On Tuesday, 08/01/2006 at 10:58 EST, Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks interesting to hear, Alan. As you might infer, there seems to be > some interest both some of the list membership to see such a Redbook > produced and are willing to donate some of their time and energy to make > it happen. > > Can you tell us where this proposal stands? Is it related to the work > Jim mentioned that he has already started?
The proposal is in the list to be considered and prioritized for 2007. Initial thoughts include: - System z hardware, with expanded discussion of assists, VM exploitation, and Guest exploitation - Evolution of virtualization on the mainframe - z/VM theory of operation and subsystems, with special attention on security and integrity - Day-to-day operations, incl. health checkin - User and resource administration - Use (the CMS Primer and Terminal Users Guide return!) - Automation - Guest operating systems - Integration into the enterprise The intent is to take information we already have from a variety of sources, then consolidate and distill it into a readable document that would allow someone unfamiliar with z/VM to get a sense of the Big Picture, even if the edge of the picture remains a bit out of focus. You could hand this book to a prospective VM sysprog or IT manager and they both would get something out of it. aka "z/VM 101". Best Practices and System Programmer Tricks would be in vols. 2 and 3. :-) Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
