I sure don't. I have had two phone calls from you wonderful folks! The first
got me into CMS. I had to:

-------------------------------
*pa1* to get out of whatever it was doing
#cp system clear
begin
link maint 190 190 rr s
link maint 193 193 rr y
link maint 19e 19e rr y/s
ipl cms
-------------------------------

And that got me into CMS. Right now, I am working on figuring out how to
change the MAINT password subversively with another mostly privileged
account.

If you'd like to watch or help, for a while I'll try to have a live meeting
up at: http://mapinfo.epopcentral.com/?join=M47


David Logan
Manager of Product Development, Pitney Bowes Business Insight
http://centrus.com
W: (720) 564-3056
C: (303) 818-8222


-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Mark Post
Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2008 10:43
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Anyone know much about z/VM?

>>> On 12/13/2008 at 11:31 AM, David Logan <[email protected]> wrote: 
-snip-
> I am pretty sure it's a disk setup thing, but I'm not having much luck
> finding what I need in the manuals. The manuals all assume that somebody
> with the right setup has already done things right, and I am essentially
> trying to get in from an account not directly set up for CMS.

Do you have access to the MAINT account, or the privileges to look at the CP
directory for the guest?  That will be important in figuring out what you're
seeing.

> I am getting this:
> 
> IPL CMS
> DMSIND2015W Unable to access system disk. Filemode S (190) not accessed
> DMSIND2015W Unable to access the Y-disk. Filemode Y (19E) not accessed
> DMSDCT104S Error 3 reading file SYSTEM SEGID S2
> DMSINS327I The installation saved segment CMSINST could not be loaded
> DMSINS313W SYSPROF EXEC not found; notify system administrator
> DMSOPN002E File SCOMDIR NAMES * not found
> DMSSEC1286E Error loading SYSTEM Communications Directory, fileid =
SCOMDIR
> NAMES *.
> DMSSEC639E Error in NAMEFIND routine; return code was 28
> z/VM V5.3.0    2007-07-12 13:35

All this sounds like the guest was never intended to IPL CMS, so none of the
typical links to the various system minidisks were put in it's directory
entry.  In your position, I would ask the z/VM systems programmer for a "CMS
user" userid.  Also, if you're going to try to learn more about z/VM, in
addition to Ed Jaffe's pointer to the SHARE presentation, I would recommend
subscribing to the IBM-VM mailing list.  Lots of very experienced VMers
there, and an increasing number of people new to z/VM are coming in and
asking questions.  You would fit right in.


Mark Post

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