Tag Archives: AIX

Exadata, You Bully !

Yesterday I was reviewing a presentation and had an “aha” moment. In one case, results were being compared between technologies that were at about the same currency. In another case comparisons were being done between brand new spanking technology — and systems that were many years old. This morning I again came face to face [...] Continue reading

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More March Madness with Oracle Exadata

There’s a basketball play called the elbow pass. The elbow pass is a behind-the-back pass — as the ball crosses the player’s back, the player hits it with his elbow, redirecting the ball back toward the side it started on.  It is rarely used and pretty much never results in points or a win. This [...] Continue reading

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Installing Oracle WebLogic Server

Installing Oracle WebLogic Server. Had a little grief installing on AIX. Here’s the walk through.

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How to use VNC on AIX

Using vncserver on AIX 5.3/6.1 Networking setup stopped me exporting a display to my Laptop, however vncserver was installed. Here’s how it works.

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Cleanup Unprintable Characters.

Someone transferred files in binary rather then ascii, and this resulting in the ^M character appearing at the end of the lines in the script. Because of this, they would not execute, here’s how to clean them up.

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Unsupported OS and database.

I had metalink in the health warnings inform me on OCM 10.3.2 that my AIX 5.3 and oracle 10.2.0.4 were not certified. I checked with note 957549.1 and it told me it was !!!

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Running Remote Diagnostic Agent (RDA) version 419

Running the RDA, version 419.

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Replace text in multiple files.

Struggled with this, using perl and sed and ironing out the “/” character. This suprised me, but it worked.

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AIXTHREAD_SCOPE

On AIX, the preferred threading model is system-wide rather than process-wide. Add AIXTHREAD_SCOPE=S to you /etc/environment, or your profile to enable it.

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IBM AIX RISC System/6000 Error: 1: Not owner

This is normally caused by setting the lock_sga parameter. In this case, to enable it you have to run the following…

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