David,
Here in the States, for us old timers they are
still called IBM System Engineers.   Sometimes
they were refered to as FE's - Field Engineers.

Longing for the old days of PSR's that made frequent
visits and SE's that performed weekly maintenance.

munson

-----Original Message-----
From: David Kreuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Jun 17, 2005 1:57 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: DASD shared between SLES9s.(running on different z/VMs)

OK it's Friday I have to ask you Gordon: What's an IBM SE?
David
Wolfe, Gordon W wrote:

>In certain circumstances, sharing a limited amount of dasd read-write among 
>LPARs is possible using hardware reserve/release.  We do this with our shared 
>tape catalog in VM:Tape (which is on its own real 3390 with its own controller 
>separate from our regular DASD.)  However, it is NOT useful if there is more 
>than just a little I/O to the volume.  It will lock up the volume(s) in 
>question faster than anything if there is lots of I/O.  It also opens up a can 
>of worms and I do not recommend it unless you really really know what you're 
>doing.  We had lots of help from IBM, STK and Systems Center  (before it was 
>Sterling, before it was CA) in setting it up for VM:Tape and our STK tape 
>silos.  I'm not going to stick my neck out and advise you on how to do it in 
>an e-mail without knowing your system or what you're trying to accomplish.  If 
>you're really interested, seek help from your IBM SE.
>
>"A statesman is a dead politician.  Lord knows we need more statesmen!"
>--Berkeley Breathed
>Gordon Wolfe, Ph.D.  Boeing Shared Services Group
>Enterprise Servers VM Technical Services 425-865-5940
>
>
>
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>>From:         Uriel Carrasquilla
>>Reply To:     Linux on 390 Port
>>Sent:         Friday, June 17, 2005 8:40 AM
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>>Subject:      Re: DASD shared between SLES9s.(running on different z/VMs)
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>>yes you can, no you shouldn't.
>>how are you going to ensure the integrity of your data if two SLES zLinux
>>are going after the same data?
>>even if you mount read only, you'll never know what is being handled in
>>cache versus on disk.
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>>Regards,
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>>Hi,all
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>>I'm very in troubled.
>>Please teach me.
>>
>>I want to use shared DASD.
>>The DASD(ADDRESS:1000) is used by two SLES9s.
>>SLES9s are running on different z/VMs.
>>(One SLES9-A is running on z/VM-A, the other SLES9-B is
>>running on z/VM-B.)
>>
>>Firstly, can I do above scenario?
>>
>>Thank you
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