Download or read book Z OS Traditional Application Maintenance and Support written by Jonathan Sayles and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book z OS Traditional Application Maintenance and Support written by Jonathan Sayles and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2011-06-23 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this IBM® Redbooks® publication, we attempt to provide fresh insight into a problem domain that, in the authors' opinions, has been pushed to the back burner of technology writing for far too long—the domain of z/OS® (traditional) mainframe maintenance and production support. Since the mid-1980's, outside of a few websites and publications, this still-critical area of software has barely even received lip service by the world of mainstream technology media. In a small way, we are attempting address this situation. In this book, we provide information in "what and how to" sections on the value of z/OS maintenance and support—not the value of the software, which is hardly in question, but the value of the software developers, and how they collaborate, analyze, code, and test the applications, fixes, and enhancements under their responsibility. We present new 21st Century tools to help them achieve their goals more easily and effectively. These tools integrate and provide a 1 + 1 + 1 = 5 value-proposition, for companies that are still doing work the way they did when in the mid-1970's, when Gerald Ford was president of the United States. We are also describing, to a lesser extent, how you can effectively integrate the new tools with your existing development software stack, in order to find points of complimentary functionality. And we describe the new agile development and maintenance methodologies, and best practices for tools use and adoption. We hope that you find this work useful, and perhaps that it can fuel more discussion, future Redbooks publications, and other publications by IBM, or any vendor or group interested in this critical and vastly under-acknowledged technology domain.
Download or read book IBM Cloud Provisioning and Management for z OS An Introduction written by Keith Winnard and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This IBM® RedpaperTM publication introduces you to IBM Cloud Provisioning and Management for z/OS®. The paper was written to coincide with the announcement of IBM Cloud Provisioning and Management for z/OS and the software is not yet generally available (GA) at the time of this writing. As such, any examples that are shown are subject to change at any time before the software is GA. The goal of this paper is to provide you with an initial overview and more information to support the announcement. You might be new to clouds, or heard of many different variations of what a cloud might be. Therefore, it is useful to begin with establishing an understanding of cloud computing concepts. The paper describes the provisioning and management of z/OS middleware and explains how these aspects can be offered as a cloud service.
Download or read book Architect s Guide to IBM CICS on System z written by Phil Wakelin and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IBM® CICS® Transaction Server (CICS TS) has been available in various guises for over 40 years, and continues to be one of the most widely used pieces of commercial software. This IBM Redbooks® publication helps application architects discover the value of CICS Transaction Server to their business. This book can help architects understand the value and capabilities of CICS Transaction Server and the CICS tools portfolio. The book also provides detailed guidance on the leading practices for designing and integrating CICS applications within an enterprise, and the patterns and techniques you can use to create CICS systems that provide the qualities of service that your business requires.
Download or read book Creating IBM z OS Cloud Services written by Jeffrey Bisti and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2016-02-08 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This IBM® Redbooks® publication discusses the real world experience of an enterprise that developed and implemented IBM z/OS® cloud services. This book shares the experience of a team at Walmart Technology, Walmart Stores, Inc.® and some of the decisions they made to create business critical cloud services. These experiences and approaches relate to the z/OS platform, and might not apply to other hybrid cloud approaches. This book highlights the strengths and characteristics of z/OS that led the Walmart infrastructure and software engineers to use this platform as they transitioned from a traditional IT deployment to a cloud model. Embarking on a cloud strategy can be overwhelming. No shortage of approaches to cloud computing exists. This book focuses on a pragmatic approach for enterprises that are struggling to take advantage of their business assets in the cloud. This book introduces the basic cloud concepts as defined by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Each chapter explains the importance of a particular NIST characteristic, the z/OS role in accomplishing the characteristic, and how it was implemented by the Walmart Technology team. This book is intended for IT professionals who are considering extending their IBM z SystemsTM environment to a hybrid cloud by unleashing the power of cloud services on z/OS. For information about creating cloud services that are hosted in IBM CICS®, see How Walmart Became a Cloud Services Provider with IBM CICS, SG24-8347.
Download or read book z OS Version 1 Release 11 Implementation written by Paul Rogers and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2010-04-07 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This IBM® Redbooks® publication positions the new z/OS® Version 1 Release 11 for migration by discussing many of the new functions that are available. The goal for the z/OS platform is to eliminate, automate, and simplify tasks without sacrificing z/OS strengths, and to deliver a z/OS management facility that is easy to learn and use. z/OS is a highly secure, scalable, high-performance enterprise operating system on which to build and deploy Internet- and JavaTM-enabled applications, providing a comprehensive and diverse application execution environment. This books describes the following new and changed functions: - IBM z/OS Management Facility - Allocation enhancements in z/OS V1R11 - BCPii function enhancements in z/OS V1R11 - JES2 and JES3 enhancements - zFS file sharing enhancements - Extended access volume enhancements - Choosing whether to run zAAP work on zIIP processors - System REXX enhancements in V1R11 - RRS global panel options - Service aids enhancements in V1R11 - GRS ENQ contention notification enhancements and analysis for GRS latches - Basic HyperSwap® support enhancement - Message Flood Automation enhancements - Program Management new Binder IEWPARMS - Predictive failure analysis (PFA) - SMF enhancements in V1R11 - System Logger enhancements - XCF/XES enhancements in V1R11 - AutoIPL support - Displaying PDSE caching statistics - ISPF enhancements - IBM Health Checker for z/OS enhancements
Download or read book IBM z OS Management Facility V2R3 written by Redelf Janssen and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2019-12-13 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This IBM® Redbooks® publication helps you install, configure, and use the IBM z/OS® Management Facility (z/OSMF). z/OSMF is a product for z/OS that simplifies, optimizes, and modernizes the z/OS system programmer experience. z/OSMF delivers solutions in a task-oriented, web browser-based user interface with integrated user assistance. The goal of z/OSMF is to improve system programmer productivity, and make functions easier to understand and use. This improvement makes system programmers more productive as quickly as possible with the least amount of training. You can automate tasks, reduce the learning curve, and improve productivity through a modern, simplified, and intuitive task-based, browser-based interface. z/OSMF is aimed at a mixed skills workforce: It is suited to professionals who are new to z/OS and those who are skilled in z/OS. Each professional has their own needs and faces their own challenges. Novice system programmer might need to understand the "big picture" and how procedures are done. Novices also need access to documentation about procedures and tasks, and implement them according to the rules of the enterprise. Experienced system programmers are familiar with tasks and procedures. Therefore, the goal is to make their work less error-prone and easier. This goal allows them to be more productive and contribute more to their business. Although z/OS delivered simplification since it was introduced, z/OSMF brings a new dimension and focus to simplification. z/OSMF simplifies and modernizes the user experience and helps make pertinent information readily available and easily accessible.
Download or read book IBM CICS Interdependency Analyzer written by Em James and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The IBM® CICS® Interdependency Analyzer (CICS IA®) is a runtime tool for use with IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS®. CICS IA allows both system programmers and application developers to get an understanding of the relationships and dependencies of your CICS applications and the environment on which they run. By analyzing data collected by CICS IA, you can make changes to your environment in a safe and controlled but timely manner to address changing demands on your business applications. In this IBM Redbooks® publication, we first provide a detailed overview of what CICS IA is and what business issues it addresses before we review how to configure CICS IA to collect the data that you require with the minimum provenance impact. We then show how you can analyze this data to assist with day-to-day application changes and major projects such as application onboarding.
Download or read book IBM Service Management Suite for z OS with Service Management Unite written by Lorin Ullmann and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IBM® Service Management Suite for z/OS provides operators a transparent view of the IBM z Systems® compute landscape, including central electronic complexes (CECs), LPARs, and Sysplexes with key performance indicators for improved problem isolation, analysis, and diagnosis. This IBM Redbooks® Solution Guide describes Service Management Suite for z/OS and its new user interface, IBM Service Management Unite, and includes high-level architectures (for each solution) with their key components. The guide also explains the integration of Service Management Unite with Service Management Suite for z/OS components and integration with other IBM products and third-party solutions to create a comprehensive solution. The business value and usage scenarios are also included.
Download or read book Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering written by Leszek A. Maciaszek and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, ENASE 2016, held in Rome, Italy, in April 2016. The 11 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. The mission of ENASE is to be a prime international forum to discuss and publish research findings and IT industry experiences with relation to the evaluation of novel approaches to software engineering. The conference acknowledges necessary changes in systems and software thinking due to contemporary shifts of computing paradigm to e-services, cloud computing, mobile connectivity, business processes, and societal participation.
Download or read book Modernize Your IBM DB2 for IBM z OS Maintenance with Utility Autonomics written by Dean Brown and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IBM® DB2® for IBM z/OS® helps lower the cost of managing data by automating administration, increasing storage efficiency, improving performance, and simplifying the deployment of virtual appliances. By automating tasks such as memory allocation, storage management, and business policy maintenance, DB2 is able to perform many management tasks itself, freeing up Database Administrators to focus on new projects. This IBM Redbooks® publication introduces autonomics for DB2 for z/OS. IBM provides several different components that, when combined, can create an autonomic database environment. All these respective components cover certain aspects of autonomics, which can collaborate into one coherent solution. In our evolution of autonomics and the need to move to smarter systems there has been a bigger drive to the concept of "Active" versus "Passive" autonomics. With the inclusion of the IBM Management Console for IMSTM and DB2 for z/OS and the Autonomics Director, it is now easier than ever to make that transition by leveraging the strength of the DB2 Utilities Solution Pack for z/OS all in one standardized and centralized interface. This publication guides you through the business reasons for adopting autonomic solutions, and provides step-by-step guidance to implement these capabilities in your DB2 for z/OS configuration. This publication is of interest primarily to DB2 Database Administrators and DB2 Systems Programmers, and for anyone looking to understand the benefits of DB2 autonomic solutions.
Download or read book z OS Version 1 Release 13 Implementation written by Paul Rogers and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides information about installation and migration changes to be aware of if you are responsible for migrating systems from IBM z/OS® V1R10, z/OS V1R11, and z/OS V1R12 to z/OS V1R13. It also highlights actions that are needed to prepare for the installation of z/OS V1R12, including ensuring driving system and target system requirements are met and coexistence requirements are satisfied. There is a special focus on identifying new migration actions that must be performed for selected elements when migrating to z/OS V1R13. The book addresses the following topics: - z/OS V1R13 overview, z/OS V1R13 installation, managing volume backups with fast replication, XCF enhancements, console service enhancements - DFSMSdfp, DFSMSoam, DFSMShsm, ISPF enhancements, DFSMSrmm enhancements, establishing IBM RACF® security for RRSF TCP/IP connections - GRS enhancements, BCP supervisor, contents supervisor and RSM updates, improved channel recovery, Service aids enhancements, System Logger - SMF - z/OS UNIX System Services, z/OS UNIX-related applications, RRS, z/OS Management Facility, z/OS HCD and HCM, C language - Storage management enhancements, Common Information Model, Predictive Failure Analysis, Extended Address Volume, BCPii, Capacity Provisioning - System SSL enhancements, UNICODE, IBM Language Environment®, SDSF enhancements, JES2 enhancements, JES3 enhancements, IBM RMFTM enhancements - IBM WebSphere® Application Server OEM, z/OSMF, CIM, and Capacity Provisioning setups - BCPii Metal C example
Download or read book New Ways of Running Batch Applications on z OS Volume 1 CICS Transaction Server written by Daniel Millwood and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mainframe computers play a central role in the daily operations of many of the world's largest corporations. Batch processing is still a fundamental, mission-critical component of the workloads that run on the mainframe. A large portion of the workload on IBM® z/OS® systems is processed in batch mode. This IBM Redbooks® publication is the first volume in a series of four in which we specifically address new technologies introduced by IBM to facilitate the use of hybrid batch applications that combine the best aspects of Java and procedural programming languages such as COBOL. This volume specifically focuses on the latest support in CICS to run batch tasks. The audience for this book includes IT architects and application developers, with a focus on batch processing on the z/OS platform in a CICS environment.
Download or read book Getting Started Journey to Modernization with IBM Z written by Makenzie Manna and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernization of enterprise IT applications and infrastructure is key to the survival of organizations. It is no longer a matter of choice. The cost of missing out on business opportunities in an intensely competitive market can be enormous. To aid in their success, organizations are facing increased encouragement to embrace change. They are pushed to think of new and innovative ways to counter, or offer, a response to threats that are posed by competitors who are equally as aggressive in adopting newer methods and technologies. The term modernization often varies in meaning based on perspective. This IBM® Redbooks® publication focuses on the technological advancements that unlock computing environments that are hosted on IBM Z® to enable secure processing at the core of hybrid. This publication is intended for IT executives, IT managers, IT architects, System Programmers, and Application Developer professionals.
Download or read book z OS Version 1 Release 12 Implementation written by Paul Rogers and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2011-04-27 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This IBM® Redbooks® publication describes changes in installation and migration when migrating from a current z/OS® V1R10 and z/OS V1R11 to z/OS V1R12. Also described are tasks to prepare for the installation of z/OS V1R12, including ensuring that driving system and target system requirements are met, and coexistence requirements are satisfied. New migration actions are introduced in z/OS V1R12. This book focuses on identifying some of the new migration actions that must be performed for selected elements when migrating to z/OS V1R12. This book describes the following enhancements: z/OS V1R12 installation, HiperDispatch, System Logger, Auto-reply to WTORs, Real Storage Manager (RSM) DFSMS, DFSORT, Services aids, z/OS Infoprint Server, TSO/E, RMFTM, Language Environment®, BCP allocation XML System Services, z/OS UNIX® System Services, BCP supervisor, Extended Address Volumes HyperSwap®. BCPii, (de)ciphering, Predictive Failure Analysis, C language, Hardware instrumentation services FICON® dynamic channel-path management, Workload Manager, SDSF, JES2, JES3, SMF, GRS, XCF, HCD Unicode, Capacity provisioning, RRS, Parallel subsystems initialization z/OS Management Facility (z/OSMF)
Download or read book IBM MFA V1R1 TouchToken PassTicket and Application Bypass Support written by Keith Winnard and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2016-12-23 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is IBM® Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)? IBM MFA consists of the following elements: Something that you know, such as a Personal Identification Number (PIN) or a password. Something that you are, such as a finger print or retinal scan. Something that you have, such as a hard token (for example, a key fob or soft token), which is software-based). This IBM RedpaperTM publication helps you install, customize, and configure IBM MFA for z/OS® V1.1.0. It also provides information that is based on our experience in a controlled environment.
Download or read book Flexible Decision Management with Business Rules on IBM z Systems written by Mark Hiscock and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The IBM® Operational Decision Manager product family provides value to organizations that want to improve the responsiveness and precision of automated decisions. This decision management platform on IBM z/OS® provides comprehensive automation and governance of operational decisions that are made within mainframe applications. These decisions can be shared with other cross-platform applications, providing true enterprise decision management. This IBM Redbooks® publication makes the case for using Operational Decision Manager for z/OS and provides an overview of its components. It is aimed at IT architects, enterprise architects, and development managers looking to build rule-based solutions. Step-by-step guidance is provided about getting started with business rules by using a scenario-based approach. This book provides detailed guidelines for testing and simulation and describes advanced options for decision authoring. Finally, it describes and documents multiple runtime configuration options. This third edition, SG24-8014-02, of this IBM Redbooks publication updated the information presented in this book to reflect function available in IBM Operational Decision Manager for z/OS Version 8.7.1.