The server built to help optimize your resources throughout the enterprise IBM System z9 Enterprise Class A “classic” might just be the best Today’s market finds that business needs are changing, and having a com­ petitive advantage isn’t always about having more or being bigger, but more about being smarter and responding faster to change and to your clients. Often, being reactive to change has led to infrastructures with mixed technolo­ gies, spread across an enterprise, that are complex and difficult to control and costly to manage. Integration of appli­ cations and data is limited and difficult. Using internal information to make insightful decisions for the company Highlights can be difficult because knowing you are using the “best” data—that which is ■ Strengthening the role of the ■ Continued improvement in most current and complete—may not mainframe as the data hub of IBM FICON® performance and be possible. the enterprise throughput In many situations, investments have ■ New versatile capacity settings ■ On demand innovative tech­ been made in disparate technologies designed to optimize capacity nologies to help meet ever- that may fall short of meeting their and cost changing business demands goals. Merging information from one branch to another may not be possible ■ IBM System z9™ Integrated and so company direction is set with Information Processor (IBM zIIP) is designed to improve resource optimization and lower the cost of eligible work only a portion of the data at hand, and help achieve advanced I/O function and But data management can be a big in a global economy that can really hurt. performance. And while the z9 EC can project. It needs to be available globally; Companies need to be able to regain scale to offer a large capacity main­ it must be kept up in real time and control and create a unified infrastruc­ frame in a single footprint, some cus­ accessible 24x7. At the same time, it ture. The objective is to find a strategic tomers have requested the z9 EC needs to be protected from unautho­ platform to standardize on, one that’s innovative features with more flexibility rized access and to comply with new able to integrate and support a large in customizing and sizing the capacity regulations. The IBM System z™ main­ and diverse set of applications, and one of the general purposes processors frame family has a strong heritage in that has resources that can be shared (CPs) that reside in the server. These data serving, and its architecture is and optimized for maximum use. And customers want more options as they designed for massive data access, of course the goal includes the ability to weigh business demands and costs, whether across the Internet, to storage scale as the company grows, providing trying to achieve the right balance. The devices, or to remote backup sites. a safe and security-rich level of new subcapacity models of the z9 EC Scalability, availability, security—these resource protection. satisfy these requests. These enhanced are all core competencies of the capabilities illustrate that the z9 EC is a mainframe. The System z9 mainframe is perfect to classic that doubles as an advanced take on that role. While having classic solution designed to support the IT The z9 EC, like the predecessor strengths on which its reputation was infrastructure needed for today’s IBM mainframes, includes dedicated formed, it continues to be a leader in on demand business. I/O processors (the System Assist areas such as data management, avail­ Processor or SAP) to manage thou­ ability, security and resiliency, virtualiza­ Information on demand is the core of sands of concurrent data accesses. It tion and integration. Its ability to your business provides more available channel band­ support many open and industry stan­ Data is at the core of every business. width and FICON channels than the dards, with comprehensive support for Being able to integrate and merge data IBM eServer™ zSeries® 990 (z990). Service-Oriented Architecture, makes it from different databases can enable The new MIDAW Facility on the z9 EC an ideal platform for deploying new businesses to provide timely, current can help improve FICON channel effi­ workloads or for interoperating with and correct information to their clients. ciency and throughput. The new new workloads on alternative This type of delivery allows a business enhanced book availability, redundant technologies. to be responsive and flexible to its I/O interconnect, channel subsystem clients’ requests. Taking this a step fur­ enhancements and enhanced driver The System z9 Enterprise Class ther, a business may benefit from being maintenance can increase the z9 EC’s (z9 EC), formerly the System z9 109 able to analyze the information for availability, helping to protect not just (z9-109), provides tight collaboration insight, research or simulations. This the mainframe but also its applications with IBM storage and IBM software to can help set corporate strategy and from unplanned as well as planned allow a business to have a competitive outages. edge. The new System z9 Integrated configured with eight or fewer general Optimizing for better resource utilization Information Processor (IBM zIIP) purpose processors. With the z9 EC The IBM System z9 Integrated specialty engine is designed to help four book design, additional available Information Processor (IBM zIIP) was improve resource optimization and processors within the server can be announced in January 2006. The zIIP’s lower the cost of portions of eligible characterized as specialty engines execution environment will accept eligi­ workloads. IBM DB2® for z/OS® V8 (ICFs, IFLs, zAAPs or zIIPs) or for ble work from z/OS 1.6 and above, and above will exploit the zIIP capability Capacity Backup Upgrade (CBU). which will manage and direct the work for portions of eligible workloads. between the general purpose processor The zIIP can help to strengthen the Although there is no change to the total and the zIIP. DB2 for z/OS V8 and System z9 mainframe as the data number of available processors on the above will exploit the zIIP capability for serving hub, helping customers to z9 EC, customers will be able to eligible workloads. more fully leverage their valuable choose from four different subcapacity assets. In addition to supporting por­ settings when they run with eight or The zIIP is designed so that a program tions of DB2 workloads, IBM plans to fewer general purpose processors. The can work with z/OS to have all or a announce an enhancement to the z/OS z9 EC will now have a new lower entry portion of its Service Request Block Communications Server that allows the that is 66% smaller than the current (SRB) dispatched work directed to the IPSec processing to take advantage of z9 EC entry and will offer 24 new zIIP. Types of eligible work that access zIIP specialty engines. It is anticipated capacity settings. Once the requirement DB2 and that can have portions of that the zIIP will help reduce the overall for general purpose processors their work be directed to the zIIP cost of IPSec processing.1 exceeds eight, all general purpose include CRM (Customer Relationship processors will be full capacity. All Management), ERP (Enterprise Versatile design for optimized sizing functions and features of the z9 EC Resource Planning), BI (Business Offered on our IBM S/390® and are available when running with Intelligence) and data warehousing zSeries midrange servers since 1999, subcapacity processors. applications. subcapacity general purpose proces­ sors have allowed customers to choose All mainframe customers now have the In addition to supporting portions a server sized to best meet business option of selecting a server that meets of DB2 workloads, IBM plans to requirements. This granularity and flexi­ both total capacity requirements as well announce an enhancement to the z/OS bility has been dramatically extended in as being able to select the number of Communications Server that allows the the midrange mainframe line in the past general purpose processors that best IPSec processing to take advantage of few years and is now being offered on fits their application and processing zIIP specialty engines. It is anticipated the z9 EC. On the z9 EC, subcapacity requirements. that the zIIP will help reduce the overall processors are available on servers cost of IPSec processing.1 1 All statements regarding IBM’s future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives only. Enabling with FICON It is a must to have the flexibility to rap­ Availability and security for an on demand The z9 EC will now include FICON idly increase or decrease computing world Express4 to help improve capacity and capability as requirements change. This The z9 EC is focused on providing high performance with the next generation of may be a permanent capacity increase availability by helping to reduce both FICON/FCP. This new feature may for planned growth or a temporary planned and unplanned outages. When reduce the cost of storage operations capacity increase for seasonal or properly configured, outage reductions and infrastructure and shorten backup unpredictable peak periods. When may be achieved as a result of the windows with faster channel link properly configured, the z9 EC provides z9 EC improved non-disruptive replace, speeds. The FICON Express4 channel the capability to quickly and non- repair, channel subsystem enhance­ is designed to improve performance of disruptively activate “extra” processor ments and upgrade functions for mem­ FICON channel reads or writes for uni­ capacity that is built directly into the ory, books and I/O as well as the directional transfers and total through­ server. IBM Capacity Upgrade capability, in select circumstances, to put for a mix of reads and writes.