Re: EXECIO QUESTION

2009-03-11 Thread Scott Rohling
Try 'PIPE CMS LISTFILE CMS EXEC A (D | STEM RESPONSE.' Your problem below is that you have 'embedded' single quotes.. change the outer ones to double quotes and your syntax will be correct at least (but not sure it will do what you want - maybe). Scott On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Howard

Re: MDISK DEFINITION in MAINT DIRECTORY ENTRY

2009-03-11 Thread Scott Rohling
If you use DIRMAINT you'll want to keep MAINT 123 so it can write the directory. I suspect you're not - These fullpack overlay entries can be handy for doing DDR backups or cloning systems -- though DEFINE MDISK can be used instead of static entries in MAINT..(you can LINK MAINT 123 123 RR

Re: Changing service machines to recognize the new time zone change.

2009-03-10 Thread Scott Rohling
I don't think there is currently a better way - no. I can't remember the details, but the apps have to be able to take advantage of the TIMEZONE value, and I don't believe PERFKIT is one of them.. (someone correct please!). Funny you mention VMUTIL - when asked how to do the SET TIMEZONE

Re: SLES 9.0 SP3 SPACE PROBLEM

2009-03-10 Thread Scott Rohling
Agreed -- move at least /var and /tmp to separate devices (and it's nice to have /var in an lvm so you can grow it for very busy servers). Scott On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Mark Post mp...@novell.com wrote: On 3/10/2009 at 5:51 PM, Tom Duerbusch duerbus...@stlouiscity.com wrote: As

Re: How to display real CPU

2009-02-22 Thread Scott Rohling
I thought that was what was asked for... Scott On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Ivan Warren i...@vmfacility.fr wrote: Scott Rohling wrote: CP INDICATE requires no special classes .. IIRC, CP INDICATE LOAD only gives a summary for class G users (not a breakout between CPs). --Ivan

Re: Second level VM systems

2009-02-22 Thread Scott Rohling
Yup - and DIRMAINT also uses SHUTDOWN as the command to bring it down. I suppose there's a consistency here at least ;-) I agree consistency in the case of mimicing the OS command is not the best approach. Maybe we should immediately create a NWODTUHS command to bring down CP and make

Re: Second level VM systems

2009-02-22 Thread Scott Rohling
Aaaahhh - now I get it.. thanks for explaining that, Alan! Guess I blew by that earlier.. Scott On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.comwrote: On Sunday, 02/22/2009 at 09:16 EST, Scott Rohling scott.rohl...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe we should immediately create

Re: DFSMSDSS and VM Volumes

2009-02-20 Thread Scott Rohling
On the restore - I'm wondering if you really need to specify CPVOL? Since it's a physical backup, I would think just writing it out would restore the CP volume 'vtoc'. I guess I'd try leaving off CPVOL on the restore before using ICKDSF, etc to make them look like VM volumes. Scott On Fri,

Re: DFSMSDSS and VM Volumes

2009-02-20 Thread Scott Rohling
Since I don't see CPVOL on Tom's JCL .. maybe that 'is' part of the issue.. Scott On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 2:04 PM, James Stracka (DHL US) james.stra...@dhl.com wrote: Tom, I shall forward your JCL to the Storage guy. Was the target volume formatted in any way prior to the restore as a

Re: Secure ACTIVATE

2009-02-19 Thread Scott Rohling
I can't remember what the command is.. but it seems to me VM:Secure supplied a 'command line' interface (not VMSECURE - some other strange name) to do everything you needed to do with single commands.. It's been a little while since I played with the CA stuff -- so maybe I'm out of touch?

Re: Short user description in sample CP directory

2009-02-10 Thread Scott Rohling
Excellent idea.. I just recently ran through the directory at a customer site, coming up with an explanation for the security folks of what the purpose of each IBM supplied user was. I took the same approach, linking to their 191, or searching through manuals to figure it out. Having a single

Re: Paging

2009-02-10 Thread Scott Rohling
Perfkit -- User paging menu can show you who is doing the majority of the paging, who is most active, who owns the most in xstore/dasd. As far as tracking the pages with 'old' data, etc -- I'm not sure of a way to do this. I believe you can end up with a lot of pages that don't go away when

Re: Volumes not being seen

2009-02-06 Thread Scott Rohling
Anaconda - so it's Redhat, I presume.. but are you doing a kickstart or.. ? What do the text files (parm, conf) look like ? Scott On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] baue...@mail.nih.gov wrote: Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of

Re: Philosophical question...

2009-02-03 Thread Scott Rohling
If they are not even willing to take a bug report and work towards a fix for the future - then I'd assume the company is 'dead and hollow' and collecting revenue for the last gasping breath of the product. I imagine an empty room with the dusty desks where support staff once toiled.. and a

Re: OT: For those who are old enough to remember ADVENT...

2009-01-31 Thread Scott Rohling
completed in 40 seconds On 1/31/09, Phil Smith III li...@akphs.com wrote: A text-based Guitar Hero RPG: http://parchment.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/parchment.html?story=http://www.meltsner.com/random/Champion%20of%20Guitars.z5

Re: SPXTAPE

2009-01-22 Thread Scott Rohling
From HELP SPXTAPE: Response 3: When SPXTAPE DUMP, LOAD, or SCAN finishes processing, the following response is written in the command summary log and displayed on the screen. SPXTAPE DUMP COMMAND COMPLETED ON VDEV vdev(WITH ERRORS) LOAD ENDED vdev1-vdev2

Re: zvm 5.2 storage limits, zlinux?

2009-01-21 Thread Scott Rohling
When you're unable to deliver data within performance limits.. This might be a factor of number of concurrent users, files sizes, bandwidth, etc etc. Not necessarily the size of the filesystem. Scott Rohling On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Dean, David (I/S) david_d...@bcbst.comwrote: We

Re: SLES10 IPL...

2009-01-16 Thread Scott Rohling
Do you have another running Linux server you have root access to? You could give it permission to link the disks of the failing server - mount it's disks -- do chroot -- set the root password - exit - umount the disks - bring up the server. Or - any other user that has sudo authority you can

Re: Performance Tool Kit - Activation

2009-01-13 Thread Scott Rohling
I don't get it - why do you find it an annoyance that IBM recommends using a low port? I mean - I understand not having to alter TCPIP by using a port 1024 -- but do you think it's a bad idea to have TCPIP reserve the port for PERFKIT? Scott On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:57 PM, David Kreuter

Re: Secure FTP

2009-01-09 Thread Scott Rohling
Hmm .. Here's what I would do to use SFTP easily: - install cmsfs on a Linux guest on the z/VM system (if you have any install/maint/support type servers, I'd use that) - Give the Linux guest permission to access the monitor/accounting data minidisks. - Set up the Linux server to link the

Re: STD versus IFL

2008-12-07 Thread Scott Rohling
INDICATE should give you that info .. it will show 'IFL' for the individual CPU if it is an IFL Scott Rohling On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Alan Ackerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Is there some way from VM to determine if you are running on a Standard (STD) or IFL engine? This is running z/VM

Re: Verify from z/VM that a Linux guest is up

2008-11-14 Thread Scott Rohling
Do a Q SYSOPER -- you'll probably find MAINT is set as sysoper.. SET SYSOPER OPERATOR to cure it.If OPERATOR got logged off - the next privileged user z/VM finds will be SYSOPER. What your seeing happen is to ensure the 'system operator' gets the msg... Scott Rohling On Fri, Nov 14

Re: Verify from z/VM that a Linux guest is up

2008-11-07 Thread Scott Rohling
is up and running unless you get Linux to tell you it is.. I suppose one more way would be to telnet (on VM) to the Linux ip address using port 22 -- until you get a response .. but not sure how I'd code that without playing with it more. Scott Rohling On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Martin

Re: Verify from z/VM that a Linux guest is up

2008-11-07 Thread Scott Rohling
/IP stack running, how about just a simple PING from a CMS to the LINUX? -Original Message- *From:* The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of *Scott Rohling *Sent:* Friday, November 07, 2008 9:55 AM *To:* IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU *Subject:* Re: Verify from z/VM

Re: Slow SSH response

2008-11-05 Thread Scott Rohling
Same here.. my first guess is a DNS server issue.. quick test is to 'mv /etc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.save' -- so no reverse lookup is even tried by sshd.. If you can login without delay - your issue is a DNS server not responding. Scott Rohling On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Aria Bamdad

Re: Command for find out % of SMF utilization

2008-10-31 Thread Scott Rohling
vmlink racfvm 301 (i q disk .fm Same for 302 Scott On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Kris Buelens [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: The bare minimum: VMLINK RACFVM 301 * Z QUERY DISK Z VMLINK RACFVM 301 DETACH 2008/10/31 Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Is there a

Re: Recycle yourself

2008-10-30 Thread Scott Rohling
event that it isn't worth automating. You can dynamically add about anything now (CPUs, disks, memory in the future) so the need for a recycle because of a directory change would be more and more rare. On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 12:51 AM, Scott Rohling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't explain

Re: Recycle yourself

2008-10-30 Thread Scott Rohling
My vote is Phoenix ;-) It's got the **nix thing going for it too.. Scott On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Rich Smrcina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adam Thornton wrote: On Oct 30, 2008, at 10:44 AM, Schuh, Richard wrote: I would like to see how that would be implemented, the die and come

Re: Linux guest 191/200 disk question

2008-10-29 Thread Scott Rohling
EXEC - not hundreds. So my vote is: - Use common 191 with read only link (minidisk or SFS) - Use TDISK when writable area is necessary (like an automatic install or kickstart) Scott Rohling

Re: RACF ERROR

2008-10-29 Thread Scott Rohling
It probably abended and hasn't been forced off the system yet.. If you spool the console, you can try and see what happened in the console log. For now - you may have to login to the RACFVM userid (use the directory password) - and start it up manually and see what you can see... Scott Rohling

Re: RACF ERROR

2008-10-29 Thread Scott Rohling
You would IPL 490 -- and then you may have to enter RACSTART if it doesn't come up on it's own.. Scott Rohling On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Scott. Can I just IPL CMS while I am on the RACFVM user is get it to logon again

Re: RACF ERROR

2008-10-29 Thread Scott Rohling
to make your SMF disks bigger -- or look at what's filling up the SMF DATA and consider whether it's worth recording... It would be good to know what's driving up the usage.. Scott Rohling On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi When I

Re: Reliability of SFS?

2008-10-29 Thread Scott Rohling
properly and we were stuck - until the SFS pool was fixed, restored, whatever. Scott Rohling On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Tom Duerbusch [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I'm surprised by another discussion that seems to say that SFS is not reliable or dependable. Is that true in your shop? How heavy

Re: Linux guest 191/200 disk question

2008-10-29 Thread Scott Rohling
Yes, that's one way to do it.. another is to use a temp disk and avoid involvement of 'yet another' userid.. ;-) You're right - it doesn't require use of a r/w 191.. but a r/w address somewhere a long the way... Scott Rohling On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Mark Post [EMAIL PROTECTED

Recycle yourself

2008-10-29 Thread Scott Rohling
.The recycle routine on recyclvm would issue the signal shutdown -- wait for the guest to go down - and then immediately xautolog it. Just looking for ideas..thanks! Scott Rohling

Re: Recycle yourself

2008-10-29 Thread Scott Rohling
Right -- SIGNAL I know about.. but you can only SIGNAL SHUTDOWN .. How about a SIGNAL SHUTDOWN -R ;-) Thanks - Scott On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 6:50 PM, Nick Laflamme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 29, 2008, at 7:17 PM, Scott Rohling wrote: Is there a 'native' way to have your guest

Re: Recycle yourself

2008-10-29 Thread Scott Rohling
this e-mail or its attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete the e-mail from your system. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System on behalf of Scott Rohling Sent: Wed 10/29/2008 8:17 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Recycle

Re: Recycle yourself

2008-10-29 Thread Scott Rohling
issue: 'vmcp msg recyclvm recycle' I know I can do that fairly easily - but I think z/VM itself could do it fairly easily too. Whether it's worth the development effort -- umm. Maybe the process above is cheapest ;-) Thanks - Scott On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 6:17 PM, Scott Rohling [EMAIL

Re: Linux guest 191/200 disk question

2008-10-28 Thread Scott Rohling
! But I highly recommend using a common 191 disk and common PROFILE EXEC rather than propogating dozens or hundreds of little 191 disks all over the place (or even on one volume). Scott Rohling On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Mary Anne Matyaz [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Well, two things. I thought you

Re: Linux guest 191/200 disk question

2008-10-28 Thread Scott Rohling
I think the point is that once Linux boots - an A disk isn't relevant .. not that Linux needs to read anything on the 191. Scott Rohling On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Adam Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Oct 28, 2008, at 12:32 PM, Tom Duerbusch wrote: 1. As has been said, you don't

Re: Linux guest 191/200 disk question

2008-10-28 Thread Scott Rohling
Just curious why you think SFS is better than a 1 cylinder shared minidisk? To me - it's a point of failure as an SFS pool server must be running just to get to the PROFILE EXEC... Scott Rohling On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Tom Duerbusch [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: 1. As has been said, you

Re: Linux guest 191/200 disk question

2008-10-28 Thread Scott Rohling
Well - technically true if MW is used on the LINK instead of MR -- that's such a big no no in general I guess I assume people won't do it -- but good point. Scott Rohling Until you have two users, access the shared disk in R/W mode, to update it. No protection. SFS will always protect

Re: DRPC error message...

2008-10-24 Thread Scott Rohling
Try a NUCXMAP to see... Scott Rohling On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Thomas Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if there is a DDR instance that is loaded as a NUCEXT. You would not see that using LISTFILE. /Tom Kern On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:21:40 -0500, Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: RACF inactivity REVOKE

2008-10-22 Thread Scott Rohling
I think you're going to have some issues during January using Julian ;-) 2009001-30 = 2008971 ... so you'll likely end up revoking everybody... I would use date('B') -- and then convert to date('J') after: Daybase = DATE('B') D30ago = Date('J',Daybase-30,'B') Scott Rohling On Wed, Oct 22

Re: RACF inactivity REVOKE

2008-10-22 Thread Scott Rohling
Oops -- REXX DATE doesn't allow 'Julian' to be converted .. although you can convert 'from' Julian.. New code: Daybase = date('B') D30ago = date('S',Daybase-30,'B') . . . xlastacc = date('S',xyr||xday,'J') If xlastacc D30ago then do . . . Scott Rohling On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:09 AM

Re: REXX Coding Question.

2008-10-15 Thread Scott Rohling
So you want to keep the leading 0's? Then: n = 01234+ 50-100/* Whatever calc */ n = right(n,5,0) you'll have to put back the leading 0's after performing a calculation on it... adjust the '5' in the right() function to be the length you're looking for. Scott Rohling On Wed, Oct 15, 2008

Re: DASD PAV's

2008-10-15 Thread Scott Rohling
DD.' Parse VAR dd.7 . ':' pav . If pav = 'ALIAS' then 'CP DETACH' daddr 'SYSTEM' End Hope that helps - Scott Rohling On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Dean, David (I/S) [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Thank you, Dennis HCPDTS6866E Device CE32 cannot be detached from the system because

Re: DASD PAV's

2008-10-15 Thread Scott Rohling
And now that I see the Q PAV command .. that's probably even easier to use to write a little code and detach the pavs.. Q DASD DETAILS works - but I was using it because I was after the sizes as well (I like being able to tell if it's a 3390-3, 9, 27, whatever) Scott Rohling On Wed, Oct 15

Re: VMUTIL loop

2008-10-14 Thread Scott Rohling
. Thanks for all the input and suggestions! Scott Rohling p.s. When calling WAKEUP with a FILE (e.g. FILE(VMUTIL SCHEDULE A6) ) -- WAKEUP exits with RC0 if there is nothing in the file for that day to 'wakeup' for. This is what causes the loop -- unless something checks for RC0 and does

DF/DSS backup of z/VM volumes

2008-10-14 Thread Scott Rohling
being written to 4 tracks of cylinder 0 .. but unconfirmed. Thanks! Scott Rohling

Re: DF/DSS backup of z/VM volumes

2008-10-14 Thread Scott Rohling
and why it's needed for DF/DSS to backup the z/VM volumes. Thanks again! Scott Rohling On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Robert J McCarthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott, We backup our zVM volumes from zOS using DF/dss. The following are the control cards that we use : DUMP INDDNAME

Re: VSWITCH question

2008-10-14 Thread Scott Rohling
The new VSWITCH is the same subnet and guests should all be able to use the same IP's? Scott Rohling On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Daniel Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No error message. The Linux machine is authorized to use the VSWITCH. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM

VMUTIL loop

2008-10-09 Thread Scott Rohling
-- and then at midnight all is well.. There is a MIDNIGHT function in VMUTIL SCHEDULE that I commented out, just in case this was causing the issue - but that didn't help. Anybody else use VMUTIL and see this? Thanks - Scott Rohling

Re: NIC not acquired at startup

2008-10-09 Thread Scott Rohling
Is your NICDEF in the directory or dynamically defined from a PROFILE EXEC? I would look at the directory entry and the PROFILE EXEC.. Also - what do console logs show when the server starts up? There should be some clues there... Scott Rohling On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Steve Mitchell

Re: VMUTIL loop

2008-10-09 Thread Scott Rohling
Thanks for confirming it's not just me. I hadn't looked before, but the VMUTIL EXEC is an extremely simple thing using WAKEUP .. I'll try tracing and see what I can see.. Scott Rohling On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 7:59 AM, Mark Pace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Me! I tried many things to fix

Re: Need some help with REXX EXEC

2008-10-08 Thread Scott Rohling
.. If they aren't logging off - there are ways to configure Linux so that they do. That should simplify everything.. Scott Rohling On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 7:18 AM, Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks all. I will work this out and come with something that will work

Re: Need some help with REXX EXEC

2008-10-08 Thread Scott Rohling
to go down, but timeout at some point? Not sure... Scott Rohling On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Jack Woehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rich Smrcina wrote: Doesn't the SMAPI deactivate just do SIGNAL SHUTDOWN? Besides, I'm a PC-opensource-Unix hack, and I'd definitely go the ssh route

Re: VM operator console?

2008-10-07 Thread Scott Rohling
I'm not sure I would rely on telnet -- the operator's should have a 'real' console to be able to shutdown/IPL in case of a network or TCPIP failure.. Scott Rohling On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good questions Steve. At this point we

Re: Need some help with REXX EXEC

2008-10-07 Thread Scott Rohling
Are you setting CPCONIO to IUCV? You need to direct things to IUCV in order for WAKEUP to know things are arriving via IUCVMSG Scott Rohling On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am trying to write a REXX exec to shutdown my

Re: new program on download page.

2008-10-07 Thread Scott Rohling
The program cannot run with the Alternate Library Ready(20003); T=0.01/0.01 15:42:16 Be nice to just have the REXX source, but I suppose that's up to the author.. Scott Rohling p.s. XBROWSE MODULE is just as it came out of XBROWSE VMARC -- so not sure what the Program unreadable msg is about

Re: An OSA/VSWITCH question

2008-10-06 Thread Scott Rohling
The VSWITCH does not need a portname -- from reading other posts, there is a caution to make sure you do NOT use the same port name z/OS is using. I see it set to DONTCARE or NOTUSED when I look at various VSWITCH details.. Scott Rohling On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Daniel Allen [EMAIL

Re: AUTOLOG

2008-10-02 Thread Scott Rohling
Try this: XAUTOLOG AUTOLOG2 SYNCH#SET SECUSER AUTOLOG2 * That will let you watch the startup of AUTOLOG2 and see what might be wrong.. as others have said - it's a good bet it's the privileges (or lack of them) -- Scott Rohling On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR

Re: Disk Accounting Records

2008-09-30 Thread Scott Rohling
Sending to the mailing list... g -- not sure why I reply to some users and it goes to them instead of the list.. Scott On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Scott Rohling [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Here's my code to do a quick report on one or more ACCOUNT files: (you can pass it the individual

Re: Fw: Disk Accounting Records

2008-09-30 Thread Scott Rohling
I see ACCOUNT HELPCMS and it sounds great -- but no ACCOUNT MODULE.. Is this provided as part of the base z/VM product? Thanks - Scott Rohling On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Colleen Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Colleen M Brown IBM z/VM and Related Products Development and Service

Re: Fw: Disk Accounting Records

2008-09-30 Thread Scott Rohling
So I guess it's on MAINT 193 :-) Thanks to everybody for the replies.. I wonder how long ACCOUNT MODULE has been out there -- I coded up an EXEC to do the tallying some time ago -- definitely not the first time I found myself having reinvented a wheel :-) Thanks again! Scott Rohling

Re: SLES10 Client

2008-09-30 Thread Scott Rohling
I don't believe you'll be asked for a password -- just enter root for the userid and you should go right in... Scott On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Austin, Alyce (CIV) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK...i was able to ssh to my new client. Is the default root password the same as it was for the

Re: SLES10 Client

2008-09-30 Thread Scott Rohling
Don't be afraid -- you're not going to break anything... And besides - we're here if you do :-) Best of luck - Scott On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Austin, Alyce (CIV) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was afraid I might get locked out -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM

OPERATOR insists on VM READ ?

2008-09-29 Thread Scott Rohling
was doing this -- but it still doesn't seem normal that it would end up in VM READ .. Can anyone tell me if this is normal behaviour - or if I really need to execute something (do forever;CP SLEEP 1 MIN;end) to get it to stay out of VM READ? Thanks for any assistance.. Scott Rohling

Re: CPFMTXA VOLUME FORMATTING QUESTION

2008-09-29 Thread Scott Rohling
A CPFMTXA LABEL should do it for you.. Just label the volume appropriately -- And - Issue a CPFMTXA ALLOCATE to see what the current allocation is - and then get out of there if it's allocated as PERM (as I'd expect).. Scott Rohling On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Howard Rifkind [EMAIL

Re: OPERATOR insists on VM READ ?

2008-09-29 Thread Scott Rohling
CP SET RUN ON is already in the PROFILE EXEC - but I'll try out AUTOREAD OFF -- Thanks! Scott Rohling On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Jim Bohnsack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you include SET AUTOREAD OFF at the end of your PROFILE EXEC that should take care of it. It's a CMS command so

Re: OPERATOR insists on VM READ ?

2008-09-29 Thread Scott Rohling
Yes it does -- And the answer appears to be issuing SET AUTOREAD OFF ! So a big thanks to Jim Bohnsack for that tidbit!! Thanks again to all who responded.. I love this mailing list :-) Scott Rohling On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Hughes, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Does your IPL

Re: CPFMTXA VOLUME FORMATTING QUESTION

2008-09-29 Thread Scott Rohling
... (the details are sketchy but it's related to having a valid VTOC and space being used) Does anybody have some code they can share that does such a thing (make the volume visible to z/OS with a valid VTOC and show the volume as being used?) Thanks ! Scott Rohling On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:46 AM

Re: Question

2008-09-29 Thread Scott Rohling
Couple questions -- Are the volumes attached to the Linux guests or are they defined as minidisks? Are the volumes shared with z/OS and is there any potential for them to be altered by z/OS? Scott Rohling On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: RACF, setropts inactive() and long running guests

2008-09-27 Thread Scott Rohling
Yes... Sent from my iPhone On Sep 27, 2008, at 5:48 PM, Thomas Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could we still get onto that userid via LOGONBY? /Tom Kern Alan Altmark wrote: A possible compromise could be: ALTUSER userid NOPHRASE NOPASSWORD will completely remove the password and phrase. -

Re: Spool

2008-09-25 Thread Scott Rohling
Check out this: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247316.html ( Introduction to the New Mainframe: z/VM Basics) Pretty sure there's something about spool in there (can't find my copy at the moment and my network is slow) Scott Rohling IBM Redbooks http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/IBM

Re: LOGONBY

2008-09-23 Thread Scott Rohling
Just logon to MAINT using LOGONBY with your personal userid/pw Scott Rohling On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi One last thing on this. Am I logged on with my user id and password then from there logonby to another machine

Re: WAIT STATE 9003

2008-09-23 Thread Scott Rohling
Have you altered your SYSTEM CONFIG and perhaps taken the processor offline by mistake? If so - you can use SALIPL screen to point to a previous version of the system config ... Scott Rohling On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 4:11 PM, David Kreuter [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: um how much memory

Re: LOGONBY

2008-09-23 Thread Scott Rohling
*** [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- *From:* The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Scott Rohling *Sent:* Tuesday, September 23, 2008 6:12 PM *To:* IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU *Subject:* Re: LOGONBY Just logon to MAINT using LOGONBY with your

Re: Newbie VM Guy old z/OS Guy

2008-09-22 Thread Scott Rohling
or system owner, and/or security group. Hope that helps - Scott Rohling On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am working on the z/VM z/Linux POC. I have set up z/VM for this POC and have come a rather long way in a few months

Re: RPIMGR031E for SPOOL when issuing SENDFILE

2008-09-21 Thread Scott Rohling
Thanks Kris and Alan -- I created a VMXEVENT profile and added the members TRANSFER.D/NOCTL, TRANSFER.G/NOCTL, TAG/NOCTL -- did a refresh -- and voila -- no more annoying messages. Thanks very much!! Scott Rohling

Re: Freeing up a slot after dynamically removing a CPOWN volume?

2008-09-20 Thread Scott Rohling
Yes - that's interesting -- I don't see John's response in this thread now.. But hey - Jim - I appreciate the response regardless! If anything, it's good confirmation :-) Thanks very much for taking time to reply! Scott Rohling On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Rob van der Heij [EMAIL

Re: z/VM and linux on System z Operator Workshop Nov 12 - 14

2008-09-20 Thread Scott Rohling
I'm behind you David .. given all the posts informing us of various SystemZ expos, SHARE conferences, et al -- your announcement was certainly right in line with that. Information about events is always welcome.. shrug off the uninitiated :-) Thanks for your post -- Scott Rohling On Fri

RPIMGR031E for SPOOL when issuing SENDFILE

2008-09-20 Thread Scott Rohling
with VMXEVENT/SETEVENT .. but just not sure.. Thanks for any insight! Scott Rohling

Freeing up a slot after dynamically removing a CPOWN volume?

2008-09-17 Thread Scott Rohling
be freed without an IPL. Thanks for any assistance! Scott Rohling

Re: Freeing up a slot after dynamically removing a CPOWN volume?

2008-09-17 Thread Scott Rohling
like to free up the slot as well - and I'm not seeing any (obvious) way to do that. Do we have to wait until the next IPL? We already know not to move SPOOL slots around, etc -- just looking to see if a slot can be freed without an IPL. Thanks for any assistance! Scott Rohling DEFINE

Re: Eliminating DASD at IPL

2008-09-16 Thread Scott Rohling
Thanks, Richard -- I appreciate the insight. I've learned that you need to specify what you do NOT want and rarely need to specify what you DO want :-) So your comments are relevant to me. Scott On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Richard Corak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott, The goal of

Re: Can't detach a DASD device from system

2008-09-14 Thread Scott Rohling
Hmm.. Since it's showing 0 users -- maybe it's in the CPOWN list? Q CPOWN... Scott Rohling 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, that you

Re: Can't detach a DASD device from system

2008-09-14 Thread Scott Rohling
Silly me - it would have shown up as CPOWN when you did the Q DE33 -- never mind :-) Scott On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Scott Rohling [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hmm.. Since it's showing 0 users -- maybe it's in the CPOWN list? Q CPOWN... Scott Rohling

Re: Can't detach a DASD device from system

2008-09-14 Thread Scott Rohling
No - DEF MDISK will not show 0 users - I just 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

Re: Can't detach a DASD device from system

2008-09-14 Thread Scott Rohling
Ready; T=0.01/0.01 12:34:19 On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Quay, Jonathan (IHG) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you do it as a full pack i.e. 0 END? From: The IBM z/VM Operating System on behalf of Scott Rohling Sent: Sun 9/14/2008 1:22 PM To: IBMVM

Re: WAIT STATE

2008-09-14 Thread Scott Rohling
As nerve-wracking as it can be -- there really is no better learning experience than fixing things like this in a crisis.. Welcome to disaster-avoided club, Terry :-) Scott

Eliminating DASD at IPL

2008-09-12 Thread Scott Rohling
assistance... Scott Rohling

Re: Eliminating DASD at IPL

2008-09-12 Thread Scott Rohling
Thanks Nick and Mary Anne! We are going to use the NOTACCEPTED for the ranges we don't want to show up. I'm still a bit confused because it seems like only the 'negative' specification works -- but hey, I'm used to being confused :-) Thanks again - Scott

Re: Partially Successful: OpenVMS on System z

2008-09-08 Thread Scott Rohling
Uh Yeah!! More info please! :-) Sent from my iPhone On Sep 8, 2008, at 1:19 PM, David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Latest interesting step: I’ve gotten a partial boot of OpenVMS in a virtual machine on System z. Some instruction emulation still needs work (the Alpha POP is a little

Re: CMS file list date

2008-08-27 Thread Scott Rohling
FILELIST (FULLDATE (or ISODATE) should work on 4.4 LISTFILE (FULLDATE (or ISODATE) as well... Scott Rohling On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Dodds, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a customer that is on z/VM 4.4 and the CMS file dates shown in a filelist have only 2 digit years

Re: Dirmaint Mdisk Allocation

2008-08-19 Thread Scott Rohling
It's sounding like the disks already have minidisks on them so you can't allocate past those values?Can you show entries from EXTENT CONTROL (for these volumes - and also the 3390-3 definition at the bottom (check for dupe 3390-3 defs!)) -- and also from USEDEXT ? Scott Rohling On Tue, Aug

Re: Dirmaint Mdisk Allocation

2008-08-19 Thread Scott Rohling
Your EXTENT CONTROL entries came out garbled when I look at them.. I see 3390-01 in there - which is the size it seems to be using. What do your DEFAULTS show for 3390-3 or 3390-03 or whichever you are using in REGIONS? It's sounding very much like it thinks these are 3390-01 -- so either it's

Re: Dirmaint Mdisk Allocation

2008-08-19 Thread Scott Rohling
sent our extent control and defaults datadvh to ya.. Scott Rohling On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Mary Zervos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone please send me their Z/VM 5.3 Extent Control file to peek at? Thanks. Scott Rohling wrote: Your EXTENT CONTROL entries came out garbled

Re: Linux Commands

2008-08-15 Thread Scott Rohling
work anywhere. Those who actually support, own and snuggle with their own systems will often tend to use their own personal favorite blankets and pacifiers. ;-) Scott Rohling On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 7:58 AM, Rich Greenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On: Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:03:14PM -0500,Adam

Re: Portable z/VM help?

2008-08-15 Thread Scott Rohling
from the Linux command line. And maybe I'll still look at cobbling together a CGI and using a localhost webserver to present the material... Again - thanks to all who responded here! Scott Rohling On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 10:08 AM, David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But, searching a PDF

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