Announcement Summary - April 28, 2009

Innovation with proven sixth-generation POWER™ technology for enhanced performance, efficiency, and reliability features
Leadership PowerVM™ virtualization technology to help cut costs and consolidate workloads
Innovative EnergyScale™ technology to help save energy costs
Up to 64 GB memory on a 4-core JS23 or 128 GB memory on an 8-core JS43
One (JS23) or two (JS43) 73 GB, 146 GB, or 300 GB 2.5-inch SAS or 69 GB solid state disk drives
Integrated:
- Dual Gigabit Ethernet
- SAS Controller
- FSP1 Service Processor
- Four USB ports and one Serial over LAN (SOL) via FSP
- One PCI-E CIOv expansion card slot and one PCI-E CFFh high-speed expansion card slot on the JS23; two PCI-E CIOv expansion card slots and two PCI-E CFFh high-speed expansion card slots on the JS43
Optional preinstall for IBM AIX/VIOS, IBM i, and SUSE Linux® Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 2 for POWER operating systems

Overview

Built on the promise of the IBM BladeCenter family of products -- easy-to-use, integrated platforms with a high degree of deployment flexibility, scalability, and manageability -- the new BladeCenter JS23 and JS43 Express are the premier blades for 64-bit applications. They represent one of the most flexible and cost-efficient solutions for UNIX®, IBM i, and Linux deployments available in the market. Further enhanced by their ability to be installed in the same chassis with other BladeCenter servers, the JS23 and JS43 are designed to deliver the rapid return on investment that small businesses demand. Delivering on the promise of a truly dynamic Infrastructure, the BladeCenter JS23 and JS43 help in delivering superior business and IT services with agility and speed -- all in a simple-to-manage, highly efficient way.

The 4.2 GHz BladeCenter JS23 and JS43 use the POWER6+™ version of the POWER6™ processor.

The JS23 and JS43 Express blades have been preconfigured and tested by IBM and are based on proven technology. Utilizing a 4.2 GHz 64-bit POWER6 processor and available in a 4-core or 8-core configuration including a new 32 MB Level 3 cache for each core pair, and simultaneous multi-threading, they are designed to deliver outstanding performance and capabilities at compelling prices. With faster and more reliable double data rate 2 (DDR2) memory options and support for eight to sixteen memory DIMM slots along with a Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) disk subsystem, the BladeCenter JS23 and JS43 Express blades are designed for increased uptime and enhanced performance. Exploiting the newest in high-performance and energy-efficient solutions like solid state disk technology, the JS23 and JS43 offer remarkable performance for I/O-intensive applications. And for those that require fast and frequent data access, the JS23 and JS43 offer the utmost in easy-to-manage, tough-to-break solutions. Along with built-in support for PowerVM Editions for advanced virtualization features such as Live Partition Mobility and Active Memory™ Sharing, the JS23 and JS43 Express offer an ideal blade server solution for driving your most demanding performance- and memory-intensive workloads, such as virtualization, databases, and high performance computing (HPC) applications. By consolidating and virtualizing on BladeCenter with the JS23 and JS43, you can increase the utilization of your hardware and decrease the number of physical assets you need to watch over. This translates into real dollar savings through better energy conservation and IT resource usage across the data center.

Meeting today's cost challenges while planning for tomorrow's growth can be difficult. When you demand more performance, these blade servers are ready to scale to four processors with the addition of a multi-processor expansion unit (MPE). Simply snap the MPE to the original blade and it becomes a four-processor, eight-core, 60-mm blade server with additional performance, additional memory, and twice the I/O expansion to deliver a flexible, resilient, and highly scalable IT infrastructure. Best of all, this expansion capability won't break the bank and provides the opportunity to standardize on a single blade platform for all your needs.

With IBM BladeCenter and IBM i, you can realize innovation with proven sixth-generation POWER technology for enhanced performance, efficiency, and reliability features; help cut costs and consolidate workloads with leadership virtualization as a built-in feature; go green with better energy management by using EnergyScale technology; and manage growth, complexity, and risk with the flexibility of IBM BladeCenter technology. With i support, small and medium clients can consolidate their IBM System i® and Intel® processor-based servers into a single chassis, leveraging the management, space, and power savings provided by IBM BladeCenter solutions. Large or small enterprises can now consolidate their IBM i applications into a centralized BladeCenter environment with a choice of BladeCenter chassis and blade configurations to fit their needs.

Key prerequisites

A BladeCenter chassis
When used with Serial over LAN Console support, a network switch module
A rack (7014-B42 recommended)
An operating system (IBM AIX®, IBM i operating system, Red Hat Linux, or Novell SUSE Linux)

Planned availability dates

June 5, 2009 for feature numbers 8240 and 8242
May 22, 2009 for all other features

ZG09-0334 IBM 31.4 GB SATA 2.5-inch SFF Slim-HS SSD V2 drive, offering a high-performance SATA storage device, also a new PDU and line cords

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At a glance

This new 2.5-inch form-factor drive provides solid state technology for IBM System x® and IBM BladeCenter.

Benefits include:

Larger, 31.4 GB capacity for the single drive to accommodate loading applications along with OS booting
Helps in reducing potential points of failure internal to the blade server by delivering solid state reliability in the IBM storage family
2.5-inch, slim-line form factor -- Fits into a conventional disk drive bay
Energy saving with as little as 2 W power consumption per drive
S.M.A.R.T. Technology that, through the use of software utilities, can alert you of certain impending drive failures
One-year limited warranty

Overview

This new drive brings solid state high performance, reliability, and low-power capabilities to BladeCenter and System x storage. This new 2-watt 31.4 GB SSD drive will be available as a single 2.5-inch 2-watt 31.4 GB drive.

Key features and benefits include:

Low power requirements: At 2 watts per drive, the client can better manage the power envelope of the datacenter.
Uptime is up to three times that of conventional hard drives without compromising application performance or availability.
Durability helps withstand challenging environmental conditions.
This drive is ideal for local boot usage and Web serving applications, and in environments where application data is accessed in external storage.

Performance

31.4 GB¹ performance characteristics include:

Formatted capacity: Up to 31,400 MB
Drive to host interface that supports 1.5 Gb/s burst rate
Internal transfer read rate: Up to 67 MB/s
Internal transfer write rate : Up to 47 MB/s
Random read (4K blocks): > 5000 IOPS

Reliability

The absence of moving parts reduces potential failure points in the blade server.
SATA compliance enables the drive to connect directly into BladeCenter.
S.M.A.R.T Technology allows software utilities to alert you of certain impending drive failures so replacements can be made before a problem occurs.
Rigorous testing through the ServerProven® program instills confidence that your storage subsystem² is compatible and will function reliably.

iDPx Three-phase 60A/208V Enterprise C13 PDU+ (US) (39M2817)

Features:

Three phase offering
Designed with input cable connection, 12 IEC-320-C13 (10A) outlets, and breakers on one face to improve usability and cable management
Easily accessible individual breakers per load group for higher availability (six 20A breakers)
Monitored power draw at the breaker level
Advanced remote monitoring capability
Detailed data-logging for statistical analysis and diagnostics
Integrates with Active Energy Manager for consolidated rack power monitoring
Comprehensive power management and flexible configuration through a Web browser, NMS, Telnet, SNMP, or HyperTerminal (console)

Warranty: One year, customer replaceable unit (CRU), limited warranty ²

¹ When referring to SSD or tape backup capacity, GB stands for 1,000,000,000 bytes and TB stands for 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. User capacity may vary depending on operating environments.

² For information on the IBM Statement of Limited Warranty, contact your IBM representative or reseller. Copies are available upon request.

³IBM makes no representation regarding third-party products or services including those designated as ServerProven.

Key prerequisites

The new drive is supported on IBM System x servers with a 2.5-inch bay.

The new drive is supported on IBM BladeCenter servers with a 2.5-inch bay.

The PDU and line cords are supported on iDataPlex systems.

Planned availability date

May 11, 2009

ZG09-0328 New TopSeller ThinkServer RS110 systems from Lenovo with Intel high-speed processors

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Benefits of the ThinkServer RS110 systems include:

Outstanding performance and compact mechanical design:
- High-performance Intel processors
- Rack mechanical chassis design
- Serial ATA and SAS device support
- Hot swap and simple swap HDD support (select models)
ThinkServer technologies that can help:
- Make computing simpler and manage your system configuration
- Update your system to current levels of drivers, firmware, and software
- Increase overall system availability and control

Overview

The ThinkServer RS110 series offers a blend of essential features and technology, including:

High-performance Intel processors
Integrated dual Gigabit Ethernet
Rack mechanical design
Numerous data protection tools

Easy to use and manage

Systems include a fully integrated recovery environment that works when your operating system is not working
Innovative mechanical design for easy upgrades and service support
ThinkServer EasyStart: Easy to use server configuration utility
ThinkServer EasyManage: Server system administration software
Easy-to-service chassis design helps maximizes uptime

Optimized for connectivity

Integrated dual Gigabit Ethernet

Service and support

Worldwide service and support¹

For up-to-date marketing and technical information, visit

http://www.lenovo.com

¹: International Warranty Service (IWS) is available in any country in which this product is sold and serviced. Service delivery methods and parts availability vary by country, may be different from that in the country of purchase, and are subject to change without notice. Fees and restrictions may apply in some countries.

Planned availability date

April 2009

ZG09-0329 ThinkServer TS100 models with Intel high-speed processor technology are the ultimate performance servers

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At a glance

Benefits of the ThinkServer TS100 systems include:

Outstanding performance and excellent room for growth:
- High-performance Intel processors
- Very expandable mechanical chassis
- Serial ATA and SAS device support
- Redundant power supply configurations (select models)
Innovative mechanical design for easy upgrades and service support
ThinkServer technologies that can help:
- Make computing simpler and manage your system configuration
- Update your system to current levels of drivers, firmware, and software
- Increase overall system availability and control

Overview

The ThinkServer TS100 series offers a blend of essential features and technology, including:

High-performance Intel processors
Integrated Gigabit Ethernet
Highly expandable tower design
Numerous data protection tools

Easy to use and manage

Systems include a fully integrated recovery environment that works when your operating system is not working
Innovative mechanical design for easy upgrades and service support
ThinkServer EasyStart: Easy to use server configuration utility
ThinkServer EasyManage: Server system administration software
Easy-to-service chassis design helps maximizes uptime

Optimized for connectivity

Integrated Gigabit Ethernet

Service and support

Worldwide service and support¹

For up-to-date marketing and technical information, visit

http://www.lenovo.com

¹: International Warranty Service (IWS) is available in any country in which this product is sold and serviced. Service delivery methods and parts availability vary by country, may be different from that in the country of purchase, and are subject to change without notice. Fees and restrictions may apply in some countries.

Planned availability date

April 2009

ZG09-0244 IBM System z enhancements, continuing to manage risk

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At a glance

Today's enhancements to the IBM System z10 Enterprise Class (z10 EC) and IBM System z10 Business Class (z10 BC) servers demonstrate our commitment to the continuing evolution of the IBM mainframe with continued focus on the mainframe's strengths - security, virtualization, availability, and scalability - while helping to control your costs.

A worldwide port name (WWPN) prediction tool is designed to allow setup of your SAN prior to the delivery and installation of your new System z10 server and get you up and running faster.
Server Time Protocol (STP) enhancements will deliver system management improvements by saving STP configurations across Power On Resets (PORs) and power outages experienced by your IBM System z10 or System z9® server. Additionally, new z/OS messages are generated for various hardware events that affect STP. The ability to generate z/OS messages will be supported on IBM System z10 and System z9 with z/OS V1.11 with enabling support rolled back to z/OS V1.10 and V1.9 which is expected by the end of this year.
System z fulfills its hardware directions regarding 12x InfiniBand coupling links as stated in Hardware Announcement ZG08-0289, dated February 26, 2008, and Hardware Announcement ZG08-0806, dated October 21, 2008. System z now supports InfiniBand coupling link attachment between System z10 and System z9 general purpose servers. Previously a System z9 server could attach to System z10 using 12x InfiniBand as a standalone coupling facility server only.
Memory sizes up to 248 GB will now be available on the z10 BC to support consolidation of distributed servers and adding new workloads such as SAP, Oracle, or Cognos8.
Capacity Back Up (CBU) enhancements change the allocation of the default number of tests, allow the expiration of existing CBUs to be extended up to five years from date of order, and additional tests can be added individually rather than in increments of five.
Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 5 (EAL5) certification for z10 EC was received on October 29, 2008. EAL5 certification provides assurances that many different applications running in different operating environments in different logical partitions on one z10 EC will be secure and distinct from each other.
More cryptographic protection and security with Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 192 and 256, and support for Longer Personal Account Numbers is now available for the IBM System z9.

Overview

We must move past today's challenges to seize tomorrow's opportunities. It's time to start thinking differently about infrastructure. In this smarter world, we need our infrastructure to propel us forward, not hold us back. A dynamic infrastructure addresses today's challenges and tomorrow's opportunities and enables reduced cost, improved service, and risk management.

IBM System z delivers extreme business value by enabling you to conduct business reliably and securely. It provides a simplified and consolidated dynamic infrastructure for critical core business applications, especially for areas that demand superior quality of IT service, all with very low marginal cost.

Today's enhancements to the IBM System z10 Enterprise Class (z10 EC) and IBM System z10 Business Class (z10 BC) servers demonstrate our commitment to the continuing evolution of the IBM mainframe. They offer continued focus on the mainframe's strengths: security, virtualization, availability, and scalability.

Preplanning for your Storage Area Network (SAN): A new worldwide port name (WWPN) tool provides advance SAN preplanning so you are ready before your new IBM System z10 server arrives.

Server Time Protocol: Enhancements will deliver improved installation, problem determination, and problem correction on your IBM System z10 and System z9.

Fulfillment of hardware directions regarding InfiniBand coupling links: System z now supports 12x InfiniBand coupling link attachment between System z10 and System z9 general purpose (no longer limited to standalone coupling facility) servers as stated in Hardware Announcement ZG08-0289, dated February 26, 2008, and Hardware Announcement ZG08-0806, dated October 21, 2008.

Capacity Back Up (CBU): Enhancements change the allocation of the default number of test activations, allowing the expiration of existing CBU to be extended up to no more than five years from date of order, and offer additional CBU tests in single units.

IBM System z10 BC memory increase: Additional memory features up to 248 GB will be available earlier than the June 2009 date originally stated in Hardware Announcement ZG08-0806, dated October 21, 2008.

EAL5 Certification for the z10 Enterprise Class Server: The IBM z10 EC received Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 5 (EAL5) on October 29, 2008.

Cryptography Enhancements on System z9: More protection and security options are now available with Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 192 and 256, and support for Longer Personal Account Numbers for stronger data protection on Crypto Express2 and Crypto Express2-1P.

The future does run on System z, and today's enhancements deliver improved security and connectivity.

Key prerequisites

Refer to the Hardware requirements and Software requirements sections of this announcement.

Planned availability dates

New build and MES functions and features available May 29, 2009:

WWPN prediction tool on z10
STP configuration and time information saved across Power on Resets (POR) or power outages for two servers on z10 and z9™
Alignment of quantity of CBU test activations with the number of CBU years assigned to the CBU record on z10
Extension of the expiration date of CBU records by up to five years from date of order on z10
CBU tests in single quantities on z10
Up to 248 GB memory available on z10 BC

Crypto Express2 functions for z9 made available on March 31, 2009:

Secure Key AES
Support for 13- through 19-digit Personal Account Numbers

ZG09-0276 IBM System Storage 7214 Tape and DVD Enclosure Express offers a rack mountable tape and optical storage enclosure for IBM Power Systems and IBM System p5 models

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At a glance

The IBM System Storage 7214 Tape and DVD Enclosure Express is an excellent choice for applications where:

The availability of internal server bays for storage devices is limited or no bays are available (depending on server model)
It is important to consolidate storage devices in a single, convenient location to minimize space and cabling impacts
19-inch rack space is limited

The two bays of the 7214 Express can accommodate the following tape or DVD drives for IBM Power servers and IBM p5 server models:

DAT72 36 GB Tape Drive -- Up to two drives
DAT160 80 GB Tape Drive -- Up to two drives
Half-high LTO Ultrium 4 800 GB Tape Drive -- Up to two drives
DVD-RAM Optical Drive -- Up to two drives

Overview

The IBM System Storage 7214 Tape and DVD Enclosure Express (Model 1U2) is designed to attach to specific models of the IBM Power Systems and IBM System p5® models through an external serial attached SCSI (SAS) adapter.

The 7214 Express delivers external tape or optical drive options that allow customers to transfer data with similar archival storage and retrieval technologies already installed in existing IT facilities.

Optional drive technologies available in the 7214 Express offering are:

DAT72 36 GB Tape Drive: Read-write compatible with DAT72 and DDS4 data cartridges, and read-only compatible with DDS3 data cartridges.
DAT160 80 GB Tape Drive: Read-write compatible with DAT160 and DAT72 data cartridges, and read-only compatible with DDS4 data cartridges.
Half-high LTO Ultrium 4 800 GB Tape Drive: Read-write compatible with LTO Ultrium 4 and LTO Ultrium 3 data cartridges, and read-only compatible with Ultrium 2 data cartridges.
DVD-RAM - 9.4 GB Slim Optical Drive.
DVD-ROM - 9.4 GB Slim Optical Drive.

Note: Most standard DVD disks can be used in the 7214 Express DVD drive.

A control card sensor in the 7214 Express can track drive function and notify the user of maintenance requirements.

The 7214 Express offers IBM's Customer Replaceable Unit (CRU) maintenance service to help make installation or replacement of other components efficient.

Key prerequisites

IBM Power Systems software options:

AIX
- Level 5L for Power V5.3 with the 5300-07 Technology Level and Service Pack 4, or later
- Level 5L for Power V5.3 with the 5300-06 Technology Level and Service Pack 7, or later
- Level 5L for Power V5.3 with 5300-08 Technology Level
- Level V6.1 with Service Pack 5, or later
- Level V6.1 with 6100-01 Technology Level
Linux
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 for Power Systems, or later
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power V4.6, or later
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power V5.1, or later

IBM i (OS/400®)
- IBM i 5.4.5 operating system, IBM i 6.1 operating system, or later

IBM System p5 Server software options:

AIX
- Level 5L for Power V5.3 with the 5300-07 Technology Level and Service Pack 7, or later
- Level V6.1 with 6100-00 Technology Level, or later
Linux
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1, or later
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power V4.6, or later

PCI-X DDR Dual-x4 External SAS Controller Adapter (feature number 5912) must be installed in order to attach 7214 Express to IBM Power Servers or System p5 Servers. Attaching 7214 to an IBM Power Server or System p5 Server through the integrated SAS adapter is not supported. The boot function is not supported when attaching 7214 to IBM System p5 Servers.

Planned availability date

July 17, 2009

ZG09-0248 Availability of IBM WebSphere DataPower Appliances firmware V3.7.3

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IBM WebSphere DataPower® Appliances help you:

Improve competitiveness by strengthening business connectivity with partners and customers, and between internal organizations
Streamline seemingly complex but highly valuable service-oriented architecture (SOA) and XML applications with specialized, low total cost of ownership, drop-in appliances
Shorten SOA application deployment times when using DataPower configuration-driven simplicity
Enhance business-to-business (B2B) connectivity, protection, XML-level security, and Web service access control with powerful and thoughtful appliance security features
Accelerate message distribution, and XML and Web services processing with dedicated, high-performance capabilities
Assist in governing ever-valuable SOA infrastructure by adopting standardized run-time control points through DataPower
Comply with U.S. federal IPv6 network (XM70, XI50, XS40, and XA35 models)

Overview

IBM WebSphere DataPower Appliances simplify, help govern, and enhance the security of XML and IT services. The five products in the portfolio extend the capabilities of your infrastructure by providing SOA connectivity, B2B connectivity, gateway functions, and extremely low latency messaging. By offering an innovative, pragmatic approach to harness the power of SOA as purpose-built, easy-to-consume, and easy-to-use products, these appliances help you leverage the value of your existing infrastructure investments.

The rack-mountable IBM WebSphere DataPower Appliance family includes:

IBM WebSphere DataPower Low Latency Appliance XM70
IBM WebSphere DataPower B2B Appliance XB60
IBM WebSphere DataPower Integration Appliance XI50
IBM WebSphere DataPower XML Security Gateway XS40
IBM WebSphere DataPower XML Accelerator XA35

V3.7.3 firmware enhancements include:

Support for IPv6 for the XM70, XI50, XS40, and XA35 models
Interoperability with Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 for Web GUI administration
Improved messages for WebSphere MQ Series exception communications

Enhanced security

IBM WebSphere DataPower Appliances provide an easy-to-install and easy-to-maintain dedicated appliance that can satisfy both application and network operational groups. The appliances support current and emerging security standards, as well as XML Web services standards, out-of-the-box. Key support includes, but is not limited to, XML/SOAP firewalling, field-level XML security, data validation, multi-tier authentication, XML Web services access control, policy enforcement, service virtualization, and SSL acceleration.

Simplicity

IBM WebSphere DataPower Appliances deliver message transformation, integration, B2B, message distribution, and routing functions in a high-performance dedicated appliance. Using DataPower can help to cut operational costs, reduce complexity, and improve performance. By making on-demand integration part of powerful B2B, SOA, and message infrastructures, DataPower appliances are a fast-growing approach for market leaders in a wide swath of industries.

Governance

IBM WebSphere DataPower Appliances assist in IT policy enforcement and governance, helping to lower cost and improve manageability. DataPower Appliances connect via standardized, open interfaces to policy stores, such as WebSphere Registry and Repository. DataPower Appliances can monitor traffic and provide alerts and/or enforcement for violations or increased risk of violations of pre-set policies such as security, performance, service level, or data conformance.

This announcement satisfies the commitment announced in Hardware Announcement ZA08-0197, dated September 02, 2008 (Statement of intent: IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA appliances support for Internet Protocol Version 6).

Key prerequisites

Network interface and network cable
Network information (IP address, domain name server, gateway)
Computer and console with serial port, keyboard, and mouse
Power requirements for country specifications
Internet access for connecting to external trading partners (XB60 only)
WebSphere MQ Low Latency Messaging (XM70 only)

Planned availability dates

May 7, 2009 (electronic software delivery)
May 15, 2009 (media and documentation)

Availability of programs with an encryption algorithm in France is subject to French government approval.

ZG09-0222 IBM DS5000 series midrange disk system enhancements deliver greater performance and storage capacity, and increased data security

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Enhancements for the DS5000 series midrange disk system include:

Choice of 8 Gbps or 4 Gbps Fibre Channel Host Ports features or mix of both features for DS5100 and DS5300 controllers
DS5000 Disk Encryption Activation feature for DS5100 and DS5300 controllers
Support for attachment of up to 448 disk drives to the DS5300 controller
Optional encryption-capable Fibre Channel disk drives for EXP5000 Storage Expansion Unit

Overview

Functional and support enhancements for the IBM System Storage DS5000 series midrange disk system include a choice of 8 Gbps or 4 Gbps Fibre Channel Host Ports features or a combination of both, a DS5000 Disk Encryption Activation feature, optional encryption-capable Fibre Channel disk drives for the EXP5000 Expansion Unit, DS5300 controller support for attachment of up to 448 disk drives, and 16 GB cache memory support for the DS5100 controller.

The DS5000 series is composed of the DS5100 (1818-51A) and DS5300 (1818-53A) disk controllers, and the EXP5000 Storage Expansion Unit.

DS5000 hardware options and support enhancements

8 Gbps Fibre Channel Host Ports feature (#2052) that enables connectivity of DS5100 and DS5300 controllers to supported host servers over 8 Gbps Fibre Channel links
DS5000 Disk Encryption Activation (#7358) that provides the authorization and support for the attachment of DS5100 and DS5300 midrange disk controllers to EXP5000 Expansion Units containing encryption-capable Fibre Channel disk drives
DS5000 Encryption Capable FC Disk Drives for EXP5000 Storage Expansion Unit
- Encryption Capable 4 Gbps, 146.8 GB/15,000 rpm FC drive (#5520)
- Encryption Capable 4 Gbps, 300 GB/15,000 rpm FC drive (#5521)
- Encryption Capable 4 Gbps, 450 GB/15,000 rpm FC drive (#5522)
The DS5300 controller now supports configurations with up to 448 disk drives:
- Support for attachment of up to 28 EXP5000 or EXP810 Storage Expansion Units
- Support for configurations of up to 448 terabyte (TB) physical storage capacity using DS5000 series 1000 GB SATA disk drives
The DS5100 controller now supports greater cache memory size with up to 16 GB option for enhanced performance capability:
- Support for 16 GB factory-installed cache memory option (#2031)
- Support for 8 GB to 16 GB cache memory upgrade option (#2040) (field installation)

Key prerequisites

The DS5000 series enhancements in this announcement are selectively compatible with the DS5100 (1818-51A) and DS5300 (1818-53A) controllers and EXP5000 (1818-D1A) storage expansion unit.

DS5000 midrange disk system controllers must be at firmware level 07.50, or higher, to enable support of new enhancements.

Refer to the Limitations section for additional limitations information.

Planned availability dates

June 5, 2009, except for Encryption Capable disk drive features (#5520, #5521, #5522, #5540, #5541, and #5542) and Disk Encryption Activation feature (#7358)

August 21, 2009, for Encryption Capable disk drive features (#5520, #5521, #5522, #5540, #5541, and #5542) and Disk Encryption Activation feature (#7358)

Availability of programs with an encryption algorithm in France is subject to French government approval.

ZG09-0216 IBM Power 520 and 550 Express offer faster processor options and popular, easy-to-order configurations

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New features and functions for the Power 520 and 550 Express include:

2-core and 4-core 4.7 GHz processors on the Power 520
2-core 5.0 GHz processor on the Power 550
New Express Product Offerings
Small Form Factor (SFF, 2.5-inch) DASD capability on the Power 520
New SFF disk options on the Power 550
SATA DVD-ROM and DVD-RAM
2.5-inch and 3.5-inch solid state disk drives
New DASD/Media backplanes

Overview

The IBM Power 520 Express and Power 550 Express offer new IBM POWER6 processor options. The Power 520 offers a new 2-core 4.7 GHz processor with four memory DIMM slots and a new 4-core 4.7 GHz processor with eight memory DIMM slots. The Power 550 offers a new 5.0 GHz processor with eight memory DIMM slots.

The 4.7 GHz Power 520 uses the POWER6+ version of the POWER6 processor. The 5.0 GHz Power 550 uses the POWER6+ version of the POWER6 processor.

New Express Product Offerings and Express Editions are available on the Power 520 and Power 550, offering popular, easy-to-order configurations with attractive financial incentives.

In addition, several new features are now available on the Power 520 and Power 550:

DVD-ROM (#5743) and DVD-RAM (#5762)
69 GB Solid State Drives, 2.5-inch (#1890 and #1909) and 3.5-inch (#3586 and #3587)
New DASD backplanes for 3.5-inch DASD/SATA DVD/Tape, one without an external SAS port (#8308) and one with an external SAS port (#8310)
New GX Dual-port 12X Channel Attach Adapter (#5609)
- Either feature 5609 or 5616 is required to attach the 12 X I/O Drawer (#5802) to the Power 520 and Power 550.
- Feature 5609 replaces feature 5608 in several scenarios, including when attaching feature 5802 to the Power 520 and Power 550.

The Power 520 Express server also includes these new features and functions:

Central Electronics Complex (CEC) enclosure that accommodates small form factor (SFF) 2.5-inch disks with the addition of a DASD backplane (#8346)
Maximum of eight SFF SAS disk drives in carrier with a 69.7 GB 15K RPM drive (#1884) for the IBM i operating system, or a 73.4 GB 15K RPM (#1883) drive and a 146.8 GB 10K RPM drive (#1882) for the IBM AIX or Linux operating systems
Two operator panel cables, one for a tower system with 2.5-inch DASD (#1856) and one for a rack-mount drawer with 2.5-inch DASD (#1878)

The Power 550 Express server also includes these new features:

Two new SFF disk options -- a 69.7 GB 15K RPM drive (#1884) for the IBM i operating system and a 73.4 GB 15K RPM drive (#1883) for the AIX or Linux operating systems.

The following hardware platforms are now supported with IBM i and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server in the SDI channel:

BladeCenter JS12 (7998-60X) and BladeCenter JS22 (7998-61X) in a BladeCenter S chassis
BladeCenter JS23 (7778-23X) in a BladeCenter S chassis
BladeCenter JS43 (7778-23X with #8446) in a BladeCenter S chassis
Power 520 (8203-E4A)
Power 550 (8204-E8A)
Power 560 (8234-EMA)
Power 570 (9117-MMA)

Both i 5.4.5 and i 6.1 will be supported in the SDI channel. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 will be supported in the SDI channel.

SDI is used for new systems only and is not available for MES/upgrade orders.

The planned availability date for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server support in the U.S. and EMEA is May 22, 2009. The planned availability date for IBM i support in the U.S. is May 22, 2009. The planned availability date for IBM i support in EMEA is August 14, 2009.

Key prerequisites

Refer to the Software requirements section and to the hardware requirements in the Description section.

Planned availability date

May 22, 2009

ZG09-0331 IBM Power Systems: Significant I/O enhancements

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New I/O options are introduced for IBM POWER6 processor-based servers:

19-inch 12X I/O drawers with PCIe and small form factor (SFF) bays
24-inch 12X I/O drawer with PCIe and optional SFF bays
PCIe SAS adapters: one with no cache and one with cache and RAID 5/6
PCIe 10 Gb Ethernet adapters and a 4-port asynchronous adapter
PCI-X 1.5 GB RAID SAS (serial attached SCSI) adapter for solid state drive (SSD) and SAS disk
Incredibly high-speed 69 GB SSD
Power 520 CEC support for SFF disk
Three SFF SAS disk drives
SATA DVD for Power 520¹, 550¹, 560, and 570
Enhanced split backplane adapter for Power 570
New LCD monitor

Overview

Numerous enhancements for POWER6 processor-based servers expand configuration options and offer I/O performance enhancements. Key enhancements include new 12X I/O drawers, new PCIe adapters, a new large cache disk adapter, and high-speed solid state drives (SSD). Additionally, the Power 520 can now support SFF disk bays in the system unit. SFF disk drives are offered for the Power 520, 550, and new 12X I/O drawers. The Power 520¹, 550¹, 560 and 570 have refreshed DVD options. The Power 570 has enhanced split backplane capabilities and a new monitor is being announced.

New 12X I/O drawers expand server I/O performance and capability in both 19-inch (#5802) and 24-inch (#5803 and #5873) environments by supporting higher-speed connections to the server and by supporting PCIe 8x adapters and SFF disks. The 24-inch I/O drawer is available with (#5803) or without SFF disk bays (#5873). New 12X DDR (Double Data Rate) cables supporting the higher-speed connection are required for the new 12X I/O drawers and are available in four lengths.

With the new 24-inch 12X I/O drawers, the Power 595 supports PCIe adapters previously available on other POWER6 servers as well as new PCIe adapters. This includes support for the 8 Gb Fibre Channel adapter (#5735) that supports NPIV, with proper OS levels.

New PCIe I/O adapters are announced for the Power 520, 550, 560, 570, 575, and 595, including:

The PCIe Dual - x4 SAS Adapter (#5901) controls SAS disk (SFF or 3.5-inch), tape, or removable media. The PCIe adapter feature 5901 is functionally similar to the PCI-X DDR Dual - x4 SAS Adapter (#5912 and #5900).
The PCIe 380 MB Cache Dual-4X SAS RAID Adapter (#5903) is an excellent solution for higher-performance applications controlling SAS disk (SFF or 3.5-inch) drives. It also supports SSDs. Pairs of these adapters are required when used to provide mirrored write cache data and mirrored RAID parity footprints between the adapters for superior availability. The PCIe adapter feature 5903 is functionally similar to the PCI-X DDR Dual - x4 3 Gb SAS RAID Adapter (#5902).
Two additional PCIe 10 Gb Ethernet adapters provide either SR optic (#5769) or a CX4 twinax copper (#5732) cabling.
The PCIe 4-Port Async EIA-232 Adapter (#5785) connects asynchronous data terminal equipment and data circuit terminating equipment.

The PCI-X DDR 1.5 GB cache SAS RAID Adapters (#5904, #5906, and #5908) have extremely large write and read caches to help SAS disk drives and SSDs provide a higher level of I/O performance to the server. This is a double-slot adapter, which includes auxiliary write cache protection. Three features are available, two for the different blind swap cassette and one without cassette. The PCI-X features 5904, 5906, and 5908 are functionally similar to the PCI-X Disk Controller 1.5 GB features 5778, 5780, and 5782, which control SCSI disk drives.

New solid state drives provide for storage and retrieval of data that is much faster than spinning disk drives. These 69 GB drives leap over bottlenecks in disk drive technology. The root cause for disk's slower performance is waiting for the movement of the disk platter and the disk arm. SSD random reads/writes can occur in microseconds, not the milliseconds that it takes for spinning drives (also called hard disk drives or HDD). I/O performance increases, resulting in overall system performance (depending upon configuration and applications).

SSD has more than just performance advantages. SSD has no moving parts, increasing its reliability. SSD has no motor and needs far less electrical power or cooling than disk drives. Moreover, unlike HDDs that are often run at 50% or less of their storage capacity to help maintain consistent performance, SSD can be run much closer to 100% storage capacity and still provide excellent performance.

The 69 GB SSD plugs into a standard SAS drive bay slot and is controlled by a SAS controller. SSD is available in two form factors, a 3.5-inch (#3586, #3587) and in SFF (#1890, #1909). The 3.5-inch SSD is used in the EXP 12S Enclosure Drawer (#5886) and is controlled by the PCI-X 1.5 GB Cache RAID adapter or a pair of PCIe 380 MB Cache RAID adapters. The 3.5-inch SSD is also used in the Power 560/570 CEC and is controlled by either the imbedded controller or the PCI-X 1.5 GB Cache controller. The SFF SSD is used in Power 520/550 CEC SFF slots and is controlled by the imbedded controller or the PCI-X 1.5 GB Cache controller.

Power 520 can be ordered with either the new eight 2.5-inch SFF SAS drive slots or the previously announced six 3.5-inch SAS drive slots. Split backplane options are supported with either SFF or 3.5-inch slots. The SFF slots can support either SFF disk drives or SSDs. System unit SFF capability is now consistent between both the Power 520¹and 550¹. Three SFF disks are available for the Power 520 and 550 and for the new 12X I/O drawers with SFF disk bays: 10K RPM 146 GB (#1882) and 15K RPM 73.4 GB (#1883) with AIX/Linux, and 15K RPM 69.7 GB (#1884) with IBM i. All of these features are available on Power 575 except for feature 1884.

The Power 520, 550, 560, and 570 system units have refreshed DVD options using a SATA interface. Select from two DVDs: the SATA Slimline DVD-ROM Drive (#5743) and the SATA Slimline DVD-RAM Drive (#5762). The Power 560 and 570 use a new media backplane (#5674) for support of one SATA media device in a single CEC enclosure.

The Power 560 and 570 CEC enclosures have an enhanced SAS adapter for internal Split DASD option (#5911) that supports attachment of a removable media device external to the CEC enclosure. This is in addition to providing a connection for three SAS disk drives in the system unit such as the feature 5909 provides.

A new wide-screen, flat-panel LCD monitor (#3632) replaces previously offered monitors for the Power 520, 550, 560, 570, and 595.

1: Refer to Hardware Announcement ZG09-0216, dated April 28, 2009, for Power 520/550 I/O features 1882, 1883, 1884, 1890, 1909, 3586, 3587, 5743, 5762, and 5923.

Key prerequisites

Refer to the Software requirements section.

Planned availability dates

May 22, 2009, except for the following features:
Feature 5802 on 8203-E4A, 8204-E8A, 8234-EMA and 9117-MMA is available on June 19, 2009, for Argentina, Mexico, and Russia.
Feature 5803 in quantities greater than 17 and feature 5873 in quantities greater than 16 are available on the 9119-FHA on June 9, 2009, in Argentina, Mexico, Russia, and U.S.

ZG09-0332 IBM Power Systems enhanced with SAS and HMC features

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At a glance

New functions and capabilities are available for Power Systems.

IBM POWER5™ processor-based servers gain a Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) disk/tape capability:
- Three SAS disk drives (#3647, #3648, and #3649)
- SAS EXP 12S Disk Enclosure (#5886)
- A SAS PCI-X disk and tape adapter (#5912)
- A SAS PCI-X RAID disk adapter (#5902)
- Associated SAS cables
Hardware Management Consoles (HMC) are enhanced for all Power servers with memory upgrades and priced modems:
- Expanded memory capability (#1924, #1933, and #1935)
- Modems become optional features (#0032, #0033, and #0034)

Overview

SAS disk and SAS removable media capability is now supported on the IBM p5-520, p5-550, p5-560Q, p5-570, p5-590, and p5-595 servers. SAS capability allows POWER5/POWER5+ systems to take advantage of the newer SAS disk and tape technology used on IBM POWER6 machines. Stop investing in incremental SCSI disk and tape drives, and instead invest in SAS disk and tape drive technology. Gain longer-term capability to acquire disk drives from IBM, as IBM plans to withdraw SCSI disk drives from marketing effective later in 2009.¹

For SAS disk storage, a SAS disk-only I/O drawer, two SAS disk adapters, three SAS disk drives, and associated cables are announced. The EXP 12S Expansion Drawer (#5886) is a 2 EIA 19-inch drawer with twelve 3.5-inch SAS disk slots. Either the PCI-X DDR Dual - x4 SAS Adapter (#5912) or PCI-X DDR Dual - x4 3 Gb SAS RAID Adapter (#5902) runs the disk in the SAS EXP 12S Disk Enclosure (#5886). Three different 15,000 rpm disk capacities are offered: 146 GB (#3647), 300 GB (#3648), and 450 GB (#3649). Note that operating systems such as AIX or Linux may not be booted from SAS drives on systems based on POWER5 processors.

For SAS removable media devices, the PCI-X DDR Dual - x4 SAS Adapter (#5912) supports the attachment of SAS tape drives.

Memory upgrades are now available for HMCs 7042-C06/C07, 7310-C06, 7042-CR4, and 7310-CR3/CR4. These memory upgrades may improve HMC performance for customers using IBM Systems Director along with HMC-managed systems or customers managing a large number of logical partitions or servers. For any CR3, CR4, C06, or C07 models already installed in the field, 2 GB or 4 GB can be ordered via MES and installed by the customer.

Given the preference and usage of the built-in broadband capability of the HMC, IBM will no longer ship a modem with the HMC. Modems will continue to be optionally available for clients who want a modem connection.

1: All statements regarding IBM's plans, directions, and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice. Any reliance on these statements of general direction is at the relying party's sole risk and will not create liability or obligation for IBM.

Key prerequisites

Refer to the sales manual for individual feature requirements.

Planned availability date

May 22, 2009, except for the following features:
July 17, 2009, for SAS features 3647, 3648, 3649, 3652, 3653, 3654, 3661, 3662, 3663, 3684, 3685, 3691, 3692, 3693, 3694, 5886, 5902, 5912, and 5922

IBM Configurator for e-business (eConfig) support for SAS features on POWER5 servers is planned for June 6, 2009, and for HMC modem features on May 12, 2009.

ZG09-0336 IBM POWER5 systems enhanced with SAS disk drive and smart Fibre Channel IOA support

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At a glance

Expanded support for IBM POWER5/POWER5+ systems includes:

SAS disk drives
SAS disk drawer
SAS large cache controller
Smart Fibre Channel adapter for IBM DS8000 and DS6800

Overview

SAS disk and smart Fibre Channel disk capability is now supported on POWER5/POWER5+ systems. SAS disk capability allows POWER5/POWER5+ systems to take advantage of the newer SAS disk technology used on IBM POWER6 machines. You can stop investing in incremental SCSI disk drives and instead invest in SAS drive technology for higher disk performance. You also gain the longer-term capability to acquire your disk drives from IBM, as IBM is withdrawing SCSI disk drives from marketing later in 2009.

Smart Fibre Channel IOA support (IOP-less) with IBM i 6.1 can offer POWER5/POWER5+ users a significantly faster SAN disk attachment while using fewer PCI slots. The IBM DS8300, DS8100, and DS6800 are all supported.

Key prerequisites

Refer to the Software requirements section.

Planned availability dates

May 22, 2009: Smart Fibre Channel support and 5372-IS5 features
- 4 Gbps Fibre Channel (2-Port) (#5749)
- Routing Code (7778-23X) (#0623)
- SDI Serialize Only (#7306)
July 17, 2009: SAS disk capability
- 428.43 GB 15k rpm SAS Disk Drive (#3658)
- 139.5 GB 15k rpm SAS Disk Drive (#3677)
- 283.7 GB 15k rpm SAS Disk Drive (#3678)
- SAS Cbl (YO) 1X Adapter-Enclosure 1.5M (#3691)
- SAS Cable (YO) 1X Adapter-Enclosure 3M (#3692)
- SAS Cable (YO) 1X Adapter-Enclosure 6M (#3693)
- SAS Cable (YO) 1X Adapter-Enclosure 15M (#3694)
- EXP 12S SAS Disk Drawer (#5886)
- PCI-X DDR 1.5 GB SAS RAID Adapter (#5904)
- PCI-X DDR 1.5 GB SAS RAID Adapter (#5908)
- Quantity 150 of #3677 (#7518)
- Quantity 150 of #3678 (#7519)
- Quantity 150 of #3658 (#7538)
August 21, 2009: 5372-IS5 features
- Spreadsheet Client (5733-QU2) (#6021)
- SQLServer Adapter (5733-QU2)(#6022)

Note: For features with a planned availability of May 22, 2009, IBM configurator support is April 28, 2009. For features with a planned availability of July 17, 2009, IBM configurator support is June 9, 2009. For features with a planned availability of August 21, 2009, IBM configurator support is August 11, 2009. Availability of programs with an encryption algorithm in France is subject to French government approval.

ZG09-0322 InfoPrint PRO C900s Multifunction Printer is designed for print environments with demanding applications needs

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At a glance

InfoPrint® Pro C900s multifunction model offers:

Affordable high-quality color
Printing, scanning, copying in one system
Capability to capitalize on the expanding Print on Demand (POD) and Transpromo business with Digital Color
Advanced color capabilities to meet the growing demands of the market
Extensive in-line finishing capabilities
Design for ease of use from simple operation to more complex jobs

Overview

InfoPrint Solutions Company, a Ricoh®-IBM joint venture, announces the InfoPrint Pro C900s multifunction printer.

Highlights:

Up to 90 A4/letter size impressions-per-minute¹ monochrome and full-color printing.
Capability for printing, scanning, and copying so customers can complete a wide range of applications within one system.
Low operating costs for full-color applications.
1200 x 1200 dpi 2-bit depth color output.
Scan resolution up to 600 dpi.
Scan speed up to 75/75 SPM (mono/full color).
Original scan size up to A3/11 x 17 inches.
High-powered EFI Fiery System 8 V2 Server Controller for easy-to-use imposition and composition tools.
Toner replacement while continuing to print or copy.
Heavy stock at full-rated speeds (300 gsm).
Paper sizes up to 13 x 19.2 inches.
Copy originals with resolutions up to 1200 dpi for smooth reproductions of images, text, and graphics.
Preview, modify, and reprint commonly used documents without re-ripping by storing them on the 410 GB server.
Ability to save production time by scanning hardcopy originals directly into any TWAIN-compliant desktop application.
Ability to scan and then distribute documents to a variety of scan-to destinations such as e-mail, URL, FTP, SMB, Fiery Hold Queue, and mailbox.
All scanning utilities, including Fiery Remote Scan utilities, provide TWAIN scanning functionality.
A wide variety of professional in-line finishing options including saddle stitch booklet maker, punch, z-folding, stapling, perfect binding, and ring binding.
A total output capacity of 13,000 sheets with two High-Capacity Stackers and the 3,000-sheet Finisher.

¹ Exact print speeds vary depending on document complexity, system configuration, software applications, driver, and printer status.

Key prerequisites

None

Planned availability dates

May 15, 2009: InfoPrint Pro C900s (2709-M01) model and features

June 23, 2009: High-Capacity Stacker (#4518, 4519, 4526, 4527) and Roll-Away Cart (#4528, 4529)

August 28, 2009: Buffer Pass Unit (#4550, 4551, 4552, 4553)

The countries where the InfoPrint Pro C900s can be announced are:

Austria
Belgium
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Italy
Norway
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
United Kingdom

ZG09-0304 New ThinkPad X200s notebook models feature SL9600 processors and one- or three-year depot warranty

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At a glance

ThinkPad® X200s notebook models feature:

Low voltage Intel Core 2 Duo processors¹ SL9600 and SL9400
Weight starting at only 1.10 kg (2.43 lb)²
Battery life up to 13.5 hours
LED backlight displays for brighter displays and lower power usage on selected models
Next-generation ThinkPad roll cage for superior strength and wireless performance on selected models
Wide choice of connectivity options including:
- Global wireless WAN (WWAN) integrated technologies
- Wireless LAN (WLAN) connectivity
- Wireless Bluetooth technology
64 and 128 GB solid-state drives (SSD) for improved performance and reliability
Industry-leading security, featuring:
- Integrated fingerprint reader
- Option to disable all input and output ports
- 32-byte hard drive password
Integrated camera on selected models with improved speaker and microphone performance
Microsoft Windows Vista Business. Business 64-bit, Home Basic, and Ultimate operating systems
EPEAT Gold standard met by LED backlight models with all other models meeting the EPEAT Silver standard
ENERGY STAR 4.0 compliance and GREENGUARD indoor air quality certified

Overview

What's new

ThinkPad X200s notebook models with new Intel SL9600 processors and one- or three-year depot warranty.

These models offer the ultimate choice for excellent performance and productivity combined with very light weight and extremely long battery life.

Latest technology

Low voltage Intel Core 2 Duo processors SL9600
Intel GS45 Express chip set for improved graphics and increased I/O bandwidth
Intel integrated Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD for power-optimized performance
Wide panel design with 307-mm (12.1-in) screen format
WXGA+ LED backlight display panels on selected models for a brighter and excellent contrast display with lower power consumption
Super-strong, extremely light, top cover roll cage design for superior strength and wireless performance on all WXGA+ X200s models

System features

Integrated 1.3 megapixel camera³ (selected models) with improved audio and microphone performance
ThinkLight® keyboard light to help you work in a limited light situation
Three batteries available for the best weight and best battery life
Standard memory configurations: 1 GB^4,5; 2 GB; 3 GB (2 GB + 1 GB); 4 GB (2 GB x 2);PC3-8500 DDR3 SDRAM 1067 MHz SO DIMMs
HDDs to match your current and future storage needs:
- 250, 320, and 500 GB⁶ (5400 rpm)
- 320 GB (7200 rpm)
64 and 128 GB SSDs for superior performance and increased reliability
Active Protection System™⁷, a ThinkVantage® Technology that helps protect HDDs from common shock and minor drops

Wireless communications

WWAN ready; integrated support with installed antennas and SIM card reader⁸ on selected models
WLAN integrated support on selected models:
- Intel WiFi Link 5300 AGN (3 x 3)⁹
- Intel WiFi Link 5100 AGN (1 x 2)
Integrated Bluetooth wireless technology
Integrated 56 Kbps V.90 modem¹⁰ (V.92¹¹ - designed) on selected models

Reliable ThinkPad features

ThinkVantage Rescue and Recovery¹², a one-button recovery and restore solution
307-mm (12.1-in) wide screen WXGA TFT display (1280 x 800) on selected models
Integrated fingerprint reader
New X200 UltraBase™ with Blu-ray Disc Recordable drive available on selected models The UltraBase is common across all new X200 models and offers new features such as the capability to charge an extra battery and DisplayPort.
Intel Turbo Memory 2 and 4 GB card to boost hard drive performance on selected models¹³
Intel Active Management Technology (Intel AMT 4.1), enabling platform access for remote asset, inventory, and software management, or remote diagnostics and recovery procedures
On-line data backup (OLDB) for securing business documents and critical data on selected models
Operating systems: Microsoft Windows Vista Business, Business 64-bit, Ultimate, and Home Basic

At approximately 20.7 to 28.7 mm (0.8 to 1.1 in) thin¹⁴ with optimal weight starting at 1.10 kg (2.43 lb) the ThinkPad X200s notebook is a terrific traveling companion. Selected models meet the EPEAT Gold standard. All models are EPA ENERGY STAR¹⁵ 4.0-compliant and GREENGUARD indoor air quality certified.
Note: Certain product family features are limited to selected models that may not be available in all countries. Some combinations of features are not supported. Refer to the section of this announcement for the models and features available in your country.

Planned availability date

May 2009

ZG09-0310 New ThinkPad X200 Tablet notebook model with three-year CCR warranty

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Overview

You can order this model through the normal ordering process. Terms and conditions, features and benefits, and warranty and service for these models are the same as those announced in Hardware Announcement ZG08-0681, dated September 23, 2008.

Planned availability date

February 24, 2009

ZG09-0269 New retail packaging: ThinkPad 90W Slim AC/DC Combo Adapter powers your ThinkPad , Lenovo , and IdeaPad notebooks and more

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Overview

The ThinkPad 90W Slim AC/DC Combo Adapter, previously announced, is now available with new retail packaging.

This ThinkPad retail package includes the following languages - perfect for showcasing ThinkPad 90W Slim AC/DC Combo Adapter in a retail setting: English, German, French, Italian, Greek, Czech, Polish, Slovak, and Slovenian.

The ThinkPad 90W Slim AC/DC Combo Adapter supplies power to select ThinkPad, Lenovo®, and IdeaPad notebooks and simultaneously recharges the system battery whenever it is plugged into a standard AC wall outlet or the DC outlets available in airplanes and automobiles. This adapter gives you the flexibility to use select ThinkPad, Lenovo, and IdeaPad notebooks longer and in more places. It is Lenovo's thinnest power adapter yet, so it tucks easily into your carrying case for travel.

To recharge your select ThinkPad, Lenovo and IdeaPad batteries while you are in the office, at home, on the road, or in the air, plug the adapter into:

An AC wall outlet
Your vehicle's DC power outlet
An available airline power outlet

Through the use of interchangeable tips, you can use this adapter with both new and previous models of Lenovo notebooks.

Make this adapter the only one you take on the road. No need to carry a bag full of chargers when you can use the AC/DC Combo Adapter to power your notebook, cell phone, and PDA. An optional dual charging cable allows you to attach the adapter to both your notebook and a peripheral device simultaneously. Select from a range of optional peripheral charging tips compatible with most popular cell phones and other devices.

Key prerequisites

Refer to the section for a list of systems supported.

Planned availability date

May 8, 2009

ZG09-0262 New TopSeller ThinkPad X200s notebooks with three-year CCR warranty

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At a glance

TopSeller® ThinkPad X200s notebook models feature:

Low and ultralow voltage Intel Core 2 Duo processor¹ SL9600
Weight starting at only 1.10 kg (2.43 lb)²
Battery life up to 13.3 hours
LED backlight displays for brighter displays and lower power usage on selected models
Next Generation ThinkPad roll cage technology for superior strength and wireless performance on selected models
Wide choice of connectivity options including:
- Global Wireless WAN (WWAN) integrated technologies
- Wireless LAN (WLAN) connectivity
- Wireless USB (UWB)
Industry-leading security, featuring:
- Integrated fingerprint reader on selected models
- Option to disable all input and output ports
- 32-byte hard drive password
Integrated camera on selected models with improved speaker and microphone performance
Microsoft Windows Vista operating systems
EPEAT Gold standard met by LED backlight models with all other models meeting the EPEAT Silver standard
ENERGY STAR 4.0-compliant and GREENGUARD indoor air quality certified

Overview

The new TopSeller ThinkPad X200s notebook computer offers the ultimate choice for excellent performance and productivity combined with very light weight and extremely long battery life.

Latest technology

Low and ultralow voltage Intel Core 2 Duo processor SL9600
Intel GS45 Express chip set for improved graphics and increased I/O bandwidth
Intel integrated Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD for power optimized performance
Wide panel design with 307-mm (12.1-in) screen format
WXGA LED backlight display panels on selected models for a brighter and excellent contrast display with lower power consumption
Super-strong, extremely light, top cover roll cage design for superior strength and wireless performance on all WXGA+ ThinkPad X200s models
Great features
Integrated 1.3 mega pixel camera³ (select models) with improved audio and microphone performance
ThinkLight keyboard light to help you work in a limited light situation
Three batteries available for the best weight and best battery life
Standard memory configurations: 1 GB^4,5; 2 GB; 4GB (2 GB x 2); PC3-8500 DDR3 SDRAM 1067 MHz SO DIMMs
HDDs to match your current and future storage needs:
- 320 GB⁶ (5400 rpm)
Active Protection System⁷, a ThinkVantage Technology that helps protect HDDs from common shock and minor drops
Wireless communications
WWAN ready; integrated support with installed antennas and SIM card reader⁸ on selected models
WLAN integrated support on selected models

Intel WiFi Link 5300 AGN (3 x 3)⁹

ThinkPad wireless LAN card (11b/g Wireless LAN Mini PCI Express Adapter III)¹⁰
Wireless USB (UWB) on selected models
Integrated Bluetooth wireless technology
Integrated 56 Kbps V.90 modem¹¹ (V.92¹² - designed) on selected models
Reliable ThinkPad features
ThinkVantage Rescue and Recovery¹³, a one-button recovery and restore solution
308-mm (12.1-in) wide screen WXGA TFT display (1280 x 800)
Integrated fingerprint reader on selected models
Select models feature the new X200 UltraBase
The UltraBase is common across all new X200 models and offers new features such as the capability to charge an extra battery and DisplayPort. The UltraBase can also be configured with a recordable DVD.
Intel Turbo Memory 2 GB card to boost hard drive performance on selected models¹⁴
Intel Active Management Technology (Intel AMT 4.0), enabling platform access for remote asset, inventory, and software management, or remote diagnostics and recovery procedures
Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows Vista Business, Home Premium, and Home Basic

At approximately 20.7 to 28.7 mm (0.8 to 1.1 in) thin¹⁵ with optimal weight starting at 1.10 kg (2.43 lb) the ThinkPad X200s notebook is a terrific traveling companion. Selected models meet the EPEAT Gold standard. All models are EPA ENERGY STAR¹⁶ 4.0 compliant and GREENGUARD indoor air quality certified.

Note: Certain product family features are limited to selected models that may not be available in all countries. Some combinations of features are not supported. Refer to the Prices or Product number section of this announcement for the models and features available in your country.

Planned availability date

April 28, 2009

ZG09-0294 System x integrated solutions - Cluster 1350 and iDataPlex portfolio refresh

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At a glance

The System Cluster 1350™ offering and the IBM System x iDataPlex solutions are built on:
- Rack-optimized servers from IBM
- Industry-leading interconnects
- IBM service
Easy-to-order, robust factory-built configurations are supported by IBM.

Overview

The latest enhancement to the Cluster 1350 and System x iDataPlex portfolios combines IBM servers with industry-leading hardware, clustering software, and services. The hardware:

Introduces QDR InfiniBand switches and options from QLogic into the iDataPlex and Cluster 1350 product offering:
- QLogic 12200 36-port QDR InfiniBand Switch Bundle (1350)
- QLogic 12200 36-port QDR InfiniBand Switch Bundle (iDataPlex)
- QLogic 12300 36-port QDR InfiniBand Managed Switch Bundle (1350)
- QLogic 12800-180 432-port QDR/DDR InfiniBand Switch Bundle (1350)
- QLogic 12800-360 864-port QDR InfiniBand Switch Bundle (1350)
- QLogic 12800 QDR Single Spine Module
- QLogic 12800 QDR Double Spine Module
- QLogic 12800 QDR Management Module
- QLogic 12800 24-port QDR/DDR Ultra-High Density IB Leaf Module
- QLogic 12800 18-port 4X QDR Ultra-High Performance IB Leaf Module
- QLogic 12800 Hot-swap power supply
Introduces Mellanox Connectx QDR IB x8 PCI-E 2.0 Host Channel Adapters:
- Single Port PCI-E
- Dual Port PCI-E
Enhances the Voltaire DDR InfiniBand portfolio:
- Voltaire 2036 36-port Managed DDR InfiniBand Switch Bundle (iDataPlex)
- Voltaire 2036 36-port Managed DDR InfiniBand Switch Bundle (1350)
Enhances the BNT (Blades Network Technology) 10GbE switch portfolio:
- Blade G8124F 24-port 10GbE Switch Bundle (iDataPlex)
- Blade G8124R 24-port 10GbE Switch Bundle (1350)
Enhances the SMC GbE switch portfolio:
- SMC 8126L2 26-port managed GbE Switch Bundle
- Rail kits for both iDataPlex and Cluster 1350
Introduces new DAC, QDR, and DDR Copper and Optical cables to support the switch portfolio

This announcement also includes support of iDataPlex nodes in the Cluster 1350 rack as well as the inclusion of additional new System x servers and options into both the iDataPlex and Cluster 1350 offerings.

Key prerequisites

Supported operating system
Device drivers, as required

Planned availability date

May 11, 2009

ZG09-0295 New ThinkPad X200s notebook models feature three-year CCR warranty.

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At a glance

ThinkPad X200s notebook models feature:

Low voltage Intel Core 2 Duo processors¹ SL9600
Weight starting at only 1.10 kg (2.43 lb)²
Battery life up to 12.5 hours
LED backlight displays for brighter displays and lower power usage on selected models
Next Generation ThinkPad roll cage for superior strength and wireless performance on selected models
Wide choice of connectivity options including:
- Global wireless WAN (WWAN) integrated technologies
- Wireless LAN (WLAN) connectivity
Industry-leading security, featuring:
- Integrated fingerprint reader on selected models
- Option to disable all input and output ports
Integrated camera on selected models with improved speaker and microphone performance
Microsoft Windows Vista Business operating systems
EPEAT Gold standard met by LED backlight models with all other models meeting the EPEAT Silver standard
All models are ENERGY STAR 4.0-compliant and GREENGUARD indoor air quality certified

Overview

What's new

ThinkPad X200s notebook models with three-year CCR warranty

The new ThinkPad X200s notebook models offer the ultimate choice for excellent performance and productivity combined with very light weight and extremely long battery life.

Latest technology

Low voltage Intel Core 2 Duo processors SL9600
Intel GS45 Express chip set for improved graphics and increased I/O bandwidth
Intel integrated Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD for power-optimized performance
Wide panel design with 307-mm (12.1-in) screen format
WXGA+ LED backlight display panels on selected models for a brighter and excellent contrast display with lower power consumption
Super-strong, extremely light, top cover roll cage design for superior strength and wireless performance on all WXGA+ X200s models

System features

Integrated 1.3 mega pixel camera³ (selected models) with improved audio and microphone performance
ThinkLight keyboard light to help you work in a limited light situation
Three batteries available for the best weight and best battery life
Standard memory configurations: 2 GB^4,5 (2 GB x 1) or (1 GB x 2); 4 GB (2 GB x 2);PC3-8500 DDR3 SDRAM 1067 MHz SO DIMMs
HDDs to match your current and future storage needs:
- 250, and 320 GB⁶ (5400 rpm)(7200 rpm)

Wireless communications

WWAN ready; integrated support with installed antennas and SIM card reader⁶ on selected models
Vodafone High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA)⁷
WLAN integrated support on selected models:
- Intel WiFi Link 5300 AGN (3 x 3)⁸
- Intel WiFi Link 5100 AGN (1 x 2)
Integrated Bluetooth wireless technology
Integrated 56 Kbps V.90 modem⁹ (V.92¹⁰- designed)

Reliable ThinkPad features

ThinkVantage Rescue and Recovery¹¹, a one-button recovery and restore solution
307-mm (12.1-in) wide screen WXGA TFT display (1280 x 800) on selected models
Integrated fingerprint reader on selected models
Select models feature the new X200 UltraBase
The UltraBase is common across all new X200 models and offers new features such as the capability to charge an extra battery and DisplayPort. The UltraBase option available is configured with a CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive.
Intel Active Management Technology (Intel AMT 4.0), enabling platform access for remote asset, inventory, and software management, or remote diagnostics and recovery procedures
Operating systems: Microsoft Windows Vista Business

At approximately 20.7 to 28.7 mm (0.8 to 1.1 in) thin¹² with optimal weight starting at 1.10 kg (2.43 lb) the ThinkPad X200s notebook is a terrific traveling companion. Selected models meet the EPEAT Gold standard. All models are EPA ENERGY STAR¹³ 4.0-compliant and GREENGUARD indoor air quality certified.

Planned availability date

April 28 2009

ZG09-0217 IBM Ethernet Router m-series advanced switching routers for today's network infrastructure

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At a glance

IBM Ethernet Router m-series routers are powerful enablers of advanced converged enterprise backbones. They are designed to feature high port density, high performance, and scalable design, with:

Service provider grade IPv4, IPv6, MPLS, and Multi-Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF)-enabled metro routing
Advanced and scalable Metro Ethernet Layer 2 services
Up to 64 10 GbE, 320 1 GbE, or 128 OC-12/48 user ports
Redundant, high availability architecture

Overview

IBM Ethernet Router m-series family of routers are high-performance switching routers designed to deliver:

Four, eight, or sixteen slot models for deployment versatility
High-performance IPv4, IPv6, Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), and Multi-Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) capabilities along with advanced Layer 2 switching services
A fully distributed, non-blocking architecture with up to 3.2 Tbps data capacity and 2 Bpps per system

IBM Ethernet Router m-series family includes:

Four slot IBM Ethernet Router B04M (4003-M04)
Eight slot IBM Ethernet Router B08M (4003-M08)
Sixteen slot IBM Ethernet Router B16M (4003-M16)

IBM Ethernet Router m-series routers are well suited for a wide range of advanced applications in Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs), Internet edge and aggregation routing, high-security data centers, large-enterprise core, and high performance computing (HPC). These models are designed to:

Offer carrier-grade quality of service (QoS) for enabling converged triple-play (voice, video, and data) networks
Deliver wire-speed performance for IPv4, IPv6, and MPLS routing and switching, combined with advanced packet processing and traffic management capabilities
Enable reliable converged infrastructures and support mission-critical applications
Support comprehensive hardware-based security and policies

Combining the right mix of functionality and high performance while reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO), IBM Ethernet Router m-series routers are designed to provide a solid, resilient network design to cope with the rapid pace of the technology evolution. Deployment of IBM Ethernet Router m-series routers can help:

Provide low power consumption and heat dissipation
Incorporate high router density and compact size, yielding significant savings for network operators, including savings on power, cooling, and rack space costs
Enable 10 Gbps Ethernet routing with switching capabilities with a variety of form factors, capacities, and interface options to meet the expanding needs of service providers and high-end enterprises

Key prerequisites

Multi-Service IronWare operating system level R4.0.00b, or later.

For a list of supported servers, refer to the Hardware requirements section.

Planned availability dates

May 15, 2009

US and Canada
All European, Middle Eastern, and African countries except Croatia and Russia
All Latin American countries except Argentina
All Asia Pacific countries except China and Taiwan

July 15, 2009

Croatia, Russia, Argentina, China, and Taiwan

ZG09-0250 ThinkPad X200 Tablet series systems are eligible for the Global Models Plus program

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Overview

International models of the ThinkPad X200 Tablet series are now available through the Global Models Plus (GMP) program, which includes:

Three-year limited warranty (parts and labor)¹; one-year limited warranty for battery and tablet pen
On-site service for select repairs, 9 hours a day, Monday through Friday, excluding holidays, and next-business-day (NBD) response objective²

These models are available to qualified customers only through pricing special bids. Product availability with on-site service will be determined during the special bid process.

The Lenovo Special Bids pricing group or LE Direct will work with Lenovo representatives on this offering.

For detailed information on each product, including features, benefits, requirements, and technical specifications, refer to the Hardware Announcement in the section.

¹: International Warranty Service (IWS) is available in any country in which this product is sold and serviced. Service delivery methods and parts availability vary by country, may be different from that in the country of purchase, and are subject to change without notice. Fees and restrictions may apply in some countries.
²: If a machine is listed as having on-site service for selected repairs, on-site service is available only for the replacement of selected parts. For all other warranty repairs, Lenovo will provide the customer a replacement part for customer installation. The parts for which on-site service is available vary by machine. Response times can vary and may exclude some holidays. For on-site labor, Lenovo will attempt to diagnose and resolve the problem remotely before sending a technician.

Planned availability date

Planned availability dated will be determined during the special bid process.

ZG09-0247 New ThinkPad X200 Tablet models offer productivity, performance, and usability

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At a glance

The ThinkPad X200 Tablet models offer great features and options, including:

Intel Core 2 Duo SL9400 (1.86 GHz)¹ or SL9600 (2.13 GHz) processors
Weight starting at only 1.61 kg (3.55 lb)²
Battery life up to 10 hours
Enhanced port replication and expansion through the optional ThinkPad X200 UltraBase (common across all ThinkPad X200 series)
Superior connectivity options including:
- Global wireless WAN (WWAN) integrated technologies
- Wireless LAN (WLAN) connectivity
Solid-state drives (SSD) on selected models for improved performance and reliability
Wide panel design with 308-mm (12.1-in) screen format that improves multitasking by allowing more windows to be open next to each other; all panels feature wide viewing angles
Excellent outdoor viewing with a combination of super-low reflectivity and bright panels on selected models
Industry-leading security, featuring:
- Integrated fingerprint reader on selected models
- Option to disable all input and output ports
- 32-byte hard drive password
Enhanced multimedia features:
- Integrated camera on selected models
- Stereo speakers with superior audio enhancements
- Digital dual array microphone with superior noise cancellation software
Unified WWAN antenna design for superior performance in connectivity options and global roaming
Genuine Microsoft Windows Vista operating system
EPEAT Gold (on selected models), ENERGY STAR 4.0 compliance,³ and GREENGUARD indoor air quality certified

Overview

The new ThinkPad X200 Tablet offers the ultimate choice for uncompromised performance, productivity, and usability in the tablet marketplace. This notebook features extremely long battery life, light weight, improved usability, and best-in-class wireless performance and security features.

What's new

Intel Core 2 Duo SL9600 processor (2.13 GHz, 6 MB L2 cache, 1066 MHz front-side bus (FSB))
Intel Turbo Memory 4 GB card to boost hard drive performance on selected models⁴

Latest technology

Display

The ThinkPad X200 Tablet models offer a choice of three 308-mm (12.1-in) displays with a wide viewing angle and 1024 x 768 resolution:

WideView MultiTouch + MultiView (WXGA, LED backlight)
WideView SuperBright (WXGA, LED backlight)
WideView Standard (WXGA)

Operating system

Genuine Microsoft Windows Vista Business (32-bit)
Genuine Microsoft Windows Vista Business (64-bit)
Genuine Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium (32-bit)

Processors and graphics

Intel Core 2 Duo processor family:

Intel Core 2 Duo SL9600 processor (2.13 GHz, 6 MB L2 cache, 1066 MHz FSB)
Intel Core 2 Duo SL9400 processor (1.86 GHz, 6 MB L2 cache, 1066 MHz FSB)
Intel GS45 Express chip set for improved graphics and improved I/O bandwidth
Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD for power-optimized performance

Memory

Standard 1 GB, 2 GB, or 4 GB (2 x 2048 MB) PC3-8500 DDR3 SDRAM 1067 MHz SO DIMM memory⁵

HDD

160, 250, 320, or 500 (5400 rpm) 2.5-inch
160 or 320 GB (7200 rpm) 2.5-inch

SSD

128 or 160 GB SSD on selected models for superior performance and increased reliability

Battery

Four- or eight-cell Li-Ion battery; the ThinkPad X200 Tablet includes the new BatteryStretch feature that allows you to squeeze extra minutes out of your notebook when it appears that the battery is about to run out.

Communications

Integrated 56 Kbps V.90 modem⁶ (V.92⁽⁷⁾-designed) and 5-in-1 media card reader on selected models
WWAN ready; integrated support with installed antennas and SIM card reader^8,9
Integrated wireless data services supported on selected models:
Wireless LAN (WLAN) connection with Intel WiFi Link 5100 (AGN 1 x 2)¹⁰ or Intel WiFi Link 5300 (AGN 3 x 3)
Integrated Bluetooth wireless technology on selected models

Additional features

Integrated camera on selected models
Dual array microphone with superior noise cancellation software combined with enhanced stereo speakers
Integrated fingerprint reader on selected models
Intel Turbo Memory 2 or 4 GB card to boost hard drive performance on selected models
Intel Active Management Technology (Intel AMT 4.1), enabling platform access for remote asset, inventory, and software management, or remote diagnostics and recovery procedures
Active Protection System,¹¹ a ThinkVantage technology that helps protect HDDs from common shock and minor drops
ThinkVantage Rescue and Recovery®,¹² a one-button recovery and restore solution
ThinkPlus® Priority Support for helping corporate IT departments reduce costs, increase productivity, and improve internal helpdesk support
Online data backup (OLDB) for securing business documents and critical data in select countries

Warranty

One-year or three-year limited warranty¹³
Battery: One-year limited warranty
Tablet pen: One-year limited warranty

Options

Selected models feature the X200 UltraBase. The X200 UltraBase is common across all new ThinkPad X200 series and offers new features such as the capability to charge an extra battery and DisplayPort. The UltraBase can also be configured with a recordable DVD or Blu-ray Disc recordable drive.

Take control

ThinkVantage Access Connections™ simplifies management of multiple connectivity environments.

Note: Certain product family features are limited to selected models that may not be available in all countries. Some combinations of features are not supported. Refer to the section of this announcement for the models and features available in your country.

Planned availability date

May 2009

ZG09-0218 IBM Ethernet Switch s-series high performance switches for today's network convergence

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At a glance

IBM Ethernet Switch s-series models are well suited for carrying a variety of real-time traffic for data services throughout the enterprise. They feature a high port density, high performance, and scalable design, and are designed to deliver:

High performance advanced Layer 2, base Layer 3 features set with flexibility to upgrade to Full IPv4 Layer 3 feature set
Available IPv6-capable modules with option to support IPv6 Full Layer 3 protocols such as RIPng and OSPFv3
Quality of service (QoS) features
Up to 36 10 GbE or 384 1 GbE (Power over Ethernet capable) ports per system
Redundant, high availability architecture

Overview

IBM Ethernet Switch s-series, Power over Ethernet-capable switches are designed to deliver:

Eight or sixteen slot models for deployment versatility
High-performance advanced Layer 2, base Layer 3 feature set with flexibility to upgrade to Full IPv4 Layer 3 feature set
IPv6-capable modules and option to upgrade to support Full Layer 3 IPv6 protocols such as RIPng and OSPFv3
Up to 192 Class 3 Power over Ethernet ports on the IBM Ethernet Switch B08S and 384 Class 3 Power over Ethernet ports on the IBM Ethernet Switch B16S

The IBM Ethernet Switch s-series family includes:

Eight slot IBM Ethernet Switch B08S
Sixteen slot IBM Ethernet Switch B16S

The IBM Ethernet Switch s-series has an extensive feature set, making it well suited for real-time collaborative applications, IP telephony, IP video, e-learning, wireless LANs, and raising the organization's productivity. These models are designed to provide:

Wire-speed performance and low latency for converged network applications such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and video conferencing
A scalable and resilient Power over Ethernet design with a standards-based IEEE 802.3af implementation providing a variety of endpoints
High-density 10 Gigabit Ethernet for enterprise backbone deployments

In addition, service providers can benefit from the power that the IronWare operating system's networking intelligence offers, including advanced Layer 2 services, Metro Ring Protocol (MRP) for rapid service restoration in ring-based topologies, Virtual LAN ID (VLAN) stacking for tunneled VLAN services, and rich bandwidth management for controlling network utilization.

Key prerequisites

IronWare operating system level R5.0.00a, or later.

For a list of supported servers, refer to the Hardware requirements section.

Planned availability dates

May 15, 2009

US and Canada
All European, Middle Eastern, and African countries except Croatia and Russia
All Latin American countries except Argentina
All Asia Pacific countries except China and Taiwan

July 15, 2009

Croatia, Russia, Argentina, China, and Taiwan

ZG09-0235 IBM Ethernet Switch g-series standalone or stackable access layer switches with Power over Ethernet capability

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At a glance

IBM Ethernet Switch g-series access-layer switches are designed to provide a flexible, scalable, feature-rich solution capable of supporting a broad range of applications, and to deliver:

High port density 48x 10/100/1000 MbE RJ-45 ports including 4x 1 GbE combination RJ-45/SFP ports within a compact form factor
A full complement of standards-based, advanced Full Layer 2 switching, and base Layer 3 capability upgradeable to Full Layer 3 multiprotocol routing
Power over Ethernet option that can enable models with two power supplies up to 10 W on each 48 ports
Stacking capability (4002AG5) for up to eight switches in a single interconnected unit

Overview

IBM Ethernet Switch g-series switches are designed to provide enterprise organizations with a flexible solution for building a secure and converged network edge.

An enterprise may deploy a standalone (non-stackable) IBM Ethernet Switch B48G or a stackable IBM Ethernet Switch B50G to scale the installation from one to eight stacked units to meet growing user requirements. The stacked switches can be managed as a single entity. This can help provide enterprises with the potential cost and operational benefits of a "pay-as-you-grow" architecture.

Upgradeable with 10-Gigabit Ethernet uplink and Power over Ethernet technology, IBM Ethernet Switch g-series switches are designed to deliver the scalability, quality of service (QoS), resilience, and Voice over IP (VoIP) readiness needed to implement a high-value converged solution that can scale to meet future growth at the network edge.

With its flexible architecture, IBM Ethernet Switch g-series switches are also designed to offer investment protection, while enabling network applications and capabilities such as IP telephony, wireless access, WebTV, video surveillance, building management systems, triple-play voice, video and data, and remote video kiosks.

Key prerequisites

The IBM Ethernet Switch B48G requires operating system level R4.3.01, or later.

The IBM Ethernet Switch B50G requires operating system level R5.0.01, or later.

For a list of supported servers, refer to the Hardware requirements section.

Planned availability dates

May 15, 2009

US and Canada
All European, Middle Eastern, and African countries except Croatia and Russia
All Latin American countries except Argentina
All Asia Pacific countries except Taiwan

July 15, 2009

Croatia, Russia, and Argentina

ZG09-0236 IBM Ethernet Switch c-series multi-service edge and aggregation switch for carrier-class Ethernet solutions

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At a glance

IBM Ethernet Switch c-series (B48C and B50C) switches combine performance with rich functionality at the edge and aggregation layer, and are designed to deliver:

Advanced carrier-grade Ethernet services
IPv4 unicast routing support with advanced Full Layer 2 and base Layer 3 switching capabilities
Support for up to 12 links per trunk (link aggregation groups) using either IEEE 802.3ad LACP or static trunks
Advanced quality of service (QoS) supporting eight queues per port, each with distinct priority level
Hardware-based security and policies

Overview

IBM Ethernet Switch c-series (B48C and B50C) are compact 1 RU, multi-service edge and aggregation switches designed to provide a powerful set of capabilities combining performance with functionality at the network edge.

IBM Ethernet Switch c-series offers network planners a broad set of high-performance IPv4, Classic Layer 2, Provider Bridge (PB), and Provider Backbone Bridge (PBB) functions in the same device. With these capabilities, these switches are designed to help address a diverse set of applications in metro edge networks, ISP networks, mobile backhaul networks, data centers, large enterprises, government networks, and education and research. IBM Ethernet Switch c-series switches are well suited for applications such as:

Large-scale carrier Ethernet build-outs at the global, national, and metro levels, when combined with the IBM Ethernet Router B04M, IBM Ethernet Router B08M, and IBM Ethernet Router B16M
High-density aggregation of access devices at the network edge
Edge aggregation switching and routing applications in metro networks
Mobile backhaul over a carrier Ethernet infrastructure
Fiber To The Home (FTTH) or Fiber To The Building (FTTB) applications with stringent Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
Aggregation switch in ISP networks
Data center top-of-the-rack server access switch with high-touch processing and extensive buffering

Key prerequisites

Multi-Service IronWare operating system level R3.8.00, or later.

For a list of supported servers, refer to the Hardware requirements section.

Planned availability dates

May 15, 2009

US and Canada
All European, Middle Eastern, and African countries except Croatia and Russia
All Latin American countries except Argentina
All Asia Pacific countries except Taiwan

July 15, 2009

Croatia, Russia, Argentina, and Taiwan

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At a glance

Moab Adaptive HPC Suite and Moab Adaptive Computing Suite offerings are subscription offerings. Three-year subscriptions include access to fixes and updates and also allow the ability to upgrade to a later release at no charge.

Ordering guidelines:

For High Performance Computing (HPC) environments, purchase either a Moab Adaptive HPC Suite single CPU socket license or a Moab Adaptive HPC Suite eight CPU sockets license.
For data centers, purchase a Moab Adaptive Computing Suite single CPU socket license.
After registering with Cluster Resources, the Moab software can be downloaded from the Cluster Resources Web site.

Overview

Together IBM and Cluster Resources are expanding the convenience of purchasing Cluster Resources Moab Adaptive HPC Suite and Moab Adaptive Computing Suite offerings with an IBM System x or BladeCenter system. These additional offerings enhance Cluster Resources' and IBM System x servers' reliability, availability, scalability, and manageability required for dynamic infrastructures.

This announcement includes two new Cluster Resources Moab Adaptive Suite offerings:

Moab Adaptive HPC Suite
Moab Adaptive Computing Suite

Both offerings include:

Cluster Resources maintenance and upgrade protection
The ability to upgrade to later versions of these offerings at no additional charge during the period of the subscription
The ability to purchase subsequent years' licenses with subscriptions
Standard support from Cluster Resources
The ability to purchase premier-level support from Cluster Resources

Combining IBM's clustering leadership with the advantages of Moab adaptive workload-management and scheduling software, IBM is introducing new Cluster Resources Moab Adaptive HPC Suite and Moab Adaptive Computing Suite high-performance computing solutions.

Key prerequisites

These options must be ordered with or for usage on IBM hardware.
They are supported on System x, BladeCenter, and iDataPlex servers running the appropriate version operating system.
Moab Adaptive HPC Suite and Moab Adaptive Datacenter Software Suite part numbers may be sold with a new IBM-branded server, limited to the quantity necessary for the server being purchased.
Moab Adaptive HPC Suite and Moab Adaptive Datacenter Software Suite "Subscription" offerings may also be sold as renewal subscriptions.

Planned availability date

May 11, 2009

Software Announcements

ZP09-0122 IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository for z/OS , V6.3 helps maximize the business value of your SOA

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At a glance

WebSphere® Service Registry and Repository helps maximize the business value of your service oriented architecture (SOA). This industry-leading solution that enables you to publish, find, enrich, manage, and govern services and policies in your SOA. WebSphere Service Registry and Repository provides:

Prescriptive service life-cycle governance. Adopt recommended practices in reducing complexity and improving manageability in an SOA, allowing service life cycle and service governance by leveraging the out-of-the-box profile, along with expanded life cycle and metadata exchange with IBM Rational® Asset Manager, giving business agility with reduced risk and manageability benefits.
Service contract and version management to meet changing business needs and service levels. This allows you to maintain multiple service versions and manage expectations by facilitating contracts between service providers and consumers and so rein in costs with increased efficiency. Protects investments and avoids downtime.
Improved reporting. Audit and reports to pinpoint the information necessary to control, providing various reports to fulfill business needs and track compliance and so provide lower costs of compliance, and avoid costly penalties.
Ability to reuse existing services and protect investments with service discovery for Oracle/BEA and JBOSS. WebSphere Service Registry and Repository provides an enterprise service repository supporting a heterogeneous environment, giving cost savings in leveraging existing IT investments.
WebSphere Service Registry and Repository Studio, a stand alone Eclipse application that allows users to create and edit configuration profiles, edit stored artifacts, and generate custom reports. Available for use on the Microsoft® Windows® and Linux platforms.
Continuing improvements in user interface and performance leading to improved productivity.

Overview

WebSphere Service Registry and Repository delivers the foundation for enabling service life-cycle governance as part of the IBM SOA governance across the Smart SOA continuum (basic to advanced). As customers continue to adopt effective SOA solutions, the need to proactively govern the service life cycle through prescriptive capabilities offered by WebSphere Service Registry and Repository becomes important.

Additional capabilities in the area of associating policies with services becomes an essential part of service life-cycle management and governance. A key part of this updated release of WebSphere Service Registry and Repository is to complete the advanced capabilities necessary to leverage the solution as an Enterprise Service Registry/Repository in driving the success of your SOA deployments.

WebSphere Service Registry and Repository performs critical functions in the area of SOA governance and service life-cycle management.

WebSphere Service Registry and Repository V6.3 delivers updated capabilities and associated benefits to provide:

Prescriptive service life-cycle governance. Adopt recommended practices in reducing complexity and improving manageability in an SOA, allowing service life cycle and service governance by leveraging the out-of-the-box profile, along with expanded life cycle and metadata exchange with IBM Rational Asset Manager, giving business agility with reduced risk and manageability benefits.
Service contract and version management to meet changing business needs and service levels. This allows you to maintain multiple service versions and manage expectations by facilitating contracts between service providers and consumers and so reins in costs with increased efficiency. Protects investments and avoids downtime.
Improved reporting. Audit and reports to pinpoint the information necessary to control, providing various reports to fulfill business needs and track compliance and so provide lower costs of compliance, and avoid costly penalties.
Reuse of existing services and protect investments with service discovery for Oracle/BEA and JBOSS. WebSphere Service Registry and Repository provides an enterprise service repository supporting a heterogeneous environment, giving cost savings in leveraging existing IT investments.
WebSphere Service Registry and Repository Studio, a stand alone Eclipse application that allows users to create and edit configuration profiles, edit stored artifacts, and generate custom reports. Available for use on the Microsoft Windows and Linux platforms.
Continuing improvements in user interface and performance leading to improved productivity.

WebSphere Service Registry and Repository helps manage service interactions and dependencies by handling policies, versioning, classification, and usage throughout the life cycle of the service to promote optimal interaction of services in the SOA. WebSphere Service Registry and Repository enables management and governance capabilities for you to get the most business value from your SOA. It facilitates storing, accessing, and managing service information (service metadata) so you can easily select, invoke, govern, and reuse their services.

WebSphere Service Registry and Repository delivers visibility and control of the services in the SOA. It helps drive business flexibility by managing the services that align IT with business objectives.

With these capabilities, WebSphere Service Registry and Repository throughout the SOA life cycle (model, assemble, deploy, and manage) helps govern access, monitor service vitality, manage policies for publishing, and use and retire services.

Without proactive service life-cycle governance and management of service metadata in an SOA, it is difficult to optimize business results of SOA that indicate challenges in managing and a general lack of control over your services. These typically include

Tracking and managing SOA services and business critical documents
Providing reliable SOA services for business applications and processes
Reducing complexity and costs of securing services and applications
Greater sharing to increase return on existing assets

Key prerequisites

For details, refer to the Software requirements and Hardware requirements sections.

Planned availability date

June 19, 2009

See the complete letter for National Language Availability.

ZP09-0077 IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V4.1 distributed products help monitor, report, manage, and automate multivendor storage environments

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At a glance

IBM Tivoli® Storage Productivity Center V4.1 family of distributed products enhancements:

Integration with Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication
Enterprise security management with Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) authentication
Lightweight server asset and capacity data collection
Intelligent performance optimization analytics
Common reporting with Tivoli applications and customization
Copy services progress indicators
New support for hardware replication functions
Hardware currency updates and new platform support
Usability and navigation enhancements
Integration with IBM Storage Enterprise Resource Planner V5.0 to:
- Help integrate the storage environment to provide global visibility of storage by business unit and location
- Offer a drag-and-drop feature for simple customization
- Help organize reports in a dashboard for quick report access

Overview

The IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V4.1 family of distributed products (referred to as Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V4.1), previously known as IBM TotalStorage® Productivity Center, is a feature-rich storage management platform designed as a focal point to help monitor, report, and manage multivendor SAN storage environments. It can help simplify and automate the management of devices, data, and storage networks by delivering common services for more consistent configuration and operations across the environment. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V4.1 includes optional replication management capabilities, which are designed to manage the advanced copy services of the IBM Enterprise Storage Server® (ESS) Model 800, IBM System Storage™ DS8000™, IBM System Storage DS6000™, and IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC).

Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V4.1 offers:

Integration with Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication, including device discovery, improved navigation, and policy-based alert notification
Common security with Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) authentication, including single sign-on with Tivoli applications and storage hardware element managers
Storage Resource Agents, a new server agent architecture with small footprint designed to improve agent deployment and maintenance in large enterprise data centers
Policy-based intelligent disk optimization to provide recommendations for storage selection and migration
Custom report creation with user-defined criteria to integrate with Tivoli Common Reporting, which is embedded with Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V4.1
Discovery and performance monitoring of storage volumes for IBM System Storage N series and NetApp FAS fibre channel attached devices operating in block mode
Progress indicators to report on the status of copy services sessions that are being performed

IBM Storage Enterprise Resource Planner (SERP) V5.0 helps integrate the storage environment with ownership and location information from asset systems to help provide visibility across almost all technologies. This includes integration with IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V4.1 to help provide storage asset discovery and utilization. Reporting views include:

Storage reclamation reports that can help identify orphan volumes, file system utilization, and cost savings projections by tier or line of business
Green storage reports to help identify power consumption by storage tier or line of business, based on built-in power models
Capacity planning and reservation reports for array volume, switch port reservation, and planning and forecasting by geography or business unit

Key prerequisites

Refer to the Specified operating enviroment section.

Planned availability dates

May 1, 2009: Electronic
May 22, 2009: Media

Refer to the complete letter for national language availability.

ZP09-0124 WebSphere Service Registry and Repository V6.3 helps maximize the business value of your SOA

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At a glance

WebSphere Service Registry and Repository helps maximize the business value of your service oriented architecture (SOA). This industry-leading solution that enables you to publish, find, enrich, manage, and govern services and policies in your SOA.

Overview

WebSphere Service Registry and Repository delivers the foundation for enabling service life-cycle governance as part of the IBM SOA governance across the SOA continuum (basic to advanced). As you continue to adopt effective SOA solutions, the need to proactively govern the service life cycle through prescriptive capabilities offered by WebSphere Service Registry and Repository becomes important.

Additional capabilities in the area of associating policies with services becomes an essential part of service life-cycle management and governance. A key part of this updated release WebSphere Service Registry and Repository is to complete the advanced capabilities necessary to leverage the solutions as an Enterprise Service Registry and Repository in driving the success of your SOA deployments.

WebSphere Service Registry and Repository V6.3 delivers updated capabilities and associated benefits to provide:

Prescriptive service life-cycle governance. Adopt recommended practices in reducing complexity and improving manageability in an SOA, allowing service life cycle and service governance by leveraging the out-of-the-box profile, along with expanded life cycle and metadata exchange with IBM Rational Asset Manager, giving business agility with reduced risk and manageability benefits.
Service contract and version management to meet changing business needs and service levels. This allows you to maintain multiple service versions and manage expectations by facilitating contracts between service providers and consumers and so reins in costs with increased efficiency. Protects investments and avoids downtime.
Improved reporting. Audit and reports to pinpoint the information necessary to control, providing various reports to fulfill business needs and track compliance and so provide lower costs of compliance, and avoid costly penalties.
Reuse of existing services and protect investments with service discovery for Oracle/BEA and JBOSS. WebSphere Service Registry and Repository provides an enterprise service repository supporting a heterogeneous environment, giving cost savings in leveraging existing IT investments.
WebSphere Service Registry and Repository Studio, a stand-alone Eclipse application that allows users to create and edit configuration profiles, edit stored artifacts, and generate custom reports. Available for use on the Microsoft Windows and Linux platforms.
Continuing improvements in user interface and performance leading to improved productivity.

WebSphere Service Registry and Repository helps manage service interactions and dependencies by handling policies, versioning, classification, and usage throughout the life cycle of the service to promote optimal interaction of services in the SOA. WebSphere Service Registry and Repository enables management and governance capabilities for you to get the most business value from your SOA. It facilitates storing, accessing, and managing service information (service metadata) so your client can easily select, invoke, govern, and reuse services.

Without proactive service life-cycle governance and management of service metadata in an SOA, it is difficult to optimize business results of SOA that indicate the challenges in managing and a general lack of control over your services. These typically include:

Tracking and managing SOA services and business critical documents
Providing reliable SOA services for business applications and processes
Reducing complexity and cost of securing services and applications
Greater sharing to increase return on existing assets

Key prerequisites

For details, refer to the Hardware requirements and Software requirements sections.

Planned availability date

June 19, 2009 (electronic software delivery)
June 26, 2009 (media and documentation)

Availability of Programs with encryption algorithm in France is subject to French government approval.

Cryptography in this product is limited to password encryption, authentication or digital signature.

See the complete letter for globalization details.

ZP09-0123 IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository Advanced LifeCycle Edition V6.3 integrates service life-cycle governance and asset management to deliver service functionality

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At a glance

WebSphere Service Registry and Repository Advanced Lifecycle Edition integrates service life-cycle governance and asset management to deliver service and functionality.

Overview

WebSphere Service Registry and Repository Advanced Lifecycle Edition is composed of:

WebSphere Service Registry and Repository, V6.3
IBM Rational Asset Manager, V7.1 or V7.1.1 (with the Linux on IBM System z® platform)

The solution delivers capabilities and associated benefits to provide:

Policies to automate service life-cycle governance covering design time and runtime management of services. Adopt recommended practices providing end-to-end service life-cycle management. WebSphere Service Registry and Repository is enterprise standard for service oriented architecture (SOA) repository supporting federated metadata, management, giving business agility and lower cost, with more automation.
Establish governance of relationship between services with the associated business case and impacted business processes. Align IT with business by making better investment choices. Respond quickly to business needs, maximize return on investment, optimize resource utilization.
Respond to changing customer demands, by correlating requirements management with service life-cycle management, giving reduced effort and duplication in tracking requirements to services.
Minimize service outages and inefficiency with the ability to easily collaborate ownership of services and related assets, providing more informed changes based on better understanding of impact on stakeholders.
Service contract and version management to meet changing business needs and service levels. This allows you to maintain multiple service versions and manage expectations by facilitating contracts between service providers and consumers and so reins in costs with increased efficiency. Protects investments and avoids downtime.
Improved reporting. Audit and reports to pinpoint the information necessary to control, providing various reports to fulfill business needs and track compliance and so provide lower costs of compliance, and avoid costly penalties.
Reuse of existing services and protect investments with service discovery for Oracle/BEA and JBOSS. WebSphere Service Registry and Repository provides an enterprise service repository supporting a heterogeneous environment, giving cost savings in leveraging existing IT investments.
WebSphere Service Registry and Repository Studio, a stand-alone Eclipse application that allows users to create and edit configuration profiles, edit stored artifacts, and generate custom reports. Available for use on the Microsoft Windows, and Linux platforms.
Continuing improvements in user interface and performance leading to improved productivity.

High development and maintenance costs with slow time-to-market
Much time/effort making changes to applications / processes - missed deadlines
IT capabilities/skills/assets that can be leveraged is unknown
Trade-off between higher costs and customer satisfaction in serving varying customer needs

With these capabilities, WebSphere Service Registry and Repository Advanced Lifecyle Edition V6.3 stores, catalogs, and flexibly organizes assets and services, allowing you to get a handle on what assets you have and makes it easy to locate/distribute. The robust solution captures dependencies between services and applications, reducing risk with exposure to the business when making changes (or upgrading). With the ability to report on key metrics, WebSphere Service Registry and Repository Advanced Lifecyle Edition is a key ingredient to plan, assess and improve assets and associated policies. This solution integrates with your existing SOA infrastructure and has designed-in capabilities to federate and leverage service information to/from other sources

You can purchase WebSphere Service Registry and Repository Advanced Lifecycle Edition as a stand-alone solution, or with existing WebSphere Service Registry and Repository licenses, you can add authorized user licenses to get to Advanced Lifecycle Edition functionality. To comply with the terms and conditions, when you purchase WebSphere Service Registry and Repository Advanced Lifecycle Edition solution as stand-alone product, you must order both the Processor Value Unit (PVU) (full capacity or sub capacity) and authorized user part numbers. For details of the purchasing scenarios refer to the description section of the announcement letter.

Key prerequisites

For details, refer to the Hardware requirements and Software requirements sections.

Planned availability dates

June 19, 2009 (electronic software delivery)
June 26, 2009 (media and documentation)

Availability of Programs with encryption algorithm in France is subject to French government approval.

Cryptography in this product is limited to password encryption, authentication or digital signature.

ZP09-0168 IBM Informix Warehouse V11.50 extends warehouse infrastructure capabilities and IBM Informix Dynamic Server V11.50 adds storage optimization for Informix customers

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At a glance

IBM Informix® Warehouse V11.50 extends infrastructure capabilities to Informix customers by providing information integration, warehousing, and management capabilities to help transform operational data into trusted information that can be used to optimize business in real-time.

Informix Warehouse V11.50 is an integrated data warehouse platform that provides IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) and tools needed to transform operational data; to build, deploy, operate, and maintain a data warehouse; and to deliver the managed information assets globally. The integrated capabilities include:

SQW Warehouse Client with Design Studio for data modeling, schema design, data transformation design, and data flow design
SQW Warehouse Server with Administration Console to schedule and manage data flows
SQL Warehouse (SQLW) runtime to perform data transformation within the IDS data server

Overview

IBM Informix Warehouse V11.50 brings to Informix customers a platform for integrated warehouse infrastructure with IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS), delivering data warehouse capabilities to business end users to optimize their business in real-time. Informix Warehouse V11.50 is bundled with IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) V11.50xC4 and Informix Warehouse Feature V11.50. Informix Warehouse provides you with a warehouse platform with integrated tooling to help transform operational data; to build, deploy, operate, and maintain a data warehouse; and to deliver the managed information assets globally. Integrated warehouse tooling capabilities include the Informix Warehouse Feature with:

SQW Warehouse Client with Design Studio for data modeling, schema design, data transformation design, and data flow design
SQW Warehouse Server with Administration Console to schedule and manage data flows
SQL Warehouse (SQLW) runtime to perform data transformation within the IDS data server

The Informix Warehouse platform also supports external integrated tooling such as the industry-leading business intelligence analytics for business queries and reporting capabilities of Cognos, data growth management with IBM Optim, and data transformation and cleansing with IBM InfoSphere DataStage™ and QualityStage.

IDS V11.50xC4 can help you reduce your storage costs while improving your query performance with the new optional IDS Storage Optimization Feature for Enterprise Edition. The Storage Optimization Feature can help reduce your storage costs by compressing row data on disk. The IDS Storage Optimization Feature is included with Informix Warehouse Enterprise Edition.

For information about IBM Informix Warehouse Feature V11.50, refer to Software Announcement ZP09-0044, dated March 03, 2009.

Key prerequisites

Refer to the Hardware requirements sections for details.

Planned availability dates

April 28, 2009: Electronic software delivery

April 30, 2009: Media and documentation

Availability of programs with encryption algorithm in France is subject to French government approval.

Cryptography in this product is limited to password encryption, authentication or digital signature.

Refer to the complete letter for globalization details.

ZP09-0133 ILOG products now available from IBM

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Overview

With the 2009 acquisition of ILOG, ILOG technology adds significant capability across the IBM software portfolio.

ILOG solutions deliver tools and technologies for business managers, analysts, architects, and developers to use as they analyze, plan, track, and improve business processes. Today, hundreds of large enterprises use ILOG technologies to automate the allocation of scarce resources and to build smart interfaces into their business processes. Additionally, scientists and mathematicians from hundreds of universities use ILOG products for advanced research, design, and analysis.

The IBM WebSphere ILOG JRules offering delivers a business rule management system (BRMS). This system is used to define, deploy, execute, monitor, and maintain the variety and complexity of business logic that are used by operational systems within an organization or enterprise. A BRMS manages the lifecycle of business rules and allows business logic to be externalized from core application code and processes, thus allowing both technical developers and line of business experts to define and manage business logic.

The IBM WebSphere ILOG BRMS products help businesses increase the agility of their decision making by letting them adapt and respond dynamically. The standalone BRMS product will continue to work with WebSphere, and will interoperate with and complement popular IBM System z subsystems such as CICS®, IMS™, and DB2®. Further, the IBM WebSphere ILOG JRules product complements the WebSphere Business Process Management Suite, attaching to both WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition and FileNet® Active Content Edition. The addition of a BRMS provides another dimension of leadership for the IBM business process management (BPM) portfolio.

IBM ILOG Optimization Decision Manager Enterprise Edition can help deliver measurable return on investment (ROI) and rapid payback through powerful analytical decision support capabilities, helping companies across all industries determine how to defer or avoid capital expenses, reduce operating expenses, and improve total revenue, revenue mix, and margins, by making the best use of limited resources, while managing risk and ultimately driving both customer and employee satisfaction.

New IBM software products acquired from ILOG are now available through Passport Advantage® under a new, streamlined licensing and pricing model. Passport Advantage (PPA) is a simple, comprehensive loyalty program that provides software-license acquisition and renewable Software Subscription and Support (product updates and technical support) using a common set of processes and tools. For information about these programs visit the IBM Passport Advantage Web site

http://www.ibm.com/software/passportadvantage

You can now license the following programs for distributed platforms:

IBM WebSphere ILOG JRules V7.0
IBM WebSphere ILOG Rule Team Server V7.0
IBM WebSphere ILOG Rules for .NET V7.0
IBM WebSphere ILOG Rule Team Server for .NET V7.0
IBM WebSphere ILOG Decision Validation Services V7.0
IBM WebSphere ILOG Rule Solutions for Office V7.0
IBM ILOG Optimization Decision Manager Enterprise Edition V3.3

If you purchased maintenance for ILOG products, you can renew your entitlements based upon the IBM announced programs.

Additional IBM ILOG products are available. Contact your IBM representative for details.

Key prerequisites

For details, refer to the Hardware requirements and Software requirements sections.

Planned availability date

June 26, 2009 (electronic software delivery for Passport Advantage distributed-platform products)
July 24, 2009 (media)

ZP09-0063 IBM InfoSphere Information Analyzer V8.1.1 empowers business and technical users with data rules capabilities for enhanced trending, pattern analysis, reporting, and rules

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At a glance

IBM InfoSphere Information Analyzer V8.1.1 delivers rules analysis with data rules definition, execution, and monitoring capability. Comprehensive rules analysis enables better data discovery in large-volume data environments with:

Integrated data profiling and data rules
Ability to create rule sets and evaluate results for rules, records, and overall data source
Sharing of rules across environments
Ability to analyze and trend data quality over time

To order, contact your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or the Americas Call Centers at: 800-IBM-CALL

Reference:

IBM InfoSphere Information        YE001
 Analyzer Workbench
IBM InfoSphere Information        YE001
 Analyzer

Overview

The IBM InfoSphere Information Analyzer V8.1.1 module of IBM Information Server, a next-generation data profiling and analysis tool, helps business analysts and data analysts understand the content, quality, and structure of their data sources. It can help increase productivity by automating the data discovery process and supports efforts to improve return on investment and time to benefit in data-intensive projects.

IBM InfoSphere Information Analyzer V8.1.1 provides rules analysis that integrates data rule and metric assessment into core profiling, analysis, and monitoring capabilities, and helps you:

Develop an expanded understanding of the data before starting development through specifically targeted data rule conditions that help identify missing and incorrect data relationships.
Address the risk and uncertainty of using incorrect data rules or data before beginning your data integration project, which in turn can help you avoid downstream system costs due to unexpected data problems.
Maintain the health of your data systems through data rule and metric monitoring.
Obtain continuous feedback on data quality.
Assess data quality against targeted thresholds.
Detect unexpected changes and trends.
Identify degradation of quality against baselines.
Reinforce the confidence of business users in the quality of the data.
Integrate with IBM Information Server modules through the sharing of metadata.

Key prerequisites

Refer to the Hardware requirements and Software requirements sections.

Planned availability dates

May 1, 2009: Electronic software delivery

May 15, 2009: Media and documentation

ZP09-0137 ILOG products now available from IBM on the IBM System z platform

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IBM software products acquired from ILOG are now available under new program numbers and a new, simplified licensing model. You can now license the following programs for the IBM z/OS® platform:

IBM WebSphere ILOG JRules for z/OS V7.0
IBM WebSphere ILOG Rule Team Server for z/OS V7.0
IBM WebSphere ILOG Rules for COBOL V7.0
IBM WebSphere ILOG Decision Validation Services for z/OS V7.0

Overview

With the 2009 acquisition of ILOG, ILOG technology adds significant capability across the IBM software portfolio, including the z/OS operating system on the System z platform.

The IBM WebSphere ILOG JRules offering delivers a business rule management system (BRMS). This system is used to define, deploy, execute, monitor, and maintain the variety and complexity of business logic that are used by operational systems within an organization or enterprise. A BRMS manages the lifecycle of business rules and allows business logic to be externalized from core application code and processes, thus allowing both technical developers and line-of-business experts to define and manage business logic.

The IBM WebSphere ILOG BRMS products help businesses increase the agility of their decision making by letting them adapt and respond dynamically. The standalone BRMS product will continue to work with WebSphere, and it will interoperate with and complement popular System z subsystems such as IBM CICS, IBM IMS, and IBM DB2. Further, the WebSphere ILOG JRules product complements the WebSphere Business Process Management Suite, attaching to both WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition and FileNet Active Content Edition. The addition of a BRMS provides another dimension of leadership for the IBM business process management (BPM) portfolio.

If you purchased maintenance for existing ILOG products, you can renew your entitlements based upon the announced programs.

Key prerequisites

For details, refer to the Hardware requirements and Software requirements sections.

Planned availability date

June 26, 2009

ZP09-0107 IBM WebSphere Business Events V6.2.1 adds enhanced capability and new WebSphere Business Events for z/OS offering

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WebSphere Business Events V6.2.1

Extends platform coverage to z/OS, offering business event processing within the mainframe environment; enables Business Event Processing (BEP) to take advantage of the mainframe platform, offering customers the option to use their platform of choice
Extends the WebSphere Business Events dashboard to offer enhanced and visual controls and positioning within the BPM¹ Business Space
- Provides a real-time view into the business event activity within WebSphere Business Events Runtime
- Enables an integrated experience to the business user offering a consistent look and feel when monitoring both business events and when using WebSphere Business Monitor for monitoring KPIs and metrics
- Offers business events dashboard from the single Web entry point for BPM products
Expands language support to include Polish

WebSphere Business Events eXtreme Scale V6.2.1 offers the full capability of the combined offering of WebSphere Business Events and WebSphere eXtreme Scale.

1: Business Process Management

Overview

Business Event Processing (BEP) is the next generation in event processing. It extends the capabilities and tools of traditional event processing approaches to the business user to sense and respond to business events-any occurrence or happening within business context-presenting opportunities or threats.

WebSphere Business Events is a software system designed specifically for managing these business events flowing across systems and people with the goal of providing timely insight and response. Business events are discovered and described in business terms to meet business objectives based on high-level management goals. WebSphere Business Events allows business users to sense (detect and decide) and respond effectively to the impact of business events.

WebSphere Business Events delivers this capability through intuitive business user tools that define, implement, and manage business events. WebSphere Business Events uniquely provides graphical, codeless authoring for defining related elements:

Business event actions
Business interaction logic
External sources for event data enrichment
Consoles for task management and business event flow visualizations of charts, graphs, and dashboard layouts

Key features include:

Enables straightforward expression of business event interaction logic
Understands business language and vernacular
Senses business events and patterns and initiates the appropriate business actions
Includes codeless, graphical authoring tools
Delivers simple and integrated visualization dashboard support
Connects to existing islands of event information
Supports both simple and complex business event pattern correlations
Delivers an integrated development and execution system
Installs as plug and play to extend your existing environments
Operates with high performance, scalability, and high availability (HA)
Enhances existing Business Process Management (BPM), connectivity products, service oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructures, as well as mainframe applications

WebSphere Business Events for z/OS V6.2.1 further extends the extensive distributed platform for executing business event processing for events native to the mainframe platform. The z/OS platform provides a highly secure, scalable, high-performance enterprise operating system on which to build and deploy Internet and Java-enabled applications, providing a comprehensive and diverse application execution environment. WebSphere Business Events will also exploit and complement z/OS qualities of service such as high availability at low cost per transaction, as WebSphere Business Events workload is eligible for off-load to the System z Application Assist Processors (zAAPs).

In addition, WebSphere Business Events V6.2.1 delivers enhanced monitoring dashboard visuals within the IBM BPM Business Space on both distributed and z/OS platforms.

WebSphere Business Events eXtreme Scale, a combined offering of WebSphere Business Events and WebSphere Business Events eXtreme Scale, extends business event processing to customers with an extreme volume of business events flowing through their enterprise. WebSphere eXtreme Scale provides efficient manipulation of data in the grid, filtering through an extreme number of raw events and passing only the actionable events through to WebSphere Business Events for business event processing pattern detection. The combination of WebSphere eXtreme Scale and WebSphere Business events allows optimal event distribution, using partitioning to span both geographies and distribution across local servers.

Key prerequisites

WebSphere Business Events for z/OS V6.2.1 requires z/OS V1.8, or later. For details, refer to the Hardware requirements and Software requirements sections.

Planned availability dates

June 12, 2009 (WebSphere Business Events for z/OS V6.2.1)
May 29, 2009 (Electronic distribution, distributed platforms)
- WebSphere Business Events V6.2.1
- WebSphere Business Events eXtreme Scale V6.2.1
June 12, 2009 (Media pack, distributed platforms)
- WebSphere Business Events V6.2.1
- WebSphere Business Events eXtreme Scale V6.2.1

Availability of programs with encryption algorithm in France is subject to French government approval.

Cryptography in this product is limited to password encryption, authentication or digital signature.

ZP09-0159 IBM Industry Models V8.2 help accelerate the development of industry solutions, focusing on cost efficiency, risk management, regulatory compliance, and business agility

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At a glance

The IBM Industry Models V8.2 are a set of interrelated models that span the foundation, data, process, and service tiers. They:

Deliver pre-defined data warehouse requirements in banking, financial markets, insurance, telecommunications, retail, and health industries, thereby helping to accelerate the gathering and analysis of requirements
Assist business users to scope and customize requirements more easily
Deliver an integrated business vocabulary, with downstream integration to the IBM InfoSphere Business Glossary for promotion of consistent enterprise terms and definitions
Deliver a set of pre-defined analysis-level processes to enable greater consistency and reuse of processes and activities within an institution, helping to drive cost efficiency
Deliver a set of integration models to identify, analyze, and define reusable services
Promote cross-team collaboration to support efforts to complete projects successfully and on time

Overview

IBM Industry Models V8.2 deliver value by providing you with relevant industry content, helping to create IT solutions for business and industry-specific problems. Enhancements, including the addition of new subject areas, are continually being made to the IBM Industry Models to help provide IT solutions that address the most relevant business issues facing an enterprise.

What's new

Two new industry models:
- IBM Financial Markets Data Warehouse
- IBM Telecommunications Data Warehouse
Updates. Refer to the Description section for a listing of key features.

The IBM Industry Models are a collection of interrelated models that span the foundation, data, process, and service tiers. You can use the IBM Industry Models to develop internal company standards and provide an overall integration layer across existing and future IT investments of your organization. With a strong business and IT orientation, the IBM Industry Models can be customized to more precisely reflect the precise needs of a company and allow the standardization of areas that are unique to the company's business to help create competitive advantage.

Based on client experiences, the IBM Industry Models:

Support more than 85% of data requirements out of the box
Reduce the time required for process and use case analysis and design by more than 40%
Compress significantly the time required for project development, compared to the time required for custom, in-house development projects
Reduce the time required to obtain stakeholder approval by more than 50%
Work with industry-leading information and process middleware, performance management, and tooling software

Key prerequisites

Refer to the Hardware requirements and Software requirements sections.

Planned availability date

April 30, 2009: Electronic software delivery, and media and documentation

ZP09-0079 IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication for System z V4.1 offers new configurations for greater protection

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IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication for System z V4.1 enhancements:

Includes detailed session status
Ability to FlashCopy® a volume to a Metro Mirror Peer to Peer Remote Copy (PPRC) primary volume
Has four volumes Metro Mirror configuration
Supports hardware data migration
Supports thin provisioned volumes
Integrates Basic Hyperswap with Metro Global Mirror

Overview

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication for System z V4.1 allows you to easily and efficiently manage hundreds of replication sessions across thousands of volumes for both open and System z attached volumes. You can manage point-in-time, continuous volume replication services, monitor sessions, and reports on the volumes not in synchronization with the source site. It adds intelligence data protection with proactive management of copy services operations.

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication for System z supports:

FlashCopy
Metro Mirror
Global Mirror
IBM Storage System DS8000 Metro Global Mirror
Basic HyperSwap™
IBM Storage System DS8000 HyperSwap Global Mirror

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication for System z V4.1 enhancements:

Detailed reporting on the status of copy services sessions being prepared, including an estimate of the amount of time left until completion.
New session type to allow Global Mirror to failback to Site 1. This support is available for IBM System Storage DS8000 and IBM System Storage DS6000, and requires the administrator to define a journal volume at Site 1 for the failback capability.
A new session type that provides the ability to FlashCopy a volume to a Metro Mirror Peer to Peer Remote Copy (PPRC) primary volume while maintaining consistency of the PPRC secondary volume.
Hardware data migration functions support, enabling administrator to migrate consistent copies of their data to remote sites, as may be required during a data center move.
A new session type - called HyperSwap Global Mirror - which combines continuous availability with a remote copy of the data. This session type provides the ability to recover from a storage failure at one site by swapping over to a local synchronous copy of the data. This avoids system and application outages, while at the same time maintaining a copy of the data at a remote site, for use in the event that the local site is unable to function.
The prerequisite for IBM System Services Runtime Environment for z/OS or IBM WebSphere Advanced Server for z/OS that was required in order to run IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Replication for System z and IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Replication Basic Edition for System z has been eliminated in this release.

Key prerequisites

Refer to the Hardware requirements section.

Planned availability date

May 22, 2009

Refer to the complete letter for national language availability.

ZP09-0104 IBM z/VSE Version 4 Release 2 - Additional enhancements available

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IBM z/VSE™ Version 4 Release 2 (z/VSE V4.2) continues the z/VSE focus on scalability, security, interoperability, and service-oriented architecture.

z/VSE V4.2 supports IBM System z servers:

IBM System z10 Enterprise Class (z10 EC) and z10 Business Class (z10 BC)
IBM System z9 EC and z9 BC
IBM eServer™ zSeries® 990, 890, 900, and 800

In addition to function delivered earlier, z/VSE V4.2 now offers:

Encryption Facility for z/VSE V1.2 as an optional, priced feature
Support for the Parallel Access Volume (PAV) feature of IBM DS8000 and DS6000 series
New optional products:
- IBM Rational COBOL Runtime for z/VSE V7.5
- IBM WebSphere MQ for z/VSE V3.0

z/VSE Version 4 executes in z/Architecture® mode only and supports 64-bit real addressing. It offers Midrange Workload License Charge (MWLC) pricing metrics, including a sub-capacity option for IBM System z10 EC, z10 BC, z9 EC, and z9 BC servers. The smallest z10 BC and z9 BC server, capacity setting A01, does not qualify for MWLC. Customers on the z10 BC and z9 BC capacity setting A01 will always pay zSeries Entry License Charge (zELC) for all IBM monthly license charge software.

z/VSE V4.2 has been generally available since October 17, 2008. For information on the content of z/VSE V4.2, see Software Announcement ZP08-0350, dated August 05, 2008, or refer to the z/VSE Web site at

http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zvse/

Overview

z/VSE V4.2 has been generally available since October 17, 2008. For information on the content of z/VSE V4.2, see Software Announcement ZP08-0350, dated August 05, 2008, and Software Announcement ZP08-0491, dated October 21, 2008, or refer to the z/VSE Web site at

http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zvse/

z/VSE Version 4 Release 2 (z/VSE V4.2) is built on a heritage of ongoing refinement and innovation that spans more than four decades. It is the latest step in the ongoing evolution of z/VSE. z/VSE V4.2 continues the z/VSE focus on scalability, security, interoperability, and service-oriented architecture. It is designed to help protect and leverage existing investments in VSE information assets. z/VSE V4.2 is designed to address the needs of clients with growing core VSE workloads and/or those who wish to exploit Linux on System z for new, Web-based business solutions and infrastructure simplification.

z/VSE V4.2 supports IBM System z servers:

IBM System z10 Enterprise Class (z10 EC) and z10 Business Class (z10 BC)
IBM System z9 EC and z9 BC
IBM eServer zSeries 990, 890, 900, and 800

In addition to function delivered earlier, z/VSE V4.2 now offers:

Encryption Facility for z/VSE V1.2 as an optional, priced feature of VSE Central Functions V8.
- EF for z/VSE V1.2 adds support for the OpenPGP format and is designed to offer more flexibility for security-rich exchange of data with business partners.
New optional products:
- IBM Rational COBOL Runtime for z/VSE V7.5 is designed to execute applications developed with the Enterprise Generation Language (EGL) capability of Rational Business Developer.
- IBM WebSphere MQ for z/VSE V3.0 is a replacement for MQ Series for VSE/ESA™ V2.1.2. It is designed to provide improved interoperability on both distributed and mainframe platforms as well as performance enhancements.

z/VSE V4.2 includes support for the following hardware technologies:

Parallel Access Volume (PAV) feature of IBM System Storage series DS8000 and DS6000
IBM DS8000 Full Disk Encryption
IBM System Storage TS7700 Virtualization Engine™ Release 1.5

z/VSE Version 4 executes in z/Architecture mode only and supports 64-bit real addressing for selected system functions. z/VSE V4 is not designed to support 64-bit virtual addressing or allow 64-bit addressing for user applications. z/VSE V4.2 can run in basic mode (z900 and z800 only), in LPAR mode, or as a guest under z/VM® V5.2 or later. It is the preferred follow-on VSE product for clients with z/VSE V4.1, z/VSE V3, and VSE/ESA installed. You may choose to use the Fast Service Upgrade (FSU) process when migrating from z/VSE V4.1 or z/VSE V3.1.

z/VSE V4.2 offers Midrange Workload License Charge (MWLC) pricing metrics, including a sub-capacity option, for System z10 EC, z10 BC, z9 EC, and z9 BC servers. The smallest z10 BC and z9 BC server, capacity setting A01, does not qualify for MWLC. Customers on the z10 BC and z9 BC capacity setting A01 will always pay zELC for all IBM monthly license charge software.

Key prerequisites

For details, refer to:

Hardware requirements
Software requirements
Planning information

Planned availability date

July 17, 2009

Availability of programs with encryption algorithm in France is subject to French government approval. Contact the Cryptographic Approvals Manager in France, Olivier Hamel/France/IBM@IBMFR, Paris DCT.

ZP09-0154 IBM Rational Build Forge V7.1.1 helps development teams automate and standardize repetitive tasks for improved productivity, efficiency, repeatability, reliability, and tracking

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IBM Rational Build Forge® V7.1.1 extends the automation of software assembly processes by broadening the applicability, usability, and support of the Build Forge V7.1 product line. The ability to create an automated software assembly line is enhanced by these new features:

Automation Framework for WebSphere, which provides the automation and consolidation capabilities of Build Forge to the WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Portal server environment
Historical Data Migration which facilitates existing customers upgrade capabilities
Server support for AIX and Microsoft SQL server that broadens our support for the 7.1 product line

The result is a higher product quality, increased staff productivity, and the ability to cut costs and do more with less across a greater span of environments.

Overview

IBM Rational Build Forge is an adaptive process execution framework that automates, orchestrates, manages, and tracks all the processes between each handoff within the assembly line of software development, creating an automated software factory. IBM Rational Build Forge integrates into your current environment and supports major development languages, scripts, tools, and platforms; allowing you to continue to utilize your existing investments while adding valuable capabilities around process automation, acceleration, notification, and scheduling.

IBM Rational Build Forge V7.1.1 release extends its strong language and multi-platform support tradition. This allows teams to take advantage of IBM Rational Build Forge automation management capabilities in ways that can reduce the number of machines needed to operate the environment.

In addition, IBM Rational Build Forge V7.1.1 introduces IBM Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere. This provides a multicell tool for WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Portal (Portal) environments that can deliver automation and consolidation capabilities to the WebSphere development, Q&A, staging, and production administration functions.

Key prerequisites

For details, refer to the Hardware requirements and Software requirements sections.

Planned availability date

May 15, 2009 (electronic software delivery)
June 5, 2009 (media and documentation)

ZP09-0161 Compete, comply, and control with IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V4.1

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CICS Transaction Server (CICS TS) V4.1 delivers important new function to help organizations respond to the demands of increased regulatory scrutiny, address changing demographics, and position themselves to take advantage of new growth opportunities. New function includes:

Non-invasive detection and emission of business events from CICS applications provides insight into business behavior.
Atom feeds and RESTful interfaces enable existing CICS programs and resources to participate in mashups, Web 2.0 and other situational applications.
The CICS Explorer simplifies the development and management of traditional and modern applications and provides an integration point for IBM and third-party tools.

CICS TS V4.1 introduces a wide range of other technical and operational capabilities, including many requirements raised by individual customers and user communities.

A beta version of the product is available free of charge, subject to acceptance by users of associated licensing and other terms and conditions. The beta can be used until July 31, 2009. For more information, visit

http://www.ibm.com/software/htp/cics/tserver/v41/openbeta

Overview

CICS Transaction Server for z/OS (CICS TS) is a modern, dependable, cost-effective application platform. It is designed to execute mixed language application workloads, supporting both modern and traditional programming languages and models. Its extensive data communication services, and its foundations in service oriented architecture (SOA), provide unparalleled connectivity and scalability. As a result, CICS TS fits naturally into a "smart" infrastructure of the kind needed for a flexible, global enterprise.

CICS TS V4.1 addresses the needs of a rapidly changing business environment. Its features include the emission of business events, Web 2.0 programming support, and new operational tooling. These and other enhancements bring a new agility to CICS, complementing established qualities of security, reliability, availability, scalability, data integrity and application responsiveness.

CICS TS V4.1 brings new levels of ease-of-use and flexibility to meet the needs of the next generation of business users, and is aimed at helping users in:

Competing for new opportunities by gaining insight into business processes and responding by modifying key business applications quickly and with confidence.
Complying with corporate, industry and government policies to manage business risk of critical business applications.
Controlling costs by simplifying IT infrastructure and improving development and operations productivity through easier-to-use interfaces and functions.

The increase in insight and responsiveness is provided by new technologies, such as event-driven processes, business dashboards and Web 2.0 applications. These enable the innovation required to deliver growth in even the most challenging business climate. For example, CICS applications can use new capabilities to:

Support business event detection and emission from CICS without the need to change existing applications, enabling the creation of production business views using dashboards in a matter of hours.
Create new business insight by publishing key application data, enabling rich client developers to use Web 2.0 technologies, such as Atom feeds and RESTful interfaces, to create mashups and other situational applications.
Modify processes rapidly and with confidence by assembling and deploying new business applications quickly using service components.

It has never been more important for a business to exercise proper governance and demonstrate compliance to government and industry standards. Line-of-business managers need to monitor critical business processes, and their supporting application programs, to identify exceptions. They need both real-time status information and mechanisms for handling exceptions.

CICS TS V4.1 meets the need for greater control. It can be configured to feed business event processing engines and business dashboards, without the need to change existing applications. This allows line-of-business managers to ensure that business processes are monitored, to assess compliance requirements, and react to compliance failures, security breaches, and incidents of fraud.

Although CICS TS V4.1 places great emphasis on the needs of customer lines-of-business, it also offers relief to IT support staff. As first- and second-generation IT staff leave the industry, their successors need tools and other help to cope with the workload. CICS TS V4.1 addresses these issues. For example:

With the CICS Explorer it provides a powerful tooling environment that brings many facets of CICS system programming to a single, modern dashboard. The environment can be shared with complementary CICS tools, including those commonly available from IBM partners.
Through extensions to its TCP/IP support, CICS TS V4.1 continues to remove dependence on SNA networking skills.
Through new change management logging and support for identity propagation, it provides greater accountability and auditability in an increasingly complex environment.

CICS TS V4.1 also offers performance improvements when compared against CICS TS V3.2. These improvements have been observed in the areas of traditional workloads, dynamic workload management, TCP/IP connectivity and XML processing.

These and many other new capabilities make it possible for IT departments to "do more with less".

Key prerequisites

The minimum required level of operating system for CICS TS V4.1 is IBM z/OS V1.9 (5694-A01).

CICS TS V4.1 has no conditional operational requisites.

Planned availability date

June 26, 2009

Open Beta program: A beta version of the product is available free of charge, subject to acceptance by users of associated licensing and other terms and conditions. The beta can be used until July 31, 2009. For more information, visit

http://www.ibm.com/software/htp/cics/tserver/v41/openbeta

ZP09-0106 IBM CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS V3.1 supports CICS Transaction Server V4.1 and the CICS Explorer

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At a glance

CICS Performance Analyzer (CICS PA) V3.1 will deliver important new function to help optimize system and application performance by:

Providing comprehensive performance reporting for your CICS systems
Helping tune, manage, and plan CICS systems effectively

New function in CICS PA V3.1 includes:

Support for new and updated metrics from CICS Transaction Server (CICS TS) V4.1, including resource signatures
Support for the CICS Explorer including an updated plug-in and report form
Statistics alert reporting
Significant functions delivered by PTF since CICS PA V2.1

Support for CICS TS V1.3 and V2.1 records is withdrawn.

The new version also introduces a wide range of other technical and operational capabilities, including requirements raised by individual customers and user communities

Overview

CICS Performance Analyzer (CICS PA) for z/OS V3.1 will provide Day 1 support for all new and updated system management facilities (SMF) records produced by CICS Transaction Server (CICS TS) V4.1. Users can immediately benefit from the important enhancements in the latest version of CICS TS. For details, refer to Software Announcement ZP09-0161, dated April 28, 2009.

CICS PA V3.1 will also deliver many new capabilities helping clients to control costs and complexity, and to comply with governance requirements.

Support for the CICS Explorer will enable users with broader and less-specialized skills to access the power of CICS PA and deliver additional value when used in conjunction with other CICS tools.
Additional sample reports, historical database (HDB), and the ISPF dialogs will be provided to support the new metrics and statistics provided by CICS TS V4.1.
New statistics alert reporting automates the generation of batch reports that highlight occasions when key CICS statistics exceed specified thresholds.
Support for resource signatures (new in CICS TS V4.1) can be used to indicate changes to resource definitions, for audit, tracking, or problem resolution purposes.

CICS PA is a CICS system and application performance reporting and analysis solution built to address the needs of CICS systems programmers, subject-matter experts, architects, application developers, and IT managers who will value its ability to improve CICS system performance, lower maintenance costs, and strategically plan IT investments.

Key prerequisites

CICS PA for z/OS V3.1 runs with:

CICS TS for z/OS V4.1 (5655-S97), V3.1, and V3.2 (5655-M15)
CICS TS for z/OS V2.2 and V2.3 (5697-E93)

Planned availability date

May 22, 2009

See the complete letter for national language availability.

Marketing Announcements

ZA09-0011 IBM Tivoli Foundations Application Manager and IBM Tivoli Foundations Service Manager

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Overview

IBM Tivoli Foundations Application Manager

IBM Tivoli Foundations Application Manager is a systems resource appliance designed for general business IT organizations. It provides the capability to comprehensively monitor, alert, and report on the performance and availability of the server operating system, databases, and e-mail applications. IBM Tivoli Foundations Application Manager has built in best practices, domain knowledge, enhanced problem determination tools, and expert advice.

IBM Tivoli Foundations Application Manager deploys and configures quickly to help get your IT staff productive quickly. It can integrate with other Tivoli appliances and solutions to provide end-to-end management of the IT environment.

IBM Tivoli Foundations Service Manager

IBM Tivoli Foundations Service Manager is a service support management appliance, designed for general business customers, that provides basic service desk capabilities through IT Infrastructure Library® (ITIL®) aligned service request, incident, and problem management processes.

IBM Tivoli Foundations Service Manager deploys and configures quickly to help get your staff productive quickly, and can integrate with other Tivoli appliances to provide robust support management capabilities.

Planned availability date

Fourth quarter 2009 (date subject to change)

Previews provide insight into IBM plans and direction. Availability, prices, ordering information, and terms and conditions will be provided when the product is announced.

Services Announcements

ZS09-0047 IBM Proventia Virtualized Network Security Platform delivers network protection in a software solution

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Overview

IBM Proventia® Virtualized Network Security Platform is a virtual appliance that is designed to deliver network protection in a software solution that runs on a virtual platform. This solution will help you meet your need for network protection in a software, or virtual, platform as opposed to a hardware appliance.

Availability date

April 28, 2009

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Overview

IBM Mobility and Wireless Services - enterprise mobility, announced in Services Announcement ZS08-0171, dated July 22, 2008, has been enhanced to support new capabilities and a new service.

IBM Mobility and Wireless Services - enterprise mobility new capabilities:
- Wireless communications and collaboration - Enhancement that leverages wireless networks for a single, integrated communications infrastructure for voice and data communications including mobile IP telephony, real-time collaboration, and unified messaging applications
- Real-time location - Monitoring and tracking of assets and people to support employee and visitor safety, help optimize response times, and deliver employee and customer services virtually wherever and whenever needed
- Event driven notification - Intelligent routing of communication and business system events that helps provide the ability to receive real-time notification and text messages virtually anywhere

IBM Mobility and Wireless Services - enterprise mobility new service:
- IBM Mobility and Wireless Services - enterprise mobility - wireless network security - Wireless network security assessment, design, and integration services combined with network security tools to detect and address threats to your wireless network and help automatically contain those threats

Availability date

April 28, 2009

ZS09-0077 IBM Maintenance and Technical Support Services are renamed

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Overview

Effective immediately, the following name changes reflect the commitment by IBM to consistently name our services in support of IBM and non-IBM products. There are no changes to the services functionality. These changes are intended to improve consistency in the naming of similar services and speed their identification within our catalogs and marketing collateral.

Note: Not all of these services may be available in your area.

Old name                            New name
 
IBM Maintenance Services            IBM Hardware Maintenance Services
IBM Operational Support Services    IBM Software Support Services
IBM Remote Technical Support        IBM Software Support Services
 Services

These new service names are grouped into the following service products.

Service name                        Service product name
 
IBM Hardware Maintenance Services   - base maintenance
IBM Hardware Maintenance Services   - base maintenance for IBM products
IBM Hardware Maintenance Services   - maintenance for non-IBM products
IBM Hardware Maintenance Services   - warranty service upgrade
IBM Hardware Maintenance Services   - maintenance service upgrade
IBM Hardware Maintenance Services   - maintenance enhancement
IBM Hardware Maintenance Services   - warranty and maintenance option
IBM Software Support Services       - Software Maintenance
IBM Software Support Services       - Support Line
IBM Software Support Services       - Enhanced Technical Support
IBM Software Support Services       - custom technical support

Complete service names also include a service component name to further describe the service. During this naming transition, the old names may appear in contracts or invoices until all systems are updated.

Planned availability date

April 28, 2009

ZS09-0088 New IBM ServicePacs are available for IBM Migration Services for data for open systems

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At a glance

IBM Migration Services for data for open systems provide you with:

Planning
Assistance with installation of the migration software
Perform the migration and verification testing of the open systems

Overview

IBM Migration Services for data for open systems is designed to provide you with planning, data migration assistance, and testing of your open system. Each prepackaged offering comes complete with a well-defined scope of services, service agreement terms and conditions, and easy-to-follow instructions.

The following IBM ServicePac® offerings are now available for purchase

IBM Migration Services for data for Open Systems - 2 terabytes of data from up to 2 servers - ServicePac
IBM Migration Services for data for Open Systems - 5 terabytes of data from up to 5 servers - ServicePac
IBM Migration Services for data for Open Systems - 10 terabytes of data from up to 10 servers - ServicePac
Addition to IBM Migration Services for data for Open Systems ServicePac - additional terabyte
Addition to IBM Migration Services for data for Open Systems ServicePac - additional server

For ServicePac offering prices and additional information, visit

http://www.developer.ibm.com/cod/spst/servicepac/extProductSelectorWWW.do

Planned availability date

April 28, 2009

ZS09-0085 IBM ServicePac offers committed service warranty and maintenance upgrades for IBM System x

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Overview

This range of IBM ServicePac products delivers hardware maintenance or maintenance upgrade coverage in an electronic format.

ServicePac offerings are available through the same IBM Business Partners who sell the related IBM hardware. With this ServicePac offer, you get an off-the-shelf upgrade solution at the same time that you purchase the IBM machine. The number of unique ServicePac offerings is kept to a minimum with each part number supporting a range of machine types. To select the correct ServicePac for a particular machine type, you can use a selection guide that includes a complete list of machine types with cross-references. Alternatively, ServicePac details can be found at

http://www.developer.ibm.com/cod/spst/servicepac/extProductSelectorWWW.do

You can order ServicePac offerings by part number through SAP in the same way you order IBM products. The simple registration process ensures that you receive fast and efficient coverage. To be eligible for service, you must purchase a ServicePac within 30 days of the purchase of the machine type to which it applies. You must also register a ServicePac offering within 15 days of purchase by completing the ServicePac online registration at

http://www.ibm.com/servicepac

Planned availability date

April 28, 2009

Withdrawal Announcements

ZG09-0278 Hardware withdrawal: Selected IBM Storage features

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Overview

Effective April 28, 2009, and June 26, 2009, IBM will withdraw from marketing the following IBM Storage features. On or after the effective date of withdrawal, you can no longer order these features directly from IBM. You can obtain the features on an as-available basis through IBM Business Partners.

Withdrawn products

                                                     Plant    MES
                                     Machine         feature  feature
Description                          type     Model  number   number
             

Effective April 28, 2009

 
IBM System Storage 7212 Tape and    7212     103
 DVD Enclosure Express
  DVD-RAM Drive                                               1103
  Half-High LTO-2 Tape Drive                                  1109   
  5-pk 4.7 GB DVD-RAM 2 disc                                  5805   
  LTO Cleaning Cartridge                                      8002   
  LTO 200 GB Data Cartridge                                   8101   
  HHLTO2 Multi-Cartridge Kit                                  8103   
  LTO Test Cartridge                                          8104   
  LTO Cleaning Cartridge 5-pk                                 8105

Effective June 26, 2009

 
IBM RS/6000® External Disk Drive     7204     001,
                                              010,
                                              112,
                                              114,
                                              315,
                                              320
 SCSI-2 Single-Ended Controller                      9129     2843
  to First Dual Port Device
 SCSI-2 Fast/Wide Single-Ended                                2860
  Device-To-Device
 SCSI-2 Fast/Wide PCI-BUS Adapter                             2873
  Controller Cable 1.0 Meter
 1.0 Meter SCSI-2 Fast/Wide Cable                             2876
  (to PCI)
 SCSI-2 Narrow Single Ended Cable                             2888
 
IBM External Disk Drive              7204     404,
                                              409,
                                              419
 1.0 Meter SCSI-2 Fast/Wide Cable                             2876
  (to PCI)
 
IBM 40 GB External Digital Linear    7205     440
 Tape Drive
  1.5 Meter HD68/HD68 SCSI Cable                              5300
  0.7 Meter HD68/HD68 SCSI Cable                              5301
  0.5 Meter VHDCI/HD68 SCSI Cable                             5600
  1.5 Meter VHDCI/HD68 SCSI Cable                             5601
 
IBM External Tape Drive Model        7206     VX3
 VXA X6 40 GB Data Cartridge                                  2533
 0.7 Meter HD68/HD68 SCSI Cable                      9751
 
IBM System Storage 7212 Tape and     7212     103
 DVD Enclosure Express
  VXA X6 40 GB Data Cartridge                                 2533
  30 GB SLR Data Cartridge                                    3030
  1.5 Meter HD68/HD68 SCSI Cable                              5300
  0.7 Meter HD68/HD68 SCSI Cable                     9751     5301
  0.5 Meter HD68/HD68 SCSI Cable                     9733
  0.5 Meter VHDCI/HD68 SCSI Cable                    9765
 
IBM 4mm DDS-4 Tape Cartridge         7332     220
 Autoloader
  1-4mm DDS-4 20 GB Cartridge                                 2504
  1.5 Meter HD68/HD68 SCSI Cable                              5300
  0.7 Meter HD68/HD68 SCSI Cable                              5301
  0.5 Meter VHDCI/HD68 SCSI Cable                             5600
  1.5 Meter VHDCI/HD68 SCSI Cable                             5601
 
IBM Diskette Unit Models 001,        9331     001,
                                              002
 1.5 Meter Signal Cable                                       9802

Replacement product information

None

ZG09-0362 Hardware withdrawal: IBM XIV Storage System Israel 60A pin cord -- replacement available

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Overview

Effective April 28, 2009, IBM will withdraw from marketing the IBM XIV System Storage Israel 60A pin cord (#9804).

On or after the effective date of withdrawal, you can no longer order this product directly from IBM.

Withdrawn product

 
                                   Machine                 Feature
Description                        type       Model        number
     
IBM XIV Storage System             2810       A14           9804
 Israel 60A pin cord

Replacement product information

                      Feature                                Feature
Withdrawn product     number    Replacement product          number
              
Israel 60A pin cord    9804     Single-phase line cord        9803
                                 EMEA/Aus/NZ 60A hard wired

For more information, refer to Hardware Announcement ZG08-0581, dated August 12, 2008.

ZG09-0341 Hardware withdrawal: IBM System x models -- Some replacements available

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Overview

Effective April 28 and May 31, 2009, IBM will withdraw from marketing selected IBM System x systems and options.

On and after this date you will no longer be able to order the listed product from IBM.

You can obtain the products on an as-available basis from selected IBM Business Partners

ZG09-0337 Hardware withdrawal: Selected IBM System i and Power Systems products

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Overview

Effective April 28, 2009, May 29, 2009, July 28, 2009, August 28, 2009, and November 27, 2009, IBM will withdraw from marketing selected IBM System i and Power Systems products.

April 28, 2009: Miscellaneous no longer orderable 9402/9404 models, features, and feature conversions
May 29, 2009: Miscellaneous features and feature conversions
July 28, 2009:
- T119 TFT 19-inch Color Display
- T117 TFT 17-inch Color Display
- Miscellaneous I/O
August 28, 2009:
- Processor upgrades within machine types/models 9405-520, 9406-520, 9406-570
- Features unique to machine types/models 9405-520, 9406-520, 9407-570
- SCSI disk drives and controllers
November 27, 2009:
- Processor upgrades within machine types/models 9406-525, 9406-550, 9407-515
- Features unique to machine types/models 9406-525, 9406-550, 9407-515, 9407-M15, 9408-M25, 9409-M50

On or after the effective withdrawal dates, you can no longer obtain these products directly from IBM or an IBM Authorized Distributor. Products withdrawn today are not orderable. For other products being withdrawn, the last date you can order is:

May 28, 2009, for products withdrawn May 29, 2009
July 27, 2009, for products withdrawn July 28, 2009
August 27, 2009, for products withdrawn August 28, 2009
November 26, 2009, for products withdrawn November 27, 2009

Orders will be acknowledged on an as-available basis.

For withdrawal details, refer to the Withdrawn products Withdrawn product Withdrawn products Withdrawn products Withdrawn products Withdrawn products section.

Order control code change

Effective July 1, 2009, the following features will no longer be offered for initial system orders. The features remain orderable for MES field upgrades to installed systems. The order control code is changed to MES as indicated below.

                                                              Initial/
                                                              MES/
                                        Machine               Both/
Description                             type    Model Feature Support
 
One Processor Activation for Processor  9117    MMA   5403    MES
 Feature #7380
4.2 GHz Proc Card, 0/2 Core POWER6,    9117    MMA   5622    MES
 12 DDR2 Memory Slots
One Processor Activation for Processor  9117    MMA   5672    MES
 Feature #5622
4.7 GHz Proc Card, 0/2 Core POWER6,     9117    MMA   7380    MES
 12 DDR2 Memory Slots

ZG09-0264 Hardware withdrawal: Selected IBM System p I/O features -- Some replacements available

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Overview

Effective April 28, 2009, May 29, 2009, June 26, 2009, July 31, 2009, October 30, 2009 and November 27, 2009, IBM will withdraw from marketing the following Power Systems products. On or after the effective dates of withdrawal, you can no longer order these products directly from IBM.

You can obtain the products on an as-available basis through IBM Business Partners.

If you have a continuing need for these products, visit our IBM Certified Used Equipment™ Web site to check on availability or utilize our request a quote to communicate your specific requirements. IBM Certified Used Equipment has the largest inventory of used IBM systems that are refurbished, tested, and warranted for a minimum of 90 days. For further information, visit

http://www.ibm.com/shop/used

Withdrawn products

The following features are being withdrawn on the specified models of the IBM Power Systems machine types:

Effective April 28, 2009

Feature withdrawals

Description                                        MT  Model Feature

73.4GB 10K RPM SAS SFF Disk Drive                 8204  E8A     1881

The following features are being withdrawn on the specified models of the IBM Power Systems machine types:

Effective May 29, 2009

Feature withdrawals

Description                                        MT  Model Feature

GX Dual-port 12X Channel Attach (DDR)             8203  E4A     5608
                                                  8204  E8A
Media Enclosure and Backplane                     8234  EMA     5629
SAS Disk Backplane -6 slot                        8234  EMA     5668
IDE Slimline DVD-ROM Drive                        8203  E4A     5756
                                                  8204  E8A
                                                  8234  EMA
IBM 4.7 GB IDE Slimline DVD-RAM Drive             8203  E4A     5757
                                                  8204  E8A
                                                  8234  EMA
2 GB (2 x 1 GB) DDR2 667MHz DIMMs                 7998  60X     8220
2GB (2 x 1 GB) DDR2 667MHz DIMMs                  7998  61X     8232
4GB (2 x 2 GB) DDR2 667MHz DIMMs                  7998  61X     8233
DASD/Media Backplane for 3.5" DASD/DVD/Tape       8203  E4A     8341
                                                  8204  E8A
DASD/Media Backplane for 3.5" DASD/DVD/Tape;
with External SAS Port                            8203  E4A     8345
                                                  8204  E8A

The following features are being withdrawn on the specified models of the IBM Power Systems machine types:

Effective June 26, 2009

Feature withdrawals

Description                                        MT  Model Feature

73.4GB 10K RPM SAS SFF Disk Drive                 9125  F2A     1881
Alternate SAS controller for 3 of 6 internal SAS
Disk Slots                                        8234  EMA     5909
                                                  9117  MMA

The following features are being withdrawn on the specified models of the IBM Power Systems machine types:

Effective July 31, 2009

Feature withdrawals

Description                                        MT  Model Feature

IBM T119 Flat Panel Monitor                       7028  6C4     3644
                                                        6E4
                                                  7029  6C3
                                                        6E3
                                                  7037  A50
                                                  7038  6M2
                                                  7039  651
                                                  7040  61D
                                                        671
                                                        681
                                                  7042  C06
                                                        C07
                                                        CR4
                                                  7047  185
                                                  7310  C03
                                                        C04
                                                        C05
                                                        C06
                                                        CR2
                                                        CR3
                                                        CR4
                                                  7311  D10
                                                        D11
                                                        D20
                                                  7314  G30
                                                  7315  C03
                                                        C04
                                                        CR2
                                                        CR3
                                                  7779  BCS
                                                  7989  BCH
                                                  8203  E4A
                                                  8204  E8A
                                                  9110  510
                                                        51A
                                                  9111  285
                                                        520
                                                  9113  550
                                                  9114  275
                                                  9115  505
                                                  9116  561
                                                  9117  570
                                                  9118  575
                                                  9119  590
                                                        595
                                                        FHA
                                                  9123  710
                                                  9124  720
                                                  9131  52A
                                                  9133  55A
IBM T117 Flat Panel Monitor                       7028  6C4     3645
                                                        6E4
                                                  7029  6C3
                                                        6E3
                                                  7037  A50
                                                  7038  6M2
                                                  7039  651
                                                  7040  61D
                                                        671
                                                        681
                                                  7042  C06
                                                        C07
                                                        CR4
                                                  7047  185
                                                  7310  C03
                                                        C04
                                                        C05
                                                        C06
                                                        CR2
                                                        CR3
                                                        CR4
                                                  7311  D10
                                                        D11
                                                        D20
                                                  7314  G30
                                                  7315  C03
                                                        C04
                                                        CR2
                                                        CR3
                                                  7779  BCS
                                                  7989  BCH
                                                  8203  E4A
                                                  8204  E8A
                                                  8234  EMA
                                                  9110  510
                                                        51A
                                                  9111  285
                                                        520
                                                  9113  550
                                                  9114  275
                                                  9115  505
                                                  9116  561
                                                  9117  570
                                                        MMA
                                                  9118  575
                                                  9119  590
                                                        595
                                                        FHA
                                                  9123  710
                                                  9124  720
                                                  9131  52A
                                                  9133  55A

The following features are being withdrawn on the specified models of the IBM Power Systems machine types:

Effective October 30, 2009

Feature withdrawals

Description                                        MT  Model Feature

4-core 4.2 GHz POWER6 Processor Card, 8 Memory
DIMM Slots                                        8203  E4A     5635

The following features are being withdrawn on the specified models of the IBM Power Systems machine types:

Effective November 27, 2009

Feature withdrawals

Description                                        MT  Model Feature

Media Enclosure and Backplane                     9117  MMA     5629
SAS Disk Backplane -6 slot                        9117  MMA     5668
IDE Slimline DVD-ROM Drive                        9117  MMA     5756
IBM 4.7 GB IDE Slimline DVD-RAM Drive             9117  MMA     5757

Effective May 29, 2009

Feature conversion withdrawals

From    From      To        To      To
type    feature   feature   type    model
 
9117    7868      5668      9117    MMA
9117    7869      5629      9117    MMA

Replacement product information

Withdrawn Replacement
product   product
number    number     Product description
 
1881      1883       73.4 GB 15K RPM SAS SFF Disk Drive
3644      3632       Widescreen LCD Monitor
3645      3632       Widescreen LCD Monitor
5608      5609       GX Dual-port 12X Channel Attach
5629      5674       SATA Media Enclosure and Backplane
5756      5743       SATA Slimline DVD-ROM Drive
5757      5762       SATA Slimline DVD-RAM Drive
5909      5911       SAS adapter for internal Split DASD option
8220      8229       4GB (2 x 2 GB) DDR2 667MHz DIMMs
8232      8234       8GB (2 x 4 GB) DDR2 667MHz DIMMs
8233      8234       8GB (2 x 4 GB) DDR2 667MHz DIMMs

ZG09-0335 Hardware withdrawal: Selected IBM System p models and features -- Some replacements available

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Overview

Effective August 28, 2009, October 30, 2009 and November 27, 2009, IBM will withdraw from marketing the following System p® products. On or after the effective dates of withdrawal, you can no longer order these products directly from IBM.

You can obtain the products on an as-available basis through IBM Business Partners.

If you have a continuing need for these products, visit our IBM Certified Used Equipment Web site to check on availability or utilize our request a quote to communicate your specific requirements. IBM Certified Used Equipment has the largest inventory of used IBM systems that are refurbished, tested, and warranted for a minimum of 90 days. For further information, visit

http://www.ibm.com/shop/used

Withdrawn products

The following IBM System p machine type and models are being withdrawn:

Effective August 28, 2009

Machine type model withdrawals

Description                                        MT  Model

IBM 7311-D20                                      7311  D20
IBM 7314-G30                                      7314  G30

The following features are being withdrawn on the specified models of the IBM System p machine types:

Effective August 28, 2009

Feature withdrawals

Description                                        MT  Model Feature

PCI/SCSI Disk Expansion Drawer                    8203  E4A     0595
                                                  8204  E8A
                                                  9117  MMA
#4328 Load Source Specify                         8203  E4A     0836
                                                  8204  E8A
                                                  8234  EMA
                                                  9117  MMA
                                                  9119  FHA
Dual Channel SCSI RAID Enablement Daughter Card   9111  285     1907
                                                  9124  720
                                                  9131  52A
                                                  9133  55A
Dual Channel SCSI RAID Enablement Card            9110  51A     1908
                                                  9115  505
PCI-X DDR Dual Channel Ultra320 SCSI RAID Adapter 7037  A50     1913
                                                  7047  185
                                                  9110  51A
                                                  9111  285
                                                  9115  505
                                                  9116  561
                                                  9123  710
                                                  9124  720
                                                  9131  52A
                                                  9133  55A
146.8 GB 15,000 RPM Ultra320 SCSI Disk Drive
Assembly                                          9111  285     1972
                                                  9115  505
                                                  9116  561
                                                  9123  710
                                                  9124  720
                                                  9131  52A
                                                  9133  55A
146.8 GB 15,000 RPM Ultra320 SCSI Disk Drive
Assembly                                          7028  6C4     3279
                                                        6E4
                                                  7029  6C3
                                                        6E3
                                                  7031  D24
                                                        T24
                                                  7038  6M2
                                                  7039  651
                                                  7040  61D
                                                  7311  D20
                                                  8204  E8A
                                                  9110  510
                                                  9111  520
                                                  9113  550
                                                  9114  275
                                                  9117  570
                                                        MMA
                                                  9118  575
                                                  9119  590
                                                        595
                                                  9125  F2A
141.12GB 15k rpm Disk Unit                        8203  E4A     4328
                                                  8204  E8A
                                                  8234  EMA
                                                  9117  MMA
                                                  9119  FHA
5777 Controller w/Aux Write Cache                 8203  E4A     5583
                                                  8204  E8A
                                                  9117  MMA
                                                  9119  FHA
Dual Channel SCSI RAID Enablement Card            9111  520     5727
                                                  9113  550
Dual Channel SCSI RAID Enablement Card            9116  561     5728
                                                  9117  570
                                                        MMA
PCI-X DDR Dual Channel Ultra320 SCSI RAID Adapter 7028  6C4     5737
                                                        6E4
                                                  7029  6C3
                                                        6E3
                                                  7040  61D
                                                  7311  D10
                                                        D11
                                                        D20
                                                  9110  510
                                                  9111  520
                                                  9113  550
                                                  9114  275
                                                  9117  570
                                                        MMA
                                                  9118  575
                                                  9119  590
                                                        595
                                                        FHA
PCI-X Disk Controller-90MB No IOP                 8203  E4A     5776
                                                  8204  E8A
                                                  8234  EMA
                                                  9117  MMA
                                                  9119  FHA
PCI-X Disk Controller-1.5GB No IOP                8203  E4A     5777
                                                  8204  E8A
                                                  9117  MMA
                                                  9119  FHA
Quantity 150 of #4328                             8203  E4A     7510
                                                  8204  E8A
                                                  8234  EMA
                                                  9117  MMA
                                                  9119  FHA

The following features are being withdrawn on the specified models of the IBM System p machine types:

Effective October 30, 2009

Feature withdrawals

Description                                        MT  Model Feature

0.6 Meter 12X Cable                               7314  G30     1829
                                                  8203  E4A
                                                  8204  E8A
                                                  8234  EMA
                                                  9117  MMA
                                                  9119  FHA
                                                  9125  F2A
1.5 Meter 12X cable                               7314  G30     1830
                                                  8203  E4A
                                                  8204  E8A
                                                  8234  EMA
                                                  9117  MMA
                                                  9125  F2A
2.5 Meter 12X Cable                               9119  FHA     1831
                                                  9125  F2A
8.0 Meter 12X Cable                               7314  G30     1834
                                                  8203  E4A
                                                  8204  E8A
                                                  8234  EMA
                                                  9117  MMA
                                                  9119  FHA
3.0 Meter 12X Cable                               7314  G30     1840
                                                  8203  E4A
                                                  8204  E8A
                                                  8234  EMA
                                                  9117  MMA

The following features are being withdrawn on the specified models of the IBM System p machine types:

Effective November 27, 2009

Feature withdrawals

Description                                        MT  Model Feature

146.8 GB 15,000 RPM Ultra320 SCSI Disk Drive
Assembly                                          9119  FHA     3279
12X I/O Drawer PCI-X, no repeater                 9119  FHA     5798
                                                  9125  F2A

Effective November 27, 2009

Feature conversion withdrawals

From    From      To        To      To
type    feature   feature   type    model
 
9119    5791      5798      9119    FHA

Replacement product information

Withdrawn Replacement
product   product
number    number     Product description
 
0595      5802 (1) Drawer  12X I/O Drawer PCIe, SFF disk
0836      None     #4328 Load Source Specify
1829      1861      0.6 Meter 12X DDR Cable
1830      1862      1.5 Meter 12X DDR Cable
1831      1863      2.5 Meter 12X DDR Cable
1834      1864      8.0 Meter 12X DDR Cable
1840      1865      3.0 Meter 12X DDR Cable
1907      None     SCSI RAID Enablement Card
1908      None     Dual Channel SCSI RAID Enablement Card
1913      5902 (1)  PCIe Dual - x4 3Gb SAS RAID Adapter
1972      None      146.8 GB 15,000 RPM Ultra320 SCSI Disk
                    Drive Assembly
3279      None      146.8 GB 15,000 RPM Ultra320 SCSI Disk Drive
                    Assembly
4328      None     141.12GB 15k rpm Disk Unit
5583      5778 (2)  (5777) Controller w/Aux Write Cache
                    (5778)PCI-X Disk Controller-1.5GB No IOP
5727      None      Dual Channel SCSI RAID Enablement Card
5728      None     Dual Channel SCSI RAID Enablement Card
5737      5902 (1)  PCI-X DDR Dual - x4 3Gb SAS RAID Adapter
5776      None     PCI-X Disk Controller-90MB No IOP
5798      5803 (1) 12X I/O Drawer PCIe, SFF disk
5777      5778 (2)  PCI-X EXP24 Ctl-1.5GB No IOP
7510      None      Quantity 150 of #4328

Notes:

(1) Replacement is the next generation of technology, specific hardware and software requirements exist.

(2) Replacement requires the addition of a TotalStorage EXP24 Disk Drawer (#5786).

ZG09-0407 Hardware withdrawal: Selected models of ThinkCentre, ThinkVision, and Lenovo visual systems -- Replacements available

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Overview

Effective May 28, 2009, Lenovo will withdraw the following products from marketing. After that date, these products can be obtained on an as-available basis through authorized distributors, resellers, and from Direct Response Marketing while supplies last. You can obtain these products on an as-available basis through authorized remarketers and authorized Personal Computer dealers.

Withdrawn products

ThinkCentre
 
Effective withdrawal date:  May 31, 2009
 
9439F4G   SBTF4xx
9488B6G   SBWB6xx
9356BBG   SB6BBxx
9481JFG   SBUJFxx
9438AQG   SB7AQxx
9622B2G   SBYB2xx
9487J7G   SB8J7xx
 
97028EG   SDA8Exx
97028FG   SDA8Fxx
98518PG   SDJ8Pxx
98518NG   SDJ8Nxx
97048GG   SDC8Gxx
97048HG   SDC8Hxx
98598QG   SDL8Qxx
98598RG   SDL8Rxx
 
Effective withdrawal date:  May 31, 2009
 
9488B2G   SBWB2xx
9489A1G   SBXA1xx
9439AVG   SBTAVxx
9439AWG   SBTAWxx
9439B2G   SBTB2xx
9439BZG   SBTBZxx
9439DGG   SBTDGxx
9439DHG   SBTDHxx
9439DJG   SBTDJxx
9488ACG   SBWACxx
9488ADG   SBWADxx
9488AAG   SBWAAxx
9488ABG   SBWABxx
7064AAG   SBZAAxx
7094AAG   SB3AAxx
9356ADG   SB6ADxx
9356AEG   SB6AExx
9356AFG   SB6AFxx
9356AGG   SB6AGxx
9481ANG   SBUANxx
9481B1G   SBUB1xx
9481APG   SBUAPxx
9481DKG   SBUDKxx
9481A9G   SBUA9xx
9481D6G   SBUD6xx
9481D5G   SBUD5xx
9489AAG   SBXAAxx
7065AAG   SB1AAxx
7065ABG   SB1ABxx
7065ACG   SB1ACxx
7096AAG   SB4AAxx
9482B7G   SBVB7xx
9482B8G   SBVB8xx
9482B9G   SBVB9xx
9482EWG   SBVEWxx
9482E9G   SBVE9xx
9482FAG   SBVFAxx
9482FBG   SBVFBxx
9622A2G   SBYA2xx
9622A3G   SBYA3xx
9622A1G   SBYA1xx
7066AAG   SB2AAxx
7098AAG   SB5AAxx
9487ADG   SB8ADxx
9487AEG   SB8AExx
9487AFG   SB8AFxx
9487AGG   SB8AGxx
934991G   SBN91xx
9488B1G   SBWB1xx
9356B6G   SB6B6xx
9481F7G   SBUF7xx
9438B2G   SB7B2xx
9438APG   SB7APxx
9482F5G   SBVF5xx
9622B1G   SBYB1xx
9487B8G   SB8B8xx
6176B1G   SGAB1xx
6177B1G   SGBB1xx
6178B1G   SGCB1xx
9439F7G   SBTF7xx
9488B7G   SBWB7xx
9488B8G   SBWB8xx
9481JMG   SBUJMxx
9482J8G   SBVJ8xx
9622B3G   SBYB3xx
9622B4G   SBYB4xx
9489B1G   SBXB1xx
 
97028CG   SDA8Cxx
97028DG   SDA8Dxx
98518AG   SDJ8Axx
98518BG   SDJ8Bxx
98518KG   SDJ8Kxx
98518LG   SDJ8Lxx
98518MG   SDJ8Mxx
98518JG   SDJ8Jxx
98518UG   SDJ8Uxx
97027MG   SDA7Mxx
97027PG   SDA7Pxx
97027QG   SDA7Qxx
97027RG   SDA7Rxx
97027SG   SDA7Sxx
97027UG   SDA7Uxx
97027VG   SDA7Vxx
97027WG   SDA7Wxx
970271G   SDA71xx
970276G   SDA76xx
970272G   SDA72xx
970273G   SDA73xx
970274G   SDA74xx
970275G   SDA75xx
970277G   SDA77xx
98517PG   SDJ7Pxx
98517RG   SDJ7Rxx
98517KG   SDJ7Kxx
98517LG   SDJ7Lxx
98517MG   SDJ7Mxx
98517NG   SDJ7Nxx
98517UG   SDJ7Uxx
985171G   SDJ71xx
985172G   SDJ72xx
985173G   SDJ73xx
985174G   SDJ74xx
985175G   SDJ75xx
985179G   SDJ79xx
98517SG   SDJ7Sxx
985178G   SDJ78xx
985176G   SDJ76xx
985177G   SDJ77xx
98517VG   SDJ7Vxx
985181G   SDJ81xx
97047QG   SDC7Qxx
97047NG   SDC7Nxx
97047PG   SDC7Pxx
970471G   SDC71xx
970472G   SDC72xx
970473G   SDC73xx
970475G   SDC75xx
970474G   SDC74xx
970476G   SDC76xx
970477G   SDC77xx
98597GG   SDL7Gxx
98597HG   SDL7Hxx
98597JG   SDL7Jxx
985971G   SDL71xx
985972G   SDL72xx
985973G   SDL73xx
985974G   SDL74xx
985975G   SDL75xx
985977G   SDL77xx
985976G   SDL76xx
970371G   SDB71xx
97027AG   SDA7Axx
97027BG   SDA7Bxx
97027CG   SDA7Cxx
97027DG   SDA7Dxx
97027EG   SDA7Exx
97027FG   SDA7Fxx
97027HG   SDA7Hxx
97027JG   SDA7Jxx
98517GG   SDJ7Gxx
98517HG   SDJ7Hxx
98517AG   SDJ7Axx
98517BG   SDJ7Bxx
98517CG   SDJ7Cxx
98517DG   SDJ7Dxx
97037BG   SDB7Bxx
97037AG   SDB7Axx
97047AG   SDC7Axx
97047BG   SDC7Bxx
97047CG   SDC7Cxx
97047FG   SDC7Fxx
97047HG   SDC7Hxx
97047KG   SDC7Kxx
98597CG   SDL7Cxx
98597BG   SDL7Bxx
98597AG   SDL7Axx
 
ThinkVision and Lenovo LCD monitors
 
Effective withdrawal date: May 28, 2009
 
4431-HB2 T31HBxx
4433-HB2 T33HBxx

Replacement product information

 Withdrawn systems                   Replacement systems
 
 ThinkCentre® systems                ThinkCentre systems
 (Selected models)                   (Available models)
 
 Lenovo LCD monitor systems          ThinkVision® systems
 (Selected Models)                   (Available Models)
 
 ThinkVision systems                 ThinkVision systems
 (Selected models)                   (Available models)