IBM Power Systems with IBM i Volume 11, Issue 4 November 2013

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• IBM i 7.1

Technology IBM i 7.1 Technology Refresh 7 Refresh 7 (TR7) Current Offerings and Rebates

• Free -form RPG IBM i POWER7 Rebate Offering • Current If you have a qualified system running any release of IBM i Version 5 installed as of March 18, 2013, Offerings and you can receive a rebate if you acquire a new IBM Rebatesb POWER7 server with IBM i 6.1 or 7.1. See

• Power Announcement Letter 313-025 for details.

Integrated On October 8th IBM announced Technology Refresh 7 IBM Power Systems Trade-In Program: Facility for (TR7) for IBM i 7.1. You'll remember that technology If you acquire an eligible new IBM Power Systems (Power IFL) refreshes are the way that IBM rolls out new function for server and trade in one or more designated IBM the latest version of IBM i. and/or non-IBM systems, you can receive a trade- • IBM Power in credit up to $240,000. Eligible trade-in models

Systems and What's in TR7? Enhancements include: include 150/170/250/270/Sxx/6xx/7xx/8xx and IBM i events • Database – SQL is enhanced and support for some Power 520 machines. See IBM VLDB (Very Large DataBases) is added to DB2 Announcement Letter 313-022 for details. • PureFlex for i. Solution for IBM • Free-form RPG – described in the article below. i • Java 7.1 – a new JVM runtime engine with IBM Software Maintenance after license fee improved performance discount offering • Recent IBM i • Support for "Ruby on Rails". IBM is working If your SWMA for IBM i coverage has lapsed for a Redbooks with the PowerRuby group to bring this open period of less than 12 months, you can receive a IBM i source web application framework to IBM i, discount off the SWMA After License Fee when including native IBM i database access from the you reinstate your SWMA coverage. See IBM #ibmi Announcement Letter 312-046 for details. Ruby programming language. i Can You and i Free-form RPG Hardware and Software Maintenance DB2 for i Agreements are required for fixes i Develop Please note: IBM will implement additional entitlement validation on IBM Fix Central for select software For more products and updates and for Machine Code (also information, known as firmware or microcode) updates for contact: select machines. Entitlement for Machine Code updates will be checked through user-provided Your IBM RPG code has evolved from fixed-column statements on Business 96-column punched cards. With the latest IBM i 7.1 TR7 serial numbers. Entitlement for software products Partner, enhancements, more statements including F-specs can will be checked through user-provided customer be written in free-form and you don't need /FREE and numbers. Additional information may be Your IBM Sales /END-FREE delimiters. Colorization in the Rational requested or required to confirm entitlement. Specialist, Developer for IBM i tool is being improved, as well.

Or These enhancements make RPG easier to code and Receive IBM i at no charge: maintain for programmers who are new to IBM i and Save $2,245 to $44,000 value on a no-charge 1-888-ShopIBM IBM i license when you move to a new qualifying have experience in other programming languages. Power System. Move up to Power promo IBM partners Arcad Software and Linoma Software offer utilities to convert existing RPG code to free-format. Look for other promos at the IBM Promotions site

Get it now go to ibm.com/systems/i/ or call 1 888 ShopIBM to buy direct or to locate an IBM reseller. IBM Power Systems and IBM i Events Power Integrated Facility for Linux

Check out the IBM i Virtual User Group for free educational webinars without leaving your desk. For example:

VUG webinar "IBM i 7.1 TR7 DB2 Enhancements" December 11, 2013 – 11am-Noon ET, 10-11am CT The new Power Integrated Facility for Linux (Power IFL) enables you to exploit the performance, reliability and scalability of enterprise-class Power Systems 770, 780 and 795 to improve Remember to budget now for your 2014 education! QoS (Quality of Service) and to reduce the cost of managing your

Linux ecosystem. Michigan Education Technical Conference

June 3, 2014. Livonia, Michgan The Power IFL offering enables you to activate Power cores – The MITEC website will be updated in February 2014. four at a time – with PowerVM for Linux and Capacity-On-

Demand memory at a price competitive to running Linux on x86. Common 2014 Annual Meeting

May 4 - 7, 2014, Orlando FL Conference Info Practical uses for the Power IFL offering include:

• transitioning workloads from x86 Linux to PowerLinux Power Systems Technical University at Enterprise 2014 (business application middleware for web/mobile clients, and other events will be posted here: Conference info infrastructure and data integration services, new social

and mobile applications)

• multi-tier core business applications with a middle tier New IBM PureFlex Solution for IBM i

currently deployed on x86 Linux (such as web The IBM PureFlex Solution for IBM i is a combination of IBM i application servers) and an IBM PureFlex System with POWER and x86 • new workloads emerging in the Linux and open processor -based compute nodes . This reduces IT costs and community space (such as Big-Data analytics). complexity. by consolidating your IBM i, Windows™ and Linux applications onto a single platform, together with integrated

Fast new Solid-State Drives (SSDs) announced Storage and Networking.

New SFF (2.5-inch Small Form Factor) 387 GB and 775 GB SSDs What's new? This latest configuration includes a p260 deliver improved price-to-performance ratios and improved spatial compute node with four POWER7+ cores, one of which is density for POWER7 and POWER7+ model 710 through 795. licensed for IBM i in the lowest cost P05 tier, an x240 Xeon- Compared to the already-available 387 GB SSD, these SSDs can based node for Windows or Linux, a Storwize V7000 storage provide up to 2X more IOPS capability and up to 40% latency node, and pre-loaded software including IBM i, PowerVM, improvement. – Announcement Letter 113-171 Flex System Manager and V7000 storage software.

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Recent Releases/Updates: Published (Last Updated) IBM Flex System Networking in and Enterprise Data Center, 2nd Edition Sept. 30 2013 (8/16/2013) REDP-4834-01 Smart Virtual Appliances Made Easy with Image Construction and Composition Tool August, 19, 2013 TIPS1037 IBM PowerVM Virtualization Managing and Monitoring June 17, 2013 (8/26/2013) SG24-7590-04 PowerVM Best Practices Oct. 12, 2012 (8/26/2013) SG24-8062 IBM PureFlex System and IBM Flex System Products and Technology Oct. 15, 2013 (10/24/13) SG24-7984-03

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