Front cover -- Contents -- Notices -- Trademarks -- Preface -- The team that wrote this redbook -- Become a published author -- Comments welcome -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Purpose of this redbook -- 1.2 Terminology -- 1.3 Connectivity overview -- 1.4 Basic EFS requirements -- 1.4.1 System selection -- 1.5 EFS limitations -- 1.6 Detailed FLEX-ES overview -- Chapter 2. Practical planning -- 2.1 General planning -- 2.1.1 Production or sandbox -- 2.1.2 Selecting a Linux distribution -- 2.1.3 Newer hardware and Linux -- 2.1.4 Disk space needed -- 2.1.5 Linux file system layout -- 2.1.6 Disk modes for FLEX-ES -- 2.1.7 Network connections -- 2.2 ThinkPad topics -- 2.2.1 T40 ThinkPads -- 2.2.2 BIOS settings -- 2.2.3 Device planning (Ultrabay usage) -- 2.2.4 Choices for disk layouts -- 2.2.5 Dual boot, alternate boot -- 2.3 Larger server topics -- 2.3.1 SMP, large memory, new LAN adapters -- 2.3.2 BIOS and ServeRAID adapter updates -- 2.3.3 RAID configuration -- 2.4 Dual boot preparation -- Chapter 3. Linux installation -- 3.1 Basic Red Hat Linux 9.0 installation -- 3.2 Installation notes -- 3.3 Kernel rebuild -- 3.4 Additional kernel steps -- 3.4.1 ServeRAID updates -- 3.4.2 LVM updates -- 3.5 Additional Linux steps -- 3.5.1 Red Hat Linux updates -- Chapter 4. FLEX-ES installation -- 4.1 FLEX-ES installation steps -- 4.1.1 Default PATH -- 4.1.2 Ownership of /s390 mount point -- 4.1.3 Location of x3270 program -- 4.2 Installing the FLEX-ES license key and dongle -- 4.3 Reboot -- 4.4 Installing FLEX-ES upgrades -- Chapter 5. S/390 operating system installation -- 5.1 AD CD-ROM distributions -- 5.1.1 z/OS AD CD-ROM addresses and IPL data -- 5.1.2 Installation tasks -- 5.2 Dump/restore distribution -- 5.3 The tar file distributions -- 5.4 OMA/2 distributions -- 5.5 File ownership (any distribution) -- Chapter 6. Operational details.

6.1 Linux desktop windows -- 6.2 FLEX-ES system and resource definitions -- 6.2.1 Building a shell script -- 6.2.2 IPL z/OS -- 6.2.3 User terminal connection -- 6.2.4 IODF requirements -- 6.2.5 System performance monitors -- 6.2.6 TCP/IP for z/OS -- 6.3 Shutting down -- 6.4 More comments -- Chapter 7. Basic discussions -- 7.1 Resource definitions -- 7.2 Linux windows and FLEX-ES operation -- 7.3 64-bit operation -- 7.4 Creating additional emulated volumes -- 7.5 Operating systems messages console -- 7.6 x3270 client -- 7.7 S/390 identification -- 7.8 z/OS TCP/IP profile -- 7.9 Initial debugging -- 7.10 VTAM APAR -- 7.11 Security -- 7.12 RAS discussion -- 7.13 Useful Linux commands -- Chapter 8. FAQs -- Appendix A. Sample FLEX-ES operation files -- Definitions for the Dallas DEMOpkg -- Minimal AD system definitions -- Full AD system definitions -- Customized Offerings Driver definitions -- z/VM OMA/2 definitions -- Definition statements -- Related publications -- IBM Redbooks -- Other publications -- Online resources -- How to get IBM Redbooks -- Help from IBM -- Index -- Back cover.