IBM Z Redbooks

28 November 2022, Draft Redbooks

IBM® Db2® 13 for z/OS® delivers significant innovations that can improve your ability to make well-informed business decisions. As the industry's first relational database that integrates AI into SQL queries, Db2 13 combines deep-learning capabilities with advanced IBM Z® technologies to reveal hidden relationships across tables and views in your Db2 data. As with prior releases of Db2, Db2 13 ...

21 November 2022, Redpaper

In today’s fast-paced, ever-growing digital world, you face various new and complex business problems. To help resolve these problems, enterprises are embedding artificial intelligence (AI) into their mission-critical business processes and applications to help improve operations, optimize performance, personalize the user experience, and differentiate themselves from the competition. ...

08 November 2022, Redpaper

This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides IBM z/OS® development and test organizations with the information to develop and establish agile testing practices for their z/OS applications. It is assumed that readers know about software development, quality assurance, agile development processes, and DevOps. You might think that applying agile testing to z/OS applications is not practical or ...

28 October 2022, Redbooks

Enterprises invested millions of dollars and spent decades on developing their on-premises infrastructure. As technology advances, so has the need to leverage that infrastructure, yet still modernize the enterprises’ software portfolio to use more contemporary infrastructure, tools, and languages. Enterprises require a unified, flexible, cost-optimal hybrid cloud with portable microservices and ...

25 October 2022, Redbooks

Application modernization is essential for continuous improvements to your business value. Modernizing your applications includes improvements to your software architecture, application infrastructure, development techniques, and business strategies. All of which allows you to gain increased business value from existing application code. IBM® z/OS® Container Extensions (IBM zCX) is a part of the ...

25 October 2022, Redbooks

This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides a broad explanation of the kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) on IBM Z® and how it can use the z/Architecture®. It focuses on the planning of the environment and provides installation and configuration definitions that are necessary to build, manage, and monitor a KVM on Z environment. This publication applies to the supported Linux on Z distributions ...

28 September 2022, Redbooks

This IBM® Redbooks® publication describes the features and functions of the latest member of the IBM Z® platform that was built with the IBM Telum processor: the IBM z16™ (machine type 3931). It includes information about the IBM z16 processor design, I/O innovations, security features, and supported operating systems. The IBM Z platform is recognized for its security, resiliency, performance, ...

12 September 2022, Redpaper

This IBM® Redpaper publication introduces System Recovery Boost (SRB), which is a firmware feature that was introduced with IBM z15™ and enhanced on IBM z16™. SRB delivers substantially faster system shutdown and restart, short duration Recovery Process Boosts (RPBs) for sysplex events, and fast catch-up of an accumulated backlog of mission-critical workloads after specific events (such as ...

02 September 2022, Draft Redbooks

This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides both introductory information and technical details for the ISV IBM Z® Personal Development Tool (IBM zPDT®), which produces a small IBM Z environment suitable for application development. ISV zPDT is a PC Linux application. When ISV zPDT is installed (on Linux), normal IBM Z Operating Systems (such as IBM z/OS®) may be run on it. ISV zPDT provides the ...

10 August 2022, Redbooks

Cybersecurity is the most important arm of defense against cyberattacks. With the recent increase in cyberattacks, corporations must focus on how they are combating these new high-tech threats. When establishing best practices, a corporation must focus on employees’ access to specific workspaces and information. IBM Z® focuses on allowing high processing virtual environments while maintaining a ...