Re: best way to set up "alternate ipl packs" on z/VM 6.2?

2012-08-02 Thread Thomas Kern
If you don't need to run the alternate volume for long, you can live with a 1 volume (3390-9) RES pack, with spool and page on it. I built one to be able to IPL something other than our production systems and use multiple VMs in that system to COPY our DASD (VM and MVS) from one DASD subsystem t

Re: Synchronous option for chccwdev -- was there a resolution?

2012-08-02 Thread Sebastian Ott
On Tue, 31 Jul 2012, David Boyes wrote: > Florian's original post. > Corroborating posts from other users (Mark Post, etc) > My data (on average 3 out of 100 tests fail) > > I'd be happy to send you more examples. Are you looking for something > specific? The script recently posted here (by you, I

Today is the 40th anniversary of the announcement of VM/370

2012-08-02 Thread Jim Elliott
Today is the day! For those attending SHARE next week, we will have a birthday party on Wednesday afternoon following my webcast live from SHARE with my personal memories of 39 years working with the product. http://www.vm.ibm.com/vm40bday.html Jim ---

best way to set up "alternate ipl packs" on z/VM 6.2?

2012-08-02 Thread Collinson.Shannon
In z/VM 5.4, we had two set of packs (a set consisting of a "res" pack with the code on it + a spool + a page volume) that we'd alternate between as we brought up different levels of maintenance. We'd IPL off of the "res" pack for a set and it'd pop in the single spool and page volumes associat

Re: Firefox v10 on SLES11SP2 installed in /usr/lib64?

2012-08-02 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 1 August 2012 23:14, Alan Cox wrote: > The question is > > 'What CVE numbers are the flaws being logged and does your vendor release > have those fixed according to the changelog and their security statements' > > Don't do security by version numbers, it's broken and anybody who simply > says