On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Schuh, Richard rsc...@visa.com wrote:
I feel like a fish out of water. I ordered z/VM 6.1 to be delivered
electronically, which may have been a mistake.
- I have downloaded to the PC, and uploaded to a VM disk, the files
pointed to by the notification
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Les Koehler vmr...@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
I didn't mean to imply 'best practices', just another alternative to
consider.
And I hope my tongue-in-cheek quip wasn't taken as being critical! It sure
wasn't intended as such.
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Chip Davis c...@aresti.com wrote:
Okay, I concede. Even though he's a relative newcomer to VM, Phil's is
longer then mine...
Hah. I know when I'm being baited...let's see, it was about 1975. So no, I
don't go back to VM/370 R1.
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Michael MacIsaac mike...@us.ibm.comwrote:
Hi,
I was asked for help with a Linux install problem and it seems that the
Linux parameter file, stored in a CMS file, had been folded to upper case.
Getting the parameter file with the correct case will probably
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Bill Munson william.mun...@bbh.comwrote:
Mike,
I have been creating my own XEDIT on any CMS userid I use, for so long,
that is almost the first thing I do when I encounter a new System
It is annoying when you go to a NEW place and it is not set up properly
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Mike Walter mike.wal...@hewitt.comwrote:
Excellent response, Richard! Changing ancient defaults is not backward
compatible, and risks breaking untold old (and perhaps poorly written)
XEDIT macros.
This is of course correct. The best solution is a time
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Schuh, Richard rsc...@visa.com wrote:
That is not far enough back, it has to go back at least to 1972 :-)
Not for XEDIT?! But when I finish it, it will go back earlier, to fix:
- ASCII vs. EBCDIC
- null-terminated strings
- case sensitivity in *IX
All three
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Mike Walter mike.wal...@hewitt.comwrote:
Excellent response, Richard! Changing ancient defaults is not backward
compatible, and risks breaking untold old (and perhaps poorly written)
XEDIT macros.
This is of course correct. The best solution is a time
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Schuh, Richard rsc...@visa.com wrote:
The company where I was for Y2K ignored our advice and pleas to do
something about it, pleas starting in the 1980s and continuing until they
looked into it in 3Q 1997. Their conclusive action was to outsource the
entire
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:55 PM, Les Koehler vmr...@tampabay.rr.comwrote:
Using WORDPOS() would be a *lot* more efficient and easier to type!
And so the wars resume...
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Pamela Christina (a rainy day in
Endicott) chris...@gdlvm7.vnet.ibm.com wrote:
IBM System z Technical University (formerly Technical Conference)
May 17-21, 2010
Berlin, Germany - Hotel Berlin
(Open for enrollments)
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Danny Padilla p_enterpri...@cox.net wrote:
Is there any pay incentives involved ? Or is this free time ?
You're guaranteed a good seat. And all you can drink at SCIDS.
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 9:05 PM, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Victor_Hugo_Ochoa?=
vhoa...@gmail.com wrote:
somebody knows
How I can capture the output of this command
pun script linux a
PUN FILE 0138 SENT TO CMDAUTO1 RDR AS 0036 RECS 0128 CPY 001 A NOHOLD
NOKEEP
That's because PUNCH is a CMS
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 9:08 PM, P S zosw...@gmail.com wrote:
'CP SPOOL PUNCH CONT'
'PUNCH SCRIPT LINUX A'
parse value diag(8, 'SPOOL PUNCH CLOSE NOCONT') with . . spoolid .
Oops, meant to explain that, too:
The SPOOL PUNCH CONT tells CP When a file is punched, don't close the
virtual punch
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Gentry, Stephen
stephen.gen...@lafayettelife.com wrote:
I’m trying to locate this TXTLIB on my z/VM 5.4 system but can’t find it.
What z/VM products would this library have been shipped with?
Further, we use the C language infrequently and when I try to do a
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Edward M Martin emar...@aultman.com wrote:
Hello Everyone,
Is there any way to make the RL (RDRLIST) only show some specific dates, or a
selected RDR member only?
You're in XEDIT, do an ALL on the command line...
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Schuh, Richard rsc...@visa.com wrote:
Roger,
If you want, I will send you a copy of my SEARCH package. It will handle the
problem quite nicely.
But how much fun is THAT on a Friday afternoon???
I think that's:
'PIPE PLOG PRINT W | split | all /N798/ ! /C798/ | count lines |
ANSWER TEXT A'
isn't it? And that assumes that xN798y should be counted. If not:
'PIPE PLOG PRINT W | split | nlocate 5 | all /N798/ ! /C798/ | count
lines | ANSWER TEXT A'
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 2:23 PM,
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com wrote:
On Tuesday, 01/12/2010 at 03:02 EST, Kris Buelens kris.buel...@gmail.com
wrote:
Using HTML can improve messages, for example the ability to use a
monospace
font in REXX snippets, not to forget the problem that
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Kris Buelens kris.buel...@gmail.comwrote:
Why COPYFILE PACK and not VMARC PACK?
Because COPYFILE is part of z/VM, VMARC is not; bandwidth is cheap; and IBM
is familiar with COPYFILE(PACK format, might not be so much with VMARC (yes
,this is arguably a subset of
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Rob van der Heij rvdh...@gmail.com wrote:
Now if you had a pipeline stage that would do an FTP PUT plus enough
time to write some plumbing to read the vmdump file directly and mimic
the dump load format, you could do without a mini disk...
Next you'll want
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Aria Bamdad a...@bsc.gwu.edu wrote:
The question below was asked back in May with no real answer. I recently
ran into a section in an IBM z10-BC systems assurance document (SA08-006)
that says:
3.5.1 Important Power Selection Considerations
As you select
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Aria Bamdad a...@bsc.gwu.edu wrote:
I am not totally clear as to what balanced and unbalanced power means. I
plan to find out tomorrow when I speak to my CE. Looking online and doing a
search for “balanced power systems” makes me think that it has something
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Mike Walter mike.wal...@hewitt.com wrote:
The problem with bigger on SFS is that it is on SFS.
Try writing, say, a big honking (historically for CMS, but NOTHING to
Linux) 12G file into SFS. No problem - writes are a little slower than to
a minidisk, but not
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Daniel P. Martin
dmar...@gizmoworks.comwrote:
Slashdot Article:
IBM has released a new mainframe server that doesn't include its z/OS
operating system. This Enterprise Linux Server line supports Red Hat or
Suse. The system is packaged with mainframe
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:51 AM, Ivica Brodaric
ivica.broda...@gmail.comwrote:
Jim,
It's text encoding I think. From David's e-mail:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Try to change to Unicode (UTF-8). It shows OK in Gmail with Safari browser
set
What I did : this 191 is sharing with a user in another z/VM
This sounds like one of two things:
1) You had two virtual machines who both had R/W access to the disk. Don't
do that, it will hurt (the disk contents will be destroyed). CMS minidisks
do not support multiple concurrent R/W access.
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.comwrote:
On Wednesday, 11/18/2009 at 05:27 EST, P S zosw...@gmail.com wrote:
And here's one I found from an old MP3000 we had:
DEVICE d...@4f0 CTC 4F0
LINK VM1CTC1 CTC 0 d...@4f0
HOME
10.3.1.254 VM1CTC1
GATEWAY
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Billy R. Bingham
billy.bingham...@suddenlink.net wrote:
Hello,
Would anyone like to share their VM TCP/IP definitions for a MP3000 with
ETHERNET cards?
And here's one I found from an old MP3000 we had:
DEVICE d...@4f0 CTC 4F0
LINK VM1CTC1 CTC 0 d...@4f0
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 3:26 AM, Rob van der Heij rvdh...@gmail.com wrote:
Not only Friday, but even the 13th
Long ago, the Piper convinced me of having signal on novalue in my
programs, and it saved my bottom part a few times... Had to think of
that again today. I get an IBM mass mailing
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Schuh, Richard rsc...@visa.com wrote:
I wish you would let us know what you really think.
Yes, the web interface is surprisingly difficult to use for a company that
is at the forefront of technology. Single login would be nice. Ease of
navigation could be
And while we're debating correct terminology, remember that it's z/VM. The
slash is required: it's software. z/VM, z/OS, z/VSE, z/TPF, z/Architecture
(yeah, that's considered software). z10, z9, z900, z800, etc. -- hardware.
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Ivan Warren i...@vmfacility.fr wrote:
Almost but...
Those products are still part of STG (Systems Technology Group), not SWG
(Software Group) - so they are not really to be referred as software (i.e.
not part of either Lotus/Websphere/Tivoli/IM/Rational
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:34 AM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.comwrote:
On Tuesday, 10/20/2009 at 06:46 EDT, Marcy Cortes
marcy.d.cor...@wellsfargo.com wrote:
Did pricing change?
No.
One does wonder, Why the version number change?
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Mike Walter mike.wal...@hewitt.comwrote:
SSI appears to provide a means of using communications architectures to
couple up to 4 (maximum: FOUR) z/VM systems into one Single System Image.
Heh. I remember when ISF (the same idea, badly done, on HPO) was
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Alain Benveniste a.benveni...@free.fr wrote:
Alone in the world to still use it probably ;)
Well, I assemble the source and genmod it with amode 24 with a v stor at 4M
and it still doesn't work
I still have a 'operation exception'...
It isn't the vstor at
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Alain Benveniste a.benveni...@free.fr wrote:
My user has 32MB but I use genmod with the option amode 24. Should I reduce
my v stor to be sure ?
Yes. The point is that it may be passing 31-bit addresses which get
interpreted as 24-bit.
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Wandschneider, Scott
scott.wandschnei...@infocrossing.com wrote:
I have a LOGOFF/FORCE pending situation and I know which device is hung.
Any ideas on how to clear the device so the force may complete?
Power off the device? Or is it virtual only?
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Wandschneider, Scott
scott.wandschnei...@infocrossing.com wrote:
The hung User completed its logoff before I could issue the HALT. It was
hung for about 30-35 minutes before completing.
Damn, now you can't issue...oh, wait. Nevermind. :-)
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Scott Rohling scott.rohl...@gmail.com wrote:
Working with a customer running Linux on zSeries under zVM... discussing
clean up of disk areas when a Linux server is removed. The 'norm'
according to the customer is to use anywhere from 3 to 35 'passes' to erase
Forgot to add: by repeated formats, you lower the actual values until
they disappear into the noise floor -- a 5 is pretty hard to tell
from a 4, and a repeatedly rewritten 0 might go to a 5, whereas a
repeatedly rewritten 1 might go to a 4, so at some point entropy takes
over.
If you've used
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Rob van der Heij rvdh...@gmail.com wrote:
Did you remember to use CPU ALL to activate PER for all CPUs (unless
you know where to look for it)
Good point:
CPU ALL TRACE ...
(in case it wasn't obvious)
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Dave Jones d...@vsoft-software.com wrote:
Thanks, Rob and PSso I need to issue the TRACE command like so:
CPU ALL CMD TRACE ... . . . . . . . . .
correct?
The CMD is optional, but sure.
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Frank M. Ramaekers
framaek...@ailife.com wrote:
This will be true using MINIDISKs...if the user that owns the disk has
the disk LINKed in R/W, you (FTPSERVE) will only be able to access the
disk in R/O. IMHO, the best way around this is to use SFS.
True but
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Tom Duerbusch
duerbus...@stlouiscity.com wrote:
I thought there was an old subcommandone that was used in the dial up
ages...
Set Nulls on
Set Remote on
Set something on
It was a method of having Xedit use trailing nulls, instead of trailing
blanks.
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Hodge, Robert L robert.l.ho...@lmco.com wrote:
I've been using Filezilla for years. For minidisks to work you need to limit
the number of connections to one, otherwise you receive the message about the
minidisk being read-only. This is because when Filezilla
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Schuh, Richard rsc...@visa.com wrote:
Suppose you are editing a file that has RECFM V and you want to see the hex
translation. You enter the command VER H 1 *, and you are immediately
presented with the hex data. Is there any way to prevent XEDIT from padding
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Feller, Paul pfel...@aegonusa.com wrote:
You could try HEXTYPE, it might give you what you are looking for. Not the
best looking screen, but it may help.
No, it won't help.
The suggestion to unpack it to hex nibbles and then put it back is a
good one. Now we
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Rich Greenberg ric...@panix.com wrote:
On: Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 03:22:49PM -0700,Wandschneider, Scott Wrote:
} Please keep the list posted with any updates to this subject. I, for
} one, am *very* interested in your PMR. As I recall this has been a
} nagging
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Mike Walter mike.wal...@hewitt.com wrote:
The latest release I know of (PROBLEM 4.5) can be found courtesy of the
kind folks at Sine Nomine Associates at:
http://www.sinenomine.net/download/problem
And I have a version on a round, 800BPI tape in a box in the
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Tony Thigpen t...@vse2pdf.com wrote:
The following story was told to me by an IBM EC back about 1985.
In Huntsville, AL, a few years earlier, a disgruntled employee went around
the building, turned all the keys to off and removed them. He then walked
out with
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Bill Holder hold...@us.ibm.com wrote:
I don't entirely agree. The action of the guest did not cause harm
to CP, it was the action of the operations staff which did. This
is not a denial of service case that I can see.
Hm. So by that rationale, we can make
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Bill Holder hold...@us.ibm.com wrote:
I'd agree with that point in cases where it's less clear, but in
this case, it's perfectly clear that the user action would have
been harmless if not for the administrator typo. I don't disagree
that more protection at
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Schuh, Richard rsc...@visa.com wrote:
Logon would not be the right or only place to put it. DEF STOR is another
possible place to err if the maximum storage was too high. Perhaps a check of
virtual storage at IPL time. That is a common point that must be
http://www.ciozone.com/index.php/Server-Technology-Zone/The-Mainframe-The-Dinosaur-That-Wouldn-t-Die.html
Something that caught my eye:
IBM...opened five major new plants.
Which five? Anyone know?
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Edward M Martinemar...@aultman.com wrote:
We are planning on going tapeless via some version of a Virtual Tape
System. I have been questioning 5-6 vendors.
snip
If you would, please off list, send me your comments, problems,
concerns, etc. I
Back to first principles:
1) Can you replicate the *failure* so you'll know whether you've fixed
it or made it worse?
2) It's important to understand how the guests detect updates. If it's
via a handshake, can you simulate that?
I like Harry's almost-atomic update via COPY then RENAME. It
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Llewellyn, Markmllew...@visa.com wrote:
Dale,
The MACLIB is maintained by a service machine which copies it to a large TEMP
disk, compresses it, then copies it back to the prod disk.
The copy FROM the prod disk always seems to be ok. The copy of the
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Schuh, Richardrsc...@visa.com wrote:
Since he could not answer questions about his request, it is difficult to
know. I think he was asking about a Ficon director.
Could have meant CUPS (printing)? Seems unlikely, but...
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Mark Llewellynmllew...@visa.com wrote:
Any veteran ISPF/PDF SMEs out there?
We have an ancient and soon-to-be decommissioned ISPF/PDF application that
makes use of an enormous MACLIB on a shared mult-write minidisk. Scary, I
know, but that's the way ISPF
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Schuh, Richardrsc...@visa.com wrote:
Unfortunately, that will not fly with the application. There are always
several users who have the disk MW. It is a heavily used application and
users keep it linked active for long periods. The main users of it live in
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Llewellyn, Markmllew...@visa.com wrote:
The MACLIB is updated via PDF dialog table services, driven by a number of
older REXX EXECs. It contains hundreds of members, which can be updated at
any time, and new members are added every day.
I'm unsure if
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Schuh, Richardrsc...@visa.com wrote:
Considering that it is ISPF, I would be worried that taking down the SVM
would simply kill all of the protective mechanisms that ISPF employs to keep
the users from trashing the file because of the MW links. In the absence
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Dean, David (I/S)david_d...@bcbst.com wrote:
Thank you, the problem however is exactly what you allude to, what size do
they REALLY need to be. IBM is comparing WebSphere RAM needs between AIX,
Windows, and zLinux. We have historical data that help us
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Schuh, Richardrsc...@visa.com wrote:
Strong incentive to make sure that either all of the linux guests IPL from
the same virtual address or, at the very least, that none of them has a
virtual 190.
As long as you are using something fuzzy to make the
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Howard Rifkindvmes...@yahoo.com wrote:
I’ve just read through the posts on Hercules.
I’ve heard about it but don’t know much about this software.
Does it run on a PC in Windows, Linux…what?
Is Hercules a shell for z/VM and/or z/OS and if so where does one get
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Bob Woodsideibm...@woodsway.com wrote:
Oh, my. Well, if we must explore it fully, I have to excerpt a
snippet from a Rexx course I recently taught, illustrating how the use
of not quite reserved keywords as variable names *can* trip you up.
It typically
Meant this to go to the list...stupid GMAIL.
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Jan Canavancanav...@earthlink.net wrote:
Has anyone run across this error with Focus and CMS?
I'm told this has been running fine since 1998.
z/VM 5.3
Focus Database Management/Query System Information Builders
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Bob Woodsiderwoodsi...@woodsway.com wrote:
On Tuesday 21 July 2009, Philip Hitti wrote:
Is there any command to find a word in the midle of the vm file and
continue seaching until the end of the text as TSO.
I'm not sure what you mean by as TSO, but IIRC
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 5:09 AM, Ivan Warren i...@vmfacility.fr wrote:
Chip Davis wrote:
... when shared segments were implemented in VM.
It seems to me that it predated the VM/370 SEPP/BSEPP days when I started,
but there's been many a synapse lost since then.
VM/370 R6 does have DCSS
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Gentry, Stephen
stephen.gen...@lafayettelife.com wrote:
Ok, just read the HELP info. Thanks.
Why does VM/CP/NSS/? allow both entries to be active? How does it know
which one to use? First one it finds?
CP. And you've sort of answered the 2nd (of 4)
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