Re: Question about Global Mirror/XRC

2008-09-30 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
1) Is 'XRC' and 'Global Mirror' the same thing? YES. (2) I see questions posted in the past regarding 'GDPS/XRC' and z/VM not supporting timestamps. That is correct, XRC of zVM systems does not support timestamps, so you cannot recover to a sync'ed point in time, but you can just recover, from

Re: List FAQ etc

2008-08-25 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
Actually, sniping is discouraged. Snipping is encouraged. :) MA On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 6:52 AM, Mark Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: SNIPING is encouraged! mark -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access

APAR Opened and workaround

2008-08-25 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
FYI, an apar has been opened (below) and a workaround is presented for an XRC suspend that occurs when formatting a VM minidisk. Mary Anne APAR= OA26125 SER=MS MSGANTX5104E XRC ANTX5104E RC=0901 DURING FORMAT OF A VM MINIDISK STAT= OPEN FESN0565517-

Re: DFDSS Backups

2008-07-16 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
According to the z/os 1.9 DSS Reference manual p688: It (the Standalone RESTORE command) cannot restore from tapes created by a DFSMSdss logical dump, from a DFSMSdss tracks dump using the CPVOLUME keyword, or from dump tapes produced by other utilities. FYI. MA On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:11 PM,

Vexxing Rexx

2008-06-12 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
Ok, first off, I know it's spelled vexing. But that doesn't look as nice. :) I'm having fun with rexx today. First, I'll tell you the problem I'm trying to solve, in case theres a better way, then I'll tell you the problem I'm having in my rexx exec. Problem: I have 50 some linuxes all sending

Re: Vexxing Rexx

2008-06-12 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
? Check the options). There is a solution for your problem but I'm away from my cms system at the moment. I'll check later (unless someone here knows the answer off the top of their head). i -- Original Message -- Received: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:19:53 PM BST From: Mary Anne

Re: Vexxing Rexx

2008-06-12 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
itself if a variable is not initialized. However, a set = at the top of your code would kill your SET statement, for example. I can also see the .LINUX1 giving REXX some trouble w/o quotes around the statement... Anyway - FWIW - Scott On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 7:49 AM, Mary Anne Matyaz [EMAIL

Re: Vexxing Rexx

2008-06-12 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
(date noh | tabulate by 1-8 sum 40-44 | console' -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mary Anne Matyaz Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 8:20 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Vexxing Rexx Ok, first off, I know it's spelled vexing

What's in my spool?

2008-05-27 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
Hello all. I have two VM LPARs, each with a mod9 spool. One is at 4% utilization and one is at 26%. I have run SFPURGER and perfkit option 7 shows nothing major on either. Both have several NSS's that are the largest according to perfkit. Q RDR OPERATNS shows no records for dumps. There are a few

Re: What's in my spool?

2008-05-27 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mary Anne Matyaz Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 7:36 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: What's in my spool? Hello all. I have two VM LPARs, each with a mod9 spool. One is at 4% utilization and one is at 26%. I have run

Re: Running Oracle on GT 2 IFLs

2008-02-14 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
There's a relatively new whitepaper on large memory configurations that also has some CPU info. MA http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/WP101151 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: NEW TOPIC -- Workload move from z/OS to z/Series Linux

2008-02-01 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
Hi Alan. We have moved about 3 small and 2 large Oracle applications over from z/OS. Mary Anne On Jan 31, 2008 8:56 PM, Alan Ackerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My original topic was completely hijacked by disucssion of ZIIPS and ZAAP so I am going to try again. Please no more ZIIPs and ZAAPs.

Re: Workload move from z/OS to z/Linux

2008-01-30 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
://www.zseriesoraclesig.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=194sid=7bbd301cf7899f5d6c32e2a2c5e9efe4 Mary Anne On Jan 29, 2008 10:39 PM, Mark Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 8:50 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mary Anne Matyaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oracle is a great one

Re: Workload move from z/OS to z/Linux

2008-01-29 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
Oracle is a great one as Oracle will no longer be supporting the z/OS platform. MA On Jan 29, 2008 8:00 PM, Rich Smrcina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What sort of workloads are being run on z/OS that can also run on Linux for System z? Websphere, Domino, DB2, Oracle? All of these are

Re: Dynamic configuration changes

2007-11-07 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
Can you add a CPU while it's running? From the linux side, I mean? We couldn't figure out how to get linux to recognize a new cpu. Mary Anne On Nov 7, 2007 11:14 AM, Mark Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ray Mansell wrote: I have a feeling this is

Re: Philosophical: Linux vs. AIX

2007-10-19 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
It's ironic, isn't it, that the argument the AIX guy is using is the same one we used against AIX and Windows way back when'Yes, they may be quicker for small things, but they have no security, no RAS, no management tools, etc'. That's what makes them quick and agile, not having all those

Re: Copying zVM and zLinux Logs to MVS GDG dataset

2007-09-20 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
Someone in IBM had a paper that detailed this, basically called CONLOG. I'm checking to see if it's ok to post it. But basically, you you do a SPOOL CONS CONLOG START EOF in each Linux's profile exec. Nightly, we do a 'bump' by issuing a SPOOL CONS CLOSE then the SPOOL CONS CONLOG START EOF again

Re: Copying zVM and zLinux Logs to MVS GDG dataset

2007-09-20 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
John, normally I get nothing but the secuser messages, unless there is a reboot, then I get all of those message. A quick scan of my logs shows a dasd(eckd): I/O status report for device 0.0.1149, so I guess you get those too. Basically, you don't need it when all is well... but you really need it

Re: GDPS/XRC for z/VM and Linux volumes

2007-06-28 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
We haven't really tested the GDPS Automation part, but XRC is working pretty well for us, and we have brought up VM and Linuxes at the D/R site. GDPS WILL automate the activation of the LPAR so as long as you have everything set to come up automagically from there you should be fine. The only

Re: Mini-survey: Linux usability

2007-06-13 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
An ispf like editor on linux would be great. :) MA On 6/12/07, Spann, Elizebeth (Betsie) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The kicker for me in my first install was formatting the Linux disk w/out having a Linux system. Having to drop out of the text based menus and figure out how to format and then

Re: Mini-survey: Linux usability

2007-06-13 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
The what? MA On 6/13/07, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mary Anne Matyaz Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 6:27 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Mini-survey: Linux usability

Re: Mini-survey: Linux usability

2007-06-13 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
Yeah, was kidding John. :) Should've smiled. MA On 6/13/07, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mary Anne Matyaz Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 7:55 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re

Re: Ain't our spouses and SOs grand?

2007-06-01 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
One time at band camp On 5/31/07, Stephen Frazier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But music majors are Geeks also. They are just geekish in an artistic way. :0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I studied music in university. Geekdom came later. David

Re: shutdown -r now on VM 5.1

2007-05-31 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
Brad, PTF UM31428 is not marked in error, so if it did not fix your problem either IBM isn't aware of a continuing problem or is is possible you are not using the appropriate load module? If not, suggest you open a pmr. Mary Anne On 5/30/07, Brad Hinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw a

Re: IBM GDPS and zVM DASD

2007-04-05 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
Robert, I'm not familiar with hyperswap at all, but GDPS/XRC should run fine with VM. We have tested IPLing VM from the tertiary disks at a DR site that were xrc'ed. Mary Anne On 4/5/07, RPN01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What can anyone out there tell me about ³Globally Dispersed Parallel

Re: IBM GDPS and zVM DASD

2007-04-05 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
Can you tell me what versions and levels of the various opsys involved are required? May be moot, since we run CSE. Z/OS 1.6 with GDPS 3.2 and Z/VM 5.2 with RHEL 4.3. MA -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: IBM GDPS and zVM DASD

2007-04-05 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
What can anyone out there tell me about ³Globally Dispersed Parallel Sysplex² for zOS, and zVM sharing DASD with that environment? Probably the first thing I should have told you is that it's Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex. :) David is correct, Netview and SA/390 are required for

Re: gnupg 2.0.1

2007-01-09 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
Not to be picky, but, I think it's picky, not pickey. picky. *Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)*. Random House, Inc. 09 Jan. 2007. Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/picky MA On 1/8/07, Tom Duerbusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pickey, pickey, pickeyone little character

Re: FDR backups of Linux volumes?

2006-12-13 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
Also - is it normal for the volume serial to be 0X followed by the device number? fdasd or dasdfmt, one, will by default set the volser to 0Xdevno. So, yes. :Warning ON VM Newbie Answering a question We do a dasdfmt command with the -l option to add a volume name. Example: dasdfmt -b 4096 -y

Re: backing up a logical volume

2006-12-07 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
Let me add another twist for you gurus...imagine you have a 2T database and the veritas solution over the network takes too long. You don't have any tapes on VM and you want to use the VTS on MVS. What would you do? Mary Anne On 12/7/06, LJ Mace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are using adrdssu