Re: VM system name

fixed it the email reappeared. Perhaps I should include a disclaimer with all my replies. I didn’t know you were only offering this for SUSE. If I’d known I would not have replied. Sent from my iPhone On Oct 4, 2020, at 11:02 AM, Mark Post wrote: On 10/3/20 8:10 PM, Alan Ackerman wrote

Re: VM system name

don't want to get involved with Red Hat versus SUSE. I think if you release the tool for SUSE, it will be up to Red Hat what they decide to do, not me. Alan Ackerman alan.ackerma...@gmail.com On Jul 20, 2020, at 12:16 PM, Mark Post wrote: On 7/20/20 1:09 PM, Stewart, Lee wrote: > +1

Re: VM system name

As far as I know they are running Red Hat. Why does that matter? Alan Ackerman alan.ackerma...@gmail.com On Jul 20, 2020, at 12:16 PM, Mark Post wrote: On 7/20/20 1:09 PM, Stewart, Lee wrote: > +1 OK, that's one (sorry, but retirees who won't use the tool don't help the business c

Re: VM system name

Humpf! I think my opinion still counts. I may never use it, but I think Bank of America probably will. Alan Ackerman alan.ackerma...@gmail.com On Jul 20, 2020, at 12:16 PM, Mark Post wrote: On 7/20/20 1:09 PM, Stewart, Lee wrote: > +1 OK, that's one (sorry, but retirees who won't

Re: VM system name

Yes! I spent a fair amount of time writing EXECs to figure these things out when I worked for Bank of America. I put the results on a web page that listed all our VM systems. I’m retired so I don’t need it any more. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 18, 2020, at 11:59 AM, Mark Post wrote: On

I've retired

I retired from Bank of America on 2/8/2020 (my 73rd birthday). If you want to send me email, please used the address: alan.ackerma...@gmail.com <mailto:alan.ackewrma...@gmail.com> I intend to remain on this LINUX-390 mailing list, if I can figure out how. Alan Ackerman alan.a

Re: Velocity Performance Class

This email seems to have no content. Alan Ackerman alan.ackerma...@gmail.com On Oct 29, 2019, at 6:34 AM, Rich Smrcina wrote: -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: question on SWAPGEN preferences

. They tried to convince Red Hat to make some changes, but Red Hat refused. Nevertheless, the problem went away when we put on some service, so I didn't pursue it any further. My original post was Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 10:28:55 -0700 http://www2.marist.edu:8000/htbin/wlvtype?LINUX-VM.92905 Alan

Re: Cutting ‘Old Heads’ at IBM

I’m under no illusion that I would have any luck in finding another job. It’s work for the Bank or retire. (He says slyly, sitting back and waiting for a flood of headhunters.)  Sent from my iPhone On Nov 16, 2018, at 5:49 PM, Scott Rohling wrote: I've been working at home exclusively

Re: Cutting ‘Old Heads’ at IBM

I’m 71. So far I have no desire to retire and have not been encouraged to leave. I’m not aware of age discrimination here. Several years back (5-10) we were encouraged to go work at home. I may have been the last one to take the offer. I’m gregarious by nature, but eventually I was surrounded

New Redbooks

I have: “The Virtualization Cookbook for IBM z Systems Volume 1: IBM z/VM 6.3, SG24-8147-01” The Virtualization Cookbook for IBM z Systems Volume 2: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 Servers Is there one for z/VM 6.4 or 7.1? RHEL 7.4 or anything newer that RHEL 7.1? Sent from my iPhone

Re: SLES 12 upgrade fails

I have the same problem — I am not seeing Marcy’s posts. I also don’t see anything about SLES 12 upgrade fails on the web page. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 14, 2018, at 5:15 PM, Gregg Levine wrote: Hello! Mark as interesting as our discussions are, there is a more

Re: SLES12 Kernel parameter root=/dev/dasd-x

From: Subject: Sorry, WLVTYPE has experienced a serious syntax error. If the error persists, contact Error Report <mailto:HARRY@SERVER_NAME> That link in turn tries to send email to HARRY@SERVER_NAME. What's going on here? Alan Ackerman a

Re: Logs from Operator

and Pipelines and PROP -- but I certainly enjoyed that. Alan Ackerman alan.ackerma...@gmail.com > On Aug 15, 2016, at 8:56 AM, Tracy Dean <t...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > >> From: joão paulo limberger (shoo) <jlimber...@gmail.com> >> To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU >> Date: 08/13

Re: Other migration problems (was Unable to login with ssh)

According to a presentation I saw at SHARE the problems include storage overlays. I don't think you even want try it. Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 29, 2016, at 4:20 PM, Grzegorz Powiedziuk > wrote: > > From what Alan and Mark said, I understand that not working ssh

Re: SWAPGEN + RHEL 7

Velocity Software how to alert for that.) Alan Ackerman alan.ackerma...@gmail.com > On May 16, 2016, at 4:18 PM, Mark Post <mp...@suse.com> wrote: > >>>> On 5/16/2016 at 04:40 PM, "Cohen, Sam" <sam.co...@lrs.com> wrote: >> I use the Format/Re

SWAPGEN + RHEL 7

Does anyone have SWAPGEN working with RHEL 7? We are having problem with SWAPGEN EXEC. If I do not use the FBAPART option on SWAPGEN, I get these errors at the end of every boot: 08:38:52 [ 24.130992] attempt to access beyond end of device [ 24.131000] dasdc1: rw=0,

Re: crash with convert option

See https://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/mobile/#!/linuxonibm/com.ibm.linux.z.lgdt/lgdt_t_vmdump_copy.html Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 1, 2016, at 9:32 AM, Victor Echavarry Diaz > wrote: > > Does anyone know how to use the crash tool with the convert

Re: Dump a linux guest from z/VM

We use stand-alone dump. Need's to be set up but you can do that from another guest. It will stop your server when you IPL it though. See the correct edition of Using the Dump Tools on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 http://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/dw/linux390/docu/les3dt02.pdf I don't

Re: Curious about crash.

be curious to know why. Alan Ackerman alan.ackerma...@gmail.com > On Dec 16, 2015, at 6:45 AM, Tom Huegel <tehue...@gmail.com> wrote: > > VFS: Cannot open root device "disk/by-path/ccw-0.0.0100-part2&quo

Re: 2015-08-28 Linux on z Systems - qclib 1.0.0 package drop on developerWorks

I had no problem downloading it to my Mac and double-clicking on it to unpack it to a folder. Of course, I didn't actually install it on the Mac but I was able to read the .h documentation files. I used Apple's Safari. I suggest you try other browsers, perhaps on a PC or a Mac. On Aug 28,

Re: SSH no-root, key-based authentication video

Works for me. On Jul 21, 2015, at 2:58 PM, Vitale, Joseph joseph.vit...@bnymellon.com wrote: Is this site unavailable? https://sites.google.com/site/mike99mac/home Thanks Joseph Vitale Technology Services Group Mainframe Operating Systems Pershing Plaza 95 Christopher

Re: console modes - what Linux sees

Great work! That's a great write-up! I know nothing about system console. I'm in California and the mainframes are on the East Coast (meaning anything East of the Rockies.) Nor am I trusted with access to the HMC via TCP/IP. A few more comments. As a friend of mine said green screen is an

Re: Docker

OK, so what is Docker? What is a container? For that matter what is the go language? Don't we have enough languages, already? On Feb 16, 2015, at 12:55 PM, Neale Ferguson ne...@sinenomine.net wrote: But it requires the go language to be built. The IBM folks have also been porting go to

Re: Install of SUSE Linux on IBM z LPAR

We decided very early (2001?) that we would only run mainframe Linux under z/VM. Seeing discussions like this certainly makes me glad we made that decision. I don't know if it makes a difference, but we run Red Hat Linux, to be consistent with our midrange Linux folks. Is either Red Hat or

Re: Automated performance reporting on Linux on Z

Would you be willing to tell us those annoying idosyncrasies? Our shop is very unlikely to move away from Velocity, but newer customers, such as the Original Poster, might find it useful. To successfully grow a zLinux farm, you *need* a commercial performance management solution for z/VM.

Re: Bash specially-crafted environment variables code injection attack

On Sep 25, 2014, at 10:44 AM, Veencamp, Jonathon D. jdveenc...@fedins.com wrote: Just a word of warning that Red Hat considers their current patch potentially incomplete. It solves the test that everyone is using to test vulnerability, but isn't necessarily comprehensive. So there may

Bash specially-crafted environment variables code injection attack

CVE-2014-6271 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-6271 Summary: GNU Bash through 4.3 processes trailing strings after function definitions in the values of environment variables, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted environment, as

Re: Your postings on Linux-390

This one came to me as blank. (Almost all of yours appear as blank.) And I am using Apple Mail to read it, not Thunderbird. I can read it, I just have to go into View Message Raw Source. Is there anything below? On Jan 28, 2013, at 6:57 AM, Rick Troth wrote:

Re: CCL OSA device not activated

We have installed RHEL 5.8 on z/VM 6.2. I cannot think of any reason why that would not work. We did have a problem with Vintela, had to upgrade to a newer version, but it was a Vintela bug, not RHEL or z/VM. I'm not at work, or I'd give you the Vintela versions. On Nov 9, 2012, at 12:50 AM,

Re: Redhat trying to patent netboot?

There is a new patent law. It changes patents from first-to-invent (FTI) to first-to-file (FTF). I'm no lawyer, but does this mean forgetting about prior art? Lots on the Web about it, many saying it favors large companies who can afford to file large numbers of patents. So this filing may

OT: TCU in Fort Worth

, Disciples of Christ. I guess he thought he could save money by sending us there and having us live at home. (None of us did.) Alan Ackerman On Sep 14, 2011, at 11:16 AM, McKown, John wrote: I thought the paper tape TTYs were called ASR (Automatic Send Receive?) instead of KSR (Keyboard Send

[no subject]

Hope this is not a phishing attack. I certainly will not go to a random web site posted like this. On Jul 8, 2011, at 12:47 AM, Rob JACKSON wrote: I invite you to visit my first site! It’s important for me!.. http://www.soleholiday.com/sites.friend.php?zyqCID=16iw4

Re: New User Linux on z10 question

While 12 LPARs can share one IFL they cannot share any memory. Each LPAR must have its own dedicated memory. That's the main reason to run z/VM, to share memory. When I asked why Xen did not support System z, I was told that they didn't see any point in competing with z/VM. Sent from my iPod

Re: Documentation: DocBook vs. Lyx vs. LaTex vs. texinfo?

I liked Kedit on MS-DOS quite a bit. Hum, wonder if I can find that old software and run it in DosBox? I use Kedit for Windows, which works fine on Windows XP, anyway. It's a commercial product though, not open source. KEDIT for Windows 1.6 is officially supported on Windows XP, Windows

Re: linux vmstat steal column

Why do you want to know what CP is doing? There really isn't any way that I know of to find out. You could turn on various traces, and then write code to post-process those traces and see what CP is doing. (Or ask IBM to process them.) But unfortunately, turning on the traces would probably

Re: zLinux entropy

OK, I will display my ignorance and ask. What is Entropy in Linux? I know a little bit about entropy in the second and third laws of thermodynamics. But I don't see what that has to do with Linux. On May 2, 2010, at 10:50 AM, Gregg Levine wrote: Hello! If I remember correctly, this

Re: High interrupt rate

, not SuSE. Thanks everyone for your help! Based on everything I've read, I concluded to upgrade the kernel to 2.6.16.60-0.37. That has solve our issue. As for the db2fmcd process, I did not find that running nor in the /etc/inittab, so no changes were made there. Alan Ackerman Alan (dot) Ackerman

Stateless Linux for zSeries

and S/390: Large Scale Linux Deployment SG24-6824-00 at http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246824.html?Open. It is from 2002, though. Is there a more recent version? Has anyone had any experience with building a stateless Linux on zSeries? Any words of wisdom? Alan Ackerman Alan (dot) Ackerman

Searching this archive

, etc. but nothing made any difference. Alan Ackerman Alan (dot) Ackerman (at) Bank of America (dot) com -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX

NEW TOPIC -- Workload move from z/OS to z/Series Linux

got some good suggestions. Thank you! Someone asked what we run on z/OS. I don't know. It seems a bit strange that a VM system programmer is being asked to do this. I will no doubt find out one of these days. But so far I have to report that no one is doing this except one shop. Alan Ackerman Alan

Workload move from z/OS to z/Linux

for such a move? Thanks! Alan Ackerman alan (dot) ackerman (at) bank of america (dot) com -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit