Commands for Linux on IBM Z

6.10 LPAR mode z/VM guest KVM guest

You can use IBM® Z specific commands to configure and work with the z/Architecture® device drivers and features.

s390-tools

Most of the commands described in this section are included in the s390-tools package (version 2.33.0) that is available at github.com/ibm-s390-linux/s390-tools/releases.

Some commands come with an initialization script or a configuration file or both. For init as the initialization process, it is assumed that such scripts are installed in /etc/init.d/. You can extract any missing files from the etc subdirectory in the s390-tools package.

smc-tools

SMC-related commands are in a separate package, smc-tools, that is available at github.com/ibm-s390-linux/smc-tools.

Commands described elsewhere

  • For the zipl command, see Initial program loader for IBM Z - zipl.
  • For commands and tools related to creating and analyzing system dumps, see Using the Dump Tools, SC33-8412.
  • For commands related to terminal access over IUCV connections, see How to Set up a Terminal Server Environment on z/VM, SC34-2596.
  • The icainfo and icastats commands are provided with the libica package and described in libica Programmer's Reference, SC34-2602.
  • The zkey and zkey-cryptsetup commands are described in Pervasive Encryption for Data Volumes, SC34-2782.
  • The genprotimg, pvattest, and pvextract-hdr commands are described in Introducing IBM Secure Execution for Linux, SC34-7721.