Retiring

2015-02-26 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
Tomorrow is my last day at IBM Hit the big 60 and I am retiring 8 years working in MVS, 22 in VM and 8 with Linux I will miss the work and the people I've met along the way Annie Smith This communication, including attachments, is for th

Re: sles 12

2014-11-10 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
Alan, Did this issue get resolved? We have a z196 on one account. Ann Smith -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 10:47 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: sles 12 >>> On 10/30/2014 a

Re: How to reset the Linux root pw

2014-10-03 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
On one account I have a local id (which can sudo to root ) to use if the client processes to connect to the LDAP on active directory come down. It has not happened in production network in more than a year. But it is useful in DR network where the network is being redesigned by customer's network

Re: SuSE 12

2014-10-03 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
T.EDU Subject: Re: SuSE 12 >>> On 10/3/2014 at 12:58 PM, "Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)" wrote: > Notice SuSE 12 files at sites for bash patches > Is SuSE 12 available for zseries s390x? Or will be soon? SLES12 is not yet GA, but will be relatively soon. Where were y

SuSE 12

2014-10-03 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
Notice SuSE 12 files at sites for bash patches Is SuSE 12 available for zseries s390x? Or will be soon? Ann Smith This communication, including attachments, is for the exclusive use of addressee and may contain proprietary, confidenti

Re: SLES and XIV san

2014-09-29 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
ly no need to define them one by one. > > Offer Baruch > On Sep 23, 2014 5:13 PM, "Mark Post" wrote: > >> >>> On 9/23/2014 at 08:45 AM, "Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)" >> wrote: >> > We need to migrate all san luns from EMC vmax2

SLES and XIV san

2014-09-23 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
We need to migrate all san luns from EMC vmax2 to IBM XIV. I've been looking for doc on how to configure XIV luns with SLES11. For example - are multiple zfcp_disk_configure commands required? How many fcp addresses are dedicated to VM guest? I am a bit confused about the additional paths. If othe

Re: Methods for migrating to new storage hardware

2014-07-31 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
ssage- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 1:45 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Methods for migrating to new storage hardware >>> On 7/29/2014 at 01:40 PM, "Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)"

Re: Methods for migrating to new storage hardware

2014-07-29 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2014 10:37 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Methods for migrating to new storage hardware >>> On 7/24/2014 at 02:05 PM, "Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)" wrote: > OOPs wrong listserv- my apolog

Re: Methods for migrating to new storage hardware

2014-07-24 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
OOPs wrong listserv- my apologies From: Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery) Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2014 12:36 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Methods for migrating to new storage hardware We are moving to new san hardware, vacating old hardware. We use LVM with SLES. Wondering how most

Methods for migrating to new storage hardware

2014-07-24 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
We are moving to new san hardware, vacating old hardware. We use LVM with SLES. Wondering how most folks handle this nowadays- for example whether use pvmove's or lvconvert's, fstab updates, etc. The man page for lvconvert has me a bit confused. Ann Smith ***

Re: Running on CP or IFL ?

2014-07-11 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
Did you try cat /proc/cpuinfo ? Under zVM see processors, serialno and machine type I don't have any servers using just IFL's to check Ann Smith -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Mike Hammock Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 11:59 AM To:

Re: zHPF with zVM and zlinux servers

2013-11-06 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
part about SLES 10. Those happily ignore whatever else is going on on the box with zHPF. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery) Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2013 2:20 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject

Re: zHPF with zVM and zlinux servers

2013-11-06 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
5/2013 at 05:20 PM, "Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)" wrote: > Found doc on disabling it on SLES11 servers. (dasd_mod.dasd=nofcx parm > in zipl.conf and load parm at boot). > Looking for similar doc for RHEL6. Since the DASD driver comes from IBM, my guess would be that it is

zHPF with zVM and zlinux servers

2013-11-05 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
Looking for info on zHPF High Performance Ficon for z. There appear to be hardware requirements. Firmware levels on most FICON EXPRESS cards though FICON EXPRESS 8S may have new hardware feature. Microcode on DS8100, DS8300 dasd also required. Looks like a zVM 6.2 apar VM65041provides support fo

Re: Problems with san after SLES11 upgrade

2013-09-03 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
r 03, 2013 4:55 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Problems with san after SLES11 upgrade >>> On 8/25/2013 at 12:23 PM, "Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)" wrote: > Upgraded server using EMC san from sles10 sp4 to sles11 sp2 > > LVM cannot find volume groups

Re: Advice on TomCat and portal tuning

2013-09-03 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
What java policy are you using? We use java gc 'gencon' policy for incremental java heap for some applications. Garbage collection may occur more often - but less impact to application when garbage collection does occur. Don't know that that is your issue - but something to try. Annie Smith --

Re: Problems with san after SLES11 upgrade

2013-08-26 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
: Problems with san after SLES11 upgrade try 'lszfcp -H -P -D' to see the Host adapters, then the target Ports, then the Devices listed out. On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery) < ann.sm...@thehartford.com> wrote: > Is there a good doc on san c

Re: Problems with san after SLES11 upgrade

2013-08-25 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
PORT_LIST -a 1 output lsluns -c 0.0. -aoutput seems similar to san_disc -c REPORT_LUNS -a 1 -p 0x500 Ann Smith _ From: Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery) Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2013 3:07 PM

Re: Problems with san after SLES11 upgrade

2013-08-25 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
Updated /etc/lvm/lvm.conf filter to get san devices to come online Per http://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7007498 Still missing san_disc command and udevinfo command Ann Smith _ From: Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery

Problems with san after SLES11 upgrade

2013-08-25 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
Upgraded server using EMC san from sles10 sp4 to sles11 sp2 LVM cannot find volume groups lsscsi shows devices Cannot find udevinfo command that used to be in udev package or san_disc command that used to be in s390 tools package Were they moved to different packages? Ann Smith

Re: zfcp devices missing after patching

2013-07-11 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
Not quite the same but we have had issues with upgrades from SLES10 SP4 to SLES1 SP2. For mainframe dasd devices if files in /etc/sysconfig/hardware do not have the 'layer2' statements then /etc/udev/rules.d files were not built properly We have avoided that now by ensuring layer2 statements are

RHEL6 and san luns

2013-07-02 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
I've gotten familiar with SLES and san configuration but looks like now I may need doc on RedHat and san configuration. Anyone know the best docs out there? Any known gotcha's? Ann Smith This communication, including attachments, is f

Re: SLES11 and java 1.6

2013-07-02 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
>>> On 6/21/2013 at 06:18 PM, "Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)" wrote: > Is there any 31-bit version of java 1.6 on SLES11 distro any more? > It's not jumping out at me. > CA autosys apparently cannot run with standard 64-bit java 1.6. It doesn't look like i

Re: SLES11 and java 1.6

2013-06-24 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
y by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery) Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 3:18 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: SLES11 and ja

SLES11 and java 1.6

2013-06-21 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
Is there any 31-bit version of java 1.6 on SLES11 distro any more? It's not jumping out at me. CA autosys apparently cannot run with standard 64-bit java 1.6. Ann smith This communication, including attachments, is for the exclusive us

Re: SLES10 SP4 to SLES11 SP2 upgrade issue- working now!!!

2013-03-08 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
>>> On 3/7/2013 at 06:03 PM, "Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)" wrote: > In this case the upgrade process script is calling YaST2 /sbin/yast is simply a symbolic link to /sbin/yast2. /sbin/yast2 is a bash script that tries to figure out whether to run in ncurses mode

Re: SLES10 SP4 to SLES11 SP2 upgrade issue

2013-03-07 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
In this case the upgrade process script is calling YaST2 Perhaps because we chose the ssh method rather than vnc in original parm file I have used YaST2 for a few years and do like it It was nice and easy for doing hipersockets though yast maybe is as well vnc method may have required installing

Re: SLES10 SP4 to SLES11 SP2 upgrade issue

2013-03-07 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
ient/viewer. Are you familiar with this? On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery) wrote: > Providing more detail > > Upgrade to sles11 works and reboot of server- but maintenance not done > > Get message: > *** sshd has been started *** > You can log

Re: SLES10 SP4 to SLES11 SP2 upgrade issue

2013-03-07 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
nue with booting ... You can login with the (new) root password or the Newly created user account in a few seconds ... (/root) Ready(0)# -----Original Message- From: Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery) Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 3:27 PM To: 'Linux on 390 Port' Subjec

Re: SLES10 SP4 to SLES11 SP2 upgrade issue

2013-03-07 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
myhostname is a vmware session running Windows XP Only have PuTTY for access No longer allowed to use Hummingbird Exceed Xwindows -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Rick Troth Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 2:57 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.

SLES10 SP4 to SLES11 SP2 upgrade issue

2013-03-07 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
We made it to SLES11 and at point of patching Have hit an issue in that script uses YaST2 Perhaps an export DISPLAY issue Tried issuing 'export DISPLAY=myhostname:0.0' and 'echo $DISPLAY' to see it took But when I issue YaST2 get the message below: Cannot open display Anyone else hit this issue go

umask curiosity

2012-09-25 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
I notice on SLES10 that the umask command displays umask as 4 digits. Yet in /etc/profile I see a 3 digit value. Customers code 3 digit values in their .profile files. Coding umask 077 or umask 0077 seems to produce the same results. Is there any meaning to the fourth (really first) digit dis

Re: SLES11 SP2 install procedures for zseries

2012-08-09 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
e server to allow access via ftp, nfs, or even > http.. so you can point the other servers to it as the source for the > upgrade media. > > I could be misunderstanding what you need though.. > > Scott Rohling > > On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Smith, Ann (CTO Service Deliv

Re: SLES11 SP2 install procedures for zseries

2012-08-09 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
Service Delivery) > Or directly 'ftp get to zVM minidisk' > > -Original Message----- > From: Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery) > Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 8:44 PM > To: 'Linux on 390 Port' > Subject: RE: SLES11 SP2 install procedures for zseries &

Re: SLES11 SP2 install procedures for zseries

2012-08-08 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
Or directly 'ftp get to zVM minidisk' -Original Message----- From: Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery) Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 8:44 PM To: 'Linux on 390 Port' Subject: RE: SLES11 SP2 install procedures for zseries On the server can I 'ftp get' the file

Re: SLES11 SP2 install procedures for zseries

2012-08-08 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
I could be misunderstanding what you need though.. Scott Rohling On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery) < ann.sm...@thehartford.com> wrote: > Yes I am late. > Yes I should have paid more attention when others asked in the past. > I finally want to upgr

SLES11 SP2 install procedures for zseries

2012-08-08 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
Yes I am late. Yes I should have paid more attention when others asked in the past. I finally want to upgrade SLES10 SP4 servers on mainframe to SLES11. I am having trouble locating the zseries instructions. I also have a bit of a limitation in that my PC has no access to the customer network where