Re: Oracle 12C on Z/OS

From: Rob Lockard <rob_at_oraclewizard.com>
Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 11:51:40 -0400
Message-ID: <574C618C.7020202_at_oraclewizard.com>

Freek,
Thank you, There are a lot of political issues in this environment along the lines of what group is going to manage OS, storage and approve environments. It's politics, nothing good can come of me commenting on that. -Rob

On 5/28/2016 4:23 AM, Freek D'Hooge wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Not an answer to your question, but I'm wondering in how many places
> using Exadata, it are the system admins who are responsible for
> maintaining the OS on the exadata (or the storage admins to maintain
> the ASM storage)?
> In my experience, it are the DBA's who are responsible for managing
> the entire box: databases, storage and os. (and for patching it).
>
> There is however, a small possibility that my experience is not
> representative ;-)
> So I would love to hear from the others on this list what their
> experiences are.
>
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Freek D'Hooge
>
>
> On vr, 2016-05-27 at 16:25 +0000, rob_at_oraclewizard.com wrote:
>>
>> Well my Evil plan started with getting this customer off of running
>> Oracle on windows servers. In this plan; I got buy in on Exadata to
>> do the consolidation. There was a wrinkle in my plan, this shop has
>> no experience in Linux or Solaris so the Windows admins started
>> complaining, bla bla bla. In the end it appears the deputy CIO has
>> shot down my plan. I’m not one to wine; so if the issue is “what do
>> we have experience with” is a major driver then this shop is also in
>> possession of a Z10 a top notch support staff and the associated
>> infrastructure.
>>
>> Now I have to go to my Evil backup plan, migrate their databases to
>> 12C PDB’s on the Z10. My director (25 years mainframe system
>> programmer), and two Oracle DBA’s (with over 35 years mainframe
>> experience each) all love this ides. My director is going to get some
>> system stats on the Z10 to see if there is enough there to host our
>> Oracle Databases. However before I drive this train too far down the
>> track I need a bit of advice.
>>
>> 1) Does Oracle 12C and DB2 coexists nicely on Z/OS?
>>
>> 2) Can you point me to any high level papers on 12C on Z/OS?
>>
>> 3) Are there any technical issues out there that we should consider
>> beyond available system resources?
>>
>> -Rob
>>
>>
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