Re: Need z/VM-LINUX info

2007-06-14 Thread Phil Smith III
Yukus, Mary J CIV USMEPCOM [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nope, I still get the same message.

Mary, try right-clicking and saving the document -- that often works for some 
reason.  Or try another browser.  Or try it from home...

...phsiii

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Re: Need z/VM-LINUX info

2007-06-14 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 06:36:50 -0400 Phil Smith III said:
Yukus, Mary J CIV USMEPCOM [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nope, I still get the same message.
Mary, try right-clicking and saving the document -- that often works for some 
reason.  Or try another browser.  Or try it from home...
I don't remember specific levels, but there are also some levels of Acrobat
reader 5 and 6 that have problems with some valid PDFs that they should
be able to read.  The message given is the corrupted PDF message.
We discovered it a while ago, and had to make a big push recently to
upgrade Acrobat Reader because one of the popular applications on campus
created PDFs that caused this to happen a lot.

/ahw

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Re: Need z/VM-LINUX info

2007-06-13 Thread Evans, Kevin R
I love the SOA comment...it's a big buzzword around here right now. I am
sure that SOA means different things to different people.

K

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What would the goal of your POC be?
z/VM does many things well - but running one thing only like one Oracle
machine is not advisable. Run multiple Oracle machines in your POC.  Be
careful when comparing performance; show many virtual machines running
Oracle, not one.

Think business case. Show license savings and the excellent vertical and
horizontal growth potential with z/VM in IFLs.
Rapid deployment.

I have no idea what SOA is other than vaporware and white papers, but,
hey, if it's good for z/VM, I like it!

David


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Sent: Tue 6/12/2007 3:37 PM
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Need z/VM-LINUX info

Thanks for your input everyone.  Here are some answers to your
questions.

The driving forces here are pushing SOA.  (I'm still trying to define
what
this means vs. our current processing architecture)  I have seen some
articles recently that point to Oracle on LINUX as being a good option
for
SOA.  I am trying to find out what determines this.

We currently run on a 2 CPU z-800 2066-0a2 (somewhere around 243 mips).
We
have a 2 LPAR multi-system sysplex for production running zos on one and
zos.e on the other.  Originally we had 1 Oracle data base on the zos.e
side.

And this worked well...for quite a while.  We are now doing a lot more
(9
data bases) and we are really juggling WLM to try to improve
performance.  We
have divided the data bases over the 2 LPARS now.  We have a lot of
feeds
coming in from other servers and users, replication, etc to keep the
data
base as current as possible for all the queries that come in.

We also have 1 IFL (I believe 192 mips) running z/VM with a handful of
LINUX
(SLES 8) instances which are used mainly for file servers.  One user
successfully attempted to put Oracle on a LINUX instance a few years ago
but
their management chose another path before it was implemented.

We are in the same branch with the DBAs so we have the possibility of
laying
out an Oracle instance in LINUX.  We would like to do some type of
proof of
concept, but I've never done this before.  Any and all
suggestions/directions/comments are greatly appreciated.

Thanks everyone,
Mary

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Mary,

It has been done quite successfully by numerous people on this list, but
I am sure they want more specific information about your configuration
in order to advise you further. Information like the number of
databases, the number of servers, etc. License costs should be a
definite pro.

Also contact a local IBMer and see if you can subscribe to one of the
z/Linux councils. Lots of good presentations available there, including
one on Oracle just put out there recently by David Kreuter of
VM-Resources Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

We are in the process of evaluating distributed database consolidations
ourselves.

Bob Richards

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Subject: Need z/VM-LINUX info

Hi Everyone,
We are doing research to see if moving some/all of our Oracle data bases
from
z/OS (1.4 or 1.7) to LINUX on a z/VM IFL would be a good move.  We will
be
moving toward SOA and I need some strong support to recommend this
verses
going to another platform such as UNIX or Windows.  I have read some
articles
that sound good, but I'm hoping to get some comments, ideas, pro's or
con's
from anyone out there that can help me either justify the move or reject
the
idea.
Thanks for your help!
Mary Yukus :-)



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Re: Need z/VM-LINUX info

2007-06-13 Thread Marian Gasparovic
If you know anybody talking Dutch, ask him/her what it
means in Dutch, you will be surprised and never forget
to smile when you hear SOA :)

Marian

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Re: Need z/VM-LINUX info

2007-06-13 Thread Rob van der Heij

On 6/13/07, Marian Gasparovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


If you know anybody talking Dutch, ask him/her what it
means in Dutch, you will be surprised and never forget
to smile when you hear SOA :)


Yep. That's probably why we hear a lot about it at conferences. The
leaflets in the hospital waiting room state that when you have a SOA
you should inform anyone you've been in contact with ;-)

Rob ;-)

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Re: Need z/VM-LINUX info

2007-06-13 Thread Steve Mitchell
For those of us who don't know anyone who speaks Dutch, would you mind
terribly providing some insight?

Steve Mitchell
Sr Systems Software Specialist
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas
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to smile when you hear SOA :)

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Re: Need z/VM-LINUX info

2007-06-13 Thread Kielek, Samuel
Well if you couldn't derive it based on Rob's comment, it is:

Seksueel Overdraagbare Aandoening (Sexually Transmitted Disease)

-Sam

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For those of us who don't know anyone who speaks Dutch, would you mind
terribly providing some insight?

Steve Mitchell
Sr Systems Software Specialist
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas
(785) 291-8885

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If you know anybody talking Dutch, ask him/her what it
means in Dutch, you will be surprised and never forget
to smile when you hear SOA :)

Marian

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SOA (was RE: Need z/VM-LINUX info

2007-06-13 Thread Chase, John
 -Original Message-
 From: Linux on 390 Port On Behalf Of Steve Mitchell
 
 For those of us who don't know anyone who speaks Dutch, would 
 you mind terribly providing some insight?

http://www.acronymfinder.com

Second page of results for SOA..

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Re: Need z/VM-LINUX info

2007-06-13 Thread McKown, John
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 Well if you couldn't derive it based on Rob's comment, it is:
 
 Seksueel Overdraagbare Aandoening (Sexually Transmitted Disease)
 
 -Sam

Oh, gee, like THANKS A LOT. Now I won't be able to sit in any meeting
where SOA is mentioned without suppressing laughter or at least have a
weird smile flit across my face. GRIN

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Re: Need z/VM-LINUX info

2007-06-13 Thread Marian Gasparovic
Enter SOA Dutch into your favorite Google, don't even
click on the first link, just read it.

Marian

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SOA (was: Need z/VM-LINUX info)

2007-06-13 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
On Wednesday 13 June 2007 07:16, Evans, Kevin R wrote:
I love the SOA comment...it's a big buzzword around here right now. I am
sure that SOA means different things to different people.

I've always thought it meant Service Occasionally Available. :-)
- MacK.
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Re: Need z/VM-LINUX info

2007-06-13 Thread Yukus, Mary J CIV USMEPCOM
Nope, I still get the same message.

Mary

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 On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at  4:09 PM, in message
[EMAIL PROTECTED], Yukus,
Mary J CIV USMEPCOM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 
 Neale,
 Do you happen to have a copy of the Nationwide document?  I get a message
 that the file is damaged and could not be repaired when I click on the
 link.

Try it again.  I re-uploaded it, and it seems to check out now.


Mark Post

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Re: Need z/VM-LINUX info

2007-06-13 Thread Evans, Kevin R
Link worked OK for me

K

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Nope, I still get the same message.

Mary

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 On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at  4:09 PM, in message
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
Yukus,
Mary J CIV USMEPCOM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Neale,
 Do you happen to have a copy of the Nationwide document?  I get a
message
 that the file is damaged and could not be repaired when I click on
the
 link.

Try it again.  I re-uploaded it, and it seems to check out now.


Mark Post

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Re: Need z/VM-LINUX info

2007-06-13 Thread David Stuart
The 'trade press' doesn't help, either.  

Every article has a different definition.  Every 'consultant/analyst' 
report/insert your favorite color here -paper says everyone should be doing 
'it', and if you're not, you're not 'agile', or competitive, or ...  Major FUD 
factor here.  

And then the next article discusses how expensive it is, but that you should 
not look at/for ROI on all that investment in money, time, etc, but instead 
look at businesss flexibility and agility.  

'They' talk about 'it' here, too, a lot, and the SOA term is thrown around very 
liberally, but more because it's the 'in' thing, and because 'Gartner says... 
', than anything else.  

Cynically, 
Dave 



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 Evans, Kevin R [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/13/2007 4:16 AM 
I love the SOA comment...it's a big buzzword around here right now. I am
sure that SOA means different things to different people.

K

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Re: Need z/VM-LINUX info

2007-06-13 Thread David Boyes
 Every article has a different definition.  Every 'consultant/analyst'
 report/insert your favorite color here -paper says everyone should
be
 doing 'it', and if you're not, you're not 'agile', or competitive, or
...
 Major FUD factor here.

Is it just me, or does no one in the computer science field get taught
how to do basic literature searches for past inventions?

*Major* ancient history. All SOA is is a way to wrap existing apps in a
framework, find the apps in a directory, and communicate input and
results in a standardized way. Doesn't solve the problem of who can use
the app, how it should be used, or whether the app is even useful in
that form. 

It's just a rehash of object wrapper/broker capability published in the
XNS Reference Architecture circa 1972 or so. Or NCS. Or Corba. Or DOM.
Or any of dozens of other distributed object reference technologies over
the past 3-4 decades. 

I annoy numerous people every time I point out that there is absolutely
nothing new about this concept, and have them actually do the homework
on how their SOA commentary or strategy is different that the dozen or
so times this has been tried before. I ask them to focus on why the
previous efforts failed, both technically and organizationally. Usually,
they don't come back. 

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Re: Need z/VM-LINUX info

2007-06-13 Thread David Boyes
Mary, 

Try right-clicking on the link, downloading it to your local machine,
and opening it locally. You might have the bug in some of the Windows
browsers that caused bad parms to be passed to plugins. 

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Re: Need z/VM-LINUX info

2007-06-13 Thread David Stuart
Sorry Dave, 

But this is one of my pet peeves, here.  I probably should have pulled out my 
Soapbox On. 

 Is it just me, or does no one in the computer science field get taught
 how to do basic literature searches for past inventions?

Doesn't really matter what is being taught.  The problem, here, at least, and 
probably other places, is that management isn't doing basic literature 
searches, whether or not they know/were taught how.  Here, we seem to be 
suffering from Drive-by Management (from Scott Adams' Dilbert), or Management 
by Airline Magazine/Consultant Report/...  As the articles and reports change, 
so does the 'strategic direction'. 

Dave 



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snip.  

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Re: Need z/VM-LINUX info

2007-06-13 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:13:38 -0700
David Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 The 'trade press' doesn't help, either.

 Every article has a different definition.  Every 'consultant/analyst' 
 report/insert your favorite color here -paper says everyone should be doing 
 'it', and if you're not, you're not 'agile', or competitive, or ...  Major 
 FUD factor here.

The consultant and analyst exist to sell their own services,
which require that they are therefore the only one doing the right
version of something you need to be.

Even more impressive is the business model used by some market analysts
and trend analysts who ask everyone what they are doing, summarize the
answer and sell it back to the people the asked.

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Re: Need z/VM-LINUX info

2007-06-13 Thread David Boyes
 But this is one of my pet peeves, here.
 Doesn't really matter what is being taught.  The problem, here, at
least,
 and probably other places, is that management isn't doing basic
literature
 searches, whether or not they know/were taught how.  

Mine too. I suppose it's not limited to CS -- I used to get the same
problem when I taught business students as well. Annoying as all get
out. A few students got a real surprise when they asked me why I failed
their design essays as plagiarism.  

 Here, we seem to be
 suffering from Drive-by Management (from Scott Adams' Dilbert), or
 Management by Airline Magazine/Consultant Report/...  As the articles
and
 reports change, so does the 'strategic direction'.

One leads to the other, I'm afraid. They don't know what's been done
before, and thus have no effective BS detector. 

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Re: Need z/VM-LINUX info

2007-06-13 Thread Yu Safin

I find some of the reasoning in this thread very interesting.
We are in the middle of moving a lot of our Oracle out of AIX and SUN
to zVM/Linux.  This was done to improve RAS and to reduce Oracle-batch
turn-around time.  We use RAC not only to improve availability but
also to separate batch from on-line processing.
We are now contemplating Oracle under zOS (we have DB2) for those
applications that require even better availability.  When you think
about it, zOS is rock solid compared to Linux.
SOA, which is being pursued by our developers, has not come up as a
reason not to move to zOS.   I am going to ask the question.

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Re: Need z/VM-LINUX info

2007-06-13 Thread David Kreuter
actually I find linux rock solid. 200 servers; production 1+ year; no linux 
software outages.
Nuthin' wrong with that!
David


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I find some of the reasoning in this thread very interesting.
We are in the middle of moving a lot of our Oracle out of AIX and SUN
to zVM/Linux.  This was done to improve RAS and to reduce Oracle-batch
turn-around time.  We use RAC not only to improve availability but
also to separate batch from on-line processing.
We are now contemplating Oracle under zOS (we have DB2) for those
applications that require even better availability.  When you think
about it, zOS is rock solid compared to Linux.
SOA, which is being pursued by our developers, has not come up as a
reason not to move to zOS.   I am going to ask the question.

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Re: Need z/VM-LINUX info

2007-06-13 Thread David Boyes
 We are now contemplating Oracle under zOS (we have DB2) for those
 applications that require even better availability.  When you think
 about it, zOS is rock solid compared to Linux.

It better be. There's certainly been a bunch of code written to make
sure that it is. 

 SOA, which is being pursued by our developers, has not come up as a
 reason not to move to zOS.   I am going to ask the question.

It won't come up. IBM and others have spent a fair amount of money
making sure that Linux and z/OS can participate (mostly to save older
apps from moving off the platform). It's not cheap to do, though

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Re: Need z/VM-LINUX info

2007-06-13 Thread Yu Safin

On 6/13/07, David Kreuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

actually I find linux rock solid. 200 servers; production 1+ year; no linux 
software outages.
Nuthin' wrong with that!
David


David,
No disagreement here.   We have been running Linux for z-Series for
over two years without a single incident.  Compared to AIX and SUN I
would say hardly any difference even when Linux is the new kid in
the block.  I was the one who championed Linux.around here but I have
also been very clear that it is a newer OS compared to the other OS so
it may show up when you least expect it.  I guess I have beent trying
to set up an expectation.
I have also being with zOS/MVS since 1982.  The difference is that zOS
can handle more hic ups than Linux without an impact.  I saw that over
and over again early on in my career when we spent a lot of money in
fault-tolerant systems just to see MVS be more reliable with higher
availability.
You alwys pay more when you go from 99.99% availability to 99.%.
That is the level I am talking about.   It is not always the best use
of money unless your business demand it (think NASA).


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Re: Need z/VM-LINUX info

2007-06-13 Thread Evans, Kevin R
Shouldn't you have had a Soapbox On/ there ?



K



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Sorry Dave,



But this is one of my pet peeves, here.  I probably should have pulled
out my Soapbox On.



 Is it just me, or does no one in the computer science field get taught

 how to do basic literature searches for past inventions?



Doesn't really matter what is being taught.  The problem, here, at
least, and probably other places, is that management isn't doing basic
literature searches, whether or not they know/were taught how.  Here, we
seem to be suffering from Drive-by Management (from Scott Adams'
Dilbert), or Management by Airline Magazine/Consultant Report/...  As
the articles and reports change, so does the 'strategic direction'.



Dave







Dave Stuart

Prin. Info. Systems Support Analyst

County of Ventura, CA

805-662-6731

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 David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/13/2007 9:24 AM 

snip.



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Re: Need z/VM-LINUX info

2007-06-13 Thread Yukus, Mary J CIV USMEPCOM
Hmm, that's strange.  I still can't get to it.  I can get to the DGTIC -
one, but not the Nationwide - one.  Anyone have any suggestions?

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Kevin R
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 11:11 AM
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Link worked OK for me

K

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Nope, I still get the same message.

Mary

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Post
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 On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at  4:09 PM, in message
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
Yukus,
Mary J CIV USMEPCOM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Neale,
 Do you happen to have a copy of the Nationwide document?  I get a
message
 that the file is damaged and could not be repaired when I click on
the
 link.

Try it again.  I re-uploaded it, and it seems to check out now.


Mark Post

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Re: Need z/VM-LINUX info

2007-06-13 Thread Yukus, Mary J CIV USMEPCOM
Never mind, I went to the web site and was able to find it without the link.
I was then able to open it.
Thanks! 
Mary :-) 

-Original Message-
From: Yukus, Mary J CIV USMEPCOM 
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 12:22 PM
To: 'Linux on 390 Port'
Subject: RE: Need z/VM-LINUX info

Hmm, that's strange.  I still can't get to it.  I can get to the DGTIC -
one, but not the Nationwide - one.  Anyone have any suggestions?

-Original Message-
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Evans,
Kevin R
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 11:11 AM
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Need z/VM-LINUX info

Link worked OK for me

K

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Yukus, Mary J CIV USMEPCOM
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 9:58 AM
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Need z/VM-LINUX info

Nope, I still get the same message.

Mary

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Mark
Post
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 6:34 PM
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Need z/VM-LINUX info

 On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at  4:09 PM, in message
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
Yukus,
Mary J CIV USMEPCOM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Neale,
 Do you happen to have a copy of the Nationwide document?  I get a
message
 that the file is damaged and could not be repaired when I click on
the
 link.

Try it again.  I re-uploaded it, and it seems to check out now.


Mark Post

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Re: Need z/VM-LINUX info

2007-06-13 Thread Dave Jones

 “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it”

George Santayana


Evans, Kevin R wrote:




Is it just me, or does no one in the computer science field get taught



how to do basic literature searches for past inventions?




Doesn't really matter what is being taught.  The problem, here, at
least, and probably other places, is that management isn't doing basic
literature searches, whether or not they know/were taught how.  Here, we
seem to be suffering from Drive-by Management (from Scott Adams'
Dilbert), or Management by Airline Magazine/Consultant Report/...  As
the articles and reports change, so does the 'strategic direction'.


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V/Soft

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Re: Need z/VM-LINUX info

2007-06-13 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:47:53 -0500
Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it”
 
 George Santayana


History repeats itself, it has to as nobody is listening

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Re: Need z/VM-LINUX info

2007-06-13 Thread David Boyes
   Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it
 George Santayana

And do an even worse job at making the same mistakes.

*grump* 

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Need z/VM-LINUX info

2007-06-12 Thread Yukus, Mary J CIV USMEPCOM
Hi Everyone,
We are doing research to see if moving some/all of our Oracle data bases from
z/OS (1.4 or 1.7) to LINUX on a z/VM IFL would be a good move.  We will be
moving toward SOA and I need some strong support to recommend this verses
going to another platform such as UNIX or Windows.  I have read some articles
that sound good, but I'm hoping to get some comments, ideas, pro's or con's
from anyone out there that can help me either justify the move or reject the
idea.
Thanks for your help!
Mary Yukus :-) 

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Re: Need z/VM-LINUX info

2007-06-12 Thread Richards.Bob
Mary,

It has been done quite successfully by numerous people on this list, but
I am sure they want more specific information about your configuration
in order to advise you further. Information like the number of
databases, the number of servers, etc. License costs should be a
definite pro. 

Also contact a local IBMer and see if you can subscribe to one of the
z/Linux councils. Lots of good presentations available there, including
one on Oracle just put out there recently by David Kreuter of
VM-Resources Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

We are in the process of evaluating distributed database consolidations
ourselves.

Bob Richards 

-Original Message-
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Yukus, Mary J CIV USMEPCOM
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 7:30 AM
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Need z/VM-LINUX info

Hi Everyone,
We are doing research to see if moving some/all of our Oracle data bases
from
z/OS (1.4 or 1.7) to LINUX on a z/VM IFL would be a good move.  We will
be
moving toward SOA and I need some strong support to recommend this
verses
going to another platform such as UNIX or Windows.  I have read some
articles
that sound good, but I'm hoping to get some comments, ideas, pro's or
con's
from anyone out there that can help me either justify the move or reject
the
idea.
Thanks for your help!
Mary Yukus :-) 
  
  
  
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Re: Need z/VM-LINUX info

2007-06-12 Thread Neale Ferguson
Take a look at the following presentations:
DGTIC - http://www.linuxvm.org/present/SHARE108/S9230.pdf
Nationwide - http://www.linuxvm.org/present/SHARE107/S9212jv.pdf

Also, the latest edition of z/Journal has an article on DGTIC and its
migration of Oracle databases.

Neale

On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 06:30 -0500, Yukus, Mary J CIV USMEPCOM wrote:
 Hi Everyone,
 We are doing research to see if moving some/all of our Oracle data bases from
 z/OS (1.4 or 1.7) to LINUX on a z/VM IFL would be a good move.  We will be
 moving toward SOA and I need some strong support to recommend this verses
 going to another platform such as UNIX or Windows.  I have read some articles
 that sound good, but I'm hoping to get some comments, ideas, pro's or con's
 from anyone out there that can help me either justify the move or reject the
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Re: Need z/VM-LINUX info

2007-06-12 Thread David Kreuter
It sounds interesting to me. At the DGTIC in Quebec we have almost 200 servers 
running Oracle on 3 IFLs. None of this was work drained from z/OS.

First off I would do the math; if you are new to z/VM, does the cost of IFL(s) 
and z/VM offset the reduction in MIPS of you remove Oracle from z/OS? Will your 
z/OS licensing costs be reduced? If yes this may be a winning strategy.

What are the future growth plans?

I'd be sad to Oracle repatriated to another platform.

With Oracle the license is per IFL, not image - so you may be able to run a lot 
of Oracle critters with few licenses.
Don't think you will achieve that licensing savings on Unix. But it depends on 
how many servers you will be running Oracle on.

Is this all data centre or do you have an application or management sponsor?
David Kreuter

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Sent: Tue 6/12/2007 7:30 AM
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Need z/VM-LINUX info
 
Hi Everyone,
We are doing research to see if moving some/all of our Oracle data bases from
z/OS (1.4 or 1.7) to LINUX on a z/VM IFL would be a good move.  We will be
moving toward SOA and I need some strong support to recommend this verses
going to another platform such as UNIX or Windows.  I have read some articles
that sound good, but I'm hoping to get some comments, ideas, pro's or con's
from anyone out there that can help me either justify the move or reject the
idea.
Thanks for your help!
Mary Yukus :-) 

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Re: Need z/VM-LINUX info

2007-06-12 Thread Yukus, Mary J CIV USMEPCOM
Thanks for your input everyone.  Here are some answers to your questions.  

The driving forces here are pushing SOA.  (I'm still trying to define what
this means vs. our current processing architecture)  I have seen some
articles recently that point to Oracle on LINUX as being a good option for
SOA.  I am trying to find out what determines this. 

We currently run on a 2 CPU z-800 2066-0a2 (somewhere around 243 mips).  We
have a 2 LPAR multi-system sysplex for production running zos on one and
zos.e on the other.  Originally we had 1 Oracle data base on the zos.e side. 

And this worked well...for quite a while.  We are now doing a lot more (9
data bases) and we are really juggling WLM to try to improve performance.  We
have divided the data bases over the 2 LPARS now.  We have a lot of feeds
coming in from other servers and users, replication, etc to keep the data
base as current as possible for all the queries that come in.  

We also have 1 IFL (I believe 192 mips) running z/VM with a handful of LINUX
(SLES 8) instances which are used mainly for file servers.  One user
successfully attempted to put Oracle on a LINUX instance a few years ago but
their management chose another path before it was implemented.  

We are in the same branch with the DBAs so we have the possibility of laying
out an Oracle instance in LINUX.  We would like to do some type of proof of
concept, but I've never done this before.  Any and all
suggestions/directions/comments are greatly appreciated.

Thanks everyone,
Mary

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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Richards.Bob
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 8:08 AM
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Need z/VM-LINUX info

Mary,

It has been done quite successfully by numerous people on this list, but
I am sure they want more specific information about your configuration
in order to advise you further. Information like the number of
databases, the number of servers, etc. License costs should be a
definite pro. 

Also contact a local IBMer and see if you can subscribe to one of the
z/Linux councils. Lots of good presentations available there, including
one on Oracle just put out there recently by David Kreuter of
VM-Resources Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

We are in the process of evaluating distributed database consolidations
ourselves.

Bob Richards 

-Original Message-
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Yukus, Mary J CIV USMEPCOM
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 7:30 AM
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Need z/VM-LINUX info

Hi Everyone,
We are doing research to see if moving some/all of our Oracle data bases
from
z/OS (1.4 or 1.7) to LINUX on a z/VM IFL would be a good move.  We will
be
moving toward SOA and I need some strong support to recommend this
verses
going to another platform such as UNIX or Windows.  I have read some
articles
that sound good, but I'm hoping to get some comments, ideas, pro's or
con's
from anyone out there that can help me either justify the move or reject
the
idea.
Thanks for your help!
Mary Yukus :-) 
  
  
  
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Re: Need z/VM-LINUX info

2007-06-12 Thread Yukus, Mary J CIV USMEPCOM
Neale,
Do you happen to have a copy of the Nationwide document?  I get a message
that the file is damaged and could not be repaired when I click on the
link.
Thanks,
Mary


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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neale
Ferguson
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 8:10 AM
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Need z/VM-LINUX info

Take a look at the following presentations:
DGTIC - http://www.linuxvm.org/present/SHARE108/S9230.pdf
Nationwide - http://www.linuxvm.org/present/SHARE107/S9212jv.pdf

Also, the latest edition of z/Journal has an article on DGTIC and its
migration of Oracle databases.

Neale

On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 06:30 -0500, Yukus, Mary J CIV USMEPCOM wrote:
 Hi Everyone,
 We are doing research to see if moving some/all of our Oracle data bases
from
 z/OS (1.4 or 1.7) to LINUX on a z/VM IFL would be a good move.  We will be
 moving toward SOA and I need some strong support to recommend this verses
 going to another platform such as UNIX or Windows.  I have read some
articles
 that sound good, but I'm hoping to get some comments, ideas, pro's or con's
 from anyone out there that can help me either justify the move or reject
the
 idea.

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Re: Need z/VM-LINUX info

2007-06-12 Thread Mark Post
 On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at  4:09 PM, in message
[EMAIL PROTECTED], Yukus,
Mary J CIV USMEPCOM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 
 Neale,
 Do you happen to have a copy of the Nationwide document?  I get a message
 that the file is damaged and could not be repaired when I click on the
 link.

Try it again.  I re-uploaded it, and it seems to check out now.


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Re: Need z/VM-LINUX info

2007-06-12 Thread David Kreuter
What would the goal of your POC be?
z/VM does many things well - but running one thing only like one Oracle machine 
is not advisable. Run multiple Oracle machines in your POC.  Be careful when 
comparing performance; show many virtual machines running Oracle, not one.

Think business case. Show license savings and the excellent vertical and 
horizontal growth potential with z/VM in IFLs.
Rapid deployment.

I have no idea what SOA is other than vaporware and white papers, but, hey, if 
it's good for z/VM, I like it!

David


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From: Linux on 390 Port on behalf of Yukus, Mary J CIV USMEPCOM
Sent: Tue 6/12/2007 3:37 PM
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Need z/VM-LINUX info
 
Thanks for your input everyone.  Here are some answers to your questions.  

The driving forces here are pushing SOA.  (I'm still trying to define what
this means vs. our current processing architecture)  I have seen some
articles recently that point to Oracle on LINUX as being a good option for
SOA.  I am trying to find out what determines this. 

We currently run on a 2 CPU z-800 2066-0a2 (somewhere around 243 mips).  We
have a 2 LPAR multi-system sysplex for production running zos on one and
zos.e on the other.  Originally we had 1 Oracle data base on the zos.e side. 

And this worked well...for quite a while.  We are now doing a lot more (9
data bases) and we are really juggling WLM to try to improve performance.  We
have divided the data bases over the 2 LPARS now.  We have a lot of feeds
coming in from other servers and users, replication, etc to keep the data
base as current as possible for all the queries that come in.  

We also have 1 IFL (I believe 192 mips) running z/VM with a handful of LINUX
(SLES 8) instances which are used mainly for file servers.  One user
successfully attempted to put Oracle on a LINUX instance a few years ago but
their management chose another path before it was implemented.  

We are in the same branch with the DBAs so we have the possibility of laying
out an Oracle instance in LINUX.  We would like to do some type of proof of
concept, but I've never done this before.  Any and all
suggestions/directions/comments are greatly appreciated.

Thanks everyone,
Mary

-Original Message-
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Richards.Bob
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 8:08 AM
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Need z/VM-LINUX info

Mary,

It has been done quite successfully by numerous people on this list, but
I am sure they want more specific information about your configuration
in order to advise you further. Information like the number of
databases, the number of servers, etc. License costs should be a
definite pro. 

Also contact a local IBMer and see if you can subscribe to one of the
z/Linux councils. Lots of good presentations available there, including
one on Oracle just put out there recently by David Kreuter of
VM-Resources Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

We are in the process of evaluating distributed database consolidations
ourselves.

Bob Richards 

-Original Message-
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Yukus, Mary J CIV USMEPCOM
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 7:30 AM
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Need z/VM-LINUX info

Hi Everyone,
We are doing research to see if moving some/all of our Oracle data bases
from
z/OS (1.4 or 1.7) to LINUX on a z/VM IFL would be a good move.  We will
be
moving toward SOA and I need some strong support to recommend this
verses
going to another platform such as UNIX or Windows.  I have read some
articles
that sound good, but I'm hoping to get some comments, ideas, pro's or
con's
from anyone out there that can help me either justify the move or reject
the
idea.
Thanks for your help!
Mary Yukus :-) 
  
  
  
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