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z/OS V1R3.0 elements and features

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z/OS V1R3.0 consists of the elements and features listed here. The elements deliver essential operating system functions. When you order z/OS V1R3.0, you receive all of the elements. The features are orderable with z/OS V1R3.0. They provide additional operating system function. Many of the optional features are priced; however, some are unpriced (free), as indicated below.

Here's an alphabetical listing of all z/OS V1R3.0 elements and features:

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Base Control Program (BCP) or MVS
Base element: The BCP provides the essential operating system services of z/OS. It includes the I/O Control Program and the z/OS UNIX System Services Kernel.

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BDT
Base element

Related features:
Bulk Data Transfer (BDT) File-to-File
Bulk Data Transfer (BDT) SNA NJE: Bulk Data Transfer (BDT) provides the base services required by its features to transfer data from one system to another.

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BDT File-to-File
Priced optional feature
Can be dynamically enabled: BDT File-to-File allows users at one z/OS system in a SNA network to copy data sets to or from another z/OS system in the network. This feature is related to the element BDT.

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BDT SNA NJE
Priced optional feature
Can be dynamically enabled: BDT SNA NJE allows users to transmit jobs, output, commands, and messages from one computer to another within a SNA network. This feature is related to the element BDT.

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BookManager BookServer
Base element

Related feature:
BookManager BUILD
BookManager READ: BookManager BookServer converts BookManager books to HTML for display through a web browser.

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BookManager BUILD
Priced optional feature
Can be dynamically enabled

Related feature:
BookManager BookServer
BookManager READ: BookManager BUILD creates online books to be used by BookManager READ. This feature supports dynamic enablement.

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BookManager READ
Base element

Related feature:
BookManager BookServer
BookManager BUILD: BookManager READ displays, searches, and manages online books and bookshelves that were created by BookManger BUILD.

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C/C++ IBM Open Class Library
Base element

Related features:
C/C++ with Debug Tool
C/C++ without Debug Tool: C/C++ IBM Open Class Library provides a set of C/C++ class libraries.

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C/C++ with Debug Tool
Priced optional feature
Can be dynamically enabled

Related features:
C/C++ IBM Open Class Library
C/C++ without Debug Tool

C/C++ with Debug Tool includes:

A C compiler
A C++ compiler
A debug tool, which runs with C and C++ as well as other languages
C/C++ application development utilities

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C/C++ without Debug Tool
Priced optional feature
Can be dynamically enabled

Related features:
C/C++ IBM Open Class Library
C/C++ with Debug Tool: This feature is the same as the C/C++ with Debug Tool feature except that it does not have the Debug Tool component.

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Communications Server
Base element

Related features:
Communications Server NPF
Communication Server Security Level 1, 2, or 3: Communications Server supports secure TCP/IP, SNA, and UNIX networking throughout an enterprise. It gives you the ability to connect subsystems and applications to each other and to connect network devices.

Communications Server consists of TCP/IP and SNA functions.

Optional features that provide varying levels of security over public and private networks are available.

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Communications Server NPF
Unpriced optional feature

Related features:
Communications Server
Communication Server Security Level 3: Communications Server NPF provides a printing function that reroutes print data to the IP network.

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Communications Server Security Level 3
Unpriced optional feature: As with the other two Communications Server security features, this feature provides authentication and security services in a TCP/IP network environment, supporting packet filtering, tunnels, and NAT. The difference is that it provides the highest level of security.

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Cryptographic Services
Base element

Related features:
System Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Security Level 3

Cryptography is the transformation of data to conceal its meaning. In z/OS, the base element Cryptographic Services provides the following base cryptographic functions: data secrecy, data integrity, personal identification, digital signatures, and management of cryptographic keys.

Additional cryptographic functions are provided by the following related unpriced optional features:

OCSF Base
System Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Base
Integrated Cryptographic Service Facility

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DCE Application Support
Base element: DCE Application Support facilitates the interaction between DCE clients and CICS or IMS regions.

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DCE Base Services
Base element: DCE Base Services (OSF DCE level 1.1) provides services for developing and running client/server applications, including remote procedure call, directory, security, and distributed time services.

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DFSMSdfp
Base element

Related features:
DFSMSdss
DFSMShsm
DFSMSrmm: DFSMSdfp provides storage, data, program, and device management functions.

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DFSMSdss
Priced optional feature
Can be dynamically enabled: DFSMSdss is a DASD data and space management tool.

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DFSMShsm
Priced optional feature
Can be dynamically enabled: DFSMShsm is a DASD storage management and productivity tool for managing low-activity and inactive data.

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DFSMSrmm
Priced optional feature
Can be dynamically enabled: DFSMSrmm helps you manage your removable media as one enterprise-wide library across systems that can share DASD.

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DFSORT
Priced optional feature
Can be dynamically enabled: DFSORT sorts, merges, and copies data.

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Distributed File Service
Base element: Distributed File Service support provides the file serving component of OSF DCE. Independent of DCE, it also provides SMB file and print serving support for Windows clients and SMB file serving support for OS/2 clients.

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Encina Toolkit Executive
Base element: Encina Toolkit Executive provides a set of tools for developing client components of distributed transactional applications.

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EREP
Base element: The Environmental Record Editing and Printing Program (EREP) edits and prints reports for the records placed in the error recording data set (ERDS), helping IBM service representatives fix problems.

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ESCON Director Support
Base element: ESCON Director Support enables the reporting of ESCON director device errors to z/OS.

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FFST
Base element: FFST provides immediate notification and first failure data capture for software events.

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GDDM
Base element

Related features:
GDDM-PGF
GDDM-REXX: GDDM provides graphical presentation services and device driving capability.

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GDDM-PGF
Priced optional feature: GDDM-Presentation Graphics Feature (PGF) is a set of programs for creating presentation material in a variety of styles.

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GDDM-REXX
Priced optional feature: GDDM-REXX is a productivity tool that enables programmers to prototype GDDM applications and to create small routines and utility programs quickly and easily.

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Hardware Configuration Definition (HCD)
Base element

Related feature:
Hardware Configuration Manager (HCM): HCD defines both the operating system configuration and the processor hardware configuration for a system.

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Hardware Configuration Manager (HCM)
Priced optional feature

Related feature:
Hardware Configuration Definition (HCD): HCM is a PWS-based client/server interface to the base element HCD.

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High Level Assembler (HLASM)
Base element

Related feature:
High Level Assembler Toolkit: HLASM integrates almost all of the functions of past assemblers and provides extensions and improvements.

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High Level Assembler Toolkit (HLASM Toolkit)
Priced optional feature

Related feature:
High Level Assembler (HLASM): HLASM Toolkit provides tools to improve application development, debugging, and recovery.

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IBM HTTP Server
Base element: The IBM HTTP Server provides for scaleable, high performance Web serving for critical e-business applications. It is exclusive to z/OS. This element was previously known as a base element of z/OS under the names Lotus Domino Go, the Internet Connection Secure Server (ICSS) and the Internet Connection Server (ICS).

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IBM HTTP Server NA Secure
Unpriced optional feature: IBM Server NA Secure includes Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), Proxy Authentication, and a repository for home pages. It supports multiple IP addresses and double-byte character set.

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ICKDSF (Device Support Facilities)
Base element: ICKDSF (Device Support Facilities) enables you to perform functions needed for the installation and use of IBM DASD.

ICKDSF R17
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Infoprint Server
Priced optional feature: Infoprint Server allows you to print files on z/OS printers from any workstation that has TCP/IP access.

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ISPF
Base element: ISPF is a full-screen editor and dialogue manager.

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JES2
Base element: JES2 accepts the submission of work for the BCP and exercises independent control over its job processing.

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JES3
Priced optional feature: JES3 accepts the submission of work for the BCP and exercises centralized control over its job processing.

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Language Environment
Base element

Language Environment provides the runtime environment for programs generated with:

z/OS C/C++
C/C++ for MVS/ESA
AD/Cycle C/370
VisualAge for Java, Enterprise Edition for OS/390
COBOL for OS/390 &VM
COBOL for MVS &VM (formerly COBOL/370)
VisualAge PL/I for OS/390
PL/I for MVS &VM (formerly PL/I MVS &VM)
VS FORTRAN and FORTRAN IV (in compatibility mode)

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Managed System Infrastructure for Operations
Base element: Managed System Infrastructure for Operations (msys for Operations) simplifies the day-to-day operation of z/OS Parallel Sysplex configurations by automating typical operator tasks and events.

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Managed System Infrastructure for Setup
Base element: Managed System Infrastructure for Setup (msys for Setup) offers a new approach for installing and configuring z/OS and products that run on z/OS. The configuration process is driven by a graphical user interface that greatly facilitates the definition of customization parameters.The defined configuration is automatically applied to the system.

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MICR/OCR
Base element: MICR/OCR provides the device support code for various magnetic and optical devices.

Network File System (NFS)
Base element: Network File System acts as a file server to workstations, personal computers, or other authorized systems in a TCP/IP network.

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OCSF Security Level 3
Unpriced optional feature: OCSF Security Level 3, in conjunction with base element Cryptographic Services, provides weak (40-bit) and strong (56-bit and greater) software cryptographic services, a data library service provider, certificate library service providers, trust policy service providers, and hardware cryptographic services.

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OSA Support Facility (OSA/SF)
Base element: Open Systems Adapter (OSA) Support Facility customizes the modes and port parameters of an OSA-2, which provides S/390 network connectivity directly to LANs and WANs that support IP and SNA protocols.

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3270 PC File Transfer Program
Base element: The 3270 PC File Transfer Program transfers files from the host to the workstation for off-line data manipulation, updating or correction.

RMF
Priced optional feature: Resource Measurement Facility (RMF) is an optional feature. It gathers data about z/OS resource usage and provides reports at any system in a sysplex.

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SDSF
Priced optional feature: System Display and Search Facility (SDSF) provides information to monitor, manage, and control your z/OS system.

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Security Server
Priced optional feature: Security Server is an optional feature of z/OS and lets you control access to protected resources. It consists of these components: RACF, DCE Security Server, LDAP Server, Network Authentication Service, Open Cryptographic Enhanced Plug-ins (OCEP), and Firewall Technologies.

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Security Server Network Authentication Service Level 3
Priced optional feature: Security Server Network Authentication Service Level 3 works with the Network Authentication Service component of the Security Server feature to provide stronger encryption (greater than 64 bits) than that available without this (Level 3) feature.

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SMP/E
Base element: SMP/E is a tool for installing and maintaining software and for managing the inventory of software that has been installed.

SMP/E V3R1.0 for z/OS and OS/390
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System SSL Crypto
Unpriced optional Feature: System Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Crypto provides privacy between a client and a server through use of the SSL protocol and greater-than-40-bit user data cryptography.

The availability of this feature outside the United States is subject to United States export regulations.

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Text Search
Base element

Text Search is a database and Web search engine. It has two components:

IBM Text Search Engine is a database search engine that is also used in several other IBM products, such as Intelligent Miner for Text and DB2 Text Extenders.
NetQuestion Solution extends the IBM Text Search Engine into an z/OS Web server search engine.

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TIOC
Base element: TIOC allows console services and TSO/E communication with the terminal hardware.

TSO/E
Base element: Time Sharing Option/Extensions (TSO/E) provides an interactive terminal interface. As in prior releases of TSO/E, this element includes CLISTs and REXX, but does not include a REXX compiler.

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UVWXYZ

z/OS UNIX System Services
Base element: z/OS UNIX System Services provides the standard command interface to familiar and interactive UNIX users.

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