In the tradition of releasing something nifty to the community as a holiday
gift (the subject line is the historical reference to the annual posting of
such gifts to the venerable VMSHARE conference from long, long ago), SNA is
pleased to provide two gifts to the community for 2013.
Gift #1: SWAPGEN version 1310
This version of SWAPGEN provides a few new features that people have asked for.
1. SWAPGEN no longer depends on RXDASD MODULE for I/O to FBA disks. The
functions of RXDASD MODULE have been replaced with CMS Pipes code. (Credit to
Dave Jones)
2. SWAPGEN is now fully converted to the use of CMS message repositories
for all text I/O. No code changes will be needed to allow local customization
of error messages and/or text I/O.
3. SWAPGEN is now fully internationalized. All supported languages for
z/VM 5.4 and higher have been included (for z/VM 5.4, German, American English,
Kanji, and uppercase English, for z/VM 6.1 and higher, American English, Kanji
and uppercase English). Special thanks to Margarete Ziemer at SNA for
contributing the German translation. The Kanji messages probably have some
mistakes; if any of you who speak Japanese and run your systems in Kanji would
look at that and contribute corrections, we'd appreciate it a lot. For those of
you with systems older than 5.4 that still use other languages in the default
VMFNLS LANGLIST file (French, Portuguese, Spanish, etc.), the files are there
to support the languages, but contain the uppercase English version of the
messages. Contributions are welcome if you'd like your native language to be
supported. (Note that IBM no longer ships these languages post-z/VM 5.4).
4. SWAPGEN now has full message help file support. As a result of #2, all
SWAPGEN messages now have full message IDs and severity information. HELP MSG
msgid will provide detailed information on each message and suggestions on what
to do if something goes wrong. To get this, you need to install the help file
package shown below.
5. There are now three packages available for SWAPGEN:
SBINvvvv.VMARC -- The minimum files required to run SWAPGEN (the exec, the
main help file, and the message repositories). If you just
want to use SWAPGEN, this is all you need.
SHLPvvvv.VMARC -- The extended help files for each SWAPGEN message. If you
download and install this package, you can type
HELP MSG SWPxxxxxxxx (the message id) and get detailed
explanations of each SWAPGEN message. Not mandatory, but
we STRONGLY recommend you install these.
SSRCvvvv.VMARC -- The full source code to SWAPGEN and all its component
parts. If you speak Japanese, PLEASE download this and
translate the message repository! The other two VMARC
files are contained in this package, so if you want to
have the whole thing in one burrito, this is it.
The new files for SWAPGEN are available from
http://download.sinenomine.net/swapgen
Gift #2: New version of smaclient (v 1.1)
Smaclient is a shell script allowing any Linux or Unix system to interact with
the z/VM SMAPI servers to perform system management actions on a z/VM system
from a script running on the Unix/Linux system.
This version adds:
1. Corrections to a number of responses and queries fixed by VM65290,
specifically:
Virtual_Network_VLAN_Query_Stats
Virtual_Network_Vswitch_Query_Extended
Virtual_Network_Vswitch_Query_Stats
2. The script is now packaged as a noarch RPM, so that it will show up in
the rpm software inventory with correct versioning.
The code is available from http://download.sinenomine.net/smaclient
Happy holidays to all of you.
David Boyes
Sine Nomine Associates
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