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News and Announcements
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New Releases
MITVMA and MITVMC have been upgraded to z/VM 4.4. This is the
last IBM supported version of VM available on the IBM 7060-H30.
The remaining DB2/VM servers have been upgraded from 7.1.0 to 7.4.0.
Software Phase Out
Plans are underway to remove several products with limited or no usage
and to eliminate old versions of products where multiple versions exist.
This will both save money in software maintenenance costs and reduce
staff time supporting and maintaining the products.
These products have recently been removed:
- COBOL
- FORTRAN
- SAS Access for DB2
- GDDM/PGF
The following products are currently being considered:
- C/370
- EASYTRIEVE
- PL/I
- SAS
Click
HERE for details.
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VM Systems services
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The VM Systems Services Team (VM-SST) maintains the
MITVMA/MITVMC
systems on the IBM Enterprise server for the MIT community.
This includes evaluating, installing, maintaining, tailoring
and resolving problems for:
- z/VM
operating systems software
- software
products: languages, utilities for sorting, etc.
- IBM servers for e-mail, LISTSERV.
etc.
- other IBM server services: security, accounting,
tape storage, data backup and restores, batch jobs, and
non-MITnet data communications
Recent Accomplishments
- SQL/DB2 servers upgraded to rel 7.4.0
-- September 2006
- Completed phase out of reel tapes; IBM 3420 tape drives
decommissioned.
-- September 2006
- MITVMC upgraded z/VM 4.4; MITVMC's TCPIP upgraded to rel 4.4.0
-- December 2005
- MITVMA upgraded z/VM 4.4; MITVMA's TCPIP upgraded to rel 4.4.0
-- November 2005
- Completed the simplification of the VMBACKUP offsite
backup scheme.
-- March 2005
- Place SQL/DB2 servers under control of SQLMASTER.
-- March 2005
- Resolve long standing performance issues related to OTG.
-- December 2004
- Replace Netshuttle boxes with BusTech Mainframe
Appliances for Networking.
-- May 2004
- Consolidate data onto one rank in the ESS. Release vacated
rank for TSM open system usage.
-- Feb 2004
- Upgrade TCP/IP on MITVMA/MITVMC from version 3.2.0 to version 4.3.0
-- Jan 2004
- Complete
migration
of TSM from VM to UNIX.
-- Jan 2004
- Complete migration of data from RAMAC devices to the ESS.
-- Jan 2004
- Upgrade MITVMC operating system from VM/ESA 2.4 to z/VM 4.3
-- Nov. 1, 2003
- Upgrade MITVMA operating system from VM/ESA 2.4 to z/VM 4.3
-- Oct. 18, 2003
- Install IBM ESS (Enterprise Storage Server)
-- Feb 2003
- Replace IBM 9121-570 processor with IBM 7060-H30
-- Sept 2002
Our responsibilities also include:
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performance analysis -- monitoring and tuning -- of
systems and applications
- capacity planning and resource management for
academic computing
- technology evaluation and software development as
requested
- maintaining a disaster recovery system for business
continuity
We are located in the W91
Data Center and we work closely with both the
Database Services Team and the
Data Center Operations Services Team.
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