Linux on the Mainframe

2017-07-07 02:10:07

This book has been a team effort.

We thank Ulrike Wicke and Tim Kane for their ongoing support. Their belief in the value of this effort made this book possible.

Special thanks go to Dr. Karl-Heinz Strassemeyer, Distinguished Engineer, the mentor of this book, for his vision and encouragement.

Also, we thank Herbert Kircher, Heather Kahan, Thomas Klein, Karl Klink, Thomas Rozmus, Hubertus Barthold, and Alexander Stark for their professional advice and support.

We especially acknowledge the following experts for their contributions:

Christoph Arenz	Introducing Linux and Introducing Linux on the mainframe
Reinhard Buendgen	Achieving higher availability
Paul Gallagher	Achieving higher availability and communications reference
Andreas Herrmann	Debugging and dump analysis
Michael Holzheu	Debugging and dump analysis
Reed Mullen	The value of virtualization
Eberhard Pasch	Performance and capacity planning
Holger Smolinski	Data management
Peter G Spera	Security considerations
Horst Weber	Systems management and running applications

Many thanks also go to the following people for many hours of discussion and review:

Ingo Adlung	Alan Altmark	Erich Amrehn
Utz Bacher	D. J. Barrow	Debbie Beatrice
Oliver Benke	Klaus Bergmann	Boas Betzler
Bill Bitner	John L. Czukkermann	Bernhard Dierberger
Juergen Doelle	Timothy Hahn	Horst Hummel
Eginhard Jaeger	Jan-Rainer Lahmann	Tom Laudati
Scott Loveland	Hans Dieter Mertiens	Carlos Ordonez
Chris Panetta	Franziska Peterthalner	Milagros Portocarrero
Stephen Record	Nancy Scala	Raimund Schröder
Martin Schwidefsky	Horst Sinram	Joe Temple
Hanns-Joachim Uhl	Bob Visanji	Ulrich Weigand
Romney White	Eva L. Yan

Joel Hermann, briefing manager, deserves our gratitude for his professional advice and collegial support.

We would like to thank the ITSO teams for permitting us to use images from Redbook publications, in particular from Linux on IBM eServer zSeries and S/390: ISP/ASP Solutions, SG24-6299. Thanks to the many other people who have helped us with this book.

Thanks to the team at Prentice Hall PTR for their support. Special thanks to Jeffrey Pepper, our editor, for his diligent work. We are grateful to all who helped preparing the book for publication, especially Kate Hargett, Patti Guerrieri, and Mary Loudin. Also, we would like to mention Jamie Milazzo from the Pearson Technology Group for providing innovative publishing concepts for this book.

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