Barton made a typo, it is https://velocitysoftware.com/ansible.html
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On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 9:20 AM Itschak Mugzach
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried the link (https//VelocitySoftware.com/ansible.html) but it is not
> respondi
IBM today previewed z/VM 7.4. Not a lot of content in the announcement, but
coming to Shopz this fall.
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/announcements/zvm-74-5741-a09-5741-a10-5741-sns
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VMAGUI is available for Mac and Linux
https://macdownload.informer.com/vmagui/
https://fossies.org/linux/privat/vma-22.204a.tar.gz/
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On Wed, Jan 3, 2024 at 1:24 PM Alan Altmark wrote:
> I'm a fan of VMARC, as the files in it
Good info here on the new rack mount option
https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/elizabeth-k-joseph1/2023/04/17/inside-linuxone-rockhopper-4-rackmount
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Good video https://youtu.be/ZVO55oxJ464
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It has been a pleasure knowing you and working with you for over 20 years
now. We met when you were at EMC as IBM was launching "Linux for S/390".
Enjoy your retirement and hopefully we will see each other at some point.
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Jake:
There are several presentations from this year's VM Workshop on Red Hat
OpenShift which may help. http://www.vmworkshop.org/2022pres.shtml
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On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 11:47 AM Jake Anderson
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> Hello
>
> Has anyon
Mark:
https://download.sinenomine.net/fsiucv/
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On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 11:35 AM Mark Post wrote:
> On 7/7/22 10:01, Dave Jones wrote:
> > Has anyone ported Neale's fsiucv package to any other zLinux distro
> > other th
esByDocid/9C69415C1E82603C852576700058075A?OpenDocument>
SA22-7871-11
On the IBM Support web site are the updated HLASM opcodes, APAR PH39324,
OPTABLE value Z16 <https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6567011>
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count. Perhaps the most
> popular these days is KVM on Linux, which supports _Z_, _AMD/Intel_,
> _ARM_, and _POWER_.
>
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On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 2:02 PM Dave Jones wrote:
> Greetings, all.
>
> It has come to my attention, via my usually reliable sources, that the
> upcoming SHARE in Dallas (March, 2022) will have a very lim
think you are
referring to, and it also emulated 3278 on ASCII.
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On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 3:22 PM Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> On 2021-03-02, at 11:18:25, Fred Shaheen wrote:
> >
> >
> > The ASCII controller was the 7171,
There is a Redbook on Docker EE from early 2019 that may be of use. IBM's
direction seems to be towards OpenShift and Podman now (the RH influence).
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg248429.html
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On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 7:15 AM
Gregory,
Yes, thrashing. :-)
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On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 2:07 PM Grzegorz Powiedziuk
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> On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 1:57 PM Jim Elliott wrote:
>
> > Gregory,
> >
> > The 9117-MMD could range from 1 chip/4 co
there is
something causing thrashing. Do you have a z/VM performance producs
(Velocity or IBM?) as that might help isolate where the bottleneck is.
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On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 12:25 PM Grzegorz Powiedziuk
wrote:
> Hi Jim,
> correction - w
Power 730 (8231-E2C) to a 10 IFL z114 the
Power system has 1.4 to 2.0 times the capacity of the z114.
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On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 8:47 AM Grzegorz Powiedziuk
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Can Spectrum Scale (GPFS) be used as the disk to install z/VM? I know we
can use it for Linux on Z, but wondering if I can get away without any
V disk.
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decide to buy an IFL in the
future, IBM offers z/VM at a large discount when acquired with the IFL.
There are several attractive offerings to help z/VSE customers get started
with Linux on Z.
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On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 4:21 PM Tom Huegel wrote:
for the connections
where possible.
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On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 2:02 PM Tom Huegel wrote:
> I don't know if this is really a question or just a thought.
>
> I have a customer that recently installed a new z/14.
> They are a relativel
BM z/VM 7.2
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On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 21:27 Neale Ferguson wrote:
> https://tech-insider.org/linux/resea
Sam:
The Red Hat site above does not make sense to me as there is only ONE
version of RHEL available for IBM Z. That is, Red Hat Enterprise Linux with
Unlimited Guests and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization are NOT available
for IBM Z.
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The RHEL web site has information on an academic site subscription, but it
does not include Z. Does anyone know if RHEL has an offering for Linux on Z
for academic use?
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Christian:
Thanks. We will go with a switch to attach the V5010 and decided on an
IBM/Cisco SAN32C-6 with 8-port 16 Gb bundle.
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On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 6:58 AM Christian Borntraeger <
borntrae...@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> On 16.09
Carlos:
Thanks. It will be a V5010 so we will configure a small SAN switch.
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On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 4:39 PM Bodra - Pessoal wrote:
> From our experience with KVM running on a zBox if you use as storage
> devices IBM V5000 or V70
For z/VM you must have a SAN switch to connect FCP attached disk. Is this
also true for KVM (Ubuntu if it matters)?
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I have a customer considering a migration from z/VM to KVM (ClefOS) on
their LinuxONE machines. They are a university with no Z skills (we provide
those) so they are looking at simplifying their environment as they grow.
Is there documentation / tips anywhere on how to do such a migration?
Jim
I have a vague memory of this e-mail server being supported on Linux on Z
from a few years ago. Does anyone here know if it is still supported/works?
The Zimbra web site just list the various Linux distros supported with no
platform info.
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z/VSE does include REXX/VSE which is a subset of REXX on z/OS. A port of
the z/OS client should not be a large effort.
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On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 4:26 PM Martha McConaghy <
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> Defining the template to match the MIB information i
cloud instead of out on a public cloud like AWS or
the IBM Cloud).
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On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 4:41 AM Timothy Sipples wrote:
> What do you mean by "S3 compatible," Jim? Are you looking for Amazon Simple
> Storage Service (S3) API compatibility in a cloud storage serv
I am looking for an open source or commercial server application to provide
an S3 compatible private cloud server for Linux on Z. Any suggestions?
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rd.zfcp=0.0.6320,0x500507630e840387,0x40114020
rd.zfcp=0.0.6321,0x500507630e840387,0x40114021
rd.zfcp=0.0.6322,0x500507630e840387,0x401140220000
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following the
instructions in the RHEL 7.5 doc (which is what the Fedora site pointed me
to).
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Tomorrow IBM will be announcing the next generation of System z. There is a
webcast you can register for which will be open at 10:45 AM EDT.
https://engage.vevent.com/index.jsp?seid=40932eid=556
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If I need to add Logical CPUS to an LPAR does this take an IPL of
the LPAR to get them in ?
Terry:
You should ALWAYS have reserved CPs, IFLs, zIIPs, zAAPs in any LPAR in
which you have active engines of these types. With a reserved engine
you can always vary it on without taking an outage.
Today is the day! For those attending SHARE next week, we will have a
birthday party on Wednesday afternoon following my webcast live from
SHARE with my personal memories of 39 years working with the product.
http://www.vm.ibm.com/vm40bday.html
Jim
Sorry to say, I probably won't be able to make it. I was looking
forward to this with it being the 40th anniversary of VM. However,
this has been scheduled against the Canada Day holiday (our 4th of
July).
I know most of the attendees will be from the US, but this will pretty
much kill any chance
... Has Fortran been ported to zLinux or is that a moot point
due to the the loosely coupled front-end - backend (optimizer)
architecture of the GCC compiler tool chain?
GCC Fortrain works just fine on Linux on System z. I ported several
older VS Fortran programs to Linux on System z using
Randy:
Linux questions are better asked on linux-390 list at Marist.
In the Curiosity 6.2 SSI question thread, you mentioned
Does that include DB2? If so, how are you automating the
failover? Anyone else have automatic failover from a DB2
primary to a DB2 secondary server working on zLinux?
RH doesn't support GFS2 on z HW from what I was told.
Marcy:
While RH does not provide support for GFS on System z, Sine Nomine
does provide this support (according to Brad). Not sure if this
includes GFS2 or just GFS.
Jim
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Huh? When we RACed our Oracle servers they were recommending
ASM. They still do. We've never beeen asked to reproduce
RAC-related issues under OCFS, on Z or Intel.
Rodger:
Correct. Oracle tells you NOT to use OCFS2 for their database servers,
but to use ASM (on all platforms) and this has
...
The zVM site makes no mention of 6.2 And SSI is out there
and usable ?. Hmmm - how did I miss that ?.
Shane: The z/VM 6.2 stuff went live on the www.vm.ibm.com at 10:00AM
ET today. The rest of the System z updates went live earlier in the
day.
JIM
How many IFLs will be required to support 20 normal COGNOS
users? We are sizing to execute COGNOS under z/VM V5.4 and Suse
Linux with DB2 UDB.
Jose:
It is of course one of those it depends questions. You need to get
to your Cognos rep (or partner). The IBM Techline folks have access
to a
I don't believe this has been posted here before, but IBM has
published a TechDoc on this subject.
http://ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/WP101894
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Note: This event has a z/OS focus but there are presentations
on zEnterprise, z/VM and Linux on System z.
Attend this free technology update to learn how the latest mainframe
technology can help you use an integrated management approach to running
a more efficient, cost-effective data center.
Three Films Chronicle IBM's Century of Innovation
ARMONK, N.Y. - 10 Mar 2011: IBM is marking its 100th year as a
company of innovators and inventions through a series of
documentary films that chronicle the ways in which the company
has changed the world through scientific and technology
RHEL 6 was released publicly today, and is available for
download from RHN (https://rhn.redhat.com). For more info,
please see:
ttp://www.redhat.com/promo/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux6/
Brad:
Is there any doc on which of these functions are NOT
available on System z? I suspect that, as in the
The IBM zEnterprise System has been announced. Check out the
web site at http://ibm.com/systems/zenterprise
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I was expecting more in the x86 area (Windoz, specifically
servers) as that is a much needed consolidation area. Or did I
miss something?
Stephen:
The management functions in zBX and URM depend heavily on
interfaces to the hypervisor and the operating system. With
PowerVM and KVM, and AIX and
Anybody recommend current install and use doc. We are running
z/VM 5.4 and Redhat 5.5. I'm finding a lot of old doc for VM
5.1 and Redhat 4.
Bobby:
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247634.html
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And what's old is new againthere's a water cooled version
of the z196. :-)
Dave:
zEnterprise is just following x86 and RISC here. Water is much
better at cooling that air and this does improve the
environmentals over time. There is a higher up front cost
however.
Jim
System z Keynote: More Power to System z
Do not miss the keynote address by Karl Freund, IBM Vice President of
System z Marketing and Strategy. He will discuss the state of the modern
IBM mainframe, its modest footprint, efficient use of power and its
unmatched processing speed.
A new dimension
Today's IT environments are built using diverse computing
technologies such as x86, UNIX and Linux. On a Smarter Planet,
these systems can operate as one. On Thursday, July 22nd, IBM
will be unveiling a solution designed to integrate enterprise
systems, people and processes, so they work together
Subject:System z Innovations at SHARE in Boston
Keeping up with innovative technology requires looking at new
capabilities from two perspectives - the value that innovation
can bring to your enterprise, and how well it can integrate with,
and enhance, your existing systems. Whether you are
Keeping up with innovative technology requires looking at new
capabilities from two perspectives - the value that innovation
can bring to your enterprise, and how well it can integrate with,
and enhance, your existing systems. Whether you are seeking more
knowledge on virtualization and cloud
Ah the fuzzy revisionism of corporation polished history.
Well the article was very much a simplication; not sure if would
call it revisionism.
I'm glad its all come out well but some of us still remember
the original Linux/370 work with IBM not helping, and also the
'war stories' from the
Linux (with a short excursion on OS/2 Warp). For
years I was told that working on VM would be a dead-end to my
IBM career. Linux has happily proved that wrong.
Jim Elliott
zChampion, Linux Champion, Consulting Sales Specialist
and Sir Jim the Evangelist of the Knights of VM
http://blogs.computerworld.com/16284/ten_years_of_ibm_mainframe_linux
I see Jim Elliott has already commented on the article.
Yes, I commented as I saw he posted a link to my web site without
any credit given. Also, put in a link to my SHARE presentation
on 10 years of Linux on System z.
Jim
I don't see prices in that link, only $CALL. What is a lot?
David:
IBM rarely publishes System z prices. You really need to contact
your IBM System z rep or System z BP to get a number. The price
depends on how many IFLs etc. you acquire and on whether it is a
z10 BC or z10 EC and whether it
I will be presenting an Update on the IBM Consolidation Story,
Future Directions for the Mainframe, and Cloud Computing and
System z at the Institute for Electronic Government briefing
center at 1301 K Street, NW, 4th Floor, West Tower, Washington,
D.C. 20005.
Additional speakers will be
I will be presenting Why now is the time to migrate from Sun,
SPARC and Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM Systems at
the The Intercontinental Toronto Centre at 225 Front Street West,
Toronto, ON M5V 2X3.
Speakers from Red Hat and IBM will also provide technical
information on this
Today, April 7th is the 45 anniversary of the announcement of
System 360. In celebration, I have updated my History of the
Mainframe presentation and posted it on my web site on the
events page.
http://ibm.com/vm/devpages/jelliott
Jim
BTW, Jim's History of the Mainframe can be found on his web
page under the Events Events including user groups
headingnot the most obvious place to go look:-)
Dave: My note did say to look on the Events page, but I have
updated the web page now with directions.
Jim
Very Interesting !! Really takes me back ( an 1130 at school).
(Slide 37 seems to have the date wrong ...)
Kim:
So was mine! Fun little machine
Argh, fixed.
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I am at the beginning of installing Linux on z/os. I thinking
just in an Lpar or two for now, z/vm later. This is an RD
project just to get it up and running. I have a Z9 and a copy
of SUSE. Now what? What would be the bes t redbook or manual?
Steven:
I hope you mean you are looking at
I could be wrong, but I think the first 390-enabled RHEL was
RHEL 3.x. 2.4 is really, really ancient.
David: I think you are right here. My records show the first RHEL
release to support s390 and s390x was RHEL 3 Update 3 which was
kernel level 2.4.21. This may be the confusion with 2.4.
Jim
Just wondering about the price for a second IFL.
$47,500.
Rich: To be clear, the list price of an IFL (or zIIP or zAAP)
on a z9 BC was $95,000 USD and now on the z10 BC they are $47,500
USD.
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I note that three of the Big Four banks host their websites on
Windows boxes. Two run IIS 6, one IIS4!
John:
It must be local to where you live (US or UK?). The big five banks
in Canada (and they have about 95% of the banking system here) run:
Royal Bank of Canada - WAS on AIX
TD Bank - WAS
We are running production work on zVM 3.1 (don't ask why)
running 2nd level under zVM 5.1 . Things has been running good
for more than a year until t his change: Hardware was upgraded
from z990 to z9 . Now guest zVM3.1 is running 100% cpu; 1st
level zVM 5.1 is running 100% CPU. We can't go
NFSv3 or AFS are reliable for this purpose and work well. GFS
was supported for a while (before RH bought Sistina) -- might
still be available. IBM will sell you GPFS.
David: GPFS is not (yet) available for Linux on z.
Jim
We finally got our POF running this morning and response is not
great. Since we know very little about this z/VM and zLinux I
would appreciate any hints. Performance Monitor shows some
paging and swapping but from our MVS point of view, its now
bad. The VM guest only has 512M. I could
Has anyone had any luck installing Oracle 10G on a SuSE 10
instance? I've been trying for several days without any luck. I
know it's been certified by Oracle, but I can't get it to work
using their documentation.
Gene:
Rule number one with installing Oracle on Linux on z, get the
Redbook.
For those of you who have been following the saga of bringing
OpenSolaris to System Z, I'm pleased to say that those of you
coming to SHARE in Orlando will get a chance to get your hands
on it live. IBM has allowed us to put a few copies of the
virtual machine on the z9 in their booth, and
Jim, I find your (like most products, including databases)
runs better on more than one processor and would be very
interested to see the data supporting this claim. I trust this
would not be from an artificial lab environment with only one
virtual machine and an infinite number of real IFLs
I am trying to understand how DB/2 is priced. I have a z/890
with 4 CPs and no IFL engine. When I inquired about a license
for DB/2 for z/LINUX I got what I thought was a rather bizarre
response.
I was told I NEED an IFL and a second (for the IFL LPAR) z/VM
license and that the DB/2 is a
Let me see if I understand this correctly:
We currently do NOT run z/VM at all. We have a z9EC with two
CPs and a z9BC with four CPs. Each box also runs a Coupling
Facility, but that appears immaterial to this discussion. The
two boxes are connected in a parallel sysplex, with all
non-CF
We are considering running the Oracle databases for a
Peoplesoft implementation on SUSE guests running under zVM. If
anyone is doing it today we'd like to know as validation of
this option. Also, we've been told that even if we get that to
work the other pieces of the Peoplesoft
Does the Peoplesoft code contain hardware-specific code? If
not, it shouldn't care what the hardware is, as long as the
operating system (Linux, with or without z/VM, in this case) is
proper.
John:
Peoplesoft is a kludge of several products which Peoplesoft
acquired over the years. Some of
I've worked with one customer that was implementing SAP on
Linux for System z. The memory requirements were obscene. Get
out your checkbook.
Mark: It should be noted that the memory requirements for SAP are
huge on ANY platform, not specific to Linux on System z. Mind you
memory on System z
... If unavailable, anyone have a suggestion as to where I
might obtain a tape driver for the 2.6 kernel? Can the
tape_3590-2.6.13-s390x-october2005.tar be used on the 2.6
kernel?
Betsie:
Binary versions of the IBM tape drivers are available at
Has anyone tried setting up an Oracle RAC installation? It is
documented in the new Oracle/zLinux Redbook, just wondering
what experiences anyone had. Thanks, RF
Robert:
I had a customer do this early this year, more for testing than
anything else. It works quite well with one note:
Use an
From: Leon Buitendag [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux Streams (LiS)
Hi, I am planning on installing Communicaton server for Linux,
however I according to the documentation I need to install LiS
first, however this is where I run into problems:
Leon:
The CommServer for Linux developers
If you haven't already seen this, it's worth a look. It's a
presentation by Charles Webb of IBM on the next IBM mainframe
processor, the z6. (Don't ask me where 6 came from.) The
thing that stood out for me was the 4GHz processor speed, but
of course there's lots of other very good stuff as
IBM Releases Office Desktop Software at No Charge to Foster
Collaboration and Innovation
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/22326.wss
Cross-posted - Thought it worthy of our attention! Plus the
price is right.
Bob:
These are editors that are in Notes 8, separated out as a
Jon:
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/integration/info_server/blade/
Jim
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Just curious, because I don't know how the hardware works, if
30 mainframes do the work of 3,900 servers, that means 1
mainframe does 130.
Does that mean that potentially that 1 mainframe has the
equivalent of at least 130 network cards? I can see how most of
the hardware is virtualized,
But that was Windows running on z/Linux running VMWare, no?
Lindy:
If memory serves, it was Windows running under BOCHS running
under Linux (and maybe under z/VM as the next layer).
http://bochs.sourceforge.net/
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So what is the preferred way to designate Linux for zSeries -
as z/Linux or zLinux ?
Lionel:
Neither. As far as IBM is concerned (well our lawyers), it should
be Linux on System z. Of course you can ignore what our lawyers
say, but IBM employees can not.
Jim
Here is the official IBM position on this. I wrote these rules so
I know where they came from. I won't go into the background here,
but if you are at SHARE in San Diego, come and ask me for the
gory details. Again these rules apply only to IBMers, for others
they are guidelines.
- 'Linux on
I incorrectly use z/Linux to match z/OS, z/VM,
z/Architecture, z/Performance, etc. The correct name is Linux
for z/Series (or a few other permutations).
Norman:
Hardware does NOT have a / in the name so it was zSeries not
z/Series.
Software does have a / in the name so it is z/OS, z/VM,
Is there a site that gives a Mhz rating for the z900 and z9
IFLs?
Get the zPCR tool from IBM. This is the external version of the
same tool the IBM reps use to compare performance of various
mainframe systems.
http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/PRS1381
Jim
We are using RHEL 4 (of some sort) on z/OS. ...
Kevin: If you are running RHEL 4 on z/OS it would be a miracle
(or close to it). RHEL 4 does run on System z and zSeries
hardware, but z/OS is another operating system and does not
support guests (that is what z/VM is for!). ;-)
Jim
I am fairly sure that our 3490-C22 drives are still supported.
John:
The 3490-C22 is still in service.
IBM announced on March 27, 2007 that effective June 30, 2007 the
3490 models FC0, F00, F01, F1A, and F11 would be withdrawn from
service.
Jim
:-) Beauty. Beholder. But I can't abide anyone calling VM/370
normal VM. Them thar's fightin' woids!
Alan: What is scary to me is that I had a customer refer to
normal VM yesterday meaning VMware. To him z/VM was
not a standard/normal VM! It took a lot for me to restrain
mhyself (now that I am
I am looking for a backup/archive product which provides HSM support
on Linux on System z (TSM does not). Any suggestions?
Jim
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David:
IBM was demoing a very nice Eclipse front end for z/OS
development at z/Expo in Munich. Syntax-sensitive editing,
dataset management, job management interfaces, the works.=20
Was pretty neat, if you like that sort of thing. Sure beats
ISPF.
It was probably WebSphere Developer for
I'm finding it interesting. Especially that the second
firmware level is written in a combination of PL8(?) and GCC.
The new development environment is LINUX!?! instead of VM.
http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/journal/rd/511/axnix.html
John:
IBM has been using GCC for some of the mainframe
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