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Mainframe from Scratch: Hardware Configuration and z/OS Build
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Mainframe from Scratch: Hardware Configuration and z/OS Build

by Keith Winnard, Bertus Bekker, Rafael Carvalho A. Lima, Nilkanth Patwardhan, Zheng Zhao, Hui Zhou
December 2016
Beginner to intermediate
240 pages
5h 55m
English
IBM Redbooks
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Preface
This IBM® Redbooks® publication helps you install, customize, and configure an IBM z13® and build z/OS® environments.
This book is intended for those readers who are new to the platform and are faced with the task of installing a mainframe for the first time. By the term mainframe in this instance, we refer to the hardware and the system software. The intention is to show you how this installation can be done.
Volume 1 shows you how we set up a mainframe and installed z/OS V2R2 and IBM DB2® V11. The starting point is a basic hardware configuration of an IBM z13 and DS8000® as shipped from the factory. Volume 1 also shows you how the following milestones were achieved:
•Creating a configuration for the Customized Offering Driver (COD) ...
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