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IBM announced z16 the next generation of mainframes. This post covers all the updates and the links to the different resources.| Linux and Mainframe
IBM announced z16 the next generation of mainframes. This post covers all the updates and the links to the different resources.| Linux and Mainframe
Today April 4th 2023 IBM announced two new members of the IBM z16 family: the z16 single frame (z16-A02) and the z16 rack mount. The planned availability date is May 17, 2023. This is about a year after the z16… Read the rest The post IBM z16 rack mount appeared first on Linux and Mainframe.| Linux and Mainframe
The CPU Measurement Facility (CPUMF) provides hardware data to operating systems running in a LPAR on IBM zSystems. Besides trouble shooting it can also be used for long term analysis. Preparation Before you can collect data, you need to allow … Read the rest The post CPU Measurement Facility (CPUMF) for Linux on zSystems appeared first on Linux and Mainframe.| Linux and Mainframe
Today April 5th 2022 IBM announced the new generation of mainframe called IBM z16. Planned availability date is May 31, 2022. The system is a significant step forward from z15 with AI and compliance components as well as a restructuring … Read the rest The post IBM z16 appeared first on Linux and Mainframe.| Linux and Mainframe
The Linux solution test team has created a good set of papers. This blog entry is the overview. For selected papers I’ll add and link more specialized posts. Latest papers will always been shown at the top. PCIe RoCE Express … Read the rest The post Solution test publications overview appeared first on Linux and Mainframe.| Linux and Mainframe
On November 9th 2021 Red Hat released RHEL 8.5 the fourth service pack for their leading Linux enterprise version. This is an intermediate release but it has a few interesting features, which may be the reason to upgrade to this … Read the rest The post Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.5 released appeared first on Linux and Mainframe.| Linux and Mainframe
On June 21st 2021 SUSE announced SLES 15 SP3 the third service pack for SLES 15. This time no kernel upgrade but still quite a lot of new features for System Z after one year of development: Support for … Read the rest The post SUSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES 15 SP3 released appeared first on Linux and Mainframe.| Linux and Mainframe
On May 18th 2021 Red Hat released RHEL 8.4 the fourth service pack for their leading enterprise version. This is a long term support version and therefore a good starting point for new projects as well as an upgrade target … Read the rest The post Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.4 released appeared first on Linux and Mainframe.| Linux and Mainframe
Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) has been introduced to improve the throughput per core. In system Z if only one thread is running, the performance is very close to this of a single thread environment. In your data center you have most … Read the rest The post SMT: What utilization in real? appeared first on Linux and Mainframe.| Linux and Mainframe
On October 29th, 2020 Red Hat announced RHEL 8.3 the third service pack for their leading enterprise version. As soon as your middleware and application are available for RHEL 8 please plan for migration from older releases. The kernel level … Read the rest The post Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.3 released appeared first on Linux and Mainframe.| Linux and Mainframe
