Speed to Market with Open Source
LinuxONE

Draft Point-of-View, last updated 13 Dec 2019

Businesses and organizations are expected to deliver up-to-date applications faster and more often than ever before. Meeting these expectations requires rapid dynamic development cycles and the confidence of knowing new and existing services are both secure and can sustain high availability, scalability, and performance. This IBM Redbooks® Point-of-View publication shows the value of blending open source technologies and platform capabilities from initial conception through service ... [more]

IBM Db2 Mirror for i Getting Started
Power Systems

Redpaper, published 11 Dec 2019, last updated 13 Dec 2019

IBM® Db2® Mirror for i provides a new solution for continuous availability for an IBM i environment based on an active-active clustering design that uses a low-latency communication protocol for synchronous database replication. With Db2 Mirror, IBM i customers can benefit from continuous application availability for both planned and unplanned outages. Db2 Mirror can help reduce or eliminate application downtime for regular maintenance operations such as program temporary fix (PTF) installations, operating system (OS) upgrades, or for planned server outages. This IBM Redpaper publication ... [more]

Accelerating Modernization with Agile Integration
Cloud

Draft Redbooks, last updated 13 Dec 2019

The organization pursuing digital transformation must embrace new ways to use and deploy integration technologies, so they can move quickly in a manner appropriate to the goals of multicloud, decentralization and microservices. The application integration layer must transform to allow organizations to move boldly in building new customer experiences, rather than forcing models for architecture and development that pull away from maximizing the organization's productivity. Many organizations have started embracing agile application techniques such as microservice architecture and are now ... [more]

IBM z/OS Management Facility V2R3
IBM Z

Redbooks, published 18 Apr 2018, last updated 13 Dec 2019

  (based on 3 reviews)

This IBM® Redbooks® publication helps you install, configure, and use the IBM z/OS® Management Facility (z/OSMF). z/OSMF is a product for z/OS that simplifies, optimizes, and modernizes the z/OS system programmer experience. z/OSMF delivers solutions in a task-oriented, web browser-based user interface with integrated user assistance. The goal of z/OSMF is to improve system programmer productivity, and make functions easier to understand and use. This improvement makes system programmers more productive as quickly as possible with the least amount of training. You can automate tasks, reduce ... [more]

IBM DS8900F Architecture and Implementation
Disk storage

Draft Redbooks, last updated 12 Dec 2019

This IBM® Redbooks® describes the concepts, architecture, and implementation of the IBM DS8900F family. The book provides reference information to assist readers who need to plan for, install, and configure the DS8900F systems. This edition applies to DS8900F running microcode Release 9.0 (Bundle 89.0 / Licensed Machine Code 7.9.0.xxx). The IBM DS8900F family offers two new classes: - DS8910F: Flexibility Class all-flash The flexibility class delivers significant performance improvements as compared to the previous IBM DS8880F generation - DS8950F: Agility Class all-flash The agility class ... [more]

IBM Storwize V5000 Family Products
Flash storage

Redbooks, published 9 Sep 2019, last updated 12 Dec 2019

This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides an introduction and overview of the latest products in the IBM Storwize® V5000 Family, including their hardware and software features. Advanced topics that apply to the IBM Storwize and IBM Spectrum® Virtualize family can be found in other IBM Redbooks publications about Storwize and IBM Spectrum Virtualize.

Machine Learning with Business Rules on IBM Z: Acting on Your Insights
IBM Z

Redpaper, published 27 Jul 2018, last updated 11 Dec 2019

This Redpaper introduces the integration between two IBM products that you might like to consider when implementing a modern agile solution on your Z systems. The document briefly introduces Operational Decision Manager on z/OS and Machine learning on z/OS. In the case of Machine Learning we focus on the aspect of real-time scoring models and how these can be used with Business Rules to give better decisions. Note: Important changes since this document was written: This document was written for an older release of Operational Decision Manager for z/OS (ODM for z/OS). ODM for ... [more]

Red Hat OpenShift and IBM Cloud Paks on IBM Power Systems: Volume 1
Red Hat

Draft Redbooks, last updated 11 Dec 2019

This IBM Redbooks publication journeys, educates and prepares the readers to understand and enter the multicloud era. This book is a journey to the multicloud providing take one or a snapshot of the IBM Cloud Solution utilizing the general available and supported software and hardware resources to help you guide you to understand: + Introduction to the rationale and methodology of this publication. + Concepts and terminology + Why move to the cloud? + Introduction to containers and orchestration with kubernetes + Introduction to Red Hat OpenShift on Power Systems + Why IBM? Why IBM Power ... [more]

IBM AIX Enhancements and Modernization
Power Systems

Draft Redbooks, last updated 11 Dec 2019

  (based on 4 reviews)

This IBM® Redbooks publication is a comprehensive guide that covers IBM AIX® operating system layout capabilities, distinct features, system installation and maintenance including AIX security and trusted environment and compliance integration, with the benefits of IBM Power Virtualization Management (PowerVM®), IBM Power Virtualization Center (PowerVC) including the cloud capabilities and automation flavors. The objective of this book is to introduce IBM AIX modernization features and integration with different environments:

• General AIX enhancements
• AIX Live Kernel ... [more]

IBM Power Systems LC921 and LC922: Technical Overview and Introduction
Power Systems

Redpaper, published 12 Sep 2018, last updated 10 Dec 2019

  (based on 1 review)

This IBM® Redpaper™ publication is a comprehensive guide that covers the IBM Power Systems™ LC921 and LC922 (9006-12P and 9006-22P)) servers that use the current IBM POWER9™ processor-based technology and supports Linux operating systems (OSes). The objective of this paper is to introduce the offerings and their capacities and available features. These new Linux scale-out systems provide differentiated performance, scalability, and low acquisition cost, and include the following features:

• Superior throughput and performance for high-value Linux workloads.
• Low ... [more]