Thanks to all who replied. The DBA was able to identify that the problem was a 'restriction on cross-platform transportable database'. Basically the endian on the two systems do not match [big-endian vs litle-endian]. He now has a procedure to convert the database before compression that was designed for this issue. He has tested the procedure and it does work.
Ruddy -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Damian Gallagher Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 6:15 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Oracle compression Is this the OS level compression (tar, zip, etc) or an Oracle compression function ? What is the vendor's system ? And if it's Oracle level, what exactly do you mean by " import an Oracle database template" ? That covers a lot of options, and we can go get a room to talk privately :-) Cheers Damian -----Original Message----- From: Melancon, Ruddy [mailto:melanc...@dot.state.al.us] Sent: 28 November 2012 17:29 To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Oracle compression I have a user that is trying to import an Oracle database template to a vendor. He is indicating that the compression in Linux on z and the vendor's system are different. Has anyone run into this before? I am running zVM 6.1 with SLES 11.1. The Oracle is 10G I think. Ruddy Melancon Alabama Department of Transportation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
