Using Oracle Solutions on Linux for System z
09 April 2008, Redbooks
Linux on System z offers many advantages to customers who rely upon the IBM mainframe systems to run their businesses. Linux for System z takes advantage of the qualities of service in the System z hardware and in z/VM, making it a robust industrial strength Linux. This provides an excellent platform for hosting Oracle solutions that run in your enterprise. This IBM Redbooks publication describes experiences gained while installing and testing several Oracle features and solutions, such as: - Oracle Data Guard - IBM WebSphere Application Server connecting to an Oracle database on Linux for ...
Experiences with Oracle Solutions on Linux for IBM System z
28 May 2009, Redbooks
Linux® for System z® offers many advantages to customers who rely upon the IBM® mainframe systems to run their businesses. Linux for System z takes advantage of the qualities of service in the System z hardware and in z/VM® , making it a robust industrial strength Linux. This provides an excellent platform for hosting Oracle® solutions that run in your enterprise. This IBM Redbooks® publication describes experiences gained while installing and testing several Oracle solutions, such as: - Setting up Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 for Oracle - Installing Oracle Data Vault - Using Grid Control to ...
Experiences with Oracle 11gR2 on Linux on System z
22 November 2013, Redbooks
Linux on System z offers many advantages to customers who rely on the IBM® mainframe systems to run their businesses. Linux on System z makes use of the qualities of service in the System z® hardware and in z/VM®, making it a robust industrial strength Linux. This provides an excellent platform for hosting Oracle solutions that run in your enterprise. This IBM Redbooks® publication is divided into several sections to share the following experiences that are gained while Oracle Database 11gR2 is installed and tested: <ul/> Setting up Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 for Oracle Managing an ...
Security for Linux on System z
10 January 2013, Redbooks
No IT server platform is 100% secure and useful at the same time. If your server is installed in a secure vault, three floors underground in a double-locked room, not connected to any network and switched off, one would say it was reasonably secure, but it would be a stretch to call it useful. This IBM® Redbooks® publication is about switching on the power to your Linux® on System z® server, connecting it to the data and to the network, and letting users have access to this formidable resource space in a secure, controlled, and auditable fashion to make sure the System z server and Linux are ...
Linux on System z: An Ideal Platform to Migrate Your IT Workload
26 June 2014, Solution Guide
There are many reasons why you might want to optimize your servers through virtualization using Linux on IBM® System z®: Too many distributed physical servers with low utilization A lengthy provisioning process that delays the implementation of new applications Limitations in data center power and floor space High total cost of ownership (TCO) Difficulty allocating processing power for a dynamic environment. This IBM Redbooks® Solution Guide provides technical planning and an example for IT organizations to migrate from their x86 environment to ...
Practical Migration to Linux on System z
29 January 2010, Redbooks
There are many reasons why you would want to optimize your servers through virtualization using Linux® on System z®: - Too many distributed physical servers with low utilization - A lengthy provisioning process that delays the implementation of new applications - Limitations in data center power and floor space - High Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) - Difficulty allocating processing power for a dynamic environment. This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides a technical planning reference for IT organizations that are considering a migration to Linux on System z. The overall focus of the content ...
Experiences with Oracle® 10gR2 Solutions on Linux for IBM System z
16 February 2007, Redbooks
This IBM Redbooks publication describes experiences gained while installing and testing several Oracle® solutions, such as: - Single Instance of Oracle Database 10gR2 - Including sharing ORACLE_HOME and Cloning Oracle databases - RAC Instance of Oracle Database 10gR2 using raw devices, block devices, or OCFS2 files - Oracle E-Business Suite 11.5.10.2 with a split configuration database on Linux on System z - Oracle AS10g Interested readers include database consultants, installers, administrators, and system programmers. This book is not meant to replace Oracle documentation; it documents our ...
Problem Determination for Linux on System z
25 August 2008, Redbooks
This IBM Redbooks publication addresses some of the common problems that customers have experienced on the Linux® on System z™ platform. This book provides a problem determination methodology and tools to help the reader diagnose the problem in an easy-to-read self-help manual. We start with a discussion on how to approach problem solving in the Linux on System z environment and continue on to describe some of the problem determination tools commonly used for z/VM and Linux on system z. We continue with discussions on network problem determination, performance problem determination, and ...
30 June 2006, Redbooks
Linux on IBM System z offers many advantages to customers who rely on IBM mainframe systems to run their businesses. Linux on IBM System z takes advantage of the qualities of service in the IBM System z hardware and in z/VM - making it a robust industrial strength Linux. This provides an excellent platform for consolidating Oracle databases that exist in your enterprise. This IBM Redbooks publication describes our experiences in boosting performance and reducing memory requirements by using discontiguous saved segments (DCSS) and the execute in place (XIP2) filesystem ...
SAP on DB2 9 for z/OS: Implementing Application Servers on Linux for System z
28 April 2009, Redbooks
The power of the IBM System z, combined with the flexibility of Linux on System z, provides the ideal platform on which to implement SAP application servers. System z provides the benefits of continuous availability, high performance, scalability, and ease of management; these qualities support and complement mission-critical SAP business applications. This IBM Redbooks publication focuses on the implementation of SAP application servers on Linux on System z to leverage the synergy of this combination of products. It provides detailed information to guide you through the planning process, ...
Using the Oracle Grid Control Server with a Database on Linux for System z
27 October 2008, Redpaper
There are several ways to manage an Oracle® database running on Linux® on System z® . This paper describes how to use the agent that is shipped with the database. In our example we installed a database on SLES10. The Oracle Grid Control Server does not run on Linux on System z. You can use a platform such as x86 Linux to run the Grid Control Server to manage the databases and applications running on Linux on System z.
Experiences with Oracle Database 12c Release 1 on Linux on System z
13 May 2014, Redbooks
Oracle Database 12c Release 1 is now supported on Linux on IBM® System z®. This platform offers many advantages to customers who rely upon the IBM mainframe systems to run their businesses. Linux on System z takes advantage of the qualities of service in the System z hardware and in IBM z/VM®, making it a robust industrial strength version of Linux. This provides an excellent platform for hosting Oracle solutions that run in an enterprise. This IBM Redbooks® publication shares experiences that are gained while installing and testing Oracle Database 12c Release 1: ...
Linux on IBM System z: Performance Measurement and Tuning
28 December 2011, Redbooks
This IBM® Redbooks® publication discusses performance measurement and tuning for Linux for System z®. It is intended to help system administrators responsible for deploying Linux for System z understand the factors that influence system performance when running Linux as a z/VM® guest. This book starts by reviewing some of the basics involved in a well-running Linux for System z system. An overview of some of the monitoring tools that are available and some that were used throughout this book is also provided. Additionally, performance measurement and tuning at both the z/VM and the Linux ...
z/VM and Linux on IBM System z: The Virtualization Cookbook for SLES 11 SP1
22 February 2011, Redbooks
This IBM® Redbooks® publication describes how to create your own Linux® virtual servers on IBM System z® hardware under z/VM®. It adopts a cookbook format that provides a concise, repeatable set of procedures for installing and configuring z/VM in an LPAR and then installing and customizing Linux. You need an IBM System z logical partition (LPAR) with associated resources, z/VM 6.1 media, and SLES 11 SP1 Linux for System z. This book assumes that you have a general familiarity with System z technology and terminology. It does not assume an in-depth understanding of z/VM and Linux. It is ...
The Virtualization Cookbook for z/VM 6.3, RHEL 6.4, and SLES 11 SP3: Preview
26 January 2016, Web Doc
The IBM® Redbooks® publication The Virtualization Cookbook for z/VM 6.3, RHEL 6.4, and SLES 11 SP3, SG24-8147 explains how to set up your own Linux virtual servers on IBM System z® hardware under IBM z/VM® by using step-by-step instructions. It adopts a cookbook format that provides a concise, repeatable set of procedures for installing and configuring z/VM in an LPAR and then installing and customizing Linux. In this Web Doc, we explain how the book is not just a cookbook of different recipes, but is a lesson about how to create a whole z/VM and Linux on System z dinner, from soup to ...
z/VSE Using DB2 on Linux for System z
03 February 2010, Redbooks
Data is one the most critical and valuable assets of a business. Critical strategic decisions can be made more quickly and effectively when they are based on complete, accurate, and timely operational data. From this point of view, it is important to have an enterprise data management architecture that supports a flexible global view of the business. Many environments today are heterogeneous with a high quantity and diversity of data. In this IBM® Redbooks® publication, we help enterprise architects and IT managers with these environments make decisions for a centralized database or data ...
z/VM and Linux on IBM System z: The Virtualization Cookbook for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0
18 February 2011, Redbooks
This IBM® Redbooks® publication describes how to create Linux® virtual servers in IBM z/VM® on IBM System z® hardware. This book adopts a cookbook format that provides a concise, repeatable set of procedures for installing and configuring z/VM in a logical partition (LPAR) and then installing and customizing Linux. You need an IBM System z LPAR with the associated resources, z/VM V6.1 media, and a Linux distribution. This book assumes that you have a general familiarity with System z technology and terminology. It does not assume an in-depth understanding of z/VM and Linux. It is written for ...
Achieving High Availability on Linux for System z with Linux-HA Release 2
14 April 2009, Redbooks
As Linux® on System z® becomes more prevalent and mainstream in the industry, the need for it to deliver higher levels of availability is increasing. IBM® supports the High Availability Linux (Linux-HA) project, which provides high availability functions to the open source community. One component of the Linux-HA project is the Heartbeat program, which runs on every known Linux platform. Heartbeat is part of the framework of the Linux-HA project. This IBM Redbooks® publication provides information to help you evaluate and implement Linux-HA release 2 by using Heartbeat 2.0 on the IBM System ...
Leveraging IBM Cognos 8 BI for Linux on IBM System z
01 February 2010, Redbooks
In this IBM® Redbooks® publication, we describe the role Cognos® plays in an Information On Demand (IOD) solution for IBM System z® and detail the functions of IBM Cognos 8 BI for Linux® on System z in current deployment scenarios. We show typical deployment architectures that show how to access disparate data sources both on and off the System z platform and show how the functions of the Cognos family of products provides a way to consolidate different BI solutions on System z. We provide examples of Cognos functions for resolving business requirements using reporting and OLAP capabilities ...
z/VM and Linux Operations for z/OS System Programmers
28 October 2008, Redbooks
This IBM Redbooks publication discusses z/VM and Linux operations from the perspective of the z/OS programmer or system programmer. Although other books have been written about many of these topics, this book gives enough information about each topic to describe z/VM and Linux on IBM System z operations to somebody who is new to both environments. This book is intended for z/OS programmers and system programmers who are transitioning to the z/VM and Linux on System z environments and who want a translation guide for assistance. We base this book on our experiences using System z10 Enterprise ...