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Patterns of Information Management

Patterns of Information Management

By: Mandy Chessell; Harald C. Smith

Publisher: IBM Press

Publication Date: 16-MAY-2013

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Use Best Practice Patterns to Understand and Architect Manageable, Efficient Information Supply Chains That Help You Leverage All Your Data and Knowledge In the era of “Big Data,” information pervades every aspect of the organization. Therefore, architecting and managing it is a multi-disciplinary task. Now, two pioneering IBM® architects present proven architecture patterns that fully reflect this reality. Using their pattern language, you can accurately characterize the information issues associated with your own systems, and design solutions that succeed over both the short- and...

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Mobile Strategy: How Your Company Can Win by Embracing Mobile Technologies

Mobile Strategy: How Your Company Can Win by Embracing Mobile Technologies

By: Dirk Nicol

Publisher: IBM Press

Publication Date: 23-APR-2013

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Navigate the Mobile Landscape with Confidence and Create a Mobile Strategy That Wins in the Market Place Mobile Strategy gives IT leaders the ability to transform their business by offering all the guidance they need to navigate this complex landscape, leverage its opportunities, and protect their investments along the way. IBM’s Dirk Nicol clearly explains key trends and issues across the entire mobile project lifecycle. He offers insights critical to evaluating mobile technologies, supporting BYOD, and integrating mobile, cloud, social, and big data. Throughout, you’ll find proven...

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IBM Cognos Business Intelligence v10: The Complete Guide

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence v10: The Complete Guide

By: Sangeeta Gautam

Publisher: IBM Press

Publication Date: 20-NOV-2012

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Maximize the Value of Business Intelligence with IBM Cognos v10 -- Hands-on, from Start to Finish This easy-to-use, hands-on guide brings together all the information and insight you need to drive maximum business value from IBM Cognos v10. Long-time IBM Cognos expert and product designer Sangeeta Gautam thoroughly illuminates Cognos BI v10’s key capabilities: analysis, query, reporting, and dashboards. Gautam shows how to take full advantage of each key IBM Cognos feature, including brand-new innovations such as Active Reports and the new IBM Cognos Workspace report consumption...

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Opting In: Lessons in Social Business from a Fortune 500 Product Manager

Opting In: Lessons in Social Business from a Fortune 500 Product Manager

By: Ed Brill

Publisher: IBM Press

Publication Date: 15-JAN-2013

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Winning social business techniques for product managers, marketers, and business leaders! • How product managers at IBM are using social business to transform markets and build vibrant global communities • New best practices for promoting engagement, transparency, and agility • A deeply personal case study: handbook, roadmap, autobiography, and inspiration Does “social business” work? IBM has proven unequivocally: it does. In Opting In, IBM executive Ed Brill candidly shares best practices, challenges, and results from his social business journey, and shows how his team used it to...

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Implementing Systems Management of IBM PureFlex System

Implementing Systems Management of IBM PureFlex System

By: Ilya Krutov; Frederik Aouizerats; Brandon Harrell; MinChul Kim; Stanimir Markov

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 12-NOV-2012

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To meet today's complex and ever-changing business demands, you need a solid foundation of compute, storage, networking, and software resources. This system must be simple to deploy, and be able to quickly and automatically adapt to changing conditions. You also need to be able to take advantage of broad expertise and proven guidelines in systems management, applications, industry solutions, and more. IBM® PureFlex™ System combines no-compromise system designs along with built-in expertise, and integrates them into complete, optimized scalable solutions. With IBM Flex System™ Manager,...

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Linux on IBM eServer zSeries and S/390: Large Scale Linux Deployment

Linux on IBM eServer zSeries and S/390: Large Scale Linux Deployment

By: Gregory Geiselhart; Malcolm Beattie; Vic Cross; Michael Donovan; Aaron Kirby; Lutz Kuehner; Julie Murphy; Michael Weisbach

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 17-OCT-2002

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This IBM Redbooks publication discusses techniques available for building a large farm of Linux servers running under zVM (a "penguin colony"). It has been developed for system administrators and I/T architects who are responsible for developing optimized solutions for large Linux systems installed on IBM eServer zSeries and S/390 machines. The book is divided into three parts. We first discuss basic VM concepts and commands, and examine tools available on z/VM that can help you create and monitor a server farm. We then cover networking features and options, and discuss network high...

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FICON Native Implementation and Reference Guide

FICON Native Implementation and Reference Guide

By: Bill White; JongHak Kim; Manfred Lindenau; Ken Trowell

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 30-OCT-2002

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This IBM Redbooks publication covers the planning and implementation of FICON channels, operating in FICON native (FC) mode for the IBM zSeries and 9672 Generation 5 (G5) and Generation 6 (G6) processors. It discusses the FICON and Fibre Channel architectures, terminology, and supported topologies. This book provides information about FICON native system setup, availability and recovery considerations, and migration recommendations. You will find examples of the z/OS and OS/390 definitions required to support FICON native control units, FICON Channel-to-Channel (FCTC), and FICON Directors...

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WebSphere MQ in a z/OS Parallel Sysplex Environment

WebSphere MQ in a z/OS Parallel Sysplex Environment

By: Eugene Deborin

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 24-OCT-2002

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This IBM Redbooks publication looks at the latest enhancements to WebSphere MQ for z/OS and shows how you can make use of the z/OS Parallel Sysplex to improve throughput and availability of your message-driven applications. It helps you configure and customize your system to use shared queues in a high-availability environment and to migrate from earlier releases. In the first part of the book, we provide an overview of z/OS Parallel Sysplex Technologies that you can integrate into your WebSphere MQ solution. We describe: - z/OS Resource Recovery Services (RRS) - Automatic Restart Manager...

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Patterns: Connecting Self-Service Applications to the Enterprise

Patterns: Connecting Self-Service Applications to the Enterprise

By: Mark Endrei; Jonathan Bolnick; Gary Flood; Charnjit Gill; Keisuke Nishikado; Larry Norcini; Rekha Ramaswamy; Ke Bin You

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 16-SEP-2002

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The Patterns for e-business are a group of proven, reusable assets that can be used to increase the speed of developing and deploying Web applications. The pattern discussed in this IBM Redbooks publication, Self-Service::Directly Integrated Single Channel application pattern, covers Web applications needing one or more point-to-point connections with back end applications. Part 1 of the book guides you through the process of selecting an Application and Runtime pattern. Next, the platform-specific product mappings are identified based upon the selected Runtime pattern. Part 2 of the book...

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IBM eServer zSeries 900 Technical Guide

IBM eServer zSeries 900 Technical Guide

By: Franck Injey

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 06-SEP-2002

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This edition of the IBM eServer zSeries 900 Technical Guide contains additional and updated information on the following topics: New 16 Turbo models Customer Initiated Upgrade (CIU) support Concurrent memory upgrades Concurrent undo Capacity BackUp (CBU) OSA-E High Speed Token Ring support OSA-Express enhancements Enhanced IBM PCI Cryptographic Accelerator (PCICA) for security Customer-defined UDXs FICON Express channel cards, CTC support, Cascading Directors support, 2Gbit/sec links Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) support for SCSI devices HiperSockets support Intelligent Resource Director (IRD)...

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Building a Linux HPC Cluster with xCAT

Building a Linux HPC Cluster with xCAT

By: Luis Ferreira; Christopher Turcksin; Brad Elkin; Scott Denham; Benjamin Khoo; Matt Bohnsack; Egan Ford

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 25-SEP-2002

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This IBM Redbooks publication will guide system architects and systems engineers toward a basic understanding of cluster technology, terminology, and the installation of a Linux High-Performance Computing (HPC) cluster (a Beowulf type of cluster) into an IBM eServer Cluster 1300/Cluster 1350. This book focus on xCAT Version 1.1.0 (Extreme Cluster Administration Toolkit) for installation and administration. All nodes and components of the cluster, such as compute nodes and management nodes, are installed with xCAT. This toolkit is a collection of scripts, tables, and commands used to build...

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IMS Version 8 Implementation Guide A Technical Overview of the New Features

IMS Version 8 Implementation Guide A Technical Overview of the New Features

By: Jouko Jantti; Henry Kiesslich; Roddy Munro; John Schlatweiler; Bill Stillwell

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 23-OCT-2002

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In this IBM Redbooks publication, we describe the new features and functions in IMS Version 8. We document the tasks necessary to exploit the features, and identify migration, coexistence, and fallback considerations. We also identify specific hardware and software requirements that are needed to exploit certain enhancements. First we provide an overview, where we have grouped the various enhancements and their discussion into the categories availability and recoverability, performance and capacity, systems management, and application enablement. Then we have more detailed chapters...

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Lotus LearningSpace R5.01 Deployment Guide

Lotus LearningSpace R5.01 Deployment Guide

By: Mike Ebbers

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 26-SEP-2002

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This IBM Redbooks publication describes Lotus LearningSpace R5 in detail. LearningSpace is a framework for managing and delivering online courses. It provides a Web interface and a back-end database for organizing, delivering, and tracking such courses. LearningSpace 5 provides tighter integration of its product components than previous versions. In addition, it offers many new features and tools to both the instructor and student. These include record and playback, improved audio/video, and breakout sessions, as well as enhanced administrative features. The popular topic of reporting is...

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SAP on DB2 UDB for OS/390 and z/OS: High Availability Solution Using System Automation

SAP on DB2 UDB for OS/390 and z/OS: High Availability Solution Using System Automation

By: Viviane Anavi-Chaput; Andre Borkenfeld; Florence Dubois; Don Geissler; Lars Morten Haga; Matthias Hein; Wolfgang Reichert; Udo Wandrer; Mike Zazulak

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 13-SEP-2002

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This IBM Redbooks publication explains the SAP high availability with System Automation solution. This solution provides the means for fully automating the management of all SAP components and related products running on OS/390, z/OS, AIX, Windows, or Linux. The automation software monitors all resources and controls the restart and/or takeover of failing components, thereby ensuring near continuous availability of the SAP system. The book describes the following: Requirements and objectives of high availability and automation for SAP Architecture of the SAP high availability...

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iSeries Access for Web V5R2 and WebSphere Host Publisher V4.0

iSeries Access for Web V5R2 and WebSphere Host Publisher V4.0

By: Sungsim Park; Andy Hagger; Benjamin Jansky; Paul Masschelein; Kevin O'Connor

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 11-SEP-2002

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iSeries Access for Web (5722-XH2) - the latest offering in the iSeries Access Family (5722-XW1) product - offers Web browser-based access to IBM eServer iSeries servers. iSeries Access for Web helps leverage business information, applications, and resources across an enterprise by extending the iSeries resources to the client desktop through a Web browser. IBM WebSphere Host Publisher 4.0 (5724-B81) can modernize host applications or replace traditional character-based interfaces with a Web look and feel. These host applications can run directly from any standard Web browser. Host Publisher...

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WebSphere Commerce V5.4 Handbook: Architecture and Integration Guide

WebSphere Commerce V5.4 Handbook: Architecture and Integration Guide

By: John Ganci

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 30-SEP-2002

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This IBM Redbooks publication provides IT architects, specialists and developers with the knowledge to design, implement, and manage a WebSphere Commerce V5.4 runtime environment and store. The topics covered include: - Introduction to WebSphere Commerce runtime architecture, store, and programming model. - WebSphere Commerce runtime architecture design and implementation guidelines for security, scalability, performance and testing. - Advanced multi-tier implementation scenarios for Windows, Solaris, AIX using DB2, IBM HTTP Server, iPlanet Web Server, and Oracle8i. - Back-end integration...

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Enterprise Business Portals with IBM Tivoli Access Manager

Enterprise Business Portals with IBM Tivoli Access Manager

By: Axel Buecker; Chris Eric Friell; Armando Lemos; Rick McCarty; Jani Perttila; Dieter Riexinger; Andreas Schmengler

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 12-SEP-2002

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Mastering the IBM Tivoli Access Manager is the most important factor for successfully deploying contemporary e-business solutions. Access Manager is the key element in an e-business security framework that needs thorough understanding to achieve maximum security, functionality, and performance. Based on expandable security policies for users, groups, and protected resources, the Tivoli Access Manager manages the authentication and authorization to application servers, Web sites, and virtually any other resource that requires protection, including custom-written applications. This IBM...

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DB2 UDB's High-Function Business Intelligence in e-business

DB2 UDB's High-Function Business Intelligence in e-business

By: Nagraj Alur; Peter Haas; Daniela Momiroska; Paul Read; Nicholas Summers; Virginia Totanes; Calisto Zuzarte

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 17-SEP-2002

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This IBM Redbooks publication deals with exploiting DB2 UDB’s materialized views (also known as ASTs/MQTs), statistics, analytic, and OLAP functions in e-business applications to achieve superior performance and scalability. This book is aimed at a target audience of DB2 UDB application developers, database administrators (DBAs), and independent software vendors (ISVs). We provide an overview of DB2 UDB’s materialized views implementation, as well as guidelines for creating and tuning them for optimal performance. We introduce key statistics, analytic, and OLAP functions, and describe...

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Writing Optimized Java Applications for z/OS

Writing Optimized Java Applications for z/OS

By: Tamas Vilaghy; Vasukh Doddaballapur; Sebastien Llaurency; Hong Min; Dinkar Tiwari

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 15-OCT-2002

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This IBM Redbooks publication is designed to help you write optimized Java applications for z/OS. It addresses different aspects of performance, and discusses architectures, design patterns, coding techniques, deployment, and data access issues. It applies to WebSphere for z/OS Version 4.0.1 for use with the z/OS Operating System Version 1.1and above. Using tips on writing Java-based solutions that have been collected from many different sources, we show how applying many of these tips and measuring performance can help you tune your Java application to perform better on z/OS. We describe how...

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DB2 10 for Linux on System z Using z/VM v6.2, Single System Image Clusters and Live Guest Relocation

DB2 10 for Linux on System z Using z/VM v6.2, Single System Image Clusters and Live Guest Relocation

By: Lydia Parziale; Dan Davenport; Eduardo Kienetz; Tito Ogando; Manoj Srinivasan Pattabhiraman; Srivatsan Venkatesan

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 03-NOV-2012

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IBM® z/VM® 6.2 introduced significant changes to z/VM with a multi-system clustering technology that allows up to four z/VM instances in a single system image (SSI) cluster. This technology is important because it offers you an attractive alternative to vertical growth by adding new z/VM systems. In the past, this capability required duplicate efforts to install, maintain, and manage each system. With SSI, these duplicate efforts are reduced or eliminated. Support for live guest relocation (LGR) allows you to move Linux virtual servers without disrupting your business or incurring loss of...