IBM TotalStorage Peer-to-Peer Virtual Tape Server Failover Test Scenarios In A ZOS Environment
White Papers The paper documents a series of PtP VTS failover testing scenarios for zOS which were run in an IBM laboratory environment. The IBM TotalStorage Peer-to-Peer (PtP) Virtual Tape Server is designed so that no single component failure will result in...
[April 30, 2008, 1:02]
WLM Classification Of Message Driven Bean Enclaves In WebSphere For ZOS
White Papers WebSphere for zOS V5.0.2 provides the mechanism to associate a Message Driven Bean (MDB) to a zOS Workload Manager (WLM) Transaction Class (TC) value which in turn can be used to classify the enclave into a service class and optionally a reporting...
[April 15, 2004, 1:04]
Installing Siebel 7.5.3 For ZOS And OS390
White Papers This paper describes how to install the Siebel version 7.5.3 on AIX with the Siebel database on DB2 for zOS and OS390. It describes the installation of the solution including the operating systems and database connection software.
[April 15, 2004, 1:04]
WebSphere Application Server V4.0.1 For ZOS And OS/390 PolicyIVP Construction Lab
White Papers This white paper discusses how WebSphere Commerce Suite provides a suite of functions to allow sellers to customize their e-commerce Web sites to meet cultural differences. The server-side code is fully enabled for multiple cultures so that data is...
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
WebSphere Application Server V4.01 For ZOS And OS/390: Enabling The SOAP IVP
White Papers This white paper expands on the instructions for enabling the SoapIVP application provided in the "Assembling J2EE Applications" product documentation. This document provides a step-by-step checklist of activities to set your environment to run the...
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
DB2 UDB For ZOS And OS/390 Versus Microsoft SQL Server
White Papers The objective of this white paper is to provide a comparison of Siebel 7 on IBM DB2 UDB for z/OS and OS/390 versus Microsoft SQL Server (SQL Server). This paper is targeted for Siebel customers considering IBM DB2 on zSeries as their database of...
[March 2, 2004, 11:19]
Java On System Z
Talkback The use of these engines does not increase the license cost for zOS and they are priced lower than a full zOS CP. Interesting that Mr. Greiner states that Java is not a good workload for mainframes. I refer interested readers to the following...
[June 13, 2008, 9:04]
Finding And Collecting Availability Measurement Data For The IBM HTTP Server And WebSphere Application Server For Z/OS And OS/390
White Papers This paper is for those who are running IBM HTTP Server and WebSphere Application Server on OS/390 or zOS. It describes how to monitor and measure availability of these products, using event sources and monitoring techniques that can be integrated...
[September 26, 2003, 1:22]
Overcoming A Problem Running Simulated Message Driven Beans
White Papers While WebSphere V4 for zOS does not yet support Message Driven Beans (MDBs), many people are working to gain experience in the area by coding up a "simulated MDB" using MQSeries and servlet/session bean scenario.
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
DB2 Connect Performance And Tuning
White Papers DB2 Connect Server provides connectivity that allows clients to access zOS host, iSeries databases. Performance may be affected by many factors such as available hardware, software resources, system configuration, application design and Application...
[September 28, 2004, 3:00]
Establishing Test And Production Environments
White Papers This document covers some of the key considerations you should take into account before making a decision on configuring your WebSphere for zOS installation. There are several different approaches that can be taken in establishing test and...
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
Mainframe Appliance For Storage Gives Software Developers Room To Do Their Work
White Papers The ESCON-attached Mainframe Appliance for Storage virtual tape controller for IBM S/390, z900, z800, and compatible mainframes running zOS, OS/400, MVS, or VSE. Striva Corporation is a fast-growing software developer with headquarters in Scotts...
[September 11, 2007, 1:00]
Mainstreaming Server Virtualization: The Intel Approach
White Papers Virtualization in the form of partitioning a physical server into multiple virtual servers or Virtual Machines (VMs) is a long-established and widely accepted solution for hardware resource sharing on large, scale-up server platforms such as zOS...
[February 24, 2007, 0:00]
Resilient, Available And Higher-Value Database Servers As The Foundation For Information On Demand
White Papers This white paper focuses on IBM DB2 Universal database for zOS, IBM DB2 Universal Database for Linux, Unix and Windows, IBM Informix Dynamic Server and IBM Cloudscape--for database software products that provide resiliency to your information...
[April 3, 2006, 16:19]
IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series Grid Failover Scenarios Version 1.1
White Papers This paper documents a series of TS7700 Grid failover test scenarios for zOS which were run in an IBM laboratory environment. The IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series is the latest in the line of tape virtualization products that has...
[April 30, 2008, 1:02]
Address The Cause, Not The Symptom
Talkback The minimum requrement would be an IBM System z, running zOS - not zVM, not zLinux, not "toy department" commodity servers - industrial strength is mandatory here.zOS and its predecessor, MVS, have never been hacked.
[January 22, 2008, 19:29]
RapidQuery
Downloads To be specific DB2 is DB2 for mainframe (ZOS,MVS), Windows, Linux, Aix and Unix. RapidQuery supports the following Databases: DB2, Firebird, Informix, Interbase, MySQL ,ODBC, OLEDB, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQLBase, SQLServer, Sybase.
[October 17, 2007, 2:01]
SAM Product Line: A Brief Description Of The Components
White Papers Systems that can be linked by standard agents range from operating systems (Unix, OS/400, Windows, zOS via RACF, TopSecret, ACF/2, etc.to databases (Oracle, DB/2, etc.to applications (SAP R/3, etc. This document lists the components of the SAM...
[May 27, 2004, 1:03]
Linux Will Power IBM Supercomputer Project
News Historically, IBM promoted different operating systems -- such as zOS for mainframes and AIX for midrange Unix servers -- for the different members of its server and mainframe family. Linux will be the main operating system for IBM's upcoming...
[October 25, 2002, 7:55]
Big Blue's Storage Tag Team
News HSM [hierarchical storage management, which refers to putting data on different classes of storage gear] has been part of the ZOS offering for some time now. It's not the usual procedure at IBM, but when it comes to data-storage software, Laura...
[February 19, 2004, 14:09]
