Hillgang Meeting

2012-03-07 Thread Neale Ferguson
Pencil in 28 March for the next Hillgang meeting at CA¹s offices in Herndon Virginia. Agenda will be posted in the next several days. At the moment we have speakers from Velocity and IBM. Neale -- For LINUX-390 subscribe /

ZVM IPL Error

2012-03-07 Thread Dazzo, Matt
I had to add the timezone for 2012 in my SYSTEM CONFIG file. I thought (that's the problem) it might be a good idea to IPL for 2 reasons, first it's been months since vm was ipl'd, second I did not know if the changes would be in affect without it. Seems vm did not come down all the way even

Re: ZVM IPL Error

2012-03-07 Thread David Kreuter
Hi Matt: What console are you using to IPL? The CP READ pending is seen if you are IPLing a second level z/VM system and your console is not in CONMODE 3270 or you are using the non-3270 system console in the HMC. If you are doing the IPL from an HMC you would be better off using the integrated

Re: ZVM IPL Error

2012-03-07 Thread Dazzo, Matt
Dave, I am using the HMC as the console. I am very new to zvm so not familiar with vm console or SAPL, would that be in the cp planning and admin guide? Thanks -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of David Kreuter Sent: Wednesday, March

Re: ZVM IPL Error

2012-03-07 Thread Richard Troth
Right. VM didn't finish shutting down. Would be good to find out what was holding it back. Meanwhile ... So you are in a recovery situation. Since VM was still running when you hit the switch (clicked the load button), it will do its best to recovery spool files from checkpoint. But it tells you

Re: ZVM IPL Error

2012-03-07 Thread Scott Rohling
Enter FORCE .. you shouldn't lose anything. And the changes in SYSTEM CONFIG will be in effect the NEXT TIME YOU IPL in the specified date ranges -- z/VM will not switch automatically -- those values are only good at boot time. You will have to specifically issue CP SET TIMEZONE to get z/VM to