Re: lsdasd is gone?

2023-05-10 Thread Marcy Cortes
It's part of the s390-tools package on SLES 15 so you'd think it'd be on RH9 as well. Try rpm -qil s390-tools | grep lsdasd On SLES it is in /sbin so if you aren't root, you'd need the full path -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port On Behalf Of Martha McConaghy Sent:

Re: Edit grub from 3270 console

2023-05-04 Thread Marcy Cortes
You can pass things to grub on the IPL command using the PARM statement. I just had to do that when I needed to validate a systemd timing problem with a kernel parm. It's tricky with the lower case stuff. Is that what you are trying to do? -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port

Re: Diag 288 vs SLES 15

2023-01-25 Thread marcy cortes
OR: could not insert 'diag288_wdt': Invalid argument > > SLES 15 SP3 > modprobe diag288_wdt > modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'diag288_wdt': Invalid argument > > SLES 15 SP1 > modprobe diag288_wdt > (no error, but no output) > > Duane > > -Original Message-

Diag 288 vs SLES 15

2023-01-24 Thread marcy cortes
Does anyone have a SLES 15 SP4 system that they could try this command on? modprobe diag288_wdt If it fails do you have an earlier 15 SP that it does work with? Marcy -- Marcy -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: Warning if upgrading SLES12 to SLES15 SP3

2021-10-14 Thread Marcy Cortes
root= kernel option and point to the device number by-path. Thank you for reminding me to look for this option. Don't know how it got commented out or perhaps it was never uncommented. Thanks again, Aria -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: W

Re: Warning if upgrading SLES12 to SLES15 SP3

2021-10-13 Thread Marcy Cortes
Aria, I've had in our build stuff since the sles 12 days to put this in /etc/default/grub GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true I think that might help your boot duplicate issues? My brain cells that contained why I did that seem to have been reused for another purpose though, so maybe it was something

Re: Warning if upgrading SLES12 to SLES15 SP3

2021-08-20 Thread Marcy Cortes
So you must not have added any disks since 12 SP4, Mark. This is 12 SP5 server that's been through a lot of upgrades (and upgrades within the support period). me@x:/home/me> ls -alt /etc/udev/rules.d/*dasd* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 363 Jul 24 2020

Re: Warning if upgrading SLES12 to SLES15 SP3

2021-08-19 Thread Marcy Cortes
Thanks for the heads up Aria! We have a lot of them that upgraded from 12 to Sp1, then sp2, and now SP3 is being tested. Many have the 41's and 51's. We'll look for this and report it if it happens here too. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port On Behalf Of Aria Bamdad Sent:

Re: integrated console overflow from the Linux installer

2021-06-10 Thread Marcy Cortes
I had that exact problem on Tuesday. Ended up taking my volume back to VM, dedicating the OSAs, and fixing my config there. Keep linux under VM where god intended it to be is my advice ;) If you figure it out, please share. In my experience, the sysascii prompt pops up way after tons of

Re: Has anyone managed to install OpenShift? How many resources?

2021-04-21 Thread Marcy Cortes
Well, I'd be thrilled if something new only needed 72G ;) I know, that doesn't help, but it seems like a not unreasonable amount these days. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port On Behalf Of Rick Barlow Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2021 11:44 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: Sharing dasd between linux

2021-02-08 Thread Marcy Cortes
You need software that provides a clustered file system. Spectrum Scale is one such piece of SW. SUSE has HAE as well. Not sure what RH has. Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port On Behalf Of Rinaldo Akio Uehara Sent: Monday, February 8, 2021 3:31 PM To:

Re: Experience IBM Spectrum Scale

2021-01-19 Thread Marcy Cortes
We make extensive use of it for sharing file systems between servers. We haven't used it with OpenShift or NFS, though. Haven't had a need for that yet. It works well for us! Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port On Behalf Of Mittelstädt, David Sent: Tuesday, January

Re: Linux and 5 digit address

2021-01-14 Thread Marcy Cortes
On 14.01.2021 02:11, Marcy Cortes wrote: > I tried to bring it up today, but it failed to find the ipl volume. > I figured out that it was because we are on site 2 disk this week and the > real address to use in the HMC is 5 digit, starting with a 1, say 10F57. > I need to add that

Linux and 5 digit address

2021-01-13 Thread Marcy Cortes
(Cross-posted to IBMVM and Linux-390) So I have this server that once in a while needs to be in a LPAR manage crypto keys, but I want him under VM because it’s just better there  I tried to bring it up today, but it failed to find the ipl volume. I figured out that it was because we are on

Re: SLES 15 SP2 kernel issue with random number generator (crng)

2020-12-18 Thread Marcy Cortes
So poking around z90crypt.service comes with libica-tools packages on sles15 sp2. It's not installed by default. I put it on and started it with systemctl start and does start but throws this error z90crypt[40815]: modprobe: FATAL: Module zcrypt_pcixcc not found in directory

Re: Oracle client for SLES 15?

2020-12-15 Thread Marcy Cortes
Graves IBM Z Dallas ISV Center aaron.gra...@ibm.com 845-433-3672 From: Marcy Cortes To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 12/14/2020 06:51 PM Subject:[EXTERNAL] Re: Oracle client for SLES 15? Sent by:Linux on 390 Port I got it to install by adding a line to the cvu_config

Re: SLES 15 SP2 kernel issue with random number generator (crng)

2020-12-15 Thread Marcy Cortes
We have haveged on our sles 15 SP2 servers. We didn't consciously put it there :) All of ours were upgrades from SP1, though. So maybe that had it? We've not had any issues. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port On Behalf Of Aria Bamdad Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Re: Oracle client for SLES 15?

2020-12-14 Thread Marcy Cortes
I got it to install by adding a line to the cvu_config file CV_ASSUME_DISTID=SUSE12 Hmm. Looks like we are missing SLES 15 support from Oracle :( From: Cortes, Marcy D. [PRINCIPAL ENGINEER] Sent: Monday, December 14, 2020 1:32 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Oracle client for SLES

Oracle client for SLES 15?

2020-12-14 Thread Marcy Cortes
Oracle 19c. Has anyone found a client for Oracle for sles 15? I can't believe there wouldn't be one. Using this one LINUX.ZSERIES64_193000_client.zip - Oracle Database 19c Client (19.3) for IBM: Linux on System z (64 bit) results in [WARNING] [INS-08101] Unexpected error while executing the

Re: LVM does not come online after reboot. PVMOVE used to migrate data.

2020-12-07 Thread Marcy Cortes
That was going to my next question. We have run into similar with LVM with ECKD stuff after new disks have been added. We opened tickets and all have been fixed with updates to various pieces (lvm2 being one I remembered). -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port On Behalf Of

Re: LVM does not come online after reboot. PVMOVE used to migrate data.

2020-12-06 Thread Marcy Cortes
When it's up, try running grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg grub2-install dracut -f -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port On Behalf Of Duane Beyer Sent: Sunday, December 6, 2020 8:14 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] LVM does not

Re: Modify ifcfg-encw0.0.nnnn at DR

2020-10-07 Thread Marcy Cortes
>I'm also beginning to detect a pattern in DR environments:  The z/VM >systems themselves aren't replicated.  There is as often as not a >cold/warm/hot z/VM system already in the DR site with a site-specific >configuration.  Linux data is replicated, plus any "utility" data used by >the

Re: Modify ifcfg-encw0.0.nnnn at DR

2020-10-06 Thread Marcy Cortes
You can do something like sed -i -e 's/16/24/g' filename Or you can change the info with the IP command, and then get in and fix with VI -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port On Behalf Of Frank M. Ramaekers Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2020 8:07 AM To:

Re: Spectrum Scale and z/VM

2020-09-28 Thread Marcy Cortes
I wouldn't think so. You'd need a client on VM. Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port On Behalf Of Jim Elliott Sent: Monday, September 28, 2020 7:58 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [LINUX-390] Spectrum Scale and z/VM Can Spectrum Scale (GPFS) be used as the disk

Re: Encryption again - Question on TKE use to CCA

2020-09-25 Thread marcy cortes
Yes, 1 catcher with control/usage on 1 domain and control on the rest to load all the keys on a card. If we did it on the Linux guest that will actually use the key, I would have to move all those guests around to 8 different CEC's in two different datacenters. That's just not going to

Re: Encryption again - Question on TKE use to CCA

2020-09-24 Thread Marcy Cortes
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Re: Encryption again - Question on TKE use to CCA

2020-09-24 Thread Marcy Cortes
: Matthias Hartmann Geschäftsführung: Dirk Wittkopp Sitz der Gesellschaft: Böblingen Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294 - Original message ----- From: Marcy Cortes mailto:marcy.d.cor...@wellsfargo.com>> Sent by: Linux on 390 Port

Encryption again - Question on TKE use to CCA

2020-09-23 Thread Marcy Cortes
In this doc http://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/dw/linux390/docu/l91xct00.pdf page 13, what are these credentials? Where are they defined? Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee,

Re: db2 and systemd?

2020-08-22 Thread marcy cortes
Yea, I don't have a pidfile and it all seems to keep track of which processes. I used Type=forking On 8/19/20, 11:03 AM, "Linux on 390 Port on behalf of Mark Post" wrote: On 8/18/20 10:47 PM, Grzegorz Powiedziuk wrote: > Do you specify the pidfile and does the wrapper > script

Re: vmrelocate and quiescence time

2020-08-18 Thread Marcy Cortes
Why not use DB2 HADR and then you can just do the takeover command? Marcy -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit

Re: db2 and systemd?

2020-08-18 Thread marcy cortes
It's not fun... We have a .service file of type forking that calls a script of ours to start it and stop it. systemd is cool with that. However, if you stop and then start db2 outside of db2 it's no longer associated with that service and systemd whacks its processes at shutdown time, resulting

Re: HA NFS Cluster on RHEL 7

2020-08-18 Thread marcy cortes
I don’t suppose you have a license for Spectrum Scale either? ( formerly known as GPFS) On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 8:34 AM Mittelstädt, David < david.mittelsta...@dataport.de> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > > > In my company I need to set up a HA NFS cluster on RHEL 7 running on z/VM > 7.1. But my

Re: Overcommitting zLinux CPU

2020-07-31 Thread Marcy Cortes
Each virtual cpu will need to run on a real cpu.So those will end up waiting behind themselves and make things worse. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port On Behalf Of Mariusz Walczak Sent: Friday, July 31, 2020 4:46 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [LINUX-390]

Re: z15 on-board compression

2020-07-28 Thread Marcy Cortes
I didn't see an answer. You need 1. Linux 2. a z15 3. Java 1.8 - any level 4. Something that uses the Java api's to compress/decompress data. Basically, it can create a compressed thing that is missing an end of file marker and deflating it goes into a loop. WAS has dealt with the deflate

Re: SYSASCII console use for Linux

2020-07-23 Thread Marcy Cortes
You might want to take a look at this https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/linuxonibm/liaaf/lnz_r_ht.html -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port On Behalf Of Davis, Larry (National VM Capability) Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2020 3:41 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject:

Re: VM system name

2020-07-20 Thread Marcy Cortes
+2 -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Monday, July 20, 2020 12:16 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] VM system name On 7/20/20 1:09 PM, Stewart, Lee wrote: > +1 OK, that's one (sorry, but retirees who won't use the tool don't

Re: VM system name

2020-07-17 Thread Marcy Cortes
Late to the game, but I would probably make a .service file that did something like ExecStart= echo $(/sbin/vmcp q userid | awk '{print $3}') > /etc/vmsysname and then anything could look at the file. An LGR'd guest would be wrong, but I don't think you use that. Marcy

Re: Loading vmcp on boot

2020-06-30 Thread Marcy Cortes
I don't have any SLES 11 to check, but I'm pretty sure there is a /etc/modprode.d or /etc/modprobe.conf that it goes into -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Loading vmcp on boot

2020-06-30 Thread marcy cortes
The correct way would be to use /etc/mod probe.d/ for SUSE On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 10:24 AM Edgington, Jerry < jerry.edging...@westernsouthernlife.com> wrote: > Here is an example for Redhat. > > [root@u060rh7gld system]# more vmcpdetach.target > [Unit] > Description= Detach z/VM mdisk >

Encrypted volumes opening at boot time - crypttab fail

2020-06-26 Thread Marcy Cortes
-26 11:47:02 Re-enciphered: (never) Marcy Cortes VP/Principal Engineer, z/VM and Linux on IBM z Systems Technology Infrastructure / Core Engineering / Mainframe/Midrange Services (MMS) Wells Fargo Bank | MAC A2809-010 | San Francisco Cell 415-517-0895 marcy.d.cor...@wellsfargo.com

Encrypted volumes opening at boot time - crypttab fail

2020-06-26 Thread marcy cortes
: cbd966000f0da3bf675923fc44332bac 84100bb540f6b00f596b76ceacf9cb41 Created : 2020-06-25 19:12:33 Changed : 2020-06-26 11:47:02 Re-enciphered: (never) Marcy Cortes VP/Principal Engineer, z/VM and Linux on IBM

Re: Dracut error after Booting default (grub) message

2020-05-13 Thread Marcy Cortes
arry System Programmer Operating Systems EVERTEC, LLC -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2020 7:54 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Dracut error after Booting default (grub) message you aren't the only one. Someth

Re: FW: Dracut error after Booting default (grub) message

2020-04-30 Thread marcy cortes
> you aren't the only one. > > Something's definitely different. Open a case with your Linux support. > > For at least all of the system volumes (ones needed to boot) , consider > erasing the 51-dasd* rules in /etc/udev/rules.d and then using "chzdev -e " > to put back new 41-dasd-eckd* rules. >

Re: Dracut error after Booting default (grub) message

2020-04-29 Thread Marcy Cortes
you aren't the only one. Something's definitely different. Open a case with your Linux support. For all least all of the system volumes (ones needed to boot) , consider erasing the 51-dasd* rules in /etc/udev/rules.d and then using "chzdev -e " to put back new 41-dasd-eckd* rules. Then

Re: BCACHE errors on lvextend, on reboot goes to dracut emergency mode

2020-04-22 Thread marcy cortes
Try when you are in that shell vgchange -ay system You may have to chzdev -e first On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 9:21 AM Will, Chris wrote: > This has now happened on two SLES 12 SP4 that have had any of the LVM root > file system (/var /tmp, etc) expanded (lvextend). Here is the error >

Re: BCACHE errors on lvextend, on reboot goes to dracut emergency mode

2020-04-21 Thread marcy cortes
Yes, we had this in two forms. Both fixed by the dracut fix (and rerunning it) Subject: SR101238520451 Re dracut timeout problems after patching Marcy, We released this fix in maint (dracut-044.2-10.15.2.s390x). The other

Re: BCACHE errors on lvextend, on reboot goes to dracut emergency mode

2020-04-21 Thread Marcy Cortes
Yes, we had this in two forms. Both fixed by the dracut fix (and rerunning it) Subject: SR101238520451 Re dracut timeout problems after patching Marcy, We released this fix in maint (dracut-044.2-10.15.2.s390x). The other issue related to this:

Re: Adding disk to root LVM with RHEL 7

2020-04-15 Thread Marcy Cortes
System Architect/Technical Lead SHARE Association: Vice President Marist College IT Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 From: Linux on 390 Port on behalf of Marcy Cortes Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2020 11:42 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Adding disk to roo

Re: Adding disk to root LVM with RHEL 7

2020-04-15 Thread Marcy Cortes
in the rd.dasd line or cio_ignore (which is so unnecessary when running under z/VM). Thanks, Sam (217) 862-9227 (office) (602) 327-2134 (cell) -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2020 8:43 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject

Re: Adding disk to root LVM with RHEL 7

2020-04-15 Thread Marcy Cortes
I'm kind of assuming RH7 works like sles11 and doesn't use grub2, but did you "mkinird; zipl" after getting that disk online? You can also "cat / run/initramfs/rdsosreport.txt" in that emergency mode to get more details. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port On Behalf Of Rick

Re: Quick question on single user mode

2020-04-06 Thread Marcy Cortes
There's been quite a lot of fixes to the lvm2 package. are you current? -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port On Behalf Of Will, Chris Sent: Monday, April 6, 2020 9:26 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Quick question on single user mode Here is the error

Re: Quick question on single user mode

2020-03-13 Thread Marcy Cortes
Here's what I have in my notes from when we had issues with SP4 vs new disks Once you get the rescue system loaded, activate the devices chzdev -e 0101-01ff vgscan if you think you might have an LVM problem and it went inactivate, activate VG perhaps (vgchange -ay vgname) If you need to rewrite

Re: Quick question on single user mode

2020-03-12 Thread Marcy Cortes
if you delete stuff, it will just prompt you for it. Which is good. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port On Behalf Of Will, Chris Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2020 7:55 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Quick question on single user mode Hello and thanks for

Re: Quick question on single user mode

2020-03-10 Thread Marcy Cortes
Do you have current maintenance on LVM and the kernel? We went through some of this shortly after SP4 went in. We have since received fixes. The way we got out of it was pulling out the media and using the rescue system. Have you done that before? -Original Message- From: Linux

Re: configuring a new disk comes up ro ?

2020-01-29 Thread Marcy Cortes
What OS is this? dasd_configure is replaced by chzdev anything in /var/log/messages? or journal? We've seen linux not be happy with things that might have been leftover on a reused disk. I'd run cpfmtxa over the entire volume just to be sure nothing like that is happening.

Re: Dynamically turning on memory

2020-01-23 Thread Marcy Cortes
McConaghy Marist: System Architect/Technical Lead SHARE Association: Vice President Marist College IT Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 From: Linux on 390 Port on behalf of Marcy Cortes Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2020 11:02 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re

Re: Dynamically turning on memory

2020-01-23 Thread Marcy Cortes
I’ve never done it in an LPAR, but it should be the same. Use chmem-e 256G Use lsmem to check Sent with BlackBerry Work (www.blackberry.com) From: Martha McConaghy mailto:martha.mccona...@marist.edu>> Date: Thursday, Jan 23, 2020, 7:57 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: Pervasive disk encryption questions

2020-01-21 Thread Marcy Cortes
This brings up another set of questions from me :) Under the assumption that hardware eventually fails and I could lose a card... If there's two on a guest I assume things seamlessly continue on if one card fails? Do I get messages on Linux, VM, or the HW if that should happen? If there's

Re: Pervasive disk encryption questions

2020-01-18 Thread Marcy Cortes
to only one LPAR at a time, but in any case you cannot relocate a guest with APDED domains. Regards, Alan Altmark IBM > On Jan 17, 2020, at 8:00 PM, Marcy Cortes wrote: > >  > One more question I have and its probably more VM orientated. > > Say we decide z/OS ICSF loads all the m

Re: Pervasive disk encryption questions

2020-01-17 Thread Marcy Cortes
680 guests I mean - can't type! -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Friday, January 17, 2020 5:00 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Pervasive disk encryption questions One more question I have and its probably more VM

Re: Pervasive disk encryption questions

2020-01-17 Thread Marcy Cortes
One more question I have and its probably more VM orientated. Say we decide z/OS ICSF loads all the master keys for us (keeping CCA out of the pic) . Can a guest on VM1 use the same card/domain as a guest on VM2 in another lpar provided they user the same MK? Trying to figure out HW

Re: Interesting presentation

2020-01-16 Thread Marcy Cortes
Good stuff. Except the security redbook from 2013. that's ancient :) -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port On Behalf Of Neale Ferguson Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2020 4:52 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [LINUX-390] Interesting presentation From LinuxConf AU by

Re: Pervasive disk encryption questions

2020-01-15 Thread Marcy Cortes
st regards Ingo Linux on 390 Port wrote on 13/01/2020 17:34:43: > From: Marcy Cortes > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Date: 13/01/2020 17:35 > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [LINUX-390] Pervasive disk encryption questions > Sent by: Linux on 390

Re: Pervasive disk encryption questions

2020-01-13 Thread Marcy Cortes
Thanks! Was hoping you'd respond. So essentially to do the disk encryption stuff documented here https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/linuxonibm/com.ibm.linux.z.lxdc/lxdc_linuxonz.html one has to dedicate to the guest. If I can put 16 cards on a z15, I'm essentially limited to 8

Pervasive disk encryption questions

2020-01-10 Thread marcy cortes
Cross posted to Linux-390 and IBMVM First, my understand of virtualizing crypto is that if any of the cards are defined as accelerators then CRYPTO APVIRT in the directory will give linux an accelerator. If you want linux to have a coprocessor, you’d have to dedicate one.If you want a lot

Re: OpenShift 4.2 for Linux on Z now available as a tech preview.

2019-12-06 Thread Marcy Cortes
Is it true that it will be z15 only? -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port On Behalf Of Michel Beaulieu Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2019 6:11 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [LINUX-390] OpenShift 4.2 for Linux on Z now available as a tech preview. OpenShift 4.2 for

Re: backup product

2019-11-04 Thread Marcy Cortes
According to the Veritas website, Netbackup on SLES 15 system Z is supported if 8.2 client. Marcy -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO

Re: Replacement the root disk with a larger disk (without LVM)

2019-09-12 Thread Marcy Cortes
Just went through all this a while ago! Here's my instructions for my 101 -> 201 move 2. Enlarge the 101 disk if not already 1000 cyl (non LVM) # Allocate a 1000 cyl disk at address 201 vmcp link \* 201 201 chccwdev -e 201 # Lsdasd - get new disk letter dasdfmt -f /dev/dasd? -b 4096

Re: NSS not possible in SLES 12

2019-09-05 Thread Marcy Cortes
I agree 100%. We decided it was too hard with all the frequent updates of the kernel. Memory is cheaper than it used to be. I'm not sad to see this go so other more important things can take place. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent:

Re: Defined minidisks RHEL 6.0 on z/VM to grow / FS, forgot to Persistently Setting DASDs Online with /etc/zipl.conf and zipl.

2019-08-16 Thread Marcy Cortes
Alan wrote: >I've been thinking for some time that we might want to consider revisiting >that for the VINPUT command. It's a command specifically designed to >deliver data to a guest, not CP and not someone else's console. As such, >it should be left to the guest to do the translation if it

Re: Issues trying to install RHEL 8

2019-07-31 Thread Marcy Cortes
I should also add that once you are in the dreaded dracut shell, put it on your USB stick! Haha. Just kidding. Use cat and capture it to your console Sent with BlackBerry Work (www.blackberry.com) From: Cohen, Sam mailto:sam.co...@lrs.com>> Date: Tuesday, Jul 30, 2019, 10:49 PM To:

Re: Issues trying to install RHEL 8

2019-07-30 Thread Marcy Cortes
Is there LVM in that disk selection? Sent with BlackBerry Work (www.blackberry.com) From: Martha McConaghy mailto:martha.mccona...@marist.edu>> Date: Tuesday, Jul 30, 2019, 7:52 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU>> Subject: [LINUX-390] Issues trying to install RHEL

Re: Dracut fix is available now from SUSE for problem with SP4 dasd disks

2019-07-28 Thread Marcy Cortes
-mail > and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation. > > -Original Message- > From: Marcy Cortes > Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2019 8:58 AM > Subject: Dracut fix is available now fro

Dracut fix is available now from SUSE for problem with SP4 dasd disks

2019-07-25 Thread Marcy Cortes
Bug Fix Advisory - SUSE-12-SP4-2019-1969 -- Summary: Recommended update for dracut This update for dracut fixes the following issues: - 95dasd-rules 95zfcp-rules: was not correctly looking for rule names

Re: Server don't boot after patch

2019-07-14 Thread Marcy Cortes
t.. Wonderings popping into mind: - if the bug is specific to s390x - if the bug is related to specific kernel version, or dracut/grub version - if the bug is specific to ckd/fba/scsi PVs I guess the problem report is not available in public from SUSE? -- Best regards, Juha Vuori On 14.7.2019 1

Re: Server don't boot after patch

2019-07-13 Thread Marcy Cortes
LES 12. One by one, even the stable servers failed. Martha On 7/13/2019 6:08 PM, Marcy Cortes wrote: > Exactly what happened to us. I posted here last month when it happenend. > > SUSE has given us a temp PTF that we've just started testing > > What you need to do to recover is to boo

Re: Server don't boot after patch

2019-07-13 Thread Marcy Cortes
Exactly what happened to us. I posted here last month when it happenend. SUSE has given us a temp PTF that we've just started testing What you need to do to recover is to boot a rescue system and bring on all your devices with chzdev. Then run mkinitrd and grub2-install and cross your

Re: fsck failed during reboot

2019-07-02 Thread Marcy Cortes
Did you get any of these messages? dracut-initqueue[327]: Warning: dracut-initqueue timeout - starting timeout scripts And then the LVM got confused and I had to vgscan in rescure mode to repair it. Sounds a lot like what I reported here about 3 weeks ago, but it was SP4, so maybe not the same

Re: fsck failed during reboot

2019-07-02 Thread Marcy Cortes
Is this SP4? Did you add disks lately? Do you see all your disks needed if you run these two commands? lsinitrd lsinitrd /boot/zipl/initrd Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port On Behalf Of van Sleeuwen, Berry Sent: Tuesday, July 2, 2019 12:49 AM To:

Re: Devices for dracut in sles 12 SP4

2019-06-11 Thread Marcy Cortes
on its way. hopefully openable! thank you! -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2019 10:09 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Devices for dracut in sles 12 SP4 On 6/11/19 1:05 PM, Marcy Cortes wrote: > If

Re: Devices for dracut in sles 12 SP4

2019-06-11 Thread Marcy Cortes
@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Devices for dracut in sles 12 SP4 On 6/10/19 3:52 PM, Marcy Cortes wrote: > Does anyone know how dracut is really supposed to be told about devices? I > was under the impression that all devices were allowed unless explicity in a > cio_ignore when runnin

Devices for dracut in sles 12 SP4

2019-06-10 Thread Marcy Cortes
Resending from other ID – maybe have been blocked for many (like me!) -- After some patching this weekend, we had a few servers go into dracut emergency mode. After a lot of pain and rescue system work,  we found it didn't

Devices for dracut in sles 12 SP4

2019-06-10 Thread Marcy Cortes
After some patching this weekend, we had a few servers go into dracut emergency mode. After a lot of pain and rescue system work, we found it didn't know about a couple of the devices in the VG group that housed some needed stuff. We found this in the dracut /run/initram/rdsosreport.txt you

Re: dasd_configure in SLES 12 SP4

2019-05-31 Thread Marcy Cortes
Thanks for the explanation, Mark. Easy enough for me to change the dasd_configure command in my scripts to chzdev so I will do that and not bother reporting that difference from SP3. The problem with by-path not working is a little more problematic, so I've opened a SUSE ticket for that.

Re: dasd_configure in SLES 12 SP4

2019-05-30 Thread Marcy Cortes
|", "r|/dev/fd.*|", "r|/dev/cdrom|", "a/.*/" ] So not sure what is up with that... -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2019 2:04 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] dasd_c

dasd_configure in SLES 12 SP4

2019-05-30 Thread Marcy Cortes
So it seems to return an 8 now on SP4 , which messes up my scripting :( myhost:~ # export DEBUG=yes myhost:~ # dasd_configure 0.0.8002 1 0 All the parms passed were -- '0.0.8002' '1' '0' Found the end of parms indicator: -- chzdev -e dasd --no-root-update 0.0.8002 use_diag=0 ECKD DASD 0.0.8002

Re: Questions About Accessing the Forum

2019-05-02 Thread Marcy Cortes
That's what I was going to tell him, but it throws up a page doesn't exist message -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port On Behalf Of Rich Smrcina Sent: Thursday, May 2, 2019 5:38 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Questions About Accessing the Forum

Re: Horizontal vs. Vertical on guest on z/VM

2019-03-20 Thread Marcy Cortes
/VM There is no virtualization of the topology, so horizontal it must be. Regards, Alan Altmark IBM > On Mar 21, 2019, at 12:45 AM, Marcy Cortes wrote: > > So knowing z/VM is running vertical, should I be concerned that linux is horizontal? > > This is sles12 sp3 > > #

Horizontal vs. Vertical on guest on z/VM

2019-03-20 Thread Marcy Cortes
So knowing z/VM is running vertical, should I be concerned that linux is horizontal? This is sles12 sp3 # lscpu Architecture: s390x CPU op-mode(s):32-bit, 64-bit Byte Order:Big Endian CPU(s):6 On-line CPU(s) list: 0-5 Thread(s) per core:1

Re: Upgrade sles 12sp4 - sles 15

2019-03-15 Thread Marcy Cortes
What does “zypper pd” show? From: Mark Post mailto:mp...@suse.com>> Date: Friday, Mar 15, 2019, 8:30 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU>> Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Upgrade sles 12sp4 - sles 15 On 3/15/19 9:50 AM, Mark Pace wrote: > Has anyone done a successful upgrade

Re: Persistent change to use layer2 in SLES 11 SP4

2019-03-01 Thread Marcy Cortes
/etc/udev/rules.d/ file for the device Here's what one looks like ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="drivers", KERNEL=="qeth", IMPORT{program}="collect 0.0.3000 %k 0.0.3000 0.0.3001 0.0.3002 qeth" ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="ccw", KERNEL=="0.0.3000", RUN+="/sbin/modprobe --quiet qeth" ACTION=="add",

Re: order of eth0/eth1 and udev rules vs kernel discovery

2019-01-15 Thread Marcy Cortes
SUSE does this in /etc/udev/rules.d/ cat 70-persistent-net.rules # This file was automatically generated by the /usr/lib/udev/write_net_rules # program,run by the persistent-net-generator.rules rules file. # # You can modify it,as long as you keep each rule on a single # line,and change only the

Re: Linux systemd affected by memory corruption vulnerabilities, no patches yet

2019-01-11 Thread Marcy Cortes
There are many indeed. I should make a list some day. Kinda cool that SLES 15 is immune because of compiling. Maybe there's hope that our future includes less patching! Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port On Behalf Of Dave Jones Sent: Friday, January 11, 2019 6:56 AM

zLinux in the news

2019-01-02 Thread Marcy Cortes
https://www.zdnet.com/article/irs-linux-move-delayed-by-lingering-oracle-solaris-systems/ Marcy -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO

Re: Expanding root VG issue

2018-12-12 Thread Marcy Cortes
We use /dev/disk/by-path/ccw-0.0.-part1 / in /etc/fstab for the root file system Not sure what distro you are on, but dasd_configure will create the appropriate udev rules for new disks as well. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port On Behalf Of Neal Scheffler Sent:

Re: issue with Grub under z/Linux

2018-08-01 Thread Marcy Cortes
Looks like you might have a resume= in your kernel command line? cat /proc/cmdline and check You can remove with Yast2, system, Boot Loader, Kernel Parms -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port On Behalf Of Victor Echavarry Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2018 1:54 PM To:

z14 software warnings for GSKIT things

2018-05-26 Thread marcy cortes
If you are putting in a z14 and are running Connect:Direct under Linux you need to get a yet unreleased fixpack or all of your secure+ will fail. Spectrum Scale also requires 4.2.3.6 and WAS IHS requires 8.5.5.13. Anything that uses GSKIT needs examination. MQ and DB2 also use it. We haven’t

Connect:Direct on z14?

2018-05-25 Thread Marcy Cortes
Is anyone successfully running IBM Connect:Direct for Linux on a z14 using TLS 1.2? Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action

Re: Bug with XFS and SLES 12SP3 kernel-default-4.4.131-94.29-default

2018-05-24 Thread Marcy Cortes
server wood shove it down the throats of the other servers. But, I never was responsible for Linux on Z systems servers, so I may have missed out on all the fun. Mike Walter -Retired- From: Linux on 390 Port <LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU> on behalf of

Re: Bug with XFS and SLES 12SP3 kernel-default-4.4.131-94.29-default

2018-05-24 Thread Marcy Cortes
Nice idea, but when you have a thousand servers, that isn't very practical. And one your server has been up a few minutes its data has changed and regressing it that way may be a problem. The multi kernel support works well for things like backing out the kernel. -Original

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