Does anyone know when IDS will be supported on RedHat AS 5, which has been
the latest version for some months now?

The continued absence of support for this version is costing some of our
customers money, the reason being that the RedHat Cluster Manager software
and Global File System softwareare included in AS 5, but have to be
purchased separately (and in the case of GFS it's about £1,200 per node),
which adds to the cost of an Informix cluster, possibly unnecessarily.

Thanks
--
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Director m:07798 811708
Ardenta Limited e:neil.truby (AT) ardenta (DOT) com

On Wednesday 25 July 2007 10:41, you wrote:
specific notes at
http://publibfp.boulder.ibm.com/epub...10.html#linint
http://publibfp.boulder.ibm.com/epub...710.html#lin64

Andreas

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Neil,
The good news is that IDS 11 is already certified and supported on RedHat 5

Built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 3).
Certified on RHEL 5, SUSE SLES 10 .......

Also
RedHat 5 certifications for IDS 10 has been completed and the web pages
will be updated soon...


bye
Sandor





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Does anyone know when IDS will be supported on RedHat AS 5, which has been
the latest version for some months now?

The continued absence of support for this version is costing some of our
customers money, the reason being that the RedHat Cluster Manager software
and Global File System softwareare included in AS 5, but have to be
purchased separately (and in the case of GFS it's about £1,200 per node),
which adds to the cost of an Informix cluster, possibly unnecessarily.

Thanks
--
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Director m:07798 811708
Ardenta Limited e:neil.truby (AT) ardenta (DOT) com


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Thanks for the info, Andreas/Sandor.

I was indeed taking it from the Website, not the Release Notes.

I won't be recommending v11 for customers with mission-critical systems just
yet, so am stuck with 10.0xC5. Are you 100% certain that if I place a
support call for IDS 10 on RHEL AS 5 I won't be told by UK or Australia Tech
Support that this is not a supported platform?
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"Sandor Szabo" <sandor.szabo (AT) de (DOT) ibm.com> wrote

Neil,
The good news is that IDS 11 is already certified and supported on RedHat 5

Built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 3).
Certified on RHEL 5, SUSE SLES 10 .......

Also
RedHat 5 certifications for IDS 10 has been completed and the web pages
will be updated soon...


bye
Sandor





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IDS support for RedHat
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Does anyone know when IDS will be supported on RedHat AS 5, which has been
the latest version for some months now?

The continued absence of support for this version is costing some of our
customers money, the reason being that the RedHat Cluster Manager software
and Global File System softwareare included in AS 5, but have to be
purchased separately (and in the case of GFS it's about £1,200 per node),
which adds to the cost of an Informix cluster, possibly unnecessarily.

Thanks
--
Neil Truby t:01932 724027
Director m:07798 811708
Ardenta Limited e:neil.truby (AT) ardenta (DOT) com


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Neil,
The certification has been done with IDS 10.0xC6 so I recommend to upgrade.
Tech Support has the info and you will get help if needed.
bye
Sandor




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Thanks for the info, Andreas/Sandor.

I was indeed taking it from the Website, not the Release Notes.

I won't be recommending v11 for customers with mission-critical systems
just
yet, so am stuck with 10.0xC5. Are you 100% certain that if I place a
support call for IDS 10 on RHEL AS 5 I won't be told by UK or Australia
Tech
Support that this is not a supported platform?
--
Neil Truby t:01932 724027
Director m:07798 811708
Ardenta Limited e:neil.truby (AT) ardenta (DOT) com

"Sandor Szabo" <sandor.szabo (AT) de (DOT) ibm.com> wrote

Neil,
The good news is that IDS 11 is already certified and supported on RedHat 5

Built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 3).
Certified on RHEL 5, SUSE SLES 10 .......

Also
RedHat 5 certifications for IDS 10 has been completed and the web pages
will be updated soon...


bye
Sandor





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Does anyone know when IDS will be supported on RedHat AS 5, which has been
the latest version for some months now?

The continued absence of support for this version is costing some of our
customers money, the reason being that the RedHat Cluster Manager software
and Global File System softwareare included in AS 5, but have to be
purchased separately (and in the case of GFS it's about £1,200 per node),
which adds to the cost of an Informix cluster, possibly unnecessarily.

Thanks
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"Sandor Szabo" <sandor.szabo (AT) de (DOT) ibm.com> wrote

Neil,
The certification has been done with IDS 10.0xC6 so I recommend to upgrade.
Tech Support has the info and you will get help if needed.
bye
Sandor

Cheers. We're keeping all our customers away from xC6, as it has a worrying
bug, and waiting to see if xC7 is any better. Are you able to confirm that
we would not be refused support for xC5 on RHEL AS 5?

thx

You don't need GFS to run Cluster Mangler. It will work fine without it.
But you will need to make sure to have fencing set up or RHCM will not work
at all. I don't think AS5 pushes you into GFS, that would be one big reason
for me not to use it, since we have Cluster Mangler running fine on earlier
releases on ext3 file systems.

And I thought AS5 just came out, but maybe I'm confused, what with all their
versions.

You should definitely document what you do for this as it'd be a great
presentation for others to learn from. RHCM is a bit buggy but the price is
a lot better than other products out there. I'd also be curious to see it
set up on a different distro if that's possible, haven't tried that one. You
can actually set it up on a Fedora Core 7 system ( free and free updates )
to get it working and play with it without having to buy more AS5 licenses.

Neil Truby wrote:

There's a bit of confusion here.

AS5 = Advanced Server 5
RHEL5 = Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

I know these are distinctly different beasts. The problem is compounded
even more by the latest reversioning ( is reversioning even a word? :-)
of the Red Hat server products. Even a score card does not seem to help.
We have AS5 in house yet I don't see it on the RH web site. They are
definitely confusing.

Andreas Breitfeld wrote:

We too are in the same situation. That is to say, we really need to
upgrade to RHEL 5, but are holding back from upgrading IDS 10.xC6 for
the same worrisome bug and it is too soon to for us to recommend an
upgrade to IDS 11. Will 10.xC5 be supported on RHEL 5 and/or when
will 10.xC7 be available?

Thanks kindly,
Jim


On 7/25/07, Neil Truby <neil.truby (AT) ardenta (DOT) com> wrote:

"Tool" <tool (AT) thetool (DOT) com> wrote

Yes, I know. We've done both. I think using GFS for /opt/informix makes
things neater.

You're not running a consultancy then? ;-)