Re: My status...

2005-06-29 Thread Dave Jones
Hi, gang. Oops... I obviously sent a private note to the list by mistake. I apologize for any unnecessary distress this might have caused anyone. (Yeah, right, like you guys haven't done this either:-) DJ -- For LINUX-390

Business Week Article

2005-06-29 Thread Neale Ferguson
BusinessWeek article tells the story of First National Bank of Nebraska consolidating 30 (Sun) Unix servers onto one mainframe. The shift boosted hardware-utilization rates to about 70% – and Kucera expects to save $10 million over five years. 'It's revolutionary,' he says. 'It's really good

AutoYast

2005-06-29 Thread Jeremy Warren
Has anyone had any success in using Autoyast to perform automated upgrade/installs? I have made a couple of attempts with zero success Thanks! Jeremy -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: Business Week Article

2005-06-29 Thread Michael Short
Nice article; too bad VM (which wasn't mentioned by name) didn't get as good a press as VMWARE. Mike EDS (215)246-4306

source IP address

2005-06-29 Thread Uriel Carrasquilla
I have quagga/zebra/ospf running and using our dummy interface on an SLES-9 running under LPAR on a z890. We have two OSA ports in use for eth0 and eth1. OSPF is doing its job advertising the ip address of the dummy interface and traffic is flowing via both OSA ports. The problem is when I do

Re: Business Week Article

2005-06-29 Thread Rick Troth
Thanks, Neale. A very exciting article! In the late 1990s, tech leaders envisioned delivering computing to businesses as reliably and simply as electricity. Shades of MULTICS? Seems we're still in Cambridge in the late 1960s. ;-) Or maybe: Word has leaked from

Re: Business Week Article

2005-06-29 Thread David Kreuter
Does Business Week qualify as an airline magazine? David -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port on behalf of Rick Troth Sent: Wed 6/29/2005 11:34 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Business Week Article Thanks, Neale. A very exciting article! In the late 1990s,

Re: My status...

2005-06-29 Thread Little, Chris
Hey, just last week I sent an email expressing my undying affection to my wife. Except that I didn't send it to my wife. She had the same first name, though. Try explaining that with a straight face. -Original Message- From: Dave Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June

EMC storage

2005-06-29 Thread Biggs, Eric J [ITS]
I know this question has been discussed here before and I've tried to search the archives, but with no luck Has anyone used (or attempted to use) EMC storage attached via FCP with either Red Hat or Suse on the zSeries? I know EMC is not listed at

Re: EMC storage

2005-06-29 Thread Wayne Henley
I've had success with EMC Symm 8830 (I Think) FCP attached to a z800 and a z900. We were running SLES8 under zVM v4 in an LPAR. Just make sure that EMC and whoever is doing your iogen are working together. Wayne Biggs, Eric J [ITS] wrote: I know this question has been discussed here before

Re: EMC storage

2005-06-29 Thread Neale Ferguson
I tried it with an EMC 8730 and had no problems. -Original Message- I know this question has been discussed here before and I've tried to search the archives, but with no luck Has anyone used (or attempted to use) EMC storage attached via FCP with either Red Hat or Suse on the

Re: Java 1.5 on Linux for z/Series

2005-06-29 Thread Jim Elliott
Hi Folks, Is there any stated direction for Java 1.5 on Linux for z/Series by IBM or any other party? Michael: It is IBM's intention to ship Java 5.0 (nee 1.5) by year-end 2005 for Linux for zSeries. Of course things may happen to prevent that, but we expect to meet that date. In other words,

Re: Java 1.5 on Linux for z/Series

2005-06-29 Thread Neale Ferguson
About %#$ time! We can finally get rid of the compat libraries due to the use of the old ABI in the JVM. New C++ programs that use the JNI will now be able to work. -Original Message- It is IBM's intention to ship Java 5.0 (nee 1.5) by year-end 2005 for Linux for zSeries. Of course things

Re: My status...

2005-06-29 Thread Uriel Carrasquilla
can we please send us a copy of the e-mail so we can find a way to help you get out of the dog house? Regards, [EMAIL PROTECTED] NCCI Boca Raton, Florida 561.893.2415 greetings / avec mes meilleures salutations / Cordialmente mit freundlichen Grüßen / Med vänlig hälsning

Re: EMC storage

2005-06-29 Thread Uriel Carrasquilla
Eric: we have EMC storage attached via Ficon. we have Clarion storage that we will be connecting next via Fiber. I'll be interested to learn from your experience. Regards, [EMAIL PROTECTED] NCCI Boca Raton, Florida 561.893.2415 greetings / avec mes meilleures salutations / Cordialmente mit

Re: EMC storage

2005-06-29 Thread Uriel Carrasquilla
I didn't realize that zVM supports Fiber. I thought you could only use Ficon. Regards, [EMAIL PROTECTED] NCCI Boca Raton, Florida 561.893.2415 greetings / avec mes meilleures salutations / Cordialmente mit freundlichen Grüßen / Med vänlig hälsning

Re: Java 1.5 on Linux for z/Series

2005-06-29 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 01:24:03PM -0400, Neale Ferguson wrote: About %#$ time! We can finally get rid of the compat libraries due to the use of the old ABI in the JVM. New C++ programs that use the JNI will now be able to work. Use gcj or kaffee and get that today ;-)

Re: reiserfs file system corruption

2005-06-29 Thread Gianfranco Ciotti
We have the same identical problem, but only on one guest of two identical zlinux (SLES8, same application, same number of DASD, same z/VM and LPAR, same installation date/procedure...). Did anyone have a solution better than Suse response?! I don't understand why it never happen before on fifty

Re: EMC storage

2005-06-29 Thread shogunx
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Re: Business Week Article

2005-06-29 Thread Post, Mark K
I certainly hope it does. Then we might actually get some management interest in the platform. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Kreuter Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 11:45 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re:

Hillgang Meeting

2005-06-29 Thread Neale Ferguson
The draft brochure for the next Hillgang meeting is available at: http://www.vm.ibm.com/events/hillgang.pdf I say draft as there may be an addition to the agenda. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Java 1.5 on Linux for z/Series

2005-06-29 Thread Post, Mark K
Nice thought, but the last time we were asked to test Kaffe, things were pretty ugly. I haven't seen another request to do testing since. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christoph Hellwig Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 1:40 PM

Re: reiserfs file system corruption

2005-06-29 Thread Post, Mark K
I don't want to appear to be glib, but ext3 would seem to be the answer. For some time, reiserfs wasn't bigendian safe. Perhaps it is still not. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gianfranco Ciotti Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005