Re: Switch SAS to zSeries Linux

2006-01-30 Thread Yu Safin
On 1/27/06, Dennis Schaffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We participated in a SAS/zLinux beta almost three years ago but, as several others on the list indicated, SAS chose not to market their product line on the zLinux platform for market reasons. As a few people indicated, its important

Red Hat Add/Remove Applications

2006-01-30 Thread Scully, William P
I've installed Red Hat 4 for zSeries and am having problems adding additional packages using the graphical interface. Here's what I'm doing: - I've started VNC server and connected with a web browser - I've started KDE - From a terminal program running in super-user mode, I enter the command

Re: Red Hat Add/Remove Applications

2006-01-30 Thread Robert J Brenneman
snip I cannot find how to direct Red Hat's tools to find the materials, which are -already- mounted in a subdirectory under /mnt. And advice on how to do so? try this: system-config-packages --tree=/mnt I'm pretty sure that does what you want -- Jay Brenneman

Re: Red Hat Add/Remove Applications

2006-01-30 Thread Michael MacIsaac
William, The third window alerts me that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 disk 3 needed to install packages ... I cannot find how to direct Red Hat's tools to find the materials, which are -already- mounted in a subdirectory under /mnt. And advice on how to do so? How did you create the

Re: All Good Things

2006-01-30 Thread Dave Jones
Good luck in your future endeavors, Gordonyou'll be missed here. Thanks for all your help and advice/suggestions/and generally useful comments. DJ Gordon Wolfe, Ph.D. wrote: Cross-posted to both VM-ESA-L and Linux-390 lists. Sorry for the duplication and the length. Like Dennis

Re: Advanced cloning, shared storage and management (HowTo draft)

2006-01-30 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
On Sunday 22 January 2006 11:45, Grega Bremec wrote: A while ago I promised to post a lengthy description of a design I use in our z/VM environment, which is based on SLES9 and makes it possible to have z/VM users sharing complete root and /boot partitions and own as little as two MDISKs (or more,

Re: All Good Things

2006-01-30 Thread James Melin
Gordon, many thanks for the insights you have provided. Even when they were not on my immediate radar, your advise to others eventually proved useful to me later down the road. So thank you. You will be missed. Please, enjoy your new 'career' as much as you did this one. -J

Re: Red Hat Add/Remove Applications

2006-01-30 Thread Scully, William P
Ah. Yes, this seems to help for the first CD, by specifying the fully-qualified subdirectory, which in our case is: system-config-packages --tree=/mnt/linux/RHELAS40/zseries/update1/cd1 But not everything is on the first CD image. And you cannot start by pointing to CD 2. This may work

USS gzip

2006-01-30 Thread Eddie Chen
Can the gzip on the USS read and compress the dataset to MVS dataset. What I am trying to do it to. GZIP MVS DATASET and FTP to UNIX work station. - This message and its attachments may contain privileged and confidential information. If you are

Re: Red Hat Add/Remove Applications

2006-01-30 Thread Robert J Brenneman
On 1/30/06, Scully, William P [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip This may work better if we first concatenate the Red Hat materials from the several CD images they provide to a single mount-point, as Mike MacIssac has suggested (in a separate reply). Keep in mind that when you consolidate CDs

Re: Ordering HLASM for Linux on zSeries

2006-01-30 Thread John R. Ehrman
I wasn't aware of the possibility of running zLinux on a GCP; but in that case, don't you probably already have the standard HLASM? John Ehrman (-- Referenced Note Follows ) Date:Fri, 27 Jan 2006 14:01:08 -0600 From:McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ordering HLASM for Linux on zSeries

2006-01-30 Thread Rich Smrcina
Standard HLASM runs on VM, VSE or z/OS, not Linux for zSeries (even when running on a GCP). John R. Ehrman wrote: I wasn't aware of the possibility of running zLinux on a GCP; but in that case, don't you probably already have the standard HLASM? John Ehrman (-- Referenced

Re: USS gzip

2006-01-30 Thread McKown, John
Yes, but it is funky because it is not supported directly. You must do something like: cat //''MVS.INPUT.DATASET'' | gzip /u/me/mvs.input.dsn.gz Replace /u/me with a UNIX subdirectory in which you can create the output file. The biggest problem that I have is that JCL restricts me to 72

Re: IBM High Level Assembler for Linux on zSeries

2006-01-30 Thread John R. Ehrman
You get (1) a license for any number of users, (2) complete compatibility, (3) one-time charge. The main added function is the ability to generate ELF object. John Ehrman (-- Referenced Note Follows ) Date:Fri, 27 Jan 2006 07:17:27 -0500 From:

Re: USS gzip

2006-01-30 Thread Eddie Chen
Thanks... On the z/OS they have two sample program EZASOKAS and EZASOKCS ASSEMBLE for opening TCP/IP SOCKET... Does anyone knows if we have an IUCV version on the VM side McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] insctr.com

Re: USS gzip

2006-01-30 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 01/30/2006 at 04:09 EST, Eddie Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks... On the z/OS they have two sample program EZASOKAS and EZASOKCS ASSEMBLE for opening TCP/IP SOCKET... Does anyone knows if we have an IUCV version on the VM side. No, there is no macro-level API to IUCV