INPUT/OUTPUT CONFIGURATION

2011-07-21 Thread Sherry Everhart
Hello Everyone, I am interested in knowing how to configure a spare ESCON channel to ou r DASD so that if one of the existing eight shared channels goes belly-up (like it did last week) we can just move the cable over and not have to POR. I'm currently looking in the System z Input/Output

Re: INPUT/OUTPUT CONFIGURATION

2011-07-21 Thread Sherry Everhart
Reassigning the selected channel path identifier (CHPID) to another partition could not be completed. The selected CHPID is not reconfigurable. Select a reconfigurable CHPID and try the operation again.

RSU, PSP - which do I choose?

2011-03-10 Thread Sherry Everhart
I have installed our z/VM 5.4 system (YAY!). It came with RSU 5404 from June 2009, so that’s what I installed. It has not yet been migrated. Now I read the part in the z/VM Program Directory that says, “…you sh ould see if you received the most current Stacked RSU available. If there is a

Re: RSU, PSP - which do I choose?

2011-03-10 Thread Sherry Everhart
I've placed the order. Thanks, Dave, for your help. Sincerely, Sherry E.

Re: VM/CMS Training Material

2011-03-01 Thread Sherry Everhart
Under VM, there is and online XEDIT Tutorial called SELF-TEACH. To invok e it, at a CMS Ready prompt: SLFTEACH ENTER Here's what the introduction says: --- This is a programmed instruction course that will enable you to learn XEDIT more quickly than by other methods. The techniques

Re: VM/CMS Training Material

2011-03-01 Thread Sherry Everhart
None of my predecessors wrote the SELFTEACH Tutorial. It is an IBM program: * * * Top of File * * * /* 5798-DWW (C) Copyright IBM 1985 */ /* Licensed Material - Program Property of IBM */ /* Release 1

Re: 2nd level z/VM 5.4 installation

2011-02-23 Thread Sherry Everhart
Syntax has been corrected. THANKS, Alan. But it's still not working for me. With the userid and password the network folks gave me, I am already in the cpdvd directory on the FTP Server, where all the files I'm supposed t o copy reside. So I figured I could omit the -d parameter (right?):

Re: 2nd level z/VM 5.4 installation

2011-02-23 Thread Sherry Everhart
The 550 Access is denied message was because the userid and password supplied to me by the network folks did not have the correct rights to the files in the directory. This has been resolved. I have received thi s message: CKD222* DMSRXS1408W File TCPIP DATA * not found ECKDREST: WROTE 75

Re: 2nd level z/VM 5.4 installation

2011-02-22 Thread Sherry Everhart
I have copied all of the dvd files to a subdirectory on the the FTP serve r as recommended in From an FTP Server Directory (p 98 of the Guide for Automated Installation and Service). So can anyone clarify the -D parameter of the FTPGET command? pipe (stagesep !) ftpget -h xxx.xx.x.xx -u

2nd level z/VM 5.4 installation

2011-02-17 Thread Sherry Everhart
Hello Everyone, I need some clarification. I'm trying to figure out how to use DVDs to install z/VM 5.4 under z/VM 5.2. In Chapter 4, Plan Your DVD Installation, in the Guide for Automated Installation and Service, unde r Installation methods, Second-level Installation, one of the User ID

Re: 2nd level z/VM 5.4 installation

2011-02-17 Thread Sherry Everhart
Hi Scott, I have a userid, VM54INST defined in the directory already: USER VM54INST 256M 256M ABCDEFG INCLUDE MACCPROF OPTION LNKNOPAS MDISK 0191 3390 1201 10 EM0F05 MR RVM54INS WVM54INS MDISK 3390 1211 5 EM0F05 MR RVM54INS WVM54INS MDISK 222C 3390 1216 5 EM0F05 MR

Re: 2nd level z/VM 5.4 installation

2011-02-17 Thread Sherry Everhart
Frank, no, we don't have TCP/IP running on 1st level VM. (At least I don't think so!) And I don't understand the Filepool method that Alan spoke of either. Sorry, Alan, but mostly when you tell me things it all sounds a bit like when Charlie Brown's teacher talks (Good grief... :))

Re: 2nd level z/VM 5.4 installation

2011-02-17 Thread Sherry Everhart
vmlink tcpmaint 592 DMSVML2060I TCPMAINT 592 linked as 0121 file mode Z Ready; ifconfig DTCIFC2605E TCP/IP stack TCPIP is not available Ready(00012); It's not running. :(

z/VM Hardware Configuration Question

2011-01-27 Thread Sherry Everhart
Hello, Everyone. This is my first post to this User Group. Thanks in advance for your help. I have a question... We are running five VSE guests under VM and recently experienced a hardware failure. This has led us to investigate the possibility of installing a spare so that we're not down if