The IBM Systems Magazine web pages have good articles around the mainframe.   They have several categories such as Administrator, Business & Strategy, Trends, Storage, Case Studies. Under Trends you can find topics related to z/VM and Linux on z Systems.   The link to web pages is here .   Besides the mainframe you can also find information about other IBM platforms like AIX, Linux on POWER, IBM i.

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Sorry for the late notice.   There is a new z/VM Live Virtual Class scheduled for today.   Date : Wednesday, September 21, 2016 Topic : z/VM Charge Back Methods and Models Duration : 75 minutes   Abstract : How many different cell phone plans are there? Lots. And they each have different pros and cons that can be confusing. This session won't help you pick a cell phone plan, but it will help you if you need to build a model for charging back in a z/VM environment and implement it. The session will review different models for... [More]

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This is my 750th blog entry since I started this blog on February 6, 2013.   We just updated some z/VSE tools / Java APIs: VSE Health Checker - The z/VSE Health Checker is a Java-based system diagnosis utility to retrieve, display, and analyze performance relevant data from a z/VSE system. VSE System class library - The z/VSE System class library provides a Java API to access general z/VSE system parameters. VSE Security class library - The z/VSE Security class library provides a Java API to access security related z/VSE system parameters.... [More]

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As I described in earlier blog entries z/VSE 6.1 comes with a new CICS Transaction Server version: CICS TS for z/VSE 2.1. You may use the CICS TS for z/VSE 2.1 announcement letter to get a quick overview of it's new functionality. The announcement letter is here .   Just today I got a question from a customer, if CICS VSAM Recovery (CICSVR/VSE) works with CICS TS for z/VSE 2.1. We verified in our test environments, that CICSVR/VSE works with CICS TS for z/VSE 2.1. There are no known issues. That is it is safe to use CICSVR/VSE with... [More]

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With z/VSE's last announcement in July - see my related blog entry - we also announced the support of the latest IBM Storage technology - the DS8880. That is z/VSE 5.2 and later supports the entry model DS8884 as well DS8886 and DS8888. The product web page is here .   Now the corresponding IBM Redbook is available: IBM DS8880 Architecture and Implementation (Release 8.1)   Have a good weekend.

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After some weeks of vacation and a really good summer I returned and will continue to post news or any information related to z/VSE.   Let's start with the latest service news. There are a few new APARs that may be of interest.   VSE/AF DEVICE-SPECIFIC MIH VALUE (EXAMPLE: SIR MIH,181=10M) OVERRULES GENERAL MIH VALUE ONLY ONCE. z/VSE 5.2 APAR DY47676 (PTF UD54198-52C, UD54199-52J) z/VSE 6.1 APAR DY47682 (PTF UD54204-61C, UD54205-61J) Error description: When a device-specific MIH interval has been defined (for example SIR... [More]

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