Re: Printers to 2nd Level VM

2011-06-13 Thread Ron Schmiedge
I'm pretty sure I got this to work with SPOOL 000E 4248 but I could not come up with any details for you. I seem to have misplaced my notes about where I put my notes It has been quite a while since I tried it, and it was not something I had to have, since there were two or three other solutio

Re: z/vm page packs at DR

2011-08-09 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Hi Anne, Our DR restores are done under a VM system that is available at the DR site. We include a spool offload tape (actually 2 of them, one for spare) with the NSS backups on it and a few PUN files on the same tape. One of those PUN files is the DSF commands necessary to format page and spool,

Re: time used on Ready; prompt

2011-08-10 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Check your profile exec. The standard message is still to use the long message, which gives you the time stamp. You must be setting it to SMSG at logon. This could be done per user via their profile exec, or in a common exec used by all that is added to all profile execs (like we do here). Ron On

Re: A little help with a REXX coding issue

2011-08-11 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Interesting. We have a lot of execs that do this, written back in the 80's (some by me!) that wuse this all the time. But they all use different hex strings than you for 'hi' and 'lo': hi='1de8'x; lo='1d60'x; They don't seem to have any problem using the 'hi' and 'lo' in SAY commands. I can only

Re: CICS and z/VM

2010-06-23 Thread Ron Schmiedge
There was. Announced in 1985 and EOS was Dec 31 1993. Program Product 5684-011. It's EOS date was listed in the Licensed Products Migration Matrix for z/VM 5.3 from 2005 on the IBM web site. On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Howard Rifkind wrote: > A friend of mine stated that CICS can run nat

Re: Device type and model

2010-06-30 Thread Ron Schmiedge
The MP3000 book says the internal disk emulates a 3990-2 controller. On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Alan Altmark wrote: > On Wednesday, 06/30/2010 at 04:28 EDT, Carlos Bodra - Pessoal > wrote: >> Hello Listners >> >> I have following situation as response of Q DASD DETAILS >> >> Q DASD DETAIL

Re: TCP/IP Server

2010-07-21 Thread Ron Schmiedge
>From the OpenExtension's User Guide: In addition, the following POSIX users are added, if they are not already defined: ___ ___ ___ | Userid| UID | Primary | | | | group | |___|___|___ | root |

Re: RMSMASTR : ready or not

2010-07-29 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Alain, Have you looked at making OPERATOR the secondary user (SECUSER) for RMSMASTR? WIll that not route the RMS messages to OPERATOR? On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Alain Benveniste wrote: > > Haha I see... its' look like a patch for my wheel :) > > I suppose I should open a enhancement for

Re: Second level z/VM console

2010-08-04 Thread Ron Schmiedge
You have the answer already, but here's the book with the details: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/hcsk2b30.pdf It's the Guide for Automated Installation and Service. On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Tom Huegel wrote: > Good morning all.. I am a little rusty still. I am trying to IPL a

Re: RSCS Messages

2010-08-12 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Did you try using "SET linkid NOMSG"? Ron On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Schuh, Richard wrote: > Having the operator do anything other than a simple START, including "PARM > anything" requires an approval process. That said, a scan of the config file > reveals that an id that rarely logs on

Re: CMS file date

2010-08-17 Thread Ron Schmiedge
There is also the SETDATE EXEC which comes with your VM system. It is on MAINT 3B2 as SETDATE SAMPEXEC and SETDATE SAMPHELP (the HELPCMS file). Been there for a long time.

Re: z/VM 5.4 or 6.1 on new z10

2010-08-26 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Mike, zVM 6.1 requires a z10, so you can't go to 6.1 until you have a z10. 5.2 is unsupported, so the decision is "do I run unsupported until I get a z10?". On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Horlick, Michael wrote: > Greetings, > > We are currently running z/VM 5.2 and have z/VM 5.4 under test in

Re: z/VM 5.4 or 6.1 on new z10

2010-08-26 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Technologies > 1350 Boul. René-Lévesque Ouest > Montréal, Qc, H3G 1T4 > > -Original Message- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On > Behalf Of Ron Schmiedge > Sent: August 26, 2010 11:53 AM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject:

Re: z/VM 5.4 or 6.1 on new z10

2010-08-26 Thread Ron Schmiedge
My 5.4 testbed (second level under 5.4) is running at RSU 1002 (5407) now, no complaints from my testbed and everyone is playing on a z800. There is also a list of service (the 2098ZVM bucket) required in addition to RSU 1002 to support a z10. On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Austin, Alyce (CIV)

Re: Duplicate VOLID's

2010-08-27 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Tom, Been following this with interest. It sounds like your environment is a lot different from most of the responders, so it has been educational looking at what everyone else does. You have said that you know the volumes addresses of the production VM volumes. If so, why not code the SYSTEM CON

Re: Applying Maintenance - Best Practice

2010-09-28 Thread Ron Schmiedge
George, Not necessary. MAINT usually has full-volume MDISK defined for 540RES, 540W01 and 540W02 (MAINT's 123, 124, and 125 disks). You can DDR those volumes without touching the CPOWN list. If you aren't doing it from MAINT, a R/O link to MAINT 123 gives you access to 540RES. Those definitions ar

Re: How DIRMAINT Work ?

2010-10-01 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Robert, DIRMAINT does come with a "wakeup" table of commands that includes a BACKUP command to backup your online directory into a source file. It runs daily and you always have a current backup on DIRMAINT 1DB. Look at DIRMAINT DATADVH Sergio, I've been using DIRMAINT since coming back to VM in 1

Re: moving between split screens

2010-10-04 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Ed, This list provided the answer a couple of years ago: 'command set pf02 before SOS TABCMDF' Add to your PROFILE XEDIT and PF2 will tab to the other command line of a split screen set up by the SCREEN 2 command. On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Edward M Martin wrote: > Hello Everyone, > >   

Re: Highlighting in Rexx

2010-10-12 Thread Ron Schmiedge
And by CP SET VMOUT you meant CP SCREEN VMOUT of course... On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Bruce Hayden wrote: > There are a few options.  The easy one is to turn highlighting on and > off, which will make that part white: > 'CP SET VMOUT DEFAULT'    /* Must be default for this to work */ > hi

Re: No IPL VSWITCH Connectivity

2010-11-03 Thread Ron Schmiedge
It says TCMV1.ZIP when I click on it. On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 3:02 PM, George Henke/NYLIC < george_he...@newyorklife.com> wrote: > > Here is the link Kris. > > I think if you click the TCVM.ZIP link in the doc in the link below, you > will see for yourself in the window it says GZIP compressed

Re: No IPL VSWITCH Connectivity

2010-11-03 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Or if I weren't such a bad typer, "TCVM1.zip" On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Ron Schmiedge wrote: > It says TCMV1.ZIP when I click on it. > > > > > On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 3:02 PM, George Henke/NYLIC < > george_he...@newyorklife.com> wrote: > >

Re: Curiousity question - Changing the status area

2010-12-17 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Hi Mike, We use CA-VTERM multi-session manager, it changes the nodeid on the bottom right to the CMS userid, but that's probably not a viable solution for you, since that is probably more dollars than your client wants to spend. Don't know how they do it, but there is no CP mod (since I am in char

Re: Strange response time problems (also posted on VSE-L)

2010-12-21 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Is FAQS the problem? Are the VSE consoles responding when FAQS is not? How many FAQS users do you have? I have a vague memory (and no books at hand) of a limit to the number of FAQS users you can have. On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Wakser, David < david.wak...@infocrossing.com> wrote: > No,

Re: Sort Fields Question

2011-01-04 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Sergio, Others have already pointed you at PIPE, I use it myself for descending sorts. There is no descending option in CMS SORT. There is a descending option in the XEDIT SORT command. I don't know if your data is going to span across months, but sorting the date formatted as DD/MM/YY using colu

Re: Wait code 000a00000000000f

2011-01-19 Thread Ron Schmiedge
The MVS System Codes manual documents a wait state of 00F: * 00F Explanation: *For initial program load (IPL), a volume has been loaded that does not contain IPL text. *Operator Response: *Correctly identify the correct volume to be loaded. Verify that the correct volume is mounted. If requeste

Re: SET SHARE ABSOLUTE/RELATIVE

2011-02-07 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Hi Jim, We run one production VSE guest, runs IDMS/DC (no CICS) all the time. Batch happens throughout the day, much of it user driven, so day is usually busier for batch than night. That guest gets absolute share 50% and LIMITSOFT of 80%. We have a VSE development guest that gets absolute share

Re: Creating a Second IP Stack

2011-03-08 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Also risking the wrath of Chuckie, I can tell you what the person on IBMLink told me when I opened an ETR for this same request: I added my second stack to SYSTEM DTCPARMS: :nick.TCPIP2 :type.server :class.stack :attach.0C00-0C01 I created a TCPIP2 TCPIP file, whi

Re: Virtual Lock File

2011-03-08 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Our VSE lock file mdisk belongs to OPERATOR, which runs PROP and is disconnected shortly after IPL. All VSE guests tests the lock file in their PROFILE EXEC and if it needs to be initialized, does it. So any guest can come up first and set up the lock file. All OPERATOR does is have the mdisk entry

Re: Sharing files between two z/OS guest machines

2011-03-10 Thread Ron Schmiedge
We have run MVS guests under VM, and in LPAR. The answer was the same for both, and has already been suggested. Given that the dasd is linked to every z/OS guest correctly (and having a dasd owner user with all z/OS guests with r/w links to the dasd is what we used), it is up to the z/OS system to

Re: Something wrong with my USERID

2011-04-06 Thread Ron Schmiedge
You can use the Q SYSOPER command to tell who the system operator is. If it says "you" then this is why you are in this mode. On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Rob van der Heij wrote: > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) > wrote: > >> Yes that was it. What normally h

Re: DISCONNECT/LOGOFF HOLD

2009-07-29 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Okay Alan, I'll bite Is there a "convenient" way to do this? On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Alan Altmark wrote: > On Wednesday, 07/29/2009 at 09:13 EDT, "Buettner, Wolfgang" > wrote: >> Is there a way to make the HOLD operand default for use with certain >> LDEV servers? >> In our case it

Re: DISCONNECT/LOGOFF HOLD

2009-07-29 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Yes, when I found out how VM TELNET behaved and how long I had to wait for PCOMM to come back, I wrote this exec: /* add HOLD when on TCPIP */ 'EXECIO 1 CP ( STRING Q CONS' pull cons . . . . . . host tcpip . parm = "" if host = "HOST" then if tcpip = "TCPIP" then parm = "HOLD" 'CP LOGOFF' par

Re: Download Vm Tape

2009-09-02 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Alan, So you are saying we should NOT be using User_Volume_List statements in the SYSTEM CONFIG, we should use an AUTOLOG1 process instead? And I was so greatful not to maintain my old SYSDASD exec on AUTOLOG1 anymore. On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Alan Altmark wrote: > On Wednesday, 09/02/200

Re: VM lockup due to storage typo

2009-09-16 Thread Ron Schmiedge
I've been trying to follow the discussion and wondering if the directory control statement MAXSTORAGE would have provided some protection from the finger check problem? On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Alan Altmark wrote: > On Wednesday, 09/16/2009 at 04:44 EDT, Lee Stewart > wrote: >> I gue

Re: VM lockup due to storage typo

2009-09-16 Thread Ron Schmiedge
sts.  So the only practical > place to put it would be in a profile.  But according to usage note #1:  A > maximum storage setting on a USER statement overrides a MAXSTORAGE statement > in a profile. > > So it would have no effect... > > Lee > > Ron Schmiedge wrote: >&g

Re: VSE/VSAM FOR VM (GI10-8151-00)

2009-09-23 Thread Ron Schmiedge
I will email it to you. On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Mike Day wrote: > Hello, > > Does anyone have a copy of VSE/VSAM FOR VM (GI10-8151-00) (pdf or doc) that > they could send me? > > We are late to the game of installing CMSVSAM on z/VM.  Had to beg IBM for a > tape and now the same for ins

Re: Daylight Saving Time change

2009-10-14 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Where is this AR command documented? On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Rich Smrcina wrote: > Jim's process is solid.  On the z/VSE web site there is a page that > describes what needs to be done during the twice yearly time change (forward > and backward).  Of course, now I can't find it, appare

Re: Daylight Saving Time change

2009-10-14 Thread Ron Schmiedge
ailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On > Behalf Of Ron Schmiedge > Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 4:06 PM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: Daylight Saving Time change > > Where is this AR command documented? > > > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Rich Smrcina wrot

Re: z/VM 540 DVD install

2009-11-23 Thread Ron Schmiedge
I just finished the process of installing 5.4.0 from the internet files, and like you do not have anything but 3390-3. I do not use SFS, I had to use the option to install from an FTP server. On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Jefferson Davis wrote: > I am doing an install of z/VM 5.4.0 second leve

Re: SET CONFIGMODE ON fails

2009-12-08 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Kris, We have a z800 with dynamic configuration enabled. What does the TOK statement in the IOCP look like? I seem to recall having to fiddle with that to get dynamic part working. Its been a couple of years but I will see if I can find my notes. Ron On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Kris Buelens

Re: SET CONFIGMODE ON fails

2009-12-09 Thread Ron Schmiedge
n with the current date and time in the source. Once you bring up that IOCP it sets the VM token and they match the IOCP. Next time you do an IOCP the message goes away. And you can make dynamic changes once the token and IOCP match. Ron On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Ron Schmiedge wrote: > Kris

Re: SET CONFIGMODE ON fails

2009-12-10 Thread Ron Schmiedge
We don't have MAXDEV set coded in our IOCP for our z800, and dynamic configuration is enabled and does work (I have used it once or twice). On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: > Do you have this coded in your IOCP? > > > > RESOURCE PART=((VM,1),(DUMMY,2)),

Re: deterse of RSU

2009-12-15 Thread Ron Schmiedge
If by "latest" you mean 0903, I did that last month. MAINT 500 was not big enough. Bumped it to 900 cyl and VMDPACK worked. Here's what the SERVLINK file size is: Cmd Filename Filetype Fm Format LreclRecords Blocks RPTF0118 SERVLINK T1 V 4005 92118 81484 On Tue, D

Re: Old question

2009-12-17 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Bob, I recall doing this a long time ago too. Just tried it again, since my z/VM 5.4 system is sitting there in a second level guest, waiting for clients to test. The ID card format I used is ID MAINT and the file was punched to the reader for my second level guest. I had to fight with the 00C

Re: FORCED BY SYSTEM

2010-01-12 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Frank, The message you posted says that AILTEST was disconnected from graf 6F07, so this guest must have been logged on at that terminal. Any problems with that terminal? What was running in partition J1 that kept going into a wait state? On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Frank M. Ramaekers wrot

Re: MP2000 OSA Card

2010-01-26 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Billy, Here's what our OSA2 looked like on our old MP2000: CNTLUNIT CUNUMBR=9009,UNIT=OSA,PATH=(5C) IODEVICE ADDRESS=(0C00,010),CUNUMBR=(9009),STADET=Y, * UNITADD=00,UNIT=OSA IODEVICE ADDRESS=(0C0A,002),CUNUMBR=(9009),STADET=Y, *

Re: MP2000 OSA Card

2010-01-26 Thread Ron Schmiedge
If you have the 240W01 volume you probably have the minidisks for OSASF, OSAMAINT, OSADMIN1/2/3 userids. They were all on the W01 volume of our old VM/ESA system. It may be that using 30F as the FE unit is a problem in the IOCP. We always used an address of CFE as well as the UNITADD=FE. I will se

Re: CP FLASHCOPY command fails to work on z/VM 5.4

2010-01-26 Thread Ron Schmiedge
You might look at UM32894, in the PSP bucket for RSU903. It was the only thing that came up (resolves two APARs) when I searched IBMLink for "flashcopy z/VM 5.4" Ron On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 1:51 PM, C. Lawrence Perkins wrote: > Yes, I just went "live" with z/VM 5.4 at RSU 901 and I'm experiencin

Re: XEDIT SET CASE default setting - is it the best?

2010-01-29 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Actually, IBM already did make some significant changes to XEDIT defaults. I still have the MEMO file sitting on our X disk (from the days when DTRIPF did more than a NOPAN), dated Dec 12, 1984, wherein we tell our users that since the new release of VM/SP changed the way XEDIT behaved, we were go

Re: Multiple messages at login to MAINT; HCPLNM101E DASD 0CF1 forced R/O; R/O by SYSTEM; stable by SYSTEM

2010-02-03 Thread Ron Schmiedge
We have our CF1 and CF2 (and CF3 now that it exists) defined as RR in the VM directory. This means no messages complaining about the disks at IPL. When MAINT needs to update CF1, after doing a "CPREL A", we issue "CP LINK * CF1 CF1 W" and access it. On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 7:59 AM, David Boyes wr

Re: Multiple messages at login to MAINT; HCPLNM101E DASD 0CF1 forced R/O; R/O by SYSTEM; stable by SYSTEM

2010-02-03 Thread Ron Schmiedge
hat. Although it's one more config change to document > and maintain, and I'm a lazy man. 8-) > > > > On 2/3/10 11:21 AM, "Ron Schmiedge" wrote: > >> We have our CF1 and CF2 (and CF3 now that it exists) defined as RR in >> the VM director

Re: VMUTIL Executing a long running EXEC - Follow up question

2010-02-27 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Scott, We don't use VMUTIL (or the WAKEUP command and parms) to run long running execs. We do have separate userids that are autologged on by VMUTIL and they run long execs, but they log off at the end, and we just let VMUTIL control when they start again, with another autolog. If you are in a wa

Re: Trapping output right after LOGON

2010-03-01 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Mike, You could use PROP on the machine that receives the console messages to handle the response to the messages. Ron On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Horlick, Michael wrote: > Greetings, > > > > I would like to trap all the CP console output from a virtual machine from > its initial XAUTOLOG/

Re: SPXTAPE

2010-03-02 Thread Ron Schmiedge
HI Terry, If by different names, you mean doing something like backing up the files on 530SPL and restoring them to 540SPL, yes, you can do that. I will be doing that myself this Sunday morning. It worked when I went from z/VM 5.2 to 5.3 and from z/VM 4.4 to 5.2, so I count on it working this week

Re: VMUTIL PARM Question

2010-03-16 Thread Ron Schmiedge
WAKEUP VERSION on my z/VM 5.4 system says 1.2 (RC=00012) On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Wandschneider, Scott wrote: > Frank excellent suggestion - My PRAMS file has been carried forward so many > times, it still says: > > *  THIS IS THE DEFAULT 'WAKEUP PARMS' FILE THAT IS SUPPLIED WITH       *

Re: Ok, I'm confused now...

2010-03-29 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Got a firewall in the way blocking port 515? Ron On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:33 AM, David Boyes wrote: > > Setting up LPR support in RSCS on 5.4. I’ve added the > > 515  TCP RSCS    ; RSCS > > line to PROFILE TCPIP, and recycled TCPIP and RSCS to ensure that they’re > picking up the up

Re: How to define shareabel full-pack minidisk in user directory

2010-03-31 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Hi Tae Min, Yes, the MDISK statement as you have coded is expects to find a volume with the label SYSPK. It is called the "volid" in the description of the MDISK statement, found in the CP Planning and Administration manual, and is the same as the "volser" you mention. The same CP Planning and Ad

Re: Converting Text to XLS

2010-04-20 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Richard, I've a dumb question to ask - why does the CMS file have to be opened by a spreadsheet program? On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Schuh, Richard wrote: > Right now, I am creating a csv file using tab (x'05', which is also the > default field separator in Pipelines) characters as a sep

Re: Design screen under CMS

2010-05-04 Thread Ron Schmiedge
DMS/CMS is still out there, according to the IBM z/VM web site. Product is 5684-113. We are still using it. Ron On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Sergio Lima wrote: > Hello List, > > Here, We don't have some product to design a screen for work with REXX / > CMS. > Before, work here, I used TSO / R

Re: z/vm 4.4 and vse 2.3.1 running in a z10 BC

2010-05-17 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Carlos, IBM's documentation says you need at least z/VM 5.2 to run on a Z10. On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Carlos Bodra wrote: > Hello > > We have a chance to migrate our hardware from MP3000 H50 running vse/esa > 2.3.1 under z/vm 4.4.0 to a new z10 BC machine. > > Since we have a lot of CA t

Re: RSU question

2010-05-26 Thread Ron Schmiedge
We had a problem installing RSU0903 for z/VM 5.4. The 500 disk got full and we had to bump it up. 900 cylinders worked. But the RC was 2002 and there were some obvious messages (DMSERD107S Disk T(500) is full) Ron On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Michael MacIsaac wrote: > >>   I think MAINT's

Re: DFSMS install

2010-05-27 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Mark, I haven't done it, but these look like very similar to the mdisks added to DATAMOVE, part of DIRMAINT. Are you supposed to leave the volume as $$? In DATAMOVE they are not real mindisks, just an entry used by the product. No real dasd space or SFS space was ever needed by those entries. B

Re: Copying spool without SPXTAPE

2010-05-27 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Terry, When I moved from 5.3 to 5.4 this past March, I didn't take any NSS with me - the installation of 5.4 built the 5.4 versions of the NSS. If you are building the 5.4 system on a z9 that will share DASD with the new z10, then it should be a matter of shutting down the 5.4 system on the z9 and

Re: How to create a CP Disabled Wait State?

2007-12-05 Thread Ron Schmiedge
I can make a CP disabled wait by IPLing my reader. Its full of stuff that isn't iplable. Not sure what happens if it empty (my reader is never empty) i c HCPVMJ232E IPL UNIT ERROR; IRB 01404017 0010 020040C1 0080 SNS 8 000 HCPGIR

Re: z/VM 5.3 FLIST

2007-12-13 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Peter, It's been going down steadily. On VM/ESA 2.4 it was 2 bytes. We skipped ahead to z/VM 4.4 and it went down to 16 bytes. I complained (ETR) and was told I could try the old VM/ESA FLIST module. It worked, but the users were okay with 16 characters. Now we are z/VM 5.2 and it is down to 9 cha

Re: z/VM 5.3 FLIST

2007-12-13 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Er, that was supposed to be 22 bytes not '2'. (who is this guys editor??) On 12/13/07, Ron Schmiedge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter, > > It's been going down steadily. On VM/ESA 2.4 it was 2 bytes. We > skipped ahead to z/VM 4.4 and it went down to 16 bytes.

Re: z/VM 5.3 FLIST

2007-12-13 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Nope, never :-) What I like about FLIST is I can easily set up the PF keys the way I want (see FLIST $PROFILE). We have used this to give users customized things they can do. Including removing the ability to edit the files (ever have a user edit a listing to change the numbers on a report, rath

Re: z/VM 5.3 FLIST

2007-12-13 Thread Ron Schmiedge
cute cursor exec b' > 'FILELIST' data > > B EXEC > --- > /* */ > arg data > 'browse' data > > > Brian Nielsen > > On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:19:02 -0600, Ron Schmiedge > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Nope, never :-) > >

Re: z/VM 5.3 FLIST

2007-12-13 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Thanks Doug. Must be Christmas! I don't want to sound ungrateful, but am I wrong in still thinking that entering this line in FLIST $PROFILE: *PFKEYS 10 BRW BROWSE the file on cursor line and then updating the last line to include '10 BRW' is a little simpler and easier? Ron On 12/13/07, Dou

Re: Moving Spool

2007-12-19 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Having just moved from a 7060 with internal disk to a z800 and Shark this spring, that's what I did. I ran ICKDSF and CPVOL to format then CPVOL to allocate, the spool and dump volumes, IPLed CLEAN from the DDRed RES volume, and did a SPXTAPE load of the spool files. Ron On 12/19/07, Schuh, Rich

Re: {SPAM?} RE: Moving Spool

2007-12-19 Thread Ron Schmiedge
I guess "it depends" (from Bill Bitner, too many times to count). I had 25,000 spool files which I could dump while the system was running, We use VM primarily to run VSE guests. DDR from the 7060 to the Shark took time, and I felt I could minimize the down time by taking the spool offload before

Re: wakeup (iucvmsg never receives output

2008-02-13 Thread Ron Schmiedge
I wrote an exec to run on a disconnected service machine to dump the VM spool. It was a while ago, but I see I did a CP SET CPCONIO IUCV before the "wakeup (iucvmsg" loop. And a CP SET CPCONIO OFF before the "wakeup (reset" at the end of the loop. I am sure I read about this technique somewhere, pe

Re: Any Rumors?

2008-02-13 Thread Ron Schmiedge
The IBM System z9 announcement dated April 27th 2006 says a z9 BC model S07 has a processor machine type of 2097. On 2/13/08, McKown, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, but there is a weird post on IBM-MAIN where a person says that the D > M=CPU on his z9 shows a device type of 2097 (not 2096 o

Re: Any Rumors?

2008-02-14 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Jim, Google found the following announcement presentations: http://www.baybunch.org/z9062806.pdf http://www.ibm.com/br/systems/z/events/2006/explorers2006/downloads/ibm_jose_fadel_-_system_z9_business_class.pdf ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/eserver/zseries/zos/vse/pdf3/techconf2006/G02.pdf All sh

Re: Article: In Search of Mainframe Engineers

2008-02-19 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Try putting the link back together, it was split so the "3.aspx" was on a new line. should end /18963p3.aspx On 2/19/08, Macioce, Larry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Got a 404 when I tired to look > Mace > > -Original Message- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Article: In Search of Mainframe Engineers

2008-02-19 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Try putting the link back together, it is wrapped. It should end /18963p3.aspx On 2/19/08, Macioce, Larry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Got a 404 when I tired to look > Mace > > -Original Message- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Bob Heerdink

Re: Impromptu XEDIT Survey

2008-02-20 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Left. Mostly because I only had some MVS folks to help me with VM when I took over its support again in 1999 (after starting on BSEPP in 1979 and going through VM/XA in 1989). It was an attempt to help them work without their ISPF blanket/menus by giving them an editor that looked something like wh

Re: Recycling Bus and Tag cables

2008-03-10 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Rob, As a Scout leader and husband of a Guide leader, your tape rings would be of use to just about any organization that entertains youth with things like ring toss games. When my company's 3420's went out the door, the tape rings came home with me! They have been used at lots of events and camps

Re: Physical Planning Manuals

2008-03-17 Thread Ron Schmiedge
There is a 3590 softcopy manual with installation details. I have one on my hardware CD which is about 10 years old. GA32-0329-03 might be what you are looking for. For 3480, I don't think I ever saw anything online. On 3/17/08, Peter Carrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am lookin

Re: Physical Planning Manuals

2008-03-17 Thread Ron Schmiedge
The IBM web site I searched says the 3590-A60 power is .5 kVA You do not say what kind of drives. The same chart lists .3 kVA for B11 and .23 kVA for E11 and H11 in a rack. I suspect the rack draws some power too? I am am pretty sure we tossed all our 3480 documentation out with the drives, sorry

Re: Physical Planning Manuals

2008-03-17 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Google finds the following information on an IBM AS/400 (!) web site. 3480-A22 is 1.0 kVA and 3480-B22 is .9 kVA On 3/17/08, Ron Schmiedge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The IBM web site I searched says the 3590-A60 power is .5 kVA > > You do not say what kind of drives. The same cha

Re: MONWRITE files

2008-03-19 Thread Ron Schmiedge
No. Ours isn't. On 3/19/08, Austin, Alyce (CIV) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Does the MONWRITE userid have to be on the RES volume to collect data? > > Thanks, > Alyce > >

Re: AW: Unexpected FORCE starts

2008-03-31 Thread Ron Schmiedge
We use CONS=cuu in our SAIPL panels and still get VM shutdown messages on all screens defined as operator consoles in SYSTEM CONFIG? z/VM 5.2 On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Schuh, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And do not forget, if you have a "cons=addr" in your IPLPARMS on the > SAPL scr

Re: RSCS question

2008-04-25 Thread Ron Schmiedge
The RSCS web site has an announcement that says in part... "The stand-alone RSCS V3.2.0 (5684-096) product was planned to be withdrawn from marketing effective September 30, 2007. However, on June 5, 2007 the planned date for RSCS V3.2.0 on z/VM V5.2 was extended and is is planned to be withdrawn

Re: Request for information: Installation Summary Cards

2008-08-29 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Hi Alan, I would not call myself a newbie, since I became a VM system programmer in 1979 with BSEPP. But after a VM/XA install in 1986 I wandered in the MVS wilderness until I returned to VM support for a VM/VSE shop in 1999. VSE needed much more TLC than VM to get it wokring well, (previous "owne

Re: What's on Maint's 402

2008-09-08 Thread Ron Schmiedge
My z/VM 5.2 system has 14,766 help files on MAINT 402. On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Howard Rifkind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone tell me what would be on Maint's 402 disk...if anything. > > Or could 402 be some minidisk just associated with this installations z/VM > system. > > Thanks

Re: LOGONBY

2008-09-23 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Terry, LOGONBY has been around for many VM releases. We set all our service machine accounts and important maintenance ids (MAINT, TCPMAINT, etc) up with a LOGONBY list. Then we change those ids' passwords to LBYONLY, which says the userid can only be logged on using LOGONBY. So if you try and log

Re: Command

2008-11-06 Thread Ron Schmiedge
RSCS V3.2 at 0201 is as new as you can get under z/VM 5.2. On z/VM 5.3 it becomes a feature but I don't think the code gets any newer, just the response to the command :-) Ron On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 2:12 PM, August Carideo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I also thought it was not working because rel

Re: CP Entered; Disabled Wait PSW 9025

2008-11-12 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Hi Mike, Perhaps not too strange - what processor were you using at Sungard? There may have been service required for that particular machine that came on 0701 you did not have at 0601. We had that happen to us at Sungard several years back (I can't recall the error messages anymore, we were gett

Re: DASD VOLUME SIZES

2008-11-27 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Alain, Since most of the US is on a holiday today (and probably tomorrow) perhaps I have an answer for you. It is possible for a 3380K device to have 3339 cylinders. On real 3390 devices you could format the 3390 in 3380 Track Compatibility Mode (TCM) and get 3339 cylinders with 3380 track forma

Re: DASD VOLUME SIZES

2008-12-01 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Alan, I think I was the one that mentioned TCM, I haven't seen anything back from Alain as yet. But that to me is the mostly likely reason he got 3339 cylinders when he was expecting a standard 3380K - the DS8300 had the volume set up as a 3390 in 3380 TCM. This would not cause him any problems -

Re: VSAM for VM Program Directory

2008-12-09 Thread Ron Schmiedge
I do. I'll email it to you. Ron On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Crispin Hugo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anybody got a copy of this or know where I can get one ? Can't seem to find > it anywhere > > > > Crispin Hugo > Systems Programmer, Macro 4 > > >

Re: Need ideas for checking current terminal response time

2009-01-28 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Hi Mike, Do you give the VM VTAM userid any sort of preference? We've given VTAM a SHARE ABS 3%. Ron On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Horlick, Michael wrote: > Greetings, > > > > Here is the situation. > > > > We are running z/VM 5.2 and 5 z/VSE 4.1.0 guest systems (3 production, 2 > developme

Re: Need ideas for checking current terminal response time

2009-01-30 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Hi Mike, We are not using VMRM so I cannot comment. We have multiple VSEs under VM and once we turned all the knobs we could in VM to help VSE, surprise, surprise, it took it all. So we put a limithard on the guest to make it play nicer with the rest of us all. I know the VSE performance people

Re: Short user description in sample CP directory

2009-02-10 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Alan, Would it at least be possible for the information contained in those 30 IBM manuals recording the various userids included by IBM in z/VM, be gathered into one manual? Say the Guide for Automated Installation and Service, which already has "Appendix E: Contents of the z/VM System" (or wheree

Re: Short user description in sample CP directory

2009-02-10 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Alan, Okay. Although this is a manual I am already reading, not GC-YetAnother-09 :-) In the meantime, who will help me identify what those 91 IBM ids in my VM directory are for? Ron On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Alan Altmark wrote: > On Tuesday, 02/10/2009 at 01:18 EST, Ron Schmie

Re: XSTORE

2009-03-05 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Hi Mike, Many experts have talked about XSTORE and VM using it for paging. All our defined XSTORE is being used for MDCACHE. It made a noticable difference to I/O performance for our VSE production guest. We could have done it all in regular storage but until a recent processor change, we didn't h

Re: Utility Question

2009-03-05 Thread Ron Schmiedge
UTILITY exec is on MAINT 193 Ron On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:02 AM, August Carideo wrote: > I am trying to run > > utility utiltape all > > from maint's ID , it comes back w/ unknown command > is there a particular disk that needs to be assessed that maint is not > already ? > thanks, > Augie >

Re: Merging DirMaint?

2009-03-16 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Dave, I don't think that merging the two versions of USER DIRECT (which was the answer you got) will have any affect on the EXTENT CONTROL file. What you have on the testbed now will not change unless you get the two EXTENT CONTROL files and merge entries from each. So if you want your new product

Re: Merging DirMaint?

2009-03-16 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Dave, The Program Directory for DIRMAINT should have a section called "Tailor the DIRMAINT Server Machines" (I am still z/VM 5.3, you'll have to check the 5.4 version).There's a figure containing a list of supplied sample files. If you've tailored any of them, you'll want to bring them forward fro

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