Recent IBM Redbooks publications

IBM® Tivoli® Storage Productivity Center V4.2 is a feature-rich storage management software suite. The integrated suite provides detailed monitoring, reporting, and management within a single console. This IBM Redbooks® publication is intended for...

Continuing its commitment to developing and delivering industry-leading storage technologies, IBM® is introducing the IBM Real-time Compression Appliances for NAS, an innovative new storage offering that delivers essential storage efficiency...

As with many companies, you likely have an IT environment that includes multiple, diverse technology platforms, applications, and assets. Furthermore, you are probably under constant pressure to rationalize and reduce this environment to a smaller...

This IBM® Redpaper™ publication describes in detail the Monitored Computer Storage Space reports available in Tivoli® Storage Productivity Center V4.2. This paper also provides a comparison of the Monitored Computer Storage Space report enhancements...

Cloud computing provides companies with many capabilities to meet their business needs but can also mean that a hybrid architecture is created that includes on-premise systems and the cloud. Integration is needed to bridge the gap between the...

IBM WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud Integration enables companies to integrate applications, regardless of whether the applications are located on-premise or in public or private clouds. This IBM® Redpaper™ provides an overview of the core components and...

ZFSREORG is a tool for reorganizing and restructuring zFS compatibility mode aggregates. It is an alternative to directly using commands like pax and copytree. It provides more flexibility in many situations and offers options for how the...

IBM® Problem Determination Tools consists of a core group of IBM products designed to work in conjunction with compilers and run times to provide a start-to-finish development solution for the IT professional. This IBM Redbooks® publication can...

CICS® Transaction Server (CICS TS) is the IBM® general-purpose transaction processing software for z/OS®. It is a powerful application server that meets the transaction-processing needs of both large and small enterprises. It builds on z/OS and...

This IBM® Redbooks® publication illustrates implementation, testing, and helpful scenarios with IBM Power® Systems 780 and 795 using the comprehensive set of the Power virtualization features. We focus on the Power Systems functional improvements, in...

This IBM® Redpaper™ publication is a comprehensive guide covering the IBM Power 795 server supporting AIX®, IBM i, and Linux® operating systems. The goal of this paper is to introduce the major innovative Power 795 offering and its prominent...

This IBM® Redpaper™ publication describes the concepts and functions of the IBM System Storage® DS8000® I/O Priority Manager. The DS8000 I/O Priority Manager enables more effective storage consolidation and performance management combined with the...

The IBM® Reference Configuration for Microsoft Private Cloud provides businesses an affordable, interoperable, reliable, and industry-leading virtualization solution. Validated by the Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track program, the IBM Reference...

This IBM® Redbooks® publication discusses performance measurement and tuning for Linux for System z®. It is intended to help system administrators responsible for deploying Linux for System z understand the factors that influence system performance...

This IBM® Redbooks® publication introduces a technical overview of the new features, functions, and enhancements available in IBM i 7.1. It provides a summary and brief explanation of new capabilities and what has changed in the operating system....

This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides a detailed look at the features, benefits, and capabilities of the IBM System Storage® N series hardware offerings. The IBM System Storage N series systems can help you tackle the challenge of effective data...

IBM® Tivoli® Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On automates sign-on and access to enterprise applications, eliminating the need to remember and manage user names and passwords. Users log on to Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single...

In keeping with their leadership position providing continuous technology improvement and innovation, IBM® recently refreshed the eXFlash offering to expand its capabilities. Compared to the previous generation, the new features of the IBM eXFlash...

Like IBM® WebSphere® eXtreme scale, WebSphere DataPower® XC10 Version 2 provides business and technical benefits to new and existing WebSphere Commerce deployments. This IBM Redpapers™ publication provides an overview of these benefits and explains...

In this IBM® Redbooks® publication, we discuss CICS®, which stands for Customer Information Control System. It is a general-purpose transaction processing subsystem for the z/OS® operating system. CICS provides services for running an application...

Corporate workgroups, distributed enterprises, and small to medium-sized companies are increasingly seeking to network and consolidate storage to improve availability, share information, reduce costs, and protect and secure information. These...

DB2® 10 can reduce the total DB2 CPU demand from 5-20% when you take advantage of all the enhancements. Many CPU reductions are built in directly to DB2, requiring no application changes. Some enhancements are implemented through normal DB2...

High-end workloads drive ever-increasing and ever-changing constraints. In addition to requiring greater memory capacity, these workloads challenge you to do more with less and to find new ways to simplify deployment and ownership. Although higher...

This IBM® Redpaper™ publication discusses the 64-bit aggregate type released in Data ONTAP 8.0 7-Mode. This publication is intended for IT and storage decision makers seeking a thorough introduction to the advantages of the 64-bit aggregate type...

This IBM® Redpaper™ publication will help you implement and configure Network Attached Storage (NAS) in your IBM Tivoli® Storage Productivity Center environment. It will provide you step by step instructions for the IBM NAS device - N series, from...

The popularity of the Internet and the affordability of IT hardware and software have resulted in an explosion of applications, architectures, and platforms. Workloads have changed. Many applications, including mission-critical ones, are deployed on...

IBM® offers two elastic caching options: IBM WebSphere® eXtreme Scale and the IBM WebSphere DataPower® XC10 appliance. Although WebSphere eXtreme Scale provides the ultimate flexibility across a broad range of caching scenarios, the WebSphere...

This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides system administrators and developers with the knowledge to configure an IBM WebSphere® Application Server Version 8 runtime environment, to package and deploy applications, and to perform ongoing management of...

This IBM® Redpaper™ publication is a comprehensive guide covering the IBM Power 710 (8231-E1C) and Power 730 (8231-E2C) servers supporting IBM AIX®, IBM i, and Linux operating systems. The goal of this paper is to introduce the innovative Power 710...

To the casual observer, water appears to be the most abundant resource on Earth. However, less than 3 percent of the water is fresh water and, of that, less than 1 percent is available for human uses. The global water supply is fixed, but the world...

The IBM® Workload Deployer appliance provides a solid foundation for private cloud strategy, enabling the rapid adoption and deployment of both infrastructure and platform as a Service offering. The IBM Workload Deployer uses the concept of patterns...

Backups, restores, and disaster recovery can place a huge overhead on the Hyper-V virtual infrastructure. SnapManager for Hyper-V simplifies and automates the backup process by leveraging the underlying N series Snapshot and SnapRestore technologies...

Increasing challenges have put an even greater demand on enterprises around the world. These challenges include requirements on business compliance, governance with financial transparency, information privacy, and process control. However, businesses...

This IBM® Redpaper™ publication describes how the CICS® Explorer™ can be used to aid configuration and administration of the CICS Transaction Gateway for z/OS®. Starting from a basic system configuration, it takes you through the steps to create a...

DFSMShsm Fast Replication provides DFSMShsm management for the use of volume-level fast replication. Fast replication is made possible by exploiting the FlashCopy® capability of Storage servers. With this capability, a set of Storage Groups can be...

This IBM® Redbooks® publication describes how to build production topologies for IBM Business Process Manager Advanced V7.5. It is aimed at IT Architects and IT Specialists who want to understand and implement these topologies. Use this book to...

This IBM® Redpaper™ provides steps, considerations, limitations, and links to information regarding the creation of IBM i Client Partitions using the third generation of Virtual Partition Manager (VPM). Beginning with IBM i 7.1, the Virtual...

IBM® Information Management System (IMS™) provides leadership in performance, reliability, and security to help you implement the most strategic and critical enterprise applications. IMS also keeps pace with the IT industry. IMS, Enterprise Suite...

This IBM® Redbooks® publication introduces the IBM System Storage® DS3500, providing an overview of its design and specifications, and describing in detail how to set up, configure, and administer it. This edition covers updates and functions...

Our data centers must become immensely more efficient and flexible in order to meet the need for energy while keeping costs in check as the demand for and price of resources continue to rise. However, the realization of this efficiency requires a...

Recently, the IT industry has seen an explosion in applications, architectures, and platforms. With the generalized availability of the internet and the appearance of commodity hardware and software, several patterns have emerged that have gained...

This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides an update of the latest AIX Workload Partition (WPAR) capabilities. It provides a how-to guide and well-defined and documented deployment model for system administrators and architects using WPARs in AIX®...

In server environments, disk storage performance is becoming more critical than ever. The choice of hard drives is broad, requiring you to consider several factors, including connectivity interfaces, such as Serial Advanced Technology Attachment...

This IBM® Redbooks® publication presents an overview of implementing N series SnapMirror Async technology, with step-by-step configuration examples and recommendations to assist the reader in designing an optimal SnapMirror solution. There are...

This IBM® Redpaper™ publication illustrates how the IBM WebSphere DataPower Integration Appliance XI50 for zEnterprise provides a secure, fast, cost-effective, easy-to-manage, all-in-one enterprise application integration solution. On top of all the...

This IBM® Redbooks® publication explores various implementations of z/OS® Identity Propagation where the distributed identity of an end user is passed to z/OS and used to map to a RACF® user ID, and any related events in the audit trail from RACF...

This IBM® Redpaper™ publication is a comprehensive guide covering the IBM Power 720 and Power 740 servers supporting AIX®, IBM i, and Linux® operating systems. The goal of this paper is to introduce the major innovative Power 720 and 740 offerings...

CICS® Transaction Server is the IBM® general-purpose transaction processing software for z/OS®. It is a powerful application server that meets the transaction-processing needs of both large and small enterprises. It builds on z/OS and System z®...

This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides you with a path to demystify the complexity of adopting a service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach to integrating applications and services. With an iterative evolution of a fictitious company, which is...

IBM® DB2® 9 and 10 for z/OS® have added functions in the areas of security, regulatory compliance, and audit capability that provide solutions for the most compelling requirements. DB2 10 enhances the DB2 9 role-based security with additional...