IBM eserver iSeries independent ASPs a guide to moving applications to IASPs
This IBM® IBM Redbooks publication explains how to install and configure the new independent auxiliary storage pool (IASP) functionality of OS/400® V5R2. It is designed to help IBM technical professionals, Business Partners, and Customers understand and implement IASP in the IBM eServer iSeries serv...
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IBM, International Technical Support Organization
2003.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front cover
- Contents
- Notices
- Trademarks
- Preface
- The team that wrote this redbook
- Become a published author
- Comments welcome
- Chapter 1. Introduction to independent auxiliary storage pools (IASPs)
- 1.1 Disk storage: A brief history
- 1.2 What's new in V5R2
- 1.3 Positioning IASPs
- 1.3.1 Single system environment
- 1.3.2 Multisystem clustered environment
- 1.3.3 Who benefits from using independent disk pools
- Chapter 2. Planning for IASPs
- 2.1 Business needs
- 2.2 Performance requirements
- 2.2.1 Structure of IASPs
- 2.2.2 Disk drives: Arms versus capacity
- 2.2.3 Placement for performance
- 2.3 Software licensing requirements
- 2.3.1 Required software
- 2.3.2 Optional software
- 2.4 Restrictions
- 2.4.1 Switching independent disk pools between V5R1 and V5R2 systems
- 2.4.2 Spooling limitations
- 2.5 Application integration
- 2.6 Authority considerations
- 2.6.1 User profiles and IASPs
- 2.6.2 Planning for user profiles and space to be used
- 2.6.3 Authorization lists (AUTL) and IASPs
- 2.6.4 Accounting for space used by user profiles and authorization lists
- 2.7 Capacity planning
- 2.8 Hardware configuration and physical planning
- 2.8.1 Minimum hardware requirements
- 2.8.2 Physical versus logical switching
- 2.8.3 PCI card switching
- 2.8.4 ASPs and expansion towers
- 2.8.5 High-speed link (HSL) cable placement
- 2.8.6 HSL port feature
- 2.8.7 HSL cabling rules for multiple system switched tower implementation
- 2.8.8 SPCN cable considerations
- 2.9 Aesthetics
- 2.10 Physical planning requirements
- 2.10.1 Advantages of using IASPs
- 2.10.2 Limitations of using IASP
- 2.11 Independent disk pool planning checklist
- 2.12 Disk planning worksheet
- 2.13 PCI card placement planning worksheet
- 2.14 Positioning independent disk pools
- Chapter 3. Configuration examples.
- 3.1 Configuring IASPs
- 3.2 Non-switchable IASPs
- 3.2.1 Any one or more disks anywhere on the system
- 3.3 Switchable IASPs
- 3.3.1 Complete towers and IASPs
- 3.3.2 Subset of the disk units in a tower
- 3.3.3 Multiple IASPs in a tower
- 3.3.4 Disk units from two or more I/O towers
- Chapter 4. Application considerations
- 4.1 Name space, independent disk pools, and RDBs
- 4.2 Relational database directory
- 4.3 Distinctions
- 4.4 IASP as a separate database
- 4.4.1 Connections
- 4.4.2 System connections
- 4.4.3 Switching RDBs
- 4.4.4 Object creation
- 4.4.5 System-wide statement cache (SWSC)
- 4.4.6 Start Query Management Query (STRQMQRY) and Start Query Management Procedure (STRQMPRC) RDB...
- 4.5 ODBC considerations
- 4.5.1 JDBC considerations
- 4.6 Systems-managed access-path protection (SMAPP) considerations
- 4.7 Query/400
- 4.8 System values
- 4.9 Network attribute considerations
- 4.9.1 Alert Filters (ALRFTR)
- 4.9.2 Message Queue (MSGQ)
- 4.9.3 Distributed Data Management Access (DDMACC)
- 4.9.4 PC Support Access (PCSACC)
- 4.10 Journaling considerations
- 4.10.1 Journaling boundaries
- 4.10.2 Journaling with user-defined file system (UDFS) and library-capable independent disk pools
- 4.10.3 Journaling and disk pool groups
- 4.11 Subsystem considerations
- 4.12 DRDA considerations
- 4.13 Commitment control considerations
- 4.13.1 Commitment definitions
- 4.13.2 Considerations for XA transactions
- 4.13.3 Commitment control recommendations
- 4.14 Exit programs
- 4.15 System libraries
- 4.16 System ASP and all basic user ASPs (*SYSBAS)
- 4.17 Other system considerations
- Chapter 5. Configuration and management
- 5.1 The heart of an independent disk pool
- 5.1.1 From the green-screen side
- 5.2 Disk pool operation
- 5.2.1 Disk pool and disk pool group.
- 5.2.2 Making an independent disk pool available
- 5.2.3 Duration of the Make Available option
- 5.2.4 Making an independent disk pool unavailable
- 5.2.5 Independent disk pool overflow
- 5.2.6 Independent disk pool IPL considerations
- 5.2.7 Switching independent disk pools
- 5.2.8 Planned disk pool switch
- 5.2.9 Unplanned IASP switch
- 5.2.10 IASP save/restore
- 5.2.11 ASP and disk unit numbering
- 5.2.12 Device domains
- 5.2.13 Selecting all disk units to add to a pool
- 5.3 Disk pool management
- 5.3.1 Creating a disk pool
- 5.3.2 Clearing the data from a disk pool
- 5.3.3 Recovering the disk pool group
- 5.3.4 Balancing a disk pool
- 5.3.5 Deleting a disk pool
- 5.3.6 Converting a user-defined file system (UDFS) disk pool to a primary or secondary disk pool
- 5.3.7 Setting the threshold of a disk pool
- 5.3.8 What to do when a disk pool fills up
- 5.3.9 Removing a disk unit from an IASP
- 5.3.10 Adding a disk unit to an existing IASP
- 5.3.11 Reclaim Storage and IASPs
- Chapter 6. Stand-alone IASP setup
- 6.1 IASP creation prerequisites
- 6.2 Creating a primary disk pool as a stand-alone resource
- 6.3 Creating a new secondary disk pool
- 6.4 Creating a new UDFS disk pool as a stand-alone resource
- Chapter 7. Switchable setup
- 7.1 Prerequisites for creating IASPs
- 7.2 Installing iSeries Navigator component logical systems
- 7.3 Creating a two-node cluster
- 7.4 Creating a switchable ASP
- 7.4.1 Creating an IASP switchable between multiple LPARs of a single system
- 7.4.2 Creating a switchable hardware group
- 7.4.3 Creating an IASP switchable between multiple systems and LPARs
- 7.4.4 Making a tower switchable
- Chapter 8. Installing applications
- 8.1 Phoenix system discussion
- 8.2 Current Phoenix Software installation instructions
- 8.3 Changing the installation to a non-switchable disk pool.
- 8.3.1 Phoenix system library installation
- 8.3.2 Creating the disk pool
- 8.3.3 User profile/job description considerations
- 8.3.4 Subsystem considerations
- 8.3.5 Job queue considerations
- 8.3.6 Output queue and printing considerations
- 8.3.7 Switchable disk pool
- 8.4 Moving applications from *SYSBAS to an independent disk pool
- Chapter 9. An implementation example
- 9.1 Non-switchable simple independent disk pool
- 9.1.1 Installing Spectrum on an independent disk pool
- 9.1.2 Single non-switched independent disk pool comments
- 9.2 Switchable independent disk pool
- 9.2.1 Installing Content Manager OnDemand for iSeries on an independent disk pool
- 9.2.2 Switching the independent disk pool
- 9.2.3 Switchable independent disk pool comments
- 9.3 Independent disk pools with multiple versions of software
- 9.3.1 Usage for multiple versions
- 9.3.2 Multiple independent disk pools for multiple version comments
- 9.4 Integrated xSeries Servers and independent disk pools
- 9.4.1 Real example with Integrated xSeries Adapters
- 9.5 Partitions and independent disk pools
- 9.5.1 Real example setup
- 9.5.2 Other uses of partitions and independent disk pools
- 9.6 Linux and independent disk pools
- 9.6.1 Linux and independent disk pool comments
- 9.7 Remote and local journaling with independent disk pools
- Chapter 10. SAP in an IASP
- 10.1 SAP in a non-clustered environment
- 10.2 Implementation overview
- 10.3 The cluster environment
- 10.4 Setting up the SAP system
- 10.4.1 Manually setting up the SAP system
- 10.5 Setting up the IASP
- 10.5.1 Setting up the libraries
- 10.5.2 User profile and job description changes
- 10.5.3 Journal and journal receiver
- 10.5.4 IFS files
- 10.5.5 TCP/IP for switchable disk pool
- 10.5.6 Control Language (CL) source and corresponding command.
- 10.5.7 Modifying SAP configuration files for IASP
- 10.6 Operating the SAP environment
- 10.6.1 Starting the SAP system
- 10.6.2 Manual switchover to a secondary system
- 10.6.3 Logging on to SAP using switchable IP address
- 10.6.4 SAP license considerations
- 10.7 SAP IT landscape with IASP considerations
- 10.7.1 Test system considerations
- 10.7.2 Disaster recovery considerations
- 10.7.3 Disk performance considerations
- Chapter 11. Backup and recovery
- 11.1 Using native OS/400 save and restore functions
- 11.2 Saving IASPs
- 11.2.1 Private IASPs
- 11.3 Saving your entire system
- 11.3.1 Special considerations on save commands
- 11.4 Restoring IASPs
- 11.4.1 Recovering an IASP after losing the system ASP
- 11.4.2 Saving and restoring Linux network storage space (NWSSTG) in an IASP
- 11.5 Using BRMS with IASPs
- 11.5.1 Backing up ASP devices
- 11.5.2 Recovery of ASP devices
- 11.6 Recovering an independent disk pool
- Appendix A. Prerequisite steps
- Configuring the Service Tools adapter on the iSeries server
- Setting up Management Central
- Appendix B. Planning checklists
- Independent disk pool checklist
- Disk planning worksheet
- PCI card placement planning worksheet
- Appendix C. Disk unit selection criteria
- Appendix D. The SETASPGRP command
- Details of the SETASPGRP command
- Examples of using the SETASPGRP command
- Example 1: Setting as new ASP group
- Example 2: Specifying no ASP group
- Escape message for the SETASPGRP command
- Appendix E. Command-to-Navigator cross reference
- Appendix F. Supported and unsupported objects, APIs
- APIs relating to IASPs
- QYASPOL
- QGYCLST
- QGYGTLE
- QHSMMOVL
- QHSMMOVF
- Related publications
- IBM Redbooks
- Other publications
- Referenced Web sites
- How to get IBM Redbooks
- IBM Redbooks collections
- Index
- Back cover.
