Re: SUSE 10 LDAP QUESTIONS

2008-12-03 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port On Behalf Of Rich Smrcina There's a redpaper that talks about this. See: Securing Linux for zSeries with a Central z/OS LDAP Server You might also want to check out the ABC's redbooks (which ever one deals with RACF and security).

Re: Oracle, zlinux, and virtualization

2008-12-03 Thread Harder, Pieter
Mark, Is your picture from the Orlando presentation still valid when virtualization is factored in? The discrete system view factors in massive underutilization to be able to run on so few IFLs. The general thinking in my company is that VMware is a lot simpler route to attack that. Best

Re: RHEL 2.4 on Z9

2008-12-03 Thread Eric Sammons
Red Hat 7.1 and 7.2 were not commercial product offerings from Red Hat. Red Hat introduced its commercial offering with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, which was not offered on the s390. So I believe that there is confusion here between what is Red Hat Enterprise Linux and what is Linux. uname -r

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2008-12-03 Thread Little, Chris
It IS a seriously misinformed person. We've been running Oracle RDBMS for several years now in a z/VM environment. No issues. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pat Carroll Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 3:06 PM To:

Re: Oracle, zlinux, and virtualization

2008-12-03 Thread Little, Chris
http://www.vm.ibm.com/linux/serverco.pdf Slide 9 has information on Oklahoma Department of human services. It's a little dated, but it's what we experienced back then. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harder, Pieter Sent: Tuesday,

Re: Oracle, zlinux, and virtualization

2008-12-03 Thread Little, Chris
IBM did a piece on us (no pun intended, seriously), but it doesn't seem to be up on the website anymore. Neither can I find my links -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harder, Pieter Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 3:41 PM To:

Re: Oracle, zlinux, and virtualization

2008-12-03 Thread Richard Gasiorowski
Chris, Doesn't say much I was looking for avrage instance size and were you able to decrease SGA sizes? Stuff like that 'Where ever you go - There you are!! ' Richard (Gaz) Gasiorowski Global Solutions Technology Principal Lead Infrastructure Architect CSC 3170 Fairview Park Dr., Falls Church,

Re: Oracle, zlinux, and virtualization

2008-12-03 Thread Mark Post
On 12/3/2008 at 7:58 AM, Harder, Pieter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark, Is your picture from the Orlando presentation still valid when virtualization is factored in? The discrete system view factors in massive underutilization to be able to run on so few IFLs. The general thinking in my

Re: RHEL 2.4 on Z9

2008-12-03 Thread Mark Post
On 12/3/2008 at 9:41 AM, Eric Sammons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Red Hat 7.1 and 7.2 were not commercial product offerings from Red Hat. Red Hat introduced its commercial offering with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, I'm sure the people at Red Hat who were there at the time would be very

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2008-12-03 Thread Mark Post
On 12/3/2008 at 10:25 AM, Little, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It IS a seriously misinformed person. We've been running Oracle RDBMS for several years now in a z/VM environment. No issues. Not what the Oracle rep (thought they were) was talking about. Works great is not the same as

Re: Oracle, zlinux, and virtualization

2008-12-03 Thread Tom Duerbusch
PMFJI On my smaller Oracle 10g R2, under SLES 10 SP2, with OEM running, I've been able to get the SGA down to 140 MB, with PGA of 16 MB. This can run in a vsize of 600 MB with dual prioritized vdisk for swapping. There are a lot of smaller applications, that don't need GB databases G. And

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2008-12-03 Thread Shockley, Gerard C
I would second that. Some additional resources here: http://www.zseriesoraclesig.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_on_zSeries Gerard C. Shockley Assistant Director Technical Services Boston University [EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.353.9898 (w) 617.353.6171 (f)

Re: root crontab

2008-12-03 Thread Rick Troth
Excellent recommendation from John, but ... On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, John McKown wrote: ... What I do in many cases is have cron run a script. That script then sources /etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile. Another possibility would be to have cron run a login shell * * * * * /bin/bash -L

Re: Oracle, zlinux, and virtualization

2008-12-03 Thread Richard Gasiorowski
Thx Tom Just what I was looking for 'Where ever you go - There you are!! ' Richard (Gaz) Gasiorowski Global Solutions Technology Principal Lead Infrastructure Architect CSC 3170 Fairview Park Dr., Falls Church, VA 22042 845-773-9243 Work|845-392-7889 Cell|[EMAIL PROTECTED]|www.csc.com This

Re: Oracle, zlinux, and virtualization

2008-12-03 Thread Mark Post
On 12/3/2008 at 10:29 AM, Little, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IBM did a piece on us (no pun intended, seriously), but it doesn't seem to be up on the website anymore. Neither can I find my links Here's one:

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2008-12-03 Thread Shawn Wells
Come on now, haven't you heard the Mainframe is dead? ;) While I certainly can't speak for entire companies, I'm aware not aware of any such efforts. Stewart Thomas J wrote: Sounds a little like our Red Hat rep who told our Linux guys yesterday that IBM is likely to get rid of z/VM in favor

Oracle support issues.

2008-12-03 Thread Little, Chris
I should have been more clear. No support issues. Actually we had more support issues starting up with IBM than Oracle. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 10:18 AM To:

Additional Hillgang session

2008-12-03 Thread Neale Ferguson
Bonus session for tomorrow - CA Products for z/VM ­ Old Dogs with New Tricks Linux on the mainframe has given z/VM new life. This presentation explores the evolution of CA¹s system management solutions for z/VM as invaluable tools for securing and managing z/VM environments. An overview of

Contrainted System - What to do first and am I missing anything.

2008-12-03 Thread Tyler Koyl
I am starting to get guests dropping off into E3. Here is what it looks like: Ready; T=0.01/0.01 14:34:23 ind queues MAINT Q1 R00 0212/0191 TCPIP Q0 PS 0736/0160 VSWCTRL1 Q0 PS 0086/0025 SWPLT01 Q0 PS 00015174/00015100 SWPLT02 Q0 PS

Re: Contrainted System - What to do first and am I missing anything.

2008-12-03 Thread Marcy Cortes
You're on the right track. I'd try storbuf 300 300 300 for immediate relief from the E3. But you are still overcommitted by a lot, more real storage (or smaller, fewer servers) is in order. With z/VM 5.4 you can add storage dynamically. Course, that assumes you've got some sitting in the z9

Re: Contrainted System - What to do first and am I missing anything.

2008-12-03 Thread Barton Robinson
STORBUF is the answer, the default is broken as designed. See first, http://velocitysoftware.com/faq.html;, and then http://velocitysoftware.com/present/CONFIG/; for configuration guidelines, that will help you avoid other such unavoidable issues. Tyler Koyl wrote: I am starting to get

Re: Contrainted System - What to do first and am I missing anything.

2008-12-03 Thread David Kreuter
another question - did you set those 2 largish machines with QUICKDSP ON? If yes, why? In general I am not a huge fan of QUICKDSP, it bypasses some important scheduler decisions, somewhat defeating the concept of fair share scheduling. swplt01 and swplt05 David Kreuter

Thu Dec 4 Live Virtual Class- A VSE Perspective of the IBM System z10 BC

2008-12-03 Thread Pamela Christina (607429-3447 T620)
For those on IBMVM, LINUX390, IBMMAIN who are interested in an hour of no-charge System z education via webcast. Note that today's (12/3/2008) LVC on Project Big Green is planned to be available for replay beginning Friday Dec 5. Here's another Live Virtual Class for Thursday December 4th at

Re: Contrainted System - What to do first and am I missing anything.

2008-12-03 Thread Tyler Koyl
Firstly, thanks everyone for you help. I did set storbuf as recommended. David: I try and keep quickdsp off as much as possible as well. Many fruitless arguments have ensued. It may be overkill to have it set 'ON' on a test LPAR but swplt01 is a firewall, swplt05 is a WAS portal. It is 'on'

Re: RHEL 2.4 on Z9

2008-12-03 Thread John Summerfield
Mark Post wrote: On 12/3/2008 at 9:41 AM, Eric Sammons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Red Hat 7.1 and 7.2 were not commercial product offerings from Red Hat. Red Hat introduced its commercial offering with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, I'm sure the people at Red Hat who were there at the time

Re: Contrainted System - What to do first and am I missing anything.

2008-12-03 Thread Rich Smrcina
Tyler, As David indicated, QUICKDSP is a very big stick that has specific uses. Once you implement Barton's suggestion, you may want to handle prioritizing individual virtual machines with SET SHARE. Be careful there as well, the relative numbers are just that, relative to each other.

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2008-12-03 Thread John Summerfield
Huegel, Thomas wrote: Are the rep's initials HOO? as in H2O... That's HOH -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Advice http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 You cannot