VM 5.4. Brian Nielsen Unfortunately, I can confirm that they are available for z/VM 5.2. I have no reason to doubt that they will be available for 5.4

Re: z/VM ISFC links

2010-10-05 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Mark, You need a real CTC with both ends connected to the same system. You ACTIVATE ISLINK for one end on the first-level system. You ATTACH or DEDICATE the other end on first level to the virtual machine for the second-level system. You then ACTIVATE ISLINK for that device on the second-level

Re: Maximum Virtual Storage

2010-10-01 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Gary, It depends on your hardware. From Bill Bitner's z/VM System Limits SHARE presentation: Virtual machine size: - Supported/Tested 1 TB (240) - Hardware limits * z10 8TB * z9 1TB * z990 256GB * z900 256GB That's for one virtual machine. There's also a guest real limit of 8 TB

Re: z/VM ISFC links

2010-09-30 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Mark, ISFC links can be ESCON CTC or FICON CTC. I don't know why Hipersockets aren't supported, but they're not. If you really want to share SFS filepools between LPAR's on the same CEC without using a CTC, you could set up IPGATE using TCP/IP over a Hipersocket. Note that IPGATE is not

Re: Mixed page volume sizes

2010-09-30 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
In our case, we're talking about going from 76 GB to 140 GB. We're trying to stay ahead of requirements, so suggestions such as look at your performance monitor don't really work. The workload that will use the additional capacity hasn't arrived, yet. I need to submit my disk requirements

Mixed page volume sizes

2010-09-29 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
On of our z/VM 5.4.0 systems is about to grow to 140 GB of storage. Given our target overcommit ratio of 3:1, and IBM's advice to keep paging space no more than 50% full, this should just about fit onto 240 or 248 3390-3 sized volumes. My question is what will happen the next time we add

Re: Applying Maintenance - Best Practice

2010-09-23 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
I put all maintenance on a second-level system and test it before putting it on a production system. Sometimes the nature of the change is such that it won't get much of a test on a guest, but I still do it. Dennis A slipping sear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you

Re: Applying Maintenance - Best Practice

2010-09-23 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
PUT2PROD was changed awhile back so that it doesn't bounce TCPIP. I don't recall when it was changed, but I know that it doesn't bounce TCPIP on z/VM 5.4.0.     Dennis A

Central vs. expanded storage

2010-09-22 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
I heard from a couple of performance people at SHARE that we should have 20% to 25% of the total storage in an LPAR configured as expanded storage. Naturally, that's a guideline and the proper amount varies by workload. What should I look at to determine if we have enough expanded storage?

Re: Checking For Maintenance

2010-09-22 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
SERVICE ALL STATUS will tell you if you ran PUT2PROD for a PTF. Here's an example: service all status PK97438 VMFSRV2760I SERVICE processing started DASD 0491 LINKED R/W; R/O BY14 USERS DASD 0492 LINKED R/W; R/O BY14 USERS VMFSRV1226I TCPIPSFS (5VMTCP40%TCPIPSFS) APAR PK97438 (PTF

Re: VM64814 information

2010-09-22 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
will receive message HCP986I TOD Clock Synchronized via STP. Hope this helps, Matt Matthew J. Rosato z/VM I/O Development From: O'Brien, Dennis L dennis.l.o'br

VM64814 information

2010-09-21 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
I understand that VM64814 adds XRC timestamp support. The PTF's are available. The z/VM platform update at SHARE mentioned that there would be a SYSTEM CONFIG change to activate it. Where do I find information on that? The recent SSL changes had a nice web page with all the details, and one

Re: DEFINE HYPERPAV requirement

2010-09-21 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of O'Brien, Dennis L Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2010 12:43 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: [IBMVM] DEFINE HYPERPAV requirement I prefer to have all device-related statements for guests in the directory, even those that are only defined

Re: Virtualizing a z10

2010-09-21 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
IBM will sell you a virtual z10. The virtualization is so good that it looks just like a real one. The price is even the same. Seriously, the answer is no. Dennis A slipping sear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you least expect it. That would make you quite

Re: Virtualizing a z10

2010-09-21 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
configuration wasn't 'ready for prime time' :-) Les O'Brien, Dennis L wrote: IBM will sell you a virtual z10. The virtualization is so good that it looks just like a real one. The price is even the same. Seriously, the answer is no. Dennis A slipping sear could let your M203

DEFINE HYPERPAV requirement

2010-09-18 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
I prefer to have all device-related statements for guests in the directory, even those that are only defined by commands, such as HyperPAV aliases. I'm running into the restriction that the combined length of all COMMAND statements cannot exceed 3071 characters. Currently, each HyperPAV alias

Re: VM Console

2010-09-03 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
I put CP SET SYSOPER * in OPERATOR's PROFILE EXEC. That way, OPERATOR will become the system operator when it logs on. We run VM:Operator here, so I also issue QUERY SYSOPER in the TITLE exit, which runs once a minute. If it's not set, the exit sets it. If it's set to someone else, the exit

XRC timestamps for z/VM

2010-08-26 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
The z/VM Platform Update session at SHARE in Boston said that XRC timestamps were coming soon (Sep-Nov) for z/VM. Will that be for both 5.4 and 6.1, or 6.1 only? As we saw with the SSL server changes, what was said in the session is not necessarily definitive.

Re: z/VM 5.4 or 6.1 on new z10

2010-08-26 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
z/VM 6.1 is needed for Z196 hardware. z/VM 5.4 will not run on it. Incorrect. z/VM 5.4 will run on a z196. z/VM 5.3 and earlier will not. Dennis A few more

Re: XRC timestamps for z/VM

2010-08-26 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
? Marcy -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 1:18 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: [IBMVM] XRC timestamps for z/VM On Thursday, 08/26/2010 at 03:39 EDT, O'Brien, Dennis L

Re: Disaster Recovery TCPIP Address Issue

2010-08-12 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
I use an exit in node DTCPARMS that checks the DR status using the CPU serial number, e.g. .*--- .* Add user exit to stack startup

Re: ICKDSF format of new DASD

2010-07-20 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Marcy, I use ICKDSF to format all new DASD that is assigned to a VM LPAR, whether it's a new purchase or transfer from z/OS. It might not be necessary, but it doesn't hurt. I run eight format jobs in parallel using VM:Batch, so it doesn't take very long.  

Re: HCD

2010-07-20 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
When we had VM-only machines, the z/OS people had a way of doing HCD updates through the HMC. They didn't send any files to VM. I don't know the details on how that's done. Dennis If I could not go to heaven but with a [political] party, I would not go there at all. -- Thomas

Re: Artical should be read 'zNEXT'

2010-07-08 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Note that this article is from Maureen O'Gara, who bears the same resemblance to a journalist that an 8086 does to a z10. She's consistently snide for no reason, and makes things up as she goes along when she doesn't have the facts. Ah, the Rita Skeeter of computer journalism. Dennis

Re: SFS Blocks to Cylinders

2010-06-09 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Can someone tell me how many SFS blocks there are per 3390-3 cylinder? I have a user wanting the equivalent of 300 cylinders of SFS Directory space. Scott, There are 180 4k-blocks per 3390 cylinder (any size 3390). SFS uses 4k blocks.  

Re: Automated Logoff of CMS user

2010-06-01 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Be careful with FORCE DISC. If the user has any VM:Schedule jobs scheduled for his userid, they won't run if the userid has been left idle and disconnected.     Dennis O'Brien

Re: IBM to buy Sterling Commerce

2010-05-24 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/IBM-to-buy-ATTs-Sterling-unit-apf-3343842118.html?x=0 Well now maybe Connect:Direct for VM will get SSL and DNS support and lose the VSAM stuff?!! Unless IBM gives it to their Tivoli unit, in which case mainframe support will languish for a few years and then be

Re: Windows Enabler Appliance on System z Now Available

2010-05-06 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Interesting. Is this related to Mantissa's z86VM project? Dennis The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing. -- Jean-Baptiste Colbert, 17th-century French minister of finance From:

Re: z/VM SSL server

2010-03-06 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Stephen, Here's what my systems have. These limits came from the starter system. I didn't change them. q limits for sslserv vmsys UseridStorage Group 4K Block Limit 4K Blocks Committed Threshold SSLSERV 21800

Re: Using HCD on an IFL-only Machine

2010-02-18 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
We used to have z/VM-only machines here. The IOCP was maintained by the z/OS people using HCD. They had a method of using the HMC to import the configuration into the z/VM machine. We didn't use an IODF, just an IOCP. These were 2064's in basic mode, but I would imagine that the process still

Re: Using HCD on an IFL-only Machine

2010-02-18 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Mark, I honestly don't remember if we had to POR. We haven't had z/VM on 2064's for quite awhile now. With 2084 and later machines, we've always had at least one LPAR running z/OS on each box. I don't think that's a policy, it's just the way things have worked out. Dennis See, I'm a

Re: z/VM 6.1 Install

2010-02-02 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
is a relative breeze.) Seriously, the easy way takes three different operating systems to upgrade one of them? I think I see Richard's problem: he was only using two ... :-/ -Chip- On 2/2/10 00:57 O'Brien, Dennis L said: Richard, I think the TERS files are the RSU. My order

Re: z/VM 6.1 Install

2010-02-02 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
to download the (probably big honkin') files to a PC, unzip them there, and then transfer them back to z/VM? sigh I hope not! Mike Walter Hewitt Associates The opinions expressed herein are mine alone, not my employer's. O'Brien, Dennis L dennis.l.o'br...@bankofamerica.com Sent by: The IBM z/VM

Re: z/VM 6.1 Install

2010-02-02 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Richard Schuh wrote, Dennis, You said 16 hours to upload the files. Are you using a 56KB dial-up connection? My PC is about 1000 miles from the VM system, so I thought it might be slower than the 33 minutes it took. I was hoping for something better than 16 hours, but I didn't expect it to be

Re: First time DR excercise

2010-02-02 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Mike has a lot of good ideas here, but I'll comment on a couple of minor points. 1. We have multiple VM systems in our shop, so changing the node name during a disaster would cause more problems than it would solve. We have too much code that does things like If node = 'VMSYS1' Then Do ... to

Re: z/VM 6.1 Install

2010-02-01 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Richard, I think the TERS files are the RSU. My order download link has expired, so I can't go back and check. The install files are in ZIP format. I have four ZIP files: cd813250.zip contains the system image DVD install files for CKD DASD. CD813260.ZIP contains the system image DVD

Different PROFILE TCPIP for DR

2010-01-28 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
I'm setting up a DR process for a new system. I need to use a different PROFILE TCPIP when the system is up in the DR site. I know that the easy and wrong way is to update TCPIP's PROFILE EXEC to copy the correct PROFILE TCPIP to the A-disk. I'm trying to do it the right way, by using a

Re: z/VM 6.1 Delivery

2010-01-22 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Richard, The instructions assume that you download the ZIP files to Windows machine, and upload to your VM system from there. If you have a Linux guest on VM, you might be able to download the files to it, instead. Dennis O'Brien See, I'm a man of simple tastes. I like dynamite, and

Re: z/VM 6.1 Delivery

2010-01-22 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of O'Brien, Dennis L Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 3:38 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: z/VM 6.1 Delivery Richard, The instructions assume that you download the ZIP files to Windows machine, and upload to your VM system

FCP Redbooks

2009-12-17 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Our storage architect asked me about using FCP channels for Linux on z/VM. Are there any good Redbooks or other documentation that's recent? He couldn't find anything that mentioned z10. He's particularly interested in limits (guests/LUN's/device addresses per channel, etc). CP Planning and

3390-9's for paging

2009-12-01 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Our storage architect is trying to get us to use 3390-9's instead of 3390-3's for paging. I know that z/VM doesn't use PAV or HyperPAV for paging, and that more devices means more concurrent I/O's. Has anyone actually tried changing from 3390-3's to one-third as many 3390-9's? If you have,

HUR

2009-11-19 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Is anyone successfully mirroring DASD using Hitachi Universal Replicator (HUR) for a z/VM environment with Linux guests? I know that there are challenges because z/VM doesn't timestamp its I/O but Linux does. I'm being told that HUR doesn't support Linux timestamps. Is that true? Allegedly,

Re: VM:Account MAINT's 123 disk

2009-11-16 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
No, VM:Account does not need a write link to the object directory. VM:Secure and VM:Director are the only VM:Manager products that need a write link to the object directory. MAINT 123 will show up as OS-formatted when you access it under CMS. That’s normal.

Re: Shared DASD across multiple VM lpars

2009-11-16 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Single System Image is not in z/VM 6.1. It's a Statement of Direction, which means IBM intends to put it in a future release, but isn't promising anything. Dennis Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be

Re: Shared DASD across multiple VM lpars

2009-11-16 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
We share DASD between two z/VM LPAR's, and have guests set up so they can log on to either one. We use the Cross-System Link (XLINK) feature of CSE to make sure that they don't try to run on both LPAR's at once. Dennis Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good

Performance Toolkit setup

2009-11-13 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
I'm setting up Performance Toolkit according to the instructions in Getting Started with Linux on System z for z/VM 5.4.0. This is just for a proof of concept, so I'm starting with the defaults. The PROFILE EXEC for MONWRITE on page 144 contains the following MONITOR EVENT commands: 'CP MONITOR

Re: SFS and CP Question

2009-11-11 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
CP SEND CP VMSERVR DETACH xxx. You need to be the secondary user or have privilege class C. Dennis Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It

Re: Does zVM 5.2 support z/OS 1.10 or z/OS 1.11

2009-11-02 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Anson, z/VM 5.2.0 is out of support from IBM, so it doesn’t officially “support” anything. If it works, it works, but if it doesn’t, you won’t be able to open a problem call. z/VM 5.2.0 went out of support on 30 Apr 2009. If those z/OS releases came out before that time, there’s a good

Re: SYSTEM NETID update

2009-11-02 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Frank, Update SYSTEM NETID on MAINT 490. PUT2PROD copies the 490 to the 190 after the S-disk is serviced. If you need to change SYSTEM NETID and don't have any service to apply, make the update on both disks. Dennis Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of

Re: Pass Phrases

2009-11-02 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
It was in the 5.3 base. Dennis Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may

Re: Standalone dump procedure

2009-10-30 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Frank, The standalone dump program cannot be placed on the sysres, but it can be on another CP-owned volume. Our convention is to place it on the first page volume.          Dennis O'Brien My computer beat me at chess, but it was no match for me in

Re: z/VM 6.1 G.A. targeted for this Friday, Oct 23

2009-10-23 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
I don't know what zVM0 is, so I can't answer your question. Reading the whole sentence, (zVM0 was meant to be (zVM). He just didn't hold the shift key down for the right paren. Yes, I know it should be z/VM.          Dennis My computer beat me at

Re: z/VM 6.1 G.A. targeted for this Friday, Oct 23

2009-10-21 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
So if that's all there is, why would anyone bother to install z/VM 6.1? 1. To keep your capacity planning people from moving your system to an old z9 that they're trying to find a use for. 2. Performance improvements for virtual switch. 3. To have something to put on your performance plan.    

Re: z/VM 6.1 G.A. targeted for this Friday, Oct 23

2009-10-20 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Pricing didn't change, unless the price of one Value Unit changed, which I doubt. I compared the 6.1 and 5.4 announcements. They both use Value Unit exhibit VUE021.          Dennis O'Brien My computer beat me at chess, but it was no match for me in

Re: zVM 'disk wiping'

2009-10-08 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
CA VM:Tape has an exit that can instruct the service machine to perform a DSE on scratch mounts. If you have the product, you could just enable the exit and scratch mount all of the tapes that you want to discard.          Dennis My computer beat me at

Re: TXT2PDF problem

2009-10-06 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Jim, Try raising the virtual storage to 2047M, assuming your system is big enough to handle that. If that's not enough, you'll need to find another solution. Dennis My computer beat me at chess, but it was no match for me in kickboxing.

Re: some RACF and CP questions

2009-09-24 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
5-1. The ESM hook into CP is configured by replacing the HCPRPx stubs in CP. It's not in a configuration file. There might be a Product record in your SYSTEM CONFIG file to enable RACF, like there is for RSCS, but that doesn't prove that RACF is active. 5-2. The Journaling statement in

Re: TDISK and SYSTEM CONFIG question.

2009-09-17 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
What security problems in T-Disk? If you enable Clear_TDisk, there's no security problem. Even if the system crashes while confidential data is on a T-disk, it's cleared at IPL time before the T-disk space is eligible to be given to users.         

Re: TDISK and SYSTEM CONFIG question.

2009-09-16 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Stephen, If you Enable the Clear_Tdisk feature, all system T-disk space is cleared at IPL time the entire T-disk is cleared when it's detached, and if you attach a new T-disk volume to SYSTEM, all space on that volume is cleared. Turn on the feature, IPL, then detach one of your T-disk volumes

Re: VM lockup due to storage typo

2009-09-15 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Lee, Do the userid you were trying to log onto and your external security manager both have OPTION QUICKDSP in the directory? Your operator userid should also have QUICKDSP.          Dennis O'Brien My computer beat me at chess, but it was no match for

Re: Resizing TDSK on active system

2009-09-03 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Frank, Yes. Detach the volume from the system, attach it to yourself, change the allocation map, and reattach to the system. CP will read the new allocation map when you attach.          Dennis O'Brien My computer beat me at chess, but it was no match

Re: Resizing TDSK on active system

2009-09-03 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Mike, The statement, Since TDISK are in your CP_Owned list, they can't be brought offline on a running system is incorrect. There's no restriction on detaching CP Owned volumes from system, as long as no space is in use. Frank stated that as one of his assumptions. Once it's detached, you

Re: Duplicate hipersocket device addresses

2009-09-02 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
on this problem. On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 7:45 PM, O'Brien, Dennis L dennis.l.o'br...@bankofamerica.com mailto:dennis.l.o%27br...@bankofamerica.com wrote: We're starting to test hipersockets between Linux guests on z/VM and z/OS systems in separate LPAR's. z/OS is having intermittent trouble pinging one

Re: NOLOG Option in the Directory

2009-09-01 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Howard, A password of NOLOG does not allow AUTOLOG or XAUTOLOG. Set the password to AUTOONLY if you want to allow AUTOLOG/XAUTOLOG but not LOGON. Dennis O'Brien I couldn't remember how to throw a boomerang, but eventually it came back to

Duplicate hipersocket device addresses

2009-09-01 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
We're starting to test hipersockets between Linux guests on z/VM and z/OS systems in separate LPAR's. z/OS is having intermittent trouble pinging one of the four Linux guests, but is fine with the other three. All four Linux guests have no trouble pinging z/OS. Someone suggested that the

Re: Stand-alone IPL of a Virtual tape

2009-08-25 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Ismael, You can issue the mount command from another LPAR. If the other LPAR is z/VM, this can be a VMTAPE MOUNT or DFSMSRM MOUNT command. If you have only one z/VM LPAR, then you'll have to issue the mount from z/OS. I don't know the command for that. Another option is to have a small

Re: Looking for someone to SHARE their Disaster Recovery story

2009-08-21 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Rick, Are you asking about session 9146? I'm responsible for z/VM disaster recovery at my site. We're just getting started with Linux on z, so we don't have disaster recovery for Linux guests, yet. We have DR for CMS applications, and we also host z/OS guests as part of the z/OS DR process.

Re: Looking for someone to SHARE their Disaster Recovery story

2009-08-21 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Oops. That wasn't meant for the list. Dennis I couldn't remember how to throw a boomerang, but eventually it came back to me. From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of O'Brien, Dennis L Sent

Re: SSL DTCSSL022E message on SSLSERV

2009-08-04 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of O'Brien, Dennis L Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 9:26 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: [IBMVM] SSL DTCSSL022E message

Re: Hercules; more information please.

2009-08-03 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Howard, There was a discussion about running the z/VM 5.3 Evaluation Edition on Hercules a few months back. I don’t think a definitive conclusion was reached. Here’s the relevant paragraph from the license agreement: Usage Restrictions z/VM Version 5 Release 3 Evaluation Edition

Re: z/VM 6.1 and Hercules on Z9

2009-07-28 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
I don't think IBM would see you a new license for z/VM 6.1 on a z9, but if you have an existing z/VM version 5 license with Subscription and Support, you're entitled to version upgrades at no extra charge. Read the fine print in your license agreement. You shouldn't expect support for z/VM

Re: SFS - Moving File Pool Minidisks to Different Physical Devices

2009-07-28 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
You can create a storage group 3, move your filespaces to it with FILESERV MOVEUSER, then disable storage group 2 with FILEPOOL DISABLE GROUP 2 EXCLUSIVE DETACH. You can then replace the old storage group 2 minidisks with 1-cylinder minidisks. This isn't completely transparent, because FILESERV

Re: Where is z/VM CSE

2009-07-28 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Sunny, CSE itself is not a product. It’s part of z/VM. Chapter 10 of CP Planning and Administration describes the requirements and capabilities of CSE. RSCS is required if you’re using DirMaint to maintain a single source directory for the cluster, and you don’t enable cross-system SPOOL.

Re: Is it bad to make one zlinux running on 2 z/vm?

2009-07-28 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
I really looking for the manual to setup linux system on two z/VM. Could you give me the detail manual ? z/VM CP Planning and Administration     Dennis O'Brien That's one small

Re: Is it bad to make one zlinux running on 2 z/vm?

2009-07-24 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Sunny, If you really have two guests up at the same time, using the same DASD, I can’t believe that one or both of them haven’t crashed. We have the same guests defined on two z/VM systems. We use the XLINK feature of CSE to make sure that only one of them can get the DASD read/write. If

Re: VTAM Abend 0C4 under Z/VM

2009-07-21 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
In the meantime, I would seriously think about removing most of the privilege classes from that guest's definition in USER DIRECT. I might be wrong, but I don't think z/OS needs all that. It doesn't. Our z/OS guests run just fine with class G. Some of them used to have class B to run MIA's

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

2009-07-07 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Mike, zA would come after z9, not z10.    Dennis A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week..  -- General George S. Patton -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System

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

2009-06-19 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Encryption should be the responsibility of the backup/restore product. IBM already has encryption hardware on the machine. VM:Backup exploits it today. I don't know about other products.    Dennis A good plan, violently executed now, is

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