IBM vouchers for Power Systems

These services are available for the IBM i and selected Power Systems servers. They have been designed to help you "get started" in a leading-edge application. With help from an expert on IBM's technical team at your side, you will quickly take advantage of your new system's capabilities.

Only one voucher is required for any one of these services.

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Services overviews

• Getting started with i and BladeCenter
  • Install the BladeCenter hardware or any necessary components, such as I/O switch modules.
  • Perform any required firmware updates.
  • Install the POWER blade.
  • Collaborate with Your staff to ensure storage for IBM i on the POWER blade is configured correctly.
  • Install the Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) and IBM i software on one (1) POWER blade.
  • Configure networking so that IBM i is accessible from your network.

• Getting Started with DB2 Web Query for i
  The service offering will help you get started with developing and running reports using DB2 Web Query. IBM experts will help you install the software, create and import meta data, help you import query/400 definitions and assist you in building reports using report and/or graphing assistant components.

• DB2 SQL/Query Performance Assessment*
  This remote service assess the use of SQL in client server and IBM IBM i® applications as well as a review of memory pool and subsystem setup. The service also includes an assessment of the overview of the SQL environment and discusses the enablement of the query optimization techniques. At the end of this service, you will receive a report with recommendations for improving the SQL environment and potential next steps.

• Getting Started with AIX with IBM i for Power Systems
  This service will create an IBM AIX® logical partition (LPAR) on a Power Systems machine running IBM i that will allow you to add AIX applications support to your IBM i platform. The service will assist with capacity planning of the AIX LPAR and perform the logical partitioning configuration to create them. Depending on your requirements, the AIX LPAR will utilize direct or virtual I/O resources, or a combination of both. A plan to efficiently map AIX LPAR disk storage to AIX system and production directories will be created. The service will install the customer-acquired AIX operating system. AIX will be installed and the AIX environment will be configured for normal startup and operation. The service will also provide skills transfer to you on using the Hardware Management Console (HMC) for AIX startup and shutdown, creating multiple AIX LPAR profiles, and dynamically changing the processor, memory, or I/O hardware configuration of the AIX LPAR. The engagement will conclude by providing you with a configuration summary of your AIX environments.

• Getting Started with Linux with IBM i for Power Systems
  This service will provide a Linux implementation on Power Systems that will allow IBM i customers to explore the possibilities of Linux running alongside IBM i. The service will establish the logical partition (LPAR) configuration for Linux and install the customer-acquired Linux distribution. Networking configuration will be implemented for the Linux partition and initial user profiles will be defined. The service will establish file serving for Linux using SAMBA, NFS and FTP. The default Web server will be established using Apache HTTP Server. At the conclusion of the engagement you will be provided a configuration summary of the Linux partition.

• Getting Started with WebSphere wih IBM i for Power Systems
  This service will get your company started with WebSphere Application Server - Express on IBM i. The service will validate the initial installation and setup of a single WebSphere Application Server - Express instance and supporting IBM HTTP Server (powered by Apache) instance on IBM i. These instances will be verified by installing and launching a sample Web application (either the IBM Telephone Directory or IBM Survey Application). An overview of IBM Web Administration as well as a demonstration of the IBM WebFacing Tool, using a sample application, web-enabling a 5250 application will also be provided. Also a detailed overview of strategies and IBM product options available for Web-enabling 5250-based applications, and a mini-strategy assessment and review of next-step development options is provided for exploiting WebSphere Application Server - Express in your environment.

• Getting Started with WebSphere Portal Express with IBM i for Power Systems
  This service will assist you in deploying IBM WebSphere Portal Express Plus. In order to get the maximum benefit of this service, you should have a clear purpose in mind for using WebSphere Portal Express Plus as well as HTML prototypes of the portal pages or portlet frames.

• Migration Assistance
  An IBM representative or Business Partner will assist you in migrating from older IBM hardware to new IBM hardware by providing 1 day (8 hours) of service.

• IBM i Performance Assessment and Knowledge Transfer
  This service includes remote analysis of system wide performance data focused not only on machine setup but also the applications running on your system. This service uses performance tools to review a variety of factors such as memory pool management, disk utilization, CPU analysis, and Java and database settings. The remote analysis is followed up by a remote review or onsite visit by IBM i performance consultants to share best practices and provide knowledge transfer.

• SAP on IBM i Installation Jump-start
  Provides for up to a day and a half of on-site installation and skills transfer services from one of our certified SAP on IBM i Basis experts. Our expert will build up a four-system SAP landscape with the core ERP 2005 functionality, interconnected and ready for your implementation partner to start customizing your SAP solution to fit your business. The landscape will include an SAP Solution Manager system, and Development, Test, and Production systems each running SAP ERP 2005. Plus, this also includes skills transfer tutoring for your system administrators, providing them with a jump start on the skills they’ll need to keep the systems running in top form.
  
  Two variants are available, depending on the Power Systems model you have chosen.

  • 8 hours over two days:
    • installation of SAP 4-system landscape into one logical partition
  • 4 – 6 hours of skills tutorials 12 hours over two days:
    • installation of Development ERP, Quality Assurance ERP, and Solution Manager systems into one logical partition
    • installation of Production ERP System into second logical partition
  • 6 – 8 hours of skills tutorials and hands-on tutoring

• IBM i Security HealthCheck Assessment
  To perform a technical security analysis for one partition through scanning and access to the customer's IBM i environment. The major sub tasks are: Investigate the powerful user profiles, those with special authorities, command line access and other significant aspects of the user profiles on the system, Password practices Investigate the use of Group Profiles,Analyze the use of adopted authority and authorization lists, Examine communications and TCP/IP exposures, Examine current system value settings, Examine sensitive output queues and/or job queues, Indicate other miscellaneous exposure areas (default profile entries in job and subsystems descripitons), Document in detail the findings and recommendations for securing the system, based upon these exposures.

• Getting Started with Zend and MySQL on IBM i
  The service offering will help you get prepared to develop and run applications based on PHP and MySQL on IBM i. Specifically the service will install PHP and MySQL on IBM i, including:

  • Zend Core for IBM i on one server
  • Zend Studio for IBM i on one client
  • MySQL for IBM i on one server

  In addition to installing the software, the service will include:

  • Running sample PHP applications that get data out of DB2 for i and MySQL for IBM i.
  • Providing hands-on education on how to manage Zend Core and MySQL for IBM i
  • It is the responsibility of the customer to acquire the software to be installed.

• IBM i Availability Assessment
  Purpose: IBM will conduct a IBM i Availability Assessment which is an analysis of a customer’s IBM i IT infrastructure for potential areas of exposure as well as a review of their system management processes for adherence to best practices. The intent is to identify significant risks and provide recommendations to help mitigate those risks. You will receive a presentation highlighting hardware and system availability exposures along with system and availability management exposures. This offering is conducted remotely.

• IBM i BRMS HealthCheck Assessment
  The BRMS assessment service will provide an analysis for tuning BRMS on your IBM i environment. The BRMS settings including policies, control groups, network setup, logs and others will be reviewed. At the end of this service, you will receive a presentation with best practices and recommendations for improving your BRMS environment. This offering is conducted remotely.

• Getting Started with Blade Center and System x Solutions for IBM i
  This service will help get your company's Integrated Blade Center and System x environment up and running quickly. The service can be applied towards the installation of an iSCSI attached Blade Center or system x Server solution.The service will include installation of IBM Director on IBM i and creation of configuration objects on the IBM i side. Installation of the customer-acquired Microsoft® Windows ServerTM operating system on the Blade or System x Server will be included. The service will provide a selection of topics including: an overview of the Windows integration support; server administration; user administration; storage management concepts; backup and recovery architecture; virtual Ethernet configuration and concepts; sharing of IBM i tape and CD-ROM devices; problem determination and hardware manager recovery interfaces; and high availability. At the conclusion of the service engagement, you will be provided a configuration summary of the Windows installation. As an alternative to the Windows Server operating system, IBM will assist the customer in setting up and installing VMWare® ESX 3 on an iSCSI attached Blade or System x server, and will assist in setting up configuration to control this ESX Server through the VMWare® Virtual Infrastructure Client. Depending on the model of IBM i, IBM will provide either a day or day and a half on site to assist you in setting up this VMWare configuration. Since VMware and BladeCenter implementations can vary widely, a planning call will be held prior to the service engagement to determine the scope of work and the coverage provided by the service voucher.

• Getting Started with IBM Systems Director
  IBM Systems Director server will be installed on a clients PC and will be used to demonstrate various systems management functions and features over a couple of selected client systems. A working demo of IBM Systems Director will be in place after this service offering is complete.
  
  The offering will include:

  • Installation of IBM System Director Server on a clients designated PC
  • Installation of agents and console on client's machines
  • Run discovery and inventory scans of client's network
  • Simple IBM Director demonstration (e.g. send an email when a system is unavailable)
  • Demonstration of more advanced features: CPU/Storage monitors, event action plans, process monitoring, etc.
  • Demonstration of reporting capability to export information

• Getting Started with Secure Perspective for IBM i
  This service will help you with the deployment of Secure Perspective on your IBM i. This includes installing the product, setting up the administrative users and controlled systems, brainstorming access control policies, and demonstrating how to use the tool.

• External storage and PowerHA for i
  IBM will provide planning and high-level design services to review the considerations for effectively attaching IBM TotalStorage DS6000 or DS8000 to IBM i so as to achieve optimal performance and redundancy. IBM will also describe the use of PowerHA with Copy Services (Flash Copy, Metro Mirror, and Global Mirror) as it relates to enhanced backup, High Availability, and Disaster Recovery solutions on the IBM i. Topics of discussion may include the logical storage configuration, virtualization of disk, locating the Load Source Unit in external storage, multi-path support, SAN switch zoning, independent Auxiliary Storage Pools (IASP), and deployment of PowerHA for i.

• WebSphere Application Server Security Health Check
  This service will review a single cell WebSphere Application Server configuration (any version or edition). Best practices will be explained, and a short final report of the top issues needing attention will be provided. This is a hands-on review, where applicability and customization for your environment will be discussed. Use this service to learn how features can be utilized to meet your security goals, and understand how secure your environment may or may not be.

• Getting started with WebSphere Application Server Security
  This service assists customers in WebSphere Application Server security, providing skills transfer and/or configuration assistance. Our experts will help you bridge the gap between concepts and implementation, providing advice on best practices and verifying your environment meets your security goals.
  
  Choose one of these topics, or propose one of your own:

  • Enable administrative security, configure a user registry and define admin users and groups
  • Enable application security, map users / groups to application roles
  • Setup an SSL tunnel between a web server and an application server

• WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment getting started
  This offering is intended to assist moving from the WebSphere Application Server or WebSphere Application Server – Express or "Base" to WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment (ND). The ND edition provides scalability, high availability, and easier administration that is needed in larger installations or with mission-critical applications. Familiarity with WebSphere Application Server (Base or Express) is assumed. The customer is responsible for obtaining and installing the WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment product.
  
  This offering includes:

  • Configuring a ND cell with one deployment manager, two nodes, two applications servers in a cluster, and an HTTP server
  • Installation and demonstration of a sample web application which exhibits failover and workload balancing of the cluster
  • Network deployment overview skills transfer, including concepts and topology considerations and best practices

  The Network Deployment topology is very different from other WebSphere Application Server editions; use this service to understand the concepts and become productive in the least amount of time.

• Migration to IT JVM on i
  This offering provides assistance to move application(s) from the IBM i Classic JVM to the IT JVM (sometimes referred to as J9). Monitoring tools, garbage collection behaviors, and best practices will be discussed. In addition to "making the switch" the new JVM will be optimized for your environment. The IT JVM is the strategic JVM, use this service to make you migration smooth and ensure optimum performance.

Register vouchers

Get the skills you need to take advantage of IBM i. As part of this program, you can redeem your voucher to attend one of the classes or conferences listed below. Only one education voucher is required to attend any one of these courses or conferences.

OW78/OW780
3.0 days

Websphere Application Server V6.0 Performance for IBM i

This course is designed for IBM i professionals whose responsibilities include performance analysis and tuning for IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM i based solutions.

OW79/OW790
3.0 days

Websphere Application Server V6.1 Performance for IBM i

This course is designed for IBM i professionals whose responsibilities include performance analysis and tuning for IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM i based solutions.

OW86/OW860
2.0 days

IBM i Application Development using WDSC Version 6.0

Learn how to use the PC based tools included in IBM WebSphere Development Studio Client (WDSC) for System i Version 6.0 to create and maintain your IBM i RPG and COBOL host applications. Learn how to move from the 5250 green screen tools to workstation tools, featuring a Graphical User Interface (GUI).

OW87/OW870
2.0 days

IBM i Application Development using WDSC V7.0

This course introduces IBM i application developers to using WebSphere Development Studio Client (WDSc) to develop IBM i host applications (RPG, COBOL, and CL). The lectures and hands-on exercises show IBM i developers how to perform the same tasks they do in Program Development Manager (PDM) and/or Source Entry Utility (SEU) as well as highlight features that are unique to WDSc.

AS90/AS900
3.0 days

IBM WebSphere Application Server V6.0 Administration on IBM i

Learn about the installation and administration of IBM HTTP Server and WebSphere Application Server on IBM i. Learn to use the administrative interfaces for WebSphere administration, deploy various applications, secure applications, troubleshoot, backup and recover, and the Network Deployment environment. This course uses WebSphere Application Server V6.0 on IBM i.

AS94/AS940
3.0 days

IBM WebSphere Application Server V6.1 Administration on IBM i

This course is intended for system administrators who need to install, configure, and maintain WebSphere Application Server on IBM i. This education uses WebSphere Application Server V6.1 on IBM i. If education using Websphere Application Server V6.0 on IBM i is preferred, refer to CC# AS900.

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