On July 22, 2015 Red Hat has announced the availability of RHEL 6.7. The kernel level is now kernel-2.6.32-573.el6, for the main bug fixes see the kernel update description.
As usual there are the release notes and the technical … Read the rest
On July 16th 2015 SUSE has announced the availability of the latest service pack to their SLES11 distribution. This release is a maintenance release, keeping the major kernel version stable. Here is the usual collection of links:
Since a while there is an experimental version of Docker available for Linux on z. This has now been demoed at DockerCon. Here is the video link: the demo starts around 15:40. Of course they could have run … Read the rest
This white paper looks at the effect of using the HiperDispatch feature (introduced with z/VM 6.3) with a mixed Linux workload. It also provides results for applying the scalability APAR VM65586.
The improvements in the mixed workload including Websphere … Read the rest
All the supported combinations for IBM storage can be found in the IBM System Storage Interoperation Center (SSIC).
For Linux on z the best way to get the number of combinations down is to first select “IBM z Systems” … Read the rest
In January 2015 IBM announced the new version of the mainframe called z13. As of March 9th 2015 the successor of the zEC12 is officially available.
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| z13 glas model – photo Michael Storzer |
This machine has many new features … Read the rest