Access to Linux on Z / LinuxONE Systems
One of the FAQs that I get is: where can I get access to Linux on Z? Depending on what you want to do, there are several options:
- LinuxONE Community Cloud hosts two free offerings:
- Virtual Server – here you
Oracle DB for Linux on Z / LinuxONE
Latest News (updated 3/14/2022)
Oracle 19c is now certified for SLES 15 SP3+ on Linux on Z. This is the next long term release of the Oracle database. If you have an Oracle DB license covering this, you can download … Read the rest
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.6 released
On October 30th, 2018 Red Hat announced RHEL 7.6 the next regular update to their flag ship operating system. This the successor for RHEL 7.5.
The kernel level for 7.6 is kernel-3.10.0-957.el7. Furthermore the kernel-alt introduced with RHEL 7.5, … Read the rest
PostgreSQL: Tuning for Linux on Z
PostgreSQL is one of the popular databases on Linux on Z. It’s available in all major distributions. As with every database tuning is important. Marc Beyerle, a colleague of mine, wrote an in depth article about his tuning experiences: “… Read the rest
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 (SLES 15) released
On June 25th 2018 SUSE announced the new version of their flagship operating system for Linux on Z and LinuxONE. It’s now the 8th major version from SUSE available on the mainframe! All packages and modules have been upgraded to … Read the rest
Hardware Security – Best Practices and where to find the right information
With the publication of the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities last year the new class of hardware security threads has been discovered. Everyone needs to protect against them. For Linux and System Z the most important best practice is to stay … Read the rest
z14 ZR1 / LinuxONE Rockhopper II
IBM has announced the new z14 ZR1 / LinuxONE Rockhopper II on April 10, 2018. The key new feature for me of this box is the form factor. Instead of the decades old 24″ rack a standard 19″ rack is … Read the rest
Data at rest encryption with protected key
Concept
You might have heard IBM talking about “pervasive encryption”. In this post we take a look at what’s behind this. With every encryption scheme there is the problem of access to the keys. … Read the rest
Blog moved …. extensions coming
This blog has been moved from Blogger to it’s own WordPress site. There is still work underway for design and better usability – so stay tuned. Also I plan to start a regular cadence of Blog posts once a week … Read the rest
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 (SLES12 SP4) released
On December 12th 2018, SUSE announced SLES12 SP4 the follow up service pack after SLES 12 SP3. This release comes like SLES 12 SP2 with a major kernel upgrade. This has pros and cons. One of the pros … Read the rest