Re: Db2 Connect Server
Tom, I have DB2 Conn Server installed, I reviewed the post installation steps etc. Where are the next steps documented about configuring connections to say db2 instances on the MF? Checked the Db2 info center and but can't find where that stuff is? Kind of like where do I go next? Tks Matt -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Duerbusch Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 1:51 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Db2 Connect Server When I installed DB2 Connect, I used the VNC method of installing. I did a find / -name db2samp*.* from putty on my DB2 Connect Server. The file wasn't found. I don't know what was used by the install process. BTW, if you only have DB2 Connect and not DB2/UDB with it, would you still have a sample DB to install? I'm thinking that the sample DB is for DB2/UDB type testing and if you are not licensed for DB2/UDB, could you still create it and what could it be used for? Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Dazzo, Matt mda...@pch.com 2/28/2011 9:59 AM I'm a zvm/Linux nubie looking for some help with DB2 Conn sever on Linux. I have it installed and I am working on the post installation tasks, trying to create the sample database but it seems the command 'db2sampl' is nowhere to be found. According to the not so good db2 install book it should be in / $HOME/sqllib/bin but it's not there. I searched the entire db2 install path and there is no db2sampl. Has anyone else run into this? The db2val tool run successfully and I can start the db manager. Matt Dazzo Sr. MVS Systems Admin Publishers Clearing House 516-944-4816 mda...@pch.com -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
Re: Db2 Connect Server
In my case (VSE), the mainframe documentation is in the PD for DB2/VSE. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Sent via BlackBerry by ATT -Original Message- From: Dazzo, Matt mda...@pch.com Sender: Linux on 390 Port LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 10:41:34 To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Reply-To: Linux on 390 Port LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Db2 Connect Server Tom, I have DB2 Conn Server installed, I reviewed the post installation steps etc. Where are the next steps documented about configuring connections to say db2 instances on the MF? Checked the Db2 info center and but can't find where that stuff is? Kind of like where do I go next? Tks Matt -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Duerbusch Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 1:51 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Db2 Connect Server When I installed DB2 Connect, I used the VNC method of installing. I did a find / -name db2samp*.* from putty on my DB2 Connect Server. The file wasn't found. I don't know what was used by the install process. BTW, if you only have DB2 Connect and not DB2/UDB with it, would you still have a sample DB to install? I'm thinking that the sample DB is for DB2/UDB type testing and if you are not licensed for DB2/UDB, could you still create it and what could it be used for? Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Dazzo, Matt mda...@pch.com 2/28/2011 9:59 AM I'm a zvm/Linux nubie looking for some help with DB2 Conn sever on Linux. I have it installed and I am working on the post installation tasks, trying to create the sample database but it seems the command 'db2sampl' is nowhere to be found. According to the not so good db2 install book it should be in / $HOME/sqllib/bin but it's not there. I searched the entire db2 install path and there is no db2sampl. Has anyone else run into this? The db2val tool run successfully and I can start the db manager. Matt Dazzo Sr. MVS Systems Admin Publishers Clearing House 516-944-4816 mda...@pch.com -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
System z Linux Council Meeting - San Francisco - March 14 / Updated Agenda
Bay Bunch System z Linux Council State Compensation Insurance Fund 1275 Market Street 2nd Floor, PAC Room (take the guest elevator to the cafeteria) San Francisco, CA 94102 Monday, March 14th, 2011 You’re invited to join us for our “Bay Bunch” “System z Linux Council” to be held at the State Compensation Insurance Fund in San Francisco, California, Monday, March 14th, 2011. We will begin with registration and a continental breakfast, followed by the sessions, and ending with a roundtable, lunch and planning for our next meetings. As always, the purpose of these meetings are to garner your insights and foster the sharing of information and experiences with the zVM and Linux on System z community. *** AGENDA * 8:30 AM - Arrival and Continental Breakfast 9:00 – 9:55 Overview of New Release 4.1 of Velocity’s zVPS and zPRO Tools Rich Smrcina – Senior Systems Engineer – Velocity Software 10:00 – 10:55 z196 Hardware Overview and Upgrade Experiences Kathy Amos – Systems Engineer – Mainline information Systems 11:00 – 11:55 Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension and the SUSE Linux Enterprise Mono Extension Mike Friesenegger – Technical Specialist - Novell Noon – Lunch, Roundtable discussion and planning for the next meeting. To register for this event – email Mark Banda _markb@velocitysoftware.com_ (mailto:ma...@velocitysoftware.com) Refreshments provided by Velocity Software and IBM -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ Council Invite San Francisco March 14 2011a.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document
System z Linux Council Meeting - Costa Mesa - March 16th / Updated Agenda
System z Linux Council Auto Club of Southern California Fairview Street Costa Mesa, California 92626 Wednesday, March 16th, 2011 You’re invited to join us for our continuing “System z Linux Council” to be held at the Auto Club in Costa Mesa, California, Wednesday, March 16th, 2011. We will begin with registration and a continental breakfast, followed by the sessions, and ending with a roundtable, lunch and planning for our next meetings. As always, the purpose of these meetings is to garner your insights and foster the sharing of information and experiences within the Linux on System z community. *** AGENDA * Agenda 8:30 AM - Arrival and Continental Breakfast 9:00 – 9:55 Overview of New Release 4.1 of Velocity’s zVPS and zPRO Tools Rich Smrcina – Senior Systems Engineer – Velocity Software 10:00 – 10:55 z196 Hardware Overview and Upgrade Experiences Kathy Amos – Systems Engineer – Mainline information Systems 11:00 – 11:55 Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension and the SUSE Linux Enterprise Mono Extension Mike Friesenegger – Technical Specialist - Novell Noon – Lunch, Roundtable discussion and planning for the next meeting. To register for this event – email Mark Banda _markb@velocitysoftware.com_ (mailto:ma...@velocitysoftware.com) Refreshments provided by Velocity Software and IBM -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ Council Invite Costa Mesa March 16 2011a.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document
System z Linux Council Meeting - Phoenix - March 15 / Updated Agenda
System z Linux Council Salt River Project Information Systems Building 1600 North Priest Drive Tempe, Arizona, 85281 Tuesday, March 15th, 2011 You’re invited to join us for our continuing “System z Linux Council” to be held at the Salt River Project in Tempe, Arizona, Tuesday, March 15th, 2011. We will begin with registration and a continental breakfast, followed by the sessions, and ending with a roundtable, lunch and planning for our next meetings. As always, the purpose of these meetings is to garner your insights and foster the sharing of information and experiences within the Linux on System z community. *** AGENDA * Agenda 8:30 AM - Arrival and Continental Breakfast 9:00 – 9:55 Overview of New Release 4.1 of Velocity’s zVPS and zPRO Tools Rich Smrcina – Senior Systems Engineer – Velocity Software 10:00 – 10:55 z196 Hardware Overview and Upgrade Experiences Kathy Amos – Systems Engineer – Mainline information Systems 11:00 – 11:55 Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension and the SUSE Linux Enterprise Mono Extension Mike Friesenegger – Technical Specialist - Novell Noon – Lunch, Roundtable discussion and planning for the next meeting. To register for this event – email Mark Banda _markb@velocitysoftware.com_ (mailto:ma...@velocitysoftware.com) Refreshments provided by Velocity Software and IBM -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ Council Invite Phoenix March 15 2011a.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document
Re: Read-only DASD and CMSCONFFILE
On 02/28/2011 11:42 AM, Philip Rowlands wrote: Short version: DASD='777,888(ro)' is valid and useful CMSCONFFILE, but we don't see that syntax in either the documentation or the script's own output. Long version: Picture the scene; there's a minidisk holding kickstart files and the full RHEL install file set. Other users LINK this minidisk in order to read the data locally. We configure the target and repo dasd with DASD=777,888. What happens next? - The R/O LINK is not detected by the Linux dasd module. /sys/bus/ccw/devices/0.0.0888/readonly is 0. - For reasons unclear to me, anaconda wants to write to all the partition tables it can see, despite having no clearpart, initlabel or partitions defined for that disk. - The kernel logs spews out the usual EXAMINE 24 error and sense hex data seen when you try to write to a read-only disk. - anaconda stalls and prompts to Ignore the error on dasdb, unless we're using non-interactive kickstart, in which case it stalls for good. How to fix this? The CMSCONFFILE read by linuxrc.s390 (the /sbin/init of RHEL's initrd installer image) supports a DASD= parameter, which is sanity-checked and passed to the kernel. Tell linux which minidisks are readonly like this: DASD=777,888(ro) If we follow the RHEL install documentation, or rely on linuxrc.s390's own interactive option p to print out the CONF file, we have a problem. CMSCONFFILE is a shell script, sourced by bash. It must be written in syntax-compliant bash, which DASD=777,888(ro) is not. DASD='777,888(ro)' # quoted to protect the parentheses is correct syntax, and will successfully protect the disk from anaconda's attempts to write to it. I'll probably file this in RHEL Bugzilla, and send a note to IBM's Linux team in Germany, but wanted to post here first for feedback and to see if anyone else has run into similar problems. Cheers, Phil Hi Phil, Thanks for your detective work in tracking down the fix for this. Please do file a RHEL Bugzilla. This should be documented. Once you file the bug report, please let me know the Bugzilla number and I'll make sure it gets documented in the right places. Thanks, -Brad -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ -- Brad Hinsonbhin...@redhat.com Worldwide System z Sales, Strategy, Marketing Red Hat, Inc. +1 (919) 360-0443 (mobile) www.redhat.com/z -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
