Re: Encryption on a 7060

2009-01-13 Thread Tom Duerbusch
, with vdisk for swapping. You shouldn't have problems getting that much real memory carved out. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting David L. Craig d...@radix.net 1/13/2009 12:00 PM I curate a museum which includes a uni-CP Multiprise 3000 (7060-H30) with 2 GB in basic mode running VM/ESA 2.2 and hosting VSE

Adding dasd to LVM

2009-01-12 Thread Tom Duerbusch
in, it didn't. I think I took the defaults when setting up LVM. There is one way of setting up LVM, that has better performance at the expense of not being able to expand it. I don't think I set it up that way. Anyway, I would like to find that manual again. Thanks SLES 10 SP2 Tom

Tape Drive Compression

2009-01-12 Thread Tom Duerbusch
of compression, as my use should be under 10 GB native capacity of the tape. But I would like to find out what is missing... Thanks Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

Re: Adding dasd to LVM

2009-01-12 Thread Tom Duerbusch
and development system and the LVM is for Oracle data. On these systems, I'm letting Oracle manage the disk space. In production, I've haven't found it necessary to alter this, but if we start having I/O performance problems, I may go for a more performance method. Thanks Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting

Re: Tape Drive Compression

2009-01-12 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Compression is off after the tape device driver has loaded. To switch compression on, issue: I think the lights are on, but nobody is home. Thanks Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Mark Post mp...@novell.com 1/12/2009 3:24 PM On 1/12/2009 at 4:08 PM, Tom Duerbusch duerbus...@stlouiscity.com wrote

Re: SLES10 - how to set ulimit

2009-01-02 Thread Tom Duerbusch
For my Oracle images, I do the following: joe /etc/profile.local if [ $USER = oracle ]; then if [ $SHELL = /bin/ksh ]; then ulimit -p 16384 ulimit -n 65536 else ulimit -u16384 -u 65536 fi fi Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Smith

Re: Backup Restore recommendations

2008-12-31 Thread Tom Duerbusch
restores. However, I have yet to need to recreate or restore a table from this backup. knock on wood G Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Harder, Pieter pieter.har...@brabantwater.nl 12/31/2008 2:36 PM From this I am questioning how we got here and what is the 'best' way to operate in the future. 1

SLES10 non secured FTP?

2008-12-24 Thread Tom Duerbusch
to do that with retaining a secured transport for other facilities, such as Putty. Right now, I'm using VSFTPD as the FTP server. Thanks Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: SLES10 non secured FTP?

2008-12-24 Thread Tom Duerbusch
FTP211I Connecting to Port: 21 at IP: 192.168.193.146 Id:00 FTP209I Establishing connection to TCP/IP partition FTP212I Connection has been established Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Rich Smrcina rsmrc

Updating 'by-id'

2008-12-10 Thread Tom Duerbusch
, it doesn't update the /etc/zipl.conf file. The /etc/zipl.conf file doesn't get updated with the new 'by-path' method when I do a zipl or mkinitrd either. So, what forces the zipl.conf file to be updated with the new access method? That is, without editing the file directly? Thanks Tom

Re: Updating 'by-id'

2008-12-10 Thread Tom Duerbusch
.1300075850.6806.34-part1 TERM=dumb 3 linux58:~ # The bootmap on /boot/zipl did change, so zipl seems to have been doing something. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Adam Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/10/2008 2:50 PM On Dec 10, 2008, at 2:37 PM, Tom Duerbusch wrote: I'm trying to update a test

Re: Updating 'by-id'

2008-12-10 Thread Tom Duerbusch
cylinders. SUSE 10 sure cared that it found another cylinder. VM and VSE sure don't care. From their point of view, you just wasted a cylinder. But SUSE errored out all over the place. Live and learn Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Adam Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/10/2008 2:50 PM On Dec 10

Re: Boot after cloning: SLES10

2008-12-09 Thread Tom Duerbusch
? Just trying to keep from shooting myself in the foot again G Thanks Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Adam Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/8/2008 4:22 PM On Dec 8, 2008, at 4:17 PM, Tom Duerbusch wrote: I hit the same problem as others (reference back in November), but I knew that a solution

Re: Boot after cloning: SLES10

2008-12-09 Thread Tom Duerbusch
. Migrating to new DASD 4. For that matter, using flashcopy to reduce downtime for backups (what I'm trying to do) Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Adam Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/9/2008 3:53 PM On Dec 9, 2008, at 3:45 PM, Adam Thornton wrote: Plus, I just don't like yast. I guess I'd better

Boot after cloning: SLES10

2008-12-08 Thread Tom Duerbusch
I hit the same problem as others (reference back in November), but I knew that a solution already exists.. OK, so where is it? As in on your website? Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting You need to boot a rescue system with the disks for the problem system attached and change /etc/fstab to by-path

Re: Boot after cloning: SLES10

2008-12-08 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Thanks Adam Are there screen clicks to get to this from the website? I would like to know what I'm missing G. Thanks Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Adam Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/8/2008 4:22 PM On Dec 8, 2008, at 4:17 PM, Tom Duerbusch wrote: I hit the same problem as others (reference

Re: z/VM and Linux on GP engines

2008-12-05 Thread Tom Duerbusch
, but there can be cost advantages in doing so. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting John McKown [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/4/2008 3:06 PM On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Chase, John wrote: Background: Our warm-site machine is a z/890 in CBU configuration, currently maxed out with GP engines; hence we cannot now add an IFL

Re: Oracle, zlinux, and virtualization

2008-12-03 Thread Tom Duerbusch
. And as we scale up, they can get more memory, WHEN, it is proven that they need it. The rules of thumb from the Intel side, just don't apply with the mainframes. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Richard Gasiorowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/3/2008 9:59 AM Chris, Doesn't say much I was looking for avrage

Re: Oracle DB's and Why??

2008-11-21 Thread Tom Duerbusch
. There were 9 items. I can't think of the other 3. Must be getting beer time G. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting (for the City of St. Louis) Brown, Christopher [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/21/2008 2:27 PM Hello List, If you are running Oracle Databases on zLinux, can you tell me why that choice

XML on zLinux

2008-11-18 Thread Tom Duerbusch
file and hope that the file layout doesn't change too much G. I will also be looking for z/VM and z/VSE options in other emails. I'm only looking for zLinux responses in this email. Thanks Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting

Re: Query: Mainframers look forward and back

2008-11-12 Thread Tom Duerbusch
We are still on TOTAL, and still paying Cincom for no support since the mid 80's. I guess, technically, we have licensed Supra, and it comes with a historic TOTAL license. We should be converted to DB2/VSE in 2009 (the 6th year of our 2 year conversion). Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting John

Re: Messaging a Linux system

2008-11-04 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Linux Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Rich Smrcina [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/3/2008 5:47 PM Tom Duerbusch wrote: On my VM system, I have a LPD server setup to field LPR requests from other systems. That is, when another platform wants something done, it does a LPR to the VM system. The CMS

Messaging a Linux system

2008-11-03 Thread Tom Duerbusch
like the process that we currently use for VM (of course, that may be a very unique process). Has anyone tried this on a Linux system? Or do I need to reconsider my options? Thanks Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting -- For LINUX-390

z10 BC IFL price?

2008-10-21 Thread Tom Duerbusch
performance boost (free MIPSalmost as good as free beerand the MIPS last longer G). Just wondering about the price for a second IFL. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Tuning Oracle memory use (fwd)

2008-09-29 Thread Tom Duerbusch
in tables) with the others being test and development machines. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Law of Dinner Table Attendance Cats must attend all meals when anything good is served. Martha McConaghy [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/29/2008 4:33 PM We have a bunch of Oracle databases running on SLES 10 in one

Timestamp a command?

2008-09-23 Thread Tom Duerbusch
start using the system. I could use Regina to do this, but I'm interested if there is a more native way (without Perl) to do this. Thanks Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Law of Dinner Table Attendance Cats must attend all meals when anything good is served

Re: Timestamp a command?

2008-09-23 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Thanks I just finished testing it out and it produced exactly what I was looking for. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Law of Dinner Table Attendance Cats must attend all meals when anything good is served. Edmund R. MacKenty [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/23/2008 2:29 PM On Tuesday 23 September 2008

Re: can't download the compete dvd of sp10

2008-07-09 Thread Tom Duerbusch
You have something that is barfing on a 2GB file limit. Could be your download software. Could be the file system you are storing the data on. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Ayer, Paul W [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7/9/2008 2:15 PM Hi On the web page: http://download.novell.com/protected/Summary.jsp

Re: Reiser

2008-07-08 Thread Tom Duerbusch
at this time. 10-50 GB file system, not a high performer requirement. I have a DS6800 Ficon attached. Way too fast for my workload at this time. The future may be different, where I trade of some reliability for better performance. (Would I really do that? G). Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting

Re: DNS Entries

2008-07-07 Thread Tom Duerbusch
still fails? Thanks Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Mark Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7/3/2008 6:27 AM Tom Duerbusch wrote: Really, really dumb question. What would make a DNS server automagically add an entry into its list? If you are using DHCP and the DHCP Server is configured to update

Re: DNS Entries

2008-07-07 Thread Tom Duerbusch
the right configuration option. Either way, I need to have them add in the DNS names to the DNServer. Thanks Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Richard Gasiorowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7/7/2008 1:04 PM Have you set up SAMBA and winbind? 'Where ever you go - There you are!! ' Richard (Gaz) Gasiorowski

DNS Entries

2008-07-02 Thread Tom Duerbusch
. I do specify a DNS server address when I create the Linux image, and I think I'm pretty good at doing this on all my images. It has be baffled that some images seem to be dynamically added while other images are not. Any discussion on this? Thanks Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Law of Cat

Re: DNS Entries

2008-07-02 Thread Tom Duerbusch
is manually doing things, then I'm wondering if I'm triggering something via my usage? Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Scott Rohling [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7/2/2008 2:44 PM Have you checked with whoever controls your DNS to see if they added LINUX60 for some reason? Scott

Re: SLES 10 SP2

2008-06-27 Thread Tom Duerbusch
is down to 983MB down from 2,200 MB with the default install. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Steve Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/27/2008 11:20 AM Currently our SLES 10 root file system lives on a MOD3, consuming approx 96% as displayed by df -h. First, is this the expected size of the root file

Re: Universal Naming Convention....

2008-06-27 Thread Tom Duerbusch
. Which is, what they know. And it is used a lot here. So, what is better? Thanks Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Law of Cat Acceleration A cat will accelerate at a constant rate, until he gets good and ready to stop. McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/26/2008 7:37 AM -Original Message

Universal Naming Convention....

2008-06-25 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Window/2000 or better. I haven't hit the right Linux manual or Redbook discussing this. Any ideas on where to go? Thanks Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: Universal Naming Convention....

2008-06-25 Thread Tom Duerbusch
not a good idea? Please explain. I have till Friday to sign off on it. Things can change until then. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/25/2008 4:13 PM UNC is a Windows thing; you'll need to do Samba if they really want it. It's also not a good idea when

Re: (MCOS: 16.7323) Linux guest on a diet

2008-06-20 Thread Tom Duerbusch
This gives me an installed system which uses 952,872 1k blocks on dasda1. That takes a lot of pressure off a 3390-3 volume for future needed stuff. So far, I haven't missed anything vs having the default package selection.l Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Law of Cat Acceleration A cat

Fire in the hole

2008-06-07 Thread Tom Duerbusch
on), are still going. Fire Department is still here. Nothing takes these systems down! Looks like Monday, we will have disaster recovery meetings G. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting (still smoking) -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff

Re: fstab and other small, critical file recoveries

2008-05-30 Thread Tom Duerbusch
How about LPR to VM spool? Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Law of Cat Acceleration A cat will accelerate at a constant rate, until he gets good and ready to stop. Adam Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5/29/2008 5:37 PM On May 29, 2008, at 5:17 PM, Stewart Thomas J wrote: Agree

Re: z/Linux access to z/OS DASD

2008-05-19 Thread Tom Duerbusch
play with, rather untested code. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Law of Cat Acceleration A cat will accelerate at a constant rate, until he gets good and ready to stop. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: z/VM 5.1 to 5.3 upgrade ( a little handholding requested)

2008-05-14 Thread Tom Duerbusch
, and TubesGCS and some other venders products that have a VM component. They run fine on an IFL, they just don't have anything to connect to (like VSE G). Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Law of Cat Acceleration A cat will accelerate at a constant rate, until he gets good and ready to stop

Re: z/VM 5.1 to 5.3 upgrade ( a little handholding requested)

2008-05-14 Thread Tom Duerbusch
be of mild interest to the shops that do have a VM systems programmer. As a consultant, each place I go to, is entirely different from most other shops that I've been to. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Law of Cat Acceleration A cat will accelerate at a constant rate, until he gets good and ready

Re: z/VM 5.1 to 5.3 upgrade ( a little handholding requested)

2008-05-14 Thread Tom Duerbusch
the correct one to be seen at IPL. Then IPL'ed VM normally. And you won't find this problem until you boot your first level VM system, months/years later. When Operations calls you in the middle of the night, saying we've got a problem. Fun Times Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Law of Cat

Oracle instances

2008-04-02 Thread Tom Duerbusch
in the SGA, can hide a lot of performance problems. G So, who has some guesses on valid reasons for having one application per Oracle instance. Again, a dozen or so users, the tables occupying about 1-2 GB in total. Thanks for any comments. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Law of Cat Acceleration

Re: Oracle instances

2008-04-02 Thread Tom Duerbusch
all their applications (outside of the PC servers). Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Law of Cat Acceleration A cat will accelerate at a constant rate, until he gets good and ready to stop. Rich Smrcina [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4/2/2008 9:22 AM Do you mean 50 virtual machines or they want to put

Re: Oracle instances: resolved

2008-04-02 Thread Tom Duerbusch
of some mouse clicking...done. The pilot starts tomorrow. Fun times... Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Law of Cat Acceleration A cat will accelerate at a constant rate, until he gets good and ready to stop. -- For LINUX-390

Re: Oracle instances

2008-04-02 Thread Tom Duerbusch
XIP in Linux later on, when I can get some bang for the buck. Thanks for the comments Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Law of Cat Acceleration A cat will accelerate at a constant rate, until he gets good and ready to stop

Re: Oracle instances

2008-04-02 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Of course. Tom Adam Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4/2/2008 3:14 PM On Apr 2, 2008, at 1:23 PM, Tom Duerbusch wrote: I currently have 4 images running. When they are completely idle, the IFL runs at 12%. That is 3% per idle Oracle image. When I take down the 4 images, we idle under 1

Re: Oracle instances

2008-04-02 Thread Tom Duerbusch
. With it, I look at the historic charts, see nothing, and do something else. So right now, I'm back to multiple applications per database (the way god intended G) Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Law of Cat Acceleration A cat will accelerate at a constant rate, until he gets good and ready

Re: telnet to z/vm with linux logon

2008-03-26 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Why would you use putty? To logon to a VM guest, you should be using TN3270. You would use PUTTY to connect to the Linux machine and do a Linux signon. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Law of Cat Obstruction A cat must lay on the floor in such a position to obstruct the maximum amount

Re: Using VI via Telnet to Linux on z ???

2008-03-24 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Once you putty in, use VI or what ever you want. There is no (well very little) difference. I wouldn't recommend you use VI from the 3270 console. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Law of Cat Obstruction A cat must lay on the floor in such a position to obstruct the maximum amount of human

Re: CSL-WAVE

2008-01-28 Thread Tom Duerbusch
as experts (number of posts minus minus the complaint factor, seems to be how ratings are defined...not the quality of the response). Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting It would be nice if we could see our experience points so we know when we're going to level up :-) Regards, Miguel Delapaz z/VM

Re: SLES 10

2008-01-23 Thread Tom Duerbusch
think I needed more than 256MB to install SLES10. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Law of Cat Elongation A cat can make her body long enough to reach just about any counter top that has anything remotely interesting on it. Waters, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1/23/2008 3:28 PM Hello list, Has

Re: 3590 tape drive support in zLinux/zVM?

2008-01-15 Thread Tom Duerbusch
for a SAN switch Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Law of Cat Elongation A cat can make her body long enough to reach just about any counter top that has anything remotely interesting on it. Collinson.Shannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1/15/2008 2:23 PM This is cross-posted on the linux-390 and ibmvm listservs

Re: An application related performance and configuration question

2007-12-07 Thread Tom Duerbusch
, this type of discussion (over beers), moves away from the techie considerations to the business considerations. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Law of Cat Sleeping All cats must sleep with people whenever possible, in a position as uncomfortable for the people involved, and as comfortable

Missing DIAG discipline; was RE:

2007-11-21 Thread Tom Duerbusch
G. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Law of Cat Stretching A cat will stretch to a distance proportional to the length of the nap just taken. Pat Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/21/2007 6:37 AM Hi Mark I'm trying to force the use of the diag driver for vdisk swap devices. In particular, I want

Re: CP's and specialty engines

2007-11-21 Thread Tom Duerbusch
to have at least a single CP engine, no IFL only boxes. In that case, it all depends on what your needs are. If you can live with 2 LPARs, give one LPAR the CP engine and the other LPAR all the IFL engines. VM licensing is the same, no matter what. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Law of Cat

Re: ZSeries Linux Fax Server

2007-11-16 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Also, I don't know if they still exist, but there are/were companies that take messages from you (via IP) and fax them for you. If you are not talking about a lot of messages, that may be a good fit. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Law of Cat Stretching A cat will stretch to a distance

Re: Betr.: IPL problem with SLES10/ zVM 4.4

2007-11-16 Thread Tom Duerbusch
SLES10 on z/VM 5.2. SLES10 is a 64 bit only flavor. Is your VM IPL'ed in 64 bit mode? Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Law of Cat Stretching A cat will stretch to a distance proportional to the length of the nap just taken. David Booher [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/16/2007 3:32 PM I bumped it to 2G

Re: boot into single user mode?

2007-11-14 Thread Tom Duerbusch
It is in SLES10... I assume, once the change is identified, it could be applied to SLES9. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Law of Cat Stretching A cat will stretch to a distance proportional to the length of the nap just taken. Ayer, Paul W [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/14/2007 12:00 PM Good

Re: IBM's Next Generation Mainframe Processor

2007-10-15 Thread Tom Duerbusch
in CICS/VS to keep it functioning. Perhaps, this is it. /endwarn I also wonder if the next box, will have the Intel chips for dedicated processors. Also, I feel that at some point, we will just encrypt everything. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting FELINE PHYSICS: Law of Cat Motion A cat

Create PDFs

2007-09-24 Thread Tom Duerbusch
solution would be the easiest. Even of the product cost something, I could do a proof of concept during the free trial period. Perhaps even use Linux to print the PDF files. I expect the load to be about 2,000 pages a day, a page at a time across a couple dozen printers. Thanks Tom Duerbusch

Re: SLES10 SDK Installation Server

2007-09-14 Thread Tom Duerbusch
. Directory on server: sdk/CD1 User name: suse Password: x Now Software Management now picks up all four SDK CDs. Yea, I know. Everyone else knows this stuff G. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting FELINE PHYSICS: Law of Cat Inertia A cat at rest

Re: SLES10 SDK Installation Server

2007-09-14 Thread Tom Duerbusch
else not setup correctly. Anyway, I had a request for subversion, which was on the SDK. The rest of the time was spent with DB2/UDB 9.1 under SLES10 SP1 with the beta of the new DB2/VSE. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting FELINE PHYSICS: Law of Cat Inertia A cat at rest will tend to remain at rest

SLES10 SDK Installation Server

2007-09-12 Thread Tom Duerbusch
directory plus get access to the other 3 CDs. Where is this documented? This add-on products is new with SLES10 and seems to have a specific directory structure for all 4 CDs. The sles-admin.pdf just shows how to use the sdks, not how to mount them. Thanks Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting

SUSE 10 SDK installation server setup question

2007-09-10 Thread Tom Duerbusch
directory plus get access to the other 3 CDs. Where is this documented? This add-on products is new with SLES10 and seems to have a specific directory structure for all 4 CDs. The sles-admin.pdf just shows how to use the sdks, not how to mount them. Thanks Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting

Re: SLES 10 cookbook

2007-08-31 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Base Select 32 bit runtime Unselect all others (changes 150 from 2,203,096K to 1,007,840K) And then add in anything else you might need. It gives you a good base server system while only using about 1GB of disk space. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Mark Post

Re: JBoss, Anyone?

2007-08-28 Thread Tom Duerbusch
platforms on a single IFL on our z/890or at least try to have all three. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting (for the City of St. Louis) Mark Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/28/2007 12:49 PM Another survey question. Is anyone out there running JBoss on their mainframe Linux system? I just need a count

Re: JBoss, Anyone?

2007-08-28 Thread Tom Duerbusch
. Any in-house developed application that uses Oracle 10g. 3. Any thing that we would have used Jboss for. A second question, other than a cost issue, is there any thing you would use Jboss for that wouldn't work just as well on Websphere? Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Rich Smrcina [EMAIL

Jboss vs ??? Was: JBoss, Anyone?

2007-08-28 Thread Tom Duerbusch
, even care, what platform you are on? I get the feeling that whatever road we take, it will be the wrong one G. But we got to start down a pathsoon. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting (sorry about the highjack, Mark) Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Adam Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/28/2007 2:50 PM

Suse 10: Yast problem

2007-08-21 Thread Tom Duerbusch
be a better way that I don't know (yet). Thanks Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http

Re: Suse 10: Yast problem

2007-08-21 Thread Tom Duerbusch
, interesting side tangent. Back to my main tangent. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Mark Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/21/2007 2:34 PM On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 2:19 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tom Duerbusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -snip- Now the log is displayed. Great, now how do you exit

Re: PC File Transfer to Linux Server

2007-08-21 Thread Tom Duerbusch
LSITE LRECL 80 LDIR PUT %DSMFILE,SAM,FB,080,2000 GLEN.TEST (REPLACE QUIT Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting [EMAIL

Re: IOCDS for Redhat

2007-08-20 Thread Tom Duerbusch
you don't know about. That just leads to more problems. But if you have VM knowledge and/or have someone you can bring in with VM knowledge to get you going, VM takes away a lot of problems and worry. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/20/2007 12:13 PM

Re: I'm starting to tailor SLES10 with SP1.

2007-08-20 Thread Tom Duerbusch
to Linux takes about 25% of my 100 Mb card in the PC, and uses 45% cpu utilization of my IFL. sftp may be good for that data you need to keep secure, but I can do without the overhead when sending most of my stuff. G Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Tom Duerbusch 8/17/2007 10:26 AM I'm starting

Re: Counties running Linux on a z-Series/System z?

2007-08-17 Thread Tom Duerbusch
It passed spell check ! G I knew it wasn't succeeded, but I couldn't get spell check to give my any other word that looked like a word that I don't normally use (round about logic). seceded does, indeed, look like a word that I don't normally use...it must be it! Thanks Tom Duerbusch THD

I'm starting to tailor SLES10 with SP1.

2007-08-17 Thread Tom Duerbusch
has fire walls, surrounding the building anyway. Anyway, how do I make FTP work again? BTW, someone spent a lot of time on the Installation and Administration manual. Has a lot of interesting stuff in there. Perhaps, to be consistent about it, it has a lot of interesting crap in there. G Tom

SLES10 install and Vswitch

2007-08-15 Thread Tom Duerbusch
installs with vswitch requiring the MAC address? Thanks Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http

Re: SLES10 install and Vswitch

2007-08-15 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Thanks Mark A lot of times I feel really dumb. I tried different responses to previous questions, but didn't try NO to the last question. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Mark Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/15/2007 10:52 AM On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 11:45 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tom

Re: Counties running Linux on a z-Series/System z?

2007-08-15 Thread Tom Duerbusch
. At least long enough to bring back power. How is that for uptime? Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting (sometimes I wonder, What am I doing here?) David Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/14/2007 6:12 PM Afternoon, We are looking at bringing in a z9 BC to replace our existing 9672, with the possibility

mksles10root available yet?

2007-08-14 Thread Tom Duerbusch
I need to install some images of SLES10. Being lazy, and got use to using mksles9root to create my install server tree, I wanted to see if mksles10root is available yet. If not, I'll take a crack at modifying mksles9root, to create the install tree for SLES 10. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting

Re: mksles10root available yet?

2007-08-14 Thread Tom Duerbusch
DVD? I have 4 iso files for the base and 4 iso files for SP1. DVD? Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Adam Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/14/2007 12:58 PM On Aug 14, 2007, at 12:55 PM, Tom Duerbusch wrote: I need to install some images of SLES10. Being lazy, and got use to using mksles9root

SSL Confusion

2007-08-10 Thread Tom Duerbusch
methods that were being discussed in the past threads. 2. Adam has a Debian server packaged. Does that play with a or b above, or something different? 3. We might test with the SSL capability with the TCP/IP stack from CSI stack if all else fails. Thanks Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting

Re: Help: Change from VTAM print to LPR PRINTING

2007-08-10 Thread Tom Duerbusch
And extra blank line, when printing to the ascii world, usually means you are printing more characters than the line length of the printer. And a auto linefeed is being done. Attach is a page I always use to test printing. It's easy to the line length and number of lines per page. Tom

Re: IBM Integrated Removable Media Manager (IRMM)

2007-08-08 Thread Tom Duerbusch
After 4 years of bitching about separate but equal when it comes to Linux and mainframe tape drives, finally, something that starts to address it. That is exactly what I wantedif it supported VSE also (no z/OS here). And it wouldn't be soon enough. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Michael

Re: Call for Enhancement Requests for SLES11

2007-08-06 Thread Tom Duerbusch
). If the driver gave us 80%, I would be happy. But at 50%I don't think so. The resulting performance would still have to be 80-90% of native, just to keep the drive from shoe shining. Anyway... tape, tape, tape, tape, tape, (give me the winning lottery number), tape, tape, tape... Tom Duerbusch THD

Re: Linux Laptops

2007-08-06 Thread Tom Duerbusch
It seems like Dell had a Linux Preload offer for a few months. I took it that Microsoft had a talk with them and the Linux preloads were taken off the market. It seems to me that was 2 years ago. I wonder what changed to allow Lenovo to consider doing this? Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting

Re: tape backups

2007-08-06 Thread Tom Duerbusch
. block size, recfm, or whatever it looks like on a Linux file system). Something for me to work on in June er...July... Ok August... Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Linux Laptops

2007-08-06 Thread Tom Duerbusch
it. I will make sure support is there on the following hardware purchases. For now, it converted me back to XP. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting (perhaps I can put OS/2 on itG) Mark Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/6/2007 1:17 PM On Mon, Aug 6, 2007 at 1:59 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tom Duerbusch

Re: Linux Laptops

2007-08-06 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Suse 10 had the same problems. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/6/2007 1:26 PM At the end of the year (2005), I bought a Thinkpad some model or other. It sure doesn't like linux (Suse 8, Suse 9 or Suse 10). Power management doesn't work. The battery indicator

Re: Betr.: Re: Dynamic I/O

2007-07-24 Thread Tom Duerbusch
You and Allen may need to talk. I believe that you are correct in processors prior to the z9. I've been told that all this changed with the z9. (But then, I haven't looked for any official documentation concerning this, as we won't be in the market for a z9 for a few years.) Tom Duerbusch THD

Re: Betr.: Re: Dynamic I/O

2007-07-20 Thread Tom Duerbusch
From a note many moons ago The z9 uses a fixed 2 GB for HSA AND that 2 GB is added to the box, over an above what memory you purchased. i.e. your proposed 8 GB box will have 10 GB installed. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting (however, I don't have any thing in writing from an IBM publication

Suse INIT

2007-07-05 Thread Tom Duerbusch
: #! /bin/sh # Copyright (c) 1995-2004 SUSE Linux AG, Nuernberg, Germany. # All rights reserved. # # Init skeleton modified for Oracle startup and shutdown # by Tom Duerbusch # THD Consulting # July 5 2007 # ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: ORACLEDB # Required-Start:$network # Default-Start

Re: Suse INIT

2007-07-05 Thread Tom Duerbusch
something else. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Mark Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7/5/2007 3:47 PM On Thu, Jul 5, 2007 at 4:07 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tom Duerbusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With a holiday, it is a slow time of the month. Time to learn I'm reading the Suse Linux

Re: Backup and Restore Strategies For Z/Linux

2007-06-29 Thread Tom Duerbusch
or by a logical restore). But so far, haven't had the time. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Eddie Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/29/2007 4:01 PM I think we should ask at what condition that we want to do the restore. If a users lost some data... DDR types restore is not a good ideal... again you

Re: swapgen error

2007-06-27 Thread Tom Duerbusch
You need to do a set vdisk syslim 1g (or some other vdisk limit). The default is not to allow vdisks to be defined. see HELP CPSET MENU and look for VDISK. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting CWells Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/27/2007 3:00 PM Can anyone lead me in the right direction I am getting

Re: swapgen error

2007-06-27 Thread Tom Duerbusch
that is doing a lot of swapping, such as applying a Linux Service Pack). Just some caveats. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting CWells Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/27/2007 3:29 PM ok Steve userlimit was set to 0, I set it to infinite and it worked..thanks. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you

Re: Oracle workload profile differences

2007-06-13 Thread Tom Duerbusch
at: /proc/dasd/statistics To see what you are dealing with. See http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/perf/tuning_how_tools_dasd.html to help understand /proc/dasd/statistics. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Mark Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/13/2007 3:26 PM I got an internal query about one

Re: Mini-survey: Linux usability

2007-06-12 Thread Tom Duerbusch
of years, but upfront costs vs our budget, keeps sinking the tape upgrade project. And, keeps me from backing up zLinux, which keeps me from recommending zLinux applications from being put into production. Let me think awhile to see if there are any other major issues. Tom Duerbusch THD

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