Red Hat announced the end of service for RHEL 5. They will offer another three and a half years of security patches and critical fixes if a customer has bought the Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS).
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From my perspective this spring SHARE in San Jose was a “normal” SHARE. It was small enough to run into people to talk but large enough to have good technical content. The “hype” themes this … Read the rest
On November 8th 2016 eleven months after the last service pack SUSE has released the latest updated to their flag ship server distribution. SUSE also has a blog post with some more details.
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kernel level for 12.2 is kernel-4.4.21-69.1. … Read the rest
For z Systems optimizations are essential to keep the consolidation ratio high and make the best use of the hardware. As more and more open source software is ported to Linux on z / LinuxONE Kevin Shum has posted his … Read the rest
On November 3rd 2016 Red Hat released the next regular update to their flag ship operating system.
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kernel level for 7.3 is kernel-3.10.0-514.el7.
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… Read the restThe certification is finally done with Oracle 11.2.0.4 and RHEL 7.1. It’s highly recommended that you upgrade to the latest fixpacks though. Read more in the IBM Flash or go directly to Oracle support and read the Oracle Note (requires … Read the rest
IBM Doc Buddy is a mobile app that allows for retrieving explanation on IBM z error message codes. Now you can also get Linux and z/VM messages offline explained with this app.
You can get the application from Apples Appstore… Read the rest
IBM has a good portfolio of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) products. One of them is IBM FileNet. Storing a lot of data and finding content is something that z Systems does really well. So after the first whitepaper concentrating … Read the rest
IBM continues to improve the performance of Java on the mainframe. To show this I’ve taken a snapshot of the performance improvements during the latest Java releases. The operating system was a SLES 12 SP1 and this was run on … Read the rest
There is a new whitepaper on TechDocs, that describes the HowTo setup the Linux distributions RHEL 7.2 and SLES 12 SP1, so that OpenSSH (and all workloads using this) really benefit from the hardware encryption delivered with System z.
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