What is the maximum size of nodes?
The following is the definition of from Wikipedia for “high-availability cluster” High-availability clusters (also known as Failover Clusters) are implemented primarily for the purpose of improving the availability of services that the cluster provides. They operate by having redundant nodes, which are then used to provide service when system components fail. The most common size [...]

Answer Question   |  April 7, 2010  3:25 PM
Failover, Failover Clustering, Failover Clustering nodes

Usine copier or refrigerator in computer server room?
Can you have a running refrigerator or copier inside the same room as the computer server??  Current Office situation is struggling with this answer. Cooling seems a huge issue.

Answer Question   |  April 5, 2010  8:01 PM
Data center planning, Server room design

San Mount Volume Changed HELP!!!
I run a system comprised of 36 IBM Blade servers, a Hitachi 64TB SAN, a Data Domain backup suite and connection devices. I run Windows 2003 R2 (32bit) and Red Hat 4 (64bit). I have just come across a problem in that all the windows blades in one (of three) chassis are displaying my drive [...]

Answer Question   |  April 4, 2010  10:59 AM
Blade servers, Data Domain, SAN, SAN Configuration, SAN Mount

JDEdwards E1 server names
Should JDEdwards Enterprise One server names be 10 characters? What harm is caused if they are named with greater than 10 characters?

Answer Question   |  April 1, 2010  10:36 PM
JDEdwards, Servers

Inergen release associated with acute hard drive failure rate. What effect causes the damage?
From at least three incidents in different parts of the world over the last two years, it is clear that Inergen fire suppression release, whether event driven or maintenance misshap; causes some effect that kills hard drives. Who has done testing to determine what effect is at fault? The agent itself is inert and very [...]

Answer Question   |  October 4, 2010  2:54 PM
Data Center Fire Suppression, Data center operations, Fire suppression, Server maintenance

Interactive Indicator goes off on startup using Client Access running thru 5250 HMC
I need some assistance.  I have a large iseries that has an issues with the Interactive Indicator on Startup. let me explain, When the system is started out of restricted state a program is called.  While comming up the Interactive light or the “X” is present indicating the interactive session is running.  However, if a [...]

Answer Question   |  April 9, 2010  3:31 AM
5250 session, Client Access, HMC, Startup

Calculating drive volumes and data usage on servers
Ok i’m a newbie.  I need to calculate drive volumes and data usage on about 75 Sun and HP servers to obtain planning data for a complete update and conversion to NetBackup for all servers. How can I calculate Total Disk Space and Disk Space used without having to add separate directories for every directory on every server. I just need the Disk Space total and [...]

Answer Question   |  March 29, 2010  1:35 PM
Database servers, Disk space, Drive Volumes, Server capacity planning, Server Data Usage, Storage

I would like to install Oracle database on OS X MacBook
I have looked in the Oracle Technet site for a version of Oracle suitable for OS X.  I downloaded Oracle 10.2.0.4.0 because it said that it was compatible with Mac OS X.  However, when I attempted to install the application, nothing happened.  Upon closer look, the documentation seem to point to Max OS X server.  [...]

Answer Question   |  April 20, 2010  6:23 PM
Mac OS X, Oracle 10, Oracle 10.2.0.4, Oracle Database Versions

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Answer Question   |  September 1, 2011  3:15 PM
CIO, CRM, Database, DataCenter, Domino, Exchange, Linux, Networking, Oracle, SAP, Security, SQL, SQL Server, Storage, Virtual Server, VoIP, Windows

AS/400 Client Acess
The request shutdown was caused by either the user turning the power off, by a device error, or the ASCII controller inactivity timer expired. Recovery . . . : Close the files and vary the device off (VRYCFG command. One user in a my shop gets disconnected from AS/400 occasionally and gets this message. We [...]

Answer Question   |  March 27, 2010  3:50 PM
5250 session, AS/400

os390 to apple xserve file loses one byte
when transfering files from the os390 to an apple xserve the file comes up short one byte, same file from os390 to windows or linux works great. how do I fix this?

Answer Question   |  March 25, 2010  8:32 AM
FTP, Mainframe, OS/390, Xserve

COBOL Application Project Mgt Scoping Questions
I’ve recently stepped into a project management position associated with the ongoing upgrades to an old COBOL financial system used for payroll.  I’m finding it difficult to nail down schedules and resource requirements for mods/enhancements I use to consider fairly simple in a non-COBOL environment.  For example, I have only two priority #1 requirements on [...]

Answer Question   |  April 16, 2010  3:27 PM
CCIS, COBOL

PWRDWNSYS,IPL,AS 400
Hi, In a situation, where operator issued PWRDWNSYS with out his/her knowledge..Being system admin how can i stop the Process of IPL? What would be the better thing to stop it. Regards -Qmaster  

Answer Question   |  March 25, 2010  4:17 PM
AS 400, IPL, PWRDWNSYS

Effective Userid on execution Unix and Cobol
I have created one file ‘F’ wih one owner named ‘A’ and i want to give the effective userid settings to one program named ‘p’ written in cobol. even though the other users can’t open the file named ‘A’ above . they can access the file by using the program ‘P’. for that i have [...]

Answer Question   |  March 17, 2010  8:16 AM
COBOL, Unix

database querying question SQLite
Hi I’m setting up an SQLIte database within my C application that will be used as an intermediate stage in converting filetypes. My design tries to keep data normalized – for example, i have an Entity table, and in that table each entity has an integer type. There is another EntityTypes table with a string [...]

Answer Question   |  March 17, 2010  5:29 PM
C, Database, Design, efficiency, SQLite

Add Macintosh to business systems
What would a company’s application development team need to consider if they decided to introduce a Mac into their computing environment?

Answer Question   |  March 16, 2010  6:56 PM
Development, Mac Development, Mac OS X

Systems Management Server console2003 remote tool
I’m running SMS 2003 SP3, now I reinstall my PC as Windows 7, after setup SMS administrator console on Windows 7, I found the remote tool can not connect to XP OS SMS client, for Vista/Windows7 SMS client, there are even no selection of remote tool from the console. Remote assistance is ok to connect [...]

Answer Question   |  March 15, 2010  5:36 AM
Remote access, Server management, SMS 2003, SQL, Systems Management Server 2003, Windows 7, Windows 7 deployment

Hoe many servers are there worldwide?
Does anyone have an estamate of the number of servers there are worldwide? Jim4522

Answer Question   |  March 15, 2010  11:29 AM
Cisco Servers, Servers

Counting Reboots in server pool
I woulde like to count the number of reboots issued in my server pool each months, does anyone have a suggestion about how I could do this? Thanks. Jim4522

Answer Question   |  April 25, 2010  2:39 PM
Reboot, Server Reboot, Servers

Right desicion about Server and Call manager
Could anyone help me about  the server which i have to buy for over 1000 ip hosts per server and the right call manager? I find the 7835I3 server but i dont know if this one is compatible with call manager 7.1

Answer Question   |  March 10, 2010  10:02 AM
Call Manager, Cisco, cisco 7800, Servers, VoIP