Re: IBM has no realistic entry-level offering in the mainframe space

2002-12-03 Thread Per Jessen
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002 02:06:33 +0100, Herbert Szumovski wrote: to run redundant big sized applications. You are right: people will develop for Linux then, if they can't get a mainframe OS easily, but why is IBM whining then about diminishing mainframe business ? Because they sell hardware. Which

Re: IBM has no realistic entry-level offering in the mainframe space

2002-12-03 Thread Per Jessen
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002 22:26:25 +, Alan Cox wrote: Telco billing must not stop even if an entire site is anihilated, nobody must be billed twice and no record lost. Banks have the same requirements. In Denmark, since around 1989 or so, all shares and bonds ONLY exist electronically. I

Moving to new UCB's

2002-12-03 Thread Daniel Jarboe
Please excuse botching up terminology. Running RH 7.2 in an LPAR. The dasd addresses will be changing... is it enough to update /etc/zipl.conf with the new addresses (like parameters=root=/dev/dasda1 dasd=6B40-6B43,6BC0-6BC3), and rerun zipl before the last shutdown? So the next time the LPAR is

Re: IBM has no realistic entry-level offering in the mainframe space

2002-12-03 Thread Stephen Frazier
I don't care to much about z/OS (though it would be fun to run it on a PC as hobbyist), but if z/VM should be sold as Hypervisor for Linux/390, then there should be definitely a way, where people can try that at home if they like. Why exactly? why not just use Hercules to run Linux/390 -

Re: IBM has no realistic entry-level offering in the mainframe space

2002-12-03 Thread Rod Clayton
Per, Nice to meet you. The big complaint with VSE is that there are no new applications written for it. A cheap hobbyist licenses might result in some great new applications. They might even be free (GNU). Open source is where VSE started out anyway. I work with VSE and they need to do

Re: IBM has no realistic entry-level offering in the mainframe space

2002-12-03 Thread Per Jessen
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002 09:08:58 -0600, Stephen Frazier wrote: For most consulting companies $13K presents a big problem. Yes, there are a few large consulting firms that can pay that and they do cater to $13K is a problem to most consulting companies ?? Surely not - maybe most of the one-person

How to force full-duplex and 1gb on new osa-e card

2002-12-03 Thread Dave Myers
Have been looking for this answer, but can not find it in manuals or in any lists. We just got a new z800 with new osa-express gb cards. How do we configure the cards to force full-duplex and turn off auto-neg ?? The Advanced Functions CHPID windows don't seem to let me do this. Tia Dave

Re: IBM has no realistic entry-level offering in the mainframe space

2002-12-03 Thread Steve Guthrie
My company writes software that runs identically, for the most part, in MVS, DOS/VSE, OS390 and Z/OS. GNU has nothing to with it, writing for portability does. Portable does not mean Windows of Sun, in this sense anyway. I have software that was written in 1982 still running in IBM shops today.

Re: How to force full-duplex and 1gb on new osa-e card

2002-12-03 Thread Davis, Lawrence
GB Ethernet parameters can not be set like the OSA Express cards can be set. Larry Davis -Original Message- From: Dave Myers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 10:23 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to force full-duplex and 1gb on new osa-e card Have been

Re: Admin: Spamcop.net

2002-12-03 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 03:35, A. Harry Williams wrote: Unfortunately, this is a message for those that won't get this message, but in case someone else asks you here, we are currently being blocked by sites using spamcop.net due to someone on another list asking the list how to unsubscribe, and

Re: IBM has no realistic entry-level offering in the mainframe space

2002-12-03 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 15:05, Per Jessen wrote: $13K is a problem to most consulting companies ?? Surely not - maybe most of the one-person consulting companies, but for anything of eg. 10 people and up, would $13K really represent a problem ? Actually yes it does. If a customer wants a job

Re: IBM has no realistic entry-level offering in the mainframe space

2002-12-03 Thread Phil Payne
For most consulting companies $13K presents a big problem. Yes, there are a few large consulting firms that can pay that and they do cater to that need. But why not let the vast majority of small consultants promote z/VM also? http://www.kmsitltd.co.uk A one-man company specialising in z/OS

Re: IBM has no realistic entry-level offering in the mainframe space

2002-12-03 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 10:52, Per Jessen wrote: As to telcos not billing people twice and not losing records ? since when ? which planet? Not billing someone is a telco nono. Whether they get the phone matters a lot less. If they don't have any service they cant make any extra free calls 8)

Different system

2002-12-03 Thread Abruzzese, Pat
There is a need for various types of systems. Why can't we all play nicely together. We have a business need for a mainframe running VM/ESA with two VSE/ESA images. This works great for our business, I'm sure this isn't the case through out the IS world.

Re: IBM has no realistic entry-level offering in the mainframe space

2002-12-03 Thread Steve Guthrie
Bravo. Well said. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Phil Payne Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 9:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IBM has no realistic entry-level offering in the mainframe space For most consulting companies

TCPDUMP

2002-12-03 Thread Eddie Chen
I am look at a output from a tcpdump, and I found that the datagram of fragmented data are sent from the last fragmented datagram first. Is this correcrt (frag 9311:920@8880) (DF) (frag 9311:1480@7400+) (DF) (frag 9311:1480@5920+) (DF) (frag 9311:1480@4440+) (DF) (frag

Re: Moving to new UCB's

2002-12-03 Thread Post, Mark K
Daniel, Re-running zipl as you plan on doing should take care of that aspect of your move. I can't address the volume label issues. Of course, that only applies if you chose cdl (or let it default) during dasdfmt processing. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Daniel Jarboe

Re: cmsfs bug fix

2002-12-03 Thread Rick Troth
Attached patch fixes userland cmsfs; ... Thanks! I'll fit that in and check the kernelland effects. -- RMT

Re: TCPDUMP

2002-12-03 Thread Malcolm Beattie
Eddie Chen writes: I am look at a output from a tcpdump, and I found that the datagram of fragmented data are sent from the last fragmented datagram first. Is this correcrt (frag 9311:920@8880) (DF) (frag 9311:1480@7400+) (DF) (frag 9311:1480@5920+) (DF) (frag

Re: TCPDUMP

2002-12-03 Thread Eddie Chen
The datagram I sent was outbound.. However, the in-bound seems to comes in fragment offset 0 to the last fragment. Does this apply to all host/router to sent last-datagram first???

Re: TCPDUMP

2002-12-03 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 16:36, Malcolm Beattie wrote: Yes, it's a useful performance optimisation. It means the recipient can allocate a network buffer just the right size for the whole datagram as soon as it receives the first fragment. That saves it It also means we can send the fragments

Windows is cheaper than Linux - official

2002-12-03 Thread Phil Payne
At least - that's what a Microsoft-sponsored study by IDC found. For those who aren't familiar with big analyst firm economics - it's the reprint rights that count. A vendor might pay peanuts to have a survey done, and then buy 10,000 glossy copies for its sales farce:

Re: TCPDUMP

2002-12-03 Thread Eddie Chen
Can this ordering be a problem with the CIP??? Because I am getting ICMP type:03 and code:0D on that datagram - the last-datagram being sent first.

Re: IBM has no realistic entry-level offering in the mainframe space

2002-12-03 Thread Herbert Szumovski
At 11:57 03.12.2002, Per Jessen wrote: Now try to sell Linux/390 on a z/Box to a service provider, who wants to run e.g. 40 servers. Nearly nobody wants z/VM, the dinosaur operating system. 99% of their arguments go away immediately, when I can show them on the PC, how it works and how easy I

mproute on z/VM

2002-12-03 Thread Greg Smith
This may be a little off topic, but we are trying to get ospf working under z/VM 4.3 so we can advertise some of our linux addresses. In the mproute config file we have OSPF_Interface IP_address=134.67.180.130 Hello_Interval=10 Dead_Router_Interval=40

Re: IBM has no realistic entry-level offering in the mainframe space

2002-12-03 Thread Phil Payne
And the 13k are not a price, but a mindsetting problem. If a vendor asks me to pay 13k$ for the authorization to sell one of his systems, so that he can enhance his revenue, then that's at least strange, if not ridiculous. You're obviously not an IBM Business Partner. IBM authorises partners

Re: TCPDUMP

2002-12-03 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 17:22, Eddie Chen wrote: Can this ordering be a problem with the CIP??? Because I am getting ICMP type:03 and code:0D on that datagram - the last-datagram being sent first. Its a legal ordering so it should only cause problems on faulty equipment. When looking at the

Re: TCPDUMP

2002-12-03 Thread Eddie Chen
Th one that sent the ICMP is from the CIP: Note the offending Datagram is the first sent. 10:39:19.601305 192.168.254.206 162.69.28.2: (frag 28485:920@8880) (DF) (ttl 6 10:39:19.601404 192.168.254.206 162.69.28.2: (frag 28485:1480@7400+) (DF) (ttl 10:39:19.601419

Re: TCPDUMP

2002-12-03 Thread Eddie Chen
I ask the person that are resp. for the CIP... he says no filters, only snmp are set. Any suggestion on TRACE???

Compilation (link) failure for libsigc++ package

2002-12-03 Thread Post, Mark K
I'm trying to compile the libsigc++-1.0.4 package on Linux/390. I'm getting the following failure, which I do not see on my Intel Linux system: Making all in signals make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/build-libsigc-1.0.4-s390-1/libsigc++-1.0.4/tests/signals' /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=link c++

Linux 2.4.19 Kernel loadavg

2002-12-03 Thread Post, Mark K
Since I upgraded to the 2.4.19 kernel, I've noticed that my loadavg is always 1.00 or higher, never lower, even when idling. I'm presuming this is a bug of some sort. Has anyone else seen this? Any pointers to a patch to fix it? Mark Post

Local listee (Lionel Dyck) makes good

2002-12-03 Thread paultz
http://www.esj.com/news/article.asp?EditorialsID=345

Re: TCPDUMP

2002-12-03 Thread Jere Julian
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 05:22:25PM +, Eddie Chen wrote: Can this ordering be a problem with the CIP??? Because I am getting ICMP type:03 and code:0D on that datagram - the last-datagram being sent first. ---end quoted text--- Do you have a sniffer trace of this as well? It would be

Re: Compilation (link) failure for libsigc++ package

2002-12-03 Thread Ulrich Weigand
Mark Post wrote: /tmp/build-libsigc-1.0.4-s390-1/libsigc++-1.0.4/tests/signals/retbind_slot_t est.cc:25: undefined reference to `ostream::write(char const *, long)' Could you check the source code at the given line? I assume the problem is that the second argument to ostream::write is supposed

Re: Linux 2.4.19 Kernel loadavg

2002-12-03 Thread Ulrich Weigand
Mark Post wrote: Since I upgraded to the 2.4.19 kernel, I've noticed that my loadavg is always 1.00 or higher, never lower, even when idling. I'm presuming this is a bug of some sort. I seem to recall we've fixed this already but I can't remember the details :-( Could you check, when the

Re: Linux 2.4.19 Kernel loadavg

2002-12-03 Thread Post, Mark K
Ulrich, Unfortunately, a ps ax shows up only S/SW/SWN/SL and the ps command as R. No D states. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Ulrich Weigand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 4:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.19

Re: IBM has no realistic entry-level offering in the mainframe space

2002-12-03 Thread John Summerfield
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Per Jessen wrote: On Tue, 3 Dec 2002 09:08:58 -0600, Stephen Frazier wrote: For most consulting companies $13K presents a big problem. Yes, there are a few large consulting firms that can pay that and they do cater to $13K is a problem to most consulting companies ??

Re: Compilation (link) failure for libsigc++ package

2002-12-03 Thread Ulrich Weigand
Mark, That's where things get a little strange. The source module is only 44 lines line, and line 25 is a blank line. :( Here's the entire module: I'm not sure, but I guess this means it happens during template expansion for a template needed in main. This would be the 'retbind'

Re: IBM has no realistic entry-level offering in the mainframe space

2002-12-03 Thread Phil Payne
$13K is a problem to most consulting companies ?? Surely not - maybe most of the one-person consulting companies, but for anything of eg. 10 people and up, would $13K really represent a problem ? Is that per consultant? I played with z/Flex - the zArchitecture version of Flex-ES - on an

Re: TCPDUMP

2002-12-03 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 05:35:25PM +, Alan Cox wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 16:36, Malcolm Beattie wrote: having to reallocate larger and larger buffers for each fragment that comes in. IIRC, it used to confuse one or two grotty old embedded TCP/IP stacks but that was years ago and I'd

Re: IBM has no realistic entry-level offering in the mainframe space

2002-12-03 Thread John Summerfield
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Phil Payne wrote: $13K is a problem to most consulting companies ?? Surely not - maybe most of the one-person consulting companies, but for anything of eg. 10 people and up, would $13K really represent a problem ? Is that per consultant? I played with z/Flex -

Re: Compilation (link) failure for libsigc++ package

2002-12-03 Thread Post, Mark K
Ulrich, I changed the bastring.cc file as you suggested. It made no difference. I get exactly the same error as before. The .ii file showed that the modified line was being included: template class charT, class traits, class Allocator ostream operator (ostream o, const basic_string charT,

Re: TCPDUMP

2002-12-03 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 20:10, Eddie Chen wrote: I ask the person that are resp. for the CIP... he says no filters, only snmp are set. Any suggestion on TRACE??? Administratively prohibited is a firewall rule, nothing else generates that paticular ICMP error.

Re: IBM has no realistic entry-level offering in the mainframe space

2002-12-03 Thread John Maenpaa
On Tuesday 03 December 2002 05:11 pm, John Summerfield wrote: On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Phil Payne wrote: $13K is a problem to most consulting companies ?? Surely not - maybe most of the one-person consulting companies, but for anything of eg. 10 people and up, would $13K really represent a

Re: mproute on z/VM

2002-12-03 Thread vicc
On 04.12.2002 at 03:50:04, Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OSPF_Interface IP_address=134.67.180.130 Hello_Interval=10 Dead_Router_Interval=40 Router_priority=0 Name=OSA1 Cost0=2 Subnet_mask=255.255.255.252

Re: 3172 lcs problem

2002-12-03 Thread Post, Mark K
Dietmar, Nobody else jumped on this, so maybe I can help... Is this Linux/390 system running in an LPAR? If so, did you try specifying IPLdelay=xyz in your parmfile? You might start with a value of IPLdelay=2m and see if that helps. (But only for an LPAR install.) I guess I should ask if the

Re: IBM has no realistic entry-level offering in the mainframe space

2002-12-03 Thread Dean Kent
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Phil Payne wrote: $13K is a problem to most consulting companies ?? Surely not - maybe most of the one-person consulting companies, but for anything of eg. 10 people and up, would $13K really represent a problem ? Is that per consultant? I played with z/Flex -

Re: IBM has no realistic entry-level offering in the mainframe space

2002-12-03 Thread Jeffrey C Barnard
Dean, Interesting thoughts ... Basically IBM is a corporation with stockholders. A 'for profit' corporation. They will do things that they believe will earn them money. IBM is very interested in earning money (as are most if not all corporations). The key to this discussion is to come up with a

Re: IBM has no realistic entry-level offering in the mainframe space

2002-12-03 Thread Dean Kent
Complain if you want but the reality is if you want a hobbyist license you have to find a way for IBM to make money on it. Heck, you might get them to at least listen to you if you could find a way for them to break-even on the license (but I doubt it). Interestingly, I am quite sure IBM

Re: Compilation (link) failure for libsigc++ package

2002-12-03 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 04:55:59PM -0500, Post, Mark K wrote: That's where things get a little strange. The source module is only 44 lines line, and line 25 is a blank line. :( Here's the entire module: [...] FWIW, this test program compiles, links and runs fine for me on Debian 3.0, using

Re: Moving to new UCB's

2002-12-03 Thread Baumgarte, Randy (CORP)
Your zipl plan should work. As for the VOLSER, I've never seen a way to change the volser. I don't believe Linux cares what it is. I always thought it was so MVS could see the dasd properly. I would think if you change it from MVS, Linux shouldn't care. It will just notice the new VOLSER

Re: IBM has no realistic entry-level offering in the mainframe space

2002-12-03 Thread John Alvord
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002 21:25:45 -0500, Jeffrey C Barnard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dean, Interesting thoughts ... Basically IBM is a corporation with stockholders. A 'for profit' corporation. They will do things that they believe will earn them money. IBM is very interested in earning money (as are

Re: IBM has no realistic entry-level offering in the mainframe space

2002-12-03 Thread John Alvord
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002 19:18:42 -0800, Dean Kent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Complain if you want but the reality is if you want a hobbyist license you have to find a way for IBM to make money on it. Heck, you might get them to at least listen to you if you could find a way for them to break-even on