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SLES 11 SP2 released

February 28, 2012 May 3, 2019 / By Eberhard Pasch / Uncategorized / Leave a Comment

More than 21 months after SLES 11 SP1 today SUSE released the SP2 of their enterprise distribution. You can find more information on this release here:

  • press release
  • release notes (s390x version)
  • overview and complete list of new features for
… Read the rest

Mainframe environments supported by Oracle

February 23, 2012 May 3, 2019 / By Eberhard Pasch / Uncategorized / Leave a Comment

Recently there have been a lot of discussions with respect to what environments are supported for Oracle DB on the mainframe. On the Marist zLinux mailing list there is a good reply from a Oracle person. Here are a few … Read the rest

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8 released

February 21, 2012 May 3, 2019 / By Eberhard Pasch / Uncategorized / Leave a Comment

Red Hat has announced the availability of RHEL 5.8. You can find more information on this here:

  • Announcement
  • Release Notes
  • Technical Notes
  • Kernel update page including a list of bug fixes 
  • kernel level: kernel-2.6.18-308.el5. 

From a mainframe perspective this has … Read the rest

z196 GA2 feature base support in Linux

February 20, 2012 May 3, 2019 / By Eberhard Pasch / Uncategorized / Leave a Comment

The required Linux distribution versions for the base support of new features like OSA Express4 are documented in the announcement letter (pdf). To find it scroll down to the Software requirements section.

Updated Virtualization Cookbook

February 6, 2012 May 3, 2019 / By Eberhard Pasch / Uncategorized / Leave a Comment

The virtualization cookbook from Michael MacIsaac, Brad Hinson, Marian Gasparovic received a major updates to cover z/VM 6.2 (including singe system image), RHEL 6.2 and the upcoming SLES11 SP2. All is now in one book and it’s even got a … Read the rest

Linux and VIPA – white papers

February 6, 2012 May 3, 2019 / By Eberhard Pasch / Uncategorized / Leave a Comment

In the past month a few questions regarding the use of OSPF and VIPA on Linux have been raised. This is especially important to clients combining z/OS and Linux and System z. So here are a two references to start … Read the rest

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 released

January 18, 2012 May 3, 2019 / By Eberhard Pasch / Uncategorized / Leave a Comment

Red Hat has announced the availability of RHEL 6.2. New general features are described in this “what’s new” document. The kernel level is now kernel-2.6.32-220.el6.

As usual there are the release notes and the technical notes in two separate documents.  … Read the rest

Gathering performance data with sysstat

December 15, 2011 October 8, 2019 / By Eberhard Pasch / Linux / Leave a Comment

The sysstat package is included in all distributions but not always installed by default. It’s a collection of performance monitoring tools and you can check the options for your current version in the manual pages. It’s platform independent and so … Read the rest

New whitepaper: “Sharing A WebSphere Application Server V8 Installation Among Many Linux for IBM System z Servers”

December 13, 2011 May 3, 2019 / By Eberhard Pasch / Uncategorized / Leave a Comment

In the new white paper “Sharing A WebSphere Application Server V8 Installation Among Many Linux for IBM System z Servers” you find a hands on description on a more complex WAS server setup. This is the update of the white … Read the rest

New Redpaper: “Installing Oracle 11gR2 RAC on Linux on System z”

December 13, 2011 May 3, 2019 / By Eberhard Pasch / Uncategorized / Leave a Comment

This Redpaper describes the installation of the latest Oracle DB on RHEL 5 and SLES 11 for Linux on System z. It covers both ECKD as well as SCSI installations and on the Oracle side the Grid Infrastructure and RAC.… Read the rest

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