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
On April 27th 2018 Canonical announced the second version of Ubuntu LTS for Linux on Z and LinuxONE.
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On April 10th, 2018 Red Hat announced the next regular update to their flag ship operating system.
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kernel level for 7.5 is kernel-3.10.0-862.el7. The kernel level for 7.5-alt is kernel-4.14.0-49.el7a.
And this is actually the largest change. There is … Read the rest
On September 7th 2017 eleven months after the last service pack SUSE has released the latest updated to their flag ship server distribution.
The kernel level for 12.3 is kernel-4.4.73-5.1. So the major kernel level stayed the same, which allowed … Read the rest
On August 1st, 2017 Red Hat announced the next regular update to their flag ship operating system.
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kernel level for 7.4 is kernel-3.10.0-693.el7.
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A frequently question in the past was: which physical CPUs is my LPAR using right now? Since z14 the Hardware Management Console provides this for authorized users. The task is called “View partition Resource Assignments”.
The Washington System Center has … Read the rest
Today July 17th 2017 IBM announced the new mainframe called IBM z14. Planned availability date is September 13, 2017.
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From a Linux perspective the IBM tested platforms has been updated to include z14. The following minimum … Read the rest
Oracle Databasse 12c Release 1 and Release 2 are now certified on the latest Linux versions for Linux on z Systems and LinuxONE. Details can be found here:
On March 21, 2017 Red Hat has announced the availability of RHEL 6.9. This marks the transition into what in Red Hat’s product life cyle is called production phase 3 (starting May 10th 2017). This means that only critical security … Read the rest
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Many Linux clients are running under z/VM as the hypervisor. This year three of the older versions are reaching end of service: z/VM 5.4 (12/2017), z/VM 6.2 (06/2017) and z/VM 6.3 (12/2017). As I know that … Read the rest