IBM 890 User Manual

Specialty engines for flexible
deployment of Linux workloads and internal Parallel Sysplex coupling facilities help to better align z890 advanced technology with your IT infrastructure requirements
IBM ^ zSeries 890
A mainframe sized and priced to suit your business needs
Highlights
IBM ^ zSeries functionality at a lower entry capacity level than previously available on IBM z/Architecture hardware, and with new granular growth options
Optionally configured zSeries Application Assist Processor (zAAP), delivering a cost­effective and specialised Java™ execution environment for improved price/performance benefits
A mainframe for the mid-sized enterprise
The wave of change that IBM first called ‘on demand’ continues to gain momentum. Customers ask more of your company every day, demanding that your technology infrastructure be responsive, flexible and resilient. To help meet the challenges of constant change, your company must do more than simply integrate its processes – it must literally be able to provide products and services to customers on demand. Achieving success in this environment requires an entirely new approach. In short, it’s never been so important for your business – and your IT infrastructure – to be flexible.
But what does it really mean to be flexible? It means building an IT
infrastructure that can change as fast as market demands. It means maintaining the ability to grow along with your business at your own pace, increasing and decreasing capacity
the mid-sized enterprise. The z890 is a mainframe with advanced on demand capabilities at a size and cost that fits your business.
How can the z890 help you control costs? This new line of high
performance midrange servers provides many of the capabilities available in larger enterprise class servers at a lower entry point, along with extremely granular growth options that allow you to buy the capacity that best fits your needs. The z890 is capable of running Linux and mainframe operating systems at the same time, and it provides the flexibility to easily manage changing business needs while maintaining mainframe levels of availability and security.
as needed and paying for only what you use. It means running multiple applications on a single server and running multiple operating systems at the same time. It means maintaining flexible growth and upgrade options. If your company can truly achieve this flexibility, it can compete – and win – in today’s marketplace.
From an IT perspective, flexibility has sometimes seemed like a luxury afforded only to larger companies. While small and medium-sized businesses struggled to do more with less, bigger companies were able to simplify their infrastructures through high-end enterprise servers like the IBM ^ zSeries 990 (z990). Now, IBM brings the advanced mainframe technology of the z990 to your IT world with the new IBM ^ zSeries 890 (z890), designed and sized specifically for
With the z890, you can start at the capacity setting you need to meet your IT infrastructure requirements, then easily add additional capacity to meet your changing needs as you grow. The four processors on the z890 have seven engine levels, giving you a total of 28 capacity settings overall. The smallest z890 – with capacity setting 110 – has most of the same features as the other 27 capacity settings; however it has smaller I/O configuration/expansion capabilities.
To help you reduce the complexity and costs of your IT infrastructure, you can use the advanced virtualisation technology of the z890 to run several operating systems at the same time. Competitively priced Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL) engines help you run Linux applications more cost-effectively,
z890 – Single model with multiple features for a range of capacity settings
Uni-Processor
variants
2 Processor
variants
3 Processor
variants
4 Processor
variants
110 210 310 410 120 220 320 420 130 230 330 430 140 240 340 440 150 250 350 450 160 260 360 460
170 – Full Uni 270 – Full 2P 370 – Full 3P 470 – Full 4P
Single machine: 2086 and a single model: A04
point. That’s not so bad, considering the z990 is IBM’s most sophisticated mainframe, with world-class scalability, virtualisation, automation, security and reliability.
The new IBM ^ zAAP, planned to be available on the z890 and z990 servers, is an attractively priced specialised processing unit that provides an economical Java execution environment for customers who desire the traditional qualities of service and the integration advantages of the zSeries platform. zAAPs are designed to assist and operate asynchronously with the central processors to execute Java programming under control of the IBM Java Virtual Machine (JVM). This can help reduce the demands and capacity requirements on central processors which may then be available for reallocation to other zSeries workloads. The amount of central processor savings may vary based on the amount of Java application executed by zAAPs, and thereby may contribute to lowering the overall cost of computing for z/OS Java technology-based applications. Best of all, IBM JVM processing
cycles can be executed on the configured zAAPs with no anticipated modifications to the Java application(s).
Another new feature for both the z890 and the z990 is the OSA-Integrated Console Controller (OSA-ICC), which offers system console (IPL) and operations support for multiple logical partitions (LPARs). The OSA-ICC enables local and remote user console session capability, as well as encrypted remote connection for configuration changes. Use of the OSA-ICC can positively impact the ongoing costs of running your system by eliminating the requirement for an external controller for console support.
The zSeries is the enterprise class e-business server optimised for integration, transactions and data of the next generation e-business world. In implementing the z/Architecture features with new technology solutions, zSeries models are designed to help facilitate the IT business transformation and reduce the stress of Business to Business (B2B) and Business to Customer (B2C) growth pressure. The zSeries represents an advanced generation
Granular growth options
When it comes to growth, the z890 offers extreme granularity. The range of capacities for the z890 has increased from the processor on its predecessor, the z800 – options for low capacity have gotten lower and those for high capacity have gotten higher. What does that mean to your business? It means you can start at the capacity level you need to simplify your IT infrastructure, then add additional capacity to meet your changing needs as you grow.
Built on z990 technology
Built on the powerhouse function of the z990, the z890 offers many of the features and functions of the z990 at a considerably lower capacity entry
and specialised assist processing with zAAPs delivers a newly designed environment for running Java technology-based applications along with z/OS on the mainframe. Most importantly, the z890 gives your business many of the same availability, scalability and security features of the z990 – IBM’s cornerstone e-business on demand server.
The z890 can provide the power and flexibility that seemed out of reach, in a size that’s right for your IT world.
of servers that feature enhanced performance, support for zSeries Parallel Sysplex clustering, improved hardware management controls and innovative functions to address e-business processing. The z890 may be configured with an Internal Coupling Facility (ICF) processor that can be integrated with other central processors or configured standalone to allow the z890 to run as a Coupling Facility.
The zSeries is designed to deliver a high level of application availability in response to today’s on demand environment. It offers technology for high reliability and is endowed with self-healing, self-managing features so your system can fine-tune itself in key areas to help provide optimised performance. Fault avoidance and tolerance design features can help minimise business disruptions and permit concurrent maintenance and repairs.
The IBM ^ Capacity Upgrade on Demand
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allows for the addition of one or more Central Processors (CPs), ICFs, Integrated Facility for
Linux (IFLs), and/or zAAPs to increase your server resources when you need them.
The IBM ^ On/Off Capacity on Demand
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capability of the z890 is designed to provide even greater flexibility by allowing you to turn on temporary capacity resources at busy times of the year and then turn them back off when they’re no longer needed. This can give you exceptional control over costs while you meet your dynamic capacity needs.
The z890 processors can provide reserved emergency backup CPU capacity through their Capacity BackUp
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feature. This feature gives extra capacity to your operation in emergency situations where you have lost capacity in another part of your establishment and need to recover capacity on a designated z890 system.
* Additional terms and conditions apply.
Pay for what you use
The z890 and the z/OS or z/OS.e operating systems can be a powerful combination in helping to reduce computing costs by leveraging the sub-capacity benefits of Entry Workload License Charges (EWLC). Subcapacity EWLC aligns IBM monthly license charge software charges with the utilisation of an LPAR or LPARs where a software product executes. Exclusive to the z890 is the EWLC Tiered Price Structure, which IBM is introducing in order to provide greater granularity and price/ performance for all flat-charge IBM software products that run on the z890.
IBM Global Financing, a leading provider of IT financing services, offers TOTAL Solution Financing – an innovative, tailored approach to financing that can make acquiring your z890 fast, easy and affordable. The financing charges for all your hardware, software and services can be included in a single monthly payment to help simplify your administration. By spreading your total cost of acquisition over the term of the financing, you turn large upfront
expenses into regular monthly payments. This flexibility can help you to overcome current budget restrictions, better manage your expenses, and eliminate hardware disposal issues.
An open, flexible server
The z890 offers the flexibility to manage numerous operating systems on a single server, including z/OS, OS/390, z/VM, VM/ESA, VSE/ESA, TPF and Linux for zSeries and Linux for S/390.
While zSeries servers support a number of different operating systems, their most advanced features are optimised for z/OS. z/OS is the foundation for the future of zSeries. It is designed and developed to quickly respond to the demanding quality of service requirements for the on demand business environment. z/OS easily allows you to physically scale up to the amount of server capacity you need. It is designed to deliver high qualities of service for enterprise transactions and data, and extends these qualities to new applications using some of the latest software technologies. It provides a
security-rich, scalable, high­performance base on which to deploy Internet and Java applications, providing a comprehensive and diverse application execution environment.
Unique to the z890 and the z800 is z/OS.e – a specially-priced product offering with a select subset of z/OS functionality that is designed to make the deployment of new applications on these servers attractively priced. Not only does z/OS.e use the same code base as z/OS with custom parameters, it also provides a stable operating environment comparable to z/OS in service, management, reporting and reliability. Best of all, no new skills or service procedures are required for z/OS customers who wish to exploit z/OS.e.
z/VM, strategic to Linux and new workloads on zSeries, uses established virtualisation technology as a foundation to offer Virtual Machine (VM) capabilities on a mainframe. It allows you to virtualise processor, communications, storage
I/O and networking resources to help minimise the planning, purchasing and installation of new hardware to support additional workloads. An ideal environment for consolidating servers and simplifying the infrastructure, z/VM enables you to run up to hundreds of Linux images simultaneously on a single server – helping to reduce both cost and complexity – while benefiting from the reliability and availability of the z890.
The z890 provides important improvements to the QDIO architecture to help improve performance and may help minimise the overhead of running Linux and other virtual server guests running under z/VM V4 or later. The Linux open standards-based platform supports rapid application portability which can be adapted to suit changing business needs. zSeries enables massive scalability within a single server. Linux and z/VM can take advantage of the zSeries capacity by allowing you to run many virtual blade servers simultaneously, so you can scale out virtually for high utilisation while helping to lower the cost of ownership.
New zSeries Grid Computing support leverages Linux for zSeries and z/VM to provide on demand Grid node capacity to help meet changing needs. Linux for zSeries supports the 64-bit architecture and can utilise the 16 HiperSockets available on the z890.
Linux also benefits from the zSeries support of Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) channels, switches and FCP/SCSI devices with full fabric connectivity. The z890 allows you to IPL operating systems that support SCSI-attached disk attached via the zSeries FCP channel. This expanded attachability means you have more choices for new storage solutions, or may have the ability to use existing storage devices to leverage your current investments and help lower the cost of ownership for your Linux implementation.
Many VSE/ESA customers have faced a challenge to leverage their existing VSE investments without being limited by them. They can reap the benefits of combining VSE/ESA and Linux, using Linux to consolidate existing distributed servers onto one zSeries server – in other words, to ‘think inside the box.’
Safety and security
In the on demand era, security is more critical than ever. The IBM Crypto PCICA adapter is designed to support the increased number of LPARs, available on the z890, and provides the highest level of SSL acceleration on the z890 system. In addition to the PCICA, a new crypto adapter (PCIXCC) is being added to replace the CMOS Cryptographic Coprocessor and the PCICC adapter.
The PCIXCC feature supports applications requiring a FIPS 140-2 Level 4 certified crypto module and also serves as an execution environment for user defined extensions and a high-performance path for Public Key/SSL operations. The PCIXCC is programmable, so enhancements and extensions can be made to the capability of the CCA services that execute within the PCIXCC to support new applications.
zSeries cryptography is further advanced with the introduction of the Cryptographic Assist Architecture implemented on general purpose z890 processors (CPs). With the available scalability and data rates,
the z890 processor offers a set of symmetric cryptographic functions, synchronously executed, which can provide the performance of the encrypt/decrypt function of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), Virtual Private Network (VPN) and data storing applications which do not require FIPS 140-2 Level 4 security.
World-class servers
The IBM brand is about uncompromising flexibility in selecting, building and deploying the applications your business needs. Toward that end, IBM offers one of the industry’s broadest range of platforms and operating systems. IBM is committed to industry­standard, cross-platform technologies – such as Java support, XML, HTML, SOAP and UDDI – that are at the heart of a flexible e-business on demand infrastructure.
Support for these standards in our key middleware – including DB2 Universal Database, WebSphere Application Server and MQSeries – means you won’t be locked in to a single platform as your business grows. As a result, you have more flexibility to deploy applications in a cost-effective way.
Smoothing the path
The systems management functions and features of the z890 provide incredibly robust control and automation as well as exceptional service-ability and availability. For example, Intelligent Resource Director (IRD) extends the classic strengths of I/O priority queuing by prioritising requests across the channels of the z890 to move to the workloads which require additional connectivity via Dynamic Channel Path Management. It can dynamically balance CP resources across LPARs according to business goals.
z/OS can provide an approach for installing and configuring products: a managed system infrastructure. This approach, when employed, goes a step beyond Web-based wizards by furnishing a step-by-step installation guide and automated system
updates. For example, Managed Systems Infrastructure for Setup can establish a Parallel Sysplex cluster quickly and easily by transparently creating the policies, parmlib specifications and initialisation parameters necessary to configure a basic Parallel Sysplex environment.
The new frontier
What does the on demand era mean for your medium-sized enterprise? It means being able to sense and respond to change. It means managing risk while lowering costs. It means greater control and transparency with less complicated management. And it means maintaining a flexible IT infrastructure.
With its combination of flexible design and advanced mainframe technology, the IBM ^ zSeries 890 can help your company simplify its infrastructure and remain flexible. It
can offer your business extremely granular growth options, along with the power and flexibility that comes with technology that can be configured for general purpose workload processing (CPs), Linux workloads (IFL), Parallel Sysplex ICF, as well as specialty assist processing for I/O (SAPs) and Java-based applications (zAAPs). All of this comes with the world-class mainframe qualities of service (e.g., high availability, scalability and security) found on the z990 – IBM’s cornerstone e-business on demand server. The z890 is designed to provide a growth-focused mainframe with advanced on demand capabilities at a size and cost that fits your business.
IBM ^ zSeries 890 enterprise server at a glance
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Hardware models
A04
Maximum Coupling links
ISC-3: 48 IC: 32 ICB-2 - N/A ICB-3: 16 ICB-4: 8 Max # links: 64
Channels
Minimum 0/0/0/0 (ESCON/FICON Express/OSA-Express/HiperSockets) Maximum 420/40/40/16 (ESCON/FICON Express/OSA-Express/HiperSockets)2110 Capacity Setting = 240/32/24/16 Increments 4/2/2/1 (ESCON/FICON Express/OSA-Express/HiperSockets)
Cryptographic
PCIX Crypto Coprocessor – optional up to 4 features (4 coprocessor cards) PCI Crypto Accelerator – optional up to 2 features (4 cards)
LPARS
30 max/2110 capacity setting 15 max
Processor memory
Minimum 8GB Maximum 32GB
Upgradeability
Upgradeable within z890 Upgradeable to z990 from select z890 configurations
Physical Configuration
Min Max
Weight (unpacked) kg 674 785 Weight (unpacked) lbs 1482 1730 Floor space square metres 1.24 1.24 Floor space square feet 13.33 13.33 Floor space with service clearance square metres
3.03 3.03
Floor space with service clearance square feet
32.61 32.61
Input Power kVA 1.5 4.7 Heat output kBTU/hr 5.12 16.05 Air flow CFM 640 640 Air flow m*3/min 17.64 17.64 Height cm 194.1 194.1 Height inches 76.4 76.4
General
Conforms to EIA guidelines for frame
Software
z/OS LPAR mode: z/OS 1.2 and subsequent
releases
z/OS.e LPAR mode: z/OS.e 1.3 and subsequent
releases Linux on zSeries LPAR mode: Red Hat, SUSE, Turbolinux OS/390 LPAR mode: OS/390 2.10 VSE LPAR mode: VSE/ESA 2.6 and subsequent
releases TPF LPAR mode: TPF 4.1 (ESA mode only) Linux on S/390 LPAR mode: Red Hat, SUSE, Turbolinux z/VM LPAR mode: z/VM V3.1, z/VM V4.3 and
subsequent releases
IBM ^ zSeries 890 enterprise server features and benefits
z/Architecture
zAAP
Intelligent Resource Director
Capacity Upgrade on Demand
3
Integrated Facility for Linux
Capacity BackUp
3
On/Off Capacity on Demand
3
HiperSockets
Customer Initiated Upgrades
3
QDIO
Cluster systems
Parallel Sysplex clustering technology
Sysplex Distributor
Shared ICFs and CPs
Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex
3
Dynamic CF Dispatching
ICF
Dynamic ICF Expansion
Internal Coupling Channel
Transparent ICF Sparing
z/VM Virtual Parallel Sysplex (when z/VM has been licensed)
InterSystem Coupling-3 Links
Integrated Cluster Bus
System-Managed CF Structure Duplexing
Availability
Transparent CP Sparing
System Assist Processor (SAP)
Enhanced Application Preservation
Dynamic memory sparing
Reassignment and Sparing
CICS subspace group facility (when CICS has been licensed)
Partial memory restart
CICS subsystem storage protect (when CICS has been licensed)
Dynamic Channel Path Management
Remote operations support
Dual Support Elements
N+1 power supply technology
Hybrid cooling
Concurrent power and thermal maintenance
Concurrent channel, OSA-E and Coupling Link maintenance
Concurrent Hardware Management Console and Support Element
Concurrent Licensed Internal Code (LIC) maintenance for CP, SAP, SE, PR/SM, LPAR, Hardware Management Console
Dynamic I/O Reconfiguration
IBM ^ zSeries 890 enterprise server features and benefits (cont.)
Management
(SE) maintenance
Power/Thermal
Cancel I/O Requests
Internal Battery Feature
ESCON sparing
PR/SM
Up to 30 LPARs each (up to 15 LPARS each with capacity setting 110) with 64-bit central memory addressability
Enhanced Dynamic Reconfiguration management
Performance
IEEE binary floating point support for advanced Lotus Domino and Java performance
Up to 32GB memory
Hipersorting
Hiperbatch
Compare-and-move extended
Hardware-assisted data compression
Performed Locked Operations for enhanced IP performance
DB2 sort assist (when DB2 has been licensed)
I/O connectivity
ESCON half duplex data transfer
Multiple Image Facility (MIF)
ESCON CTC native and basic mode
FICON full duplex data transfer
FICON CTC
FICON Bridge
Full fabric FCP support
FCP support for SCSI devices
Logical Channel SubSystems
Networking
OSA-Express (Gigabit Ethernet, 1000BASE-T Ethernet, Token-Ring)
OSA-ICC Integrated Console Controller
HiperSockets
Security
Open Architecture Distributed Transaction Element
SSL Acceleration for Linux and z/OS (when Linux or z/OS have been licensed)
Tamper-proof Cryptographic Support
Designed for LPAR isolation – certified EAL4+ by U.S. Government
Designed for FIPS 140-2 Level 4 certification
AES Encryption support
CP assist for Cryptographic Functions
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Additional terms and conditions apply.
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The smallest z890 – with capacity setting 110 – has most of the same features as the other 27 capacity settings; however it has smaller I/O configuration/expansion capabilities.
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Certain features require execution of additional terms and conditions.
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