It might not be such a bad idea to keep doing this on a monthly basis.
- Presentation : 'SNA Basics for the new SNA System Programmer on z/OS'. This one's a very nice, no nonsense, introduction to SNA : "The expected audience is people new to SNA or those who are coming back to SNA after an absence and need a refresher on some of the basic elements".
- White Paper : '3745 Migration Paths: IBM Communication Controller for Linux on System z9 and zSeries (CCL) or Enterprise Extender (EE)?'. Though IBM has no plans to end support for the 3745 before 2010, it might not be such a bad idea to have a look at its successors and the differences between the two solutions.
- Presentation : 'Overview of Communication Controller for Linux (CCL)'. This one rounds up the first three documents about SNA, 3745 and how to replace them.
- Presentation : 'DB2 for z/OS – What’s tape got to do with it?'. I find this an intriguing title and so is the contents of this document : "Should I be sending my DB2 archive logs and/or image copies to tape? Do you have or have heard of tape virtualization, maybe VTS, or own a new spiffy IBM TS7700? How large are tapes these days and how can I control my allocations? What happens if I lose a tape or the tape controller? Have you heard that tape is really disk, but tape also? What does this all mean? By the way, how does DB2 deal with the new tape technology and what are best practices when dealing with this new tape technology?"
- White paper : 'Capacity Planning for zIIP-Assisted IPSec'. The z9 EC GA3 and z9 BC GA2 announcement previewed moving IPSec processing from general-purpose processors to the zIIP. This document elaborates on this preview with a functional description, software requirements, capacity planning and some performance results from the IBM research labs.
- FAQ : 'Which TS7700 Virtualization Engine functions became available in which Code Releases and which LM code is co-reqed?'. Not much more than a list, but you never know it might come in handy !
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