System z® hardware requirements

• One or more z10™ or zEnterprise servers.
• If temporary capacity is to be controlled by the Provisioning Manager in confirmation or autonomic mode, or if provisioning actions are to be performed through Provisioning Manager commands, temporary capacity must be available. To make temporary capacity available, On/Off CoD must be enabled (feature code 9896), as well as a valid On/Off CoD record for temporary general purpose processor, zAAP, zIIP, IFL, ICF, or SAP capacity.
• For managing Group Capacity with Capacity Provisioning, the observed systems have to run on an IBM zEnterprise z196 server or later.
• Capacity Provisioning communicates with the hardware to get information about the permanent and temporary capacity of the server. The communication is done using z/OS BCP internal interface (BCPii), a z/OS built-in communication that does not require a network connection. BCPii communicates to the local SE, but if information of other central processor complexes (CPCs) is needed, a HMC is required. The available options are listed in Table 2 .

  Table 2. Support Element (SE) or Hardware Management Console (HMC) requirements for Capacity Provisioning configuration

  Configuration	Communication through BCPii
  All observed systems and hosting system on one processor complex	SE
  All observed systems on one processor complex; hosting system on a different processor complex	HMC
  Observed systems on multiple processor complexes	HMC