On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 1:08 AM, Cameron Seay wrote:
> I am teaching several nainframe classes this term and a question came up:
> does FICON proper provide firewall services or is that handled by RACF and
> the external firewall of the network where the mainframe lives?
>
>
​FICON is a type of p
The problem was a the dev_loss_tmo. It using the default causing the read only
issue. The correct dev_loss_tmo is 120 solving the problem.
Thanks for your help Robert, Sam and Gregory.
Victor Echavarry
System Programmer, EVERTEC LLC
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LIN
On Thursday, 01/22/2015 at 02:09 EST, Cameron Seay
wrote:
> I am teaching several nainframe classes this term and a question came
up:
> does FICON proper provide firewall services or is that handled by RACF
and
> the external firewall of the network where the mainframe lives?
FICON operates as ei
On Wednesday, 01/21/2015 at 10:09 EST, Mark Post wrote:
> I find it amazing that anyone at IBM came up with a product name with
the
> initials SCO. I can't decide if they were being snarky or oblivious.
All of the cloud-related products have had the word "Smart" removed from
them. The product i
Some not so good numbers from IBM:
http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/news/2240238638/IBMs-revenues-continue-their-journey-south?utm_medium=EM&asrc=EM_NLN_38968368&utm_campaign=20150122_Will%20IBM%20change%20with%20earnings%20stuck%20on%20the%20down%20escalator?_szaharoff&utm_source=NLN&track=
>From my reading of /proc/sysinfo, the LPAR name is present, but not the z/VM
>node.
Mark Gillis
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On Thursday, 01/22/2015 at 02:41 EST, "Gillis, Mark"
wrote:
> From my reading of /proc/sysinfo, the LPAR name is present, but not the
z/VM
> node.
The z/VM system identifier is not part of the output of STSI, just as the
CPC name is not available. (I wish it was, but it isn't.) If you are
fortu
>>> On 1/22/2015 at 02:35 PM, "Gillis, Mark" wrote:
> From my reading of /proc/sysinfo, the LPAR name is present, but not the z/VM
> node.
Yes, you're right. Sorry. I was remembering the version of z/VM, not the
system name. The guest userid is there, however.
Mark Post
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Hello,
I am in the middle of discussion about how to package and install software on
Linux for System z. There are people new to Linux involved and things like
InstallAnywhere are coming up. What is your experience with non-RPM installers?
For example, IBM Java no longer comes in as RPM for the
