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On 9/27/22 10:33 AM, Jack Woehr wrote:
Jake got me started. I'm setting this up on my LinuxONE RHEL 8.6
virtual server.
We'll see how far I get :)
https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.11/installing/installing_ibm_z/installing-ibm-z-kvm.html#host-machine-resource
/wlvindex?LINUX-390
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On 7/13/22 8:17 AM, Dave Jones wrote:
I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 Linux here and there is no "/var/log/messages"
file to be found, sorry.
/var/log/syslog on Ubuntu
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On 7/13/22 8:25 AM, Dave Jones wrote:
Thanks Frank. A bit frustrating that the different distros don't put the
information in the same places.
/var/log/syslog is "modern" in the era of distributed syslog
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IBM Cha
On 12/14/21 8:38 AM, Edgington, Jerry wrote:
Sorry, Jack, but I would have to disagree with you on this. It wouldn't "buy a
car", it would be buy multiple cars, just in case the first one fails.:)
The chair accepts that as a friendly amendment to the motion!
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On 12/14/21 7:14 AM, Dave Jones wrote:
The Windows IT engineer says: "Hey guys, I have an idea, how about we
all get out of the car and get back in"
The Windows IT engineer says, "What you say we just buy a new car."
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, or rejected by the customer, software
business**
**would move to other bases of organization ...*
Now the question is, can we /keep/ software free while the megacorps
rush in and will inevitably try to "enclose the commons"?
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https://newsroom.ibm.com/Bringing-Linux-to-IBM-Z
Here's the very long article I wrote at the time based on interviews and
get-togethers at SHARE 94 in Anaheim in the year 2000.
https://www.drdobbs.com/open-source/linux-on-the-ibm-s390/184404406
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On 8/4/20 9:37 AM, David Spiegel wrote:
Also, there is no include directory and no SDK in /alternatives
Hmm, I find it in
/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-ibm-1.8.0.6.10-1jpp.1.el7.s390x/include/jni.h
No /usr/lib/jvm directory?
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-1.8.0-ibm
* javapackages-tools
Also, do the find command from root that both of us have shown you (with
slight variations) just to see if it's hiding somewhere.
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Box 51, Golden CO 80402 # administering productivity
to download manually and do:
yum localinstall java-1.8.0-ibm-devel-1.8.0.6.10-1jpp.1.el7.s390x.rpm
Did you find jni.h like I showed you?
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http
On 8/4/20 8:32 AM, Jack Woehr wrote:
On 8/4/20 8:15 AM, David Spiegel wrote:
Hi,
I have installed Red Hat 7.6 as Guest under z/VM.
I downloaded and installed JDK
java-1.8.0-ibm-devel-1.8.0.6.10-1jpp.1.el7.s390x.rpm
You did download using sudo yum install java-1.8.0-ibm-devel
Right
rpm (from Red Hat)?
Yes.
- If yes, how do I find jni.h?
cd / ; sudo find . | grep 'jni\.h'
/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-ibm-1.8.0.6.10-1jpp.1.el7.s390x/include/jni.h
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McKown, John wrote:
At one time, I had a PDF which was on the TIMI (Technology Independent
Machine Interface), which vaguely corresponds to the z's assembly
language. shudder It sort of reminds me of Java byte code or other
high level assembly instructions.
The iSeries is very cool. It is
Frank M. Ramaekers wrote:
Yeah, I did try /pub/outgoing/Suse as well (just didn't show it in the post).
Didn't read previous thread non-standard port for the FTP server?
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http://www.well.com/~jax
John Campbell wrote:
(TTTO I'm a Lumberjack and I'm OK, from Monty Python)
SysAdmin...
I'm a sysadmin and I'm okay
I get beeped at night and I work all day
Quickly. Put. The. Mouse. Down. And. Walk. Outside.
Breathe deeply
There, feel better?
:)
Happy Gnu Ear Everyone
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Frank M. Ramaekers wrote:
Okay, that seemed to have worked just fine. (Now I have to rediscover alternatives to be able to
switch between the original 1.4.2 and the new SDK 1.6.0.)
Toggle your path, that's sufficient. The java executables know the rest.
Weird font, dude :)
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Frank M. Ramaekers wrote:
Now I'm puzzled as to why the IMB SDK is so much slower that the
installed java 1.4:
Try it twice in a row. You could have had the libraries of the former in
cache.
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Frank M. Ramaekers wrote:
Hmmm...doing a search, it appears that I do have it:
Add those directories to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH of the account trying to do
the install.
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http://www.well.com/~jax # invisible man
Frank M. Ramaekers wrote:
# yum localinstall ibm-java-s390x-sdk-6.0-7.0.s390x.rpm
I don't know 'yum'. What happens if you just use 'rpm' ?
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McKown, John wrote:
Is there a convention for using stderr in place of an output file name? Or is it not
expected to want to direct file type output to stderr?
Very common use case, usually handled not by the command but by the
shell that launches it, e.g.,
ls 12
in sh bash and ksh
McKown, John wrote:
app in1 in2 in3 output.file
would become
app in1 in2 in3 /dev/fd/2
and I could do an fopen() on that, or just detect that as my convention and use
file descriptor 3 directly. Stick me with a fork, I'm done!
Would look bizarre to an experienced user.
These sorts of
ghochrei...@tsys.com wrote:
I am an experienced assembler programmer, BUT I do not have any clue how
to write , assemble etc. in LINUX , where do I start ?? Any help
is appreciated . Thanks Gunter
The sources for the kernel and libc have extensive bodies in assembler.
The assembler
David Boyes wrote:
On 11/13/09 1:20 AM, Shane ibm-m...@tpg.com.au wrote:
Maybe Con K wasn't the only person to get rubbed the wrong way.
As I commented in my Ohio Linuxfest presentation, the culture of the Linux
community is beginning to feed on itself. We need a Melinda Varian.
Rodger Donaldson wrote:
You know you've spent too long on the Internet if you can't tell
whether someone describing Theo as lovely and charming is being
profoundly sarcastic or not.
Theo, like Richard Stallman, is a force of nature :)
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Alan Altmark wrote:
Ah, semantics. :-) People arbitrate (decide). Machines obey. The mere
presence of a user account does not justify its existence.
The justification is the shopwork rule, If it ain't broke, don't fix it!
In a Unix system, having a process to ensure that you *don't*
Thang Pham wrote:
but I want to know how to configure new Linux systems to use DHCP.
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/custom-guide/s1-dhcp-configuring-client.html
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R P Herrold wrote:
They are doing a job without any discretion to vary the rules;
There's a wonderful story from Roman imperial history about the Roman
official
in, I think it was Belgium, who rigidly interpreted a tax-in-kind of
hides as ox-hides,
a very expensive commodity, leading to the
Alan Altmark wrote:
Marcy's question wasn't unreasonable and neither is the policy to remove
unnecessary account ...
But to implement the policy, *someone* has to be the
arbiter of necessary, and I don't think it should be the system that's
being audited!
In the specific instance, most
Edmund R. MacKenty wrote:
. I don't think the UID/GID can be re-used, as
your vendor controls their assignments for system accounts and useradd(8)
will not assign UID/GID values below 500
That number-below-which is controlled by the contents of /etc/login.defs
I believe, which is an editable
PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote:
how about imparting some of that vast
knowledge you seem to be harboring in that horse of yours?
I already gave her the best technical advice she's gotten yet.
I said, Don't do that , it doesn't add to your system security and it's
dangerous.
Why does the user
Scott Rohling wrote:
I'm glad you wouldn't be disturbed by user/accounts that you, the sysprog,
deleted and finding them magically restored.
User accounts, yes. System accounts, no ... one is curious, but the
answer is pretty obvious,
One of the first posters in the discussoon nailed it,
Mark Post wrote:
No one has said it's rational or useful (at least I haven't), but it is
necessary, for the numerous reasons everyone has been relating. Technicians
don't get to ignore executive management mandates. They can, and do, criticize
them and complain about them, but for
Edmund R. MacKenty wrote:
It's actually a lot simplier than this, Jack.
The length of your post is itself indicative of how much effort is
required to perform this unnecessary task :)
How is PAM involved in this? PAM doesn't assign accounts, it is just an
authentication layer. There's
Edmund R. MacKenty wrote:
, this task is necessary simply because it
was ordered by those with the authority to assign tasks.
Yo ree oh, ree oh rum! (The song of the Winkies at the castle of the
Wicked Witch of the West)
It's /etc/login.defs where those values are defined. We don't
Alan Altmark wrote:
the best Bad Things can and do masquerade as Good Things.
Hey, I thought we were going to avoid politics! :)
In a Unix system, having a process to ensure that you *don't* orphan files
when deleting an account would seem to be de riguer.
Empirically:
* 733T Unix
Jerry Whitteridge wrote:
I'd agree with Marcy here. I'd have a hard time justifying an ID or
Group on a business server that called itself games,
Believe me, I understand. My granddaughter still separates the mushrooms
out of her spaghetti sauce one by one. :)
Thanks for the chat, all!
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Marcy Cortes wrote:
Jack, this Linux 390 community consists of folks running Linux on very
expensive hardware purchased by companies that view security as a very top
priority.
And the nologin 'games' account on those very expensive machines is
still not a security exposure :)
I
Marcy Cortes wrote:
I keep getting rid of this userid /etc/passwd, and something puts it back.
SLES 10.
How do I make it stop doing that?
If you have to ask this question, you should not delete userids
installed by the default install of a Unix system!
Maybe you could delete MAINT from the
Scott Rohling wrote:
Hit 'send' too soon... just wanted to ask how you'd feel if you deleted
FTPSERVE on zVM -- only to find it came back the next day? Same thing
here..
Couldn't happen to me because I don't screw around with working
default installations without a) having a real
Marcy Cortes wrote:
I keep getting rid of this userid /etc/passwd, and something puts it back.
SLES 10.
How do I make it stop doing that?
Also uucp and ftp.
Bad bad bad.
Linux is the Windows of the Unix world. It's user friendly. That's why I
use OpenBSD :)
Not bad bad bad. Linux is
Marcy Cortes wrote:
You can restrict them up the wazoo but if someone has written a security law that says
remove unnecessary accounts, you'd like them to stay removed when you remove
them.
Someone needs a beginner book on Unix.
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Mark Post wrote:
If your management chain, all the way to the top, isn't willing to fight
stupidity, the poor technicians have no option but to bend with the wind.
Which is why the open source community exists. Which is why Linux
exists. Which is why Linux did not,
could never have,
Mark Post wrote:
It was the open systems auditors that had the long, long list of hard and fast
rules that no one could argue with.
Well, as they say, genius has it limits, but stupidity knows none.
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McKown, John wrote:
This is a scary article. I don't have a Linux on z system to test it out on.
http://www.catonmat.net/blog/ldd-arbitrary-code-execution/
Oh, jeez, guys.
This is a kid's trick. The victim has to be stupid enough to execute ldd
against
a binary in the scamming user's
file elf_abi.h defines the format of ELF executable binary
files. Amongst these files are normal executable files,
relocatable ob-
ject files, core files and shared libraries.
etc.
Jack Woehr wrote:
McKown, John wrote:
This is a scary article. I don't have a Linux on z system to test
McKown, John wrote:
Problem is, I've known such. And, to be brutally honest, I could have been caught myself
simply due to ignorance about how/what ldd works.
Of course. Everyone does once. Some how the Unix world survives. Like
you guys somehow survived with your indescribably
lame
McKown, John wrote:
Problem is, I've known such. And, to be brutally honest, I could have been caught myself
simply due to ignorance about how/what ldd works.
There are more subtle attacks on Linux integrity.
In any case,
chmod 700 ldd
if ldd is too powerful w/r/t the
Howard Rifkind wrote:
There is a whole bunch of highly experienced z/Mainframe systems and
applications people out there without jobs.
It's time, in the immortal words of the Firesign Theatre, to climb a
tree, take off your shoes,
and learn to play the flute!
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Mark Post wrote:
Well, it took me way too long to get around to it, and then it took me way too
long to get it into viewable condition, but the list of ISV software that used
to be on one of IBM's web pages is now on the Wiki. It was last updated in
mid-2007, so it's pretty old and probably
Gary Cox wrote:
Previous message HELP Miss typed and not intended to click send
It was the most interesting message of the day.
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Stephen Frazier wrote:
Martha McConaghy wrote:
Whether or not you are willing to trust the information provided on
the wiki
is totally up to each individual. Just because some wiki's are full
of crap
isn't really a good reason not to try this one.
Extensive history suggests that Wikis
John Summerfield wrote:
David, Jack was referring to the discussion of the wiki itself when he
was talking about discussion on the wiki.
That's correct, and that's all I was saying.
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John Summerfield wrote:
Who should, sensibly, assume that this site speaks for any part of the
Linux community?
Well, the Linux on z/VM community. It needs a wiki. It's a good idea.
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http://www.well.com/~jax # a
John Summerfield wrote:
Jack Woehr wrote:
John Summerfield wrote:
Who should, sensibly, assume that this site speaks for any part of the
Linux community?
Well, the Linux on z/VM community. It needs a wiki. It's a good idea.
It's a shame you quoted me without context.
Wasn't the intent
David Boyes wrote:
3. Redirect discussion of what should be on the Wiki to discussion
pages of the Wiki itself!!!
* Like, uh, that's what Wikis are for :)
What's wrong with discussing it here,
What's wrong with keeping all the source files in your computer program
Mark Post wrote:
If you think those would be good topics, then you could add them to the list of
starter topics on the main page. Just because someone (you in this case)
doesn't have enough background to write articles, doesn't mean they can't contribute by
pointing out what information
Mark Post wrote:
On 9/21/2009 at 2:36 PM, Jack Woehr j...@well.com wrote:
-snip-
3. Redirect discussion of what should be on the Wiki to discussion
pages of the Wiki itself!!!
* Like, uh, that's what Wikis are for :)
Making that happen is the end goal
CHAPLIN, JAMES (CTR) wrote:
Is there a host based intrusion detection agent like Symantec's CSP for
the s390x platform? We have hit a road block in that Symantec does not
support the mainframe Linux. Right now they want us to route our syslogs
to a windows box or Blade server($$$) to capture any
Jack Woehr wrote:
If you really feel compelled to learn more, redirect, capture and read
the output of the build.
You'll get to do this anyway. If ports isn't already ported to your
platform, porting it
will give you a set of Makefiles that /almost/ work for Linux on z. It's
really faster
Michael --
1. I issue './configure...' to configure Subversion.
'./configure...' stops and tell me that the configure/make for
'zlib' had errors.
I 'cd' to the zlib directory
.. etc.
Your experience is normal if you build Subversion by hand.
No one actually does this in
Jack Woehr wrote:
Michael --
1. I issue './configure...' to configure Subversion.
Oops forgot the makefile. Here it is.
You are to be commended. One never understands an open source system
until one builds it from
scratch, every component, every tool.
Go get 'em!!
# $OpenBSD
Mark Post wrote:
On 8/28/2009 at 4:05 PM, Jack Woehr j...@well.com wrote:
No one actually does this in the real open source Unix world.
I do. It's not all that hard, once you accept the idea that you're now a Linux
developer, not a Linux user. That means installing a lot of packages
Neale Ferguson wrote:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/27/novell_linux_mainframe_deal/
³With System z mainframe revenues down 39 per cent - and MIPS mainframe
capacity shipments off 20 percent in the second quarter - IBM is keen on
boosting mainframe sales. And it wants to use Linux as a
Lionel B Dyck wrote:
I entered 'exit' and nothing.
here is my console log:
From your log, you're already committed to fsck. You've made no
changes. It will
hurt nothing to force a shutdown externally, just yank the rug out from
under
the darn thing, restart and do your fsck.
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Lionel B Dyck wrote:
Here is what happened:
Access the file system device from another Linux instance and fsck it
from superuser on the foreign instance.
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Dave Jones wrote:
Yup, I think this calls for a day off, don't you?
Hmm, following this group could easily give one the impression
that the management trend in mainframing is definitely towards
giving mainframers days off ... :)
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CHAPLIN, JAMES (CTR) wrote:
We want anyone in the group level to be able to also issue
the kill command (in the script). Is there a way to allow users in a
group to kill each other's started processes.
You can have a script or program
* with the setuid bit set
* with the write
CHAPLIN, JAMES (CTR) wrote:
-r--rwsr--+ 1 user group 500 Jan 21 16:23 stopServer.sh
The setuid is set on group level.
It has to be setuid to root because only root can send signal
to other user's processes. So it has to be owned by root and
should be something like -r-sr-x---
Oh, minor
Mark Post wrote:
Oh, minor terminological pedanticism: when the set is on the group we call
it setgid to differentiate from setuid.
Hardly minor, since the behavior it enables is completely different from setuid.
True, but I was trying not to be /breathless/ about it, just hinting to
the
Erik N Johnson wrote:
This is generally considered highly insecure. The usual caveat about
running userland apps as root.
In fact, the generally accepted practice amongst most Linux admins is:
ALWAYS issue administrative commands using sudo.
This and Everything Erik says is True. I posted in
There are any number of thousands of pieces on the web about this,
but the real problem with setuid is that it is a hinged chopstick.
A command that you execute because you can is one security risk.
You fix that by auditing the code and installing the executable such
that only root almighty can
Ayer, Paul W wrote:
service ypserv does not support chkconfig
chkconfig is the rubric for installing startup scripts in the init.d
hierarchy.
Apparently the post-install in the rpm failed to set up the services for
boot startup,
noticed it and threw an exit code.
Probably the tools are
Kittendorf, Craig X. wrote:
Hi,
I just started back at a shop with SuSE 7.2 installed in an LPAR on a
z10 and no experienced sysadmin. The root password was changed and no
one knows what it is. We do not have VM, another Linux LPAR, or the
installation materials. Is there a way to resolve
Scully, William P wrote:
Does anyone
know of a document which describes a well-accepted technique for
migrating a server's file systems from one format to another?
The classic one is to boot off cd and move stuff.
If you are booted to a ramdisk and have one file system (e.g., the real
bruce woodley wrote:
Package Installation
Error
The file system-config-services-0.9.4-1.e15.noarch.rpm cannot be opened.
This is due to a missing file, a corrupt package, or a missing header
Please verify your installation source..
etc.
REBOOT RETRY
One think you could check is
BNZ deploys Red Hat's Enterprise Linux 5 on IBM System z mainframes
https://research.scottrade.com/research/stocks/news/news.asp?docKey=100-035x1169-1
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ones, Russell wrote:
Date command on my SUSE 10 system is showing the correct date, time
zone, and minute, but the hour is off by 6 hours. How do I change the
hour offset?
Two choices:
* Move the host to Greenwich, England :)
* Set your time zone
Tom Duerbusch wrote:
What happens in the Linux world?
The network suffers.
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http://www.well.com/~jax # working out at the gym, you sweat a lot, don't get
http://www.softwoehr.com # anywhere, and you fall asleep
Tom Duerbusch wrote:
What is a good line mode editor?
ex is the traditional Unix line mode editor, written for just such
environments.
It's the dark side of vi :)
man ex
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http://www.well.com/~jax # working out
John Summerfield wrote:
If you have a dozen public keys in there, how do you know whose key was
used, and that was done?
I quite like the idea of locking root's account
The normal practice is the Unix world is to disallow ssh logins to root ...
root users must log in under a user account and
Mark Post wrote:
On 1/22/2009 at 1:58 AM, Jack Woehr j...@well.com wrote:
-snip-
I've been looking at that paper Mark wrote about 500 Linux Servers and
thinking of trying to factor that into SMAPI and see what it would take
to implement.
Just for accuracy, that was Mike MacIsaac.
Oops
Adam Thornton wrote:
Does makewhatis rebuild the index from scratch each time? If not,
then there's no real harm in leaving it enabled. If it does then you
might want to run it by hand when you add commands.
The other one you want to look for in cron is the locate.updatedb or
whatever
that
Barton Robinson wrote:
Velocity Software is announcing zPRO, a portal for z/VM systems
management.
Barton, from the description on the cited page, you go well beyond
what SMAPI does (out of the box) ... Since it's a native app, do you
use SMAPI or do your own protocol or some mixture of same?
Barton Robinson wrote:
We use SMAPI partially. It's too slow to be really useful.
It's useful to /me/! I'm having a great deal of fun with it :)
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Scott Rohling wrote:
Gonna qualify that at all, Barton? What's too slow to be 'really'
useful? SMAPI in general or certain functions? And since when did
usefulness necessarily have anything to do with speed?
And shouldn't a moderately busy SMAPI server respond a bit quicker than
an
Scott Rohling wrote:
Anyway - I was mostly curious if SMAPI in general is 'too slow' or
particular functions and what those things might be - and what kind of
speed/response we're talking about. Just little more specification...
It's .. um ... a /little/ slow.
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Jack J. Woehr# I
Scott Rohling wrote:
Anyway - I was mostly curious if SMAPI in general is 'too slow' or
particular functions and what those things might be - and what kind of
speed/response we're talking about. Just little more specification...
All kidding aside: seconds, sometimes many, for a busy query.
Scott Rohling wrote:
Well - I did say 'necessarily'.. sure there's a value to speed, but it
doesn't 'necessarily' translate to 'usefulness'. Value comes in different
forms.
Exactly. You can write an entire (somewhat slow) operations navigator
in SMAPI. Which is what I'm doing. Slowly :)
Barton Robinson wrote:
on a z9 IFL, SMAPI is painfully slow from what I've seen. And this is
not creating linux servers in 30 seconds - which would be disk
operation, not SMAPI.
Scott Rohling wrote:
Well - I did say 'necessarily'.. sure there's a value to speed, but it
doesn't 'necessarily'
Barton Robinson wrote:
on a z9 IFL, SMAPI is painfully slow from what I've seen. And this is
not creating linux servers in 30 seconds - which would be disk
operation, not SMAPI.
I've been looking at that paper Mark wrote about 500 Linux Servers and
thinking of trying to factor that into SMAPI
Alan Altmark wrote:
On Friday, 01/16/2009 at 08:07 EST, Patrick Spinler
spinler.patr...@mayo.edu wrote:
Specifically, I'd like to be able
to remotely query various dirmaint functions for capacity reporting
purposes (e.g. dirmaint dirmap, dirmaint user nopass)
When SMAPI was originally
David Boyes wrote:
I really like what you've
done with PigIron, but I can't run it on CMS because we don't have a
supported Java.
I can see the fun in that, but is there really a use case? Nobody
(methinks) is sitting in front of a real 3270 using CMS anymore.
There's always a shell window
Alan Altmark wrote:
As an aside, given the nature of the data flows, consider an option to
provide an SSL session to protect them.
PigIron supports SSL already. In the Builder you just check the SSL
checkbox.
In code, you set the SSL flag true. In JSON, you set the object member
ssl : true
Alan Altmark wrote:
And, yes, there are non-IBM exploiters of SMAPI.
Well, I'd like to get in on the exploitation :)
I wrote PigIron not because I have any use for it, but because I like
VM and the VM community and a friend said that an Open Source
VM GUI OpsNav might be interesting.
David Boyes wrote:
Yes, there is. There are a lot of things where Linux or other systems don't
have effective API access to CMS or CP functions yet, but CMS (and REXX)
does.
If Rexx does, SMAPI does. Writing a SMAPI function and adding
it to SMAPI is not terribly difficult.
If SMAPI has it,
My take on Why does SMAPI exist is shaped by experience with i/OS +
JT400 / JTOpen.
JTOpen offers pretty complete programmatic operations access to the
i/Series. IBM was
enthusiastic enough to provide an
overly-complete-to-the-point-of-bloating Java client
API for the TCP/IP services that
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