SUSE-Linux Mainframe Becomes Teaching Ground

2008-09-11 Thread Neale Ferguson
See: http://www.linuxtoday.com/high_performance/2008091101535OSNV "A national leader in mainframe instruction, the university (and its Walton School of Business) has taught Linux on the mainframe for five years and was rewarded for its efforts with a free five-year loan, including maintenance, of

Re: London Stock Exchange suffers .NET Crash

2008-09-11 Thread John Summerfield
Mauro Souza wrote: here in Brazil: Bradesco: Apache Itau: IBM Http Server Banco do Brasil: IHS Unibanco: IIS Santander: IHS Really, my point is that some large organinsations that (one presumes) care about their systems think Windows is okay. Their opinion differs from that of the author of h

Re: 127.0.0.2 in /etc/hosts?

2008-09-11 Thread John Summerfield
Michael MacIsaac wrote: I can see how SuSE/Novell can argue that it is a valid value (i.e. "working as designed"), but if it affects important applications such as SAP and DB2, I can see how it might be viewed as a bug by the customer. "working as designed" does not preclude a faulty design.

Re: Weird application freeze problem

2008-09-11 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Mark Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While this discussion has been going on, I've been wondering if "hwclock > --hctosys" might not be the lowest impact method available. The problem > being that hwclock currently isn't included in the util-linux RPM for SLES

Re: Weird application freeze problem

2008-09-11 Thread Quay, Jonathan (IHG)
So z/VM would have to implement stp support (hey, z/OS has it, just port it) so its TOD clock would be accurate and Linux would have to changed to get its time from VM's now accurate clock. As a byproduct, if you're running in a sysplex like we are, ALL your images would have synchronized times.

Re: read source to glibc on Web

2008-09-11 Thread John McKown
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Mark Post wrote: > > Try http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/?cvsroot=glibc > > > Mark Post Thanks! -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: Ein Stein. Maranatha! John McKown -- For LI

Re: Weird application freeze problem

2008-09-11 Thread David Boyes
> While this discussion has been going on, I've been wondering if "hwclock - > -hctosys" might not be the lowest impact method available. Thought of that too, and as you found out, it doesn't work at all. That would be the logical fix, though, since we do have a fairly high quality hardware cloc

Re: Weird application freeze problem

2008-09-11 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 9/11/2008 at 11:24 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Edmund R. MacKenty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -snip- > Perhaps this is a > better tool than ntpd for the VM environment? While this discussion has been going on, I've been wondering if "hwclock --hctosys" might not be the lowest imp

Re: Oracle 11g certification?

2008-09-11 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 9/11/2008 at 12:09 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Sienicki, Paul K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Back in march on a blog: > > Oracle on IBM z > http://blogs.oracle.com/jblog/2008/03/oracle_on_ibm_z.html > > It was stated that 11g certification for z would be coming soon. > > Can in

Oracle 11g certification?

2008-09-11 Thread Sienicki, Paul K
Back in march on a blog: Oracle on IBM z http://blogs.oracle.com/jblog/2008/03/oracle_on_ibm_z.html It was stated that 11g certification for z would be coming soon. Can insight be provided into what soon might be? Weeks, Months, Years? Thank you very much. Paul Sienicki

Re: read source to glibc on Web

2008-09-11 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 9/11/2008 at 11:16 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John McKown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've tried doing a Google search, but got a ton of hits and cannot figure > out how to do any better. > > I would like to look at the source to various glibc subroutines. In > particular: strcpy

Re: Compiling applmon_os, applmon_mem...

2008-09-11 Thread Gerald Schaefer
> I am using RHEL 4.6 and want to install the appldata modules, but they > aren't present in my distro. > How can I get and compile them? The appldata modules should be compiled into the kernel on RHEL4, so you don't need to load them, /proc/sys/appldata should be present already. Mit freundlic

Re: Weird application freeze problem

2008-09-11 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
On Thursday 11 September 2008 10:33, Alan Altmark wrote: >If you enable the external timer function of System z, it will syncronize. > For large time deltas, an LPAR that supports STP or ETR will be notified. > For small deltas, the LPARs will drift to the correct time. The clock >will appear to r

read source to glibc on Web

2008-09-11 Thread John McKown
I've tried doing a Google search, but got a ton of hits and cannot figure out how to do any better. I would like to look at the source to various glibc subroutines. In particular: strcpy; strncpy; and memcpy. Does anybody have a URL where I can look at this? Or will I be forced to download the gli

Re: Weird application freeze problem

2008-09-11 Thread Stahr, Lea
NTP on Linux? Lea Stahr Senior Systems Engineer Linux and zLinux Navistar, Inc. 630-753-5445 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 9:34 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.

Re: 127.0.0.2 in /etc/hosts?

2008-09-11 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Mark, > This causes problems with applications like SAP, which make reverse and > forward lookups to ensure it "understands" the network (security/sanity > check maybe?). It expects the IP to be on one of the interfaces it is > using for communication with other App Servers. > > For SAP the simple

Re: Weird application freeze problem

2008-09-11 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 09/10/2008 at 08:41 EDT, "Quay, Jonathan (IHG)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don't the newer z series machines implement ntp themselves to keep the > hardware clock correct? Could linux use the hardware clock to keep > accurate time? If you enable the external timer function of Sys

Re: London Stock Exchange suffers .NET Crash

2008-09-11 Thread Mauro Souza
here in Brazil: Bradesco: Apache Itau: IBM Http Server Banco do Brasil: IHS Unibanco: IIS Santander: IHS On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 1:38 AM, John Summerfield < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Elliott wrote: > >> I note that three of the Big Four banks host their websites on >>> Windows boxes. Two

Compiling applmon_os, applmon_mem...

2008-09-11 Thread Mauro Souza
Hi people, I am using RHEL 4.6 and want to install the appldata modules, but they aren't present in my distro. How can I get and compile them? Thanks in advance! -- Mauro http://mauro.limeiratem.com - registered Linux User: 294521 Scripture is both history, and a love letter from God. -

Re: 127.0.0.2 in /etc/hosts?

2008-09-11 Thread Mark Perry
Michael MacIsaac wrote: > Alan, > >> That smells like someone manually created it. 127.anything, not just >> 127.0.0.2, is localhost. > > No. I just reinstalled SLES 10 SP2 to test. On the "Hostname and Domain > Name" panel in the second half of the install I uncheck "Change Hostname > via DHCP" a