[no subject]

2008-08-27 Thread Lee Pretorius
UNREGISTER [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lee Pretorius IT Specialist IBM S.A. (Pty) Ltd Private Bag X9907 Sandton 2146 (W) 011-302-8020 (C) 082-570-4204 E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CSE and VMSERVx

2008-08-27 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Marcy Cortes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please check out apar VM6 if you are diving deep into ISFC. I'd > feel better if you did :) In a recent conversation I claimed that ISFC has always had stability problems when building a mesh network. We've always be

Re: SPOOL/PAGE and cylinder zero

2008-08-27 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 08/27/2008 at 10:34 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have always thought that CP handles properly SPOOL and PAGE areas starting on > cylinder zero. It would be a shot on its own foot if CP would destroy the VOLID > and the allocation map. However, someone is stating that SPOOL an

Re: IUCV - What's wrong with this picture?

2008-08-27 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 08/27/2008 at 10:04 EDT, "John P. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For example, let's say that we create an *NOTIFY system service. > > A virtual machine, appropriately authorized is allowed to connect to the > *NOTIFY service, and by sending properly constructed messages, regist

SPOOL/PAGE and cylinder zero

2008-08-27 Thread fgrossi
I have always thought that CP handles properly SPOOL and PAGE areas starting on cylinder zero. It would be a shot on its own foot if CP would destroy the VOLID and the allocation map. However, someone is stating that SPOOL and PAGE MUST NOT be allocated on cylinder zero, I wonder if someone can

Re: IUCV - What's wrong with this picture?

2008-08-27 Thread John P. Baker
Gary, I suggest that your point about the server needing to know immediately about a client logoff is a good argument for a system-supplied notification service, similar to ENF on z/OS. For example, let's say that we create an *NOTIFY system service. A virtual machine, appropriately authorized i

Re: Lpar Vs VM

2008-08-27 Thread Schuh, Richard
If the LPARS are not all on one box, it is the case that there is one charge based on the total number of engines. The same applies to running as guests of VM. As long as you stay within the footprint of the machine for which you bought the license, you can run multiple copies because you have lice

Re: DDR'ing 3390 DASD To Remote Location

2008-08-27 Thread Thomas Kern
If the VM stack and the linux stack were both connected to a VSWITCH, would monitoring function in the physical switch see that clear text data is being transfered from VM to linux? /Tom Kern Alan Altmark wrote: > On Wednesday, 08/27/2008 at 06:20 EDT, Michael Coffin > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: DDR'ing 3390 DASD To Remote Location

2008-08-27 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 08/27/2008 at 06:20 EDT, Michael Coffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh Drat. :( > > We have a mandate that ALL FTP must be secure FTP, and it's going to be > enforced very (VERY) soon. We may have to continue doing the darned > intermediate file method in order to use the CMS FTP

Re: Lpar Vs VM

2008-08-27 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 08/27/2008 at 06:11 EDT, Jack Woehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Post wrote: > > He's already been appointed, but with the far more pedestrian title of Sir > Alan, Lord of the Protocols. > > > I thought it was Lord VOLDmort. Oh, now THAT is going to cost you. One of us is a D

Re: DDR'ing 3390 DASD To Remote Location

2008-08-27 Thread Michael Coffin
Oh Drat. :( We have a mandate that ALL FTP must be secure FTP, and it's going to be enforced very (VERY) soon. We may have to continue doing the darned intermediate file method in order to use the CMS FTP client. :( -Mike -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:

Re: Lpar Vs VM

2008-08-27 Thread Ward, Mike S
Thanks for the reply. Yours seems to be the best so far. I wanted to try and figure the cost of setting up multiple z/OS machines in a fairly quick manner. As I remember the old VM/BSEPP you could run as many operating systems as you wanted under VM and be charged for only 1 copy of the oper

Re: Lpar Vs VM

2008-08-27 Thread Jack Woehr
Mark Post wrote: He's already been appointed, but with the far more pedestrian title of Sir Alan, Lord of the Protocols. I thought it was Lord VOLDmort. -- Jack J. Woehr# "Self-delusion is http://www.well.com/~jax # half the battle!" http://www.softwoehr.com # - Zippy the Pinh

Re: Lpar Vs VM

2008-08-27 Thread Schuh, Richard
Well, you could bestow a different title on Chuckie or one of the other alter egos. Just think, he would be able to accumulate 8 titles. Regards, Richard Schuh From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Walter

Re: Lpar Vs VM

2008-08-27 Thread Mike Walter
Too bad Token Rings died. Sir Alan, Lord of the Rings has a certain ring to it. (sorry for the repeated puns, but not too much). Mike Walter "Mark Post" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "The IBM z/VM Operating System" 08/27/2008 04:50 PM Please respond to "The IBM z/VM Operating System"

Re: Lpar Vs VM

2008-08-27 Thread Rich Smrcina
...although he likes to throw his subtitle 'security weenie' at us once in a while... :) Mark Post wrote: He's already been appointed, but with the far more pedestrian title of Sir Alan, Lord of the Protocols. Mark Post -- Rich Smrcina VM Assist, Inc. Phone: 414-491-6001 Ans Service: 36

Re: Lpar Vs VM

2008-08-27 Thread Mike Walter
Raymond, Were it not for the fact that Sir Alan, Lord of the Protocols was benighted on 21 Aug 2002, that would be an excellent suggestion. Yet given the alternate, and apparently growing, list of personalities perhaps one or more additional titles may be considered on z/VM's 40th birthday in

Re: Lpar Vs VM

2008-08-27 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 8/27/2008 at 5:45 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Raymond Noal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fellow Listers, > > Based on the accurate and authoritative evidence provided in this forwarded > e-mail, I would like to recommend that Alan Altmark be granted the most > honorable and auste

Re: Lpar Vs VM

2008-08-27 Thread Raymond Noal
Fellow Listers, Based on the accurate and authoritative evidence provided in this forwarded e-mail, I would like to recommend that Alan Altmark be granted the most honorable and austere membership to the Knights of the z/VM Roundtable and from this day forward be recognized as "Sir MVP" (Multip

Re: Lpar Vs VM

2008-08-27 Thread Rich Smrcina
I was going to make a comment about Sybil, it seems you're all well on your way... :) Alan Altmark wrote: On Wednesday, 08/27/2008 at 03:43 EDT, "Schuh, Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alan, How many alter egos do you have. First Chuckie, and now Br'er Rabbit. Seven, S!!! but we ha

Re: Lpar Vs VM

2008-08-27 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 08/27/2008 at 03:43 EDT, "Schuh, Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alan, > > How many alter egos do you have. First Chuckie, and now Br'er Rabbit. Seven, S!!! but we have a funny feeling that the only way we know there are seven is because there are actually eight of us.

Re: CMS file list date

2008-08-27 Thread Dodds, Jim
Thanks Bill. I had already found the SYSTEM CONFIG file but they wanted it changed without an IPL. I didn't know you could add it to the user directory. Kris Buelens also gave me a command that partially worked from MAINT; SET DATEFORMAT ISODATE SYSTEM. I had to issue SET DATEFORMAT ISODATE, then S

Re: Lpar Vs VM

2008-08-27 Thread Schuh, Richard
Alan, How many alter egos do you have. First Chuckie, and now Br'er Rabbit. Regards, Richard Schuh > -Original Message- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark > Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 10:37 AM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK

Re: IUCV - What's wrong with this picture?

2008-08-27 Thread Gary M. Dennis
Alan, Thanks. Especially for 5 through 9. On 8/27/08 12:37 PM, "Alan Altmark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't understand why you want to use temporary connections. I don't. The original idea was to have connections for each guest active all the time **so long as the associated overhead wou

Re: CMS file list date

2008-08-27 Thread Bill Munson
Jim, This can be changed system wide in the SYSTEM CONFIG file - (SYSTEM_DATEFORMAT) or per user in the USER DIRECT file - (DATEFORMAT) enter q dateformat User Dateformat = SHORTDATE (SYSDEFAULT) Bill Munson Brown Brothers Harriman z/VM System Programmer 201-418-7588 President MVMUA http:/

Re: Lpar Vs VM

2008-08-27 Thread Peter . Webb
I can't speak to z/OS software charges, but for VSE, we pay for only one license for multiple instances running under z/VM. And we pay the VSE license for the total capacity of the machine. I don't think you can say that VM is better than LPAR as a general statement. In some cases VM definitel

Re: Lpar Vs VM

2008-08-27 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 08/27/2008 at 01:32 EDT, Mark Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You'll have to go back and look, but I believe that was a statement of > direction, not something that will actually be delivered with the GA of z/VM > 5.4. z/VM 5.4 will enable you to use the z/VM-mode LPARs that yo

Re: Lpar Vs VM

2008-08-27 Thread Peter . Webb
Save the nice restaurants and fine wines for when someone from z/VM development comes to town! :) -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: August 27, 2008 13:37 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Lpar Vs VM On W

Re: IUCV - What's wrong with this picture?

2008-08-27 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 08/27/2008 at 12:09 EDT, "Gary M. Dennis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have included below item 6 from the thread origin and a snippet from John > Baker's response. > > Maybe I should have placed more emphasis on item 6. The server machine is > going to be updating the buffer ar

Re: Lpar Vs VM

2008-08-27 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 08/27/2008 at 01:12 EDT, "Huegel, Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I was looking at the announcement letter for z/VM 5.4 I seem to remember > something about (on a z10) being able to mix CP's and IFL's in the same LPAR > and have z/VM dispatch LINUX machines on the IFL's

Re: Lpar Vs VM

2008-08-27 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 8/27/2008 at 12:23 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Huegel, Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I was looking at the announcement letter for z/VM 5.4 I seem to remember > something about (on a z10) being able to mix CP's and IFL's in the same LPAR > and have z/VM dispatch LINUX

Re: CMS file list date

2008-08-27 Thread Dodds, Jim
Thanks John. I tried the SET DATEFORMAT ISODATE SYSTEM from the userid MAINT. It took the command but didn't change the values when I did a QUERY DATEFORMAT. I was able to change it by doing the following on MAINT: SET DATEFORMAT ISODATE SET DATEFORMAT SYSDEFAULT They now have the correct format f

Re: Lpar Vs VM

2008-08-27 Thread Rich Smrcina
It's not wishful interpretation, but you need a z10 for the capability. Huegel, Thomas wrote: When I was looking at the announcement letter for z/VM 5.4 I seem to remember something about (on a z10) being able to mix CP's and IFL's in the same LPAR and have z/VM dispatch LINUX machines on the IFL

Re: Lpar Vs VM

2008-08-27 Thread Huegel, Thomas
When I was looking at the announcement letter for z/VM 5.4 I seem to remember something about (on a z10) being able to mix CP's and IFL's in the same LPAR and have z/VM dispatch LINUX machines on the IFL's Or maybe that was 'wishfull interpretation' on my part. Anyway (if true) I wonder if t

Re: CSE and VMSERVx

2008-08-27 Thread Marcy Cortes
Please check out apar VM6 if you are diving deep into ISFC. I'd feel better if you did :) Marcy "This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any

Re: CMS file list date

2008-08-27 Thread Dodds, Jim
Thanks Kris, I will keep that in mind, they only have a few in-house execs and only use the VM system for multiple VSEs and storing JCL and source code in CMS. Jim Dodds Systems Programmer Kentucky State University 400 East Main Street Frankfort, Ky 40601 502 597 6114 -Original Message-

Re: CMS file list date

2008-08-27 Thread John Franciscovich
>Thanks Steve that will work as a temp solution. I found where I need to >put this in the VM system config file SYSTEM_DATEformat ISOdate > >But to get this to work system wide I will need to do an IPL or is can I >enter a command to make system wide? A user with Class B privilege can issue SET

Re: IUCV - What's wrong with this picture?

2008-08-27 Thread Gary M. Dennis
Thanks for the response on the IUCV questions. I have included below item 6 from the thread origin and a snippet from John Baker's response. Maybe I should have placed more emphasis on item 6. The server machine is going to be updating the buffer areas in all the connected client machines. There

Re: CMS file list date

2008-08-27 Thread Hodge, Robert L
Which is why I use the CMS DEFAULTS command to change the date format in RDRLIST and FILELIST. defaults set filelist isodate defaults set rdrlist isodate -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kris Buelens Sent: Wednesday, August 27,

Re: Lpar Vs VM

2008-08-27 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 8/27/2008 at 11:30 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ward, Mike S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, I have a question. When we set up and lpar with an operating > environment such as MVS, we get software charges for both lpars from > IBM. Third party vendors don't seem to care if

Re: CMS file list date

2008-08-27 Thread Kris Buelens
Beware for a global, system wide, change: if you have execs that issue commands that return a date, they will get a new layout. To name some: - LISTFILE - CP Q TIME - CP Q RDR ALL (distribution code is no returned anymore with FULL- or ISODATE) - CP Q CPLEVEL Results of affected execs become

Lpar Vs VM

2008-08-27 Thread Ward, Mike S
Hello all, I have a question. When we set up and lpar with an operating environment such as MVS, we get software charges for both lpars from IBM. Third party vendors don't seem to care if it's on the same machine (Most don't) since they charge for the full mip rate of the machine regardless of whet

Re: CMS file list date

2008-08-27 Thread Jim Bohnsack
I'm pretty sure that SET DATEFORMAT whatever was valid back in ESA 2.4. Check the HELP file for the various options. Jim Doug Breneman wrote: --1__=0ABBFE21DFC18D638f9e8a93df938690918c0ABBFE21DFC18D63 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable You

Re: CMS file list date

2008-08-27 Thread Dodds, Jim
Thanks Steve that will work as a temp solution. I found where I need to put this in the VM system config file SYSTEM_DATEformat ISOdate But to get this to work system wide I will need to do an IPL or is can I enter a command to make system wide? Jim Dodds Systems Programmer Kentucky St

Re: CMS file list date

2008-08-27 Thread Bill Munson
Better yetset dateformat FULLdate munson "Imler, Steven J" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System 08/27/2008 10:51 AM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Re: CMS file list date Issue ? SET DATEFORMAT ISO

Re: CMS file list date

2008-08-27 Thread Scott Rohling
FILELIST (FULLDATE (or ISODATE) should work on 4.4 LISTFILE (FULLDATE (or ISODATE) as well... Scott Rohling On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Dodds, Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a customer that is on z/VM 4.4 and the CMS file dates shown in a > filelist have only 2 digit years.

Re: CMS file list date

2008-08-27 Thread Mike Atkison
Have they tried the filelist option fulldate or isodate? I'm not sure if they were valid on 4.4. Mike Atkison From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dodds, Jim Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 9:46 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: CMS file list da

Re: CMS file list date

2008-08-27 Thread Imler, Steven J
Issue ... SET DATEFORMAT ISO JR (Steven) Imler CA Senior Sustaining Engineer Tel: +1 703 708 3479 [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dodds, Jim Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 10:46 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subjec

Re: CMS file list date

2008-08-27 Thread Doug Breneman
You can use SET DATEFORMAT to specify what date format you want to use for a userid or you can specify which date format you want to use for just LISTFILE. This will set a date format for your virtual machine. SET DATEFORMAT .-USER--. >>--Set--DATEFormat-

CMS file list date

2008-08-27 Thread Dodds, Jim
I have a customer that is on z/VM 4.4 and the CMS file dates shown in a filelist have only 2 digit years. They would like to see the 4 digit years. I am on VM 2.4 and ours displays a 4 digit year. I know both of these products are out of service. Would anyone know how to correct this? Jim Dodd

Re: CMS file list date

2008-08-27 Thread Ed Zell
> I have a customer that is on z/VM 4.4 and the CMS file dates shown > in a filelist have only 2 digit years. They would like to see the > 4 digit years. I am on VM 2.4 and ours displays a 4 digit year. I > know both of these products are out of service. Would anyone know > how to correct this?

Re: CSE and VMSERVx

2008-08-27 Thread Florian Bilek
Hi Kris, Thank you very much. This helped me a lot. Best regards, Florian On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:08:52 +0200, Kris Buelens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >A CRR declares many resources: > q resource user vmservr > Resource: VMSYSRType: Local Owning Userid: VMSERVR > Service: 30F0F2F9 Ty

OT Mike Cowlishaw's Birthday

2008-08-27 Thread Jim Bohnsack
This morning when I reconnected to the system, an old exec that gets run at reconnect time, announced : It's Mike Cowlishaw's Birthday! The old exec is a sample exec written in the very early days of REXX while it was still IBM IUO by Mike Cowlishaw to demo what REXX could do. It was called

Re: CSE and VMSERVx

2008-08-27 Thread Kris Buelens
A CRR declares many resources: q resource user vmservr Resource: VMSYSRType: Local Owning Userid: VMSERVR Service: 30F0F2F9 Type: Local Owning Userid: VMSERVR Service: 06F2 Type: System Owning Userid: VMSERVR Service: 30F0F2F7 Type: Local Owning Userid: VMSERVR Resource:

Re: CSE and VMSERVx

2008-08-27 Thread Florian Bilek
Dear all, Last month I was asking to establish a ISCF connection between two z/VM systems. I got the information that the resources of the SFS have to be unique and that VMSYSx filepools are local. I have now the necessary CTCs and wanted to activate the IS-links. Howeve r I saw with "q resourc