Request for Enhancement (RFE) community launched including Linux on System z and z/VM requirements

The Request for Enhancement (RFE) community has been used for IBM Software products for a while. Now also the Systems and Systems Software i...Read more »

Oracle Database 12c R1 and 11.2.0.4 fixpack available for Linux on System z

Oracle has released the new 12cR1 version of their database for Linux on System z. With the appropriate license you can download it from Ora...Read more »

Fedora 20 for IBM System z released

The new Fedora 20 for System z / s390x was released 1/8/2014. Thanks to the Fedora team keeping the distribution going! The download is av...Read more »

Installation of Linux on System z

Now and then I get the question on documentation for the base installation of Linux on System z. As this depends on the distribution, take a...Read more »

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 released

Nine months after the last release Red Hat has announced the availability of RHEL 6.5. The kernel level is now kernel-2.6.32-431.el6, for t...Read more »

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.10 released

Red Hat has announced the availability of RHEL 5.10. You can find more information on this here: Announcement Release Notes Technical Notes ...Read more »

New Whitepaper covering IBM Filenet P8 on zLinux

IBM Filenet P8 has been available for zLinux for quite some time. It's a really scalable document management, content lifecycle, and w...Read more »

z/VM 6.3

After a long waiting time IBM released the latest version of z/VM . Now there is way more information available than just the little bit I d...Read more »

Large Systems Performance Reference (LSPR) for zLinux

The Large Systems Performance Reference (LSPR) published by IBM has also a Linux workload included. There you can get a first impression o...Read more »

Fedora 19 for IBM System z released

The new Fedora 19 release for System z / s390x happened today. Congratulations to the team! The download is available from the Fedoraproje...Read more »

SLES 11 SP3 released

Today SUSE announced the release of Service Pack 3 for SLES 11 . It's been more than 16 months since the last release, so quite some wai...Read more »

zlib performance improvements

In my blog entry on RHEL 6.4 I've mentioned that there have been performance enhancements for zlib compression. However I never got aro...Read more »

Linux and z/VM Live Virtual Classes 2013

There are regular Live Virtual Classes (LVC) for z/VM and Linux on System z. Watch the site to register for upcoming classes. There are als...Read more »

New performance whitepaper on exploiting System z crypto hardware with WebSphere 8 for Linux on System z

System z offers hardware accelerations for all kinds of cryptographic operations. The new whitepaper " IBM WebSphere Application Server...Read more »

New article: Using Crypto Hardware with Java in Linux on System z

A new article on how to use the System z crypto hardware from Java inside Linux on System z has been published. The authors describe the av...Read more »

Java for Linux on System z - download and base documentation

There are several ways for getting the IBM JDK for Linux on System z It's included with a lot of products like Websphere application ser...Read more »

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 released

Red Hat has announced the availability of RHEL 6.4. The kernel level is now kernel-2.6.32-358.el6, for the main bug fixes see the kernel up...Read more »

Whitepapers for Live Guest Relocation and z/VM 6.2

(updated 9/2/2013) The Platform Test team for System z has published two new white papers that should help readers to get a smooth start wi...Read more »

z/VM 6.3 preview

Today IBM announced a preview of z/VM 6.3 . The two top improvements are: 1 TB memory  HiperDispatch At SHARE there have been two presentat...Read more »

Fedora 18 for IBM System z released

The Fedora release 18 for System z is here . And this time Dan Horák and the team did a great job as this happened only 8 days after the Int...Read more »