FYI, SCSIDISC requires a LUN zero exist and be accessible in each
storage controller to be scanned.
Assuming non-NPIV, If one's using IBM San Volume Controller then
consider having the very first LUN (LUN ) that each of its I/O
Groups maps to your host (mainframe) be a minimal size LUN th
Let us know if IBM has a new solution. I'm doing VM5.3 too and will hit
CMSBAM build problem again at some point.
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welcome to the "can't build CMSBAM" club, been happening for at least 2 years,
seems to have stumped IBM support since they recommend even now I continue to
use this workaround.
Quick, easy workaround is based on knowledge CMSBAM hasn't changed and
doesn't really need to be rebuilt, so lie t
When IBM gets the subscription feature to work it'll be less
frustrating.
The subscription's Notify process doesn't work. fill out the fields,
click Submit and get,
"Cannot find server or DNS Error"
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If you have DISKACNT collecting the CP account cards from a few typical
days or weeks you could run ACCOUNT command against them to report cpu
usage of the whole system or each userid. CPU usage is on the type 01
cards.
Assumes you do a CP ACNT ALL to get the 01 cards for userids that don't
logof
On the other hand, if his site plans to eventually run multiple oracle
guests with little/zero down time to add LPAR memory as more guests are
added , then sizing the LPAR memory now to avoid LPAR outages later is
prudent.
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Our TSM servers are on AIX; Linux TSM clients don't care about the
server's OS
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We use CA's VMBACKUP to get weekly full and daily incremental (your z/VM
sync-point) backups of z/VM CMS minidisks and SFS filepool. Not much
changes daily on our z/VMs running just Linux guests.
Daily, we also make a IPL-able one-tape disaster backup holding the
minimum z/VM stuff needed to do a
The IBM manual "XEDIT User's Guide" has many small tutorial examples of
Rexx xedit macros, see Chapter 8 "the macro language" (it's Rexx)
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/hcsd9b10.pdf
I found Chapter 7 "XEDIT" of the "Rexx user's Guide" to be very helpful
for examples of Rexx XEDIT macro
It's not a CP command but if you have Performance Toolkit:
64-bit guests are shown as "EME" and 31-bit "ESA" in the "User Status"
column of menu item 21- User Resource Usage screen.
EMA and ESA are shown in various other PTK screens too.
There's a PIPE interface to PTK screens.
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ou are z/VM 5.3 you can use FOR CP QUERY VIRT CPUS.
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On the guest itself one could do #CP QUERY VIRT CPUS
or as its SECUSER do CP SEND CP QUERY VIRT CPUS
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This manual might help you:
http://publibfp.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/l26cts02.pdf
"How to use FC-attached SCSI devices with Linux on System z February,
2007 Linux Kernel 2.6"
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z/VM built-in CP JOURNAL feature, if you have it enabled via SYSTEM
CONFIG, will generate a type 05 account card when someone LINKs an MDISK
whose link password isn't ALL;
DISKACNT collects the account cards and writes them to a CMS file.
In that OPERATOR ipl console log you closed, find the line that reads
"hh:mm:ss GRAF LOGON AS OPERATOR USERS = 1"
is the console that VM IPL-ed on.
Is SYSC? SYSG? a console in some other room?
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Steve,
You might consider having PROPSCAN's PROFILE EXEC check for and handle
existing RDR files before it starts PROP, otherwise existing RDR files
will have to wait for a new file to arrive to trigger the EXEC that
handles them all.
Steve,
Could you post the part of your RTABLE that handles the SMTP RDR file
message?
Do you have a PROPSCAN logfile that shows the incoming messages and post
the SMTP RDR file message too that's supposed to trigger the RTABLE
entry?
My experience too with PUT2PROD is that it can be disruptive, sometimes
doing disruptive steps that aren't needed for the software product
that's being serviced.
In some cases, to avoid unnecessary outages follow the software
product's Program Directory VMSES service steps instead of using
PUT2PRO
Hi Steve,
By coincidence I recently used your county's online tax parcel web
application, loved it, and was pleased to see it ran on VM.
Sorry to hear it's going elsewhere.
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You can IPL VM2.4 to the SYSTEM_CONSOLE instead of a 3270 console.
Your SYSTEM_CONSOLE is the HMC's System Messages window ( a sort of
line-mode/tty interface, not full-screen 3270).
At anytime you can force the VM IPL to the SYSTEM_CONSOLE by typing SYSC
in the LOADPARM field of the HMC LOAD wi
Shimon,
Is the 5.2 system a guest of 4.4 (not sure from your post)?
If so, I would DFSMSRM MOUNT the tape to the guest userid and
on 5.2 system just ATTACH the tape drive to MAINT at 181 and use the
virtual cartridge. Skip the NOASSIGN stuff.
If anyone tries this bypass please post
whether it works.
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Title: One last question, before aiming at my foot...
If my math’s correct, If your 520RES
is a mod9 I think XLINK FORMAT records will occupy at least 20 tracks to map the
10017 cyls. 15 tracks per cyl means the map is on cyls 0 thru 1.
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I ran RTM unsupported on VM5.1 64-bit; couldn't on 5.2 due to control
block changes in VM5.2. Try it if you're running 5.1.
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1805 isn't listed as a valid 'vdev' number for VMFPLC2 in its help file;
Says 180-187 and 288-28f are valid
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Subject: Can't copy a spool pack?
While the host is running I copied the host VM5.2's single SPOOL pack to
the single spool pac
While the host is running I copied the host VM5.2's single SPOOL pack to
the single spool pack of my guest VM5.2 system, wanting to give the
guest a copy of the host's NSS's and other System Data Files (SDF).
When I IPL-ed the guest it reported no spool files; it had no NSS's.
I did the copy 3 ti
Due to some precarious applications, a customer is anxious to know now
what release/version of z/VM we're migrating them to in 2007.
We'll migrate them before their VM5.1 is unsupported in 9/2007.
Does anyone have any good rumors about whether a new release or version
of z/VM beyond VM5.2 will be
click requirement (in addition to a settlement to
Eolas)
and then the application would then resume.
Try it from Firefox. Everything should be the same as IE except for the
extra mouse click.
Charlie
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Thank you very much. Dead link but google cache had it;
I read the Microsoft "Activating ActiveX Controls" at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/overview/a
ctivating_activex.asp
and I think it's saying I'm out of luck getting that Performance Toolkit
Feature to work.
Using PTK's browser interface with Internet Explorer 6 SP2, displaying
line graphics, they display ok.
When I put my mouse pointer in the graph area the pointer changes to a
hand and a small rectangle says "Click to activate and use this control"
I left-click but nothing happens that I can see: a
Title: Initially setting up CSE
Assuming you have VM running, try attaching the pack to MAINT running
XLINK FORMAT against it. If you have a guest VM you can IPL at will then do
this from the guest.
If the pack is addr 0789 and volid PACKA:
CP DETACH 789 SYSTEM
CP ATTACH 789 *
xlink
We use Offline_at_IPL for
exactly that purpose:
to tell CP to leave some dasd devices offline during
IPL so CP won’t look at their volids and possibly find they’re
duplicates of other online volids.
Your AUTOLOG1 PROFILE EXEC can do a CP VARY ON - to
put the offline devices onl
If you have a JES2 NJE connection to VM’s
RSCS then in VM’s RSCS CONFIG you can AUTHORIZE a z/OS userid to issue CP
commands;
RSCS will execute the CP commands sent
over NJE from the z/OS userid.
I don’t remember the TSO command to
talk to another NJE node.
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But the problem was to report users with MDISKs
totaling more than 200 cyls , so sorting alone doesn’t do that.
Need something that totals all their MDISKs
and then sorts on that total
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It's possible to share the same drives among multiple MVS and VM
systems.
We use VMTAPE, the z/OS's use ATAM.
Our VM's SYSTEM CONFIG says DEVICES NOASSIGN_AT_IPL for the shared
drives.
If VMTAPE finds its drive choice "assigned elsewhere" (in use on z/OS or
another VM) it tries another drive ad
If you have VMSECURE or VMDIRECT as the directory manager, you could do
VMSECURE ULIST * * to get a screen that shows all your userids, sort it
(PF11) on column Alloc. Or do same command with the option to write the
list to a CMS disk file and then Xedit it and sort it on the Alloc
column;
Too b
And he can get to your VM tapes too; your even.
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CBRUXENT doesn't prevent VM from getting at MVS tapes.
In your Redbook, see "7.1.6 Considerations for using a 3494 Tape Library
in a VM/ESA environment"; it mentions the DFSMS/RMS exit FSMRMSHR to
prevent VM from getting at MVS tapes.
This
On second thought, the new MPROUTE of
TCPIP 520 needs the latest TCPIP PTFs and some related supporting PTFs to CMS
and Language Environment.
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Runs fine on our z9, first-level; no
issues.
Are you concerned about a particular
feature?
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We use some EMC dasd (3390-mod3 and 3390-mod1) on a Z9 with VM5.1 and
VM5.2 without problems unless you use 3390-mod1's (and maybe 3380's? we
don't)
Don't know if EMC officially supports the Z9/EMC combo.
If you use mod1's in the EMC and then you put on the very recent
new-function PTF for apar
Could it be
41 The storage required to load the saved segment is already in use.
Either the required virtual machine storage has already been
allocated
by CMS or storage outside the virtual machine has been reserved
for
another saved segment.
iginal volume. I will IPL with the new
volume
and check to see if I can do a DIRECTXA with the user direct file. (We
are
using VM:Secure for directory management and as the ESM.)
Thank you.
Cecelia Dusha
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The problem may have originated with the VTOC IBM shipped on cyl 0 of
the VM5.1 System DDR of 510RES. It says 3340 cyls. CP doesn't care, it
knows the pack is 3339 cyls.
You CMS ACCESS-ed the device and CMS's Q DISK reported that the VTOC
says the size is 3340 cyls.
This 510RES VTOC bit me when
Hi Steve,
If you like, you can manually verify RMS
and the 3494 are working together before trying to get VM:Tape to use RMS and
the 3494;
that might simplify troubleshooting
your implementation.
Use the DFSMS/VM RMS User’s Guide, Chapter
6 “DFSMSRM Commands” to manually query and
You're VMXGNR command lacks the filemode letter of the 1B0 mdisk:
Try VMXGNR USER DIRECT C U VMEXIT1 EXEC
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Haven't kept up with your thread, but you said the tapes were created by
VM's DDR so I'm assuming you can run this exec on your VM system;
it will copy 1 input tape to 1 output tape, input tape can have
multiple tape files on it; and you said 3 3480's copied to 3 3590's was
acceptable, so run it 3
That must be it, that RSU became available
after Monday.
Your VM probably doesn’t use an External
Security Manager that would require you to rebuild the CPLOAD module,
so your Q CPLEVEL returns the date IBM
built the CPLOAD MODULE that came with the RSU.
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Mike,
I’m jealous, you show service level
0601 generated 2/13/06
I downloaded the VM520 stacked RSU, PTF UM97520,
Monday 3/27 and it still was the 0501 CP service, which I already have..
Where do you get your early RSU’s
from?
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Thanks Eginhard, your solution is easy to implement and I can code the
EXEC to check an exempt list to avoid disconnecting OPERATOR's console
or some other exempt userids.
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Anyone know how to tell the PERFSVM disconnected service machine to stop
and logoff?
Or should I just CP FORCE it? I'm looking for a command to shut it
down gracefully as part of my VM shutdown sequence.
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Thank you Eginhard, you've given me the info I need, 'Q MON'.
PerfKit is a wonderful tool, thank you also for developing it.
The IDLEUSER report is accurate and up-to-date as of its timestamp.
But I'm using it to implement a security policy to disconnect userids
(people) that have been idle more
I can use Performance Toolkit's IDLEUSER command to display a list of
idle userids and how many minutes they were idle, BUT, the info can be
stale depending on how long it's been since the timestamp shown on the
IDLEUSER report.
Is there a PerfTK command to force it recompute the IDLEUSER report?
: Thursday, March 16, 2006 3:31 AM
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Subject: Re: DASD I/O performance VM 44 vs. VM 52
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> On VM 5.2 I'm considering trying FBA emulation on SCSI for Linux
guests
> to simplify each Linux gues
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