Re: Ficon CTC's between LPAR's in same Box

2011-08-07 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
I have fallen behind in reading the list, and didn't notice this thread till today. Thank you David for continuing to host that document, it really gives me pleasure to see that it can still be helpful to other sysprogs out there. I have not done this with FICON, so your volunteering to add the

Re: page pack question

2011-07-19 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
Another suggestion that no one seems to have mentioned, is to define different system names in the CONFIG file, one for the 1st level CPUID and a different one for 2nd level. Then you can specify different OWNED lists, by system name. I do this for a few items in my config, such as defining some

Ancient documentation - DRET

2011-07-06 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
Hi, We (mainframe sysprogs) have been forced to relocate our offices several times over the last couple of years, and just discovered that we seem to have lost something. Does anyone out there know if it is possible today to get a DRET manual? We still have and use DRET in many VSE job streams,

Re: SHUTTRAP

2011-06-29 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
My watchdog machine as you call it, is the PROP running in OPERATOR. At each logoff of a user, my RELOG EXEC checks if: a) Is RELOGing in effect? If yes, then continue to check if: b) This user must be on at all times unconditionally c) This user must be on IF certain conditions apply - and checks

Re: Moving on

2011-06-22 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
Richard, I hope you enjoy your retirement, we will miss you here! Good luck and success in whatever you do, Shimon On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Schuh, Richard rsc...@visa.com wrote: After 48 years in the industry, involved with VM for the last 38 of them, I will be retiring early next

OT: The weather in Endicott

2011-03-24 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Pamela Christina in sunny warm Endicott NY chris...@gdlvm7.vnet.ibm.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Pamela Christina in springtime snowy Endicott chris...@gdlvm7.vnet.ibm.com wrote: Don't you love seeing Pam's cheery weather reports? I really do! :-)

Re: moving members to a z/OS system

2011-03-16 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
When we had to do this I wrote my own nifty exec TMVS (To-MVS) which uses the VMFTP package. You are welcome to share it. I haven't looked at it in a long time, but IIRC it supports PDS and sequential files. (I don't know if PDS/E would require any changes). Shimon On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 4:49

Re: Temp SFS environment

2011-03-16 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
I am not sure about this, but I think it might be that the mdisks get detached and re-linked, which would kill your SFS server if they were TDISK. See what response you get to: #cp q v 301-305 immediately after the failure. The reason I think I remember this is that years ago I once tried to

Re: Tape drives : MVS VM

2011-03-15 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
We actually wanted the opposite - tapes shared between machines, all attaches under control of one central program, and since detaching an assigned drive forces a RUN, we wanted no ASSIGN at all. I implemented this via CP Exit FFB, which altered the ATTACH to include NOASSIGN on the command,

Re: SMTP authentication?

2011-03-13 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
to refresh my translation of the names On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.comwrote: On Friday, 03/11/2011 at 05:38 EST, Shimon Lebowitz shim...@iname.com wrote: As I see it, there are now 3 possibilities: a) they reallow anonymous SMTP access globally b

SMTP authentication?

2011-03-10 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
Hi, This morning we have a new problem in the z/VM SMTP server. Email to the local network is failing, with this message appearing in the SMTP console: 3 530 5.7.1 Client was not authenticated Could someone please explain: a) what this actually means (it didn't use to happen)? b) how do I solve

Re: SMTP authentication?

2011-03-10 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
: On Thursday, 03/10/2011 at 06:22 EST, Shimon Lebowitz shim...@iname.com wrote: Hi, This morning we have a new problem in the z/VM SMTP server. Email to the local network is failing, with this message appearing in the SMTP console: 3 530 5.7.1 Client was not authenticated Could

Re: SMTP authentication?

2011-03-10 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
David, Thanks very much!! That sounds great. Here, everyone has already gone home for the weekend (we work Sun-Thu), but I will raise the possibility with the network folks on Sunday morning. I hope this is not based on a very new linux. I see that the new ones cannot run on my somewhat

Re: Xedit question

2011-02-21 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
You could save a line there. -SHift--+-Left--+--+--+-- '-Right-' | .-1--. | '---cols++-' +-target-+ '-*--' Shift Right 4 *

Re: Dynamic i/o configuration

2011-02-16 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
I don't have a z10, but on my z890 I seem to remember that I needed to set dynamic on somewhere on the HMC. Possibly in the activation profiles? It's been a while... Shimon On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:07 PM, James Poirier james.poir...@doit.nh.govwrote: To enable DYNAMIC I/O CONFIGURATION on

Re: Knocked out of me: New s-stat segment process

2011-01-26 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
I think you mean SAMPNSS CMS which IIRC is on MAINT 193. Shimon On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:14 PM, RPN01 nix.rob...@mayo.edu wrote: I wanted to generate a new CMS segment to pick up a changed S minidisk, and suddenly couldn’t remember the exec which generates the CMS shared segment

Re: DASD Subsystem Migration

2011-01-25 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
As far as I remember over the last few times we changed DASD, we hooked up the new storage to the old with PPRC and then started up with the mirrors as our primary disks. I don't think we have bothered to actually *copy* disks in a long time. (We have not had IBM DASD since the RAMAC of

Re: Forced logoff by SYSTEM?

2011-01-24 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
Thank you! There was a dump, and I did open a call. Shimon On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 9:28 PM, Kris Buelens kris.buel...@gmail.comwrote: My guess is that it abended. It doesn't write that event in its log ... (obviously). Look in the spool for a dump file from PERFSVM, and you'll have no other

Re: dynamically add page packs

2011-01-24 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
I don't use RACF, but now I know how serious this is, that it kept you up at 3AM! :-) Received: from alan_altm...@us.ibm.com by imo-da01.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v42.9.) id g.e58.1011db48 (0); Mon, 24 Jan 2011 03:16:38 -0500 (EST) Wow!!! On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Alan

Re: RACF remote sharing facility (RRSF)

2011-01-24 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
We have a fairly lo-tech method for propogating passwords. When a user gets a new password (in the z/OS realm), a small encrypted (it would not stand up to the CIA!) spool file is sent to a virtual machine on VM, which updates the VM:Secure password for the user. I think the programming for the

Re: Forced logoff by SYSTEM?

2011-01-24 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
The OP (that's me) has mentioned opening a PMR over the fact that PERFSVM did in fact abend. I thought that after creating a VMDUMP, the virtual machine would be in a CP READ, but I guess I misunderstood. Shimon On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 4:37 AM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.comwrote: What

Forced logoff by SYSTEM?

2011-01-23 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
Hi, On Thursday (actually, it was just past midnight, Wednesday night), PERFSVM was forced off by SYSTEM, while running DSC as usual: The operator log showed these lines: 00:51:51 USER DSC LOGOFF AS PERFSVM USERS = 66FORCED BY SYSTEM 00:51:51 HCPMNI6245I The monitor IUCV path was

Re: IO configuration question?

2011-01-11 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
I think you also might want to check your New_Devices setting in the SYSTEM CONFIG. If it is enabled, new devices will be brought online when the system sees them appear. On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Macioce, Larry larry.maci...@com.state.oh.us wrote: I would ask the z/OS guy what his

Re: Dynamically adding 3390's

2011-01-05 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
Over the years since dynamic IOCP changes became possible, I have had several occasions to use them. At first I ran into problems of not being able to activate the newly saved IOCDS (RC=88, I believe) because I had somehow or other gotten out of sync. So I created a special machine just for

64encode exec?

2010-12-27 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
Is there a 64encode EXEC (not pipe stage) hanging around anywhere, or do I need to write my own? Thanks, Shimon

Re: 64encode exec?

2010-12-27 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
Base64 Encode, like the 64encode pipe stage. Thanks! On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Les Koehler vmr...@tampabay.rr.comwrote: Do you mean a base64 encode? Or 64 bit encode? Les Shimon Lebowitz wrote: Is there a 64encode EXEC (not pipe stage) hanging around anywhere, or do I need

Re: 64encode exec?

2010-12-27 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
, does anyone have an exec that does the same stuff? Thanks Shimon On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Kris Buelens kris.buel...@gmail.comwrote: Why is a PIPE stage not good? You can wrap an exec around it, or ...anything possible with CALLPIPE/ADDPIPE 2010/12/27 Shimon Lebowitz shim...@iname.com

Re: 64encode exec?

2010-12-27 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
), but I am guessing that YOU of all people KNOW that. So are you talking about Unix/Linux? or maybe Windows? You could extract the logic from 64ENCODE REXX and make REXX from it. -- R; On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 08:19, Shimon Lebowitz shim...@iname.com wrote: Ummm... gulp... because

Re: 64encode exec?

2010-12-27 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
My thanks to Sir Rob, who kindly supplied the code for a rexx exec to do this. Thank you! Shimon On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Shimon Lebowitz shim...@iname.com wrote: Base64 Encode, like the 64encode pipe stage. Thanks! On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Les Koehler vmr

Re: ISFC connection between LPARs

2010-12-22 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
Really? Wouldn't a FICON channel that is being used for CTC between LPARs need to have *both* ends attached to FICON cards in the computer, the way an ESCON CTC is built? How could it connect LPARs if one end goes to DASD or TAPE? I do not yet have FICON (till next month) but I am interested

Re: How Sumbit a JOB from Z/VM to Z/OS using RSCS ?

2010-12-22 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
Hi Sergio, Here is my MBCH (submit Batch to MVS) exec. It is basically the same commands that others here have already told you. It also gets the submitter's MVS userid/password, since our MVS requires those items in the job card. Our users save the JCL in a CMS file with placeholders for those

Re: How Sumbit a JOB from Z/VM to Z/OS using RSCS ?

2010-12-21 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
I wrote an exec for our programmers here that allows them to send batch jobs to our MVS, which I will be happy to share when I get to the office tomorrow. For now, I just don't remember what it does inside, sorry! Shimon -Original Message- From: Michael Coffin Sent: Dec 21, 2010 1:39

Re: z/VM ISFC links

2010-10-01 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
Hi John, I also had a hard time setting up n-to-n CTC connections, but I tried to document how it is done for others, here: http://www.sinenomine.net/node/265 From its blurb on SineNomine: This document describes a cookbook example of how to configure ESCON CTC connections between LPARs on a

Re: DST and CICS journaling

2009-10-18 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
will happen with CICS? Do I need to have it down for 3 hours (since the HW clock went from 9PM to 6PM) ?? Or can I start it up immediately (since the VM local time stayed 8PM) ? -- Shimon Lebowitz

Re: Writing a screen scrolling shell

2009-10-17 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
I have a simple fullscreen display program which can get its display data from rexx variables LINE.1 LINE.2 etc. You could update the stem suffixes by -1 and redisplay every time you get a new incoming message. The program is pretty basic, no colors or extended attributes, and only supports 24

Re: Daylight Saving Time change

2009-10-15 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
Can you explain where this Hints and Tips is? I told our VSE guy about the AR command, and he said he looked through all the manuals and there is no such animal. Thanks, Shimon Original message Date:   Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:07:26 -0400 From:   Edward M Martin emar...@aultman.com

DST and CICS journaling

2009-10-15 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
the HW clock went from 9PM to 6PM) ?? Or can I start it up immediately (since the VM local time stayed 8PM) ? Thanks for any explanations, Shimon -- Shimon Lebowitzmailto:shim...@iname.com VM System

Re: Daylight Saving Time change

2009-10-15 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
I found it in here:   ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/eserver/zseries/zos/vse/pdf3/zvse41/hint9mm2.pdf   Thanks Rolly and Bob! -- Shimon Lebowitzmailto:shim...@iname.com VM System Programmer

Re: Daylight Saving Time change

2009-10-15 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
Hey! You managed to get attachments thru! From: Roland P. Chung roland.ch...@rogers.com Subject: Re: Daylight Saving Time change To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Thanks a lot Mike. Works wonder. Here is my contribution: 2 files based on EST and EDT for VM VSE. ...Rolly

PERFKIT: CPU usage by time intervals

2009-10-15 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
Hi, Is there any way in batch PERFKIT to get a report that shows CPU usage broken down by periods? I tried to do an INTERIM CPU and got: FCXPRT374E INTERIM period not available for CPU Thanks, Shimon -- Shimon Lebowitz

Re: VSE/VSAM FOR VM (GI10-8151-00)

2009-09-23 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
I am not at work to check, but if that is the Progdir, I should be able to scan it tomorrow. Original message Date:   Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:37:39 -0400 From:   peter.w...@ttc.ca Subject:   Re: VSE/VSAM FOR VM (GI10-8151-00) To:   IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU I have a hardcopy; scanners

Re: TDISK and SYSTEM CONFIG question.

2009-09-17 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
I seem to remember a thread from long ago that discussed unchangeable defaults. :-) Original message Date:   Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:18:30 -0400 From:   Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com Subject:   Re: TDISK and SYSTEM CONFIG question. To:   IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU On Thursday,

Re: ERROR ESTABLISHING COMMUNICATIONS

2009-09-16 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
LINE(S) NOT DISPLAYED - * * * END OF FILE * * * No console messages? Nothing at all on either console. Nor error files on VMSERVR 191/YPOOL 191? None. Thank you! Shimon -- Shimon

Re: ERROR ESTABLISHING COMMUNICATIONS

2009-09-16 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
by some ERASE-like command. They are contained in the SFS manual. -- Shimon Lebowitzmailto:shim...@iname.com VM System Programmer . Israel Police National HQ. Jerusalem, Israel

Re: OT: VM lockup due to English typo

2009-09-16 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
...@tampabay.rr.com Subject:   Re: OT: VM lockup due to English typo To:   IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Not Found Les Shimon Lebowitz wrote: Original message o If a class G (only) user can repeatedly or with malice of forethought hang or abend CP, it WILL be classified as an integrity

Re: RELABEL SYSRES was: Re: Backup RES Labeling Question

2009-09-05 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
Good work Mike! A few comments after a brief scan of your document are embedded below: 6) When the STAND ALONE PROGRAM LOADER: screen appears, under the line IPL PARAMETERS enter: cons=console_vdev

Re: IFCONFIG to -REMOVE a link

2009-08-25 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
Thank you Miguel, That did it. Shimon, Stop the interface with IFCONFIG VSECM DOWN first. It turns out that IFCONFIG doesn't use the actual device status to decide whether an interface is UP or DOWN...it considers a device UP if it has usable routes (i.e. it can actually send traffic). We

IFCONFIG to -REMOVE a link

2009-08-23 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
Hi, I tried to use IFCONFIG to remove a link. According to the help file the interface must be inactive first. I assumed that an interface which is DOWN can be considered inactive, but apparently I was wrong: IFCONFIG VSECM VSECMINET ADDR: 10.1.5.2 P-T-P: 10.1.6.2 MASK: 255.0.0.0

Re: SYSTEM CONFIG file question

2009-08-19 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
Your mistake here is in the words: When I issue the CP ID command I get: ID (IDENTIFY) is a CMS command, not CP. The CP command that gives your userid and node is Q USERID. ID does in fact take it's node data from the SYSTEM NETID file, *if* different from the CP node: 1. THE USER ID

Re: FLIST on SFS, *HEADER ignored

2009-08-19 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
+---+ | Please respond to | | The IBM z/VM Operating | | System | | IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU | +---+ On Tuesday, 08/18/2009 at 09:41 EDT, Shimon Lebowitz shimon...@gmail.com wrote: I don't use FLIST much on the 'desktop', but it is very

FLIST on SFS, *HEADER ignored

2009-08-18 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
I don't use FLIST much on the 'desktop', but it is very useful when embedded in applications with the PROFILE and ONE options, and sometimes USE too. I am developing something today, and am surprised to see that apparently (if I am understanding correctly what I see) the *HEADER statement in the

Re: PTK USRLIMITS by shifts?

2009-08-13 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
.. Eginhard Jaeger - Original Message - From: Shimon Lebowitz To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 7:48 PM Subject: [?? Probable Spam] PTK USRLIMITS by shifts? Hi, I set up events to change my PTK settings of USRLIMITS

PTK USRLIMITS by shifts?

2009-08-12 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
Hi, I set up events to change my PTK settings of USRLIMITS according to shifts. The main batch machines are not supposed to be gobbling resources during prime time, but at night they can run wild. So, while the usual USRLIMIT for %CPU is 30, at 17:00 I want to do FC USRLIMIT batchuser %CPU 75

Setting up APPC for PTK

2009-08-11 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
I am really confused, trying to set up an APPC connection between two performance toolkit machines. the instructions I am reading are at: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zvm/v5r4/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.zvm.v54.hcpl7/cbfapp.htm They are full of AVS references, but I understood from this

Re: Setting up APPC for PTK

2009-08-11 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
Thank you, That did it! Kris said: the APPC resource id's must be unique in an ISFC collection (as you know). But, PTK uses FCXRES00 as resource id to identify itself. WIth an UCOMDIR NAMES on the A-disk of PTK, you can translate this. On the A-system, code this: :nick.FCXRES00

Re: EMail with a binary attachment

2009-08-11 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
What really cracked me up was the kid at my door who asked if he could use the phone. When shown to the device, he looked at the dial dumbly and asked umm.. how do you work this? Original message Date:   Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:49:22 PDT From:   Tom Anderson tp...@speakeasy.net

Re: CP Query wildcards

2009-07-02 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
I don't know what globbing is, but we have here an assembler routine that does generalized wildcard comparison between a field and a wildcard spec. The spec is built according to the rules used by the LISTFILE command of CMS: * = zero or more of any character, % = exactly one of any character.

Re: RSCS -

2009-06-11 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
I owe Les a thank you - Thank you! Original message Date:   Sun, 7 Jun 2009 09:48:39 -0400 From:   Les Geer (607-429-3580) lg...@vnet.ibm.com Subject:   RSCS - To:   IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU I suddenly started getting the following messages when RSCS sends output to a certain

Re: Totally Off Topic: Time to get out the black helicopters.

2009-06-10 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
What shocked me in that article, was this: As any logical person who has seen Karen Black's Trilogy of Terror or any one of the Chucky movies will recognize, these events prove one thing: These teddy bears are evil. Somehow, they have obtained the ability to possess their owners' minds

RSCS -

2009-06-07 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
Hi, I suddenly started getting the following messages when RSCS sends output to a certain network printer. DMTCMX005I LOCATION TEST(XMSL) EXECUTING: START ST00LO DMTCMY700I ACTIVATING LINK ST00LO LPR LINE= CLASS=* QUEUEING=PRIORITY DMTLPR012I LINK ST00LO EXIT ROUTINE LPRXONE LOADED AT

Re: Multiple MAINT type users... how?

2009-05-21 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
How about using LOGONBY to MAINT? Don't use MAINT as your regular userid, but only as the *maintenance* userid. Whoever is doing the maintenance can log on to MAINT to do it. Another thing you can do is to change the config and directory disks (since these are the functions you mentioned) to NOT

Re: DTCTC058E

2009-04-23 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
What is at the other end of the CTC? That error indicates a line protocol error. That is, the frame that was received over the CTC link is bogus. This was connected to my other thread, routing via vswitch. After managing to talk to the VM system named UNDR, the next step was to talk to VSE.

Re: routing via vswitch

2009-04-23 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
I want to tie up some loose ends on threads I opened, to thank you (Alan!) for your help, and to ensure that the archives include solutions and not only problems. ;-) I was routing from the LAN to VM via a vswitch, to an IP address of a host connected via CTC to the VM TCPIP. The problem was the

Re: subnets and P2P HOSTs

2009-04-23 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
1024 Thanks, Shimon On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Shimon Lebowitz shimon...@gmail.comwrote: I have a subnetting question. As far as I can see, I should be able to define connections like this: HOME 10.1.100.21CTC1 10.1.55.21/16 NIC1

DTCTC058E

2009-04-21 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
Can someone translate this into English please? 19.2.151 DTCCTC058E -- *DTCCTC058E* *CTCA* *device* device*:* *Unexpected* *Network* *type:* type *at* *position* input_position *Explanation:* The system encountered an unexpected network type as the

Re: routing via vswitch

2009-04-10 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
* *Alan Altmark wrote: = * On UNDR: IFCONFIG Z530 inet addr: 10.1.31.253 mask: 255.255.0.0 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU: 9216 vdev: 0900 type: CTC portnumber: 1 cpu: 0 forwarding: ENABLED RX bytes: 3864 TX bytes: 3864 Ready; T=0.08/0.10 15:49:38 Hmmm you're missing the

Re: routing via vswitch

2009-04-07 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
Alan said: Anyway: 1. Check NETSTAT GATE on both TCP/IPs. 2. Turn on MORETRACE for IPUP, IPDOWN, and ICMP on the routing system 3. Do the same for the endpoint system. OK... here is a bunch of output: * On z530test: ifconfig VSW10inet addr: 10.0.7.153 mask: 255.255.0.0 UP

routing via vswitch

2009-04-06 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
I am still having routing problems, so it must be drawing time again. Our old configuration looked like this: ===LAN==+== 10.0/16 == |OSA ++ | 10.0.0.7 | | VM 4.4| +---+ |

Re: Problem using the PEEK Command

2009-04-03 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
We (I) did the front/back end a bit differently. Since I want to supply a profile for ALL users, not only those who set a new default, I named my frontend PROF (not only for peek), and renamed IBM's to PIBM. It works just like you say: -PROFPEEK XEDIT A -Commands to customize. -'MACRO

PRIROUTER rules

2009-04-02 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
Hi, I have been trying to find the OFFICIAL rules regarding defining an OSA as PRIROUTER, and not having any success. I admit I am not at the office with the CD-ROM, but at home stuck using that supremely awful (IMHO) eclipse-of-the-sun system. (I believe someone commented here recently that an

Fwd: Question about separate TCP stacks and SSL server machines

2009-03-26 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
Not necessarily. I use a CPUID value which is in my SYSTEM NETID as a different system name. *CPUID SYSIDRSCS 07120D PROD RSCS 123456 TSTIP2 RSCS Then, I can put a TSTIP2 TCPIP and a TSTIP2 DTCPARMS on the same 198 as all the other TCPIP files. And if in my TCPIP DATA file I have:

Re: VMSERVS and RMSMASTR

2009-03-26 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
I just downloaded SHUTTRAP and wrote an exec to close things on a SHUTDOWN signal. What command shuts down RMSMASTR in an orderly fashion? Thanks! Shimon Original message Date:   Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:06:19 +0100 From:   Berry van Sleeuwen berry.vansleeu...@xs4all.nl Subject:   Re:

DMS5DF3366W SEVER FROM *IDENT

2009-03-18 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
As a result of a careless mistake (starting an ISLINK between systems running SFS servers by the same name), the servers got this message: DMS5DF3366W SEVER FROM *IDENT FOR RESOURCE YPOOL. REASON CODE 0 After correcting the problem (deactivating the link), is there any way short of IPL CMS to

Re: Version 4 to Version 5

2009-03-18 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
Ivan Warren i...@vmfacility.fr asked: SPXTAPE ? And of course the answer is 'yes', but... In fact I have decided NOT to ipl on the same spool volumes and same CP OWNED list, but to use SPXTAPE to move (copy) the spool to new volumes. However, at least I can assume (I hope) that there is no

Re: DMS5DF3366W SEVER FROM *IDENT

2009-03-18 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
*IDENT To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU On Wednesday, 03/18/2009 at 09:51 EDT, Shimon Lebowitz shimon...@gmail.com wrote: As a result of a careless mistake (starting an ISLINK between systems running SFS servers by the same name), the servers got this message: DMS5DF3366W SEVER FROM *IDENT FOR RESOURCE

Re: DMS5DF3366W SEVER FROM *IDENT

2009-03-18 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
Do I understand you correctly that if I use IUCV *IDENT resname the resname should be the filepoolid? And if I do that for any *local* pool, and then the fact that there is a global pool of the same name will not cause any problem? What about in the other direction? Is the REMOTE sfs server

Re: SEGGEN failure

2009-03-17 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
On the advice of a respected member of the list, I tried adding a LOT of virtual storage to MAINT, but even with 512M I get the same result. This makes sense, since the error message is not mentioning any problem loading the content of the segment. This is happening in VMFBDSEG EXEC at lines

Version 4 to Version 5

2009-03-16 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
-- Shimon Lebowitzmailto:shim...@iname.com VM System Programmer . Israel Police National HQ. Jerusalem, Israel phone: +972 2 542-9877 fax: 542-9308

Re: Version 4 to Version 5

2009-03-16 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
...@ca.com -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Shimon Lebowitz Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 02:36 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Version 4 to Version 5 In changing a z/VM system from Version 4 to Version 5

SEGGEN failure

2009-03-16 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
I am trying to rebuild CMSINST, following the directions in 3.17.1 Rebuild the Saved Segments of the 5.3.0 service guide. I 190 CL parm nosprof instseg no AC ( NOPROF AC 5E6 B AC 51D D vmfbld ppf segbld esasegs segblist instseg type (serviced VMFBLD2760I VMFBLD processing started

Re: Version 4 to Version 5

2009-03-16 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
-Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Shimon Lebowitz Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 03:05 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Version 4 to Version 5 You got me! So... I can assume that if I start up after

DEF MDISK

2009-03-05 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
CMS does a RELEASE of a R/W disk it writes the directory!!) I just assumed I could do DEF MDISK cuu startcyl numcyls volser R/O Does anyone have a way around this? Thanks, Shimon -- Shimon Lebowitz

Re: Utility Question

2009-03-05 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
Did you do: ACCESS 193 mode ? Original message Date:   Thu, 5 Mar 2009 11:02:20 -0500 From:   August Carideo august.cari...@avon.com Subject:   Utility Question To:   IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU I am trying to run utility utiltape all from maint's ID , it comes back w/ unknown

Re: Using LBYONLY

2009-03-04 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
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Q LIMITS question

2009-03-03 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
STORAGE GROUP 4K BLOCK LIMIT 4K BLOCKS COMMITTED THRESHOLD MAINT.- - - - READY; T=0.01/0.01 19:40:13 Why not?? Thanks for any suggestions, Shimon -- Shimon Lebowitz

Re: Q LIMITS question

2009-03-03 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
it, when really it seems to just be part of the track syntax. Thanks all!!! Shimon -- Shimon Lebowitzmailto:shim...@iname.com VM System Programmer . Israel Police National HQ. Jerusalem, Israel

Re: non-routing OSA

2009-02-17 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
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non-routing OSA

2009-02-16 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
and on the main 10.0/16 lan of 10.0.7.14 Thank you very much, Shimon -- Shimon Lebowitzmailto:shim...@iname.com VM System Programmer . Israel Police National HQ. Jerusalem, Israel phone: +972

Re: Setting DIRM NEEDPASS NO in a LOGONBY user

2009-02-15 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
Having been asked just last week, by a member of the system 'superuser' group, to increase his timeout-lockup in the session manager from 10 to 20 (!) minutes, I definitely agree with Brian! Original message Date:   Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:09:32 -0600 From:   Brian Nielsen

Updating RMCONFIG

2009-01-22 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
devices I have added to the file? My main problem right now is 'a'. Do I need to 'bounce' RMS, or can it update its configuration on the fly? Thanks, Shimon -- Shimon Lebowitzmailto:shim...@iname.com VM

Q MDISK question

2009-01-11 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
I just bumped into a situation with the Q MDISK command that I didn't understand, and am wondering what I might have done wrong. q cplevel Z/VM VERSION 5 RELEASE 3.0, SERVICE LEVEL 0703 (64-BIT) GENERATED AT 01/05/09 12:22:23 UTC IPL AT 01/05/09 18:53:09 UTC READY; q v 888 DASD 0888 3390 530W03

Re: Q MDISK question

2009-01-11 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
. Hans From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Shimon Lebowitz Sent: January 11, 2009 3:27 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Q MDISK question I just bumped into a situation with the Q MDISK command that I

Re: TERSE/DETERSE

2008-12-18 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
I do not understand. I have a terse module (and helpfile) here: TERSEMODULE H1 V 65535 3 18 7/01/93 21:52:13 TERSEHELPCMS H1 V 79150 2 7/01/93 21:09:23 A bit old... but they work as far as I know. Obviously carried along from old

Removing my old CP mod to HCPBIS

2008-12-18 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
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Re: RSCS Address in use error

2008-12-18 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
theory would limit you to a maximum of 11 concurrent print sessions to any one remote host, but real world practice limits you to 11 print sessions total. -- Shimon Lebowitz mailto:shim...@iname.com VM System

Re: Removing my old CP mod to HCPBIS

2008-12-18 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
, without my mod. Any suggestions? Thanks, Shimon VMFREM PPF zvm CP MOD modid JR (Steven) Imler CA Senior Sustaining Engineer Tel: +1 703 708 3479 steven.im...@ca.com -- Shimon Lebowitzmailto:shim

RSCS Address in use error

2008-12-15 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
and prevent this? Also, is there any way to control the retry time on this phenomenon? Thanks, Shimon -- Shimon Lebowitzmailto:shim...@iname.com VM System Programmer . Israel Police National HQ

Re: A modest request

2008-12-15 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
This request is easy enough to explain: When you want to start a thread/conversation/discussion, don't try to save time by taking an old email and clicking on reply. Doing so copies all the hidden headers of the old email into your new one, and causes some software to assume you are really

Re: new VSMDCSS in z/VM 5.4

2008-11-25 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
And Navajo makes an incredibly hard to break code! Original message good or natural. Is there any spoken language that uses this type of syntax? (Where is that mother camel?) And this is perhaps the simplest case. Germanic languages. Also Navajo.

Re: SFS syntax (was: new VSMDCSS in z/VM 5.4)

2008-11-25 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
I agree, but since we are stuck with what we have, how about Alan's suggestion, a front end: SFSMODFY EXEC: /* REXX exec to front end MODIFY */ /* Syntax: SFSMODFY filespace blocks */ ARG fspace blocks . '(' options ADDRESS COMMAND 'MODIFY USER' blocks 'FOR' fspace '(' options EXIT RC Would

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