zSeries Redbooks

- Overview of business resilience requirements
- Technologies that support IT resilience
- Introduction to the GDPS family of offerings

This IBM Redbooks publication presents an overview of the GDPS family of offerings and the role they play in delivering a business IT resilience solution.

- Introduction and architecture
- Installation and configuration
- High availability tests and techniques

The number of electronic transactions conducted by financial institutions around the world every day is growing astronomically.

- Understand power and energy efficiency on IBM Systems
- Learn about IBM Green technology and offerings
- Manage IBM Systems with Active Energy

Energy efficiency of data centers is a critical priority for IT managers.

- Integration with Rational Developer for System z
- IBM Optim MOVE usage scenario
- FA, FM, and APA usage scenarios

The Problem Determination toolset, or PD Tools for short, consists of a core group of IBM® products designed to work in conjunction with compilers and run times to provide a start-to-finish development solution for the IT professional.

- Service-oriented scenarios
- ESB scenarios
- Integration with CICS, IMS, and DB2

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) requires a new way of looking at integration between subsystems.

- Coordinated Timing Network configuration
- Operations and recovery
- How to implement Server Time Protocol examples

Server Time Protocol (STP) is a server-wide facility that is implemented in the Licensed Internal Code (LIC) of the System z10 Enterprise Class (z10 EC), IBM System z9 Enterprise Class (z9 EC), System z9 Business Class (z9 BC), zSeries z990, and z890 servers.

- Concepts and terminology
- Configuration planning
- Operations and recovery

Server Time Protocol (STP) is a server-wide facility that is implemented in the Licensed Internal Code (LIC) of the System z10 Enterprise Class (z10 EC), IBM System z9 Enterprise Class (z9 EC), System z9 Business Class (z9 BC), zSeries® z990, and z890 servers.

- z/Architecture, IBM System z processor design and connectivity
- LPAR concepts, HCD, z9, z10
- DS8000 DASD controller

The ABCs of z/OS System Programming is an 11-volume collection that provides an introduction to the z/OS operating system and the hardware architecture.

- z/OS implementation and maintenance
- Job management, JES2, JES3, SSI, LPA
- LNKLST, SMP/E, LE

The ABCs of z/OS System Programming is a eleven volume collection that provides an introduction to the z/OS operating system and the hardware architecture.

- Understand the evolution of data warehousing
- Evaluate infrastructure tools on IBM System z and Linux on System z
- See how the DB2 for z/OS engine is suitable for data warehousing

Enterprises look more and more to business intelligence (BI) to gain a competitive edge.

- CICS Interdependency Analyzer Explorer
- CICS Interdependency Analyzer Threadsafe report
- CICS Interdependency Analyzer Analysis of affinity data

CICS® Interdependency Analyzer (CICS IA) is a runtime tool for use with CICS Transaction Server for z/OS®.

IBM® System Storage™ FlashCopy® Manager and System Storage PPRC Manager are IBM program products for IBM z/OS® and System z™ CKD IBM storage users.

- Hands-on instructions for installing z/VM and Linux on the mainframe
- Updated for z/VM 5.4 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2
- New, more versatile file system layout

This book describes how to roll your own RHEL 5.2 Linux virtual servers on IBM® System z™ hardware under z/VM® .

- Security on z/OS, RACF, and LDAP
- Kerberos and PKI
- Cryptography and EIM

The ABCs of z/OS® System Programming is an 11-volume collection that provides an introduction to the z/OS operating system and the hardware architecture.

- Infoprint Server Transforms
- Customizing transforms and deamons
- Using transforms

One component of Infoprint Server is the Transform Interface.

- Learn a Linux on System z problem determination methodology
- Discover problem determination tools for z/VM and Linux on System z
- Do a case study using what you learn here

This IBM Redbooks publication addresses some of the common problems that customers have experienced on the Linux® on System z™ platform.

- Understand how distance impacts data sharing
- Sample measurements at distances up to 80 km
- Measurements for CICS/DB2

This IBM Redbooks publication provides a broad understanding of the considerations to keep in mind when you implement IBM z/OS sysplex data sharing across geographically distributed sites.

- Hands-on instructions for installing z/VM and Linux on the mainframe
- Updated for z/VM 5.4 and Linux SLES 10 SP2
- New, more versatile file system layout

This book describes how to roll your own SLES 10 SP2 Linux virtual servers on IBM System z hardware under z/VM.

- Describes the concepts and structure of Capacity on Demand
- Explains the offerings and how they can be applied
- Provides step-by-step examples

The IBM System z10 Enterprise Class server provides a base for major server consolidation by further removing memory, processor, and channel constraints.

- Stack multiple ABARS aggregate backup files onto a single tape
- Details a step-by-step procedure
- Recover from errors

This document describes how customers can take existing aggregate backup output files and utilize MVS utilities to stack multiple aggregates or multiple versions of the same aggregate onto a single tape and recover any of these (stacked) aggregates.