Hoover!
I can't believe you didn't say UNIVAC!
Geez...young people...
Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
(RIP Goldie, a great cat and my buddy for 15 years)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/1/2006 10:31 AM
On Friday, 12/01/2006 at 11:11 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And why would you put a web site
a supernet and that seems
to be breaking the quick and easy way of setting up the IP stack.
Am I correct that ipwizard isn't setup to do everything (like
supernets)?
If not, I'll stop beating my head into this wall and find another wall
G
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Hans Rempel [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/27/2006 12:33 PM
I need to provide secure access to a VM/VSE system. We are currently
using Hummingbird TN3270 to access VM 3270 screens and then dial to the
VSE guests. VPN is a solution and is being used but does not meet SOME
.
Well, back on topic...
I have never read anything that suggests that VM isn't in the same
ballpark in CPU utilization and growth as MVS.
Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/25/2006 11:30 AM
I know this is an it depends question, but I hope some of you can
give
me a very general
that had the tape drives
detached. But the OPERATOR console log shows that 1 second after
GEACESA4 closed a dynam tape (the tape drive was manually attached to
GEACESA4), GEACESA4 crashed with the disabled wait. Hummm..
Thanks
At least I have some tangent to go on.
Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
) and BCS (Boeing) of the world might afford lease lines to their
venders, but for the rest of us I was never involved in a situation
(before 2000 or so) where I could transmit a dump AND the vender could
receive it and be able to do something with it.
Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
[EMAIL
just going to work on it in the morning anyway.
So I guess the question I'm wondering...
How many others have shipped dumps, online, back before high speed
Internet connections?
Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/11/2006 10:12 AM
On: Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 05:35:50AM -0400,Phil
been done, or attempted to be done by someone at sometime. I've
done a lot of crap in my 30+ years, that seemed good at the time.
Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/11/2006 2:07 PM
In the early 1990's we consolidated a data center from Sydney into
Philadelphia. We used SYBACK
not make changes to our current production
systems, but rather to the systems that need EDS. But I think those two
conditions are in direct conflict with each other.
What are some good ways of making this type of change?
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on the newer systems.
But if I make a change on all other systems to select a non-EDS logmode
and then change the VM/VTAM books to be EDS devices, I should get what I
want. I'm trying to keep from modifying the old systems.
Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/10/2006 11:17 AM
Hello Tom
also found that if you connect with a non-EDS terminal (or at
least a non-EDS Logmode), some EDS type transactions abend.
Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/10/2006 3:14 PM
Why not? Once you have one range, you can set up another range and
assign CUUs to different people. Have VM
hardware that may or may not be necessary, depending on which megabyte
increment it was.
Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/7/2006 11:07 PM
Ok, this is obscure to the max, but: ISTR real core costing $1/byte.
Someone else says:
$1 a byte was extrordinarily cheap for 1971. Ferrite
. (obviously, that was upgraded from saying IBM
370-165.
Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/9/2006 12:57 PM
As I recall, the main memory was 512K. Additional memory was $1M per
MB. Wasn't the 8-series delivered with the DAT. The non-DAT boxes were
5s (145, 155, 165). When
VM systems programmer before), that only
used 1/3 of their disk. They had 3390-3 defined, but when VM was laided
down as only using 1113 cylinders, and diskmap didn't show the remaining
2226 cylinders, they only used the first third of each pack.
Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
[EMAIL PROTECTED
the covers),
but it sure serves the purpose I intended.
Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/4/2006 2:04 PM
DISKMAP was created in the times that DIRMAP was not standard available
in
VM, it was part of IPF, later CUF, available at extra cost.
Forget about DISKMAP and use DIRMAP
they are mapped, from zLinux, to VM, to IOCP, to WWPN
and so on, and how the FC SAN switch works (reminds me of an Escon
Director).
Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
(all you really ever needed was a 370 mode processor and bus and tag
devices)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/2/2006 6:09 PM
On Monday, 10/02/2006 at 04
to the VTS for a
particular VOLSER.
Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/29/2006 12:10:39 PM
But it seems, I could have a FCP connection from the z/890 to the
FC-SAN switchthingie...and then I should have access to those
tape
drives. Right? And these drives should
. There was a lot of info about
FCP attached SCSI DISK, but nothing about tape.
My guess at this time, is there is no such thing as FCP attached tape
drives on the mainframe. Perhaps it will be available in the future.
So, what's up? Is this a non-productive path that I don't need to
explore?
Thanks,
Tom
storageG..
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THD Consulting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/29/2006 12:42:58 PM
I wonder how hard it would be to write a Linux application (my first
choice is in REXX), to take a tape file (perhaps FTPed from a VTS
controlled volume), and start stacking files on an FCP attached
tape
for futher testing.)
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Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/27/2006 10:46 AM
We are running z/VM 5.1 with RSU0502 and some additional PTFs. Our
VSWITCH setup is running okay. We run our Linux guest over the
VSWITCH
connections. They talk to both z/OS and other platforms
engine(s), then you have to subtract that
number from the maximum for your box. The rest can be for IFL LPAR(s).
So, it depends...
Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
I may be mixing apples and oranges here, but I know you guys will set
me straight.
How many LPARS/partitions can an IFL support
.
Anyway, there is a new series of VTS systems. T3 or something. We
might now be looking at newer hardware.
Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
wonder if there is some hesitation in IBM providing a free feature
that wipes out a venders chargable product?
Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/8/2006 10:58 AM
That would solve the problem of using the VTAPE product from VSSI as
the mechanism for reading and writing SPXTAPE files
VSE systems for sequential disk and 1
volume across VSE systems with it's own VSAM catalog. When I check the
LOCK01 pack for total I/O counts (using Vollie), I see that day to day,
I get very little change in total I/Os to the lock file. Just the way I
like it G.
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THD Consulting
Tom
VTS units now. The TS7700 and the TS7510. If the B10
doesn't do what we want, these new units might.
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) and look
at associated cost issues.
I wouldn't mind having FCP connections to the mainframe for the zLinux
side. It may (or may not) make backups easier over there.
Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
the tape drive, it has been running fine ever
since.
Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/28/2006 1:20 PM
I have 4 standalone 3590 drives (addresses 1800-1803). A specific tape
cartridge (VM0124) works fine in drive 1803, but in drive 1802 I get:
q v 182
TAPE 0182 ON DEV 1802 3590
They are 10 mb cards. Make sure what ever switch you plug them into,
supports such a low speed.
We also had a problem with an old switch that didn't autonegotiate down
to 10 mbs too well. We had to configure some ports on the switch to be
only 10 mbs to solve that one.
Tom Duerbusch
THD
complex then OS/VS 2?
Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/16/2006 2:32 PM
On a z/890, does the size of the HSA change if the value of the MAXDEVS
parameter on the RESOURCE statement in the IOCP is increased/decreased?
The z/890 System Oveview manuals says the HSA size varies according
also cut back to
what we would realistically use, not the max that we could define for the
DS6800.
Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/16/2006 4:14 PM
Did you cut back your HSA by removing LPARs, reducing MAXDEVS, or both?
Mostly I want to verify that MAXDEVS impacts HSA size
Well, I encrypt VSE data prior to being FTP'ed over the public
Internet.
I send the file to Linux and use GPG (the no charge code of PGP) to
encrypt the data and then FTP to it's final location. You can do the
same type of process with a SFS backup file.
Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
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? This is on a z/890 with z/VM 5.1.
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to MDC prior to your batch processing
(if that makes sense for your batch type jobs).
Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
controller cache, then 2 MB for VSAM buffers.
Anyway, I would experiment with MDC cache. If you can't get a high hit
ratio, say 95% or better, I would turn it off. But there is always
that application that may benefit greatly, for a short period of time,
by the use of MDC.
Tom Duerbusch
THD
-working VSE, might now be on another network.
Hopefully others will chime in with better stuff, but it is 5 PM CDT so
you may have to rely on people to the westG.
Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 7/11/2006 4:33 PM
I find that I'm always stumbling around when it comes
, a couple
3330-11 packs were full with copies of my game. So I had to make the
copies, unusable (just checked what library it was called from).
Ahhh, to have that much free time again
Now a days, I guess that is called.retirementG
Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
Dave Jones wrote:
Not Your
different here. Eventually I will find it.
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THD Consulting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 7/6/2006 2:51 PM
Is it possible to have a look at the create table statement ?
greets
to UDB is running at a later
level of VSE or the IP stack. What is your releases?
Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/30/2006 8:15 AM
Hi Tom,
What kind of problems do you have ?
We are using DB2 UDB V8.1 on zLinux ( SLES ) and it works fine.
Regards
Ferdinand Prahst
xxx Z, and use CMS utilities to read the datasets. LISTDS
Z (EXTENT to see what is out there. Use FILEDEF or DLBL as JCL. And
then use CMS programs to read (not write) the data.
Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/26/2006 4:45 PM
Only slightly off topic, but long ago, just
one that I can apply maintenance to.
So, now I'm considering what release to fall back to.
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THD Consulting
with VTS). The small shops (P/390 and Flex/ES shops), already have
their solutions. It is the mid size shops that may be able to
influnance the use of the resources to have emulated tape on disk.
Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 5/30/2006 2:42:08 AM
My understanding is that you can
The jist of this was that z/VM doesn't allow for SCSI TAPE.
It didn't.
Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 5/30/2006 1:52:56 PM
Tom ...
VM does allow native use of SCSI.
I was under the impression that z/VM 5.2 now allowed native use of
SCSI
DASD, which I assummed also ment SCSI
and it may be a z/VSE 4 type thing).
If that can be used, eventually, to solve your need, I doubt IBM would spend a
lot of resources to emulate tapes under VM.
We are looking at an IBM VTS to solve our virtual tape needs (i.e. no Operator
intervention).
Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
On Monday 29 May
are looking for a session manager for telnet sessions (not
TN3270)I don't know. Tubes might still do that, but if it is in the
manuals, I skipped right over it.
Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 5/23/2006 4:40 PM
Has anyone ever heard of a Mainframe tcp/ip based session manager?
I am
that may explain how
things are done, for what service?
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THD Consulting
, of getting a port busy
message. An immediate retry usually works.
Is port and socket the same thing? How are they different?
Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
(trying to update obsolete memory locations)
VM supports PAV for guests. I don't think it does, or needs to, support
it natively.
PAV is a chargable feature on the DS6800. I elected not to buy it on
our DS6800.
Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 4/25/2006 12:17 PM
Presently the application is split onto several disks
connection is terminiated?
2. Is there some sort of parameter that will abend a LUW after xxx
seconds?
3. What does everyone else do, hopefully an automated task, for these
conditions at your shop?
Thanks
Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
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Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
Hans Rempel [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4/3/2006 2:53 PM
I'm trying to get better throughput on my VTAPE services going to a
PC. I performed a number of traces both on my laptop were the VTAPE
server is running and the VSE TCPIP stack. The delays appear not to be
on the PC
the flashes from VM.
Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
On Friday 31 March 2006 15:33, Steve Wilkins wrote:
Unfortunately, there isn't any fine print. The only VSE/ESA Release
documented as supported in the DS8000 Interoperability Matrix is VSE/ESA
2.7. As a VMer, I believe the described
Maybe not on the right path. There may always be better paths. But it
is one that has been travelled.
Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
(BTW, watch for the pot hole on your right, just after the big tree)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/28/2006 12:42 PM
Hello Tom,
Sound like the basic plan I have
You got me.
I keep forgetting that the 2 GB I/O boundry in z/VM 5.1 and below isn't
the same as executing code.
Neither of these, have ever bitten me. The VM folks have been very
good about keeping ahead of the curve, as far as I have been concerned.
Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
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