11/13/96, 4FAX# 3685 AIX 4.2 Installation Tips SPECIAL NOTICES Information in this document is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of this writing. Please send feedback by fax to "AIXServ Information" at (512) 823-4009. Please use this information with care. IBM will not be responsible for damages of any kind resulting from its use. The use of this information is the sole responsibility of the customer and depends on the customer's ability to eval- uate and integrate this information into the customer's operational environment. ABOUT THIS DOCUMENT This document contains the latest tips for successful installation of AIX 4.2, and will be updated as new tips become available. DB2 Recommended Updates for 604 Processor Systems . . . 1 System Hang Running ORACLE on SMP Systems . . . . . . . 1 Required 7135-110 Microcode Update . . . . . . . . . . 2 AIX Man Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Lppchk errors on ESSL 2.2.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Locale Installation for Estonia, Latvia, or Lithuania . 2 Copying Software from AIX 4.2 CD-ROM . . . . . . . . . 3 Reader's Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 DB2 RECOMMENDED UPDATES FOR 604 PROCESSOR SYSTEMS Dates, times, and/or timestamps are incorrect in DB2 for AIX V2.1. The problem was introduced in DB2 for AIX V2.1.1 on PowerPC 604 chips or any processor that uses an interval timer instead of special time registers. This interval timer needs to be reset after a process is forked or the value will be incorrect. DB2 for AIX PTF U444032 contains an APAR IX57721 fix which corrects the above mentioned problem in DB2 for AIX. SYSTEM HANG RUNNING ORACLE ON SMP SYSTEMS A problem, which manifests itself as a system hang, has been discovered in the ORACLE kernel extension pw-syscall4.1 running on SMP processors. The problem has only been experi- enced on the 604 with 6 or more CPUs running Oracle Version 7.1.6 and applications with heavy insert activity. ORACLE is providing a new kernel extension with ORACLE version 7.3.2 that fixes the problem. Customers should upgrade their ORACLE post wait kernel extension before the installation of the 604 processor to avoid this situation. Please, contact your ORACLE support representative (and refer to BUG 397843 filed for SAP) if you have any questions about this problem. AIX 4.2 Installation Tips 1 11/13/96, 4FAX# 3685 REQUIRED 7135-110 MICROCODE UPDATE Customers upgrading systems with attached 7135-110 Raidiant Array subsystems to AIX 4.2 must also obtain and install the latest version of controller and drive microcode. This microcode update can be obtained via hardware service chan- nels (800-IBM-SERV in the U.S.) by requesting ECA 005. A new publication for the 7135, containing information on microcode and device driver installation, should also be ordered. This publication is titled 7135 Raidiant Array for AIX: Installation Guide and Reference, form number SC23-1742. AIX MAN PAGES The AIX man command searches the Hypertext Information Libraries in addition to traditional man pages. The Hypertext Information Base Libraries are available on CD-ROM, or may be installed on disk from the AIX 4.2 Instal- lation media. The AIX commands and file formats man pages are in the following Hypertext Information Libraries, each of which can be installed separately. Fileset Name Size in MB Commands Database 28 Files Database 11 LPPCHK ERRORS ON ESSL 2.2.2 After successfully installing and committing ESSL 2.2.2 on AIX 4.1 or 4.2, lppchk -c may produce the following errors. lppchk: 0504-206 File /usr/lpp/essl/essl.rs1.rte/2.2.2.1 could not be located. lppchk: 0504-206 File /usr/lpp/essl/essl.rs2.rte/2.2.2.1 could not be located. These errors are due to temporary directories, removed as part of the commit process, having entries in the ODM inven- tory object. The errors can be safely ignored. LOCALE INSTALLATION FOR ESTONIA, LATVIA, OR LITHUANIA AIX 4.2 Base Operating System (BOS) installation does not install the necessary locale filesets if Estonia, Latvia, or Lithuania is chosen as the primary locale. To circumvent this problem: 1. Select C (POSIX) as the primary cultural convention during BOS installation. 2. Use the following procedure in the Installation Assistant to install and select the desired cultural convention. AIX 4.2 Installation Tips 2 11/13/96, 4FAX# 3685 Manage Language Environment Add Additional Language Environments - Select the desired cultural convention from the list and execute the SMIT dialog to install the locale support. Manage Language Environment Change/Show Primary Language Environment Select Set of Cultural Convention, Language, and Keyboard - Select the desired set from the list and execute the SMIT dialog to change the primary language environment. 3. Reboot the system after leaving the Installation Assistant. COPYING SOFTWARE FROM AIX 4.2 CD-ROM In the interest of installability, CD-ROM volume 2 of AIX 4.2 contains subsets of some images where the complete image is contained on volume 1. When copying software to hard disk from volume 2 after volume 1, these subsets will overwrite the complete images already extracted from volume 1. The easiest way to avoid this is to copy the desired images first from volume 2, and then copy images from volume 1. 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