Re: VM Operator messages to networked SYSLOGD

2005-10-13 Thread Rob van der Heij
msgs. Rob -- Rob van der Heij rvdheij @ gmail.com

Re: Two LPARs with one head?

2005-10-17 Thread Rob van der Heij
the in-core copy on all the systems except the one that ran DIRECTXA (since that does the 3C after the object directory has been written). Failure to do so may eventually produce UDR001 abends (in addition to confusion). Rob -- Rob van der Heij rvdheij @ gmail.com

Re: Monitoring VSwitch

2005-10-21 Thread Rob van der Heij
of the equation should come out of measuring the Linux guest, with snmp for example like ESALPS can do. (Considering that we are already looking at getting ESALPS...) -- Rob van der Heij rvdheij @ gmail.com

Re: set mdcache question ?

2005-11-21 Thread Rob van der Heij
for MDC. And CP IND shows the MDC hit rate that you get from that. One way to approach this is to take a bit off and see whether that really makes a hit rate much worse, etc. Rob -- Rob van der Heij rvdheij @ gmail.com

Re: Who XAUTOLOGed Me?

2005-12-01 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 12/1/05, Kris Buelens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rob stored his solution on VM's download lib: Close, but no cigar. My co-worker Ronald van der Laan owns the package on the VM Download pages. Rob -- Rob van der Heij rvdheij @ gmail.com

Re: DS6800 zVM 5.1

2005-12-09 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 12/8/05, Dusha, Cecelia, Ms., WHS/ITMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HCPVSQ429E Punch 000D spool error; file held You have filled up spool space during the build process. Either add some spool space or clean up some spool files that you don't need. Rob -- Rob van der Heij

Re: Just a stupid question

2005-12-15 Thread Rob van der Heij
the data on disk, it would take a lot of tweaking to change all the code that refers to tapes. There are vendor products that allow you to emulate tapes using disk, but you would still need to get the stuff there... Rob -- Rob van der Heij rvdheij @ gmail.com

Re: How to restore VMFPLC dumped files on z/VM V5.1

2006-01-06 Thread Rob van der Heij
with a message DMSP2C057E Invalid record format. I think I would have used the 'tape' stage of CMS Pipelines to get the raw data and eyeball that for further clues. -- Rob van der Heij rvdheij @ gmail.com Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/

Re: OT: Cough Syrups Not Effective

2006-01-10 Thread Rob van der Heij
No wonder the US Immigration will not allow entry into the US if you carry cough syrup in a quantity more that normally used by an individual. So they're talking about booze... :-) Rob -- Rob van der Heij rvdheij @ gmail.com

Re: How to restore VMFPLC dumped files on z/VM V5.1

2006-01-10 Thread Rob van der Heij
be very well doable on a rainy afternoon. Rob -- Rob van der Heij rvdheij @ gmail.com

Re: How to restore VMFPLC dumped files on z/VM V5.1

2006-01-11 Thread Rob van der Heij
linkage stage g. I offered him such a service just now ;-) No offense meant to your assembler programming skills of course, but he IS a master plumber! Sir Rob the Plumber. -- Rob van der Heij rvdheij @ gmail.com

Re: Need to move 510SPL and 510PAG from mod 3 to mod 9

2006-01-19 Thread Rob van der Heij
could not format the pack and then in stand-alone ddr the old spool pack to the first third of the new pack and allocate the remainder as spool again, provided you stick it back in the same position in the cpown list. -- Rob van der Heij rvdheij @ gmail.com Velocity Software, Inc

Re: {SPAM?} DCSS as SWAP disk for z/Linux

2006-01-19 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 1/19/06, Adam Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was under the impression that Rob van der Heij (I think) had in fact measured DCSS to be slightly faster. Yes, and we're getting to the point where he's also interested when I can measure it... Indeed, I showed that in similar scenario we

Re: {SPAM?} DCSS as SWAP disk for z/Linux

2006-01-19 Thread Rob van der Heij
about running a lru-algorithm under a lru-algorithm ... is that that things can get Yes, this is where CMM plays a significant role. Rob -- Rob van der Heij rvdheij @ gmail.com Velocity Software, Inc

Re: 2nd level console

2006-01-24 Thread Rob van der Heij
CONMODE 3215. You would typically start a 3270-capable guest like this: /* */ 'CP TERM CONMODE 3270' || '15'x || 'IPL xxx' Rob -- Rob van der Heij rvdheij @ gmail.com Velocity Software, Inc

Re: RE : 2nd level console

2006-01-24 Thread Rob van der Heij
. And then there's applications like VSCS or TCP/IP that simulate a device through CP's logical device support. Rob -- Rob van der Heij rvdheij @ gmail.com Velocity Software, Inc

Re: Charging Time

2006-01-26 Thread Rob van der Heij
to the SFS recovery server but I cannot see that would cause traffic. I would be tempted to run a TRACE EXT TERM in the userid and I could let you borrow the code that reads the vtime/ttime from the VMDBK in microseconds. Rob -- Rob van der Heij rvdheij @ gmail.com Velocity Software, Inc

Re: Dumping Linux Guest Storage

2006-01-31 Thread Rob van der Heij
sure that portion is dumped as well. For large virtual machines you will need to prepare a dump volume and dump onto that. Personally I would also play a bit with CP TRACE to understand where the loop is, and if it's around a spinlock try to see who's holding that. Rob -- Rob van der Heij

Re: Dumping Linux Guest Storage

2006-01-31 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 1/31/06, Rob van der Heij [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have not been able to verify for z/VM 5.2, but VMDUMP used to be limited to 2G virtual storage. The disk to prepare would be a Linux dump disk, not a CP dump pack. Should have... with 5.2 we seem to be able to dump a 512G virtual machine

Re: Locking v-disk in storage

2006-02-02 Thread Rob van der Heij
another virtual machine. Rob -- Rob van der Heij rvdheij @ gmail.com Velocity Software, Inc

Re: Locking v-disk in storage

2006-02-02 Thread Rob van der Heij
virtual machine with 16G of swap space. Rob -- Rob van der Heij rvdheij @ gmail.com Velocity Software, Inc

Re: Locking v-disk in storage

2006-02-02 Thread Rob van der Heij
*are* actually starting to overcommit memory on z/VM. In that case your original claim does not hold anymore. And I can certainly point out pages of Linux virtual machine memory that I care less about than an average VDISK page. Rob -- Rob van der Heij rvdheij @ gmail.com Velocity

Re: ZVM 3.1 migration to ZVM 5.2 and Z890

2006-02-02 Thread Rob van der Heij
and zapped CP straight into an abend. The dump was so clean and obvious that we've jused it for training system programmers (but who reads dumps these days). No doubt you will make sure to get the right level. Rob -- Rob van der Heij rvdheij @ gmail.com Velocity Software, Inc

Re: page space

2006-02-02 Thread Rob van der Heij
want to check the block paging numbers in your favorite performance tool. Rob -- Rob van der Heij rvdheij @ gmail.com Velocity Software, Inc

Re: Expanded Storage

2006-02-06 Thread Rob van der Heij
the limits for MDC fairly low (I think I have even seen it work with 0M 0M). There's CPU cost for copying that page, but it's far less than paging it. Rob -- Rob van der Heij rvdheij @ gmail.com Velocity Software, Inc

Re: Expanded Storage

2006-02-06 Thread Rob van der Heij
discussing here is one reason, but there are other reasons. Why are PDS's not cached? VM paging is not eligable for MDC, that's just for virtual machine I/O. But the paging routines use other techniques to exploit the hierarchy in storage and drive I/O efficiently. Rob -- Rob van der Heij

Re: Expanded Storage

2006-02-07 Thread Rob van der Heij
paging, which is less painful when expanded storage can be used. Rob -- Rob van der Heij rvdheij @ gmail.com Velocity Software, Inc

Re: Is there a way to map a CMS user id's memory usage?

2006-02-08 Thread Rob van der Heij
Monitor for. Like ESALPS, see http://velocitysoftware.com/ Rob -- Rob van der Heij rvdheij @ gmail.com Velocity Software, Inc

Re: Is there a way to map a CMS user id's memory usage?

2006-02-08 Thread Rob van der Heij
to acquire the skills. Rob -- Rob van der Heij rvdheij @ gmail.com Velocity Software, Inc

Re: Disabled wait

2006-02-10 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 2/10/06, Rich Smrcina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A disabled wait is typically the numeric part of an HCP message. Take the wait code, append it to HCP and look it up in the CP Messages manual. Books? HELP MSG HCPW -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc

Re: No disks

2006-02-13 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 2/13/06, Kris Buelens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Find the address of 310W01 and attach it to SYSTEM Next PIPE helps you find the address PIPE CP Q DASD ALL !LOCATE /310W01/!CONS Or Q DASD 310W01 maybe? Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc

Re: Confirming location of WARMSTART and CHECKPOINT areas

2006-02-17 Thread Rob van der Heij
SYSCM for these: 0090 144 Character6 SYSCKVOL CHECKPOINT VOLUME SERIAL ID 0096 150 Character6 SYSWMVOL WARMSTART VOLUME SERIAL ID With LOCATE HCPSYSLC you would know where SYSCM lives, and at offset 90 in there you see the volser of the two packs. Rob -- Rob van der Heij

Re: Paging stats - comments please

2006-02-20 Thread Rob van der Heij
and on paging DASD. Whether you're are paging and to know if that is impacting your Linux performance needs a performance monitor, especially if you want to increase utilization of your VM system. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc

Re: SYSTEM NETID and CPUIDs

2006-02-22 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 2/22/06, Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey! I know! We'll do installation SYSPROF exits at the same time so you have a place to issue said SET commands! Yeah, that's the ticket! Some day... We've got round tuits on backorder. :-) This sounds like accepting the requirement to

Re: another question adding allocating dasd

2006-02-23 Thread Rob van der Heij
it R/W. I probably would have noticed the problem earlier when it had no disk at all. And for those that share /usr in R/O fashion it makes sense to use 'R' rather than 'RR' to make sure your Linux server will not try to do fsck that disk... Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc

Re: Hipersocket definitions on z/OS guests

2006-02-23 Thread Rob van der Heij
two z/OS guests share confusion about CHPIDs, but otherwise you would be free there. For simple systems management it might make sense to keep them the same though... Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc

Re: SYSTEM NETID and CPUIDs

2006-02-24 Thread Rob van der Heij
routed for userid. And worse, SPOOL CONS RSCS START will not start console spooling when RSCS does not exist, where the * would only cause the logging to be misplaced. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc

Re: SYSTEM NETID and CPUIDs

2006-02-24 Thread Rob van der Heij
automatically). :esoapbox. Rob -- Rob van der Heij

Re: SYSTEM NETID and CPUIDs

2006-02-27 Thread Rob van der Heij
operators found Uh, CP in their instructions :-) Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc

Re: Another Win For VMSHARE

2006-03-05 Thread Rob van der Heij
the conversion to HTML gets things wrong a little. My apologies for that. Maybe I should check the code and find that bug... Thankyou Mike, thankyou Rob, thankyou MARIST, thankyou VMSHARE. All my pleasure! Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc

Re: Disk problems running Sysplex under VM

2006-03-08 Thread Rob van der Heij
defined on one guest as MWV, and have the others link MW to it, right? Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc

Re: Disk problems running Sysplex under VM

2006-03-08 Thread Rob van der Heij
xxx ccw printer When you are done you stop the trace and send the print file to MAINT so you can see it. #cp trace end #cp sp prt maint close I expect z/VM is just simulating the I/O error for z/OS. -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc

Re: DASD I/O performance VM 44 vs. VM 52

2006-03-15 Thread Rob van der Heij
if you are concerned about I/O performance. That has not been the focus area for this support. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc