Nice Holiday gift for your favorite old mainframer
http://www.20x200.com/art/2009/04/ibm-360-model-30-tape-drives-1965.html
Marcy
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There's a certain modern art simplicity in that image of mod 30's
Marcy, but I'm holding out for the graphic texture and naked power
evinced by the 360/195 maintenance console. You can never have too
many switches and dials. (Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!...)
-Chip-
On 7/6/11 19:08 Marcy Cortes said:
Nice
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Marcy
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Those were the days: real switches connected to real
hardware that turned on real lights! There may be a picture
of it amongst all the others in my presentation at the 2007
International Rexx Symposium:
http://www.rexxla.org/events/2007/presentations/lesk1.html
Les
Chip Davis wrote:
There's
How can I readout these Machine Check occurring in a MP3000 running
zVm 4.40
07:13:06 HCPMCI9101I MACHINE CHECK ON CPU . MCIC = 04000F3D 400B
07:13:06 System operation continues.
07:53:45 HCPMCI9101I MACHINE CHECK ON CPU . MCIC = 04000F3D 400B
07:53:45 System operation
Check the IBM Principles of Operation. There's a chapter devoted to machine
check handling.
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On
Behalf Of Carlos Bodra - Pessoal
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 10:18 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Information
On Thursday, 09/23/2010 at 11:27 EDT, Alan Ackerman
alan.acker...@bankofamerica.com wrote:
Support Statement:
IBM is supporting this in customer test environments until APAR
VM64816 becomes available later this year (2010). IBM will
support all z/VM production environments at that time.
wrote:
I went and looked at APARs VM64814 and VM64816 on IBMLink. Almost no
information! They both simply say NF NEWFUNCT, with no description.
Come on IBM, why the secrecy?
Such accusations! From the z/VM 6.1 July 22 announcement letter 210-23
4:
XRC time stamping support is provided
PTF process
is not used. Thus, the paperwork doesn't get done.
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System on behalf of Alan Ackerman
Sent: Sun 9/26/2010 2:07 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: VM64814 information
So is VM64814 a beta, test, whatever
On Thursday, 09/23/2010 at 11:27 EDT, Alan Ackerman
alan.acker...@bankofamerica.com wrote:
I went and looked at APARs VM64814 and VM64816 on IBMLink. Almost no
information! They both simply say NF NEWFUNCT, with no description.
Come on IBM, why the secrecy?
Such accusations! From the z/VM
:50 -0700, O'Brien, Dennis L dennis.l.o'br...@b
ankofamerica.com
wrote:
I understand that VM64814 adds XRC timestamp support. The PTF's are ava
ilable. The z/VM
platform update at SHARE mentioned that there would be a SYSTEM CONFIG ch
ange to activate it.
Where do I find information
System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf
Of Matthew Rosato
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 14:40
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: [IBMVM] VM64814 information
Dennis,
You should be able to find the text in the prodid MEMO file (for example,
5VMCPR40 MEMO). If you ordered
I understand that VM64814 adds XRC timestamp support. The PTF's are available.
The z/VM platform update at SHARE mentioned that there would be a SYSTEM
CONFIG change to activate it. Where do I find information on that? The recent
SSL changes had a nice web page with all the details, and one
Subject:VM64814 information
Sent by:The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM
tells CP to enable the STP protocol (if the STP facility is
installed) and obtain timezone information automatically from the STP
server.
FEATURES ENABLE XRC_OPTional
when STP_Timestamping is also enabled, this will allow non-
timestamped I/O to be issued whenever STP is in an unsynchronized
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:51:10 -0400, Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR)
terry.mar...@cms.hhs.gov wrote:
Hi
I want to start using SFS what manuals best describe how to configure
and implement SFS fro z/VM 5.3?
Terry,
I've recently published a short paper on setting up an SFS server,
since I
Thanks Tracy! I will take a look.
Thank You,
Terry Martin
Lockheed Martin - Information Technology
z/OS z/VM Systems - Performance and Tuning
Cell - 443 632-4191
Work - 410 786-0386
terry.mar...@cms.hhs.gov
WFH Tuesdays and Fridays
-Original Message-
From: The IBM z/VM Operating
Hi
I want to start using SFS what manuals best describe how to configure
and implement SFS fro z/VM 5.3?
Thank You,
Terry Martin
Lockheed Martin - Information Technology
z/OS z/VM Systems - Performance and Tuning
Cell - 443 632-4191
Work - 410 786-0386
terry.mar...@cms.hhs.gov
...@cms.hhs.gov]
Sent: 10/30/2009 09:51 PM AST
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: SFS information
Hi
I want to start using SFS what manuals best describe how to configure
and implement SFS fro z/VM 5.3?
Thank You,
Terry Martin
Lockheed Martin - Information Technology
z/OS z/VM Systems
,*
*Terry Martin*
*Lockheed Martin - Information Technology*
*z/OS z/VM Systems - Performance and Tuning*
*Cell - 443 632-4191*
*Work - 410 786-0386*
*terry.mar...@cms.hhs.gov*
*WFH on Tuesdays and Fridays*
not properly implement 64-bit
z/Architecture. For information about specific z/VM machine requirements and
programming requirements, see the z/VM: General Information manual, GC24-6095
Dennis
If ye love wealth greater than liberty
Greetings all,
I’ve just read through the posts on Hercules.
I’ve heard about it but don’t know much about this software.
Does it run on a PC in Windows, Linux…what?
Is Hercules a shell for z/VM and/or z/OS and if so where
does one get legal copies of both?
Being that I’m
Howard Rifkind wrote:
Greetings all,
I’ve just read through the posts on Hercules.
I’ve heard about it but don’t know much about this software.
Does it run on a PC in Windows, Linux…what?
Is Hercules a shell for z/VM and/or z/OS and if so where does one get
legal copies of
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Howard Rifkindvmes...@yahoo.com wrote:
I’ve just read through the posts on Hercules.
I’ve heard about it but don’t know much about this software.
Does it run on a PC in Windows, Linux…what?
Is Hercules a shell for z/VM and/or z/OS and if so where does one get
-Original Message-
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On
Behalf Of Rich Smrcina
Sent: 01 August 2009 14:46
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: Hercules; more information please.
Howard Rifkind wrote:
Greetings all,
I've just read
On 8/1/2009 at 9:46 AM, Rich Smrcina rsmrc...@wi.rr.com wrote:
Howard Rifkind wrote:
Greetings all,
I*ve just read through the posts on Hercules.
I*ve heard about it but don*t know much about this software.
Does it run on a PC in Windows, Linux*what?
Go to http://www.hercules-390.org/
Mark Post wrote:
Go to http://www.hercules-390.org/ for definitive answers. The documentation
for how to actually set up your configuration file is a little sketchy
Mark,
Why do you think it is 'sketchy' ? There is a 200+ page manual that
explains in great detail each and every
On 8/1/2009 at 2:08 PM, Ivan Warren i...@vmfacility.fr wrote:
-snip-
Mark,
Why do you think it is 'sketchy' ? There is a 200+ page manual that
explains in great detail each and every possible statement you can have
in the configuration file. As far as 'released' software is concerned,
Amy,
According to where you are in the country there are several VM and LINUX
user groups that can help you
you can find out USER Group information here:
http://www.vm.ibm.com/events/usergrps.html
In April of this year Tracy Dean of IBM went to most of the VM user groups
and gave
information
on how the EXEC utilities are managed or supported. Can you compile them?
I have also a question on management of the config file containing the
automation definitions w/in Operations Manager. For example, what is the
best practice with support various products? I have chosen to imbed
Hello All,
CA is working to put together a tips and techniques type of document
that will give information on how to use CA VM:Manager Management Suite
for Mainframe Linux products to effectively manage and automate
processes in the z/VM with z/Linux system environment.
This will include usage
You're welcome Rick. We are continuing to work on the information center
performance.
Eclipse ... isn't that where things get dark because there's
something in the way and the usual illumination is blocked? :-)
Yeah, kind of humorous huh?! ;-)
Michael J. Forte
z/VM ID and POK Softcopy
Thanks Jack! We are glad to hear the information center has been meeting
your needs (even if it might not be as colorful as the BookManager derived
content).
Michael J. Forte
z/VM ID and POK Softcopy Support
Software Engineer, System z Information Solutions 58HA
IBM Poughkeepsie, New York
mjfo
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:03:07 -0500, Michael Forte mjfo...@us.ibm.com wr
ote:
Good morning, afternoon, or evening:
The z/VM V5R4.0 Information Center on the Internet has been updated to
include the latest product documentation for the recent release of z/VM
V5R4.0 service and feature enhancements
have
no experience with Eclipse. Is there a good tutorial on Information Cente
r? The Help for the
information center is amazingly unhelpful. It starts with keyboard short
cuts. Shouldn't it start
with as description of the page layout and how to use it?
Alan Ackerman
Alan (dot) Ackerman (at) Bank
Alan Ackerman wrote:
I have tried to use these, and found them very frustrating.
?? Weird. Table of contents on left. Search engine above it. View panel
on right.
Almost every reference site in creation works that way, though not all
use Frames
to do it.
My big annoyance is that every time
Looks nice. Thanks for the reference and the heads up.
I must confess that I have been holding onto the bookshelf
because of the much quicker interaction and navigation of simple HTML.
But this appears to be a great improvement over other Info Centers.
Eclipse ... isn't that where things get
Michael Forte wrote:
The z/VM V5R4.0 Information Center on the Internet has been updated
Having spent since August with my nose buried in the Information
Center for 5.3 and 5.4 I have to say, very nice. Not that there
was too much wrong with the more colorful 1990's-style pages
produced from
Hello Jack,
We have corrected the link bug in the z/VM V5.4 Information Center. You
should now be able to use the URL at the bottom of each page to create a
bookmark or to use as a direct link to a specific topic in the information
center.
For example, the following will link you directly
Michael Forte wrote:
We have corrected the link bug in the z/VM V5.4 Information Center.
You should now be able to use the URL at the bottom of each page to
create a bookmark or to use as a direct link to a specific topic in
the information center.
Awesome, thanks.
--
Jack J. Woehr
Hi Jack,
You've found a bug in the z/VM V5.4 Information Center. You should be able
to copy and paste the URL at the bottom of every page to create a bookmark
or direct link to that topic. However, this appears to not be working in
the z/VM V5.4 Information Center.
I have brought this concern
Hi Jack,
The information contained within the information center is the official
published z/VM V5.4 GA documentation. To ensure this is looked at for you,
I have forwarded this as a Reader's Comment Form (RCF) to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] so it will be tracked in our service database. The
contact z
Michael Forte wrote:
The information contained within the information center is the
official published z/VM V5.4 GA documentation. To ensure this is
looked at for you, I have forwarded this as a Reader's Comment Form
(RCF) to [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] so it will
be tracked
Not a problem!
Michael J. Forte
z/VM ID and POK Softcopy Support
Software Engineer, System z Information Solutions 58HA
IBM Poughkeepsie, New York
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Office: 845-435-9062, T/L: 295-9062
Cell: 845-702-7962
Fax: 845-432-9405
P181, 2455 South Road, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
Building
- they are a quick reference to get the
installation under way.
I have used the DVD reference for the last 3 from scratch installations
that I have done (the first was an evaluation exercise of the process) and
I found that they were accurate for the process I used and had all the
information I needed
Morning, Alan.
Alan Altmark wrote:
The Court of Opinion and Assizes is now in Session.
Recall that we have two one-sheet (two pages, front back) tri-fold
installation summary cards: one for tape and one for DVD (1st and 2nd
level).
The questions:
1. Do these cards have value?
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:07:53 -0400, Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
The Court of Opinion and Assizes is now in Session.
Recall that we have two one-sheet (two pages, front back) tri-fold
installation summary cards: one for tape and one for DVD (1st and 2nd
level).
The questions:
1.
I've used the one sheet summaries to install several zVM 5.3 systems,
including both DVD and tape media.
See my comments below
C. M. (Mike) Hammock
Sr. Technical Support
zFrame IBM zSeries Solutions
(404) 643-3258
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU wrote
Mike made a very good point in this statement:
(I have installed a number of systems in the past, so
I can't say if they are appropriate for a first-time installer.)
It would be a good idea if the two one-sheet installation summary cards
are intended for the non-VM experienced person who is
All you would need would be a larger sheet of paper.
Regards,
Richard Schuh
3. If you could make changes to them, what would they be?
Perhaps make the print a bit bigger for my aging
eyes..but then it wouldn't fit on a single sheet of paper:-)
--
DJ
V/Soft
z/VM
Hi Alan,
I would not call myself a newbie, since I became a VM system
programmer in 1979 with BSEPP. But after a VM/XA install in 1986 I
wandered in the MVS wilderness until I returned to VM support for a
VM/VSE shop in 1999. VSE needed much more TLC than VM to get it
wokring well, (previous
The Court of Opinion and Assizes is now in Session.
Recall that we have two one-sheet (two pages, front back) tri-fold
installation summary cards: one for tape and one for DVD (1st and 2nd
level).
The questions:
1. Do these cards have value?
2. If they are valuable, are they usable in
On Aug 28, 2008, at 8:07 PM, Alan Altmark wrote:
The Court of Opinion and Assizes is now in Session.
Recall that we have two one-sheet (two pages, front back) tri-fold
installation summary cards: one for tape and one for DVD (1st and 2nd
level).
The questions:
1. Do these cards have value?
Hi list,
a the moment i am changing the layout of my vm system volumes - especiall
y
the ipl volume and the volume where the directory resides. But now the
dirmap does not provide gap information anymore. the minidisks are listed
correct, but there are no more information regarding free space
REXX in the z/OS space has several functions (sysvar and mvsvar) that
return information about the active system. Is there anything comparable
to those in z/VM REXX (I've been looking but perhaps not in the right
places) ?
thanks
Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist
Enterprise Platform
Diag(0) returns a lot of interesting stuff, but not the same kinds of
things that sysvar/mvsvar do. In most cases, the information isn't
accessible to users with class G only, and they have no business knowing
about anything outside their virtual machine
Thanks - I was looking for an easy way to find the current
system name so I could include that in alert messages I send
out.
I found I could do this:
/* rexx */
'identify (stack'
parse pull id
parse value id with x y name .
This at least gives me the system name and that is all I
information
And there is another system name, not necessarily
the same:
'PIPE CP Q USERID | SPECS W3 1 | VAR CPSYSNAME'
Which 'system name' do you want?
Original message
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:22:25 -0500
From: Jim Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: z/VM REXX Functions
, forwarding or saving them. Thank
you.
From: Jim Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:
IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Date: 02/21/2008 11:26 AM Subject: Re: z/VM REXX
Functions for system information
--
Thanks - I was looking for an easy way to find the current
system name so I
. Thank you.
From:
Jim Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Date:
02/21/2008 11:26 AM
Subject:
Re: z/VM REXX Functions for system information
Thanks - I was looking for an easy way to find the current
system name so I could include that in alert messages I send
out.
I
Subject: Re: z/VM REXX Functions for system information
Thanks - I was looking for an easy way to find the current system name
so I could include that in alert messages I send out.
I found I could do this:
/* rexx */
'identify (stack'
parse pull id
parse value id with x y name
Cross-posted to IBMVM and Linux-390
For anyone that's interested, I managed to rescue a copy of the old
linuxproducts.html file from June 21st of 2007. This is the Software
Developer Products for Linux on IBM System z page that got taken down and for
which the replacement is totally useless.
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:10:26 -0500, Edward M. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hello Everyone,
I am having a minor problem with the DS6000 Customer Information
Center training.
There are some Learning Clips that pop-up (I have POP_UP BLOCKER OFF
at the moment).
These clips load
Hello Everyone,
I am having a minor problem with the DS6000 Customer Information
Center training.
There are some Learning Clips that pop-up (I have POP_UP BLOCKER OFF
at the moment).
These clips load and want to run but all I get is flashing IBM BOX (IBM
blue and white flashing
to
The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
To
IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
cc
Subject
DS6000 Customer Information Center
Hello Everyone,
I am having a minor problem with the DS6000 Customer Information
Center training.
There are some ?Learning Clips? that pop-up (I have POP_UP
From: Edward M. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am having a minor problem with the DS6000 Customer Information
Center training.
There are some Learning Clips that pop-up (I have POP_UP BLOCKER OFF
at the moment).
These clips load and want to run but all I get is flashing IBM BOX (IBM
Subject
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Information on Daylight Saving Time
ARK.EDU Changes
: Re: Information on Daylight Saving Time Changes
Speaking of DST2007, has anyone tried to order UM31924, the DST2007 PTF
for VM Language Environment?
I get message There are no valid PTF(s) in this order when I attempt
to order UM31924 via IBMLink (web version, FWIW), using either SIS or
SRD
Subject: Re: Information on Daylight Saving Time Changes
Yes but I use the GREEN screen. It appears IBM did not fix their
problem as promised on 14 February.
-Original Message-
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Dennis Schaffer
Sent: Thursday
] Subject
ARK.EDU Re: Information on Daylight Saving
Time Changes
02/15/2007 02:50
Dennis,
The deployment of the fix for SRD's VMSES order problem (not recognizing
them as valid PTFs) is scheduled for Friday evening 02/16/07. This is of
course in reference to IBMLink on the web vs 3270.
Doug Perkins
ServiceLink Support
Besides what is documented in http://www.vm.ibm.com/service/DST2007.html
and z/Linux fixes are there any other VM Proprietary Products that need
updates for the new DST algorithm?
If you are not an intended recipient of this e-mail, please
Hello everyone,
Hey some news to you all.And maybe this is a spooling area
problem.
I have a VSE261 tech machine. IPLs off of 740 and had the same problem.
I made the machine a v=r machine of 512m. (size 512m)
I can IPL with some errors (I can IPL 190 too).
DMSDCS283E The
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To
IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
cc
Subject
Re: z/VM paging problem further information
Hello everyone,
Hey some news to you all.And maybe this is a spooling
area
problem.
I have a VSE261 tech machine. IPLs off of 740 and had the same problem.
I made
Hmm. DIAG '64'x would return rc=174 if it were the paging i/o error.
RC=203 indicates that you have attempted a function (a load in this
case) and the virtual machine host primary address space was in the
shareable state. OK I see it is due the fact your are running this virt
machine v=r.
As I think about this problem it reminds of something I saw ages ago.
New box wouldn't IPL; turned out it was something to do with 2k/4k pages
- told you it was old. I'm not suggesting your having a 2k/4k issue! -
but - maybe there is some funky microcde - some obscure setting in the
hardware?
Further to the comments regarding sharing of DASD between CMS users and
OS - this was routine behaviour at a former employer of mine (back when
DASD was always in short supply). We would format the DASD on the OS side
,
allocate a dataset covering the back end - and then zap the VTOC to flag
: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Jeff Gribbin, EDS
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 12:46 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject:Re: Volume with minidisks has no allocation information
Further to the comments regarding sharing of DASD between CMS users
Only slightly off topic, but long ago, just to see what would happen, we
allocated an MVS dataset, and then mapped a CMS minidisk over the dataset's
allocation, and everyone was still happy and running.
As long as everyone agrees to what's been done, there shouldn't be any fussing.
--
Works fine, for now.
Just overlaying minidisks (or a minidisk over a full pack minidisk),
will work just fine, until the other side tried to write on it. In this
case, if you do a CMS Format, your MVS file will be wiped out. If the
mdisk doesn't overlay the MVS VTOC, MVS will still report the
I remember hearing about a site that had ALL of its VM volumes available to its
MVS system and had MVS datasets for every minidisk defined. They had all of the
CP areas listed as minidisks too (Checkpoint, Directory, Page, Spool, etc). I
think they did FDR backups and were able to restore full
words,
it was no longer to be a full-pack minidisk. CPVOL FORMAT was never
used on this volume, so cylinder 0 was left unchanged, with no
allocation information. (If it were to have allocation information,
it would have been PERM for the whole volume.) My initial reaction
was surprise
on it. In other words, it
was no longer to be a full-pack minidisk. CPVOL FORMAT was never used
on this volume, so cylinder 0 was left unchanged, with no allocation
information. (If it were to have allocation information, it would
have been PERM for the whole volume.) My initial reaction
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