IBM z/OS V1.10 offers new scalability, performance, availability,
economics, and solutions for enterprise information
IBM United States
Software Announcement 208-186
August 5, 2008
 ENUS208-186.PDF (246KB)
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Today IBM® announces z/OS® V1.10.
This release of the z/OS operating system builds on leadership capabilities,
enhances time-tested technologies, and leverages deep synergies with the IBM System
z10 Enterprise Class (z10 EC) and IBM System Storagetm family of products. z/OS V1.10
supports new capabilities designed to provide:
- Storage scalability. Extended Address Volumes (EAVs) enable you to define
volumes as large as 223 GB to relieve storage constraints and help you simplify
storage management by providing the ability to manage fewer, large volumes
as opposed to many small volumes.
- Application and data serving scalability. Up to 64 engines, up to 1.5
TB per server with up to 1.0 TB of real memory per LPAR, and support for large
(1 MB) pages on the z10 EC can help provide scale and performance for your
critical workloads.
- Intelligent and optimized dispatching of workloads. HiperDispatch can
help provide increased scalability and performance of higher n-way z10 EC
systems by improving the way workload is dispatched within the server.
- Low-cost, high-availability disk solution. The Basic HyperSwaptm capability
(enabled by TotalStorage® Productivity
Center for Replication Basic Edition for System ztm) provides a low-cost, single-site,
high-availability disk solution which allows the configuration of disk-replication
services using an intuitive browser-based graphical user interface (GUI) served
from z/OS.
- Improved total cost of ownership. zIIP-Assisted HiperSocketstm for Large Messages, IBM Scalable
Architecture for Financial Reporting enabled for zIIP (a service offering
of IBM Global
Business Services), zIIP-assisted z/OS Global Mirror (XRC), and additional z/OS XML
System Services exploitation of zIIP and zAAP help make these workloads more
attractive on System
z.
- Improved management of temporary processor capacity. A new Capacity Provisioning
Manager available on z/OS V1.10, and available on z/OS V1.9 with PTF UA39307, can monitor z/OS systems
on z10 EC servers. Activation and deactivation of temporary capacity can be
suggested or performed automatically based on user-defined schedules and workload
criteria. RMFtm or
equivalent function is required to use the Capacity Provisioning Manager.
- Improved network security. z/OS Communications Server introduces new
defensive filtering capability. Defensive filters are evaluated ahead of
configured IP filters, and can be created dynamically, which can provide added
protection and minimal disruption of services in the event of an attack.
z/OS V1.10
also supports RSA key, ISO Format-3 PIN block, 13-Digit through 19-Digit PAN
data, and SHA algorithms.
- Improved productivity. z/OS V1.10 provides improvements in or new capabilities
for: simplifying diagnosis and problem determination; expanded Health Check
Services; network and security management; automatic dump and re-IPL capability;
as well as overall z/OS, I/O configuration, sysplex, and storage operations.
For ordering, contact your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner,
or IBM Americas
Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL (Reference: LE001).
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Today, Information Technology (IT) is woven into almost everything we do.
The demands on IT solutions are greater than ever often requiring the delivery
of more service, value, or capabilities, in less time, or with fewer resources.
Accomplishing "more with less" can be achieved by adopting a platform solution
that is designed to drive efficiencies and economies of scale; accommodate
business needs through flexible, virtual, and autonomic capabilities; help
reduce the risk of lost productivity, downtime, or security breaches; and
enable business innovation through the extension of existing investments and
adoption of newer technologies.
Get the most of your IT investment with z/OS. The marriage of z/OS and the System
z platform delivers advanced scalability, resiliency, security, workload
management, and autonomic capabilities to help you, while minimizing excesses
and waste of system resources and operations. System z and z/OS redefine investment protection by
going to great lengths to keep applications and data available, system resources
secure, server utilization high, and programming environments adaptable.
Today IBM announces z/OS Version
1 Release 10. In this release of the z/OS operating system, IBM delivers a
platform that is designed to drive efficiencies and economies of scale; accommodate
business needs through flexible, virtual, and autonomic capabilities; help
reduce the risk of lost productivity, downtime, or security breaches; and
enable business innovation through the extension of existing investments and
adoption of newer technologies.
z/OS V1.10
and the new IBM System
z/10 Enterprise Class (z10 EC) server together are designed to deliver tremendous
economies of scale and adaptability of resources and this can help with consolidating
enterprise data stores, co-locating applications close to the data, and reducing
the incidence of siloed data in the enterprise. With support for up to 641 engines
in a single logical partition (also available on z/OS V1.9) and up to 1.0 terabyte (TB)
of real memory per LPAR (also available on z/OS V1.8 and later), your application
and data serving requirements may not have to be partitioned on unnatural
boundaries. In z/OS V1.10
(and available with z/OS V1.9), the memory architecture is extended to support
large (1 MB) pages in addition to the existing 4 KB page size, which is expected
to reduce memory management overhead for exploiting applications. System scalability,
by itself, is not enough. The system must also perform well. With z/OS V1.10 and
the z10 server is a new function, HiperDispatch (also available on z/OS V1.7 and
later), that is designed to dispatch z/OS workloads intelligently and help improve
performance for higher n-way systems. The new Capacity Provisioning Manager,
also available on z/OS V1.9 with PTF UA39307, can monitor z/OS systems
on z10 servers, and activate and deactivate temporary capacity automatically
or by user input.
This release of z/OS and the IBM System Storage family of products
together are designed to deliver improvements to data storage scalability,
availability, and productivity. Extended Address Volumes (EAV), a capability
available only with z/OS V1.10 and IBM System Storage DS8000tm Release
4.0, enables you to define volumes as large as 223 GB to relieve storage constraints
and help you simplify storage management by providing the ability to manage
fewer, large volumes as opposed to many small volumes. In future releases,
the EAV will continue to expand on this strategy.2 A new Basic HyperSwap capability
(enabled by TotalStorage Productivity
Center for Replication for System z (5698-TPC) or IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center
for Replication Basic Edition for System z V3.4 (5698-TRB)), provides
a low-cost, single-site, high-availability disk solution which allows the
configuration of disk-replication services using an intuitive graphical user
interface (GUI) from z/OS. The total cost of ownership (TCO) for the platform
can be improved with more eligible exploiters for specialty engines. The world-class z/OS Global
Mirror disaster recovery solution is enabled to exploit the IBM System z10
and System
z9® Integrated Information Processor (zIIP) specialty engine. The zIIP
essentially becomes a z/OS data mirroring engine that can provide better price
performance and improved utilization of resources at the mirrored site. With z/OS V1.10, z/OS XML
System Services now exploits both zAAPs and zIIPs. The zIIP-Assisted HiperSockets for
Large Messages capability helps lower processor utilization for handling of
large outbound messages, and helps make new workload traffic from XML, JAVA,
and other languages, as well as general bulk data transfers more attractive
on the platform. The new IBM Scalable Architecture for Financial Reporting (a
service offering of IBM Global Business Services) can be enabled for the
zIIP. This service offers customer architects an efficient and scalable business
intelligence reporting solution on z/OS and uses your operational data store
to create timely reports for critical decision making.
System
z availability is legendary. With this release of z/OS IBM continues
to refine its error checking, fault tolerance, isolation, error recovery,
and diagnostic capabilities. These new capabilities include improved console
processing, JES2 dynamic exit capability, automatic dump and re-IPL, new IBM Health
Checker for z/OS services,
automatic restart for JES2 NJE connections, identification of users of large
amounts of fixed storage, and improvements in Parallel Sysplex® function.
z/OS V1.10
not only can help you reduce the risk of downtime, but can help reduce the
risk of security breaches as well. z/OS System Integrity -- IBM's long-term
commitment to protecting key z/OS system resources together with enhancements to z/OS Security
Server (RACF®),
SSL, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Services, and cryptography, including
support for RFA key, ISO Format-3 PIN block, 13-Digit through 19-Digit PAN
data, and SHA algorithms, make z/OS a highly secure hub for your data
and applications. With z/OS V1.10, the z/OS Communications Server takes network
security to the next level providing improvements to policy-based networking
components of NSS, IPSec, and AT-TLS. Building on its history of Intrusion
Detection Services (IDS), the z/OS Communications Server also introduces
new defensive filtering capability. Defensive filters are evaluated ahead
of configured IP filters, and can be created dynamically, designed to give
added protection and minimal disruption of services in the event of an attack.
Productivity can be improved with simplified administration. z/OS V1.10 provides
improvements in the areas of simplifying diagnosis, problem determination,
and migration; network and security management; as well as overall z/OS, I/O configuration,
sysplex, and storage operations. Improvements include: the IBM Configuration
Assistant for z/OS Communications
Server adds file import capabilities and support for IP address group definition
to make the Configuration Assistant more responsive to networking needs; IBM Health
Checker for z/OS provides
not only more checks, but also support for log browse and saving data across
IPLs (both of which can help improve analysis and problem determination),
as well as support for the new Migration Health Checks; Hardware Configuration
Manager now includes support for configuration packages and importing and
exporting I/O configuration data in a manner similar to that of HCD, as well
as improved named views. In z/OS V1.10, SMP/E helps simplify the task of installing
new hardware and software by helping you identify required PTFs quickly without
having to use the lists contained in Preventive Service Planning (PSP) buckets. IBM middleware
plans to support simplified application development technologies as well. IBM CICS® Explorer,
the new face of CICS (see
Software Announcement 208-248, dated August 05, 2008)2 is
intended to help speed deployment of new CICS-based business applications
on z/OS.
Viewing the individual functional enhancements of z/OS over the years does not reflect the
full scope of the holistic nature of the platform. Taken together, the improvements
provided by z/OS V1.10,
the z10, and DS8000 can
mean significant scalability, resiliency, security, workload management, and
price performance capabilities for your data serving, transaction processing,
as well as Business Intelligence (BI) Applications and Data Warehouse (DW)
workloads. For example, DB2® for z/OS and IMStm workloads can gain benefit from improvements
from many of the following: hashed DSAB searches; EAVs; Basic HyperSwap;
HiperDispatch; IBM System
Storage DS8000 AMP
(Adaptive Multi-stream Prefetching); and the z10 server's processors, memory,
I/O and network bandwidth. IBM DB2 V9.1 for z/OS (DB2 9) workloads can benefit from z/OS V1.10's
additional XML exploitation of the zIIP specialty processor, and the z10 server's
hardware implementation of decimal floating point functions. Of course, other
applications and subsystems can benefit from the deep synergy of the System z platform
too.
With the addition of Business Intelligence (BI), Data Warehousing solutions
(DW), and reporting tools to z/OS V1.10, this platform, widely recognized for robust
OLTP, also offers a solid foundation for Operational Business Intelligence
(OPBI). There are many BI/DW solutions and tools available on System z today
including DataQuant, Alphablox, as well as the newly announced IBM Scalable Architecture
for Financial Reporting. With this host of solutions, BI/DW applications
on System
z can benefit from many of the platform's advantages to deliver faster
access to data on z/OS while offering a consolidated view of the data
with DW, BI, and OLTP on the same platform. By leveraging z/OS and System
z availablity, security, and resiliency characteristics, BI/DW applications
can help to meet the operational requirements of business while offering potential
for TCO improvements through the exploitation of speciality engines.
z/OS V1.10
is the next step in the evolution of IBM's flagship System z mainframe operating system.
It raises the bar on scalability, performance, availability, and economics
for the platform. It provides control over system resources, flexibility and
autonomics for unforeseen demands, world-class security and availability,
and deep synergies within the platform. z/OS provides a solid foundation for extending
existing applications, expanding access to core data, and adopting new technologies.
1 The total number of processors defined in a z/OS logical
partition is the sum of general-purpose processors (CPs) plus System z9 Application
Assist Processors (zAAPs), and IBM System z9 Integrated Information Processors
(zIIPs), or System z10 Application Assist Processors (zAAPs) and IBM System z10
Integrated Information Processors (zIIPs). This support is also available
on z/OS V1.9.
2 All statements regarding IBM' future direction and intent
are subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and
objectives only.
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z/OS V1.10
will run on these IBM System z servers:
- z10 EC
- z9tm BC
- z9 EC
- z900
- z990
- z800
- z890
For a complete description of z/OS V1.10 software prerequisites, refer
to z/OS Planning
for Installation (GA22-7504), when available.
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Ease of use
IBM has
embarked on a long-term commitment to simplify the z/OS platform. The past several releases
of z/OS delivered
improvements in the areas of simplifying diagnosis and problem determination,
network and security management, and also overall z/OS I/O configuration, sysplex, and storage
operations. These improvements can help simplify systems management; improve
application programmer, system programmer, and operator productivity; and
make the functions easier to understand and use. Updates for z/OS V1.10 include:
- The IBM Configuration
Assistant for z/OS Communications
Server (a downloadable tool) is designed to simplify network and security
management. For z/OS V1.10 the IBM Configuration Assistant for z/OS Communications
Server adds file import capabilities and support for IP address group definition
to make the IBM Configuration
Assistant more responsive to networking needs.
- IBM Health
Checker for z/OS (in
the base of z/OS)
is intended to help you avoid problems. In z/OS V1.10, IBM Health Checker for z/OS provides
not only more checks for RACF, z/OS UNIX® System Services, XCF/XES, and CINET, but also provides
support for log browse and saving data across IPLs, both of which can help
you improve analysis and problem determination.
- The IBM Health
Checker for z/OS infrastructure
is now used to help with z/OS V1.10 migration, which is expected to reduce the
skill level and time needed. Migration Health Checks are provided in ICSF, RACF,
and Communications Server. In addition, new associated Health Checks which
can assist with z/OS migration
are provided in SDSF and Language Environment®.
- Hardware Configuration Manager (HCM) is intended to help simplify z/OS I/O
configuration. For z/OS V1.10, HCM is updated to include support for configuration
packages, importing and exporting I/O configuration data in a manner more
similar to how it can be done using HCD, and improved saved views.
- Hardware Configuration Definition (HCD) has been updated to allow multiple
HCD users to display and update the same IODF at the same time.
- In z/OS V1.10, IBM introduces
the Capacity Provisioning Control Center, a tool for managing capacity provisioning
for System z10 servers. It is designed to manage provisioning policies and
domain configurations. Provisioning policies specify the criteria for capacity
increases and decreases, while domain configurations specify systems to be
observed and servers to be managed.
The Capacity Provisioning Control Center
(CPCC) is available on z/OS V1.9 with PTF for APAR OA20824 (only on System
z10 servers made available February 26, 2008) and z/OS V1.10, when available. Initial support
provides a policy definition application which requires a workstation running Microsoft® Windows® XP.
Specifically,
the Capacity Provisioning Control Center provides the following functions:
- Create and edit Capacity Provisioning policies
- Create and edit Capacity Provisioning domain configurations
- Connect to the Provisioning Manager; Display the status of the Provisioning
Managers
- Install Capacity Provisioning policies and domain configurations into
the Provisioning Manager
- In z/OS V1.10
SMP/E is updated with enhancements to help simplify the task of verifying,
selecting, and installing required software fixes.
- Additional ease-of-use enhancements are available for system logger, DFSMSrmmtm, DFSMShsmtm,
PDSE, ISPF, the VARY command, and Language Environment.
Details on the ease-of-use enhancements intended for z/OS V1.10:
- SDSF now provides job and output management for JES3, including display
and control of jobs and spool data sets. All SDSF functions not specific
to JES2 or JES3 are available in the JES3 environment, including support for REXXtm functions
and variables, IBM Health
Checker for z/OS,
WLM, and operator log display. SAF-based security is provided for JES3 SDSF
functions. This new support is designed to allow you to use SDSF in both
JES3 and JES2 environments.
- z/OS Communications
Server provides enhancements aimed at improving the user experience with installation,
configuration, and operations:
- IBM Configuration
Assistant: Policy Configuration File Import. The IBM Configuration Assistant (CA) for z/OS Communications
Server can help simplify the definition of IP security policies and provides
a graphical user interface (GUI) for policy definition management. The CA
exports those policy definitions to z/OS systems in the form of text configuration
files which z/OS Policy
Agent reads and installs into the stack. z/OS Communications Server and the CA are
being enhanced for V1.10 to allow the CA to import existing policy text files
into the GUI. This allows the CA to learn of and absorb manual changes that
the system administrator may have made to the policy configuration text files
since the last time they were exported.
- IBM Configuration
Assistant: IP Address Groups. The z/OS Communications Server policy definitions
include the specification of the IP addresses to which specific rules apply.
IP Address Group definitions are used to define rules which apply to more
than a single address. CA support for IP Address Groups is being expanded
in V1.10 to support IP Address Group specifications for additional perspectives
(for example, AT-TLS, IPSec). Also, the KeyExchangeRule is being enhanced
for both the CA and the z/OS Policy Agent to support specification of an IP
Address Group.
- The following are IBM Health Checker for z/OS enhancements:
- An SDSF check intended to identify whether ISFPARMS is being used. This
check is also associated with migration actions and should be used for migration
assistance.
- A Language
Environment check to verify that you are using the CEEPRMxx parmlib member.
Using CEEPRMxx can help reduce migration effort.
- In z/OS V1.10,
XCF and XES extend and enhance their existing health checks to provide new
and improved checks to detect single points of failure for all types of couple
data sets using the new IOSSPOF service, check for appropriate separation
of different types of couple data sets, and check XCF signaling paths and
structure sizes. Improved CF structure and duplexing checks help you avoid
sysplex-related problems. New checks for Sysplex Failure Manager action specifications
help you improve sysplex availability.
- Two new health checks are also available for z/OS UNIX. One is designed to detect and report
on file systems specified in BPXPRMxx members used at IPL time that are not
mounted. The other is intended to identify file systems for which performance
could be improved if they were mounted on the local system.
- A new RACF health
check is designed to detect potential exposures caused by the misuse of the RACF authorized
caller table, ICHAUTAB. Also, the RACF_SENSITIVE_RESOURCES health check is
enhanced to allow you to specify RACF resources you want to have checked.
- A health check is added for CINET environments to confirm whether the
port range defined for use by the OMVS address space has been reserved in
the TCP/IP stack definitions.
- The following are Infrastructure Changes in IBM Health Checker for z/OS:
- A new log browse service designed to enable an application to extract
historical data from health check output written to a log stream. This is
expected to be useful in helping an application establish historical views
of values returned by various health checks.
- Allow checks to save data across IPLs in a data set so it can be accessible
to instances of the checks running later, even after IPL. This support is
designed to benefit those check writers who need persistent check-related
information to be saved across system IPLs.
- IBM Health
Checker for z/OS has
been redesigned to exploit 64-bit addressing and to use storage above the
2 GB bar. This is expected to provide enough storage to accommodate the number
of health checks anticipated in the future.
- Migration Health Checks are designed to help you determine whether you
are affected by migration actions and if so whether they have been performed
or remain to be done. Rollback is planned via APARs for appropriate checks.
This is expected to help reduce the skill level and time required to migrate
to new z/OS releases.
Specific
checks available are:
- An ICSF check designed to detect the existence of retained RSA private
keys on a PCICC or PCIXCC/CEX2C cryptographic card. This check was made available
via the PTF for APAR OA24221 and is also included in z/OS V1.10.
- Another ICSF check designed to detect that the currently active PKDS
can accommodate the larger record sizes needed to support z/OS V1.6 and
higher ICSF, and let you know when a PKDS reallocation action is necessary.
This check was made available via the PTF for APAR OA24221.
- A RACF check
to help you detect RACF profile configurations that will cause password
enveloping to automatically become active when migrating to z/OS V1.9 or
higher.
- Communications Server checks to help detect if these functions are in
use (as they will be removed in a future z/OS release):
- Boot Information Negotiation Layer (BINL)
- Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) 4.9.3
- Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
- Network Database (NDB)
- IBM provides
a new JES3 Spool Data Set Browse (SDSB) application programming interface
that can be used instead of the SYSOUT Application Programming Interface (SAPI).
This new function is designed to allow more than one program to read a data
set at one time; to read data sets that are still being created by active
address spaces; and, for address spaces running on the same system, to display
buffered data that has not yet been written to spool.
- The "DISPLAY TCPIP,,NETSTAT" command now supports the ALL keyword, and
will display up to 65,534 lines of output for any combination of options you
specify.
- Language
Environment support is available to help you verify the syntax of CEEPRMxx
members. Batch support to check one or more members is available using a new
CEEPRMCC program. Support for a new CEEPRMCK CLIST is also available. Syntax
checking is expected to help you prevent errors from being made in CEEPRMxx
parmlib members.
- DFSMSrmm provides
improved parmlib support for tape library and tape volume partitioning, improved
reporting for DFSMShsm activity,
and support for new media end-of-life management policies based on media errors,
volume usage, and age. These new functions are intended to make tape management
easier and improve administrator productivity.
- DFSMShsm provides
support for a NEWNAME parameter for data set backup. This new function is
intended to allow you to create a backup version of the specified data set
and make it look like a backup of the data set specified with the NEWNAME
keyword. This simplifies the process used to convert backups of an online
data set to DFSMShsm backups
while preserving the availability of the original data set.
- These DFSMShsm functions
intend to make tape management easier and improve administrator productivity:
- Tape Copy Enhancement When a Tape Copy is generated due to a tape duplex
failure, the Tape Copy will use the unit name that was used by the failing
function instead of the generic unit name.
- LIST TTOC SELECT -- A parameter, RESUMEAUDIT, is being added to the SELECT
keyword of LIST TTOC command. When RESUMEAUDIT is specified, only those tapes
that are eligible for an AUDIT MEDIACONTROLS command to resume are to be listed.
- ARCBDEXT Enhancement Today, the data set backup installation exit, ARCBDEXT,
is invoked during volume backup processing. Support is added to also call
the exit during individual data set backup command processing and when migrated
data sets are backed up.
- DFSMStm provides
an enhanced DISPLAY SMS command with new options to display point-in-time
PDSE cache information in real time (as opposed to SMF Records) and help you
determine the overall effectiveness of PDSE caching. DFSMS will also display PDSE caching statistics
at the data set level. PDSE members can be cached in Hiperspacetm to provide enhanced performance
for those PDSE data sets that are considered important in a critical performance
path. The new command and its displays are designed to help you determine
whether changes to cache settings might improve system performance.
- HCD usability improvements include support for multiuser update access
to IODFs. This multiuser access capability is designed to allow you to specify
that work IODFs be shared and provide serialization to allow different parts
of them to be updated by different people using concurrent HCD sessions.
- HCM usability improvements include:
- Support for configuration packages similar to those supported by HCD,
to allow a subset of a configuration to be created. For example, this support
is designed to allow you to create and send a configuration package for a
sysplex or a single site to another location.
- Support for importing and exporting I/O configuration data, similar to
that provided by HCD. This function is designed to allow you to create I/O
configuration statements for processor, switch, or operating system configurations
of an IODF, and to migrate existing data sets containing I/O configuration
statements into an IODF.
- Enhancements to the Named Views capability of HCM to save lists of selected
objects, the current zoom factor, and the scrolling positions. This is designed
to allow the same part of a diagram to be displayed when restoring a view
as it appeared when saved.
- Other miscellaneous usability improvements in HCD/HCM:
- The control unit address (CUADD) value is included in the control unit
list dialogs of HCD and HCM.
- When spanning a channel path with connected control units and devices
to a new CSS, HCD invokes a dialog asking whether the control units should
also be reachable from the new CSS.
- In z/OS V1.10, IBM introduces
the Capacity Provisioning Control Center, a tool for managing capacity provisioning
for System z10 servers. It is designed to manage provisioning policies and
domain configurations. Provisioning policies specify the criteria for capacity
increases and decreases, while domain configurations specify systems to be
observed and servers to be managed.
The Capacity Provisioning Control Center
(CPCC) is available on z/OS V1.10 and on z/OS V1.9 with PTF UA39307, and requires
a System z10 server. Initial support is available for a policy definition
application which requires a workstation running Windows XP.
Specifically, the
Capacity Provisioning Control Center provides the following functions:
- Create and edit Capacity Provisioning policies
- Create and edit Capacity Provisioning domain configurations
- Connect to the Provisioning Manager; display the status of the Provisioning
Managers
- Install Capacity Provisioning policies and domain configurations into
the Provisioning Manager
- In z/OS V1.10, IBM provides
these enhancements for CIM:
- An upgrade to the z/OS CIM component to OpenPegasus 2.7, DMTF CIM Schema
2.13, and CIM Client for Javatm version 2.
- Support for modifying CIM Server configurations using the MODIFY command,
in addition to using shell commands under z/OS UNIX System Services.
- Support designed to enable the CIM Server to write audit log messages
using SMF records.
- Support for logging on to the CIM Server using PassTickets, in addition
to the existing support for logging on using passwords. The CIM Server exploits
new support for having custom PassTickets for z/OS UNIX applications generated using the CIM
Server's application ID (APPLID) rather than OMVSAPPL. An APPLID can be used
within RACF to
validate PassTickets and make authorization decisions.
- These ease-of-use functions are available for ISPF:
- The ability to specify multiple targets for the ISPF EDIT move and copy
line commands. This can help you eliminate repetitious use of these commands
when copying or moving lines that will have multiple destinations.
- A new z/OS UNIX interface
to ISPF and TSO/E commands to allow them to be issued from the z/OS UNIX shell.
- A new ISPF service, DIRLIST, to display z/OS UNIX directory. Also, a new ISPF command,
UDLIST, allows a directory to be listed.
- Enhanced Screen Swapping. When using more than two logical screens,
navigation among the screens can be supplemented by Point and Shoot fields
at bottom of the screen. This new support is intended to make it easier to
navigate within an ISPF session and to supplement the existing SWAP LIST and
SWAP NEXT support.
- The ISPF Data Set List panel (Option 3.4) is enhanced to support block
commands. This is intended to allow you to act on multiple data sets using
fewer line commands; for example, using paired "DD" commands will specify
that a block of data sets is to be deleted.
- The VARY command is enhanced to support a new device attribute, UNAVAILABLE,
for tape devices. This support, which supplements the OFFLINE status that
can already be set for any device, allows you to specify that UNAVAILABLE
devices be excluded from Recovery Allocation processing and from message IEF877E,
which lists eligible devices that might be used to satisfy an allocation request.
- In z/OS V1.10,
SMP/E can help simplify the task of verifying required software fixes identified
in Preventive Service Planning (PSP) buckets. PSP buckets identify required
software fixes for new hardware devices, toleration and coexistence of new
software releases, and enabling new functions. More specifically, IBM will consolidate
the lists of required fixes from PSP buckets and produce SMP/E-consumable
metadata in the form of HOLDDATA to identify those fixes. This HOLDDATA is
planned to be available fourth quarter 2008. SMP/E will use the new HOLDDATA
to identify what fixes are missing in a current software environment. In addition,
SMP/E can help to simplify the task of selecting and installing the required
fixes identified by the HOLDDATA. Existing customers using SMP/E V3.3 or SMP/E
V3.4 will need the following SMP/E coexistence PTFs to continue to RECEIVE
HOLDDATA, once the new HOLDDATA becomes available.
If you are using z/OS V1.6
or z/OS V1.7
(SMP/E V3.3 or SMP/E V3.4), you will need to install the following SMP/E coexistence
PTFs to continue to RECEIVE HOLDDATA, once the new HOLDDATA becomes available,
and you should plan to install them before the end of September 2008:
- z/OS Release
Coexistence PTF
- z/OS V1.6
(SMP/E V3.3) PTF UO00700
- z/OS V1.7
(SMP/E V3.4) PTF UO00701
- z/OS V1.7
JPN (SMP/E V3.4 JPN) PTF UO00702
- Additional ease-of-use functions for SMP/E include:
- Allowing definition side deck files residing as z/OS UNIX files to be easily included during
link-edit operations.
- Helping to simplify the review of SMP/E operations by consolidating and
reducing the HOLDDATA report output, and by reducing the number of warning
conditions that must be investigated.
- A new GRS ENQ Monitor REQTYPE=NCRESERVE filter is added to allow the
monitor to report only on unconverted hardware reserves (those which have
not been converted to global ENQs). This is intended to make it easier for
you to eliminate or reduce hardware reserves by helping identify candidates
for reserve conversion.
- Improvements are available for the system logger administrative data
utility to help you set up system logger resources and in problem determination
involving log stream data sets including providing information about when
a log stream was defined, the amount of space used in each offload data set
(high-used RBA), and the oldest timestamp in each offload data set. Also,
it is possible to continue execution of the utility after specification errors
have been encountered, so that subsequent problems may also be seen and corrected,
and to allow duplexing-related parameters created by list output to be specified
for DASD-only log streams.
- The SMB server is now designed to validate the syntax of the SMB environment
variables when it starts. This can help you avoid errors and ensure that SMB
uses the configuration options you intend.
- A new environment variable, _IOE_SMB_TRANSPORTS, enables SMB clients
to specify which port will handle SMB calls. The server is designed to respond
on the enabled ports; the client software can chose to attempt one protocol
prior to the other or both in parallel.
- z/OS DFSORTtm V1.10
is available to:
- Allow you to specify DFSORT installation options in new ICEPRMxx members
of the parmlib concatenation. A new START ICEOPT command can be used to specify
up to ten ICEPRMxx members to be used. Each member can contain overrides
for any of the DFSORT installation
options in any of the eight environments (JCL, INV, TSO, TSOINV, TD1, TD2,
TD3, and TD4). This new function is intended to simplify the specification
of DFSORT installation
options.
- Provide additional diagnostic information intended to help you diagnose
out-of-space conditions.
- Provide specific reason codes and associated documentation for selected DFSORT messages
to aid in diagnosing and correcting errors.
- Remove the DFSORT English
and Japanese ISPF Panels, and the ISMF Sort operator. These facilities are
no longer available.
Scalability and performance
z/OS and
its subsystems provide for scalability not only based on chip speeds, but
on a single image, clustering, storage and data handling basis as well. This
holistic and balanced approach to scalability means your System z environment
is capable of handling the growth of your user base, applications, business
processes, and data processing needs.
Scalability improvements for z/OS V1.10 include:
- Up to 64 processors per logical partition, and up to 60 LPARs per server
are supported for z/OS V1.10 and System z10. With up to 64 processors
per logical partition and as many as 32 z/OS logical partitions able to be configured
in a Parallel
Sysplex cluster, up to 2,048 engines' worth of processing capacity is
available to application workloads. This support is also available on z/OS V1.9.
In addition, z/OS V1.10
adds support to allow you to add a new processor to an LPAR running a z/OS image
without an IPL.
- Support for up to 4 TB of real memory on a single z/OS image (z/OS V1.8). This will allow for up to 1
TB of real memory on a single z/OS image for the z10 EC server, up to
512 GB of real memory on a single z/OS image on IBM System z9 servers, and up to 256 GB
on z990 servers.
- Memory architecture is extended to support large (1 MB) pages. When large
pages are used in addition to the existing 4 KB page size, they are expected
to reduce memory management overhead for exploiting applications. This capability
is also available to unauthorized programs using an interface provided by
the PTF for APAR OA25482 when users have access to the IARRSM.LRGPAGES profile
in the FACILITY class.
- A new architectural limit of approximately 228 TB per DASD volume, up
from the current limit of about 54 GB per volume. Called Extended Address
Volume (EAV), this function initially supports 223 GB per volume on z/OS V1.10 and IBM System
Storage DS8000,
when available.
System scalability, by itself, is not enough. The system must also perform
well. z/OS V1.10
with System z10 supports HiperDispatch, a capability that can provide intelligent
dispatching of z/OS workloads,
to help improve the performance for higher n-way systems.
Many individual component enhancements intended to provide increased scalability,
improved performance, and constraint relief are available for z/OS V1.10, including
improvements in DFSMShsm,
IOS, Virtual Storage Management (VSM), Allocation, OAM, and XES/XCF.
Details on the scalability improvements intended for z/OS V1.10:
- Up to 64 processors are supported in a single logical partition on z10
EC servers. This support is also available on z/OS V1.9.
Note: The total number of
processors defined in a z/OS logical partition is the sum of general-purpose
processors (CPs) plus System z9 Application Assist Processors (zAAPs),
and System
z9 Integrated Information Processors (zIIPs), or System z10 Application
Assist Processors (zAAPs) and IBM System z10 Integrated Information Processors
(zIIPs).
- System z10 servers provide support for dynamically adding processors
to LPARs without power-on-reset. In z/OS V1.10, support is added to allow you
to add a new CPU to a z/OS image without an IPL.
- A new function, HiperDispatch, can help provide increased scalability
and performance of higher n-way System z10 servers by improving the way workload
is dispatched within the server. HiperDispatch is designed to accomplish this
by recognizing the physical processor topology, tracking where units of work
have run, and attempting to redispatch them as close to the same physical
processors as possible. This intelligent dispatching can help reduce the effects
of memory latency to improve performance and reduce CPU time. HiperDispatch
is available with new z10 EC and z/OS (z/OS V1.7 with the IBM zIIP Support for z/OS and z/OS.e V1R6/R7 Web deliverable and PTFs, z/OS V1.8
or V1.9 with PTFs, or z/OS V1.10). For more information, see the Preventive
Service Planning bucket (PSP) for z10 EC, 2097DEVICE.
- In z/OS V1.10, IBM introduces
significant extensions to ECKDtm DASD architecture. Called Extended Address Volumes,
with an initial size of 223 GB (223,257,293,280 bytes) in z/OS V1.10, these
extensions raise the architectural limit of ECKD using a 28-bit cylinder address to
support volumes up to 228 TB in size. Initially implemented for VSAM data
sets, the new larger volume sizes are intended both to simplify disk administration
by reducing the number of volumes that must be managed, and to decisively
relieve disk storage constraints over time. Related functions include IBM System
Storage DS8000 Dynamic
Volume Expansion Function, which can help improve data availability, and HyperPAV,
which you can use to have the system manage the bandwidth needed dynamically
in place of doing granular, by-volume PAV alias management.
Exploiting
the capabilities of a new 3390 device model on IBM System Storage DS8000 storage
subsystems, EAV is designed to provide:
- A new architectural limit of approximately 228 TB per DASD volume, up
from the current limit of about 54 GB per volume. z/OS V1.10 will support a maximum volume
size of 223 GB (262,668 cylinders per volume).
- Fully compatible access to data residing on cylinders below 65,520. Also,
the existing 3390 device geometry (the track length and number of tracks per
cylinder) is maintained on EAV.
- Support for SMS and non-SMS managed VSAM data sets (ESDS, KSDS, RRDS,
and LDS) at any location on an extended address volume. Non-VSAM data sets,
catalogs, page data sets, and VSAM data sets with the KEYRANGE or IMBED attribute
are restricted to the first 65,520 cylinders. With this initial support,
space after the first 65,520 cylinders is intended to provide constraint relief
for applications using large VSAM data sets, such as those used by DB2, CICS, zFS file
systems, SMP/E CSI data sets, and NFS mounted data sets.
- A new IBM System
Storage DS8000 Dynamic
Volume Expansion Function designed to eliminate the need to copy volumes to
increase their size.
This new function is expected to provide substantial, immediate constraint
relief for installations with a large number of large VSAM data sets. This
is also expected to help improve storage management administration over time,
as a relatively small number of large volumes are thought to be simpler to
manage than a larger number of smaller ones. IBM recommends the IBM HyperPAV licensed function on the IBM System
Storage DS8000 series
be leveraged to help manage the number of paths to devices defined as EAV.
In
the future, IBM plans
to expand support for EAV with larger volume sizes and support for additional
data set types and access methods. Refer to the z/OS V1.10 Preview Software Announcement 208-042, dated February 26, 2008.
- IOS is redesigned to allow Metro Mirror secondary devices to be defined
in Subchannel Set One. This can in turn allow subchannels in Subchannel Set
Zero previously used for this purpose to be reused to define additional devices.
This supplements the support for defining PAV aliases in Subchannel Set One
that was in z/OS V1.7
on z9 EC
servers. This is intended to help alleviate the constraint due to the 64K
device limit.
- Support is available for common storage above the 2 GB bar. A new virtual
storage area, the High Common Storage Area (HCSA), is defined. Storage Management
services and RMF support
for HCSA are also available. This new support provides the infrastructure
required for many users of CSA and ECSA storage to move data above the Bar.
This is expected to lead to virtual storage constraint relief (VSCR) over
time. In z/OS V1.10
the IOS UCB extension (UCBX) control block is moved to HCSA.
- PAUSE/RELEASE services now support AMODE 64 callers. This new function
is designed to reduce application storage requirements below the 2 GB Bar.
- A new CELLSHARE option is added to the CPOOL service. This new option
allows multi-header CPOOL free cells on one processor to be shared by neighboring
processors, and is intended to help reduce the storage demands for exploiting
applications.
- With z/OS V1.10, Language
Environment is designed to reduce contention between threads when heap
pool cells are allocated by providing the ability to configure multiple cell
pools of the same size. Threads will be assigned a pool when they are created
from which to allocate cells.
- With z/OS DFSORT V1.10:
- The channel programs associated with DFSORT's input, output, and work
data sets reside above 16 megabytes virtual. This change provides virtual
storage constraint relief for DFSORT.
- Sort applications that use DFSORT's INREC, OUTREC, or SUM function are
eligible for memory object sorting, providing a new capability for these applications
to sort more than 32 GB of data entirely in memory without need for I/O to
DASD sort work files. No change to the sort applications is required. DFSORT is
designed to determine when use of memory object sorting is optimal based on
available resources.
- Output data sets are allocated with zero tracks if you specify 0 primary
track allocation, perform a sort, do not specify an E35, and no records are
written to the output data set. This change can help you avoid the disk fragmentation
that can occur from doing unnecessary single track allocations.
- Existing EXPMAX, EXPOLD, and EXPRES installation options now apply to
dataspace sorting as well as to memory object sorting and Hipersorting.
- The IBM-supplied default for IOMAXBF has been changed from 33554432 (32
MB) to 35651584 (34 MB).
- z/OS Communications
Server provides virtual storage constraint relief by changing the inbound
data path to no longer use ECSA to hold inbound data for processing, or when
queueing the data to the application. The TN3270 Server will also be changed
to reduce its ECSA usage for mapping of active sessions.
- z/OS Communications
Server code path length has been reduced in TCP/IP. This is expected to be
beneficial for request/response transaction workload performance.
- z/OS Communications
Server IPSec has been redesigned to call the CP Assist for Cryptographic Functions
(CPACF) directly for a subset of the algorithms supported by CPACF. This
change is intended to reduce system overhead and improve performance for IPSec.
- Allocation is now designed to create a hash table for use by the GETDSAB
service. This is expected to substantially improve the retrieval time for
Data Set Access Blocks (DSABs) when a large number of data sets have been
allocated by a single address space.
- OAM is enhanced to provide support for objects larger than the current
maximum of 256M (268,435,456 bytes). The new maximum object size is 2000M
(2,097,152,000 bytes), and it is stored, in parts, sequentially to the DASD
level of the OAM storage hierarchy only. This is expected to reduce the need
to separate large binary strings into multiple objects and to simplify the
application interface as the application does not have to materialize the
entire object first before it can be stored.
- In z/OS V1.10,
improvements are made to the way CF locking requests are handled. With this
support, Coupling Facility locking operations are queued when I/O resources
are not immediately available. This is designed to reduce processor utilization
for locking-intensive workloads in CF link- and subchannel-constrained environments.
- DFSMShsm control
data set (CDS) backup processing is enhanced to reduce the delay for starting
CDS backup due to the concurrent processing of other DFSMShsm functions. Reducing the delay
for starting CDS backup can improve the availability of other DFSMShsm functions.
- In z/OS V1.10, DFSMS supports
a new Virtual Concurrent Copy (VCC) function. VCC is designed to use a FlashCopy® relationship
rather than a combination of storage control cache and z/OS dataspaces, and to perform point-in-time
backup processing for large amounts of frequently updated data while using
less cache and memory resources. This new function is supported during DUMP
and COPY operations on DS8000, ESS 800, and other storage controllers that
support FlashCopy at
a data set level.
- DFSMSdsstm DEFRAG
processing has been redesigned to improve performance. This is expected to
reduce the time it takes to run this function for fragmented volumes, and
is intended to keep DEFRAG times reasonable on larger volumes.
- In z/OS V1.10 DFSMS,
the design of OPEN processing for unlabeled (NL) tape positioning performance
has been significantly improved. When opening NL tape files using 3590 or
later tape drives, OPEN will use a new high-speed positioning algorithm.
This is expected to make tape positioning faster, especially when a large
number of files are spaced over.
- In z/OS V1.10,
the maximum size of individual page data sets is increased to 65,520 cylinders,
or about 44.9 GB per page data set. In addition, the maximum total size of
all page data sets on a single system is increased to 11 TB. The new maximum
page data set size is also available on z/OS V1.8 with PTF UA40555 and on z/OS V1.9 with
PTF UA40556. On z/OS V1.8
and z/OS V1.9,
these PTFs also increase the maximum total size of all page data sets on a
single system to 8 TB. This new support is expected to allow you to better
exploit larger volumes while providing a substantial increase in the maximum
amount of auxiliary storage available for z/OS systems.
Application integration
Like other operating systems, z/OS provides support for current application
enablement technologies, but what sets z/OS apart is the ability to operate both
new and existing applications within the same system, and in close proximity
to the corporate data residing on z/OS. WebSphere® applications can run on
the same z/OS system
as the DB2 database,
which can enable tight, security-rich local connections ideal for high volume
transactional throughput. Current CICS or IMS transactions can be extended with these
new technologies intended to deliver value in new and innovative ways, without
incurring the substantial cost required to rip and replace current core assets.
The z/OS platform
supports many new application development technologies, such as Java, Perl,
PHP, XML, Unicode, HTML, SOAP, and other Web services. But z/OS continues
to update its traditional application development tools too, with recent enhancements
including the System REXX facility, METAL C facility, support for z10 EC
hardware decimal floating-point, and an ISO standard-based XL C/C++ compiler. IBM middleware
is supporting new applications development technologies as well. For example,
the IBM CICS Explorer,
the new face of CICS (see
Software Announcement 208-248, dated August 05, 2008) is intended
to help speed deployment of new CICS-based business applications on z/OS.
z/OS V1.10
has enabled additional XML processing to be made eligible for the zIIP and
zAAP specialty processors. IBM middleware and other products can benefit from this
new functionality in addition to taking advantage of the z/OS XML System
Services capabilities available today. These enhancements are expected to
help improve the price performance of XML processing on z/OS and ultimately
may help facilitate the decision to develop more XML-based applications on z/OS.
z/OS V1.10
provides application development and application integration improvements
and updates for the following: Program Management Binder; dbx debugger; XL
C/C++, HLASM, NFS Server and Client.
Details on the application development improvements intended for z/OS V1.10:
- IBM plans
to introduce a new user interface, the IBM CICS Explorer, that will increase the productivity
of highly skilled CICS technical users, as well as providing an intuitive
entry-point for broadly skilled staff, by integrating powerful tools into
a single Eclipse-based user interface. The CICS Explorer will give architects, developers,
system programmers, and administrators a common tooling environment, with
integrated access to a wide range of data and control capabilities delivered
by CICS Transaction
Server for z/OS (CICS TS), CICS tools,
and CICS connectors.
It is anticipated that this new user-friendly and intuitive interface to CICS will
facilitate team building from a far wider skill pool, to help speed the development
and deployment of new business applications on z/OS, while contributing to reduced total
cost of ownership (TCO) for CICS systems. The CICS Explorer will enable users to create
customizable, task-oriented views. These will be extensive by IBM, customers,
and independent software vendors (including IBM Business Partners). IBM plans that
the CICS Explorer
will be available from fourth quarter 2008 for current and future releases
of CICS Transaction
Server (TS) as a flagship point of integration between the run-time and the CICS tools.
For more information see the direction in IBM Software Announcement 208-248, dated August 05, 2008.
- A new service, IARST64, can be used to obtain 64-bit common storage (HCSA)
and private storage. It is designed to be an easy replacement for GETMAIN
and STORAGE OBTAIN. Exploitation of HCSA in place of CSA and ECSA and of 64-bit
private storage are expected to provide virtual storage constraint relief
below the 2 GB bar and the 16 MB line as they are exploited. Another new service,
IARCP64, is introduced to provide CPOOL storage services for common and private
storage above the 2 GB bar. Both services can also be used to avoid some lock
serialization overhead.
- z/OS V1.10
has enabled additional XML processing to be made eligible for the zIIP and
zAAP specialty processors. Enhancements in z/OS XML System Services and the XML Toolkit
for z/OS (5655-J51)
increase the amount of XML workload eligible for the zAAP and zIIP specialty
engines.
- In z/OS V1.10, IBM adds
these functions in z/OS XML System Services:
- Additional zIIP exploitation. z/OS XML System Services included additional
zIIP exploitation, specifically enabling all z/OS XML parsing in enclave SRB mode to
be eligible for zIIP. For example, with respect to DB2, z/OS XML processing may be partially directed
to zIIPs when utilized as part of a distributed request (like DB2 DRDA®) today.
This enhancement can help further benefit DB2 pureXMLtm workloads by optionally directing
all z/OS XML
System Services parsing that is executed in enclave SRBs to the zIIP. This
function is available on z/OS V1.8 and V1.9 with PTF for APAR OA23828. Delivery
of this function satisfies the direction in Hardware Announcement 107-190, dated April 18, 2007,
and Software Announcement 207-175, dated August 07, 2007.
- Support for validating parsing. Validation support is designed to allow
a program to determine whether an XML document meets the requirements expressed
in an XML Schema Definition (XSD). z/OS XML System Services adds validating
parsing. z/OS XML
System Services validating parsing workload is eligible for zIIP and zAAP
as well. Delivery of this function satisfies the directions in Hardware Announcement 107-190, dated April 18, 2007,
and Software Announcement 207-175, dated August 07, 2007.
- Support for 19 additional code pages. This extends XML System Services
processing to accommodate the character sets used in many additional languages.
This function is also available on z/OS V1.7, V1.8, and V1.9 with PTF for
APAR OA22777.
- Source offset support. This is designed to make it easier to locate
or extract specific data from within an XML document.
- IBM has
enhanced the XML Toolkit for z/OS (5655-J51) so eligible workloads can use z/OS XML System
Services. This allows eligible XML Toolkit processing for nonvalidating parse
requests to exploit the zAAP. This function was made available on the XML
Toolkit for z/OS V1.9
with PTFs UA40707 and UA40708 in May 2008.
Delivery of this function satisfies
the direction in Hardware Announcement 107-190, dated April 18, 2007, and Software
Announcement 207-175, dated August 07, 2007.
XML
Toolkit support for processing validating parse requests using z/OS XML System
Services with the appropriate workload eligibility for zAAP is planned at
a future date.2
- Additionally, Enterprise COBOL V4.1 (5655-S71) provides support for a
new XMLPARSE compiler option to allow COBOL's built-in XML parsing support
to provide additional functionality and take advantage of zAAP specialty processors
by utilizing XML System Services for XML processing. For more information
see Software Announcement 207-339, dated December 11, 2007.
- The following enhancements are made to the application development stack
in z/OS V1.10,
including the Program Management Binder; Loader; dbx debugger; and the XL
C/C++ compiler, runtime, and libraries:
- IEATDUMP allows you to specify a new &DX symbol. When this symbol
is present, IEATDUMP bypasses dump capture (limit of 2G) and will create multiple
dump data sets to contain the full dump. Supports 64-bit Java environments
with large heaps.
- Two new socket API options are introduced in this release that allow
applications to indicate how long receive and send type socket API calls should
block waiting for their operations to complete, to prevent indefinite blocking
inside TCP/IP for these types of socket API calls. The socket options, SO_RCVTIMEO
and SO_SNDTIMEO, are defined in the POSIX standards, and are included in the
Single UNIX Specification
(SUS) V3.
- In z/OS V1.10,
dbx supports source-level debugging for High Level Assembler. This is expected
to help you debug applications that include High-Level Assembler source parts.
- Several enhancements to the AMBLIST program to allow it to be more easily
used and to provide additional information for diagnosing problems with program
objects using the LISTLOAD control statement:
- The DLL Import/Export information from the B_IMPEXP class (information
built by the binder in section IEWBCIE) is formatted with MODLIST output.
This new format displays the symbols, their attributes, and the DLLs they
belong to, which can help you determine dynamic bind problems that were not
recognized when the module was initially built. (The information contained
in this section is the same information Language Environment uses
to complete dynamic linking at run-time.)
- The information contained in the binder built module-level section X'0001',
is written with MODLIST output. This provides information about symbols which
are referenced but are not used to update text, IDRU records (created by the
user via the binder APIs), and the contents of the B_MAP class which contains
general information about all the symbols within the module.
- The XREF output cross-reference information (both numerical and alphabetical)
is completely redesigned. This new design aligns more closely with binder
XREF output, and presents the data in a much simplified, more intuitive format.
- The binder GETD API and fast data GD API are designed to work consistently.
This is intended to help simplify conversion of applications to fast data
APIs.
- Binder includes the implementation of a new RLD type, the QY-con to enable
the long displacement of RXY instructions to be updated at bind or load time
with the offset of the location of a particular external variable.
- A new Java class is provided to allow Java programs
to invoke the z/OS Communications
Server FTP Client. This API support extends the existing z/OS Communications
Server FTP Client API to support the Java programming language, and includes
a sample Java program.
- In z/OS V1.10,
the functions provided for Language Environment options by the
CEEROPT module are extended to batch and AMODE 64 processing, in addition
to the CICS and IMS environments.
- Changes have been made to Language Environment designs
that are intended to improve performance for:
- I/O performance for multi-threaded C/C++ programs that use a single thread
for I/O operations to any particular file.
- HEAPPOOLS support for applications using 31-bit memory allocation (__malloc31)
services in an AMODE 64 environment. This enhancement is being made available
on z/OS V1.7,
V1.8 and V1.9 with the PTF for APAR PK41618 or PK47298 (already available),
or the PTF for PK49427 (already available).
- Additional decimal floating point support for the new hardware-based
instruction processing on System z10 servers. This support is available on z/OS V1.8
and later releases with the PTF for APAR PK54438 and its prerequisites.
Also, Language
Environment includes new support for application IDs to login, password,
and pthread security functions.
- XL C/C++ has made the following enhancements intended to improve performance
and usability for z/OS V1.10:
- Mixed AMODE across function calls is now supported by the METAL compiler
option of the XL C compiler. This new capability allows for the creation of
METAL C programs that require AMODE switching between functions
- The Standard C++ Library includes enhancements based on the ISO document
ISO/IEC TR 19768-Technical Report on C++ Library Extension, for improved portability
of source code from other platforms.
- A new dbgld utility is now included with the z/OS XL C/C++ compiler to create a module-based
debug side file. Demand load APIs are available in the Run-Time Extension
Library to access information from the module-based debug side file. Debuggers
making use of demand load APIs can gain faster access to debug information.
- The new Saved Option String feature provides a compact representation
of compiler options used for each source file and creates the saved options
string in the executable for each compilation unit. The compiler will also
record version information for all compiler components that were active during
the compilation. This new feature can help you in diagnosing runtime problems.
- SQL co-processor enhancements include support of decimal floating-point
(DFP) type host variables. This allows you to write XL C/C++ applications
containing DFP data with embedded SQL statements for DB2. Also added this release are function-like
macros intended to facilitate easier initialization of SQL structures and
improved portability from other platforms and operating systems.
- Source listings generated by the XL C/C++ compiler have been enhanced
to add the starting offset of each function to the listings. The starting
offset of each function is expected to be helpful for debugging purposes.
- Designs intended to improve performance have been implemented to take
advantage of new instructions in the hardware architecture. Additional built-in
functions are provided to help programs use selected hardware instructions
directly.
- These functions are intended to improve performance:
- New Prefetch Built-in Functions
- Performance improvements to Standard C++ Library particularly with global
placement new operators and the implementation of vector template class
- Reduced Debugger bring-up time
- The value of storing data in Unicode comes from the ability to store
data in any language using the same data server. It enables database consolidation
and better interoperability with other platforms and with Microsoft and Java applications.
In z/OS V1.10,
Unicode provides:
- Support for Extended Translation Facility 3 (ETF-3), which provides hardware
instructions to handle UTF-32 and provides an API to describe every supported
CCSID.
- A programming interface designed to provide detailed information on conversion
tables including their existence, description of CCSIDs, and conversion techniques
supported between two CCSIDs.
- z/OS V1.10
ISPF adds a new TSO/ISPF Client Gateway. The TSO/ISPF Client Gateway is an
interface you can use to invoke TSO and ISPF commands and applications. This z/OS UNIX based
gateway allows client applications to use Web-based communication services
such as HTTP to invoke TSO and ISPF commands. The interface is designed to
provide support for multiple TSO and ISPF sessions and allows these sessions
to maintain state between command invocations.
- In z/OS V1.10, z/OS UNIX System
Services provides new shell commands.
- The submit command is designed to accept input from a data set,
file, or stdin, and is expected to make it easier to initiate batch processing
from within z/OS UNIX.
- A new z/OS UNIX command, amblist,
is designed to provide the ability to invoke the AMBLIST program from the z/OS UNIX shell.
- New support allows a program object stored in the file system to be loaded
to a specified location in common storage (this function is often referred
to as a "directed load").
- The Network File System (NFS) is a distributed file system designed to
provide transparent processing capability for data and information on worldwide
and heterogeneous networks. The z/OS Network File System (NFS) provides
the implementation that allows the z/OS platform to participate in these networks.
In z/OS V1.10,
NFS is designed to provide these interoperability, continued NFS V4 support,
constraint relief, and serviceability enhancements which build on previous
support delivered in z/OS V1.7, V1.8, and V1.9:
- Expanded platform support for z/OS NFS Clients and Servers to interoperate
with Linux® on System
z NFS Servers and Clients.
- Continued NFS Server and Client support for the NFS V4 standard (RFC3530):
- NFS Client support for stronger authentication and network transmission
protection for NFS data via the use of the RPCSEC_GSS security authentication
flavor. NFS Client pthread conversion is included.
- NFS Client and Server support for byte-range file locking using services
provided by z/OS UNIX System
Services for z/OS UNIX file
systems. The NFS V4 locking protocol provides some improvements over NFS V2
and V3 as it incorporates the locking operations into the same protocol as
other file access operations (open, close, read, write) and allows for files,
file systems, or servers to be defined to use advisory locking rules.
- NFS Client and Server support for remotely managing ACLs via the NFS V4
protocol to display and modify ACL values via the ACL attribute. The NFS Server
will map ACL requests between the z/OS UNIX ACL definition and the NFS V4 protocol
definition. The NFS Client will use UNIX APIs to manage ACLs on remote NFS
servers via the NFS V4 protocol and will map ACL requests between the z/OS UNIX ACL
definition and the NFS V4 protocol definition.
- Local NFS V4 name mapping (mapping names to numeric user IDs and vice
versa on the base of local z/OS user database) is supported.
- Improved storage constraint relief, via 64-bit support, for the NFS client
enabling utilities (mvslogin, mvslogout, showattr) on other platforms (AIX®,
Sun, Linux on POWER5tm, Linux on System
z).
- Enhanced NFS Server message support with Japanese National Language Support
(NLS).
- NFS CTRACE Filters are planned to be provided to enhance serviceability.
Security
Security is a word that many professional associate with the mainframe.
The combination of time-tested z/OS technologies and z/OS system integrity
-- IBM's long term commitment to protecting key z/OS system resources means z/OS is a natural
choice if you want a platform that can help keep enterprise-wide data and
transactions secure. Longstanding z/OS technologies, such as RACF to manage
authorization and access to z/OS resources, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) to provide
low cost Certificate Authority life-cycle management on z/OS, and DB2 use
of z/OS multilevel
security (MLS), are designed to help you meet the stringent security requirements
of multi-agency access to data, and are constantly being updated to address
and often exceed clients' needs.
For z/OS V1.10,
the following security updates are available: z/OS exploitation for RACF password
phrases, additional RACF integration with IBM Tivoli® Directory Server for z/OS (LDAP),
improved RACF administration,
and new cryptographic support.
z/OS security
capabilities do not stop at the server, but extend into the network as well.
For z/OS V1.10
the z/OS Communications
Server provides improvements to its policy-based networking components, NSS,
IPSec, and AT-TLS. Building on its history of Intrusion Detection Services
(IDS), the z/OS Communications
Server also introduces new defensive filtering capability. Defensive filters
are evaluated ahead of configured IP filters, and can be created dynamically,
designed for added protection and minimal disruption of services in the event
of an attack.
Details on security enhancements in z/OS V1.10:
In z/OS V1.10, IBM updates
the z/OS Cryptographic
Services Integrated Cryptographic Services Facility (ICSF) with the functionality
introduced in the Cryptographic Support for z/OS V1.7-V1.9 and z/OS.e V1.7-V1.8 Web deliverable.
The highlights of the ICSF enhancements to z/OS are:
- 4096-bit RSA key support. IBM provides 4096-bit RSA support on System
z servers. The servers must have the 4096-bit RSA signature generation
and verification support available with feature 0863 installed, and the Crypto
Express2 Coprocessor with microcode level MCL006-MCL009 on these servers:
- Additional SHA hash algorithms available: SHA-224, SHA-384, and SHA-512.
SHA-224 is supported on all hardware supported by z/OS V1.10. SHA-384 and SHA-512 are available
only with System z10 servers.
- Additional clear AES key algorithms available: AES-192 and AES-256. These
algorithms are available only with System z10 servers.
- ISO Format-3 PIN Block support intended to meet the ISO 9564-1 Banking
standard. Feature 0863 must be installed, and the Crypto Express2 Coprocessor
with microcode level MCL006-MCL009 on these servers:
- Long random number callable service. The service is designed to create
random numbers that are up to 8192 bytes in length. This service is available
on all hardware versions supported by z/OS V1.10. Optimum performance is expected
when feature 0863 is installed and the Crypto Express2 Coprocessor with microcode
level MCL006-MCL009 on these servers:
- Audit information required by Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security
Standard (DSS) is now provided for each event, including: user identification,
type of event, date and time, success or failure indication, origination of
event, and identity or name of affected system component or resource.
In z/OS V1.10,
support for these functional enhancements to System SSL is available:
- Use of hardware support for 4096-bit RSA digital signature generation
and verification and 4096-bit RSA encryption and decryption. This function
is available on System
z servers with 4096-bit RSA signature generation and verification support
available with feature 0863 installed and the Crypto Express2 Coprocessor
with microcode level MCL006-MCL009.
Refer to ICSF enhancements for details
on the hardware support. This new function is available on z/OS V1.8 with
PTF UA40503 and z/OS V1.9
with PTF UA40524.
- List command support in the command line version of gskkyman to help
you to determine when certificates in key data base (kdb) files are due to
expire and to obtain other information about the set of certificates in a
key data base.
- Completion of the SHA-256 support, along with support for SHA-224, SHA-384,
and SHA-512. This support is designed to extend the prior Secure Hashing Algorithm
certificate support.
Full gskkyman support exists for certificates utilizing
SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512 hashing signatures. These certificates
can now be utilized during the SSL handshake by either a server or client.
This
new function is available on z/OS V1.8 with PTF UA40108 and z/OS V1.9 with PTF UA40110.
In z/OS V1.10, IBM provides
an additional IBM Tivoli Directory
Server for z/OS extended
operation remote service to support group access checking in addition to user
access checking. This new function is available on z/OS V1.8 and z/OS V1.9 with the PTF for APAR OA23078.
In z/OS V1.10,
the IBM Tivoli Directory
Server for z/OS provides
enhancements for IBM Tivoli Directory Server compatibility and support
of new z/OS Security
Server RACF function.
- The following enhancements provide additional compatibility with IBM Tivoli Directory
Server:
- Plug-in support. Configured plug-ins can be used to extend the capabilities
of the IBM Tivoli Directory
Server for z/OS.
Pre-operation, post-operation, and client operation plug-ins are supported.
HCD exploits this plug-in support for reading/updating IODF data.
- Improved handling of SHA and MD5 based user password attributes for better
interoperability with IBM Tivoli Directory Server.
- The following enhancements provide support of z/OS Security Server RACF function:
- The IBM Tivoli Directory
Server for z/OS SDBM
backend support for the RACF custom user and group fields of the RACF CSDATA segment.
- z/OS Security
Server RACF password
phrase:
- Support for specifying a RACF password phrase for a simple bind
for both native authentication and authentication to an IBM Tivoli Directory
Server for z/OS SDBM
backend. The SDBM backend supports the RACF password phrase in the RACF Kerberos
(KERB) segment.
- Enhanced support in the IBM Tivoli Directory Server for z/OS SDBM backend has been provided for RACF password
phrase envelope search capability and RACF password phrase change logging.
- The Tivoli Directory
Server for z/OS SASL
EXTERNAL bind support has been enhanced to optionally validate that a public
key certificate is associated with a RACF user. This means SDBM operations
can now be performed after a SASL bind using a public key certificate.
- The IBM Tivoli Directory
Server for z/OS is
updated to hold search data and recognize search patterns to allow you to
monitor search activity in real time.
These network security enhancements are available for z/OS Communications
Server:
- WebSphere DataPower® integration:
In z/OS V1.10,
the Network Security Services (NSS) function is being extended to allow a z/OS NSS
Server to provide centralized security services to attached WebSphere DataPower SOA
appliance clients. These clients are able to access SAF services at the z/OS system
acting as the NSS Server to perform SAF based user ID authentication and access
control checks without having to define the user IDs and access control rules
in the appliance.
- Defensive Filtering support is designed to provide a mechanism for users
to block detected attacks by dynamically installing defensive filters in a
TCP/IP stack. Defensive filters are a new kind of deny filter that are always
placed in front of IP security filters. The defensive filters can be installed
autonomically by an external security information and event manager, or manually
by an authorized user.
- IPSec RFC Currency: This line item implements a number of industry standards
(RFCs 4301-4305, 4308) that are required by the U.S. Department of Defense
(DoD) for IPv6 certification, and by the National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST) for general US government use. For more information see Statements of direction.
- AT-TLS enablement for Load Balancing Advisor: The z/OS Load Balancing Advisor and Agent are
enhanced to allow users to exploit the AT-TLS feature to secure connections
that carry SASP flows. This will optionally allow you to control authentication,
access control, and encryption for the load balancing protocols, using AT-TLS
policies.
- Additional application security controls are provided to let you restrict
the use of listening ports and ephemeral ports to only those applications
that have the appropriate authority, via SAF resource definitions. Also, new
controls restrict the ability of applications to perform rpcbind registration
and deregistration.
In z/OS V1.10, IBM provides
the ability for unauthorized applications to use Subsystem Interface (SSI)
functions for SSI function codes 11, 75, 79, and 80 when used with JES3.
These functions are intended to allow programs to be written for user destination
validation, sending messages to other users over the network, using the SYSOUT
Application Programming Interface (SAPI), and obtaining detailed status information
about jobs and SYSOUT in the JES queue. This function in JES3 is in addition
to existing similar function in JES2.
Effective November 21, 2008, Cryptographic Support for z/OS V1.8 through z/OS V1.10
and z/OS.e
V1.8 Web deliverable (ICSF) will become available. To obtain this Web deliverable,
visit
- http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/downloads/
This Web deliverable supports z/OS V1.8 through z/OS V1.10 and z/OS.e V1.8 and contains:
Support for 13-Digit through 19-Digit PAN data
Credit card companies sometimes perform card security code computations
based on Personal Account Number (PAN) data. Currently, ICSF callable services
CSNBCSV (VISA CVV Service Verify) and CSNBCSG (VISA CVV Service Generate)
are used to verify and to generate a VISA Card Verification Value (CVV) or
a MasterCard Card Verification Code (CVC). The ICSF callable services currently
support 13, 16, and 19-digit PAN data. To provide additional flexibility,
new keywords PAN-14, PAN-15, PAN-17, and PAN-18 are implemented in the rule
array for both CSNBCSG and CSNBCSV to indicate that the PAN data is composed
of 14, 15, 17, or 18 PAN digits, respectively.
New Crypto Query Service
The ICSF Web deliverable includes a new callable service, ICSF Query Algorithms,
which retrieves information about the cryptographic and hash algorithms that
are available based on hardware options and software installed on System z.
Enhanced SAF Checking
The ICSF Web deliverable introduces Key Token Policies to augment the existing
security controls of symmetric and asymmetric keys stored in the CKDS and
PKDS. The Key Token Policy provides a set control points for the management
of keys stored in an ICSF key data set. The policy control points are designed
to:
- Enable Key Token Checking
- Enable Default Key Label Checking
- Identify and prevent duplicate keys tokens from being stored in the ICSF
key data sets.
As part of the Key Token Policy support, ICSF is replacing the PKDS cache
with an in-storage copy of the PKDS similar to the in-storage copies of the
CKDS and the TKDS. In addition, the in-storage copies are designed to be kept
current in a sysplex environment where the PKDS is shared through the use
of sysplex messaging.
Availability
There is more to "availability" than just the server being up -- the application
and the data must be available with good performance as well. For the System
z platform this means hardware, connectivity, operating system, subsystem,
database, and application availability too. z/OS, System z servers, and System Storage disk
working together can provide outstanding availability:
- System
z servers are designed to reduce planned and unplanned outages through
the use of self-healing capabilities, redundant componentry, dynamic sparing,
and the ability for concurrent upgrades and microcode changes. The z10 EC
server provides additional microcode driver enhancements, and dynamic segment
sparing for memory as well as a fixed Hardware System Area (HSA).
- With every release, z/OS continues to refine its error checking, fault tolerance,
isolation, error recovery, and diagnostic capabilities. z/OS V1.10 availability
enhancements include designs for improved console processing, reduced need
for JES2 restarts with JES2 Dynamic exit capability, support for automatic
stand-alone dump and IPL, and new health check services and checks.
z/OS also
advances availability even beyond the z/OS image to include network and storage:
- In this release, z/OS network availability design is improved as well.
Enhancements include z/OS ability to restart JES2 NJE connections automatically
and the introduction of a new TCP/IP health check.
- IBM TotalStorage Productivity
Center for Replication for System z V3.4 and IBM Total Storage Productivity Center for
Replication Basic Edition for System z V3.4 enable the new Basic HyperSwap capability.
Basic HyperSwap helps
provide a low-cost, single-site, high-availability disk solution which allows
the administration and configuration of disk-replication services using an
intuitive GUI served from z/OS.
- The System Data Mover (SDM) is the z/OS component used for z Global Mirror
(zGM) that is enabled to exploit the zIIP speciality engine. The zIIP essentially
becomes a z/OS data
mirroring engine that can provide better price performance and improved utilization
of resources at the mirrored site.
Beyond single system availability are z/OS Parallel Sysplex clustering
and GDPS® disaster
recovery. Parallel
Sysplex is designed to provide your data sharing applications and data
with not only continuous availability for both planned and unplanned outages,
but also near-linear scalability and read/write access to shared data across
all systems in the Parallel Sysplex for data sharing applications. z/OS V1.10
includes enhancements in support of Parallel Sysplex: Load Balancing
Advisor support of subplexes, XCF improvements, RACF improved data integrity, and more.
This release of z/OS and
all other supported releases support updated GDPS V3.5 as well.
Details on availability improvements for z/OS V1.10:
- Integrated in the base of z/OS V1.10 (and available with z/OS V1.9 with
the PTFs for APARs OA20658 and OA22963) is a new Basic HyperSwap capability that can help
provide a low-cost, single-site, high-availability disk solution by means
of the configuration of disk-replication services using an intuitive GUI.
This Basic HyperSwap and
GUI capability is enabled by IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Replication
for System
z V3.4 (5698-TPC) or IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Replication
Basic Edition for System z V3.4 (5698-TRB, a new product under the TotalStorage Productivity
Center for Replication for System z family of products). Basic HyperSwap function
is designed to enable nondisruptive swapping between primary and secondary
disk volumes in the event of planned and unplanned outages such as hardware
maintenance, testing, or device failure.
Basic HyperSwap is intended to help you eliminate
disk failures as a source of application outages by allowing you to specify
storage volumes to be synchronously mirrored. For example, in the event of
a permanent I/O error, I/O requests can be automatically switched to the secondary
copy thereby masking the failure from the application and minimizing the need
to restart the application (or system) after the failure. You can also initiate
a planned failover to a secondary for the purpose of initiating hardware maintenance
on primary storage controllers, or simply to periodically test the function.
You can switch back to your preferred configuration via the GUI or operator
commands.
IBM TotalStorage Productivity
Center for Replication Basic Edition for System z is for enabling Basic HyperSwap on z/OS only. TotalStorage Productivity
Center for Replication for System z V3.4 is a full-function disk-replication
product designed to provide the functions of the base TPC for Replication
Two Site and Three Site products, packaged to run on System z.
For more information
on IBM TotalStorage Productivity
Center for Replication Basic Edition for System z V3.4 (this is the product that
enables Basic HyperSwap only)
or on IBM TotalStorage Productivity
Center for Replication for System z V3.4 (the full-function replication product)
and their prerequisites, refer to Software Announcement 208-076, dated April 08, 2008.
GDPS/PPRC HyperSwap Manager
(GDPS/PPRC HM) provides a robust continuous availability disk management solution,
as well as an entry level disaster recovery solution when used across multiple
sites. Basic HyperSwap is
not a replacement of GDPS/PPRC HyperSwap Manager. Customers desiring
the comprehensive high-availability, multi-site, disaster-recovery capabilities
of GDPS are
still recommended to investigate one of the GDPS solutions.
- z/OS Global
Mirror (formally known as Extended Remote Copy, XRC) is now enabled to exploit
the zIIP specialty engine. The zIIP-assisted z/OS Global Mirror function is designed
to make most of the z/OS DFSMS System Data Mover (SDM) processing eligible to
exploit the zIIP specialty engine. This capability is available with any
disk storage subsystem that supports z/OS Global Mirror and is available via
PTF (for APAR OA23174) for z/OS V1.8 and V1.9 and is included in z/OS V1.10.
With
zIIP-assisted z/OS Global
Mirror, the zIIP essentially becomes a z/OS data mirroring engine that can provide
better price performance and improved utilization of resources at the recovery
site. Most DFSMS system
data mover (SDM) processing is eligible to be redirected to a zIIP processor,
which can help lower server utilization at the recovery site, or create server
"white space" to be used for other projects.
z/OS Global Mirror provides an asynchronous,
multi-site remote mirror solution across intercontinental distances for z/OS and Linux on System
z data, and is one of the technologies that GDPS is based on. z/OS Global Mirror protects data consistency
across all volumes that have been defined for mirroring and the volumes can
reside on several different storage units. z/OS Global Mirror is also flexible, accommodating
variable data volumes and network bandwidths, thus minimizing the possibility
of data de-synchronization. Customers currently using z/OS Global Mirror or some other long-distance
remote copy solution should consider zIIP-assisted z/OS Global Mirror.
- The first stage of a comprehensive overhaul for system message processing
was made available as a feature for z/OS V1.4, and integrated in z/OS V1.5 and
later releases. The overall objective of the Consoles Enhancements improvements
is to improve system availability by enhancing the capacity and reliability
of message delivery. To accomplish this, major changes to the message production
and consumption flow help reduce the possibility of bottlenecks which can
cause a backlog of undelivered messages. In z/OS V1.7, the next phase of Consoles Enhancements
was made available, including support for deleting unused EMCS consoles, a
new AMRF/ORE service routine, disassociating MONITOR messages from particular
consoles, and support for enhanced recovery. In z/OS V1.8, the master console and console
switch functions were removed, eliminating them as potential points of failure.
In z/OS V1.10, IBM delivers
the final phase of Consoles Enhancements. In this phase, consoles processing
has been redesigned to reduce serialization contention by reducing the scope
of serialization for many operations from a console class to an individual
console. Additionally, support is provided to increase the maximum number
of MCS, SMCS, and subsystem consoles in a sysplex from 99 per sysplex to 99
active consoles per system; also, defining up to 250 consoles per system is
supported (of which up to 99 may be concurrently active), and wildcard support
is added for the DISPLAY CONSOLES command along with improved command response
messages.
- In z/OS V1.10,
JES2 designs intended to improve availability include:
- New function supporting JES2 Dynamic Exits is provided with a new $T
EXIT command. Additional commands intended to support refreshing JES2 load
modules are also available. The new $ADD LOADmod, $DEL LOADmod, and $T LOADmod,REFRESH
commands are intended to refresh tables within a specified load module, existing
exit points, and the list of routines associated with exit points without
an IPL or JES2 restart.
- New initialization parameters and updated commands allow you to specify
that NJE connections that terminate unexpectedly should be restarted after
a specified interval. This new support is intended to help you improve availability
for these connections by automating their recovery.
- In July 2007, WLM exploitation of XCF signaling was changed in APAR OA20484
for z/OS V1.6-V1.9
in the following ways:
- For asynchronous messages the sender no longer holds the sender latch.
- The monitoring task and some other communication functions are able to
detect long waits of asynchronous senders and are able to terminate these
waits.
- WLM is now able to actively find out that another system no longer communicates
and is able to initiate recovery for it.
This function is integrated in z/OS V1.10.
- WebSphere for z/OS (5655-N01)
64-bit users have the capability to define very large heaps. Current processing
dumps the heap ahead of the system and Language Environment thread
stacks needed to debug. Now, 64-bit storage is assigned a dump priority which
allows the stacks to be dumped ahead of the heap.
- In z/OS V1.10, RACF design
is changed to help you preserve RACF database data integrity. When a new
system IPLs, goes into data sharing mode with an RVARY DATASHARE, or activates
a database with RVARY ACTIVE, RACF will check for indications of data
sharing mode and non-data sharing mode systems using the same database concurrently,
and for multiple sysplexes in data sharing mode, using the same database.
If a mismatch is detected, an operator message is issued, asking for direction
(for IPL, either FAILSOFT, CONTINUE, or NODATASHARE, for RVARY either CANCEL
or CONTINUE). This is designed to help improve availability by eliminating
potential causes of database corruption.
- The Language
Environment IPCS formatter is enhanced to format additional C run-time
control blocks.
- Previously, file system lock recording was done at a module level. In z/OS V1.10, IBM provides
the ability to perform file system lock recording at a thread level.
- A z/OS UNIX System
Services function is designed to allow you to change sysplex root data sets
dynamically, without a sysplex-wide IPL. This new MODIFY OMVS,NEWROOT command
is expected to eliminate a cause for planned outages and to facilitate migration
of sysplex roots from HFS to zFS.
- The System Diagnostic Work Area (SDWA) is moved into 31-bit storage above
the 16 MB line for AMODE(64) Functional Recovery Routines (FRRs) in z/OS V1.10. SQA
storage shortages can cause FRRs to be skipped when the SDWA is below the
line. Moving them above the line is designed to help avoid one cause of abnormal
address space termination.
- System Trace buffers have been moved to 64-bit storage, allowing for
significantly increased system trace capacity.
- A new function provides a migration path from a GRSRNL=EXCLUDE environment
to full RNLs without requiring a sysplex-wide outage for certain environments.
It will require that only one STAR mode system remains in the sysplex before
the function can be used. GRSRNL=EXCLUDE is a special mode where GRS excludes
most SYSTEMS (global) level ENQs to SYSTEM (local) level scope.
- To help verify optimal dump reading configuration, IPCS issues additional
messages when a dump is initialized, checking both the control interval size
and available space of the dump directory in use.
Additionally, IPCS reports
on the amount of time taken by the stand-alone dump process.
- In z/OS V1.10,
the IPCS COPYDUMP command supports the specification of address spaces by
name, in addition to specifying them by ASID. This is designed to allow you
to specify which address spaces should be copied when making a copy of a dump
without having to know the ASID numbers for restartable address spaces in
advance, and to provide a more natural way to specify which address spaces
should be included in the copy of the dump.
- An EASYCOPY option is added to IPCS COPYDUMP, designed to quickly generate
a subset dump useful for screening most system problems.
- New filtering options are available for the IPCS VERBX GRSTRACE command,
to help reduce the amount of output that results.
- IPCS dump formatting routines for SAF and RACF have been improved to help speed diagnosis.
- SVC Dump processing has been redesigned to detect and recover from some
situations that might cause it to stall, including those involving dump data
set allocation, cataloging, and writing to dump data sets.
- Auto-IPL support provides the capability to request that the system
automatically IPL stand-alone dump, z/OS, or both when a disabled wait
state is requested by a system component. This function is designed to
be under the control of new parmlib parameters and a new Wait State Action
Table (WSAT); together, they specify the actions, if any, to be taken for
various disabled wait states. Also, new options on the VARY XCF operator
command allow you to request a SADMP, z/OS IPL, or both after the indicated
system has been removed from the sysplex. This new Auto-IPL capability
is intended to help you achieve faster failure data capture and recovery
after system failures in single-system and monoplex sysplex configurations,
and in multi-system capable sysplex configurations where Sysplex Failure
Manager (SFM) is not active. The use of Auto-IPL is not supported in
multi-system capable sysplex configurations where SFM is active. When
Auto-IPL is enabled in multi-system capable sysplex configurations where
SFM is active, the automatic IPL actions will not be performed.
- In z/OS V1.10,
IOS provides a new IOSSPOF service designed to detect and report single points
of failure in the I/O configuration for a single device or common points of
failure between a pair of devices. The service is designed to be usable both
by functions to perform such checks in real time, and by health checks. A
new XCF health check uses this new service.
- GRS display support is available for latch contention, to provide information
intended to make it easier to see how long a latch has been held, how long
contention has existed for it, and which units of work own or are waiting
for a latch. This is expected to make it easier to diagnose latch contention
problems on a running system.
- In z/OS V1.9,
limited support was added for reusing the ASIDs of address spaces with cross-memory
connections when they end, so the ASIDs remain available for the system to
assign to new address spaces. ASID reuse is intended to help you prevent
planned and unplanned outages by avoiding exhaustion of usable address space
slots on the system.
To enable the use of this new function, specify REUSASID(YES)
in an active DIAGxx member of parmlib. This will allow it to be used when
certain options are specified on the START command or the ASCRE (address space
create) macro for supported address spaces. Previously, only these z/OS address
spaces supported ASID reuse: CATALOG, LLA, and VLF. In z/OS V1.10, the z/OS UNIX RESOLVER
address space, the TCP/IP address spaces, the DFSMSrmm address space, and the TN3270
address spaces now support ASID reuse. Before enabling ASID reuse on a production
system, IBM recommends
you first enable it on a test system. For more information about enabling
ASID reuse, see z/OS MVStm Extended Addressability Guide (SA22-7614).
- In z/OS V1.10,
RRS is designed to improve availability by allowing an application to request
that RRS syncpoint processing be ended without completion. A new FORGET request
is supported by the ATRSRV function to allow another resource manager on any
system in the sysplex to instruct RRS to discard an SDSRM's interest in a
transaction. This is intended to allow the transaction to proceed to completion
once other interests have been satisfied, which in turn can help you avoid
SDSRM restarts.
- RRS is designed to write to an optional archive log stream when a transaction
is completed. To improve RRS performance, some installations disable the archive
log. In z/OS V1.10,
a new SETRRS ARCHIVELOGGING command is designed to allow you to specify whether
the archive log is to be used dynamically, without an RRS restart. This helps
you avoid planned outages for subsystems and applications that use RRS services.
- IBM provides
increased availability of system logger log streams by allowing updates to
duplexing attributes to be put into effect without noticeable disruption to
the log stream exploiters.
- In z/OS V1.10,
the Load Balancing Advisor and Load Balancing Agent functions enhance support
for the subplex functions introduced in z/OS V1.8. You can configure one Load Balancing
Advisor per subplex, and each stack in the subplex will have a load balancing
agent for that subplex. This allows load balancing for applications in one
subplex to be independent of load balancing for applications in other subplexes,
within a single sysplex.
- SMF generates EXCP sections in the SMF Type 30 records, which are created
at regular intervals as well as at job and step start and end times. The EXCP
sections contain the I/O information for a specific DD Name/Device number
pair for each address space. When you define many volumes to storage groups,
these candidate lists can be very long, and therefore SMF will generate a
multitude of dummy EXCP sections. In z/OS V1.10, a new SMFPRMxx parmlib option
allows you to specify that the dummy sections be omitted from SMF Type 30
records. This is intended to help reduce SMF data volume and processing time
for SMF Type 30 records.
- The system now dynamically detects changes in the tape configuration
in support of system-managed tape drives managed by JES3, keeping drive allocation
synchronized with configuration changes.
Optimization and management capabilities
With the ability to intelligently manage workloads, reprioritize work,
and dynamically reallocate system resources between applications quickly and
efficiently, z/OS and System
z are designed to handle unexpected workload spikes, and to improve your
system's efficiency and availability while meeting your application and business
priorities.
z/OS Workload
Manager (WLM) is a leader in the industry in delivering the management of
mixed diverse workloads according to business goals, including response time
goals. The scope of the Workload Manager and its exploiters extends from managing
the incoming TCP/IP and SNA traffic to managing requests for I/O. z/OS middleware
like DB2, CICS, IMS, WebSphere MQ,
and other WebSphere products
can take advantage of WLM to manage the priority and execution of transaction
requests across z/OS systems. z/OS V1.10
WLM provides the following: enhanced contention management, improved management
of zIIP workloads, the ability to manage selected components in service class
SYSTEM, and new Performance Block delay states.
Data Facility Storage Management Subsystem (DFSMS) is a software suite that is designed
to automatically manage data from creation to expiration. z/OS V1.10 provides
many optimization and management capability enhancements for DFSMSrmm and DFSMShsm.
These functions provide monitoring and management capabilities that are intended
to improve storage administrator productivity and simplify the storage management
in a z/OS environment.
DFSMSrmm improvements
include: interaction with IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center and a better
interaction with IBM Integrated Removable Media Manager; enhanced reporting
capabilities; and new policies for tape scratch pool, retention, and expiration
management.
Details on optimization and management enhancements for z/OS V1.10 include:
- WLM enhancements:
- Contention Management Phase 3: WLM Contention Management has been redesigned
for z/OS V1.10
to help addresses chronic or long-lasting contention situations. Previously,
WLM contention management could promote units of work that held resources
requested by waiting units of work for short periods. WLM is now designed
to promote units of work identified by exploiters for longer periods of time,
and promote them to the priority of the highest-priority units of work waiting
for a resource they are holding. This new support is expected to help prevent
low-priority work from blocking higher-priority work while still managing
the overall system in a way that is consistent with the goals you specify
in the WLM policy. RMF support for this function is to provide information
about the service times for workloads that were promoted, contention, and
delay states, in the RMF Postprocessor Workload activity report.
- CPU Management of zIIPs: Before z/OS V1.10, WLM algorithms for adjusting
the dispatching priorities of work in each service class considered CPs and
zAAPs. To meet the needs of growing zIIP workloads, this processing is extended
to include zIIP processors in z/OS V1.10. This is expected to provide
better management for those workloads.
- Better protection of z/OS against high consumers of fixed and auxiliary storage:
To help prevent critical real and auxiliary storage shortages, new WLM function
is available in z/OS V1.10.
New detection functions have been designed to track sudden growth in fixed
and pageable storage and react quickly to help you avoid system outages. This
new function is intended to identify fixed and auxiliary storage shortages,
identify address spaces with the greatest growth in storage consumption, and
issue new messages to identify them. This can help you use automation to terminate
address spaces consuming unacceptable amounts of fixed and pageable storage.
The system will also be designed to logically swap such address spaces and
set nonswappable address spaces nondispatchable to avoid further storage consumption.
Also, support for an ENF signal can allow exploiters to react to these situations.
- Manage selected components in service class SYSTEM: To prevent the inadvertent
misclassification of system address spaces, in z/OS V1.10 WLM is designed to manage these
address spaces in the SYSTEM service class even if they are differently defined
in the WLM policy: XCFAS, GRS, SMSPDSE, SMSPDSE1, CONSOLE, IEFSCHAS, IXGLOGR,
SMF, and CATALOG; this is in addition to the *MASTER* and WLM address spaces
that were already automatically classified in the SYSTEM service class. This
is intended to prevent system problems from occurring during periods of high
system utilization.
- New PB Delays: WLM provides Performance Blocks for use in application
state (or phase) reporting. In z/OS V1.10, support for representing 10
additional delay states with Performance Blocks is available, bringing the
number that can be used for reporting to 15. Also, WLM is designed to allow
applications to specify the delay state names, replacing the default names.
These functions are intended to make it easier to determine which application
phases are causing the greatest delays.
- Transaction management for Application Response Management (ARM) instrumented
applications: This function extends WLM transaction management to include
applications instrumented with ARM C services. The function will allow application
programmers to associate ARM transactions (arm_start_transaction() - arm_stop_transaction())
with z/OS enclaves
so that those work requests can be individually managed by WLM as single transactions.
- WLM supports extracting the WLM service definition in XML format as well
as installing and activating a WLM service definition in XML format via a
CIM Server. Also, WLM supports providing information about the status of a z/OS system
using a CIM Server.
- In z/OS V1.10,
SMS supports new DATACLAS overrides for certain space parameters specified
in JCL and in IDCAMS DEFINE commands. These new data class attributes are
intended to allow you to specify that the units to be used to allocate primary
and secondary space quantities (for example, tracks, cylinders, blocks, or
bytes) be set from the attributes you set in the applicable data class. The
allocation units and the secondary space quantity will also be made available
to ACS routines to allow them to make more intelligent decisions. Another
new data class attribute will allow you to specify that the system determine
the block size for data sets, thereby overriding any user-provided block size.
This new function is expected to help you better manage space in SMS-managed
DASD storage while making it unnecessary to change a large number of batch
jobs to achieve the same result.
- In z/OS V1.10,
the RMF enhancements
available are:
- RMF Monitor
III provides new reports about spin and suspend locks. The Suspend Lock report
is designed to display the address spaces which hold locks and which are suspended.
The Spin Lock report displays how often global locks are held and who is spinning.
Reporting of lock statistics is intended to help you analyze lock contention
in the system.
- The RMF Distributed
Data Server is designed to support IPv6 connections from clients requesting RMF Monitor
III performance data.
- RMF is
designed to save the actual device capacity in SMF 74 subtype 1 Device Activity
records, including records involving Extended Address Volumes (EAVs).
- DFSMSrmm optimization
and management capability items include:
- Exploitation of the SMI-S Storage Media Library profile by the DFSMSrmm CIM
Agent which is designed to enable client systems to more easily connect to
the DFSMSrmm CIM
Agent and also allows IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center to report on
volumes managed by DFSMSrmm.
- Enhancements to DFSMSrmm CLI better enable IBM's Integrated Removable
Media Manager for the Enterprise on System z (IRMM) (5655-S57) to integrate
for enterprise-wide tape management. In addition you no longer require WebSphere Application
Server to host the DFSMSrmm Web service. These enhancements that are
delivered with z/OS V1.10 DFSMSrmm are
also available for supported z/OS releases with APAR OA23266.
- Enhancements to allow the use of DFSMSdss copy services and exploitation
of Fast Replication services provided by DASD subsystems. This is designed
to enable almost instantaneous copies of the control data set to be created,
reducing recovery time objective.
- Enhancements to allow forward recovery of the DFSMSrmm CDS from the DFSMSrmm audit
SMF records when no journal backups are available.
- Enhanced reporting capability with updates to the DFSMSrmm Report Generator to support
keywords for assembler macros from which report types are derived and to add
new built-in extract steps. This is in support of new SMF record types from DFSMSrmm and
for DFSMShsm and
DCOLLECT reporting.
- New run-time options to select which DFSMSrmm records are extracted for reporting,
which should help reduce the resources required for tape reporting.
- Support for optional policies to enable tape data sets deleted via normal
disposition processing to be fast tracked back to the scratch pool.
- New policies to DFSMSrmm which set expected levels of retention
and expiration for tape data sets to help avoid accidental loss of data.
- Global Resource Serialization (GRS) is designed to improve performance
in both GRS Latch and ENQ processing. GRS Latch performance is expected to
be improved for reduced code path and improved hardware cache alignment. ENQ
performance and resource consumption improvements are expected to be available
through CMSEQDQ lock contention reduction as well as reduced code path lengths
for GQSCAN, ISGQUERY, and ENF 51 (contention monitoring) processing.
- Global Resource Serialization (GRS) allows you to specify 32 bytes of
'userdata' that is associated with an ENQ via the ISGENQ service. This allows
ISGENQ exploiters to provide more details about the ENQ and, via new ISGQUERY
support, enables them to more easily find ENQs related to those details.
- Configuration packages with HCM are a subset of a centrally maintained
master IODF which is extracted from the master IODF and distributed for activation
at specified target systems.
In z/OS V1.10, HCM implements the concept
of configuration packages, as it is currently available in HCD. New dialogs
are intended to help HCM users to define, edit, transmit, and delete configuration
packages, corresponding to the existing HCD functionality.
- HCM has new dialogs you can use for the following tasks:
- Export/build IOCP input data set
- Export/build I/O configuration statements
- Import/migrate IOCP input data or I/O configuration statements into an
IODF
- You can specify where exported data is to be stored, and specify the
source of data to be imported, on either the z/OS host or workstation.
- DFSMShsm provides
the following enhancements:
- DFSMShsm:
CDS backup improvements: In z/OS V1.10, long-running DFSMShsm functions on systems in a sysplex
with XCF capabilities are suspended to allow a CDS backup to proceed, and
restarted afterward. This is expected to reduce the time required to complete
a CDS backup.
- DFSMShsm:
NEWNAME parameter for data set backup: The DFSMShsm data set backup commands are
enhanced to allow you to specify certain attributes to be used when creating
a backup version of a data set. The new keywords NEWNAME, DATE, and TIME
are added to the command to allow you to specify the data set name, date,
and timestamp to be used for the backup data set when it is created. This
can allow you to create multiple backup versions of the same data set using
different names, dates, and timestamps.
- DFSMSrmm/DFSMShsm: Reporting Improvements: DFSMSrmm and DFSMShsm have enhanced the DFSMSrmm Report
Generator to include the ability to generate reports of DFSMShsm processing.
See the DFSMSrmm enhancements
listed above for more details.
- In z/OS V1.10, DFSMS RLS
Multiple Lock Structures allow the use of multiple secondary DFSMS VSAM/RLS
coupling facility lock structures. A new storage class attribute called 'Lock
Set' is introduced. 'Lock Set' allows you to specify an additional Coupling
Facility DFSMS Lock
Structure to be associated with a single SMS storage Class. SMS allows up
to 256 Lock Sets. Each Lock Set can contain a single lock structure name.
- The RMF Monitor
III VSAM RLS Activity Report is enhanced to display the Lock Set and Lock
Structure Name.
Networking
The z/OS Communications
Server supports highly secure TCP/IP, SNA, and UNIX networking throughout an enterprise.
It provides Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and networking protocol
support to enable SNA and TCP/IP applications running on z/OS to communicate
with partner applications or users on the same system, on other systems within
a single data center, or in distant locations. The z/OS Communications Server not only maintains
and improves on existing communication, but also pushes z/OS into the
forefront of networking technologies, by introducing such concepts as Application-transparent
TLS, policy-based networking, and centralized configuration of TCP/IP nodes.
z/OS Communications
Server designs for z/OS V1.10 include:
- Network TCP/IP stack performance improvements in multiple areas, including
designs intended to reduce CPU consumption, cache line contention, and common
storage utilization
- New support to help you coordinate LU name assignments among TN3270 servers
in sysplex
- Enhancements to SNA networking functions
- Several enhancements to the z/OS FTP Server and Client
- New functions for network management and improvements to the network management
APIs
- zIIP-Assisted HiperSockets for Large Messaging targeting Web
services and bulk data workloads
Note: For more z/OS Communications Server enhancements, see the Security and Availability sections.
Details on networking enhancements in z/OS V1.10:
- Improved Network Stack Performance: z/OS Communications Server has focused
on TCP/IP stack performance improvements in multiple areas, with designs intended
to reduce CPU consumption and memory access latency, and improve throughput
for all TCP/IP workloads.
- Virtual Storage Constraint Relief: To provide virtual storage constraint
relief, z/OS Communications
Server has changed the inbound data path to no longer use ECSA to hold inbound
data for processing or when queueing the data to the application. The TN3270
Server has also been changed to reduce its ECSA usage for mapping of active
sessions.
- Multiple VLAN Support: z/OS Communications Server allows you to configure multiple
Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs) from the same TCP/IP stack for a single
OSA-Express QDIO port. Each TCP/IP stack supports a maximum of 8 VLANs per
OSA per IP version. This eases OSA port consolidation; for example, multiple
1G ports can be consolidated onto a single 10G port, without having to redesign
the VLAN definitions in the IP network.
- In z/OS V1.9 HiperSockets was
enhanced with a new function, the HiperSockets Multiple Write Facility,
with the PTFs for APARs OA24882 and PK64880. This new Multiple Write Facility
is designed to allow messages which span multiple output buffers to be transferred
with a single write operation from the source LPAR. This enhancement can
help improve the performance of HiperSockets by reducing the number
of I/O interrupts and supporting more data per I/O interrupt. Because the
overhead of large message sends can be reduced, Multiple Write Facility can
also help lower the utilization of processors associated with the processing
of transferring large messages from the source to the target LPAR. HiperSockets Multiple
Write Facility is available with System z10 only.
In z/OS V1.10 HiperSockets has
been enhanced for zIIP exploitation. Specifically, the z/OS Communications Server allows the HiperSockets Multiple
Write Facility processing for outbound large messages originating from z/OS to
be performed on a zIIP. The combination of HiperSockets Multiple Write Facility
and zIIP enablement is described as "zIIP-Assisted HiperSockets for large messages."
zIIP-Assisted HiperSockets can
help make highly secure, available, virtual HiperSockets networking a more attractive
option. z/OS application
workloads based on XML, HTTP, SOAP, Java, and so on, as well as traditional
file transfer, can benefit from zIIP enablement by helping to lower general-purpose
processor utilization for such TCP/IP traffic.
Only outbound z/OS TCP large
messages which originate within a z/OS host are eligible for HiperSockets zIIP-Assisted
processing. Other types of network traffic such as IP forwarding, Sysplex
Distributor, inbound processing, small messages, or other non-TCP network
protocols (for example, UDP) are not eligible for zIIP-Assisted HiperSockets.
When the workload is eligible, then the TCP/IP HiperSockets device driver layer
(write) processing is redirected to a zIIP, which will unblock the sending
application. zIIP-Assisted Hipersockets for large messages is available with z/OS V1.10
(with PTF UK37306) and System z10 only.
- TN3270E Telnet Server is available to provide shared LU name management
among a group of servers running on the same system or within the same Telnet
sysplex or subplex. Prior to this enhancement, LU names had to be manually
partitioned among the TN3270E Telnet Servers to prevent concurrent assignment
of the same LU name to clients connected to different servers. With this
enhancement, one TN3270E Telnet Server in the group acts as an LU Name Server
and allocates shared LU names to other TN3270E Telnet Servers within the group.
This can allow load balancing across multiple TN3270E Telnet Servers with
consistent configurations. High availability capability of the LU Name Server
service is provided with automated takeover and recovery.
- Path MTU discovery for Enterprise Extender (EE) allows VTAM® to dynamically
learn of any Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) size changes that occur in the
underlying IP network associated with IPv4 and IPv6 EE connections. With
this knowledge, VTAM can
segment the data to the appropriate size and avoid IP packet fragmentation.
- APPN Extended Border Node (EBN) support is enhanced to let you restrict
the searching capability of adjacent non-native nodes without having to code
a directory services management exit. The AUTHNETS value on the ADJCP statement
specifies the list of authorized NETIDs for the adjacent control point. Searches
received from that control point are rejected if the destination LU's NETID
is not in the authorized NETID list.
- VTAM terminates
the control point-to-control point (CP-CP) session to an adjacent CP if the
number of queued requests plus the number of queued replies to the adjacent
CP reaches the threshold based on MAXLOCAT and a minimum time interval based
on IOPURGE has been exceeded.
- A new CSDUMP start option allows a specified VTAM message or sense code to trigger a
dump of the current address space, the VTAM Internal Trace dataspace, and optionally
a TCP/IP address space. This start option is intended to improve serviceability
by performing the same function as the existing MODIFY CSDUMP command, but
allowing the triggers to be effective at VTAM initialization without manual entry
of a command.
- z/OS Communications
Server introduces a new High Performance Routing start option (HPRSESLM) that
allows you to specify a limit for the number of sessions that are placed on
each Rapid Transport Protocol (RTP) pipe. Once an RTP pipe reaches the specified
session limit, another RTP pipe is chosen or created for new sessions. Limiting
the number of sessions on a single RTP pipe can result in improved performance
on multiprocessor systems by allowing concurrent traffic on multiple RTP pipes.
- A new modifiable VTAM start option (HPRSTALL) allows you to specify the
amount of time an RTP pipe may remain continuously stalled. If that limit
is exceeded, VTAM will
automatically terminate the RTP pipe and convey notification of the timeout
by a new unsolicited VTAM message.
- A number of functional enhancements to z/OS FTP support are available for z/OS V1.10:
- The FTP Daemon, Server and Client will all provide APPLDATA for the TCP
connections they use. This can allow you to easily distinguish the TCP connections
used by FTP from those used by other applications. APPLDATA is displayed in
NETSTAT output, available in SMF records, and passed across the Network Management
Interface (NMI).
- The FTP Server support of Implicit Secure FTP is enhanced to allow the
system administrator to decide which protocol to use to establish the implicit
secure connection: the z/OS default protocol, or the de facto industry standard
protocol. Using the de facto industry standard protocol for Implicit Secure
FTP connection activation can result in compatibility with a greater variety
of FTP clients.
- FTP Server is enhanced to give the administrator greater control over
which users can log in to the FTP Server. A new keyword can be specified
to allow the FTP server to verify if the user has READ authority to the SERVAUTH
profile EZB.FTP.systemname.ftpdaemonname.PORTxxxx. If the new keyword is
specified, and the user is not authorized, then the user's login fails.
- The design for FTP Server and Client handling of data set contention
is improved to issue messages that help you identify the contention and automatically
retry the transfer to allow you to resolve the contention before failing the
FTP attempt.
- The FTP Server is enhanced to restrict the amount of time it spends retrying
activation of the data connection to the FTP client. In addition, keepalives
are supported on the data connection to allow it to remain active even during
times of inactivity that can occur when using FTP for long-running DB2 queries or
jobs.
- z/OS Communications
Server generates SMF records for IPSec events such as secure tunnel activation,
deactivation, and refresh for IKE tunnels, dynamic tunnels, and manual tunnels.
These SMF events are reported over the real-time SMF interface of the Network
Management Interface (NMI), as well as over the MVS SMF Exit interface. These unsolicited
notifications of key security events can be used in conjunction with the polling
NMI for security.
- z/OS Communications
Server is designed to be compliant with RFC 4293, RFC 4292, RFC 4022, and
RFC 4133 for the SNMP version-neutral MIBs. These are the MIBs that represent
IPv4 and IPv6 objects. Additionally, Communications Server enhances the SNMP
generic LinkUp and LinkDown traps as described by RFC 2863 to include the
ifName of the interface in the trap.
- In z/OS V1.10,
the configuration of Traffic Regulation (TR) policy as part of the Quality
of Service discipline will no longer be supported. All TR functionality will
need to be configured under Intrusion Detection Services (IDS) policy, which
was first made available in z/OS V1.8. This change applies only to the TR policy
configuration. The TR functions themselves remain unaffected.
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The many enhancements in z/OS V1.10 continue to position z/OS as IBM's flagship mainframe operating
system. These innovations provide proof points of IBM's commitment to System
z. Designed and developed together with System z servers and key IBM middleware
such as DB2, IMS, CICS,
and WebSphere Application
Server, z/OS provides
the qualities of service that many customers rely upon for their mission-critical
business data, transactions, and applications.
System
z and z/OS are
ideally suited to perform as a data serving hub for the enterprise. The platform's
classic strengths of availability, security, reliability, scalability, and
management have made the mainframe the de facto gold standard for data serving
and OLTP. Market requirements for increased security and simplified data management,
and the increasing need for real-time Business Intelligence make consolidating
more data onto the mainframe an attractive option for many enterprises. New
technologies, such as XML, represent net data serving workloads on the platform.
System
z and z/OS are
ideal for participating in service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions.
SOA services may be considered similar to and treated the same as transactions
and one of the key strengths of the mainframe and z/OS is transaction processing. As organizations
adopt SOA as the guiding architectural framework for development of enterprise
applications, the newly deployed services quickly become business-critical
components of the application infrastructure. Eventually, SOA services must
be treated as mission critical and should be deployed on the robust, scalable,
secure, high-performance platform offered by z/OS.
The culmination of over four decades of cooperation, coordination, and
integration between z/OS and System z servers, the mainframe is an
ideal security hub for the enterprise. IBM's commitment to z/OS System Integrity
coupled with the latest security enhancements can help your business protect
users, applications, and data, which can ultimately help manage risk and meet
compliance guidelines. Centralized definition, application, maintenance, and
management of security policies help simplify security infrastructures as
well.
To address mainframe skills at a functional level, z/OS will also continue to deliver on IBM's
commitment of simplifying z/OS (as well as overall mainframe) operations. z/OS simplification
is not intended to "dumb-down" z/OS function. Rather, the intent is to
simplify systems management, improve application, system programmer, and operator
productivity, and make the functions easier to understand and use for both
current and new IT professionals.
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z/OS V1.10
is planned to be the last release that includes IPCS Problem Management Subcommands.
If you currently use the IPCS problem management subcommands to report and
track problems, consider using IBM Tivoli Information Management for z/OS V7
(5698-A08) or a similar product. IBM plans to continue to enhance the dump
and trace analysis and display facilities of IPCS.
IBM plans
to discontinue delivery of software on 3480, 3480 Compressed (3480C), and
3490E tape media. IBM recommends using Internet delivery when ordering
your z/OS products
or service, which eliminates tape handling. If you must use physical delivery,
you may continue to choose 3590 or 3592 tape media. Internet delivery is
IBM's flagship delivery method; therefore, future software delivery enhancements
will be focused on Internet delivery.
In a future release of z/OS, IBM plans to make RFC4301 compliance mandatory. RFC4301
"Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol" specifies the base architecture
for IPSec-compliant systems, including restrictions on the routing of fragmented
packets. In z/OS V1R10
RFC4301 compliance enforcement is an optional setting in z/OS IPSec policy.
Changing an IPSec policy from being noncompliant to compliant may require
minor changes to IP filters for IP traffic that is routed through z/OS. The IBM Configuration
Assistant for z/OS Communications
Server includes functions to assist with identifying and making such changes.
IBM plans
to pursue an evaluation to the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS)
140-2 using National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Cryptographic
Module Validation Program (CMVP) for the System SSL component of the Cryptographic
Services element of z/OS. The scope of this evaluation will include algorithms
provided by the CP Assist for Cryptographic Functions (CPACF) that are utilized
by System SSL. This is intended to help satisfy the need for FIPS 140-2 validated
cryptographic functions when using z/OS Communications Server capabilities
such as AT-TLS and protocols such as TN3270 and FTP when secured using AT-TLS.
z/OS V1.10
is planned to be the last release to allow attaching zSeries® File System (zFS) multi-file
system aggregates that are to be shared across systems in a sysplex. IBM has
previously recommended that these multi-file system aggregates not be shared
in a sysplex environment. Once this support has been removed, attempts to
attach zFS multi-file system aggregates will fail in a z/OS UNIX System Services shared file system
environment.
In a future release, IBM plans to withdraw support for zFS multi-file system
aggregates. When this support is withdrawn, only zFS compatibility mode aggregates
will be supported. (A zFS compatibility mode aggregate has a single file
system per data set.)
All statements regarding IBM's plans, directions, and intent are subject
to change or withdrawal without notice.
Hardware and software support services
Installation services
IBM offers
a number of remote and on-site IBM Operational Support Services, Migration
Services, and Installation Services designed to accelerate productive use
of the IBM solution.
These services are provided by IBM or an IBM Business Partner at an additional charge.
For additional information, contact an IBM representative and ask for IBM Global Technology
Services (GTS) Services for z/OS.
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- Software Announcement 208-248, dated August 05, 2008 (CICS)
- Software Announcement 208-042, dated February 26, 2008 (IBM z/OS V1.10)
- Software Announcement 207-175, dated August 07, 2007 (IBM z/OS V1.9 delivers
a highly secure infrastructure you need for your demanding data serving requirements)
- Software Announcement 207-018, dated February 06, 2007 (IBM z/OS V1.9
advanced infrastructure solutions for your business needs)
- Software Announcement 206-190, dated August 08, 2006 (IBM z/OS V1.8 --
Extending the enterprise-wide role)
- Software Announcement 206-191, dated August 08, 2006 (IBM z/OS.e V1.8 --
Affordability for mainframe enterprise and Web-based applications)
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Program Program
number name
5694-A01 z/OS Version 1 Release 10
Services
IBM provides
many services that can help analyze, maintain, deploy, and/or optimize your z/OS environment.
Here are some new services from IBM:
IBM Scalable
Architecture for Financial Reporting
Today, IBM announces
a new Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing reporting solution for z/OS which
can be enabled for the zIIP specialty processor. The IBM Scalable Architecture for Financial
Reporting (SAFR) is a solution from IBM Global Business Services (GBS) that
is designed to deal with the problem of efficiently reporting on large volumes
of transactional data. It is based on a set of software components and embedded
patented technology which may be customized for use with new or existing data
extraction and reporting applications. SAFR's ability to report directly from
operational data means that it can rapidly produce accurate, consistent, and
transparent outputs. It is highly scalable, and can be easily updated to accommodate
changing business needs. The SAFR solution may also be a low-cost solution,
when evaluated on a cost-per-report basis. The reporting from SAFR can help
support key corporate flagship decision-making, such as: high-performance
analysis of account activity, determining product pricing, detecting fraud,
analyzing sales revenue, as well as enhancing existing enterprise applications.
It is often used when high-volume table scan and join processes create workloads
that are difficult to handle through SQL or other standard techniques or tools.
SAFR employs a number of techniques to reduce run-time and resource utilization,
including the generation of machine code highly optimized for System z,
and exploits the zIIP specialty processor.
IBM GBS
can architect SAFR to exploit the zIIP specialty processor. Specifically,
the processing of data extract phase of the SAFR Performance Engine (that
which pulls data from multiple data sources, joins with data looked up from
internal tables, performs transformations, and outputs the data to extract
files) may be eligible for the zIIP. Other restrictions to zIIP-enablement
may apply.
The Scalable Architecture for Financial Reporting requires: z/OS V1.8 or
later (with zIIP-enabling PTF), DB2 Universal Databasetm for z/OS or
for Linux, UNIX,
and Windows Version
8 or later (used as data source and metadata repository), DFSORT or equivalent, System
z9 or z10 with or without zIIP(s), and IBM Global Business Services. For more information
on the IBM Scalable
Architecture for Financial Reporting from IBM Global Business Services, see
- http://www.ibm.com/systems/zbi
IBM Extended
Address Volume (EAV)
IBM offers
an optional Extended Address Volume (EAV)-enablement service to help you adapt
your storage environment to more quickly and efficiently take advantage of
EAV capability. IBM storage
specialists, certified in data migration best practices and IBM's nondisruptive
data migration software, Softek zDMF and Softek TDMFtm z/OS, will work with you, to plan and execute
the storage rearrangement and consolidation necessary to achieve optimal EAV
benefits. These specialists will help with the assessment, planning, moving,
validating, and management of the data that will be moved onto the larger
extended address volumes. For more information on this EAV-enablement data
migration service, contact your local IBM GTS representative or Niraj Desai at
desain@us.ibm.com.
IBM Rapid
Deployment
Increasing business demands have companies rethinking their approach to
quickly delivering a responsive and secure environment. To facilitate this
with the installation and implementation of z/OS and DB2, IBM Systems and Technology Group (STG) Lab
Services introduces the IBM Rapid Deployment of z/OS and DB2 services offering.
This new service is intended for customers new to z/OS who want a predefined, preintegrated,
preconfigured, and pretested z/OS and DB2 environment and who want this environment
deployed quickly. IBM STG Lab Services can have a new mainframe system
operational and optimized for use as a data server within days. The data serving
environment is defined using IBM best practices and is configured for high availability
and high scalability.
The IBM Rapid
Deployment service delivers an environment designed to support business workloads
ranging from transactional to SAP and data warehousing. The result is a simplified,
complete system for deploying your applications that incorporates enhanced
features such as data sharing on IBM hardware in a pretested configuration.
IBM Implementation
Services for Parallel
Sysplex Middleware - DB2 data sharing, CICS enablement and WebSphere Application enablement
To assist with the assessment, design, planning, implementation, testing,
and backup and recovery of System z Sysplex Middleware, IBM Global Technology Services announced
and made available the IBM Implementation Services for Parallel Sysplex Middleware
Service offering which is designed for clients who want to:
- Enhance the availability of their data
- Enable applications to take full utilization of all servers' resources
- Share application system resources in order to meet business goals
- Manage multiple systems as a single system from a single point of control
- Respond to unpredicted growth by quickly adding computing power to match
business requirements without disrupting their business
- Build on the current investments in hardware, software, applications,
and skills while potentially reducing computing costs
The IBM Implementation
Services for Parallel
Sysplex Middleware - DB2 data sharing offering consists of six selectable
modules; each is a stand-alone module that can be individually acquired. The
first module is an infrastructure assessment module, followed by five modules
which address the following DB2 data sharing disciplines:
- DB2 data
sharing Planning
- DB2 data
sharing Implementation
- Adding Additional data sharing Members
- DB2 data
sharing Testing
- DB2 data
sharing Backup and Recovery
The IBM Implementation
Services for Parallel
Sysplex Middleware - CICS enablement offering consists of five selectable
modules. The first module is a CICS application review module, followed
by four modules which address the following CICS disciplines:
- z/OS CICS infrastructure
Review
- CICS Implementation
- CICS application
migration
- CICS health
check
The IBM Implementation
Services for Parallel
Sysplex Middleware - WebSphere Application Server enablement offering
consists of three selectable modules. The first module is a WebSphere Application
Server network deployment Planning and Design module, followed by two modules
which address the following WebSphere Application Server disciplines:
- WebSphere Application
Server network deployment Implementation
- WebSphere Application
Server health check
For more information on this offering, you may visit the Web site below
or contact your IBM representative.
- http://www.ibm.com/services/server
IBM Data
Mobility Services
In order to be flexible and adaptive to changing business needs, you need
the freedom to move data easily -- regardless of how and why it is moved.
Whether you need to move data for storage or server consolidation, infrastructure
optimization, technology refresh, or data center relocation, you need the
flexibility to perform all of these activities with minimal disruption to
your 24/7 applications and business operations.
IBM provides
a wide range of data mobility solutions. Storage infrastructure discovery,
assessment, design, planning, implementation, and validation services are
available for all of your data migration projects from simple to complex utilizing
the Softek suite of data mobility products.
- Softek z/OS Dataset
Mobility Facility (zDMF) is host-based software that enables you to migrate
data sets with minimal disruption and supports all major hardware vendors
and different disk capacities, including support for Extended Address Volumes
(EAV). Softek zDMF can move data sets online to immediately address performance
issues. Softek zDMF can help improve storage efficiencies and lower the total
cost of ownership by reducing lease overlap and speeding adoption and redeployment
of storage. Softek zDMF also reduces the risk of migrating data sets through
its automated migration process.
- Softek Transparent Data Migration Facility (TDMF) z/OS is host-based software that enables
continuous application availability during data migrations through its Dynamic
Swap capability. Softek TDMF z/OS is an industry-leading software solution that works
with storage hardware in heterogeneous storage environments. Softek TDMF z/OS helps reduce
risk by ensuring data integrity through fallback capability and a standard
migration methodology.
- Softek Data Mobility Console for z/OS (DMCzOS) offers assessment, planning,
activation, and validation capabilities needed to help automate and streamline
data migration. Designed to support the IBM z/OS environment, DMCzOS provides centralized
management across complex storage environments such as large IBM Parallel
Sysplex or IBM GDPS.
- Assess the migration environment by showing data inventory, location,
and classification to support efficient migration decisions
- Plan data migrations by allowing you to create a custom migration process
from the centralized console
- Move data quickly and accurately via automatic interface to Softek TDMF z/OS
- Validate data integrity by enabling command automation with Softek TDMF z/OS
- Manage data migrations via a centralized console with reporting capability
for greater visibility and control across multiple systems
The Softek Data Mobility suite can help you reduce costs, lower risk, and
increase control in z/OS environments by moving data nondisruptively on-line
at either the volume or data set level.
For more information on these services, contact your IBM representative.
GDPS V3.5
enhancements
The automation in GDPS can give your disaster recovery (DR) solution the
added peace of mind of always being ready. Many companies practice disaster
recovery testing, but a real disaster is not a test. Procedures may not be
current or key people may be unavailable. Recovery from an actual disaster
may take significantly longer than planned, which may affect bottom-line revenue
for the business. GDPS helps remove these concerns by managing and monitoring
remote copy disk when properly configured, combined with features designed
to automate the recovery actions. In addition, GDPS provides automation capabilities for
planned data center activities. This helps to remove people as a single point
of failure.
As of March 31, 2008, GDPS V3.5 is designed to enhance heterogeneous data
management, expand GDPS/XRC availability and scalability, and help improve
usability. This can be achieved through new functions such as:
- GDPS integration
with Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) and Geographically Dispersed Open Clusters
(GDOC). This is designed to provide coordinated disaster recovery across System
z and non-System z servers if Veritas Cluster Server is already installed.
Initial support is for GDPS/PPRC and GDPS/XRC.
- GDPS integration
with IBM Tivoli System
Automation Application Manager (AppMan). This is designed to provide coordinated
disaster recover across System z and non-System z servers if AppMan is installed.
Initial support is for GDPS/PPRC.
- Enhanced GDPS/GM and GDPS/PPRC HM system management with a graphical
user interface. The graphical user interface has been available since March
2007 for GDPS/PPRC with GDPS V3.4.
- Greater disk efficiency with support for Space Efficient FlashCopy.
- Improved scalability with z/OS Global Mirror Multiple Reader.
- Increased availability with GDPS/MzGM Incremental Resync available in
2008.
More detailed information on the GDPS service offerings is available at
- http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/gdps
IBM Software Services for WebSphere
IBM Software
Services for WebSphere (ISSW)
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 extensive portfolio of capabilities. Together, we provide
the global reach, intellectual capital, industry insight, and technology leadership
to support a wide range of critical business needs.
ISSW is adept at building effective teams consisting of your staff and IBM Global
Business Services personnel, or with a global systems integrator of your choice
to support the successful deployment of WebSphere Transformation Extender.
ISSW brings product, technology, and best-practices expertise that can make
any implementation team more effective. As specialists in WebSphere products, IBM has
the collective experience of hundreds of live customer implementations and
hundreds of consultants globally to help ensure success.
ISSW professionals complement the project delivery team by providing deep
insight into product technology and architecture as well as linkages back
to the software development organization. ISSW services offerings are tailored
to your individual needs, with services that range from a full outsourced
deployment to focused specialist services packages that enable a project team
or client to address specific challenges.
ISSW can also assist you with upgrading from earlier versions of WebSphere products.
Any migration of applications involves proper planning, estimation, and timed
execution. ISSW can assist by precisely assessing and evaluating your existing
infrastructure and support system. ISSW has extensive, proven experience in
successful product migrations.
Our ISSW consultants:
- Are missioned to help make WebSphere products successful.
- Minimize your migration risks. We've harnessed years of field experiences
into a migration services program to help you successfully migrate your applications.
- Provide extensive technical skills on WebSphere and WebSphere process integration products.
- Bring tried-and-true best practices expertise to every engagement.
Packaged and custom service offerings are available, including specific
predefined services offerings to get you off to a running start with WebSphere process
integration products.
ISSW offers technical, product-specific services for WebSphere software
products in each of these four categories:
- Assess
- Technical architecture sizing and planning
- Enterprise process integration strategy
- Mentoring and team augmentation
- Design
- Design Workshop
- Design Review
- Mentoring and team augmentation
- Develop and deploy
- External code reviews
- Go-Live Support
- Off-site development
- Mentoring and team augmentation
- Performance tuning
- Quality Assurance Reviews
- Maintain
- Maintenance, enhancement, and operation support of the production environment
Go-Live Support
- Migration service
- Full operational review
Visit the Web sites below to learn more about IBM Software Services for WebSphere capabilities,
and how to contact your ISSW sales specialist for specific information about
services offerings for WebSphere integration products.
For more information, visit
- http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/services/services.html#wbi
Your ISSW sales specialist may be found at
- http://www.ibm.com/WebSphere/developer/services/contacts.html
To learn more about IBM Software Services or to contact a Software Services
sales specialist, visit
- http://www.ibm.com/software/sw-services/
Installation and customization
Effective with z/OS V1.10, the entitled Customized Offerings will provide
the following enhancements:
- The integration of service into ServerPac orders is changed to APPLY &
ACCEPT service up to the latest RSU level. All applicable HIPER and PRP service
available at time of manufacturing the ServerPac order will only be APPLYed,
allowing for backout capability. Unintegrated service will continue to be
delivered in RECEIVEd status.
- The Customized Offerings Driver (COD) is a prebuilt stand-alone driving
system that can be used to drive the installation of z/OS using CBPDO or ServerPac if you do
not have a driving system or your driving system does not meet the minimum
driving system requirements. Effective fourth quarter 2008, the Customized
Offerings Driver V2.4.1 (5655-M12) will be service updated. The Customized
Offerings Driver contains a subset of z/OS V1.8 and supports the System z10 EC
and the minimum driving system requirements for installing z/OS V1.10.
Fee-based software services offerings
IODF by host FTP now available
To send your I/O Definition File (IODF) for your SystemPac® order, you had to use your
workstation Internet connection. Now, you can submit an IODF directly from
your z/OS host
using the CustomPac FTP utility. Sending an IODF using the host FTP option
not only provides you with an alternate path to send your IODF files to IBM in
case you can't connect to the IBM FTP server with your workstation, but
does not require Java applets with your browsers.
For more information on CustomPac go to
- http://www.ibm.com/services/custompac
Important Web sites
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Here are just a few of the courses available for classroom delivery:
- Introduction to z/OS Environment (ES050)
- Fundamental System Skills for z/OS (ES10A)
- z/OS Facilities
(ES155)
- z/OS Operations
(ES270)
- z/OS Installation
(ES41A)
- Basic z/OS Tuning
Using the Workload Manager (WLM) (ES545)
- Basics of z/OS RACF Administration
(ES191)
- Introducing z/OS UNIX System
Services (OP052)
- Advanced Parallel
Sysplex Operations and Recovery (ES902)
- DB2 for z/OS and
Data Sharing Implementation (CF311)
- DB2 for z/OS Data
Sharing Recovery/Restart (CF320)
- GDPS/XRC Concepts and Implementation (GDPS2)
- IMS Parallel
Sysplex Workshop (CM621)
- IMS Shared
Queues (CM611)
- Parallel
Sysplex Implementation Workshop (ES420)
- Parallel
Sysplex Operations and Recovery (MV900)
- zSeries Parallel
Sysplex Operations (H4041)
In the U.S. and Canada, call 1-800-IBM-TEACH (426-8322) to enroll in one
or more of these classes. To find other z/OS-related courses, visit
- http://www.ibm.com/training/us/catalog/zseries
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Specified operating environment
Hardware requirements
z/OS V1.10
runs on the following IBM servers:
- z10 EC
- IBM System
z9 EC or z9 BC
- zSeries z900
or z990
- zSeries z800
or z890
Software requirements
The z/OS base
is a system that can be IPLed. There are no software prerequisites in order
to IPL. Specific functions may require additional products not included in
the z/OS base,
or in the optional features of z/OS. Refer to z/OS Planning for Installation (GA22-7504)
for a listing of specific software requirements at
- http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/
Coexistence, release migrations, and fallback
z/OS gives
you compatibility and flexibility as you migrate systems in a multisystem
configuration by allowing multiple releases of z/OS to coexist. This includes non-Parallel
Sysplex and Parallel
Sysplex multisystem configurations.
Coexistence allows systems within a multisystem configuration to be upgraded
to a new release level of z/OS one system at a time. This is contingent on the
fact that the release you are migrating to can coexist with the lowest release
running in your multisystem configuration.
The Coexistence-Migration-Fallback and Service policies are aligned. IBM intends
to continue the practice of providing service support for each release of z/OS for
three years following its general availability (GA) date. IBM, at its sole
discretion, may choose to leave a release supported for more than three years.
In that case, more than three releases may be coexistence, migration, and
fallback supported. However, any z/OS release having three or fewer months
of service remaining at the time of GA of a new release will not be coexistence,
migration, and fallback supported.
Note: These statements represent the current intention of IBM. IBM reserves the
right to change or alter the Coexistence-Migration-Fallback policy in the
future or to exclude certain releases beyond those stated. IBM development
plans are subject to change or withdrawal without further notice. Any reliance
on this direction is at the relying party's sole risk and does not create
any liability or obligation for IBM.
Migration forward as well as fallback should be made within the same z/OS releases
supported by the coexistence policy.
The following table shows the z/OS releases that are coexistence-supported
with z/OS V1.10.
Coexistence-supported releases
Release Coexistence-supported with release in Column 1
z/OS V1.8 (4) or z/OS V1.5 (1), z/OS V1.6 (2), z/OS V1.7 (3),
z/OS V1.8,
z/OS.e V1.8 (5) z/OS.e V1.5, z/OS.e V1.6, z/OS.e V1.7, z/OS.e V1.8
z/OS V1.9 (6) z/OS V1.7, z/OS V1.8, z/OS V1.9,
z/OS.e V1.7, z/OS.e V1.8
z/OS V1.10 z/OS V1.8, z/OS V1.9, z/OS V1.10,
z/OS.e V1.8
z/OS V1.11 (7) z/OS V1.9, z/OS V1.10, z/OS V1.11
z/OS V1.12 (7) z/OS V1.10, z/OS V1.11, z/OS V1.12
Notes:
- z/OS V1.5,
and z/OS.e
V1.5 end of service was March 2007.
- z/OS V1.6
and z/OS.e
V1.6 end of service was September 2007.
- z/OS V1.7
and z/OS.e
V1.7 end of service will be September 2008.
- z/OS V1.8
and z/OS.e
V1.8 end of service will be September 2009.
- z/OS.e
V1.8 was the last release of z/OS.e. It has been replaced with the new zNALC pricing
offering available with z/OS.
- z/OS V1.9
end of service is planned to be September 2010.
- Operating system levels beyond z/OS V1.10 represent current intentions
of IBM.
To address our customer requirements for defect support, IBM plans to announce
a special extended lifecycle accommodation exclusively for z/OS V1.7. This
accommodation is planned to provide a fee-based, corrective service (a fix,
bypass, or restriction to a problem) beyond the withdrawal of service date
of September 30, 2008, for z/OS V1.7 (5694-A01). This extended support is planned
to be available for a period up to 2 years beyond the September 30, 2008, z/OS V1.7
discontinuance of service and is intended to provide users with more time
to complete their migration to z/OS V1.8 or z/OS V1.9, while continuing to receive
corrective service for z/OS V1.7. This support is not intended to change coexistence,
migration, and fallback policies for z/OS.
This consistent coexistence, migration, and fallback policy applies to
release migrations for all configurations, whether they are:
- Single system configurations
- Individual systems within a multisystem configuration
- Cases where a simultaneous IPL is used to migrate all systems in a multisystem
configuration at the same time
It is very important that you order the required z/OS release you need for migration and
coexistence while it is still available. Refer to information under Key dates to find out how long z/OS V1.10 will remain orderable.
For additional information on z/OS coexistence and release migration
information, refer to z/OS Planning for Installation (GA22-7504) at
- http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/
For migrations inside the IBM migration and coexistence policy, IBM Global
Technology Services (GTS) has fee-based offerings that provide a PTF on demand
service for toleration and coexistence maintenance based upon a customer's
SMP/E Consolidated Software Inventory (CSI). With these offerings, you specify
the release of z/OS,
or other products, or hardware (for example, 2094) to which you are migrating,
and all configured toleration/coexistence maintenance for your current system
(as specified by your CSI) will be delivered to you as a customized package
in electronic or physical format. This is provided through the SoftwareXcel
enterprise edition offering, via the Service Request and Delivery (SRD) function.
GTS also provides hands-on fee-based services to
assess whether a migration outside the migration and coexistence policy might
be possible. For more information on the migration services that GTS provides
for both inside and outside the migration and coexistence policy, contact
your local IBM sales
specialist.
JES coexistence, release migrations, and fallback
IBM recommends
that you migrate to the next version of JES2 or JES3 at the same time you
migrate to the rest of z/OS. This way, you benefit directly from the new function
provided by the most current JES and enable other elements and features to
benefit from this level.
Fallback for z/OS is
at a system level, rather than an element or feature level. When you migrate
to JES2 or JES3 at the same time you migrate to z/OS, you cannot back out JES2 or JES3
separately; you can only back out the entire z/OS product.
However, because such a migration is not always practical, certain prior
levels of JES2 and JES3 are supported with z/OS V1.10 so that you can stage your migration
to z/OS V1.10
JES2 or JES3 (that is, migrate your JES2 or JES3 later). If you stage your
migration to z/OS V1.10
JES2 or JES3, coexistence and fallback to a prior JES2 or JES3 is supported
so long as the prior z/OS level can coexist with other z/OS and z/OS.e
systems in the same MAS or multisystem complex.
For additional information on z/OS JES release migration and coexistence,
refer to z/OS Planning
for Installation (GA22-7504) by visiting
- http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/
Performance considerations
Additional information on z/OS V1.10 performance will be published at general
availability. Contact an IBM representative at or after general availability.
User group requirements
z/OS V1.10
satisfies or partially satisfies requirements from IBM customers and one or more of the worldwide
user group communities. Information on the specific User Group Requirements
(numbers and descriptions) can be found at
- http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/user_group_reqs.html
Planning information
Direct customer support
Direct customer support for questions about the installation
and use of the product is provided by IBM Operational Support Services - SoftwareXcel
Enterprise Edition or SoftwareXcel Basic Edition. These fee services can
help enhance productivity by providing voice and electronic access into the IBM support
organization. IBM Operational
Support Services - SoftwareXcel Enterprise Edition or SoftwareXcel Basic Edition
will help answer questions pertaining to usage, how to, and suspected software
defects for eligible products.
Installation and technical support is provided by IBM Global Technology
Services. For more information on services, call 1-888-426-4343.
To obtain information on customer eligibility and registration
procedures, contact the appropriate support center.
Security, auditability, and control
Data security and auditability in the z/OS environment are enhanced by the functions
available in the optional Security Server for z/OS feature. The customer is responsible
for evaluation, selection, and implementation of security features, administrative
procedures, and appropriate controls in application systems and communication
facilities.
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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.,
Canada, 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
- http://www.ibm.com/software/shopzseries
Current licensees
For pricing information previously announced for z/OS V1, refer to
- Software Announcement 202-036, dated February 19, 2002
- Software Announcement 202-105, dated April 30, 2002
- Software Announcement 203-131, dated May 13, 2003
- Software Announcement 204-056, dated April 07, 2004
- Software Announcement 205-167, dated July 27, 2005
- Software Announcement 207-006, dated January 09, 2007
- Withdrawal Announcement 907-245, dated December 04, 2007
Key dates
- August 5, 2008: z/OS V1.10 CFSW configurator support for stand-alone
path (5694-A01) and price proposal support.
- September 12, 2008: First date for ordering z/OS V1.10 ServerPac, SystemPac,
CBPDO using CFSW configuration support or ShopzSeries, the Internet ordering
tool. Note that most z/OS media (executable code) is shipped only through
Customized Offerings (ServerPac, SystemPac, and CBPDO).
- September 26, 2008: z/OS V1.10 general availability via ServerPac,
CBPDO, and SystemPac.
- October 14, 2008: Recommended last date for submitting z/OS V1.9 orders
via the entitled Customized Offerings (ServerPac and CBPDO). This date will
allow for adequate order processing time.
- October 27, 2008: Last date for processing orders for z/OS V1.9 via
ServerPac and CBPDO.
- November 21, 2008: general availability of Cryptographic Support
for z/OS V1R8-R10 & z/OS.e
V1R8 Web deliverable. This Web deliverable will support z/OS V1.8 through z/OS V1.10
and z/OS.e
V1.8.
- June 29, 2009: Recommended last date for submitting z/OS V1.9 orders
via the fee Customized Offering SystemPac. This date will allow for
adequate order processing time.
- July 27, 2009: Last date for processing orders for z/OS V1.9 via SystemPac.
- September 30, 2009: End of service for z/OS V1.8 (5694-A01) and z/OS.e V1.8 (5655-G52).
To obtain the Web deliverable listed above, visit
- http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/downloads/
The end of service for a Web deliverable occurs at end of service for the
release on which it runs.
It is very important that you order the required z/OS release you need for migration and
coexistence while it is still available. Refer to information under Key dates to find out how long z/OS V1.9 will remain orderable.
Products that are unavailable via CBPDO, ServerPac, or SystemPac such
as Lotus® Domino® (5655-B86)
can also be separately ordered for use with z/OS.
ServerPac, CBPDO and SystemPac are offered for electronic delivery where
ShopzSeries product ordering is available. For more details on electronic
delivery, refer to the ShopzSeries help information
- http://www.software.ibm.com/ShopzSeries
Please refer to the ShopzSeries Web site for product catalogs for the Customized
Offerings
- http://www.software.ibm.com/ShopzSeries
If a product catalog for your country is not available in ShopzSeries,
please use one of the following countries, United States or Germany, and select
English language for the most complete product catalogs for the Customized
Offerings.
Current licensees of z/OS V1
z/OS V1
customers can migrate to z/OS V1.10 by ordering the release through the Customized
Offerings (ServerPac, SystemPac, CBPDO) as they have done in the past.
For more details, refer to New licensees of z/OS V1.10.
New licensees of z/OS V1.10
This product ships its executable code via Customized Offerings (ServerPac, SystemPac,
CBPDO). The media type is chosen during the customized offering ordering procedure.
Refer to the Customized Offerings section for the media types offered. Production of z/OS V1.10 orders will begin on the planned general
availability date, September 26, 2008. Ship dates for orders will be based on order sequence, Customized
Offering selected, production capability, and customer-requested arrival date.
Due to the amount of customization of ServerPac orders, shipments will begin
approximately two weeks aftergeneral
availability. Due to the amount of additional customization of SystemPac orders,
shipments will begin approximately four weeks after order and data input verification.
For CBPDO orders, shipments will begin one week after general availability.
In all cases, no delivery commitments are to be made to the customer until
confirmed arrival dates are in ESW.
Basic license
To order a basic license, specify the z/OS V1.10 program number 5694-A01. Proceed
to select the features listed which are required and then select any optional
features.
Single version charging
To elect single version charging, the customer must notify and identify
to IBM the
prior program and replacement program and the designated machine the programs
are operating on.
Basic machine-readable material
The following no-charge features are added to z/OS V1.10 and can be ordered effective August
5, 2008. These no-charge media features have pricing/billing features
associated with them. It is those associated pricing/billing features where
the charges are listed and not the media features listed below. See Notes below
for details on past announcements for this information.
z/OS V1.10 z/OS V1.10
feature description orderable supply ID
Base S014MN7
Notes:
- The billing features and pricing information for the above feature descriptions
remain unchanged and are provided in:
- Software Announcement 202-036, dated February 19, 2002
- Software Announcement 202-105, dated April 30, 2002
- Software Announcement 203-131, dated May 13, 2003
- Software Announcement 204-056, dated April 07, 2004
- Software Announcement 205-167, dated July 27, 2005
- Software Announcement 207-006, dated January 09, 2007
- Withdrawal Announcement 907-245, dated December 04, 2007
- This product ships its executable code via Customized Offerings (ServerPac, SystemPac,
CBPDO). The media type is chosen during the customized offering ordering procedure.
Refer to the Customized Offerings section for the media types offered.
Basic publications
A program directory and one copy of the following publication are supplied
automatically with the basic machine-readable material:
Basic unlicensed hardcopy publications
Order
Title number
z/OS Hot Topics Newsletter GA22-7501
The z/OS publications
are available on the Internet at
- http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/
Basic unlicensed softcopy publications
Order
Title number
z/OS Version 1 Release 10 Collection SK3T-4269
For a fee, the customer can order the softcopy collections or any z/OS V1.10 documents
available in hardcopy using the IBM Publications Center on the Web
- http://www.ibm.com/shop/publications/order
For customers in 23 countries, the IBM Publications Center offers the option
to order hardcopy publications or softcopy collections by customer number.
Verify whether this option is available in the user's country.
For other publications ordering options, visit
- http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/order_books.html
z/OS Version 1 Release 10 Collection ( BookManager and
PDF)
z/OS Version
1 Release 10 Collection contains the z/OS V1.10 product books in both BookManager® and
PDF softcopy formats on CD-ROM. If this collection is refreshed after general
availability, an updated collection will be automatically sent to z/OS V1.10 licensees.
By general availability, the z/OS V1.10 books will be available at
- http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/
For creating softcopy repositories, SoftCopy Librarian is the flagship
tool for uploading and managing BookManager and PDF softcopy files
on a z/OS host
or server and on LANs and workstations. SoftCopy Librarian is a free program
that is available on the softcopy tools disc of the collections or the Web.
Use it to obtain and manage shelves from IBM or OEM (original equipment manufacturers),
CD or DVD collections, or the Internet from the IBM PUBLIB Web site, as well as from other
Web sites that provide support for the SoftCopy Librarian.
Starting in October 2003, SoftCopy Librarian is supported only on Windows 2000
and Windows XP.
The latest version of the SoftCopy Librarian can be downloaded from this
Web site
- http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/df/ebrsclwj.exe
Optional machine-readable material
Optional unpriced features - z/OS V1.10
The following optional features, offered at no additional charge, are added
to z/OS V1.10
and can be ordered effective August 5, 2008.
z/OS V1.10 z/OS V1.10
feature description orderable supply ID
Communications Server Security Level 3 S014MMV
z/OS Security Level 3 S014MNM
Notes:
- This product ships its executable code via Customized Offerings (ServerPac, SystemPac,
CBPDO). The media type is chosen during the customized offering ordering procedure.
Refer to the Customized Offerings section for the media types offered.
- All the above features can be exported outside the U.S..
- These features should be ordered during this release cycle since they
are not automatically included in all orders due to need for export
regulation tracking.
Optional priced features
The following optional no-charge features are added to z/OS V1.10 and
can be ordered effective August 5, 2008. These optional no-charge media
features have pricing/billing features associated with them. It is those associated
pricing/billing features where the charges are listed and not the media features
listed below. See Notes below for details on past announcements for
this information.
z/OS V1.10 z/OS V1.10
feature description orderable supply ID
BDT FTF S014MNL
BDT SNA NJE S014MM6
BookManager Build S014MM9
C/C++ without Debug S014MMN
DFSMS dss,hsm S014MMK
DFSMS rmm S014MMB
DFSMS dss S014MN1
DFSMStvs S014MNX
DFSORT S014MN9
GDDM-PGF S014MNG
GDDM-REXX S014MNV
HCM S014MNP
HLASM Toolkit S014MMT
Infoprint Server S014MP1
JES3 S014MND
RMF S014MN5
SDSF S014MNJ
Security Server S014MNW
Notes:
- The billing features and pricing information for the above feature descriptions
are described in
- Software Announcement 202-036, dated February 19, 2002
- Software Announcement 202-105, dated April 30, 2002
- Software Announcement 203-131, dated May 13, 2003
- Software Announcement 204-056, dated April 07, 2004
- Software Announcement 205-167, dated July 27, 2005
- Software Announcement 207-006, dated January 09, 2007
- Withdrawal Announcement 907-245, dated December 04, 2007
- This product ships its executable code via Customized Offerings (ServerPac, SystemPac,
CBPDO). The media type is chosen during the customized offering ordering procedure.
Refer to the Customized Offerings section for the media types offered.
- If the customer subsequently enables any of the optional priced features,
those features also become subject to the payment terms of the existing z/OS license
as described in z/OS Licensed Program Specifications (GA22-7503).
The customer must notify IBM when an optional feature is enabled that was shipped
disabled from IBM.
- One or both of the BDT optional features (File-to-File or SNA NJE) must
be ordered and installed in order to use the BDT function shipped with the
base.
- The DFSMS dss
feature cannot be ordered with the DFSMS dss,hsm feature. Likewise, the DFSMS dss,hsm
feature cannot be ordered with the DFSMS dss feature.
Optional unpriced National Language Version (NLV) features
The z/OS V1.10
NLV support features will become generally available on the same date the
release becomes available.
z/OS V1.10
provides support in the languages listed below. However, not all elements
within z/OS V1.10
are translated into each language. Refer to z/OS Planning for Installation (GA22-7504)
for information on which elements are translated into which languages, by
visiting
- http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/
The following optional features, offered at no additional charge, are added
to z/OS V1.10
and can be ordered effective August 5, 2008.
The NLV features for z/OS V1.10 are:
z/OS V1.10 z/OS V1.10
NLV feature description orderable supply ID
Brazilian Portuguese Base (PTB) S014MM5
Brazilian Portuguese BookMgr S014MMR
Build
Canadian French Base (FRC) S014MM7
Canadian French BookMgr Build S014MMJ
Danish Base (DAN) S014MP6
Dutch Base (NLD) S014MMW
French Base (FRA) S014MP5
French BookMgr Build S014MPD
German Base (DEU) S014MP7
German BookMgr Build S014MMP
Italian Base (ITA) S014MP3
JPN Base S014MP2
JPN C/C++ Without Debug S014MNF
JPN Infoprint® Server S014MMZ
JPN RMF S014MNN
JPN SDSF S014MN6
JPN Security Server S014MNB
Upper Case English Base (ENP) S014MM4
Korean Base (KOR) S014MN2
Norwegian Base (NOR) S014MN3
Spanish Base (ESP) S014MNS
Spanish BookMgr Build S014MN4
Swedish Base (SVE) S014MN0
Swiss German Base (DES) S014MN8
Simplified Chinese Base (CHS) S014MP8
Traditional Chinese Base (CHT) S014MNC
Notes:
- The above feature descriptions are offered at no additional charge.
- This product ships its executable code via Customized Offerings (ServerPac, SystemPac,
CBPDO). The media type is chosen during the customized offering ordering procedure.
Refer to the Customized Offerings section for the media types offered.
Unlicensed documentation
Features not offered in z/OS V1.10
All features offered in z/OS V1.9 are offered in z/OS V1.10 except for the following:
z/OS optional NLV feature
JPN DFSORT
Note: The DFSORT English and Japanese panels have been removed
effective with z/OS V1.10.
Optional unlicensed publications
Optional unlicensed softcopy publications
The following optional one-time charge features are added to z/OS V1.10 and
can be ordered effective August 5, 2008.
Subscriptions to the following softcopy collections
may be ordered for a fee by specifying the one-time charge feature numbers
listed below:
Title Order Orderable
number supply ID
z/OS Software Products SK3T-4270 S014MM3
Collection
IBM System z SK3T-7876 S014MPB
Redbooks Collection
z/OS Security Server SK3T-4272 S014MP9
RACF Collection
z/OS Version 1 Release 10 SK3T-4271 S014MP0
and Software Products DVD
Collection
Notes:
- The Redbooks® collection
is updated concurrently with z/OS releases.
- The z/OS Security
Server RACF Collection
is updated concurrently with z/OS releases and is available one week after the release
general availability to licensees of the z/OS Security Server optional feature.
The update for z/OS V1.10
is available October 3, 2008.
- The feature descriptions listed above are the same offered in z/OS V1.9.
- When the above softcopy collections are ordered as features of z/OS V1.10, the
special subscription price includes automatic shipment of all updates made
while the product version can be ordered.
The z/OS Software
Products Collection now includes more than 1,925 unlicensed online documents
for more than 400 z/OS software products and Parallel Sysplex, and a softcopy
tools disc. This collection includes documents for multiple releases of software
products that run on z/OS. The documents are provided in BookManager format
and, when available, in PDF format as well.
The IBM System
z Redbooks Collection contains IBM Redbooks,
in PDF format, related to z/OS and other System z products. IBM Redbooks,
which are produced by the International Technical Support Organization, include
timely technical information based on realistic scenarios and are created
by IBM experts,
customers, and business partners from around the world.
The IBM Redbooks are
also available for viewing or downloading on the following Web site
- http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/
To find Redbooks that
apply to z/OS,
enter z/OS in
the search field at the top of the Web page.
The z/OS Security
Server RACF Collection includes
unlicensed softcopy documents, in BookManager format, for numerous
software product libraries that reference z/OS Security Server RACF. It also
includes education course listings, Web sites to access sample code on the
Internet, and Portable Document Format (PDF) files for the z/OS Security
Server manuals and softcopy tools. Using this collection, the customer has
easy access to all the Security Server RACF-related information without handling
individual sets of documents and libraries on many CD-ROMs.
The z/OS Version
1 Release 10 and Software Products DVD Collection (SK3T-4271) includes
softcopy tools, libraries for z/OS Version 1 Release 10 (the element
and feature libraries), the libraries for multiple releases of z/OS software
products, and selected IBM System z Redbooks. Both BookManager and PDF formats, when
available, are included on this single DVD. This comprehensive z/OS collection
is essentially the z/OS Version 1 Release 10 Collection (SK3T-4269)
and the z/OS Software
Products Collection (SK3T-4270) combined with selected IBM Redbooks from
the IBM System
z Redbooks Collection (SK3T-7876)
and delivered on the higher-density DVD technology. The contents of the popular
zFavorites for zSeries mini-CD
are also included on the DVD collection. This collection requires a DVD drive
that can read discs in DVD-9 (single-sided, dual-layer) format.
Optional licensed publications
Effective with z/OS V1.7, there are no longer any licensed publications,
which previously required a separate key code to access on ResourceLink.
z/OS V1.9 features withdrawn
The following z/OS V1.9 features are withdrawn from marketing effective
October 27, 2008:
z/OS V1.9 z/OS V1.9
orderable supply ID feature description
S013TF8 z/OS V1.9 Base
S013TDC z/OS V1.9 BDT FTF
S013TF7 z/OS V1.9 BDT SNA NJE
S013TFD z/OS V1.9 BookManager Build
S013TFZ z/OS V1.9 C/C++ without Debug
S013TDH z/OS V1.9 DFSMS dss,hsm
S013TCP z/OS V1.9 DFSMS rmm
S013TFM z/OS V1.9 DFSMS dss
S013TDL z/OS V1.9 DFSMStvs
S013TD6 z/OS V1.9 DFSORT
S013TCT z/OS V1.9 GDDM-PGF
S013TF5 z/OS V1.9 GDDM-REXX
S013TCZ z/OS V1.9 HCM
S013TFX z/OS V1.9 HLASM Toolkit
S013TG0 z/OS V1.9 Infoprint Server
S013TFJ z/OS V1.9 JES3
S013TDJ z/OS V1.9 RMF
S013TG2 z/OS V1.9 SDSF
S013TFC z/OS V1.9 Security Server
S013TFT z/OS V1.9 Communications Server Security Level 3
S013TD8 z/OS V1.9 z/OS Security Level 3
S013TDT z/OS V1.9 SK3T-4272 z/OS Security Server
RACF Collection
S013TDD z/OS V1.9 SK3T-4270 z/OS Software
Products Collection
S013TFB z/OS V1.9 SK3T-7876 IBM z/OS V1 System z
Redbook Collection
S013TFS z/OS V1.9 SK3T-4271 z/OS V1R9 and
Software Products DVD Collection
S013TFG z/OS V1.9 Braz Port Base (PTB)
S013TF9 z/OS V1.9 Braz Port BookMgr Build
S013TD1 z/OS V1.9 Can Fren Base (FRC)
S013TD4 z/OS V1.9 Can Fren BookMgr Build
S013TDZ z/OS V1.9 Danish Base (DAN)
S013TCV z/OS V1.9 Dutch Base (NLD)
S013TCR z/OS V1.9 French Base (FRA)
S013TDM z/OS V1.9 French BookMgr Build
S013TDK z/OS V1.9 Germ Base (DEU)
S013TDB z/OS V1.9 Germ BookMgr Build
S013TFV z/OS V1.9 Ital Base (ITA)
S013TCW z/OS V1.9 JPN Base
S013TF4 z/OS V1.9 JPN C/C++ Without Debug
S013TD7 z/OS V1.9 JPN DFSORT
S013TDS z/OS V1.9 JPN Infoprint Server
S013TFH z/OS V1.9 JPN RMF
S013TD3 z/OS V1.9 JPN SDSF
S013TDW z/OS V1.9 JPN Security Server
S013TDX z/OS V1.9 Upper Case English Base (ENP)
S013TDV z/OS V1.9 Kor Base (KOR)
S013TFN z/OS V1.9 Norw Base (NOR)
S013TCS z/OS V1.9 Span Base (ESP)
S013TFK z/OS V1.9 Span BookMgr Build
S013TF3 z/OS V1.9 Swed Base (SVE)
S013TD9 z/OS V1.9 Swiss Germ Base(DES)
S013TDN z/OS V1.9 Simp Chin Base (CHS)
S013TD5 z/OS V1.9 Trad Chin Base (CHT)
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
- http://www.software.ibm.com/ShopzSeries
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, 3592*
- ServerPacs - 3480, 3480 Compressed, 3490E, 3590, 3592*
- SystemPacs - 3480, 3480 Compressed, 3490E, 3590, 3592*
*3592 is highest density media. Selecting 3592 will ship the fewest number
of media.
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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