Fwd: IBM Launches the z13 Mainframe

2015-01-13 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 1/13/2015 at 07:05 PM, Mark Regan <000d30be819f-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/45808.wss Thanks, > > Mark Regan, USNR-Ret, 1969-1991 What he said. Also, a link to a YouTube video (from Mark Sipples of IBM) and a couple of li

Can't get FEDORA21 installer to start IPL z/VM RDR.

2015-01-13 Thread Tom Huegel
This worked the last time I did it .. FEDORA18. Any ideas? [ 291.090419] dracut-initqueue[848]: Warning: Could not boot. Mounting Configuration File System... [ [32m OK [0m] Mounted Configuration File System. [ [32m OK [0m] Started Show Plymouth Boot Screen. [ [32m OK [0m] Reac

Re: Fedora 21 for IBM System z release

2015-01-13 Thread Neale Ferguson
Docker requires golang from google as it is built using the go build command. There is a project that is creating a gccgo build. Some folks in IBM Germany appear to be helping on this. I suspect in order to get docker going. I have built a gcc-5.0 with gccgo which has s390x as a target which builds

Re: Fedora 21 for IBM System z release

2015-01-13 Thread Dan Horák
On Tue, 13 Jan 2015 14:20:16 -0200 Tito Garrido wrote: > That is good news Dan! > > Any chance to have a Fedora 21 s390x base image for docker? oh, there is a demand for docker on s390 :-) There are plans for the future to provide that, but there are still obstacles on the road, like docker wan

Re: Fedora 21 for IBM System z release

2015-01-13 Thread Tito Garrido
That is good news Dan! Any chance to have a Fedora 21 s390x base image for docker? Thanks! Tito On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Dan Horák wrote: > On Mon, 5 Jan 2015 15:43:54 + > "Tener, Stuart (ITS)" wrote: > > > ALCON, > > > > With OpenCobol now becoming GnuCobol, I am curious wh

Re: LINUX-390 Digest - 9 Jan 2015 to 12 Jan 2015 (#2015-5)

2015-01-13 Thread David Boyes
> I now want to install some tools from the VM downloads web pages. Is there > a= standard or commonly used convention for where such tools should be > stored?= I found some sample instructions for installing pipeddr where the > code was i= nstalled on the MAINT 191 for instance. I would not expe

Re: Where to put Z/VM tools and utilities

2015-01-13 Thread Keith Gooding
Thanks everyone. I will set up a user to own the tools as suggested and use VMLINK. I am the only z/VM user except for a couple of people in the company who used VM many years ago and have an id for nostalgic reasons (and who could be useful if I am not around) so I will just update the PROFILE

Re: cio_ignore vs Linux in System z

2015-01-13 Thread Ingo Adlung
Indeed, as pointed out by other folks this "feature" was introduced in our very early days, when clients started to install Linux into LPARs with possibly tens of thousands of devices they would need if IPLing z/OS into it. Not only did it take long to boot, but we initially only operated on the fi