Netbackup Client

2006-03-23 Thread Graeme Westerman NFU Mutual Insurance
We have been running FDR/Upstream on our z/OS system (1.4) and Linux clients (SLES8 and SLES9) under z/VM 4.4 for about 12 months now and very happy with it. At our DR test last year we recovered the VM system and Linux clients and rolled forward the Oracle dbases from the Upstream backups success

Warning - select correct lpar processor type !

2005-05-18 Thread Graeme Westerman NFU Mutual Insurance
I have a confession / experience that I think maybe worth sharing with you if you run multiple lpars on a Z series box, ie mixture of z/OS lpars and z/VM lpars / Linux lpars. We have a single Z box in which we run 3 z/OS lpars and 2 z/VM lpars hosting SLES8 virtual machines. We were experiencing p

Oracle 9.2 and SLES8

2005-01-19 Thread Graeme Westerman NFU Mutual Insurance
Hi, we are using IBMJava2-SDK-1.3.1-4.0 with SLES8 and Oracle 9.2 Regards, Graeme --- Graeme Westerman Principal Systems Programmer Tel: 01789 202113Fax: 01789 202770 NFU Mutual Insurance, Tiddington Road, Stratford-upon-

Re: Adding an additional volume using LVM

2004-11-30 Thread Graeme Westerman NFU Mutual Insurance
>Subject: Re: Adding an additional volume using LVM >Did you also extend the filesystem? For SLES8, if you are using ReiserFS, you can do this while the filesystem is >mounted with resize_reiserfs. >Cheers, >Wayne Hi Wayne, thanks for the pointer it was the 1 bit I had missed out. We are using e

Re: Adding an additional volume using LVM

2004-11-28 Thread Graeme Westerman NFU Mutual Insurance
Hi list, we are currently running SLES8 under z/VM. I have 1 lvm group consisting of 3 3390-9 disks and have added an additional volume, dasdg1. When I issue various display cmds as shown below, the "df -ah" cmd still shows the previous configuration. pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (thi

Veritas NetBackup

2004-10-15 Thread Graeme Westerman NFU Mutual Insurance
We are running Upstream on our z/Linux (SLES8) with the server address space running on z/OS and are very pleased with the product. We were in the same position running Veritas as our standard Wintel backup utility and had to find an alternative. Regards, Graeme

VM user defs to run Oracle under SLES8

2004-05-14 Thread Graeme Westerman NFU Mutual Insurance
Hi, We have over this last week eventually managed to install Oracle 9i under SLES8 (31 bit) which is running under VM 4.4 to evaluate. One of the main issues we encountered was the Oracle installer just seemed to go to sleep and appeared to be a VM resource issue. The VM machine userid was defin

GCC file not recognized : file format not recognized

2002-04-04 Thread Graeme Westerman NFU Mutual Insurance Society
We have a single Linux image at present running SuSE Linux 2.2.16 with gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release) in an lpar. With the news that Oracle brings 9i to Linux/390 I downloaded the developers version and attempted to install it (this being my first product install !). When it comes to the st