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Linux® on the Mainframe
By John Eilert, Maria Eisenhaendler, Dorothea Matthaeus, Ingolf Salm
Publisher	: Prentice Hall PTR
Pub Date	: June 02, 2003
ISBN	: 0-13-101415-3
Pages	: 464

		Copyright
		About Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference
		Trademarks
		Foreword: Linux in the Emerging On Demand World
			The future of e-business: e-business on demand
			The importance of open standards to an on demand business
			On demand, Open Source and Linux
			Linux and the on demand business
		Preface
			Terminology used in this book
			Disclaimer
			Acknowledgements
		Part 1.  Linux on the Mainframe an Introduction
			Chapter 1.  Introducing Linux
				Section 1.1.  Benefits of the Linux operating system
				Section 1.2.  The role of the Open Source community
				Section 1.3.  The role of distributions
				Section 1.4.  Linux structure
				Section 1.5.  Summary
			Chapter 2.  Introducing the Mainframe
				Section 2.1.  The mainframe's birth
				Section 2.2.  General-purpose computer architecture
				Section 2.3.  Distinguishing features of the mainframe
				Section 2.4.  From real to virtual
				Section 2.5.  Summary
			Chapter 3.  Introducing Linux on the Mainframe
				Section 3.1.  Why Linux fits the mainframe
				Section 3.2.  What was done to fit Linux onto the mainframe
				Section 3.3.  How Linux fits the mainframe
				Section 3.4.  Six reasons to run Linux on the mainframe
				Section 3.5.  Summary
		Part 2.  Planning for Linux
			Chapter 4.  Overview of What You Can Do with Linux on the Mainframe
				Section 4.1.  Horizontal and vertical growth
				Section 4.2.  ISPCompany and its new business application
				Section 4.3.  StoreCompany and its business application
				Section 4.4.  Summary
			Chapter 5.  Sample Projects
				Section 5.1.  Building a team
				Section 5.2.  Choosing the right Linux project
				Section 5.3.  Summary
			Chapter 6.  Total Cost of Ownership: the Challenge
				Section 6.1.  Total cost-of-ownership factors
				Section 6.2.  The mainframe and the TCO equation
				Section 6.3.  Linux and the TCO equation
				Section 6.4.  ISPCompany: TCO considerations
				Section 6.5.  StoreCompany: TCO considerations
				Section 6.6.  Summary
		Part 3.  Is Linux on the Mainframe for Me?
			Chapter 7.  The Value of Virtualization
				Section 7.1.  What is z/VM?
				Section 7.2.  How Linux can run on z/VM
				Section 7.3.  What does z/VM provide?
				Section 7.4.  What is logical partitioning?
				Section 7.5.  Why run Linux on z/VM?
				Section 7.6.  Summary
			Chapter 8.  Security Considerations
				Section 8.1.  The role of security policy
				Section 8.2.  Risk assessment
				Section 8.3.  Before opening the doors: hardening
				Section 8.4.  Opening the doors
				Section 8.5.  Preventing attacks
				Section 8.6.  Keeping up to date on security issues
				Section 8.7.  Summary
			Chapter 9.  Setting Up Linux on the Mainframe
				Section 9.1.  Distribution considerations
				Section 9.2.  Running Linux on the mainframe
				Section 9.3.  Creating images
				Section 9.4.  Purpose of Linux images
				Section 9.5.  Setting up for secure and efficient I/O
				Section 9.6.  Summary
			Chapter 10.  Communicating in a Virtual Environment
				Section 10.1.  Communication methods under z/VM
				Section 10.2.  Scenario: networking in a virtual environment
				Section 10.3.  Virtual failover solutions
				Section 10.4.  Communicating with the outside world
				Section 10.5.  Summary
			Chapter 11.  Achieving Higher Availability
				Section 11.1.  What is high availability?
				Section 11.2.  The zSeries hardware availability
				Section 11.3.  Redundancy and single points of failure
				Section 11.4.  High availability for the ISPCompany example
				Section 11.5.  High availability for the StoreCompany OaK example
				Section 11.6.  A quick look at the future
				Section 11.7.  Summary
		Part 4.  Making the Most of Linux on the Mainframe
			Chapter 12.  Systems Management
				Section 12.1.  Controlling the cost of systems administration
				Section 12.2.  Systems management disciplines
				Section 12.3.  Policies
				Section 12.4.  Procedures
				Section 12.5.  Using tools
				Section 12.6.  Using a framework
				Section 12.7.  Summary
			Chapter 13.  Availability Management
				Section 13.1.  Availability policy
				Section 13.2.  Health monitoring
				Section 13.3.  Automation
				Section 13.4.  Change management
				Section 13.5.  Key factors to consider in availability
				Section 13.6.  Summary
			Chapter 14.  Data Management
				Section 14.1.  Keeping data on the mainframe
				Section 14.2.  Introduction to backup and restore
				Section 14.3.  Quota
				Section 14.4.  Data, policies, and tools
				Section 14.5.  Database management
				Section 14.6.  Performance tuning and capacity planning
				Section 14.7.  Summary
			Chapter 15.  Performance and Capacity Planning
				Section 15.1.  Day-to-day performance
				Section 15.2.  Relative capacity and capacity planning
				Section 15.3.  Summary
			Chapter 16.  System Administrator Tasks
				Section 16.1.  Expanding the system administrator's role in your organization
				Section 16.2.  Change management
				Section 16.3.  Tasks that are unique to Linux on the mainframe
				Section 16.4.  Tools policies
				Section 16.5.  Becoming familiar with the mainframe
				Section 16.6.  Summary
		Part 5.  Running Applications
			Chapter 17.  Deploying Linux Servers
				Section 17.1.  Where can you find applications for Linux on the mainframe?
				Section 17.2.  Simple server hardware consolidation
				Section 17.3.  Summary
			Chapter 18.  Porting Applications to Linux on the Mainframe
				Section 18.1.  What you can gain by porting an application to Linux on the mainframe
				Section 18.2.  Before you decide to port
				Section 18.3.  What effort to expect
				Section 18.4.  What you need
				Section 18.5.  Where to get more information
				Section 18.6.  Summary
			Chapter 19.  Building Integrated Server Environments
				Section 19.1.  Inter-image communications
				Section 19.2.  Example for an integrated environment
				Section 19.3.  Connectors to back-end systems
				Section 19.4.  Consolidating a 3-tier environment
				Section 19.5.  Enriching your mainframe environment with new applications
				Section 19.6.  Summary
		Part 6.  Reference
			Chapter 20.  Linux-on-the-Mainframe Reference
				Section 20.1.  Linux distributions for the mainframe
				Section 20.2.  Overview of Linux directory structure
				Section 20.3.  Exploiting mainframe processor architecture
				Section 20.4.  Linux-on-the-mainframe device drivers
			Chapter 21.  Mainframe Reference
				Section 21.1.  The mainframe architecture
				Section 21.2.  Mainframe registers
				Section 21.3.  The program status word
				Section 21.4.  Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL)
			Chapter 22.  Debugging and Dump Analysis
				Section 22.1.  What information you need
				Section 22.2.  Debugging under z/VM
				Section 22.3.  General Linux debugging facilities
				Section 22.4.  Linux kernel debugging tools
				Section 22.5.  Linux system dump tools
			Chapter 23.  Security Reference
				Section 23.1.  Security certification
				Section 23.2.  General security considerations
				Section 23.3.  z/VM tools
			Chapter 24.  Communications Reference
				Section 24.1.  zSeries virtual connections
				Section 24.2.  An example of server consolidation based on Linux
			Chapter 25.  Systems Management Tools
				Section 25.1.  Availability management tools
				Section 25.2.  Data management tools
				Section 25.3.  Security management tools
				Section 25.4.  Performance and capacity planning tools
				Section 25.5.  System administrator tools
				Section 25.6.  Tools Web sites
			Chapter 26.  Performance Reference
				Section 26.1.  Tuning Linux guests under VM
				Section 26.2.  When to use kernel patches
				Section 26.3.  Performance tools
			Chapter 27.  Examples for Applications
		Part 7.  Appendices
			Appendix A.  ISPCompany
				Section A.1.  Corporate profile of ISPCompany
				Section A.2.  Offerings
				Section A.3.  Description of environment
				Section A.4.  Example new client
			Appendix B.  StoreCompany
				Section B.1.  Corporate profile of StoreCompany
				Section B.2.  Description of environment
				Section B.3.  Programming model and middleware platform
				Section B.4.  Project 1: Firewall and proxy server
				Section B.5.  Project 2: Web application server
				Section B.6.  Project 3: OaK project
		Glossary
		Further Reading
		Bibliography
			Books
			IBM Redbooks
			IBM articles and papers
			Other IBM publications
			Other articles and papers