Re: Are weekly z/VM IPLs necessary?

2015-05-28 Thread Mike Walter
Enter the Wayback Machine for trip to 1996 by visiting: http://listserv.uark.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9610L=IBMVMP=R10161=IBMVM9=AI=-3J=onX=D2B166CA66E8CA0104Y=Mike.Walter%40aon.comd=No+Match%3BMatch%3BMatchesz=4 (watch out for URL line breaks of that link). That post was written before Linux ran

Re: zVM/Linux Upgrade

2015-05-28 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Matt, If you have space to do a second-level install, you could do that and then copy the files from MAINT 191 to your first-level system.     Dennis O'Brien Tyranny is

Re: zVM/Linux Upgrade

2015-05-28 Thread Alan Altmark
On Thursday, 05/28/2015 at 02:06 EDT, Dazzo, Matt mda...@pch.com wrote: Oops, I just formatted the 191 disk on the MAINT id by mistake!. I did a cms format for 191 but I was signed onto maint and not my newly created id. Worse yet and embarrassing, I don't have a backup. This is a brand new

Re: zVM/Linux Upgrade

2015-05-28 Thread Michael Harding
I wouldn't worry about it. If you indeed mean MAINT and not MAINT6xx, there's nothing there but a basic PROFILE EXEC, PROFILE XEDIT and SYN SYNONYM. If you'd accumulated other files there you're SOL where they're concerned, but the shipped files are easily recreatable (or copy from one of the

Re: zVM/Linux Upgrade

2015-05-28 Thread Dazzo, Matt
Oops, I just formatted the 191 disk on the MAINT id by mistake!. I did a cms format for 191 but I was signed onto maint and not my newly created id. Worse yet and embarrassing, I don't have a backup. This is a brand new install of zvm 6.3 and can be re-installed pretty easily if need be. Before

Re: Are weekly z/VM IPLs necessary?

2015-05-28 Thread Scott Rohling
I think Marcy's point is that if you can't think of the last time you booted Linux (or z/VM) -- then you're probably very behind on things like security and bug fixes... Scott Rohling On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 5:37 AM, Mark Pace pacemainl...@gmail.com wrote: I IPL z/VM only when CP maintenance

Re: Are weekly z/VM IPLs necessary?

2015-05-28 Thread Marcy Cortes
Scott R wrote: I think Marcy's point is that if you can't think of the last time you booted Linux (or z/VM) -- then you're probably very behind on things like security and bug fixes... Yup, that's what I'm trying to say. Probably in way too many words :)

Re: Are weekly z/VM IPLs necessary?

2015-05-28 Thread Mark Pace
I IPL z/VM only when CP maintenance is applied. I used to reboot/IPL my Linux guests at the same time. I no longer do that. I simply move them to another z/VM with LGR and after the z/VM IPL I move them back again. I can't think of the last time I had to reboot/IPL my Linux guests. On Wed,

Re: Are weekly z/VM IPLs necessary?

2015-05-28 Thread John Campbell
Sounds like advice I got years ago (tail end of the 286 era) from a former co-worker... If you're blowing the dust off the motherboard it is well past the time to upgrade -soup On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Marcy Cortes marcy.d.cor...@wellsfargo.com wrote: Scott R wrote: I think Marcy's