s390-tools 1.12.0

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s390-tools is a package with a set of user space utilities to be used with the Linux on System z distributions.

s390-tools-1.12.0.tar.bz2 / MD5 recommended (2011-01-27)

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• hyptop:
  Provides a dynamic real-time view of a System z hypervisor environment, z/VM or LPAR. Depending on the available data hyptop shows e.g. CPU and memory consumption of active LPARs or z/VM guests. The tool provides a 'curses'-based user interface similar to the popular Linux 'top' command.
  Prerequisistes:
  • The ncurses-devel package is required to build hyptop.
  • The libncurses package is required to run hyptop.
  • kernel 2.6.35 is minimum required level for hyptop.
  • When running Linux on System z on z10 in LPAR, the minimum required z10 code level is the following:
    • Driver 79 MCL N24404.008 in the SE-LPAR stream

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• chreipl: various enhancements
  • Add support to re-IPL from named saved systems (NSS)
  • Add support to specify additional kernel parameters for re-IPL
  • Add "auto target" support
  • Add support to re-IPL from device-mapper multipath devices
• cio_ignore:
  • Add new option -i / --is-ignored to determine if a device with a given ID is on the blacklist
    Example:

    # cio_ignore --is-ignored 0.0.0190
    Device 0.0.0190 is ignored
    
    # cio_ignore -i 0.0.0009
    Device 0.0.0009 is not ignored

• cmsfs-fuse:
  • Add a configuration file for automatic translation from EBCIDC to ASCII based on the file type
• tunedasd:
  • Add new option -Q / --query_reserve to determine the reservation status of a device
  • Prerequisites:
    • kernel 2.6.37 feature "dasd: API to query DASD reservation status"
• zgetdump:
  • Add kdump support for --info option
• zfcpdump/zipl:
  • Disable automatic activation of LUNs

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• cpuplugd:
  • Set and restore cmm_pages correctly
• dasdfmt:
  • Fix buffer overrun in error message for option -b
  • Fix format 7 label
• fdasd:
  • Fix format 7 label
• lsluns:
  • Fix LUN reporting for SAN volume controller (SVC)
  • Handle uninitialized value on adapter offline
  • Accept uppercase and lowercase hex digits
• zgetdump:
  • Add umount fallback for --umount option

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