Re: Control Data Backups

2009-06-12 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Richard, Good question. Set up two test servers and try it, and tell us the result. Dennis A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.. -- General George S. Patton From: The IBM z/VM Operating

Re: IBM 1401

2009-05-29 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
In the 1970's, a friend of mine's dad worked at NARF (Naval Air Rework Facility) Alameda. They made system backups on paper tape, because it was immune to EMP effects.    Dennis O'Brien A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a

Re: Eliminating screen-scraping

2009-05-21 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Ian, If you have VM:Operator, you could use the dialog facility.    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

Re: Z/VM SSLSERV Question

2009-05-19 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Jim, This looks familiar. What version of z/VM are you running? It might be something that was used in an older release, and is no longer needed. Dennis O'Brien If I'd only followed CNBC's advice, I'd have $1 million today, provided

Re: Was I confused? L2 Guest LAN, z/VM 5.4

2009-05-15 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Adam, You don't specify layer 2 or 3 on the NICDEF. You specify it on your DEFINE LAN or DEFINE VSWITCH statement. Dennis O'Brien If I'd only followed CNBC's advice, I'd have $1 million today, provided I'd started with $100 million. --

Multiple dedicated virtual switch controllers

2009-05-11 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
We have a few systems here with two virtual switches and two virtual switch controller TCP/IP stacks (DTCVSW1 and DTCVSW2). One of my co-workers has suggested that we create DTCVSW3 and DTCVSW4, so each virtual switch can have two dedicated controllers. Is there any reason to do this? It seems

Re: Remote Drives

2009-05-06 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Richard, You could test it by IPLing a standalone utility on a DR tape drive from your production center. Try it in a virtual machine first. If that works, hopefully you have a test LPAR that you can try it on. Dennis O'Brien If I'd only

Re: I need to assemble RSCS exits

2009-05-05 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
z/VM 5.3.0 was the first release to have an RSCS feature. Prior to that, RSCS was a separate program product. It came preinstalled on the z/VM distribution, at least as far back as the z/VM 5.1 DVD, but it was a separate product which required a separate license. A special bid was required to

Re: heads up! VM64604 to change to VSWITCH defaults

2009-04-17 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Alan, Will there be a new version of CP Planning and Administration to document this change? Dennis If I'd only followed CNBC's advice, I'd have $1 million today, provided I'd started with $100 million. -- Jon Stewart -Original

Re: OpenExtension question

2009-04-02 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
I've been scouring OE and SFS doc for the last couple of weeks figuring out how to get the BFS stuff moved from the installation system to our existing VMSYS and VMSYSU file pools and I think I'm finally close. :-) Alan Altmark answered this last week: FILEPOOL UNLOAD FILESPACE on your

Re: Problem with PEEK Command - update

2009-04-02 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
soapbox Is this yet another reason that IBM should not distribute such files as compiled REXX, so the user could diagnose similar problems? /soapbox I agree with the sentiment, but in this case, it's misplaced. PROFPEEK XEDIT on the S-disk is indeed compiled, but the source is also on the

Re: VM 5.4 first/second level installation

2009-03-30 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Joe, The simplest method to do a second-level install is to use an FTP server on your PC to serve the DVD contents. If you're working from home, or company policy prohibits FTP servers on PC's, here's an alternative. I work from home, so it takes me several hours to upload the contents of the

Re: VM 5.4 first/second level installation

2009-03-30 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
The key phrase is Free for personal use. Unless Joe owns his own z/VM system, he's working for an organization of some sort. The free version is specifically not allowed for corporate or institutional use. Educational and non-profit institutions are encouraged to contact the vendor for special

Re: VM 5.4 first/second level installation

2009-03-30 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
that zftpserver is running on.. Not hat it matters much. You use it for a couple of hours and then your done with it anyways for a couple of years. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu]on Behalf Of O'Brien, Dennis L Sent: Monday

Re: VM 5.4 first/second level installation

2009-03-30 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Steve, You can do a first-level install if you're willing to shut your VM system down, or you have an extra LPAR to run the install in. Dennis O'Brien If I'd only followed CNBC's advice, I'd have $1 million today, provided I'd started with

Re: BFS SSLSERV question

2009-03-20 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Jim, Did you enroll the ROOT, SSLSERV, and GSKSSLDB BFS filespaces in your SFS server? Did you create the objects that go in those filespaces? Take a look at your starter system to see what they should look like. I did my z/VM 5.4.0 upgrade by rotating in a new sysres set, so all that was done

Re: New CMS based SSLSERV problem... DTCSSL300E

2009-03-20 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Mark, Thanks, but I think we're getting to a point where the solution is more trouble than the original problem. I'll just set a standard MAXSESSIONS value that's big enough for our largest system. That will be bigger than what our test systems need, but at least we will be testing the same

Re: New CMS based SSLSERV problem... DTCSSL300E

2009-03-19 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Mark C, Thanks. I implemented your suggestion, and it works fine. Am I correct that whatever file I end up putting the :parms. tag in, I need to put all the parameters of :parms. there? We have about 20 systems to support. Ideally, I'd like to specify the EXEMPT parameter in SYSTEM DTCPARMS,

Re: z/OS 1.9 ADCD

2009-03-19 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Sorry.. But to me it's still akin to asking on a XEN/VMWare/HyperV list how to recover a lost Windows Administrator password ! (although the latter would actually qualify !). --Ivan If it's documented in a manual, it's hardly a secret.

Re: DIRMAINT

2009-03-19 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Fortunately, I haven't used DIRMAINT for several years. The first possibility that comes to mind is that the userid you're issuing DIRM DIRECTORY from isn't authorized to issue the command. If that's not it, my only other piece of advice is to shut DIRMAINT down, edit the DIRECT record manually,

Re: SHUTDOWN REIPL

2009-03-19 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Mike, Your suggestion won't work. You included the reason in the text that you quoted from the manual: The PROMPT parameter is only valid for the SAPL screen. This parameter is not acknowledged during CP bounce processing (SHUTDOWN REIPL or restarting after an abend). SHUTDOWN REIPL

Re: Please tell me I did something stupid

2009-03-17 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Adam, It looks like SERVICE is trying to service LE instead of LESFS. There are a couple of items in the PSP bucket that have to do with SFS, but the descriptions aren't an exact match for this problem. Did you read all of the ZVM540 subsets and do what they said? It's certainly possible to

Re: Please tell me I did something stupid

2009-03-17 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
So, any idea why the DOSINST and CMSDOS segments didn't want to rebuild (I stupidly had CF1 accessed and was screwing around with SYSTEM CONFIG while PUT2PROD was running, so I had to rebuild CMS and all the segments the old-fashioned way)? I seem to recall this failing before sometime. I don't

Re: New CMS based SSLSERV problem... DTCSSL300E

2009-03-16 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Mark, What did you put in SYSTEM DTCPARMS or node DTCPARMS for your SSL server? If you want to change anything for :nick.ssl in IBM DTCPARMS, you have to copy the whole section for that nickname to your local file. For example, I wanted to add a session limit and exempt low-strength encryption

Re: IP change requested

2009-03-11 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Of course this disclaimer is sufficient. It's at the bottom of the note. I read it right after I finished reading the contents. Dennis O'Brien 39,521 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System

Re: Using LBYONLY

2009-03-06 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
of logging the user on. After all, the same code is used to create the virtual machine. Regards, Richard Schuh From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of O'Brien, Dennis L Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009

Re: Using LBYONLY

2009-03-06 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
command, I might be more inclined to agree with you. Regards, Richard Schuh From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of O'Brien, Dennis L Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 10:31 AM To: IBMVM

Re: Using LBYONLY

2009-03-05 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
[mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of O'Brien, Dennis L Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 1:25 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Using LBYONLY Shimon, What release of VM:Secure are you running? In r2.8 G0808, it definitely doesn't work

Re: Using LBYONLY

2009-03-04 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Shimon, What release of VM:Secure are you running? In r2.8 G0808, it definitely doesn't work. I tested before I posted. You're assuming that LOGON and LOGONBY rules are evaluated together to determine the most specific rule. That's not how it works. LOGON rules are evaluated first. If the

Re: Using LBYONLY

2009-03-03 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Richard Schuh wrote: And with VM:Secure, you can accomplish the same effect by using the Rules Facility. With the following rules, the actual password is immaterial: REJECT * LOGON ACCEPT userx LOGONBY That doesn't work. The REJECT * LOGON rule takes precedence, and you don't even

Re: Setting DIRM NEEDPASS NO in a LOGONBY user

2009-02-12 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
We have VM:Secure, but the same question came up the other day. We have application userids that have a number of developers authorized to use LOGONBY, but the application owners don't want those developers to be able to change the Rules files for those userids. They want that authority

Re: VM Live migration

2009-02-11 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Ivan, IBM demonstrated a Live Guest Migration research project at the San Jose SHARE. No statement was made regarding if or when it will be available, but clearly IBM is doing more than just thinking about it. Dennis O'Brien 39,585

Re: Starting an exec on a remote machine

2008-12-05 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
CA ARCServe Backup for Mainframe Linux works with VM:Tape, but not VM:Backup. I'm not allowed to endorse products (or unendorse them?). I can say that we don't use the product. A reliable product that works with VM:Backup would at least get looked at here. Our current plan is to back z/VM up

Re: Question about BFS in 5.4

2008-12-04 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Is the SSL server for 5.4 GA now? I don't see it on IBMLink. Dennis We have awakened a sleeping giant, and we have instilled in him a terrible resolve. -- Admiral Yamamoto, following the attack on Pearl Harbor -Original Message-

Re: LOGONBY - limit of 8 userids.

2008-11-24 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
David, You didn't say anything about the userid that they're trying to log on to. If all they need are some privileges that you don't want to grant to their personal userids, can you have two, with eight LOGONBY users on each, e.g. MAINT1 and MAINT2? Obviously, that won't work for some things.

Re: new VSMDCSS in z/VM 5.4

2008-11-24 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
ISFC uses CTC connections. It doesn't use VTAM at all. Richard is thinking of AVS. The major problem with ISFC is that not everyone has channel extension equipment between data centers. A supported IPGATE-type solution is needed before VTAM can go away. As to the alleged difficulties of

Re: Page Space

2008-11-13 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Or you schedule your test at a time when you can take a sufficient number of your normal guests down. Dennis Bitterly clinging to my guns. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: Risk of Adding a Paging Volume

2008-11-13 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Adding a page volume is low risk. Just make sure you format the new volume with CPFMTXA first. Whether you add a new volume or not, you should drain the volume with errors, and make sure it's drained in SYSTEM CONFIG, too. Dennis

Re: Make me abend, please

2008-11-07 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
First-level: PSW restart from the HMC. Second-level: CP SEND CP xxx SYSTEM RESTART to the guest from a class C userid. Dennis Bitterly clinging to my guns. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Make me abend, please

2008-11-07 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Or SNAPDUMP, if you don't want to crash and restart. Dennis Bitterly clinging to my guns. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008

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

2008-11-02 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Alan, http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/resources/systems_z_news_announcement_pdf_ zvm.pdf has a discussion of z/VM vs. VMWARE in Appendix B. I've seen a link to an entire white paper devoted to a comparison of the two. I thought it was on IBM's site, but a quick search didn't find it.

Re: Linux guest 191/200 disk question

2008-10-28 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Robert, You don't have to use the VMSYS filepool. You can create a new filepool that doesn't start with VMSYS and share it between systems. The only drawback is that if the system that hosts the filepool server isn't up, the filepool isn't accessible to the other system. We have filepool

Re: z/VM 5.2.0 on z10

2008-10-25 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Not exactly. We're starting a proof of concept, and as best I can tell, my manager's manager is afraid that if it fails, mainframe Linux will be dead here. I haven't talked to him directly, but that's what I'm getting from my manager. Given the politics and turf wars inherent in an

Re: z/VM 5.2.0 on z10

2008-10-20 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Thank you for your suggestions of reasons to run 5.3.0 and 5.4.0. I had already presented them to management, but I have been instructed to use 5.2.0. My only hope of changing management's mind is to give him reasons NOT to use 5.2.0. Reasons to use the newer releases have not been persuasive.

z/VM 5.2.0 on z10

2008-10-17 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Is anyone running z/VM 5.2.0 on a z10? I know it's supported (with PTF's). I want to know if customers are actually running it. My management wants us to build some new systems to host Linux guests on z/VM 5.2.0, even though most of our other systems are on 5.3.0. They want stability, and one

Re: DIAG D4

2008-10-16 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Richard, Are you using VM:Secure? If you are, you need an ACCEPT server DIAGD4 record in your system rules file. If you're not running G0808, you also need GRANT SURROGAT TO server in AUTHORIZ CONFIG. The rule was supposed to supersede the GRANT in G0706, but it doesn't.

Re: DASD PAV's

2008-10-15 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
and detach them. David Dean Information Systems *bcbstauthorized* From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of O'Brien, Dennis L Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 7:28 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: DASD

Re: DirMaint CA's VM:Backup Software Installation

2008-10-15 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Dave, Create a basic directory entry, then use DIRM GET to get a copy, edit it to add everything except MDISK's, then DIRM REPLACE to send it back to DIRMAINT. Then use DIRM AMDISK to add the minidisks. I haven't used DIRMAINT in several years, so I might be slightly off on the details.

Re: SFS files last accessed or updated

2008-10-08 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Hans, For SFS, take a look at the ALLDATES option of LISTFILE. You're correct that there's no date of last access for minidisk files. You could scan your VM:Secure audit files to look for links to the minidisk. That won't tell you what files were accessed, but it will tell you that someone is

Re: SFS files last accessed or updated

2008-10-08 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
page. Bruce. I was not able to find the DIRLIST stage at Marist site. Would you have the URL for their downloads. Thanks again all for your thoughts on this subject. Hans From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of O'Brien, Dennis L Sent: October 8

Paging volumes, size vs. number

2008-10-03 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
We are sizing a new z/VM system for a Linux guest workload. We traditionally use 3390-3 size devices for paging. We determined that we need 16 3390-3's for this particular workload. Our DASD people asked if we could use 3390-9's instead. Based on space, they want to give us 6 3390-9's for

IPGATE errors

2008-10-02 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
I've been trying out IPGATE recently, because we have a couple of systems with no good alternatives for remote SFS access. One of our testers is reporting errors accessing a remote directory after the connection has been idle for several hours. I would love to open an ETR, but we all know that

Re: LOGONBY

2008-09-23 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Rob van der Heij wrote: Actually, the better solution is to have *no* password for TCPMAINT. You can with z/VM 5.3. Without a password, the TCPMAINT user can not be revoked by incorrect logon attempts. If it were revoked, the authorized people could not even logon to it with logonby. Also, you

Re: dial to 2nd level vm?

2008-09-11 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Duane, Add some device definitions in your 2nd level SYSTEM CONFIG, like this: Rdevice 01A0-01BF Type 3270_Display Without them, 2nd level CP will only detect consoles at IPL time if you have one attached or dedicated. Dialed devices get reset when the guest IPL's, so you can't DIAL and

Re: IPGATE question

2008-08-20 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
The three SFS filepools that I share (2 on CP system, 1 on IFL system) are all GLOBAL resources. I do find that once in a while IPGATE gets confused and non-responsive and I have to recycle the SVM on both sides of the link. Tom Kern I have the same problem with AVS. Once in awhile, a link

Re: Question on how RSU maintenance is being handled with DIRMAINT and RACF in the picture

2008-07-15 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
I did maintenance the way Jim and Kris do for awhile. Migrating to new releases was such a pain that I now do SERVICE and PUT2PROD on the test system first, then do them again in production. This way, I can run MIGRATE to get ready for new releases. I added a 290 disk to MAINT that has a backup

Re: Query what the name of the SYTEM CONFIG file used was?

2008-07-10 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of O'Brien, Dennis L Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 9:34 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: [IBMVM] Query what the name of the SYTEM CONFIG file used was? Marcy, You could also QUERY CPUID to find out where you are, but if you run in the same place for DR tests

Re: Query what the name of the SYTEM CONFIG file used was?

2008-07-09 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Marcy, You could also QUERY CPUID to find out where you are, but if you run in the same place for DR tests and real DR, that won't distinguish between the two. Dennis A pistol! Are you expecting trouble Sir? No Miss, were I expecting

Re: Unsupported Devices

2008-06-09 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Mike, This is Alan's co-worker. This happened several years ago, so I could be fuzzy on the details. In our case, the devices were check sorters, not tape drives. They were bus-and-tag devices that should have been on a converted channel. Someone was trying to save channels, so they were on an

Re: VM:Backup: Twinning Tapes to Remote Tape Unit

2008-06-06 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Put a VTS in your DR site connected to you as the site for the twin tapes. No movement of tapes now. In fact, our remote site has a VTS for DR backups. Our local backups are still in an STK silo. My comment about tape movement was in context with David's suggestion of a fallback when the

Re: Backup: Twinning Tapes to Remote Tape Unit

2008-06-06 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Can't do that, unless you can guarantee that the tapes at the remote site are longer than the local copy (which would be unlikely). When the backup runs, writing to a given pair of tapes ends when the first one hits EOT. That's yet another complication for us if were to use twins. We use 9840

Re: VM:Backup: Twinning Tapes to Remote Tape Unit

2008-06-05 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
If you do a tape-to-tape copy, make sure your local and remote tape volsers match. VM:Backup has the tape volsers in its catalog. If you don't have the correct volsers at your remote site, you have a problem. You could probably get away with different volsers if you code VM:Backup's tape mount

Re: VM:Backup: Twinning Tapes to Remote Tape Unit

2008-06-05 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
No one has told us that the two backup runs have to be the same. The DR backups are only used if the primary data center is a pile of rubble. Who cares if they're a few hours older or newer than a set of tapes that is now unusable, and may be irrecoverable? The disaster time is unpredictable.

Re: VM:Backup: Twinning Tapes to Remote Tape Unit

2008-06-05 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
The other advantage of separate onsite and offsite backup jobs is that your onsite backups aren't held up when your channel extension equipment is down. Very true. Depending on how smart your scratch exits are, you can fall back on generating local volumes and adding them to the remote series,

Re: Real device number assignments

2008-05-30 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Alan, We use the same device number for each CEC that is sharing a device. Other CEC's, or other channel sets on the same CEC, might use that device number for another device. E.g. there might be 3 different DASD volumes at device number 2000 in the data center, but every LPAR that accesses a

Re: Directory Statements

2008-05-29 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Howard, Directory statements are documented in CP Planning and Administration. Chapter 17 for z/VM 5.3.0. Probably the same for slightly older releases. Dennis O'Brien Don't worry about biting off more than you can chew. Your mouth is

Re: ESM for SFS

2008-05-22 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
No, VM:Secure is not an ESM for SFS. It can manage SFS enrollment, but that's all. Dennis O'Brien Don't worry about biting off more than you can chew. Your mouth is bigger than you think. -- CVW-11 chaplain, Carrier -Original

Re: Mystery paging

2008-05-19 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
describe this in more detail: http://www.vm.ibm.com/perf/tips/dim.html http://www.vm.ibm.com/perf/tips/vmdspage.html 2008/5/17 O'Brien, Dennis L Dennis.L.O'[EMAIL PROTECTED]: We recently inherited responsibility for a z/VM 5.2 system that had been maintained by another group. They had a DR

Mystery paging

2008-05-17 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
We recently inherited responsibility for a z/VM 5.2 system that had been maintained by another group. They had a DR test today, and I logged on and looked around. The LPAR is configured with 3G central storage and no expanded storage. I issued the following commands: q alloc page

Re: Mystery paging

2008-05-17 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
/tips/dim.html http://www.vm.ibm.com/perf/tips/vmdspage.html 2008/5/17 O'Brien, Dennis L Dennis.L.O'[EMAIL PROTECTED]: We recently inherited responsibility for a z/VM 5.2 system that had been maintained by another group. They had a DR test today, and I logged on and looked around. The LPAR

Software on tape

2008-05-05 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
I've been asked whether our z/VM systems could convert to using only virtual tape. One of the possible sticking points is vendor software. If necessary, we could keep a couple of manual tape drives around for software installs. I'm trying to determine if it's necessary. Have IBM or any other

Re: Software on tape

2008-05-05 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of O'Brien, Dennis L Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 3:25 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Software on tape I've been asked whether our z/VM systems could convert to using only virtual tape. One of the possible sticking points is vendor software. If necessary, we could

Re: Software on tape

2008-05-05 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
to IBM customer numbers. Regards, Richard Schuh -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of O'Brien, Dennis L Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 3:44 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Software on tape Richard, We have a CA

Re: whitehouse email

2008-05-02 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
The backups are kept safe and sound, right next to the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. But yeah, compared to the Clintons, the Bush regime has been remarkably scandal-free. Dennis It's 10:00 PM. Do you know where your backup tapes are?

Re: OSA rdev and vdev requirements for Linux guests.

2008-04-23 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Yes, the other bank formerly based in SF posted this before. Here it is again: Guest RDev VDev GUEST1DC00 DC00 GUEST1DC01 DC01 GUEST1DC0A DC02 GUEST2DC02 DC00 GUEST2DC03 DC01 GUEST2DC0B DC02 GUEST3DC04 DC00 GUEST3DC05 DC01 GUEST3

Re: Second TCPIP stack and SSL

2008-04-17 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Alan didn't mention that we're a large shop, and most of the mainframes are 2000 miles away from the programmers. One of them is on the other side of the Atlantic. KVM switches and HMC access aren't going to work. I looked for information on SSL support in OSA-ICC and didn't find any. The

Re: set share to stop a guest from getting service ?

2008-03-28 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Lionel, SET SHARE userid RELATIVE 1 LIMITHARD should take it down as low as it can go. If you want no service at all, CP SEND CP userid SLEEP 99 HRS should do it. I take it you don't want to just FORCE the userid? Dennis O'Brien A society

SHARE vs. zSeries Expo

2008-03-26 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
We're planning our training for the year, and wondering about the value of SHARE vs. zSeries Expo. Several of us have been to SHARE, but none have been to the Expo. What do people who've been to both think of each? Dennis O'Brien Just

Re: Question about virtual tape in a zVM environment

2008-03-25 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
I'm sure the people planning for the new hardware have considered it. I was just concerned that in their plan they had no native physical tape for VM. Ann, You should check. Our storage people brought in a remote VTS to replace tapes that were being physically moved offsite. They were

Re: Adding Spool Volumes

2008-03-24 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Richard, You could lose any existing CP dump files that are still in SPOOL when you reallocate. AFAIK, VMDUMP files go on regular SPOOL volumes, so they shouldn't be affected. If the existing dump volumes are becoming regular SPOOL volumes, with the same volsers and slots, I would expect

Re: Question about virtual tape in a zVM environment

2008-03-24 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Ann, You shouldn't have any trouble using virtual tape with VM or VM:Tape. We use it here, primarily for VM:Backup and VM:Spool. VM:Spool uses SPXTAPE under the covers. I'm sure DDR will work fine, too. One phase of our DR process mounts virtual tapes as FOREIGN on another VM system, and it

Re: Any Rumors?

2008-02-14 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
And it will get jealous if you upgrade to a better model. And don't even THINK about outsourcing some of your work to a timesharing service while you have one. Dennis The popularity and effectiveness of modern anti-depressants is one of

Re: Any Rumors?

2008-02-14 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of O'Brien, Dennis L Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 12:53 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Any Rumors? And it will get jealous if you upgrade to a better model

Re: FTP - how can I preserve date time?

2008-02-08 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Since this is a VM-to-VM transfer, why not use SENDFILE or cross-node Shared File System instead of FTP? Either of those methods will preserve the date and time. Dennis The popularity and effectiveness of modern anti-depressants is one of

Re: FTP - how can I preserve date time?

2008-02-08 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of O'Brien, Dennis L Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 3:45 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: FTP - how can I preserve date time? Since this is a VM-to-VM transfer, why not use SENDFILE or cross-node

Re: OT (humor): Not in Plan response to requirements

2008-01-30 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Has this capability been anounced yet? We could really use that. I tried reversing the polarity but, despite all the Star Trek I've watched, it didn't help. Perhaps I should have watched some MacGyver. Brian Nielsen Perhaps you've run into a case that's covered by the maxim that was posted

Re: how to wait for dfsmsrm command

2008-01-22 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Phillip, Have you tried the WAIT option on DFSMSRM MOUNT? Do you need to trap the response from DFSMSRM, or will the return code be sufficient? Dennis The popularity and effectiveness of modern anti-depressants is one of the great

Re: HCD question

2007-12-03 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
It's true that you can't add devices dynamically from VM if VM isn't the owner of the IOCDS, but you can add them from z/OS and VM will see them. Dennis I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense,

VM TSM server support

2007-10-25 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
I've been poking around IBM's web site, trying to find out if the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) server is still supported for VM. I know it hasn't been enhanced in years. I just want to know if it's still supported. I think the answer is no. I found these two documents:

Re: DFSMSRM 3495

2007-10-16 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Dave, DFSMSRM QUERY LIBRARY INVENTORY ALL will send a file to your reader listing every volume in the library. It can take a few minutes to complete. Dennis The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken

Re: VM:Backup lmp key

2007-09-25 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Phillip, The LMP key goes in file CALMP KEYS on VMRMAINT 192. You can XEDIT the file directly, or run VMIMAINT and select Update Central LMP Keys File from the menu. Dennis O'Brien The right to be heard does not automatically include the

Re: DISKACNT maintentence

2007-09-20 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Rich's command below is fine if you want to erase a file on DIRMAINT, but Derek asked how to erase a file on DISKACNT. DIRMAINT has no special powers to erase files on other virtual machines. You either need to shut DISKACNT down to erase the file, or use Shared File System instead of a minidisk

Re: Tape Drives in z/OS under z/VM

2007-09-13 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Daniel, For our JES2 guests, we attach tape drives to all the guests using ATTACH or DEDICATE with the MULTIUSER option. The guests run CA's MIA product to control sharing. We also use MIA on our JES2 LPAR systems. Our JES3 LPAR systems use JES3's own tape sharing support. This requires

Re: OSA question

2007-08-24 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Unless things have changed, each OSA triplet has to start on an even real address, but the real addresses don't have to be consecutive. Here's how we arrange ours. This setup pre-dates Guest LAN and Virtual Switch. Virtual Machine Real Virtual GUEST1 100100 GUEST1 101101 GUEST1

Re: OSA question

2007-08-24 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
, Dennis L Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 11:56 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: OSA question Unless things have changed, each OSA triplet has to start on an even real address, but the real addresses don't have to be consecutive. Here's how we arrange ours. This setup pre-dates Guest LAN

Re: Ops privs

2007-08-24 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
I agree with Richard. Not only do you have a serialization issue with multiple people able to issue commands, but all these additional commands would need to be logable by an ESM. I can't think of any cases where I'd want to give SEND or SIGNAL SHUTDOWN authorization to general users. If I

Re: VM directory

2007-08-14 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
August, We use CRYPTO statements in the VM directory. Here's an example from a z9. z890/z990's use the same syntax. z800/z900's are different. CRYPTO DOMAIN 00 APDED 1 The Creating and Updating a User Directory chapter in CP Planning and Administration has the syntax. That's Chapter 17 in

Re: Z/VM 5.3 and SSL

2007-08-09 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
What Linux package is generally used to provide Z/VM 5.3 with SSL? TCP/IP Planning and Customization says, Detailed information about Linux requirements and preparation for use by the SSL server are available at the TCP/IP Feature home page on the World Wide Web. Go to the following Web site,

Re: DFSMS/VM

2007-08-07 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
You don't need DirMaint or ISPF for the RMS component of DFSMS. You do need to put the control files in SFS, unless you're willing to modify the code to use a minidisk. Some of the code is in REXX, but some isn't, so I don't know if it's even possible to change it to use a minidisk.

Re: z/VM 5.3 or z/VM 5.2

2007-07-26 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
To install from DVD second-level, the first-level system must be z/VM 5.1 or later. There are programs on MAINT 2CC that you need for the DVD install, and 5.1 was the first release that had them. I suspect that if you have access to a z/VM 5.x system, you could copy over the MAINT 2CC disk to

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