Re: Linux and z/VM Wiki

2009-09-25 Thread John Summerfield
Mark Post wrote: There are a few rules, for lack of a better term, that will apply to the Wiki, none of them particularly onerous: 1. Although technically not required, we would prefer that anyone contributing to the wiki create an account before doing so. You should insist on this.

Re: Linux and z/VM Wiki

2009-09-25 Thread John Summerfield
Mark Post wrote: Cross-posted to Linux-390, IBMVM, and IBM-Main The idea of having a Wiki (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/wiki) for mainframe Linux and z/VM has been floating around for some time. It was thought that having a Wiki with a fair amount of content already in it would

Re: Linux and z/VM Wiki

2009-09-25 Thread John Summerfield
Mark Post wrote: On 9/23/2009 at 1:36 AM, Douglas M. Wooster d...@isomedia.com wrote: -snip- I'm sure one could use a Wiki as a discussion forum, but it really seems better suited to developing, storing, and searching reference material. I'm not sure how this meme got started, but nobody is

Re: Linux and z/VM Wiki

2009-09-25 Thread Jack Woehr
John Summerfield wrote: David, Jack was referring to the discussion of the wiki itself when he was talking about discussion on the wiki. That's correct, and that's all I was saying. -- Jack J. Woehr# «'I know what it means well enough, when I find http://www.well.com/~jax # a

Re: Linux and z/VM Wiki

2009-09-25 Thread David Boyes
No, I understood what he meant. I was expressing a sincere dislike for diluting the discussion here with Yet Another Place to check for things that interest me. Doing the discussion using the discussion tools in Mediawiki is a significant step backward in function in that I have to use

In-kernel Cryto APi

2009-09-25 Thread Thompson, Michael E
We are setting up a encryption product that uses the in-kernel crypto facility. IBM has said that this should use the Crypto processors when going through the api. We are trying to verify that we are truly using the Crypto processors. Has anyone done this and secondly how can we verify that the

Re: Linux and z/VM Wiki

2009-09-25 Thread Dave Jones
My vote on this topic is that the real time, day to day discussions stay here on the lists (VM and zLinux). I like the fact that the information comes to me, via e-mail, with no effort on my part. I think a proper role for the Linux Wiki would be to take on part of the functionally of the

Re: In-kernel Cryto APi

2009-09-25 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 09/25/2009 at 11:30 EDT, Thompson, Michael E michael_thomp...@uhc.com wrote: We are setting up a encryption product that uses the in-kernel crypto facility. IBM has said that this should use the Crypto processors when going through the api. We are trying to verify that we are truly

Re: Renaming a volume

2009-09-25 Thread Christian Paro
So it's not letting you use the -k (--keep_volser) option unless you also specify -a? Because, at least looking at the man page, -k should work as long as you're in non-interactive mode and -c puts you in non-interactive mode. As in: `fdasd -k -c /fdasdb.conf /dev/dasdb` Also, you might also

Re: Renaming a volume

2009-09-25 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
You could have a zos person clip the volser. Ron Sent from my iPhone On Sep 25, 2009, at 1:46 PM, Christian Paro christian.p...@gmail.com wrote: So it's not letting you use the -k (--keep_volser) option unless you also specify -a? Because, at least looking at the man page, -k should

Renaming a volume

2009-09-25 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
Is there a way to rename a volume? I'm testing a DR scenario. I've formatted a volume under ZM as UPST01, attached it to Linux (Redhat 5) and did lsdasd 0.0.0201(ECKD) at ( 94: 0) is dasda : active at blocksize 4096, 1802880 blocks, 7042 MB 0.0.2201(ECKD) at ( 94: 4) is dasdb : n/f

Re: Renaming a volume

2009-09-25 Thread Aria Bamdad
Is there a reason why you create 3 partitions on one dasd? I would define 3 minidisks to VM on that one DASD or different ones and format each disk individually with one partition per disk. These can be freely moved to other volumes without any care. Aria -Original Message- From:

Re: Renaming a volume

2009-09-25 Thread Phil Tully
if you are running this under z/VM you can just do a cpfmtxa and just change the volser Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] wrote: Is there a way to rename a volume? I'm testing a DR scenario. I've formatted a volume under ZM as UPST01, attached it to Linux (Redhat 5) and did lsdasd 0.0.0201(ECKD) at

Re: Renaming a volume

2009-09-25 Thread Adam Thornton
On Sep 25, 2009, at 1:52 PM, Aria Bamdad wrote: Is there a reason why you create 3 partitions on one dasd? I would define 3 minidisks to VM on that one DASD or different ones and format each disk individually with one partition per disk. These can be freely moved to other volumes without any

Re: In-kernel Crypto API

2009-09-25 Thread Eric D Rossman
That covers symmetric encryption. In addition, if you are looking to see if the MAC or hash functions are used, you can TRACE I B93E and TRACE I B93F for the hashing, or TRACE I B91E for MAC operations. Eric Rossman, CISSP® ICSF Cryptographic Security Development z/OS Enabling Technologies On

Re: Linux and z/VM Wiki

2009-09-25 Thread Stephen Frazier
Martha McConaghy wrote: Wow..I don't really know how this discussion got so far off-base. For several years now, there has been a lot of discussion in the z/VM community about the need to have a place to collect the wisdom of the elders, i.e. the knowledge and experience of those of us who