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IBM System z9 Integrated Information Processor, IBM System z10 Integrated Information Processor (zIIP)

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What it does

zIIP is designed to help free-up general computing capacity and lower overall total cost of computing for select data and transaction processing workloads for business intelligence (BI), ERP and CRM, and select network encryption workloads on the mainframe.

DB2 for z/OS V8 and DB2 9 for z/OS exploit the zIIP capability for portions of eligible data serving workloads.
z/OS Communications Server exploits the zIIP for eligible IPSec network encryption workloads.
z/OS XML System Services is enabled to take additional advantage of the zIIP for eligible XML workloads.
z/OS Global Mirror (zGM, formerly XRC Extended Remote Copy) enables DFSMS SDM (System Data Mover) processing associated with zGM/XRC to be eligible for the zIIP
z/OS Communications Server exploits the zIIP for select HiperSockets large message traffic
IBM Global Business Services can enable the Scalable Architecture for Financial Reporting (SAFR) enterprise business intelligence reporting solution for zIIP.

The zIIP's execution environment accepts eligible work from z/OS, which manages and directs the work between the general purpose processor and the zIIP. IBM will not impose software charges on zIIP capacity

What it means

The zIIP, in effect, better enables data to be centralized on the mainframe. The ease and economy of this solution helps break down the walls between transactional datastores on the mainframe and BI, ERP and CRM applications that run on distributed computers, and helps better protect the data and transactions that originate from the mainframe. With the zIIP capability, the System z9 and System z10 mainframe helps minimize the need to maintain duplicate copies of the data and provide better security between the applications and the data. Thus, zIIP can help your business by:

Helping to improve resource optimization.
May help lower cost of computing for eligible workloads.
Help secure network data and help keep data stores resilient

¹ Additional IBM software charges will apply when additional general purpose CP capacity is used. The amount of general-purpose processor savings will vary based on the amount of workload executed by the zIIP, among other factors.

^* All statements regarding IBM future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represents goals and objectives only.