Re: Corrupted IPL Record

2006-10-31 Thread Stephen P. Frazier
Your symptoms sound very much like a FORMAT was done on cylinder 0 of the disk. If you do a FORMAT without the IPL data it will write in record 2 an IPL program to put the processor in a hard wait. It will also write the dummy VTOC and an allocation map showing the entire pack is PERM space.

Re: Question re: Hercules

2006-10-06 Thread Stephen P. Frazier
These and most of the other early software from IBM was released in both source and compiled form under a public domain license. This was before any of the open source licenses existed. When the courts told IBM they could not give away software, IBM came up with program products and started

Re: Question re: Hercules

2006-10-06 Thread Stephen P. Frazier
for consulting. Will they become rich again on that model? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday, 10/06/2006 at 12:19 EST, Stephen P. Frazier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IBM's use of Linux is going back to where they started. Sorry, Stephen, but could you elaborate more on this? I'm not sure what you're

Re: Z/VM 4.4 system question

2006-10-02 Thread Stephen P. Frazier
You can define as many LPARs as your machine type allows. Each LPAR will have (one or more) standard CPUs or (one or more) IFL CPUs assigned to it but not both. A CPU can be assigned to more than one LPAR. If you wish to use both standard and IFL CPUs you must have at least 2 LPARs defined.