Re: Disks for DB2 - San vs. big 3390s

2006-09-08 Thread Joe Poole
On Friday 08 September 2006 12:28 am, Post, Mark K wrote: If there's any way to picture doing what you want as causing them less work over the long run, it might be easier to convince them. Either that, or just getting physically threatening might work. :) You know, it's really great

Re: Disks for DB2 - San vs. big 3390s

2006-09-08 Thread Joe Poole
On Friday 08 September 2006 08:51 am, Evans, Kevin R wrote: Watch out for the pink slip then g. K At my age, Kevin, I head for the social security office. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: Google out of capacity?

2006-05-04 Thread Joe Poole
On Thursday 04 May 2006 01:03 pm, Joseph Temple wrote: Does anyone know how many of what class of servers are being used? Also, my guess is that some sort of hybrid might be the answer. That is some of the clusters may lend themselves to virtualization more than others, yielding variable

Re: your chance

2006-05-01 Thread Joe Poole
On Monday 01 May 2006 01:50 pm, O'Brien, Dennis L wrote: Susanne is coming to meet the entire mailing list? She must be quite, um, friendly. Dennis Apparently, spelling is not among her finer qualities.

Re: 3390-3 DASD vs. 3390-9 DASD

2006-05-01 Thread Joe Poole
On Monday 01 May 2006 02:45 pm, Frank Gowdey/Admin/Avery/MCS wrote: PAV, hm what does the way back machine say Mr Peabody ? Its been a while, but I think it was a nocharge built in, use it if you want or not. No one here can remember very well. It's a chargeable feature, based on the

Re: Ordering HLASM for Linux on zSeries

2006-01-27 Thread Joe Poole
On Friday 27 January 2006 03:01 pm, McKown, John wrote: HLASM can only be run if you are running Linux on a IFL, not a General CP? Not that I know of any reason to run Linux on a GCP. You'll only get CPs at your business recovery testing site, at least that's true at IBM. (We're running a DR

Re: Switch SAS to zSeries Linux

2006-01-26 Thread Joe Poole
On another list that I monitor, I see quite a few companies putting SAS on desktops when mainframe upgrade costs got hefty, but no company said they put it on zSeries or Intel Linux. On Thursday 26 January 2006 06:25 am, Ceruti, Gerard G wrote: Hi Folks Has anyone made the move ?, or

Re: LDAP SDBM

2005-08-12 Thread Joe Poole
There is a Redbooks Paper titled Securing Linux for zSeries with a Central z/OS (RACF) LDAP Server which walks you through the configuration of Native Authentication. http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/cgi-bin/searchsite.cgi?query=Securing+Linux On Friday 12 August 2005 02:13 am, Leon Buitendag wrote:

Re: Per engine pricing..

2005-04-11 Thread Joe Poole
OK. (scratches chin) Check out that electric bill. $200 per year times 200 servers that were shut off. Only $4k. You folks were certainly kind to me for not pointing out my mathematical blunder. 200 servers times $200 = $40,000, not 4k. So, if you have a z900 on the floor, and a Shark for

Re: Are there any NJE/NRJE interoperability tools for Linux to submit jobs to z/OS?

2005-04-06 Thread Joe Poole
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 10:14 am, James Melin wrote: The flexibility requirement really requires us to have the ability to have Linux trigger events on z/OS. If your scheduling system can sense the creation of a file on the z/OS side, then a simple FTP from Linux could trigger events. We

Re: Per engine pricing..

2005-04-04 Thread Joe Poole
On Monday 04 April 2005 01:16 pm, Rich Smrcina wrote: No. The pricing is not based on the number of engines in an LPAR, it's based on the number of engines of a particular type running a particular workload. In your scenario you would need three engines worth of Oracle AND Websphere AND UDB

Re: Maximum cylinders in a 3390-27

2005-03-31 Thread Joe Poole
On Thursday 31 March 2005 10:30 am, Michael MacIsaac wrote: Hi list, Is anyone using mod-27s? If so, how many cylinders do they have? According to my handy little DTS Software pocket reference, the Mod-27 has 32760 cylinders, 56664 bytes/trk, 849960 bytes/cyl, and 27.84GB capacity. All the

Re: Debian touts dropping full dev for certain archit ectures (incl. S/390)

2005-03-16 Thread Joe Poole
On Wednesday 16 March 2005 07:23 am, shogunx wrote: On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Phil Howard wrote: | That part I have. What I do not have is 3-phase power to run it. What voltage and amperage does it need? 3-phase 440V most likely about 20-30 amps. If originally installed in the US, it

Re: Why Zseries

2005-02-10 Thread Joe Poole
On Thursday 10 February 2005 01:32 pm, Levy, Alan wrote: David - thanks. This is what that I was looking for. Let me add to what Dr. David said with a few metrics. The densely packed servers of today draw between .1 and .7 kVA of power. If you take .3 kVA as an average, it takes only 15

Re: Full volume backups in zOS

2005-01-04 Thread Joe Poole
If you don't have either of the commercial products mentioned, OFFLINDR works fine for us. The price is right, too. http://www.clueful.co.uk/mbeattie/s390/offlindr.jcl On Monday 03 January 2005 11:25 am, Seader, Cameron wrote: we use a product called upstream from innovation dp. -Cameron

Re: VIPA and hot standby

2004-12-08 Thread Joe Poole
Consider also an external appliance to do the failover. We use a Cisco Content Switch that sits outside the zSeries equipment so it can still administer the site if we need to bring down z/VM or the hardware for maintenance. For example, site 1 gets all the traffic unless it fails, at which time

x3270 not supported?

2004-11-11 Thread Joe Poole
Slightly OT: I just upgraded my workstation to SuSE 9.2 and noticed from the release notes that x3270 is no longer included in the distro. It was missing from 9.1, too, evidently because no one is supporting the product. The x3270 about verbiage says the build that I downloaded and installed was

Re: Securing VM using LDAP?

2004-09-20 Thread Joe Poole
That's the book I used to set up LDAP access from Linux instances, Susan. It brings the mythical single sign-on a bit closer to reality. If VM could do the same, as David points out, we would take another step forward. On Monday 20 September 2004 13:52, you wrote: Jim have you checked out

Re: time

2004-07-26 Thread Joe Poole
On Monday 26 July 2004 13:23, you wrote: Greetings; Of course you would not have all of your penguins each talking to a bunch of remote NTP servers. You just have one of them doing that. It then becomes a Stratum-3 time server and the rest of your penguins talk to it. You can also have your

Re: Oh Dear, More Trouble for SCO

2004-07-23 Thread Joe Poole
On Friday 23 July 2004 15:29, you wrote: http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040723/sff025_1.html BayStar intends to file an action requesting a declaratory judgment with respect to its rights under the Stock Repurchase Agreement. That puzzles me, Peter. There must be some financial benefit to

Re: Performance of large file systems

2004-07-16 Thread Joe Poole
On Friday 16 July 2004 08:47, you wrote: I'll throw it out: Anyone using PAV on a DASD box with ESCON? Absolutely. 12 Escon into Shark #1, 4 FICON into Shark #2. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Slack/390 - Slackware Linux for the mainframe

2004-07-07 Thread Joe Poole
On Wednesday 07 July 2004 03:16, you wrote: My wife, Laura, for thinking that this was a cool thing to do. :) Mark Post ...and it was. Congratulations to you, Mark, and thank Laura for all of us. You listening, Levanta? I want this distro supported by August! No buts.

Re: Securing Linux for zSeries with a Central z/OS LDAP Server ( RACF)

2004-07-06 Thread Joe Poole
On Tuesday 06 July 2004 11:08, you wrote: Greetings, I posted something about this last week and did not get any response, so I'm writing again to see if anyone in the community of Linux and z/Series has had any experience with this. Is there any good documentation on how to build the TDBM

Re: Is the site www-gnats.gnu.org:8080 closed or moved ?

2004-06-22 Thread Joe Poole
I got connection refused which means something answered. Try this: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnats/ On Tuesday 22 June 2004 05:50, you wrote: Hello everyone, This is the first time to send a mail to this Mailing listing. I would like to see a bug report which should be located at

Re: VM user manager

2004-06-22 Thread Joe Poole
Check on BMC's product, too. Deployment Manager is another choice, although we use Levanta: http://www.bmc.com/products/proddocview/0,,0_0_0_9542,00.html On Monday 21 June 2004 20:55, you wrote: I know DIRMAINT and Levanta that provide an interface to VM to manage virtual machines. Are there

Re: Performance with Multiple CPUs

2004-06-22 Thread Joe Poole
On Tuesday 22 June 2004 14:19, Mark Post wrote: Anything that requires more than 1 CPU is not little. Granted, but it could be mighty important to the business! -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: J2EE performance?

2004-06-18 Thread Joe Poole
On Friday 18 June 2004 15:02, you wrote: I'll try to address some of Brandon's original questions: 1. We have noticed that Java applications will hog the CPU if you let it. I'll add to what Eric said. A Java application is like any other; it will run poorly if written poorly. Many of us

Re: WAS 5.1 ND on z/linux

2004-06-07 Thread Joe Poole
When garbage collection touches all those pages with such frequency, I would imagine that z/VM would want to consider them not eligible for paging. Even when a WAS virtual server is inactive, the working set size never shrinks, as would be expected. I've suspected this CPU and memory

Re: linux 390 education

2004-06-02 Thread Joe Poole
On Wednesday 02 June 2004 08:53, you wrote: What books, manuals, or courses would you recommend to learn how to support both VM and Linux under VM. I have some VM experience as a user and Intel Linux administration. If you have some VM experience, I suggest IBM's course ZV060 as a starter.

Re: Article on Groklaw on SCO's subpoena of FSF

2004-05-20 Thread Joe Poole
Time to make Tshirts with I'm a Defendant in the SCO Lawsuit! Wouldn't you Like to Be One Too? on them. -- db Mine gets a target on the back, David. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: IFL connectivity issues

2004-05-20 Thread Joe Poole
To add to what Mark said, make sure the timeout values on the Linux instances are less than that of any firewall appliance you might be routing traffic through. Our Cisco Pix would whack a connection after 1 hour of non-use, sending the reset to the client, but not to the data base server at

Re: Anyone what to sell me SuSE Linux for s/390?

2004-05-19 Thread Joe Poole
There has been a marketing change for SuSE. I found out that you have to call your Novell rep, who can recommend a software reseller in your area that handles Novell products. I think the discount you can get is based on the reseller's discount with Novell. Example: SuSE annual maintenance

Re: Anyone what to sell me SuSE Linux for s/390?

2004-05-19 Thread Joe Poole
On Wednesday 19 May 2004 16:55, you wrote: With the answers I have ben getting about the SuSE side of things today I wonder what you get for $15K. If their service is as good as their sales I don't think I want it. I think I'm getting to old for this business..;-( What ever happened to

Re: Hipersockets..... a couple of questions

2004-05-18 Thread Joe Poole
On Tuesday 18 May 2004 16:11, you wrote: If we're in 31 bit mode on z/VM we should do 2 real and 1 expanded? We change the config on the 23rd of this month, so I want to get it right. The next time we can change the config is july 18th but the POC will be over by then. Steve Wehr recommends

Re: /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow - synchronized on mul tiple images

2004-04-21 Thread Joe Poole
The Redbook speaks to that point: http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/redp0221.html?Open On Wednesday 21 April 2004 11:26, you wrote: Uou also need to get the heirarchy in the PAM files just right, so it passes local accounts, and sends others to LDAP properly.

Re: FTEs per Server

2004-04-14 Thread Joe Poole
On Tuesday 13 April 2004 20:09, you wrote: Darned users. If we could set traps for them and eliminate them as a source of disruption, things would be a lot easier. :-) I say give them fake keyboards and mice. Alan Altmark Sign on the cubicle of one of the programmers working on the new

Re: Linux Administration tools

2004-04-08 Thread Joe Poole
There is another monitor available - RMFPM. If you have RMF running on the z/OS side of the wall, check out http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/rmf/rmfhtmls/pmweb/pmweb.htm and see if it does what you want. The price is certainly within my budget. ($0) You start up GPMSERVE on

Re: Linux Administration tools

2004-04-06 Thread Joe Poole
We use Levanta at Boscov's. RTM for monitoring. (Sure wish they'd spring for Barton's stuff.) On Tuesday 06 April 2004 13:22, you wrote: Hi all, I am trying to get a feel for how people are managing their Linux Instances on the S/390. Are you using any tools like Levanta? If not, what

Re: Usage Metrics for z/Linux

2004-03-26 Thread Joe Poole
Poke around http://www.cimslab.com/ to see if that suits your needs. They primarily do z/OS and VSE, but I know that they have collectors for VM and Linux. I've not tried collecting data from the colony. Or give them a call and tell them what you need. They're a pretty good bunch of guys

Re: x3270 Keymap Utility?

2004-02-12 Thread Joe Poole
On Wednesday 11 February 2004 17:55, you wrote: I have a problem with the keymap too. some function keys dont work and I dont know where the definitions live. Is it part of the source that I have to recompile? I have poked around but with no luck. Also, my x3270 came as part of SuSE. I only

Re: Accessing OS/390data from Linux LPAR.

2004-02-06 Thread Joe Poole
On Thursday 05 February 2004 22:14, you wrote: I have downloaded this but looks like it requires Enterprise Extender on the OS/390 side. I was looking at the CICS sockets interface. On the Linux side I can rig up something in Perl easily. But the CICS side seems to be a big effort. If anyone

Re: Support question for a new Lead / manager of zLinux

2004-02-03 Thread Joe Poole
On Tuesday 03 February 2004 07:59, you wrote: 1. Defect support, problem support was acquired from IBM at a cost. This is specifically Linux defect / problem support. (there is of course separate support for VM itself). 2. Update, patch, maintenance support was purchased from SuSE or Red Hat

Re: Support question for a new Lead / manager of zLinux

2004-02-03 Thread Joe Poole
On Tuesday 03 February 2004 10:31, you wrote: What sort of rate did you get for that per call basis? Support Line is $230/hr (8 to 5), $310 offshift, supported products are at: http://www-1.ibm.com/services/sl/products/ Consult Line is $270/hr (8 to 5), $365 offshift and covers complex

Re: Linux desktop

2004-01-27 Thread Joe Poole
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 14:44, you wrote: CUPS makes this pretty easy. ...and CUPS also lets you register any printers you have defined on InfoPrint Server, if you have z/OS and the feature. For those products that don't use CUPS, a simple lpr -P (prtname) works, too.

Re: Success stories, planning for success?

2004-01-22 Thread Joe Poole
Most of the intelligent folks are probably cruising around Linux World today, so I'll take a crack at your question, Eric. First, and foremost, is the blessing of your management that they would truly like to see your implementation work. They should energize the other Administrators and

OSDL Linux Legal Defense Fund

2004-01-12 Thread Joe Poole
News this day on the OSDL site: http://www.osdl.org/about_osdl/legal/lldf/lldf_description.html and Groklaw: http://www.groklaw.net/

Re: Setuid programs on SLES 7 8

2004-01-05 Thread Joe Poole
On Monday 05 January 2004 15:48, you wrote: sed -e 's/through/throw/' Sigh. Mondays. Mark Post We knew what you meant.

Re: SCO Christmas Letter

2003-12-30 Thread Joe Poole
On Monday 29 December 2003 17:46, you wrote: As well as for your barristers. It might cut down on the amount of time they think they need to devote to research, and save some money. Plus, it might just give them the hiccups from laughing so much. :) They, as well as our CIO, are well aware

SCO Christmas Letter

2003-12-29 Thread Joe Poole
We received our Christmas letter from SCO, warning us that we may not make Santa's list next year if we persist in befriending penguins with questionable ancestry. Although dated on December 19th, the letter did not arrive in time for Christmas Eve and therefore could not be placed in the

Re: New doctor in the house...8-)

2003-11-18 Thread Joe Poole
On Tuesday 18 November 2003 14:54, you wrote: Yay! Very cool. Glad to hear things went well! Mark Post Second that!

Re: Linux ready for the desktop: IBM

2003-11-12 Thread Joe Poole
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 10:33, you wrote: is it used in preference to Windows? AIX? etc. Well, I for one certainly prefer Linux to Windows. I'll second that. In my 2 years of desktop Linux (SuSE), mainly administrative tasks and z/OS and z/VM monitoring, I'm happy. The only thing I

Re: Authentication against RACF backed LDAP DB when using WAS 5 for z/Linux

2003-10-21 Thread Joe Poole
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 10:56, you wrote: I'm trying to resolve a couple things Specifically, what does it want/mean for Server User ID? RACF LDAP Server or WebSphere Application Server? I think they mean the host name as registered in DNS, where GLDSRV is listening on port 389.

Re: SCO gives Linux users more time on license fee charges

2003-10-20 Thread Joe Poole
On Monday 20 October 2003 13:50, you wrote: Watch out for the wrap: http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,86 164,00.html?nas=AM-86164 --henry schaffer Interesting, Henry... snip Invoicing could also expose SCO to lawsuits, the analyst said. It's one thing to

Re: Cluster (HA) solutions for z/VM

2003-10-17 Thread Joe Poole
Have a look at the Red Paper on High Availability for zVM and Linux: http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/9445fa5b416f6e32852569ae006bb65f/76a57335bb29155385256bd4006dcf48?OpenDocument (or go to the IBM Redbook site and search for 'high availability') On Friday 17 October 2003 08:24,

Re: Well, I've gone and done it. I'm quoted in an article in the who SCO/IBM Fracas.

2003-09-12 Thread Joe Poole
On Friday 12 September 2003 13:45, you wrote: http://www.esj.com/news/article.asp?EditorialsID=668 OK, Jim. The race is on! Who gets the invoice first, you or me?

Re: InfoWorld Article - Microsoft Benchmarks Step Up Linux Assault

2003-09-05 Thread Joe Poole
On Friday 05 September 2003 14:11, you wrote: He obviuosly does not understand the power of the mainframe. IBM has always talked about throughput rather than performance - elapsed time of any given transaction and throughput. Oh, I'd think he understands all too well. Most of the

Torvalds Slams SCO

2003-08-21 Thread Joe Poole
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1227150,00.asp snip eWEEK: For its part though, SCO has said that there are so many lines of code, and a variety of applications and devices that use that code, that simply removing the offending code would not be technically feasible or possible and would

Re: A Very Serious Virus Alert

2003-08-14 Thread Joe Poole
On Tuesday 12 August 2003 16:53, you wrote: I see your Model I and raise you a Timex-Sinclair 1000 and an Atari VCS. Of course, David's about to rush in and trump us all with the IMSAI 8080. Nope. Hard (not) to do buffer overflows in 512 bytes of memory. -- db I'm bummed. My

Re: Gartner (Australia) on Linux

2003-08-04 Thread Joe Poole
I wonder if they ever let this guy out of the office? Niche areas Linux is being deployed in include edge of network areas such as domain name servers, proxy servers, caching and firewalls, said Mr Sargeant. Step outside and have a look, Mr. Sargeant. You WILL find mission critical

OSDL releases position paper

2003-08-04 Thread Joe Poole
The Open Source Development Labs has released an interesting position paper: http://www.osdl.org/newsroom/press_releases/2003/2003_07_31_beaverton.html

Re: An update to the little script I post the other day...

2003-08-01 Thread Joe Poole
Now THAT was funny! Sorry Gordon, I'm laughing too hard to jump on Leland. On Friday 01 August 2003 13:39, you wrote: Air traffic control? -Original Message- From: John Ford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 1:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: An

Re: z/Linux and ICSF?

2003-07-25 Thread Joe Poole
Lionel, See Chapter 7 of the Redbook SG24-6870, zSeries Crypto Guide Update We haven't tried it yet. On Friday 25 July 2003 13:10, you wrote: Does linux on Z support the ICSF for crypto? Lionel B. Dyck, Systems Software

Re: Gartner speaks

2003-07-24 Thread Joe Poole
On Thursday 24 July 2003 07:55, you wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/31938.html How is this SCO afair affecting people here? We're still rolling out the penguins (without fur BTW). Websphere Commerce Suite is the latest effort, running in test instances. Our CIO is in wait and

Re: SCO not playing by Aussie Rules

2003-07-23 Thread Joe Poole
On Wednesday 23 July 2003 12:08, you wrote: Have you noticed that most cars look like they were designed by the same guy? I think he's the same guy who designs all the sneakers, too.

Re: Background on SCO

2003-06-19 Thread Joe Poole
These guys in Utah are no dummies. The crunchies in the Linux community should be paying more attention. We're crunchies now? Hmmm. I wonder where that came from. On Thursday 19 June 2003 09:46, you wrote: An interesting background to the SCO suit.

Re: VM Memory for Samba

2003-06-11 Thread Joe Poole
Lionel, Here's a line from our RTM showing one of our busiest file servers, supporting around 650 users: USERID %CPU %CP %EM ISEC PAG WSS RES UR PGES SHARE VMSIZE TYP,CHR,STAT LXFS001 1.7 .45 1.2 154 .90 53K 53K .0 15K 400 256M VUS,DSC,DISP You can see that it's quite

The meddling continues:

2003-06-10 Thread Joe Poole
GeCad software made a name for itself by developing the first anti-virus software to run on zLinux, and guess who just bought the technology? http://www.ravantivirus.com/pages/shownews.php?i=153 I wonder how long it will take before the Linux offerings are withdrawn?

Re: pam_ldap to LDAP server on z/OS with RACF backend

2003-06-06 Thread Joe Poole
Another reference is SC24-5923, Security Server LDAP Server Administration and Use. All 3 are handy to keep open when trying to figure it out. What one doesn't explain properly, the others do. On Thursday 05 June 2003 11:36, you wrote: Daniel, You're welcome, but did it help you to the

Re: pam_ldap to LDAP server on z/OS with RACF backend

2003-06-06 Thread Joe Poole
Go to... http://www.elink.ibmlink.ibm.com/public/applications/publications/cgibin/pbi.cgi?CTY=US Click 'search for publications' type 'sc24-5923' in the publication number, and hit Go. The actual link is much too long to paste here without wrapping. On Thursday 05 June 2003 12:02, you wrote:

Re: pam_ldap to LDAP server on z/OS with RACF backend

2003-06-06 Thread Joe Poole
Here's one that works for me. It asks if a userid is connected to a certain RACF group. LDAPSRCH -v -h MVSHOST1 -p 3389 - -D racfid=LDAPBIND,profileType=user,sysplex=BOSCOVS_RACF - -w BINDER - -b profiletype=connect,sysplex=BOSCOVS_RACF - ((racfuserid=tsouser)(racfgroupid=DIALGRP)) On

Re: x3270 keymap

2003-06-03 Thread Joe Poole
Here are my notes that I made while creating the icons for my SuSE 8.2 workstation: Keyboard remapping: Apply these changes to make x3270 behave like Extra! Sessions: Use a File Manager with root priveleges to access the /home/userid directory. Change the view to show hidden

Re: Time Sync

2003-06-03 Thread Joe Poole
Talk to your network gang, too. Cisco router IOS at release 12.0 or better has NTP support. Adjust you firewall to allow it to request the time from one of the Cesium clocks (Naval Observatory I think), and you've got the time. We point our Linux instances at the Cisco for second level

Re: The Waterloo tapes

2003-03-21 Thread Joe Poole
Try http://www.cbttape.org/ On Thursday 20 March 2003 17:38, you wrote: I got some very useful exec's from these tapes. The one I really would like to find again is the 'VTAM EXEC' can anyone point me to an updated version of this exec. vr, P. Abruzzese

Re: Interesting perspective

2003-03-17 Thread Joe Poole
Perhaps the writer was referring to a Sysplex where multiple LPARs are running z/OS with a coupling facility in the middle. Using MQ Series clustering, DB2 Data Sharing, VSAM RLS, VIPA, and the like, you could switch workload from one image to another, IPL the image you drained, and migrate

Re: 1000th z800 Sold

2003-03-10 Thread Joe Poole
Not quite. We got the 1000th z900. We run z/OS in support of 9 production CICS regions, thousands of batch programs, and, oh yes, z/VM and Linux. On Saturday 08 March 2003 04:06, you wrote: Anyone else find it a stretch of credibility that the 1000th z900 and the 1000th z800 both went to

Re: 1000th z800 Sold

2003-03-10 Thread Joe Poole
The press release didn't make it clear that we obtained the z900 as a replacement for our (wheezing) 9672 G3 processor. At order time, we added the IFL in anticipation of z/VM and Linux. Writers license, I suppose. On Monday 10 March 2003 08:36, you wrote: Anyone else find it a stretch of

Re: IBM pricing (was URGENT! really low performance. A related question...)

2003-02-20 Thread Joe Poole
To a degree, IBM has listened to us. Look at the product mix that has appeared recently, generally at lesser cost: File Manager, Fault Analyzer, CICS/PM, RMF/PM (for Linux, too), DB2 Utilities Suite, etc. If you get weary of the constant contract negotiations, you can usually find something

Re: Linux userid administration (use of Linux-PAM, with LDAP, with RACF)

2003-02-14 Thread Joe Poole
Steve; I have the z/OS LDAP server running, with both TDBM (DB2) and SDBM (RACF) databases gen'd. It looks promising, in that I'm using batch (IKJEFT01) to experiment with different RACF and DB2 calls. Other priorities have not allowed us the opportunity to test with z/Linux, but the Red

Re: URGENT! really low performance.

2003-02-13 Thread Joe Poole
On Thursday 13 February 2003 16:09, Alex wrote: -the hmc indicates that the ifl is at 99% utilization. Our HMC on the z900 always shows 99% for the IFL, even if it's not doing anything substantial. Running a CPU hot all the time was an old performance enhancing trick I remember from the 4381

Re: URGENT! really low performance.

2003-02-13 Thread Joe Poole
Thanks, Dan. Memory fades.. JP On Thursday 13 February 2003 16:59, you wrote: In the (relatively) dark ages of VM/HPO and the 4381 MP models, they called this Active Wait. I'm sure somebody got a nice oxymoron award for that one... ;) -dan. On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Joe Poole wrote

Re: Power of Open Source - Microsoft Warns SEC of Open-Source Threat

2003-02-05 Thread Joe Poole
I was leaning toward a reference to tailored SAP, Peoplesoft, and the millions of lines of COBOL code that define our business rules, and that we wrote ourselves over the past 30 years. (Much of which is probably running every night!). Open source software can't replace that, but still has a

Re: Microsoft gets an 'F'

2003-02-03 Thread Joe Poole
On Saturday 01 February 2003 11:41, Phil Payne wrote: Linux looks like following down the same road. The question that occurs to me is - is free access to the source of an operating system actually a prerequisite for this? I think so, Phil. Primarily due to the fact that you can't run

Re: SuSE Linux - TOC

2003-01-28 Thread Joe Poole
On Monday 27 January 2003 17:31, Scott Chapman wrote: Performance needs to be tracked from VM's perspective, and maybe from Linux's. Therefore some sort of VM monitor like RTM (not necessarily a recommendation!) or Velocity Software's product is probably required. I believe Candle also has

Re: Z/VM Backups and Restores

2003-01-27 Thread Joe Poole
Also, check our OFFLINDR - the price is right, and it works. http://www.clueful.co.uk/mbeattie/s390/offlindr.jcl On Monday 27 January 2003 09:51, you wrote: I need to know what's used a very good backup/restore application in z/VM. I need to know what I can use without having to purchase

Re: DB2

2003-01-24 Thread Joe Poole
Line us. We use UDB EE in Linux - works just fine and response time is quite good. DB2 Connect in a gateway instance can retrieve info from DB2 on z/OS. The performance is so close between the 2 that you can decide where to build your tables based on which side of your zBox has the capacity

Re: 2074 and the HMC

2003-01-15 Thread Joe Poole
If I remember correctly, the z800 has no parallel channels. That rules out native parallel 3274 or 3174 connection. However, the used equipment market has 3174s with internal Escon, although pricey in the $4,500 range. Parallel to escon converters are available, which makes a regular 3174L

Re: NTP, was: 2074 and the HMC

2003-01-15 Thread Joe Poole
Another good solution is to have one of your routers (we use a Cisco 7507) configured as the NTP client of the cesium clock, and as the server to the rest of the network. All of our Linux instances go to the router to set their clocks. Considering the 4:00 PM stampede, I suppose some of the

Re: I got unsubscribed...

2003-01-14 Thread Joe Poole
Jay, It's possible that you are the innocent victim of one of those worms loose in the world these days (Klez, Sobig, Naith or Lirva). They randomly pick a message, attach you as the to, and some other random name as the from, and confuse the heck out of everyone. I didn't receive those you

Re: Anyone running DB2 connect on linux - I just got asked where it keeps the log

2003-01-10 Thread Joe Poole
I checked with our DBAs and they said that the diagnosis log is about all there is. The Peoplesoft second tier server (non-Linux) has an access log built as part of the application, which is probably what the db2 connect folks were counting on. On Friday 10 January 2003 10:25, you wrote:

Re: Linux on 390

2003-01-06 Thread Joe Poole
I'll add to Mark's list Apache, UDB, Tivoli Netview... On Monday 06 January 2003 09:54, you wrote: We use Linux in both test and production environment. We have several test websites using Tomcat, testing backups using amanda, We have production Linux guests running, DNS, Radius Server, FTP,

Re: FYI Network printer problem - WAS - HOWTO define a network printer to Linux S/390

2002-12-19 Thread Joe Poole
PSF on z/OS has had trouble connecting to some Lexmark printers without the port 9100 specification in the PRINTDEV specs. I recently had the same problem with an IBM Infoprint 1120, which was solved with the port statement as well. BTW, we use Infopriint Server on z/OS to spool from z/Linux

Re: LINUX Security

2002-12-10 Thread Joe Poole
Although I'm not deep enough into the process to be dangerous, you might want to look at the z/OS LDAP server. Check the Redbook Securing Linux for zSeries with a Central z/OS (RACF) LDAP Server and the two publications SC24-5923-03 and SC24-5924-02 dealing with administration and Client

Re: LINUX Security

2002-12-10 Thread Joe Poole
season. What other time of the year do you sit in front of a dead tree and eat candy out of your socks? Gordon Wolfe, Ph.D. (425)865-5940 VM Technical Services, The Boeing Company -- From: Joe Poole Reply To: Linux on 390 Port Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 11

Re: Is Samba on Linux/390 ready for prime-time?

2002-11-15 Thread Joe Poole
That's what we're doing, Mark. Converted Netware to Samba on a z900, taking about 5 to 10 mips of the processor during the busiest times. Enterprise wide access to the server from all of our locations (about 50). We have about a 10th of your data, though, preferring to entrust our Terabytes

Re: How do I sell these things?

2002-08-28 Thread Joe Poole
CIMS Lab, Inc (www.cimslab.com) recently ported their Unix chargeback agent to s390/Linux. The other pieces they offer cover MVS, CICS, VM, VSE, etc. When everything is integrated, the system will produce invoices for the user departments at zero cost, or at some fixed chargeback rate.

Re: Another consolidation

2002-07-24 Thread Joe Poole
Every 100 watts of power consumed will cost about $60 per year, at $.068 per kilowatt hour. Converting the z900's 4.5 kva to watts yields 3600 watts, which translates to $2,160 to run it for a year. An average server consumes 320 watts (more or less depending on installed features) which

Re: z800 Storage

2002-06-18 Thread Joe Poole
We are running the clients on Linux, communicating with the server on OS/390. No problems. Noll, Ralph wrote: does Tivoli (TSM) run under Linux/390??? Thanks if not when will it?? Ralph Noll Systems Programmer City of Little Rock Phone (501) 371-4884 Fax (501) 371-4712

Re: Linux Virus Scans

2002-06-06 Thread Joe Poole
We're beta testing RAV anti virus for 390/Linux right now. GA for a package will be short term. The product does a full scan of the file servers and reports the findings in a log file. The developers have expressed interest in porting their real-time scan engine as well. The US distributor is

Re: Can z800 attach to Sun SAN 9960 for S/390 Linux?

2002-05-20 Thread Joe Poole
Perhaps someone from IBM can further define the Ficon installation. Currently, you can choose between short and long wave Ficon cards in a zBox, with very different fiber-optic cable requirements (single mode or multimode). I've heard that future development will be on the long wave cards which

Re: Intrusion Detection References

2002-05-03 Thread Joe Poole
Several white papers are available, too. Check www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Security-HOWTO.html and www.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/whitpapers/ (several available). These publications have descriptions of available products, and URLs to the companies. Kittendorf, Craig wrote: If you need high

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