System information

Sharing and maintaining SLES 10 SP2 Linux under z/VM 97
'CP SPOOL PUN *'
'CP CLOSE RDR'
'CP PURGE RDR ALL'
'PUNCH SLES10S2 KERNEL * (NOHEADER'
'PUNCH' Userid() 'PARM-S10 * (NOHEADER'
'PUNCH SLES10S2 INITRD * (NOHEADER'
'CP CHANGE RDR ALL KEEP'
'CP IPL 00C CLEAR'
1.12 The team that wrote this paper
This paper was originally written at Nationwide and converted into a Redpaper at IBM in
Poughkeepsie in 2007 by the following authors:
Steve Womer is a Sr. Consulting IT Architect at Nationwide Insurance in Columbus Ohio. He
has 28 years of experience in information systems. He holds a BS degree from Ohio State
University. His areas of expertise include z/OS systems management, systems automation,
and Linux. He has written extensively about Linux on IBM System z.
Rick Troth has been working with as many VM systems as he can get his hands on since
1981. He has used Unix since 1985, starting with AIX® 1.0 (IBM RT) and Amdahl's UTS
(hosted by VM/HPO). He has worked with Linux since 1994 (the 0.99 days), both as a
development platform and eventually as his primary desktop system. Combining “open
systems” (e.g.: Unix, POSIX, and especially Linux) with the incredible versatility of virtual
machines is his career passion.
Rick got his degree in Computer Science from Texas A&M University and presently resides in
central Ohio with his wife of 21 years and their two teenagers and one recently adopted
Siberian Husky. Rick came to Ohio to work with Linux on z/VM at Nationwide Insurance. They
miss friends and family in Texas, but otherwise they find Ohio quite nice. Rick is honored to
be a Knight of VM (under the monicker Sir Santa). You can reach him by signing up to the
IBMVM discussion list (hosted by the University of Arkansas) or to the LINUX-390 discussion
list (hosted by Marist College) and hollering “Hey, Sir Santa!”. This will annoy his friends on
the list and make you unpopular, but should get his attention.
Michael MacIsaac works at IBM in Poughkeepsie NY with the z/VM team. He was way too
busy to work on the update of this paper, but found the time because this project was a lot
more fun than the day-to-day insanity at IBM. Despite being away from the office for three
days, somehow the other projects seem to have survived.
The Redpaper was updated to become a white paper in 2009 with much help from the
following author:
Kyle S. Black works at Penn State University as a systems administrator on the Enterprise
Infrastructure team. He has been working with z/OS, z/VM and z/Linux since May 27th, 2008.
Prior to which he was a UNIX and Linux Systems Administrator. In a previous life a short time
ago, Kyle graduated from Penn State with degrees in English and Philosophy. Some of his
professors may be glad to see he is published, or perhaps in this case they may just be really
confused.