Re: zFCP and NPIV - limit of 32

2015-08-18 Thread Alan Altmark
On Tuesday, 08/18/2015 at 08:50 EDT, Grzegorz Powiedziuk wrote: > Got it! Thank you so much for spending time on explanation. That definitely > helps. You're welcome. > The bottom line is - I can ?over provision? (or kind of thin provision) fcp > channels as long as I keep below 32 attached

Re: Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) for installation on zLinux?

2015-08-18 Thread Marcy Cortes
We've been given an exception because it doesn't exist for z. Not a bad thing imnsho :) -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of CHAPLIN, JAMES (CTR) Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 5:35 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [LINUX-390] S

Re: Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) for installation on zLinux?

2015-08-18 Thread Dave Rivers
This link professes to describe all the system requirements for all of the versions of Symantec Endpoint Protection: https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.TECH163829.html#SystemRequirements In my casual glance

Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) for installation on zLinux?

2015-08-18 Thread CHAPLIN, JAMES (CTR)
Fellow Penguin Mainframers, Has anyone installed Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) on Linux (RHEL or SUSE) on the s390x architecture? We have been given a "Security Requirement" that this vendor specific software has to be in place, and we cannot even verify that they support the s390x architec

Interesting information in blog post by Tom Rosamilia, SVP IBM

2015-08-18 Thread John McKown
I don't remember the information quoted below being said before. From: http://asmarterplanet.com/blog/2015/08/ibms-big-bet-open-source-economy.html More than a third of our mainframe clients today are running Linux. -- Schrodinger's backup: The condition of any backup is unknown until a resto

Re: Ubuntu Distribution Announced for LinuxONE(TM) and IBM z Systems

2015-08-18 Thread Ihno Krumreich
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 02:25:20PM -0600, Mark Post wrote: > >>> On 8/17/2015 at 08:48 AM, Dave Jones wrote: > > Morning, all. > > > > It appears that we will have Ubuntu Linux joining RedHat and SuSE in > > supporting Linux on the mainframe. > > > > http://mainframeinsights.com/ubuntu-distrib

Re: zFCP and NPIV - limit of 32

2015-08-18 Thread Grzegorz Powiedziuk
> On Aug 17, 2015, at 4:57 PM, Alan Altmark wrote: > > On Monday, 08/17/2015 at 03:04 EDT, Grzegorz Powiedziuk > wrote: >>> On Aug 17, 2015, at 11:10 AM, Alan Altmark > wrote: >>> >>> The limit of 32 is on the number of active NPIV subchannels, not the >>> number of active connections being