RHEL 6.2 - IBM-Z10 BC

2012-09-17 Thread Franco Oberto
Hi , it's there Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 demo version for mainframe IBM Z10-BC ? I want install for test and valuations this version but I cannot found this download on the Redhat Portal. Can you tell me where can I download it from Redhat portal ? Thanks for your help , Franco Oberto

Re: RHEL 6.2 - IBM-Z10 BC

2012-09-17 Thread Brad Hinson
Hi Franco, There is an evaluation version for Red Hat Enterprise Linux on System z. There are two types, supported evaluation (recommended, where you can call support if you have issues while you're testing), or unsupported (just a download link, no support). In both cases, it's the same

Re: SMT to upgrade to SLES 11 SP2

2012-09-17 Thread Victor Echavarry Diaz
Mark: The smt-catalogs --delete doesn't exist. it-lin-sat-zsuse:~ # smt-catalogs --delete Unknown option: delete smt-repos [name] [target]: Enable or disable mirroring of a repository --enable-mirror (-e) : enable repository mirorring for $repository --disable-mirror (-d) :

Accessing MVS datasets via NFS on z/Linux

2012-09-17 Thread Lester, Doug
I'm trying to find a better way to access an MVS EBCDIC fixed block sequential dataset via NFS from SLES10 SP4 z/Linux. The problem is two-fold: 1) The file needs to be converted to ASCII. I can use iconv to solve the EBCDIC to ASCII translation, but I was hoping that someone might know how to

Backups

2012-09-17 Thread Pew, Curtis G
We've been using TSM to back up our zLinux guests, but management is planning to drop TSM. I'm interested what alternatives we might have. If you don't use TSM, how do you back up? -- Curtis Pew (c@its.utexas.edu) ITS Systems Core The University of Texas at Austin

Re: Accessing MVS datasets via NFS on z/Linux

2012-09-17 Thread Jerry Whitteridge
I regularly mounted files between MVS and z/Linux and the translation (ASCII/EBCDIC) takes place automagically. I believe that the NFS server also takes care of the NL/CFLF issues - but its been a while since I looked into the setup. I think the key will be to use the MVS system as the NFS

Re: Accessing MVS datasets via NFS on z/Linux

2012-09-17 Thread Jerry Whitteridge
Further response. In the NFS Server configuration attributes file you set the binary/text options and the CRLF options. You will need to review your current configuration to see you these are set, but you should be able to get exactly what you were looking for. Jerry Whitteridge Lead Systems

Re: SMT to upgrade to SLES 11 SP2

2012-09-17 Thread Mark Post
On 9/17/2012 at 04:42 PM, Victor Echavarry Diaz vechava...@evertecinc.com wrote: Mark: The smt-catalogs --delete doesn't exist. Then after stopping the mirroring, simply rm -rf the tree that you disabled. Mark Post -- For