Re: VDISK Swap

2011-10-05 Thread Pat Carroll
Google SWAPGEN SINENOMINE Patrick Carroll | Technical Architect II L.L.Bean | Information Services (207) 552-2426 | pcarr...@llbean.com -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Dean, David (I/S) Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 3:04 PM To:

Re: MONDCSS after IPL

2011-06-06 Thread Pat Carroll
Assuming your testing went swimmingly, do a saveseg. Patrick Carroll | Technology Architect II L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | Double L St. | Freeport ME 04033 http://www.llbean.com | pcarr...@llbean.com | 207.552.2426 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential

Re: trying to format dasd in linux

2011-05-24 Thread Pat Carroll
Try: dasdfmt -b 4096 -d cdl -f /dev/dasde /dev/dasde1 refers to a partition on /dev/dasde Patrick Carroll | Technology Architect II L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | Double L St. | Freeport ME 04033 http://www.llbean.com | pcarr...@llbean.com | 207.552.2426 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and an

Re: Question from our Linux Support Person

2011-04-11 Thread Pat Carroll
Use VNC, run away from X. Patrick Carroll | Technology Architect II L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | Double L St. | Freeport ME 04033 http://www.llbean.com | pcarr...@llbean.com | 207.552.2426 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential information that is legall

Re: New User Linux on z10 question

2011-04-06 Thread Pat Carroll
My guess is that management does not understand that. Patrick Carroll | Technology Architect II L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | Double L St. | Freeport ME 04033 http://www.llbean.com | pcarr...@llbean.com | 207.552.2426 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidentia

Re: New User Linux on z10 question

2011-04-06 Thread Pat Carroll
I love it when management gets involved in technical architecture. It may work if you share the IFL amongst 12 LPARs. How well it will work depends on the workload. Maybe they're talking about Zen? Patrick Carroll | Technology Architect II L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | Double L St. | Freeport ME 04

Re: VSWITCH and GRANT for VLAN

2011-04-04 Thread Pat Carroll
this message. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 5:03 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: VSWITCH and GRANT for VLAN On Monday, 04/04/2011 at 02:59 EDT, Pat Carroll wrote: > D

Re: VSWITCH and GRANT for VLAN

2011-04-04 Thread Pat Carroll
e Support Cell - 443 632-4191 -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Pat Carroll Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 1:16 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: VSWITCH and GRANT for VLAN Is the physical switch port configured to tag all

Re: VSWITCH and GRANT for VLAN

2011-04-04 Thread Pat Carroll
Is the physical switch port configured to tag all frames, or just the primary vlan? Patrick Carroll | Technology Architect II L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | Double L St. | Freeport ME 04033 http://www.llbean.com | pcarr...@llbean.com | 207.552.2426 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and any attac

Re: Moving Oracle off zLinux boxes -- comments from the field?

2011-03-23 Thread Pat Carroll
Works *very* well here. Patrick Carroll | Technology Architect II L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | Double L St. | Freeport ME 04033 http://www.llbean.com | pcarr...@llbean.com | 207.552.2426 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential information that is legally

Re: Using 2 NIC addresses to different networks on different VSWITCHes

2011-03-03 Thread Pat Carroll
Mike, Has the customer tried to put the appropriate GATEWAY= statement in each ifcfg_ethx? PC Patrick Carroll | Technology Architect II L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | Double L St. | Freeport ME 04033 http://www.llbean.com | pcarr...@llbean.com | 207.552.2426 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail an

Oops 0038 in kernels above Red Hat 2.6.9-89.0.23.EL

2010-09-28 Thread Pat Carroll
Hi Listers, Anyone seen this one? Didn't start until mandatory patching drove us above the .23 level of the kernel I got a good dump and plan to open an incident. TIA... Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference at virtual kernel address 006100570031 Oops: 0038 #1 CPU:1Not tainted P

Re: PSW 000A0000 00000100

2010-06-29 Thread Pat Carroll
this message. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 3:53 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: PSW 000A 0100 >>> On 6/29/2010 at 03:35 PM, Pat Carroll wrote: > Since

Re: PSW 000A0000 00000100

2010-06-29 Thread Pat Carroll
ass G SYSTEM RESET CLEAR prior to the IPL reset the i/o status and hence let the IPL sequence go forward? Or is it too far down the wrong road? David Kreuter Original Message Subject: Re: PSW 000A 0100 From: Pat Carroll Date: Tue, June 29, 2010 3:35 pm To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIS

Re: PSW 000A0000 00000100

2010-06-29 Thread Pat Carroll
Mark, Since he's using a dedicated boot disk, would it help (in the meantime) if there's a forced delay between virtual machine creation time and Linux IPL command (i.e, sleep 5)? Patrick Carroll | Technology Architect II L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | Double L St. | Freeport ME 04033 http://www.llbe

Re: PSW 000A0000 00000100

2010-06-29 Thread Pat Carroll
100 parameters = "root=/dev/dasdc1 TERM=dumb" lsdasd shows /dev/dasdc1 to be unit 200. VM Directory shows 200 to be a dedicated DASD device. Any ideas why something would fail to initialize? Is it a timing thing? From: Pat Carroll To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Date:

Re: PSW 000A0000 00000100

2010-06-29 Thread Pat Carroll
PL 200" which z/Linux ipled as if there was nothing wrong. From: Pat Carroll To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 06/29/2010 09:56 AM Subject:Re: PSW 000A 0100 Sent by:Linux on 390 Port What's in /boot? Patrick Carroll | Technology Architect II L

Re: PSW 000A0000 00000100

2010-06-29 Thread Pat Carroll
What's in /boot? Patrick Carroll | Technology Architect II L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | Double L St. | Freeport ME 04033 http://www.llbean.com | pcarr...@llbean.com | 207.552.2426 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential information that is legally privileg

Re: Linux on Z networking issue

2010-06-04 Thread Pat Carroll
breath in between. David Kreuter Original Message Subject: Re: Linux on Z networking issue From: Pat Carroll Date: Fri, June 04, 2010 3:12 pm To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU If you're doing vlan tagging you need to configure as a trunk port Patrick Carroll | Technolo

Re: Linux on Z networking issue

2010-06-04 Thread Pat Carroll
If you're doing vlan tagging you need to configure as a trunk port Patrick Carroll | Technology Architect II L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | Double L St. | Freeport ME 04033 http://www.llbean.com | pcarr...@llbean.com | 207.552.2426 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain

Re: Linux for System z T-shirts

2010-04-30 Thread Pat Carroll
Make that two ;)) Patrick Carroll | Technology Architect II L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | Double L St. | Freeport ME 04033 http://www.llbean.com | pcarr...@llbean.com | 207.552.2426 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential information that is legally privile

Re: how many mips per list subscriber

2010-04-30 Thread Pat Carroll
I considered using it as a heating plant but the ROI wasn't there ;) Let's do it Patrick Carroll | Technology Architect II L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | Double L St. | Freeport ME 04033 http://www.llbean.com | pcarr...@llbean.com | 207.552.2426 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachmen

Re: Linux for System z T-shirts

2010-04-30 Thread Pat Carroll
DB wrote: "Maybe I've been doing too much assembler recently..." Green with envy ;) Patrick Carroll | Technology Architect II L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | Double L St. | Freeport ME 04033 http://www.llbean.com | pcarr...@llbean.com | 207.552.2426 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and any attach

Re: Linux for System z T-shirts

2010-04-29 Thread Pat Carroll
PS I meant an actual fully populated box, not just a pic ;) No, it's not powered on. Patrick Carroll | Technology Architect II L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | Double L St. | Freeport ME 04033 http://www.llbean.com | pcarr...@llbean.com | 207.552.2426 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and any attac

Re: Linux for System z T-shirts

2010-04-29 Thread Pat Carroll
Hmmm maybe not. I happen to have one in my 'Pat Cave'. But it's a Millennium GS700 (not a 470/v8 ;)) Patrick Carroll | Technology Architect II L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | Double L St. | Freeport ME 04033 http://www.llbean.com | pcarr...@llbean.com | 207.552.2426 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-

Re: /var/lib/zypp/cache/ is on my nerves

2010-04-23 Thread Pat Carroll
to fill our /var/ directory with patches that we already have on the YUM server. I do not know how, or why. We do not knowingly use rug either. Is it safe to clear these directories out? Peter Pat Carroll Sent by: Linux on 390 Port 04/23/2010 09:51 AM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port

Re: /var/lib/zypp/cache/ is on my nerves

2010-04-23 Thread Pat Carroll
See: yum clean Patrick Carroll | Technology Architect II L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | Double L St. | Freeport ME 04033 http://www.llbean.com | pcarr...@llbean.com | 207.552.2426 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential information that is legally privileged

Re: Low address protection

2010-03-11 Thread Pat Carroll
It's just Java being Java ;) Patrick Carroll | Enterprise Architect L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | Double L St. | Freeport ME 04033 http://www.llbean.com | pcarr...@llbean.com | 207.552.2426 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential information that is legally

Re: LOGOFF FORCED BY SYSTEM

2009-12-21 Thread Pat Carroll
Or you can autolog the Linux machines... Patrick Carroll | Enterprise Architect L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | Double L St. | Freeport ME 04033 http://www.llbean.com | pcarr...@llbean.com | 207.552.2426 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential information tha

Re: LOGOFF FORCED BY SYSTEM

2009-12-21 Thread Pat Carroll
I suggest you put 'SET RUN ON' as the last line in the PROFILE EXEC of the Linux machines. And, as a creature of habit, I habitually use '#cp disc#b'. Patrick Carroll | Enterprise Architect L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | Double L St. | Freeport ME 04033 http://www.llbean.com | pcarr...@llbean.com | 20

Re: BMC BladeLogic

2009-12-04 Thread Pat Carroll
We had to make small tweak to a script, result works fine. However, I'm not sure of the timing for official support. Patrick Carroll | Enterprise Architect L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | Double L St. | Freeport ME 04033 http://www.llbean.com | pcarr...@llbean.com | 207.552.2426 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTI

Re: zSeries OS licenses, Was: Re: ch-0.0.0e21 (TX in ch_action_txretry): Busy

2009-11-10 Thread Pat Carroll
390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Pat Carroll > Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 2:52 PM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: zSeries OS licenses, Was: Re: ch-0.0.0e21 (TX in ch_action_txretry): Busy > > I agree, it's all about money. It seems to

Re: zSeries OS licenses, Was: Re: ch-0.0.0e21 (TX in ch_action_txretry): Busy

2009-11-10 Thread Pat Carroll
I agree, it's all about money. It seems to me that an educational license would be a *good* long term investment, even if a few are abused. Or maybe IBM's commitment to the "NextGen" is not as strong as we are led to believe. Patrick Carroll | Enterprise Technical Architect L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) |

Re: zSeries OS licenses, Was: Re: ch-0.0.0e21 (TX in ch_action_txretry): Busy

2009-11-10 Thread Pat Carroll
Switching to Education for a sec... IBM is pouring lots of cash into the zNextGen project (kudos for that). It seems to this feeble mind that making an affordable (to a college student) System z image, with the appropriate restrictions, as an educational platform, would make a lot of sense (and fu

Re: zSeries OS licenses, Was: Re: ch-0.0.0e21 (TX in ch_action_txretry): Busy

2009-11-09 Thread Pat Carroll
Pat * 2 Patrick Carroll | Enterprise Technical Architect L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | Double L St. | Freeport ME 04033 http://www.llbean.com | pcarr...@llbean.com | 207.552.2426 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential information that is legally privileged.

Re: Dasd_diag_mod question

2009-09-11 Thread Pat Carroll
Changing the size isn't an issue for me; I size memory so that we *barely* swap anyway. I've never has to change the size of a vdisk. Spelling courtesy of Blackberry - Original Message - From: Linux on 390 Port To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Fri Sep 11 13:02:54 2009 Subject: Re: Das

Re: Dasd_diag_mod question

2009-09-11 Thread Pat Carroll
I don't consider it complex; it's very useful. Thanks to SineNomine. Patrick Carroll | Enterprise Technical Architect L.L.Bean, Inc.® | Double L St. | Freeport ME 04033 http://www.llbean.com | pcarr...@llbean.com | 207.552.2426 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may c

Re: JAVA JDK 1.6

2009-08-07 Thread Pat Carroll
> Trying to mix and match bits and pieces from various distributions is a good way to get things messed up and cause severe problems for your business. Can I get a big 'AMEN' Patrick Carroll | Enterprise Technical Architect L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | Double L St. | Freeport ME 04033 http://ww

Re: Dasd_diag_mod question

2009-07-29 Thread Pat Carroll
I find it very handy in dev/stage environments where by definition, there are *lots* of unknowns. Patrick Carroll | Enterprise Technical Architect L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | Double L St. | Freeport ME 04033 http://www.llbean.com | pcarr...@llbean.com | 207.552.2426 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-

Re: Adding dasd technique

2009-07-28 Thread Pat Carroll
When I ran into this I decided on a standard addressing scheme for all Linux clones. In /etc/modprobe.conf: Options dasd_mod 200-2ff,300-30f(diag) (Obviously, I'm using dasd_diag_mod) This allowes changes to LVM without a lot of headache. Patrick Carroll | Enterprise Technical Architect L

Re: Quick command question

2009-07-09 Thread Pat Carroll
Modprobe vmcp Patrick Carroll | Enterprise Technical Architect L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | Double L St. | Freeport ME 04033 http://www.llbean.com | pcarr...@llbean.com | 207.552.2426 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential information that is legally privi

Re: RACF and Linux for z/Series

2009-06-12 Thread Pat Carroll
We're running RACF on z/VM 5.3 and 5.4 without (*sob*) an assembler... Patrick Carroll | Enterprise Technical Architect L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | Double L St. | Freeport ME 04033 http://www.llbean.com | pcarr...@llbean.com | 207.552.2426 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments m

xymon 1.3 client for z/VM

2009-05-06 Thread Pat Carroll
I've got the xymon 1.3 client running on z/VM 5.3 and 5.4 systems. Some *very* nice work by Rich Smrcina and Tom Kern. Thanks, gents. There is one small issue in exec HOBVMDSK: Original code looks like this, starting around line 99: if right(total,1)='K' then total=left(total,length(total

Re: Formatting 60 mod9s

2009-02-04 Thread Pat Carroll
using FDR. How does your process affect the 'dummy VTOC' Z\os requires to mount the Linux volume so we can back it up? Dave O'Brien The OP's Storage Guy From: Linux on 390 Port [linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Pat Carroll [pcarr...@

Re: Formatting 60 mod9s

2009-02-04 Thread Pat Carroll
I first cpformat, dasdfmt, fdisk, and mke2fs one volume, then use our DASD vendor's cloning technology to create the others. Patrick Carroll | Enterprise Technical Architect L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | Double L St. | Freeport ME 04033 http://www.llbean.com | pcarr...@llbean.com | 207.552.2426 CONF

Re: Z/Linux CKD DASD migration from one DASD Subsystem to another

2009-01-23 Thread Pat Carroll
>> Iffen I had my druthers, I'druther SYSTEM CONFIG allowed volumes to be specified by device address instead of, or >> >> inaddition to, volser. Alan, I see your point, but many would have an issue with that approach - many DR scenarios would be at risk. Pat -

Re: z/VM CTCA won't start

2009-01-21 Thread Pat Carroll
Correct - just ask anyone from Amdahl or Hitachi ;) Patrick Carroll | Enterprise Architect L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | Double L St. | Freeport ME 04033 http://www.llbean.com | pcarr...@llbean.com | 207.552.2426 -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu]

Re: SWAPGEN and PROFILE EXEC's

2009-01-16 Thread Pat Carroll
I do almost the same, but use a default, unless an fsstate of the 'userid() exec' file says to do otherwise. We only have a handful of exceptions, so the maintenance issue is minimal. Patrick Carroll | Enterprise Architect L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | Double L St. | Freeport ME 04033 http://www.llb

Re: Mainframe-related kernel updates

2009-01-13 Thread Pat Carroll
Very cool...Thanks Mark Patrick Carroll | Enterprise Architect L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | Double L St. | Freeport ME 04033 http://www.llbean.com | pcarr...@llbean.com | 207.552.2426 -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent:

Re: V-DISK for swapping - DIAG driver

2008-12-24 Thread Pat Carroll
Try /dev/dasdf1 and /dev/dasdg1 Patrick Carroll | Enterprise Architect L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | Double L St. | Freeport ME 04033 http://www.llbean.com | pcarr...@llbean.com | 207.552.2426 -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Bauer,

Re: why it's not working - where to start

2008-12-23 Thread Pat Carroll
Not likely Check to be sure the external switch port connected to your OSA is configured correctly (correct default vlan ID, trunk, etc) Patrick Carroll | Enterprise Architect L.L.Bean, Inc.® | Double L St. | Freeport ME 04033 http://www.llbean.com | pcarr...@llbean.com | 207.552.2426

Re: V-DISK for swapping - DIAG driver

2008-12-23 Thread Pat Carroll
One other thing (my brain is highly fragmeneted this morning ;) You will also need to change modprobe.conf. For example, my convention is to use 800-8FF for ECKD and 900-90F as DIAG, so my modprobe.conf looks like this: Dasd=800-8ff,900-90f(diag) (And you will need to run zipl after you mkinitrd

Re: V-DISK for swapping - DIAG driver

2008-12-23 Thread Pat Carroll
In addition to swapgen, you may need to add the diag driver (dasd_diag_mod) to your initrd. If so, you may also need to modify your security patch/update process to include making a new initrd each time you change the kernel level. Patrick Carroll | Enterprise Architect L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | D

Re: VMotion equivalent

2008-12-19 Thread Pat Carroll
IBM is wotking on Live Guest Migration (Romney?) I can't wait ;) Patrick Carroll | Enterprise Architect L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | Double L St. | Freeport ME 04033 http://www.llbean.com | pcarr...@llbean.com | 207.552.2426 -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm

Re: Slightly OT: Converting Oracle databases to run on Linux for System z

2008-12-18 Thread Pat Carroll
We used export/import to do the restore from AIX to zLinux. See note 277650.1 in Oracle's Metalink support site - it's the document we used to start the process. Patrick Carroll | Enterprise Architect L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | Double L St. | Freeport ME 04033 http://www.llbean.com | pcarr...@l

Re: z/VM and Linux on GP engines

2008-12-04 Thread Pat Carroll
Sounds like a seriously misinformed person ;) Patrick Carroll | Enterprise Architect L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | Double L St. | Freeport ME 04033 http://www.llbean.com | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 207.552.2426 -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ch

Re: Oracle, zlinux, and virtualization

2008-12-02 Thread Pat Carroll
, 2008 7:11 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Oracle, zlinux, and virtualization On Dec 2, 2008, at 3:46 PM, Pat Carroll wrote: > Call me. > You don't *look* like Debbie Harry. Adam -- For LINUX-390 subscrib

Re: Oracle, zlinux, and virtualization

2008-12-02 Thread Pat Carroll
, Pieter Harder [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel +31-73-6837133 / +31-6-47272537 -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens Pat Carroll Verzonden: dinsdag 2 december 2008 22:35 Aan: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Onderwerp: Re: Oracle, zlinux, and virtualization Our

Re: Oracle, zlinux, and virtualization

2008-12-02 Thread Pat Carroll
Our experience has been nothing but positive with regard to Oracle on zLinux (pardon the term), in terms of price/performance. Patrick Carroll | Enterprise Architect L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | Double L St. | Freeport ME 04033 http://www.llbean.com | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 207.552.2426 -Origin

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2008-12-02 Thread Pat Carroll
platforms". This kind of misinformation from reps at these vendors sure make it hard to sell mainframe Linux as a solution internally. Simple statements like these to the wrong people are nearly irreversibly damaging. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] O

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2008-12-02 Thread Pat Carroll
forms". This kind of misinformation from reps at these vendors sure make it hard to sell mainframe Linux as a solution internally. Simple statements like these to the wrong people are nearly irreversibly damaging. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Beh

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2008-12-02 Thread Pat Carroll
That sounds like a seriously misinformed person. Patrick Carroll | Enterprise Architect L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | Double L St. | Freeport ME 04033 http://www.llbean.com | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 207.552.2426 -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: Add a swap file to a running z/Linux guest

2008-11-26 Thread Pat Carroll
Yep... 1) Add the device to USER DIRECT and directxa 2) From the Linux console: link * cuu cuu wr 3) mkswap /dev/dasd? 4) swapon /dev/dasd? Patrick Carroll | Enterprise Architect L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | Double L St. | Freeport ME 04033 http://www.llbean.com | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 207.552.2426

Re: IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for WebSphere

2008-10-14 Thread Pat Carroll
Yes, it runs on z. We trialed it. Patrick Carroll | Enterprise Architect L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | Double L St. | Freeport ME 04033 http://www.llbean.com | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 207.552.2426 -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stahr, Lea Sen

Re: Perftk fun

2008-09-28 Thread Pat Carroll
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Rohling Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2008 12:34 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Perftk fun Ok - hmm - what's your FCONRMT SYSTEMS file look like? Scott Rohling On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Pat Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The FCX

Re: Perftk fun

2008-09-28 Thread Pat Carroll
thing (like MONWRITE) collecting the records? You may not see any data until the next interval (5 minutes? - depends on what your sampling rate is).. Scott Rohling On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Pat Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Created a SYSTEM NETID FILE on the a-disk. > &

Re: Perftk fun

2008-09-28 Thread Pat Carroll
g On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Pat Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Created a SYSTEM NETID FILE on the a-disk. > > Now I see system VMPRODA on the system screen but it says 'no data > received' > Progress! > > Under 5.2 we didn't S&a

Re: Perftk fun

2008-09-28 Thread Pat Carroll
Sunday, September 28, 2008 10:47 AM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: Perftk fun > > what does your FCONRMT AUTHORIZ file contain? > Also on another note it looks like MONITOR SAMPLE CONFIG area is too > small. > David > > >

Re: Perftk fun

2008-09-28 Thread Pat Carroll
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Kern Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2008 11:19 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Perftk fun How did you fix the monitor sample config thing? /Tom Kern Pat Carroll wrote: > Hi David > Thanks for the quick response. > I fixed the monitor samp

Re: Perftk fun

2008-09-28 Thread Pat Carroll
you don't have one, that could be the problem..I was recently on a system that looked like it had similar issues - there was no SYSTEM NETID file - so I created on on the A disk (cpuid VMPRODA VMPRODA) and that got it going.. Scott Rohling On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Pat Carroll &l

Re: Perftk fun

2008-09-28 Thread Pat Carroll
t the PERFSVM directory entry on 5.3 is the same as the PERFSVM directory entry on 5.2.. Good luck. DJ - Original Message - From: Pat Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Perftk fun Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:54:50 -0400 > Hi David > Tha

Re: Perftk fun

2008-09-28 Thread Pat Carroll
ther note it looks like MONITOR SAMPLE CONFIG area is too small. David From: Linux on 390 Port on behalf of Pat Carroll Sent: Sun 9/28/2008 10:39 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Perftk fun I flipped a couple of LPARs to 5.3 (from 5.2), and am having is

Perftk fun

2008-09-28 Thread Pat Carroll
I flipped a couple of LPARs to 5.3 (from 5.2), and am having issues getting the web interface to work correctly. When I get past the login page, there are no systems listed. I expect to see one (in this case, VMPRODA). Seems to be related to the FCXAUT410A message. We do not tun RSCS or VTAM. Had

Re: Unit record device driver

2008-06-05 Thread Pat Carroll
Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Perry Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 12:46 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Unit record device driver Pat Carroll wrote: > The user space tools are there, but the driver (unless I'm missing > something) is not. > Oh its there

Re: Unit record device driver

2008-06-05 Thread Pat Carroll
The user space tools are there, but the driver (unless I'm missing something) is not. Patrick Carroll | Enterprise Architect L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | Double L St. | Freeport ME 04033 http://www.llbean.com | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 207.552.2426 -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mail

Re: Unit record device driver

2008-06-05 Thread Pat Carroll
t: Thursday, June 05, 2008 11:46 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Unit record device driver >>> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 11:36 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Pat Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi List, > I'm trying to find the latest source RPM for

Unit record device driver

2008-06-05 Thread Pat Carroll
Hi List, I'm trying to find the latest source RPM for the ur driver. The only one I can find is ur-0.4 (from the Large Scale Linux Deployment Redbook (2002)). Anyone have a link? Anyone installed it under RH4 or 5? TIA + Cheers Patrick Patrick Carroll | Enterprise Architect L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) |

Re: Missing DIAG discipline; was RE:

2007-11-27 Thread Pat Carroll
Hi Peter I've been able to get the diag driver loaded on my failing test clone. Did some testing using two clones (identical kernel/initrd/bootmap etc). On one, the diag driver worked as expected. On the other, it failed to load. Turns out the only difference was in zipl.conf. This fails: parame

Re: Missing DIAG discipline; was RE:

2007-11-27 Thread Pat Carroll
Hi Peter, Thanks for the response. It was indeed a typo (of the cut-and paste variety). On my test system, I removed all initrd images from /boot (except for initrd-2.6.9-55.0.2.EL) and have the same results. Cheers Pat Patrick Carroll | Enterprise Architect L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | Double L St.

Re: Missing DIAG discipline; was RE:

2007-11-26 Thread Pat Carroll
Peter, Looking at these messages, and as you said earlier, the diag driver is getting loaded well after dasd_generic_probe tries to online the device. Interesting that I can't manually online the device after the diag driver finally gets loaded... Cheers...Pat Loading dasd_mod.ko module Loading

Re: Missing DIAG discipline; was RE:

2007-11-26 Thread Pat Carroll
Hi Peter I did this: mkinitrd -v -f --preload=dasd_mod --preload=dasd_diag_mod initrd-2.6.9-55.0.2.E 2.6.9-55.0.2.EL Creating initramfs Looking for deps of module dasd_mod Looking for deps of module dasd_diag_mod dasd_mod Looking for deps of module dasd_mod Looking for deps of module ide

Re: Missing DIAG discipline; was RE:

2007-11-26 Thread Pat Carroll
Peter, That makes a lot of sense...I'll give it a try. Thanks for taking the time to do these tests. If you ever get to Maine, let me know, I'll repay the favor Cheers, Pat Patrick Carroll | Enterprise Architect L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | Double L St. | Freeport ME 04033 http://www.llbean.com |

Re: Missing DIAG discipline; was RE:

2007-11-26 Thread Pat Carroll
Yes...methinks that this started after a mkinitrd/zipl Patrick Carroll | Enterprise Architect L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | Double L St. | Freeport ME 04033 http://www.llbean.com | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 207.552.2426 -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Re: Missing DIAG discipline; was RE:

2007-11-26 Thread Pat Carroll
Hi Peter, Thanks for your email. The lsmod was done immediately after reboot (i.e., I didn't manually load it). I did try to online the device but it's stubbornly still offline. It seems that although the driver is in the initrd image, it isn't being detected, or fails to load by the time it's r

Re: Missing DIAG discipline; was RE:

2007-11-21 Thread Pat Carroll
Hi Peter, It's there, but with a use count of 0: bash-3.00# lsmod Module Size Used by z90crypt 168624 0 autofs4 240136 0 sunrpc945664 1 dm_mod464624 0 qeth 543128 0 qdio 138576 2 q

Re: Missing DIAG discipline; was RE:

2007-11-21 Thread Pat Carroll
nap just taken. >>> Pat Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/21/2007 6:37 AM >>> Hi Mark I'm trying to force the use of the diag driver for vdisk swap devices. In particular, I want to set up device 801 as the default swap device for all servers, and have the ability to add add

Re: Missing DIAG discipline; was RE:

2007-11-21 Thread Pat Carroll
Hi Peter, Thanks for your response. I decomposed the initrd image: cd /tmp/initrd bash-3.00# ls -l total 36 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 20 15:43 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 20 15:43 dev drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 20 15:43 etc -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1029 Nov 20 15:43 init drwx

Missing DIAG discipline; was RE:

2007-11-21 Thread Pat Carroll
m | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 207.552.2426 -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 6:21 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: >>> On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 5:39 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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2007-11-20 Thread Pat Carroll
Can someone please clear up some confusion... Does the dasd diag driver (dasd_diag_mod) work in a 64 bit Red Hat Linux server configured with > 2GB memory? RH4 U4 (2.6.9-55.0.2.EL) and z/VM 5.2 RSU 0602 (64 bit). Thanks... Pat Carroll/L.L.Bean Patrick Carroll | Enterprise Archit

Re: issuing a shutdown to linux before IPL'ing VM

2007-08-06 Thread Pat Carroll
1) Set up /etc/inittab thusly: # Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -h now 2) Enter the CP command: SIGNAL SHUTDOWN ALL WITHIN Where nnn is the number of seconds you can wait before the hammer comes down ;) 3) Enter the CP command: Q SIGNALS To see the shutdown status A 'FFF' w

Re: coredump() ???

2007-06-06 Thread Pat Carroll
How about a snippet of assembler code to issue a CP DUMP command via a diagnose? Patrick Carroll | Enterprise Architect L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | Double L St. | Freeport ME 04033 http://www.llbean.com | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 207.552.2426 -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[E

Re: Securing zVM logon via z/OS RACF

2007-06-04 Thread Pat Carroll
Wow,..thanks for the responses. Like David, I was hoping for a little hidden miracle in 5.3 Maybe 5.4? Time to get creative ;)) Patrick Carroll | Enterprise Architect L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | Double L St. | Freeport ME 04033 http://www.llbean.com | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 207.552.2426 -Origin

Securing zVM logon via z/OS RACF

2007-06-04 Thread Pat Carroll
Greetings all, Is it possible to use z/OS-based RACF to authenticate a z/VM user (non-Linux)? The idea is to avoid maintaining a second (z/VM-based) RACF instance... Both LPARs (z/OS and z/VM) are on the same CEC... TIA Pat Patrick Carroll | Enterprise Architect L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | Double L St.

Re: August 16 IUCV patch

2002-08-30 Thread Pat Carroll
Thanks Rob - that approach seems to work. There still seems to be a problem with the patch, though. The patch hits three files: iucv.c. iucv.h, and netiucv.c The first two (iucv.c and iucv.h) apply fine, but the patch to netiucv.c fails to verify Here's the first failing hunk from iucv-2.4.17.p

IUCV patch from 8/16/2002

2002-08-29 Thread Pat Carroll
Has anyone sucessfully applied this patch? It's format is different that what I'm used to... Seems to be an RCS file rather than unified diff? Should I be using something other than the patch command? TIA Patrick Patrick A. Carroll Senior Systems Engineer L. L. Bean Casco St Freeport, ME 04033 (

Re: Patch for IUCV initialization delay now on linuxvm.org

2002-06-10 Thread Pat Carroll
Just a heads up, in case you're planning to build with the may2002 code drop, and want to include this patch: Here's what I get when I apply the fix for the IUCV initialization delay problem on top of: linux-2.4.17.tar.gz (from kernel.org) + linux-2.4.17-s390-may2002.diff + linux-2.4.17-timer

Re: ipl z/vm without 3270 controller on hmc

2002-06-07 Thread Pat Carroll
My understanding is that z/VM does not support the HMC Patrick A. Carroll Senior Systems Engineer L. L. Bean Casco St Freeport, ME 04033 (207) 552-2426 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: make image dies on s390_ksyms.c, do_call_softirq

2002-06-04 Thread Pat Carroll
Hi Mike, Interesting...I don't remember turning CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST off. But then again I'm a old dinosaur ;>D What you say is correct - I was able to recreate. Thanks for the info Cheers Patrick A. Carroll Senior Systems Engineer L. L. Bean Casco St Freeport, ME 04033 (207) 552-2426 [EMAIL PROT

Re: make image dies on s390_ksyms.c, do_call_softirq

2002-05-30 Thread Pat Carroll
Had the same problem just after the April 30 code drop. I re-downloaded from Developerworks on May 14, and that problem (as well as a few others) disappeared. I'm up and running on 2.4.17. Patrick A. Carroll Senior Systems Engineer L. L. Bean Casco St Freeport, ME 04033 (207) 552-2426 [EMAIL

Re: kernel 2.4.17 DASD not op?

2002-05-29 Thread Pat Carroll
Cornelia, Thanks for your reply! Which 2.4.17 patch are you referring to? I re-downloaded all 2.4.17 patches from Developerworks on May 14: 36467 May 14 14:17 linux-2.4.17-s390-1-lcs.tar.gz 41326 May 14 14:17 linux-2.4.17-s390-2.tar.gz 7254 May 14 14:17 linux-2.4.17-s390-kernty

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