Today July 17th 2017 IBM announced the new mainframe called IBM z14. Planned availability date is September 13, 2017.
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IBM z14 glass model |
From a Linux perspective the IBM tested platforms has been updated to include z14. The following minimum levels are required:
- Red Hat (certifications)
- RHEL 7.3 – GA kernel
- RHEL 6.9 – tbd
- SUSE
- SLES 11.4 (certification) -minimum kernel 3.0.101-108.10, RoCE Express2 not supported
- SLES 12.2 (certification) -minimum kernel 4.4.74-92.35.1
- Canonical
- Ubuntu (certification) 16.04.3 LTS – minimum kernel level LTS 4.4.0-96-generic
- If you are using secure key with the new cards, updates are required to the respective libs you use and the TKE. Minumum levels
- TKE 9.0
- csulcca-5.2.23-12, ep11-host-1.3.0-3, ep11-host-devel-1.3.0-3, libep11-dev_1.3.0-3, libep11_1.3.0-3
z14 exploitation of new features:
Useful links:
- z14 announcement letter and press release
- LinuxONE Emperor II announcement letter and press release
- z14 entry page, z14 data sheet, z14 FAQs, LinuxONE FAQs, LinuxONE data sheet at IBM
- Large Systems Performance Reference for IBM Z
- z/Architecture Principles of Operation SA22-7832-11
- z/VM
- z/VM requirements page
- exploitation for pause less garbage collection: VM65987
- Redbooks:
- IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS, V7.1
- Articles and paper:
(updated 11/28/2017)
Assembling the IBM Z mainframe in 120 seconds