This IBM® Redbooks® publication helps you to become familiar with the technical changes that were introduced into the Sysplex areas with IBM z/OS® V2R2.

This book is one of a series of IBM Redbooks publications that takes a modular approach to providing information about the updates that are contained within z/OS V2R2. This approach includes the following goals:

We hope you find this approach useful and value your feedback.

This book was produced by a team of specialists from around the world working at the International Technical Support Organization, Poughkeepsie Center.

Keith Winnard is the z/OS Project Leader at the International Technical Support Organization, Poughkeepsie Center. He writes extensively and is keen to engage with customers to understand what they want from IBM Redbooks publications. Before joining the ITSO in 2014, Keith worked for clients and Business Partners in the UK and Europe in various technical and account management roles. He is experienced with blending and integrating new technologies into the traditional landscape of mainframes.

Jose Gilberto Biondo Jr is an IT Specialist in Integrated Technology Delivery, Server Systems Operations/Storage Management in IBM Brazil. He has seven years of experience in z/OS, working with storage management since 2007. Jose works mainly with IBM storage products (DFSMSdfp, DFSMSdss, DFSMShsm, and DFSMSrmm), but he also works with OEM software products. Jose’s areas of expertise include installing and maintaining storage products, and process automation.

Jaqueline Mourão is a Senior Systems Programmer at Banco do Brasil, a government bank in Brazil. She has 13 years of mainframe experience and holds a degree in Information Systems. Her areas of expertise include z/OS installation and maintenance, IBM Parallel Sysplex®, and security.

Alvaro Salla is a Senior IT Consultant for the ITSO. He has more than 40 years teaching and developing educational material covering the z/OS mainframe platform and consulting services focusing on performance. Alvaro has co-authored Redbooks publications about IBM DS8000®, DFSMS, WLM, SYSPLEX, ABCs, IBM RMF™, and disaster recovery. He started with IBM in 1969.

Thanks to the following people for their contributions to this project:

Neil Johnson (Advisory Software Engineer, z/OS Development, Poughkeepsie Center) for offering valuable advice and guidance on the Coupling Facility Site Preference List and Gaining Coupling Facility Ownership enhancements and the related topics that are covered in this IBM Redbooks publication.

Mark Brooks (z/OS Sysplex Design and Development, Poughkeepsie Center) for offering valuable advice and guidance on the Message Isolation enhancements and related topics that are covered in this IBM Redbooks publication.

Jie Hou (Software Engineer, BCP System Logger, Poughkeepsie Center) for offering valuable advice and guidance on System Logger offload enhancements and related topics that are covered in this IBM Redbooks publication.

Andrew Sica (Advisory Software Engineer, z/OS Development, Poughkeepsie Center) for offering valuable advice and guidance on Server Time Protocol enhancements and related topics that are covered in this IBM Redbooks publication.

Bob Haimowitz (Development Support Team (DST), Poughkeepsie Center) for setting up and maintaining the systems, and providing valuable advice, guidance, and assistance throughout the creation of this IBM Redbooks publication.

Rich Conway (Development Support Team (DST), Poughkeepsie Center) for setting up and maintaining the systems, and providing valuable advice, guidance, and assistance throughout the creation of this IBM Redbooks publication.

Peter Bertolozzi (Systems Management specialist, IBM Redbooks publication residency support, Poughkeepsie Center) for setting up and maintaining the environments for residents to work in.

John Gierloff (Operations, Poughkeepsie Center) for residency set up and support.

Don Brennan (DST, Poughkeepsie Center) for setting up and maintaining the systems hardware that is used in the creation of this IBM Redbooks publication.

Ella Buslovich (Graphics specialist, Poughkeepsie Center) for providing guidance and specialist graphics for this IBM Redbooks publication.

Ann Lund (ITSO Administration, Poughkeepsie Center) for administrative support to enable the residency.

Cheryl Gera (ITSO Administration, Poughkeepsie Center) for managing the business operations for this IBM Redbooks publication.

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