Re: z/VM install from CD anyone?

2004-11-03 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Ranga, It appears that z/VM 5.1 can be made available on CD's although we got it on tapes Well, DVDs actually, but I would recommend to use the tapes - they're faster and seem to be more reliable. I installed from 3590 tape about a month ago without a hitch - it only took a few hours. Now

2004-11-02 Recommended Linux for zSeries code drop to developerWorks

2004-11-03 Thread Gerhard Hiller
Please see the What's new page at: http://www10.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux390/whatsnew.shtml Change summary: Linux kernel 2.4 based June 2003 stream: - Kernel 2.4.21 recommended kernel bug fixes Useful add-ons: - snIPL V.2.1 (Linux Image Control for LPAR / VM) for

Re: z/VM install from CD anyone?

2004-11-03 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Ranga, Again we're still looking into this issue I guess this is a known issue. I understand that both the Quick Install sheet and the longer Install Guide have been updated to work around the bug that is on the DVD media. Mike MacIsaac [EMAIL PROTECTED] (845) 433-7061

Re: Best Practices EVMS FCP Multipathing

2004-11-03 Thread Robert J Brenneman
Yes - you definately want multipathing for I/O intensive things like databases. At the moment this is usually only done with things like /home or /opt since thats what the installers support. The installers dont really support complex root volumes at the moment, but setting up a multipathed root

Re: What causes VM to lock pages into memory?

2004-11-03 Thread Bill Bitner
While there is a counter 'LOCKED' that refers to explicit locking of pages via the CP lock command. The counter I referred in a problem record Steve is describing is overall locked pages which may include implicit locking for things like QDIO data structures, traditional I/O buffers, and other CP

Re: JSVC on S390

2004-11-03 Thread Benjamin White
It is a program to run a Java application as a service or daemon. It is from Apache-commons and included in Jakarta-Tomcat in the bin directory. --- Post, Mark K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is JSVC? Where did you get the source from, and what configure options did you supply? Mark

Problem with OSA GigaEthernet and Linux.

2004-11-03 Thread Antônio Pires de Castro Júnior.
I am using Linux and qeth and qdio modules with OSA-E (FastEthernet) without problems, but I couldn4t use Linux with OSA-E (GigaEthernet). Ideias??? qeth and qdio problems?? thanks in advanced, Antonio Pires. -- For LINUX-390

Moving Certificate and Key from zOS LPAR running httpd to Intel Linux

2004-11-03 Thread Miller, Ila
I am trying to use the YAST certificate Authority and the Server Certificate Import Tool with SuSE Linux Version 9. I have a certificate and key from a partition on z/OS running an httpd server. The version of z/OS 1.4, allows the export of the certificate into a PKCS#12 certificate package.

Re: IP Drops out and comes back after 5-15 minutes

2004-11-03 Thread Jim Sibley
Have you checked to see if your OSA card is getting any errors? I've seen this kind of thing happen with CRC errors on the card. = Jim Sibley Computers are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso (The NSHO's expressed here represents no-one but myself).

Do 64-bit Linux guests eliminate VM 2GB swapping?

2004-11-03 Thread Kohrs, Steven
I searched the archives and found an excellent thread (Probly a stoopid ?, but what's better...31-bit or 64-bit? http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvtype?LINUX-VM.39247 ) which pointed out several items to consider when moving to 64-bit Linux guests, but I couldn't find anything on how VM handles the

Re: z/VM install from CD anyone?

2004-11-03 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 11/03/2004 at 07:00 EST, Michael MacIsaac/Poughkeepsie/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ranga, It appears that z/VM 5.1 can be made available on CD's although we got it on tapes Well, DVDs actually, but I would recommend to use the tapes - they're faster and seem to be more

A true minimal set of RPMs

2004-11-03 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Hi list, Has anyone determined the true minimal install on SLES (8/9)? If you choose minimal install, it seems a lot of the RPMs that get installed are still unnecesary for zSeries. It would be nice know what RPMs can be deleted. Thanks. Mike MacIsaac [EMAIL PROTECTED] (845) 433-7061

Re: A true minimal set of RPMs

2004-11-03 Thread Richard Troth
Has anyone determined the true minimal install on SLES (8/9)? If you choose minimal install, it seems a lot of the RPMs that get installed are still unnecesary for zSeries. It would be nice know what RPMs can be deleted. Thanks. Mike ... I could give you a minimal install of generic Linux,