Andrew Marick/IMD/BCBSMD is out of the office.

2001-12-05 Thread Andrew Marick
I will be out of the office starting 12/04/2001 and will not return until 12/07/2001. I am out of the office from 12/04/2001 to 12/7/2001. I will respond to your message when I return.

VNC on Linux S/390

2001-12-05 Thread Peter Grimm
Can somebody explain how VNC is installed on Linux s/390? mfG Peter Grimm Peter Grimm CREDIT SUISSE FINANCIAL SERVICES Technology and Services OS/390 / KTPS 1 Uetlibergstrasse 231 P.O. Box 600 CH-8070 Zürich Tel.: +41 1 334 82 93 Fax: +41 1 332 52 60 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://www

Re: OT (somewhat) - ps2pdf tool

2001-12-05 Thread Scott Courtney
On Tuesday 04 December 2001 03:39 pm, Post, Mark K wrote: > You're right, the "times," "times new roman," "Helvetica," "courier," and > "courier new" look just fine online. But what's really strange is that > when the PDF file hits real paper, _all_ of the fonts look _great_. Even > if I tell th

DB2 Connection from Linux

2001-12-05 Thread Thomas Emde
Hello, I finally managed to connect to the OS/390 DB2 database from my Linux/S390 using the command line interface. What I would like to do next is to write a PHP application to get my query results shown on a web page. I tried to reconfigure PHP with the --with-ibm-db2 option but the make instal

Re: Redhat ISO

2001-12-05 Thread Heinz Huerlimann
Yes, there are some iso-images but they are quite old. ftp.redhat.de had newer iso-images (build in December 2001). Heinz -Original Message- From: Armin A. Arbinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 9:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Redhat ISO > Anyone

Re: VNC on Linux S/390

2001-12-05 Thread Post, Mark K
Peter, Sine Nomine Associates has a source RPM (SRPM) for VNC on Linux/390 on their web site (http://www.sinenomine.net/downloads/vnc-3.3.3r1-2.src.rpm). You would download that, then do an "rpm -i vnc-3.3.3r1-2.src.rpm" and then "cd" to the SPECS directory and do an "rpm -bb whatever.the.name.i

Re: OT (somewhat) - ps2pdf tool

2001-12-05 Thread David Boyes
> You're right, the "times," "times new roman," "Helvetica," > "courier," and > "courier new" look just fine online. But what's really > strange is that when > the PDF file hits real paper, _all_ of the fonts look > _great_. If you're sending it to a PS printer, then yep, most of the printer PS

Re: Redhat ISO

2001-12-05 Thread Rob van der Heij
> Yes, there are some iso-images but they are quite old. ftp.redhat.de > had newer iso-images (build in December 2001). > Heinz The updates to the rpm's have been quite frequent recently. Doing fresh iso images with each update takes some time. If people download the entire iso images each night

Reviews of the New Red Hat 7.2 and SuSE 7.3 Releases

2001-12-05 Thread Lionel Dyck
Review: Latest Red Hat, SuSE Linux Releases Testers find SuSE 7.3 especially easy to install and use, while Red Hat 7.2 offers improved performance over earlier versions. http://computerworld.com/nlt/0%2C3590%2CNAV47_STO66154_NLTOS%2C00.html

Gerling AG adopts Linux for Mainframe

2001-12-05 Thread Ferguson, Neale
See: http://www.suse.com/us/press/press_releases/archive01/gerling.html "Gerling Insurance AG, one of the largest industrial and business insurance companies worldwide consolidates applications running on NT-based servers onto a single IBM mainframe running SuSE Linux Enterprise Server to improve

Re: Gerling

2001-12-05 Thread Ferguson, Neale
There's more info. on SuSE's German site. "http://www.suse.de/en/press/press_releases/archive01/gerling.html";

Re: New site for Linux/390 Related Articles/Links

2001-12-05 Thread David Boyes
> I am building a site to host articles and links, related > exclusively to Linux/390. To echo some other comments, why not just contribute to Mark Post's already fairly comprehensive site, linuxvm.org? I'm sure that Mark wouldn't object to someone helping out, or to give you a section of your ow

Oracle 9i - ODBC

2001-12-05 Thread Ferguson, Neale
If you're interested in Oracle 9i and ODBC this may be of interest: I installed Oracle 9i on one of our SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7 for S/390 systems and worked on getting it to talk ODBC. I had to copy header files from a Solaris Oracle system we have that can be found in rdbms/demo subdirec

JAVA SDK 1.3.1

2001-12-05 Thread Karl Tucker
Is this installable through RPM with the redhat system?

Mail Merge on Linux-390

2001-12-05 Thread Rod Clayton
I need to mail merge a letter that then gets printed on my VSE line printer. We have been using an old Fortran program for this. Does anyone have an example of how to do this on Linux? Thanks, Rod -- Rod Clayton KA3BHY Systems Programmer Howard County Public Schools [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New site for Linux/390 Related Articles/Links

2001-12-05 Thread Post, Mark K
David, Thanks. I've already asked him off-list why he wanted to start his own instead of contributing to linuxvm.org. He didn't seem to realize I welcome new content from others, so he said he would be willing to close down his site, but I haven't heard back from him "for sure" as of yet. Mayb

linuxvm.org Content

2001-12-05 Thread Post, Mark K
When I read David Boyes' comment about "Mark Post's" web site (linuxvm.org), it felt strange. That's because although I maintain the site, I don't think of it as "mine." I think of it as a resource (hopefully a good one) to the Linux/390 community, and hence open to anyone with something of valu

Re: Mail Merge on Linux-390

2001-12-05 Thread Post, Mark K
I would suggest compiling the FORTRAN program on Linux, direct its output to a file, and then run the lpr command against it. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Rod Clayton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 12:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mail Merge on

Re: JAVA SDK 1.3.1

2001-12-05 Thread Post, Mark K
If you're talking about the RPMs on SuSE's FTP server, then the answer is "maybe." I don't know that I would try it myself, since they're more than likely constructed to match SuSE's file system layout, etc. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Karl Tucker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Re: New site for Linux/390 Related Articles/Links

2001-12-05 Thread Rich Smrcina
Very muchly agreed. Mark has obviously put in a great deal of effort compiling all of this information into a very comprehensive site... I'm sure I speak for many others saying that I'm very thankful. One location is plenty. Rich Smrcina Sytek Services, Inc. Milwaukee, WI [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMA

VIF W-F-S

2001-12-05 Thread Ferguson, Neale
S/390 Virtual Image Facility for Linux to be withdrawn from marketing effective April 30, 2002 See: http://www.ibmlink.ibm.com/usalets&parms=H_901-307 US http://www.ibmlink.ibm.com/canalets&parms=H_A01-1760 Canada http://www.ibmlink.ibm.com/emealets&parms=H_ERIFZP010607 EMEA

New Site is not available anymore

2001-12-05 Thread SAMY rengasamy
I was not trying to contend with the Official Home of the Linux/390 Project. I do understand that me having a new site will cause people to look for Linux/390 stuff at multiple sites. I thought, I was trying to help the community, but if I am hurting it, I am sorry for that. I do ask everbody

TSM Client Setup

2001-12-05 Thread Keith Reynolds
We now have the TSM client installed and successfully backup our Linux 390 image. However, I still have 2 questions: 1) The instructions say to update the .profile with 2 exports commands. I don't seem to be able to find the .profile on my SuSE 7 system (I know where it is on USS). 2) How do

Re: VIF W-F-S

2001-12-05 Thread Kurt Acker
See: http://www.vm.ibm.com/pubs/pdf/vm420bas.html for z/VM 420 base publications and notably the link for "System Administration Facility" for VIF migrations and VIF like functionality Kurt Acker [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Ferguson, Neale"

Re: Mail Merge on Linux-390

2001-12-05 Thread David Boyes
> I need to mail merge a letter that then gets printed on my > VSE line printer. > We have been using an old Fortran program for this. If you've got the source to the Fortran program and you don't want to change anything, the steps will look something like this: Install the gf77 compiler on Linu

Re: linuxvm.org Content

2001-12-05 Thread Rick Troth
> Also, if anyone has any ideas about how to better classify the various links > on the links page, or how to better organize the site so that it's easier > for people to understand and navigate, let me know that also. (As long as > it doesn't involve HTML frames. I'm not going there with this s

SSHD on Redhat RC2

2001-12-05 Thread Arty Ecock
Hi, I just installed Redhat 7.2 RC2. sshd is running, but now PuTTY no longer seems to want to work. It's giving me an "Unable to open connection: connect(): unknown error". I have the IP address correct, as well as the port. Very strange. Cheers, Arty

Re: SSHD on Redhat RC2

2001-12-05 Thread David Sainty
Hi Arty, On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 02:55:58PM -0500, Arty Ecock wrote: > Hi, > >I just installed Redhat 7.2 RC2. sshd is running, but now PuTTY no longer > seems to want to work. It's giving me an "Unable to open connection: > connect(): unknown error". I have the IP address correct, as wel

Re: Mail Merge on Linux-390

2001-12-05 Thread David Boyes
> If you don't mind some additional changes (and want a nicer > looking letter), you may want to modify your Fortran program > to emit troff commands (troff is a text formatter like DCF) > to make the letters and then postprocess the output file with > troff or nroff. troff/nroff will allow you t

Re: New site for Linux/390 Related Articles/Links

2001-12-05 Thread dennisw
I usually don't do this, but Me Too! David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 12/05/2001 11:08:36 AM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Dennis Wicks/infosvcs/CDG) Subject: Re: New site for Linux/390 Related Articles/Links

Re: New site for Linux/390 Related Articles/Links

2001-12-05 Thread Post, Mark K
Ok, everyone, Samy's already shut down his site. We don't all need to keep beating on him. He didn't mean any harm, he was just trying to help, in the spirit of sharing his hard-won experiences with everyone. Mark Post -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: New Site is not available anymore

2001-12-05 Thread Rich Smrcina
I hope you don't take our comments the wrong way. We appreciate every offer to help, but it is probably the consensus that your time (and ours) is better served by contributing to the site that Mark maintains (he certainly welcomes it). Rich Smrcina Sytek Services, Inc. Milwaukee, WI [EMAIL PROT

Re: SSHD on Redhat RC2

2001-12-05 Thread Holly, Jason
have you tried protocols 1 AND 2? seems like here when we upgraded ssh sometime ago putty suddenly had problems and i cannot recall if we upgraded putty or just changed the default protocol. currently using putty v0.51 -Original Message- From: Arty Ecock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Re: Mail Merge on Linux-390

2001-12-05 Thread Rod Clayton
Does the gf77 compiler support the fortran 4 language level? Thanks, Rod > > I need to mail merge a letter that then gets printed on my >> VSE line printer. >> We have been using an old Fortran program for this. > >If you've got the source to the Fortran program and you don't want to change >any

Re: Mail Merge on Linux-390

2001-12-05 Thread Rod Clayton
I' m sorry. I don't think I phrased this quite right. The fortran program I was using was Fortran 4. I would like to dump it all together and find a program that does mail merge on linux-390. I will have a data file with one letters worth of data per line and I want to create a form letter

Problems porting Pth (Portable threads)

2001-12-05 Thread Dave Pitts
Hello: Has anybody successfully ported the GNU Portable Threads (Pth) library to Linux/390? I've tried with versions 1.3.7 and 1.4.0. I have both the TurboLinux and SuSE 390 distrbutions and I get the same compile errors on each distrbuition. The configurator does figure out the system corre

Re: OT (somewhat) - ps2pdf tool

2001-12-05 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine normally with Jedi Knight Computers Thought I might chip in some caveats here, and some other things. Firstly, version 7.0.3 of Ghost is out, that's the version of the thing that builds the output. The other current version, 4.0, is the viewer. I have both, here, for Wind

OT: Microsoft may be in for it

2001-12-05 Thread Lionel Dyck
>From www.ntk.org (need to know): Mr Gates is due in the UK this week, patting Blair's head, helping him find that Start button again, and charitably offering a few hits of the XP subscription-only crack-pipe. God help Bill, though, if gets collared by oth

more on PuTTY

2001-12-05 Thread Holly, Jason
it now seems like we may have had to switch ssh clients -- daemon on linux is ssh secure shell 3.0.1. current client is ssh secure shell 3.0.0. website is www.ssh.com Jason A. Holly CSC Mid-Range Systems Support email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] desk: 256.544.7308 page: 256.551.3401

Re: OT (somewhat) - ps2pdf tool

2001-12-05 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine normally with Jedi Knight Computers Indeed. Also better check the settings on that wayback machine of yours. Try more like the 1890s. The all mechanical versions, sure. By the 1930s more of them ran that way. Besides, my dad, and my grandfather both were running a shop w

Backup and Restore for Disaster Recovery

2001-12-05 Thread SAMY rengasamy
We have SuSe 7.0 running successfully in an LPAR by itself. Used offlindr - OS/390 offline DASD dump/restore program source to backup the complete linux dasd's from MVS in 18 minutes. We are setting up another LPAR to restore the data to test disaster recovery. Has anybody done this before? We

Re: SSHD on Redhat RC2

2001-12-05 Thread Arty Ecock
Hi, David Sainty from RedHat suggested that I "service ipchains stop". Gee, now my PuTTY ssh connection works just fine. :-) Thanks all, Arty

Re: linuxvm.org Content

2001-12-05 Thread John Summerfield
> > Also, if anyone has any ideas about how to better classify the various link > s > > on the links page, or how to better organize the site so that it's easier > > for people to understand and navigate, let me know that also. (As long as > > it doesn't involve HTML frames. I'm not going there

Re: Mail Merge on Linux-390

2001-12-05 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 04:51:57PM -0500, Rod Clayton wrote: > I' m sorry. I don't think I phrased this quite right. The fortran > program I was using was Fortran 4. I would like to dump it all together > and find a program that does mail merge on linux-390. I will have a data > file with one

Re: Mail Merge on Linux-390

2001-12-05 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 04:53:28PM -0500, Rod Clayton wrote: > Does the gf77 compiler support the fortran 4 language level? You can find the complete documentation online here: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/g77_toc.html It explains in detail which features of the language are supported. Not b

Re: Problems porting Pth (Portable threads)

2001-12-05 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 03:07:05PM -0700, Dave Pitts wrote: > Has anybody successfully ported the GNU Portable Threads (Pth) library to > Linux/390? I've tried with versions 1.3.7 and 1.4.0. > > I have both the TurboLinux and SuSE 390 distrbutions and I get the same > compile errors on each di

Re: New Suse Enterprise Server

2001-12-05 Thread Nicolaas Potgieter
Hi Does anybody knows if the new Suse Enterprise Server will be available for FTP download or do the customer have to pay to use a free operating system.?? Nico Potgieter IT Specialist S/390 Projects, ITS Tel: +27 (0) 11 3028636 Cell: +27 (0) 82 573 5833 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re. OT: Microsoft may be in for it

2001-12-05 Thread Welton, Sebastian
Educational copies of Windows XP in the UK (sealed boxes that is) come with a promotional leaflet for SUSE Linux 7.3 inside them. MfG / Best Regards Sebastian Welton GZS Gesellschaft für Zahlungssysteme mbH Raum: 2.030A Telefon:069/7933-1183 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date:Wed,

Re: Backup and Restore for Disaster Recovery

2001-12-05 Thread Monteleone
That's exactly what i do, i just have to modify my parmfile for "dasd" parameter, and my dns for the new ip address. Hope this help. - - Original Message - From: "SAMY rengasamy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 2:31 AM Subject: Backup and Resto