Re: [patch] s390: remove a kernel 2.2 #ifdef

2004-02-10 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
The patych below removes an #ifdef for kernel 2.2 from include/asm-s390/debug.h . Hmm, this one somehow slipped my notice. It is the last occurence of KERNEL_VERSION in the s390 code for 2.6. I've applied the patch to our CVS and I will send it with the next update to Andrew. Thanks for

[patch] s390: add a #ifndef

2004-02-10 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Hmm, this one somehow slipped my notice. Did you get the one where Samba-3 source will not build due to a missing lockout around the statfs structure in usr/include/asm-s390/statfs.h? -Mike MacIsaac, IBM mikemac at us.ibm.com (845) 433-7061

German Finance Ministry Division Chooses Linux

2004-02-10 Thread Dave Jones
Microsystems Inc.and Fujitsu Siemens that run versions of the popular Unix operating system that Linux is based upon, IBM spokeswoman Sandra Dressel said. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storycid=569ncid=738e=9u=/nm/20040210/tc_nm/tech_ibm_germany_dc -- Dave Jones

PayPal Scam

2004-02-10 Thread Southerland, Steven L
Hello, I also received a email from a Fake eBay site last week on 02/04/2004. Mine was slightly different. It had a URL in it that went off to a non-English site. It took me a couple of hours, but I was able to find the reporting site to eBay for these kinds of Fake emails ( Spoofs as eBay

CA with RACF.

2004-02-10 Thread Antônio Pires de Castro Jr.
Hi, I would like to config a certificate authority (CA) in my company with RACF. Is it possible??? If it is possible, how can I do it?? Redbooks ??? thanks in advanced, -- Antonio Pires Suporte Tecnico - AGANP

Re: CA with RACF.

2004-02-10 Thread Sanford H Gelbard
Antonio, These links have some useful info on RACF's capabilities regarding Certs. www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/ racf/pdf/r02_digital_cert_part_1.pdf www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/ racf/pdf/r02_digital_cert_part_2.pdf Sandy

Re: Archives???

2004-02-10 Thread Eric Sammons
To a degree, but for distributed computing we have almost everything so we already meet that requirement. Thanks! Eric Sammons David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: Linux on 390 Port [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/09/2004 08:54 PM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How much $$

2004-02-10 Thread Kittendorf, Craig
I see to get a Red Hat supported version for S/390 it is $15,000 US or $18,000 US. Anyone have an idea how much for the SuSE supported version? Thanks Craig

Re: How much $$

2004-02-10 Thread Post, Mark K
It varies according to the number of CPUs being used by Linux/390, and by the architecture. G5/G5 being the cheapest, z900/z990 the most expensive. The latest prices I have are fairly old, and in Euros. :P What machine do you have, and how many processors will be assigned? Mark Post

Re: How much $$

2004-02-10 Thread Kittendorf, Craig
We have a 9672-R76 (G5) and currently all seven processors are s/390, no IFL. We limit the Linux LPAR to one engine. Craig -Original Message- From: Post, Mark K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 12:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: How

Re: How much $$

2004-02-10 Thread Wolfe, Gordon W
Depends on your processor, what service level you want, and what you negotiate. Can be up to $11,000 per CPU. Give SuSE a call at (510)628-3380 Gordon Wolfe, Ph.D. (425)865-5940 VM Technical Services, The Boeing Company IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual

Re: How much $$

2004-02-10 Thread Post, Mark K
The last figures I have for that would be about $8,800 per year, for maintenance only. If you want problem support, that would be additional. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kittendorf, Craig Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004

Re: How much $$

2004-02-10 Thread Kittendorf, Craig
Thanks for all your help. I think that is past the point of it being considered here. Thanks, Craig -Original Message- From: Post, Mark K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 1:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: How much $$ The last

distributions

2004-02-10 Thread Xose Vazquez Perez
hi, I am searching distributions for S390(31bit) and zSeries(64bit) *well* maintained(with uptodate patches and erratas) I only found: $$$ - Red Hat Enteprise Linux 3 - SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 7 - Based on United Linux 1 Free - Debian 3.0 any more? -thanks- -- LiNUX Is Not UniX

Re: distributions

2004-02-10 Thread Post, Mark K
No additions, but one correction. SUSE is currently shipping SLES8, not SLES7. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Xose Vazquez Perez Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 1:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: distributions hi, I am

Re: How much $$

2004-02-10 Thread Tom Duerbusch
SuSE doesn't offer maintenance anymore (directly). It is done thru their Partners. So, you can talk to their partners and perhaps get a better deal. My MP/3000 H30, no IFL, runs $4,500 a year. That is with a 10% govt discount. You, on the other hand, may end up getting charged for each 390

Re: distributions

2004-02-10 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Suse Linxu Enterprise Server 8 is running here. Suse Linux Desktop 9 is running on my Thinkpad, so I assume that a 9 is upcomming on the S390 side. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/10/04 12:19PM hi, I am searching distributions for S390(31bit) and zSeries(64bit) *well*

Re: distributions

2004-02-10 Thread Xose Vazquez Perez
Post, Mark K wrote: No additions, but one correction. SUSE is currently shipping SLES8, not SLES7. I *still* see Enterprise Server 7 in SuSE's catalog: http://www.suse.com/us/business/products/server/sles7/index.html -- LiNUX Is Not UniX

Re: How much $$

2004-02-10 Thread Nix, Robert P.
Actually, I think that the Linux people would be much more willing to listen to the I'm only going to use one processor story than zOS vendors. Just because you have an IFL doesn't limit you to running Linux only in the IFL, but they only charge you for the number of IFLs you have

Re: How much $$

2004-02-10 Thread Marcy Cortes
They did for us on a 2 processor system - allowed us to buy 1 processor license. Marcy Cortes Wells Fargo Services Company -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nix, Robert P. Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 11:15 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How much $$

2004-02-10 Thread James Melin
Even though you set the weights to '1' processor, do you get better throughput having 2 processors actually doing the work? |-+--- | | Marcy Cortes| | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | | sfargo.com |

Re: How much $$

2004-02-10 Thread Post, Mark K
I would think not. The MP effect usually guarantees that 1 2-processor system is significantly less than 2 1-processor systems. The amount of lost capacity has decreased over the years, but it is still non-zero. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: distributions

2004-02-10 Thread Carlos Romero-Martin
On Tuesday 10 February 2004 19:37, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: Old distribution and only 31 bits Post, Mark K wrote: No additions, but one correction. SUSE is currently shipping SLES8, not SLES7. I *still* see Enterprise Server 7 in SuSE's catalog:

Re: distributions

2004-02-10 Thread Chris Cox
Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: Post, Mark K wrote: No additions, but one correction. SUSE is currently shipping SLES8, not SLES7. I *still* see Enterprise Server 7 in SuSE's catalog: http://www.suse.com/us/business/products/server/sles7/index.html While obviously supported... one must ask the

Re: distributions

2004-02-10 Thread Xose Vazquez Perez
Carlos Romero-Martin wrote: Old distribution and only 31 bits NO. SLES 7 for IBM zSeries (64-bit) http://www.suse.com/us/business/products/server/sles7/sles_zseries/index.html SLES 7 for S/390 and zSeries(31-bit) http://www.suse.com/us/business/products/server/sles7/sles_s390/index.html --

Re: distributions

2004-02-10 Thread Xose Vazquez Perez
Chris Cox wrote: While obviously supported... one must ask the question... Why would someone want SLES7? SLES8 works with a much broader I don't know. I was just only doing a list of distributions :-) range of HW and SW. If you have SLES7 in house.. great... but otherwise, if you choose

WebSphere on z/Linux and LDAP/RACF user authentication

2004-02-10 Thread James Melin
Has anyone gotten WAS 5 on z/Linux to authenticated the IBM LDAP with the RACF back-end? It is premature for us to go to native authentication on z/Linux, so having WebSphere on z/Linux use the local OS for authentication is not practical. We are attempting to configure was on z/Linux to talk to

Using IBM 3590 Tape Drives

2004-02-10 Thread Mike Lovins
I am new to Linux, I have an IBM z800 and have Z/VM and VSE/ESA running on one processor and I have installed SuSE8 Linux on an IFL processor in an LPAR. I currently have the 3590 tape drives defined as shareable and defined the VSE LPAR and the Linux LPAR as the partitions that

Re: How much $$

2004-02-10 Thread Marcy Cortes
We're back to 1 processor now. I've always defined the Linux guests with 1 virtual CPU since I had 1 real licensed. Now you've got me curious... There isn't any value to defining more than 1 virtual CPU when you only have 1 IFL is there? Marcy Cortes -Original Message- From: Linux on

Re: SLES8 trap signal shutdown

2004-02-10 Thread Marcy Cortes
Use CP Q SIGNALS to see if they are listening. I believe I did nothing to /etc/inittab for SLES8 but instead updated the /etc/zipl.conf to have a line like this: parameters=dasd=0100,0201-020F root=/dev/dasdb1 vmpoff=LOGOFF vmhalt=LOGOFF Marcy Cortes Wells Fargo Services Company -Original

Re: WebSphere on z/Linux and LDAP/RACF user authentication

2004-02-10 Thread Richard W. Lauck, Cornerstone Systems, Inc.
I tried using WAS 5.0 on Red Hat. Configured LDAP Server and RACF on OS/390 and came close but was finally told by IBM WAS Development that SDBM only authentication for WAS on Linux is not supported. You can always use TDBM with DB2 but that is not an attractive option.IBM has this working

Re: How much $$

2004-02-10 Thread Wolfe, Gordon W
No advantage whatsoever. Gordon Wolfe, Ph.D. (425)865-5940 VM Technical Services, The Boeing Company IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons

Re: How much $$

2004-02-10 Thread Post, Mark K
No, it is actually a detriment to performance. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 5:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How much $$ We're back to 1 processor now. I've always

Re: How much $$

2004-02-10 Thread Marcy Cortes
Good - that's what I though! Marcy Cortes Wells Fargo Services Company -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Post, Mark K Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 15:31 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] How much $$ No, it is actually a

Sco/unix history.

2004-02-10 Thread Terrence W. Zellers
The SCO-v-IBM thing seems to be coming up to the endgame now, but if there's anyone who still doesn't understand why the history of unix makes SCO's claims absurd. I've committed a small allegory which, I hope, will explain it a bit. The Bob Att/Bob Ixen, Ellie Att/Ixen/Sco is a little

Re: How much $$

2004-02-10 Thread Little, Chris
at one time, was IBM recommending differently? i went to an introduction to z/VM several years ago and the instructor was recommending 4 virtual CPU's no matter how many real CPU's existed. He said that VM's multiprocessing capability was superior to linux so it was better to queue processes to

Re: distributions

2004-02-10 Thread David Boyes
I am searching distributions for S390(31bit) and zSeries(64bit) *well* maintained(with uptodate patches and erratas) I only found: $$$ - Red Hat Enteprise Linux 3 - SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 7 - Based on United Linux 1 Free - Debian 3.0 We supply the up to date stable relases of

Re: distributions

2004-02-10 Thread David Boyes
Some vendor applications are not yet certified on SLES 8. If you care about support, running those applications on SLES 7 is the responsible thing to do. -- db David Boyes Sine Nomine Associates -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Xose

Re: How much $$

2004-02-10 Thread Vic Cross
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Little, Chris wrote: at one time, was IBM recommending differently? i went to an introduction to z/VM several years ago and the instructor was recommending 4 virtual CPU's no matter how many real CPU's existed. He said that VM's multiprocessing capability was superior