Tomcat

[StevenHComstock]

Well, I've installed Tomcat. Haven't started it up yet.
I'm a novice, not even sure what Tomcat really is!

SAMPJCL($README) says:

See the Dovetailed Technologies website for more information
on using z/OS Tomcat.

Well, I can't seem to find to any information or documenation
at this website. Very hard to navigate. Just fora and posts,
no real docs or pointers to docs.

[StevenHComstock]

So, OK, I found:

http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/index.html

which is the place to start. I'll go do some reading.

[dovetail]

Steve,

You are reviewing a beta of the new packaging. We will be updating the website with new documentation, but it is not available yet.

There is some old docs on setting up Tomcat the hard way here:
http://dovetail.com/docs/jzos/index.html

But much of this doesn't apply to the new package, which includes some minimal instructions for customizing the SAMPJCL members for running Tomcat. Hopefully this will be enough to allow you to see how you like the packaging.

If it starts, just point your browser to: http://host:port

Docs on Tomcat are available at http://tomcat.apache.org

[StevenHComstock]

Thanks. I'll do the reading.

Couple of notes on the install:

* It would help to give a space estimate for allocating the tomcat
HFS files

* In fact, since IBM seems to be pusing zfs, I allocated a ZFS file,
then did a mkdir, then tried:

/usr/bin/mount -t zfs -f manage.tomcat.zfs /usr/loca/tomcat

This failed because of the -t flag; the doc says without the -t
flag, the file is mounted as an hfs, but I couldn't get it to work
unless I dropped the "-t zfs" (this is not your concern, I understand,
just commenting on my experience).