Gee, nothing works. You might as well have an EXEC like this: /* */ return random(1,99) /* Substitute whatever you like for the range. */
Kidding aside, establishing a naming convention and sticking to it is probably the best bet. That plus filtering based on the information from IND USER (IPL device/name and Virtual Storage) if you have those clever enough to IPL CMS in an otherwise Linux machine, should give you a pretty good idea of which are your Linux guests (so long as you avoid Levanta products :-) ) Regards, Richard Schuh > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Phil Smith III > Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 10:47 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: How to tell how many linux running on z/VM? > > On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Alan or Chucky wrote: > > IPL 190 PARM NOSPROF INSTSEG NO > > > Who am I? :-) > > > Trying to create a one-size-fits-all algorithm won't work. > At the end > > of the day analyzing INDICATE USER with knowledge of what > your guests > > IPL is as good as anything. If your system is, um, chaotic in that > > respect, then you have to backtrack a bit. > > > - If they IPLed 190, was it MAINTxxx 190 or something else > you recognize? > > (QUERY MDISK USER xxxxxx 190). > > - If they IPLed an NSS, do you recognize it? > > - If they haven't IPLed anything, then does it matter? > > - If they IPLed 191, hand it to an Inquisitor for further review. > > Heh, with Levanta we had the startup scripts (in Linux) swap > the CMS 190 in for the Linux IPL device. That way you could > do a 'shutdown -r' and it would reIPL CMS, go through the > Levanta setup (which would swap the devices back), and then > reIPL Linux. As you say, "one-size-fits-all won't work" -- > there's always a cleverer idiot! > > ...phsiii >
