ORACLE 10g RAC on zLinux

2006-12-05 Thread Jae-hwa Park
Hello, I'm trying to install ORACLE 10g RAC on our customer's linux system. Are there any hints and tips for installing RAC on zLinux? I've alread read the redbook - Experiences with Oracle 10g Database for Linux on zSeries -, but I need some other experiences and information on this. Are there

Re: newbie, looking for a community of mainframe,linux users

2006-12-05 Thread Mehdi Hassanpour
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Re: ORACLE 10g RAC on zLinux

2006-12-05 Thread Jim Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
... Are there any references for ORACLE 10g RAC on zLinux under the different z/VMs? If any, which version of Linux distribution do you using? ORACLE 10g R2? z/VM 5.2? 5.1? ... For performance reasons you should be on z/VM V5.2. This is the only release that handles large memory ( 2GB) really

Re: timezones

2006-12-05 Thread John Summerfield
Kielek, Samuel wrote: Red Hat has had updated packages for the US now about a year now. You can get more details at: RHEL 3 - https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rhel3es-errata-updates.html RHEL 4 - https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rhel4es-errata-updates.html Search for tzdata under Enhancements.. To

Re: SLES9 SP 3, Oracle 9.2, Java Not Found

2006-12-05 Thread John Summerfield
Fargusson.Alan wrote: I don't think the message is saying that the version is wrong. I think it is saying that it didn't find Java at all. My guess would be that it is looking for IBMJava2-s390-131 relative to the install directory. I would have expect the message to have say not found at

Yast2 - Cannot read package data from installation media

2006-12-05 Thread Bertil Starck
Hi! I'm trying to use Yast to migrate from Sles9 to Sles10. I have downloaded the thre CD:s from Novell: SLES-10-CD-s390x-GMC-CD1.iso SLES-10-CD-s390x-GMC-CD2.iso SLES-10-CD-s390x-GMC-CD3.iso I got this error in Yast: Cannot read package data from installation media. Media error? *

Re: SLES9 SP 3, Oracle 9.2, Java Not Found

2006-12-05 Thread Mark Pace
If you do echo $PATH do you have :/usr/lib/java/jre/bin ? -- Mark Pace Mainline Information Systems -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO

Re: newbie, looking for a community of mainframe,linux users

2006-12-05 Thread Jeremy Warren
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Re: ORACLE 10g RAC on zLinux

2006-12-05 Thread Dave Jones
Also, take a close look at these two IBM Redbooks: Experiences with Oracle 10g Database for Linux on zSeries (http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246482.html?Open) and Using Discontiguous Shared Segments and XIP2 Filesystems With Oracle Database 10g on Linux for IBM System z

Re: Yast2 - Cannot read package data from installation media

2006-12-05 Thread Mark Post
What menu selections did you use in YaST to try to recognize the media and start the upgrade process? (And to repeat myself yet again, this kind of problem is why I always try to use HTTP installs/upgrades. I can tell from the access_log exactly what is going on.) Mark Post -Original

Re: SLES9 SP 3, Oracle 9.2, Java Not Found

2006-12-05 Thread Little, Chris
I think that runInstaller uses it's own JRE, but you might (for kicks and grins) create a symlink of /usr/lib/java to /opt/IBMJavaxxx -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Stuart Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 6:22 PM To:

Re: SLES9 SP 3, Oracle 9.2, Java Not Found

2006-12-05 Thread David Stuart
Mark, The echo $PATH has /usr/lib/java/bin in it. But jre is not specified anywhere. Being fairly new to Linux, how do you add to the $PATH? Thanks, Dave Dave Stuart Prin. Info. Systems Support Analyst County of Ventura, CA 805-662-6731 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/5/2006 5:18

Re: timezones

2006-12-05 Thread Patrick Spinler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Summerfield wrote: To see what you have: rpm -q --changelog tzdate | less You can also check your timezone file directly via: zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 200. Then, look at the entries for 2006, and 2007. The 2007 dst change should

Re: SLES9 SP 3, Oracle 9.2, Java Not Found

2006-12-05 Thread Mark Pace
Mine is set via /etc/profile.d/alljava.sh called from /etc/profile Which, I assume, was added as part of the JRE installation. On 12/5/06, David Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark, The echo $PATH has /usr/lib/java/bin in it. But jre is not specified anywhere. Being fairly new to

Re: SLES9 SP 3, Oracle 9.2, Java Not Found

2006-12-05 Thread Little, Chris
export PATH=$PATH:/add/new/directory/to/path -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Stuart Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 10:28 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: SLES9 SP 3, Oracle 9.2, Java Not Found Mark, The

Re: Yast2 - Cannot read package data from installation media

2006-12-05 Thread Paul Dembry
I'm trying to use Yast to migrate from Sles9 to Sles10. I have downloaded the thre CD:s from Novell: SLES-10-CD-s390x-GMC-CD1.iso SLES-10-CD-s390x-GMC-CD2.iso SLES-10-CD-s390x-GMC-CD3.iso I got this error in Yast: Cannot read package data from installation media. Media error? *

Re: Booting from mirrored DASD

2006-12-05 Thread Vic Cross
Rob van der Heij wrote: Linux identifies the volumes by address rather than label and John Summerfield replied: RHEL does indeed use labels. John, the labels you refer to are filesystem labels, not volume labels. The filesystem labels are not visible until *after* the DASD driver has made

Re: Booting from mirrored DASD

2006-12-05 Thread John Summerfield
Vic Cross wrote: Rob van der Heij wrote: Linux identifies the volumes by address rather than label and John Summerfield replied: RHEL does indeed use labels. John, the labels you refer to are filesystem labels, not volume labels. The filesystem labels are not visible until *after* the

Re: Booting from mirrored DASD

2006-12-05 Thread Rick Troth
Rob said: Linux identifies the volumes by address rather than label ... Then Vic said (to John): The filesystem labels are not visible until *after* the DASD driver has made all the disks present. Rob is lamenting that the DASD driver is unable to use VOLSER to map disk device to block

Re: Booting from mirrored DASD

2006-12-05 Thread Rick Troth
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, John Summerfield wrote: ... Remember that partitions are special cases of volumes; labelling partitions would be filesystem independant (I don't think all filesystems support labels), and done completely would include the physical volume. See my other note. (We crossed

Re: Booting from mirrored DASD

2006-12-05 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 12/5/06, Vic Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: has made all the disks present. Rob is lamenting that the DASD driver is unable to use VOLSER to map disk device to block node (i.e. we're not able to do something like dasd=L0A201,L0A202,L0A203 on the kernel command line). Well, maybe lamenting

SLES 9 SP 3 - Oracle 9i install problem

2006-12-05 Thread David Stuart
Evening, I am trying to install Oracle 9i (9.2.0.1) on SLES9 SP 3 running on an S/390 LPAR. I set all the environment variables, per the Install Guide, Setup Tasks for the Oracle User, and then execute runInstaller. I receive a message that the Java Environment is being initialized

Re: Best Practices for zSeries linux ISVs?

2006-12-05 Thread Rick Troth
I said: Build the package outside of RPM control. That is, DO NOT ship it as built from the SRPM. You can and should still ship an SRPM. Do an 'rpmbuild -bb' against a built and installed package. John then said: I _hate_ packages built this way. I fully expect that, should I rebuild,

Re: Booting from mirrored DASD

2006-12-05 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 12/06/2006 at 01:13 CET, Rob van der Heij [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I must admit I lost interest in this thread when we got into the the Linux can not game while zSeries technology at least allows some operating systems to make sense out of it. Certainly the need to recognize a

Re: SLES 9 SP 3 - Oracle 9i install problem

2006-12-05 Thread Marian Gasparovic
Dave, how long is never returns ? Did you check what is going on during that time ? For examle with 'top' ot 'vmstat' in another terminal ? Memory constraints ? Marian Gasparovic IBM Slovakia --- David Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Evening, I am trying to install Oracle 9i (9.2.0.1) on