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From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: QIC tape programming issue
Date: 12 Apr 92 02:53:23 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <4512@d75.UUCP> brent@ulcer.austin.ibm.com writes:

| In article <mwarren.702652956@rws1> mwarren@rws1.ma30.bull.com (Mark Warren) writes:
| >We have an application that needs to be informed if someone inserts or
| >removes the tape cartridge from a QIC tape drive.  Does the AIX SCSI
| >driver detect this (it must!), and can the user process be signalled
| 
| Yes the tape device driver does detect this. It returns a
| TAPE_ENDOFTAPE_DETECT in the device pointer flags when it reaches the end
| of the tape. If not all the bytes are transfered it will give you the
| residual and it is up to the application to retry those bytes.

Not to turn down help from somebody who writes drivers, but you didn't
answer *either* of the questions!  It is nice to know that the tape
driver does the correct thing at EOD, but it isn't relevant to the
question.
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: marc@watson.ibm.com (Marc Auslander)
Subject: Re: How Do You Partition A Disk In AIX?
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 17:02:48 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, New York

AIX does not use disk partitions.  It uses an abstraction of a "disk"
called a logical volume group.  This consists of a group of disks.
The volume group is partitioned into logical volumes, which are
analogous to the partitions you are used to in other Unix systems.

You have two choices.  Either is available through smit, following the
Physical and Logical Storage path.

The system has already made a volume group called rootvg, which
contains hdisk0.  You can add hdisk1 to that volume group, thus making
more space available.  You can then enlarge existing file systems
(yes, even when they are mounted).  Make sure you use the menu to
enlarge a file system.  There is a menu for enlarging a logical
volume, but it won't automatically enlarge the file system in the
logical volume.  Or you can create new file systems, which will create
new logical volumes in rootvg.

Alternately, you can create a new volume group, giving it hdisk1.
Then you can create new file systems in it.  The advantages of this
are that the disk can be seperately removed and moved to another
system.  The disadvantage is that the space can't be used to enlarge
any of the rootvg file systems.

In either case, creating new logical volumes is normally a side effect
of creating new JFS file systems.  However, the menus under Physical
and Logical Storage also allow direct creation of logical volumes.
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From: drake@drake.almaden.ibm.com (Sam Drake)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: How Do You Partition A Disk In AIX?
Date: 10 Apr 92 05:22:23 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: IBM Almaden Research Center

In article <2636@spool.mu.edu> mevans@studsys.mscs.mu.edu (Mike Evans) writes:
>Can you expand on this mirroring option, such as what is required and
>how to set it up

OK, well, mirroring is enabled on a logical volume-by-logical volume basis.
I've never actually done it, but the technique seems to be to create a 
logical volume via "Add a logical volume" under "logical volume manager"
in smit, then create a filesystem on the newly created logical volume
under "filesystems".  When creating the logical volume, smit asks you
"number of copies of each logical partition"; if the answer is > 1, the
data is all mirrored (the default is 1).  Other questions allow you to
demand that each copy reside on a physically separate physical volume
(sensible if you're mirroring), and allow you to control whether writes
to the mirrored copies are done in parallel or serially.


Sam Drake / IBM Almaden Research Center 
Internet:  drake@almaden.ibm.com    BITNET:  DRAKE at ALMADEN
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
Subject: Re: Again 3rd party SCSI drives...
Summary: Interesting....
Organization: Macro Computer Solutions, Inc., Chicago, IL
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1992 20:35:47 GMT

In article <1619@rufus.UUCP> shoens@almaden.ibm.com writes:
>Karl Denninger . . .
>
>>While it is true that 3rd party drives work on RS/6000s, don't even bother
>>trying to use IBM drives on another machine.
>
>The IBM 400 MB and 1 GB 3.5" drives are certainly supposed to work in other
>machines.  The IBM disk folks are selling these drives on the OEM market
>and they do in fact get shipped with other manufacturers' workstations.
>
>I'll see if someone in IBM disk-land has ideas as to why the stated setup
>didn't work.

I'd be very interested in the answer.

Particularly seeing as three different low-level SCSI control programs blow
up on these drives.  To date, they're the only SCSI disks I've found that
can't be formatted or verified with these utilities.

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From: deroest@daffy.cac.washington.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Client/Server between AIX RS6000 and IBM 390 (MVS)
Date: 16 Apr 92 16:25:24 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, C&C

In article <1992Apr6.155522.6752@clouso.crim.ca> vanneste@crim.ca (Martial Van Neste) writes:
>
>I am currently working on the design of a technological infrastructure
>that will support several client/server applications between an IBM 390
>with MVS an CICS, and a local platforms composed of thousands of
>individual workstations. Currently, we have about 830 PC (25% Macintosh)
>and more than 1600 3270 terminals that will be replaced by PC (PS/2).
>
>People from IBM here are mainly pushing to use CICS on local OS/2 that
>will work as application server for the workstations. This server
>would route the resquests from the stations (using DBM and CM) into
>CICS exec link
>
>Since OS/2 is not multiuser, and the security would be a complex mix and
>match of LanServer, CICS on this server and on the mainframe, and also
>that the performance on this local server will be limited to the PS/2,
>i would like to present an other alternative.
>
>The alternative would be to use an RS-6000(with AIX) on the local platform. 
>The client applications would run on this machine and would communicate
>with the mainframe with CICS or an RPC mecanism (using LU6.2). The
>worstations could use the "corporate" applications thru Xwindow emulation
>and would be isolated from local applications (word-processing, spreadsheet
>etc). This will ease the integration of the Mac, OS/2, and Windows and
>would be (i think) more secure. I have to say that the main purpose of
>this is to have a GUI interface to corporate applications. These appliations
>will be reconstruted from the ground to answers the news needs of the
>corporation. It is clearly stated that all the "corporate" data will stay
>on the mainframe. (By the way it is a "blue blood" corporation).
>
>THE QUESTIONS ARE :
>
>1. Is there any configuration like this (working or being planned) ?
>   (I would like to have a short description of the enviroment)

  There was a session at SHARE a couple of years back by some fellows
from Sybase that use LU6.2 between RS/6000 clients to MVS database 
servers.  They may be able to help you out.  The addresses I have
are:

              Wayne Duquaine, Steve Knowles
              Sybase Inc
              6475 Christie Ave
              Emeryville, CA 94608
              (415)596-3405, (415) 596-3959
              dukew@sybase.com, knowles@sybase.com

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From: uma@next1.msci.memst.edu (Uma Welingkar)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Novell Netware for RS60000
Date: 14 Apr 92 16:07:36 GMT
Organization: Mathematical Sciences, Memphis State University

Some of us have been trying to install the Netware for RS6000 using 530H
box. We are running into some problems with establishing connectivity
between an existing PC LAN(Banyan) and new Novell on RS6000. If anyone
knows about any gateway software please send the mail at following
address:
    uma@next1.msci.memst.edu

Two networks have following configurations :

Novell  : File server on RS6000
          Running TOKEN-RING to IBM's MAU thru IBM type 1 cable.
          Ring speed is 16mbps.
          PC Workstations using ODI are connected to MAU.

BANYAN  : File server on Compaq's 386
          Running TOKEN-RING to IBM' MAU but not with type 1 cable(UTP).
          Ring speed is 4mbps.
          Multiple rings are connected of PC workstations using IPX.COM
          and/or IPXODI.COM.
From: sorceres@TE6000.TELECOM.LSU.EDU (Elizabeth D. Delaney (OTC - 30A-B-11 Middleton))
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re:  Comp.Unix.Aix Digest, Volume 3, Number 13
Date: 17 Apr 92 18:31:42 GMT
From: vanneste@crim.ca (Martial Van Neste)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Client/Server between AIX RS6000 and IBM 390 (MVS)
Date: 6 Apr 92 15:55:22 GMT
Organization: Centre de recherche informatique de Montreal


I am currently working on the design of a technological infrastructure
that will support several client/server applications between an IBM 390
with MVS an CICS, and a local platforms composed of thousands of
individual workstations. Currently, we have about 830 PC (25% Macintosh)
and more than 1600 3270 terminals that will be replaced by PC (PS/2).

People from IBM here are mainly pushing to use CICS on local OS/2 that
will work as application server for the workstations. This server
would route the resquests from the stations (using DBM and CM) into
CICS exec link

Since OS/2 is not multiuser, and the security would be a complex mix and
match of LanServer, CICS on this server and on the mainframe, and also
that the performance on this local server will be limited to the PS/2,
i would like to present an other alternative.

The alternative would be to use an RS-6000(with AIX) on the local platform. 
The client applications would run on this machine and would communicate
with the mainframe with CICS or an RPC mecanism (using LU6.2). The
worstations could use the "corporate" applications thru Xwindow emulation
and would be isolated from local applications (word-processing, spreadsheet
etc). This will ease the integration of the Mac, OS/2, and Windows and
would be (i think) more secure. I have to say that the main purpose of
this is to have a GUI interface to corporate applications. These appliations
will be reconstruted from the ground to answers the news needs of the
corporation. It is clearly stated that all the "corporate" data will stay
on the mainframe. (By the way it is a "blue blood" corporation).

THE QUESTIONS ARE :

1. Is there any configuration like this (working or being planned) ?
   (I would like to have a short description of the enviroment)

2. Could someone from the AIX group in IBM give me some help because
   local rep. are heavily OS/2 minded ?
  (This help could be treated anonymously :-), if you prefer...

3. Does someone ever use the alternate authentification method that is
   available in SMIT to get this authentification from a mainframe
   using a LU6.2 request to ACF/2 or RACF ?

You can mail me the answers to me and i could post a summary later.

Thank you in advance for your reply and excuse me for my english ...

Martial Van Neste
CGI Group
5300 blvd. des Galeries
Suite #300
Quebec city
Quebec, Canada   G6V 6H3

tel. (418) 623-0101
Fax. (418) 623-4114

E-MAIL :

vanneste@crim.ca
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: cs911040@juno.ariel.yorku.ca (Odd Inge Sandbekkhaug)
Subject: INSTALLP difficulties...
Originator: cs911040@juno.ariel.yorku.ca
Organization: York University, Toronto, Canada
Distribution: ca
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 01:54:23 GMT

Hi--

I'm currently trying to use the installp command to create a
software installation package, but I can't seem to get it
to work properly.

My problem, I think, is with the lpp_name file.

My lpp_name file contains :

> 3 R  I {
> PRG.file1 01.01.0000.0000 1 N U En_US Comment1
>
> PRG.file2 01.01.0000.0000 1 N U En_US Comment2
>
> }

I'm using the backup -i command to make backup files on /dev/rfd0.
(I do an ls, piping the filenames into the backup command)
Giving the comand 
	restore -T -f/dev/rfd0
yields
	./lpp_name
	./MyDirs/liblpp.a
	./MyDirs/test/PRG.file1
	./MyDirs/test/PRG.file2

There are no prerequisites for my applications.

I am not installing my files under /usr/lpp as suggested in the 
manual pages, but this shouldn't matter.

My liblpp.a file contains all neccesary files in archive format.

Doing an installp -l only lists the first entry in lpp_name.

When I try to do installp -a PRG.file1 PRG.file2
the PRG.file1 can be found, but PRG.file2 can not be found.
In addition, I get the message that liblpp.a does not exist,
but clearly (from the restore -T command) it is stored on the drive.

Somehow, all but the first entry in lpp_name are lost or can't be found.

Am I doing something wrong with the format of the lpp_name file? 
The backup command?

Does anybody know the solution to this problem? I'm using AIX v. 3.2.
Any help is appreciated.

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From: landy@bear.austin.ibm.com (Landy Ligon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Slowness of realloc() under AIX32
Date: 10 Apr 92 17:12:28 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: IBM PSP, Austin

landy@bear.austin.ibm.com (Landy Ligon) writes: (BUT SHOULDN'T HAVE)
> You can do this in a shell script that invokes your
> application or by using putenv("MALLOCTYPE=3.1") in your C code.
			  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I lied.  You can't do this!!!!!!  Unfortunately putenv calls malloc so
by the time the env variable is set it's too late.

My apologies for sending out incorrect information.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: vi in the AIX environment
From: pollack@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Steven Pollack)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 17:48:13 GMT
Organization: University of Cincinnati

ARRRRRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!!

Is there anyway to tell vi to listen to the stty setting for character
erase.   We use DEL (usually) for most of my terminals and machines and
vi seems to insists that for command line editing that the character
erase be ^H.  Can you change its mind.


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From: markw@airgun.wg.waii.com (Mark Whetzel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIX 3.2 Gratuitous Incompatibility #1
Summary: InfoExplorer search is hard, and smit help is no help!
Date: 8 Apr 92 20:11:25 GMT
Organization: Western Geophysical, Div. of Western Atlas Int'l, Houston, TX

In article <1992Apr6.171203.9198@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>, frank@leopard.austin.ibm.com (Frank Feuerbacher) writes:
> > And, no matter whether it was "technically correct" or not, there is
> > *no* excuse for not documenting it.  That is unacceptable.
> 
> You are correct, I attempted to look up how to do this in info and I did
> not quickly find it.  I have opened a defect to attempt to get this resolved.
>
> It is probably documented somewhere, but it should be much more easily found.
>

The /usr/lpp/bos/README file has no mention of this change as well.

Also, I opened a PMR on the /usr/lpp/bos/bsdadm.tr file is hopelessly out
of date for AIX 3.2!  (PMR 8X424,B497  and 8X419,B497 Troff/psroff can't
process the file, macro errors!  he.. he.. )

Furthermore, InfoExplorer search is very tedious on this subject.
You have to do a compound search on   "virtual" and "hft" to make the HIT
list managable (your search is too large, try again  [searched for just
"virtual" ]  :-)
Even then, ther are well over 480 hits on that alone!

Virtual Terminals Overview even says that during a regular session you
can have up to 16 virtual terinals!  That's not the default any more!

"chmumvt" command doc says that the system startup has ONE virtual 
terminal configed, and that the max is 16.

Smit, taking panel route:
Devices, High Function Terminal (HFT), Virtual Terminals. 
  the smit panel does not show the CURRENT setting, and pressing F1(help)
  gives:
     1800-071  No Help available for this topic.

However.. on the devices panel is a curious entry "List Devices"
This has a selection  "Show Characteristics of a Supported Device"
This WILL show the current setting of the hft terminal (several panel
selections later!)  Shown value was 4.   factory default.. :-) :-)

This is on AIX 3.2  CD ROM version of Hypertext doc.

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From: ware@cs.widener.edu (Mark Ware)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Printing Woes.
Date: 13 Apr 1992 11:57:44 -0400
Organization: Widener University CS Department, Chester PA
NNTP-Posting-Host: betty.cs.widener.edu

Has anyone had any trouble setting up print queues in AIX.  Im new at AIX
so Im not sure Im going about it the right way (BSD nut)  I tried using
smit to first create the device and then created a virthual printer
(instructions from an IBM guy)   So far no luck.  Any response would be
greatly appreciated.  The printer is an HP SerIII and its attached to the
RS/6000 in parallel

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From: tmcconne@sedona.intel.com (Tom McConnell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: HELP: X11R5, InfoExplorer
Date: 14 Apr 92 16:02:45 GMT
Reply-To: tmcconne@sedona.intel.com
Organization: Intel Corporation, Embedded Microcomputer Division


In article <9204111850.AA13489@ho15.eng.ua.edu>, Mandyam.Srinivas@ho15.eng.ua.edu writes:
> 
> 
> Hi Everybody,
> 
> 
> I recently installed X11R5 on our RS 6000 520's
> with AIX 3.1.5. But INFOEXPLORER cannot be used 
> properly -- The font that appears is garbled.
>             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 <stuff deleted>
> -- 
> Mandyam Srinivas            |   " You are young and life is long and 
> msriniva@buster.eng.ua.edu  |     There is time to kill today   
>                             |     And then one day you find ten years 
>                             |          have got behind you
> (205) 349-4136              |     No one told you when to run, 
>                             |         you missed the starting gun"
>         	            |                                 -P.F.

  This is in the FAQ (nudge, nudge :) under "Subject:  4.05 X11R5" :

Date: Wed, 8 Jan 92 10:47:05 -0700
From: cary@jove.Colorado.EDU (John R. Cary)
Subject: X11 fonts on RS6000 running AIX3.1.5

There are (at least) three problems.
1)  The fonts as built with
the IBM (Greening) patches of X11R4 do not work with the AIX3.1.5 server
because (according to mleisher@NMSU.Edu) they likely have the wrong
byte order.
2)  The ibm fonts that come
with AIX3.1.5 must be converted to .pcf fonts to work with the X11R5 server.
3)  Info always looks for its fonts (in /usr/lpp/info/X11fonts) regardless
of which server you are using.  So if you use the X11R5 server, info loads
the AIX3.1x .snf fonts, which do not work with the X11R5 server.

Using the X11R5 server (my choice) means that you must fix problems 2 and 3.

My fix of 3:  was simply to rename the info fonts directory so that info
could not find it and load it.  Another fix (I am told) is to set one's
font path with  /usr/lpp/info/X11fonts last so that another fonts is
loaded first.   This did not work for me, perhaps because of differences in
my fonts.alias file.

 ...

  And yes, putting /usr/lpp/info/X11fonts last in the font path with xset works,
as long as you set the font path before you start info. You still need .pcf
fonts for infoExplorer, but if you don't have /usr/lpp/info/X11fonts in the font
path, infoExplorer will add it _first_, which causes it to get the old .snf
fonts.

    Cheers,

    Tom McConnell
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Organization: Information Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 08:11:43 -0400 
From: Adam Stoller <ghoti+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: setting line discipline

Hi all,

With much help from a variety of sources, I managed to find out about
setting the line discipline for my tty's to include 'bsd' (this solved a
number of problems with a version of telnet that I was building on the
system - like stopped the <space> key from getting redefined after the
first 'set' command....)

My questions are:

(a): does anyone have any written examples (that they'd be willing to
send to me) that show how to use the TXGETCD ioctl & union txname?  I
made an attempt at using this as I understood it from the documentation,
but couldn't seem to get it right - it showed the first entry, then
looped forever on the second entry (as seen via 'stty get').   So, there
has to be a reasonable way to make it loop through the contents and
*stop* - also, I assume that if there are four entries listed with 'stty
get' that I should be able to get as many through the use of this ioctl
- right?

(b): Is there any way to permanenly change the line discipline on the
system?  i.e. through SMIT or ODM or something?  I couldn't find
anything about this in the documentation - but finding stuff there is
often non-trivial.

Oh yeah - point of reference - I'm running AIX 3.1.5

Thanks for any assistance.

--fish