Customer Specified Placement

04/08/2008 Customer Specified Placement (CSP) and Customer Specified Rack Placement (CSRP) is available on the new Power 595, Power 575, Power 550 and Power 520 systems.

CSP and CSRP are available on the new Power Systems announced on April 8, 2008. The POWER 595 is orderable as machine type model 9119-FHA. The POWER 575 is orderable as machine type model 9125-F2A. The POWER 550 is orderable as machine type model 9409-M50. The POWER 520 is orderable as machine type model 9408-M25.

The CSP charge feature code (FC 0453) is being withdrawn and replaced with an already announced no charge feature code FC(8453) for the POWER 570 machine type model 9117-MMA.

01/29/2008 CSP and CSRP available on the new IBM System p 520 and IBM System p 550 Systems, New I/O drawer available on select models, Announce of withdrawal of Partition Initialization and Preload By Partition for System i. A no charge feature code (FC 8453) is being announced for the System p POWER6 570.

1. Customer Specified Placement (CSP) and is available on the new p520 and p550 announced on January 29, 2008. These new systems are orderable as machine type models 8204-E8A and 8203-E4A respectively. Also supported in this announcement is a new SAS DASD I/O Drawer. This is available as a feature code 5886 on p520, p550 and p570.
2. Partition Initialization (Feature 0454) and Preload By Partition (Feature 0455) will be withdrawn from IBM System i family and IBM System i offerings on 05/01/2008
3. On 1/29/08 a no charge feature code (FC 8453) is being announced for the System p POWER 570. The new feature code will replace the current charged feature code (FC 0453) in the Marketing Configurator for the machine type model 9117-MMA. This no charge feature will allow you to get the benefits of Customer Specified Placement without any added cost.
   
   An official withdrawal announcement for the 0453 feature on the 9117-MMA machine type model will be made at a later date.

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