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1101. 

Infoprint Server for z/OS Infoprint Transforms

Infoprint Server for z/OS Infoprint Transforms

By: Paul Rogers; Juha Vainikainen

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 25-AUG-2008

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One component of Infoprint Server is the Transform Interface. This component communicates with transforms that IBM transform products provide. Transforms convert data from one format to another, for example, from PDF to AFP format, or from AFP to PCL format. Administrators can set up the transforms to automatically transform documents before they are printed. Users can also use the z/OS UNIX command line to transform documents, which can then be saved in the converted format and later printed or sent to other users. This IBM Redbooks publication presents a comprehensive discussion of the...

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Problem Determination for Linux on System z

Problem Determination for Linux on System z

By: Lydia Parziale; Manoj S Pattabhiraman; Masayuki Unno; Eravimangalath P. Naveen; Klaus Egeler; Thiago Patricio de Jesus

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

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This IBM Redbooks publication addresses some of the common problems that customers have experienced on the Linux® on System z™ platform. This book provides a problem determination methodology and tools to help the reader diagnose the problem in an easy-to-read self-help manual. We start with a discussion on how to approach problem solving in the Linux on System z environment and continue on to describe some of the problem determination tools commonly used for z/VM and Linux on system z. We continue with discussions on network problem determination, performance problem determination, and...

1103. 

IBM System Storage DR550 V4.5 Setup and Implementation

IBM System Storage DR550 V4.5 Setup and Implementation

By: Bertrand Dufrasne; Frank Boerner; Deeporn Beardsley; Torsten Protze; Alexander Safonov; Rene Wuellenweber

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 07-JUL-2008

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This IBM Redbooks publication explores the characteristics of the various DR550 models with details about how the different elements are initially configured. It explains and illustrates the additional configuration tasks required to deploy the 2233-DR1 and 2233-DR2 products in an existing network and storage environment. This book also presents key features of IBM System Storage Archive Manager, which is the core of the DR550 and covers the DR550 File System Gateway option, which is designed to provide NFS and CIFS file system access to applications. It explains how the DR550 series...

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Implementing an IBM/Brocade SAN with 8 Gbps Directors and Switches

Implementing an IBM/Brocade SAN with 8 Gbps Directors and Switches

By: Jon Tate; Jure Arzensek; Kamalakkannan Jayaraman; Sangam Racherla

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 04-SEP-2008

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"Do everything that is necessary and absolutely nothing that is not." This IBM® Redbooks® publication, written at a Fabric Manager v5.5 and Fabric Operating System v6.x level, consolidates critical information while also covering procedures and tasks that you are likely to encounter on a daily basis when implementing an IBM/Brocade SAN. The products that we describe in this book have more functionality that we can possible cover in a single book. A storage area network (SAN) is a powerful infrastructure for consolidation, distance solutions, and data sharing. The quality...

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Deployment Guide Series: IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager V7.1

Deployment Guide Series: IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager V7.1

By: Vasfi Gucer; Vincent Abbosh; Sara C Brumfield; Martin Marino; David Ross; Ghufran Shah; Roger Turner

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 27-AUG-2008

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In this IBM® Redbooks® publication, we describe the capabilities and ways to use the IBM Tivoli® Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM). It is becoming critical for enterprises to track the IT resources in their environment and, more importantly, the dependencies of their business applications on various components. TADDM provides rich capabilities that discover the components of a complex infrastructure and their interdependencies. In this book, we provide insight into the TADDM V7.1 capabilities and architecture. We include recommended procedures for installing and configuring...

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Deployment Guide Series: TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data

Deployment Guide Series: TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data

By: Mary Lovelace; Greg Bahler; Slawomir Gawlowski

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

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IBM TotalStorage® Productivity Center for Data (Data Manager) is a comprehensive file and capacity management solution for heterogeneous storage environments. It includes enterprise-wide reporting and monitoring, policy-based management and automated capacity provisioning for Direct Attached Storage (DAS), Network Attached Storage (NAS), and SAN environments. Data Manager, Data Manager for Databases, and Data Manager for Chargeback let you improve storage utilization, plan for future capacity, and ensure availability by providing storage on demand for filesystems. This IBM Redbooks®...

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ABCs of z/OS System Programming Volume 6

ABCs of z/OS System Programming Volume 6

By: Paul Rogers; Rui Feio; Oerjan Lundgren; Rita Pleus; Karan Singh

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

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The ABCs of z/OS® System Programming is an 11-volume collection that provides an introduction to the z/OS operating system and the hardware architecture. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced system programmer, the ABCs collection provides the information that you need to start your research into z/OS and related subjects. If you want to become more familiar with z/OS in your current environment or if you are evaluating platforms to consolidate your e-business applications, the ABCs collection can serve as a powerful technical tool. The contents of the volumes are: -- Volume 1:...

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Introducing IBM FileNet Business Process Manager

Introducing IBM FileNet Business Process Manager

By: Wei-Dong Zhu; Eric Adel; William Benjamin; Imtiaz A Khan; Mike Marin; Mark Yingling

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 29-AUG-2008

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This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides a basic introduction to IBM FileNet® Business Process Manager (BPM) V4.0. BPM enables organizations to create, modify, and manage content centric business processes. One key advantage of BPM is its ability to work with active content, which refers to the ability of content to trigger or affect business processes. In this book, we cover the key elements that make up a business process, including tasks, participants, roles, steps, routing, and deadlines. We describe how to use Process Designer (a BPM application) to design your business processes. In...

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Integration Guide for IBM Tivoli Service Request Manager V7.1

Integration Guide for IBM Tivoli Service Request Manager V7.1

By: Vasfi Gucer; Welson Tadeau Barbosa; Maamar Ferkoun; Kannan Kidambhi; Marc Lambert; Reynaldo Mincov; Richard Noppert; Uday Pradeep

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 05-SEP-2008

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IBM Tivoli Service Request Manager V7.1 provides a unified and integrated approach for handling all aspects of service requests to enable a one-touch IT service experience, backed up by an optimized delivery and support process. It is a powerful solution that closely aligns business and IT operations, which improves IT service support and delivery performance. This IBM Redbooks publication is an integration guide for IBM Tivoli Service Request Manager V7.1. We describe all major integration scenarios: - Event Management - IBM Lotus Sametime Connect - Change and Configuration Management...

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Getting Started with IBM WebSphere Process Server and IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus Part 3: Run time

Getting Started with IBM WebSphere Process Server and IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus Part 3: Run time

By: Carla Sadtler; Srinivasa Rao Borusu; Sergiy Fastovets; Thalia Hooker; Ernese Norelus; Fabio Paone; Dong Yu

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 17-JUL-2008

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This IBM Redbooks publication provides new users with information about how to install and configure IBM WebSphere® Process Server and IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus runtime environment. It includes installation examples on distributed, i5/OS®, and z/OS® platforms. It also provides basic configuration information for deploying applications. Some knowledge of IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment is assumed for the readers of this book. This book is the third book of a three-part series: Getting Started with IBM WebSphere Process Server and IBM WebSphere Enterprise...

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Deployment Guide Series: IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business V6.0

Deployment Guide Series: IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business V6.0

By: Axel Buecker; Anji Greene

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 01-JUL-2008

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Deploying an access control solution for a medium-size business begins with a thorough analysis of the existing business and IT environment. After we fully understand the organization, its deployed infrastructure, and the application framework, we can define an applicable representation of these assets within an access control implementation. This IBM Redbooks publication takes a step-by-step approach to implementing an access control solution based on IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business. Part 1 takes you through an example company profile with existing business policies and guidelines...

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Deployment Guide Series: Maximo Asset Management V7.1

Deployment Guide Series: Maximo Asset Management V7.1

By: Melissa Christensen; Abesolom "Abby" Fidel; Nihar Jain; Rutger Mons; Venkatesan Ramamoorthy; Vikas Sharma; Bart Jacob

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 12-AUG-2008

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This IBM Redbooks publication is for IBM Business Partners, field personnel, and clients who want to plan a deployment of IBM Maximo Asset Management V7.1. We provide information to assist in the deployment and initial configuration of the environment, but we do not cover general product usage. This book assumes the reader has access to product documentation and some knowledge of previous versions of Maximo Asset Management or other Maximo products that utilize the same underlying framework. Our intention is not to replace or reproduce the product documentation, but rather to provide...

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Certification Guide Series: IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler V8.4

Certification Guide Series: IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler V8.4

By: Vasfi Gucer; Matthew Boult; Giuseppe Grammatico; Finn Bastrup Knudsen; Martin Lisy

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 25-AUG-2008

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This IBM Redbooks publication is a study guide for IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler Version 8.4 and is aimed at readers who want to obtain IBM Professional Certification for this product. The IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler Version 8.4 Certification, offered through the Professional Certification Program from IBM, is designed to validate the required skills for technical professionals who implement the IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler Version 8.4 product. This book provides a combination of theory and practical experience required for a general understanding of the product. It also provides...

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Building High Availability with SteelEye LifeKeeper for SAP NetWeaver on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

Building High Availability with SteelEye LifeKeeper for SAP NetWeaver on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

By: Saida Davies; Martin Cardoso; Janet L Koblenzer; Cleiton Soares Freire; Martin Welk; Thomas Zetzsche a

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 18-JUL-2008

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Business processes based on the SAP® NetWeaver® platform often require a high level of availability and fault tolerance. Availability can be defined as the amount of time that application services are accessible to the end user, and is measured by the percentage of time that the application is available to the user. The application is highly available when it gets closer to the difficult-to-achieve 99.999% threshold of availability, also known as the five 9s of availability. The Novell® SUSE® Linux® Enterprise Server base operating system, SteelEye® LifeKeeper® for Linux cluster software,...

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Search Engine Marketing, Inc.: Driving Search Traffic to Your Company’s Web Site, Second Edition

Search Engine Marketing, Inc.: Driving Search Traffic to Your Company’s Web Site, Second Edition

By: Mike Moran; Bill Hunt

Publisher: IBM Press

Publication Date: 19-SEP-2008

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The #1 Step-by-Step Guide to Search Marketing Success...Now Completely Updated with New Techniques, Tools, Best Practices, and Value-Packed Bonus DVD! “My copy of the first edition of Search Engine Marketing, Inc. is ratty and dog-eared from extensive use. It’s full of coffee stains and my own scribbled notes. Because it so effectively demystifies search engine marketing and provides such practical advice for success, I turn to it again and again and recommend it to audiences worldwide. This book is not academic blather or geeky techno-speak; it’s an approachable and digestible...

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Application Architecture for WebSphere®: A Practical Approach to Building WebSphere Applications

Application Architecture for WebSphere®: A Practical Approach to Building WebSphere Applications

By: Joey Bernal

Publisher: IBM Press

Publication Date: 15-SEP-2008

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Architect IBM® WebSphere® Applications for Maximum Performance, Security, Flexibility, Usability, and Value Successful, high-value WebSphere applications begin with effective architecture. Now, one of IBM’s leading WebSphere and WebSphere Portal architects offers a hands-on, best-practice guide to every facet of defining, planning, and implementing WebSphere application architectures. Joey Bernal shows working architects and teams how to define layered architectural standards that can be used across the entire organization, improving application quality without compromising...

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Programming the Cell Broadband Engine™ Architecture: Examples and Best Practices

Programming the Cell Broadband Engine™ Architecture: Examples and Best Practices

By: Chris Almond; Abraham Arevalo; Ricardo M. Matinata; Maharaja (Raj) Pandian; Eitan Peri; Kurtis Ruby; Francois Thomas

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

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In this IBM® Redbooks® publication, we provide an introduction to the Cell Broadband Engine™ (Cell/B.E.™ ) platform. We show detailed samples from real-world application development projects and provide tips and best practices for programming Cell/B.E. applications. We also describe the content and packaging of the IBM Software Development Kit (SDK) version 3.0 for Multicore Acceleration. This SDK provides all the tools and resources that are necessary to build applications that run IBM BladeCenter® QS21 and QS20 blade servers. We show in-depth and real-world usage of the tools and...

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Considerations for Multisite Sysplex Data Sharing

Considerations for Multisite Sysplex Data Sharing

By: Paola Bari; Mario Bezzi; Gianmario Bescape; Pierre Cassier; Michael Ferguson; Frank Kyne; Poul Soe Pedersen; Bart Steegmans; Per Svensson; David Viguers

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

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This IBM Redbooks publication provides a broad understanding of the considerations to keep in mind when you implement IBM z/OS sysplex data sharing across geographically distributed sites. This is a relatively new technology with many complexities, so it can be challenging to understand and accurately predict how its implementation might affect the performance and capacity of your environment. To promote that understanding, we measured and documented a number of workloads over various distances. In this book, we discuss in detail how the performance changed in each case, and why we...

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Implementing an IBM System x iDataPlex Solution

Implementing an IBM System x iDataPlex Solution

By: David Watts; Srihari Angaluri; Martin Bachmaier; Sean Donnellan; Duncan Furniss; Kevin Xu

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

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IBM® iDataPlex™ is a new data center solution for Web 2.0, high performance computing (HPC) cluster, and corporate batch processing customers experiencing limitations of electrical power, cooling, physical space, or a combination of these. By providing a "big picture" approach to the design, iDataPlex uses innovative ways to integrate Intel-based processing at the node, rack, and data center levels to maximize power and cooling efficiencies while providing the compute density needed. An iDataPlex rack is built with industry-standard components to create flexible configurations of...

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IBM System z10 Enterprise Class Capacity on Demand

IBM System z10 Enterprise Class Capacity on Demand

By: Marian Gasparovic; Greg Chambers; Per Fremstad; Torsten Gutenberger; Damian Ortega Lumbreras; Rolf Mueller; Karl-Erik Stenfors; Yi Li Zhou

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

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The IBM System z10 Enterprise Class server provides a base for major server consolidation by further removing memory, processor, and channel constraints. Capacity on Demand offerings provide new flexibility to absorb temporary or permanent growth, maintenance or disaster recovery situations in an enterprise. The Capacity on Demand solutions offer permanent or temporary increases in processor capacity and additional memory. This IBM Redbooks publication discusses the following: Understanding the common design of the various offerings. Hardware and software areas relevant to technical...