Re: VM:Account & MAINT's 123 disk

2009-11-16 Thread Scott Rohling
Oops -- I saw CA and then just assumed it was the directory management product you were using.. don't do an MW link for VMACCT! Not sure exactly why it wants to read the object directory... but a readonly should suffice. Sorry! Scott On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Scott Rohling

Re: VM:Account & MAINT's 123 disk

2009-11-16 Thread Scott Rohling
I'm quite sure it will want an MW link to MAINT 123 since it will need to update the directory... Scott On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Dave Keeton wrote: > I am attempting to install CA:Account and I have been unable to get it to > start properly (it abends) because it isn't reading the obje

Re: Question on MODIFY COMMAND

2009-11-16 Thread Scott Rohling
And then only if the set privclass feature is enabled in SYSTEM CONFIG Scott On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Alan Altmark wrote: > On Monday, 11/16/2009 at 01:03 EST, Kris Buelens > wrote: > > No, he won't. But, with CP class A, he can issue SET PRIVCLASS * +S. > > Only a class C user can es

Re: vmlink for linked mini disk?

2009-11-14 Thread Scott Rohling
09 at 9:05 PM, Scott Rohling > wrote: > > VMLINK * 193 > > > > Just make sure you use the same access mode (read or write) you have the > > disk linked in to avoid another virtual address getting assigned. (so > > VMLINK * 193 (WRITE if my 193 is RW ) > > Nope,

Re: vmlink for linked mini disk?

2009-11-14 Thread Scott Rohling
VMLINK * 193 Just make sure you use the same access mode (read or write) you have the disk linked in to avoid another virtual address getting assigned. (so VMLINK * 193 (WRITE if my 193 is RW ) Scott On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Rob van der Heij wrote: > Is there a way to make VMLINK ac

Re: Setting terminal so that it rolls instead of HOLDING

2009-11-10 Thread Scott Rohling
CP TERM HOLD OFF And if you don't want to see "...MORE" either: CP TERM MORE 0 0 Scott On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) < terry.mar...@cms.hhs.gov> wrote: > Hi > > > > What is the terminal command so that messages roll instead of sitting in > HOLDING? I have

Re: question about sleep setting for linux virtual server start automatically

2009-11-04 Thread Scott Rohling
Scott On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Scott Rohling wrote: > Probably trying to spread the starting of guests a little so it doesn't > overwhelm the system at zVM IPL time. Opinions vary on what the spread > should be if one is used... 3 every 15 secs - 10 every 1 minute - etc. >

Re: question about sleep setting for linux virtual server start automatically

2009-11-04 Thread Scott Rohling
Probably trying to spread the starting of guests a little so it doesn't overwhelm the system at zVM IPL time. Opinions vary on what the spread should be if one is used... 3 every 15 secs - 10 every 1 minute - etc. I've seen several installations with over 100+ Linux guests not use any delay -- an

Re: DS8100 as SCSI mode

2009-11-04 Thread Scott Rohling
You might start with this redbook and then maybe we can help with any specifics.. http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247266.html Scott On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:33 AM, Tony Bergenza wrote: > Hi all, > If someone share infomation about the procedure to configure DS8100 in SCSI > mode with Z

Re: VLAN, VSWITCH, HiperSockets

2009-10-29 Thread Scott Rohling
If the VSE's are guests on zVM - use VSWITCH. If they are LPARs -- then either hipersockets or maybe a shared OSA port (which can be uncabled).. Scott On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: > I'd like to move all of our internal communications internally. > Basically this

Re: z/VM 6.1 G.A. targeted for this Friday, Oct 23

2009-10-23 Thread Scott Rohling
I just say zVM (or zed-VM) whenever referring to 'our' VM -- that seems to keep everyone clear. And I don't refer to VMWare at all - which keeps it even clearer ;-) Scott On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Mike Walter wrote: > > I also wish people would quit referring to vmWARE "VM"... It only

Re: CMSDDR & VMARC question

2009-10-16 Thread Scott Rohling
SOCKET > HOSTIPAD > > DMSREX476E Error 41 running FTPPUT REXX, line 326: Bad arithmetic > conversion > > Dump failed. > > > > > Has anyone seen this error before? What have I missed? > > > > > > *From:* The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@

Re: CMSDDR & VMARC question

2009-10-15 Thread Scott Rohling
(actually - maybe the PIPEDDR DUMP/RESTORE over TCPIP is exactly what you want? if the zVM systems have connectivity, this lets you dump a disk directly from one system to another - and will save you steps...) Scott On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Scott Rohling wrote: > Maybe try a COPYF

Re: CMSDDR & VMARC question

2009-10-15 Thread Scott Rohling
some of the MDs are VSE full volume disks. > > > > *From:* The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] *On > Behalf Of *Scott Rohling > *Sent:* Thursday, October 15, 2009 7:17 PM > *To:* IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > *Subject:* Re: CMSDDR & VMARC question

Re: CMSDDR & VMARC question

2009-10-15 Thread Scott Rohling
Don't know about VMARC -- but CMSDDR is packing the entire minidisk - empty space and all...Why not just VMARC the files on the disk and forget about CMSDDR? Scott On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Henry, Bob wrote: > I’m using CMSDDR and VMARC to transfer some CMS minidisks via FTP. Both

Re: DIRMAINT Help Please

2009-10-15 Thread Scott Rohling
That would be the DIRMAINT 1DF disk.. the USER BACKUP is on 1DB... Scott On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Kris Buelens wrote: > If you can afford going back to the state of USER BACKUP (built every night > by DIRMAINT), I'd consider that: rename it to USER INPUT, store in on the > right place

Re: Daylight Saving Time change

2009-10-13 Thread Scott Rohling
Just a note that with Linux guests -- you don't need to worry about them... they'll adjust their clocks on their own. For other guests, you can recycle them after issuing SET TIMEZONE. VMUTIL can just be recycled -- since it's already done the events and noted them in VMUTIL SCHEDULE - it won

Re: Network timeout on TCPIP RSCS links

2009-10-13 Thread Scott Rohling
I wonder if you couldn't just issue 'EXEC TELL VMUTIL AT ZVM2 stay up' from VMUTIL (or some such scheduler) every 15 minutes? Roll your own keepalive.. Scott On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Mrohs, Ray wrote: > Hi, > Our network firewalls have a policy of dropping all connections that are >

Re: IODF Anyone?

2009-10-09 Thread Scott Rohling
Is this a loaded question? Some of my customers use a VM IODF to load the IO definitions into the hardware from zVM. VM/HCD can be used to do this.. Scott On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Lee Stewart wrote: > Is anyone using a VM IODF? If so why? > Thanks, > Lee > -- > > Lee Stewart, Senior

Re: zVM 'disk wiping'

2009-10-08 Thread Scott Rohling
I think that's why I hadn't given this much thought prior to this -- I'm used to the idea of redeploying the same DASD and just formatting it once to erase previous guests data. So I agree there's a difference between doing this - where the customer has only logical access to the data - and where

zVM 'disk wiping'

2009-10-08 Thread Scott Rohling
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 data, depending on sensitivity. I'm wondering if anyone can provide input about

Re: LDAP Initialization

2009-10-01 Thread Scott Rohling
Can you ping the DNS server specified under NSINTERADDR ? (from zVM) How does NSLOOKUP behave? Scott On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Dave Keeton wrote: > Hi Alan, > > My NSINTERADDR records are correct. I did notice that my DOMAINORIGIN > value was not, but after correcting it and recycli

Re: RACF DSMON Report

2009-09-21 Thread Scott Rohling
You IPLed 490 just fine... it's just complaining because it can't find the 'SYNONYM' command. Don't worry about it.. run the utility. Scott On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) < terry.mar...@cms.hhs.gov> wrote: > Kris, > > > > I did my links but when I tried to

Re: Adding TDISK

2009-09-15 Thread Scott Rohling
Unfortunately - I don't believe you can get zVM to reread the allocation table unless you detach/attach.. which you obviously can't do with your SYSRES.. so you'd have to re-IPL to get VM to see it... Scott On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Wandschneider, Scott < scott.wandschnei...@infocrossing

Re: How much memory?

2009-09-14 Thread Scott Rohling
It will depend on what your POC encompasses.. how many Linux guests? What software/middleware?. You might want to consider a 2nd level guest rather than building a separate LPAR -- that way you can manage things under a single zVM and dynamically change things (give your 2nd level zVM more stora

Re: NICDEF

2009-09-06 Thread Scott Rohling
Insufficient information...are you using a vswitch or what? Scott On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Tony Bergenza wrote: > Hi List > NIC cannot be accessed by VM. We have defined NIC in User Direct in linux > profile. Do we have define NIC in TCPIP or in system config also? > > >

Re: Backup RES Labeling Question

2009-09-04 Thread Scott Rohling
Yes - relabel the volume.. it was unnecessary to label and format the new volume in the first place - you could have just done the DDR and run CPFMTXA to relabel it. If you really needed to IPL from it - you'd likely need to change the volume to 54GRES first.. (and relabel the 'real' 54GRES to

Re: Scripting FTP

2009-09-03 Thread Scott Rohling
Of course, you're right... I just thought it was a step up from having the password in the EXEC. And hey - you can make NETRC DATA file mode 0! ;-) Scott On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Alan Altmark wrote: > On Wednesday, 09/02/2009 at 07:02 EDT, Scott Rohling > wrote: > &g

Re: Scripting FTP

2009-09-02 Thread Scott Rohling
Just fyi - You can use the NETRC DATA file to store userid/pw for different hosts... that way at least you're not hardcoding that part in an EXEC. If it's present -- you can assume you will be logged in when you start FTP -- so you just queue up the commands you want issued, and skip the USER par

Re: IFCONFIG to -REMOVE a link

2009-08-24 Thread Scott Rohling
TCPIP works really nicely using a VSWITCH... at my current location, we've reduced TCPIP's role to the VM stack only -- and share the VSWITCH with Linux guests. We can bounce TCPIP without affecting anyone but the VM sysprogs telnetting in.. I'm a fan of letting the vswitch controllers manage t

Re: Configuring and Using a VSWITCH

2009-08-17 Thread Scott Rohling
I'm not sure what you mean here.. of course this should work regardless of how the guest is started - automatically or manually if things are setup correctly. Can you explain further? Scott On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Kline, Martin wrote: > >FYI... Rule #2: Don't annoy Security People.

Re: How to tell how many linux running on z/VM?

2009-08-12 Thread Scott Rohling
A naming convention is probably the simplest way to ensure you get everything.. LNXx or what have you. Anything else is just guessing when it comes down to it, when talking about checking dynamically. You can use PIPE CP Q N | SPLIT AT /,/ | STRIP | FIND LNX| count lines|consif you hap

Re: RSU instalation question

2009-08-06 Thread Scott Rohling
Yes - you'll use SERVICE/PUT2PROD to apply RSU 0902 and any future ones as well...If that was your question? Scott On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:49 AM, Charles Grady wrote: > > > I have just installed z/VM 5.4 and RSU0901. > I now see that RSU 0902 is out; yes I've ordered it. > Question: Can I

Re: Disabled Wait

2009-08-05 Thread Scott Rohling
I think the DVD defaults to SYSG - so just make sure you have the Integrated 3270 console window up before you IPL from the DVD. Although I thought I remembered an normal IPL screen to start the DVD install, including LOADPARM.. this was on a z10 last week. Scott On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 7:08 A

Re: Disabled Wait

2009-08-05 Thread Scott Rohling
AND - make sure you have the Integrated 3270 console up BEFORE you activate/IPL -- otherwise you'll still fail with 1010 Scott On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Rich Smrcina wrote: > In the loadparm field. > Billy R. Bingham wrote: > >> This is during the first phase of the install: Load the

Hercules 'HMC DVD-RAM support'

2009-08-03 Thread Scott Rohling
Has anyone tried the new HMC DVD-RAM support supposedly available in Hercules 3.06? There's no info at all on how to implement it After getting a zVM ramdisk loaded and logged into MAINT -- INSTDVD fails as it doesnt seem to find the CKDx files it's looking for which are on the DVD. I

Re: Is it bad to make one zlinux running on 2 z/vm?

2009-07-24 Thread Scott Rohling
Yikes! Yes - it's very bad... You really need to investigate CSE (shared directory, shared RACF, XLINK protection) if you're going to share directory entries like that. Otherwise - NOLOG them on the side they should not come up on - and only undo that when you want to switch - and then NOLOG the

Re: Replicating z/VM documentation

2009-07-15 Thread Scott Rohling
se in futility.. won't be the first time. Scott On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Rob van der Heij wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Scott Rohling > wrote: > > > p.s. Hmmm.. I bet I can use wget with the right incantation and get the > > whole website to my l

Re: Replicating z/VM documentation

2009-07-13 Thread Scott Rohling
2 > Fax: 845-432-9405 > > Building 052-1, B09 > 2455 South Road, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 > > "Often those who work the hardest are the luckiest..." > > > From: Scott Rohling To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Date: 07/13/2009 10:23 AM Subject: Replicating z

Replicating z/VM documentation

2009-07-13 Thread Scott Rohling
As I am often in locations where internet access is either not possible or not allowed, I really like to keep the official z/VM documentation on my laptop. I know there are web pages with all the PDF files, etc.. But I have issues using them: - The PDF files are named with the manual number,

Re: DIRMAINT on 2nd Level System

2009-07-10 Thread Scott Rohling
Not so much that you 'go back' to USER DIRECT - as 'start out with' it when you build a new system..Gotta have a valid one online before you can hope for any of the guests (like DIRMAINT) to work. Best of luck moving forward! Scott On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Le Grande Valerie < valeri

Re: DIRMAINT on 2nd Level System

2009-07-10 Thread Scott Rohling
You can put the directory for the 2nd level guest online from 1st level before you bring it up: - Shutdown 2nd level guest - ATTACH the 2nd level guest sysres to your userid as 123 - Using your USER INPUT file: DIRECTXA USER INPUT A - Detach 123 - IPL 2nd level guest -- it will be running wi

Re: Newbie question

2009-07-10 Thread Scott Rohling
REXX2 is queued as console input.. A Do Queued();pull .;end before REXX1 exits should kill it.. Scott On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Sterling James wrote: > > If I have a quest, usera, running a rexx exec, REXX1, while disconnected, > and userb (priv c) issues a "SEND USERA REXX2"; > Whe

Re: CP Query wildcards

2009-07-01 Thread Scott Rohling
re: CP requirement to accept wildcards for query commands Playing devil's advocate: Since the guest OS (CMS, Linux, whatever) can readily solve the requirement (especially when you guys start talking about shells, etc), why put it on the hypervisor? That's why IBM wrote CMS.. then REXX.. then

Re: Which vm software to use?

2009-06-24 Thread Scott Rohling
My question is what the professor is hoping to determine.. because what he wants doesn't sound very useful at all. If he's trying to determine how busy they are -- he'd be better off using z/VM accounting records rather than the INDICATE data samples.. Scott On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Ma

Re: Using DVD to restore an existing z/VM?

2009-06-19 Thread Scott Rohling
There may be concern with customer confidential data using these methods - but the primary purpose (or at least the one I'm after) is to restore a working and customized z/VM system. While you could probably use the results of all this to backup/restore other things -- I wouldn't think that would

Re: Using DVD to restore an existing z/VM?

2009-06-18 Thread Scott Rohling
supported. > > > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Scott Rohling wrote: > >> Gotcha - have done the same thing and it's very handy... but - I'm >> looking for a solution that doesn't require a running z/VM system..I >> want to restore the z/VM system

Re: Using DVD to restore an existing z/VM?

2009-06-17 Thread Scott Rohling
so I could run all > restores in parallel. > > /Tom Kern > > Scott Rohling wrote: > > Anyone ever use the HMC DVD to write some type of image (DDR? ZIP? > > whatever) file to restore an existing z/VM system? Not an install - but > > a restore.. Wondering if this

Using DVD to restore an existing z/VM?

2009-06-17 Thread Scott Rohling
Anyone ever use the HMC DVD to write some type of image (DDR? ZIP? whatever) file to restore an existing z/VM system? Not an install - but a restore.. Wondering if this is a possibility if we don't have tape drives on one site but want to restore an image from another site .. something that would

Re: 2nd level network devices?

2009-06-11 Thread Scott Rohling
Yep - I actually figured that one out - where's my gold star? ;-) Thanks again, amigo .. Scott On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Alan Altmark wrote: > On Thursday, 06/11/2009 at 03:46 EDT, Scott Rohling > wrote: > > Sweet! Love it! Thanks, Alan! > > np. Note that I d

Re: 2nd level network devices?

2009-06-11 Thread Scott Rohling
Sweet! Love it! Thanks, Alan! Scott On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Alan Altmark wrote: > On Thursday, 06/11/2009 at 01:41 EDT, Scott Rohling > wrote: > > Just wondering how others set up a 2nd level z/VM and get networking > going > > without requiring any more OSA&#x

2nd level network devices?

2009-06-11 Thread Scott Rohling
Just wondering how others set up a 2nd level z/VM and get networking going without requiring any more OSA's or drastic changes on 1st level... I want to test out TCPIP and VSWITCH's, but not sure how to get started. Pointers to any redbooks would be welcome as well -- I can't seem to find this

Re: RACF and Linux for z/Series

2009-06-11 Thread Scott Rohling
1) Correct 2) No prereqs - not sure about zOS though 3) I believe it's just implemented as an LDAP server and didn't think anything special ran on Linux Scott On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Michael Coffin wrote: > (Cross posted on VMESA-L and LINUX-390) > > Hi Folks, > > I have a couple o

Re: Clean Linux Guest Shutdown

2009-06-11 Thread Scott Rohling
According the HELP CPSET SHUTDOWNTIME (on 5.4): 1. This command takes effect only when the WITHIN interval or BY hh:mm:ss options of the SHUTDOWN command are used. If these options are not specified on the command, the SHUTDOWNTIME and SIGNAL SHUTDOWN times are added together and that is the tim

Re: the errors after turn on RACF

2009-06-10 Thread Scott Rohling
allow Access" problem? I never change that on 5.4. > > This is the most challange work I have in my life. > > > Sunny Hu > Information Management > W.C.B. Alberta > (780) 498-4739 > sunny...@wcb.ab.ca > > > *Scott Rohling * > Sent by: The IBM z/VM Op

Re: the errors after turn on RACF

2009-06-10 Thread Scott Rohling
What does your RPDIRCT SYSUT1 look like (Please don't append it here!)? Does it look like it was generated properly? Are the RDEFINE for the MAINT disks in there? Any errors during any of these processes? Scott On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:42 AM, wrote: > > Yes. I generate RPDIRCT SYSUT1 from

Re: the errors after turn on RACF

2009-06-10 Thread Scott Rohling
I can't remember the name of the utility offhand, but I'm pretty sure there is an EXEC that will generate an initial RACF list of commands to define all the users and minidisks. Beware that the definitions may not be what your security people want them to be - so you may want them to examine the c

Re: Clean Linux Guest Shutdown

2009-06-10 Thread Scott Rohling
Do you have Linux set up to honor the signal (usually some updates inittab and zipl.conf)? You have to direct the signal to call a script that will issue the shutdown command... Scott On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Robert J McCarthy < bob.mccar...@custserv.com> wrote: > John, > When you sh

Re: HCPDDR704E error attempting to copy res volume

2009-06-04 Thread Scott Rohling
It has to be attached to you - not the system.. or you can: DEF MDISK 127A 0 END 540RES Or, as others pointed out - if you're on MAINT - the 123 disk should point to the res pack as well. Scott On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] < baue...@mail.nih.gov> wrote: > I’m at

Re: Clean Linux Guest Shutdown

2009-06-03 Thread Scott Rohling
Dude, you need to run Linux on your desktop ;-) Scott It may be unnecessary, but I like to see them go away when they are finished > shutting down. I also prefer my desktop to actually turn off instead of > displaying a message saying "you can power off now" but maybe I am . > :) > > -- > S

Re: Clean Linux Guest Shutdown

2009-06-03 Thread Scott Rohling
LOGOFF good - especially in a non-z/VM shutdown context. I always strongly recommend that the Linux guests be setup to LOGOFF after shutdown. If they aren't running, it helps when it's obvious that they aren't running (i.e. RC45 from Q USER ). Scott On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Stephen

Re: What we must do before we claim the zlinux server is in production stage?

2009-06-01 Thread Scott Rohling
You should really use a separate LPAR for production if your serious about separating the environments - which I'd strongly advise that you do. If not and it has to be the same LPAR then: - A separate VSWITCH for prod - hopefully on a separate OSA.. communication to the production network should

Re: SECUSER and SEND problem

2009-05-30 Thread Scott Rohling
The only thing is: according to his console -- the ARCHIVE command sent via SEND appears to work - which would indicate the guest was either in VM READ - or more likely - a RUNNING state. Since 'ARCHIVE' is now in control and issuing messages, etc -- I'm thinking the solution lies within ARCHIVE

Re: SECUSER and SEND problem

2009-05-30 Thread Scott Rohling
Strange - I would expect the SEND SQLPROD ARCHIVE to result in a HCP150A USER SQLPROD HAS ISSUED A VM READ. Since you didn't get that, I assume the VM READ wasn't issued.. Is it possible the ARCHIVE code knows whether it's disconnected or not and acts differently? Scott On Sat, May 30, 2009 at

Re: PERFSVM on VM54

2009-05-27 Thread Scott Rohling
It's your FCONX $PROFILE that's going to enable remote communication.. what's that look like? Scott On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Wilson, Roger wrote: > We just installed VM 5.4 and I am having problems getting to PERFSVM > remotely. Any suggestions > > This is my profile exec > > &TRACE O

Re: Initializing 3590 tapes?

2009-05-21 Thread Scott Rohling
Well - yeah - but that's not really solving the problem.. you shouldn't need z/OS to initiliaze tapes. I mean - this 'is' the z/VM list ;-) Scott On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Rich Greenberg wrote: > On: Thu, May 21, 2009 at 02:36:49PM -0600,Lee Stewart Wrote: > > > The TAPE WVOL1 gives m

Re: Initializing 3590 tapes?

2009-05-21 Thread Scott Rohling
Any chance this tape drive is shared with z/OS and still varied on to z/OS? The fact that you can't write to it, even though CP thinks you can makes me wonder... Scott On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Lee Stewart wrote: > DDR, Ditto, TAPE WTM or DUMP, FIDEF/MOVEFILE, all fail the same... > > I'

Re: Eliminating screen-scraping

2009-05-21 Thread Scott Rohling
If there is really no fullscreen involved.. you could accomplish the same thing by having another CMS user issue SEND commands to the user you're trying to manipulate (and use SET SECUSER to capture output, via WAKEUP (IUCVMSG programatically )/ Would that work? Scott On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 1

Re: REXX Date Function Help...Please

2009-05-13 Thread Scott Rohling
Yes - I agree - the point is to phase out Julian. I think phasing out 'USA' (or European) is harder because it's used as a 'shorthand' date so many places. I suggested to Howard offline that using DATE('B') (Base) is probably the best way to deal with date manipulation (the common reason for us

Re: Please excuse my ignorance

2009-05-13 Thread Scott Rohling
In particular, DEVMAINT allows you to issue the DEF MDISK command.. which allows you to create a minidisk, specifying it's extents, on any volume attached to the system. It also gives R/W access to the minidisk it creates. DEF MDISK is an extremely helpful command- especially for dealing with 2nd

Re: VMARC UNPK question

2009-05-13 Thread Scott Rohling
vmarc unpk rxserver vmarc i = = i Scott On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] < baue...@mail.nih.gov> wrote: > I'm attempting to unload the RXSERVER VMARC. I created a small minidisk to > hold it. Uploaded it in binary and issued: > > PIPE < rxserver VMARC i | fblock 80 00

Re: Oops and finding passwords on a system...

2009-05-13 Thread Scott Rohling
1DB contains the 'monolithic' USER BACKUP which is easier to read/traverse then the clustered source directory on 1DF.. Scott On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Ray Waters wrote: > Robert, > > > > Wouldn’t the DIRMAINT 1DF mdisk be the one you need? 1DB is the backup > mdisk. > > > >MDISK 01

Re: DIRMAINT 'regions'

2009-05-12 Thread Scott Rohling
:-) I've thought the same when specifying DASD types and having weird sizes due to entries in the DEFAULTS section (or DEFAULTS DATADVH). Wouldn't a Q DASD DETAILS by DIRMAINT (say during the RLDE command) be better and avoid user errors? Scott On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Marcy Cortes wro

Re: How long is YOUR signature/disclaimer?

2009-05-12 Thread Scott Rohling
I admit I actually read your disclaimer - hilarious ;-) Thanks - Scott On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Jack Woehr wrote: > Dave Wade wrote: > > >1. Access to personal e-mail is blocked in the office. >2. Disclaimers are added to all e-mail leaving the company by the >firewal

Re: REXX Date Function Help...Please

2009-05-12 Thread Scott Rohling
For the group (sent this to Howard personally when I did a reply): Is this what you mean?: jday = date('J') Say DATE('U',jday,'J') On DATE: the first parm is the output format (USA) - the 2nd is the input date - the 3rd is the input date format. Scott On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Howard R

Re: Oops and finding passwords on a system...

2009-05-12 Thread Scott Rohling
Good question -- I know that RACF can be used to control command access -- but I'm not sure it would work on OPERATOR. I can see the problem: Given that the only accessible user is OPERATOR if things fail at IPL (RACF doesn't come up, DASD isn't online, whatever) at the real/HMC console - it n

Re: DIRMAINT 'regions'

2009-05-12 Thread Scott Rohling
over. > > David Kreuter > > > Original Message > Subject: [IBMVM] DIRMAINT 'regions' > From: Scott Rohling > Date: Tue, May 12, 2009 8:47 pm > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > > I have never seen 'regions' defined in EXTENT

DIRMAINT 'regions'

2009-05-12 Thread Scott Rohling
I have never seen 'regions' defined in EXTENT CONTROL as anything other than the corresponding DASD volser. I can see how it might be used if you were really into carving up DASD volumes strategically -- but I believe those days are long gone. Anyway - I'm putting together some best practices re

Re: Oops and finding passwords on a system...

2009-05-12 Thread Scott Rohling
ent must include the DEVMAINT option". > Does this not indicate that OPERATOR does not need DEVMAINT? > > > Regards, > Richard Schuh > > > > > -- > *From:* The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] *On > B

Re: Oops and finding passwords on a system...

2009-05-12 Thread Scott Rohling
Absolutely this is a security risk! I would never give OPERATOR DEVMAINT ability - OPERATOR should have the ability to do particular things and query particular things -- but not things like see passwords or the get ability to get to anything they want (e.g. DEF MDISK). If I was an auditor - yo

Re: Oops and finding passwords on a system...

2009-05-12 Thread Scott Rohling
I understand your premise, but respectfully disagree. We're not going to increase the security of z/VM by not discussing ways to do things when necessary. The mirror question to yours is: 'How do I prevent a z/VM system from being hacked?'. The answer lies in things like: - Run an ESM (may

Re: Oops and finding passwords on a system...

2009-05-12 Thread Scott Rohling
Sweet! Thanks for that, Marcy .. that's a new one for me, we've apparently improved Q MDISK! (or I was just unblissfully ignorant) Scott On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Marcy Cortes wrote: > Oops. > Make that > > Q MDISK USER DIRMAINT 1DB LOC > > > Marcy > > >

Re: Oops and finding passwords on a system...

2009-05-12 Thread Scott Rohling
Might be time to get the DIRENT package from the IBM VM downloads page: http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/descript.cgi?DIRENT This reads the object directory so you don't need access to the source directory.. Not sure if this helps - but maybe..? Scott On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Ma

Re: Oops and finding passwords on a system...

2009-05-12 Thread Scott Rohling
Happy Birthday! While I don't have access at the moment to a 5.4 system -- the type of DASD you used (3390-3 , 3390-9 ?) will be important for others to help... (I'll be trying to get to my 5.4 on 3390-9 with everything on 540RES in the meantime to help) Scott On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 1:36 PM,

Re: How long is YOUR signature/disclaimer?

2009-05-12 Thread Scott Rohling
Being a programmer and an INTP (myers-briggs - don't ask) - I hate redundancy.. so part of my peeve is using space for it when it's avoidable. I doubt the lawyers would go for it, but it would be nice if a simple URL were provided (which pre-supposes a public web page) with the company's disclai

Re: How long is YOUR signature/disclaimer?

2009-05-12 Thread Scott Rohling
t; > > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:13, Scott Rohling > wrote: > > Yes - I guess I knew what I was asking may not be possible for some. I > > guess I should just count myself lucky that IBM doesn't require such > > measures and I have access to both intra/inter nets dir

Re: How long is YOUR signature/disclaimer?

2009-05-12 Thread Scott Rohling
> > > > ________ > > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On > Behalf Of Scott Rohling > Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 7:46 AM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: [IBMVM] How long is YOUR signature/disclaimer? > &

How long is YOUR signature/disclaimer?

2009-05-12 Thread Scott Rohling
This is a plea to all of you with signature lines with all kinds of junk (like all those preachy quotes you might think others will appreciate) -- and ESPECIALLY those of you with company disclaimers: Please find a way to post with as clean a signature as you can. I've run across some posts latel

Re: Shutdown exec - need a little rexx help

2009-05-11 Thread Scott Rohling
0892-5628 > 301-594-7474 > > *From:* The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] *On > Behalf Of *Scott Rohling > *Sent:* Monday, May 11, 2009 10:46 AM > *To:* IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > *Subject:* Re: Shutdown exec - need a little rexx help > > > > Did yo

Re: Shutdown exec - need a little rexx help

2009-05-11 Thread Scott Rohling
Did you do a 'SET CPCONIO IUCV' ? You need to direct CP output to IUCV for it to get trapped by WAKEUP IUCVMSG... Do this before your initial WAKEUP. Scott On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] < baue...@mail.nih.gov> wrote: > Finally getting around to writing a shutdown

Re: Questions on issuing RACF LU command

2009-04-30 Thread Scott Rohling
I apologize.. I could swear RAC did not create an output file - but I see now that it does. Wonder how I missed that all this time? Getting old sucks.. sorry for the misinfo :-( Scott On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 5:59 AM, Rob van der Heij wrote: > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Sc

Re: Questions on issuing RACF LU command

2009-04-30 Thread Scott Rohling
RAC LU userwill just display to the console.. Scott On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 3:44 AM, Changer wrote: > Hi all, > > Issue 'RACF LU user' command will create RACF DATA file on 191 A disk by > default. > Is there any way to perform the command but would not generate RACF DATA > file > or create

Re: SWAPGEN

2009-04-29 Thread Scott Rohling
gt; possible. Dedicating a resource to a specific guest is a big waste and > benefits one to the detriment of all the rest. It would be much better to > allocate all virtual disk swap for the Linux guests, then allocate the disk > that would have been dedicated to swap as page space

Re: SWAPGEN

2009-04-29 Thread Scott Rohling
Maybe -- but having a real disk (and setting an alert for that) helps isolate the issue to a single guest rather than affecting critical shared resources (in this case memory/paging) when a guest starts swapping more than normal or than it 'should'. I like the idea of having a 'failover' swap are

Re: GGEOOL?

2009-04-27 Thread Scott Rohling
Well - not leaping to assumptions - perhaps Samual Morse 'was' born today? (e.g. April 27, 2009 - Samual Morse was born to Manual and Emaly Morse) It made me smile, anyway ... quirky humor seems to be an IT specialty ;-) I'm giving Tom the benefit of the doubt here... Scott On Mon, Apr 27, 20

Re: Format a SPPOL VOLUME on First IPL

2009-04-08 Thread Scott Rohling
Tuning* > > *Cell - 443 632-4191* > > *Work - 410 786-0386* > > *terry.mar...@cms.hhs.gov* > ------ > > *From:* The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] *On > Behalf Of *Scott Rohling > *Sent:* Tuesday, April 07, 2009 5:30 PM > > *To:* IBMVM@LISTSERV.UA

Re: Creating two logs from an exec

2009-04-08 Thread Scott Rohling
Ok - here's what I came up with and did a quick test on (see code farther down) -- it 'seems' to work but I didn't get to run thru the 'after midnight' part. You can call CPULOG as follows: CPULOG (will run forever, capturing every 5 minutes) CPULOG 2 ( will run forever, capturing ever 2 m

Re: Creating two logs from an exec

2009-04-07 Thread Scott Rohling
Suleiman: It's less about the cost of resources than consolidating your automation. If you can look at the VMUTIL SCHEDULE file - and see all the events you execute - it's much simpler than keeping track of all the userids you've created to do various checking/monitoring and adding them to an auto

Re: Creating two logs from an exec

2009-04-07 Thread Scott Rohling
I'll propose another change - but it depends on what type of automation you set up. Rather than dedicating a VM userid to run this CPU monitor -- I would probably implement it under an existing userid (like VMUTIL) that is already running, waiting to do scheduled events. (In fact I do have things

Re: Format a SPPOL VOLUME on First IPL

2009-04-07 Thread Scott Rohling
p.s. Forgot to mention those PIPE CP Q commands need to be issued from a privileged user (classes B&D at least I believe) to query/purge spool files for all users On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Scott Rohling wrote: > Hi Terry -- Everything should work fine using spool from the other

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