Re: z/VM 5.3 vs. RSU

2008-04-17 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
That looks good to me. I did an XEDIT on an RLIST file with V 1 4 H 1 4 and have: PLC02D7D3C3 FILELIST shows: Filename Filetype Fm Format Lrecl VLST0051 SERVLINK A1 V 4005 VPTF0051 SERVLINK A1 V 4005 Maybe IBM created an incorrect file. Try reordering. I admit I never

OPTION CONCEAL and z/Linux Guests

2008-04-14 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
Has anyone experimented with OPTION CONCEAL for z/Linux guests to prevent them from going into CP Read? This message w/attachments (message) may be privileged, confidential or proprietary, and if you are not an intended recipient, please

Re: OPTION CONCEAL and z/Linux Guests

2008-04-14 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: OPTION CONCEAL and z/Linux Guests On: Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 09:40:57AM -0400,Stracka, James (GTI) Wrote: } Has anyone experimented with OPTION CONCEAL for z/Linux guests to } prevent them from going into CP Read? Whats the matter with SET RUN ON? -- Rich

Re: OPTION CONCEAL and z/Linux Guests

2008-04-14 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
Preventing the user from doing a LOGONBY would work too. Yes, SET RUN ON is in place but it does not prevent going into CP READ. Yes, it was a PEBKAC issue. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: Monday, April

Re: OPTION CONCEAL and z/Linux Guests

2008-04-14 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
Great answer! Thank you Kris. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kris Buelens Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 12:57 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: OPTION CONCEAL and z/Linux Guests OPTION CONCEAL does *not* cause any

Re: OPTION CONCEAL and z/Linux Guests

2008-04-14 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
You can lead a user to a terminal but you cannot make them think. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 2:11 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: OPTION CONCEAL and z/Linux Guests

Re: Question about DirMaint on z/VM 5.3

2008-04-10 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
It may have changed but I thought you needed PVM, not RSCS. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Feller, Paul Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 2:33 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Question about DirMaint on z/VM 5.3 We

Re: Getting to a VM/Linux Guest

2008-04-09 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
We use PUTTY. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Rifkind Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 12:03 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Getting to a VM/Linux Guest

Re: Mdisk 3390 Model 9 dasd

2008-03-18 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
According to help HCPLNM1151E your LNX000 DASD volume is not a 3390-9. I would guess that it is a 3390-3. You may want to ATTACH the device ucb for LNX000 to yourself then do DEVTYPE ucb. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vikesh

Re: PIPE Help (please)

2008-03-13 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
If you make those: '| $pipef$ $temp$ a3 'then you may eliminate the ERASE. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Said, Nick Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 2:55 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: PIPE Help (please)

Re: Re-Use DASD

2008-03-13 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
We would CPFMTXA the entire volume to prevent future users from accidentally getting obsolete or sensitive data. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Mitchell Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 3:15 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU

Re: Recycling Bus and Tag cables

2008-03-10 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
We took ours to a metal recycler. They were mildly happy to take all but the ends. We had to remove the ends. There is a lot of plastic in those cables which the recycler has to strip. You only get paid for the metal. By the way, you may need proof that you are the owner of the cables as

Re: listing active user directory

2008-03-10 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
Then again, we use VM:Backup and copy our data to tape. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kris Buelens Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 10:33 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: listing active user directory We've got MAINT

Re: {SPAM?} Service level after RSU

2008-03-03 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
It looks like two problems. 1. The current CPLOAD MODULE was not put on the PARM disk. 2. The CMS NSS was not saved from the 490 disk. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shimon Lebowitz Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 6:36 AM

Re: FTP x86 to SFS

2008-02-29 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
Could it be that SFS considers this one unit of work and is not closing the files until the complete FTP ends? -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 12:07 PM

Re: VSWITCH/OSA Problem

2008-02-28 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
We took an MIH hit on an OSA. IBM is developing APAR # VM64398. You might consider doing an AST on it as it also was responsible for a LOGOFF/FORCE pending condition. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent:

Re: VSWITCH/OSA Problem

2008-02-28 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
, but with different symptoms. Thanks, Richard Schuh -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stracka, James (GTI) Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 11:49 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: VSWITCH/OSA Problem We took

Re: New Forum Available for Discussing IBM's Operations Manager for z/VM

2008-02-27 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
The powers that be blocked that site. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lionel B. Dyck Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 9:55 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: New Forum Available for

Re: FTP options with VMFTP

2008-02-26 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
You mean something like this: address VMFTP arg filetype address COMMAND PIPE CP QUERY USERID | SPECS WORD3 | VAR NODEID OPEN 146.125.151.1 userid password MODE B TYPE E CD xx:yy.||nodeid PUT fn1.ft1 fn1.||filetype PUT fn2.ft1 fn2||filetype put_rc = rc

Re: Dasd

2008-02-25 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
Yes. Used sparingly. Most of the large z/Linux DASD is stripped. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mary Anne Matyaz Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 10:56 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU

Re: Forwarding guest console to a syslog server

2008-02-25 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
I do not understand the question. Are you asking for an SVM on a VM system that collects all the consoles for that system? -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick Spinler Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 1:00 PM To:

Re: Forwarding guest console to a syslog server

2008-02-25 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
/( )\ -^^-^^ In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, theory and practice are different. On 2/25/08 12:23 PM, Stracka, James (GTI) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not understand the question. Are you asking for an SVM on a VM system that collects all the consoles for that system

Re: X Disk in SFS

2008-02-22 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
We use the P-SFS instead of X-DISK. The name is up to you. Ours is called: VMSYS:$CMSLIVE.SYSTEM. The access is done in an exit of SYSPROF calling SYSXPROF EXEC. We but it under DIRControl so we can put it in an address space. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System

Re: X Disk in SFS

2008-02-22 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
We do a loop of QUERY RESOURCE for the all the filepool names. Similar idea. i.e.CP QUERY RESOURCE MLLOGS -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 1:17 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU

Re: z/VM REXX Functions for system information

2008-02-21 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
Jim, Ouch, you know Kris will say it should be: 'PIPE COMMAND IDENTIFY | specs w3 1 | var name' Jim :-) -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Elliott Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 2:22 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU

Re: Impromptu XEDIT Survey

2008-02-20 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
Left for English, right for Hebrew. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Huegel, Thomas Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 10:06 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Impromptu XEDIT Survey

Re: Impromptu XEDIT Survey

2008-02-20 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
On the left. For continuation, use SI. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chip Davis Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 10:44 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Impromptu XEDIT Survey On the right, of course.:-)

Re: Impromptu XEDIT Survey

2008-02-20 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
Agreed! -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Nielsen Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 11:22 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Impromptu XEDIT Survey On the left, until you pry it from my cold, dead fingers. It's

Re: Impromptu XEDIT Survey

2008-02-20 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
Kris, You do not have a macro for: SET SYN @ SET PREFIX ON CENTER? -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kris Buelens Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 12:50 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Impromptu XEDIT Survey Sir

Re: CA VM:Operator

2008-02-15 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
SEND upper cases it. I use this SENDLNX EXEC: /* REXX */ address COMMAND parse arg linuxid cmd upper linuxid cpcmd = 'SEND' linuxid cmd say cpcmd cprc = substr(Diagrc(8,cpcmd),1,9) say cprc exit cprc -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System

Re: Backup CMS files

2008-02-13 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
VM:Backup from CA (formerly Sterling) -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brent Litster Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 12:43 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Backup CMS files Hello all. We are a new z/VM 5.2 shop. We

Re: How comments treated by DIRMAINT

2008-02-12 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
What happened to PA4 and PA5? I could not adjust my eyes to those red plasma terminals. We had some here until last November when they decided we had to say good-bye to them. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: How comments treated by DIRMAINT

2008-02-12 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
Because, That is the way we always did it! -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 11:45 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: How comments treated by DIRMAINT Source comments

Re: Driver 67

2008-02-11 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
Yes. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Nielsen Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 11:03 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Driver 67 This weekend our CE installed Driver 67 on our z9 and the operator console log shows

Re: How comments treated by DIRMAINT

2008-02-08 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
We do this: * * CMS 23 disks at 1st Level * MDISK 2390 3390 2184 107 VMRESB RR ALL CMS23A 190 MDISK B390 3390 0282 107 VMRESB RR ALL CMS23B 190 MDISK 2393 3390 1664 200 VMRESA RR ALL CMS23193 MDISK 239D 3390 1864 300 VMRESA RR ALL CMS2319D MDISK 239E 3390 1007

Re: FTP - how can I preserve date time?

2008-02-08 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
Well, does not SENDFILE need RSCS? If one of the VMs is on IFL then you need a Special Bid License for RSCS. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of O'Brien, Dennis L Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 3:45 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU

Re: FTP - how can I preserve date time?

2008-02-08 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
Sure, MODE B, TYPE E. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kris Buelens Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 3:14 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: FTP - how can I preserve date time? But, a VMFPLCD file is RECFM V, can that

Re: Anybody using a multi-sysres concept for maintenance?

2008-02-07 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
No. Since what usually changes is the CPLOAD MODULE, we just rename it to FALLBACK MODULE and place a new CPLOAD MODULE on the PARM disks. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tobias Doerkes Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 9:31

Re: PIPE Help (please)

2008-02-07 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
If you are going to ERASE it immediately after the XEDIT why not: PIPE command rac setr list', '| setr list A3' 'XEDIT SETR LIST A' -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kris Buelens Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008

Re: z/VM Installation from DVD

2008-02-06 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
Define a full pack minidisk for each of the devices then do a LINK RR to them. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hilliard, Chris Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 12:44 PM To:

Re: Virtual Ficon CTC

2008-02-04 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
We were doing: PIPE CP DEFINE FCTC 9C00 VMTEST when it could not be defined in the directory. Now we do: SPECIAL 0D85 FCTC VMVTAM -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colin Allinson Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 4:23 AM To:

Re: OT (humor): Not in Plan response to requirements

2008-01-30 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
You can watch Burn Notice when it comes back. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Nielsen Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 10:39 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: OT (humor): Not in Plan response to requirements On

Re: Undocumented Messages?

2008-01-25 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
You need the 19D HELP for CMS23. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 1:04 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Undocumented Messages?

Re: how to wait for dfsmsrm command

2008-01-23 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
Your ATTACH command looks interesting. How about: do forever CP SLEEP 10 SEC ATTACH vdev * 181 if rc = 0 the leave end Admittedly, I have no idea from where you defined the vdev variable from the DFSMSRM command. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM

Re: MITIME mystery

2008-01-23 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
The devices told z/VM what MITIME they want. This may or may not be what is best for them but what they told z/VM. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shimon Lebowitz Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 2:52 PM To:

Re: GLOBALV question

2008-01-18 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
I have no clue which would be faster. Perhaps Kris knows. It does seem that option #2 is easier to code as you only have one substitution variable instead of two for the GET. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: S213 Abend Backing Up 530RES Using z/OS FDR

2008-01-17 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
Dennis, This appears to be a problem with FDR. I have used it to backup various VM DASD for over 20 years. I suggest you contact Innovation. Jim This message w/attachments (message) may be privileged, confidential or proprietary, and

Re: Security Updates

2008-01-16 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
Interesting that SIS responds: Item VM64258 is not available to display. But one can display the PTF. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 10:47 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU

Re: Replacement for PKZIP on VM

2008-01-15 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 6:10 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Replacement for PKZIP on VM Stracka, James (GTI) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know of a commercial or freeware product to replace PKZIP/VM (support expires February 2009) besides Info-Zip? Is the goal data compression

Re: Replacement for PKZIP on VM

2008-01-15 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
Kris, We need to go the other way too. i.e. Uncompress a file on z/VM that was sent from windows or another platform in PKZIP format. Jim -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kris Buelens Sent:

Re: Applying Service (PTF)

2008-01-09 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
How about: VMFREC PPF ZVM CP (ENV VPTF4385 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kris Buelens Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 2:39 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Applying Service (PTF) The problem is surely not

Re: z/VM 5.2 Absurd System shutdown - PJBR

2008-01-04 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
Starting at cylinder 0 is Okay. Not normally done but has been acceptable for over 20 years. We used to do that with SPOOL volumes back in the day when DASD was expensive. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fritz, Wilhelm

Re: Alternate cylinders and new DASD

2008-01-04 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
Probably not. If so, only for some very old formatted VM DASD. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leland Lucius Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 11:07 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Alternate cylinders and new DASD We're

Re: FTP Append

2007-12-31 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
Have you considered using CONNECT:Direct? -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 1:11 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: FTP Append Alan, You mean your VM systems? I meant

Re: Ordering Service

2007-12-21 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
I fell into that trap too. You may want to specify INET instead of ELEC. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 2:39 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU

Re: FTP to VM/CMS virtual Reader

2007-12-20 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
We do it. I do not know where to find documentation. To do this you not only have to CD userid.RDR But also setup your FTP Server with a work disk. We use an SFS directory as the B-disk. This has to large enough to handle the largest file. Note: If the file is VERY large, the FTP server can

Re: FTP to VM/CMS virtual Reader

2007-12-20 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
It is old. As Edward mentioned, add RDR B into SRVRFTP CONFIG. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wakser, David Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 12:35 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: FTP to VM/CMS virtual Reader

Re: FTP to VM/CMS virtual Reader

2007-12-20 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
It should be on the TCPIP 198 disk. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wakser, David Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 12:38 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: FTP to VM/CMS virtual

Re: FTP to VM/CMS virtual Reader

2007-12-20 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
I think it would be better if you updated the PROFILE EXEC on FTPSERVE with 'ACCESS filepool:FTPSERVE. B' instead of on TCPIP but... -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wakser, David Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 12:53 PM To:

Re: DFSMSRM Errors in RMSMASTR

2007-12-12 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
Les, What APAR or APARs would that be? Jim -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Les Geer (607-429-3580) Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 5:10 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: DFSMSRM Errors in RMSMASTR BTW, if you order

Re: FTP

2007-12-05 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
I second VMFTP -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 1:58 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: FTP Check

Re: FTP Append (Update)

2007-11-30 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
Alan, Would putting CP TERM TIMESTAMP ON in the PROFILE EXEC or if CP 5.3.0 in the DIRECTORY hurt TCPIP or FTPSERVE in any way? -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 1:31 PM To:

Re: FTP Append (Update)

2007-11-30 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
From time to time we send a large MICS file to SFS and get that Foreign host aborted the connection message. When we look at the SFS there is a partial file. We use VMFTP and check for RC=250 and stop processing. The point though is that SFS retains the partial file. -Original Message-

Re: Formatter forz/Linux Minidisk from CMS

2007-11-30 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
Software Engineer Tel: +1 703 708 3479 Fax: +1 703 708 3267 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stracka, James (GTI) Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 09:39 AM

Re: Formatter for/Linux Minidisk from CMS

2007-11-30 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. Stracka, James (GTI) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Formatter forz/Linux Minidisk from CMS

2007-11-30 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
Does anyone have or know of a utility that will z/Linux format a minidisk from CMS? We have a requirement to format many minidisks for z/Linux usage. Many z/Linux routines flood the console if we just give the guests unformatted minidisks. We have been CMS formatting them before sending them

Re: Formatter forz/Linux Minidisk from CMS

2007-11-30 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
, but with a bit more work on your part. Have a good one. Stracka, James (GTI) wrote: Kludge yes, one pack; no. Because of striping we would need at least thirteen differently sized template minidisks. Unless we could format just one very large minidisk and image copy as little as needed. I

Re: Formatter for/Linux Minidisk from CMS

2007-11-30 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
. Stracka, James (GTI) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 11/30/2007 08:57 AM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Re: Formatter forz/Linux Minidisk from CMS

Re: Formatter for/Linux Minidisk from CMS

2007-11-30 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. Stracka, James (GTI) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 11/30/2007 08:57 AM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM

Re: Formatter forz/Linux Minidisk from CMS

2007-11-30 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
/2007 at 09:58 EST, Stracka, James (GTI) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kludge yes, one pack; no. Because of striping we would need at least thirteen differently sized template minidisks. Unless we could format just one very large minidisk and image copy as little as needed. I believe CMS

Re: CRR Machine

2007-11-28 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
Richard, I restarted our CRR machine last weekend to upgrade it to CMS23 from CMS22. It did not hurt the other SFS SVMs while down. I cannot say whether it will interface again with the other SFS SVMs when it is brought back up because when I brought it back up, I brought the others down to

Re: Removing paging volume

2007-11-27 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
That is the way it is supposed to work. I thought I did this on one of the test systems but cannot prove it (maybe it was a SPOOL volume). -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Little, Chris Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 10:17 AM

Re: SYSPROF Modification

2007-11-23 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
Since you did not specify address COMMAND in SYSEXIT EXEC, it executed an exec on an disk named EXEC with ALLUSERS as a parameter. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dusha, Cecelia CIV WHS/ITMD Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007

Re: CPU usage data

2007-11-15 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
Given that simple requirement. Create an SVM that does an INDICATE LOAD every minute. Trap the first line and write it to a file. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mary Zervos Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 9:09 AM To:

Re: Virtual Storage Capacity Exceeded - PJBR

2007-11-13 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
Just a guess, but will this COBOL program run above 16M? There were problems with old programs that had to be recompiled to run above 16M awhile back. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jose Raul Baron Sent: Tuesday, November

Re: DASD question

2007-10-26 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
What do you want? Do you expect your z/Linux guests to ACCESS it as a CMS disk? In essence, you already have what you want. Is it to be z/Linux formatted? -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anne D. Crabtree

Re: DASD question

2007-10-26 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
. _ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stracka, James (GTI) Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 9:47 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: DASD question What do you want? Do you expect your z

Is HiperSwap Supported under z/VM?

2007-10-18 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
If so, is it also supported under z/Linux? This message w/attachments (message) may be privileged, confidential or proprietary, and if you are not an intended recipient, please notify the sender, do not use or share it and delete it.

Re: 2nd Level IPL

2007-10-17 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
Wrong. It will survive. Position within CPOWNED is that clobbers this. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of RPN01 Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 9:20 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: 2nd Level IPL I'm fairly sure

Re: Sanity check?

2007-10-12 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
NO. Just take the day off. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 7:21 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Sanity check?

Re: Defining virtual CTCAs

2007-10-10 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
In the directory for your 2nd level guest you would have: SPECIAL 0D90 FCTC 1stlevelSVM For your other 1st level SVM: SPECIAL 0F11 FCTC 2ndlevelguestid The on both issue a COUPLE command because you may not know which is second: CP COUPLE 0D90 1stlevelSVM 0F11 And

Re: Defining virtual CTCAs

2007-10-10 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
Of Stracka, James (GTI) Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 9:48 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Defining virtual CTCAs In the directory for your 2nd level guest you would have: SPECIAL 0D90 FCTC 1stlevelSVM For your other 1st level SVM: SPECIAL 0F11 FCTC 2ndlevelguestid

Re: Initial User Directory

2007-10-09 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
Once a year -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Huegel, Thomas Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 2:50 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Initial User Directory

Re: D/R Code

2007-10-05 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
That is why we have our users run an exec that tests the CPUID and System Configuration file name. You need to distinguish among: Normal production, Test CNR and Production CNR. We want it to be completely automated once the system is IPLed. -Original Message- From: The

Re: D/R Code

2007-10-05 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
Great, but you would like that to be set automatically somehow, not manually after each IPL. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Huegel, Thomas Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 9:43 AM To:

Re: D/R Code

2007-10-05 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
Wow, the UPSI switch in DOS JCL! I have not used that since 1976. That brings back some memories. Thanks -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 9:50 AM

Re: D/R Code

2007-10-03 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
We use different System Configuration files for each situation then run a WHERERWE EXEC which checks the CPUID and FN from QUERY IPLPARMS, having made that a class G command. The return code from WHERERWE can then be checked. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM

Re: CA VMBACKUP

2007-10-02 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
RES, yes. SPOOL, no. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alyce Austin Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 4:36 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: CA VMBACKUP Hello, If anyone is using VMBACKUP to backup and restore volumes,

Re: tdisk ?

2007-09-26 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
Not as part of z/VM general distribution. Those were home made or part of VMSHARE. We have one I can send to you. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lionel B. Dyck Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Re: OSA question

2007-09-26 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
Sure, You can have 107, 108 and 103 as the controller or you could have done: OSA 0100 ATTACHED TO TCPIP0100 OSA 0101 ATTACHED TO TCPIP0101 OSA 0102 ATTACHED TO TCPIP0102 OSA 0103 ATTACHED TO BH3A 0101 OSA 0104 ATTACHED TO BH3A 0100 OSA 0103

Re: OSA question

2007-09-26 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
ATTACHED TO BH3A 0104 OSA 0104 ATTACHED TO BH3A 0105 OSA 0105 ATTACHED TO BH3A 0106 That way I would not have gaps in the OSA. _ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stracka, James (GTI) Sent

Re: smf and racf smf

2007-09-25 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
Yes. RACF/VM does its own thing. No. VM does not created SMF records. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lionel B. Dyck Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 11:51 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU

Re: ACCESS empty RR disk fails

2007-09-18 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
The disk can have files but if they are all MODE 0, you do not get to ACCESS it either. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Kreuter Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 3:50 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: ACCESS

Re: Q DASD shows a different disk size than Q DISK

2007-09-14 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
The 190 is different from most minidisks. The 7 cylinder difference is for the CMS IPL RECOMP area. Do HELP FORMAT -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian S. Worthington Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 11:26 AM To:

Re: zVM 5.3 TCPIP memory problem

2007-09-14 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
You may get messages like: DMSFRO159E Insufficient storage available Too many open connections already exist IBM stated that this was because of LE constraints of the C code requiring as much as 6M more. Their official recommendation is to increase the virtual storage by at

Re: LISTFILE Order

2007-08-28 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
You need to reaccess the disk. The FAT (FST) will be changed then. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 2:47 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU

Re: Ops privs

2007-08-27 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
I also agree with Richard. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of O'Brien, Dennis L Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 6:22 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Ops privs

Re: Ops privs

2007-08-27 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
Reminds me of a system modification we had back in the day, at another company, that the SNA Staff could LOGON to VMVTAM but could not issue LOGOFF. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007

Re: Ops privs

2007-08-27 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
Better the evil you know then the one you do not know? -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 3:32 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Ops privs On Sunday, 08/26/2007 at 10:18 EDT,

Re: MAINTENANCE

2007-08-23 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
ALL of our 2nd level systems a strictly class G. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Boyes Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 4:13 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: MAINTENANCE USER VMTEST xx 64M 64MABG

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