Re: Formatting minidisk for zLinux image with CPFMTXA command

2014-11-19 Thread Chu, Raymond
Mark, They are real minidisks and CPFMTXA with PERM parameter should be used. Thanks, Ray Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 19, 2014, at 5:02 PM, Mark Post wrote: > > Email sent from outside of PSEG. Use caution before using links/attachments. > > On 11/19/2014 at 04:24 PM, "Chu, Raymond" w

Re: SLES11 SP3 v SP1

2014-11-19 Thread Barton Robinson
AMEN On 11/19/2014 9:38 AM, Mark Post wrote: On 11/19/2014 at 03:18 AM, "Guest, Darren" wrote: Mark, are you suggesting that the Oracle team should have some actual data to back up their claims? Not just a bloke with a stopwatch and an uneasy feeling?! ;-) But yes, I have already asked them t

Re: Formatting minidisk for zLinux image with CPFMTXA command

2014-11-19 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 11/19/2014 at 04:24 PM, "Chu, Raymond" wrote: > Need to format mindisks for zLinux image. Understand that cpfmtxa command has > several parameters. They are DRCT, PAGE, SPOL, PERM and PARM. > > Further understanding that > PARM is for CMS- formatted minidisk that contains the System Conf

Re: Formatting minidisk for zLinux image with CPFMTXA command

2014-11-19 Thread Scott Rohling
PERM .. I assume you are formatting z/VM volumes and not minidisks though? Scott Rohling On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Chu, Raymond wrote: > Hi, > > Need to format mindisks for zLinux image. Understand that cpfmtxa command > has several parameters. They are DRCT, PAGE, SPOL, PERM and PARM.

Formatting minidisk for zLinux image with CPFMTXA command

2014-11-19 Thread Chu, Raymond
Hi, Need to format mindisks for zLinux image. Understand that cpfmtxa command has several parameters. They are DRCT, PAGE, SPOL, PERM and PARM. Further understanding that PARM is for CMS- formatted minidisk that contains the System Configuration files PERM is for CP user minidisks, minidisks, ch

Re: SLES12 / partitioning

2014-11-19 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 11/19/2014 at 07:43 AM, "Levy, Alan" wrote: > During the install, I removed /var, /opt/ ,tmp and /home from the btrfs > (dasda). I then created these partitions on their own device (dasdb thru > dasde). When I log in, via maintenance mode due to the failed dependency > errors, everythin

Re: autofs doesn't umount

2014-11-19 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 11/19/2014 at 05:59 AM, "van Sleeuwen, Berry" >>> wrote: > Why would the directory not be unmounted? How can this be solved? Are you current on maintenance for SP3? Mark Post -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / arc

Re: Error downloading SLES 12 ISO image?

2014-11-19 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Dave, Marcy, Rich, Mark, Thanks. wget with the quotes did the trick. I didn't RTFM very well because the quotes were in the example! Also, the stop of the download at 2.2GB seemed to be on our end - perhaps some AV software being overly ambitious. But wget was smart enough to restart: ... 77% [=

Re: SLES11 SP3 v SP1

2014-11-19 Thread Michael Harding
Linux on 390 Port wrote on 11/19/2014 09:38:33 AM: > From: Mark Post > > Yeah, it's a hold over from my time in NTS. I had a number of > customers trying to tell me they had a performance problem without > any data. When I was working at EDS, our manager used to tell us > that if there was no

Re: SLES11 SP3 v SP1

2014-11-19 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 11/19/2014 at 03:18 AM, "Guest, Darren" wrote: > Mark, are you suggesting that the Oracle team should have some actual data to > back up their claims? Not just a bloke with a stopwatch and an uneasy > feeling?! ;-) But yes, I have already asked them to raise this with SUSE > support in

Re: Error downloading SLES 12 ISO image?

2014-11-19 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 11/19/2014 at 12:21 PM, Marcy Cortes >>> wrote: > In the wget, try putting quotes around the URL you cut and pasted. Correct. Either single or double quotes will work. It's how I download _every_ DVD image. Then, if something happens in the middle, the "-c" switch comes in very, ver

Re: Error downloading SLES 12 ISO image?

2014-11-19 Thread Rich Paredes
I just tried downloading the SLES12 s390x media from here: https://download.suse.com/protected/Summary.jsp?buildid=727vh-9Go98~ It finished in under 3 minutes, 2.7G no issues. On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Michael MacIsaac wrote: > Dave, > > No FTP, this is through the Web. I use the latest

Re: Error downloading SLES 12 ISO image?

2014-11-19 Thread Marcy Cortes
In the wget, try putting quotes around the URL you cut and pasted. Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Michael MacIsaac Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 9:19 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Error downloa

Re: Error downloading SLES 12 ISO image?

2014-11-19 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Dave, No FTP, this is through the Web. I use the latest FireFox and sign in to download.suse.com, click though to SLES 12 for s390x and there are two very long URLs (DVD1 is 353 characters) I clicked on "how to use a download manager" and it also suggested wget from Linux. I tried that and the U

Re: Error downloading SLES 12 ISO image?

2014-11-19 Thread Dave Jones
Hi, Mike. No, I was able to download the SLES 12 iso files files directly from the Novel site with no problem. What does your FTP log look like? DJ On 11/19/2014 10:31 AM, Michael MacIsaac wrote: > Has anyone had trouble downloading the SLES 12 ISO image for DVD1? > > I have tried to download DV

Error downloading SLES 12 ISO image?

2014-11-19 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Has anyone had trouble downloading the SLES 12 ISO image for DVD1? I have tried to download DVD 1 a number of ways (free 60 day evaluation, with valid credentials through partnernetprogram.com then download.suse.com) and the download always starts, but always dies after about 80% completed and ver

Anyone else see these messages when building from source on RHEL?

2014-11-19 Thread David Boyes
When building some packages from source with yum-builddep, we are seeing the following more frequently: > warning: bogus date in %changelog: Sat Aug 10 2014 Patsy Franklin > mailto:pfran...@redhat.com>> - 2014f-1 > warning: bogus date in %changelog: Thu May 28 2014 Patsy Franklin > mailto:pfr

Re: device-mapper: reload ioctl on failed

2014-11-19 Thread Shumate, Scott
We found the problem. After working with RedHat, it appears that the lvm system was not using the read_only mounts options properly so adding the proper flag fixed it. I've asked the same question about NFS but that was the way our linux team set it up years ago. Our middleware guys wanted t

Re: SLES11 SP3 v SP1

2014-11-19 Thread Dean, David (I/S)
http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=cZ_72vokYDs~ -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 7:00 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: SLES11 SP3 v SP1 There was a significant perfo

Re: SLES12 / partitioning

2014-11-19 Thread Levy, Alan
Thanks Mark: During the install, I removed /var, /opt/ ,tmp and /home from the btrfs (dasda). I then created these partitions on their own device (dasdb thru dasde). When I log in, via maintenance mode due to the failed dependency errors, everything looks fine. I can see the separated partitions

autofs doesn't umount

2014-11-19 Thread van Sleeuwen, Berry
Hi All, We have an SLES11 SP1 machine configured with autofs to mount iso images. When a linux guest accesses the machine the isofile is mounted, after 1 minute the isofile is umounted. Today the machine is migrated to SLES11 SP3. The autofs configuration is moved into the new machine so I wou

Re: SLES11 SP3 v SP1

2014-11-19 Thread Guest, Darren
Hi all, Thanks for the responses. I'll check that the Linux guys are using the latest kernel just to be sure. Mark, are you suggesting that the Oracle team should have some actual data to back up their claims? Not just a bloke with a stopwatch and an uneasy feeling?! ;-) But yes, I have alread