Re: Z9 to Z114, Z/VM5.4 to Z/VM6.2 and moving Z/OS to a guest?

2013-05-28 Thread Feller, Paul
I can answer #3. Yes z/VM 5.4 will run on a z114. We are running it on a z196 (big brother to z114), but we had to apply maintenance to z/VM 5.4. You can find a list of PTFs for z/VM 5.4 to support the z196 and z114 at http://www.vm.ibm.com/service/vmreqze.html Thanks.. Paul Feller AGT

Re: Z9 to Z114, Z/VM5.4 to Z/VM6.2 and moving Z/OS to a guest?

2013-05-28 Thread Shane G
And just for completeness, I have a customer happily running 5.4 on a z114. I would go for 6.2 on the new box, but you'd have to think IBM would cane you something awful with licensing for running z/OS as guests. Needs must I suppose ... Shane ... On Tue, May 28th, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Feller, Paul

Re: Z9 to Z114, Z/VM5.4 to Z/VM6.2 and moving Z/OS to a guest?

2013-05-28 Thread Kurt Acker
z/VM 540 is at least supported on a z114... however running production zOS under z/VM is not really recommended so I have to ask why you are not considering upgrading zOS? That would also have to help simplify your System z push/pull process for the upgrade. Here is a quick high level z114 FAQ

Re: Z9 to Z114, Z/VM5.4 to Z/VM6.2 and moving Z/OS to a guest?

2013-05-28 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 05/27/2013 at 04:43 EDT, Bruce Arro ba...@amcotec.co.za wrote: Have a Z9 with 1 CP and 5 IFL's. Have 4 X Z/VM 5.4 LPARS with various versions of SUSE Linux running as guests and a Z/OS Prod and Test Lpar. Are installing a Z114 in a few weeks time and would like to upgrade to Z/VM

Re: Z9 to Z114, Z/VM5.4 to Z/VM6.2 and moving Z/OS to a guest?

2013-05-28 Thread Alan Altmark
On Tuesday, 05/28/2013 at 06:29 EDT, Shane G ibm-m...@tpg.com.au wrote: I would go for 6.2 on the new box, but you'd have to think IBM would cane you something awful with licensing for running z/OS as guests. Why? Some of my IBM brethren are more knowledgeable on this subject than I, but I

Re: Z9 to Z114, Z/VM5.4 to Z/VM6.2 and moving Z/OS to a guest?

2013-05-28 Thread Alan Altmark
On Tuesday, 05/28/2013 at 09:14 EDT, Kurt Acker/Endicott/IBM@IBMUS wrote: z/VM 540 is at least supported on a z114... however running production zOS under z/VM is not really recommended There was a time when even the minimal overhead of z/VM was enough to make running z/OS as a guest

Anyone running z/Linux natively and not under z/VM?

2013-05-28 Thread Pesce, Andy
Just a curiosity question: Is anyone running Red Hat or SUSE natively in its own LPAR without having z/VM? I know that under z/VM you can run multiple LINUX images. It is also very easy to clone systems. However, just wondering if there are clients out there that only want to run one LINUX

Re: Anyone running z/Linux natively and not under z/VM?

2013-05-28 Thread Mark Post
On 5/28/2013 at 04:00 PM, Pesce, Andy andy.pe...@autozone.com wrote: Just a curiosity question: Is anyone running Red Hat or SUSE natively in its own LPAR without having z/VM? I know that under z/VM you can run multiple LINUX images. It is also very easy to clone systems. However, just

Re: Anyone running z/Linux natively and not under z/VM?

2013-05-28 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 5/28/2013 1:00 PM, Pesce, Andy wrote: Just a curiosity question: Is anyone running Red Hat or SUSE natively in its own LPAR without having z/VM? I know that under z/VM you can run multiple LINUX images. It is also very easy to clone systems. However, just wondering if there are clients out

Re: Anyone running z/Linux natively and not under z/VM?

2013-05-28 Thread Stewart, Lee
On one hand -- it works... On the other hand -- There can be significant challenges... In a previous job ... - We had one customer with a couple Linuxes in LPARs. It proved a significant challenge to move them from an old DASD subsystem to a new DASD subsystem - We also had a customer

[OT] Oracle memory leak debugging

2013-05-28 Thread Neale Ferguson
I am trying to determine why an Oracle app is using a lot of storage (and growing and growing). I am not sure if it¹s application related or not. Initially I saw lots of OCIParamGet() calls with no corresponding OCIDescriptorFree() calls. However, after correcting this there was no respite from