A new Live Virtual Class (LVC) is scheduled for tomorrow. If you are running or want to run Linux on System z this new IBM Dynamic Partition Manager might be of interest.   Topic : IBM Dynamic Partition Manager (DPM) including live demo Abstract : IBM Dynamic Partition Manager (DPM) intends to provide a simplified, consumable, enhanced z Systems user experience reducing the barriers of adoption for new and existing clients. It delivers dynamic z Systems hardware and virtual infrastructure management including integrated dynamic I/O... [More]

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Just yesterday I wrote some Assembler code to improve a system function. It's always fun to get some Assembler statements to work. I know, high level languages, such as Java, C, PL/I and COBOL, are much more productive. But sometimes, if your code is very close to the hardware and if you want to use new instructions, Assembler is the best language to get things done. We do not have the z/VSE compilers, that support the usage for some system interfaces and you can't use high level languages for Supervisor implementations, except an... [More]

Today it's raining all day. Therefore some recommendations for reading: The June / July 2014 issue of the Enterprise Tech Journal (ETJ) was just published. It also contains an z/VSE article from one of my colleagues. It's title is "Monitoring Your z/VSE System With SNMP". The link to the article is here . The new ETJ issue has many more articles - all around the mainframe. More information is here (articles, the journal, etc.). ... and more to read: I posted information about the " IBM Mainframe Weekly " newsletter... [More]

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