Re: Stripping trailing blanks?

2003-07-29 Thread Lucius, Leland
Now that I have your attention (grin) what I'd like is something like: download -host MYMVS -user MYUSER -password MYPASS file 'MYUSER.PDF.CNTL(member)' $EDITOR file upload -host MYMVS -user MYUSER -password MYPASS file 'MYUSER.PDS.CNTL(member)' Will this work for ya John? Let me know if ya

Re: Stripping trailing blanks?

2003-07-29 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 02:51:40AM -0500, Lucius, Leland wrote: Will this work for ya John? Let me know if ya have questions. I must confess. I did this just for you. I never intended to use it. But, doggone it, I really like it. Heck, if I start to get used to it, I might even modify

DB2 UDB V7.2 install problem on SuSE SLES7 S/390 with kernel timer patch ............

2003-07-29 Thread Terry Spaulding
I have SuSE Linux SLES7 S390 with kernel timer patch installed under zVM 4.3. z800. I need to install DB2 UDB V7.2 to support LDAP. I started the DB2 install with ./db2setup and receive the following error message immediately. ./db2inst: error while loading shared libraries:

Re: DB2 UDB V7.2 install problem on SuSE SLES7 S/390 with kernel timer patch ............

2003-07-29 Thread Eric Sammons
First I would recommend using IBM DB2 8.1. I was able to get around this error by doing the following: ln -s /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 I then executed the rpm installs with the following options rpm -ihv --nodeps Hope that helps. Otherwise I believe

Re: DB2 UDB V7.2 install problem on SuSE SLES7 S/390 with kernel timer patch ............

2003-07-29 Thread Terry Spaulding
Eric, Based on the level of LDAP needed to be deployed DB2 V8 is not an option. The LDAP is part of TAM 3.9. It is only supported on DB2 UDB V7. In your response I enter a link statement to point the library to what DB2 V7 requires. I am installing DB2 V7 using the script ./db2setup, what rpm

Re: DB2 UDB V7.2 install problem on SuSE SLES7 S/390 with kernel timer patch ............

2003-07-29 Thread Eric Sammons
I installed TAM 4.1 and that is why I have UDB V8. Ahh the requirements Anyhow, I installed the following RPMs instead of using the db2inst script. IBM_db2sp81-8.1.0-0 IBM_db2icuc81-8.1.0-0 IBM_db2jdbc81-8.1.0-0 IBM_db2crte81-8.1.0-0 IBM_db2conn81-8.1.0-0 IBM_db2rte81-8.1.0-0

Re: DB2 UDB V7.2 install problem on SuSE SLES7 S/390 with kernel timer patch ............

2003-07-29 Thread Rich Smrcina
Terry, On the SLES7 CD there should be a package called compat. It contains the correct version of the library that DB2 requires. On Tuesday 29 July 2003 07:14 am, you wrote: I installed TAM 4.1 and that is why I have UDB V8. Ahh the requirements Anyhow, I installed the following RPMs

Re: DB2 UDB V7.2 install problem on SuSE SLES7 S/390 with kernel timer patch ............

2003-07-29 Thread John Summerfield
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Eric Sammons wrote: I installed TAM 4.1 and that is why I have UDB V8. Ahh the requirements Anyhow, I installed the following RPMs instead of using the db2inst script. IBM_db2sp81-8.1.0-0 IBM_db2icuc81-8.1.0-0 IBM_db2jdbc81-8.1.0-0 IBM_db2crte81-8.1.0-0

Re: Stripping trailing blanks?

2003-07-29 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: John Summerfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 6:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Stripping trailing blanks? On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, McKown, John wrote: snip I invoke it in a subdirectory with: for i in *;do ../nonum.sh

Runaway Processes

2003-07-29 Thread Chet Norris
We're testing with Websphere under RH 7.2 Linux running under z/VM. When a test process is invoked and it goes into a CPU loop, the only option I can see to recover is to do a #CP IPL. This will eventually result in a corrupted HFS. Any suggestions on how to better manage process loops? During

Re: Stripping trailing blanks?

2003-07-29 Thread John Summerfield
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, McKown, John wrote: -Original Message- From: John Summerfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 6:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Stripping trailing blanks? On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, McKown, John wrote: snip I invoke it

Re: DB2 UDB V7.2 install problem on SuSE SLES7 S/390 with kernel timer patch ............

2003-07-29 Thread Terry Spaulding
Eric, The link did the trick. I entered the link and used ./db2setup and everything installed no problem. I was also installing HTTP from WAS V5 with Fixpak 1 on another SuSE SLES7 which worked ok for the install. When I tried to do ./apachectl start I received the same error as in the DB2 UDB

Re: SCO not playing by Aussie Rules

2003-07-29 Thread Phil Payne
Go Aussies! http://www.theregister.com/content/61/31910.html http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10743 Certainly, SCO has succeeded in making lots of very smart people extremely angry. This isn't a great strategy in almost any situation. But aside from a few shills for proprietary

Memory displays on Linux

2003-07-29 Thread Kinnear, Mike
We recently encountered an application loop with a Linux Websphere instance. I was able to get a VM PER Branch trace, but I cannot find any command within Linux to display those memory locations or to determine where modules are actually loaded. The code does not have any 'eyecatchers' either, so

Re: Memory displays on Linux

2003-07-29 Thread Ferguson, Neale
/proc/pid/maps will show you where the executable and shared libraries are loaded. You can use the nm command to display the offsets within the shared library and executable for each of the entry points and then do the relocation to work out where in storage the entry points are. (However, if the

Re: DB2 UDB V7.2 install problem on SuSE SLES7 S/390 with kernel timer patch ............

2003-07-29 Thread Eric Sammons
Terry, I wanted to point something out, it is my understanding that in fact TAM 3.9 is not certified on zLinux. Are you aware of that as well or have you heard otherwise? Thanks! Eric Sammons FRIT - Infrastructure Engineering Terry Spaulding [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: Linux on 390 Port

Re: Memory displays on Linux

2003-07-29 Thread Rich Smrcina
We've had an incident like this with a customer. It turned out to be a garbage collection loop, storage for a very large object was required and there wasn't enough room in the heap for it. It turns out to look like a run away database query that is returning a 100MB+ result set. On Tuesday 29

Re: OSA Express in QDIO mode problems

2003-07-29 Thread James Melin
I had a similar problem to this. I did not need to do a POR to fix it. What you need to do is from the HMC toggle the chpid for the device offline to the linux LPAR. On EVERY OTHER os/390 or z/os LPAR, vary the devices for that OSA-E offline, and then confgiure the chipid offline to each LPAR.

Re: Runaway Processes

2003-07-29 Thread Rich Smrcina
In the same situation I mentioned earlier, we changed the priority of the application server processes to be lower than any telnet process, so that telnet users could still gain access in the event of a loop. The application server priority can be changed from the admin app. On Tuesday 29 July

Re: OSA Express in QDIO mode problems

2003-07-29 Thread Alan Altmark
On Tuesday, 07/29/2003 at 09:29 EST, James Melin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was told that varying the OSA CHP offline to all using LPARS will cause it to reload it's configuration or something Yes, that is true. Once an OSA chpid (the whole chpid, not just all the devices on it!) is offline

Re: Runaway Processes

2003-07-29 Thread Chet Norris
Thanks. --- Rich Smrcina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the same situation I mentioned earlier, we changed the priority of the application server processes to be lower than any telnet process, so that telnet users could still gain access in the event of a loop. The application server priority

Re: Stripping trailing blanks?

2003-07-29 Thread Lucius, Leland
I'm not sure it will work. One gotcha: # PRE=cut -b 1-72 | sed -e s/\ \*\$// If this were't remmed out, you probably have had a non-functioning script. Hmmm, did you actually try the script? Did you look further down or did you just stop right at that line and assume you knew there was a

Re: Stripping trailing blanks?

2003-07-29 Thread Coffin Michael C
H, Looking at all of these easy to remember ways to strip trailing blanks reminds me why I like VM/CMS and PIPES. So instead of one of the incredibly convoluted and unfriendly commands like this: ncftpget -W $GX -d $W/get.$$ -a -c -u $U -p $P $H $F\($mbr\) | (eval $PRE) $W/$mbr I can

[rhelv3-announce-admin@redhat.com: Announcing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon) Beta 1 Public Availability]

2003-07-29 Thread Florian La Roche
I haven't found any item that is not already covered in the below announcement. You may test and report any mainframe bugs you find. greetings, Florian La Roche - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Announcing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3

Re: Stripping trailing blanks?

2003-07-29 Thread Fargusson.Alan
This isn't the same thing. Somebody had to write the STRIP command for VM. And the STRIP command only does that one thing. The Unix/Linux cut|sed is a more general facility that took much less programming effort than what you have to do under VM to get the same facilities. You didn't show how

Re: Stripping trailing blanks?

2003-07-29 Thread Ferguson, Neale
pipe name type | ftp ftp://userid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/place_to_put_it (If I put it as the 1st stage I can FTP to VM.) PIPE stages use exactly the same philosophy of most UNIX commands. Do one thing and do it well. Then put all these little stages together to make it do interesting stuff. Unlike

Whither consolidation and what then?

2003-07-29 Thread Jim Sibley
I had a look at the ebay prototype and it was, well, less than moving. What they they is a fibre cable going into a switch, then dozens of cables going to dozens of web serves in intel boxes in racks, then dozens of cables going to a switch to a single fibre to a data base server. So, with web

Re: Stripping trailing blanks?

2003-07-29 Thread Lucius, Leland
pipe name type | ftp ftp://userid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/place_to_put_it (If I put it as the 1st stage I can FTP to VM.) But, can you: ftp ... | post processing (Personally, I'd rather this didn't turn into a harping match on the benefits of either piping method.) Leland

Re: Whither consolidation and what then?

2003-07-29 Thread Ward, Garry
Philosophical question? The heart of the matter lies in why so many images in the first place? If I need a half dozen images of Linux to service the Web, but those Linux images can all be running under VM, what is different between Linux and VM that lets VM handle the concurrent workload better

Re: Stripping trailing blanks?

2003-07-29 Thread Ferguson, Neale
You mean something like: PIPE ftp ftpspec | strip | xlate from 437 to 1047 | spec w5.3 1 | sort | postproc file a Yep. No harping match. You use the tool(s): that works, that you are comfortable with. Sometimes you don't know what a tool is capable of. -Original Message- But, can you:

Re: Whither consolidation and what then?

2003-07-29 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: Ward, Garry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 11:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Whither consolidation and what then? Philosophical question? The heart of the matter lies in why so many images in the first place? If I need a

Re: Whither consolidation and what then?

2003-07-29 Thread Tom Duerbusch
My take on multiple images is two fold. But first, the disclaimer: This assumes you have sufficient resources in the first place to do this (normally real memory). 1. I don't know this to be true with Linux, but the Unix types have always been leary of having multiple applications running on

Re: Whither consolidation and what then?

2003-07-29 Thread Fargusson.Alan
At one time I did a lot of work with Unix, and I never had any problems with multiple processes corrupting the memory of other processes. Have there been some bugs introduced into Unix recently? I have not been working with Unix for a couple of years, unless you count z/OS USS. On the other

Re: Whither consolidation and what then?

2003-07-29 Thread Richard Troth
What happens then? You still have dozens of copies of Linux running in dozens of EC machines. And they're talking to each other via TCP/IP stacks over a number of high speed connections. Have you really advanced the architecture and capabilities of Linux? Yes, this is a fabulous question

Who will be at linuxworld in SF next week?

2003-07-29 Thread Jim Sibley
I'll be at the IBM booth helping anawer zSeries questions next week (Tuesday and Wednesday). Who all will be there? = Jim Sibley Implementor of Linux on zSeries in the beautiful Silicon Valley Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso __

Re: Who will be at linuxworld in SF next week?

2003-07-29 Thread Rich Smrcina
I'll be working various booths. On Tuesday 29 July 2003 01:22 pm, you wrote: I'll be at the IBM booth helping anawer zSeries questions next week (Tuesday and Wednesday). Who all will be there? = Jim Sibley Implementor of Linux on zSeries in the beautiful Silicon Valley Computer are

Re: Whither consolidation and what then?

2003-07-29 Thread Alan Cox
On Maw, 2003-07-29 at 19:10, Fargusson.Alan wrote: At one time I did a lot of work with Unix, and I never had any problems with multiple processes corrupting the memory of other processes. Have there been some bugs introduced into Unix recently? Not that I've noticed. Multiuser has gone out

Re: Whither consolidation and what then?

2003-07-29 Thread Adam Thornton
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 13:30, Alan Cox wrote: You can run 100 sessions on a 390 but I don't think you get the equivalent of 300Ghz of CPU power. Of course you don't. But you might well get enough CPU to keep your users happy, depending on what they're doing. Also of course, the dirty little

Re: Whither consolidation and what then?

2003-07-29 Thread Ward, Garry
Which gets into the client and server question. The server should be grinding data, not generating graphics. Graphics are presentation and should be the responsiblity of the workstation (client). digesting the data that is the basis of the graphics is the server's business, which is going to

Re: Whither consolidation and what then?

2003-07-29 Thread Jim Sibley
Alan wrote: You can run 100 sessions on a 390 but I don't think you get the equivalent of 300Ghz of CPU power. With the new TREXX, you're probably talking 20-30Ghz, assuming 1.2 Ghz engines x 32. One of the driving factors of either the multiple virtual machines or the multiple user model is

Re: SuSE SLES8 64 bits errors

2003-07-29 Thread Post, Mark K
Herve, You're right, everything does look OK. Perhaps bringing z/VM up to a more current maintenance level will help? Mark Post -Original Message- From: Herve Bonvin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 12:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AW: SuSE SLES8 64 bits

Re: Whither consolidation and what then?

2003-07-29 Thread Dale Strickler
On a side light to this topic, I remember an article I read in the late 80's early 90's where someone wrote some 'randomly poke storage' programs. Then started them running under different platforms. As I remember it, there was some mainframe environment (I forget which), Win NT 3.??, OS/2, Win

Re: SCO not playing by Aussie Rules

2003-07-29 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine Phil, everything you've been saying about those characters at SCO, is exactly appropriate. The reason why you firm wasn't interviewed, is that they may not know of it. Besides, SCO wants positive data that supports their unsupportable position, not a statement that'll

Many many processes with LINUX

2003-07-29 Thread Ann Smith
We recently moved a java app and some MQ clients and servers to linux/390 for testing. Folks here are used to Solaris and are confused by the number of processes that show up when you issue 'ps -ef'. Many more than they are used to. If you ask Jeeves, there is info on the threading model linux

Re: Many many processes with LINUX

2003-07-29 Thread Adam Thornton
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 15:37, Ann Smith wrote: We recently moved a java app and some MQ clients and servers to linux/390 for testing. Folks here are used to Solaris and are confused by the number of processes that show up when you issue 'ps -ef'. Many more than they are used to. If you ask

Re: Many many processes with LINUX

2003-07-29 Thread Ferguson, Neale
New threads and processes are both created via a call to clone(). The former uses flags that tell clone not to duplicate everything (like virtual memory). The new thread or process gets a unique PID. In the 2.6 there'll be something called a process group ID and a new threading model known as

Re: Whither consolidation and what then?

2003-07-29 Thread John Summerfield
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Tom Duerbusch wrote: My take on multiple images is two fold. But first, the disclaimer: This assumes you have sufficient resources in the first place to do this (normally real memory). 1. I don't know this to be true with Linux, but the Unix types have always been

Re: Many many processes with LINUX

2003-07-29 Thread Fargusson.Alan
I think that the reason that the threads don't show up in ps on Solaris that 'lightweight' processes are implemented in the library at user level. The kernel does not know about them. This was the case a one time anyway. This disadvantage of this is that if any thread goes compute bound for a

Re: Whither consolidation and what then?

2003-07-29 Thread Michael Martin
I've seen this behaviour, too. I once tried to move a large number of mp3 files from one physical drive to another with rsync, and the machine locked up, destroyed the reiserfs file systems on both drives, and I lost a bunch of files. That's the only time I've had a near catastrophic failure in

Re: Whither consolidation and what then?

2003-07-29 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Quite right. I would think, that once you have an reliable production application running, you would just leave it alone. When you get the next release of that application, you would put it on a current level of Linux. And then kill off the old application and old level of Linux. That is easy

Re: Many many processes with LINUX

2003-07-29 Thread Alan Cox
On Maw, 2003-07-29 at 22:16, Fargusson.Alan wrote: I think that the reason that the threads don't show up in ps on Solaris that 'lightweight' processes are implemented in the library at user level. The kernel does not know about them. This was the case a one time anyway. Modern solaris

Re: Whither consolidation and what then?

2003-07-29 Thread Alan Cox
On Maw, 2003-07-29 at 20:35, Jim Sibley wrote: One of the driving factors of either the multiple virtual machines or the multiple user model is that, in most applications, most of the time, a single user is idle and your 300Ghz of power is mostly idle. But in the PC world cpu power is cheap.

Re: Whither consolidation and what then?

2003-07-29 Thread Alan Cox
On Maw, 2003-07-29 at 19:53, Adam Thornton wrote: Reading email shouldn't take much CPU, although if you insist on doing it inside UltraWhizzy K/Gnome/Mozilla/MultiMediaMailReaderNowWithGratuitousAnimation!!! then it can find a way, I'm sure, to burn CPU. Even that is mostly RAM and I/O heavy

Re: Whither consolidation and what then?

2003-07-29 Thread Alan Cox
On Maw, 2003-07-29 at 20:49, Dale Strickler wrote: Does anyone know of anyone doing this sort of research now? Anyone running this or other crash tests like this on Linux (on or off the MVS environment?) It is simple code to write, just generate two random numbers, treat one as an address

Re: Many many processes with LINUX

2003-07-29 Thread John Summerfield
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Ferguson, Neale wrote: New threads and processes are both created via a call to clone(). The former uses flags that tell clone not to duplicate everything (like virtual memory). The new thread or process gets a unique PID. In the 2.6 there'll be something called a process

Re: Whither consolidation and what then?

2003-07-29 Thread John Summerfield
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Michael Martin wrote: I've seen this behaviour, too. I once tried to move a large number of mp3 files from one physical drive to another with rsync, and the machine locked up, destroyed the reiserfs file systems on both drives, and I lost a bunch of files. That's the only

Re: Whither consolidation and what then?

2003-07-29 Thread John Summerfield
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Alan Cox wrote: On Maw, 2003-07-29 at 19:53, Adam Thornton wrote: Reading email shouldn't take much CPU, although if you insist on doing it inside UltraWhizzy K/Gnome/Mozilla/MultiMediaMailReaderNowWithGratuitousAnimation!!! then it can find a way, I'm sure, to burn

Re: Whither consolidation and what then?

2003-07-29 Thread Ulrich Weigand
Alan Cox wrote: crashme is part of the Linux cerberus test suite although it goes back many years before. Roughly speaking crashme does this Catch every exception Generate random data Execute it (catching the exception to repeat) Its found many things, including

Re: Whither consolidation and what then?

2003-07-29 Thread Jim Sibley
Alan wrote: Its just that PC's are so cheap its easier to use several for a job _IFF_ you can solve the management problem. That _IFF_ is not only non-trivial technically, but also not not-trivial financially! You but one cheap PC or a hundred cheap PC's, you still have a bunch of cheap PC's.

Re: Whither consolidation and what then?

2003-07-29 Thread John Summerfield
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Jim Sibley wrote: Alan wrote: Its just that PC's are so cheap its easier to use several for a job _IFF_ you can solve the management problem. That _IFF_ is not only non-trivial technically, but also not not-trivial financially! You but one cheap PC or a hundred

Re: Whither consolidation and what then?

2003-07-29 Thread Alan Altmark
On Tuesday, 07/29/2003 at 08:55 MST, Jim Sibley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So my question is: What moves are afoot to reduce the number of required images by consolidating their functions and remove the TCP/IP communications between applications? Isn't this the next logical step? You make