Re: HMCs - was:IPLing from tape

2013-08-21 Thread Kurt Acker
I felt compelled to share this after a quick Goggle search for IBM HMC LINUX: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Hardware_Management_Console Enjoy, Kurt Acker IBM Smarter Planet, Smarter Data Centers Virtualization and Enterprise System Management Technologies

OT: Tech legal news site Groklaw shutting down

2013-08-21 Thread Dave Jones
This a OT, but since Groklaw covered the legal battles between SCO and Novel over Unix and Linux issues, I thought some folks here might be interested: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9241738/Tech_legal_news_site_Groklaw_shutting_down_citing_email_privacy_concerns Kind of scary, imho. --

Re: OT: Tech legal news site Groklaw shutting down

2013-08-21 Thread John Campbell
It is far scarier than it may seem. Groklaw was a watcher... by existing it could keep some players more honest than otherwise. Now the cockroaches can swarm unseen, in the dark... and we are ALL left less protected. -soup -- John R. Campbell Speaker to Machines souperb at

z/VM 6.3 upgrade installation ESM considerations

2013-08-21 Thread Will, Chris
After looking at all the rac permits that need to be researched and entered (see chapter 25, step 2 of the z/VM 6.3 installation guide), it seems like it may be easier to just start from scratch. Why aren't these addressed in the instupgr step? At the very least, the ESM considerations should

Re: z/VM 6.3 upgrade installation ESM considerations

2013-08-21 Thread Scott Rohling
You could actually run the initial RACF definition scripts (can't remember offhand - RACDIRCT?) and let the existing ones fail and just pick up the new ones... or pick out the new definitions and just run them if they're easy to pick out (and they usually are for new release stuff). I have

Linux sys admin troubleshooting on z/VM

2013-08-21 Thread Melillo, Michael P
Hi All, I am somewhat new to z/VM and I am researching the user experience of Linux sys admins who are new to z/VM. Based on your collective experience supporting Linux, and particularly in helping Linux folks who are new to the VM environment, can anyone provide me examples of situations

Re: z/VM 6.3 upgrade installation ESM considerations

2013-08-21 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 08/21/2013 at 12:33 EDT, Will, Chris cw...@bcbsm.com wrote: After looking at all the rac permits that need to be researched and entered (see chapter 25, step 2 of the z/VM 6.3 installation guide), it seems like it may be easier to just start from scratch. Why aren't these