Re: OK - a really stupid question.

2007-05-24 Thread Tom Duerbusch
There are 3 flavors of DB2 nowadays DB2 for VM and VSE DB2/UDB (all ascii platforms) DB2/ for z/OS All DB2/UDBs have the same code base. Some hardware differences, but have the same features. DB2 for z/OS has a large subset of DB2/UDB, PLUS unique things for the big MVS guys. There use to

Re: About the former 9672 family and of things z/VM and Linux

2007-05-24 Thread Gregg Levine
On 5/24/07, John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alan Altmark wrote: > On Thursday, 05/24/2007 at 08:48 ZE8, John Summerfield > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> For some of us, the only interesting VM is one we are permitted to run >> under Hercules:-) > > :-) Beauty. Beholder. But I can

Re: OK - a really stupid question.

2007-05-24 Thread Frank Swarbrick
>>> On 5/24/2007 at 9:14 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "McKown, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >> Behalf Of Mark Post >> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 9:49 AM >> To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU >> Subject: R

Re: About the former 9672 family and of things z/VM and Linux

2007-05-24 Thread John Summerfield
Alan Altmark wrote: On Thursday, 05/24/2007 at 08:48 ZE8, John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For some of us, the only interesting VM is one we are permitted to run under Hercules:-) :-) Beauty. Beholder. But I can't abide anyone calling VM/370 "normal VM". Them thar's fightin' w

Re: About the former 9672 family and of things z/VM and Linux

2007-05-24 Thread Alan Altmark
On Thursday, 05/24/2007 at 10:36 AST, Mike Hammock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now don't be so hard on VM/370 Alan... The first VM I worked on as a > Sysprog was VM/370 ver 2, so I tend to have a soft place in my heart for > it... Who's being hard on VM/370? It is a fine representation of the

Re: OK - a really stupid question.

2007-05-24 Thread Marcy Cortes
IBM has a DB2 product positioning paper that outlines the differences. Maybe one of the IBMers on here can post that? Not sure if I'm allowed to or not - although nothing in it is marked confidential. Marcy Cortes "This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are

Re: OK - a really stupid question.

2007-05-24 Thread David Stuart
I had an instructor once who used to insist "that the only stupid question is the one that does not get asked". Dave Dave Stuart Prin. Info. Systems Support Analyst County of Ventura, CA 805-662-6731 [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5/22/2007 7:36 AM >>> Hi, John. No such thing as a stu

Re: Bus Error on id command

2007-05-24 Thread Mark Post
>>> On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 12:14 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Goodwin, Derric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Curious, > > We just installed a new 64 Bit SLES9 guest and everything seems to be > working with one exception... > > When we run the ID command against a user id after a little

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2007-05-24 Thread Brandon Darbro
Goodwin, Derric wrote: > Curious, > > We just installed a new 64 Bit SLES9 guest and everything seems to be > working with one exception... > > When we run the ID command against a user id after a little churning the > system kicks back a "Bus Error". > > Has anyone seen this before? > > Thoughts?

Re: what is the granularity of itimer

2007-05-24 Thread Brad Hinson
Oops, you're right HZ is 100 not 1000. On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 17:35 +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 11:28 -0400, Brad Hinson wrote: > > itimer is based on jiffies, so the granularity should be 1 millisecond > > (HZ=1000/s) in kernel space. I haven't tested this, though. A

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2007-05-24 Thread Goodwin, Derric
Curious, We just installed a new 64 Bit SLES9 guest and everything seems to be working with one exception... When we run the ID command against a user id after a little churning the system kicks back a "Bus Error". Has anyone seen this before? Thoughts? Thanks all. --- Derric Goodwin Distrib

Re: what is the granularity of itimer

2007-05-24 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 11:28 -0400, Brad Hinson wrote: > itimer is based on jiffies, so the granularity should be 1 millisecond > (HZ=1000/s) in kernel space. I haven't tested this, though. Are you > seeing something different? HZ is 100 on s390 so the granularity is 10 milliseconds. -- blue ski

Re: what is the granularity of itimer

2007-05-24 Thread Brad Hinson
itimer is based on jiffies, so the granularity should be 1 millisecond (HZ=1000/s) in kernel space. I haven't tested this, though. Are you seeing something different? -Brad On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 16:02 -0500, Roach, Dennis wrote: > Does anyone know what the granularity of itimer is on a z900 (RH

Re: OK - a really stupid question.

2007-05-24 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Mark Post > Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 9:49 AM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: OK - a really stupid question. > > > It's not me that wants them, it's the customers and IBM > employe

Re: OK - a really stupid question.

2007-05-24 Thread Mark Post
>>> On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 6:47 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sergey Korzhevsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 23.05.2007 19:40:26 Mark Post wrote: > > Hi Mark. > > What "features" do you mean? I always think that z/os db2 everytime far > behind pc/db2. It's not me that wants them, it's

Re: About the former 9672 family and of things z/VM and Linux

2007-05-24 Thread Mike Hammock
Now don't be so hard on VM/370 Alan... The first VM I worked on as a Sysprog was VM/370 ver 2, so I tend to have a soft place in my heart for it... Of course, we have come a long ways since then. ;-) Mike C. M. (Mike) Hammock Sr. Technical Support zFrame & IBM zSeries Solutions (404) 64

Re: About the former 9672 family and of things z/VM and Linux

2007-05-24 Thread Alan Altmark
On Thursday, 05/24/2007 at 08:48 ZE8, John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For some of us, the only interesting VM is one we are permitted to run > under Hercules:-) :-) Beauty. Beholder. But I can't abide anyone calling VM/370 "normal VM". Them thar's fightin' woids! Alan Altmark

Re: About the former 9672 family and of things z/VM and Linux

2007-05-24 Thread John Summerfield
Alan Altmark wrote: I am looking at furthering my interests in things Linux and certainly z/VM and regular VM, z/VM *is* "regular VM". :-) For some of us, the only interesting VM is one we are permitted to run under Hercules:-) -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: About the former 9672 family and of things z/VM and Linux

2007-05-24 Thread Alan Altmark
On Tuesday, 05/22/2007 at 01:39 AST, Gregg Levine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > According to what I remember from earlier discussions, a 9672 family > member is a 32 bit machine, and can only run releases of z/VM leading > up to probably 4.4. And amongst the Linux distributions out there, > only one

Re: OK - a really stupid question.

2007-05-24 Thread Sergey Korzhevsky
23.05.2007 19:40:26 Mark Post wrote: Hi Mark. What "features" do you mean? I always think that z/os db2 everytime far behind pc/db2. >Now, if the version of DB2 that is available for Linux would only be upgraded >to have all the features and functionality of the z/OS version, it would be >much