Re: Adding DASD to a guest

2015-08-15 Thread Don Williams
P.S. For some unknown reason, I was consistently misspelling DETACH On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 10:17 PM Don Williams donbwms.foru...@gmail.com wrote: Ouch. I typically work in the z/OS world where there is only VARY. Multiple systems (including systems that are not local VM guests) could have

Re: Adding DASD to a guest

2015-08-15 Thread Don Williams
Ouch. I typically work in the z/OS world where there is only VARY. Multiple systems (including systems that are not local VM guests) could have the same DASD device online. Those other systems could re-label the volume while the volume was online to VM but not attached. Then hours later I could

Re: Adding DASD to a guest

2015-08-15 Thread Don Williams
on to the guest I get the not linked message. When I log back into MAINT and q dasd free, the disks in question are showing free again. This says to me I am not attaching them correctly. Am I on the right track? On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Don Williams donbwms.foru...@gmail.com wrote: ATTACH

Re: Adding DASD to a guest

2015-08-15 Thread Don Williams
Glad we could help. On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 1:57 PM Cameron Seay cws...@gmail.com wrote: Worked like a charm. Problem solved! Thanks folks! On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Don Williams donbwms.foru...@gmail.com wrote: When you ATTACH w/o keyword SYSTEM, you are ATTACHing to your guest

Re: Adding DASD to a guest

2015-08-15 Thread Don Williams
P.S. In order to do the format you need to attach to your guest. Then reattach to SYSTEM to allow LINKs to be processed. On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 1:58 PM Don Williams donbwms.foru...@gmail.com wrote: Glad we could help. On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 1:57 PM Cameron Seay cws...@gmail.com wrote

Re: Adding DASD to a guest

2015-08-15 Thread Don Williams
ATTACH to SYSTEM would be the logical time to read the label, since VM would need to validate the label in order to securely process LINK requests. ATTACH to guest would not require validating label. I use to get confused between ATTACHing devices and LINKing minidisks. And the difference between

Re: Adding DASD to a guest

2015-08-15 Thread Don Williams
I thought vol1 labels were read when to ATTACH dev TO SYSTEM. Once ATTACHed to SYSTEM, then minidisk on that volume would be available to LINK to guests. On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 12:31 PM Mark Post mp...@suse.com wrote: On 8/15/2015 at 11:56 AM, Cameron Seay cws...@gmail.com wrote: Any ideas

Is using System z MIPS for Office applications a good use (was: Excel replacement for linux on z)

2013-03-21 Thread Don Williams
Is using System z MIPS for office applications a good use? I'm not sure one way or the other. Could the cost of running office applications on System z be cheaper than running them on a PC? When more types of applications run on System z, IBM could sell to more customers. IBM would need to make

Re: General Question

2013-02-27 Thread Don Williams
There are hardware architecture differences (e.g., the way numbers are stored, etc.) between Intel and System z. Of course, applications can be written to handle these differences, but they would need to tested in both types of environments. Since they probably don't have free access to System z,

Re: Who's using execute in place?

2013-02-12 Thread Don Williams
Agreed. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 10:29 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Who's using execute in place? On Tuesday, 02/12/2013 at 09:57 EST, David Boyes

Re: Adding a Volume to a LV

2013-01-25 Thread Don Williams
LOL, it helps me not make that mistake again. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of David Stuart Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 2:59 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Adding a Volume to a LV Morning again, Never mind. I figured

Re: Virus software?

2013-01-18 Thread Don Williams
Sadly, multi-platform viruses have been created. It all depends on the hacker's intentions and abilities. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Dean, David (I/S) Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 9:27 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: RHEL 5.4 Released

2009-09-07 Thread Don Williams
A few days ago, our IBM sales support surveyed us, asking if we used CMMA. I had to tell him that I did not even know what it was. He said that it was a memory management process. Being a gray haired z/OS systems programmer, but newbie to z/VM zLinux (inherited responsibility for z/VM and SUSE