Support re: VM, zLinux

IHAC who has looked on the wikis and not found the following infomration. Please advise where best to find this:
We are aware of statement below regarding support for Oracle products in VMware environments. This states that in some circumstances oracle can require for an issue in VM environment to be reproduced in a physical environment. Question is:
Does this statement apply only to VMware VM, or is it also applicable to all other VM environments except Oracle VM?
In particular, we would like to know what is Oracle support policy for Oracle DB running on z-Linux in System z mainframe LPARs?
In addition we need to know what is Oracle support policy for Oracle DB running on z-Linux which is a guest in zVM?
Thank you!

I agree with Herbert you should ask your Oracle representative for an official answer.
That being said, we've been running Oracle on zLinux (under zVM) for quite some years now, and never were asked to provide evidence in a non-VM environment.
Jeroen

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I am aware of some limitations regarding the logical standby with different chipsets (not supported in one of my environments), but nothing specific in your case. Since limitations on IBM zSeries Based Linux (z/Linux) are not mentioned specifically, it might mean that most of the features would work with the same db version and os version. On the other hand, it might mean there are limitations not discovered or reported to Oracle support.
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I probably want use Oracle 10g Application Server for a project.
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I think is not.
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Hi,
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Waiting for an answer from GUI
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Waiting for an answer from GUI
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<table enabled="true" fixedrows="true" sid="tCdServerMissingPackageWithCdName">
<column enabled="false" type="field" numeric="false" upper="false" name="mediaN
ame">
<caption>Media Name</caption>
<helpitem id="common.cd_CDName"/>
</column>
<column enabled="true" type="file" numeric="false" upper="false" name="packageL
ocation">
<caption>Package Location</caption>
<helpitem id="common.cd_PackageLocation"/>
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<column enabled="true" type="directory" numeric="false" upper="false" name="cop
yLocation">
<caption>Copy Package To</caption>
<helpitem id="common.cd_CopyPackageTo"/>
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<row rowId="0">
<value>
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<value>
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<value/>
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1: function CHECK_VALUE_AGAINST_REGULAR_EXPRESSION ( regexpPattern , value )
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122262: }
122263: }
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ind|0|0|NW_GetSidMaybeProfiles|ind|ind|ind|ind|2|0|NW_GetSidFromProfilesPartial|
ind|ind|ind|ind|1|0|NW_getDBInfo|ind|ind|ind|ind|4|0|NW_DB2_DBParameters|ind|ind
|ind|ind|1|0|copyJDBCtoSAPINST_DIR was executed with status ERROR ( Last error r
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va_DB|ind|ind|ind|ind, line 88568: ???)).
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lity System > Based on AS Java > Database Instance( Last error reported by the s
tep :TypeError: sourceNodeJcc has no properties (in script NW_Java_DB|ind|ind|in
d|ind, line 88568: ???)). You may now </p> <ul> <li> choose <i>Retry</i> to repe
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http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/oci/instantclient/instantclient.html
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Hi,
Please find the real error message which I found in the same log file. This is a new installation.
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2EETP345             "
2 ETP399 -
DB-ROLLBACK() -
2EETP334 02:54:41: error in DDL, nametab for "/SAPPO/F_ASG" not activated
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Latter that week I look at the battery I got
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