MainframesIBM zSeries and S/390 mainframe hardware and software Slack/390 Support Added to Linux Support PortfolioSine Nomine is pleased to announce that we have added Slack/390 to our support service portfolio. Slack/390 users may now obtain commercial-grade support contracts for Slack/390 in addition to Debian, SuSE/Novell and Red Hat, and we will be adding Slack/390 CDs to our media creation service in the near future.
Sine Nomine Associates: Your z/VM PartnerBecause z/VM is extremely flexible and can be tailored to meet the diverse needs of many different organizations, it is an excellent platform to host e-business efforts. Sine Nomine Associates brings together a team of experts with decades of experience on every generation of VM, from VM/ESA to z/VM and beyond.
MVMRUG May 2009At the April 2009 meeting of the Midwest VM Regional User Group (MVMRUG) in Columbus, Ohio, Scott Courtney presented an overview of OpenSolaris for System z and a just-for-fun tutorial on building a low-energy "green" server for use in a home or remote office. The OpenSolaris presentation was originally created by David Boyes. Non-OpenSolaris packagesBelow is a list of packages that don't come with OpenSolaris but were either required by the build process or needed because we like them.
Hillgang Meeting, December 2008These are presentations from the December 2008 meeting of the Hillgang, a Washington DC area mainframe user group. Some of the material in this section is provided courtesy other organizations, and posted here with permission of the copyright owners. System Images for Build 95 of OpenSolaris for System zThe system images for build 95 of OpenSolaris for System z are available for download from http://distribution.sinenomine.net/opensolaris. Three packaging choices are available: VMARC, AWSTAPE and a DVD image.
ROMAN EXEC (Peter Webb, Toronto Transit Comission)This file is a REXX EXEC that converts between Arabic numbers to Roman numerals.
Changing the Way Computers Compute (April 2008)Mike Cowlishaw, IBM Fellow, presented "Changing the Way Computers Compute" at the Hillgang user group meeting on 24 April 2008. This presentation explains the need for hardware-accelerated binary decimal formats and the emerging IEEE standards in this area.
IBM mainframe overviewThere is now an IBM mainframe overview and history presentation available from the SNA publications web site. It gives a history of both the S/3xx hardware and S/3xx operating systems for those folks new to this platform I'm a PC and UNIX user. What's a mainframe?"Mainframe" is an unscientific term that means different things to different people, but generally speaking, a mainframe is a multiuser business or scientific computer the architecture of which is optimized towards I/O (input and output)
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