If time permits, I'd volunteer too.   Surely vols 3 seems attractive to 
me.

Kris,
IBM Belgium, VM customer support

> 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

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