Re: Tom Shepherd - in IBM Meeting in Dallas April 24-26

2006-04-25 Thread Collinson.Shannon
If you can tell me how to avoid it, I'd love to do so. My company recently opened up our out of office messages to go to external email recipients (like this list) and I don't believe I can stop it from within Microsoft OutLook. As I'm required, by management, to set up an out-of-office message

Is anyone connecting to a Hitachi SAN-box with FCP NPiV?

2007-10-23 Thread Collinson.Shannon
We wanted to connect to our SAN-box using FCP NPiV for either open-systems server storage (using TSM) or to implement the new GDPS function of DR-mirroring the open-systems storage. However, the IBM representative we talked to said that they couldn't support us if we ran into any problems (either

3590 tape drive support in zLinux/zVM?

2008-01-15 Thread Collinson.Shannon
This is cross-posted on the linux-390 and ibmvm listservs... Is there a manual or webpage somewhere that references all the types of hardware that will work under various versions of zLinux and zVM? Or could someone tell me where I could confirm that a Magstar 3590 model E11 standalone

Re: Betr.: 3590 tape drive support in zLinux/zVM?

2008-01-15 Thread Collinson.Shannon
to take advantage of FC attached drives. EG DDR does not know anything but Ficon and Escon\ Best regards, Pieter Harder [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel +31-73-6837133 / +31-6-47272537 Collinson.Shannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/15/08 9:23 This is cross-posted on the linux-390 and ibmvm listservs

qeth setup cause code documentation

2008-02-04 Thread Collinson.Shannon
Can someone point me to where the qeth setup return codes are documented? I've found a few mentioned in scattered postings online, but none that represent our error (0xf6). I figure knowing where TFM is will help me R it... Thanks! For those interested, we're getting the following when

Re: qeth setup cause code documentation

2008-02-04 Thread Collinson.Shannon
herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Collinson.Shannon Sent: Monday, February 04

Is it possible to do an initial SLES9 install on a partially-LVM root?

2008-03-13 Thread Collinson.Shannon
I was trying to do this with a new guest by putting the following directories in LVM (group system with one volume-204): /usr /var /opt /home The rest of the root filesystem (including /boot) is on a regular physical volume (200), and the

Re: Is it possible to do an initial SLES9 install on a partially-LVM root?

2008-03-13 Thread Collinson.Shannon
], Collinson.Shannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, but we only have one disk in the LVM. And while we want striping So, does that mean you did put a partition on the volume? It's not really clear from your answer. in place (because we'll be using mod54s with PAV in the near future), at To be able

Re: Is it possible to do an initial SLES9 install on a partially-LVM root?

2008-03-14 Thread Collinson.Shannon
We don't have mod54's yet--this is just a mod9, and we'll have static PAV aliases defined for the mod54s--but I assume the same logic applies. Does this mean that I can't use LVM for the four mountpoints (/usr, /var, /opt and /home) at all until we have PAV set up? I could define minidisks on

Re: Is it possible to do an initial SLES9 install on a partially-LVM root?

2008-03-14 Thread Collinson.Shannon
/( )\ -^^-^^ In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, theory and practice are different. On 3/14/08 8:15 AM, Collinson.Shannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We don't have mod54's yet--this is just a mod9, and we'll have static PAV aliases

how can I mount /tmp as a tmpfs in SLES9?

2008-03-17 Thread Collinson.Shannon
And is this a bad idea? In the USS world at our shop, we've had our /tmp directory mounted as a temporary file system (backed in memory) for a decade with no problems, but we don't run all that much in USS. I know that it's possible to mount tmp as memory-it's mentioned in a few read-only-root

Re: how can I mount /tmp as a tmpfs in SLES9?

2008-03-18 Thread Collinson.Shannon
Thanks for all the explanation, folks--after reading through them, I'm definitely sticking with physical data for /tmp, as it seems a lot safer. And while we're not crunched for memory yet, I'm sure that day will come... Also, Mark, thanks for the link to the funtoo site for tmpfs info--if I'd

Re: SWAPGEN version 0803

2008-05-02 Thread Collinson.Shannon
I had this same problem and noticed that an invalid character was being appended to the uploaded swpg0803 file (on the last line--3589). I just deleted that line and everything ran fine... Shannon Collinson--SunTrust Bank -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL

weird problem with pam_tally in SLES10SP2

2010-01-29 Thread Collinson.Shannon
I'm new to supporting linux, being a mainframe z/OS sysprog, so this may just be a user error and I sincerely hope someone can say Duh! once I explain this... We're trying to build Linux-on-zSeries SLES10SP2 guests as close as possible to the same level of Linux guests on Intel servers. As

Re: weird problem with pam_tally in SLES10SP2

2010-01-29 Thread Collinson.Shannon
Ooh! That's it, sorta! I think the syntax has changed slightly, but I needed just pam_tally.so in the common-account file, and now it resets the bugger after a successful login as it's supposed to. It also tracks up to the 10 bad passwords before it locks the user, and if they enter a correct

building wireshark on SLES10SP2?

2010-04-07 Thread Collinson.Shannon
Has anyone had any experience building WireShark on SLES10 SP2? I noticed that there's actually a Novell-delivered rpm for SLES11, but I can't see anything like that for my release of zlinux, so I tried to build it myself from source. It seemed to go pretty easily once I'd pulled down a few

Re: building wireshark on SLES10SP2?

2010-04-08 Thread Collinson.Shannon
Subject: Re: building wireshark on SLES10SP2? On 4/7/2010 at 06:08 PM, Collinson.Shannon shannon.collin...@suntrust.com wrote: Has anyone had any experience building WireShark on SLES10 SP2? I noticed that there's actually a Novell-delivered rpm for SLES11, but I can't see anything like

any experiences hooking up OSA-ICC z/VM consoles through Visara MCC?

2012-01-05 Thread Collinson.Shannon
We're slowly converting our consoles over to OSA-ICC from direct-attached consoles, and are hitting some snags with the z/VM consoles. The z/OS consoles, and the z/OS SNA terminals, popped over with no trouble but we can't seem to get the z/VM consoles working with all the features. We've

best way to set up alternate ipl packs on z/VM 6.2?

2012-08-02 Thread Collinson.Shannon
In z/VM 5.4, we had two set of packs (a set consisting of a res pack with the code on it + a spool + a page volume) that we'd alternate between as we brought up different levels of maintenance. We'd IPL off of the res pack for a set and it'd pop in the single spool and page volumes associated

Re: console-kit-daemon errors on SLES 11

2012-08-31 Thread Collinson.Shannon
on my RHEL boxes, it uses about a quarter of the available memory too (and we have ours stripped down to only 2G RAM, so that doesn't leave much for the rest). And we noticed the messages only come out if you log in through the console--doesn't care about an ssh-login. I looked at all the

Any tips on running 32-bit Java on a RHEL6 zlinux server?

2012-11-29 Thread Collinson.Shannon
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I'm a z/OS sysprog trying to keep z/VM and zlinux running at our shop so most of my questions are probably dumb. But we're trying to get a vendor tool (CA's Workload Automation agent) running on our new RHEL6.2 linux-on-z servers, and we can't find the

RHEL 6.4 kickstart no longer seems to clear all the partitions with clearpart --all

2013-06-27 Thread Collinson.Shannon
Has anyone else run into this? We were running RHEL 6.2 on s390x (z/VM 6.2, actually) with no problems, but the same kickstart modified to point to the RHEL 6.4 ISO seems to ignore the clearpart --initlabel --all/zerombr lines. We have a standard (small) zlinux build that was defined in the

Re: RHEL 6.4 kickstart no longer seems to clear all the partitions with clearpart --all

2013-06-28 Thread Collinson.Shannon
, Collinson.Shannon shannon.collin...@suntrust.com wrote: Has anyone else run into this? We were running RHEL 6.2 on s390x (z/VM 6.2, actually) with no problems, but the same kickstart modified to point to the RHEL 6.4 ISO seems to ignore the clearpart --initlabel --all/zerombr lines. We have

Any idea how to get into RedHat PDB mode on a kickstart through a TN3270 console in z/VM?

2013-07-16 Thread Collinson.Shannon
We're trying to research an issue with our kickstarting that cropped up in RHEL6.4 (worked perfectly in RHEL6.2). RedHat support has asked us to wait till the kickstart fails then issue CNTL+ALT+F1 to get into pdb mode so they can debug the anaconda stuff, but since we boot in z/VM, the

Re: Any idea how to get into RedHat PDB mode on a kickstart through a TN3270 console in z/VM?

2013-07-16 Thread Collinson.Shannon
I'm actually using both of those (RUNKS=1 and cmdline) already. And I think we know where in the code there's a problem--the clearpart --initlabel --all/zerombr is not getting run against all disks, just disks mentioned later in the kickstart. In 6.2, we could use it to wipe out the header

Re: Any idea how to get into RedHat PDB mode on a kickstart through a TN3270 console in z/VM?

2013-07-17 Thread Collinson.Shannon
back for something else I was working on. Sandra From: Collinson.Shannon shannon.collin...@suntrust.com To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 07/16/2013 04:19 PM Subject:Re: Any idea how to get into RedHat PDB mode on a kickstart through a TN3270 console in z/VM? Sent

any good recommendations for an HA tool on zSeries?

2013-10-04 Thread Collinson.Shannon
We're running RHEL6.2 and RHEL6.4 on our zlinux servers under z/VM 6.2 and so far have been handling HA by just clustering servers--yeah, any transaction in process to a server that's gone down would be whacked in mid-air, but anything new would route to the cluster-buddy that was still up.

Re: any good recommendations for an HA tool on zSeries?

2013-10-04 Thread Collinson.Shannon
Subject: Re: any good recommendations for an HA tool on zSeries? On Friday, 10/04/2013 at 11:04 EDT, Collinson.Shannon shannon.collin...@suntrust.com wrote: We're running RHEL6.2 and RHEL6.4 on our zlinux servers under z/VM 6.2 and so far have been handling HA by just clustering servers--yeah, any

Re: any good recommendations for an HA tool on zSeries?

2013-10-04 Thread Collinson.Shannon
whole lpars or CECs out of service for planned maintenance as well without much human intervention. Hope that is helpful. Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Collinson.Shannon Sent: Friday, October 04, 2013 8:03 AM To: LINUX-390

configuring the s390 dump tools to dump to a shared device?

2013-11-12 Thread Collinson.Shannon
Has anyone tried to setup dumpconf to dumpreipl using a shared device? I was thinking that with the vmcmd option, there might be a way to do it, and thus only have one disk (or set of disks) tied up for possible dumps. Something like the following commands: LINK MAINT 999 999 MR CPU ALL STOP

Re: configuring the s390 dump tools to dump to a shared device?

2013-11-12 Thread Collinson.Shannon
send you a word doc if you'd like. Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Collinson.Shannon Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 2:03 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [LINUX-390] configuring the s390 dump tools to dump to a shared

Re: Anyone running IBM BigFix client on z?

2017-06-02 Thread Collinson.Shannon
We are too. According to my BigFix guy, he created a "group and site with auto-membership based on the OS-name" that throttled the cpu the clients are allowed to use (.5% in our case--looks like Harley's folk let them have a little more) and restricted gathering the inventory to what we

Easy/automated way to convert LDL-formatted disks to 1-partition CDL?

2018-08-03 Thread Collinson.Shannon
We're attempting to upgrade all our RHEL6 servers to RHEL7 and have just hit a huge snag that didn't come up in testing (due to our test servers being rebuilt pretty often). All our company-used servers still have LDL formatted minidisks on them, and the upgrade process, at least, doesn't like

Re: Moving z/vm and zlinux volumes from old dasd to new dasd

2018-08-17 Thread Collinson.Shannon
FYI--we did this recently using FDRPASVM (Innovation Data's z/VM companion to FDRPAS for z/OS), and man, it was quick, easy, and no downtime. Of course, we were doing it alongside z/OS data on the same storage controllers, and we'd already owned FDR products for years, so it wasn't a big