Re: cloning WAS and/or DB2 zLinux servers

2012-10-15 Thread James Gill
Hi all, The challenge with DB2 is the node-lock file which is going to include platform specific information (ip address / DNS name). I'd guess that the way to do this would be to have DB2 installed but without any instances created. You can then script db2icrt / db2start / db2 -tvf myddl to bu

Re: cloning WAS and/or DB2 zLinux servers

2012-10-15 Thread Agblad Tore
We have was7 and now was8, we have one installation each of was7 / 8 without the profile and clone this disk into a shared readonly, works great. for db2 I don't know, but if leaving db2 turned off in the clone base, you will be able to modify any config before starting it, that should work. Co

Re: suse 10.4 upgrade MKINITRD Problems

2012-10-15 Thread Marcy Cortes
What messages do you get when you manually issue "mkinitrd " and then "zipl" before you reboot? Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Dean, David (I/S) Sent: Monday, October 15, 2012 6:46 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject:

suse 10.4 upgrade MKINITRD Problems

2012-10-15 Thread Dean, David (I/S)
I am upgrading from 10.3 to 10.4 so I can "smoothly???" jump up to 11.2. I am running into the problem that it will not run mkinitrd and I end up with my old friend "cp wait..." I have been bringing the boot dasd up in another server, chroot to it, and run mkinitrd, then returning dasd to orig