Re: SAS

2012-03-31 Thread David Crayford
No worries. Bear in mind that WPS have a aggressive business strategy to undercut SAS on the price point, which is always welcome for customers. AFAIK, WPC are ex-IBMers from Hursley who saw a opportunity to deliver a competitive product at a much lower price. From what I can tell it's a C/C++

(Possibly Off Topic if any are relevant) Book Reader for Linux

2012-03-31 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! (I was originally going to post this to the list for VM especially since the books came from the disc collections I have who're all for the operating system in question but realized that it would get a better play on the Linux-390 list.) Here's an odd thought to occupy people for the

Re: SAS

2012-03-31 Thread Philipp Kern
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 04:14:52PM +0800, David Crayford wrote: FWIW, I tried to port R to z/OS but bailed when it required a Fortran compiler. Has Fortran been ported to zLinux or is that a moot point due to the the loosely coupled front-end - backend (optimizer) architecture of the GCC

Re: Extending a DASD partition

2012-03-31 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:14:37 -0400 (EDT), Mark Post wrote: On 3/30/2012 at 07:28 AM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: Try issuing the command again, this time without ext2 specified at the end. i.e. resize 1 98.3kb 2462MB parted is not going to work with ECKD devices,

Re: cio_ignore

2012-03-31 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Mark Post wrote: On 3/30/2012 at 11:31 AM, Lee Stewart lstewart.dsgr...@attglobal.net wrote: I've been trying to think of any reason to ever have cio_ignore in a VM guest. I can see real use for it in an LPAR where you may have thousands of devices that have nothing to

Re: Extending a DASD partition

2012-03-31 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:46:10 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: Note that, in theory, fdasd could be used, rather than parted, to create, delete, then re-create the partition at a larger size, provided that fdasd doesn't write anything to the partition when it deletes it. I don't know enough

Re: Extending a DASD partition

2012-03-31 Thread Christian Paro
The fdasd partitioning tool only alters the disk's partition table, which is outside of the partition being resized - making it suitable for extending a partition (assuming there is free formatted space after it) or shrinking a partition (assuming you have already shrunk the filesystem within it).