Linux on the Mainframe

ISBN: 0131014153
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2005
Pages: 199

Authors: John Eilert, Maria Eisenhaendler, Dorothea Matthaeus, Ingolf Salm

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