Running Mainframe Z on Distributed Platforms

by Kenneth Barrett

OC Should you choose toimplement zPDT, RDz UT, or RD&T in your team's arsenal, you will findBarrett and NorrisOCOs insights, genius, and hard work illuminating as to how torationally and economically manage the environment.OCO OCoScott Fagen, ChiefArchitectOCoSystem z Business, CA TechnologiesOC A must-read for anyone interested in successfully deployingcost-efficient zPDT environments with agility in an enterprise that requiressimple or complex configurations. The case-study-based exposition of thecontent allows for its easy consumption and use. Excellent!OCO OCoMahendra Durai, SVP &Information Technology Officer, CAMainframe z on Distributed Platforms reveals alternative techniques not covered by IBM for creatively adapting and enhancing multi-user IBM zPDT environments so that they are more friendly, stable, and reusable than those envisaged by IBM. The enhancement processes and methodologies taught in this book yield multiple layers for system recovery, 24x7 availability, and superior ease of updating and upgrading operating systems and subsystems without having to rebuild environments from scratch.Most of the techniques and processes covered in this book are not new to either the mainframe or distributed platforms. What is new in this book are the authorsOCO innovative methods for taking distributed environments running mainframe virtual machine (VM) and multiple virtual storage (MVS) and making them look and feel like other MVS systems.The authorsOCO combined expertise involves every aspect of the implementation of IBM zPDT technology to create virtualized mainframe environments by which the mainframe operations on a z series server can be transitioned to distributed platforms. All of the enhancement methods consecutively laid out in this book have been architected and developed by the authors for the CA Technologies distributed platform. Barrett and Norris impart these techniques and processes to CIOs and CTOs across the mainframe and distributed fields, to zPDT and RDz UT implementers, and to IBMOCOs independent software vendors and customers."

276 pages, Paperback

Published October 9, 2014