Linux on IBM Z, Linux on zSystems or zLinux is the collective term for the Linux operating system compiled to run on IBM mainframes, especially IBM Z...
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to IBM Z from IBM z Systems; the IBM Z family includes the newest model, the IBM z17, as well as the z16, z15, z14, and z13 (released under the IBM z Systems/IBM...
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VSE (operating system) (redirect from Z/VSE)
Path to Linux on IBM Z" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-06-17. Retrieved 2021-10-11. Both z/VSE and Linux on IBM Z run as z/VM Guests...
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details). z/VM runs on IBM's IBM Z family of computers and can support large numbers (thousands) of Linux virtual machines. (See Linux on IBM Z.) On 16 September...
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on IBM mainframes. Later, IBM brought DB2 to other platforms, including OS/2, UNIX, and MS Windows servers, and then Linux (including Linux on IBM Z)...
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Facility for Linux (IFL) is an IBM mainframe and Power Systems processor dedicated to running the Linux operating system. On IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE machines...
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Microsoft Windows. IBM offers an emulator called zPDT (System z Personal Development Tool) which runs on Linux on x86-64 machines. List of IBM products Amdahl...
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z/OS is a 64-bit operating system for IBM z/Architecture mainframes, introduced by IBM in October 2000. It derives from and is the successor to OS/390...
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industry-dominant IBM System/360 and IBM System/370 mainframe systems, and then through IBM Power Systems (AIX), IBM Z (z/OS and z/VSE), and x86 (Linux). At the...
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z/Architecture, initially and briefly called ESA Modal Extensions (ESAME), is IBM's 64-bit complex instruction set computer (CISC) instruction set architecture...
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customers run several thousand users on even single prior models. For multiprogramming OSes like Linux on IBM Z and z/OS that make heavy use of native supervisor...
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some are unavailable on certain silicon processors and devices. iBoot Cydia MkLinux Linux range of use OtherOS Linux on IBM Z Cunningham, Andrew (2022-06-02)...
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source" marketed as trumping "open system". Consequently, an IBM mainframe with Linux on IBM Z is marketed as being more of an open system than commodity...
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server versions for x86-64, Power ISA, ARM64, and IBM Z and a desktop version for x86-64. Fedora Linux and CentOS Stream serve as its upstream sources....
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C++14 may be unavailable under XL C/C++ for AIX on Power. In June 2016, IBM introduced XL C/C++ for Linux Community Edition, which is a no-charge and fully...
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portal Linux portal Comparison of Linux distributions Comparison of netbook-oriented Linux distributions DistroWatch Linux on PowerPC Linux on IBM Z List...
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ZIIP (redirect from Z Integrated Information Processor)
processing, and the IFL, which runs Linux and z/VM but not other IBM operating systems such as z/OS, DOS/VSE and TPF. A System z PU (processor unit) is "characterized"...
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Hercules (emulator) (category IBM System/360 mainframe line)
operating systems Linux on IBM Z and OpenSolaris for System z on the Hercules emulator. They run well on Hercules, and many Linux on IBM Z developers[who...
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Controller for Linux (Communications Controller for Linux on System z or CCL) is an IBM software product announced in 2005 that runs under Linux on IBM Z and emulates...
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developed from a common code base with other SUSE Linux Enterprise products. IBM's Watson was built on IBM's POWER7 systems using SLES. Hewlett Packard Enterprise's...
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HiperSocket (category IBM mainframe technology)
including z/OS, z/VM, and Linux on IBM Z. Although applications perceive no functional differences, HiperSockets require less processing overhead on either side...
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for Linux (IFL) and zIIP, zAAPs are not specifically optimized to run Java faster or better. IBM does not change the "software model" or MSU rating on its...
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OS/390 (category IBM mainframe operating systems)
OS/390-branded versions in late 2004. OS/360 MVS z/OS z/TPF z/VM z/VSE Linux on IBM Z Alsop, Stewart. "The IBM System/390". IBM. Retrieved February 6, 2024. v t e v...
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ThinkPad (redirect from IBM Thinkpad)
OpenLinux. IBM shifted away from preinstalled Linux on the ThinkPad after 2002, but continued to support other distributions such as Red Hat Linux, SUSE...
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UNIX System Services (category IBM mainframe operating systems)
SP V5.1. IBM continues to enhance UNIX System Services. Typically every release of z/OS includes enhancements to z/OS UNIX. Linux on IBM Z OpenSolaris...
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System z is a discontinued port of the OpenSolaris operating system to the IBM System z line of mainframe computers. OpenSolaris is based on Solaris...
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IBM MQ. The products that are included in the MQ family are IBM MQ, IBM MQ Advanced, IBM MQ Appliance, IBM MQ for z/OS, and IBM MQ on IBM Cloud. IBM MQ...
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Dynamic Logical Partitioning (category IBM mainframe operating systems)
itself to changing LPAR resources. The IBM Z mainframes and their operating systems, including Linux on IBM Z, support even more sophisticated forms of...
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Hypervisor (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
resurgence of popularity and support from 2000 as the z/VM product, for example as the platform for Linux on IBM Z. As mentioned above, the VM control program includes...
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List of operating systems (section IBM)
System V Unix version) OpenSolaris for System z UTS (developed by Amdahl) Linux on IBM Z Others on IBM S/360, S/370, and successor mainframes: BOS/360...
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