Re: Oracle 11g on zLinux

2010-11-19 Thread Moeur Tim C
I was provided this link in some of my correspondence with IBM on this subject: http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/PRS4016 See page 2. The Oracle document mentioned in the IBM doc confirms the intent to provide support and availability 1Q2011. Tim -Original

Oracle 11g on zLinux

2010-11-16 Thread Moeur Tim C
Is it certified? Supported?I'm hunting for descriptive documents on Oracle's site, but none are forthcoming. I see on this forum that question was asked 2 years ago, but has it changed in 2 years? Tim tim.mo...@srpnet.com

Tomcat V 6

2010-10-11 Thread Moeur Tim C
Hello all, I'm interested in installing Tomcat Version 6 on my RHEL for 390 system. Redhat provides plenty of packages for V5, but no v6. Has anybody had any luck (or deadends) with a version 6 install? Did you have to go find and compile the source file(s)? Tim tim.mo...@srpnet.com

Re: MQ on zLinux authenticated to AD?

2010-05-05 Thread Moeur Tim C
does properly enumerate all members in tim test, but that's my next task. I welcome any comments or suggestions about the kludgy second AD group solution. Tim -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Moeur Tim C Sent: Wednesday, April

Re: MQ on zLinux authenticated to AD?

2010-04-14 Thread Moeur Tim C
be (are) others interested. Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Moeur Tim C Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 9:03 AM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: MQ

Re: MQ on zLinux authenticated to AD?

2010-04-13 Thread Moeur Tim C
? If you don't mind, could you share your steps? We had a customer that tried a year+ ago and their experience wasn't pretty... Thanks, Lee On 4/9/2010 12:16 PM, Moeur Tim C wrote: I am in the process of rolling that out. I've done it successfully on a proof-of-concept machine several months ago

Re: MQ on zLinux authenticated to AD?

2010-04-09 Thread Moeur Tim C
I am in the process of rolling that out. I've done it successfully on a proof-of-concept machine several months ago, and I'm now replicating those steps to deploy a test machine that my real users will hit. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On

Re: Boot from FCP on vintage hardware

2010-03-22 Thread Moeur Tim C
I did try that but with no success. I'm pretty certain that the root cause is the absence of the 'Boot from FCP' feature on my z890, as the regulars here have suggested. As I say, the most telling clue is the instant drop into a CP program interrupt. I went so far as to code up bad zipl.conf

Boot from FCP on vintage hardware

2010-03-18 Thread Moeur Tim C
Hey list - I've been hunting through IBM documents for this answer but so far no gold. Perhaps one of you will save me a lot of time. I'm building zLinux images to use zfcp file systems as the /boot directory. This works well here at home on our Z10. Our DR machine, however, is an older

Re: Boot from FCP on vintage hardware

2010-03-18 Thread Moeur Tim C
the load panel on your z890 HMC/SE, do you see SCSI stuff? Regards, Ray Higgs System z FCP Development Bld. 706, B24 2455 South Road Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 (845) 435-8666, T/L 295-8666 rayhi...@us.ibm.com Moeur Tim C tim.mo...@srpnet.com Sent by: Linux on 390 Port LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu 03/18/2010

Re: RHEL 5.4 Kickstart

2010-03-08 Thread Moeur Tim C
Lee, It was I that started that last iteration of this thread. While I never tested the 2G change, I can attest the 2 vcpus did indeed mean the difference between success and failure. Mark is correct, you don't have to leave it at high memory or more vcpus than planned after the install is

zipl, bootmenu and FCP devices

2010-02-11 Thread Moeur Tim C
Hello list - I've been building some of my newer Red Hat 5.4 zLInux images using FCP devices for the boot device. I noticed yesterday, however, that when I IPL an machine (through VM) that I'm not offered a boot menu. This went unnoticed because we haven't had to revert to old kernels or

Re: zipl, bootmenu and FCP devices

2010-02-11 Thread Moeur Tim C
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Re: Rhel 5.4 install problems

2010-01-28 Thread Moeur Tim C
to continue' requirement that both Sue and I saw is also resolved by adding that second CPU. Tim -Original Message- From: Moeur Tim C Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 1:27 PM To: 'Linux on 390 Port' Subject: RE: Rhel 5.4 install problems I, too, have had the same experiences. My old

Re: Rhel 5.4 install problems

2010-01-27 Thread Moeur Tim C
I, too, have had the same experiences. My old RHEL 5.2 installation process worked (and still works) properly catching that redhat.conf file. Under 5.4, however, the redhat.conf file is ignored I have to specify by hand the network settings. We use a kickstart process here and so I don't

FCP at DRP

2009-03-02 Thread Moeur Tim C
Hello list, I have a problem looking for a solution and I'm hoping that someone here might have some suggestions. We have recently implemented FCP on our zLinux machines. Our /boot directory is still 3390, but after the IPL some of the filesystem are FCP. I've discovered that the

Backup while live.

2008-12-16 Thread Moeur Tim C
Hello Everybody, I'd like to solicit your thoughts and opinions for the best backup methodology for zLinux systems. This isn't the databases or application data, but rather the components needed to restart only the zLinux operating system at our DR site.We use EMC and its related SRDF/a

Re: SRDF and z/Linux question

2008-12-16 Thread Moeur Tim C
I just opened a similar thread but perhaps I should have made a branch from Lionel's original question. I'm not so concerned about data integrity for the databases or applications (I'm assuming that we'll use provided recovery procedures for those), rather I would like to verify that a zLinux

Re: Linux command

2008-09-22 Thread Moeur Tim C
'ifconfig' should show you all of the active interfaces. Perhaps yours isn't showing up with that commend because it isn't started? Check the definition in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-hsi0 (or hsi1) to insure that it's defined properly. Also, don't forget to verify that there is a

Re: Linux password and the VM console

2007-10-04 Thread Moeur Tim C
Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 7:33 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Linux password and the VM console On Tue, Oct 2, 2007 at 6:00 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Moeur Tim C [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Linux password and the VM console

2007-10-02 Thread Moeur Tim C
In our case, should network troubles or other events render the normal SSH path unavailable, we will likely be restarting the crippled system in run level 1, which won't ask for the password. We'll then fix the problem, and reboot the system. It's assumed that the only time that we really need

Re: Redhat rel 5

2007-04-18 Thread Moeur Tim C
I found it from my RH Network pages. After I logged into RHN I clicked on the large, blue 'Software Downloads' icon in the lower left. I drilled into the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 64-bit IBM zSeries) Beta link and found .iso images. Good luck. -Original Message- From: Linux on

Ziip Engines - slightly off topic.

2007-03-29 Thread Moeur Tim C
Have any of you IFL/zLinux users also bought into IBM's Ziip Engine for DB2 work? If so, I'd like to hear about your experiences off list. Please contact me at your convenience. Sorry for the mostly non-390-Linux question, but I suspect that there may be a fair amount of overlap within this

Re: Help with Virtual IP's.

2007-03-09 Thread Moeur Tim C
what the vipa is gaining. Of course I could be missing something - David -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port on behalf of Moeur Tim C Sent: Thu 3/8/2007 4:48 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Help with Virtual IP's. To anyone in the midst of composing a reply, thank you

Help with Virtual IP's.

2007-03-07 Thread Moeur Tim C
I'm setting up VIPA's, zebra, quagga, and ospfd under my Redhat AS 4 zLinux running under VM 5.2 It nearly works, but not quite and I'm hoping to get some insight from this list group. I have an environment with two OSA's into a single Vswitch. On the zlinux machine I have two devices: eth0

VM test platforms

2007-01-19 Thread Moeur Tim C
Good morning List, I have a question of general test and production architecture. We currently have some production zLinux guests running under z/VM 5.1. z/VM is installed as an LPAR on our single Z9 server. We had, until recently, a second Z9 on which I was running a test VM which I could

Re: VM test platforms

2007-01-19 Thread Moeur Tim C
Moeur Tim C wrote: Good morning List, I have a question of general test and production architecture. We currently have some production zLinux guests running under z/VM 5.1. z/VM is installed as an LPAR on our single Z9 server. We had, until recently, a second Z9 on which I was running

Re: IP Address Already Registered - SUSE SLES10

2006-11-22 Thread Moeur Tim C
I had a similar situation when installing Redhat AS 4. Similar, but still a bit different, perhaps the solution is common to both. On the Redhat installation, I'm able to use the VSWITCHes just fine to install the base software. I have no problem starting ssh and VNC to address the installation

Help with new MDISKS.

2006-06-08 Thread MOEUR TIM C
What am I doing wrong? Fame and glory promised to he (or she) that first identifies the trouble. Here's the situation. We are using z/VM 5.2 for the first times with several zLinux guests. Until recently I've had a single zLinux image in an LPAR. I do have the zLinux guests up and they are

Re: Help with new MDISKS.

2006-06-08 Thread MOEUR TIM C
it dynamically, if you want the attach to be there after you IPL then you need to add the disk to the system config file on maints cf1 disk john MOEUR TIM C [EMAIL PROTECTED] om To Sent by: Linux on LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: LVM, SLES9 and 64 bit

2006-02-13 Thread MOEUR TIM C
All, Thanks for the many replies. My problem is resolved, and it seems to due to running mkinitrd and zipl AFTER I've done the various YaST work. Thanks again for the suggestions to get me back on track. Tim -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

LVM, SLES9 and 64 bit

2006-02-09 Thread MOEUR TIM C
Hello all, I've been fighting an LVM problem and searching through the archives and I stumbled on this from Mark Post from a while back: Re: /tmp as a logical volume Post, Mark K Tue, 21 Jun 2005 21:35:24 -0700 I'm beginning to have doubts about LVM (version 1 at least) on 64-bit systems.

Re: LVM, SLES9 and 64 bit

2006-02-09 Thread MOEUR TIM C
-Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Schnitzler Jr Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 11:52 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: LVM, SLES9 and 64 bit Tim are you running the mkinird and the zipl after defining the LVM? You didn't

Re: LVM, SLES9 and 64 bit

2006-02-09 Thread MOEUR TIM C
Sorry about that - I'm on SLES9 with Linux version 2.6.5-7.244-s390x No, I haven't been running mkinitrd and zipl, (forgive me, I'm new at the Linux on s390 stuff). I was pretty certain that for the successful LVM that I created that I hadn't done that, but it was some time back, and I might

Dasd, free major numbers, and zSeries

2006-01-19 Thread MOEUR TIM C
Hello all, I've been hunting around for this answer but as yet I haven't found it so I'll pitch it here. I'm still building our zLinux system on Suse in an LPAR (Not VM). As I use YaST to activate additional DASD that new dasd will be assigned the next logical device node. What happens when I

Re: New OSA config

2006-01-19 Thread MOEUR TIM C
Is the system already up and running with one, and you are going to set up a second? If so, YaST works very well to discover and configure the second OSA. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kittendorf, Craig Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006

Re: comments on mksles9root.sh for SP3

2006-01-18 Thread MOEUR TIM C
I fetched mine a bit differently - I started at www.novell.com and selected the Products and Solutions pull-down window. From that I selected the Suse Linux enterprise Server link. That took me to a page which includes a description and a link to learn more about Service Pack 3. Toward the

SLES 9 for S390X

2006-01-17 Thread MOEUR TIM C
Hello, I'm new to the whole Suse maintenance thing, so I might be missing something easy, but it's not clear to me. Perhaps one you has already seen this problem or can help me figure this one out. Because Novell recently announced the SP3 version fixes for SLES 9 running on zSeries I figured

SLES 9 for S390X

2006-01-17 Thread MOEUR TIM C
D'oht! I see now, Novell has the two links backwards. The clearly marked '31 bit' link will take you to the s390x versions, the 64 bit link goes to s390. I'll try the 31 bit links to see if the iso's contain what I need. Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: S390 Suse FTP installation - IP address question.

2006-01-11 Thread MOEUR TIM C
Ted, Here's how I did this. Instead of 3 (FTP) I used 1 NFS. BUT FIRST, you need to do some stuff. - Before you choose NFS find a nearby Linux desktop machine that is on your network. - Make a copy of CD #1 (or you can take it out of the HMC, but two copies are easier). - Put CD #1 in the

Re: z/Linux, TSM 5.3, and STK

2006-01-09 Thread MOEUR TIM C
Everybody, Thanks for all of the good information that you've provided. I've answered many questions and roughed out an early-phase architecture that I'll begin to set up. From what I've learned, it appears I'll have: SLE 9.0 TSM 5.3 and appropriate drivers. Some number of new fiber

Re: Setting up a second OSA in sles9 on z890

2006-01-06 Thread MOEUR TIM C
I've done this with no trouble. I used YAST, Network Devices, Network Card, and it found the various OSA's on the system. As I recall, it should see three addresses since the OSA's work with separate input, output, and control channels. That's normal. Don't confuse the default gateway as a

z/Linux, TSM 5.3, and STK

2006-01-05 Thread MOEUR TIM C
Has anybody done this? I'm trying to configure our STK 9310 powderhorn robotics to work with TSM running under Suse LE 9. If you've down this, I'd love to see some outline of where to start. STK support hasn't been too helpful with this venture. Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SLES 9, zSeries, and dropping OSA-G's

2005-12-19 Thread MOEUR TIM C
Of MOEUR TIM C Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 2:31 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: SLES 9, zSeries, and dropping OSA-G's Hello, I have an odd situation and I'm wondering if anybody else has encountered the same and if so, what they did to correct the situation. I'm running a test Suse

SLES 9, zSeries, and dropping OSA-G's

2005-12-15 Thread MOEUR TIM C
Hello, I have an odd situation and I'm wondering if anybody else has encountered the same and if so, what they did to correct the situation. I'm running a test Suse Linux ES 9.0 on a zseries 890 in LPAR mode. The machine has on it two OSA Gigabit adapters which are shared with a production z/OS