IBM WebSphere Business Services Fabric for z/OS V6.1 features enhanced consumability and improved concurrency with the Business Process Management Portfolio

IBM United States Software Announcement 207-238
October 9, 2007

 

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(Corrected on October 22, 2007)

In the Description section, under Feature Details -- IBM Insurance P & C Content Pack, the item "Insurance P & C capability and process definitions that are based on inputs from ACORD Capability and Process Maps" was changed to "Insurance P & C capability and process definitions that are based on insurance P & C best practices."
 

At a glance

WebSphere Business Services Fabric for z/OS V6.1 extends the IBM Business Process Management (BPM) platform to deliver flexible composite business applications. Optional industry content packs that contain prebuilt service-oriented architecture (SOA) assets are available for the development of industry-specific composite business applications.

  • Improved consumability and ease of use
  • Concurrency with IBM BPM and connectivity software portfolio
  • Enhanced industry content packs

For ordering, contact:

Your IBM representative or IBM Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL (Reference: LE001).
 
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Overview

WebSphere® Business Services Fabric for z/OS® V6.1 is a comprehensive service-oriented architecture (SOA) offering is designed to extend IBM Business Process Management (BPM) platform to deliver flexible composite business applications. WebSphere Business Services Fabric includes the tools and run time to model, assemble, deploy, manage, and govern Business Services, the reusable building blocks of composite business applications. Optional industry content packs that contain prebuilt SOA assets are available for the development of industry-specific composite business applications.

New features and benefits:

  • Improved consumability and ease of use
    • Enhanced documentation, installation, and search and browse capabilities
    • Improved Business Policy Lifecycle Management targeting design-time, run time, and manage-time
    • Addition of System Modification Program/Extended (SMP/E)-based installer for z/OS platform to help simplify installation
    • Tighter integration with WebSphere Services Registry Repository V6.1 for consolidated storage for all service meta-data
    • Support for Russian language
  • Concurrency with IBM BPM and Connectivity software portfolio
    • Concurrent with other WebSphere V6.1 product releases to help enable additional capabilities and provide improved process execution
      • WebSphere Process Server for z/OS V6.1
      • WebSphere Integration Developer V6.1
      • WebSphere Service Registry and Repository for z/OS V6.1
    • Additional platforms supported to align with other WebSphere V6.1 product releases and provide more deployment options including support for z/OS 1.8 and DB2® 9.1 database
  • Enhanced industry content packs
    • New prebuilt capability and business process decompositions based on industry standards and best practices
    • Better tooling made to all existing industry content packs including Healthcare Payor, Telecom Operations, Banking Payments and Insurance Property & Casualty (P&C) Content Packs

 
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Key prerequisites

Refer to Hardware requirements and Software requirements sections for a complete list.
 
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Planned availability date

February 1, 2008
 
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Description

WebSphere Business Services Fabric consists of:

IBM Business Services Foundation Pack which can:

  • Provide a highly scalable, run-time policy definition and enforcement engine that enables dynamic service assembly and service behavior adaptation based on content, context, and contract.
  • Control and automate entitlement of business services for subscribers, enabling creation, control, and management of service packages to subscribers across the ecosystem. Integrates with leading security and identity management products
  • Offer visibility and monitoring of service-oriented processes and applications. Includes multi-perspective views and enables drill-down analysis of events and exception.
  • Enables end-to-end governance of business services through design, runtime, deployment, and management.
  • Store and manage business services, policies, and business service entitlements.

Industry content packs deliver reference business services templates that are designed to be optimized to industry standards and consist of the following prebuilt SOA assets:

  • Reference business services templates that include definitions of business assertions, business roles, and business channels, that are based on the industry business glossary
  • Industry business glossary that presents a taxonomy of industry terms, with associated relationships and properties
  • Industry standards-based data types and Web service interfaces that can enable interoperability across disparate systems in the enterprise ecosystem
  • Industry common services that can speed the delivery and assembly of composite business applications
  • Industry business object model (BOM) that can be used as a logical data model for design and development of composite business applications
  • Knowledge assets that can help accelerate consumability and extensibility of the prebuilt SOA content packaged in industry content packs. Available industry content packs:
    • IBM Insurance P&C Content Pack for WebSphere Business Services Fabric focuses on the property and casualty lines of businesses for insurance enterprises.
    • IBM Healthcare Payor Content Pack for WebSphere Business Services Fabric focuses on the payor processes in healthcare enterprises.
    • IBM Banking Payments Content Pack for WebSphere Business Services Fabric focuses on payments capabilities of financial services enterprises.
    • IBM Telecom Operations Content Pack for WebSphere Business Services Fabric focuses on billing, fulfillment and assurance operations for telecommunication enterprises.

Functions and benefits

  • Integrated environment to help rapidly model, assemble, deploy, and manage composite business applications
    • Provides a robust environment to help accurately express and execute business intent through technology.
    • Offers a complete set of WebSphere-driven technologies to deliver dynamic function in a single product that includes connectivity infrastructure, process integration, and solution construction. You can work with a controlled, common model to orchestrate, mediate, connect, map, and execute the underlying IT functions across your IT landscape.
    • Enables a collaborative environment to assemble instead of code business solutions to help reduce development efforts for building solutions.
    • Helps improve visibility to business and IT assets to enable greater reuse and time-to-value when creating composite business applications.
    • Includes a full set of role-based tools and consoles to reduce the need to purchase or build additional tools and instrumentation.
    • Offers a compelling set of WebSphere tools for people, information, and application integration.
  • Ability to leverage rather than replace legacy, packaged, and custom applications
    • Acts as a controllable and structured front-end environment for fragile and rigid applications with dynamic, component-driven, and reusable assets and building blocks assembled into composite business applications
    • Interoperates with both IBM and other vendors' products using open standards to wrap and consolidate your heritage technology assets with dynamic and modern composite business applications
    • Includes support by a growing business partner ecosystem of content, code, methodologies, and documentation that you can use to help expedite delivery of your composite business applications
  • Ability to define and leverage common industry semantics as the language for simplifying interoperability between disparate systems
    • Enables a flexible, extensible, SOA-based environment that is industry relevant using industry specific reference content
    • Provides a controlled environment that uses open standards to represent the relationships and associations to codify business intentions and enforce business designs
    • Readily consumes line-of-business and industry standard models and associates them with existing and expected SOA components to help create business and industry-appropriate composite business applications
    • Helps remove the requirement to repeatedly define, capture, and code industry and business meaning into each technology interface, artifact, and application
  • Life-cycle management and governance of business services
    • Includes prebuilt tools, consoles, and capabilities for managing artifacts and composite business applications
    • Offers a manageable and controllable environment to help ensure asset reuse, alignment to business concepts, reduction of development churn, and capacity to control new development costs
    • Maintains, retires, restores, and versions solution components and pathways
  • Customized business service delivery and dynamic solution behavior
    • Enables the reuse of business services through dimensional, contextually aware business service assembly as a solution is executing
    • Offers multiple customized user experiences while still enforcing the high-level business process
    • Introduces a first-of-a-kind approach for the creation, enforcement, and delivery of dynamic solution behavior through the application of business policies and intentions
    • Can add flexibility into solutions without adding onerous development efforts by enabling multiple channels to leverage, reuse, and extend process pathways during execution
  • Ability to define and manage subscriber entitlements and portfolios
    • Designed to deliver significantly improved solution deployment and enablement — often without having to migrate any code or artifacts
    • Dramatically improves solution deployment options without requiring a continuous stream of code deployments and migrations of solution elements
    • Offers a prebuilt scaffolding of function for the insertion of self-servicing and enrollment into business solutions, thereby enabling substantial business savings for solution operation and administration
  • Repository for service metadata, policy, and subscriber information
    • Enables a centralized storage mechanism for business-relevant metadata that can be leveraged in creation of solutions and content while helping to reduce duplication of information across a customer environment
    • Create and use business policies that you can apply to drive solution behavior and dynamic execution
    • Apply consistently and collaboratively used business metadata from a single source to dynamically influence and enforce solution behavior
    • Includes associated tooling to capture, define, arrange, and systematically store pertinent and reusable business information, context, and meaning around solution components
  • Industry content packs that jumpstart delivery of industry-specific, composite business applications
    • Designed for specific industry participants to facilitate more rapid assembly of composite business applications.
    • Optimized for industry best practices, ensuring consistency and reuse across geographic locations, product lines, and processes.
    • Help simplify interoperability by defining the common language to facilitate interoperability between disparate IT assets. These prepackaged industry-specific vocabularies are expressed as an extensible ontology (for example, HL7, ISO 20022, and NGOSS SID).
    • Help speed time-to-market with prebuilt, frequently reused horizontal infrastructure services. Includes interfaces to popular industry-specific third-party and business process outsourcing services.
    • Helps speed time-to-market using prebuilt business assertions that ensure consistency, and maintain standards compliance during the definition and development of business service policies.
    • Expands use within an enterprise, or helps enhance the security of publishing to a broader partner ecosystem. Enables clients and partners to plug-in their SOA assets to predefined reference business services templates.

Feature details

  • Storage of business services, subscribers, and policies to enable assembly of composite business applications
    • Central repository for business service metadata, industry ontologies, policies, and subscribers
    • RDF/OWL-based, metamodel, allowing for capturing semantics and easy extensibility
    • Ability to federate metadata from other repositories such as LDAP systems and WebSphere Service Registry and Repository
    • Conflict detection during collaborative development
    • Powerful search, dependency, and impact analysis
    • Role-based, context, and namespace level security that leverages existing access control systems
    • Support for entire metadata life cycle, including comprehensive versioning, change tracking, and collaborative governance of service metadata
  • Metadata-driven assembly of business services and composite business applications
    • Enables publishing and managing service models, policies, and service portfolios
    • Can achieve rapid and security-enhanced assembly of disparate IT assets into business services
    • Supports both top-down business domain decomposition and bottom-up analysis of underlying IT systems
    • Creates and enforces design, run-time, and change-time policies
    • Composes unique multichannel services that power multiple access modes such as Web, business-to-business, interactive voice response (IVR), and fax
    • Delivers model and manage meta-information about business services including WSDL, Web services (WS)-Policy- and Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)-defined declarations, and actual behavior of services
    • Models policies as a basis for dynamic discovery, matching, and binding of services based on content, context, and contract
    • Simulates service behavior based on different usage scenarios
    • Manages run-time meta-information for matching business service requesters and service providers using policies
    • Applies policies at various levels (for example, business ecosystem, application, business service, or service end point)
    • Assembles policies in a unified, flexible, and extensible grammar to express the capabilities, requirements, and characteristics of entities within an SOA
  • Easy modification and dynamic execution of business services
    • Highly optimized semantic mediation engine that enables metadata-driven service discovery, matching, and interoperability during both design and runtime
    • Business service policies to replace hard-coded service bindings in enterprise service bus, BPEL, and business-to-business (B2B) connections with dynamic end-point selection based on content, context, and contract of the service request
    • Policy-based customization across multiple domains, business processes, and service end points
    • Policy enforcement that is based on performance, reliability, interoperability, security, and manageability of business services
    • Dynamic business service and process customization without affecting larger subscriber base
    • Ability to help eliminate and reduce hard-coded binding changes with policy-based process customization
    • Ability to reduce integration complexity through ontology-based classification and data transformation rules
  • Business service portfolio management
    • Controls and automates multi-entity and multidomain entitlement of business services for service consumers
    • Enables application administrators to create, control, and manage on demand service packages to subscribers across the business ecosystem
    • Designed for integration with identity management and LDAP systems, and supports both self-service and assisted enrollment and cancellation of business service portfolios
    • Manages business service portfolios for subscribers
    • Federates subscriber information from LDAP systems for user data
    • Enables policy-driven relationships between subscribers and "real world" artifacts such as existing applications, service declarations, and domain models
    • Collects and stores subscriber information and associate subscribers with their chosen services
    • Creates and manages hierarchical roles, business users, and domains and assigns services to them
    • Reliably creates and publishes portfolios of available business services with standardized service packages and service performance levels
    • Registers subscribers and manages subscriber profiles for business services
    • Enables both self-service and assisted enrollment models for management of customized business service portfolios
    • Represents complex organizational hierarchies and captures metadata related to subscribers and roles
    • Validates changes made to subscribers, roles, and organizational hierarchies
  • Real-time business service visibility and control
    • Business visibility and monitoring of business services for business analysts and IT administrators
    • Multiperspective views and drill-down analysis of events and exceptions with respect to business context in a loosely coupled, service-oriented business ecosystem
    • Subscriber- and role-based drill-down performance visibility against business goals and business service level agreements (BSLAs)
    • Real-time business service support for billing and metering of composite business applications at business service level
    • Console for performance monitoring of business services customizable by business need
    • Domain, subscriber, and service-based performance and BSLA reporting
    • Centralized business services content monitoring and alert notification
    • Configurable audit trails on business service invocations for security, service level agreement, and compliance monitoring
  • Comprehensive business service governance
    • Manages life-cycle changes to business services
    • Controls business metadata promotion between environments
    • Validates extended meta-models to ensure accuracy and correctness before publishing into run time
    • Ensures metadata integrity while modeling business services in a multi-authoring environment
    • Defines policies for metadata visibility in collaborative development environments
    • Notifies users of changes
    • Changes management process for business service versioning, validation, and performance management
    • Includes open APIs for integration with change management systems, such as IBM Rational® ClearCase®

Industry content packs for P&C insurers, health plans, financial institutions, and telecom service providers

  • IBM Insurance P&C Content Pack for WebSphere Business Services Fabric
  • IBM Healthcare Payor Content Pack for WebSphere Business Services Fabric
  • IBM Banking Payments Content Pack for WebSphere Business Services Fabric
  • IBM Telecom Operations Content Pack for WebSphere Business Services Fabric
IBM Insurance P&C Content Pack
  • Insurance P&C capability and process definitions that are based on insurance P&C best practices
  • Insurance P&C Reference Business Services Templates — Insurance P&C specific business services definitions, associated Web services and metadata (roles, channels, assertions, and policy templates)
  • Insurance P&C Business Glossary — An Insurance P&C common vocabulary that represents the taxonomy of insurance terms, with associated relationships and properties; based on IBM Insurance Application Architecture (IAA) business object model, and eEG7 SMILe Data Dictionary
  • Insurance P&C Business Object Model — ACORD P&C standards and eEG7 SMILe Data Model-based business object models that represent the conceptual view of the P&C domain through business objects
  • Insurance P&C Service Interfaces — Insurance P&C specific schemas and Web service interfaces based on a subset of Interface Design Model (IDM) of IAA
  • Insurance P&C Common Services — Insurance P&C specific service implementations that are consistently reused in solutions to enable transactional functions like validation, error identification, bulking, and transformation, based on ACORD P&C standards
  • Knowledge assets including documentation and sample implementation scenarios to assist in the consumption and extension of the assets packaged in IBM Insurance P&C Content Pack

IBM Healthcare Payor Content Pack

  • Healthcare Payor-specific capability and process definitions
  • Healthcare Payor Reference Business Services Templates — Healthcare Payor specific business services definitions, associated Web services, and metadata (roles, channels, assertions, and policy templates)
  • Healthcare Payor Business Glossary — A Healthcare Payor common vocabulary that represents a taxonomy of health plan terms, with associated relationships and properties based on HL7 (Health Level Seven) Vocabulary and ASC X12 EDI for HIPAA
  • Healthcare Payor Business Object Model — HL7 RIM (Reference Information Model) V3 based business object model that represents conceptual view of health insurance enterprises through business objects
  • Healthcare Payor Service Interfaces — Healthcare Payor specific schemas and web service interfaces based on ASC X12 EDI messages for HIPAA and HL7 standards
  • Healthcare Payor Common Services — Healthcare Payor specific service implementations that enable transactions like validation, error identification, bulking, debulking, and transformation, that are based on HL7 messaging standards and ASC X12 EDI standards for HIPAA
  • Knowledge assets that include documentation and sample implementation scenarios to help assist in the consumption and extension of the assets packaged in IBM Healthcare Payor Content Pack

IBM Banking Payments Content Pack

  • Banking Payments capability and process definitions with inputs from process definitions from ISO 20022 Data Dictionary
  • Banking Payments Reference Business Services Templates — Banking Payments specific business services definitions, associated Web services and metadata (roles, channels, assertions, and policy templates)
  • Banking Payments Business Glossary — A banking payments common vocabulary that represents the taxonomy of banking terms, with associated relationships and properties; based on ISO 20022 Data Dictionary, NACHA (Electronic Payments Association, formerly the National Automated Clearing House Association) payments standards, and the IBM Information Framework (IFW) business object model, and SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area) Messaging Model
  • Banking Payments Business Object Model — ISO 20022 Data Dictionary-based business object model that represents the conceptual view of the payments domain through business objects
  • Banking Payments Service Interfaces — Banking Payments specific schemas and Web service interfaces based on a subset of Interface Design Model (IDM) of IFW
  • Banking Payments Common Services — Banking Payments specific service implementations that are consistently reused in solutions to enable transactional functions like validation, error identification, bulking, and transformation, based on ISO 20022, SEPA, and NACHA payments standards
  • Knowledge assets including documentation and sample implementation scenarios to assist in the consumption and extension of the assets packaged in IBM Banking Payments Content Pack

IBM Telecom Operations Content Pack

  • Telecom Operations capability and process definitions based on enhanced Telecom Operations Map (eTOM)
  • Telecom Operations Reference Business Services Templates — Telecom operations specific business services definitions, associated web services and metadata (roles, channels, assertions and policy templates), based on TAM (Telecom Applications Map) and NGOSS eTOM (enhanced Telecom Operations Map) that cover fulfillment, assurance, and billing processes
  • Telecom Operations Business Glossary — A telecom-specific common vocabulary that represents a taxonomy of Telecom terms, with associated relationships and properties based on NGOSS SID (Shared Information Data) standards
  • Telecom Operations Business Object Model — NGOSS SID model-based business object model that represents conceptual view of a telecom enterprise through business objects
  • Telecom Operations Service Interfaces — Telecom operations specific schemas and Web service interfaces to support OSS/BSS processes based on NGOSS SID model, NGOSS OSS/J (Operational Support Systems through Java™ Initiative), and NGOSS MTOSI model (Multi-Technology Operations System Interface)
  • Telecom Operations Common Services — Telecom operations specific service implementations that enable transactions like validation, error identification, and transformation, based on NGOSS SID model, NGOSS OSS/J and NGOSS MTOSI models
  • Knowledge assets that include documentation and sample implementation to help consume and extend the assets packaged in Telecom Operations Content Pack

Accessibility by people with disabilities

A U.S. Section 508 Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) containing details on accessibility compliance can be requested at

Section 508 of the U.S. Rehabilitation Act

WebSphere Business Services Fabric for z/OS V6.1 is capable, as of October 9, 2007, when used in accordance with associated IBM documentation, of satisfying the applicable requirements of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, provided that any assistive technology used with the product properly interoperates with it.

Value Unit-based pricing

Value Unit pricing for eligible IBM eServer® System z™ IBM International Program License Agreement (IPLA) programs enables a lower cost of incremental growth and enterprise aggregation. Each System z IPLA product with Value Unit pricing, has a single price per Value Unit and a conversion matrix, called Value Unit Exhibit, for converting from some designated measurement to Value Units. Most commonly, Millions of Service Units (MSUs) is the measurement designated by IBM to be converted to Value Units. Some other measurements are engines or messages. Since MSUs are the most common measurement, that measurement will be used for the remainder of this description.

Value Unit pricing offers price benefits for you. For each System z IPLA program with Value Unit pricing, the quantity of that program needed to satisfy applicable IBM terms and conditions is referred to as the required license capacity . Each of the various Value Unit Exhibits stipulate that the larger your required license capacity, the fewer Value Units per MSU you will need. Value Unit Exhibits are uniquely identified by a three digit code and referred to using the nomenclature VUExxx, where xxx is the three digit code.

Subsequent acquisitions of Value Unit priced programs offer additional price benefits. The quantity of each System z IPLA program that you have acquired is referred to as entitled license capacity . If you wish to grow your entitled license capacity for a System z IPLA program, the calculation to determine additional needed Value Units is based upon the number of Value Units already acquired.

For each System z IPLA program with Value Unit pricing, you should:

  • Determine the required license capacity, in MSUs
  • Aggregate the MSUs across the enterprise
  • Convert the total MSUs to Value Units, using the applicable Value Unit Exhibit
  • Multiply the price per Value Unit by the total number of Value Units to determine the total cost

To simplify conversion from the designated measurement to Value Units or vice-versa, use the Value Unit Converter Tool. For additional information or to obtain a copy of the Value Unit Converter Tool, visit the Value Unit Converter Tool Web site

Note that Value Units of a given product cannot be exchanged, interchanged, or aggregated with Value Units of another product.

To determine the required license capacity for the System z IPLA program you selected, refer to the Terms and conditions section.
 
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Reference information

For information on IBM WebSphere Process Server for z/OS V6.1, refer to 207-244 , dated October 9, 2007.

For information on WebSphere Integration Developer V6.1, refer to 207-230 , dated October 9, 2007.

For information on WebSphere Services Registry and Repository for z/OS V6.1, refer to 207-240 , dated October 9, 2007.

For information on WebSphere Services Registry and Repository V6.1, refer to 207-245 , dated October 9, 2007.

For information on WebSphere Business Services Fabric V6.1, refer to 207-237 , dated October 9, 2007.

Business Partner information

If you are a Direct Reseller - System Reseller acquiring products from IBM, you may link directly to Business Partner information for this announcement. A PartnerWorld ID and password are required (use IBM ID).

BP Attachment for Announcement Letter 207-238

Trademarks

 
System z is a trademark of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries or both.
 
WebSphere, z/OS, DB2, ClearCase, Rational, and eServer are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries or both.
 
Java is a trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc.
 
Other company, product, and service names may be trademarks or service marks of others.

 
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Education support

Training is available for WebSphere® Business Services Fabric for z/OS®. IBM Training provides education to support many IBM offerings. Descriptions of courses for IT professionals and managers are on the IBM Training Web site

Refer to the IBM Training Web site for information on course locations and availability dates.

Call IBM Training at 800-IBM-TEACH (426-8322) for catalogs, schedules, and enrollments.

IBM delivers a comprehensive portfolio of education services to help clients successfully deploy and integrate WebSphere products to a maximum potential.

Because education is a key component to ensuring software success, the IBM education team is committed to providing the highest quality education available to help your company prosper in today's competitive marketplace. Our education programs will provide your employees with the skills necessary to make your business profitable using IBM software.

By working closely with our product developers and services organizations, we offer that will deliver the most up-to-the-minute technical and product information. Our courses emphasize the advanced knowledge and insight that only the technical experience can provide in the development of our courses, and then pass that knowledge on to our students.

For more information about available education offerings, refer to the Web site

Role-based skills roadmaps can be found on this page

Call IBM training at 800-IBM-TEACH (426-8322) for catalogs, schedules, and enrollments.
 
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Offering Information

Product information is available via the Offering Information Web site


 
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Publications

Hardcopy documentation is shipped with this product.

Fabric Core

  • The IBM Foundation Pack Installation Guide for WebSphere Business Services Fabric
  • The IBM Foundation Pack z/OS Installation Guide for WebSphere Business Services Fabric

Industry content packs

Installation guide

  • The IBM Healthcare Payor Content Pack Installation Guide for WebSphere Business Services Fabric
  • The IBM Insurance Property and Casualty Content Pack Installation Guide for WebSphere Business Services Fabric
  • The IBM Banking Payments Content Pack Installation Guide for WebSphere Business Services Fabric
  • The IBM Telecom Operations Content Pack Installation Guide for WebSphere Business Services Fabric

Developers guide

  • The IBM Healthcare Payor Content Pack Developers Guide for WebSphere Business Services Fabric
  • The IBM Insurance Property and Casualty Content Pack Developers Guide for WebSphere Business Services Fabric
  • The IBM Banking Payments Content Pack Developers Guide for WebSphere Business Services Fabric
  • The IBM Telecom Operations Content Pack Developers Guide for WebSphere Business Services Fabric

Reference architecture guides

  • The IBM Healthcare Payor Content Pack Reference Architecture Guide for WebSphere Business Services Fabric
  • The IBM Insurance Property and Casualty Content Pack Reference Architecture Guide for WebSphere Business Services Fabric
  • The IBM Banking Payments Content Pack Reference Architecture Guide for WebSphere Business Services Fabric
  • The IBM Telecom Operations Content Pack Reference Architecture Guide for WebSphere Business Services Fabric

How-to guides

  • The IBM Healthcare Payor Content Pack How-To Guide for WebSphere Business Services Fabric
  • The IBM Insurance Property and Casualty Content Pack How-To Guide for WebSphere Business Services Fabric
  • The IBM Banking Payments Content Pack How-To for WebSphere Business Services Fabric
  • The IBM Telecom Operations Content Pack How-To for WebSphere Business Services Fabric

 
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Technical information

Specified operating environment

Hardware requirements

Any hardware that is explicitly compatible and fully capable of running the specified operating system, all the corresponding supporting software, and any associated applications unmodified. The responsibility to provide a statement of full compatibility between machines lies with the original equipment provider (if not IBM).

Software requirements

Server platform : z/OS V1.7 or z/OS V1.8

Client platforms

  • Microsoft™ Windows™ 2003
  • Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2
  • Windows Vista

Repository database

  • DB2 Universal Database® for z/OS V8
  • DB2® V9.1 for z/OS

Application server WebSphere Process Server for z/OS V6.1

Other software

  • WebSphere Service Registry and Repository V6.1 (5724-N72), or WebSphere Service Registry and Repository for z/OS V6.1 (5655-R41)
  • WebSphere Integration Developer V6.1

Planning information

Packaging

WebSphere Business Services Fabric for z/OS Industry content packs are shipped on 3840 tape:

  • IBM Insurance P&C Content Pack for WebSphere Business Services Fabric for z/OS
  • IBM Healthcare Payor Content Pack for WebSphere Business Services Fabric for z/OS
  • IBM Banking Payments Content Pack for WebSphere Business Services Fabric for z/OS
  • IBM Telecom Operations Content Pack for WebSphere Business Services Fabric for z/OS

Note: Product documentation is shipped on product tapes. Documentation from industry standards groups (for example, HL7, ASC X12, ISO, SWIFT, NACHA, NGOSS) is not provided. You may find documentation, associated with these standards, beneficial in creating end-to-end business applications. If this documentation is required, contact the associated industry standards body.

Security, auditability, and control

IBM WebSphere Business Services Fabric uses the security and auditability features of the host hardware and software.

The customer is responsible for evaluation, selection, and implementation of security features, administrative procedures, and appropriate controls in application systems and communication facilities.

Software Services

IBM Software Services has the breadth, depth, and reach to manage your services needs. You can leverage the deep technical skills of our lab-based, software services team and the business consulting, project management, and infrastructure expertise of our IBM Global Services team. Also, we extend our IBM Software Services reach through IBM Business Partners to provide an unmatched portfolio of capabilities. Together, we provide the global reach, intellectual capital, industry insight, and technology leadership to support any critical business need.

The following services support WebSphere Business Services Fabric for z/OS V6.1.

  • IBM Migration Services for WebSphere Business Services Fabric for z/OS V6.1
  • ITS Specific Service offering

To learn more about IBM Software Services or to contact a Software Services sales specialist, visit


 
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Ordering information

Charge metric 

Part number or
Program name                  PID number      Charge metric
 
IBM Foundation Pack for       5655-S30        Value Unit
WebSphere Business Services
Fabric for z/OS V6.1
     IBM Business Services Foundation Pack    Per Value Unit
     IBM Healthcare Payor Content Pack        Per Establishment
     IBM Insurance P&C Content Pack           Per Establishment
     IBM Telecom Operations Content Pack      Per Establishment
     IBM Banking Payments Content Pack        Per Establishment

Processor

A processor (commonly called a CPU or core) is a functional unit within a computing device that interprets and executes instructions. A processor consists of at least an instruction control unit and one or more arithmetic or logic unit. With multicore technology, each core is considered a processor. With full capacity licensing, a Proof of Entitlement (PoE) must be acquired for all activated processors available for use on the server.

Sub-capacity processor

A processor (commonly called a CPU or core) is a functional unit within a computing device that interprets and executes instructions. A processor consists of at least an instruction control unit and one or more arithmetic or logic unit. With multicore technology, each core is considered a processor. For programs eligible for sub-capacity licensing, a PoE must be acquired for all activated processors available for use in each partition (utilizing eligible partitioning technologies) where the program runs. Refer to the International Passport Advantage® Agreement Attachment for Sub-Capacity Terms or the program's license information to determine applicable sub-capacity terms.

The programs in this announcement all have Value Unit-based pricing. 

                                                             Value
Program                                                      unit
number    Program name                                       exhibit
 
5655-S30  WebSphere Business Services Fabric for z/OS V6.1   VUE007

For each System z™ IPLA program with Value Unit pricing, the quantity of that program needed to satisfy applicable IBM terms and conditions is referred to as the required license capacity . Your required license capacity is based upon the following factors:

  • The System z IPLA program you select
  • The applicable Value Unit Exhibit
  • The applicable Terms

Value Unit exhibit VUE007 

              MSUs      MSUs
            minimum   maximum   Value Units/MSU
 
Base           1         3           1
Tier A         4        45           0.45
Tier B        46       175           0.36
Tier C       176       315           0.27
Tier D       316         +           0.2

Value Units for mainframes without MSU ratings: 

Hardware      Value Units/machine
 
MP3000 H30            6
MP3000 H50            8
MP3000 H70           12
ESL Models            2

Ordering example

The total number of Value Units is calculated according to the following example.

If your required license capacity is 1,500 MSUs for your selected System z IPLA product, the applicable Value Units would be: 

         Translation from MSUs to Value Units
 
            MSUs    *  Value Units/MSU  = Value Units
Base          3     *      1.00         =      3.00
Tier A       42     *       .45         =     18.90
Tier B      130     *       .36         =     46.80
Tier C      140     *       .27         =     37.80
Tier D    1,185     *       .20         =    237.00
 
Total     1,500                              343.50

When calculating the total number of Value Units, the sum is to be rounded up to the next integer.

Ordering z/OS through the Internet

ShopzSeries provides an easy way to plan and order your z/OS ServerPac or CBPDO. It will analyze your current installation, determine the correct product migration, and present your new configuration based on z/OS. Additional products can also be added to your order (including determination of whether all product requisites are satisfied). ShopzSeries is available in the U.S. and several countries in Europe. In countries where ShopzSeries is not available yet, contact your IBM representative (or IBM Business Partner) to handle your order via the traditional IBM ordering process. For more details and availability, visit the ShopzSeries Web site at

The products in this announcement have one charge unit — Value Units. 

Translation from MSUs to Value Units example using VUE001
 
               MSUs       Value Units/MSU
 
   Base        1-3            5.25
   Tier A      4-45            .83
   Tier B     46-175           .35
   Tier C    176-315           .26
   Tier D    316+              .20

Note: For the actual translation from MSUs to Value Units for this product, refer to the table that follows.

Ordering example: The total number of Value Units is calculated according to the following example.

If the customer has installed 1,000 MSUs, the applicable Value Units would be: 

      Translation from MSUs to Value Units (VUE001)
 
              MSUs    *  Value Units/MSU  = Value Units
  Base          3     *      5.25         =     15.75
  Tier A       42     *       .83         =     34.86
  Tier B      130     *       .35         =     45.50
  Tier C      140     *       .26         =     36.40
  Tier D      685     *       .20         =    137.00
 
  Total     1,000                              270

When calculating the total number of Value Units, the sum is to be rounded up to the next integer.

Value Units for non-MSU-based S/390® processors using VUE001: 

  MP3000 models
      H30         =  21.00 Value Units per machine
      H50         =  22.00 Value Units per machine
      H70         =  26.00 Value Units per machine
      ESL Models  =   9.00 Value Units per machine

Basic license

OOCoD — WebSphere Business Services Fabric for z/OS

IBM WebSphere Business Services Fabric for z/OS V6.1 is eligible for On/Off Capacity on Demand (On/Off CoD) with a Temporary Use Charge calculated based on MSUs-per day usage. 

Program name  IBM WebSphere Business Services Fabric for z/OS V6.1
Program PID   5655-S30
 
Entitlement                              License option /
identifier  Description                  Pricing metric
 
S013R2D     IBM Business Services        Basic OTC, Per MSU-day TUC
              Foundation Pack
 
OTC = One-time charge

System z OTC MSU Tiers — Value Unit Pricing

Translation from MSUs to Value Units
 
              MSUs       Value Units/MSU
 
   Base        1-3            1
   Tier A      4-45           0.45
   Tier B     46-175          0.36
   Tier C    176-315          0.27
   Tier D    316+             0.2

To order, specify the program product number and the appropriate license or charge option. Also, specify the desired distribution medium. To suppress shipment of media, select the license-only option in CFSW. 

Program name  IBM WebSphere Business Services Fabric for z/OS V6.1
Program PID   5655-S30
 
The following information is a summary of all license options and
pricing metrics offered for the above PID number.
 
Entitlement                                       License option /
identifier   Description                          Pricing metric
 
S013R2D      IBM Business Services                Per Value unit
               Foundation Pack
S013R1H      IBM Healthcare Payor Content Pack    Per Establishment
S013R2L      IBM Insurance P&C Content Pack       Per Establishment
S0140WT      IBM Banking Payments Content Pack    Per Establishment
S0140WS      IBM Telecom Operations Content Pack  Per Establishment
 
Orderable                                           Distribution
supply ID:   Description                          Language  Medium
 
S014FDP      IBM Business Services                English   3840
               Foundation Pack
S014FDR      IBM Healthcare Payor Content Pack    English   3840
S014FDS      IBM Insurance P&C Content Pack       English   3840
S014FDN      IBM Banking Payments Content Pack    English   3840
S014FF5      IBM Telecom Operations Content Pack  English   3840
 
Subscription and Support PID  5655-S31
 
The following information is a summary of all license options and
pricing metrics offered  for the above PID number.
 
Entitlement                           License option /
identifier  Description               Pricing metric
 
S013R30     IBM Business Services     Basic ASC, Value Units SW
            Foundation Pack           Basic MSC, Value Units SW S&S
                                       (Europe only)
                                      Decline SW S&S (no charge)
                                      Per MSU SW S&S Registration
 
S013R31     IBM Healthcare Payor      Basic ASC, Per Establish SW S&S
            Content Pack              Basic MSC, Per Establish SW S&S
                                       (Europe only)
                                      Decline SW S&S (no charge)
 
S013R32     IBM Insurance P&C         Basic ASC, Per Establish SW S&S
            Content Pack              Basic MSC, Per Establish SW S&S
                                       (Europe only)
                                      Decline SW S&S (no charge)
 
S0140XD     IBM Banking Payments      Basic ASC, Per Establish SW S&S
            Content Pack              Basic MSC, Per Establish SW S&S
                                       (Europe only)
                                      Decline SW S&S
                                      (no charge) S&S
 
S0140XC     IBM Telecom Operations    Basic ASC, Per Establish SW S&S
            Content Pack              Basic MSC, Per Establish SW S&S
                                       (Europe only)
                                      Decline SW S&S (no charge)
 
 
Orderable                                         Distribution
supply ID:  Description                         Language  Medium
 
S013R2W     IBM Business Services               English   Paper
             Foundation Pack
S013R2X     IBM Healthcare Payor Content Pack   English   Paper
S013R2Z     IBM Insurance P&C Content Pack      English   Paper
S0140XB     IBM Banking Payments Content Pack   English   Paper
S0140X8     IBM Telecom Operations Content Pack English   Paper

Subscription and Support

To receive voice technical support via telephone during normal business hours, and future releases and versions at no additional charge, Subscription and Support must be ordered. The capacity of Subscription and Support (Value Units) must be the same as the capacity ordered for the product licenses.

To order, specify the Subscription and Support program number (PID) referenced above and the appropriate license or charge option.

IBM is also providing Subscription and Support for these products via a separately purchased offering under the terms of the IBM International Agreement for Acquisition of Software Maintenance (IAASM). This offering:

  • Includes and extends the support services provided in the base support to include technical support via telephone during normal business hours.
  • Entitles you to future releases and versions, at no additional charge. Note that you are not entitled to new products.

When Subscription and Support is ordered, the charges will renew automatically annually unless cancelled by you.

Single version charging: To elect single version charging, you must notify and identify to IBM the prior program and replacement program, and the machine the programs are operating on.

Customized offerings

Product deliverables are shipped only via Customized Offerings (for example, CBPDO, ServerPac, SystemPac®).

CBPDO and ServerPac are offered for Internet delivery, where ShopzSeries product ordering is available. Internet delivery of ServerPac may help improve automation and software delivery time. For more details on Internet delivery, refer to the ShopzSeries help information at

Media type for this software product is chosen during the Customized Offerings ordering process. Based on your customer environment, it is recommended that the highest possible density tape media is selected. Currently offered media types are:

  • CBPDOs — 3480, 3480 Compressed, 3490E, 3590, 35921
  • ServerPacs — 3480, 3480 Compressed, 3490E, 3590, 35921
  • SystemPacs — 3480, 3480 Compressed, 3490E, 3590, 35921
1
3592 is highest density media. Selecting 3592 will ship the fewest number of media.

Once a product becomes generally available, it will be included in the next ServerPac and SystemPac monthly update.

Production of software product orders will begin on the planned general availability date.

  • CBPDO shipments will begin one week after general availability.
  • ServerPac shipments will begin two weeks after inclusion in ServerPac.
  • SystemPac shipments will begin four weeks after inclusion in SystemPac due to additional customization, and data input verification.

 
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Terms and conditions

The information provided in this announcement letter is for reference and convenience purposes only. The terms and conditions that govern any transaction with IBM are contained in the applicable contract documents such as the IBM International Program License Agreement (IPLA), IBM International Passport Advantage Agreement, and the IBM Agreement for Acquisition of Software Maintenance.

Licensing: IPLA including the license information (LI) document and proof of entitlement (PoE) govern your use of the program. PoEs are required for all authorized use.

Agreement for Acquisition of Software Maintenance: The IBM Agreement for Acquisition of Software Maintenance (Z125-6011) applies for maintenance and does not require customer signatures.

These programs are licensed under the IPLA and the associated Agreement for Acquisition of Software Maintenance, which provide for support with ongoing access to releases and versions of the program. IBM includes one year of Software Maintenance with the initial license acquisition of each program acquired. The initial period of Software Maintenance can be extended by the purchase of a renewal option, if available. These programs have a one-time license charge for use of the program and an annual renewable charge for the enhanced support that includes telephone assistance (voice support for defects during normal business hours), as well as access to updates, releases, and versions of the program as long as support is in effect.

S/390 and System z IBM Operational Support Services — SoftwareXcel is an option if you desire added services.

Limited warranty applies: Yes

Limited warranty: IBM warrants that when the program is used in the specified operating environment, it will conform to its specifications. The warranty applies only to the unmodified portion of the program. IBM does not warrant uninterrupted or error-free operation of the program or that IBM will correct all program defects. You are responsible for the results obtained from the use of the program.

IBM provides you with access to IBM databases containing information on known program defects, defect corrections, restrictions, and bypasses at no additional charge. Consult the IBM Software Support Guide for further information at

IBM will maintain this information for at least one year after the original licensee acquires the program (warranty period).

Program support: Enhanced support, called Subscription and Support, includes telephone assistance, as well as access to updates, releases, and versions of the program as long as support is in effect. You will be notified of discontinuance of support with 12 months' notice.

Money-back guarantee: If for any reason you are dissatisfied with the program and you are the original licensee, you may obtain a refund of the amount you paid for it, if within 30 days of your invoice date you return the program and its PoE to the party from whom you obtained it. If you downloaded the program, you may contact the party from whom you acquired it for instructions on how to obtain the refund.

For clarification, note that for programs acquired under any of IBM On/Off CoD software offerings, this term does not apply since these offerings apply to programs already acquired and in use by you.

Authorization for use on home/portable computer: You may not copy and use this program on another computer without paying additional license fees.

Volume orders (IVO): No

IBM International Passport Advantage Agreement:

Passport Advantage applies: No

Usage restriction: Yes

Software Maintenance applies

No. For operating system software, the revised IBM Operational Support Services — SoftwareXcel offering will provide support for those operating systems and associated products that are not available with the newly announced Software Maintenance offering.

This will ensure total support coverage for your enterprise needs, including IBM and selected non-IBM products. For complete lists of products supported under both the current and revised SoftwareXcel offering, visit

For additional information on the revised IBM Operational Support Services, refer to 601-023 , dated July 10, 2001.

IBM Operational Support Services — SoftwareXcel: Yes

System i™ Software Maintenance applies: No

Variable charges apply: Yes

Educational allowance available:

Yes. A 15% education allowance applies to qualified education institution customers.

Sub-capacity terms and conditions

For each System z IPLA program with Value Unit pricing, the quantity of that program needed to satisfy applicable IBM terms and conditions is referred to as the required license capacity. Your required license capacity is based upon the following factors:

  • The System z IPLA program you select
  • The applicable Value Unit Exhibit
  • The applicable terms
  • Whether your current mainframes are full capacity or sub-capacity

For more information on the Value Unit Exhibit for the System z IPLA program you selected, refer to the Ordering information section.

Full-capacity mainframes: In cases where full capacity is applicable, the following terms apply.

Execution based, z/OS based, full machine based: The required capacity of a System z IPLA program with these terms equals the MSU-rated capacity of the machines where the System z IPLA program executes.

For more information on mainframe MSU-rated capacities, visit

Reference based: The required license capacity of a System z IPLA program with these terms equals the license capacity of the applicable monthly license charge (MLC) program. This MLC program is called the parent program.

Sub-capacity mainframes: In cases where sub-capacity is applicable, the following terms apply.

Execution based: The required capacity of a System z IPLA sub-capacity program with these terms equals the capacity of the LPARs where the System z IPLA program executes.

z/OS based: The required license capacity of a System z IPLA program with these terms equals the license capacity of z/OS (and z/OS.e) on the machines where the System z IPLA program executes.

Reference based: The required license capacity of a System z IPLA program with these terms equals the license capacity of the applicable monthly license charge (MLC) program. This MLC program is called the parent program.

Full-machine-based: The required license capacity of a System z IPLA program with full-machine-based terms equals the MSU-rated capacity of the machines where the System z IPLA program executes.

For more information on mainframe MSU-rated capacities, refer to The System/370™, System/390®, and System z Machine Exhibit (Z125-3901), or visit the Mainframes section of the System z Exhibits Web site

For more information on sub-capacity System z IPLA terms and conditions, refer to 204-184 , dated August 10, 2004. For additional information for products with reference-based terms, System z IPLA sub-capacity programs with reference-based terms adds value to the parent program across the environment, regardless of where in the environment the System z IPLA program executes.

An environment is defined as either a single or stand-alone machine or a qualified Parallel Sysplex®. You may have one or more different environments across the enterprise. To determine the required license capacity for each System z IPLA program with referenced-based terms, each environment should be assessed separately.

When a System z IPLA sub-capacity program with reference-based terms is used in a qualified Parallel Sysplex environment, the required license capacity of the System z IPLA program must equal with the license capacity of the parent program across the Parallel Sysplex. Qualified Parallel Sysplex refers to one:

  • That meets the criteria defined in 198-001 , dated January 13, 1998
  • Where MLC pricing is aggregated across the Sysplex

Sub-capacity eligibility: To be eligible for sub-capacity charging on select System z IPLA programs, you must first implement and comply with all terms of either sub-capacity Workload License Charges (WLC) or sub-capacity Entry Workload License Charges (EWLC). To implement sub-capacity WLC or EWLC, a machine must be System z (or equivalent). On that machine:

  • All instances of the OS/390® operating system must be migrated to the z/OS (or z/OS.e) operating systems
  • Any licenses for the OS/390 operating system must be discontinued
  • All instances of the z/OS operating (or z/OS.e) systems must be running in z/Architecture™ (64-bit) mode

For that machine, you must create and submit a Sub-Capacity Report to IBM each month. Sub-Capacity Reports must be generated using the Sub-Capacity Reporting Tool (SCRT). For additional information or to obtain a copy of SCRT, visit the System z Software Pricing Web site

You must comply with all of the terms of the WLC or EWLC offering, whichever is applicable:

  • The complete terms and conditions of sub-capacity WLC are defined in the IBM Customer Agreement — Attachment for System z Workload License Charges (Z125-6516).
  • The complete terms and conditions for sub-capacity EWLC are defined in the IBM Customer Agreement — Attachment for IBM eServer System z 890 and 800 License Charges (Z125-6587).

Additionally, you must sign and comply with the terms and conditions specified in the amendment to the IPLA contract — Amendment for IBM System z9™ and eServer zSeries Programs Sub-Capacity Pricing (Z125-6929). Once the amendment is signed, the terms in the amendment replace any and all previous System z IPLA sub-capacity terms and conditions.

Sub-capacity utilization determination

Sub-capacity utilization is determined based on the product's own execution as reported to IBM in accordance with the requirements for reporting sub-capacity utilization for products.

On/Off Capacity on Demand (CoD)

To be eligible for On/Off CoD pricing, you must be enabled for temporary capacity on the corresponding hardware, and the required contract, Attachment for Customer Initiated Upgrade and IBM eServer On/Off Capacity on Demand — Software (Z125-6611) must be signed prior to use.
 
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IBM Electronic Services

IBM has transformed its delivery of hardware and software support services to help you achieve higher system availability. Electronic Services is a Web-enabled solution that offers an exclusive, no-additional-charge enhancement to the service and support available for IBM servers. These services are designed to provide the opportunity for greater system availability with faster problem resolution and preemptive monitoring. Electronic Services comprises two separate, but complementary, elements: Electronic Services news page and Electronic Services Agent.

The Electronic Services news page is a single Internet entry point that replaces the multiple entry points traditionally used to access IBM Internet services and support. The news page enables you to gain easier access to IBM resources for assistance in resolving technical problems.

The Electronic Service Agent™ is no-additional-charge software that resides on your server. It monitors events and transmits system inventory information to IBM on a periodic, client-defined timetable. The Electronic Service Agent automatically reports hardware problems to IBM. Early knowledge about potential problems enables IBM to deliver proactive service that may result in higher system availability and performance. In addition, information collected through the Service Agent is made available to IBM service support representatives when they help answer your questions or diagnose problems. Installation and use of IBM Electronic Service Agent for problem reporting enables IBM to provide better support and service for your IBM server.

To learn how Electronic Services can work for you, visit


 
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Prices

Variable charges: The applicable processor-based one-time charge will be based on the group of the designated machine on which the program is licensed for use. If the program is designated to a processor in a group for which no charge is listed, the charge of the next higher group listed applies. For movement to a machine in a higher group, an upgrade charge equal to the difference in the then-current charges between the two groups will apply. For movement to a machine in a lower group, there will be no adjustment or refund of charges paid.

IBM Global Financing

IBM Global Financing offers competitive financing to credit-qualified customers to assist them in acquiring IT solutions. Offerings include financing for IT acquisition, including hardware, software, and services, from both IBM and other manufacturers or vendors. Offerings (for all customer segments: small, medium, and large enterprise), rates, terms, and availability can vary by country. Contact your local IBM Global Financing organization or visit

IBM Global Financing offerings are provided through IBM Credit LLC in the United States, and other IBM subsidiaries and divisions worldwide to qualified commercial and government customers. Rates are based on a customer's credit rating, financing terms, offering type, equipment type, and options, and may vary by country. Other restrictions may apply. Rates and offerings are subject to change, extension, or withdrawal without notice.
 
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Order now

To order, contact the Americas Call Centers or your local IBM representative.

To identify your local IBM representative, call 800-IBM-4YOU (426-4968). 

 Phone:      800-IBM-CALL (426-2255)
 Fax:        800-2IBM-FAX (242-6329)
 Internet:   callserv@ca.ibm.com
 Mail:       IBM Teleweb Customer Support
             ibm.com Sales Execution Center, Americas North
             3500 Steeles Ave. East, Tower 3/4
             Markham, Ontario
             Canada
             L3R 2Z1
 
 Reference:  LE001

The Americas Call Centers, our national direct marketing organization, can add your name to the mailing list for catalogs of IBM products.

Note: Shipments will begin after the planned availability date.

Trademarks

 
developerWorks, System z, System i, System/370, z/Architecture, System z9, and Electronic Service Agent are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries or both.
 
WebSphere, z/OS, DB2 Universal Database, DB2, Passport Advantage, S/390, SystemPac, eServer, zSeries, System/390, Parallel Sysplex, and OS/390 are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries or both.
 
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