Re: VSWITCH

2011-02-25 Thread Rob Holtz
I realize that this is a year old but I am trying to get a definitive answer about the earliest release of z/OS that will successfully use a VSWITCH as a guest. We sometimes have to resurrect an old z/OS release to solve a customer issue. I have been successful with z/OS 1.4 but now we

Re: Daylight Saving Time w/ VSE

2010-03-12 Thread Rob Holtz
Be sure to account for some software that does not like the time changing while it is running. We shutdown the following until after the SET TIMEZONE command is issued; you may other ones: 1. SMTP - be sure to stay logged on after shutting it down so TCPIP doesn't AUTOLOG it back on. 2.

Re: Checking if a CMS disk has changed

2010-03-09 Thread Rob Holtz
It appears that DTCREACC is different than the IBM internal REACC in that no options are permitted (at least I couldn't get any to work). Also, if you had originally ACCESSed a disk with the MODE0 option, DTCREACC does NOT keep MODE0 when it ACCESSes the disk again. Thanks Chuckie for sharing