Surviving a nuclear bomb is one thing. Surviving Network Support is
another.
The whole IP will always survive a disaster had to do with things
between cities, inside of a given single site, you are at the mercy of
local network geeks, for many of which the thought of preplanning is a
foreign as
Eh? I thought that CSI's TCP/IP for VSE supported SSL or did at one
time.
Garry
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Lee Stewart
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 12:54 PM
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Secure FTP tn3270 to VSE via
This is what the old Mainframers are familiar with as Fixed Block
Architecture. IBM pushed it a couple of decades ago, but the Mainframe
world was more comfortable with CKD and it kinda died out in the big
iron world (unless you were VSE and had 9335 type disks). Stuck in the
PC world, though.
And the really fun part? The actual, physcial drives inside the RAMAC
drawers have always been FBA, the drawer level electronics is what gave
the appearance of CKD.
Garry
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
David Boyes
Sent: Monday, August
What've done is use the PDF capabilities in CSI's TCP/IP for VSE and the
LPR/AutoFTP function to convert the reports of PDF and put them in a set
of folders on the Windows FTP server on the LAN. Not fancy and I've had
to build some specific scripts for the LPR/Auto FTP for specific
reports, but no
Given the name of the dataset, check in ACF2 for any generic protection
type rules: NODE1.* or NOD* type rules. There may be no specific rule
for the dataset, but some portion of the name may have been caught under
a generic rule.
Was it defined on a volume or group of volumes that is used by
Have him open his SFTP session and enter HELP, SFTP should list all the
commands that it has. If SITE isn't in the list, then SFTP doesn't have
it.
If he then does a HELP SITE it should list all the keywords allowed on
the SITE command. I suspect that the RDW phrase isn't supported.
Garry
Linux memory the same, swap disk space to VM virtual disks.
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Ranga Nathan
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 1:34 AM
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Adding extended memory to z/VM
After the migration of
Maybe he should rephrase the question and ask it again. Maybe something
like anyone who is using any Linux variant on any platform that also
supports the s/390 instruction set?
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Adam Thornton
Sent: Thursday,
What about defining more Linux guests running DB2/Connect and divide the
1300 users up amongst which guest them come in through? Wouldn't that
shorten any internal queues and caches, moving the burden back to VM
which can handle it better?
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From: Linux on 390 Port
Hmm? I suspect that I've missed something semantically in this.
Isn't that what VM is constantly doing, making any and all physicall
processors inside the box available to any dispatchable virtural
machine? Given a dual processor box, unless I explicitly restrict which
physical processors can see
Some in the past have found that the specific guest has moved into the
wrong dispatching queue under VM.
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Brad Johnson
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 10:42 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linux
The one I heard was:
Smith Wesson, the original point and click interface
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
McKown, John
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 11:08 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Friday funny.
I hadn't heard this before, but
Small boy walking along a farm path pulling a wagon filled with small
brown spheres.
Second small boy approaches and asks What's in the wagon?
Smart pills. the first boy replies, want some? A nickel each.
Sure. the second small boy says, handing over three nickels and
selecting three brown
If it is a PC executable, it probably won't run. You need to obtain the
source and recompile it so that it has the specific instruction set that
the MP3000 uses.
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Herczeg, Zoltan
Sent: Wednesday, September
This takes us back to the wonderful world of Logical IOCS vs Physical IOCS. In the
Mainframe world there as always been a diference between Logical I/O (the program's
write of 80 bytes) and the Physical I/O (the writing of a 4K data block to a device by
an operating system). In the PC world
Isn't this usually indicative of the Linux guest being shoved way down
in VM's dispatching mechanism?
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
Derric Goodwin
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 2:02 PM
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Subject: Re: TCP/IP response
If you have VM already in place, doesn't it have tools to manage the
OSA/OSA2?
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Noll, Ralph
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 10:45 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Have a serious problem with mp2003
I
AM
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Subject: Re: Have a serious problem with mp2003
Different machine.. Linux only
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From: Ward, Garry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 7:28 AM
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Subject: Re: Have a serious problem with mp2003
one... What can I enter to bypass??
Ralph
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From: Ward, Garry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 7:55 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Have a serious problem with mp2003
Ok; all you need for VSE is going to be the minimum
DOSRES
Umm, are you using an OSA/OSA2 card?
Has the OAT been redefined and reloaded?
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Noll, Ralph
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 3:01 PM
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Subject: [Possible Spam] Have a serious problem with
..
Ralph
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From: Ward, Garry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 2:10 PM
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Subject: Re: [Possible Spam] Have a serious problem with mp2003
Umm, are you using an OSA/OSA2 card?
Has the OAT been redefined and reloaded
problem
with mp2003
OSA/SF is included with zVM and it is a lot easier to
setup than installing VSE!
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Non virtual Linux servers, maybe. big maybe.
Under VM you may need to cycle the virtual server once in a while, but
the underlying VM and hardware rarely, perhaps when you've made major
release or hardware changes.
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Are the tape drives on Bus Tag or ESCON?
If they are ESCON are they defined for the LPAR you are trying to use
them to boot into?
If they are not ESCON are they defined as reconfigurable?
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Robin Murray
Sent:
Doesn't the first model lead Linux to do it's own caching of large
amounts of files causing excessive paging when it should be doing I/O
operations?
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Coffin Michael C
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 1:58 PM
To:
That should work as well.
I suspect the problem is that you are trying to FTP into a VSAM file
instead of into a flat file, which can cause problems.
If you executing the FTP with your PC as the local system and VSE as
Remote this is required unless you've built some predefined flat files
into
Perfectly, for a non mainframe world that has no concept of LRECL and
BLKSIZE
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 1:50 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Bash script question
The variable is
Heh?
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
Nix, Robert P.
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 9:25 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Progress on PL/1 for Linux
Sorry, I don't share your excitement... I find it hard to get into any
language that
I'll argue about RPGII; when used for what it was designed expressly to do, it is
fast, simple and straight forward.
Not, however, the thing they call RPG III, that is an offense on a par with an
uncleaned outhouse in mid august.
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From: Linux on 390 Port
4K blocks gives between 80 and 90% usage on any 3390 device.
Mod-27 changed the number of cylinders/tracks, it didn't change the size of a track,
as far as I know.
8K blocks will gain a little more usage per track.
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
:38 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Mod-27 with SLES8: blocksizes
OK, I will try 8K block and see if I get better.
Thanks!
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
Ward, Garry
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 11:16 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject
How about just Liz?
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
Scully, William P
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 11:04 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Contraction for Linux on zSeries
LinZ, pronounced Lindsey?
Yeah, put you gave them an idea, unfortunately.
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
Fargusson.Alan
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 11:33 AM
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Subject: Re: OT: Re: Political Correctness goes mad in L.A. County
(USA)
in the spirit of Halloween.
Vlad Dracul effectively demonstrated the use of pointers.
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
John Campbell
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 9:52 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Memory access faults.
I recall
CA-JARS being one of the packaged chargeback solutions.
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From: Rich Smrcina [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 9:38 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Web Server Chargeback/Cost Recovery Methods
Traditionally this is done through machine
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Question: more CHPIDS to the same underlying physcial disks or to different disks?
Adding more CHPIDs provides more serving entities for I/O requests, but if all the I/O
requests end up going to exactly the same physical drive, you haven't really done
anything.
Now, if the drive in question
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From: Ward, Garry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 9:36 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: big and little endian
Perception of end.
visually, most folks look at low addresses in storage
In florescent green tights with circut diagrams on them.
That image will prevent useful work from getting done this afternoon.
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From: John Ford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 12:50 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: DISA recommends
Perception of end.
visually, most folks look at low addresses in storage as on the left
hand and ascending to the right. Big Endian puts the most significant
digits on the left and hence the lower address, puts the big end of the
number at the lower end of storage.
There is also something about
There was a numeric label in columns 1-6, I think the c was in column 7.
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From: Henry Schaffer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 2:09 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: An update to the little script I post the other day...
Yeah, I don't know
I vaguely recall where the length entry in early assembler symbol tables was only 3
bits, hence the 8 character limit on names.
I'm not sure where the 3 bit limit came from, possibly older boxes like the 1401. Or
because the first byte in the symbol table entry was the length and you didn't
the 3 bit field causing the 8 character limit.
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Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 8:44 AM
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Subject: Re: An update to the little script I post the other day...
I vaguely recall where the length entry in early
Air traffic control?
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Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 1:39 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: An update to the little script I post the other day...
I doubt that it would be possible to FIND a working System/7! :-)
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How many bytes in a cylinder is dependent on the geometry of the device. For the
common 3390-3, you are looking at 15 tracks of 56,664 bytes, maximum, for a total of
849,960 bytes per cylinder.
formated for 4K page sizes, your usable space is 744,480 bytes/cylinder
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Philosophical question?
The heart of the matter lies in why so many images in the first place?
If I need a half dozen images of Linux to service the Web, but those
Linux images can all be running under VM, what is different between
Linux and VM that lets VM handle the concurrent workload better
Which gets into the client and server question.
The server should be grinding data, not generating graphics. Graphics
are presentation and should be the responsiblity of the workstation
(client). digesting the data that is the basis of the graphics is the
server's business, which is going to
I'm not sure that the OSA does any internal passing of data, I believe
it ships it out to the network and because the routers in the LAN know
the IP address of both, they just send it back. You could still be at
risk if the data ever leaves your LAN into the general world.
If both your OS/390 and
OSA card was not hooked
up
to an external router/switch/whatever, and I was able to move data
between
Linux/390 systems using the OSA card. Ok, they were just pings, but
that
counts! :)
Mark Post
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From: Ward, Garry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003
since I wouldn't be buying the crap the spammers are selling in the first place, there
is nothing to boycott.
The most satisfying thing to do to those using spaming for marketing is also illegal,
unfortunately.
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From: Julian Wall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:
: Re: Linux390 + VM + Tape 3490
So what happens when Linux is running in an LPAR or native?
Regards, Jim
Linux S/390-zSeries Support, SEEL, IBM Silicon Valley Labs
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And the fund manager probably also has some prime real estate in the
Bayous of Louisiana for sale.
Garry E. Ward
Senior Software Specialist
Maritz Research, Automotive Research Group
419-725-4123
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From: richard truett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 13,
That is what I've been thinking.
VSE/EPIC has an auto attach feature.
Basically boils down to any given guest wants a tape drive, it should
politely ask VM for it, accept whatever it is given with a thank you and
give it back nicely when done.
Guests are guests, they should co operate with the
Ok; this is the 2nd place I've see a reference to a 3390 mod 27.
Would someone point me down a short path to the details on this beast?
TIA
Garry E. Ward
Senior Software Specialist
Maritz Research, Automotive Research Group
419-725-4123
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From: Marcy Cortes
Thanks; missed that one.
Garry E. Ward
Senior Software Specialist
Maritz Research, Automotive Research Group
419-725-4123
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From: Jim Elliott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 8:30 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: DASD technology for VM and
If memory serves, they were CP/M operating system.
Garry E. Ward
Senior Software Specialist
Maritz Research, Automotive Research Group
419-725-4123
-Original Message-
From: Fargusson.Alan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 11:30 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:
Depressing observation: Logic and the Legal system do NOT have anything
to do with each other.
The law is about semantics, not logic.
Garry E. Ward
Senior Software Specialist
Maritz Research, Automotive Research Group
419-725-4123
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From: Paul Raulerson [mailto:[EMAIL
, 2003 12:00 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SCO FILES LAWSUIT AGAINST IBM
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 15:30, Ward, Garry wrote:
Depressing observation: Logic and the Legal system do NOT have
anything
to do with each other.
The law is about semantics, not logic.
I disagree somewhat. US civil law
So, in theory, the CP engine can also run at 192 MIPS, but is
intentionally restrained?
Garry E. Ward
Senior Software Specialist
Maritz Research, Automotive Research Group
419-725-4123
-Original Message-
From: Bill Stermer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 2:31
What did you expect? They still haven't completely rid VSE of 24 bit
addressing limitations.
Garry E. Ward
Senior Software Specialist
Maritz Research, Automotive Research Group
419-725-4123
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From: Phil Payne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003
From S/390 point of view, usually, what you have is a hot swap set up so
that when a specific drive dies, the rest of the drives in the raid
group copy themselves over to the hot swaps and rebuild the lost data as
it goes.
You then fix the bad drive as soon as possible. S/390 DASD controllers
Today, you cannot make
a distinction between trusting apache itself, and trusting any apache
module, since they both run in the same address space, and therefore
have full read and write access to that address space.
Which, in the S/390 CICS world is handled by the domain concept; CICS systems
Research Group
419-725-4123
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From: David Andrews [mailto:dba;duda.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 12:20 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: CPU Arch Security [was: Re: Probably the first published
shell code]
On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 12:02, Ward, Garry wrote
Simplicity?
push something to the stack, decrement the address, and if you've gone
negative, you've gone too far?
PUSH
DEC
BN stack overrun
BZ stack overrun
sorry, PC assembler is a long time past, but I vaguely remember the
argument being made that top down stacking was easier to manage.
Particularly since partitioning (LPARs) allow only about 16 on a given
box; beyond that, you MUST have VM in place.
Not to mention, every time I've seen or used CMS, it has been under VM,
not in an LPAR by itself. I don't think CMS can run native in an LPAR.
At least they were talking nice about
Perhaps it is just the shops I've been in, but generally ICKDSF is secured
to only SYS Progs Storage Admins; the random programmer and or end user
has no access to it and thereby can't format anything.
If you have the problem of folks using ICKDSF when they shouldn't; I'd take
it up with your
For VSE with FBA devices, the VTOC wasn't keyed as it was on a CKD device;
it's been years since I used a 3310 or a 3370; so I'm stretching here; but
the if I remember correctly, the vtoc was built on a VSAM KSDS model.
Yes, BDAM can use the key portion, however faster access was achived if the
The CKD's ability to handle separate keys from the data was born in the days
of ISAM, when an indexed file was literally written with the index on the
track. If the ISAM file was unblocked, then each record had the key for that
record written first, then the data; an index search was data at the
VSE used the FBA devices, 3310 3370s, in the 80s.
As of VSE 2.4, 3310s are not listed as supported, and 3370s are listed as
data volumes only, not for systems or installation use.
There is a 9336 listed under FBA that appearently can still be used as a
system or installation device, but I'm
For VSAM it isn't that bad; and Relative Byte Address is a Relative Byte
Address, on FBA it's a little easier becasue you just map from the first
byte on the pack. VTOC's used the relative record approach instead of an
CCHHRR.
Garry E. Ward
Senior Software Specialist
Maritz Research
Automotive
Idea from the VSE world: IESMSGS Explain function. Part of the VSE systems
itself, but each vendor has the ability to add to the IESMSGS file, if they
follow the rules for message format and use the utility functions for adding
message.
In the Linux world, doesn't the MAN function perform the
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