EFS systems on a Linux base : getting started / [Bill Ogden].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ogden, Bill.

Contributor:

International Business Machines Corporation. International Technical Support Organization.

Series:

IBM redbooks.

IBM redbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

IBM System/390 (Computer).

Linux.

z/OS.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (120 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

[S.l.] : IBM, International Technical Support Organization, 2003.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This IBM Redbooks publication describes the basic installation of FLEX-ES (a product of Fundamental Software, Inc., Fremont, California) with several z/OS operating system packages. Much of the material is in cookbook format. More advanced techniques and options are described in "S/390 PartnerWorld for Developers, ITSO/EFS Project EFS Systems on a Linux Base: Additional Topics", SG24-7008. These books are intended primarily for members of the IBM PartnerWorld for Development organization and for internal IBM users of the ITSO/EFS package. This second edition includes the latest updates to the first edition of this book. It also contains more information about using Red Hat 9.0 with FLEX-ES Release 6.2.14.

Contents:

Front cover

Contents

Notices

Trademarks

Preface

The team that wrote this redbook

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Comments welcome

Chapter 1. Introduction

1.1 Purpose of this redbook

1.2 Terminology

1.3 Connectivity overview

1.4 Basic EFS requirements

1.4.1 System selection

1.5 EFS limitations

1.6 Detailed FLEX-ES overview

Chapter 2. Practical planning

2.1 General planning

2.1.1 Production or sandbox

2.1.2 Selecting a Linux distribution

2.1.3 Newer hardware and Linux

2.1.4 Disk space needed

2.1.5 Linux file system layout

2.1.6 Disk modes for FLEX-ES

2.1.7 Network connections

2.2 ThinkPad topics

2.2.1 T40 ThinkPads

2.2.2 BIOS settings

2.2.3 Device planning (Ultrabay usage)

2.2.4 Choices for disk layouts

2.2.5 Dual boot, alternate boot

2.3 Larger server topics

2.3.1 SMP, large memory, new LAN adapters

2.3.2 BIOS and ServeRAID adapter updates

2.3.3 RAID configuration

2.4 Dual boot preparation

Chapter 3. Linux installation

3.1 Basic Red Hat Linux 9.0 installation

3.2 Installation notes

3.3 Kernel rebuild

3.4 Additional kernel steps

3.4.1 ServeRAID updates

3.4.2 LVM updates

3.5 Additional Linux steps

3.5.1 Red Hat Linux updates

Chapter 4. FLEX-ES installation

4.1 FLEX-ES installation steps

4.1.1 Default PATH

4.1.2 Ownership of /s390 mount point

4.1.3 Location of x3270 program

4.2 Installing the FLEX-ES license key and dongle

4.3 Reboot

4.4 Installing FLEX-ES upgrades

Chapter 5. S/390 operating system installation

5.1 AD CD-ROM distributions

5.1.1 z/OS AD CD-ROM addresses and IPL data

5.1.2 Installation tasks

5.2 Dump/restore distribution

5.3 The tar file distributions

5.4 OMA/2 distributions

5.5 File ownership (any distribution)

Chapter 6. Operational details.

6.1 Linux desktop windows

6.2 FLEX-ES system and resource definitions

6.2.1 Building a shell script

6.2.2 IPL z/OS

6.2.3 User terminal connection

6.2.4 IODF requirements

6.2.5 System performance monitors

6.2.6 TCP/IP for z/OS

6.3 Shutting down

6.4 More comments

Chapter 7. Basic discussions

7.1 Resource definitions

7.2 Linux windows and FLEX-ES operation

7.3 64-bit operation

7.4 Creating additional emulated volumes

7.5 Operating systems messages console

7.6 x3270 client

7.7 S/390 identification

7.8 z/OS TCP/IP profile

7.9 Initial debugging

7.10 VTAM APAR

7.11 Security

7.12 RAS discussion

7.13 Useful Linux commands

Chapter 8. FAQs

Appendix A. Sample FLEX-ES operation files

Definitions for the Dallas DEMOpkg

Minimal AD system definitions

Full AD system definitions

Customized Offerings Driver definitions

z/VM OMA/2 definitions

Definition statements

Related publications

IBM Redbooks

Other publications

Online resources

How to get IBM Redbooks

Help from IBM

Index

Back cover.

Notes:

"November 2003."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

137342287