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IBM System z9 Enterprise Class

Formerly IBM System z9 109 (z9-109)

  
Overview Features & benefits Specifications

Benefits Features/functions
Availability
  • CICS subspace group facility

  • CICS subsystem storage protect

  • Concurrent Book Add

  • Concurrent channel, OSA-E 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 Book Availability

  • 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 Feature

  • Hybrid cooling

  • Multipath IPL

  • N+1 power supply technology

  • OSA-Express2 Link Aggregation Support

  • OSA-Express2 Network Traffic Analyzer

  • Partial memory restart

  • QDIO Diagnostic Synchronization

  • Redundant I/O Interconnect

  • Remote operations support

  • Sparing for Storage Protect Preservation Keys

  • System Assist Processor (SAP) reassignment and sparing

  • System-Initiated CHPID Reconfiguration

  • Transparent CP Sparing
Security
  • Advanced encryption standard (AES)

  • Certified for LPAR isolation

  • Configurable Crypto Express2 (secure coprocessor or SSL acceleration)

  • 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
Capacity on Demand
  • Administrative On/Off CoD Testing

  • API for On/Off CoD activation

  • Capacity Backup (for both full and subcapacity)

  • Capacity Upgrade on Demand

  • Customer Initiated upgrades

  • On/Off Capacity on Demand

  • Up to 100 configuration records may be stored on System Element
Specialty Engines
  • Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL)

  • Internal Coupling Facility (ICF)

  • System z9 Application Assist Processor (zAAP)

  • System z9 Integrated Information Processor (zIIP)
I/O Connectivity
  • ESCON CTC native and basic mode

  • FCP LUN Access Control

  • FCP support for SCSI devices by Linux and z/VM

  • Fibre Channel Protocol (FICON) 1, 2, 4 Gb auto negotiations

  • FICON CTC

  • FICON full duplex data transfer

  • Full fabric FCP support

  • IBM ESCON® half duplex data transfer

  • Multiple Image Facility (MIF)

  • N_Port ID virtualization (NPIV)

  • QDIO

  • Up to four Logical Channel SubSystems (LCSS)
Networking
  • IBM HiperSockets™

  • OSA for NCP (OSN)

  • OSA Layer 3 VMAC

  • OSA-Express (Gigabit Ethernet, 1000BASE-T Ethernet, Fast Ethernet)

  • 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)
Cluster systems
  • Dynamic CF Dispatching

  • Dynamic ICF Expansion

  • Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex

  • Integrated Cluster Bus-3

  • Integrated Cluster Bus-4

  • Internal Coupling Channel

  • InterSystem Channel-3 (Peer mode only)

  • Parallel Sysplex clustering technology

  • Server Time Protocol

  • Shared ICFs and CPs

  • Sysplex Distributor

  • System-Managed CF Structured Duplexing

  • Transparent ICF Sparing

  • z/VM Virtual Parallel Sysplex
Performance
  • Compare-and-move extended

  • DB2 sort assist

  • FCP Enhancements

  • Hardware-assisted data compression

  • Hipersorting

  • IBM Hiperbatch™

  • IEEE binary floating point support for advanced IBM 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 512 GB memory
Management
  • (SE) maintenance

  • Internal Battery Feature

  • Power/thermal

  • LPAR Group Capacity

  • ESCON sparing

  • Cancel I/O Requests

  • Power Monitoring Display

  • Power Estimation tool
z/Architecture
  • Intelligent Resource Director

  • Superscalar Processor

  • Tri-modal addressability

  • Up to 60 LPARs each with 64-bit central memory addressability



 
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