Re: validation on horizontal scalability approach

2004-04-07 Thread Phil Payne
But it seems to be a very low-integrity system. See http://google.fergusons.dk/ I ran this again this morning looking for the z890. The centre display was different from the others, listing a USA Today story in addition to what the others had. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.com

IBM zSeries Announcements Today

2004-04-07 Thread Jim Elliott
Today, the 40th anniversary of the System/360 announcement, IBM made significant zSeries announcements. - zSeries 890 - An entry level version of the z990, this machine has 28 different performance levels in a 1-way to 4-way configuration. - zSeries Application Assist Processor - A Java

Re: vsftpd troubles

2004-04-07 Thread Daniel Jarboe
I am trying to diagnose a problem with vsftpd on sles8 (31 bit). Certain windows clients seems to hang for a long time before getting started. Also they cannot rename/delete files. Other clients work OK. Has anyone experienced this Windows client like %windir%\system32\ftp.exe or windows

Production readiness of z/Linux

2004-04-07 Thread Eric Sammons
I have been asked by IBM to compile my list of production readiness issues here and address them specifically to Allen Altmark, so here it is. In looking at z/Linux I find the following two issues as issues that could or do impact production level service level agreements, service-ability, and

Memory Dumps

2004-04-07 Thread Jeremy Warren
We have been experiencing some weird problems in our DB2/UDB linux guest and we think that creating memory dumps when the problem is occuring may help shed some light on the problem (i.e. trying to figure out what sql queries were executing at the time of the problem).. I have found reference in

Re: Linux Administration tools

2004-04-07 Thread Richard Troth
BMC has a product MAINVIEW for Linux - Servers which does monitoring, taking into account the hypervisor. On the VM side, it will use IBM's monitor or Velocity's monitor. I should have said, It will use IBM's monitor, or Velocity's, or none., in-so-far-as it has a built-in monitor too.

Re: IBM zSeries Announcements Today

2004-04-07 Thread Ledbetter, Scott E
Jim, In the z/VM 5.1 General Information manual on page 9, I found this statement: z/VM 5.1.0 supports SCSI FCP disk logical units (SCSI disks) for both system and guest use. SCSI disks supported are those within an IBM TotalStorage(r) Enterprise Storage Server(r) (ESS) when it is connected to a

Re: Production readiness of z/Linux

2004-04-07 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 16:57, Eric Sammons wrote: My EUR 0.01 The first issue is vt100 support from a VM console session. Quite often even that is tedious since I want network access as well (e.g. pick up a new package from somewhere - mind you, not floppies) and maybe even outside its normal

Re: Production readiness of z/Linux

2004-04-07 Thread Post, Mark K
And if you set up the tooling for this _in advance_ and do some practice runs with it, when it comes time for that Sev1 problem, it won't feel awkward. One of the reasons I call z/VM a system programmer's operating system. Makes my life a whole lot easier than it would be without it. For those

Re: Will Oracle release new versions for Linux/390

2004-04-07 Thread Tom Russell
Has anyone read anything from Oracle indicating if they will continue supporting Linux/390 for their products? We have just started testing version 9.2.0.1 Linux/390, and I noticed they have released 10.1.0.2. I looked at the platform list, and Linux/390 is not listed for 10g. Hopefully, a

Re: Memory Dumps

2004-04-07 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 16:57, Jeremy Warren wrote: We have been experiencing some weird problems in our DB2/UDB linux guest and we think that creating memory dumps when the problem is occuring may help shed some light on the problem (i.e. trying to figure out what sql queries were executing at

LVM question

2004-04-07 Thread Sandeep Batta
I am trying to extend an existing lvm and it is failing. I seem to be getting conflicting info on the status of things - pvcreate -v /dev/dasdk1 pvcreate -- locking logical volume manager pvcreate -- checking physical volume name /dev/dasdk1 pvcreate -- getting physical volume size pvcreate --

Re: IBM zSeries Announcements Today

2004-04-07 Thread Jim Elliott
In the z/VM 5.1 General Information manual on page 9, I found this statement: z/VM 5.1.0 supports SCSI FCP disk logical units (SCSI disks) for both system and guest use. SCSI disks supported are those within an IBM TotalStorage(r) Enterprise Storage Server(r) (ESS) when it is connected to a

installing db2 connect on sles8 sp3

2004-04-07 Thread Marist EDU
We are getting an error when we try to install db2 connect on sles8 sp3. The install options come up in X, then we tell it to start the install we get: /usr/local/downloads/db2/linux390/install/db2jinst: line 130: 5816 Segmentation fault $JAVA_PATH/$JAVA_INTERPRETER $JAVA_OPTIONS -cp

Re: IBM zSeries Announcements Today

2004-04-07 Thread Ronald Wells
Is support also for z/OS as well.? -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390

LVM question

2004-04-07 Thread Sandeep Batta
Hi, I am trying to extend an existing lvm and it is failing. I seem to be getting conflicting info on the status of things - pvcreate -v /dev/dasdk1 pvcreate -- locking logical volume manager pvcreate -- checking physical volume name /dev/dasdk1 pvcreate -- getting physical volume size pvcreate

Re: Linux Administration tools

2004-04-07 Thread Phil Smith III
Wilson, Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In what sense do you mean manage? Do you mean monitoring resources? and in what aspect, from VM or from Linux? pedantic I think Eric hit the nail on the head here with his question. Monitoring is a very poorly defined term in this business (IOW, it means

Re: IBM zSeries Announcements Today

2004-04-07 Thread Ledbetter, Scott E
Thank you, Jim. I just wanted to be sure IBM was remaining open. Scott Ledbetter StorageTek -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Elliott Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 1:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IBM zSeries Announcements

Re: IBM zSeries Announcements Today

2004-04-07 Thread Jim Elliott
Is support also for z/OS as well.? Ronald: Is what support for z/OS as well? Jim -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or

Re: installing db2 connect on sles8 sp3

2004-04-07 Thread Post, Mark K
How much virtual storage does this instance have? Do you have user process faults turned on in the kernel? That would show some debugging information in the system log. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marist EDU Sent:

Re: installing db2 connect on sles8 sp3

2004-04-07 Thread Tom Anderson
Did you check out /tmp/db2setup.err.running to see if there was anything interesting logged before the solemn event? Also, you might look in the directory where you ran things from /usr/local/downloads/db2/linux390/install/db2jinst as the JVM's typically don't leave full core files laying around,

Re: Production readiness of z/Linux

2004-04-07 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 04/07/2004 at 10:57 AST, Eric Sammons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The first issue is vt100 support from a VM console session. The Holy Grail. I think I have a design for it. If you could telnet and/or ssh to VM on the vt100 port, such that you weren't talking to the virtual