Blog related to the IBM mainframe operating system z/VSE. The postings are the ones of the respective authors and don’t necessarily represent IBM’s positions, strategies, or opinions.

Apr 5, 2022

IBM z16 announced

IBM announced the IBM z16 server on April 5, 2022. Both IBM z/VSE 6.2 as well as our partner’s 21st Century Software VSEn 6.3 will support IBM z16 and tolerate the new I/O cards:

FICON Express32S
OSA-Express7S 1.2

Jens Remus in z/VSE Blog

Jul 21, 2021

IDCAMS ALTER NEWNAME for user catalog in z/VSE 6.2

By Mikhail Zaslonko and Jens Remus.

VSE/VSAM IDCAMS provides a new functionality allowing to change a VSAM user catalog name with the PTF UD54395 for APAR DY47844 “ALTER NEWNAME USERCATALOG”. It allows to change a…

Jens Remus in z/VSE Blog

Jun 28, 2021

Presentations and recordings of the VM Workshop 2021 z/VSE sessions available

The VM Workshop is a non-profit organization of customers, ISVs, and business partners that holds a workshop on z/VM, z/VSE, and Linux on Z every year.

Jens Remus in z/VSE Blog

May 28, 2021

z/VSE Newsflash May 2021

Overview:

Announcement of z/VSE 6.2 storage, processing, security, recovery, and data transfer enhancements
Important z/VSE 6.2 APARs/PTFs
Important z/VM APARs/PTFs when using EDEVICEs

Jens Remus in z/VSE Blog

May 4, 2021

z/VSE 6.2 storage, processing, security, recovery, and data transfer enhancements announced

IBM announced storage, processing, security, recovery, and data transfer enhancements for z/VSE 6.2 on May 4, 2021. See the corresponding announcement letter for your…

Jens Remus in z/VSE Blog

Apr 16, 2021

z/VSE Newsflash April 2021

Overview:

Important z/VSE 6.2 APARs/PTFs
IBM Knowledge Center is now IBM Documentation
Miscellaneous

Important z/VSE 6.2 APARs/PTFs

Jens Remus in z/VSE Blog

Mar 4, 2021

z/VSE Newsflash March 2021

Overview:

Important z/VSE 6.2 APARs/PTFs
Important z/VM APARs/PTFs when using zHPF in a guest
Interesting z/VSE 6.2 support documents
Upcoming conference VM Workshop 2021 from…

Jens Remus in z/VSE Blog

Feb 18, 2021

How to perform a SDAID trace to buffer/VTAPE in z/VSE

This post demonstrates to perform a SDAID trace to a wraparound buffer, dump the buffer to a z/VSE VTAPE in VSAM, and print the trace. While the wraparound buffer is limited to up to 256K this does not require a physical printer or tape…

Jens Remus in z/VSE Blog

Dec 18, 2020

z/VSE Newsflash December 2020

Overview:

Important z/VSE 6.2 APARs/PTFs
Upcoming conference 15th European GSE/IBM Technical University for z/VSE, z/VM, KVM and Linux on IBM Z from 21. — 23. June 2021 in Leipzig

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Dec 2, 2020

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