The Herb Garden

- Reaping the benefits of data-sharing your OLTP and DW databases
- Facilitating resource management for co-located workloads
- Exploiting DB2 client attributes with Cognos

As business cycles speed up, many customers gain significant competitive advantage from quicker and more accurate business decision-making by using real data.

- Explains virtualizing and managing the infrastructure for complex workloads
- Describes the zEnterprise System and related features and functions
- Discusses hardware and software capabilities

The popularity of the Internet and the affordability of IT hardware and software have resulted an in explosion of applications, architectures, and platforms.

- Addresses increasing complexity, rising costs, and infrastructure constraints
- Describes key functional elements and features
- Discusses a smart infrastructure for the data center of the future

Recently we have seen an explosion in applications, architectures, and platforms.

- The connectivity options available for your data center, and beyond
- Comparisons of the supported protocols and architectures
- Guidance for typical usage of the connectivity options

This IBM® Redbooks® publication discusses the connectivity options available for use within and beyond the data center for the following IBM System z® family of mainframes: - zEnterprise™ 196 (z196) - System z10™ Enterprise Class (z10 EC) - System z10 Business Class (z10 BC) - System z9® Enterprise Class (z9 EC) - System z9 Business Class (z9 BC) This book highlights the hardware and software components, functions, typical uses, coexistence, and relative merits of these connectivity features.

IBM® has extended the role of the System z10® family of servers by incorporating a piece of infrastructure based on the IBM BladeCenter®.

- Barriers to realizing business value from your IT infrastructure
- zEnterprise value proposition to solve top IT challenges
- Guidance on getting started with the IBM zEnterprise System

Do you find yourself focusing too much on your IT infrastructure these days - and not enough on providing value to your business? Increasingly, business applications span heterogeneous platforms, appliances and devices, and this wide range of resources creates real issues for IT shops trying to meet business objectives.

- STP concepts and definitions
- Planning for recovering form various failures
- Restoring STP configuration after a POR

This IBM Redbooks® publication will help you plan for and recover from a failure affecting your Mixed or STP-only Coordinated Timing Network.

- Coordinated Timing Network configuration
- Operations and recovery
- How to implement Server Time Protocol examples

Server Time Protocol (STP) is a server-wide facility that is implemented in the Licensed Internal Code (LIC) of the IBM® System z10and IBM System z9®, and IBM eServer™ zSeries® z990 and z890 servers.