| Availability/Reliability |
- Air cooling
- CICS subspace group facility
- CICS subsystem storage protect
- Concurrent channel, OSA-E, OSA-E2 and Coupling Link maintenance
- Concurrent Hardware Management Console (HMC) and Support Element
- Concurrent Licensed Internal Code (LIC) maintenance for CP, SAP, SE, PR/SM™, LPAR, HMC, OSA-Express2
- Concurrent power and thermal maintenance
- Dual Support Elements
- Dynamic Channel Path Management
- Dynamic I/O Reconfiguration
- Dynamic memory sparing
- Dynamic Oscillator Switchover
- Enhanced Application Preservation
- Enhanced Driver Maintenance
- Enhanced Dynamic Reconfiguration Management
- Enhanced Firmware Simulation
- Failure Containment for MBA
- Fault Tolerant Interconnect Design
- FICON Purge Path Extended
- Frame Bolt Down Kit
- Multipath IPL
- N+1 power supply technology
- OSA-Express2 Link Aggregation Support
- OSA-Express2 Network Traffic Analyzer
- Partial memory restart
- QDIO Diagnostic Synchronization
- Reassignment and Sparing
- Redundant I/O Interconnect
- Remote operations support
- Sparing for Storage Protect Preservation Keys
- System Assist Processor (SAP)
- System-Initiated CHPID Reconfiguration
- Transparent CP Sparing
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| Security |
- Advanced encryption standard (AES)
- Certified for LPAR isolation
- Configurable Crypto Express2 (1 or 2 PCI-X Adapter features)
- CP Assist for Cryptographic Function
- Designed for FIPS 140-2 Level 4
- EAL5 certified
- LDAP support for HMC user authentication
- Open Architecture Distributed Transaction Enablement
- Pseudo random number generator (PRNG)
- Remote key load for ATMs
- Secure hash algorithm-256 (SHA-256)
- SSL Acceleration for Linux and z/OS
- Tamper-proof Cryptographic Support
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| Capacity on Demand |
- Administrative On/Off CoD Testing
- API for On/Off CoD activation
- Capacity Backup Upgrade (from any model to any model and capacity setting)
- Capacity Upgrade on demand
- Customer Initiated upgrades
- On/Off Capacity on Demand
- Up to 100 configuration records may be stored on System Element
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| Specialty Engines |
- Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL)
- Internal Coupling Facility (ICF)
- System z9 Application Assist Processor (zAAP)
- System z9 Integrated Information Processor (zIIP)
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| I/O Connectivity |
- ESCON CTC native and basic mode
- ESCON half duplex data transfer
- FCP LUN Access Control
- FCP support for SCSI devices by Linux and z/VM
- FICON CTC
- FICON Express4 4 Gbps (2 and 4 channel features)
- FICON full duplex data transfer
- Full fabric FCP support
- Logical Channel SubSystems
- Multiple Image Facility (MIF) sharing across LCSS’s
- N_Port ID Virtualization
- QDIO
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| Networking |
- HiperSockets™
- OSA for NCP (OSN)
- OSA Layer 3 VMAC
- OSA-Express (Gigabit Ethernet, 1000BASE-T Ethernet, Fast Ethernet)2
- OSA-Express and OSA-Express2 Layer 2 Support
- OSA-Express Integrated Console Controller (1000BASE-T Ethernet)
- OSA-Express2 (Gigabit Ethernet, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, 1000BASE-T Ethernet)
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| Cluster systems |
- Dynamic CF Dispatching
- Dynamic ICF Expansion
- Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex™
- Integrated Cluster Bus-3
- Integrated Cluster Bus-4
- Internal Coupling Channel
- Internal Coupling Facility (ICF)
- InterSystem Channel-3 (Peer mode only)
- Parallel Sysplex clustering technology
- Server Time Protocol
- Shared ICFs and CPs
- Sysplex Distributor
- System-Managed CF Structure Duplexing
- Transparent ICF Sparing
- z/VM Virtual Parallel Sysplex
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| Performance |
- Compare-and-move extended
- DB2 sort assist
- FCP Enhancements
- Hardware-assisted data compression
- Hiperbatch™
- Hipersorting
- IEEE binary floating point support for advanced Lotus® Domino® and Java performance
- Long Displacement Facility
- Modified Indirect Data Address Word (MIDAW) Facility
- Multiple Subchannel sets (MSS)
- OSA Dynamic LAN idle
- Performed Locked Operations for enhanced IP performance
- Up to 64 GB memory
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| Management |
- (SE) maintenance
- Cancel I/O Requests
- ESCON sparing
- Internal Battery Feature
- LPAR Group Capacity
- Power Monitoring display
- Power Estimator tool
- Power/thermal
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| z/Architecture |
- Intelligent Resource Director
- Superscalar Processor
- Tri-modal addressability
- Up to 30 LPARS each (up to 15 LPARS each for model R07) with 64-bit central memory addressability
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