Doc Buddy updated
In October I had a blog entry about IBM Doc Buddy and mentioned, that this app will provide more information about IBM products, not just message explanations. With the Doc Buddy mobile app available for iOS and Android devices, you can search messages and codes and product related information issued from IBM Z products online and offline. Doc Buddy is available in the app stores. More information is here . Doc Buddy is now updated to hold additional content for z/VSE. You may subscribe to z/VSE related information and will be... [More]
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Live Virtual Class: IBM Dynamic Partition Manager (DPM) including live demo
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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Why do we still have Assembler code in z/VSE ?
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]
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Articles and news about the mainframe
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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