I always did it the old-fashioned way:
1) allocate a new 200 cyl minidisk
2) format it in linux
3) use linux tools to copy data from old to new
4) mount new instead of old
5) remove old from linux configuration
/Tom Kern
On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:35:46 -0700, Tom Huegel tehue...@gmail.com wrote
:
, Jun 27, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Thomas Kern tlk_sysp...@yahoo.com wro
te:
I always did it the old-fashioned way:
1) allocate a new 200 cyl minidisk
2) format it in linux
3) use linux tools to copy data from old to new
4) mount new instead of old
5) remove old from linux configuration
/Tom Kern
c//CP QUERY DASD /5
the key is the // which puts your stuff at the beginning of each line. I wish there was a
similar notation for tack it onto the end of each line. I usually put CP commands in
quotes '', so the start of the line would be c//CP QUERY DASD /5 and then use append
and repeat 5
DIRENT is good to use if after using CPFMTXA, you find that there is a DR
CT
allocation on the volume. Then use DIRENT against that DRCT allocation an
d
create a source directory from that area and then use DISKMAP or DIRMAP
against that source directory to see what that directory would have allow
On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:46:11 +0200, Rob van der Heij rvdh...@gmail.com
wrote:
Other Frequently asked Questions that I rarely bother to answer:
Why have z/VM run Linux guests when MVS can't do it?
Because MVS can't do it.
Why does z/VM page at all? Our MVS LPAR has enough storage that we
don't
There is also the excellent RXSERVER package from the IBM Downloads website. It
includes a
full-fledged VMUTIL service machine and the framework to write other interrupt
(timer,
device, message, command) driven services.
/Tom Kern
On 9/22/2010 11:32 AM, Mike Walter wrote:
Perhaps this sample
With the advent of using HSPD-12 badges for 2-Factor Authentication, you
might want to add SmartCard reader support and the x509 public/private ke
y
validation.
/Tom Kern
On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:26:11 -0500, David Boyes dbo...@sinenomine.net w
rote:
I have up-to-date MIT Kerberos 5 libraries for
As part of the Hercules community, there are tape/awsfile conversion
programs. They are in the files area of the H390-VM group on Yahoo.
TAPECONV fn ft fm - will read tape on 0181 and write data to fn ft fm
AWS2TAPE fn ft fm - will read file fn ft fm and write it to tape on 0181
The CMS
My concern about the requirement to run an anti-virus type program on z/VM is
not that we
don't need one, but that we don't have one to run. We do run a z/VM-CMS based
webserver
and with it we deliver binary files to end-users. Yes, this can and will be
replaced by a
linux/x86 solution, but our
Message-
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On
Behalf Of Thomas Kern
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 5:32 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: [IBMVM] Automated Logoff of CMS user
If they come back and say LOGOFF, then argue with them on the real secur
ity
If they are whining about unattended terminals, I try to appease them with
disconnecting
the terminal session, not forcing/killing the user. It applies more directly to
their
whine and not a broad shotgun type blast.
/Tom Kern
David Boyes wrote:
With care, as an idle terminal does not imply
Our auditors would indeed insist that the inactive session is not suspended by
the
screensaver at the desktop because the session is really between the mainframe
and the
terminal emulator not all the way to the person at the keyboard. The
screensaver suspends
the session between the person and
If they come back and say LOGOFF, then argue with them on the real security of
the
terminate communications path and the requirement for reauthentication prior to
any user
interaction with programs in that virtual machine.
If you win, it may be a small victory but it will help you the next time
That is how I do my maintenance/migrations too. When I need to move from
5.3
to 5.4, I create alternate mdisks in the production systems (VMARES, VMLR
ES)
and copy the stuff from 540RES to the alternate mdisks. Then on cutover,
I
use dirmaint to switch the production and alternate mdisks. If I
There is a TCPNJE driver in RSCS but it is part of the LICENSED RSCS
functions not the free fuctions for z/VM hosting of linux servers. There
is
also (somewhere) a single connection TCPNJE server not using RSCS at all.
/Tom Kern
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:11:10 -0600, Mike Walter
Do you have real operators mounting the tapes or are they in stackers or
an
automated tape library, or do you have a tape management program like
VMTape? Four different situations requiring four different programming ef
forts.
If you have operators, you can send a msg to them to mount the next
You can force DDR to write/read files 2-n preserving a pseudo-standard la
bel.
Yeah, I know it isn't the true MVS standard label, but it can still have
the
volser in it. And I try to rewrite the label to include the name of the S
VM
that is using the tape (MAINT, SFSADMIN, DRS1-DRS00020,
Does RACFSMF respond to commands sent vis SMSG the way RSCS or SMTP do?
Does it have a CP or CMS command? Preferably both.
/Tom Kern
Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) wrote:
Hi
I want to ERASE the SMF DATA file from the ALTERNATE disk(302 in my
case). How can I do this without logging on to
I don't use it much, but this is what I use for my backpocket copy of sys
res
before I go off to Disaster Recovery exercises (next week).
/
Use the External 3490 tape drives with stackers
Anything that takes longer than a few seconds to run, I move off into a
separate service virtual machine. It may still be triggered by VMUTIL. Or
that SVm could be running its own copy of the VMUTIL control exec.
/Tom Kern
/U.S. Dept of Energy
/301-903-2211
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:42:02 -0700,
I don't have a document reference for you, but I can give you my basic
procedures.
Create a CLASS G user with the same number of dedicated DASD volumes as y
ou
used to install your first level system. If you have been able to relabel
your floor system to not use the 610RES, 610W01, etc volumes
I have two floor systenm (two LPARs), one sysres is VMARES, the other is
VMLRES. I also have Z53MAINT and Z54MAINT userids with corresponding 530R
ES
and 540RES volumes for my second level maintenance.
Once you can get your floor system away from using the IBM default volume
labels, you can do
The TXT2PDF function of XMITIP is from Leland Lucius and if available
here: http://homerow.net/rexx/txt2pdf/
It would wonderfully on linemode output with carriage control. You can
add overlays, compression and the Adobe level of encryption.
In honor of Rube Goldberg, we have an application
I have MSGD running, but with our reduced workload, it is not doing much
at
all. I have not seen problems with it.
But anyway, I have sent you a copy of RXWAIT VMARC separately.
Good Luck.
/Tom Kern
On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 12:55:38 -0600, Koerner, Arthur arthur.koer...@citi.c
om
wrote:
I cannot tell you what the $$$LNX is for but the $$ entries are dumm
y
entries for DIRMAINT's DATAMOVE function (copying disks from one volume t
o
another or one size to another). I add $$ to my EXCLUDE VOLSERS file
and
never see them in the map.
/Tom Kern
On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:40:24
If those syslog levels are data in the linux message, then you can
filter on them like filtering on any other character string. If the
syslog levels are not in the data, no, you cannot filter.
If necessary, you could set up a separate svm, each running PROP, each
being the recipient of a
I update the SYSTEM NETID file on the 0190, the 0490 and any other S-Disk
s
that I have to have available. You need to save the 'CMS' namesys segment
for each S-disk you modify. If you just have the 0190 0490, then ju
st
resave CMS.
/Tom Kern
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:09:06 -0600, Frank M.
Many years ago at the University of Waterloo, multiple VM systems were
connected together in a Single System Image and running virtual machines
were moved from one physical system to another based on need. This is
nothing new. This is just finally coming out from IBM.
Thank you Romney.
/Tom Kern
I have two systems with PROP in OPERATOR sending messages to OP1. The
real operators log onto OP1 for interaction with the systems. One system
uses Full-Screen CMS with OTTOSCR and the second system uses the PERFKIT
program to manage the console traffic.
The PERFKIT setup does a better job.
/Tom
If you have access to the drives from your z/VM LPAR, there is a package
from Sine Nomine called E2CMD (?) that lets you manipulate EXT2 filesyste
ms.
The current exec (E2SH) needs the disk to be in read/write mode, but I th
ink
that could be fixed so that you could use the disk in read-only mode.
In this discussion there should be a differentiation between reusing a DA
SD
allocation while still under your physical control (giving the mdisk to
another user), and relinquishing physical control (return to vendor durin
g
an upgrade or selling it to 3rd-party or turning it over to the federal
Thank you.
Now can IBM present this type of materials to the organizations that
train, manage and certify system auditors? Does IBM have any audit
training classes, not just for z/VM but for any/all computer systems?
/Tom Kern
Alan Altmark wrote:
On Friday, 09/25/2009 at 01:19 EDT, Thomas Kern
I can understand IBM desire to not ruin their own business line. It would
be
nice if my clients hired IBM as their outside auditors, but...
I did do a quick search on www.ibm.com for education and audit and found
this class:
At least they are beginning to ask better questions.
Now we have to get them a Volume 2, 'The Right Questions To Ask When
Auditing a VM System'
Alan, would IBM be interested in promoting a better list of auditing
questions/checklists?
/Tom Kern
Rich Greenberg wrote:
On: Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at
Try putting your RACF command in a PIPELINE.
PIPE some input | CMS RACF whatever | other stages | RACF OUTPUT A
/Tom Kern
Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) wrote:
Hi
I want to capture the output from a RACF command (SETR LIST) and put it
into a file. I am logged on to MAINT issuing
The difference between CMS and Linux in this case is just a matter of tim
e
before problems occur. Linux wants to use all of its storage early, CMS u
ses
all of its storage over time. Both will use all of their storage eventual
ly.
CP is built to overcommit storage. It just lets you REALLY
I know these lists do not deal with x86 level virtualization, but I
think the audience knows enough about virtualization to be involved in
their organization's efforts in using other virtualization technologies.
We have begun an implementation of Oracle's virtualization technology,
Oracle
The CPFMTXA command can relabel the volume. This is required after you co
py
the orginal volume.
CPFMTXA vdev volid Label
Then you have the problem that the object (and maybe the source) director
y
on 54GBRS has all of the volsers pointing at 54GRES. Now, this may not be
a
problem if your
It is actually called VMAgui and it is available here:
http://homerow.net/zvm/vma/
/Tom Kern
/301-903-2211
On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 09:45:13 -0400, Jim Bohnsack jab...@cornell.edu wrot
e:
What is WMAWin or VMAWin? Where can it be found?
Jim
Kris Buelens wrote:
--0003263eb6e7ea0472a71212
When we were tight on DASD, I used have to keep my one-pack rescue system
and my second level maintenance system stored on tape. It slowed down the
maintenance cycles quite a bit. But now that we have some spare DASD, my
maintenance system is online all the time, sometimes I even have two onli
NOLOG is the special password that indicates this userid can NEVER be log
ged on.
AUTOONLY is the one to use for server virtual machines to be xautologged
and
never allowed on a terminal.
LBYONLY is the one to use for shared virtual machines where you want the
user to be validated by their own
When I have to do column oriented editing, I use an xedit macro call
COLEDIT. I do not remember where I got it but the file lists the author
as being: Linda Littleton l...@psuvm 08/30/88
It works great for rearranging cols of data and interspersing new literals.
COLEDIT -- Provides horizontal
RES = number of pages CP has resident for this guest
WS = number of pages the guest wants to use (working set)
MB = pages / 256 and then I round up for guesstimates
/Tom Kern
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:39:31 -0600, sunny...@wcb.ab.ca wrote:
I issued ind user XXX
USERID=TECMWS01 MACH=ESA STOR=1G
I use gateway to differentiate between home and DRsite because I need
the nodename to be the same. I use CP QUERY GATEWAY to get the value. It
is a CP variable.
/Tom Kern
Gentry, Stephen wrote:
Does anyone use the Gateway option on the System_Identifier parameter
in the SYSTEM CONFIG file?
Ah... Fresh Meat... :)
I won't be attending Share but would chair session if I could be there. N
ew
people are ALWAYS welcome. Don't let anything scare you away from chairin
g a
session. If you are unsure about anything, ask, someone will help, usuall
y
more than one someones will help.
And the
I use the MAILIT package from the IBM Downloads website.
/Tom Kern
- Original Message
From: Frank M. Ramaekers framaek...@ailife.com
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 2:34:09 PM
Subject: [IBMVM] EMail with a binary attachment
I know you can use NOTE to send
I have not yet implemented CSE to protect our linuxes from being started
on two different LPARs. I would be interested in getting a copy of your
Janus code.
Thanks for your assistance.
/Tom Kern
RPN01 wrote:
The best solution for your problem is to couple the two systems with
CSE, so that
If you only use the ACNT ALL CLOSE command once per day, you get one
record for any SVM that has been running all day. You cannot tell from
it if there are any peaks/valleys in its workload. I usually issue the
command at the end of each shift to match the z/OS definitions. I would
prefer to do it
I don't have a problem with CMS initialization exits being on the 190 dis
k.
I tend to touch SYSPROF EXEC once per release of VM, so once I have them
set
up and properly saved on all copies of the 190 disk, IBM maintenance shou
ld
not affect them.
/Tom Kern
/301-903-2211
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009
Many years ago, IBM had a package, I think it was called REXX/CUA. I am
not in the office today or I could give you the product number. We wrote
several menued execs using it. I don't remember the price, if there was
a price. It was ALL in REXX and XEDIT.
There is also the IOS3270 module in the
As I need a regular IBM Manual, I read it from the CD/DVD the first time
and while I have it open, I use the File/SaveAs function to put a copy
in my own manuals folder with a name I can recognize. Then when I am
finished with it, I email a copy of that newnamed pdf to my home address
to populate
I put the initial installation on the maintenance volumes (5xxW01,
5xxW02, etc) and then copy the necessary minidisks to my production
volumes (VMxRES, VMxnnn, etc). On my system, the 5xxRES, 5xxWnn volumes
belong to my maintenance system that I run second level. If I inherited
an existing system
I like running such data through a TIMESTAMP stage and pretty it up with
SPECS.
PIPE STUDENT NAMES A | SPECS /INDICATE USER/ 1 w1 nw | CP | TIMESTAMP 1
6 |
SPECS 1.8 1 9.2 nw ':' n 11.2 n ':' n 13.2 n 17-* nw | SNOOPING DATA A
'
/Tom Kern
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:50:40 +0200, Colin Allinson
It would be nice if a z10 (or future machines) had several USB ports
available to multiple LPARs and could be extended several hundred feet (l
ike
at a DR Vendor) so that users of different LPARs could manage the
attachment/detachment of their own USB storage devices.
/Tom Kern
On Fri, 19 Jun
I understand your concern about the 'loose-ability' of such a small
footprint storage device. I would not recommend to my client the use of a
ny
USB storage device for DR without encryption of some amount of the data.
My
own idea for using it would be to carry the backups of our CORE systems t
I tested dumping a small (5 3390-m9) system using CMSDDR to CMS files,
downloading them to a PC, burn to DVD. I took it to a DR exercise,
uploaded the files, CMSDDR VMARC and VMARC MODULE to the vendor's floor
system and restored my system, one volume at a time. Actual recovery
time from sitting
For email not FTP, use the MAILIT package from the IBM Downloads page. It
can do binary files like PDFs too.
/Tom Kern
On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:25:08 +0200, jose raul baron jba...@calculo-sa.es
wrote:
Hi list, I would like to ask if there's a way to e-mail a CMS file as an
attachment and not
On Wed, 20 May 2009 14:17:05 -0400, David Boyes dbo...@sinenomine.net w
rote:
... snipped ...
Please, someone,
explain the rationale behind this. What are new shops supposed
to use instead and are existing shops expected to migrate to
that at some point?
There is no replacement, other than
VMARC UNPACK rxserver vmarc I * * I
/Tom Kern
Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] wrote:
I'm attempting to unload the RXSERVER VMARC. I created a small minidisk to
hold it. Uploaded it in binary and issued:
PIPE rxserver VMARC i | fblock 80 00 | rxserver VMARC i F 80
and
vmarc unpk rxserver
Maybe we could make a plea to the LSoft support people to add something t
hat
will ignore ALL records in a posting after some well-know trigger. Then w
e
could have our posting, a minimal closing (name, phone#, etc), the trigge
r,
fancy signature block, and corporate disclaimer. And only the
I have an exec with a pipeline that is listening on STARMSG *VMEVENT. Whe
n
it receives a LOGON record, it gets processed and additional information
is
added to the record. I would like the record to be written to a disk file
and that disk file be available for others to read via READ-ONLY links
That works on its own. I did have another timing program (SCHEDULE) runni
ng
in that SVM to schedule a PIPMOD STOP just before midnight and a CP IPL a
t
midnight to restart the process with a new daily log file. I will move th
at
scheduling to VMUTIL.
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:18:47 -0400, Bruce
Yes, SHUTTRAP works fine issuing a PIPMOD STOP but not an HVMEVENT which
I
tried first. I have SHUTTRAP in place so that I can stop it at anytime
during the day and still have a safe data file.
/Tom Kern
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:29:59 -0400, Bruce Hayden bjhay...@gmail.com wro
te:
This pipe
The corrupt file error may be something to do with the plug-in for your
browser. Try saving the file and then opening it in the full Adobe Acroba
t
Reader. We have this problem with PDFs that I generate in CMS and with
commercially generated PDFs. ALL are fine when saved and opened in the fu
ll
TAPEMAP still works for showing you the structure/content of a tape, even
3590s. It does not provide correct numbers for the number of FEET in a
dataset etc and has not since the advent of 3480 cartridges.
If people want a VMARC of the TAPEMAP module and helpcms, please contact
me
offline.
And if you want to keep the logs for more than one day:
'PIPE LITERAL *** CPU report | CPULOG' Date('S') 'A'
'PIPE LITERAL *** 100% report | MAXLOG' Date('S') 'A'
/Tom Kern
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 13:06:27 -0600, Scott Rohling scott.rohl...@gmail.com
wrote:
Good point! So change the 'ERASE'
You can get around the RC28 problem by initializing the LOG files at the
start of the day with a nice title and CLOSE them. Then if you haven't hi
t
the 100% mark, you just get to see the title line.
/Tom Kern
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 12:36:46 -0600, Scott Rohling scott.rohl...@gmail.com
wrote:
Now do you want to add SPOOL Utilization reporting, Top User or Email Ale
rting?
/Tom Kern
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 13:58:51 -0600, Scott Rohling scott.rohl...@gmail.com
wrote:
Another great point! So we've jointly developed a simple CPU monitor
w/history .. fun!
Scott
PGP Encrypt
FTP - Sendfile - MAILIT etc
PGP Decrypt
/Tom Kern
Davis, Larry wrote:
are there currently any CMS options for performing Secure FTP transfers?
Larry Davis
The Nielsen Company
I set all but 2 of our linux SVMs so that they can be billed as black-box
appliances. The other two contain our smallest customers and our POC area
s
so we don't really charge very well there. In particular, we have a singl
e
Apache instance providing virtual hosts for multiple customer websites.
You can use the TRACK program to look at the last buffer of an SVM's spoo
led
console log. If the console log has been closed, you can use the URLIST
program to look at the list. If you have VMSPOOL installed, URLIST can
invoke that to browse a log file. I have a change to URLIST to transfer t
he
A variation of this is to have your SVMs secusered/observered to a collec
tor
SVM that takes all incoming *MSG/*MSGALL traffic and stores in in daily
files. The PIPESERV package from the IBM Downloads website is good for th
is.
Free, easy to install, self monitoring for number of saved
The separation of code and data is always good. Separation of IBM and
third-party is also good. Separation of test and production is even
better. The only thing I don't like is leaving stuff that will move from
one release to another on a volume labeled for a specific release. I
like having a
Was it a homegrown cron task or a monitoring system like Hobbit/Xymon or
Nagios?
We have both Hobbit and Nagios but have not yet put in the FTP BANNER.
/Tom Kern
Michael Coffin wrote:
That was exactly what it was! My Linux sysprog had a cron job kicking
off every 5 minutes to make sure the
The x3270 package from State of Alaska is here
http://www.state.ak.us/tssfiles/
I use the x3270 version because of the iso fonts, I cannot get the others
to
work. The c3270 version is a smaller footprint but my smallest USB-drive
is
now 128M and the x3270 version fits just fine.
The changes
Here are the magical incantations that are used to restore my
VM volumes under z/OS at our DR site.
//*
//RESTORES EXEC PGM=ADRDSSU,REGION=6M
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
As part of our DR process, we relabel (as minimally label as z/OS
allows) all of the target volumes for the restores.
/Tom Kern
James Stracka (DHL US) 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
standard
It can be even better. DIRMAINT, IBM's directory management product had a
feature that understood TAGs in comments in a directory entry. So you cou
ld
have real parsable data in these comments.
USER 5699XXX NOLOG
* PRODUCT: 5699-XXX
* LEVEL: 5.3.42
* DESCRIPTION: This is some sort of product.
If IBM as a software development team put all of that configuration
information into some snazzy database (SQL/DS comes to mind), you could
easily and automatically generate a manual or appendix that gives all of
the current information for the customer as part of the the release
documentation.
I am not sure if DIRECTXA really checks the volser of the device listed
in its control statement, but since the volser is there, I change the
volser of that volume between editing the new directory and using
DIRECTXA to write the object directory to it.
I think you've got all the steps in a good
I haven't used IBM's volsers for my production volumes since VM/370 Rel 6
.
When we went with BSEP, I insisted that we separate maintenance from
production. My boss let me install BSEP in a second-level virtual machine
with our production volsers being OUR volsers and I have NEVER gone back.
Unless you are doing something fancy (passwords?) on the PC side, the fre
e
ARCUTIL might still be useful in UNZIPing a file on VM. Here is a link to
the packages available for download from the Slippery Rock University.
http://zvm.sru.edu/~DOWNLOAD/
/Tom Kern
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:38:10
Copied from the VMWare Communities website. This may be an x86-only
virtualization event but I would like to see IBM (and maybe others) prese
nt
zSeries virtualization successes too.
/Tom Kern
=
=
==
Call for Papers
3rd
I believe that RMF can read the LPAR statistics from the hardware and rep
ort
that to the SMF recording datasets. I don't think that it is any more
detailed than raw CPU utilization (%SYS, %USER, %WAIT, %IDLE).
/Tom Kern
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:58:16 -0500, Crabtree, Anne D
I would like to define some REXX variables and then use the storage
addresses for another program to use. How can I find out where in my virt
ual
storage REXX has allocated a particular variable?
/Tom Kern
where I can
manipulate that control block in assembler language before invoking the
hardware instruction.
/Tom Kern
Kris Buelens wrote:
Why does this other progam use a CSL call to retrieve the REXX
variable: CSL is a supported interface.
2008/12/22 Thomas Kern tlk_sysp...@yahoo.com:
I would
If you can buy a product: VM:Spool, part of CA's suite of VM products
works great to let authorized users read any reasonable spool file on
the system.
If you cannot buy a product: You can use TRACK to look at the last
buffer of an OPEN spool file. And you can use URLIST (I am not sure
exactly
Excellent. Thank you for clearing the way for these compression
alternatives.
/Tom Kern
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:32:07 -0500, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com
wrote:
Follow-up.
On Wednesday, 12/17/2008 at 06:39 EST, Mike Walter
mike.wal...@hewitt.com wrote:
Would IBM VM L2 at least
Both options fail without an error message.
/Tom Kern
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:22:10 +0100, Kris Buelens kris.buel...@gmail.com
wrote:
So, why not try it then and see what it yields.
2008/12/17 Jim Bohnsack jab...@cornell.edu
Is it possible that we already have TERSE? I thought I recalled
There are no publicly/commercially available implementations of SSH (inbo
und
or outbound) for VM/CMS.
I have been asking for a long time and the most polite answer I get is to
use a linux virtual machine as a communications intermediary. I have also
gotten answers like VM doesn't need SSH
We don't really need an offical TERSE program from IBM.
We can use the less than offical, unsupported HSX package from the IBM
Downloads website. The HSXCOPY program that is included in it has a TERSo
ut
option that uses the same TERSE algorithms (somebody leaked them) and the
same basic
How does the DMSCPR CSL routine compare in performance (CPU and filesize)
to
the other compression options available to CMS users (COPYFILE (PACK, VMA
RC,
FCOPY (SPACK, HSXCOPY (TERSout) ?
/Tom Kern
/(Learned VM on 3330-1 volumes, never did learn to waste DASD)
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:36:07
IBM release at least one version of TERSE. When we used Publication Maste
r,
we found DZATERSE MODULE and HELPCMS. It worked rather nicely to compress
some large files for online archive. The normal DETERSE program worked fi
ne
to uncompress these files later.
/Tom Kern
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008
Grab the INTERVAL in one segment of the pipe and whatever doesn't match g
o
to a second segment to grab the machine names.
(not tested so there may be some typos)
rundate = date(weekday)
say rundate
VM Paging volumes should be WHOLE thingies, whatever it is on, us the who
le
thing.
I would go for multiple MOD3 volumes with some spares to add later if/whe
n
you need them. Use MOD9s for real data volumes.
/Tom Kern
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:09:56 -0500, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
[EMAIL
There is a replacement program from the old Waterloo Mods tapes that I
have installed as XCOMPARE. It can detail the differences between two
text files and if the files are standard source code, it can create
either CMS UPDATE or IEBUPDTE control cards.
/Tom Kern
Philip Hitti wrote:
How to
In researching an answer to another posting, I stumbled upon what I had o
nce
used to automate EREP. It is the SMTRAP MODULE that would be loaded in th
e
EREP PROFILE EXEC. It would establish the SMSG/IUVC waiting configuration
and would stop the EREP collection program when my VMUTIL server
I can think of two mechanisms off-hand.
1) after X xautologs user B with command EXEC Y, it loops checking for
user B being logged on. Once user B is no longer logged on, exec X can
continue.
2) after X xautologs user B..., it waits for an SMSG from user B using
the WAKEUP program. The EXEC Y
The WEBSHARE server itself does not need to support SSL if you have the
SSLSERV for the TCPIP stack. I use SSLSERV to provide SSL support for ESA
WEB
so that I do not have to maintain two different SSL certificates.
It has been a while since I used WEBSHARE but it did have some
I will have to dig around my archives to see if I have anything left from
when we ran Webshare.
/Tom Kern
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 12:40:24 -0500, Gentry, Stephen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tom, thanks for the reply. If you have a working example as to what the
html tag is supposed to look like
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