I would also wonder where you came up with that 64G virtual memory requirement.
The rules of thumb that apply to intel environments are counterproductive in
the Z environment. I hope our Velocity friends will expound at length about
that.
From: The IBM
It could very well mean a hardware issue. We received this message when
the refrigeration unit in our z10 failed. The microcode scales back the
processor speed. For our healthy z10:
adczlnxsahqa1:/ # cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/capability
1760
Are all ports really open? Can you open a connection going the other
way? Are the hanging servers trying to do a reverse dns lookup on the
windows workstation? You could use the network tracing facilities on
z/VM to get more insight in to what is happening.
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From: The
Also look at chapters 7, 8 and 9 in the z/VM TCP/IP Diagnosis Guide
version 5 release 3, which will show you how to do packet trace and
format the results, and also FTP server traces. If you see the VM FTP
server try to open a connection back to the windows box on a different
port, and you never
Networking is where you are most likely to have to make changes. Involve your
network engineering team early and often. Don't get stuck using the ed editor
to make changes to networking files from the 3270 console after you've moved
the image to the new lpar.
If you don't want to change your SYSTEM CONFIG file to specify those
devices as ONLINE_AT_IPL, you could vary the devices online in your
AUTOLOG1 profile exec.
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On
Behalf Of Steve Perez
Sent: Thursday,
Do you have a different system config file that has your page packs as
online? You could use the SAIPL screen to point to that config file.
Do you have spare packs that are online at ipl? You could format them
as page and clip them to the volsers you system is expecting for its
page packs, then
I thought Watson did very well on questions that a human could answer with
Google. Not so much on things that required making an inference. The
Toronto gaffe shows he needs a couple more PTFs. Wonder how Watson would do
on a fully configured z/196.
From:
Have you looked at LINMON?
http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/bkw/linmon.html
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On
Behalf Of Billy Bingham
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 9:22 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject:
There is an STSI sample exec on MAINT 193 which gives the information
you're looking for.
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On
Behalf Of Hamilton, Robert
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 3:32 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re:
We used a standalone facility provided by our hardware vendor (EMC in this
case). System(s) came down, EMC ran their utility which was very quick, and we
IPLed the newly copied res pack(s) on their new addresses. We used no
mainframe facilities other than our standard backups in case of
Yes, our network engineers have had to clear ARP cache in similar
situations. Its now a standard item in our migration plans.
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On
Behalf Of Horlick, Michael
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011
How did you create the IOCP for the machine that has the VM partition in
question? Go there and change the definition of those channels, control
units and devices to include the VM partition. Dynamically activate the
changes.
From: The IBM z/VM Operating
Guest operating systems almost always live in Q3. Try bumping up the Q3
STORBUF.
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On
Behalf Of Wakser, David
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 10:21 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject:
While not a free z/OS, I believe Rational provides a greatly reduced in
price z/OS on linux.
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On
Behalf Of Alan Altmark
Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 5:27 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re:
I don't. I don't have any human beings on my systems except for system
programmers that have full authority anyway. Having to GRANT linux
servers is an extra thing that has to be managed. I would like to
define a vswitch as unrestricted.
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating
We also have all EMC dasd. To guard against application faux pas that
are not immediately discovered, we maintain 3 copies of TPF at 8 hour
intervals (we can also bring home our offsite copies, which you need to
be able do when a real disaster is over). For DR testing, we snap off
point-in-time
and there will be no ability
to snap off a copy prior to the test - in fact, it is expressly
forbidden.
Regards,
Richard Schuh
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System
[mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Quay, Jonathan (IHG
: The IBM z/VM Operating System
[mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Quay, Jonathan (IHG)
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 10:51 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: BRP
If you can't snap off a copy what are you going to do during a
test? Stop
I think you've conflated PTF maintenance with version or release
maintenance. VM has test minidisks built in to it to test and promote
new PTF levels. Release or version maintenance is done by creating new
system volumes and then migrating your user directory, etc, to the new
system volumes when
Colin, can you say what the workload is? z/TPF guests, VPARS, Linux, CMS?
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System on behalf of Colin Allinson
Sent: Wed 10/6/2010 7:27 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: Strange performance problem
Barton Robinson
Is VSSI an IBM business partner? They already have a virtual tape on
minidisk product. There are others I'm sure.
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On
Behalf Of Alan Altmark
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 2:42 PM
To:
I don't think it's either. I think its an artifact of how IBM promotes
changes. From a process perspective, a PTF is supposed to fix something, not
provide new function. Because the PTF process was co-opted as the method for
new function delivery by a different set of developers, the entire
HiDRO is designed to do full pack backups. So, use that. If the guest is VM,
install VM:Backup in the guest for file level backup.
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System on behalf of KEETON Dave * SDC
Sent: Mon 9/20/2010 4:48 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Do you have VM64502 on? Have you tried it without the port number on the RDEV?
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System on behalf of Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR)
(CTR)
Sent: Sat 8/21/2010 11:14 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Trying to get OSA online
Hi
Also take a look at using a Rexx routine to compute time differences
using the CMS Multitasking
CSL call DateTimeSubtract. See z/VM CMS Application Multitasking for
your release of VM for formats and identifiers.
From: The IBM z/VM Operating
How about publishing it somewhere as a template for others to use?
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On
Behalf Of Rich Smrcina
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 11:26 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: New standard for networking
Also, if doing this on the fly, you need to find a free slot with QUERY
CPOWNED and then add the volume with DEFINE CPOWNED. Then and only then
attach the volume to SYSTEM. Defining cyl 0 as perm is also unnecessary
for modern releases of VM.
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From: The IBM z/VM
Its not documented, but it looks like it means you get to debug the
socket connection between you and z/OS.
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On
Behalf Of Mark Pace
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 2:58 PM
To:
If you have the Performance Toolkit, it's got the FC FORCEUSR commands.
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On
Behalf Of Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR)
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 9:47 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject:
The built-in default system limit is the minimum of:
* The amount of virtual storage that can be represented by
one-quarter of the usable dynamic paging area (DPA), based on the fact
that each gigabyte of virtual disk defined requires 2050 frames of host
real storage
* The amount of
Terry, when I did this, I received .zip files from ShopZSeries. I unzipped
them in to a directory structure on my workstation. Then I used my terminal
emulator (PCOM) to upload them to a minidisk on my 1st level system's VM 5.4
installation userid (MAINT54 in my case).
[mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf
Of Quay, Jonathan (IHG)
Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 1:22 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: z/VM 5.4 Install question
Terry, when I did this, I received .zip files from ShopZSeries. I unzipped
them in to a directory structure on my workstation
I have meant to bring this up to the list before now, but since you
mention it...
I use the clone a golden image methodology. I've used DDR, which
always works, and I've used dasdfmt and dd, which sometimes results in
an unstable system. I can't pin it down exactly, but I think it happens
:57 PM, Quay, Jonathan (IHG)
jonathan.q...@ihg.com wrote:
Is a NOLOG or other special user valid?
Back in the stone age, PROFS would try a SPOOL PUN user to see
whether the recipient is a valid mailbox. And NOLOG was a common way
to de-activate users and leave them on probation for a while. So
Is a NOLOG or other special user valid?
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System on behalf of Frank M. Ramaekers
Sent: Mon 3/15/2010 3:20 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Check for User...
What's the best way to check:
1) UserID is
What's the difference whether you hotkey between TUBES sessions or TN3270
sessions? We got rid of VM/VTAM and the mulitsession manager, put in OSA-ICCs,
and recently booted Attachmate in favor of Bluezone. Saved lots of money.
1. Any tn3270 session is dialable. Local through the osa-icc
I just went through this a couple of weeks ago and had the same oddities. I
bet its looking at the wrong filepoolid. Spell it out in the command.
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System on behalf of Frank M. Ramaekers
Sent: Thu 3/4/2010 2:24 PM
To:
Quick and dirty... figure out midnight on the 2nd day. e.g... Pipe
literal 2010-02-10 00:00:00.00 | dateconv isodate todabs | spec 1-*
c2x 1 and then either browse for it in the file or feed it in to a
comparison against the timestamp in the monitor records.
reports to a given timespan?
2010/2/11 Quay, Jonathan (IHG) jonathan.q...@ihg.com
Quick and dirty... figure out midnight on the 2nd day. e.g...
Pipe literal 2010-02-10 00:00:00.00 | dateconv isodate todabs |
spec 1-* c2x 1 and then either browse for it in the file or feed
Did you put STDEVOPT LIBRARY CTL in the 2nd level system's directory
entry?
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On
Behalf Of Barbara Andrews
Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 4:00 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: use of 3494
Are you loading from the HMC and passing a loadparm?
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On
Behalf Of Dean, David (I/S)
Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 11:21 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: AUTO IPL
UNCLE!
I
I am also interested in this. From what I can tell, the only place this
comes in to play (generally) is for Hipersockets and similar private
networks. When I asked my network people about it, they said that the
function has to be enabled and supported through all the hops in the
network (many of
I have an infinitely running WAKEUP type exec that drives various
function. If something abends, I want the profile exec redriven. SET
CONCEAL is not enough since I'm dropped in to VM Read and not CP Read. I
thought there was a setting somewhere, but I can't find it.
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Subject: Re: Automatic recovery from virtual machine abend
Will setting TRAPMSG (CMS SET command) do the trick for you?
Regards,
Richard Schuh
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System
[mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Quay, Jonathan (IHG
Are you asking for a report of each USER's cpu utilization per time
period (which would be INTERIM USER) or of the entire VM LPAR (which
would be INTERIM LPAR)? The process is pretty much the same.
1) Gather monitor data. See the LINMON package as an example. Hint:
Use some form of automation
INTERIM LPAR? That's how I report my cpu utilization.
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On
Behalf Of Shimon Lebowitz
Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 12:12 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: PERFKIT: CPU usage by time intervals
Our exec to query the z/os job queue does the SMSG RSCS CMD nodename
jescommand followed by WAKEUP (IUCV. The response is parsed and another
SMSG is sent which has a known and unrelated string in the reply e.g.
$DN,Q=XEQ. When it is parsed, the WAKEUP loop is left. Or you could
hit the CONDEF
Try reconnecting on a large screen size eg 43X80.
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On
Behalf Of Frank M. Ramaekers
Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 9:43 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: Performance tookit-cannot
I think what you want is (I use Perfkit batch to go against a day's worth of
monitor data collected by linmon):
FC SETTINGS INTERIM 1 MIN
and in REPORTS, specify INTERIM USER.
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System on behalf of Tyler Koyl
Sent: Fri 9/25/2009
It sounds very similar in symptom to my minidisk cache overcommitment
problem that resulted in CP thrashing (and an APAR).
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On
Behalf Of Bill Holder
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 12:34 PM
To:
VM64522 moved NUCXDROP into the nucleus.
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On
Behalf Of Jim Bohnsack
Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 12:51 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: NUCXDROP
I install maintenance, RSU 0902 at the
IBM showed my management a chart that purported to show the MP effects of a
linux farm under z/VM compared to Intel blades. The chart showed the intel
blade MP effect rising asymptotically, while the z/VM environment rose and then
flattened out. I'm sure this chart and its backing data is
It has been a long time, but I am near certain that you have to cross
couple the device addresses.
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On
Behalf Of mike.wawio...@barclays.com
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 12:20 PM
To:
Richard, its been awhile since we are now SRDFing our DASD, but doesn't SYBMON
itself have a scheduler? This is for the VMIMAGE backups.
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System on behalf of Schuh, Richard
Sent: Mon 5/4/2009 6:17 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
You're correct. In addition, we use the OSA-ICC for prime and alt cras,
and locals. The systems see it as just another locally attached 3270.
We don't have any more real 3x74 or 3270 devices.
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System
I think in or around 5.3, the output from QUERY VIRTUAL changed. I'm
betting you need a PTF.
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On
Behalf Of Huegel, Thomas
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 1:05 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject:
1) Check the lpar definitions on the HMC. Are they the same as
back home? We had a similar problem when the lpar was defined in z/vm
mode instead of esa/390.
2) Did you successfully backup and recover the spool (NSSes) at
the dr site?
3) Did you successfully backup and
You don't *have* to do this. I have five VM images and just use system config
to define what images see what device addresses and thus segregate which
duplicate volsers go with which system images.
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System on behalf of Mike Rydberg
Which leads to a couple of questions. First, when did IBM start
supporting RES packs with volsers other than the standard ones as
delivered? I seem to remember warnings about not changing them, but may
have missed when that became ok. Second, if one's intent is to run
nearly identical cloned VM
not necessarily
represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates.
Quay, Jonathan (IHG) jonathan.q...@ihg.com
Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
01/30/2009 09:26 AM
Please respond to
The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
To
IBMVM
Unless you have a product or process that does file level backups (look in the
list of file pool administrators for clues) you are going to be in trouble.
Physical backups of a running SFS server are generally not of much use.
From: The IBM z/VM Operating
We moved a z/VM 5.3 703 system from a z/990 to a z/10. IPLed
successfully. When we attempted to IPL our TPF 4.1 guests, they would
go through rollcall and then take an HCP1455E CPU XX is not started
because it is in check-stop state. It turns out that the z/OS sysprog
who set up the LPAR had
not be varied online. What kind
of CPUs were defined to your z/VM mode LPAR? Maybe it only had IFLs?
But the real answer is to not use z/VM mode unless you're on 5.4.
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Quay, Jonathan (IHG)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We moved a z/VM 5.3 703 system from a z/990 to a z/10
Sungard also, perhaps unwisely, chose extremely low device addresses for
their floor system. You also have to remind them to take their stuff
offline before IPLing your stuff. Usually more than once.
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
We IPL our VM natively in an LPAR instead of using the DR vendor's VM
floor system. Depending on one's full volume backup/restore product,
you have a number of choices. If you're a z/OS shop too, you have that
entire infrastructure to work with. I've used HiDRO, Dynam-B and
Syback, both IPL'ed
It's a full pack overlay for your RES pack. I think you need it for
DIRECTXA to work.
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Guest, Darren
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 9:50 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: MAINT's 123
In inittab where you catch ctl-alt-del is where you define the action on
Signal Shutdown. To log off the virtual machine after a halt, use
vmpoff=LOGOFF in your IPL parameters.
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Jack Woehr
Sent:
You can use OSA-ICC for VM. We do. Use the non-sna/dft device type.
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 11:15 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: VM
It's my understanding that VM determines the number of paging exposures at IPL
and then uses that number in calculations involving dispatch, memory
management, etc. In a modern virtualized disk environment with multiple FICON
paths to a huge amount of cache in the disk array controller, this
I see messages like this from time to time on my VM Lpars that only run guest
operating systems and have little to no CMS users. I think it may be because
the VM scheduler can't really see what a transaction is inside the GOS. I
think it may just be an artifact of VM having an earlier design
I think, but am not sure, that if you have done a DEFINE MDISK against that
volume somewhere along the way, that you see this. Look through the virtual
device configuration of all the usual suspects (MAINT, OPERATOR, the userid of
whatever does full volume backups, etc) or log them off.
tested against an unused volume
on our system and it shows 1 user using the volume now...
Scott
On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Quay, Jonathan (IHG) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I think, but am not sure, that if you have done a DEFINE MDISK against
that volume somewhere along the way
will eventually figure it out!
Terry
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Alan Altmark
Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2008 4:02 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: WAIT STATE
On Sunday, 09/14/2008 at 03:42 EDT, Quay, Jonathan (IHG)
[EMAIL
We also use and love VTAPE, primarily for its write to the bit bucket
function for TPF logging. Note that VTAPE is a CP mod and requires
extra steps when installing new VM releases or applying CP maintenance.
The developers have always been extremely helpful and responsive with
any issues or
Also important if you use a data replication warm site disaster
recovery process like EMC's SRDF and whatever the IBM equivalent is.
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of David Boyes
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 12:22 PM
When did TPF start supporting VSWITCH attachment? I must have missed
that because the first thing I thought about when vswitch came out was
using vswitch to do comms unit test, as the apps boys were moving a lot
of things from lu 6.2 to sockets. Apparently what VM emulated and what
TPF expected
The problem is that in the TPF world, native testing is a requirement.
The more native testing lpars you have lying around, the more memory you
have sitting idle most of the time. Migrating from TPF 4.1 to z/TPF is
non-trivial, so frustration about having all that memory that could be
used
VM:Backup HiDRO is adept at creating full volume backups. I assume since you
said disaster recovery you mean to tape and offsite. When you get to your
disaster site, you IPL a HiDRO tape, which does the restores of the system
packs. You can then IPL the system to restore the rest of the
It is my understanding that IBM intends to integrate Cell Blade engine
(e.g. playstation 3) technology into the z/Series ecosystem. This would
seem to me to be the place where massively parallel high intensity cpu
workload would live in the not so far flung future.
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So I am proceeding along with the install and notice that the provided
CLIENT SAMPDIR shows a 50 cylinder 150 disk, with a 151 disk for the
rest of that pack and a 152 disk that's another full pack. I can't find
any rationale for this, or any further installation instructions that
take this into
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l,
Quay, Jonathan (IHG) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So I am proceeding along with the install and notice that the provided
CLIENT SAMPDIR shows a 50 cylinder 150 disk, with a 151 disk for the
rest of that pack and a 152 disk that's another full pack. I can't
find
any rationale
Does anybody have this working yet?
Subject: Re: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 Starter System for IBM
System z
On Jul 21, 2008, at 1:27 PM, Quay, Jonathan (IHG) wrote:
Does anybody have this working yet?
Yeah, I do.
What, specifically, is the problem you're having?
Adam
Ok, I have a license and I'm about to download and install SLES10SP2.
Can I somehow, and I haven't completely read through the Starter Set
documentation, download the SLES-10-SP2-DVD-s390x-GM-DVD1 and 2 .iso
images and serve them using the NOVSTART virtual machine?
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I did some maintenance on PERFKIT and PUT2PROD it on my production
system. The process rebuilt CMS. This was a major surprise, although
it was my fault for not figuring out what PUT2PROD was going to do
before it did it (read the build list). I think the default action of
PUT2PROD should be to
DNS is used to resolve the host name.
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Wandschneider, Scott
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 12:30 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: CMS REXX eMAIL
Sorry for my ignorance, but where do
Our operators attach and detach real devices, almost always tape drives,
sometimes OSA ports, to our guests. It is nice to be able to have them
enter commands in the odd situations that pop up from time to time,
particularly when the system programming staff is not near a terminal,
or the system
Source is here: http://www.wurb.com/if/game/game/1 and the follow on
Dungeon is here: http://www.wurb.com/if/game/2
S/370 executables used to float around the VM community. I'm sure
somebody still has them.
You have to define all your processors first before you IPL, and use
VARY OFFLINE PROCESSOR in your profile exec to pare them back. We have
this issue with our guest TPF systems. When we add a real processor to
the LPAR configuration in which z/VM runs, we have to go back and change
all our
Sounds like a deadlock condition. SNAPDUMP on the operator console and
open an ETR.
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Subject: Re: newbie question - convert to full pack minidisk
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Quay, Jonathan (IHG)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We found a bug in CP minidisk cacheing that would lock up our system. We
turn off MDC at the device level in the system configuration
We found a bug in CP minidisk cacheing that would lock up our system. We turn
off MDC at the device level in the system configuration file for our guest
operating system minidisks using RDEV TYPE DASD MDC OFF.
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System on behalf
This is also documented in the PSP bucket for TCPIP530. Also in the PSP
bucket for ZVM530 is the list of the 19 PTFs you should put on AFTER
applying RSU0703, so you're not quite done yet.
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Hi Shannon, usually what happens is that somewhere along the line the
system gets left in a state where the filepool server is up. If you
look in the TCP2PROD $MSGLOG on maint's a-disk, you can see exactly what
happened. By the way, a long long time ago I was the IBM mainframe SE
for Suntrust.
Go to SRD and select Order a VM RSU from the left side. Navigate the
non-intuitive choices. Choose INET as your delivery method. Then work
with orders from the left side again. When your order is in shipped
status, there will be FTP information when you browse it.
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To share with other LPARS you need REAL reserve/release, which I think
entails coding SHARED in on the RDEV in the system configuration file.
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Subject: Re: Ten Questions to ask a Prospective z/VM Systems Programmer
On Thursday, 04/10/2008 at 02:54 EDT, Quay, Jonathan (IHG)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To share with other LPARS you need REAL reserve/release, which I think
entails coding SHARED in on the RDEV in the system configuration
There used to be a PC type device called an IBM Service Director that
you could send erep records to. The DIST IBMCE seems to be a clue.
Maybe you still have one, particularly if you are a big shop with on
site CE coverage.
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System
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