Re: CTC between linux & zOS.

Well, then try changing the Linux parameters to 32760. You could just try doing it via an ifconfig command first, to see if that makes any difference or not. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Steve Bui Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004

Re: CTC between linux & zOS.

Both places (TCPIP profile on zOS and ifcfg-ctc0 on linux) already have mtu of 1500 hardcoded. ---SB > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Post, Mark K > Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 9:23 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: CTC betw

Re: How-to split out /usr to an LVM filesystem ???

If the "lvm pieces" you're looking for are how to create a logical volume, then look at SG24-6264, the Distributions Redbook. We have an entire chapter devoted to that. If that's not what you're looking for, you're going to have to expound a little further. And yes, I've not heard anyone come ba

Re: CTC between linux & zOS.

I would expect that to be the only two places needed. Are you asking because one (or both) of them isn't reflecting the change? Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 9:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROT

How-to split out /usr to an LVM filesystem ???

I am installing Websphere Business Integration Message Broker and the various requisite software components (DB2, JAVA, and Websphere MQ) require quite a large chunk of "/usr" disk space. So I thought I'd move " /usr" to an LVM filesystem on our SLES8 system. Can someone share the steps invol

Re: CTC between linux & zOS.

I set both mtu to 1500 in zOS TCPIP and in ifcfg-ctc0. Where else do you set it? ---SB > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Post, Mark K > Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 5:49 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: CTC between linux & zO

Re: NJE functionality using a linux server?

On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 10:31:29AM -0600, McKown, John wrote: > Given this, I would gather that the decision to not do NJE on an IFL is a > "political" decision within IBM, not a technical one. That is, it will work, > but IBM is actively discouraging its use. I don't think it's a case of activel

Re: Second Wind for Big Iron

> Umm disputable. Probably correct. Would't the first truly "open systems" date back a decade earlier? SHARE, GUIDE, CUBE(Burroughs), DECUS, many academic institutions etc. pioneering the community process that .orgs like GNU, kernel.org, et al play now. FYI - "360 Revolution - A 40th anniversary

Re: CTC between linux & zOS.

Steve, This caught my eye: ActMtu: 32760 The ifconfig output from your first note showed this: UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1 The two values need to match. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Bui Sent

Re: Second Wind for Big Iron

On Maw, 2004-03-23 at 09:02, Phil Payne wrote: > >http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_13/b3876068.htm > > Absolute twaddle. > > System/360 was the world's first open system. Umm disputable. First major commercial open-ish system perhaps. But a thumb through the fun about cables and

Re: 3390-3 Dasd Capacity on SLES8 ext3

Dennis, If you're specifying a blocksize of 4096 on both the dasdfmt and mke2fs/mkreiserfs/mkwhatever command, then you're getting as much as you're going to get, unless you modify the reserved percentage. UNIX/Linux file systems have some additional overhead in the form of "inodes" that take up

Re: 3390-3 Dasd Capacity on SLES8 ext3

Hello from Gregg C Levine As it happens I'm coming from the other side of the fence, for Linux, Intel based. Are you taking into account the journal for your partition? That could be accounting for a portion. Then there is the lost and found work space. And then there is the work space for the com

3390-3 Dasd Capacity on SLES8 ext3

Hi, I'm new to the Linux environment so I hope you'll bear with me on a dasd capacity question. When we build a filesystem on a 3390-3 volume, the end result is about 2.2Gb of usable space. Coming from the z/OS world, we are accustomed to getting 2.7Gb from a 3390-3 volume. Is it reasonable to

Re: Second Wind for Big Iron

>http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_13/b3876068.htm Absolute twaddle. System/360 was the world's first open system. Principles of Operation and the Channel OEMI manuals permitted plug compatibility - OS/360 was public domain and the source code was freely available from IBM fo

RE : Kernel memory allocation

There is a way to do this. In one of the IBM Downloads there is some code that will respond to storage management requests. Here's the abstract. You could look for use of this function in appropriate products in the future +Collaborative memory management +CONFIG_CMM + Select this option, if

Re: ReiserFS in R/O mode?

In the end, I ended up formatting a new partition as ext2, not ReiserFS. If I also had problem with setting up /proc/dasd/devices correctly, they were minor compared to trying to use a journalling file system in R/O mode, as far as I can tell. Live and learn, and sometimes get an interesting limp..

Second Wind for Big Iron

Ref: Your note of Tue, 23 Mar 2004 08:17:54 -0800 (attached) Yes, it is the 40th anniversary of the original 360 announcement. In an internal newsgroup called forums.biz.history, the reminiscing started last month... Bruce Hayden - Note follows --

RE : Kernel memory allocation

Hello Mark, The first thing is because my application runs normally when I have enough free memory. The free memory decreases along the day before giving me a memory constraint, linux gets few pages from cache to serve the request before swapping. It results a slow down processing. I don't unders

Re: NJE functionality using a linux server?

On Tuesday, 03/23/2004 at 10:31 CST, "McKown, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My question is why is z/VM NJE needed on an IFL? I don't think that z/VM on > an IFL is meant to be used by CMS users for any kind of development. And > even if it were, I personally would use ftp to send jobs to remo

Re: ReiserFS in R/O mode?

Mount just gives "wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock in /dev/dasdd1, or too many mounted file systems." There's a flock of error messages on the virtual machine console (and in dmesg). Last and most relevant are probably: >reiserfs: journal-837: IO error during journal replay >Replay

Re: Second Wind for Big Iron

"To realize this utility vision, though, today's servers have to become as reliable and secure as the first mainframes." Someone must have been on LSD back in the '60s. Reliable? Secure? I'll take the present day mainframes any day over the stuff I use to work on. And suffer with . Tom Duerbu

Re: ReiserFS in R/O mode?

Hmm. Never tried that before. There might be a conflict, since reiserfs is a _journaling_ file system (kind of pointless for a read-only file system). What are the errors you get? Does anything show up in "dmesg?" Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PRO

ReiserFS in R/O mode?

In a fit of enthusiasm, I created a large ReiserFS for a CD-ROM image that I want to share among Linux guests. ReiserFS might not be a good fit for this, but it was one of those "play like you practice, practice like you play" moments when I didn't see the contra-indications, just the benefits of p

Re: Kernel memory allocation

I don't believe there is a way to do that. I would have to think that an application trying to allocate virtual storage would force Linux to give up some of the buffers/file cache pages. What "memory problem" are you seeing? Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:

Re: Scheduling on z/VM

And one can always use Pipeserv... Rod (pipeserv aficionado) -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbi

Re: NJE functionality using a linux server?

> -Original Message- > From: Post, Mark K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 10:29 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: NJE functionality using a linux server? > > > I would agree with David. Based on David's experience, and > Alan Altmark's > comments that "eve

Re: NJE functionality using a linux server?

I would agree with David. Based on David's experience, and Alan Altmark's comments that "everything is negotiable," you should be able to get a license on an IFL. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kern, Thomas Sent: Tuesday, Marc

Re: cvs login to a remote server

And since 2401 is the default port, in principle you don't need it anyway, which reduces the CVSROOT to :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/src Rod -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EM

Re: Second Wind for Big Iron

Is Apr 7, 1964 actually when the 360 was introduced? That is the same month that Ford started selling the Mustang. -Original Message- From: Ron Greve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 10:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Second Wind for Big Iron http://www.bu

Re: NJE functionality using a linux server?

Okay, This is what I get for not have at least 3 mugs of coffee before listening to my MVS officemate. Our MVS system has something called "Anynet SNA over IP" that we use to communicate with other MVS sites. /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 > -Original Message- > From: David Boyes [mailto:[EM

RES: Sendmail Under zLinux Hanging

What kind of raw data ? -Mensagem original- De: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Em nome de Barton Robinson Enviada em: terça-feira, 23 de março de 2004 12:16 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assunto: RES: Sendmail Under zLinux Hanging If you could collect some raw monitor data for tha

Re: NJE functionality using a linux server?

> Since the NJE functionality of RSCS cannot be licensed for an IFL > installation, has anyone used a linux server to replace this > functionality? > CTC/ESCON connectivity would still be available as would > TCP/IP since our > MVS server does do TCPNJE to other systems. Hooray! When did MVS get T

Re: cvs login to a remote server

Ken, You need another colon after "2401" in your CVSROOT variable. Regards, --Jim-- James S. Tison Senior Software Engineer TPF Laboratory / Architecture IBM Corporation "If dogs don't go to heaven, then, when I die, I want to go where they do." -- Will Rogers Ken Vance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sen

RES: Sendmail Under zLinux Hanging

If you could collect some raw monitor data for that period of time, it would be interesting to see if maybe you had some other bottleneck occuring. You can ftp the data to Velocity Software for analysis. >From: Giancarlo Rodolfi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Actually I'm not using the eligible list (QUIC

Re: CTC between linux & zOS.

I tried both 0 or 1 with no success. Netstat dev on zOS shows: DevName: CTC3X7DevType: CTC DevNum: 0B72 DevStatus: Ready LnkName: CTC37 LnkType: CTC LnkStatus: Ready NetNum: 1 QueSize: 0 BytesIn: 0 BytesOut: 0 ActMtu: 32

Kernel memory allocation

Hello, Is there a way to limit the number of "page cached" on a SLES8 system without limiting the size of the guest ? I want to reserve a large number of free memory pages for the application. Have a look to the allocation please: In the morning, procs memory

NJE functionality using a linux server?

Since the NJE functionality of RSCS cannot be licensed for an IFL installation, has anyone used a linux server to replace this functionality? CTC/ESCON connectivity would still be available as would TCP/IP since our MVS server does do TCPNJE to other systems. /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 --

cvs login to a remote server

Hi, I am trying to use cvs login to access a remote server from our linux system. I perform the following: linuxs15:/tmp # cvs login Logging in to :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:2401/cvs/src CVS password: After I enter the password, the task never completes. Do I need to enable a service or a port

YaST Open source?

personal storage and filing application to the open-source community." This is an interesting turn of events, imho. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=74&ncid=738&e=9&u=/cmp/20040323/tc_cmp/18

Re: Scheduling on z/VM

Thomas makes a good point here, SCHEDULE works fine for individual CMS users to schedule their own personal events and actions, but the VMUTIL/RXSERVER is a better tool for system wide actions (e.g., backups). Of course, I suppose one could write a system-wide server (using RXSERVER, maybe) and hav

Re: Scheduling on z/VM

SCHEDULE is a nice tool for functions I want to run in my own virtual machine. For disjointed, unassociated functions that cover the entire zVM system, I prefer to use the VMUTIL server built from Kris Buelens [EMAIL PROTECTED] RXSERVER kernel that is available from the IBM Downloads webpage. There

rpm macros in 64-bit

I noticed that the %{_libdir} is set to /usr/lib (rather than /usr/lib64) in the s390x version of the SuSE rpm package. Am I right in that this is wrong ? Rob -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, s

Re: dasd_diag_mod mission in SLES8 64bit

On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 15:46, Rob van der Heij wrote: > Because the block list for Diagnose I/O has 31-bit addresses, I have a > slight feeling that would be a problem when your virtual machine grows > beyond 2GB. If that is the only reason then that's too bad, since I > expect most of the 64-bit Li

Re: SuSE 9.1 for zSeries ???

Thank you Joachim. Rod -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390

Re: Scheduling on z/VM

where would one find a copy of this ? Crispin Hugo Systems Programmer, Macro 4 Macro 4 plc, The Orangery, Turners Hill Road, Worth, Crawley, RH10 4SS Direct Line: +44 (0)1293 872121 Switchboard: +44 (0) 1293 872000 Fax: +44 (0) 1293 872001 This message contains confidentia

RE : HTTP Engine for Linux zSeries

Hello Kevin, I have done a lot of tests with Apache and IBMHttpServer with WAS 4.0.4 and WAS 5.0.2 on SLES7 and SLES8. Apache and WAS work correctly if you don't need SSL functions. The main difference is that Apache uses OpenSSL, IBMHttpServer uses Gsk5 like WAS. I recommend the use of IBMHttpSe