Re: IKCDSF ID meaning

2025-07-25 Thread Alan Altmark
Arg! Let's try that again: HOST ACCESS: CPU PARTITION GROUPED RESERVED MPATHMODE 7D4826Y N Y -LOCAL D6D817Y N Y EE583EN N N

Re: IKCDSF ID meaning

2025-07-24 Thread Alan Altmark
T ACCESS: CPU PARTITION GROUPED RESERVED MPATHMODE 7D4826 Y N Y -LOCAL D6D8 17 Y N Y EE58 3E N

Re: GDPS test case

2025-04-04 Thread Alan Altmark
engage the other parts of the infrastructure in the DR event.. "ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! I tell you three times: All personnel to battle stations! DR failover in T-120 seconds. The ability to stop the failover will end at T-30 seconds. [strobe lights...steam venting...wailing alarms...you k

Re: Use of TAR to test access register validity

2025-01-15 Thread Alan Altmark
S *PRESENT MDC131 CVT8AOS2 EQU CVT4MS1+CVT6DAT - OS/VS2 SYSTEM Alan Altmark IBM z/VM Development -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / arc

Re: ISREDIT CAPS ON OFF

2025-01-10 Thread Alan Altmark
ely" to mean "over 30 years ago". Stream I/O was added to CMS REXX around 1992. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Passphases

2024-10-27 Thread Alan Altmark
a user should have a password is if they are using a portal that does not have support for phrases, or you migrating to phrases. But at some point, you need to upgrade the portal and/or remove the PASSWORD. Alan Altmark IBM z/VM Devel

Re: Is z/OS FTP encrypted?

2024-09-17 Thread Alan Altmark
wander way. .You have to tell FTPD to use TLS. It will, in turn, use AT-TLS services to accomplish that. (That way system-wide policies can more easily be applied.) See the FTP chapter of the z/OS IP Configuration Guide for more information on how to add TLS support FTPD. Alan

Re: Is z/OS FTP encrypted?

2024-09-17 Thread Alan Altmark
z/VM and z/OS added the support for RFC 4217 so that there's no question about what is and isn't encrypted. Alan Altmark IBM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...

Re: PPRC between different vendor disk systems

2024-07-26 Thread Alan Altmark
On Fri, 26 Jul 2024 07:41:27 -0500, Alan Altmark wrote: >Sorry I can't give you more definitive information. I'll check with a storage >architect and see if I can get a better answer. The answer came back faster than I expected. No, you cannot connect different vendors b

Re: PPRC between different vendor disk systems

2024-07-26 Thread Alan Altmark
vendor storage specialist. Sorry I can't give you more definitive information. I'll check with a storage architect and see if I can get a better answer. Alan Altmark IBM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive ac

Re: Nanosecond resolution timestamps for HLL's?

2024-02-24 Thread Alan Altmark
it. Hi, Jim. I meant that if you want to really know what time it is, you can't use STCKF. Alan Altmark IBM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Nanosecond resolution timestamps for HLL's?

2024-02-23 Thread Alan Altmark
P, "Setting and Inspecting the Clock". There's a table that I think you will find helpful. Alan Altmark IBM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Difference between STSI instruction and SYSEVENT QVS?

2024-02-06 Thread Alan Altmark
There is no formal description of the algorithm used to generate this integer" and the term "MSU" is not in the Principles of Operation. "Any similarity is purely coincidental." Alan Altmark IBM -- For IB

Re: Encryption and decryption - processor or TCPIP

2024-01-25 Thread Alan Altmark
onnect at the same time. Those TLS handshakes are significantly accelerated by offloading the asymmetric cryptography to the crypto cards where it runs in parallel to whatever is happening on the CP. Alan Altmark IBM -- For IBM-MAI

Re: Network not working between zOS and zVM

2024-01-07 Thread Alan Altmark
rovide full ethernet frames, with MAC headers. Without ETHERNET, it defaults to "IP" which is also known as "layer 3", in which the driver provides only IP packets, not ethernet frames, and the OSA takes care of adding the MAC headers. Alan Altmark IBM

Re: Network not working between zOS and zVM

2024-01-04 Thread Alan Altmark
7;s ok to mix IP and ETHERNET mode traffic on the same OSA, but it's possible there is some kind of issue with the MAC address that VM is using because of ETHERNET mode. (It gets a new MAC address from the OSA.) Alan Altmark IBM ---

Re: Does z/VM have a product/tool which can send backup to the Cloud ?

2023-10-28 Thread Alan Altmark
sn't have the LIBRARY command, you can't do a PARTRFSH MMOUNT.) So, it *can* be done, but any management has to be done via the UI. The TMS cannot adjust the management constructs. Alan Altmark Senior z/VM Architect and Consultant IBM

Re: Does z/VM have a product/tool which can send backup to the Cloud ?

2023-10-22 Thread Alan Altmark
x27;s unlikely to ever change. And once DFSMS were to add that support, the TMS (e.g. IBM Tape Manager) would need to exploit it. Alan Altmark Senior z/VM Developer and Consultant IBM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / arch

Re: SNA Link Replacement in Z/OS 2.5

2023-10-03 Thread Alan Altmark
If you change to use HiperSockets, you will start to burn the Z CPU. If you have the headroom, no problem, but the more data you move, the more CPU you burn. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Basic VM/CMS question (GENMOD)

2023-07-14 Thread Alan Altmark
nvoke another MODULE without worrying about overlays. That code you have to read the module header isn't needed. This functionality was introduced into CMS around 1985 (VM/SP Release 4). In general, VM/370 is not a good place to develop applications that you intend to run on z/VM. Alan A

Re: IBM z16 Model A02 Announcement

2023-04-06 Thread Alan Altmark
the platform. It's not a new concept, Enzo. IBM has always had models at the low end, and this is the 3rd generation in a row to be available in a 19-inch form factor (rack mount). Alan Altmark IBM -- For IBM-MAIN su

Re: STP timer information under z/OS?

2023-03-22 Thread Alan Altmark
On Tue, 14 Mar 2023 12:45:27 +, Peter Relson wrote: > >What I would especially like to be able to know under z/OS are the following >timer values: > >DST offset - The Daylight Savings Time (DST) offset relative to UTC in minutes. > >And what's missing - even from lsstp - is the date and time

Re: Bytes in a 3390 track

2022-11-25 Thread Alan Altmark
Max R0 length: 57326 Max R1 length: 56664 (architected) Unformatted device capacity: 84.1 MB Formatted device capacity (4K blocks): 70.3 MB Formatted device capacity (56664 block): 81.1 MB Regards, Alan Altmark IBM z/VM Engineer and Consultant ---

Re: CC compiler under CMS - LSEARCH option

2022-08-15 Thread Alan Altmark
differently with/without the OE option. All of this is thoroughly documented in the XL C/C++ for z/VM: User's Guide. I've only scratched the surface. Alan Altmark IBM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: CC compiler under CMS - LSEARCH option

2022-08-15 Thread Alan Altmark
cro)=(LIB(.), .)) That is, you are mapping a specific pattern to a specific set of MACLIBs. My test program that has #include "my.macro" compiles just fine without any LSEARCH specification. Alan Altmark z/VM Consultant IBM ---

Re: VM: redefine virtual storage from an EXEC

2022-07-18 Thread Alan Altmark
the app or OS. Alan Altmark Senior Managing z/VM Consultant IBM Technology Services -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: VM: redefine virtual storage from an EXEC

2022-07-18 Thread Alan Altmark
ply breaks lines at the linend character and passes them to CMS if they aren't recognized (per SET IMPCPCMS). So what works in fullscreen CMS won't work the same way in XEDIT. Alan Altmark z/VM Consultant IBM Technology Services

Re: zVM v7.1 : Populating VMSYS: Root BFS

2022-07-01 Thread Alan Altmark
code in them isn't a great idea.) 6. The z/VM SMEs hang out in the IBMVM mailing list at https://listserv.uark.edu/scripts/wa-UARKEDU.exe?A0=IBMVM. Let's continue the discussion there. Alan Altmark, IBM Senior Managing z/VM Consultant -

Re: z/VM FTP query

2022-06-11 Thread Alan Altmark
lient (assuming you haven't turned it off with the "sendsite" command) will provide or discover the LRECL and RECFM of the file automatically. See the IP User's Guide for details. Alan Altmark Senior Managing z/VM

Re: What is SUBCOM?

2022-05-08 Thread Alan Altmark
are issued. It's up to the macro expansion provided by MVS and the registered SUBCOM handlers (invoked by REXEXT) to interpret the command string in whatever way is appropriate to the command handler. Alan Altmark IBM -

Re: What is SUBCOM?

2022-05-08 Thread Alan Altmark
gal to do so."I sometimes lose sight of the audience. :-) :-) Alan Altmark IBM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: What is SUBCOM?

2022-05-06 Thread Alan Altmark
nvironments outside of (and much older than) REXX, such as the EXEC and EXEC2 languages or even an assembler program. Still, there is no real requirement for a SUBCOM environment be exactly the same as the interactive environment it represent. The SUBCOM handler gets

Re: What is SUBCOM?

2022-05-05 Thread Alan Altmark
ven while in ISPF or another command environment". It's a very poorly-worded description. To Gil's point: Can you issue "EXECIO" or "SUBCOM" from the TSO command line? If not, it's not a TSO command - it's just part of the *REXX* TSO command envi

Re: SAF without an ESM

2022-05-05 Thread Alan Altmark
uot; to the caller. How the caller treats a deferral is up for grabs. If, like TSO, the caller has a secondary authentication/authorization mechanism (e.g. SYS1.UADS), then all is not lost. But if the app/subsystem is entirely dependent on the ESM, all security decisions will [should] be &

Re: Reliable source for OCO?

2022-04-15 Thread Alan Altmark
progs wasting time trying to shoot a dump. That's what they pay IBM to do and the sooner they get the dump to us, the sooner we can fix the problem. Alan Altmark IBM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: XEDIT assembler continuation lines

2022-03-04 Thread Alan Altmark
was burned by that a couple of years ago when they changed one of the other default behaviors in XEDIT to make life easier. Alan Altmark IBM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: XEDIT assembler continuation lines

2022-03-03 Thread Alan Altmark
EDIT. For a more sophisticated version of that, have a look at the label SetView: in https://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/altmarka/profile.xedit Alan Altmark IBM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, se

Re: XEDIT assembler continuation lines

2022-02-27 Thread Alan Altmark
aracters, do TRUNC 72 # CL :72 # COVERLAY X # REPEAT n # TRUNC 71. Naturally we all updated our profiles once 3270s showed up, so it turned into a non-issue. Alan Altmark IBM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archiv

Re: INITSQA under VM

2022-02-13 Thread Alan Altmark
ted that the IODF in the virtual machine was far larger than in the LPAR. MVS is going to create a UCB for every device in the IODF, not just for devices that are in the I/O configuration, and SQA isn't big enough to hold it all. Either allocate more SQA or reduce

Re: What determines the effective terminal size?

2021-12-07 Thread Alan Altmark
ad VCNA or VTAM. In any case, I quit getting phone calls from people. (VTAM no longer runs on the system I did network management on, so it's no longer an issue for anyone - esp. me!) Alan Altmark Senior Managing z/VM Consultant IBM Syste

Re: Fall back STP Adjustments

2021-11-03 Thread Alan Altmark
generate the correct civil time, but the observant person will discern that the epoch has moved 37 seconds backward into December 31, 1899. (And with each subsequent leap second, it moves backward an additional second.) Alan Altmark IBM --

Re: Fall back STP Adjustments

2021-11-03 Thread Alan Altmark
ng more traction in the scientific community is to abandon the leap second entirely. Alan Altmark IBM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Fall back STP Adjustments

2021-11-02 Thread Alan Altmark
cal clock is left an exercise to the vendor. Alan Altmark IBM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

IHS Apache - authentication via LDAP

2021-10-19 Thread Alan Altmark
as the web client's id for the purposes. (The ID exists in the local RACF database, but I don't want to authenticate with it.) Is this something better suited to Liberty/WAS? Alan Altmark IBM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: SIGP Orders

2021-10-13 Thread Alan Altmark
supposed to say "Unassigned" just like 0x0F and 0x10. Please submit a Reader's Comment Form to request clarification. Alan Altmark IBM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: OSA Physical ethernet ports

2021-09-11 Thread Alan Altmark
>But SHARED is also specified by CHPID. >Are OSE devices also available in ZOS1 LPARs? No. Your IOCP says that only ZOS2 has access: > CHPID PCHID=191,PATH=(CSS(0),03),TYPE=OSE,SHARED,PARTITION=((ZOS2)) If you didn't specify PARTITION=((ZOS2)), then both LPARs would have access. Ala

Re: GDPS Manuals Link

2021-07-23 Thread Alan Altmark
#x27;t online since they're part of a service offering, not a product, per se. I would open a Case with GDPS to request them. Alan Altmark IBM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: looking for some doc about what z/OS displays on a tape drive

2021-07-21 Thread Alan Altmark
autoloader. This allows systems without DFSMS and 'modern' library controls to still be able to request a tape mount from the emulated library. Alan Altmark IBM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive acce

Re: Coding for the future

2021-06-21 Thread Alan Altmark
s was an intentional change to our mail rules by the CIO. So any IBMer who replies directly rather than using the web interface will end up with it in the Subject line by default. And I'm guessing we're not the only ones. Alan Altmark IBM --

Re: SMF on Z/VM

2021-06-14 Thread Alan Altmark
1, and 83. All other subsystems have their own logging mechanism. Alan Altmark IBM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: IBM Zcloud - is it just outsourcing ?

2021-05-28 Thread Alan Altmark
n one or more LPARs, sharing the machines with other zCloud customers. See the link to the data sheet at https://www.ibm.com/services/cloud/managed-infrastructure-as-a-service. You could view it as a form of outsourcing

Re: Question about SIE

2021-05-18 Thread Alan Altmark
ponse to your e-mail, I re-read your original question, which isn't about SIE, but about a STFLE response. z/VM does not enable the RRBM facility for guests (STFLE bit 66 is OFF). You should receive an Operation Exceptio

Re: Question about SIE

2021-05-18 Thread Alan Altmark
ciples of Operation), but I don't see any facility indications for interpretive execution, the details of which haven't been published since the 370-XA time frame. Alan Altmark IBM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signo

Re: STIMERM LT value

2021-05-14 Thread Alan Altmark
r. Then if the client wants to reduce the price by redlining items, that's on them, but I think IBM or the BP should be bringing a full function proposal. Alan Altmark IBM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive acc

Re: STIMERM LT value

2021-05-13 Thread Alan Altmark
lock. But you need to back up and look at your business requirements. FINRA, for example, requires business systems to be within one second of UTC. (Certain kinds of financial transactions have much tighter requirements.) Given the time and effort you spent on fiddling with CLOCKxx, y

Re: When did CMS stop requiring S/370 mode?

2021-05-13 Thread Alan Altmark
ging the default from CDF (800 bytes blocks) to EDF (1K or 4K). I was just a young whippersnapper at the time and didn't involve myself in the deliberations of the Elders. A lot of memory cells have become non-functional in that amount of time. :-( Alan Altmark IBM ---

Re: When did CMS stop requiring S/370 mode?

2021-05-11 Thread Alan Altmark
ations using the 370 accommodation feature which became available in VM/ESA Version 1 Release 2.1. Verifying the execution of applications with the 370 accommodation feature allow customers to position those applications to run in XA or XC mode virtual machines under VM/ESA Version 2

Re: When did CMS stop requiring S/370 mode?

2021-05-10 Thread Alan Altmark
On Mon, 10 May 2021 12:56:42 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >CMS originally ran on a real S/360 or on a S/60 virtual machine under CP-67. >The CMS for VM/370 through VM/SP ran > on a virtual S/370. When did CMS stop requiring S/370 mode and when did it > stop supporting S/370 mode (if it did)? I

Re: PPFA

2021-04-28 Thread Alan Altmark
tried to see if I could re-establish contact my old PSF/VM test environment, but there was nothing but faint echoes and cobwebs where code and configuration files used to live, though I did find the SFCM and PDMREM1 userids still extant after all this time. (sniff) Alan Altmark z/VM Consul

PPFA

2021-04-26 Thread Alan Altmark
from the very beginning? Yes, I could tell him to RTFMs, but there's a lot of FMs to R and I'd like to point him in the right direction so he can start digging. Thanks for your help. Alan Altmark z/VM Consultant I

Re: IBM splitting into two companies

2020-10-12 Thread Alan Altmark
;Managed Infrastructure Services" and "Other". At some point IBM will publish more details, I'm sure. Alan Altmark IBM Systems Lab Services Senior Managing z/VM Consultant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: Two Processors and One IODF

2020-07-17 Thread Alan Altmark
NOTE: SRDF and PPRC are similar, but they are not compatible with each other.. Metro Mirror = Exploitation of PPRC to manage the local mirrors.. Global Mirror = Exploitation of aynch PPRC to manage remote mirrors. The names were changed to avoid dragging everyone down a rabbit hole as the tech

MVS master consoles

2020-06-29 Thread Alan Altmark
espond to any action messages it sees. (Yup, might be a race between human and machine, but I expect the machine to win that race.) Thanks., Alan Alan Altmark Senior Managing z/VM and Linux Consultant IBM Systems Lab Services Phone: 607-429-3323 | Mob

Re: Define FCP without IPL(POR)

2020-01-20 Thread Alan Altmark
FICON subchannels. Regards, Alan Altmark IBM Systems Lab Services -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: IP 0.0.0.0

2019-12-24 Thread Alan Altmark
On Mon, 23 Dec 2019 15:08:02 -0700, Grant Taylor wrote: >Where is it cross posted from / to? (I'd like to look at the other >location.) IBMTCP-L is where the meat of the discussion is taking place. Alan Altmark IBM ---

Re: Ancient DASD connectivity

2019-05-17 Thread Alan Altmark
n of the underlying technology. Fun times. Alan Altmark IBM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: [External] Re: Ancient DASD connectivity

2019-05-16 Thread Alan Altmark
th 3990 being the last one on the floor. (BTW, once someone explains CU integration, the whole A/B model numbering thing makes more sense.) I had always assumed that latency was driving engineers to shorten the distance between CU

Re: Ancient DASD connectivity

2019-05-15 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wed, 15 May 2019 21:41:20 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >That may be true for 2314, but it is not true for anything later. The A unit >connects to the control unit, not to the channel. > I actually intended to say that the A units connected to the control unit. I don't know why I said "chan

Re: Ancient DASD connectivity

2019-05-15 Thread Alan Altmark
g additional cabinets no longer affected the I/O configuration - just capacity. We still have switches, of course, but they're no longer pull-turn-push. :-) Alan Altmark IBM Systems Lab Services -- For IBM-MAIN subscri

Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"?

2019-05-14 Thread Alan Altmark
at, in spite of your best attempts, the unthinkable has happened, are you prepared to deal with it competently, calmly, and quickly? Alan Altmark IBM Systems Lab Services z/VM Consultant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / ar

Re: GETMAIN LOC=32

2018-05-15 Thread Alan Altmark
ow to write "old" code in an AM64 environment and get some of the benefits for free, it's been interesting. As you point out, not worth IBM's effort to accommodate such a small group of beneficiaries, but interesting nonetheless. Alan Altmark IBM -

Re: GETMAIN LOC=32

2018-05-11 Thread Alan Altmark
quot; and all are entitled to their opinion on it, of course, but the two sides are clearly not going to achieve a meeting of the minds, so unless folks want to talk about it ad nauseum, "Let It Go." He made his case, it was interesting to think about, and now it's done. With muc

Re: Software Delivery on Tape to be Discontinued

2018-04-04 Thread Alan Altmark
r browser. THAT is what CA/Browser Forum (CAB) industry group is all about. Alan Altmark IBM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Software Delivery on Tape to be Discontinued

2018-04-03 Thread Alan Altmark
es data from the media at specified storage locations and then does a SYSTEM RESTART to load the restart PSW and start running. Arbitrary access is more like "read file ". I believe that z/OS has some capability in this space as well, but I don't know the details. Alan Altmar

Re: Software Delivery on Tape to be Discontinued

2018-04-03 Thread Alan Altmark
nd cheaper to buy off the little guy in the trucking firm to substitute the similar-looking package than to get the telco to do your dirty work for you. Or establish yourself AS a telco. (GREAT. There's the next nightmare: low-cost ISP who is really state actor.) Alan Altmark IBM

Re: Software Delivery on Tape to be Discontinued

2018-04-02 Thread Alan Altmark
een tampered with. This story is not finished. Technology will continue to change, risk profiles will continue to change (are the Illuminati or State actors producing 3590 tapes and substituting them?), and so the delivery mechanisms will continue to evolve, just as they have done since the story

Re: Loading IOCP input file using FTP

2018-03-23 Thread Alan Altmark
ing the need to break into the HMC-SE private network. Also at the 2.14 level you can choose FTP, FTPS, or SFTP. Alan Altmark IBM Systems Lab Services -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send em

Re: Cobol EBCDIC to ASCII

2018-02-26 Thread Alan Altmark
don't use it, either. The book "Coded Character Sets, History and Development" by Charles Mackenzie, IBM (Addison-Wesley, System Programming Series, 1980) is as fascinating as it is horrifyingly geeky. Alan Altmark IBM --

Re: Cobol EBCDIC to ASCII

2018-02-20 Thread Alan Altmark
g assignments to just float around. (dope slap) All influenced by APL, ATMS, Selectrics, print chains, and an apparent lack of coordination. And WHY would you move lower case 'a' to 0x61 when the code point assignments are arbitrary in the post-card

Re: Cobol EBCDIC to ASCII

2018-02-19 Thread Alan Altmark
have: @ ! ~ # $ ^ | [ ] { } ` then any ASCII code page will do, but you need to select your EBCDIC code page carefully. If you have any other glyph, then both ASCII and EBCDIC code pages must be selected with care. Alan Altmark IBM Lab Services

Re: Time on one LPAR on CEC

2017-10-10 Thread Alan Altmark
a different *timezone* in an LPAR, you use the OS's own timezone support. While you CAN get the tz from the hardware as a default, you don't have to. Alan Altmark IBM Lab Services z/VM and Linux -- For IBM-MAIN sub

Re: EBCDIC, ASCII, ugh

2017-06-23 Thread Alan Altmark
ther reasons? I would be tempted to just use TLS-enabled FTP. TLS ensures that the data is not altered in transmission, so the MD5 is superfluous for that purpose. Alan Altmark IBM Lab Services z/VM and Linux -- For IBM

Re: Question on SPKA and Control Register 3

2016-12-18 Thread Alan Altmark
information facility, you know you are in a virtual machine. Alan Altmark, IBM z/VM Consultant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Query on OSA-ICC consoles

2016-06-13 Thread Alan Altmark
o you in the configuration panels, not requiring you to do the device number <-> UA translations yourself. Alan Altmark z/VM Consultant IBM Lab Services -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, sen

Re: Stand-Alone DSS RESTORE with 3584 Library - How??

2016-02-05 Thread Alan Altmark
s of the windows. Unless you are logged into the device and can click on HELP or the actual buttons, you're going to have problems. You can't advise someone how to do it without actually doing it since you can't visualize what's going on! (T

Re: z/VM "load from dvd or server"

2016-01-31 Thread Alan Altmark
tion is for your fave FTP server to have an interface on it with a VPN into the LAN segment used by the HMC & SEs. Alan Altmark IBM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: z/VM "load from dvd or server"

2016-01-30 Thread Alan Altmark
efines where the OPERATOR will be logged on. Alan Altmark IBM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: z/VM "load from dvd or server"

2016-01-30 Thread Alan Altmark
the instructions say. Alan Altmark IBM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Anyone got any ancient DASD manuals?

2016-01-05 Thread Alan Altmark
have been scanned in. It may have already been done as a part of our efforts to support places like the Computer History Museum. Alan Altmark IBM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, se

Re: Anyone got any ancient DASD manuals?

2016-01-04 Thread Alan Altmark
ded REFCODEs. These books and the utilities all need that information in order to know what to do. If the verification utility doesn't complete successfully, then there are FRUs that have to be replaced. Alan Altmark IBM --

Re: Is there a source for detailed, instruction-level performance info?

2016-01-03 Thread Alan Altmark
till hoping that someone will reveal the existence of a document intended >for compiler writers... Folks who participate in PWD may have access to that kind of information -- I don't know. If you participate in Linux GCC development

Re: Is there a source for detailed, instruction-level performance info?

2016-01-03 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 17:08:26 -0600, Jerry Callen wrote: >Bob Rogers (no longer at IBM...) Bob rejoined IBM a while back, working in z/VM. Alan Altmark IBM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructi

Re: Machine Types and Architecture Levels

2015-11-29 Thread Alan Altmark
ORMATION (STHYI) instruction, represented by a STFLE bit, the IUCV instruction (hi-order byte of Processor ID = FF) and different set of DIAGNOSE subfunctions (again, from STIDP[0] = FF). Alan Altmark z/VM Consultant -- For I

Re: I just bought an IBM z890

2015-11-08 Thread Alan Altmark
itecture Linux DVD can be placed in the DVD drive on the HMC, or you can load the files to an FTP server, and boot from either location. You will need to change your I/O configuration (IOCP) to reconfigure your fibre channel adapters to be FCP instead of FICON. Linux will also be looking for a

Re: [IBMTCP-L] IP via CTC (MPCPTP) between CECs?

2015-01-22 Thread Alan Altmark
ssues to look out for? Since it is a sandbox env, > there will not be much traffic over the CTC if that scenario were to happen. Yes, you can do that. For best results, make sure the IP addresses on the CTC connection are in a separate /30 subnet. Alan Altmark Senior Managing z/VM and Linux Co

Re: Slushware

2014-12-29 Thread Alan Altmark
ing about technology. In fact, we sometime love it a bit too much, particularly when it's new and it hasn't completed its evolutionary journey. Alan Altmark IBM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / arc

Re: Slushware

2014-12-28 Thread Alan Altmark
e to call it "microcode." The joke's on us If you try to create clear-cut definitions of the terms, you will be frustrated. It's best to go read what Humpty Dumpty has to say to Alice about the meaning of words. When I hear them, I wait for context to surface and then j

Re: Slushware

2014-12-27 Thread Alan Altmark
veral times over its life as the underlying chip design changes. Alan Altmark IBM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: publibz->infocenter->knowledgecenter

2014-12-23 Thread Alan Altmark
On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 20:33:06 -0500, Mike Shaw wrote: >Knowledge Center is IT from now on, boys and girls. > >We're not happy about it either. There are a lot of bytes still to go under the bridge. What has happened is some sort of culture shift in the way people (younger than me) *want* to get

Re: Z/VM migrate from CKD to FBA

2014-07-31 Thread Alan Altmark
t; continue to reside on ECKD. Fast-growth data such as databases should be on native SCSI, not FBA simulation on SCSI. Alan Altmark IBM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@

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