Hi Terry -
As a couple other folks have mentioned, "dd" will work to do that, even if you
dump the image out to a tape or a disk file. However, you will need to make
sure that no changes are taking place on the disk you are dumping while you are
dumping it, which leads back to the same issue a
I've been totally buried for the past 14 months in what seemed like a never
ending waterfall of projects. Only a few of them were related to z/VM and
z/Linux. It seems like the machine here just runs itself, and is so stable
there is little need to spend time working on it. I love managing pr
onsiderations, such
> as backups et al.
>
> On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 19:08 -0600, Paul Raulerson wrote:
>> Yes, that is exactly so. You can use it for any purpose, production,
>> test, or development, on as many instances as you like.
>>
>>
>> It *is* a winner
h a 180
> day trial for support, but the software license is free and I can continue to
> use it past the 180 day period?
>
> Sounds like a winner if so.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Billy
>
> On 15 Feb 2010 at 13:31, Paul Raulerson wrote:
>
> > Note that "
Note that "trial" means trial period for support.
The license is free, you can run it as long as you wish, for any purpose. Seems
odd on a mainframe, but true.
And I personally recommend SLES over RedHat. If nothing else, YAST makes it far
easier to manage.
-Paul
On Feb 15, 2010, at 12:30
while.
I was kinda hoping someone else had ran into this, but perhaps it is
more likely I am just doing something wrong
-Paul
On Oct 30, 2009, at 1:27 AM, Mark Post wrote:
On 10/30/2009 at 1:23 AM, Paul Raulerson
wrote:
-snip-
Has anyone else ran into this?
Not without some error mes
heard of that. I think it is a little paranoid to worry
about it,
but I will try to pay attention to it, since obviously it is important
to
some folks.
Mike Walter
Hewitt Associates
The opinions expressed herein are mine alone, not my employer's.
"Paul Raulerson"
Sent by
I had to add some additional DASD to a Linux instance over the
weekend, and for whatever reason, it turned into a disaster.
Linux somehow or another decided to rearrange all the DASD and blew
every single LVM I had on the machine. Just under half a terabyte of
data went into some unrecovera
Heh... :)
I just won't use the online tools these days, except occasionally for Shop
zSeries. I just call it in, and give 'em a serial number.
for the $$ we spend on maintenance, they can find an English speaking person
who can assist me.
-Paul
-Original Message-
From: Michael Coff
It was mentioned in a keynote - so I guess it is "official" now. No
dates for it that I know of, except I think Jim Elliot said "not this
year" in one of his presentations.
-Paul
On Mar 5, 2009, at 2:19 PM, Lionel B. Dyck wrote:
Has there been any update on the status of Live Guest Migrati
VMWare ESX imposes roughly the same overhead here as z/VM, about 3% of
the processor, and of course, it allocates memory on a virtual basis.
Now, the workstation versions are far more demanding, taking up to 35
or 40% of the processor; as far as I know, there is really no analogy
of this in
estimates), such support could make for a good match;
guest
systems that do practically nothing and a virtualization system with a
remarkable ability to allocate resources among a large number of
guests.
On 11/2/08 2:12 PM, "Paul Raulerson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
That&#
again. :)
-Paul
On Nov 2, 2008, at 9:39 AM, Nick Laflamme wrote:
On Nov 1, 2008, at 9:58 PM, Paul Raulerson wrote:
I am very confused indeed by this whole conversation -VMWARE and z/
VM solve different solutions. And they are both extraordinarily
good at what they do.
IBM is positioning z/VM
is to peter principal IT
managers.
Paul Raulerson wrote:
I am very confused indeed by this whole conversation -VMWARE and z/
VM solve different solutions. And they are both extraordinarily
good at what they do.
Just at the 10,000 foot level, VMWARE is designed to virtualize PC
hardware
I am very confused indeed by this whole conversation -VMWARE and z/VM
solve different solutions. And they are both extraordinarily good at
what they do.
Just at the 10,000 foot level, VMWARE is designed to virtualize PC
hardware and z/VM virtualizes mainframe hardware. Dismissing this as
ifconfig -a
This will display all the defined network interfaces and their paramaters.
-Paul
-Original Message-
From: Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 05:21 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Linux command
Hi
Can someone
under z/VM? :-)
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From: Paul Raulerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: Partially Successful: OpenVMS on System z
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 17:36:51 -0500
Holy (!&^#) Batman!!
Would you believe I have been moving some of my personal
clients (not
wrote:
Ditto, what Paul said.:-)
I didn't know that OpenVMS could run on Intel Itaniums, but
it sounds way cool.
DJ
What's next, Mac under z/VM? :-)
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From: Paul Raulerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: Partially Succes
Holy (!&^#) Batman!!
Would you believe I have been moving some of my personal clients (not
my day job :) onto OpenVMS on Itaniums
because:
(1) The clients are purely disgusted with the iSeries world. The
thing is now named "i" - no series! Try to explain that to a
an irritated
Hi Ed-?
?I really like the TS1120's, and your cart count would go way down. ?(The
midrange carts can hold about a Terabyte, with encryption.)?
?What I am looking at right now is a VTL (EMC and IBM) that is fronts for a
pair of TS1120's. ?Looks like a great fit here.?
-Paul
?
-Original Mes
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Raulerson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On the other hand, IBM sells a load of "Linux only" mainframes these
days, most of which come with a z/VM license. ;
It is not beyond reason that half of the MIPS out there are "Linux"
MIPS. IFL's
On the other hand, IBM sells a load of "Linux only" mainframes these
days, most of which come with a z/VM license. ;
It is not beyond reason that half of the MIPS out there are "Linux"
MIPS. IFL's are generally faster and cheaper too.
Why would you think otherwise?
-Paul
On Sep 4, 2008, a
High school latin 3 decades agao notwithsatanding, what the heck does that
mean? None of those words translate or even transliterate inside my head.?
Most like a failure inside my head... :)?
-Paul
?
-Original Message-
From: Schuh, Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 25,
Jovial! Lord I miss working with that, and CMS-2Q too. :)
Anyways, have you looked at the used market? You can pick up a used
z800 o a z890 for a sweet deal these days, often well under $100K. z/
VM is available to license for those machines at a pretty good cost,
and you can always negotia
AM, Rich Greenberg wrote:
On: Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:03:14PM -0500,Adam Thornton Wrote:
} On Aug 14, 2008, at 9:34 PM, Paul Raulerson wrote:
}
} >(1) Learn vi.
}
} Heretic.
Adam may call me a heretic also but I agree with Paul. While there
are
many other editors available on *ix and you c
Second that. :) On my personal SuSE system running here, there are
over 34K possible "commands" on the system, where a command is an
executable program or script. That doesn't include the commands
available inside programs like shells.
As IBMers, we all love our manuals, and don't want to
I think that even 10 copies of Windows, especially in an emulated
environment, will eat up enormous amounts of zSeries CPU. Add in the
license costs from Microsoft, and I'm not sure it makes any kind of
financial sense.
But I like the idea.
I plan to watch this develop with my eyes out
I've seen that a lot when the FTP server is being run from inetd or xinetd, and
requires and IDENT transaction.
Did someone change your configuration, either adding an IDENT rquirement on the
FTP server or removing an IDENT process on the remote machine?
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Hello all...
for
Much as it is derided Alan, CPU speed is an important consideration. Not the
only consideration of course,
but important all the same. 4Ghz on a the PowerPC-like PU core of a
mainframe is - impressive. Of course,
IBM has always been a little "retentive" about stuff like that, because they
always l
o ask. But also, which flavor IFL are you running? A z800 might be
considered
slow (or very slow) by some and not competitive, and a z9 might be considered a
"rocket
ship" Personally, the z9 IFL makes us competitive on a CPU basis (except
for weather
modeling and things like that)
problem with TSM
backups
that a decent performance monitor will point out?
Paul Raulerson wrote:
> What are you running on Mark? And how much are you backing up. I really need
> some GOOD
examples of TSM working! :)
> I do have a large number of document images to back up each day
Carl Sagan
Paul Raulerson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]
com> To
applications can we "bunch" in to this, of course
Web Serving and Database Serving, how about other things, such as Printer
Serving??
Paul Raulerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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09/27/2007 01:20 PM
Please respond to
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z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Paul Raulerson
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 10:21 AM
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Hey Paul -
I have the barebones of one, but nothing in shape to publish at this
Hey Paul -
I have the barebones of one, but nothing in shape to publish at this time. A
couple of notes though; Mainframe Linux has most of the same issues as
workstation linux, but benefits greatly from the vast I/O resourcs of the
mainframe. It works better under z/VM than on the bare metal (
Does anyone know if they have updated the z/VM cookbook for 5.3 yet? That is
one really fine redbook. I'm proud of myself, I got 5.3 installed today!
Not configured yet, but it *is* installed. Funny story about booting DVD's
from the HMC goes with that, but I think I will wait to share it until a
Just an outside suggestion - do you have all four FICON channels defined for
the controllers in your IODCS?
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Crispin Hugo
Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2007 1:15 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: CPFMTXA: Autom
Saturday, 08/11/2007 at 08:59 EDT, Paul Raulerson
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > I?ll be at share Sunday ? Thursday; if anyone wants to meet up for a
> few
> beers
> > (or root beers, as your preference dictates!) I think I owe several
> people here
> > a fe
I'll be at share Sunday - Thursday; if anyone wants to meet up for a few
beers (or root beers, as your preference dictates!) I think I owe several
people here a few. :)
Drop me an e-mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or drop me a cell phone call -
512-630-5759. I would enjoy getting to put faces to you f
ng volumes around. ;)
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On Jul 24, 2007, at 10:54 AM, Paul Raulerson wrote:
> "zipl" as far as I can tell, does not write out the boot sector on
> the DASD the same way, or at least it does not appear to. Running
> zipl on a freshly copied volume here w
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On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Paul Raulerson wrote:
> Well, yeah, but that won???t make the DASD bootable.
> You need to copy over the boot sector as well,
>
> dd if=/dev/dasda1 of=/dev/dasdb1 bs=512 count=1
I believe the current DASD driver will get it right:
dd if=/
tes zipl and chgroot; we were
doing it in the late 1970's. ;)
-Paul
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On Jul 23, 2007, at 8:43 PM, Paul Raulerson wrote:
> Well, yeah, but that won’t make the DASD bootable. You need to copy
> over the boot sector as well,
>
>
>
> dd i
Well, yeah, but that won’t make the DASD bootable. You need to copy over the
boot sector as well,
dd if=/dev/dasda1 of=/dev/dasdb1 bs=512 count=1
(substitute the correct devices in the above command of course. The first one
is the 3390-3 and the second the 3390-9. I have not tested this
They list for about $35K, so with discounts you can expect $22K upwards,
however, I don't think they attach directly to FICON lines, unless you
configure FCP protocol on the line. Otherwise, you need an A70 controller or
something similar.
If you use Fibre, you probably also need a SAN switch t
Might be a stupid question, but you are running this on a PU and not an IFL,
right?
-Paul
> -Original Message-
> From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Mike Hammock
> Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 11:46 PM
> To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
> Subject: OS/3
I like! Thank you.
We primarily use Linux here, and just MDISK in the volumes for each instance.
They tend to wrok better if they are CP formated. :)
-Paul
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I wouldn't think that you would not have to CPFMTXA every volume. Only
the CPOWNED volumes need to be CMFMTXA'd.
A
Does anyone have an example script they would be willing to share that shows
how to automate CPFMTXA? I have a few hundred DASD volumes to format and I
would REALLY like to just write a script and have it go. I am, of course,
stuck in figuring out how to say 'YES' to the program when it wants it.
Well Welcome to the VM World Lionel!
For those of you who don't know, Lionel ranks as "expert" in the z/OS world,
and is rather well known for helping people out with odd questions; even people
asking very basic questions.
Glad to see you here!
-Paul
Yowza.
A couple other options you might have used are:
Ask the BladeServer people to mount the ISO images on the bladeserver and
either share them via NFS (easiest way) or else make them available over
FTP. The use z/VM FTP to put the files necessary to IPL Linux on the Linux
guest 191 d
Not really, no.
There are few virii that can infect z/Linux systems to begin with, and they
are much more vulnerable to Trojans, worms, and other types of exploits.
T
here are two general exceptions though; if your z/Linux instance is acting
as an e-mail server or if it is acting as a Windows
d herein are mine alone and do not necessarily
represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates.
"Paul Raulerson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent by: "The IBM z/VM Operating System"
05/12/2007 08:12 PM
Please respond to
"The IBM z/VM Operating System"
Speaking of strange an Intuitive - I have a small contract open for
an Austin VM'er, if there are any here besides me. ;)
Bascially mentoring/emergency backup on upgrading and optimizing z/VM 5.3 as
an upgrade from 4.4. Probably have to do it over the Memorial Day weekend
though, due to service
ustin area sometime, let me know
and I'll buy you a beer. I expect I know a bit more about UNIX than you do, so
maybe we can trade.
-Paul
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On 5/8/07, Paul Raulerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well- I was being polite, since this is pretty obviously a sore sub
AWKward to learn is purely a coincidence.
And I have a nice bridge to sell too.
VM on the mainframe however, was being driven from different motivations.
Perhaps someone here will share and contrast those reasona and activites for us.
--- Begin Message ---
Paul Raulerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> No, I have looked, and CMS Pipelines are nice indeed. But then so are pipes
> under UNIX; indeed, pipes are the very core of UNIX. If you are not annoyed
> by discussing it, I would love to hear your opinions on what is so primitive
> about UNIX. :)
As I said: leaky garden hose. The analogy hold
about that.
-Paul
-Original Message-
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Rob van der Heij
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 2:17 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: z/VM usability
On 5/7/07, Paul Raulerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We
Mark Hessling.
Paul Raulerson wrote:
> Well - Linux works now, and can talk to all the CP services. Linux also
> comes with Rexx (Regina), XEdit (THE Editor from Tim Hessling), and
> pipes that are roughly equivalent to CMS Pipelines. Named pipes and
> message queues and such are all av
Well - Linux works now, and can talk to all the CP services. Linux also comes
with Rexx (Regina), XEdit (THE Editor from Tim Hessling), and pipes that are
roughly equivalent to CMS Pipelines. Named pipes and message queues and such
are all available and under Linux and Solaris, very heavily used
Has anyone written a third party OS that can easily replace CMS? I mean, CMS,
despite being tightly integrated to all things VM, is in the final analysis,
"just another Host OS" isn't it? Surely over 40 years someone has written
something that can be used to replace it, perhaps something open so
There is at least one VTAM session manager on the CBT tapes. I don't know what
it would take to port it to run under VM, but.. the price is right and it comes
with source. SOL is the name of the thing I think. -Paul
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PVM might be an answer. It had both SNA and scripting capab
Snort-
Depends upon what the *nix servers are doing now doesn't it? We have a few
instances that have not been patched in a couple years, but they are running
an internal application, have strict change control applied, and have not
access to the outside world. Indeed, the *inside* world has only
Really nice try Mike - I appreciate it. I feel pretty annoyed with myself
right now. -Paul
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Mike Walter
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 5:09 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: Date Time Changes...
Actually,
Thanks Alan - Saturday afternoon IPL for me I suppose then.
-Paul
Whooo boy... I feel like such an idiot. I took advantage of another system
being down yesterday and IPLed our mainframe. Because I was under tight time
constraints, I just updated the TOD at IPL time to be current with CDT.
And fat fingered it. And did not notice till all the production Linux i
Have you looked at sftp? It uses the ssl libraries to make secure FTP
connections. If you really do mean running over ssh, then just plain on ssh
will do that for you.
-Paul
--- Begin Message ---
I am looking for a Unix FTP Client with support for Explicit SSL.
Suggestions?
_
You may be right Ed. Sometimes it feels like "Second Start to the left
and straight on till morning" stuff. Difficult to believe, but IBM usually does
right by their customers. -Paul
--- Begin Message ---
To both Paul Raulerson and David Boyes.
I believe that you are "P
his is Exchange Server 2003, which is still 32
bit code, so that may change when and if we move to Exchange Server 2007 and
64bit code. That's on a four processor machine with plenty of RAM, and the DASD
using dual connections to the Shark.
-Paul
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--- Paul Raulerson <[
Well, just my $0.02, and I have no inside knowledge at all...
But...
My guess is IBM is doing it's level (and legal) best to get out from under
encumbering agreements, and will sooner or later, embrace Hercules as the
platform of choice for Sub 200 mips Mainframe platforms. Yep - Hercules.
Ther
Hey Dave -
(Also speaking for myself) I agree with you in part. But add 100 users to a PC
and watch what happens to the IO. Or add a heavily used database with a few
hundred users. PC Servers just do not scale in terms of I/O the same way. iSCSI
and other technologies are starting to change that
--- Paul Raulerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I see two problems with this story - one is they
> quoted Phil Payne, whose has some kind of vendetta
> against IBM going. (I suspect he lost money in an
> emulator solution) and two,
His input is pretty small and pretty acc
I see two problems with this story - one is they quoted Phil Payne, whose has
some kind of vendetta against IBM going. (I suspect he lost money in an
emulator solution) and two, Itanium hardware is faster and more modern than a
mainframe PC, but ... it is not running Itanium software, it is emul
This sounds like an error in whatever "filter" software they are using on the
remote UNIX side to convert the UNIX file (in which X'0C' is a FormFeed) to
whatever you are accepting. It sounds like they have a custom filter there.
Without knowning more about their UNIX/Linux setup, it is really d
Are you running this direct or through a SAN switch? It doesn't make all that
much difference, but a SAN switch also gives you direct access to Fibre
connected tapes and such. (If your OS supports them.)
I have this on a z800 - don't know if would help you much on a z9* machine
though.
Also, che
We may be in a rather unique situation then.
I typically backup on the zLinux side, about 160BG/night, 80 gigabytes of which
consist of a few million wee little images. (80K is the average size.) On top
of that, I backup 30 Gigabytes from a Microsoft Exchange Server, and 60
Gigabytes of PC file
http://www.rocsoft.com
MIS Print and QDirect together make a pretty awesome combination. They will
also do custom work to integrate to other products. They do keep at it until it
works as promised.
-Paul
--- Begin Message ---
> I'd recommend that you look twice at loading things like print se
I have run into a lot of folks, but we bought the first zSeries machine that I
know configured to run only z/VM and Linux. May have something to do with
longevity... :)
I'd recommend that you look twice at loading things like print servers and etc.
on a zSeries unless you are basically swimming
Yes, thank you! z/VM is not our primary production environment (that would be
zLinux :) so we have few tools on z/VM to do anything with. I'd definately love
to have a C compiler over there...
-Paul
--- Begin Message ---
Paul,
if you are interested in a free C compiler for z/VM (CMS) you migh
Ed Martin
Aultman Health Foundation
330-588-4723
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ext. 40441
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Paul Raulerson
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 9:59 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: Question
There are no costs that *have* to be incurred. However, all the zLinux
companies will try their best to get you to buy their Patch/Fix support. For
SuSE that has been less than $5K/year, but I understand the price has not 'gone
up' a bit. Don't have the details at this time, but I expect they wi
Ah-- nope. They have it setup correctly. However, in my experience, that 'mode
conditioning cable' just never seems to work. The real simple answer is to put
a GBIC in the switch that takes long wave connections. Assuming you are using a
switch that uses GBICs of course. The cost will be a PITA
There are lots of ways to do that, depending upon what it is attached to and
what (if any) budget you have to do it with. Some more details would help get
you better suggestions. : )
-Paul
--- Begin Message ---
Chaps,
Any suggestions on ways we could have a tape drive 3490 in a remote
locati
Huh - now you even have me confused:
The opposite of "trivial" is "significant" (not complex)
The opposite of "non-trivial" is trivial
Therefor "non-trivial" == "significant"
Is that what you are trying to say?
-Paul
--- Begin Message ---
Alan Ackerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>OK, I give up
It sends different things depending upon what you have selected. If you have an
HSC, most of the options for what it sends are set in there. If not, you can
access the same screens from a service element. It can send a lot of
information, but none of what it sends was important to our SOX audito
e,
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Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 2:17 PM
Well, if you limit that to IBM software, sure, and that is their right. I have
not heard of any lawsuits about it in direct relation to Hercules, but then, I
don't follow it all that closely anymore.
I think even IBM Legal would have a tough time making a case about Hercules and
Linux/390/zLinux
Woo boy - it *is* Friday...
-Paul
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> The Webmaster To Whom We Are Eternally Grateful is busy contacting our
ISP
> as we speak.
Our admin, who art in Endicott,
Hallowed be thy userid.
Thy login comes,
Thy will be done.
On VM as it is on real hardware.
Give us this day our d
Drop Steve Comstock an e-mail and he can probably help you out. ([EMAIL
PROTECTED]).
Also Dave Bond over at Tachyon might be interested and be able to provide some
assistance. http://www.tachyonsoft.com
-Paul
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> -Original Message-
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Sure it is - the people at the top are probably pretty smart people, though they may not be knowledable in IT subjects. They speak in terms of money - so you just have to use the right language. As in dollars and cents make SENSE.
Very very rarely are their places where economic sense is totally i
So counter propose a zSeries based solution - say using Linux in an IFL and DB/2 with some kind of Client/Server application. IBM has some GREAT support for that now.
Also talk to people like Dave Rivers (SYS/ASM) and Dave Bond (TACHYON) , both of whom frequent this list. They both have assembler
.. and somewhat along the same lines...Does anyone have any idea how to retireve the data off an LVM which has had one of it's volumes mistakenly formatted in z/VM while the instance was down? Yes, I know, the best way to handle this type of situation is never to be there...The data I need slipped
If the disk has been formatted previous, using CPFMTXA or CPVOLUME, it will remain usable for Linux no matter how many times you change or rearrange mini-disks on it. (You do have the the first cyl allocated to $ALLOC, right? :) You just need to dasdfmtthe beasties each time you change them. The
"FCP_DEV" operand. Hope this helps you avoid your maintenance window. Regards, Eric Eric Farman z/VM I/O Development IBM Endicott, NY (607)429-4958 (tie 620) Paul Raulerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System <IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU>
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> I modified the IODC (using the HMC, I have not figured out how to use
the z/VM
> software for doing so yet... :) to change a free FC channel to a FCP
channel,
> and added a CUNUMBR line to su
We are going to be running a configuration soon that is a bit out of the ordinary, and it is driving me more than a little crazy trying to figure out how to support it. If anyone is running anything similar, I would surely appreciate advice, or better yet references!We have a z800 0E1 here, with
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