Sorry for the late post. The system was on maintenance.   Besides the z13s / z13 enhancements announcement on Tuesday (see my blog entry ), there was another announcement that may be of interest for z/VSE or Linux users running on z/VM - the announcement of the z/VM 6.4 preview. Preview announcements give early notice, what is planned for the near future.   z/VM 6.4 is targeted for the forth quarter 2016.   Planned enhancements are: increased efficiency with HyperPAV easier migration from previous z/VM releases improved... [More]

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In February the z/VM team announced a preview for z/VM 6.4. I had a related blog entry on that announcement - see here . z/VM 6.4 is targeted for the forth quarter 2016. The links to the announcement letters are on the z/VM 6.4 web page - here .   I did not mention, that this announcement also has a Statement of general direction (SOD) about an architectural level set of z/VM 6.4 to z114 and z196. Many z/VSE users are running their z/VSE systems in z/VM guests. Therefore this SOD may be of interest: Stabilization of z/VM support for the... [More]

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As announced a few weeks ago, the new z/VM 6.4 release is now available.   z/VM 6.4 requires a z114 / z196 server or higher.    Below are key z/VM 6.4 enhancements: Support for up to 2 TB of memory Increased efficiency with HyperPAV Easier migration with enhanced upgrade-in-place infrastructure Improved operations with ease-of-use enhancements Improved SCSI support Increased scalability by exploiting Guest Enhanced DAT (1 MB frames for z/VM guests) Integration of new CMS Pipelines functionality Availability of IBM Wave for z/VM... [More]

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On Tuesday the z/VM team announced the planned availability (GA) date for z/VM 6.4. It is November 11, 2016 .   z/VM 6.4 requires a z114 / z196 server or higher.   Below are key z/VM 6.4 enhancements : Support for up to 2 TB of memory Increased efficiency with HyperPAV Easier migration with enhanced upgrade-in-place infrastructure Improved operations with ease-of-use enhancements Improved SCSI support Increased scalability by exploiting Guest Enhanced DAT (1 MB frames for z/VM guests) Integration of new CMS Pipelines functionality... [More]

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Today some news for our customers that run z/VM. Just a month ago the z/VM team announced new functions for z/VM 6.3 planned for June 2014, such as CPU pooling Environment information interface Guest exploitation of 10GbE RoCE Express feature on zEC12 / zBC12 servers Guest exploitation of zEDC Express feature on zEC12 / zBC12.servers z/VSE does not support the above zEC12 / zBC12 features. More information is on the z/VM 6.3 web page or in the announcement letter .

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Today IBM announced an update of the IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager (SKLM).   You may need this product, if you use the IBM System Storage TS1140 tape drives with drive-based data encryption to protect your data. The announcement letter is here .   The product page is here .   The SKLM provides the Key Encryption Key Labels (KEKLs) required for the z/VSE Job Control KEKL statement. A job running on z/VSE can issue a request to encrypt the data to be stored on tape. This request is initiated using the appropriate mode setting... [More]

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Today are at least two important IBM announcements for z/VSE customers:   1) z/VSE 6.2 and DL/I update 2) z14 ZR1 - a new IBM Z midrange mainframe   Besides that there were 2 more announcements that might be of interest. 3) z/VM 7.1 preview 4) a new LinuxONE server   Let's start with the z/VSE announcements:   z/VSE 6.2 is now available since December 1, 2017 - see my related blog entry . In between we got very positive feedback about its new functionality and the new release is well accepted.  With the z/VSE... [More]

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I know, some of my z/VSE blog readers are also interested in Linux on z Systems.   On Monday there was an interesting announcement about Docker containers and Linux on z Systems. A Statement of Direction (SOD) was announced: IBM plans to deliver Docker Datacenter for Linux on IBM z Systems and LinuxOne servers .   The announcement details are here .

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On April 7, 2014 we announced z/VSE 5.2. In the announcement letter a Statement of Direction (SOD) for CICS was included: IBM intends to provide new capability in a future release of IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/VSE, to provide: (i) Updates to CICS resources for CICS Explorer®, and (ii) Channels and Containers to enable the transfer of large amounts of data between CICS applications. For Channels and Containers IBM Redbooks were published in the past. Just a few days ago a new one was released with the title "Using IBM CICS... [More]

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