IBM I 7.1 Technical Overview with Technology Refresh Updates
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Front cover IBM i 7.1 Technical Overview with Technology Refresh Updates Boosted efficiency with enriched virtualization including Live Partition Mobility Enriched database functionality and new application development tools Reenergized management and perfomance tooling web interface Hernando Bedoya Octavio Bustos Clive Griffiths Tom Grigoleit Axel Lachmann Yohichi Nakamura Sandra Nelson Xiao Hu Qu Tom Vernaillen ibm.com/redbooks International Technical Support Organization IBM i 7.1 Technical Overview with Technology Refresh Updates March 2013 SG24-7858-02 Note: Before using this information and the product it supports, read the information in “Notices” on page xvii. Third Edition (March 2013) This edition applies to Version 7, Release 1, Modification 0 of IBM i (5770-SS1) and related licensed programs. © Copyright International Business Machines Corporation 2010, 2013. All rights reserved. Note to U.S. Government Users Restricted Rights -- Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp. Contents Notices . xvii Trademarks . xviii Preface . xix The team who wrote this book . xix Now you can become a published author, too! . xxii Comments welcome. xxii Stay connected to IBM Redbooks . xxiii Summary of changes. xxv March 2013, Third Edition . xxv Chapter 1. IBM i 7.1 introduction and summary. 1 1.1 Communicating IBM i enhancements . 2 1.2 Clarification of operating system terminology . 4 1.3 What is new in IBM i 7.1 . 4 1.3.1 IBM i 7.1 on POWER based servers. 4 1.3.2 Technology Refreshes . 4 1.3.3 Integrated DB2 database for IBM i . 5 1.3.4 PowerHA SystemMirror for i . 5 1.3.5 IBM i virtualization. 6 1.3.6 IBM i storage management. 7 1.3.7 Application development on IBM i enhancements . 8 1.3.8 IBM Rational support for IBM i 7.1 . 9 1.3.9 Systems management enhancements . 10 1.3.10 Printing . 11 1.3.11 IBM i iSCSI integration with BladeCenter and System x. 11 1.3.12 Security enhancements in IBM i 7.1 . 11 1.3.13 Web application serving . 11 1.3.14 IBM i Access Family 7.1 enhancements . 12 1.3.15 Networking enhancements . 12 1.3.16 Upgrade for IBM i enhancements . 12 1.3.17 IBM i network installation . 13 1.3.18 IBM i Processor Entitlement Transfer . 13 1.3.19 Backup, Recovery, and Media Services and basic backup and recovery. 13 Chapter 2. Technology Refresh . 15 2.1 Overview . 16 2.2 What a Technology Refresh is . 16 2.3 What a Resave is . 17 2.4 What is in a Technology Refresh . 18 2.4.1 When to install a Technology Refresh . 18 2.4.2 How it all fits together . 19 2.4.3 Determining the Technology Refresh PTF Group level installed on a system . 20 2.4.4 Determining the Resave level installed on a system. 21 2.4.5 Determining the Technology Refresh PTF level installed on a system. 22 2.4.6 Planning for an IBM i Technology Refresh update . 22 2.4.7 Installing an IBM i Technology Refresh. 23 2.4.8 Ordering an IBM i Technology Refresh PTF Group . 23 © Copyright IBM Corp. 2010, 2013. All rights reserved. iii 2.4.9 Installing an IBM i Technology Refresh PTF Group . 23 2.4.10 Ordering and installing an IBM i Resave. 23 2.4.11 Ordering an IBM i Technology Refresh PTF. 24 2.4.12 Installing an IBM i Technology Refresh PTF. 24 2.4.13 How a Technology Refresh PTF or PTF Group affects other PTFs . 24 2.4.14 Preventing or reducing the impact of a double IPL . 24 2.4.15 Why IBM moved to the Technology Refresh process. 25 2.4.16 New releases of IBM i . 25 2.4.17 Is an IBM i Technology Refresh the same as an AIX Technology Level . 26 2.4.18 Related publications . 26 Chapter 3. Security enhancements . 27 3.1 User Profile enhancements. 28 3.1.1 New USREXPDATE and USREXPITV attributes . 28 3.1.2 CL commands to change and display the User Profile expiration schedule . 28 3.2 Object Audit enhancements . 29 3.2.1 CL retrieve exit programs running after command completion . 29 3.2.2 Extended auditing details for running a CL command . 30 3.2.3 Database object auditing control with the QIBM_DB_OPEN exit program. 31 3.3 Data encryption enhancements . 32 3.3.1 ASP encryption enhancements. 32 3.3.2 Field procedures to encode and decode data. 32 3.4 Security enhancements for DB2 for i . 32 3.4.1 Query Manager user profile auditing. 32 3.4.2 Database Monitor and Plan Cache variable values masking . 34 3.4.3 Security function usage for a database. 36 3.4.4 Simplified DDM and Distributed Database (DRDA) authentication. 38 3.5 Real-time database activity monitoring . 41 3.5.1 Enhanced audit capability for STRDBMON . 41 3.5.2 SQL statement auditing with less resource consumption . 44 3.5.3 InfoSphere Guardium database activity monitoring support for DB2 for i. 48 3.6 Security enhancements for printing. 50 Chapter 4. Backup and recovery . 51 4.1 New and enhanced system save and restore functions . 52 4.1.1 Fast restore using tape position . 52 4.1.2 New ALWOBJDIF (*COMPATIBLE) restore option . 53 4.1.3 Enhanced save and restore limits. 53 4.1.4 Save While Active support for integrated VMware ESX servers. 54 4.1.5 Miscellaneous enhancements. 54 4.2 New and improved BRMS for IBM i functions . ..