Re: IFL's, VM, Suse, OH MY...

2007-11-21 Thread Tom Duerbusch
with a 2 IFL system. If you have new boxes, you can talk with your business partner about software discounts. BTW, trial of HATS is free. Don't start paying for licenses until you need to. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Law of Cat Stretching A cat will stretch to a distance proportional

Re: IFL's, VM, Suse, OH MY...

2007-11-21 Thread Tom Duerbusch
so you don't get charged for every engine can come into play. I've heard it works, but I have no direct experience. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Law of Cat Stretching A cat will stretch to a distance proportional to the length of the nap just taken. McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/21

Re: IFL's, VM, Suse, OH MY...

2007-11-21 Thread Tom Duerbusch
sent about subcapacity licensing for zLinux, that looks like the way to go and it will solve your concerns about multiple VM systems. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Law of Cat Stretching A cat will stretch to a distance proportional to the length of the nap just taken. Brian France [EMAIL

Re: IFL's, VM, Suse, OH MY...

2007-11-21 Thread Tom Duerbusch
as a current book goes Running Guest Operating Systems (part of the VM book collection), should get you started. It covers running a small VM under VM. The small VM contains only that disk space, that you really need. And that could run on another LPAR. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Law

Re: Poster of computer hardware events?

2007-11-09 Thread Tom Duerbusch
. And then there is the cache on the RAID adapter to consider. Since a RPS miss was that the channel path was busy with some other transfer when the block to be transferred came under the heads, true synchronous I/O, do we every do, true synchronous I/O any more? Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Law

Re: Changing privclass of SHUTDOWN

2007-11-07 Thread Tom Duerbusch
have any idea what problems that cause in a production CICS system. Developers! Ok, too many Coke Classics G. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Law of Cat Thermodynamics Heat flows from a warmer to a cooler body, except in the case of a cat, in which case all heat flows to the cat. George

Re: VM Newbie Question

2007-10-19 Thread Tom Duerbusch
will be scaling up slowly. Perhaps a dozen users will be moved to the mainframe on the first go around. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Romanowski, John (OFT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/19/2007 12:46 PM On the other hand, if his site plans to eventually run multiple oracle guests with little/zero down time to add

Re: VM Newbie Question

2007-10-19 Thread Tom Duerbusch
the rules of thumb that you have seen for Oracle, really need to be rethought in the shared environment of the mainframe. If you treat the mainframe like a PC, it will be a very expensive project. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting FELINE PHYSICS: Law of Cat Motion A cat will move in a straight

Re: MIPS for SSLSERV

2007-10-17 Thread Tom Duerbusch
/890 IFL. So, my first guess is 4 times the current cost of your TCPIP stack. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting FELINE PHYSICS: Law of Cat Motion A cat will move in a straight line, unless there is a really good reason to change direction. Alan Ackerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/16/2007 6:01 PM

Hardware microcode

2007-10-09 Thread Tom Duerbusch
? Is it transferable? All the internal dasd was formatted over. Should the OS/2 dasd been formatted over also? We don't want to be in violation of some agreement that no one actually reads G. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting FELINE PHYSICS: Law of Cat Motion A cat will move in a straight line

Re: hacking vm/cms (probably old news)

2007-10-08 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Not much of a hacker. There were a lot better ways of hacking a VM system back in the '70s and '80s. Some tricks still work. But some of the tricks depend on a Systems Programmer trying to get some work done...easily. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting FELINE PHYSICS: Law of Cat Motion

Re: CA VMBACKUP

2007-10-02 Thread Tom Duerbusch
volume restore of all the CP volumes. I don't worry about the contents of the spool and page areas. But doing a full volume restore, keeps me from having to train who ever is doing the disaster recover in the matters for format and allocate spool/page volumes. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting

Re: VM Magic alternative

2007-09-19 Thread Tom Duerbusch
subsystem can be formatted to emulate FBA. Second, see what FBA device types your dasd subsystem can emulate. If it can emulate the same min-CA/max-CA as a 9345, very easy conversion. In either way, a FBA to CKD(3390) conversion would be near the bottom on my list. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting

Re: Extending the 5.3 install page and spool

2007-09-19 Thread Tom Duerbusch
. I would offload my spool before doing such a thing. But I have good access to tape. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting FELINE PHYSICS: Law of Cat Motion A cat will move in a straight line, unless there is a really good reason to change direction. RPN01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/19/2007 1:29 PM I

Re: Extending the 5.3 install page and spool

2007-09-19 Thread Tom Duerbusch
you can't easily test this, then the SPXTAPE is the only way to be sure you don't loose your spool. BTW, I take it that you don't normally backup spool or this wouldn't be a problem at your installation. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting FELINE PHYSICS: Law of Cat Motion A cat will move

Re: zVM 5.3 TCPIP memory problem

2007-09-17 Thread Tom Duerbusch
some Linux guests (that haven't been migrated over to the IFL), with the guests using TCP/IP (but not the TCPIP stack). Not that virtual storage costs much (anything), but what caused you to go to 64 MB? Thanks Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting (trying to head off a rude awaking if 32 MB isn't

Re: CPFMTXA: Automation of?

2007-09-10 Thread Tom Duerbusch
the day. I reserved it for weekend work. However, I don't take the processor down for the upgrades. We will be doing one in another couple weeks. I plan on running system backups concurrently with the upgrade to see if we still had the I/O delay problem. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting

zVM 5.2 TCPIP problem

2007-08-24 Thread Tom Duerbusch
to look for to solve this issue. Thanks Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting

Re: zVM 5.2 TCPIP problem

2007-08-24 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Thanks Brian LDSF is a new name for LDEVI guess it's an upgrade G. And we do have maxldev set to 4096 and we are no where near that many, I think. Doing a query ldev l001-lfff shows we are well under the 4096 mark. But kind of interesting reading the output. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting

Re: zVM 5.2 TCPIP problem

2007-08-24 Thread Tom Duerbusch
. Time to revise my Reader Comment Form, I already sent in... Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/24/2007 12:46 PM My memory may be fuzzy, but I seem to recall a TCPIP parameter that defined the LDEV range that TCPIP will use. Although I've slept a few times (and drank a lot

Re: MAINTENANCE

2007-08-22 Thread Tom Duerbusch
is for LPAR 1 L2cua is for LPAR 2 Makes it easy to vary and attach volumes in the system config file. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/22/2007 3:12 PM USER VMTEST xx 64M 64MABG Eek! 1st level class A privs for a test id? That'll last as long as it takes

Re: shutdown linux from VM

2007-08-21 Thread Tom Duerbusch
) to have products automatically start/stop). Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Aisik Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/21/2007 2:33 PM Hi, listers, Is there way to shutdown linux instance gracefully from VM without logging into linux, not forcing off. Like sending msg to linux to shutdown. Thanks, Ann

Re: shutdown linux from VM

2007-08-21 Thread Tom Duerbusch
off when Linux is finished coming down. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Aisik Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/21/2007 2:33 PM Hi, listers, Is there way to shutdown linux instance gracefully from VM without logging into linux, not forcing off. Like sending msg to linux to shutdown. Thanks, Ann

SSL Confusion

2007-08-10 Thread Tom Duerbusch
methods that were being discussed in the past threads. 2. Adam has a Debian server packaged. Does that play with a or b above, or something different? 3. We might test with the SSL capability with the TCP/IP stack from CSI stack if all else fails. Thanks Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting

PROP

2007-08-08 Thread Tom Duerbusch
be logged. That is, instead of specifying each of the machines (and remembering to update PROP RTABLE with each new LINUX guest I create. Thanks Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting

[OT] Re: Tux as you've never seen him before

2007-08-08 Thread Tom Duerbusch
tonight. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Rob van der Heij [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/8/2007 4:59 PM On 8/8/07, Mike Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even though it's not quite the same (this one is apparently done with new age photo manipulation) it brings back memories of pictures printed by print-chain

IBM Clocks was: Re: Way OT: One Room Schools

2007-07-27 Thread Tom Duerbusch
was simpler G). Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Alan Ackerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7/27/2007 12:07 AM I attended a one-room school in first grade, Rooster Rock School near Danboro, PA. First and second grade all in one room. It sure sounded to me like the second graders got to read more interesting

Re: RXSQL talking to DB2 UDB on Linux/IFL

2007-07-20 Thread Tom Duerbusch
can't recompile using the UDB as the keeper of the packages. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Ed Zell [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7/19/2007 1:53 PM We are looking at a Z series box and the possibility of getting off DB/2 for VM and moving it to DB/2 UDB which would run under Linux on an IFL. Is anyone doing

Re: OS/390 as zVM 5.2 Guest on z9 ??

2007-07-06 Thread Tom Duerbusch
I'm being nitpicky. z/VM runs very well on an IFL. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting (just addding in another penny) LOREN CHARNLEY [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7/6/2007 3:54 PM If you are trying to run an OS other than LINUX on an IFL, you will not be successful, OS390 / zOS, etc. must be run on a standard

Re: zVM 4.4 on a z9

2007-06-26 Thread Tom Duerbusch
4.4 on the z9. Just get the current APARs for EREP, IOCP, and ICKDSF and it should run fine. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/26/2007 11:55 AM Tom et al, The default on the z/890 was the 64 bit supervisor. If for some reason, you were running the 31 bit supervisor on your z

Re: zVM 4.4 on a z9

2007-06-26 Thread Tom Duerbusch
if 90+% of them are not being used. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/26/2007 12:57 PM My understanding is that the memory dedicated to the HSA on a z9 [no slashes in hardware, please] is (a) always 2GB, and (b) not taken from the memory that you pay for. So, it's

Re: zVM 4.4 on a z9

2007-06-25 Thread Tom Duerbusch
to keep in back of your mind, after conversion. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Jim Bohnsack [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/25/2007 8:10 AM We've been running 4.4 on a z9 since we got the z9 in February. There are no problems at all. We'll switch over to 5.3 later in the summer or fall. Jim

Re: FTPing to z/VM

2007-06-22 Thread Tom Duerbusch
was interrupted, the disk wouldn't be cleaned up. If this is still the case, it is something to consider. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Fran Hensler [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/20/2007 3:06 PM Lionel - Others have given you good advice but I have given up on FTPing directly to minidisks because you never know

Re: VM 4.4 VSE 2.4....

2007-06-20 Thread Tom Duerbusch
=10,M=10,N=10,BG=50,FA=50,F9=50,F7=50,F6=50,F5=50 PRTY SHARE,F4=50,G=100,L=10,P=50,O=20 All partitions will get some cpu cycles. Really great when you are using IP functions as they won't time out. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Lee Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/19

Re: Linux question

2007-06-13 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Samba or NFS. You could have a virus infected file, or trojan there. Perhaps files there need to be scanned. Anyway, good topic. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/13/2007 8:29 AM To anyone running Linux under z/VM is it normal for companies to want to run

Re: Software encryption performance was: Encryption options for DDR

2007-06-13 Thread Tom Duerbusch
there is a payback. Your mileage and experiences may differ. So, when you do software encryption (such as for DDR), how much more processor time do you see? (over a standard DDR disk to tape) Double? Tripple? 10X? Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting

Re: Software encryption performance was: Encryption options for DDR

2007-06-13 Thread Tom Duerbusch
to include my zLinux GPG machine in order to reverse the process. Encrypting tape drives are the preferred solution. But that is another day, another dollar (or tens of thousand dollars). Software encryption will get me by for now. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6

Re: Software encryption performance was: Encryption options for DDR

2007-06-13 Thread Tom Duerbusch
finally froze up. Forced off CICS/TS, redefined tempstor to 50 cylinders with 10 cylinders secondary, forced a cold start and back up, all within 10 minutes. Not bad for our only production outage for this conversion. Ooops, when off on a tangent. Back to the real world. Tom Duerbusch THD

Re: Encryption options for DDR

2007-06-12 Thread Tom Duerbusch
. I've had a disaster recovery starter system for years, but I never thought about making it a clean system. Obviously, much easier under VM, but also doable with LPARs. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Aria Bamdad [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/12/2007 9:58 AM Has anyone developed any solutions

DB2 DSPACES with owner ********

2007-06-06 Thread Tom Duerbusch
these dbspaces? I would like to reclaim the pages that these are tying up. Thanks Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting

Re: Link Multiple Write safely

2007-05-02 Thread Tom Duerbusch
the experience, you will get the experience, by a combination of classes, mentoring, and by trial-by-fire. Some shops can't afford the downtime and you need experience people onsite (or at least, easily available). Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting

Re: z/VM usability

2007-05-02 Thread Tom Duerbusch
flavor, it may look like they are throwing their weight behind that flavor. So, forward space 3-4 years Did they do it for TPF? Which flavor of zLinux? Is it a canned, drop down, keep you hands off, or a regular install? Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting (just wondering) David Boyes [EMAIL

Re: User_Volume_list limit of 500 volumes...

2007-04-24 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Use generic VOLSERs (?). Something like: 520* VM31* Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4/24/2007 2:10 PM Hi, gang. The is a limit of 50o0 volumes that can be specified on the USER_VOLUME_LIST statement in SYSTEM CONFIG. what do I do if I have more than 500 volumes? TIA

Small remote dasd

2007-04-17 Thread Tom Duerbusch
disk, and besides, emulated disk sure had its performance issues. Anyway, it can't hurt to ask... Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting

Re: Small remote dasd

2007-04-17 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Thanks The zDASD 3390 controller, from BusTech, seems to match my requirements. That is, it can do it, but now comes the cost portionG. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4/17/2007 2:43 PM -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto

Re: DPROP V7.4 and DB2/VSE 7.3?

2007-04-11 Thread Tom Duerbusch
with PC softwareno test systems! Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Adam Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4/10/2007 5:18 PM On Apr 10, 2007, at 4:10 PM, Tom Duerbusch wrote: Bad part is where I have test systems that I can test DPROP Q 7.4 on VSE, I don't have a test PC available that I can

Re: DPROP V7.4 and DB2/VSE 7.3?

2007-04-11 Thread Tom Duerbusch
by building, the pcs in that area started crashing. It seemed to take about 3 months to disinfect and recover the 4,000 PCs. Not my area and I stay as far away from that as I can. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Adam Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4/11/2007 10:48 AM On Apr 11, 2007, at 9:55 AM

Re: I need current UTC in a REXX exec

2007-04-11 Thread Tom Duerbusch
I seem to recall that EXEC's (not EXEC2) time token returned the hardware clock time. Was a real pain when I was switching to UTC with timezone way of doing things. A lot of old EXEC code at one of my sites. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Gary Eheman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4/11/2007 4:36 PM

DPROP V7.4 and DB2/VSE 7.3?

2007-04-10 Thread Tom Duerbusch
as it is the production administrator for Data Propagator on VSE and I don't want to mistakenly loose my ability to work on our current DB2 software. Thanks Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting

Re: DPROP V7.4 and DB2/VSE 7.3?

2007-04-10 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Never mind Apparently Data Propagator Q required MQSeries. As in chargeable product. There went that option. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Tom Duerbusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4/10/2007 4:10 PM We are currently DB2/VSE 7.3 with Capture/VSE (Data Propagator) 7.3. One of the problems

Re: Programmable operator

2007-04-09 Thread Tom Duerbusch
the prop server with the contents. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Steve Gentry [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4/9/2007 12:12 PM I'm trying to get a programmable operator to do something and it isn't working. I've done some reading in the manual and have looked at some existing code but no luck. What I want

Re: For the old-timers out there

2007-03-28 Thread Tom Duerbusch
longer then paper tape. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Phil Smith III [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/28/2007 4:24 PM Do you (a) believe this and (b) recognize the environment being (so badly) described? I'm (a) not sure I do and (b) definitely don't, but I'm not as old as (some of) you... http

Re: VSWITCH/network problem

2007-03-23 Thread Tom Duerbusch
to be moved to separate attachments. I'll resend when I can get our email person to help me reset my defaults to straight text mode. Sorry about that Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Alan Ackerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/23/2007 1:10 AM Several somethings are missing from you post. I see

Try #2, this time, in text mode.

2007-03-23 Thread Tom Duerbusch
. Thanks for any suggestions. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting

VSWITCH/network problem try #3

2007-03-23 Thread Tom Duerbusch
and VSE/ESA 2.7 as being the problem. The only other change in the communication path was the z/VM update. That is my current target. Thanks for any suggestions. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting

DED processor to non-DED processor in LPAR

2007-03-23 Thread Tom Duerbusch
way to change the lpar from a dedicated processor to a non-dedicated processor. Obviously, I don't want to have an outage. Worse case, I can come in on a weekend and reactivate the LPAR. Just trying to find a more dynamic way of doing this. IBM z/890 Thanks Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting

VSWITCH/network problem

2007-03-21 Thread Tom Duerbusch
was the z/VM update. That is my current target. Thanks for any suggestions. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting

DB2 Field conversion problem

2007-03-21 Thread Tom Duerbusch
data to hex or bit. Is this a situation where I'm just out of luck and have to write a program to do the data conversion? Thanks Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting

Re: Historical curiousity question.

2007-03-16 Thread Tom Duerbusch
much as it is. In '79 with the R*star white paper (when relational database concept was defined). Never going to work! Direct I/O! Now that works! I laugh at a lot of things we use to believe. And in 10 years, I will laugh at what I believe nowG Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting LOREN

Re: Mainframe Consoles

2007-03-12 Thread Tom Duerbusch
sessions as consoles. My guess is that this is fairly simple. Otherwise there would be some venders to supply the market. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/12/2007 1:57 PM We are looking at replacing our Multiprise 2000 with a z9, and the issue of replacing the console

Re: TIMEZONE

2007-03-09 Thread Tom Duerbusch
, the high order byte of every 24 bit address was subject to being used. Mainframer's have been concerned about memory ever since. Even now, with $7,000 / GB of memory (list price) on a z9 BC, (in units of 8 GB). Still too expensive to waste like we do with PC memory. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-06 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Wow... 9 MB per pack. We'll never use it all G. And, they are demountable too. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/6/2007 1:00 PM Glad to know that other's memorys work no better than mine. We should all switch to emulated 2311's and be done with it. -- .~.Robert P

Re: IFL Pricing

2007-02-20 Thread Tom Duerbusch
$95K was quoted in the FAQ (page 23) http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/z9bc/zsq02226_usen_02.pdf Also the IFL is 37% faster then the IFL on the z/890 (this was for the z9/bc box). However, the IFL in the EC box is still $125K. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/20/2007 4:18 PM

Re: EREP Problem

2007-02-12 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Well, since the message is in F4, it is from VSE. So what is VSE device 736? Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/12/2007 4:33 PM I don't know if this is a VM or VSE problem so I will post on both. Today I had a contractor in to help and I mentioned that we have had some

Memorex Telex

2007-01-29 Thread Tom Duerbusch
. There is a company called Visra International, that seems to sell 1174s but their information doesn't show a picture of the box (so I can see if it is a relabeled Memorex box, or something completely different). Thanks Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting (Mainframe Archologist)

Re: WAVV 2007

2007-01-29 Thread Tom Duerbusch
http://www.wavv.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1/29/2007 4:47 PM I haven't seen anything on WAVV 2007 except the dates May 18-22 and location Green Bay. When will they start accepting registrations and hotel reservations? How much will it cost? -- Stephen Frazier Information Technology Unit

Re: Vswitch grant - SYSTEM CONFIG or Command?

2007-01-26 Thread Tom Duerbusch
sleep period. Just as long as the person or persons that are responsible for the system, understand the timing issues involved, when they are done, and how to correct them. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting

Too many paging devices?

2007-01-26 Thread Tom Duerbusch
)? Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting (I know, but it is Friday)

Re: Question on LINUX

2007-01-24 Thread Tom Duerbusch
, and used the Redbook as a roseta stone to help translate. And you really need to get on the Linux390 listserv. There isn't a question that won't be pondered. Whether you get an answer is another story. (usually you do get an answer) Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting

Re: z/VM 5.2 conversion IP problem (solved)

2007-01-22 Thread Tom Duerbusch
the network types my TCPIP config file and they would just stare at it and question if it ever worked. Until z/VM 5.2, it always worked. G Then they would shake there head and leave, muttering something about mainframes. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1/21/2007 10:19 AM On 19 Jan

Re: Keep VM 24X7 365 days

2007-01-22 Thread Tom Duerbusch
because VM isn't a true 24X7 operation system. With VM, we can fake things and come close to true 24X7, but compared to z/OS and parrallel sysplex, not close. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1/22/2007 2:07 PM We have Linux guests running on VM, DB2connect is running on Linux

Re: z/VM 5.2 conversion IP problem (solved)

2007-01-19 Thread Tom Duerbusch
a normal VM upgrade. Oh well, can't teach old dogs Thanks for everyone's help Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1/18/2007 7:52 AM On Wednesday, 01/17/2007 at 06:47 PST, Thomas Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You mean people actually get paid for this? You betcha! If you get

Re: z/VM 5.2 conversion IP problem

2007-01-17 Thread Tom Duerbusch
= LLINUX27 1500 HOST Just in case, I'm attaching the entire configuration file. Perhaps I'm looking only at the HOST and GATEWAY statements, and I really have a problem somewhere else (between the ears). Thanks for any insight. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1/16

Re: z/VM 5.2 conversion IP problem

2007-01-17 Thread Tom Duerbusch
: DTCPAR123I LINE 211: UNKNOWN LINK NAME IN HOME CMD 192.168.099.227 255.255.255.000 LLINUX27 The IP address of my VM system is 205.235.227.74. The IP address of the Linux system is 192.168.99.227. So, I'm confused. What isn't different about them? Tom Duerbusch THD

Re: z/VM 5.2 conversion IP problem

2007-01-17 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Hi Ed, not a problem. I might be intelligent in some areas, but I'm hitting a brick wall with a dense head, here G. I wish I was hung over or something in order to have a valid excuse on this one. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1/17/2007 1:17 PM Two people have told you

Re: z/VM 5.2 conversion IP problem

2007-01-17 Thread Tom Duerbusch
with? It's really going to be a eureka moment, if and when I understand this. G Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1/17/2007 12:42 PM You see the HOME statement. You see the 192.168.099.227 in the HOME statement. That must not be the same as the address of the Linux system

Re: z/VM 5.2 conversion IP problem

2007-01-17 Thread Tom Duerbusch
, it is time to dig thru the manual to see what I didn't read over and see what else I didn't read G. Thanks Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting

Re: z/VM 5.2 conversion IP problem

2007-01-16 Thread Tom Duerbusch
an unique network address for each of the 192~~~ hosts. That didn't work either. I get the feeling that I'm working on the wrong part, and the actual problem is somewhere else. Thanks for any insight to this problem. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting R'uh r'ohthe IP addresses you have

Re: z/VM 5.2 conversion IP problem

2007-01-15 Thread Tom Duerbusch
for more than 5 minutes. User (192.168.99.24:(none)): Am I correct, in the belief that this is a routing issue? Don't say that it is a network design issue. It grew on its own. OK I did water it a little. Thanks Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1/14/2007 11:44 PM On Saturday, 01/13

z/VM 5.2 conversion IP problem

2007-01-13 Thread Tom Duerbusch
. Thanks Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting

Re: VTAM Program Directory

2007-01-12 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Any old VTAM Program Directory will do. Nothing has changed in 10 years (except for some maintenance). The one shipped with my z/VM 5.2 system is dated March 1995. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1/12/2007 1:18 PM VM/VTAM is a separate product and is not normally shipped

OK Pipers, a new challenge

2007-01-02 Thread Tom Duerbusch
being purged is the right number. The process is being kicked off by VMUTIL. So I plan on disabling it and log on and do the commands myself to see what is actually out there. But that shouldn't have any effect on why I'm not seeing the CMS commands echoed to the console. Thanks Tom

ftp VM to VM

2006-12-22 Thread Tom Duerbusch
the binary transfer (which shouldn't be needed), the lrecl changes to 8192, etc. I think the last time I tried FTP to do this, I quickly gave up and linked the first level disk to the second level system and copied the files thataway. Now I have a little time to explore what I'm missing. Thanks Tom

Re: ftp VM to VM

2006-12-22 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Thanks all Still not to old to learn something new. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting (Merry Christmas) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/22/2006 11:04 AM I obviously meant: TYPE E MODE B :-) Sorry for the confusion

Re: DNS question

2006-12-20 Thread Tom Duerbusch
and Hipersockets, 48 MB. Now back on tangent to the origional discussion... Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/20/2006 8:40 AM bind is, these days, anything but minimal. We should port OpenBSD to the 390. You could probably run OpenBSD + bind in a 12MB VM. You can run Linux

Re: DNS question

2006-12-20 Thread Tom Duerbusch
. To a point, we will trade more I/Os for less real memory requirements (kind of backwards from normal mainframe thinking). Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/20/2006 9:34 AM Has anyone taken the time to come up with the minimal system requirements for a SLES installation? Even

VSE hard wait under z/VM 5.2 second level

2006-12-20 Thread Tom Duerbusch
to validate I don't have any VSE related conversion problems. Thanks Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting

Re: VSE hard wait under z/VM 5.2 second level RESOLVED

2006-12-20 Thread Tom Duerbusch
ON 140: NO VALID DASD BG 0J31A NO SHARING CAPABILITY. IPL TERMINATED Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: z/VM 5.3

2006-12-19 Thread Tom Duerbusch
to or headed to, zLinux support. Of course, there is also changes for the large shops (better support for 32, 64, processors). Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Huegel, Thomas wrote: Any guesses as to what might be in a new release?

Re: z/VM 5.2 CP INDICATE LOAD missing STORAGE utilization output

2006-12-13 Thread Tom Duerbusch
becomes too full. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/13/2006 10:36 AM Hello, I'm debugging an old REXX exec which fails in z/VM 5.2 with the following command: 'PIPE CP IND LOAD', '| locate /STORAGE-/', '| xlate - blank % blank', '| specs w2 1', '| var PctStorage

query memassist?

2006-12-13 Thread Tom Duerbusch
-bit) Did I somehow reach into the future and have documentation on something that isn't real, yet? (where is the stock market sectionG) Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting

z/VM 5.2 and supernets

2006-12-06 Thread Tom Duerbusch
, just wasn't tested sufficiently. Obviously, once we get this fixed, I'll have to do a lot more testing in order to get my confidence up. I also have several projects that I delayed for the 5.2 conversion, that I may need to reschedule for prior to 5.2 conversion. Oh well, fun times. Tom

IBM Director

2006-12-06 Thread Tom Duerbusch
. That cracks me up. (I'm in one of those moods) Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting

Re: z/VM 5.2 and supernets

2006-12-06 Thread Tom Duerbusch
That is the same problem here. I hope that there will be a fix(s) before I get to the point of dissolving my supernet. Thanks Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/6/2006 12:38 PM When I was installing and testing on z/VM 5.2 in a guest I used supernetting of class C addresses

Re: IBM Director

2006-12-06 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Thanks Alan That was it. RCF...paper? Post Office? no email address? Is this a legal document that requires my origional signature? I would think the people in the publishing side, could get up to the 1990s G. Oh well, there goes 39 cents... Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: z/VM 5.2 and supernets

2006-12-06 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Thanks I've been talking with him about these problems. Where yesterday, I was looking for a bypass to get some networking capabilities, today, I started thinking about conversion time. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/6/2006 12:27 PM On Wednesday, 12/06/2006 at 11:05 CST

Re: IBM Director

2006-12-06 Thread Tom Duerbusch
people talk to each other. We don't have COD, and the rest of the options, just didn't tickle my fancy (from the mainframe perspective). I was thinking that it might be some sort of VM/Linux tools. But didn't see anything like that. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/6/2006 1:08 PM

z/VM 5.2 sl 0602, OSA/IP problem

2006-12-05 Thread Tom Duerbusch
. Thanks Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting

Re: z/VM 5.2 sl 0602, OSA/IP problem

2006-12-05 Thread Tom Duerbusch
was getting involved and preventing me doing what I wanted. But I had the same problems. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/5/2006 10:53 AM You say /22, but your netmask is set for /24. Tom Duerbusch wrote: I'm hoping that there is a fix for this, because a known fix, is easier to fix

Re: z/VM 5.2 sl 0602, OSA/IP problem

2006-12-05 Thread Tom Duerbusch
to change, I have a lot of work with the CONFIG file, to get things back to what I wanted in the first place. (Which was to be able to FTP from first level to second level so I can copy files over that I need, without staging thru minidisks or tape.) Thanks for the help Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting

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