Virtual MachinelEnterprise Systems Architecture • A new era begins

VM is the premier interactive, multi-user VMlESA spans the entire range of operating system from IBM. Virtual Enterprise Systems (ES) processors, MachinelEnterprise Systems Architecture including the ES/9000(*), a family of (VMlESA) (*) represents an evolutionary powerful processors that offers high step in VM, consolidating into a single performance at a very attractive cost. platform all the advantages of VMJSystem VMlESA will also serve as the VM Product (VMJSP) , VMJSP High platform for all Systems Application Performance Option (VMJSP HPO) , and Architecture * (SAA (0)) development in the VMlExtended Architecture System 90s, enhancing its strategic position in Product (VMlXA SP) . future hardware and software development. This VMlESA platform, combined with powerful enhancements, offers you both A comprehensive solution for interactive and guest environment interactive users capabilities . . . advanced VMlESA is a versatile, easy-to-use connectivity . . . flexible system interactive operating system. It provides a management . . . and a solid foundation simple command language, full-screen for future growth. editor, and on-line help menus to satisfy the needs of a wide range of industries and environments.

------_------.- The Co nversational Monitor System (CMS) VMJESA can also help increase use r Write support. These capabilities can se rves as the main interface for VMJESA. productivity through reduced system increase performance and lower system CMS is actually an operating system that complexity, a single VM platform and overhead. SQL guest sharing under VSE runs only in a vi rtual machjne. As the advanced features such as so ftcopy also offers performance improve ments name "conversational" implies, CMS publicati ons ava il able online. In addition, with minidisk caching and Multiple provides a two-way conversation between XEDIT allows users to browse, update, or Controlled Data Space (MCDS) use rs and the system. create SFS fil es in a number of directories. capabilities. Productivity can also be increased with CMS all ows users to do such things as CMS utilities that make the Control Costs can be reduced through improved develop application programs, create and Program (CP) and CMS less complex for effi ciency with guest envi ronments . edjt fil es, execute applications and end users and . Flexible Migration, development and testing do not co mmunicate with other use rs. workstation connectivity, simplified data require additions to the physical system. storage manage ment with IBM Data 110 devices can be shared. In addition, CMS also supports a wide variety of Facility System Managed StoragelVM VSE under VMJESA benefits from all the licensed programs that can be ord ered (DFSMSIVM) , and the use of co nsistent hardware support built-in with VM . This separately for application development, SAA interfaces ca n also help create a support includes the XA 110 subsystem, numeri cally intensive computing, office highly integrated, versatile and productive Expanded Storage for paging, 3990-3 Fast work, and applications. environment. Write.

Advanced interactive features T he VMJESA guest environment also VMJESA can help protect yo ur current VMJESA can help increase system offers a great degree of growth fl exibility. investment by offering advanced capacity, perfo rmance through capabilities such as Multiple images can be added with system flexibility, and a single platform " Data-In-Memory" which reduces additional hardware. VM allows VSE to based on consistent standards. CMS can response time by keeping frequently used " run" on n-way processors. The guest work with a variety of office applications, data close to the processor. Performance environment offers larger virtual as well as help users data with guest ca n also be increased with high­ machines ranging up to 2GB. In addition, systems. Expanded data storage helps you performance data access and Vector VMJESA supports Multiple Preferred increase your system's ability to run large Facilities support for numeri cally Guest (MPG) mode, so an installation can applications. A single VM platform intensive environments. run several copies of VSE with near-native supports a wide range of applicati ons, performance. This provides a realisti processors, and 110 devices. Growth potential is enhanced through the implementation of multiple copies of VM is also based on SAA, a consistent set ability to serve more CMS users, enlarged production VSE wherever it is needed. of IBM guidelines for application data spaces and a cooperative processing development. environment connecting workstations and Workload balancing is enhanced through host processing. a number of features including Expanded VMJESA also offers a high degree of Storage exploitation and transparent, application i1exibility. IBM OfficeVision A versatile, efficient guest environment seri al 110 support. VMJESA also owns provides a ve rsatile pl atform for many VMJESA is designed so that other channels and the 110 subsystem, so the office and business applications. System operating systems, called guests, ca n share performance advantages of serial 110, XA, capacity has been enhanced from the same resources. For example, on most and the dynamic channel subsystem are 2,047MB to 16 Terabytes (TB) and models of the ES/9000 range, yo u ca n run ava ilable to guests that support these additional data spaces have also been an MVS, Adva nced Interactive features . introduced. As a result, the system can Executivel370 (AIX/3 70) , VSE, or another use a greater number of va riety of VM operating system in a virtual machine The guest environment also all ows test applications. In addition, Structured while sharing the VM system with other development and mi gration at any given Query LanguagelData System (SQLlDS) users. time. VM facilitates testing by all owing can help use rs access and share data from programmers to test a new version in several applications. This ability allows yo u to run seve ral guest parallel with the production ve rsion. Disk versions of an operating system to support sharing is possible between test and Application fl ex ibility is also enhanced application development, testing and production systems. In addition, the with Operating SystemlMultiple Virtual production environments on the sa me Central Processing Unit (CPU) and Storage (OS/MVS). This powerful physical . This means you and memory resources needed by the test capability allows MVSIXA macros to be your staff can use several operating system system are dynamically allocated. used in assembler applications and allows environments while maintairung a single programmers to take advantage of the system. productivity benefits of high-level In addition, the VMJESA guest languages. Callab le Services Library (CSL) environment ca n work with CMS and take allows applicati on programs written in advantage of VM applications across or other high-level languages to platforms that share SAA guidelines . access VM-spec ifi c se rvices. CSL ca n also call SFS fun cti ons and provide yo u with A wide range of benefits with guest added i1ex ibili ty in managing and sharing environments CMS files. A VMJESA system, operating with guest environments, can help provide high­ speed throughput, improvements in response time, transparent 110 support, virtual, serial 110 support and 3990-3 Fast Automatic recovery mechanisms are IBM Workstation Data Storage Facility • DFSMS, simplifying data storage provided for a V = R machine. Improved (WD5F) provides key workstati on services management access to machine time is also provided for backing up, archiving and restoring without interfering with production disk or diskette data fil es . WDSF allows a VM guest environment: systems or introducing a second physical VM system to act as a for • Improved performance and reliability system. workstations and personal . for preferred virtual machines • Start interpretative execution ass ist to VMJESA helps improve application It includes cl ient applications for improve preferred virtual machine enabling through the ability to access data workstation-based environments including performance effi ciently in the distributed database, DOS, OS/2, and AIX (**) for the RT • V = R recovery, a CP function that lets SQUDS data sharing between guest, and (**) and the RISC the V =R machine resume operation advanced 31-bit addressability. VMJESA Systeml6000(**). As a client/server after certain CP and hardware failures also provides access to a wide range of solution, WDSF offers value and growth • Dynamic channel subsystem, allowing current and new software for more rapid potential to distributed LAN and non- any processor to access any devi ce and development and online testing. Tools LA installations, while enhancing and any devi ce to any processor such as XEDIT and REXX help improve utilising a VM base. • Serial 110 architecture, for greater the productivity of Application configuration fl exibility Programmers, System Programmers and Transmission Control ProtocollInternet • Expanded storage exploitation Operators who prepare jobs under CMS Protocol (TCPIIP) provides access to • Virtual and shared 110 resources, for and submit them to VSE. heterogeneous environments, and DECAF greater system effi ciency and flexibility enables a remote OS/2 workstation to • Multiple preferred guests, allowing an Enhanced workstation connectivity control another workstation through VM 's installation to run several copies of VSE In today's business environments, users access to SNA. In addition, CAPMlVM with near-native performance need to access, share and distribute allows wo rkstations to access and control • N-way exploitation for increased information among a variety of locations VM cooperative applications and print processing capacity and across different platforms. VMJESA facilities. • MVS console integration, for helps make this possible with a ri ch set of streamlined system management options that can help connect users in a Highlights • SQUDS data sharing highly integrated network. What's more, VMJESA system benefits: • Distributed database function for VMJESA is based on Systems Network • A single interface for the entire improved productivity and application Architecture (SNA), IBM Token-Ring and processor line, helping to provide an fl exibility Ethernet' standards, helping to enhance easy-to-use, cost-effective information workstation connectivity with a large solution PWS connectivity: number of devi ces and systems. • A strategi c foundation for growth, • Standards support for SNA, IBM incorporating enhanced technology, a Token-Ring and Ethernet Advanced synergy wide range of processor support, • APPC communications to help users Workstation sy nergy among users and the proven applications, and advanced access and share information system is made possible through a wide system design • Peer-to-peer connectivity with VM array of advanced VMJESA capabilities. • Improved performance and PWSCF, supporting high-speed Advanced Program-to-Program productivity for a greater return on communications in a Token-Ring Communications (APPC) provides fl exible investment network communications among different • Improved enterprise management with • Access to heterogeneous environments operating systems in a distributed versatile management fa cilities, security through TCPIIP processing environment. support and advanced cooperative • Backup/archive capabilities with p rocesslllg WDSFIVM SFS fil es, SQUDS data and Offi ceVi sion/YM(*) calendars can al so be VMJESA interactive environment: Technical information shared through APPC. • APPC connectivity Hardware requirements: • Transparent Services Access Facility • The ESA capability of VMJESA Peer-to-peer connectivity is made easier (TSAF) for APPC program supports the ESAl370(*) and ESAl390(*) through the IBM VM Personal communication processor architecture. This includes Workstation Communication Facility (VM • SQUDS database sharing all models 01' the IBM ES/3090(*) , PWSCF). VM PWSCF supports high-speed • OfficeVi sion, providing advanced office ES/3090-9000T(*) and ES/9000 models communications between an Enterprise and business application fun ctions that support ESAl370 and ESAl390 Systeml370(*) (ES/370(*)) processor • 31-bit addressability for increased mode. For VMJESA to run natively the running VMlSystem Product (VMlSP) and processing capacity ESA processors must have SKF. workstations attached via a Token-Ring • CSL, making application programming • A minimum of 4MB of real storage loca l area network (LAN) or channel. VM easier • One processor unit PWSCF provides the common • CMS utilities, providing a productive, • One processor controller or support programming interface to APPC for interactive environment processor Operating System12 (**) Extended Edition • CRR, helping to supervise data and • One channel subsysteIJl (OS/2 (**) EE) and Disk Operating System applications in a distributed • One system console (DOS) programs. environment • One printer • REXX and high-level languages, • Two Direct Access Storage Devi ces helping to increase productivity • One 6,250 bits-per-inch, nine-track VMIESA Guest Benefits unit, or one IBM 3480 Guests MVS VSE AIX tape subsystem, or one IBM 3490 tape subsystem Dynamic channel subsystem • • • • • One operator console Serial VO • • • Expanded storage exploitation • • • • Program requirements: Shared VO resources • • • • The following IBM licensed programs are Virtual VO required for VMJESA: • • • • Multiple preferred guests • AssenIbler H Version 2 (Program • • • number 5668-962) (ESA feature only) N-way exploitation • • • Environment Record Editing and MVS console integration • Printing (EREPIVM) 3.4.2 (Program SQUDS data sharing • • number 5654-260) SAA distributed database function • Device Support Facilities (Program • • • number 5747-DSl) 1.12 Supported operating systems in virtual machines • ISPF (Program number 5684-043) This table lists the operating systems that the ESA Feature supports in virtual machines. The ESA Feature V3 R2 supports these operating systems in virtual machines until IBM disconti nues program service fo r them. • DIRMAINT (Program number 5748-XE4) VI R4 Operating System VersionlRelease V= V V= R and V= F Virtual Machine I Virtual Machine I Learn more about IBM's advanced, MVSl3701' ) 1.3.5 and later releases Ap, UP AP, UP interactive operating system MVSlXA 2.1.3 and later releases Up, MP Up, MP The following publications on VMJESA MVS/ESA 3.1 and later release UP, MP Up, MP are available from IBM: VM!SP 5 and later releases Ap, UP Ap, UP • VMJESA General Information (R.l) VMJESA (ESA Feature) 1.1.0 Up, MP UP, MP GC-5440 • VMJESA General Information (R1.1) VMJESA (370 Feature) 1. 1.0 Ap, UP Ap, UP GC24-5550 VM!SP BPO 5 and later releases Ap, UP Ap, UP • VMJESA Introduction GC24-5441 VMlXASP 2 and later releases UP, MP UP, MP Advanced Interactive For more information about VMJESA, talk Executivel370 (AIXJ370) Version 1 UP UP to your IBM marketing representative VSElAF Version 2 and later releases UP UP today. You 'Il learn more about the many VSElSP Version 2, aU releases, and advantages that VMJESA can offer Version 3 Release 1 UP UP businesses like yours. TPF2 2.3 and later UP UP

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