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IBM System z9 Enterprise Class

Formerly IBM System z9 109 (z9-109)

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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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