Linux® on the Mainframe

12.6. Using a framework

With Linux on the mainframe, you are likely to have a heterogeneous environment with multiple operating systems, including traditional mainframe operating systems such as z/VM, z/OS, and VSE/ESA. Systems management frameworks address the question of how to accomplish an integrated management of such heterogeneous environments. This section first provides a general introduction to frameworks and then gives examples for frameworks that are suitable for a Linux-on-the-mainframe environment and encompass Linux and the traditional mainframe operating systems.

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, major vendors of systems management tools began to develop substructures for integrating tools and handling the diversity of heterogeneous ...