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Re: Microfocus server express on HPUX 11.31

 
psreedhar
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Microfocus server express on HPUX 11.31

Hi all,
one of customer is currently using microfous cobol version 4.1 on HPUX 11.23 on PA boxes.
He want to migrate to HPUX 11.31 with out changing the current cobol compiler and setup.

After changing the OS to 11.31, customer is facing a weird problem. The application generated text files on a VXFS file system. Once in a blue moon the file size grow in some petabytes. They all are sparse files.

Now my doubt is
1) Is MF server express Cobol version 4.1 is supported on HPUX 11.31 or not?
2) Why such huge files are getting created? any thing wrong lseek64 system call stub of cobol compiler?
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Torsten.
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Re: Microfocus server express on HPUX 11.31

I would suggest to ask the software vendor.

Hope this helps!
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Torsten.
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Re: Microfocus server express on HPUX 11.31

Any internet search engine is your friend:

http://supportline.microfocus.com/productreleaselevels/unix.asp

according to this your version is too old and not supported, but ask the vendor for confirmation or check out by yourself.

Hope this helps!
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Dennis Handly
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Re: Microfocus server express on HPUX 11.31

>2) any thing wrong lseek64 system call stub of COBOL compiler?

I don't see how, it would have failed from 10.20 on.
You could use tusc to see what the system calls are.
psreedhar
Frequent Advisor

Re: Microfocus server express on HPUX 11.31

Let me tell you why i am hanging around this problem.

Customer is using a run time environment "rtsora" provided by the oracle after adding his/her own customizations.
At any point of time around 30 to 100 processes of rtsora run parallely. And the problem is not happening every time, it happens twice in week or so, even thought the application is running every day.

As soon as the application hit this large file problem it exists. Customer is not in a position to bring the system down to collect dump or to panic the box when ever the problem happens.

Before i go by the hard way of panicing the box i wanted to check with wider audience, if anybody has seen this problem.
Dennis Handly
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Re: Microfocus server express on HPUX 11.31

>Before I go by the hard way of panicing the box

You don't need to TOC the box to run tusc. You can attach to a PID and when you get bored, you can stop just tusc.
Steven E. Protter
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Re: Microfocus server express on HPUX 11.31

Shalom,

1) I believe it is supported but only Microfocus can answer that question.

2) I would recommend making sure the 11.31 is fully patched and getting in touch with Microfocus support about the big files.

I find it incredible that this product is installed on 11.31 and NOW the question is being asked as to whether its supported on platform.

Microfocus licensing requires a support call to activate. I would think support would have raised a flag when activating the license had there been a problem.

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psreedhar
Frequent Advisor

Re: Microfocus server express on HPUX 11.31

The sad part is customer didn't install the cobol again on 11.31. They are using the same old setup, after importing the VGs.

Now i really don't know weather it is supported any more or not.

I am not able to use tusc because the error comes once a day.. i can't sit and wait for that fine moment to happen..Even i redirect the log it will consumes GBs of space to store the log.

To add to the trouble not all the processes are showing this behavior. Only few of them are showing in randomly.
James R. Ferguson
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Re: Microfocus server express on HPUX 11.31

Hi:

> Now i really don't know weather it is supported any more or not.

So, as stated, go ask MicroFocus! They are the vendor, and you could save yourself considerable time. After all, you also said, that your customer "...to migrate[ed] to HPUX 11.31 with out changing the current cobol compiler and setup." It seems to me your *customer* would want to know what the official support postion says.

Regards!

...JRF...


Torsten.
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Re: Microfocus server express on HPUX 11.31

IMHO the most important fact is this: Is this supported by the vendor or not?

According to the link I posted it isn't.
Do some confirmation!


Now you can do whatever you want with your software, but not complain because of the facts ... consider an upgrade instead.

Hope this helps!
Regards
Torsten.

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