In this book, we assume that you are familiar with DB2 V9. See DB2 9 for z/OS Technical Overview, SG24-7330, for an introduction to the new functions.

The topics are both broad and very complex. This book will serve as an initial effort in describing all of the enhancements together in a single volume to the security/system hardening oriented audience.

This book provides students of information systems with the background knowledge and skills necessary to begin using the basic security facilities of IBM System z.

This IBM Red paper books publication presents Workload Partitions (WPARs), a set of completely new software-based system virtualization features introduced in IBM AIX Version 6.1.

Understanding these is important to follow the rest of the book. If you are already familiar with the general concepts of cryptography and the data encryption aspect of it, you may skip this part.

There are many other enhancements available with AIX 5L Version 5.3, and you can explore them in this book.

This book provides in-depth information about setting Java and IBM WebSphere environments with new 32-bit JVM, tuning its performance, and monitoring or troubleshooting its runtime with the new set of tools.

This book provides both introductory and detailed information about installing, configuring, managing, and monitoring DB2 in a Linux environment.

This book helps AIX 5L professionals seeking a comprehensive and task-oriented guide for developing the knowledge and skills required for the certification.

After reading this textbook and working through the exercises, the student will have received a basic understanding of the following topics: The Series z Hardware concept and the history of the mainframe Virtualization technology in general ...