Re: I just bought an IBM z890

2015-11-08 Thread Mike Schwab
None of the S/370 SIO bits have been redefined. Suspect IBM may still run some S/370 utilities. Might start the IPL process from a Turnkey 3 CD-ROM to see. The biggest limit will be CKD. Or will VM/370 install on his SAN storage? On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Charles Mills

Re: I just bought an IBM z890

2015-11-08 Thread John McKown
ISPF VSPLIT support. Get 2 side-by-side windows, or 4 tiled windows. On Nov 7, 2015 22:00, "Tom Brennan" wrote: > Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > >> But doesn't Tom's Vista support 62x160 with explicit partitions? >> > > Yes to 62x160. No to partitions. What

Re: I just bought an IBM z890

2015-11-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In , on 11/08/2015 at 09:59 AM, Mike Schwab said: >None of the S/370 SIO bits have been redefined. SIO bits? Those exist in S/370 mode. None of the unlicensed operatimg systems from S/370 can use

Re: I just bought an IBM z890

2015-11-08 Thread Timothy Sipples
Connor Krukosky writes: >I bought a SCSI SAN box, which should be fine over FCP for linux which I >plan to run since z/OS requires FICON storage which is expensive and >getting a z/OS license going to be impossible. So let's explore this possibility. First of all, many congratulations on your

Re: I just bought an IBM z890

2015-11-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In , on 11/08/2015 at 08:31 AM, John McKown said: >ISPF VSPLIT support. Get 2 side-by-side windows, or 4 tiled windows. With cut and paste commands working among all 4 splits. -- Shmuel

Re: I just bought an IBM z890

2015-11-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <8872695857703711.wa.alanaltmarkus.ibm@listserv.ua.edu>, on 11/08/2015 at 06:12 PM, Alan Altmark said: >I understand that you want to run Linux. Good, because it's the >only free OS you can get that will run on that box. Solaris? -- Shmuel (Seymour

Re: I just bought an IBM z890

2015-11-08 Thread Charles Mills
If IBM had some good sense there would be a way for him to run z/OS. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2015 4:12 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: I just bought

Re: I just bought an IBM z890

2015-11-08 Thread William Donzelli
> First of all, many congratulations on your $237 acquisition! You've got an > interesting machine, a machine that figured prominently in mainframe > history as the first genuinely "small" 64-bit mainframe -- Cough..cough..cough..Cyber 930..cough cough.. -- Will

Re: I just bought an IBM z890

2015-11-08 Thread Alan Altmark
On Fri, 6 Nov 2015 14:55:28 -0500, Connor Krukosky wrote: >Hi I'm new to the list, was pointed here by someone because I need some >help using the HMC on the z890 to get an LPAR setup to boot via FTP. >I bought this machine for $237 :) >It wasn't fun to get into the

Re: I just bought an IBM z890

2015-11-08 Thread Connor Krukosky
Thanks, I've already learned how to reconfigure the IOCDS correctly and I've learned that newer releases of Linux for s390x don't take advantage of the 'Operating system messages' making them hard to configure or find out if they are doing anything at all after the initial load. The two

OT - but interesting -AMD sued: Number of Bulldozer cores in its chips is a lie, allegedly

2015-11-08 Thread Ed Gould
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2015/11/06/amd_sued_cores/ Analysis AMD lied about the true number of Bulldozer cores in some of its Opteron and FX processors, it is claimed. Mini-chipzilla boasted that, depending on the model, the chips had either four, six, eight or 16 Bulldozer cores.

Re: I just bought an IBM z890

2015-11-08 Thread Connor Krukosky
On 11/8/2015 9:11 PM, Timothy Sipples wrote: So let's explore this possibility. First of all, many congratulations on your $237 acquisition! You've got an interesting machine, a machine that figured prominently in mainframe history as the first genuinely "small" 64-bit mainframe -- though it

Re: I just bought an IBM z890

2015-11-08 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 11/8/2015 at 07:29 PM, "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" wrote: > In <8872695857703711.wa.alanaltmarkus.ibm@listserv.ua.edu>, on > 11/08/2015 >at 06:12 PM, Alan Altmark said: > >>I understand that you want to run Linux. Good,

Re: I just bought an IBM z890

2015-11-08 Thread Alan Young
It looks like the zVM 5.3 Evaluation Edition page is still up at http://www.vm.ibm.com/eval. It is a DVD of a system that can be IPLed and it then runs out of a ramdisk. IIRC, it needs about 3GB to do so. Looking back at the posts I don't see what this z890 has, so this may or may not an