- openSUSE Z Systems

openSUSE knowledge sharing session/Meeting - Tuesday 07th January 2025
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 06 Jan '25

06 Jan '25

Hello together, I hope that you have got a good start into the New War. Tomorrow, Tuesday, the 07th January 2025, is the next of our training/meeting sessions. We will meet us at 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Know each other (networking) 2) Wishes for the this year (also via Linux Distributions Working Group) 3) Linux Distributions Working Group extended for the next year 4) Gnome RDP fixed 5) Graphics bug: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1233167 6) Packaging topics 7) Open tasks and questions 8) Q&A I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah P.S. I will be in the way to Böblingen during this time and will Join via my smartphone. I expect, that the internet ist good enough around Stuttgart.

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openSUSE knowledge sharing session/Meeting - Tuesday 10h December 2024
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 10 Dec '24

10 Dec '24

Hello together, Tomorrow, Tuesday, the 10th December 2024, is the next of our training/meeting sessions. We will meet us at 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Know each other (networking) 2) Wishes for the next year (also via Linux Distributions Working Group) 3) Graphics bug:https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1233167 6) Packaging topics 7) Open tasks and questions 8) Q&A I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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openSUSE knowledge sharing session/Meeting - Tuesday 26th November 2024
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 25 Nov '24

25 Nov '24

Hello together, Tomorrow, Tuesday, the 26th November 2024, is the next of our training/meeting sessions. We will meet us at 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Know each other (networking) 2) Graphics bug: 3) ollama for AI on the mainframe 4) qiskit for Quantum Computing on s390x 5) Packaging topics 6) Open tasks and questions 7) Q&A I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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Cancellation of openSUSE knowledge sharing session/Meeting - Tuesday 12th November 2024
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 11 Nov '24

11 Nov '24

Hello together, I have to cancel our meeting tomorrow because of sickness. I have got a cold with Business without any voice now. Sorry for these circumstances! I am looking forward to seeing you next time again. Best regards, Sarah

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Game written in Cobol
by Ihno Krumreich 05 Nov '24

05 Nov '24

Hallo, anbei das PDF mit dem Programm in Cobol. Zu meinem persoehnlichen Vergnuegen habe ich das ganze dann in 8086-Assembler programmiert. Aktuell gibt es eine Version in perl die man ueber Internet spielen kann: http://ihno-krumreich.homelinux.org/cgi-bin/droids.pl/index.html Viel Spass bei Lesen (und spielen). Ihno

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Fw: Fedora Linux 41 is here! [Fedora] project-news releases
by projects.rg＠smart.ms 04 Nov '24

04 Nov '24

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openSUSE knowledge sharing session/Meeting - Tuesday 29th September 2024
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 28 Oct '24

28 Oct '24

Hello together, Tomorrow, Tuesday, the 29th September 2024, is the next of our training/meeting sessions. We will meet us at 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Know each other (networking) 2) News from IBM TechXchange 3) ollama for AI on the mainframe 4) qiskit for Quantum Computing on s390x 5) Packaging topics 6) Open tasks and questions 7) Q&A I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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openSUSE knowledge sharing session/Meeting - Tuesday 15th October 2024
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 14 Oct '24

14 Oct '24

Hello together, Tomorrow, Tuesday, the 0m15th October 2024, is the next of our training/meeting sessions. We will meet us at 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Know each other (networking) 2) ollama for GenAI on the command line 3) Relevance of Kubernetes on s390x for us 4) Packaging topics 5) Open tasks and questions 6) Mainframe introduction 7) Q&A I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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openSUSE knowledge sharing session/Meeting - Tuesday 01st October 2024
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 01 Oct '24

01 Oct '24

Hello together, Tomorrow, Tuesday, the 01st October 2024, is the next of our training/meeting sessions. We will meet us at 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Know each other (networking) 2) New Hercules emulator accepted 3) Packaging topics 4) Open tasks and questions 5) Mainframe introduction 6) Q&A I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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Nextcloud Upgrade with Nautilus
by Raphael Groner 18 Sep '24

18 Sep '24

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openSUSE knowledge sharing session/Meeting - Tuesday 17th September 2024
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 16 Sep '24

16 Sep '24

Hello together, Tomorrow, Tuesday, the 17th September 2024, is the next of our training/meeting sessions. We will meet us at 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Know each other (networking) 2) apache-arrow not supported/built for s390x any more 3) New Hercules emulator 4) Packaging topics 5) Open tasks and questions 6) Q&A I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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openSUSE knowledge sharing session/Meeting - Tuesday 03th September 2024
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 02 Sep '24

02 Sep '24

Hello together, Tomorrow, Tuesday, the 03th September 2024, is the next of our training/meeting sessions. We will meet us at 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Know each other (networking) 2) s390-tools 3) New Hercules emulator 4) Packaging topics 5) Open tasks and questions 6) Q&A I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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Re: More Recent Version For s390-tools (2.31 => 2.34) on Tumbleweed
by Holger Rauch 26 Aug '24

26 Aug '24

Hi Mirek, thanks a lot for that detailed explanation mentioning both the tools and links. That's definitely useful - will include it in our ZSystem wiki as soon as time permits. Kind regards, Holger On Mo, 26 Aug 2024, Miroslav Franc wrote: > Holger Rauch <holger.rauch(a)posteo.de> writes: > > > Hi Nikolay, > > > > thanks - interesting to know that it's also built for x86_64. (AFAIK, this > > wasn't the case previously.) > > > > @Sarah: Has s390-tools ever had an x86_64 build? And is there any reason why > > an x86_64 build for an s390x specific package is needed (at all)? (The only > > reason I could think of would be tools allowing you to remotely connect to a > > ZSystems instance *from* an x86_64 system. In case such tools are included > > in s390-tools, that particular subset of the s390-tools would indeed be useful > > on x86_64.) > > The reasons are the IBM secure execution features[1] related utilites such > as managing ultravisor secrets (pvsecret utility), generating secure > execution images (genprotimg utility) and managing attestations > (pvattest utility) which can be done from x86_64 workstation.[2][3] In > theory from any other architecture, but I assume x86_64 is the most > important one. > > > [1] https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/linuxonibm/pdf/lx24se04.pdf > [2] https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/linux-on-systems?topic=execution-attesting#t_at… > [3] https://video.ibm.com/recorded/132127046 > > > Mirek Franc

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More Recent Version For s390-tools (2.31 => 2.34) on Tumbleweed
by Holger Rauch 26 Aug '24

26 Aug '24

Hello to all ZSystems list members, I've got a few questions concerning the s390-tools package: - According to https://github.com/ibm-s390-linux/s390-tools/releases the most current release would be 2.34, which is also intended specifically for 6.10 kernels. As 6.10 kernels are the current ones on Tumbleweed for s390x, an upgrade seems reasonable. - Are there any technical reasons why the package release hasn't been upgraded since February this year, despite the fact that newer kernels for s390x have been made available? - As this package is intended for the base system of s390x only, I wonder why this package is built in openSUSE:Factory instead of the ZSystems-specific factory openSUSE:Factory:zSystems ? - What would be possible reasons for NOT upgrading this package to its current release 2.34 and stay with the current one 2.31 instead? Thanks for any additional info/clarifications. Kind regards, Holger

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Aw: Re: More Recent Version For s390-tools (2.31 => 2.34) on Tumbleweed
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 26 Aug '24

26 Aug '24

Hi Miro, Thank you for this detailed explanation! > Gesendet: Montag, 26. August 2024 um 13:51 Uhr > Von: "Miroslav Franc" <mfranc(a)suse.cz> > An: "Holger Rauch" <holger.rauch(a)posteo.de> > Cc: "Nikolay GUEORGUIEV" <nikolay.gueorguiev(a)suse.com>, "Raphael Groner" <projects.rg(a)smart.ms>, zsystems(a)lists.opensuse.org, ada.lovelace(a)gmx.de > Betreff: Re: More Recent Version For s390-tools (2.31 => 2.34) on Tumbleweed > > Holger Rauch <holger.rauch(a)posteo.de> writes: > > > Hi Nikolay, > > > > thanks - interesting to know that it's also built for x86_64. (AFAIK, this > > wasn't the case previously.) > > > > @Sarah: Has s390-tools ever had an x86_64 build? And is there any reason why > > an x86_64 build for an s390x specific package is needed (at all)? (The only > > reason I could think of would be tools allowing you to remotely connect to a > > ZSystems instance *from* an x86_64 system. In case such tools are included > > in s390-tools, that particular subset of the s390-tools would indeed be useful > > on x86_64.) > > The reasons are the IBM secure execution features[1] related utilites such > as managing ultravisor secrets (pvsecret utility), generating secure > execution images (genprotimg utility) and managing attestations > (pvattest utility) which can be done from x86_64 workstation.[2][3] In > theory from any other architecture, but I assume x86_64 is the most > important one. > I didn't know about these features for x86_64. Then I gave the trainings for s390-tools based on an old feature set. I will add these links to our openSUSE zSystems wiki for future trainings and if anybody requires that. > > [1] https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/linuxonibm/pdf/lx24se04.pdf > [2] https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/linux-on-systems?topic=execution-attesting#t_at… > [3] https://video.ibm.com/recorded/132127046 Best regards, Sarah > > > Mirek Franc >

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AI for Linux on Z Redbook
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 23 Aug '24

23 Aug '24

Hello together, IBM has published a Redbook about AI for Linux on Z: https://ibm.github.io/ai-on-z-101/blog/archive/2024/ From my perspective, we can use it as a foundation to understand their strategies with AI better. Then we can analyze also their installation methods for different packages. Best regards, Sarah

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openSUSE knowledge sharing session/Meeting - Tuesday 20th August 2024
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 21 Aug '24

21 Aug '24

Hello together, Tomorrow, Tuesday, the 20th August 2024, is the next of our training/meeting sessions. This email contains a neew calendar entry file. We will meet us at 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Know each other (networking) 2) News related to the fixed kernel bug (new Tumbleweed release) 3) Packaging topics 4) Open tasks and questions 5) Q&A I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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openSUSE zSystems Knowlege Sharing Session / meeting Tuesday - 06th August 2024 (19:00)
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 05 Aug '24

05 Aug '24

Hello together, Tomorrow, Tuesday, the 09th August 2024, is the next of our training/meeting sessions. We will meet us at 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Know each other (networking) 2) News related to the kernel bug 3) Packaging topics 4) Open tasks and questions 5) Q&A I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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Docker Engine on SLES (s390x)
by Raphael Groner 04 Aug '24

04 Aug '24

Hi, can someone please explain those two requirements mentioned explicitly in official docker documentation? What restrictions do they mean? Compare to docker page in OpenSUSE Wiki without those hints (lost a link for latter). " 1. Other architectures, including x86_64, aren't supported for SLES. 2. You must add the OpenSUSE SELinux repository. This repository is not added by default. " https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/sles/ Further, there's explicitly RHEL9 for s390x only. What gets me confused because docker is technically available for all architectures. "The installation instructions on that page refer to packages for RHEL on the s390x architecture (IBM Z). Other architectures, including x86_64, aren't yet supported for RHEL." https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/rhel/ All in all, maybe it is possible to run Fedora (Rawhide or stable) inside a RHEL or SLES/OpenSUSE with docker environment? <rant> Run docker inside yet another docker? </rant> Regards Raphael

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openSUSE zSystems Knowlege Sharing Session / meeting Tuesday - 22nd July 2024 (20:00)
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 22 Jul '24

22 Jul '24

Hello together, Tomorrow, Tuesday, the 22nd July 2024, is the next of our training/meeting sessions. Thanks for meeting you all at the oSC in person! I have to say, that I will be in Munich tomorrow. We will meet us at 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Know each other (networking) 2) mariadb fixed 3) Packaging topics 4) Open tasks and questions 5) Q&A I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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openSUSE zSystems Knowlege Sharing Session / meeting Tuesday - 09th July 2024 (20:00)
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 08 Jul '24

08 Jul '24

Hello together, Tomorrow, Tuesday, the 09th June2024, is the next of our training/meeting sessions. Thanks for meeting you all at the oSC in person! I have to say, that I will be in Munich tomorrow. Therefore, we will move the time from 19:00 to 20:00 (German time). We will meet us at 20:00 (German time)/ 11:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Know each other (networking) 2) After the release is before the next (Leap) release 3) Wishes for future features 4) Status of python-onnx and how to proceed (status update of the Linux Distributions Working Group) 5) Packaging topics 6) Open tasks and questions 7) Q&A I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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Grill alternativ termin
by Ihno Krumreich 26 Jun '24

26 Jun '24

Hi, war dder alternativ Termin heute oder morgen? Gruss Ihno

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openSUSE zSystems Knowlege Sharing Session / meeting Tuesday - 24th June 2024
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 24 Jun '24

24 Jun '24

Hello together, Tomorrow, Tuesday, the 24th June2024, is the next of our training/meeting sessions. Happy Eastern! We have received a new openSUSE Tumbleweed release as an Easter present. We will meet us at 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Know each other (networking) 2) Planning of our BBQ Party at the end of oSC, 29th June (idea of keeping food at home and collecting it on the way) 3)Python-Onnx (no working tests for IBM supported oss and request to disable tests) 4) openSUSE Release announcement in the IBM community 5) Packaging topics 6) openQA 7) Open tasks and questions 8) Q&A I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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openSUSE zSystems Knowlege Sharing Session / meeting Tuesday - 11th June 2024
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 10 Jun '24

10 Jun '24

Hello together, Tomorrow, Tuesday, the 11th June2024, is the next of our training/meeting sessions. Happy Eastern! We have received a new openSUSE Tumbleweed release as an Easter present. We will meet us at 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Know each other (networking) 2) Planning of our BBQ Party at the end of oSC, 29th June (food, car sharing) 3) Review of openSUSE Leap content (special s390x specific features for release announcements) 4) Packaging topics 5) Open tasks and questions 6) Q&A I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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Z Training for the community (Tuesday, 28th May 2024)
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 04 Jun '24

04 Jun '24

Hello together, tomorrow is the last Z training session of the Z training series at 19:00. Last time we went through the memory management and the processor architecture. This time we will go through the difference between zfcp and dasd as storage devices (attached disks). Afterwards you will receive an introduction about qeth as a network device/interface. The last step will be more interactive. We will use the s390-tools and watch, what you can do with this special package. Are you interested for the next learning sessions? Then join us tomorrow at 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time)/ 18:00 (Nigeria) / 14:00 (Brazil)! Our meeting/training room: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Best regards, Sarah

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openSUSE/SUSE zSystems BBQ Party
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 16 May '24

16 May '24

Hello together, The summer is coming. Since 2 years we have got already the habit in our team to meet us for a BBQ Party. There was a suggestion, that we should add it in front or at the end of the openSUSE Conference, that most of us can participate. The openSUSE Conference will be from 26th until 29th June 2024. How about adding the BBQ to the end of the 29th June, that we go together by car to the garden? Best regards, Sarah

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Z Training for the community (Tuesday, 14th May 2024)
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 13 May '24

13 May '24

Hello together, as mentioned 2 weeks ago during the Z introduction training by IBM, we will go deeper into the Z architecture tomorrow at 19:00. If you are interested for a deeper technical knowledge (what can be done based on our existing "z15" hardware), you should join. IBMers are not allowed to teach in such details the community. Therefore, I will do it for our own (based on provided slides in the past and some university lecture material). In the first step, we will go through the different existing components[0]. Afterwards, we will go deeper into the processor architecture and the memory management. Are you interested for the next learning sessions? Then join us next Tuesday at 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time)/ 18:00 (Nigeria) / 14:00 (Brazil)! Our meeting/training room: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Best regards, Sarah [0] https://www.ibm.com/training/pdfs/The_New_IBM_z15_A-technical_review_of_the…

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Z Training by IBM for the community (Tuesday, 30th April 2024)
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 25 Apr '24

25 Apr '24

Hello together, are you a Package Maintainer or in general Linux Developer/Tester interested what is behind the architecture s390x or do you want to refresh your knowledge about mainframes? I am happy to announce, that I have received the offer by PJ Catalano at the IBM Z Symposium to provide a technical mainframe introduction with the direction of a deeper knowledge for the Z architecture during our openSUSE zSystems Knowledge Sharing Session, Tuesday, the 30th April 2024 at 19:00 (German time). PJ is Senior Technical Staff Member and Test Architect (maintaining and testing 200 mainframes in an IBM laboratory in the USA) at IBM. We know us from conferences (Open Mainframe Project and IBM conferences) and he wants to support expanding the mainframe knowledge within the Linux community. This training is free for all. You can forward also this invitation to other Members within the Linux community (who are looking for such trainings). Are you interested for the next learning sessions? Then join us next Tuesday at 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time)/ 18:00 (Nigeria) / 14:00 (Brazil)! Our meeting/training room: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Best regards, Sarah P.S. The training next week is also usable for real Mainframe newbies. We will follow with deeper technical introductions 2 weeks later.

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openSUSE zSystems Knowlege Sharing Session / meeting Tuesday - 15th April 2024
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 15 Apr '24

15 Apr '24

Hello together, Tomorrow, Tuesday, the 15th April 2024, is the next of our training/meeting sessions. Happy Eastern! We have received a new openSUSE Tumbleweed release as an Easter present. We will meet us at 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Know each other (networking) 2) SUSE internal kernel based memory issue 3) old memory bug fixed by SUSE: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=101523 4) ansible working again on openSUSE 5) Review of "Upgrade SLES to openSUSE" wiki page - Are other Linux distributions required there? 6) Packaging topics 7) Open tasks and questions 8) Q&A I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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openSUSE zSystems Knowlege Sharing Session / meeting Tuesday - 2nd April 2024
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 01 Apr '24

01 Apr '24

Hello together, Tomorrow, Tuesday, the 2nd April 2024, is the next of our training/meeting sessions. Happy Eastern! We have received a new openSUSE Tumbleweed release as an Easter present. We will meet us at 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Know each other (networking) 2) SUSE internal kernel based memory issue 3) old memory bug resolved: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=101523 4) new Tumbleweed release 5) Review of other affected packages (memory related) 6) Packaging topics 7) Open tasks and questions 8) Q&A I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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openSUSE zSystems Knowlege Sharing Session / meeting Tuesday - 18th March 2024
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 18 Mar '24

18 Mar '24

Hello together, Tomorrow, Tuesday, the 18th March 2024, is the next of our training/meeting sessions. Sorry, that I did not attend the last session because of exams. We will meet us at 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Know each other (networking) 2) GPG key problem in opensuse-build-keys resolved 3) old memory bug from 2021 ongoing again: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=101523 -> After apllying the fix, builds are slower not submitted) 4) s390x build status: compilers require a lot of time 5) Packaging topics 6) Open tasks and questions 7) Q&A I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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openSUSE zSystems Knowlege Sharing Session / meeting Tuesday - 6th March 2024
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 04 Mar '24

04 Mar '24

Hello together, Tomorrow, Tuesday, the 06th March 2024, is the next of our training/meeting sessions. Sorry, that I did not attend the last session because of exams. We will meet us at 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Know each other (networking) 2) mainframe status (running mainframes ;)) 3) GPG key problems for s390x: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/mock/issues/1334 4) old memory bug from 2021 ongoing again: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=101523 5) openQA status 6) Packaging topics 7) Open tasks and questions 8) Q&A I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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openSUSE zSystems Knowlege Sharing Session / meeting Tuesday - 5th February 2024
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 05 Feb '24

05 Feb '24

Hello together, Tomorrow, Tuesday, the 05th February 2024, is the next of our training/meeting sessions. We will meet us at 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Know each other (networking) 2) mainframe status 3) openQA status 6) Packaging topics 7) Open tasks and questions 8) Q&A I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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openSUSE zSystems Knowlege Sharing Session / meeting Tuesday - 30th January 2024
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 30 Jan '24

30 Jan '24

Hello together, Jitsy does not work at the moment. We are switching the Jitsi server. The authentitcation works with the user gast and the date 30.01.2024. I have to tell some good news from the Linux Distributions Working Group and my experience at the IBM TechXChange in Barcelona. Therefore, we hold the meeting of last week this week. Tomorrow, Tuesday, the 30th January 2024, is the next of our training/meeting sessions. We will meet us at 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: conference.ztl.team/cb Topics for this session: 1) Know each other (networking) 2) Performance optimization 3) openQA status 4) Z Assembler Training material 5) Packaging topics 6) Open tasks and questions 7) Q&A I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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openSUSE zSystems Knowlege Sharing Session / meeting Tuesday - 30th January 2024
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 29 Jan '24

29 Jan '24

Hello together, I have to tell some good news from the Linux Distributions Working Group and my experience at the IBM TechXChange in Barcelona. Therefore, we hold the meeting of last week this week. Tomorrow, Tuesday, the 30th January 2024, is the next of our training/meeting sessions. We will meet us at 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Know each other (networking) 2) Performance optimization 3) openQA status 4) Z Assembler Training material 5) Packaging topics 6) Open tasks and questions 7) Q&A I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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openSUSE zSystems Knowlege Sharing Session / meeting can not happen today
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 23 Jan '24

23 Jan '24

Hello together, I have to say that I am at the IBM TechXChange in Barcelona and I have got a dinner with IBM today in parallel to our openSUSE meeting. Therefore I have to forward our meeting to next week. Sorry for such circumstances. Best regards, Sarah

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openSUSE zSystems Knowlege Sharing Session / meeting Tuesday - 09th January 2024
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 08 Jan '24

08 Jan '24

Hello together, I hope you all have got a happy new year! Tomorrow, Tuesday, the 09th January 2024, is the next of our training/meeting sessions. We will meet us at 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Know each other (networking) 2) mainframe status 3) openQA status 4) Interesting bug report topics 5) Packaging topics 6) Open tasks and questions 7) Q&A I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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openSUSE zSystems Knowlege Sharing Session / meeting Tuesday - 12th December 2023
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 12 Dec '23

12 Dec '23

Hello together, Today - Tuesday, the 12th December 2023, is the next of our training/meeting sessions. We will meet us at 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Know each other (networking) 2) mainframe status 3) openQA status 4) Interesting bug report topics 5) Packaging topics 6) Open tasks and questions 7) Q&A I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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openSUSE zSystems Knowlege Sharing Session / meeting Tuesday - 28th November2023
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 27 Nov '23

27 Nov '23

Hello together, Tomorrow - Tuesday, the 28th November 2023, is the next of our training/meeting sessions. We will meet us at 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Know each other (networking) 2) mainframe status 3) openQA status 4) Interesting bug report topics 5) Packaging topics 6) Open tasks and questions 7) Q&A I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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openSUSE zSystems Knowlege Sharing Session / meeting Tuesday - 14th November2023
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 13 Nov '23

13 Nov '23

Hello together, Tomorrow - Tuesday, the 14th November 2023, is the next of our training/meeting sessions. The mainframe movement from Nuremberg to Prague is so far, that we can build iso images in OBS again, but the mainframe is not accessible for openQA at the moment. We will meet us at 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Know each other (networking) 2) Interesting bug report topics 3) Packaging topics 4) Open tasks and questions 5) Q&A I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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openSUSE zSystems Knowlege Sharing Session / meeting Tuesday - 31st October 2023
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 30 Oct '23

30 Oct '23

Hello together, Tomorrow - Tuesday, the 31st October 2023, is the next of our training/meeting sessions. That is no default session, because we will receive some guests from outside of openSUSE. After some discussions in https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/issues/10498 I have suggested an introduction/training for using OBS. We will represent OBS for multi-arch and building packages for multiple Linux distributions. That will include the role of development projects and how the Kubernetes project can use all of our rpm packages as a foundation. We will meet us at 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Know each other (networking) 2) OBS training 3) Packaging topics 4) Open tasks and questions 5) Q&A I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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openSUSE zSystems Knowlege Sharing Session / meeting Tuesday - 17th October 2023
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 16 Oct '23

16 Oct '23

Hello together, Tomorrow - Tuesday, the 17th October 2023, is the next of our training/meeting sessions. I am open for questions and a round to find together solutions for open tasks. I have to add, that I will make it a little bit shorter from my side because of 2 panel discussion sessions at the IBM Z Day on Wednesday: https://www.ibm.com/community/z/ibm-z-day-2023/ On top I will speak also about the IBM TechXChage at the meetup of the Academic Mainframe Consortium this week: https://amc-ev.org/young-talents-mainframe-community-19-oktober-2023/ We will meet us at 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Know each other (networking) 2) Mainframe ressources / SUSE mainframe 3) Maintainerships 4) Packaging topics 5) Open tasks and questions 6) Q&A I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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openSUSE zSystems Knowlege Sharing Session / meeting Tuesday - 3th October 2023
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 02 Oct '23

02 Oct '23

Hello together, Tomorrow - Tuesday, the 03th October 2023, is the next of our training/meeting sessions. I am open for questions and a round to find together solutions for open tasks. We will meet us at 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Know each other (networking) 2) Mainframe ressources 3) Packaging topics 4) Open tasks and questions 5) Q&A I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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openSUSE zSystems Knowlege Sharing Session / meeting Tuesday - 19th September2023
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 18 Sep '23

18 Sep '23

Hello together, Tomorrow - Tuesday, the 19th September 2023, is the next of our training/meeting sessions. We will receiving a colleague as a guest, who wants to learn how to integrate git downloads via service files into OBS builds. And it seems, that our zSystems build load will be growing. Elizabeth has added our OBS into the list of free resources for building/working on a mainframe besides the LinuxONE (OSS) Community Cloud: https://openmainframeproject.org/news/developer-resources-for-linux-on-s390… I am open for questions and a round to find together solutions for open tasks. We will meet us at 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Know each other (networking) 2) Guidance in integrating git downloads into OBS 2) cmsfs and s390-tools - How to proceed 3) Bug report: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1215337 4) Other Packaging topics 5) Open tasks and questions 6) Q&A I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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cmsfs is failing
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 06 Sep '23

06 Sep '23

Hello together, I went through our failed packages and I have identified cmsfs, which is really s390x specific. The software has not been updated since around 9 years. Therefore, I wanted to check the IBM website for the support. The latest z/VM version is supporting cmsfs: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/linux-on-z?topic=c-cmsfs-fuse-1 Anyway, we are receiving this error message for openSUSE: [ 99s] *** UNAME says this is a Linux system. [ 100s] cmsfssed.sh: this release of Linux is not supported! @Ihno: Can you check for SLES, whether SLES is also not supported any more for cmsfs? Then we should report it via the Linux Distributions Working Group to IBM. Best regards, Sarah

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openSUSE zSystems Knowlege Sharing Session / meeting Tuesday - 5th September2023
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 04 Sep '23

04 Sep '23

Hello together, Tomorrow - Tuesday, the 5th September 2023, is the next of our training/meeting sessions. It seems we have to discuss new enablement/packaging topics for the next meeting. I am open for questions and a round to find together solutions for open tasks. We will meet us at 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Know each other (networking) 2) Fixing cmsfs - Update of the kernel version 3) Test for sshfs in openSUSE Leap 15.6 Alpha is failing: https://openqa.opensuse.org/tests/3534840#step/sshfs/19 4) Other Packaging topics 5) Open tasks and questions 6) Q&A I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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openSUSE zSystems Knowlege Sharing Session / meeting Tuesday - 8th August 2023
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 21 Aug '23

21 Aug '23

Hello together, Tomorrow - Tuesday, the 22nd August 2023, is the next of our training/meeting sessions. It seems we have to discuss new enablement/packaging topics for the next meeting. I am open for questions and a round to find together solutions for open tasks. We will meet us at 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Know each other (networking) 2) Packaging topics 3) Open tasks and questions 4) Q&A I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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openSUSE zSystems Knowlege Sharing Session / meeting Tuesday - 8th August 2023
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 07 Aug '23

07 Aug '23

Hello together, Tomorrow - Tuesday, the 108th August 2023, is the next of our training/meeting sessions. Some enablement topics have happened in the last weeks: - calc - adios2 It seems we have to discuss new enablement/packaging topics for the next meeting. I am open for questions and a round to find together solutions for open tasks. We will meet us at 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Know each other (networking) 2) Packaging topics 3) Open tasks and questions 4) Q&A I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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Fw: SLES 15 servers moving from SMT to RMT on the OSS Cloud
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 28 Jul '23

28 Jul '23

Hello together, I want to forward this information about SLES in the LinuxONE OSS Community Cloud. If you have upgraded your vm to openSUSE, no changes are required because you are using our openSUSE sources then. Best regards, Sarah > Gesendet: Freitag, den 28.07.2023 um 16:41 Uhr > Von: "Bruce Gilkes" <bgilkes(a)us.ibm.com> > An: > Betreff: SLES 15 servers moving from SMT to RMT on the OSS Cloud > > Dear OSS user, > > > We are moving the package management for SLES to a new management server and switching from SMT to RMT. Please see the instructions below for updating your SLES servers. Note, if you are at SLES15SP2, then you must first update to SP3 and then run the commands to connect to the RMT server. Please let me know when this has been completed or if you have any issues. Once everyone is finished we will shut down the SMT server. > > > > Note: All SLES servers deployed recently are already connected to the RMT server, however it is best to go ahead and run the script to be sure even if you are already on SP4. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > If at SLES15SP3 or SLES15SP4 run the appropriate script from http://148.100.42.7/packages/ > > > > curl /home/linux1/smtreg_15sp3.sh -o http://148.100.42.7/packages/smtreg_15sp3.sh > > > > chmod 777 /home/linux1/smtreg_15sp3.sh > > > > /home/linux1/smtreg_15sp3.sh > > > > Your server should now be connected to the RMT server at 148.100.42.16 > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > If at SLES15SP2, you must first update to SLES15 SP3 because SP2 is no longer supported. > > sudo zypper install zypper-migration-plugin > > > > confirm or change /etc/zypp/zypp.conf > > solver.onlyRequires = true > > > > confirm or change /etc/zypp/zypper.conf > > installRecommends=false > > > > sudo zypper migration > > only choice is SLES15SP3 > > > > reboot > > > > curl /home/linux1/smtreg_15sp3.sh -o http://148.100.42.7/packages/smtreg_15sp3.sh > > > > chmod 777 /home/linux1/smtreg_15sp3.sh > > > > /home/linux1/smtreg_15sp3.sh > > > > Your server should now be connected to the RMT server at 148.100.42.16 > > Regards, > > Bruce Gilkes > > IBM Community Clouds Project Leader > > Email: bgilkes(a)us.ibm.com Mobile: 1-954-234-5929 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > LinuxONE Community Cloud - FREE!! Give it a test drive!! https://developer.ibm.com/articles/get-started-with-ibm-linuxone/ > > Fast Start Guides for the LinuxONE Community Cloud https://www.ibm.com/community/z/linuxone-cc/faststart/ > > Find me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bruce-gilkes-89a68718a/ > > > > [Linux on LinuxONE badge image. Validation. Foundational level. Issued by IBM][Graphical user interface, text, application Description automatically generated][Graphical user interface, text, application Description automatically generated][signature_3275770170][signature_1614001203][Diagram Description automatically generated with medium confidence]

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Cancelling the next openSUSE zSystems Knowlege Sharing Session / meeting
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 23 Jul '23

23 Jul '23

Hello together, Sorry, that I have to say that I have got a summer event by my employer next Tuesday. Therefore, I have to cancel our next openSUSE zSystems Knowledge Sharing Session. I am looking forward to seeing you in 2 weeks again. Best regards, Sarah

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openSUSE zSystems Knowlege Sharing Session / meeting Tuesday - 11th July 2023
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 10 Jul '23

10 Jul '23

Hello together, Tomorrow - Tuesday, the 11th July 2023, is the next of our training/meeting sessions. I am open for questions and a round to find together solutions for open tasks. We will meet us at 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Know each other (networking) 2) Feature planning for the next Leap release 3) Open tasks and questions 4) Q&A I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah P.S. I want to say "Thank you!" to all attendees at our openSUSE/SUSE BBQ Party. I have enjoyed it. :)

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openSUSE/SUSE zSystems BBQ party
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 02 Jul '23

02 Jul '23

Hello together, as at the openSUSE conference discussed, we want to have our openSUSE/SUSE zSystems party this year again. I wrote already last week in our meeting discussion announcement, that we want to do it 7th July 2023 in my garden. Thanks to Ihno for providing your garden last year! We want to switch between our gardens. Therefore, we want to do it in my one in Fürth this year. You will receive my address as a private message some days before. One topic to discuss is, what we want to provide/bring with ourselves. Holger wants to buy some sausages. Christian will bring some wine. I have got charcoal briquets for the grill and can prepare italian vegetable and some potato salad. Sauces and mustard are also available at my home. What do you propose (the others) to bring with you? Thanks! Best regards, Sarah

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openSUSE zSystems Knowlege Sharing Session / meeting Tuesday
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 26 Jun '23

26 Jun '23

Hello together, Tomorrow - Tuesday, the 20th June 2023, is the next of our training/meeting sessions. I am open for questions and a round to find together solutions for open tasks. We will meet us at 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Know each other (networking) 2) Our BBQ party 07th July 2023 - Who wants to bring what? 3) Approved workshop for the Open Source Day 4) Feature planning for the next Leap release 5) Open tasks and questions 6) Q&A I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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Spectre vulnerability also present on s390x CPUs (according to "lscpu" output)?
by Holger Rauch 26 Jun '23

26 Jun '23

Hi all, the output of lscpu shows: [...] Spectre v1: Mitigation; __user pointer sanitization Spectre v2: Mitigation; etokens [...] is the (virtual) CPU really affected by Spectre or is it just some false alarm? (I'm aware that even if it were affected, the vulns are mitigated, but it still strikes me somewhat strange, to be honest.) Apart from that, I'm curious about the CPU flags. Again, output of lscpu: Flags: esan3 zarch stfle msa ldisp eimm dfp edat etf3eh highgprs te vx vxd vxe gs vxe2 vxp sort dflt sie (While "zarch" is probably self-explanatory, the remaining flags are not. Is there a list on the MEANING - not just the non-abbreviated full terms - of these flags?) TIA for any clarifications & kind regards, Holger

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Feature requests for openSUSE Leap 15.6
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 19 Jun '23

19 Jun '23

Hello together, We have got a new release of openSUSE Leap 15.5. After the openSUSE Conference the planned release for openSUSE Leap 15.6 has been announced and the deadline for feature requests is already next month. Last year we did some requests like Java 17 based on OpenJ9. I suggest to think again about such important feature requests for having happy Linux users. We can collect our topics here or in our next meeting next week. Best regards, Sarah

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openSUSE zSystems Knowlege Sharing Session / meeting Tuesday
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 12 Jun '23

12 Jun '23

Hello together, Tomorrow - Tuesday, the 13th June 2023, is the next of our training/meeting sessions. Last time all attending people agreed, that 19:00 would be a better/nice time. Therefore, we want to keep this time switch. I am open for questions and a round to find together solutions for open tasks. We will meet us at 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Know each other (networking) 2) Open tasks and questions 3) Q&A I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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openSUSE zSystems Knowlege Sharing Session / meeting tomorrow
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 29 May '23

29 May '23

Hello together, Tomorrow is the next of our training/meeting sessions. I have to move the meeting time for one hour further because of the "Berg" Event. I am open for questions and a round to find together solutions for open tasks. We will meet us at 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Know each other (networking) 2) Open tasks and questions 3) Q&A I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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openSUSE zSystems Knowlege Sharing Session / meeting tomorrow
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 15 May '23

15 May '23

Hello together, Tomorrow is the next of our training/meeting sessions. I am open for questions and a round to find together solutions for open tasks. We will meet us at 18:00 (German time)/ 9:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Know each other (networking) 2) Open tasks and questions 3) Q&A I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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openSUSE zSystems Knowlege Sharing Session / meeting tomorrow
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 01 May '23

01 May '23

Hello together, Tomorrow is the next of our training/meeting sessions. I am open for questions and a round to find together solutions for open tasks. We will meet us at 18:00 (German time)/ 9:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Know each other (networking) 2) Open tasks and questions 3) Q&A I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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openSUSE zSystems Knowlege Sharing Session / meeting tomorrow
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 17 Apr '23

17 Apr '23

Hello together, Tomorrow is the next of our training/meeting sessions. I am open for questions and a round to find together solutions for open tasks. Additionally, IBM has got a IBM Technical XChange about mainframes for half an hour in the middle of our meeting. That is a nice possibility for a virtual outreach to an IBM event for the team Therefore, you can suggest any interesting topic for you. We will meet us at 18:00 (German time)/ 9:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Know each other (networking) 2) IBM Techl XChange Call: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/blogs/marius-ciortea/2023/04/06/ib… 3) Open tasks and questions 4) Q&A (open for questions for people missing in last sessions) I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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openSUSE zSystems Knowlege Sharing Session / meeting tomorrow
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 03 Apr '23

03 Apr '23

Hello together, Tomorrow is the next of our training/meeting sessions. We will receive the follower of Mark, Nikolay, as a guest. Welcome to the openSUSE zSystems team! I am open for questions and a round to find together solutions for open tasks. Therefore, you can suggest any interesting topic for you. We will meet us at 18:00 (German time)/ 9:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Know each other (networking) 2) openSUSE Conference 3) Open tasks and questions 4) Q&A (open for questions for people missing in last sessions) The openSUSE Conference is in front of the door. We should think about proposals because the Call for Papers will end in April. I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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openSUSE zSystems Knowlege Sharing Session / meeting today
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 21 Mar '23

21 Mar '23

Hello together, anyway the email transfer did not work yesterday in the evening. Today is the next of our training/meeting sessions. I am open for questions and a round to find together solutions for open tasks. Therefore, you can suggest any interesting topic for you. We will meet us at 18:00 (German time)/ 9:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Open Source Day by the Grace Hopper Celebration 2) Team Barbecue Party this summer 3) openSUSE Conference 4) Open tasks and questions 5) Q&A (open for questions for people missing in last sessions) I have received an invitation by the Open Source Day again. After last year, Christian and I have received the experience, that the Grace Hopper Celebration has moved their plan, that the Mentees are joining distributed in the evening now. Therefore, we had to give openSUSE instructions multiple times. I thought about testing a workshop instead of an hackathon this time. Our barbecue party for the zSytems Team was so nice last year, that we want to repeat it. It would be nice, if we can include all s390x people from SUSE and openSUSE. Therefore, we want to know, when you are available in Nuremberg. The openSUSE Conference is in front of the door. We should think about proposals because the Call for Papers will end in April. I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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openSUSE zSystems Knowlege Sharing Session / meeting tomorrow
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 06 Feb '23

06 Feb '23

Hello together, tomorrow is the next of our training/meeting sessions. I am open for questions and a round to find together solutions for open tasks. Therefore, you can suggest any interesting topic for you. We will meet us at 18:00 (German time)/ 9:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Status updates 2) How to resolve problems 3) Open topics and discussions 4) Q&A (open for questions for people missing in last sessions) The invitation caldendar entry is updated. I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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openSUSE zSystems Knowlege Sharing Session / meeting tomorrow
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 09 Jan '23

09 Jan '23

Hello together, tomorrow is the next of our training/meeting sessions. I am open for questions and a round to find together solutions for open tasks. Therefore, you can suggest any interesting topic for you. We will meet us at 18:00 (German time)/ 9:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Status updates 2) How to resolve problems 3) Open topics and discussions 4) Q&A (open for questions for people missing in last sessions) The invitation caldendar entry is updated. I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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openSUSE zSystems Christmas meeting tomorrow
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 26 Dec '22

26 Dec '22

Hello together, tomorrow is the next of our meeting sessions. I hope you had some nice Christmas days. That will be an exceptional session directly after the Christmas holidays. The plan is more for exchange and discussions about the year and what we want to achieve/improve in the next year. But I am also open for questions and a round to find together solutions for open tasks. Therefore, you can suggest any interesting topic for you. We will meet us at 18:00 (German time)/ 9:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Status updates 2) How to resolve problems 3) Open topics and discussions 4) Q&A (open for questions for people missing in last sessions) The invitation caldendar entry is updated. I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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openSUSE zSystems Knowlege Sharing Session / meeting tomorrow
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 12 Dec '22

12 Dec '22

Hello together, tomorrow is the next of our training/meeting sessions. I am open for questions and a round to find together solutions for open tasks. Therefore, you can suggest any interesting topic for you. We will meet us at 18:00 (German time)/ 9:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Status updates 2) How to resolve problems 3) Open topics and discussions 4) Q&A (open for questions for people missing in last sessions) The invitation caldendar entry is updated. I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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openSUSE zSystems Knowlege Sharing Session / meeting tomorrow
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 14 Nov '22

14 Nov '22

Hello together, tomorrow is the next of our training/meeting sessions. I am open for questions and a round to find together solutions for open tasks. Therefore, you can suggest any interesting topic for you. We will meet us at 18:00 (German time)/ 9:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Status updates 2) How to resolve problems 3) Open topics and discussions 4) Q&A (open for questions for people missing in last sessions) The invitation caldendar entry is updated. I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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openSUSE zSystems Knowlege Sharing Session / meeting tomorrow
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 31 Oct '22

31 Oct '22

Hello together, tomorrow is the next of our training/meeting sessions. I am open for questions and a round to find together solutions for open tasks. Therefore, you can suggest any interesting topic for you. We will meet us at 18:00 (German time)/ 9:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Status updates 2) openQA status and how to resolve problems 3) Open topics and discussions 4) Q&A (open for questions for people missing in last sessions) The invitation caldendar entry is updated. I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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knowledge sharing/meeting session tomorrow
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 17 Oct '22

17 Oct '22

Hello together, tomorrow is the next of our training/meeting sessions. I am open for questions and a round to find together solutions for open tasks. Therefore, you can suggest any interesting topic for you. We will meet us at 18:00 (German time)/ 9:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Status updates 2) openQA status and how to resolve problems 3) Open topics and discussions 4) Q&A (open for questions for people missing in last sessions) I have to recreate a new calendar entry. Therefore, the first invitation for the new time is valid with the link above. I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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New meeting time for openSUSE zsystems
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 16 Oct '22

16 Oct '22

Hello together, then the next meeting will be the following Tuesday and we will keep the time at 18:00. I have expected some international New Joiners and I wanted to be friendly with the time. But it seems, that we are only German ones now. Best regards, Sarah ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello together, Sorry, that I had to cancel the last meeting because of so many IBM related conferences. I can say, that we have some interested new people for our team (from Open Source Day until the Academic Mainframe Consortium with the Mainframe Summercamp). In parallel, I have received a meeting at the university for Wednesday in the evening and it seems, that we have got new countries in our team. I want to suggest to switch from Wednesday to Tuesday. Then I need your feedback, which time zone you have got, that we can find a matching time for all of us. Thank you! Best regards, Sarah P.S. I want to suggest also, that we repeat our training sessions for knowledge sharing again.

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New meeting time for openSUSE zsystems
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 09 Oct '22

09 Oct '22

Hello together, Sorry, that I had to cancel the last meeting because of so many IBM related conferences. I can say, that we have some interested new people for our team (from Open Source Day until the Academic Mainframe Consortium with the Mainframe Summercamp). In parallel, I have received a meeting at the university for Wednesday in the evening and it seems, that we have got new countries in our team. I want to suggest to switch from Wednesday to Tuesday. Then I need your feedback, which time zone you have got, that we can find a matching time for all of us. Thank you! Best regards, Sarah P.S. I want to suggest also, that we repeat our training sessions for knowledge sharing again.

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knowlegde session cancelled today
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 21 Sep '22

21 Sep '22

Hello together, I have to cancel our knowledge sharing session today because some of us are at the Open Mainframe Summit today. In parallel, I want to announce that we had some success at the Open Source Day this year again. Asha from Sri Lanka wants to join our team. That is the reason, that we have to find a new time for our meeting. We are a distributed team in USA and Germany until now. I need the time zones of our SUSE people joining our meetings from time to time for finding a new matching time for all of us. Thank you! Best regards, Sarah

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knowledge sharing/meeting session tomorrow
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 06 Sep '22

06 Sep '22

Hello together, tomorrow is the next of our training/meeting sessions. I am open for questions and a round to find together solutions for open tasks. Therefore, you can suggest any interesting topic for you. We will meet us at 18:00 (German time)/ 9:00 (Pacific time)/ 17:00 (Nigeria) / 13:00 (Brazil) on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Status updates 2) System resetup of our VMs (or selection) for the Open Source Day 3) Open topics and discussions 4) Q&A (open for questions for people missing in last sessions) Yes. You are reading correctly. We will participate at the Open Source Day by the Grace Hopper Celebration this year again. ;) I want to congratulate also all, who are accepted as Speakers at the IBM Z Day or the Open Mainframe Summit. I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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knowledge sharing/meeting session tomorrow
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 26 Jul '22

26 Jul '22

Hello together, tomorrow is the next of our training/meeting sessions. I am open for questions and a round to find together solutions for open tasks. Therefore, you can suggest any interesting topic for you. We will meet us at 18:00 (German time)/ 9:00 (Pacific time)/ 17:00 (Nigeria) / 13:00 (Brazil) on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Status updates 2) Tasks for the Open Source Day (idea collection, what has to be done) 3) Open topics and discussions 4) Q&A (open for questions for people missing in last sessions) Everybody should have logged in into our ticket system https://progress.opensuse.org/ before this session. I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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knowledge sharing/meeting session tomorrow
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 12 Jul '22

12 Jul '22

Hello together, tomorrow is the next of our training/meeting sessions. I am open for questions and a round to find together solutions for open tasks. Therefore, you can suggest any interesting topic for you. We will meet us at 18:00 (German time)/ 9:00 (Pacific time)/ 17:00 (Nigeria) / 13:00 (Brazil) on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Status updates 2) Tasks for the Open Source Day (idea collection, what has to be done) 3) Open topics 4) Q&A (open for questions for people missing in last sessions) Everybody should have logged in into our ticket system https://progress.opensuse.org/ before this session. I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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knowledge sharing/meeting session today
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 29 Jun '22

29 Jun '22

Hello together, today is the next of our training/meeting sessions. I am open for questions and a round to find together solutions for open tasks. Therefore, you can suggest any interesting topic for you. We will meet us at 18:00 (German time)/ 9:00 (Pacific time)/ 17:00 (Nigeria) / 13:00 (Brazil) on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Status updates 2) IBM emeru Runtimes + licenses 3) address for the BBQ party (1st July) 5) Open topics 6) Q&A (open for questions for people missing in last sessions) Everybody should have logged in into our ticket system https://progress.opensuse.org/ before this session. I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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Re: Follower of OpenJ9 for OpenJDK 17
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 21 Jun '22

21 Jun '22

> Gesendet: Dienstag, 21. Juni 2022 um 10:38 Uhr > Von: "Christian Borntraeger" <borntraeger(a)de.ibm.com> > An: "Sarah Julia Kriesch" <ada.lovelace(a)gmx.de>, zsystems(a)lists.opensuse.org, gunreben(a)t-online.de, fstrba(a)suse.com > Cc: "Murali K Veeravalli" <vmurali(a)in.ibm.com>, "Mark Stoodley" <mstoodle(a)ca.ibm.com> > Betreff: Re: Follower of OpenJ9 for OpenJDK 17 > > Am 16.06.22 um 12:02 schrieb Sarah Julia Kriesch: > > Hello together, > > > > Thank you to Fridich for providing us the OpenJDK 17 in openSUSE Tumbleweed. That is running nice. But we have got an open question, because we can not identify it in the spec file: > > @Fridrich Which JVM is used there/ have you chosen? > > > > Then we have provided OpenJDK 11 also based on OpenJ9. We have figured out, that it does not exist any more. > > There are 2 new options now for OpenJDK 17: > > 1) OpenJDK 17 based on the Semeru Runtimes [0] > > 2) OpenJDK 17 based on Eclipse Temurin [1] > > > > There was a discussion about this JDK topic on the general s390x mailing list [2] in March. Christian gave this feedback by IBM Java Developers: > > "Note that since July 2021, the OpenJDK+OpenJ9 builds at AdoptOpenJDK .net have been built by IBM using the same components and re-branded under the IBM Semeru Runtimes name. > > For the Eclipse Adoptium API going forward, they will only "promote" > > certified builds, ie. IBM Semeru Runtimes Certified Edition. The Eclipse > > Adoptium Marketplace is still being worked on. > > IBM has also done a "soft launch" on our own fork of their API which serves IBM Semeru Runtimes, both Certified Edition and Open Edition, which we host. We hope to have an announcement on that shortly. The code is the same so you can use ALMOST the same query and just swap out the base of the URL and the Vendor. > > Instead of vendor adoptopenjdk use ibm for Open Edition and ibm_ce for Certified Edition." > > > > It seems, that the Eclipse Adoption is only "certified by Eclipse" (if I understand it correctly). We need feedback by @IBM in this case, for future Java support in openSUSE and SLE. I know, that we have got some people on our mailing list. :) > > > > @IBM The general OpenJDK 17 is running (stable) on openSUSE Tumbleweed. Do you prefer the general OpenJDK 17, Eclipse Temurin or the Semeru Runtimes in our releases? > > > > We are open to compare one of them with the general OpenJDK 17 and that we can support your preferred OpenJDK 17 in SLE/openSUSE Leap and openSUSE Tumbleweed the same as we have done with OpenJDK 8 and 11 based on OpenJ9. > > Sarah, > > CCing some Java experts. > > The preferred Java for the platform should be Semeru Runtimes Open or Certified (both are available for s390x). Semeru Runtimes are available for Java 8, 11, 17, 18 (for Open Edition) and for Java 11 and 17 (Certified Edition). Eclipse Temurin is a raw build of OpenJDK but not as well optimized for the s390x platform, particularly in the areas of startup performance and memory consumption. While available and certified by Eclipse, it is not the preferred option. > > Christian >

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Follower of OpenJ9 for OpenJDK 17
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 16 Jun '22

16 Jun '22

Hello together, Thank you to Fridich for providing us the OpenJDK 17 in openSUSE Tumbleweed. That is running nice. But we have got an open question, because we can not identify it in the spec file: @Fridrich Which JVM is used there/ have you chosen? Then we have provided OpenJDK 11 also based on OpenJ9. We have figured out, that it does not exist any more. There are 2 new options now for OpenJDK 17: 1) OpenJDK 17 based on the Semeru Runtimes [0] 2) OpenJDK 17 based on Eclipse Temurin [1] There was a discussion about this JDK topic on the general s390x mailing list [2] in March. Christian gave this feedback by IBM Java Developers: "Note that since July 2021, the OpenJDK+OpenJ9 builds at AdoptOpenJDK .net have been built by IBM using the same components and re-branded under the IBM Semeru Runtimes name. For the Eclipse Adoptium API going forward, they will only "promote" certified builds, ie. IBM Semeru Runtimes Certified Edition. The Eclipse Adoptium Marketplace is still being worked on. IBM has also done a "soft launch" on our own fork of their API which serves IBM Semeru Runtimes, both Certified Edition and Open Edition, which we host. We hope to have an announcement on that shortly. The code is the same so you can use ALMOST the same query and just swap out the base of the URL and the Vendor. Instead of vendor adoptopenjdk use ibm for Open Edition and ibm_ce for Certified Edition." It seems, that the Eclipse Adoption is only "certified by Eclipse" (if I understand it correctly). We need feedback by @IBM in this case, for future Java support in openSUSE and SLE. I know, that we have got some people on our mailing list. :) @IBM The general OpenJDK 17 is running (stable) on openSUSE Tumbleweed. Do you prefer the general OpenJDK 17, Eclipse Temurin or the Semeru Runtimes in our releases? We are open to compare one of them with the general OpenJDK 17 and that we can support your preferred OpenJDK 17 in SLE/openSUSE Leap and openSUSE Tumbleweed the same as we have done with OpenJDK 8 and 11 based on OpenJ9. Best regards, Sarah [0] https://developer.ibm.com/languages/java/semeru-runtimes/downloads/ [1] https://adoptium.net/de/temurin/releases [2] https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-390@vm.marist.edu/msg73680.html

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knowledge sharing/meeting session tomorrow
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 14 Jun '22

14 Jun '22

Hello together, tomorrow is the next of our training/meeting sessions. I am open for questions and a round to find together solutions for open tasks. Therefore, you can suggest any interesting topic for you. We will meet us at 18:00 (German time)/ 9:00 (Pacific time)/ 17:00 (Nigeria) / 13:00 (Brazil) on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Status updates 2) OpenJDK 17 (can it be used as a default) 3) Participation at the Open Source Day (orga/planning) 4) BBQ party at the end of June (in the garden) 5) Open topics 6) Q&A (open for questions for people missing in last sessions) I was at the IBM z16 Symposium and will tell a little bit about my experience there. Everybody should have logged in into our ticket system https://progress.opensuse.org/ before this session. I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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openSUSE @ Open Source Day (Mentoring)
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 09 Jun '22

09 Jun '22

Hello together, last year was the first time, that I and my zsystems team has participated at th virtual Open Source Day [0]. The Open Source Day is a hackathon day in the USA, where female mentees can contribute to open source projects. I was asked because they had looked for a Linux community and a female community Representative. I can say, that we had success and have received also some new openSUSE Members on this way. But we had provided only s390x tasks. We want to join again. Is anybody else interested to join our team as a Mentor? Then we can provide more tasks (outside of s390x). These tasks can be also packaging related or other (development) stuff. But most should be entry level. The next Open Source Day is Friday, September 16th, 2022. A small warning for all openSUSE Contributors from Europe: That will be a hack night for us! ;) We (from the zsystems team) are planning to join this event again. We would be happy about additional openSUSE Mentors, because the former assigned Mentors were more on an intern level as a qualification. In parallel, a female Release Manager by a hardware distributor should have been a Mentee and interacted as a Mentor. If you are interested to join us, answer to this email and apply on the Open Source Day page[1] as a Mentor. Best regards, Sarah [0] https://opensourceday.anitab.org/agenda/session/570707 [1] https://ghc.anitab.org/programs-and-awards/open-source-day/

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Call for testing of OpenJDK 17
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 06 Jun '22

06 Jun '22

Hello together, it was nice to meet you all at the openSUSE Conference. :) We had nice talks and we have got news for our ZSystems port. Fridrich has fixed all the former maven issues related to s390x and has built OpenJDK 17 for us. We are allowed to test this Java version. If all is working fine, we can make it the default Java in openSUSE Tumbleweed. Thanks for this effort to Fridrich! We will test it and speak about the result in our next meeting. Best regards, Sarah

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Next meeting at the pre-conference party of the openSUSE conference (Kater Murr)
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 29 May '22

29 May '22

Hello together, our next meeting is during the pre-conference party of the openSUSE Conference. Therefore, I want to invite you all (interested people) for next Wednesday at 18:00 to the Kater Murr in Nuremberg. :) I have got also a present for all, who are supporting the s390x port and have been supporting me via the Release Engineering Team. I will provide you free drinks as I promised it already last year. That is the first time to meet you all in presence. The budget for the drinks will come from the double salary (IBM + Accenture) about 4 months in the last year. The money from IBM is invested in the correct place with that. Best regards, Sarah

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Next meeting at the pre-conference party of the openSUSE conference (Kater Murr)
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 28 May '22

28 May '22

Hello together, our next meeting is during the pre-conference party of the openSUSE Conference. Therefore, I want to invite you all (interested people) for next Wednesday at 18:00 to the Kater Murr in Nuremberg. :) I have got also a present for all, who are supporting the s390x port and have been supporting me via the Release Engineering Team. I will provide you free drinks as I promised it already last year. That is the first time to meet you all in presence. The budget for the drinks will come from the double salary (IBM + Accenture) about 4 months in the last year. The money from IBM is invested in the correct place with that. Best regards, Sarah

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Next meeting on Wednesday cancelled because of a conference week
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 15 May '22

15 May '22

Hello together, I have to cancel this meeting on next Wednesday. Most people. in our team (from Accenture) have got the CIE Summit (Accenture internal conference) on Thursday. I have to go to Munich for that on Wednesday as a Speaker. Therefore, we have to let this staus update meeting away. Sorry for that! Best regards, Sarah

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knowledge/meeting sharing session tomorrow
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 03 May '22

03 May '22

Hello together, tomorrow is the next of our training/meeting sessions. I am open for questions and a round to find together solutions for open tasks. Therefore, you can suggest any interesting topic for you. We will meet us at 18:00 (German time)/ 9:00 (Pacific time)/ 17:00 (Nigeria) / 13:00 (Brazil) on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x The summer time change is starting. Therefore, check, whether this time is matching continuously to the German time (or use the ics file). Topics for this session: 1) Status updates 2) Open topics 3) Q&A (open for questions for people missing in last sessions) I was at the IBM z16 Symposium and will tell a little bit about my experience there. Everybody should have logged in into our ticket system https://progress.opensuse.org/ before this session. I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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Team meeting cancelled today
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 20 Apr '22

20 Apr '22

Hello together, I have to cancel our team meeting today because some people have reported sickness. Best regards, Sarah

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knowledge sharing session tomorrow
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 05 Apr '22

05 Apr '22

Hello together, tomorrow is the next of our training sessions. I am open for questions and a round to find together solutions for open tasks. Therefore, you can suggest any interesting topic for you. We will meet us at 18:00 (German time)/ 9:00 (Pacific time)/ 17:00 (Nigeria) / 13:00 (Brazil) on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x The summer time change is starting. Therefore, check, whether this time is matching continuously to the German time (or use the ics file). Topics for this session: 1) Status updates 2) Open topics 3) Q&A (open for questions for people missing in last sessions) Everybody should have logged in into our ticket system https://progress.opensuse.org/ before this session. I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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knowledge sharing session
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 23 Mar '22

23 Mar '22

Hello together, today is the next of our training sessions. I am open for questions and a round to find together solutions for open tasks. Therefore, you can suggest any interesting topic for you. We will meet us at 18:00 (German time)/ 9:00 (Pacific time)/ 17:00 (Nigeria) / 13:00 (Brazil) on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Status updates 2) Open topics 3) Q&A (open for questions for people missing in last sessions) Everybody should have logged in into our ticket system https://progress.opensuse.org/ before this session. I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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knowledge sharing session tomorrow
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 08 Mar '22

08 Mar '22

Hello together, tomorrow is the next of our training sessions. I am open for questions and a round to find together solutions for open tasks. Therefore, you can suggest any interesting topic for you. We will meet us at 18:00 (German time)/ 9:00 (Pacific time)/ 17:00 (Nigeria) / 13:00 (Brazil) on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x The summer time change is starting. Therefore, check, whether this time is matching continuously to the German time (or use the ics file). Topics for this session: 1) Status updates 2) Open topics 3) Q&A (open for questions for people missing in last sessions) Everybody should have logged in into our ticket system https://progress.opensuse.org/ before this session. I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah P.S. openSUSE Tumbleweed has been rolling again and you can test openSUSE Leap 15.4 Beta now.

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knowledge sharing session
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 23 Feb '22

23 Feb '22

Hello together, today is the next of our training sessions. I am open for questions and a round to find together solutions for open tasks. Therefore, you can suggest any interesting topic for you. We will meet us at 18:00 (German time)/ 9:00 (Pacific time)/ 17:00 (Nigeria) / 13:00 (Brazil) on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Status updates 2) Open topics 3) Q&A (open for questions for people missing in last sessions) Everybody should have logged in into our ticket system https://progress.opensuse.org/ before this session. I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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knowledge sharing session tomorrow
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 08 Feb '22

08 Feb '22

Hello together, tomorrow is the next of our training sessions. I am open for questions and a round to find together solutions for open tasks. Therefore, you can suggest any interesting topic for you. We will meet us at 18:00 (German time)/ 9:00 (Pacific time)/ 17:00 (Nigeria) / 13:00 (Brazil) on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Status updates 2) Open topics 3) Q&A (open for questions for people missing in last sessions) Everybody should have logged in into our ticket system https://progress.opensuse.org/ before this session. Last week was FOSDEM and I have created my presentation for that. You can see the results here: https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/collaboration_instead_of_competition/ I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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Mainframe Architecture Training Slides
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 30 Jan '22

30 Jan '22

Hello together, this week we had the topic "The Mainframe Architecture" in our knowledge sharing session. Elizabeth told us, that there are also training slides public accessible. I have added this link to our wiki page: https://www.ibm.com/training/pdfs/The_New_IBM_z15_A-technical_review_of_the… That is a small (but also good) overview about the latest Z15 architecture. There is also a bigger set of technical instruction slides available. Elizabeth has received them and wants to make it public. I want to wait with that because of these default restrictions in such presentation slides: International Business Machines Corporation. No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form without written permission from IBM. We can publish it as part of our ZSystems team at this point, if we are receiving a written approval from IBM. I am happy, that the author of the bigger (training) slide set is open to forward them. Best regards, Sarah P.S. I have added also a YouTube channel Fit4Mainframe in our wiki. That has been created by one of the leading guys of the Academic Mainframe Consortium.

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knowledge sharing session tomorrow
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 25 Jan '22

25 Jan '22

Hello together, tomorrow is the next of our training sessions. We will speak about multiple topics. We will meet us at 18:00 (German time)/ 9:00 (Pacific time)/ 17:00 (Nigeria) / 13:00 (Brazil) on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Status updates 2) The Mainframe Architecture 3) Q&A (open for questions for people missing in last sessions) Everybody should have logged in into our ticket system https://progress.opensuse.org/ before this session. I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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knowledge sharing session tomorrow
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 11 Jan '22

11 Jan '22

Hello together, tomorrow is the next of our training sessions. A lot has happened in the last weeks. I hope you had a nice Christmas break. We will speak about multiple topics. We will meet us at 18:00 (German time)/ 9:00 (Pacific time)/ 17:00 (Nigeria) / 13:00 (Brazil) on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Status updates 2) News from the Open Mainframe Project 3) Presentation at FOSDEM 4) Hands-on practice with packaging problems and solving problems in the team with existing issues (perhaps container image creation hands-on) 5) Q&A (open for questions for people missing in last sessions) Everybody should have logged in into our ticket system https://progress.opensuse.org/ before this session. I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah P.S. Think about your preferences for December meetings. Should we make christmas holidays for our next meetings?

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Problems with s390-tools (configuration or bug)?
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 05 Jan '22

05 Jan '22

Hello together, openQA can not release openSUSE Tumbleweed at the moment, because the system is hanging after the package installation and the restart with following message: Use the ^ and v keys to select which entry is highlighted. Press ', ' enter to boot the selected OS, `e\' to edit the commands before ', ' booting or `c\' for a command-line. ', ' *(1) openSUSE Tumbleweed ', ' (2) Advanced options for openSUSE Tumbleweed ', ' (s) Start bootloader from a read-only snapshot ', 'Welcome to GRUB! ', ' GNU GRUB version 2.06 ', ' Use the ^ and v keys to select which entry is highlighted. Press ', ' enter to boot the selected OS, `e\' to edit the commands before ', ' booting or `c\' for a command-line. ', ' *(1) openSUSE Tumbleweed ', ' (2) Advanced options for openSUSE Tumbleweed ', ' (s) Start bootloader from a read-only snapshot ', ' Loading Linux 5.15.8-1-default ... ', ' Loading initial ramdisk ... ', ' Performing \'kexec -la /boot/image-5.15.8-1-default ', ' --initrd=/boot/initrd-5.15.8-1-default ', ' --command-line=root=UUID=543317df-6bd2-437a-aa2c-65af592d4efb ', ' hvc_iucv=8 TERM=dumb crashkernel=195M mitigations=auto\' ', ' Performing \'systemctl kexec\' (just-in-case) Running in chroot, ignoring command', ' \'kexec\' ', 'Performing \'kexec -e -x\'01: HCPGSP2629I The virtual machine is placed in CP mode', ' due to a SIGP stop from ', ' CPU 00. CP commands are based on s390-tools. If I am looking for the last kexec output, that can be a part for a successful boot process or a "CP IPL" command is required for the integration of z/FCP disks. But we are using DASD disks in this test. I need the more experienced zLinux Users on this mailing list now. We had an update of s390-tools last month. Is that a misconfiguration and we have to add new additional steps for these test cases? Or is that a bug? It seems that GRU>B can be started. The kernel can also be found. Is that a bug in s390-tools then? Thank you for your feedback! Best regards, Sarah

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Merry Christmas with snapd
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 26 Dec '21

26 Dec '21

Dear s390x Team, I want to say "Thank you to all of you!" We have achieved a lot this year. We had our first Leap release. We have enabled a lot of new packages for s390x. We have contributed 2 times to hackathons of the Open source Day (by the Grace Hopper Celebration) and received new team members on this way. That all would not have been possible without you. Additionally, I want to congratulate Peace on the successfully passed Cloud Native Nanodegree. Then I will give my colleague Holger an overview of our Release Engineering process between the years. He is interested in the Release Engineering role for PowerPC, which is empty at the moment. If he is allowed to do that as part of his Consulting job, I want to integrate this topic into our bi-weekly meetings of the s390x team. This role was a one-man show (from IBM-side) in the past. You can work better and receive a better introduction in a team. So we will work as a team specializing in IBM technologies. Then we have founded the Linux Distributions Working Group [0] together with other community distributions via the Open Mainframe Project. Our Kick-off meeting will be on the 10th January 2022 [1]. I hope that we can improve the behaviour with the collaboration together with IBM and the support with that. The focus is on community distributions at the moment. But I believe, that we can open it to all distributions, who are feeling to be affected by such behaviour in the future. I have got a special Christmas present for you all as s390x users. :-) I have enabled snapd for s390x (and again for PowerPC). You can install it with the following commands on openSUSE Tumbleweed: sudo zypper addrepo --refresh https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/system:/snappy/openSUSE_Factory_… snappy sudo zypper --gpg-auto-import-keys refresh sudo zypper install snapd source /etc/profile #or relogin sudo systemctl enable --now snapd sudo systemctl enable snapd.apparmor.service We have got 860 additional software packages for s390x available now. I have added the list. I hoped to make .Net 6 for IBM Z [2] as a Christmas present on this way available for you. But that has been only available for the other architectures as arm and amd64 [3]. The alternative installation script by Microsoft is indicating s390x as x86 with the 64bit architecture. Therefore, the wrong tar archive will be installed. If they do not provide a tar archive for s390x after my bug report, I will use our former Open Source Day Mentees (5 Microsoft employees) to bring it forward. Anyway, have a lot of fun experimenting with these new available packages via snap. :-) I had used snap as a Student for using the zoom client on openSUSE as an example (required for university lessons during Covid). That was not available in our openSUSE repositories. I wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy new year! Best regards, Sarah [0] https://wiki.openmainframeproject.org/display/LinuxDistrosWG/Linux+Distribu… [1] https://lists.openmainframeproject.org/g/wg-linux-distros/message/8 [2] https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/elizabeth-… [3] https://snapcraft.io/dotnet-sdk

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Christmas Holidays
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 02 Dec '21

02 Dec '21

Hello together, yesterday we made the decision that we want to make Christmas holidays (for meetings) in this team. Therefore the next meeting and learning session will be in January 2022. If you need any help with tasks or if you have got other questions, you can ask here on the mailing list. We are open to support you as soon as possible. Best regards, Sarah

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knowledge sharing session
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

Hello together, today is the next of our training sessions. A lot has happened in the last weeks. Therefore, we will speak about multiple topics. We will meet us at 18:00 (German time)/ 9:00 (Pacific time)/ 17:00 (Nigeria) / 13:00 (Brazil) on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Hands-on practice with packaging problems and solving problems in the team with existing issues 2) Status update and news 3) Christmas holidays or next topics for training sessions 4) Q&A (open for questions for people missing in last sessions) Everybody should have logged in into our ticket system https://progress.opensuse.org/ before this session. Thank you to SUSE QE for sponsoring the Enterprise Agile plugin for Redmine! We are using it also and we can see more in the Kanban board now. :) I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah P.S. Think about your preferences for December meetings. Should we make christmas holidays for our next meetings?

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knowledge sharing session
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 17 Nov '21

17 Nov '21

Hello together, today is the next of our training sessions. A lot has happened in the last weeks. Therefore, we will speak about multiple topics. We will meet us tomorrow at 18:00 (German time)/ 9:00 (Pacific time)/ 17:00 (Nigeria) / 13:00 (Brazil) on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Introduction to our s390x team and possible tasks for new team members 2) Status of openQA (disk replacement of worker rebel and tests) 3) Introduction to Packaging (updating of software) 5) Q&A (open for questions for people missing in the last session) Everybody should have logged in into our ticket system https://progress.opensuse.org/ before this session. Afterwards, I can add you as users of our project with the integrated Kanban Board. I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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Status Update instead of Training session today
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 03 Nov '21

03 Nov '21

Hello together, yesterday I did not feel very well. Therefore there was no time to prepare a training session for today. That is the reason, that our meeting today will be a status update instead of a training session. Best regards, Sarah

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knowledge sharing session tomorrow
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

Hello together, tomorrow is the next of our training sessions. A lot has happened in the last weeks. Therefore, we will speak about multiple topics. We will meet us tomorrow at 18:00 (German time)/ 9:00 (Pacific time)/ 17:00 (Nigeria) / 13:00 (Brazil) on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Introduction to our s390x team and possible tasks for new team members 2) Linux Distribution Working Group at the Open Mainframe Project approved and the next steps 3) Introduction to Packaging (bascic osc commands, structure of spec files, how to read error messages and fix them, constraints files) 5) Q&A (open for questions for people missing in the last session) 2 weeks ago we had one new joiner interested for containerization. Therefore, we switched the topic there. Additionally, I believe that we should split the packaging topic to 2 sessions. Additional hints/ updates for tommorow. Everybody should have logged in into our ticket system https://progress.opensuse.org/ before this session. Afterwards, I can add you as users of our project with the integrated Kanban Board. I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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Open Mainframe Project Linux Distributions Working Group proposal draft
by Elizabeth K. Joseph 12 Oct '21

12 Oct '21

Hi everyone, As discussed at our meeting today, Sarah created an Etherpad and I've started editing it to add some details about the proposed Working Group that brings all the s390x distros together: https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/LinuxWGs390xTAC Feel free to add your comments and additions directly, or we can discuss here or on IRC (I'm pleia2 in #opensuse-zsystems). -- Elizabeth K. Joseph || Lyz || pleia2

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knowledge sharing session tomorrow
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 05 Oct '21

05 Oct '21

Hello together, tomorrow is the next of our trainingsessions. A lot has happened in the last weeks. Therefore, we will speak about multiple topics. We will meet us tomorrow at 18:00 (German time)/ 9:00 (Pacific time)/ 17:00 (Nigeria) / 13:00 (Brazil) on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Introduction to our s390x team and possible tasks for new team members 2) Working Group at the Open Mainframe Project 3) Introduction to Packaging 5) Q&A (open for questions for people missing in the last session) Additional hints/ updates for tommorow. Everybody should have logged in into our ticket system https://progress.opensuse.org/ before this session. Afterwards, I can add you as users of our project with the integrated Kanban Board. I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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Results of the Grace Hopper Celebration Open Source Day
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 04 Oct '21

04 Oct '21

Hello together, I wanr to say "Welcome!" to all new people joining us after the last Open Source Day. Last Friday we had a good mixture of Mentees from a university Student until real experienced Software Engineers with more than 10 years of experience. We had 25 interested and really motivated Mentees. Multiple of them want to join our team now! The sonsored VMs by IBM were really interesting for long-term open source contributors joining us for this hackathon. @Elizabeth: I had to forward your email address as a point of contact for other open source projects with interest for long-term access! :-) Best regards, Sarah

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Redeployment of our VMs for the Open Source Day this Friday
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 28 Sep '21

28 Sep '21

Hello together, I have to announce that we need our mainframe VMs for the hackathon of the next Open Source Day this Friday. We are a mentoring organization again and therefore, we need some systems for our mentees. I will redeploy our VMs. I look that you can receive your VMs with fresh installations back next week. Best regards, Sarah

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Rescheduling of the meeting tomorrow to next week
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 21 Sep '21

21 Sep '21

Hello together, I have to say that I have received an important invitation to a meeting in Munich tomorrow. Additionally, there is an dinner in the evening. Therefore, I can not attend our meeting in the evening. I suggest to reschedule it for next week. Best regards, Sarah

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Knowledge sharing session cancelled today (change to next week)
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 08 Sep '21

08 Sep '21

Hello together, I have to cancel the knowledge sharing session and meeting todaz because of sickness. I will change it from today to next week at the same time. If zou are interested, zou can join the IBM Z Day(https://www.ibm.com/community/z/ibm-z-day-2021/) before. I am allowed to speak between 2 keynotes about our container project. Elizabeth is also a Speaker between keznotes. :) This conference is free! Best regards, Sarah

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knowledge sharing session tomorrow (technical mainframe architecture)
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 29 Aug '21

29 Aug '21

Hello together, as mentioned 2 weeks ago, we have planned bi-weekly trainings. As I heard that we would receive additional people and a lot has been happened in the background, my decisions has been to change the topic of "CI/CD within OBS to "the mainframe architecture and future planning". We will meet us tomorrow at 18:00 (German time)/ 9:00 (Pacific time)/ 17:00 (Nigeria) / 13:00 (Brazil) on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Technical mainframe architecture 2) Planning with Trello or our ticket system progress.opensuse.org (having an better overview about our ToDos) 3) Status update 4) Q&A (open for questions for people missing in the last session) I created a ics file with calendar entries for our bi-weekly sessions. That is attached and downloadable in the wiki. I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

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VMs in the LinuxONE Community Cloud for openSUSE
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 19 Aug '21

19 Aug '21

Hello together, I am happy to announce that we have received 7 VMs for openSUSE in the LinuxONE Community Cloud today. These ones will have got a little bit more capacitz than default with 4 vCPUs, 32 GB Mem, 100 GB Disk. I will list them today on a separate wiki page and everybody responded on the doodle will receive an email with an ip address and the required ssh key. That will be also the process in the future to receive access to these systems. What you can do on these systems, what is not possible on the default (120 days): - Reproducing build errors with dumps from OBS (sometimes more than 4GB memory required) - Developing and testing bigger containerization projects with the goal Kubernetes Thank zou to IBM for providing these VMs! Best regards, Sarah

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Updated wiki page
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 01 Aug '21

01 Aug '21

Hello together, as announced in our last training session, I have updated our wiki page: https://en.opensuse.org/ZSystems Everybody, who hadn't the time to join, can find all required content about the LinuxONE Community Cloud, upgrades to openSUSE Tumbleweed and our Containerization topics with Dockerfiles there. We have received the offer to receive VMs with "long-term access" (not only for 120 days). If you want to receive such a VM, then enter your name here: https://doodle.com/poll/wqyrphvp78um825b?utm_source=poll&utm_medium=link Others can not see your name. I will forward the number of required VMs to IBM then. Answer until Wednesday, please. Best regards, Sarah

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cheatsheet for vi
by Ihno Krumreich 28 Jul '21

28 Jul '21

Hi, thats a short cheatsheet for VI. http://ihno-krumreich.homelinux.org/lehre/vi/vi_e.html Regards Ihno

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Reminder: Future trainings (knowledge sharing sessions)
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 28 Jul '21

28 Jul '21

Hello together, if all days are ok for all in the team, I want to suggest this Wednesday, 28th July 2021, at 18:00 (German time)/ 9:00 (Pacific time)/ 17:00 (Nigeria) / 13:00 (Brazil). I hope that it is working for all on this mailing list. :) We will meet us on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for the first session: 1) Introduction to Mainframes and the LinuxONE Community Cloud 2) How to upgrade in install the required environment 3) Dockerfiles and their structure 4) How to test container images on the Mainframe (and other systems) 5) Plans: Which applications are required as container images? (Discussion with suggestions for all) I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all (especially our new Team Members). :-) Best regards, Sarah > Gesendet: Dienstag, 20. Juli 2021 um 15:31 Uhr > Von: "Sarah Julia Kriesch" <ada.lovelace(a)gmx.de> > An: zsystems(a)lists.opensuse.org > Betreff: Project based working time sponsoring for s390x by Accenture > > Hello together, > > I am happy to announce, that Accenture wants to support us with a project based working time sponsoring. > We are allowed to enable Kubernetes platforms for s390x with the creation of container images. > Michael, Holger, Siarhei, Francesco, Pedro and Roberto are joining our team now. Accenture is providing > the possibility to use until 8 hours/week for open-source projects, NGO contributions, conferences and other stuff. > We (of this Circle group) want to use this time for openSUSE. :-) > > Our team is growing and we have got many new team members with different background. > Some are really good in DevOps/containers and others in mainframe stuff. > I thought about bi-weekly training sessions for knowledge sharing, that all can contribute everywhere > and can understand the background of our team and openSUSE contributions. > > The best matching time for German/Nigerian volunteers is in the evening (USA in the morning). > Is there any special day or time for you all, which is not matching with your family or any hobby? > Then answer here, that we can find the best time for all! > Then we can start next week with the first introduction how to create container images on the mainframe. > > Best regards, > Sarah > > > P.S. For all new people: > 1) Feel free to ask questions on this mailing list. > 2) Another communication channel is #opensuse-zsystems on Libera.Chat.

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Project based working time sponsoring for s390x by Accenture
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 26 Jul '21

26 Jul '21

Hello together, I am happy to announce, that Accenture wants to support us with a project based working time sponsoring. We are allowed to enable Kubernetes platforms for s390x with the creation of container images. Michael, Holger, Siarhei, Francesco, Pedro and Roberto are joining our team now. Accenture is providing the possibility to use until 8 hours/week for open-source projects, NGO contributions, conferences and other stuff. We (of this Circle group) want to use this time for openSUSE. :-) Our team is growing and we have got many new team members with different background. Some are really good in DevOps/containers and others in mainframe stuff. I thought about bi-weekly training sessions for knowledge sharing, that all can contribute everywhere and can understand the background of our team and openSUSE contributions. The best matching time for German/Nigerian volunteers is in the evening (USA in the morning). Is there any special day or time for you all, which is not matching with your family or any hobby? Then answer here, that we can find the best time for all! Then we can start next week with the first introduction how to create container images on the mainframe. Best regards, Sarah P.S. For all new people: 1) Feel free to ask questions on this mailing list. 2) Another communication channel is #opensuse-zsystems on Libera.Chat.

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Welcome to Peace as a result of the Open Source Day
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 16 Jul '21

16 Jul '21

Hello together, yesterday we took part of the hackathon the Open Source Day (for German people more an Open Source Night with Pacific Time ;)). We have received some new Contributors for our s390x port. I want to say "Welcome!" on our mailing list to Peace from Nigeria. She was really happy with the first tasks and want to continue as part of our time. Therefore, our team is growing. We have received some small fixes for packages yesterdy. Additionally, we wanted to start with the enablement of our Docker Images for s390x. IBM has sponsored some VMs for this event. We figured out, that httpd and tomcat are not buildable on SLES SP2 (default in LinuxONE Community Cloud) because of the Docker version. Httpd had problems with group permissions and Tomcat had problems with the Sysconfig of the application server. Then we took the chance to upgrade one VM to openSUSE Tumbleweed (with success). Afterwards, we did not have any issues with building Docker Images for httpd and Tomcat any more. Both worked afterwards. Best regards, Sarah

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Invitation of the s390x port to the Open Source Day
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 03 Jun '21

03 Jun '21

Hello, I am happy to announce, that I have received the approval from IBM that they want to sponsor VMs with openSUSE for us and our Mentees during the hackathon. I have created/ started with a wiki page for "Good First Issues" and an introduction how to contribute to our s390x port. That will not be only for such mentorships. That is really useful in general for newbies in our team. - https://en.opensuse.org/ZSystems/Good_First_Issues You can add ideas and expand this page, too. I will forward the description of the old email, if there will be no suggestion of improvements. :) Best regards, Sarah ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hello together, our s390x port has been reviewed and we are invited as a mentoring organization to the Open Source Day and the Grace Hopper Celebration. I have applied as a "Featured Project" now and we need our project description now. The Open Source Day is the 15th July 2021 and online. We have to provide a minimum of 30 "good first issues". I thought that would be a good entry point for everybody in our team. Therefore I have created this wiki page now: https://en.opensuse.org/ZSystems/Good_First_Issues We can add mentorship content until July. Then we need a nice description for openSUSE and the s390x port. You can see descriptions of other projects of the last year on this page: https://ghc.anitab.org/programs-and-awards/open-source-day/2020 I am open for improvements and other suggestions. What do you say about this text? ==Contribute to openSUSE== During this session, you will contribute to openSUSE, a Linux based open-source project which provides Linux distributions as the rolling release openSUSE Tumbleweed, the stable release openSUSE Leap and for Kubernetes openSUSE Kubic. Additionally, there are multiple sub-projects with expanding software. The openSUSE project supports the hardware architectures x86, arm, PowerPC and s390x. Participants in this Open Source Day project will learn about multiple ways of openSUSE contributions and how to become an openSUSE Member. In addition, they receive an insight how to enable application software as Container Images or packages. Do you want to help make a contribution? Then go to an openSUSE Mentor and you will be allowed to receive your first openSUSE experience on a mainframe (outside of your pc hardware experience). We support you during your first steps with contributions to Linux. We are open for all questions, too. Best regards, Sarah

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Invitation of the s390x port to the Open Source Day
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 26 May '21

26 May '21

Hello together, our s390x port has been reviewed and we are invited as a mentoring organization to the Open Source Day and the Grace Hopper Celebration. I have applied as a "Featured Project" now and we need our project description now. The Open Source Day is the 15th July 2021 and online. We have to provide a minimum of 30 "good first issues". I thought that would be a good entry point for everybody in our team. Therefore I have created this wiki page now: https://en.opensuse.org/ZSystems/Good_First_Issues We can add mentorship content until July. Then we need a nice description for openSUSE and the s390x port. You can see descriptions of other projects of the last year on this page: https://ghc.anitab.org/programs-and-awards/open-source-day/2020 I am open for improvements and other suggestions. What do you say about this text? ==Contribute to openSUSE== During this session, you will contribute to openSUSE, a Linux based open-source project which provides Linux distributions as the rolling release openSUSE Tumbleweed, the stable release openSUSE Leap and for Kubernetes openSUSE Kubic. Additionally, there are multiple sub-projects with expanding software. The openSUSE project supports the hardware architectures x86, arm, PowerPC and s390x. Participants in this Open Source Day project will learn about multiple ways of openSUSE contributions and how to become an openSUSE Member. In addition, they receive an insight how to enable application software as Container Images or packages. Do you want to help make a contribution? Then go to an openSUSE Mentor and you will be allowed to receive your first openSUSE experience on a mainframe (outside of your pc hardware experience). We support you during your first steps with contributions to Linux. We are open for all questions, too. Best regards, Sarah

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presentation "openSUSE on the Mainframe" at the openSUSE Virtual Conference
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 08 May '21

08 May '21

Hello together, I am happy that I can announce, that my proposal for the presentation "openSUSE on the Mainframe - The future of community distributions on IBM Z" has been accepted for the openSUSE Conference. I will tell, what we have achieved in the last half year and what is planned in the future. Such a presentation is the chance to motivate people for joining our team or using/testing it. Our openSUSE Virtual Conference 2021 is from June 18th until June 20st 2021 ( https://events.opensuse.org/ ). I want to encourage you to join this virtual event this year, too. I can say, that I have enjoyed every openSUSE Conference until now. :) Default, you should have the option to advance your openSUSE network on this way. Best regards, Sarah

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openSUSE on Z is community based in the next future
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 04 May '21

04 May '21

Hi friends, we have achieved some advancements in the last have year. But a lot would not have been possible without many of you. openSUSE Leap 15.3 Beta would not have been possible without Sergio as an example, because I was not allowed to contribute to special Github repositories. Last month I have learned about the reason about that. No IBMer of the Z department is allowed to contribute to openSUSE in such a role, as long as nobody exists for Fedora. That was the case! My decision was to leave IBM, because I was not allowed to do my job. I will keep up my friendly contacts to receive support and improvements. But I have chosen to do Linux on Z Consulting now in combination with my openSUSE contributions as a volunteer. My new employer is supporting that. I have received the necessary approval after 2 days in comparison to 1 month at IBM. Additionally, I am allowed to contribute upstream now, too. It should be clear, that it was my suggestion to support openSUSE without IBM as an employer for the next year. It was hard for me to have this role as an IBMer, but not to achieve anything because of missing approvals. There are enough options with companies supporting that for open-source contributors. I'm looking forward to be able to contribute more to openSUSE for s390x in the future. Best regards, Sarah

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openSUSE Kubic and Containerization for IBM Z
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 03 May '21

03 May '21

Hello together, some of us want to enable openSUSE Kubic for IBM Z. It seems, that there is a lot of interest. Additionally, ideas for feature requests are collected for the Leap release (major release) for the next year. Therefore, I want to create a brainstorming session on this mailing list for s390x. You can add your ideas in this etherpad. You can create additional threads for any specific topic to discuss. :-) https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/openSUSEKubicIBMZ If we want to support any Kubernetes distribution on openSUSE, we will stand in front of the problem that IBM does not want to push all their container images for s390x to public container registries. Dockerfiles are at multiple places on Github. I was asked by colleagues where to find important applications as container images for s390x, because there are only a low number of Docker images for s390x. My suggestion is, that we create our own s390x images (as multi-arch images) and updated by OBS continuously. Then we can provide openSUSE images as "real" open-source container images for all Kubernetes distributions. You are allowed to answer on this thread, and expand this topic. Tomorrow in the evening, there will be a discussion about multi-arch container images on opensuse-factory. I am looking forward to a nice discussion with great ideas! Best regards, Sarah

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openSUSE Leap 15.3 Beta for s390x available
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 21 Mar '21

21 Mar '21

Dear openSUSE Contributors, since last week openSUSE Leap 15.3 Beta is for s390x available. Thank you to Sergio, that you made it pissible to enable the Leap image. Some approvals by IBM have been missing for doing that from my side. I have updated our wiki page [0] with al required information about our Leap repos. Feel free to test it. You can receive a Beta Tester T-shirt for reporting bugs [1]. Best regards, Sarah [0] https://en.opensuse.org/ZSystems [1] https://news.opensuse.org/2021/03/03/opensuse-leap-153-reaches-beta-build-p…

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Problems with building packages
by Mark Post 08 Feb '21

08 Feb '21

I'm trying to get a new version of smc-tools built. The compile, install, etc. all go fine, but at the very end when RPM is trying to write out the resulting packages, I get this: [ 29s] Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/smc-tools-1.5.0-94.1.s390x [ 29s] Wrote: /home/abuild/rpmbuild/SRPMS/smc-tools-1.5.0-94.1.src.rpm [ 29s] [ 15.123463] User process fault: interruption code 003b ilc:3 in librpmbuild.so.9.1.0[3ffad400000+2e000] [ 29s] [ 15.123830] Failing address: 0000000000000000 TEID: 0000000000000800 [ 29s] [ 15.123938] Fault in primary space mode while using user ASCE. [ 29s] [ 15.124040] AS:000000008628c1c7 R3:0000000000000024 [ 29s] Segmentation fault [ 29s] ### VM INTERACTION START ### [ 32s] [ 18.185053] sysrq: Power Off [ 32s] [ 18.186075] reboot: Power down [ 32s] ### VM INTERACTION END ### This appears to be a problem with RPM itself, rpm-4.16.0-2.2 and librpmbuild9. It seems to be 100% consistent, at least when I'm building this project in my personal branch. The last successful build for rpm was on "Thu Feb 4 19:42:07 UTC 2021". Has anyone else seen this problem? Does anyone have any idea how to get it fixed? Thanks, Mark Post

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Get s390x as an Installation download link?
by Mike Friesenegger 11 Jan '21

11 Jan '21

Hello, I would like to see s390x listed next to the other architectures in the Installation tab at https://software.opensuse.org/distributions/tumbleweed. What needs to happen to add s390x to the Installation download page? Regards, Mike

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The year is starting with s390x Tumbleweed images
by Sarah Kriesch 08 Jan '21

08 Jan '21

Dear openSUSE Contributors, the year 2021 has started for the ZSystems Team with new published Tumbleweed releases for s390x: https://download.opensuse.org/ports/zsystems/tumbleweed/iso/ After a long break it is possible to install and test openSUSE on IBM Z and LinuxONE again. In the next steps, we want to get it more stable, build missing packages and look forward to the Leap release, that we can get it done for s390x, too. Best regards, Sarah

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[opensuse-zsystems] Fix them or dump them?
by Mark Stopka 16 Nov '20

16 Nov '20

There are some packages like aircrack-ng which I frankly can't imagine anyone running on IBM Z, I think we should decide if we disable them for s390x architecture or spent an effort fixing them, what do you think? -- Best regards / S pozdravem, BSc. Mark Stopka, BBA Managing Partner (at) PERLUR Group mobile: +420 704 373 561 website: www.perlur.cloud

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[opensuse-zsystems] Contributions by an IBMer
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 16 Nov '20

16 Nov '20

Hello together, I am an IBM employee (Linux Developer) at IBM since this month. This week I have received the approval to contribute to openSUSE Packaging for Z. Additionally, I am open to communicate Z specific topics to our company for our team. Before I had studied Computer Science in Nuremberg and wrote my Bachelor Thesis at IBM. I will switch from the Translation Team to the Z Systems Team at openSUSE now. I was allowed to see many failed packages for Tumbleweed. So I can see how I can help you here. Best regards, Sarah -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-zsystems+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-zsystems+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-zsystems] Contributions by an IBMer
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 05 Nov '20

05 Nov '20

Hi Sergio, Thank you for the introduction! Nice to see, that there are also SUSE employees interested for openSUSE for IBM Z. I was in contact with SUSE some months ago, when the additional hardware for the mainframe was missing (but ordered). It seems that it is integrated now. The open ticket is because of a network issue. Nobody ouside of SUSE can fix that. During the openSUSE Kickoff, there was the hint, that the resposibility for the mainframe has ben changed. Can you tell the new person about this important issue, please? It would be nice, if we can contribute together to openSUSE for Z. Additionally, I hope that I can convince more people of openSUSE. :) The approval for my contributions was only the first step. ^^ Best regards, Sarah Gesendet: Donnerstag, 05. November 2020 um 20:03 Uhr Von: "Sergio Lindo" <sergiolindo.empresa(a)gmail.com> An: "Sarah Julia Kriesch" <ada.lovelace(a)gmx.de> Cc: opensuse-zsystems(a)opensuse.org Betreff: Re: [opensuse-zsystems] Contributions by an IBMer Hi Sarah, I am Sergio, working as a QA engineer at SUSE. It is nice to have more people interested in openSUSE for IBM Z. I am helping from the testing side by enabling openQA tests. See https://openqa.opensuse.org/group_overview/34 I managed to enable two scenarios but we are having technical problems at the moment with the machine setup for the tests and they are showing only red. I expect to keep enabling the same scenarios that we have for SLE as soon as the testing machines are fixed. I have a lot of knowledge gaps in how the product is built, but just in case you need an overview, here is what I know. Tumbleweed installation for x86 is built in https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/openSUSE:Factory[https://build.open…, but Tumbleweed installation for s390 is done in the sub project https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/openSUSE:Factory:zSystems[https://b… And the build sent to openQA for testing is in https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/openSUSE:Factory:zSystems:ToTest[ht… So, if you want to download and use the last Tumbleweed snapshot for s390, you can find it in https://build.opensuse.org/package/binaries/openSUSE:Factory:zSystems:ToTes… A lot of packages are inherited from the x86 project, so when you try to fix an inherited package, the submit request has to be done to the x86 (factory) package and the changes will get forwarded to the zsystems project Some s390 specific changes are are made in “OBS package links”, so that those changes are not made in the x86 version. (But, I think that Berthold, someone who is also fixing packages for s390, wanted to unify the changes so that package links are not needed). If you have any question, do not hesitate to ask. It is exciting to see how this small group of mainframe enthusiasts (mainframers?) starts growing. Kind Regards and have a lot of fun. -- Sergio Lindo Mansilla Software developer with DevOps tendencies Portfolio: http://binary-sequence.github.com/[http://binary-sequence.github.com/] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-zsystems+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-zsystems+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-zsystems] Increasing coverage for Tumbleweed on IBM Z: 'textmode'
by sergio 27 Feb '20

27 Feb '20

Hi geekos, After the first test suite was done 'textmode-server', it was time to add another test suite 'textmode': https://openqa.opensuse.org/tests/1185795 The difference with textmode-server, is that in 'textmode' Yast is started with ncurses. I have then moved the test suite to be scheduled in openSUSE Tumbleweed s390x: https://openqa.opensuse.org/group_overview/34 Next test suite: RAID0_gpt #cp disc -- Sergio Lindo Mansilla <slindomansilla(a)suse.com> QA Engineer SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nürnberg Germany https://www.suse.com/ (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg) Geschäftsführer: Felix Imendörffer

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[opensuse-zsystems] Kernel memory overwrite attempt detected to SLUB object - illegal operation
by Sergio Lindo Mansilla 13 Feb '20

13 Feb '20

Hi, The bug https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1156053 is still open and thanks to Jiri the kernel feature is disabled by default on s390x, so the workaround will not be needed. Git commit - https://git.io/JvW6W Hardened usercopy - https://lwn.net/Articles/695991/ #cp disc -- Sergio Lindo Mansilla <slindomansilla(a)suse.com> QA Engineer SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nürnberg Germany https://www.suse.com/ (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg) Geschäftsführer: Felix Imendörffer

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[opensuse-zsystems] openSUSE Tumbleweed on IBM Z
by Sergio 12 Feb '20

12 Feb '20

Hi IBM mainframe enthusiasts! After some time of standby, Tumbleweed build for IBM Z is working and triggering tests: https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/openSUSE:Factory:zSystems A lot of packages still need love, but installer works. Tests are now adapted and passing: https://openqa.opensuse.org/group_overview/34 https://openqa.opensuse.org/tests/1171171 There is only one bug that needs to be worked around for the installation. See https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1156047 TLDR -> Add to linuxrc: "hardened_usercopy=off" We have ISO! http://download.opensuse.org/ports/zsystems/tumbleweed/iso/ We have repo! http://download.opensuse.org/ports/zsystems/tumbleweed/repo/oss/ Enjoy! Thanks Mike and Berthold for your help. Kind Regards, Sergio

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[opensuse-zsystems] "nothing provides gcc" issues
by Mikhail Kasimov 20 Apr '18

20 Apr '18

Hello! I have some tests on creating RPM-package, which can be installed on wide row of RPM-based platforms. [1] https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:k_mikhail/test_012 And I faced with such trouble(-s): 1) If to add openSUSE_Leap_42.3_Ports repo with s390x support, the diagnose is "nothing provides gcc48 needed by gcc". 2) If to add s390x support manually to openSUSE_Leap_42.3/15/Tubleweed repo, there is another diagnose: "nothing provides gcc, nothing provides help2man, nothing provides rpm-build". It is similar to 1), but more extended. Summary: What the reason of such mismatch of packages to be provided for Ports and non-Ports (see home_k_mikhail_Leap_s390x repo) repos and how to fix "nothing provides..." issues in general way here? Thanks for help and advice! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-zsystems+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-zsystems+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-zsystems] Test message
by Mikhail Kasimov 20 Apr '18

20 Apr '18

Hello! Just test message. Please, ignore it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-zsystems+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-zsystems+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-zsystems] openSUSE Tumbleweed 20170206
by Berthold Gunreben 07 Feb '17

07 Feb '17

Hi, I wanted to let you know that we have accomplished another big milestone for openSUSE on s390x. openSUSE Tumbleweed 20170206 has been released by openQA. For logs and tests, see https://openqa.opensuse.org/tests/349540 Special thanks for this setup go to - Dominique Leuenberger who did the setup for the totest manager - Matthias Griessmeier who cared for the openQA implementation Berthold -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Berthold Gunreben OPS Services Team http://www.suse.de/ Maxfeldstr. 5 SUSE Linux GmbH, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-zsystems+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-zsystems+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-zsystems] test
by Berthold Gunreben 03 Feb '17

03 Feb '17

test, please ignore -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Berthold Gunreben OPS Services Team http://www.suse.de/ Maxfeldstr. 5 SUSE Linux GmbH, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-zsystems+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-zsystems+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-zsystems] obs server package
by Berthold Gunreben 06 Apr '16

06 Apr '16

Hi, One of the current issues is to get the obs-server package working on zSystems. The package has been enabled for building in the project OBS:Server:Unstable. https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/OBS:Server:Unstable Currently, the obs-server package cannot build because of missing dependencies. One of the major issues there is a missing nodejs. This issue is probably one of the bigger issues to solve soon. Berthold -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Berthold Gunreben OPS Services Team http://www.suse.de/ Maxfeldstr. 5 SUSE Linux GmbH, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-zsystems+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-zsystems+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-zsystems] wiki updates
by Berthold Gunreben 06 Apr '16

06 Apr '16

Hi, some updates that were done on the documentation side: - Matthias Griessmeier added a page that shows how to get access to the IBM community cloud: https://en.opensuse.org/ZSystems/Community_cloud_access - I added a page that shows currently failing packages. I actually filtered the list to show only recent fails (packages that did not build in march or april). Please click on the package name to get the last build log. https://en.opensuse.org/ZSystems/Failing_Packages Berthold -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Berthold Gunreben OPS Services Team http://www.suse.de/ Maxfeldstr. 5 SUSE Linux GmbH, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-zsystems+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-zsystems+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-zsystems] Welcome Message
by Berthold Gunreben 04 Apr '16

04 Apr '16

Hi, this is the mailing list for the openSUSE z Systems port. Please use this to discuss proceedings and ask questions specific to openSUSE for LinuxONE and other z Architectures. Please feel free to also join the IRC channel #opensuse-zSystems on freenode. Berthold/Azouhr -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Berthold Gunreben OPS Services Team http://www.suse.de/ Maxfeldstr. 5 SUSE Linux GmbH, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-zsystems+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-zsystems+owner(a)opensuse.org

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