Re: Updated Fedora 11 hercules images available

2009-07-21 Thread David Boyes
DISPLAY=yourworkstation:0.0;export DISPLAY Gdm& Although you REALLY don't want to do this. You're much better off running clients remotely with the display pointed to your desktop. -- db On 7/21/09 6:22 PM, "Bernie VK2KAD" wrote: Thanks for the package list - I went thru it and noticed that

Re: Updated Fedora 11 hercules images available

2009-07-21 Thread Bernie VK2KAD
If only it was that easy - VNC doesn't appear to be installed - and due to issues with Windows networking from Hercules, I cannot access the 'net from Fedora under Herc. - This rules out simple 'yum install xxx' techniques. It would appear that sftp is installed on the F11 image so that has possibi

Re: Updated Fedora 11 hercules images available

2009-07-21 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 7/21/2009 at 6:22 PM, Bernie VK2KAD wrote: > Thanks for the package list - I went thru it and noticed that both Gnome and > KDE packages are installed - so my question is - can I get a GUI desktop > from my zFedora ??? Yes. > If so, could someone guide me as to how I can accomplish this

Updated Fedora 11 hercules images available

2009-07-21 Thread Bernie VK2KAD
Thanks for the package list - I went thru it and noticed that both Gnome and KDE packages are installed - so my question is - can I get a GUI desktop from my zFedora ??? If so, could someone guide me as to how I can accomplish this. Bern -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto

Re: OSA/Express Assistance

2009-07-21 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 7/21/2009 at 2:32 PM, "Moody, Craig" wrote: > I have reset OSA ports by using the OSA Advanced Facilities dialog in the > HMC. I really don't think that will be needed either. Everything so far just points to messed up configuration files. Mark Post

Re: OSA/Express Assistance

2009-07-21 Thread Moody, Craig
I have reset OSA ports by using the OSA Advanced Facilities dialog in the HMC. It takes about 15 minutes for the port to actually reset after you hit enter though. IBM Hardware Support walked me through it the first time and warned me to be patient for the actual reset. The HMC Operations Guide

Re: OSA/Express Assistance

2009-07-21 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Dave, The HMC ASCII Console is enabled inside of Linux with the following in /etc/inittab. The mingetty line comes commented out. # # z900 LPAR SE/HMC VT220/Linux console - uncomment to enable getty on it: # 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --noclear /dev/ttyS1 linux Then once you have done a teli

Re: OSA/Express Assistance

2009-07-21 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 7/21/2009 at 2:08 PM, David Stuart wrote: > Mace, > > Oh, I hope a POR isn't required. The OSA/Express cards are shared across > multiple LPARs... I doubt very much that a POR will be needed. What does "ifconfig -a" and "lsqeth" show you? Mark Post

Re: OSA/Express Assistance

2009-07-21 Thread David Stuart
Mace, Oh, I hope a POR isn't required. The OSA/Express cards are shared across multiple LPARs... Dave Dave Stuart Prin. Info. Systems Support Analyst County of Ventura, CA 805-662-6731 david.stu...@ventura.org >>> "LJ Mace" 7/21/2009 7:25 AM >>> You may need to POR the system to reset

Re: OSA/Express Assistance

2009-07-21 Thread David Stuart
Hi Ron, I am using the HMC, Operating System Messages, which limits what you can do. I'll check out the ascii console. Yes, I have two ports. I have two OSA/Express cards in the System. One port on each card is ethernet, the other is OSA-ICC. The ethernet ports on both cards are shared a

Re: WMB and DB2 Connect on z/Linux

2009-07-21 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 7/21/2009 at 10:11 AM, "Beesley, Paul" >>> wrote: > Hello > > We are installing WebSphere Message Broker on z/Linux to replace MQSI on > z/OS and have so far uploaded and installed WMB itself, MQ and DB2 > We believe we need to install DB2 Connect to be able to run SQL against > DB2 file

Re: SDK for SLES 11

2009-07-21 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 7/21/2009 at 6:49 AM, Florian Bilek wrote: > Hi Mark, > > I installed now the sdk-11 and have again some questions: > > - Is it right that the 2. Media is there only to provide the sources? Becaus > in that case I have no need to keep it on my install server. Correct. > - sdk 10 had a

Re: OSA/Express Assistance

2009-07-21 Thread LJ Mace
You may need to POR the system to reset the osa. I don't know of any other way to bring it back if they are as dead as you say. Saying that and looking at what you've done I would have to take a WAG that here is a less invasive way to bring them back. I am not familiar with native Linux and the op

WMB and DB2 Connect on z/Linux

2009-07-21 Thread Beesley, Paul
Hello We are installing WebSphere Message Broker on z/Linux to replace MQSI on z/OS and have so far uploaded and installed WMB itself, MQ and DB2 We believe we need to install DB2 Connect to be able to run SQL against DB2 files on the mainframe, but are confused as to what us actually required. O

Re: Other OSs instead of RHEL/SUSE for LCDS?

2009-07-21 Thread Scott Rohling
>>After getting the system and all, I asked around the office, and it turns out that our software is very difficult >>to run on RHEL or Novell SuSe. Now I am stuck with a system that cant run the software. This sounds a little vague and contradictory. It's difficult to run -- and next sentence -

Re: Other OSs instead of RHEL/SUSE for LCDS?

2009-07-21 Thread Adam Thornton
On Jul 21, 2009, at 7:54 AM, Shawn Wells wrote: What is your end goal? As there aren't any other Linux distributions supported by IBM on System z, you may be out of luck but if you give us details on what you're trying to do, we may be able to assist. Note the "by IBM" bit there. For

Re: OSA/Express Assistance

2009-07-21 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
David, When you say, you have to connect to the system via the HMC, are you talking about the operating systems messages interface or the ASCII console interface? You say both ports. This implies more than one interface. What is your default route set to in /etc/sysconfig/network/routes? Is i

Re: Updated Fedora 11 hercules images available

2009-07-21 Thread Phil Knirsch
On 07/21/2009 02:45 PM, Phil Knirsch wrote: On 07/21/2009 02:12 AM, Bernie Saward wrote: Hi Phil Many thanks for the new image - can I offer a suggestion - to help out us old mainframers who have trouble coming to grips with the likes of vi - could you pls include the package Midnight Commander

Re: Other OSs instead of RHEL/SUSE for LCDS?

2009-07-21 Thread Shawn Wells
On 07/21/2009 03:12 AM, Jason Crons wrote: MY first REAL post here, hope its still active list. This is from an email that i just sent to IBM about their LCDS thingy. And then later found out how to get on these so called 'forums' but rather lists. "Hey IBM, First I'd like to say, if this is jus

Re: Updated Fedora 11 hercules images available

2009-07-21 Thread Phil Knirsch
On 07/21/2009 02:12 AM, Bernie Saward wrote: Hi Phil Many thanks for the new image - can I offer a suggestion - to help out us old mainframers who have trouble coming to grips with the likes of vi - could you pls include the package Midnight Commander. My first actions with a new image are to '

Re: SDK for SLES 11

2009-07-21 Thread Florian Bilek
Hi Mark, I installed now the sdk-11 and have again some questions: - Is it right that the 2. Media is there only to provide the sources? Becaus in that case I have no need to keep it on my install server. - sdk 10 had a rexx package. I cannot find it under sdk 11. Do you have any idea what happen

Other OSs instead of RHEL/SUSE for LCDS?

2009-07-21 Thread Jason Crons
MY first REAL post here, hope its still active list. This is from an email that i just sent to IBM about their LCDS thingy. And then later found out how to get on these so called 'forums' but rather lists. "Hey IBM, First I'd like to say, if this is just a bot address, maybe Linux Automated Ticke