Temenos on IBM LinuxONE Best Practices Guide

Temenos on IBM LinuxONE Best Practices Guide

by Deana Coble, Vic Cross, Ernest Horn, Colin Page, Jonathan Page, Robert Schulz, John Smith, Chris Vogan
Released February 2020
Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
ISBN: 9780738458458

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Book description

The world's most successful banks run on IBM®, and increasingly IBM LinuxONE. Temenos, the global leader in banking software, has worked alongside IBM for many years on banking deployments of all sizes. This book marks an important milestone in that partnership. Temenos on IBM LinuxONE Best Practices Guide shows financial organizations how they can combine the power and flexibility of the Temenos solution with the IBM platform that is purpose built for the digital revolution.

Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Notices
    1. Trademarks
  3. Preface
    1. Authors
    2. Now you can become a published author, too!
    3. Comments welcome
    4. Stay connected to IBM Redbooks
  4. Chapter 1. Introduction
    1. 1.1 Introduction to Temenos and IBM LinuxONE
      1. 1.1.1 Temenos
      2. 1.1.2 IBM LinuxONE
    2. 1.2 Temenos on IBM LinuxONE solves an industry challenge
      1. 1.2.1 Why is Temenos on IBM LinuxONE
      2. 1.2.2 IBM LinuxONE value for Temenos
    3. 1.3 Lab environment testing of Temenos on IBM LinuxONE
      1. 1.3.1 Lab environment results
      2. 1.3.2 Hardware configuration
      3. 1.3.3 Software
      4. 1.3.4 Configuration (Logical architecture)
      5. 1.3.5 Transaction mix
      6. 1.3.6 Encryption
    4. 1.4 Temenos modules supported/unsupported by IBM
    5. 1.5 Solution Details
    6. 1.6 Financial Case
    7. 1.7 Business and Technical Sales Contacts
  5. Chapter 2. Technology Overview
    1. 2.1 Hardware
      1. 2.1.1 IBM LinuxONE Central Processor Complex (CPC)
      2. 2.1.2 LPARs
      3. 2.1.3 Configuring with a single IBM LinuxONE server
      4. 2.1.4 Configuring with two IBM LinuxONE servers
      5. 2.1.5 Configuring with three or more IBM LinuxONE servers
      6. 2.1.6 System partition configuration
      7. 2.1.7 Server-Time-Protocol (STP)
      8. 2.1.8 Shared Memory Communication (SMC)
      9. 2.1.9 Guarded Storage Facility (GSF)
      10. 2.1.10 IBM LinuxONE III Integrated Accelerator for zEDC
      11. 2.1.11 Disk Storage
    2. 2.2 Operating systems
      1. 2.2.1 Red Hat
      2. 2.2.2 SuSE
      3. 2.2.3 Ubuntu
      4. 2.2.4 z/VM
    3. 2.3 Software
      1. 2.3.1 RACF
      2. 2.3.2 IBM WebSphere Application Server
      3. 2.3.3 Oracle WebLogic
      4. 2.3.4 JBOSS EAP
      5. 2.3.5 IBM Java
      6. 2.3.6 IBM MQ
      7. 2.3.7 Databases
    4. 2.4 Hypervisor choices
      1. 2.4.1 z/VM as hypervisor
      2. 2.4.2 KVM
      3. 2.4.3 z/VM Single System Image (SSI)
      4. 2.4.4 IBM Infrastructure Suite for z/VM and Linux
      5. 2.4.5 Geographical Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GDPS)
      6. 2.4.6 GDPS and Virtual Appliance (VA)
      7. 2.4.7 HyperSwap
      8. 2.4.8 GDPS and HyperSwap
      9. 2.4.9 Software in Linux
    5. 2.5 Temenos Infinity and Temenos Transact
      1. 2.5.1 Temenos Infinity
      2. 2.5.2 Temenos Transact
    6. 2.6 Planning phase and best practices
      1. 2.6.1 IBM LinuxONE
      2. 2.6.2 Network
      3. 2.6.3 z/VM networking
      4. 2.6.4 Inter-user communication vehicle (IUCV)
      5. 2.6.5 Backup and Restore
      6. 2.6.6 System Monitoring
  6. Chapter 3. Architecture
    1. 3.1 Traditional on-premises (non-containerized) architecture
      1. 3.1.1 Key benefits of architecting a new solution instead of lift-and-shift
    2. 3.2 Machine configuration on IBM LinuxONE
      1. 3.2.1 System configuration using IODF
    3. 3.3 IBM LinuxONE LPAR Architecture
      1. 3.3.1 LPAR Layout on IBM LinuxONE CPCs
    4. 3.4 Virtualization with z/VM
      1. 3.4.1 z/VM installation
      2. 3.4.2 z/VM SSI and relocation domains
      3. 3.4.3 z/VM memory management
      4. 3.4.4 z/VM paging
      5. 3.4.5 z/VM dump space and spool
      6. 3.4.6 z/VM minidisk caching
      7. 3.4.7 z/VM share
      8. 3.4.8 z/VM External Security Manager (ESM)
      9. 3.4.9 Memory of a Linux virtual machine
      10. 3.4.10 Simultaneous Multi-threading (SMT-2)
      11. 3.4.11 z/VM CPU allocation
      12. 3.4.12 z/VM configuration files
      13. 3.4.13 Product configuration files
      14. 3.4.14 IBM Infrastructure Suite for z/VM and Linux
    5. 3.5 Pervasive Encryption for data-at-rest
      1. 3.5.1 Data-at-rest protection on Linux: encrypted block devices
      2. 3.5.2 Data-at-rest protection on z/VM: encrypted paging
    6. 3.6 Networking on IBM LinuxONE
      1. 3.6.1 Ethernet technologies
      2. 3.6.2 Shared Memory Communications (SMC)
      3. 3.6.3 Connecting virtual machines to the network
      4. 3.6.4 Connecting virtual machines to each other
    7. 3.7 DS8K Enterprise disk subsystem
      1. 3.7.1 ECKD volume size
      2. 3.7.2 Disk mirroring
      3. 3.7.3 Which storage to use
    8. 3.8 Temenos Transact
    9. 3.9 Red Hat Linux
    10. 3.10 IBM WebSphere
    11. 3.11 Queuing with IBM MQ
    12. 3.12 Oracle DB on IBM LinuxONE
      1. 3.12.1 Native Linux or z/VM guest deployment
      2. 3.12.2 Oracle Grid Infrastructure
      3. 3.12.3 Oracle Clusterware
      4. 3.12.4 Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM)
      5. 3.12.5 Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
      6. 3.12.6 GoldenGate for database replication
      7. 3.12.7 Use encrypted volumes for the database
      8. 3.12.8 Oracle tuning on IBM LinuxONE
  7. Chapter 4. Temenos Deployment on IBM LinuxONE and IBM Public Cloud
    1. 4.1 The installation journey for the IBM LinuxONE hardware
      1. 4.1.1 Sandbox LPARs - Sandbox environment
      2. 4.1.2 Development and Test environment
      3. 4.1.3 Pre-Production environment
      4. 4.1.4 Production LPARs environment
      5. 4.1.5 Disaster recovery
    2. 4.2 Tuning
      1. 4.2.1 Linux on IBM LinuxONE
      2. 4.2.2 JAVA virtual machine tuning
    3. 4.3 Migrating Temenos from x86 to IBM LinuxONE
    4. 4.4 Temenos Transact certified Cloud Native deployment for IBM LinuxONE
    5. 4.5 Temenos deployment options on IBM Hyper Protect public cloud
  8. Appendix A. Sample product and part IBDs and model numbers
  9. Appendix B. Creating and working with the first IODF for the server
    1. The first IODF for the server
  10. Related publications
    1. IBM Redbooks
    2. Other publications
    3. Online resources
    4. Help from IBM
  11. Back cover

Product information

  • Title: Temenos on IBM LinuxONE Best Practices Guide
  • Author(s): Deana Coble, Vic Cross, Ernest Horn, Colin Page, Jonathan Page, Robert Schulz, John Smith, Chris Vogan
  • Release date: February 2020
  • Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
  • ISBN: 9780738458458