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Draft Document for Review October 18, 2004 GA19-5486-26

IBM Eserver i5 and iSeries System Handbook

IBM i5/OS Version 5 Release 3 October 2004 - DRAFT

The next generation iSeries… simplify, integrate, and deliver

iSeries resource for Models 520, 550, 570, 595, 800, 810, 825, 870, 890

A complete outline of today’s IBM i5/OS V5R3 enhancements

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Matthew Bedernjak,

Celia Burke, Mary Cheever,

Louis Cuypers, Harold Distler,

Greg Hidalgo, Miroslav Iwachow,

Axel Lachman, Henry Matos,

Glen McClymont,

Lori O’Dell, Samit Saliceti,

Jerry Watson, Susan Powers

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IBM Eserver i5 and iSeries System Handbook IBM i5/OS Version 5 Release 3 - DRAFT

October 2004

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“Notices” on page xxiii.

Twenty-seventh edition (October 2004)

This edition applies to IBM i5/OS Version 5 Release 3 (product number 5722-SS1).

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Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii

Trademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiv

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxvii

The team that wrote this redbook. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxviii

Become a published author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxi

Comments welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxi

Chapter 1. The next generation iSeries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Simplicity in an on demand world . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Simplify your infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Integrate to innovate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Deliver without disruption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Looking toward the future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Chapter 2. iSeries architecture: Fundamental strength of the IBM ^

i5 and iSeries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

System concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

iSeries architecture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Single-level storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Technology Independent Machine Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

POWER Hypervisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Hierarchy of microprocessors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Technology in stride . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Microprocessor excellence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Silicon On Insulator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

On-chip copper-wiring technology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Advanced I/O architecture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

High-speed links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

iSeries integration with the Windows Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Reliable, managed availability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Clustering with switchable DASD and IASP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Cross-site mirroring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Virtualization technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Virtualization Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Dynamic logical partitioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Virtual Ethernet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

AIX 5L for Eserver i5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

AIX 5L Version 5.3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

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AIX 5L Version 5.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

AIX 5L and logical partitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Linux for iSeries and Eserver i5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

IBM i5/OS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Object-based . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

DB2 Universal Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Java and e-business for iSeries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

iSeries web serving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Lotus Domino for iSeries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

iSeries advanced user interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

iSeries Navigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Management Central-Pervasive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

EZ-Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Chapter 3. Workload, capacity, and performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Commercial Processing Workload . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

5250 CPW. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

5250 devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Communication WAN restrictions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

iSeries server structure and terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Simultaneous multithreading explained . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

iSeries for Domino performance terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Capacity on demand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Capacity On Demand Models 550, 570, 595, 825, 870, and 890 . . . . . . . . 47

iSeries Memory Capacity on Demand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

iSeries Reserve Capacity on Demand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Trial Capacity on Demand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

iSeries for Capacity BackUp Edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Trial capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Capped and uncapped partitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Workload measurement and sizing tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

IBM Eserver Workload Estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Disk arm requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

=Refacing options for the iSeries customer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

IBM WebFacing Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

iSeries Editions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Chapter 4. iSeries direction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Product Previews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Product Previews: Open . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Product Previews: Closed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Statement of Direction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

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Statement of Direction: Open . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Statement of Direction: Closed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Planning information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Withdrawn products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Features and devices not supported with V5R3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Features and devices not supported with V5R2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Chapter 5. Summary of today’s iSeries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Table 1: Summary of the iSeries Model 520 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Table 2: Summary of the iSeries Model 550 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Table 3: Summary of the iSeries Model 570, part 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Table 4: Summary of the iSeries Model 570, part 2Table 4a: Summary of the

iSeries Model 570 Editions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Table 5: Summary of the iSeries Model 595 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Table 5a: Summary of the iSeries Model 595 Editions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Table 6: Summary of the iSeries Model 800 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Table 7: Summary of the iSeries Model 810 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Table 8: Summary of the iSeries Model 825 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Table 9: Summary of the iSeries Model 870 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Table 10: Summary of the iSeries Model 890 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Summary of the iSeries expansion units and towers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Notes for all summary tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Notes for all summary tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Chapter 6. iSeries Model 520 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Model overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Minimum functional server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Required features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Optional features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Processor features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Main storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

9406 Model 520 schematics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

9406 Model 520 system unit - Top and rear views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

High-speed link for Model 520 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Model 520 PCI cards and features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

External towers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Model 520 upgrades. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Chapter 7. iSeries Model 550 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Model overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Minimum functional server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Required features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Optional features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Processor features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

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Main storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

9406 Model 550 schematics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

9406 Model 550 system unit - Top, front, and rear views . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

High-speed link for Model 550 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Model 550 PCI cards and features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

External towers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Model 550 upgrades. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

On Demand features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Chapter 8. iSeries Model 570 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Model overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Minimum functional server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Required features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Optional features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Processor features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Main storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

9406 Model 570 schematics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

9406 Model 570 system unit front, rear, and top views. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

High-speed link for Model 570 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Model 570 PCI cards and features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

External towers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Model 570 upgrades. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

On Demand features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Chapter 9. iSeries Model 595 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Model overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Minimum functional server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Required features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Optional features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Processor features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Main storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Memory placement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

#9194 Base PCI-X Expansion Tower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

#5168 30-Disk Expansion for #9194 Tower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

#8294 Optional Base 1.8M Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

#8294 Optional Base 1.8M Rack schematic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

#5164 Dual Power Cords - #8294/#9194 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

9406 Model 595 schematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

9406 Model 595 system unit front, rear, and top views. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

High-speed link for Model 595 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Model 595 PCI cards and features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

External towers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Model 595 upgrades. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

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On Demand features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Chapter 10. iSeries Model 800 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Model overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Minimum functional server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Required features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Optional features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Processor features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Main storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

9406 Model 800 schematics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

9406 Model 800 system unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

High-speed link on Model 800 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Model 800 PCI cards and features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

External towers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Model 800 upgrades. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Chapter 11. iSeries Model 810 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Model overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Minimum functional server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Required features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Optional features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Processor features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Main storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

9406 Model 810 schematics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

9406 Model 810 system unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

High-speed link on Model 810 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Model 810 PCI cards and features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

External towers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Model 810 upgrades. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Chapter 12. iSeries Model 825 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Model overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Minimum functional server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Required features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Optional features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Processor features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Main storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

9406 Model 825 schematics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

9406 Model 825 system unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

High-speed link on Model 825 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Model 825 PCI cards and features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

External towers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Model 825 upgrades. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

On Demand features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

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Chapter 13. iSeries Model 870 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Model overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Minimum functional server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Required features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Optional features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Processor features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Main storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

#9094 Base PCI I/O Enclosure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

#5107 30 Disk Expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

#8094 Optional 1.8 M I/O Rack. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

#5114 Dual Line Cords - Tower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

9406 Model 870 schematics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

9406 Model 870 system unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

#9094 Base PCI I/O Enclosure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

#8094 Optional 1.8 M I/O Rack. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

High-speed link on Model 870 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Model 870 PCI cards and features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

External towers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Model 870 upgrades. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

On Demand features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Chapter 14. iSeries Model 890 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Model overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Minimum functional server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Required features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Optional features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Processor features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Main storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

#9094 Base PCI I/O Enclosure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

#5107 30 Disk Expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

#8094 Optional 1.8 M I/O Rack. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

#5114 Dual Line Cords - Tower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

9406 Model 890 schematics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

9406 Model 890 system unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

#9094 Base PCI I/O Enclosure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

#8094 Optional 1.8 M I/O Rack. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

High-speed link on Model 890 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Model 890 PCI cards and features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

External towers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Model 890 upgrades. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

On Demand features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Chapter 15. Towers, racks, and high-speed link. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

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PCI and PCI-X expansion towers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

#5074 PCI Expansion Tower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

#5074 PCI Expansion Tower schematic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

#5075 PCI Expansion Tower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

#5075 PCI Expansion Tower schematic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

#5078 PCI Expansion Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

#5078 PCI Expansion Unit schematic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

#5079 1.8 M I/O Tower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

#5079 1.8 M I/O Tower schematic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

#5088 PCI-X Expansion Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

#5088 PCI-X Expansion Unit schematic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

#0588 PCI-X Expansion Unit in Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

#5094 PCI-X Expansion Tower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

#5094 PCI-X Expansion Tower schematic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

#5095 PCI-X Expansion Tower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

#5095 PCI-X Expansion Tower schematic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

#0595 PCI-X Tower Unit in Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

#5097 1.8 M I/O Tower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

#5294 1.8 M I/O Tower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

#5294 1.8 M I/O Tower schematic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

#5790 PCI-X Expansion Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Racks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

#0550 iSeries Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

#0551 iSeries Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

#0553 2.0m Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

IBM 9309 Rack Enclosure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

High-speed link. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

HSL fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

HSL OptiConnect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

HSL copper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

IBM Eserver i5 Models 520, 550, 570, and 595 tower and drawer support .

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i5/OS on pSeries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

9411-100 Eserver p5 I/O Sub-system for i5/OS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

1519-100 and 1519-200 Integrated xSeries Adapter for iSeries (direct attach)

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Chapter 16. Upgrades to iSeries servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Upgrade considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

5250 OLTP considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Hardware migration considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Capacity on Demand upgrades. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Edition upgrades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

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RISC-to-RISC Data Migration (#0205) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Migration towers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Upgrade options for expansion towers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Chapter 17. iSeries I/O processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

System unit hardware (PCI) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Embedded 32 MB PCI IOP (CCIN 284x) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Embedded 32 MB PCI IOP (CCIN 286x) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

#2842 PCI IOP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

#2843/#9943 PCI IOP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

#2844/#9744/#9844 PCI IOP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

#2791/#2891 Integrated xSeries Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

#2792/#2892/#9792 PCI Integrated xSeries Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

#2799/#2899 PCI Integrated xSeries Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

#4710/#4810/#9710 PCI Integrated xSeries Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

Migration tower PCI hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

#2809 PCI LAN/WAN/Workstation IOP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

#2824 PCI Feature Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

#2865 PCI Integrated Netfinity Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

Migration tower SPD hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

#2629 SPD LAN/WAN/Workstation IOP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

#2810 LAN/WAN IOP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

#6618 Integrated Netfinity Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Chapter 18. iSeries I/O adapters and controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

PCI card technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

PCI card placement rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

PCI IOP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

PCI IOA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

AIX and Linux direct attach features overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

System unit hardware (PCI) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

#2742 Two-Line WAN IOA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

#2743 1 Gbps PCI Ethernet IOA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

#2744 PCI 100 Mbps Token Ring IOA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

#2749 PCI Ultra Magnetic Media Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

#2757 PCI-X Ultra RAID Disk Controller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

#2763 PCI RAID Disk Unit Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

#2768 PCI Magnetic Media Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

#2772 and #2773 PCI Dual WAN/Modem IOA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

#2780 PCI-X Ultra RAID Disk Controller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

#2787 PCI-X Fibre Channel Disk Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

#2793/#2794/#9793/#9794 PCI Dual WAN/Modem IOA . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

#2805 and #2806 PCI Quad Modem IOA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

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#2849/#9749 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

#4745 PCI 2-line WAN IOA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

#4746 PCI Twinaxial IOA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

#4778/#9778 Base PCI RAID Disk Unit Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

#4801 PCI Cryptographic Coprocessor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

#4802 PCI Cryptographic Processor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

#4805 PCI Cryptographic Accelerator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

#4811/#4812/#4813/9812/#9813 PCI-X Integrated xSeries Server . . . . . 360

#5700 PCI 1 Gbps Ethernet IOA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

#5701 PCI 1 Gbps Ethernet UTP IOA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

#5702 PCI-X Ultra Tape Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

#5703 PCI-X RAID Disk Unit Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

#5704 PCI-X Fibre Channel Tape Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

#5705 PCI-X Tape/DASD Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

#5706 PCI-X 1Gbps Ethernet-TX IOA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

#5707 PCI-X 1Gbps Ethernet-SX IOA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

#5709 RAID Enabler Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

#5712 PCI-X Tape Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

#5715 PCI-X Tape/DASD Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Migration tower PCI hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Migration tower SPD hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Homologation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

#2760 PCI 1 Gbps Ethernet UTP Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

#2765 PCI Fibre Channel Tape Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

#2766 PCI Fibre Channel Disk Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

#2782 PCI-X RAID Disk Unit Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

#4748/#9748 Base PCI RAID Disk Unit Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

#4838 PCI 100/10 Mbps Ethernet IOA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

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PCI disk units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Disk storage specifications comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Disk unit conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

RPQ 847102 10K RPM DASD to PCI tower mounting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Load source Specify Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Disk protection and hardware compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Device parity protection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

RAID-5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Mirroring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Cross-site mirroring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Integrated hardware disk compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Internal tape, CD-ROM, DVD-RAM, and DVD-ROM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Internal tape device specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

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Tape device technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Internal tape features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

Internal CD-ROM, DVD-RAM, and DVD-ROM drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

Internal optical device media positioning and use. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

iSeries server code distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

LPAR support and CD-ROM, DVD-RAM, and DVD-ROM . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

RPQ 847184 Convert #64xx to #45xx/46xx . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

Alternate IPL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

Chapter 20. External tape, DVD-RAM, optical, disk storage, and SAN

components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

External storage tape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

IBM TotalStorage 358x Ultrium Solutions with LTO Technology . . . . . . . 406

IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Tape System 3590 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411

IBM TotalStorage 3592 Tape Drive Model J1A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

IBM TotalStorage 3494 Enterprise Tape Library. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

IBM 7206 Model VX2 80 GB External VXA-2 Tape Device . . . . . . . . . . . 414

IBM 7207 Model 122 4 GB External SLR5 QIC Tape Drive . . . . . . . . . . . 415

IBM 7207 Model 330 30 GB External SLR60 Tape Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415

IBM 7208 Model 345 60 GB External 8mm Tape Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

IBM 7212 Model 102 TotalStorage Storage Device Enclosure . . . . . . . . . 417

VXA, QIC, 8mm tape and DVD-RAM specifications summary . . . . . . . . . 418

External tape storage automated library specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419

Tape Device Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422

Magnetic media controller transfer rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423

External storage DVD-RAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423

IBM 7210 Model 025 External DVD-RAM Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423

IBM 7210 Model 030 External DVD-RAM Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424

External optical storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

IBM 3995 Optical Library Cxx models. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

External disk storage devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

IBM TotalStorage DS6000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

IBM TotalStorage DS8000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server Model 750 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server Model 800 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430

Storage area network components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430

IBM SAN switches and directors for IBM Eserver i5 and iSeries . . . . . . 431

Chapter 21. I/O devices and other components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

iSeries printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438

iSeries workgroup printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

IBM Infoprint 1412 Workgroup Laser Printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

IBM Infoprint 1145 Workgroup Laser Printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

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IBM Infoprint 1422 Workgroup Laser Printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

IBM Infoprint 1226 Workgroup Laser Printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443

IBM Infoprint 1332 Workgroup Laser Printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443

IBM Infoprint 1352 Workgroup Laser Printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444

IBM Infoprint 1372 Workgroup Laser Printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444

IBM Infoprint Color 1454 and 1464 Laser Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445

IBM Infoprint Color 1357 Laser Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445

IBM Infoprint 1410 MFP Printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446

Multifunction printing options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446

iSeries departmental and production printers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446

IBM Infoprint 2060ES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447

IBM Infoprint 2075ES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447

IBM Infoprint 2085 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448

IBM Infoprint 2090ES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449

IBM Infoprint 2105 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450

IBM Infoprint 2105ES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450

IBM Infoprint 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451

IBM Infoprint 3000 Advanced Function Printing System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452

IBM Infoprint 4000 Advanced Function Printing Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453

IBM Infoprint 4100 Advanced Function Printing Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454

iSeries industrial printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454

IBM 4230 Impact Matrix Printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455

IBM 4232 Impact Dot Matrix Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455

IBM 4247 MultiForm Matrix Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456

IBM 4400 Thermal Label Printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456

IBM 6400 Line Matrix Printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

Chapter 22. Customer Install Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459

OS/400 features supported on iSeries servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460

Model 520, 550, 570, 595 system unit and tower features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461

Model 800, 810, 825, 870, #2497/#2498 890 system unit, tower features. . . 473 Model 250, 270, 820, 830, 840, #2487/#2488 890 system unit, tower features. .

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Chapter 23. i5/OS and OS/400 (5722-SS1): Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503

Linux for iSeries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506

XML enablers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510

IBM Java for iSeries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511

New processor resource functions with i5/OS V5R3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512

i5/OS and OS/400 base functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513

i5/OS and OS/400 integrated functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514

Communication and networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517

Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518

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DB2 Universal Database for iSeries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521

Integrated file system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531

Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532

New with V5R3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533

Ease of installation, use, and maintenance with i5/OS and OS/400 . . . . . . . 533

Operations Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533

Menu interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534

Online help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534

iSeries Information Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535

Programming temporary fixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535

System detected software problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536

EZ-Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536

iSeries Navigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538

Availability and recovery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538

Logical partitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541

LPAR partition support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544

iSeries clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547

iSeries Windows integration and Microsoft cluster support. . . . . . . . . . . . 549

Integration with Windows servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550

GUI management and administration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551

Work Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551

Save/restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552

Graphical (GUI) management of a system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552

Performance collection and evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552

IBM Eserver Technical Support Advantage for iSeries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552

Management Central-Pervasive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553

Network system management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553

Electronic Customer Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553

Application programming interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555

Extensive run-time application function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555

Chapter 24. i5/OS (5722-SS1): Operating system licensed products . . . 557

New with V5R3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558

IBM i5/OS overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559

National language and multilingual support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560

Primary and secondary national languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561

Euro currency support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562

Options and licensed programs offered with IBM i5/OS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563

Programs within IBM i5/OS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563

IBM TCP/IP Connectivity Utilities for iSeries (5722-TC1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564

New with V5R3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565

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HTTP Server for iSeries (5722-DG1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566

Internet Printing Server for iSeries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572

Valupak for iSeries (5722-VP1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575

IBM i5/OS V5R3 options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575

System/36 environment (5722-SS1 Option 5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576

System/38 environment (5722-SS1 Option 6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577

System Openness Includes (5722-SS1 Option 13) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577

Media and Storage Extensions (5722-SS1 Option 18) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578

Object Connect for iSeries (5722-SS1 Option 22) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578

OptiConnect for iSeries (5722-SS1 Option 23) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579

OS/400 - NetWare Enhanced Integration (5722-SS1 Option 25) . . . . . . . 580

OS/400 - DB2 Symmetric Multiprocessing (5722-SS1 Option 26) . . . . . . 581

OS/400 - DB2 Multisystem (5722-SS1 Option 27) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582

OS/400 - Domain Name System (5722-SS1 Option 31) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583

OS/400 Portable Application Solutions Environment (5722-SS1 Option 33) .

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IBM Print Services Facility (5722-SS1 Options 36, 37, 38). . . . . . . . . . . . 585

OS/400 High Availability Switchable Resources (5722-SS1 Option 41) . . 589 OS/400 High Availability Journal Performance (5722-SS1 Option 42) . . . 590

Supported upgrade paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591

OS/400 single step upgrades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592

Current release to previous release support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592

Chapter 25. Software terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593

Software Maintenance for iSeries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594

Software license and upgrades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594

New with V5R3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599

OS/400 terms and conditions changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601

Keyed Stamped Media Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604

Keyed Stamped Media Distribution for V5R3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604

Software keys and guidance for LPAR system upgrades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605

Chapter 26. IBM licensed programs: Database accessories. . . . . . . . . . 609

DB2 OLAP Server for iSeries V8.1 (5724-B78) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610

Solutions and benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612

IBM DB2 DataPropagator for iSeries V8.1 (5722-DP4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613

Solutions and benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614

New with Version 8.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614

IBM Query for iSeries (5722-QU1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615

IBM DB2 Query Manager and SQL Development Kit for iSeries (5722-ST1) 616

Solutions and benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617

Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 618

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IBM DB2 QMF Distributed Edition for Multiplatforms V8.1 (5724-E86) . . . . . 619

IBM DB2 UDB Data Warehouse Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition V8.1

(5724-E66) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619

DB2 UDB Data Warehouse Enterprise Edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620

DB2 UDB Data Warehouse Standard Edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620

IBM System/38 Utilities for AS/400 (5722-DB1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620

DB2 Spatial Extender Version 8 (5765-F40) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621

DB2 Table Editor for iSeries, V4.3 (5697-G84) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621

Solutions and benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622

New with Version 4.3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622

IBM DB2 Web Query Tool for iSeries V1.3 (5697-G85) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623

Solutions and benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624

New with V1.3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624

IBM DB2 Universal Database Extenders for iSeries V8 (5722-DE1) . . . . . . . 625

Solutions and benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626

New with Version 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627

IBM DB2 UDB Workgroup Server Edition for Linux (5733-LD1) . . . . . . . . . . 627

Chapter 27. WebSphere and on demand business for iSeries . . . . . . . . 631

Product positioning: WebSphere Application Server and Jakarta Tomcat 634

IBM WebSphere Application Server - Express for iSeries (5722-E51) . . . . . 634

Solutions and benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635

New with Version 5.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636

IBM Web Enablement for iSeries (5722-WE1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 638

Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639

IBM Business Solutions Version 1.0 (5722-BZ1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639

Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640

IBM Telephone Directory Version 5.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640

IBM Survey Creator Version 1.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641

IBM Welcome Page Version 1.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641

IBM WebSphere Application Server Version 5.1 for iSeries (5733-W51) . . . 642

Solutions and benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643

New with V5.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644

IBM WebSphere Application Server Version 5.1 for iSeries Developer Edition

(5724-D18) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645

Solutions and benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646

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Solutions and benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 648

New with Version 5.6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649

IBM Connect for iSeries Version 2.0 (5733-CO2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650

Solutions and benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651

New with Version 2.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 652

IBM WebSphere Portal - Express, IBM WebSphere Portal - Express Plus for

Multiplatforms, Version 5 (5724-E77) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653

Solutions and benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 654

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 654

New with Version 5.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655

IBM Grid Toolbox V3 for OS/400 (5733-GT1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655

Solutions and benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657

Chapter 28. Lotus products for iSeries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659

Domino on iSeries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660

Domino server options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661

IBM Lotus Domino 6.5 for iSeries (5733-L65) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662

Solutions and benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663

New with Lotus Domino 6.5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664

National language support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664

Domino Notes client choices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664

New with Lotus Domino Clients 6.5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665

IBM Lotus Enterprise Integrator for iSeries (5733-LEI) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666

New with Lotus Enterprise Integrator 6.5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667

IBM Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing (5733-LST) . . . . . . . . 668

Features and benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669

IBM Lotus Team Workplace (5733-LQP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669

Features and benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670

IBM Lotus Domino Document Manager (5769-LDD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671

Features and benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672

IBM Integrated Domino Fax for iSeries (5733-FXD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672

Features and benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673

Chapter 29. IBM LPP Application Development Products. . . . . . . . . . . . 675

IBM CICS Transaction Server for iSeries (5722-DFH) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 676

New with V5R3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677

IBM Toolbox for Java (5722-JC1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679

New with V5R3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 680

Solutions and benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681

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Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 682

Compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 684

IBM Developer Kit for Java (5722-JV1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685

System/36 Migration Aid (5727-MG1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685

System/38 Migration Aid (5714-MG1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 686

IBM Application Program Driver for AS/400 (5722-PD1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 686

Solutions and benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687

IBM VisualAge Generator Server for AS/400 (5769-VG1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688

IBM WebSphere Development Studio for iSeries (5722-WDS) . . . . . . . . . . . 688

Solutions and benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689

Server components of 5722-WDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690

IBM Integrated Language Environment RPG for iSeries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691

IBM ILE COBOL for iSeries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 692

IBM ILE C and C++ for iSeries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 694

Application Development ToolSet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 696

Workstation components of 5722-WDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 697

XML Toolkit for iSeries (5733-XT1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 702

Chapter 30. IBM licensed programs: Networking products . . . . . . . . . . 705

IBM Cryptographic Access Provider 128-bit for iSeries (5722-AC3) . . . . . . . 706

IBM Eserver iSeries Client Encryption (128-bit) (5722-CE3). . . . . . . . . . . . 707

IBM Cryptographic Support for AS/400 (5722-CR1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707

IBM Communications Utilities for iSeries (5722-CM1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708

IBM Distributed Computing Environment DES Library Routines for AS/400

(5769-DC3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 710

IBM WebSphere MQ for iSeries, V5.3 (5724-B41). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 710

Solutions and benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711

New with V5.3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 712

Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 712

IBM MQSeries for iSeries, V5.2 (5733-A38) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 712

IBM MQSeries Integrator for iSeries and DB2 Version 1.1 (5697-F49) . . . . . 713

IBM WebSphere Host Integration Solution for iSeries V4.1 (5724-F84/F86) . 713

Chapter 31. IBM Eserver iSeries Access products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 715

IBM Eserver iSeries Access Family (5722-XW1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716

Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 717

IBM Eserver iSeries Access for Windows (5722-XE1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 717

Solutions and benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720

New with V5R3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 722

IBM Eserver iSeries Access for Web (5722-XH2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 723

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Solutions and benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 724

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725

New with V5R3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 727

IBM Eserver iSeries Access for Linux (5722-XL1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 729

IBM WebSphere Host Access Transformation Server Limited Edition

(5724-F97-01). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 730

Features and benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731

IBM Eserver iSeries Access for Wireless (5722-XP1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731

Solutions and benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 732

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733

iSeries ODBC Driver for Linux (5733-L01) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 734

Chapter 32. IBM licensed programs: System management products and

services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 735

iSeries Operations Console: Direct attach, LAN, remote, and HMC . . . . . . . 736

iSeries Operations Console features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 737

Remote control panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741

Hardware Management Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 742

IBM Eserver Technical Support Advantage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 743

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Extended Edition (5698-A11). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 744

Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 745

IBM Backup Recovery and Media Services for iSeries (5722-BR1) . . . . . . . 745

Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 746

BRMS optional features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747

New with V5R3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 748

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 750

BRMS clients. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 751

IBM Advanced Job Scheduler for iSeries (5722-JS1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 752

IBM Managed System Services for iSeries (5722-MG1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 752

Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 753

New with V5R3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 754

IBM System Manager for iSeries (5722-SM1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 754

Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 755

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 755

New with V5R3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 756

IBM ^ iSeries Enterprise Edition Installation Assistant (5733-ED1) . 756

IBM Software Integration Assistant for iSeries (5722-IA1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757

Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 758

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 758

IBM Intelligent Communications Trace Analyzer for iSeries, Version 1.0

(5733-AZ1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 758

IBM Performance Tools for iSeries (5722-PT1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 760

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PATROL for iSeries – Predict (5620-FIF). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 761

Chapter 33. IBM licensed programs: Printing and document handling

products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 765

IBM Advanced Function Printing Utilities for iSeries (5722-AF1) . . . . . . . . . . 766

Solutions and benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767

IBM Advanced DBCS Printer Support for iSeries (5722-AP1) . . . . . . . . . . . . 768

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 768

IBM AFP Font Collection for Workstations and OS/400 (5648-B45) . . . . . . . 770

Solutions and benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771

Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771

IBM Dictionary and Linguistics Tools for AS/400 (5769-DL1) . . . . . . . . . . . . 771

Solutions and benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 772

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 772

IBM Business Graphics Utility for AS/400 (5722-DS1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773

Solutions and benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773

IBM Infoprint Fonts for Multiplatforms (5648-E76) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 774

Solutions and benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775

Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775

IBM Facsimile Support for iSeries (5798-FAX) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775

Solutions and benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 776

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 776

IBM Advanced Function Printing Fonts for AS/400 (5769-FNT) . . . . . . . . . . 777

IBM Advanced Function Printing DBCS Fonts for AS/400 (5769-FN1) . . . . . 778

IBM Infoprint Designer for iSeries (5733-ID1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779

Solutions and benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 780

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 781

Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 781

New with 1.16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 781

Infoprint Server for iSeries (5722-IP1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 782

Solutions and benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 783

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 784

New with V5R3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785

IBM Content Manager OnDemand for iSeries (5722-RD1). . . . . . . . . . . . 786

Solutions and benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 786

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787

New with V5R2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 788

IBM Content Manager for iSeries (5722-VI1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 788

Solutions and benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 789

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IBM Print Services Facility for iSeries (PSF/400) (5722-SS1 Options 36, 37, and

38) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 790

Solutions and benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 791

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 791

Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 792

New with V5R3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 792

Chapter 34. Summary of earlier AS/400, AS/400e, and iSeries models . 797

CISC systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 798

RISC servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 798

iSeries and AS/400e servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 799

9406 Model 270 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 799

9406 Model 720 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 804

9406 Model 730 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807

9406 Model 740 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 809

9406 Model 820 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 812

9406 Model 830 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 817

9406 Model 840 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 820

9406 Model 890 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 828

Notes for all summary tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 832

Appendix A. Referenced lists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 835

Communication references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836

Supported communication networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836

Supported communication facilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836

Supported communication protocols. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836

Options included in OS/400 V5R2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 838

Features and devices not supported with V5R1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 839

Products and features no longer marketed by IBM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 840

Hardware no longer marketed by IBM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 840

Software end-of-support dates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 863

Abbreviations and acronyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 865

Related publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 873

IBM Redbooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 873

Other resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 874

Referenced Web sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 875

How to get IBM Redbooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 879

Help from IBM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 880

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 881

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Preface

The new IBM® Eserver i5 servers extend the IBM Eserver iSeries™ family. They are the first servers in the industry based on the IBM leading-edge POWER5™ 64-bit microprocessor. Today’s Eserver i5 servers give the flexibility to move from one generation of technology to another without disrupting a company’s business. IBM i5/OS™ Version 5 Release 3, the next generation of OS/400®, features support for multiple operating systems and application environments on a single, simplified platform. Eserver i5 servers do more with less.

This twenty-sixth edition of the IBM Eserver i5 and iSeries System Handbook, distributed and respected worldwide, supports these latest IBM Eserver iSeries announcements. It provides a product and feature overview of the newest Eserver i5 Models 520, 550, 570, and 595, and describes the newest release of operating system software, i5/OS V5R3. It also describes iSeries Models 800, 810, 825, 870, and 890. Information is featured to describe all aspects of today’s Eserver i5 servers, from the architectural foundation to performance considerations.

This Handbook is written for IBM System Specialists, Marketing Representatives, Business Partners, and Clients to answer first-level questions. It offers a comprehensive guide to the IBM Eserver iSeries models, associated hardware, and OS/400-related software currently marketed by IBM representatives.

This IBM Redbook is one of several books produced by the ITSO to highlight the iSeries product line. Use this handbook as a reference for the options that are available. Then, refer to the companion manual IBM Eserver iSeries and AS/400e System Builder, SG24-2155, for more detailed information and configuration rules. You may also refer to IBM Eserver iSeries Migration: System Migration and Upgrades at V5R1 and V5R2, SG24-6055, for details about upgrading to the IBM Eserver iSeries 800, 810, 820, 825, 830, 840, 870, and 890 servers. The Hardware Service Manager is described in Logical

Partitions on IBM PowerPC: A Guide to Working with LPAR on POWER5 for IBM i5 Servers, SG24-8000.

Refer to IBM online publications and systems, such as ViewBlue and PartnerInfo (or their equivalent outside of the United States), and your IBM marketing and support representative for final confirmation.

To order a copy or copies of this handbook, see “Related publications” on page 873.

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The team that wrote this redbook

This redbook was produced by a worldwide team of specialists working at the International Technical Support Organization (ITSO), Rochester Center.

Susan Powers is a Consulting I/T Specialist at the ITSO, Rochester Center. Prior to joining the ITSO in 1997, she was an AS/400® Technical Advocate in the IBM Support Center with a variety of communications, performance, and work management assignments. Her IBM career began as a Program Support Representative and Systems Engineer in Des Moines, Iowa. She holds a degree in mathematics, with an emphasis in education, from St. Mary’s College of Notre Dame. She is the project manager for the iSeries Handbook and System Builder suite of IBM Redbooks™.

Matthew Bedernjak is an Advisory I/T Specialist in Toronto, Canada. He has six years of experience in IBM TotalStorage and UNIX (IBM RS/6000 servers and AIX) platforms, supporting the Americas. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering and is currently completing a master’s degree in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering from the University of Toronto. His expertise is in tape storage systems (open and large systems), SANs, Tivoli Storage Management, AIX and pSeries and disaster recovery. He has written extensively on disaster recovery and IBM TotalStorage products.

Celia Burke is a Senior IT Specialist with IBM Australia. She has 18 years of midrange systems experience and currently provides pre-sales technical support to IBM business partners across Australia.

Mary Cheever, Senior iSeries Techline Specialist, has been with IBM for 27 years. She has experience as an iSeries Systems Engineer and currently provides iSeries pre-sales technical marketing support.

Louis Cuypers, iSeries Technical Support Specialist, has been with IBM Belgium for 28 years. He specializes in technical support and problem determination hardware and software for the iSeries server. His previous experience includes working with the System/32, System/34, System/36™, System/38™, and AS/400 system. Louis has participated in many ITSO residencies since the release of OS/400 V4R1. He is recognized worldwide as an advocate for iSeries products and delivery.

Harold Distler is an iSeries Product Specialist involved with pre- and post-sales support for iSeries hardware, operating system, and software, for Sirius Computing Solutions. He is also familiar with other platforms and networking. His 25-year career in the computing industry includes 17 years with IBM. He was an IBM Customer Engineer for office products, unit record, System/32, System/34, System/36, and System/38 systems, and provided Level 2 support for PC

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hardware and AIX®. He was involved in RT/PC Development before moving into the field as an open systems System Engineer.

Greg Hidalgo is an Advisory Techline Specialist on iSeries on the Western Area team in Dallas, Texas. Before joining Techline, he was with Level 2 support for OnDemand/Visual Info and OV/400. Greg joined IBM as a Systems Engineer in Houston and has 25 years of service with the company.

Miroslav Iwachow is an AS/400 TeCenter support specialist for Avnet in Czech Republic, a distributor of IBM. Miroslav previously worked for six years for IBM in the Czech Republic as the AS/400e product manager and team leader. Presently he specializes in supporting IBM Business Partners. He teaches courses that prepare Business Partners for IBM certifications.

Axel Lachman is a Project Manager and Senior Systems Engineer FoxCom, an iSeries Business Partner in Germany. He has 12 years of experience in the OS/400 field. He is an IBM Certified Solutions Expert - iSeries Technical Solutions. His areas of expertise include e-business enablement of line of business (LOB) applications, application modernization, Server Consolidation with logical partitions (LPARs), Microsoft® Windows® integration, and Linux planning and implementation. Axel also teaches e-business-related topics and technical certification courses extensively for IBM Learning Services in Germany.

Henry Matos is a Senior iSeries System Specialist for IBM in Atlanta, Georgia. He joined IBM in 1976 as a Computer Operator Trainee with the Program Information Department (PID) in Hawthorne, New York. After various computer-related assignments with internal IBM, he became a field AS/400 Systems Engineer in 1988 working out of the Manhattan, Midtown Branch office. Henry later joined the IBM Techline organization and became the first Latin America Techline Specialist from Atlanta, Georgia.

Glen McClymont is a Senior AS/400 Techline Specialist with IBM in Canada. Since 1988, he has worked with the iSeries server in customer hardware support, software support, and most recently in pre-sales marketing support. Glen has 30 years with IBM. He is an alumni resident for the ITSO from previous Handbook and Builder residencies, providing expertise between updates.

Lori O’Dell is an iSeries Solution Design Specialist with Avnet Hall-Mark IBM Division. She is also an IBM Certified Solutions Expert - iSeries Technical Solutions. She provides both pre and post-sales technical support to several key IBM Business Partners. Lori has four years experience with the iSeries product line and currently holds seven IBM Certifications.

Samit Saliceti is an iSeries Solutions Design Specialist for Avnet Partner Solutions, IBM Americas. He has two years experience in pre- and post-sales

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technical support of IBM Business Partners for Avnet. Samit is the Team Lead Assistant. He holds six IBM certifications.

Jerry Watson, iSeries Systems Specialist, has been with IBM United Kingdom for 18 years. After ten years as an AS/400 Systems Engineer working with customers in the London area, he moved to iSeries EMEA Techline and is now based in Leeds. His direct participation in the Handbook and System Builder began with the OS/400 V4R1 residency.

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Chapter 1. The next generation iSeries

IBM Eserver i5 servers extend the iSeries family. They are the first servers in the industry based on the IBM game-changing POWER5 64-bit microprocessor. To day ’s Eserver i5 servers give you the flexibility to move from one generation of technology to another without disrupting your business.

IBM also announces IBM i5/OS V5R3, the next generation of OS/400. Featuring support for multiple operating systems and application environments on a single, simplified platform, the Eserver i5 servers help you do more with less. This is exactly what you need to simplify your infrastructure, drive down costs, and drive up productivity in today’s on demand world.

These highly integrated, powerful servers offer an on demand computing environment for IBM i5/OS (the latest generation of IBM OS/400), IBM AIX® 5L™, IBM WebSphere®, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Lotus Domino, and Java™ solutions. Flexible growth options, resource virtualization, and intuitive management tools mean that Eserver i5 servers can provide the power and capacity to run core business applications, as well as the freedom and scalability to add new on demand business applications on the same server.

To day ’s Eserver iSeries announcements allow you to:

򐂰 Simplify your infrastructure

– Run i5/OS, Linux, AIX 5L, and Windows on a single server

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– Share resources, maximize utilization with IBM Virtualization Engine™,

and manage infrastructure with IBM Director Multiplatform

򐂰 Integrate to innovate

– Exploit i5/OS integration with IBM software – Personalize application access with WebSphere Portal – Foster interaction and collaboration with IBM Lotus® Team Workplace

򐂰 Deliver without disruption

– Extend Capacity on Demand (CoD) leadership with memory and reserve

CoD – Strive for continuos operations with fault tolerant technologies – Deliver robust, open database solutions with IBM DB2® Universal

Database™ (UDB)

Simplicity in an on demand world

Today’s on demand world is high-pressure and fast moving. Business demands change constantly. To gain a competitive edge, companies—regardless of how big or small—must be able to react instantly to customers’ changing needs. It means having a flexible IT infrastructure that can grow and dynamically adapt to these demands. All too frequently, this adaptation can mean running multiple servers, which often means greater complexity and increased management costs. Because complex infrastructures are not agile and do not respond well to rapid change, it may also mean lost business opportunities.

But it doesn’t have to. The iSeries server demonstrates a unique design that delivers the benefits of today’s innovative technology without complexity. It is a highly integrated, reliable server platform that allows businesses to run multiple operating environments simultaneously. It dynamically adjusts to the changing requirements of an on demand business.

The iSeries offers an integrated architecture combined with legendary availability, high security, easy management, and mainframe-class technology. Because of

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this, the iSeries is uniquely positioned to play a leadership role in this new way of computing, providing simplicity in an on demand world.

Simplify your infrastructure

Eserver i5 servers are designed to reduce complexity, streamline your infrastructure, and enhance productivity through server consolidation. In addition, Eserver i5 servers can dynamically adjust resources to meet your computing needs, without adding an extra server every time you take on a new business challenge. The features that are designed to help simplify your infrastructure include:

򐂰 Support for multiple operating systems facilitate server consolidation. This

helps to decrease complexity, enhance manageability, and promote low total cost of ownership (TCO).

򐂰 Dynamic, even automatic, distribution of processing resources help

raise server utilization rates and improve productivity.

򐂰 Dynamic logical partitioning (part of IBM Virtualization Engine Systems

Technologies) is designed to pool resources and optimize their use across up to 254 partitions running multiple application environments and operating systems.

Integrate to innovate

To deliver new value to your business, you need to integrate. Staying competitive in an on demand world requires that companies react at the pace of on demand business and deploy applications quickly. This is why Eserver i5 servers include a suite of tools to support integrated Web enablement. By integrating applications and data across different databases that run on multiple servers or a diverse operating system, Eserver i5 servers can help your company unite people, processes, and information more effectively.

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The features that are designed to promote integration and innovation in your business include:

򐂰 A vast array of available applications from a global network of independent

software vendors to simplify deployment and help lower TCO

򐂰 Integrated middleware including security and workload management tools;

IBM DB2 UDB software with i5/OS V5R3 enhancements, IBM Lotus Domino® software, IBM WebSphere Application Server - Express for iSeries, and IBM HTTP Server (powered by Apache)

򐂰 Easy-to-use, graphical management tools built into iSeries Navigator to

help streamline administration of multiple operating systems

Deliver without disruption

Even the most comprehensive, powerful system requires simple management tools to be effective. Application requirements grow as companies expand. Businesses need intuitive, optimized management facilities every step of the way.

The following features of Eserver i5 servers are designed to enable your company to deliver key data and applications without disruption:

򐂰 Clear upgrade paths from earlier servers to enable businesses to

seamlessly upgrade their servers between technology generations while helping to build on their investments in storage and networking

򐂰 IBM Eserver On/Off Capacity on Demand designed to dynamically add

and subsequently remove extra processor or memory capacity to handle spikes in demand, without permanently activating the processors or memory or purchasing an upgrade

򐂰 Scalable POWER5 performance that offers a high scalable, upgradable,

industry-standard and rack-optimized building-block architecture to help support balanced growth

Looking toward the future

As we move forward into the on demand world, the need for businesses to move faster, improve flexibility, and bolster collaboration on a global level will undoubtedly grow. For this reason, the adoption of optimized IT infrastructures based on integration, virtualization, open standards, and autonomic computing will become more and more critical to business success.

The iSeries server possesses all attributes of such an environment, forming a solid technology foundation for on demand IT solutions. Thanks to the iSeries,

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the on demand computing world of tomorrow is rapidly becoming a reality—today.

This Handbook provides an overview of the hardware and software for Models 520, 550, 570, and 595 supported by i5/OS V5R3, as well as Models 890, 870, 825, 810, and 800 supported by OS/400 V5R3 and V5R2.

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Chapter 2. iSeries architecture:

Fundamental strength of the IBM ^ i5 and iSeries

The accelerating rate of change of both hardware and software technologies necessitates that the server you select is designed with the future in mind. The iSeries accommodates inevitable, rapid, and dramatic technology changes with relatively minimum customer effort, to allow customers to meet their on demand requirements.

Paradoxically, the characteristic of the most advanced design and technology is that you do not notice it...you are not meant to do so. It accommodates rapidly-changing hardware and software technologies in stride—permitting you to fully exploit the latest technologies on demand.

iSeries servers and the supporting software offer important advanced capabilities in key areas such as e-business, Java, Web serving, Lotus Domino, integration with Windows, managed availability, database, and Business Intelligence solutions. To gain an appreciation of these technologies and of the particular strength of the iSeries server in delivering them, this chapter provides a summary of each prime element.

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With well over 750,000 systems shipped worldwide, the success of the iSeries is realized with the highest customer satisfaction index in the industry, as measured by IBM internal studies. The foundation of success starts with the design of the system, the architecture. Those components are described in this chapter.

In brief, success factors for the iSeries are that it:

򐂰 Offers state-of-the-art 64-bit relational database processing.

򐂰 Supports an object-based design that makes it highly virus resistant.

򐂰 Has proven it can deliver over 99.9% availability on a single system.

򐂰 Has operated for more than one year without requiring a re-initial program

load (IPL), in hundreds of customer shops.

򐂰 Can have up to 60 Windows servers in a single system while sharing host

systems disk storage, tape, and CD-ROM resources.

򐂰 Directly (natively) supports different file structures, such as PC files, UNIX®

files, NetWare files, Domino files (Network File System (NSF)), ASCII files, and EBCDIC files.

򐂰 Allows the deployment of Java, ported UNIX applications, Windows,

Domino-based applications, and Linux on a single server.

򐂰 Integrates leading edge technology. The iSeries server was the first server

with Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) technology. The POWER4™ and POWER5™ technology-based processors are an extension of that technology at 0.18 and

0.13 micron level.

򐂰 Offers capacity on demand (permanent or temporary) upgrades to support

immediate and future processor utilization.

򐂰 Supports up to 254 partitions running IBM i5/OS, and IBM AIX 5L or Linux.

򐂰 With micropartitioning, allows up to 10 partitions per processor.

򐂰 Can ship with over 650 processor chips under the covers of a “single” large

system.

򐂰 Incorporates many autonomic self-healing capabilities.

System concepts

iSeries servers are designed and built as a total system, fully integrating the hardware and system software components that a business demands. As a general-purpose business and network system, it is optimized for the required environment with these unique benefits:

򐂰 The iSeries architecture is a brilliant, technology-neutral architecture. It

enables businesses to readily exploit the latest hardware and software

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technologies, typically without causing disruption to existing application software. See “iSeries architecture” on page 11.

򐂰 The single purpose pervading each aspect of the iSeries architecture is to

empower a business with the most advanced technology available, without encumbering it

contain. The iSeries allows you to rapidly deploy advanced business applications and facilitates business growth.

򐂰 Customers typically decide on the required application software first and then

select an environment in which to run it. iSeries models have thousands of client/server applications written by IBM Business Partners across the globe. In addition, the iSeries server provides excellent platforms for Windows, Lotus Domino, and Linux applications. iSeries models have national language support for over 50 languages, available in 140 countries or regions. IBM support across the world is provided by an impressive network of global partners.

A concise and expanded explanation of the iSeries server architecture is contained in the renowned book Fortress Rochester: The Inside Story of the IBM Eserver iSeries written by AS/400 and iSeries Chief Architect, Dr. Frank G. Soltis.

with the complexities that such technologies inevitably

iSeries architecture

This section describes aspects of the iSeries server architecture that contribute most to the server’s success as the

Single-level storage

Application programs on an iSeries server are unaware of the underlying hardware characteristics, because of the iSeries layered architecture approach, Technology Independent Machine Interface (TIMI). TIMI frees application code from worrying about processor technology, such as moving from 32- to 64-bit or Complex Instruction Set Computing (CISC) to Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC).

The concept of single-level storage means that an application does not deal with storage device specifics. The knowledge of the underlying characteristics of hardware devices (in this case, main storage and disk storage) reside in the System Licensed Internal Code (SLIC). All of the storage is automatically managed by the system. No user intervention is ever needed to take full advantage of any storage technology. Programs work with objects. Objects are accessed by name, not by address.

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iSeries servers are commercial servers designed to handle many programs and users running simultaneously. Single-level storage enables very high-speed switching between active and idle programs and users as compared to other operating system architectures. It contributes directly to iSeries high performance characteristics.

The iSeries server address size is vast. iSeries models can address the number of bytes that 64 bits allows it to address. The value 2 18,446,744,073,709,551,616. Therefore, the iSeries models can address 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 bytes, or 18.4 quintillion bytes. To put this into more meaningful terms, it is twice the number of millimeters in a light year. Light travels at approximately 6,000,000,000,000 miles in one year.

Single-level storage also enables another extremely important iSeries customers benefit— to exist in single-level storage (unless purposely deleted by the customer). Memory access is extremely fast. A typical server requires that information be stored in a separate file system if the information is to be shared or retained for a long time. The maintenance and awareness of the separate location can impact the total cost of ownership of the application.

Persistence of objects is extremely important for support of object-oriented databases for data accessibility and recovery. Objects continue to exist even after their creator goes away. iSeries models are uniquely positioned to exploit this characteristic of object persistence. Customary systems use a less elegant mechanism that requires them to store their persistent objects in a separate file system, with all the attendant performance implications of application and operating system implementation.

object persistence. Object persistence means that the object continues

Technology Independent Machine Interface

is equal to

iSeries servers are atypical in that they are defined by software, not by hardware. When a program presents instructions to the machine interface for execution, it

thinks that the interface is the system hardware, but it is not. This interface is

known as Technology Independent Machine Interface. The instructions presented to TIMI pass through a layer of microcode before they are “understood” by the hardware itself.

This comprehensive design insulates application programs and their users from changing hardware characteristics. When a different hardware technology is deployed, IBM rewrites sections of the microcode to absorb the fluctuations in hardware characteristics. As a result, the interface presented to the customer remains the same.

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The microcode layer is known as the System Licensed Internal Code. Many of the frequently-executed routines run in SLIC. Supervisory resource management functions in SLIC include validity and authorization checks. On a customary system, these routines reside in the operating system. Because SLIC is closer to the silicon, routines performed there are faster than routines placed “higher” in the machine.

The brilliance of this design was dramatically illustrated when the AS/400 system changed its processor technology from CISC processors to 64-bit RISC processors in 1995. With any other system, the move from CISC to RISC would involve recompiling (and possibly some rewriting) programs. Even then, with other systems, the programs would run in 32-bit mode on the newer 64-bit hardware.

This is not so with the iSeries server, because of TIMI. Customers were able to

Programs

TIMI

SLIC

64-bit RISC Hardware

save programs off their CISC AS/400 systems and restore them on their RISC

AS/400e™ models. The programs run as 64-bit programs. As soon as they made this transition, customers had

operating system

, containing a 64-bit relational database that fully exploited the

64-bit application programs that ran on a 64-bit

64-bit RISC hardware.

TIMI and SLIC take technology in stride. New architectural features are exploited to fully accommodate post-RISC technologies, which may incorporate 96-bit or 128-bit processors or shifts to different processor technologies. TIMI helps condition the iSeries to bring new technology to market.

POWER Hypervisor

IBM Eserver i5 servers work with a different structure when compared to the previous technologies used with the iSeries servers. Above the POWER5 technology-based hardware is a new code layer called the

Hypervisor

This code is part of the firmware shipped with the Eserver i5 hardware. The POWER Hypervisor resides in flash memory on the Service Processor. This firmware performs the initialization and configuration of the Eserver i5 hardware, as well as the virtualization support required to run up to 254 partitions concurrently on the Eserver i5 servers.

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The layers above the POWER Hypervisor are different for each supported operating system.

For i5/OS, TIMI and the layers above the POWER Hypervisor

Programs Programs Programs

i5/OS AIX 5L Linux

are still in place. SLIC, however, is changed and enabled for interfacing with the

TIMI

POWER Hypervisor. The POWER Hypervisor code is based on the iSeries Partition Licensed

SLIC OF / RTAS OF / RTAS

POWER Hypervisor

64-bit RISC Hardware

Internal Code (PLIC) code that is enhanced for use with the Eserver i5 hardware. The PLIC is now part of the POWER Hypervisor.

For the AIX 5L and Linux operating systems, the layers above the POWER Hypervisor are similar, but their content is characteristic for each operating system. The layers of code supporting Linux and AIX 5L consist of System Firmware and Run-Time Abstraction Services (RTAS).

System Firmware is composed of Low Level Firmware and Open Firmware.

Level Firmware

is code that performs server unique input/output (I/O)

configurations such as high-speed link (HSL)-2/RIO-G loops and PCI-X bridges.

Open Firmware contains the boot time drivers (for example, SCSI, SSA, token

ring, and Ethernet), the boot manager, and the device drivers required to initialize the PCI adapters and attached devices. The Run-Time Abstraction Services consist of code that supplies platform dependent accesses and can be called from the operating system. These calls are passed to the POWER Hypervisor that handles all I/O interrupts.

The Eserver i5 layered code structure makes the Eserver i5 platform even more flexible. It also enables easy accommodation of different operating systems.

The POWER Hypervisor allows for multiple operating systems to run on the new hardware. i5/OS, Linux, and AIX 5L V5.3 and v5.2 are supported in logical partitions on the Eserver i5 server. No additional investment is required to bring existing applications running on the iSeries today, with an earlier supported OS/400 release, to i5/OS or to the new Eserver i5 hardware.

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Hierarchy of microprocessors

iSeries servers are designed for business computing. One of the fundamental characteristics of that environment is that it is I/O-intensive, rather than compute-intensive. In addition to outstanding performance in the business environment, the microprocessor design hierarchy gives the iSeries server an elegant method of integrating diverse environments into a single, harmonious customer solution.

The microprocessors that look after a particular I/O device are accommodated on I/O cards that fit into slots on the system buses. One of these cards may be the Integrated xSeries® Server. This is a PC on a card, which enables the iSeries server to run a Windows server, for example.

The following figure shows a highly simplified architecture indicating some of the maximum configuration values for a Model 595.

Balanced System Architecture Model 890

24/32-way

Processor

+ Cache

System Main Storage Bus

I/O hub

HSL - 1GB/s

I/O Switching Bridge

PCI bus

IOP / IOA

144 TB disk storage 15k rpm drives 672 PCI-X slots

Integrated

xSeries

Server

256 GB

Main

Storage

I/O hub

205 GB/sec peak memory bandwidth

16 GB/sec peak I/O bandw idth

I/O Switching Bridge

IOP / IOA

Integrated

xSeries

Server

HSL - 1 GB/s

48 IXS 60 IXA

HSL - 1 GB/s

External

xSeries

Server

High performance on an iSeries server is achieved by using many individual high performance microprocessors, I/O devices, and interconnect technologies. Key to the iSeries high performance is the POWER5 distributed switch that supports enormous bandwidth between processors, cache, memory, and I/O. While

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programs execute on POWER5 microprocessors, movement of data is handled by high performance I/O adapters and I/O processors. Data moves between I/O towers and to Integrated xSeries Adapter PC servers across HSL at 2 GB/second and storage area network (SAN) disk and tape devices are supported at 2 Gb/second over Fibre Channel.

The multichip modules (MCMs) contain eight processors each. In such an MCM, there are four physical copper SOI chips with two processor cores. Each core is capable of running symetric multi-threading that to the operating system looks like two separete processors. Each chip contains 276 million transistors forming two processors running at a speed in excess of 1.5GHz. The 8-way MCM is the building block for the system. It is only available with four chips, each with its attached L3 cache. A single processor on a chip has all of the L2 and L3 cache resources attached to the module (144 MB per MCM).

On an iSeries Model 595, a 64-way symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) configuration is implemented with eight MCMs, with each MCM containing four dual core POWER5 chips running at speeds greater than 1.5 GHz.

A single large iSeries configuration can have well over 650 processors. The main system processor complex (can be comprised of 64 separate processors) can encounter a request for data to be read from or written to any I/O device. That request for data is delegated to the particular microprocessor dedicated to that I/O device. Meanwhile, the main system processor continues executing another application program. Nanoseconds (10 measure main storage access times. I/O operations are measured in milliseconds (10

-3

second).

-9

second) is the unit of time used to

Technology in stride

The iSeries server delivers tremendous capacity growth in its product line. The iSeries Layer (also known as Technology Independent Machine Interface) has made it possible to completely change the underlying hardware with minimum, if any, impact to iSeries applications. TIMI helps condition the iSeries to bring new technology to market.

The first AS/400e models based on the 64-bit RISC PowerPC® AS processors were announced in June 1995. In 1997, the 12-way AS/400e system was delivered using Power PCA35 microprocessors. Known as Apache technology, the Power PCA35 microprocessors provided a growth of 4.6 times. In September 1998, a 12-way AS/400e system was delivered using the Power PCA50 microprocessor. Known as code name Northstar, the Power PCA50 microprocessors nearly doubled the high-end capacity. This set of processors provided the fourth generation since the AS/400 system’s inception in 1988 with 64-bit AS/400 Power PCs microprocessors. The latest generation of POWER5

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processors is 4.4 times as powerful as its predecesor POWER4 generation of microprocessors.

The advance in processor technology is shown in the following figure.

2002

1999

2000

2001

1995

Cobra

2004

POWER5

276M4.7MTransistor count

>= 1.5 GHz50 MHz Frequency

Up to 254*NoneLogical Partitions

Pulsar, ISTAR, and SSTAR processors use on-chip copper-wiring technology. The Pulsar processors integrate IBM CMOS7S technology. ISTAR and SSTAR processors integrate CMOS8S technology. Previously, Northstar technology used aluminum for on-chip wiring. Copper's better conductivity permits thinner wires to be used, which enables the transistors to be packed closer together. The denser new technology permits additional micro-architecture methods to improve performance.

Delivered in 2002, the next evolution of IBM Eserver microprocessors was POWER4 fabricated in CMOS8S technology. Keeping multiple levels of high speed cache is still necessary to keep the processors busy. Denser processor technology permits more on-chip cache.

Continuing this industry-leading technology, POWER5 in CMOS9S today. The improved density with CMOS9S technology allows for larger caches, and for cache-controllers and memory controllers to be on-chip, resulting in higher processor performance.

This growth and implementation of new technology is possible because of the iSeries TIMI layer. TIMI allows the system to incorporate significant new hardware technology quickly and transparently. The ease with which customers

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have migrated to these powerful systems is a testimony to the fundamental strength of the server’s architecture.

The following figure shows this change of hardware processor technology and previews what is planned in future generations.

2004+

2002

2000/2001

1998/1999

1997

Giga (2000+ MHz) POWER5

Giga 1.3 GHz 32-way POWER4 Copper and SOI

24-way A60 / A70 PPC Copper and SOI Sstar Istar Pulsar

12-way A50 PPC

12-way A35

X 4.59

1996

X 2.87

The summary charts in “Summary of today’s iSeries” on page 81 indicate the processor technology used in each Eserver i5 and iSeries server.

Microprocessor excellence

Multithreading

Multithreading minimizes the processor wait or idle time. In general, multithreading allows a single processor to process multiple threads in a different fashion than a single processor without this capability. There are several distinct differences between different types of multithreading implemented in the industry. We restrict our discussion to IBM technologies only.

X 1.94

6 4

POWER

X37.4

X1.85

X 3.6

Applications

OS/400

T I M I

Hardware

Testing indicates significant performance improvement over the multi-threading algorithm used in the hardware multithreading (HMT) of the SSTAR technology processors. Internal laboratory testing indicates that commercial applications see a 25% to 35% throughput improvement compared to no multithreading implementation and approximately 10% for HMT (controlled by the settings of the QPRCMLTTSK system value). The 130 nanometer (nm) chip circuit technology is used.

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POWER4

POWER4 cannot be considered only a chip, but rather an architecture of how a set of chips is designed together to build a system. As such, POWER4 can be considered a technology in its own right. The interconnect topology, referred to as a with POWER4. In that light, systems are built by interconnecting POWER4 chips to form up to 32-way symmetric multiprocessors. The reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) design incorporated into POWER4 is pervasive throughout the system and is as much a part of the design. POWER4 is the chip technology used in the iSeries Model 825, 870, and 890.

The POWER4 design can handle a varied and robust set of workloads. This is especially important as the on demand business world evolves and data intensive demands on systems merge with commercial requirements. The need to satisfy high performance computing requirements with its historical high bandwidth demands and commercial requirements, along with data sharing and SMP scaling requirements dictate a single design to address both environments.

Distributed Switch, is new to the industry

POWER5

POWER5 technology is the ninth generation of 64-bit architecture. Although the hardware is based on POWER4, POWER5 is much more than just an improvement in processor or chip design. It is a complete architectural change, creating a much more efficient superscalar processor complex. For example, the high performance distributed switch is enhanced. POWER5 technology is implemented in the Eserver i5 Model 520, 550, 570, and

595.

As with previous hardware technology, POWER5 technology-based processors have two load/store, two arithmetic, and one branch unit. The design is built in such a way that it can most efficiently execute multiple instruction streams concurrently. With simultaneous multithreading (SMT) active, instructions of two different threads can be issued per single cycle.

The POWER5 concept is a step further into autonomic computing. Several enhanced reliability and availability enhancements are implemented. Along with increased redundant components, it incorporates new technological high standards, such as special ways to reduce junction temperatures to reach a high level of availability. The full system design approach is required to maintain balanced utilization of hardware resources and high availability of the new Eserver i5 systems.

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Memory and CPU sharing, a dual clock, and dual service processors with failover capability are examples of the full system design approach for high availability. IBM designed the Eserver i5 system processor, caching mechanisms, memory allocation methods, and the HSL-2/RIO-G adapters for performance and availability. In addition, advanced error correction and low power consumption circuitry is improved with thermal management.

Multiprocessor POWER5 technology-based servers have multiple autonomic computing features for higher availability compared with single processor servers. If a processor is running, but is experiencing a high rate of correctable soft errors or is failing a periodic floating point self test, it can be

dynamically

processor or processors without an IPL. If there is an unused Capacity Upgrade on Demand processor or if one processor unit of unused capacity in a shared processor pool is available, the deconfigured processor can be replaced dynamically by the unused processor capacity to maintain the same level of processor performance.

. Its workload can be picked up automatically by the remaining

deconfigured

The future

“Power Architecture™ is more than just a technology, but rather a movement for change. It’s time for architecture that enables innovation to flourish. It’s time for Power Everywhere™.”

– Nick Donofrio, IBM Senior VP

For the future, Power Architecture microprocessors are being designed to keep running through many hard processor failures. The processor state will be maintained and switched to a hot standby processor. Reliability and availability characteristics associated only with IBM Eserver zSeries® class machines will be incorporated into the Eserver i5 systems.

Silicon On Insulator

In 2000, the iSeries led the industry by delivering the first server with the new Silicon-On-Insulator technology. SOI represents a fundamental advance in the way chips are built. The unique IBM SOI process alters the design of transistors, essentially “turbo charging” them, so they run faster and use less power. For example, a microprocessor designed to operate at a given speed can instead be built using SOI technology to achieve higher speeds. At the same time, if performance levels are held constant, SOI chips can require as little as one-third the power of today's microchips.

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The transistors are built within and on top of a thin layer of silicon that is on top of an insulating layer. The insulating layer is fabricated by implanting a thin layer of oxide beneath the primary silicon surface of the wafer. SOI is used by AS/400e and iSeries processors with ISTAR, SSTAR, POWER4 and POWER5 technology.

On-chip copper-wiring technology

Northstar technology used in prior AS/400e processors deploys aluminum for on-chip wiring. Pulsar, ISTAR, SSTAR, POWER4 and POWER5 processors use on-chip copper-wiring technology. Pulsar processors integrate IBM CMOS 7S technology. ISTAR and SSTAR processors integrate IBM CMOS 8S technology. POWER4 processors integrate CMOS 8S3 technology and POWER5 processors itegrate CMOS9S3 technology.

Copper's better conductivity permits thinner wires to be used, which enables the transistors to be packed closer together. This denser technology permits additional micro architecture methods to improve performance. Denser processor technology also permits more on-chip cache. Keeping multiple levels of high-speed cache enables efficient utilization of the processors.

Powerful processor features based on the IBM industry leading copper and SOI technology were added in 2002.

Advanced I/O architecture

AS/400, and now iSeries, servers have a tremendously powerful and flexible I/O architecture, from the main processor or microprocessor all the way to the disk drive, tape device, local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN), or other I/O device. Focusing on one component of this architecture, the I/O cards which are inserted into the iSeries servers, are a combination of an I/O processor card (IOP) and an I/O adapter card (IOA).

The IOP/IOA is a mainframe-inspired implementation. Other midrange or PC servers use only an IOA. Using the combined IOP/IOA architecture gives the iSeries several advantages. The architecture off loads cycles from the main processor, isolates the main processor from the adapter and network errors, and manages, configures, and services the IOAs.

Note: For historical reasons, disk, tape, and workstation IOAs are called

controllers on the AS/400 and iSeries.

When the first AS/400 systems where announced, a set of IBM proprietary I/O standards called System Products Division (SPD) were used. In the late 1990s, IBM started the movement to the emerging industry I/O standards called

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Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI). PCI standards can refer to the I/O bus, the I/O card slots, and the I/O cards themselves. Vendors can, and do, implement extensions to these standards where the standard hasn't evolved to cover the function, or other customer benefits are seen. IBM tends to implement the standards, adding extensions for function, performance, and reliability.

Like any good set of standards in a dynamic environment, PCI standards continue to evolve. A second generation of PCI standards was implemented in 2000 on the iSeries Model 270, 820, 830, and 840 I/O, and the I/O towers, such as the #5074 PCI Expansion Tower. A number of new PCI I/O cards (IOAs) were also introduced. Excellent investment leverage was provided, as most of the first generation PCI cards worked in the new PCI slots. Most second generation PCI cards worked in the first PCI slots.

PCI-X

In 2002 and 2003, the third generation of PCI standards for iSeries was implemented, called PCI standard and enables function and performance for iSeries servers beyond that of PCI. This new standard keeps pace with the demands of high-bandwidth business-critical applications such as Fibre Channel, RAID, networking and SCSI. PCI-X adapters also run in PCI slots, but a the slower PCI speed.

PCI-X. PCI-X is a higher speed version of the conventional

Several PCI-X IOAs are introduced with i5/OS, again providing an excellent investment leverage. PCI-X slots are provided in iSeries Models 520, 550, 570, 595, 825, 870, and 890 and in I/O towers such as the #5094 and #5095 PCI-X Expansion Towers. Second generation PCI cards work in the PCI-X slots, and some of the first generation PCI cards work in the PCI-X slots. PCI-X cards can work in the second generation PCI slots.

Hot-plugging

Hot-plugging is an industry phrase which can apply to either I/O devices such as

disk, tape, or optical drives, or I/O cards. Hot-plugging allows a customer to remove or add an I/O device or card without taking the server down. This improves availability of the system and allows you to perform upgrades, maintenance, or repair without impacting the users of the system.

Driven by the demand for the highest possible availability, the iSeries advanced technology enables concurrent install of new IOPs, adapters, and devices by allowing the user to select a specific device, powering it down and removing it safely from the system. The server can add hardware to deactivated slots or bays and after insertion and powerup recognize this new hardware, load the correct internal code, and make the functions of the newly installed hardware available without interrupting normal operations.

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iSeries and AS/400 servers have supported disk hot-plugging on all but the smallest servers for many years. Disk hot-plugging capability is available on Eserver i5 Models 520, 550, 570, and 595, and iSeries Models 800, 810, 825, 870, and 890. The in-use disk drive must be protected by RAID or mirroring before removing the drive.

PCI hot-plugging was first introduced in 2000 on the iSeries Models 820, 830, and 840, and the 2-way Model 270. It was introduced at the same time the second generation PCI technology was introduced. Hot-plug PCI is supported on Eserver i5 Models 520, 550, 570, and 595, and iSeries Models 825, 870, and 890, and 2-way Model 810.

PCI hot-plugging in the iSeries models is made possible by power control to individual card slots. In most cases, IOA configurations can be changed while other IOAs on the same IOP remain operational.

Removing the IOP or IOA associated with a running load source disk drive is an obvious example of something which is not hot-pluggable unless the IOP or IOA has been mirrored. The operator interface controlling hot-plugging uses the Hardware Service Manager in the System Service Tools (SST), or a subset of Dedicated Service Tools (DST), depending on which tool you have started.

Refer to the individual PCI card feature descriptions in Chapter 18, “iSeries I/O adapters and controllers” on page 339, and a description of the server models to determine if

hot swapping of a specific PCI card is supported.

High-speed links

First introduced in the year 2000 on the iSeries servers, a new bus structure using HSL provided a faster data transportation mechanism running at 1GB/second. As faster processors, larger caches, faster memory, super fast cross-bar switch complex, faster direct access storage device (DASD), and much faster IOPs and IOAs emerged, it was clear the earlier AS/400 infrastructure needed more speed, capacity, and function as IBM transitioned to iSeries.

In 2004, IBM announced the iSeries POWER5 technology-based servers, the Model 520, 550, 570, and 595. These servers use the second generation of HSL technology called HSL-2/RIO-G. Although the iSeries POWER5 technology based processors use the same physical HSL-2 connections as used on the iSeries Model 825, 870, and 890, the Model 520, 550, 570, and 595 can run the RIO-G loop at up to 2 GB/s.

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The HSL-2/RIO-G structure provides performance improvements and future system growth. HSL-2/RIO-2 architecture is flexible and powerful. An HSL-2/RIO-2 design provides:

򐂰 2 GB/second technology

򐂰 A simplified and flexible implementation that supports:

– Loop technology for redundancy

– Multiple towers per loop: Mix and match the HSL-attached I/O towers on

the loop

– Migration to PCI I/O and HSL-attached I/O towers

– Migration of HSL to HSL-2 attached I/O towers

– Switchable I/O towers with independent auxiliary storage pools (IASPs)

– Expanded Windows capability with attached 1- to 8-way servers using

Integrated xSeries Adapters which add the servers to the HSL

– Complex HSL clusters (three iSeries servers and no I/O towers on a loop)

(V5R2 or later)

– Simple HSL clusters (two iSeries servers and up to four towers) (V5R1 or

later)

Refer to “High-speed link” on page 293 for additional information about HSL-2/RIO-G.

iSeries integration with the Windows Server

iSeries servers include the ability to manage Intel®-based Windows servers via the Integrated xSeries Server or the Integrated xSeries Adapter. Up to sixty Integrated xSeries Server are supports on selected iSeries models. iSeries servers support the attachment of external 1 to 8-way IBM Eserver xSeries servers via the high-speed link.

With the Integrated xSeries Adapter, selected xSeries servers running a Windows Server can help to extend Windows application scalability. At the same time, they can retain the same storage consolidation and systems management advantages of the Integrated xSeries Server has on the iSeries.

Virtual storage management enables an administrator to dynamically add storage to a running Windows server without a reboot.

User administration features include the ability to synchronize user accounts, user profiles, and passwords between i5/OS and Windows.

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Virtual Ethernet can provide a secure, high-performance bus interconnect between Windows, Linux and OS/400 without an external LAN.

Flexible server deployment and testing features include the ability to store multiple Windows server images on the iSeries (for example, different service packs of applications), and then boot only the server required on an Integrated xSeries Server. A single backup methodology for all Windows servers and OS/400 also provides a robust disaster recover solution. Microsoft Cluster Service supports dynamically switching virtual storage spaces (disks) between Windows servers.

The Integrated xSeries Server features a 2.0 GHz Intel Xeon processor with a 512 KB L2 cache, a 400 MHz front side bus (FSB), an on-board 10/100 Mbps Ethernet controller, and four USB ports.

The Integrated xSeries Adapter is a PCI adapter that connects xSeries servers to the iSeries HSL bus, and provides the server virtual storage and Ethernet. The Integrated xSeries Adapter is supported with a range of xSeries servers, including the xSeries 235, 255, 360, and 440.

Refer to “1519-100 and 1519-200 Integrated xSeries Adapter for iSeries (direct attach)” on page 303 for additional information about Integrated xSeries Adapters for the iSeries.

Reliable, managed availability

The iSeries server has a reliable history of designing key functions into the hardware and software. High availability is one reason to select a managed availability approach. Other reasons include minimal disruptive backup solutions, and the ability to nondisruptively install and pre-test new versions, releases, or software fixes to make optimum use of all company and system resources.

Hallmarks of iSeries availability include redundant internal hardware features, such as RAID-5 and mirroring. The robustness and stability of OS/400 extends into its multiple, subsystem support (batch, interactive, multi-language, and applications). The iSeries server offers managed availability to ensure that it is ready to do business when you are.

iSeries managed availability software is also called provides:

򐂰 The ability to have one system act as a hot backup system to one or more

primary systems. The primary and secondary systems do not have to be the same size or model.

򐂰 A rapid switchover to the secondary machine in the event of an emergency.

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򐂰 New software versions and releases (OS/400 and associated software), or

fixes on the secondary system can be applied while the primary system continues to function. Testing can occur on the secondary system before nondisruptively updating the primary system.

iSeries servers offer superior technology, service, and support in each of five critical components of availability:

򐂰 Single system reliability: Architecture and baseline design make the iSeries

server one of the most reliable servers in the world. From its inception, the iSeries architecture inherits a design where reliability and availability are equivalent to features such as processor speed, memory capability, and number of disk arms when planning for reliability.

The iSeries design and development resources that enable high levels of availability in a single system environment are useful for prevention of unplanned outages. The single-system iSeries remains the core building block to repeat and extend functions into other areas of the business.

򐂰 Single-system availability management: iSeries servers have

high-availability facilities that are not only fast and automated, but are easy to use. Planned and unplanned outages are reduced with high availability facilities which include:

– Automated journal management – Access path protection – Batch journal caching – Save-while-active – Parallel save and restore – Backup Recovery and Media Services (BRMS) for iSeries – RAID-5 disk parity protection – Disk mirroring protection

򐂰 Clusters: Cluster technology is implemented to reduce downtime caused by

planned outages and site disasters. The system availability during planned outages contributes to an increase coverage of unplanned outage.

Refer to “iSeries clustering” on page 547.

򐂰 Cluster-enabled applications: A high availability solution for the iSeries

server involves an active participation of cluster middleware providers. IBM Business Partners provide advanced cluster management and data resiliency tools. Solution developers design applications to maintain the state of an application across an outage.

򐂰 Availability services and support: As a world-leading enterprise computing

vendor, IBM has a collection of products and services to assist the customer to develop and maintain a high availability environment. The on demand capabilities of the Model 825, 870, and 890 servers include High Availability and Capacity BackUp business continuity offerings.

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Clustering with switchable DASD and IASP

i5/OS, OS/400 V5R2 and V5R1 with HSL OptiConnect provide switchable disk capability between two servers. V5R2 or higher allows three systems on an HSL loop. IASPs and switched disk clusters provide the ability to access content on a set of disk units from a second system. Support for both planned and unplanned outages is improved when the system currently using a switchable disk experiences an outage. Operations are continued on a system even when an isolated controller or disk unit fails.

Data availability is improved with IASPs or switched disk clustering. Upon an outage within a cluster, users can be switched to an alternate node in the cluster (another iSeries server). Integrated file system (IFS) data and operating system library objects residing in an IASP can be switched to another iSeries server without an IPL. This enables one iSeries to take over data and an I/O controller in a disk tower from another iSeries.

The primary function in the early stages of clustering is to offer coverage for planned upgrades and maintenance on the production system without affecting users accessing data from the switched disk towers, for the user-defined file system (UDFS) only. Cluster management middleware, shipped as part of OS/400 option 41 (HA Switchable Resources), manages the switchover. For high availability purposes, it ensures that no two systems access the disks (data) at the same time.

A properly designed switched disk cluster can offer advantages over a data replication cluster. Because a switched disk cluster does not use data replication, there is less overhead on the systems and, therefore, more resource available to process transactions. A switched disk cluster can be simpler to operate. The application is critical to the design of a true continuously available environment.

Domino takes advantage of this support and uses the switched disk architecture to enable clustering. Switched disks do not remove the requirement to have application resiliency.

Cross-site mirroring

Cross-site mirroring (XSM), sometimes called geographic mirroring, enables you to mirror data on disks at sites that can be separated by a significant geographic distance. You use this technology to extend the functionality of a device cluster resource group (CRG) beyond the limits of physical component connection.

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disk pool. As data is written to the production copy of an independent disk pool, the operating system mirrors that data to a second copy of the independent disk pool through another system. This process keeps multiple identical copies of the data.

Through the device CRG, should a failover or switchover occur, the backup node can seamlessly take on the role of the primary node. The server or servers that act as backups are defined in the recovery domain. The backup nodes can be at the same or different physical location as the primary.

When an outage occurs on the server defined as the primary node in the recovery domain and a switchover or failover is initiated, the node designated as the backup in the recovery domain becomes the primary access point for the resource and then owns the production copy of the independent disk pool. Therefore, you can gain protection from the single point of failure associated with switchable resources.

Virtualization technology

Virtual technology enables resource sharing in an integrated, flexible computing environment on a single server. This section discusses key virtual technologies that are available with each iSeries server.

Virtualization Engine

Virtualization Engine is the name for a technology that describes the ability to see and manage system and storage resources across a computing environment. A set of system services includes workload management, integrated grid services, and a set of tools to help monitor the computing resource. Services have the capability of workload balancing across different operating systems within a single server and across the computing network.

Refer to “Product Previews: Open” on page 68 for a preview of this service.

Dynamic logical partitioning

Logical partitioning (LPAR) enhances the role of the iSeries as a consolidated server. With LPAR, companies have both the power and flexibility to address multiple system requirements in a single machine.

Server virtualization, a term often used with partitioning, is accomplished on

iSeries through the use of Hypervisor technology. Hypervisor encompasses a combination of both hardware features and control code. Eserver i5 servers

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uses POWER Hypervisor, as described in “POWER Hypervisor” on page 13, to deliver this virtualization support.

LPAR as implemented on iSeries extends the original architectural design concept of application execution by allowing OS/400, Linux or AIX to run in a given partition. Extensive dynamic and granular resource sharing is allowed across processors (SMP configurations), memory, disk, tape, and other devices, including Virtual Ethernets, which are covered in the next section. Multiple partitions are supported for selected iSeries uni-processor models. Resource sharing across partitions is illustrated in the following graphic.

With i5/OS partitions can be defined as capped or uncapped. Capped partitions cannot exceed their assigned processor resouces. Uncapped partitions can utilize automatically extra unused processing power in a shared pool. For a detailed description refer to , “Capped and uncapped partitions” on page 52

You can find more details about LPAR in “Logical partitions” on page 541.

Virtual Ethernet

Virtual Ethernet (also referred to as Virtual LAN (VLAN)) provides the ability to provide multiple communication paths between applications that are executed in each logical partition. More importantly, Virtual Ethernet allows high-speed bus-to bus communication between partitions. It is possible to tie in each of the multiple communication paths between partitions to a specific application. OS/400 V5R2 introduced the capability to connect Integrated xSeries Servers and Integrated xSeries Adapters via Virtual Ethernet.

selected OS/400 partitions and Linux

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Eserver i5 hardware provides a IEEE 802.1Q VLAN Virtual Ethernet switch as part of the POWER Hypervisor. Up to 4094 VLANs are available with i5/OS V5R3 running on Eserver i5 hardware. For systems prior to the POWER5 technology-based models, up to 16 independent high-speed internal bus-to-bus communication paths are supported between logical partitions.

The enablement and setup of Virtual Ethernet is easy and does not require an IPL or any special hardware or software. When a virtual communications port is enabled for a given partition, a communication resource (CMNxx) is created for that partition. The user can then create a high-speed 1 Gb Ethernet line description over this resource and set up TCP/IP configuration appropriately to start communicating to another partition. A maximum of 16 virtual ports can be enabled for high-speed communications per partition for systems prior to the POWER5 technology-based models. For i5/OS V5R3 partitions running on Eserver i5 hardware, thousands of virtual ports can be created per partition.

AIX 5L for Eserver i5

AIX 5L is rapidly emerging as the preferred platform for UNIX users and independent software vendors. AIX 5L delivers industrial strength UNIX reliability, availability and security while offering flexible system administration and ease of integration with Linux. With innovative virtualization and micro-partitioning, AIX 5L helps you make no compromises and accept no limits in the on demand world.

AIX 5L is an open standards-based operating system. It is designed to conform with the Open Group’s Single UNIX Specification Version 3. It provides fully integrated support for 32- and 64-bit applications running concurrently, in their full range of scalability. AIX 5L supports the IBM Eserver i5, IBM Eserver p5, IBM Eserver pSeries, and IBM RS/6000 server product lines, as well as IntelliStation POWER and RS/6000 workstations.

The benefits of AIX on the Eserver i5 include:

򐂰 Simplify your Infrastructure

– Consolidate UNIX servers

– Extend i5/OS with complementary AIX 5L applications

򐂰 Optimize your investments

– Share processor and memory resources

– Move resources to where they are needed

– Exploit i5/OS storage subsystem

– Leverage Skills and Best Practices

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With the support of AIX on i5 servers, comparisons of i5 to p5 servers is inevitable. In general, the i5 servers offer an integrated approach, while p5 servers provide ala carte functionality. Some functions integrated in the Eserver i5 or i5/OS are either add-ons or not available for p5 servers, for example:

򐂰 UDB DB2 򐂰 Micro partitioning 򐂰 Virtual storage hosting 򐂰 Virtual ethernet hosting 򐂰 Virtual CD/DVD and tape hosting

For additional information about AIX 5L on Eserver i5, refer to the following website:

http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/aix/

AIX 5L Version 5.3

The latest version of AIX 5L takes On Demand computing to the next level. AIX 5L Version 5.3 offers simultaneous multi-threading on POWER5 systems to deliver industry leading throughput and performance levels. With support for advanced virtualization, AIX 5L V5.3 helps you to dramatically increase your server utilization and consolidate workloads for more efficient management. AIX 5L V5.3 represents the latest advance in a long record of IBM operating system innovation and helps customers to accelerate their On Demand business.

For additional information about AIX 5L Version 5.3, refer to the following website:

http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/aix/os/53desc.html

AIX 5L Version 5.2

AIX 5L Version 5.2 integrates innovative technologies to achieve outstanding performance, reliability and flexibility in today’s on demand business environment. Customer-validated enhancements such as dynamic logical partitioning and capacity upgrade on demand differentiate the AIX 5L platform from competitors.

For additional information about AIX 5L V5.2, refer to the following website:

http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/aix/os/52desc.html

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AIX 5L and logical partitions

AIX 5L V5.3 and V5.2 are supported in logical partitions on the IBM Eserver i5. AIX 5L V5.3 leverages advanced virtualization technologies. The following table lists the virtual partition characteristics of AIX 5L V5.2 and V5.3 on the IBM Eserver i5.

AIX 5L V5.2 AIX 5L V5.3

Dynamic LPAR

(processors, memory and I/O)

Micro-Partitions

(up to 10 partitions per processor)

Uncapped Partitions

(automatic movement of processor resources)

Virtual Storage and Ethernet

(through i5/OS)

Direct I/O

(managed by AIX 5L)

It is recommended that the LPAR Validation Tool (LVT) be used to understand and plan for deploying AIX partitions on IBM Eserver i5. LVT guides you through the supported I/O options including which direct I/O adapters are supported in AIX 5L partitions.

In addition, when planning to run AIX 5L on IBM Eserver i5, it is also important to obtain licenses for AIX 5L and corresponding Software Maintenance (SWMA).

AIX 5L is licensed by processor and by processor group on the Eserver i5. AIX 5L V5.2 licenses for a pSeries system can be transferred to the Eserver i5. AIX 5L Software Maintenance (SWMA) is required for each AIX 5L license. One year and three year options are available.

To estimate the amount of server capacity needed to run AIX 5L applications on logically partitioned Eserver i5 servers, refer to the Sizing IBM eServer i5 Servers for AIX 5L Applications paper at

http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/aix/index.html

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Linux for iSeries and Eserver i5

One of the most important developments in business computing in recent years is the arrival of Linux. Linux, an open-source implementation of UNIX, is rapidly becoming the de facto standard for fundamental infrastructure applications like Web servers, firewalls, file servers and e-mail servers. Now, thanks to the powerful combination of the scalability, reliability and manageability of Eserver i5 servers and the flexibility of Linux, businesses can take advantage of a new way to simplify their IT infrastructure and expand their application environment -with the potential to greatly reduce cost.

Taking advantage of advanced LPAR technologies, customers can consolidate multiple standalone infrastructure servers on a single Eserver i5 server -- automatically moving processor and dynamically adding storage resources between individual partitions to support changing business demands. Linux supports an array of open source solutions to run your infrastructure. In addition, IBM is working with leading Linux solution providers to expand the set of business applications and solutions available for Eserver i5.

The iSeries family of servers can combine business applications and on demand business solutions with Linux applications on a single server. A Linux server can be set up with as little as 10% of an iSeries processor. Each partition supports its own independent operating system image and can be isolated from other partitions, allowing business applications to run securely alongside Internet solutions. With an OS/400 V5R2, processor resources can be dynamically moved between partitions to support changing business demands. Eserver i5 supports automatic processor movement.

IBM i5/OS

The iSeries award-winning Linux implementation exploits the i5/OS advanced storage architecture by leveraging the storage resources in the i5OS partition. The 64-bit environments can offer more scalability through larger memory and address more spaces than traditional 32-bit Linux environments. Up to 10 Linux partitions per processor are supported, with a system maximum of 254 partitions running on POWER5 technology-based servers, and 31 on POWER4 and SSTAR processors. Linux distributions from Novell, Inc. (SUSE LINUX) and Red Hat, Inc. support the iSeries family of servers.

See “Linux for iSeries” on page 506 for more details.

One of the single, most dramatic points about the iSeries servers is that the operating system, i5/OS, is a single entity. This section describes the meaning of this concept.

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Note: IBM i5/OS for V5R2 and earlier versions is called OS/400.

After you buy an iSeries server, you do not have to continue shopping for system software components before the server is ready to run your business. All of the software factors for a relational database, comprehensive security, communications with a broad range of diverse systems, including Internet capabilities, and many more components are already in the operating system. Each is fully integrated into i5/OS. By “fully integrated”, we mean fully tested, too. All components and prerequisites for running business applications in the new century work together, and are fully tested together. i5/OS operates as a single entity.

On the iSeries servers, high-level machine instructions execute only on what they are designed for. Only a program (an object) can be executed. Data (also an object) can be read, updated, or deleted, but cannot be executed (a common technique for introducing viruses on other architectures).

Object-based

An object is a container. Everything the system uses (user and system data structures) is packaged in one of these containers. The objects are encapsulated, which means that you cannot see inside. The list of valid ways in which that object can be used is inseparable from an object.

There are two important consequences of an object-based design. The first is that a system built around an object model supports machine independence. This means that technology changes can be made in the environment without affecting application programs. The second consequence is that an object-based design delivers an inherently high level of system integrity and security.

All objects are structured with a common object header and a functional portion dependent on object type. Therefore, on the iSeries servers, instructions work on only what they are supposed to work. Data cannot be treated as executable code (so that the processor cannot try, for example, to execute someone's shoe size). Executable code cannot be treated as data by having something written into the middle of it.

OS/400 distinguishes between user and system programs. Certain instructions apply to all objects, while other instructions work only on specific types of objects. Therefore, it is not possible for valid programs to misuse an object, unlike the situation that exists for non-iSeries systems without an object-based approach. The iSeries remains virus-resistant with features such as this.

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DB2 Universal Database

DB2 Universal Database (UDB) for iSeries offers state-of-the-art database functions and open systems, and standards-based technology. It also provides the maturity, stability, and ease of use that has become the trademark of the iSeries server. DB2 UDB for iSeries is fully integrated into the i5/OS operating system software. It is not a separate product.

DB2 has been enhanced over the years to include many new and emerging standards. The integrated database is a full function database with features competitive to other widely used databases. The fact that the database is integrated allows the operating system to control some of its management functions and makes it easier to maintain than competitive database from other vendors reducing the need for a dedicated Database Administrator. Its security functions are integrated into the operating system. These functions allow a better security model than other databases where additional tools may need to be purchased to provide these functions.

Many iSeries customers have the need for applications that not only access DB2 UDB for iSeries data, but also access data on other databases platforms such as Oracle or Sybase. The SQL Client Integration application programming interface (API) allows providers of gateways and client/server solutions to integrate their products with DB2 UDB for iSeries.

See “DB2 Universal Database for iSeries” on page 521 for further information about i5/OS for DB2 UDB, and Chapter 26, “IBM licensed programs: Database accessories” on page 609, for associated database products.

Java and e-business for iSeries

Java is the environment of choice for programming in today's network computing environment. It allows true portability of applications between platforms without modification or recompiling. The iSeries servers are uniquely positioned to leverage Java as it evolves from its current Web focus to a full commercial application environment. The strengths of the iSeries server are combined with Java's object-oriented, network computing technology to provide solutions in this millennium.

See “IBM Java for iSeries” on page 511 for more information.

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iSeries web serving

IBM i5/OS base products and features can be used to create a Web presence. Included are TCP/IP, Java, virtual private networking (VPN), cryptographic services, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), certificate management, HTTP Server, and many more. The IBM WebSphere family of products offered by IBM for the iSeries server allows you to build a complete on demand business Web site that is secure, easy to develop and maintain, and scale based on your needs.

For Web serving with the iSeries servers, network computing is supported with IBM HTTP Server for iSeries. See “HTTP Server for iSeries (5722-DG1)” on page 566.

See Chapter 27, “WebSphere and on demand business for iSeries” on page 631, and “IBM WebSphere Development Studio for iSeries (5722-WDS)” on page 688 for more information.

Lotus Domino for iSeries

Lotus Domino for iSeries is the leading groupware solution available for the iSeries server. It provides unparalleled capability for iSeries customers to use their business data in collaborative on demand business solutions, both within their organizations and with their partners over the Internet. Lotus Domino for iSeries provides a critical foundation as companies begin to move from “information overload” into organizational learning and knowledge management. No competitive product offers the ease of use, low cost of ownership, tight integration, and positioning for the future that Lotus Domino for iSeries delivers. Lotus Domino for iSeries is offered with familiar iSeries and AS/400e terms and conditions for purchase, services, and support.

iSeries for Domino are Model 810, 825 and 550 offerings targeted specifically for Lotus Domino workloads, providing continual growth to support business needs. These offerings have full iSeries functionality, including full database capability.

Refer to Chapter 3, “Workload, capacity, and performance” on page 41, for more information about Domino servers, and Chapter 28, “Lotus products for iSeries” on page 659, for associated software.

iSeries advanced user interface

The iSeries serves the small business customer with minimal skill or resource to manage complex environments. OS/400 delivers advanced graphical user

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interface (GUI) functions to iSeries customers. iSeries Navigator is enriched with industry-leading integrated systems management via an easy-to-use GUI.

iSeries Navigator

The systems management function is delivered via the easy-to-use iSeries Navigator GUI. iSeries Navigator includes:

򐂰 Work management (Active jobs, subsystems, job queues, memory pools)

򐂰 Backup and Recovery (BRMS GUI plug-in)

򐂰 LPAR

򐂰 System values, including a system comparison and update via Management

Central

򐂰 Distributed user and group administration via Management Central

򐂰 Licensed program and fix creation, distribution, and installation via

Management Central

򐂰 Enhancements to performance monitors and collection services to graph

events over extended time periods

򐂰 New monitors and events for managing jobs and messages

򐂰 Complete DASD management: Disk balancing, compression, management of

disk pools, and units

򐂰 Simple two-node and complex three-node cluster configuration

򐂰 Integrated xSeries Server: Windows user and group and disk administration

򐂰 Database Navigator: Provides a pictorial view of the database showing the

relationships between objects

򐂰 Graphical command prompting

򐂰 TaskPads: A user-interface extension that allows easy access to key

administrative tasks

Other ease-of-use initiatives for V5R2 include the addition of numerous GUI extensions to existing iSeries Navigator functions, for the creation of numerous configuration and administration wizards (many of which are in the new GUI areas listed in the previous list), and a new plug-in for performance management. Extensive automation for workload management with new file and business-to-business (B2B) transaction monitors, systems and storage management, backup and media policies, and network management including support for IPv6. Also supported is IBM DB2 UDB transaction management, switched disk cluster management, Linux dynamic partition management, and enterprise identity mapping security.

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Management Central-Pervasive

Management Central-Pervasive (MC-Pervasive) allows iSeries network administrators to keep an eye on their iSeries servers while they are away from their workstation or office. Using an Internet capable cellular phone, personal digital assistant (PDA) with a wireless modem, or a Web browser, the administrator can monitor and manage their iSeries server status and performance metrics on the iSeries servers.

As of V5R1, functions for Management Central-Pervasive include:

򐂰 Additional support for system performance monitoring 򐂰 Monitor specific jobs and servers on multiple systems 򐂰 Monitor message queues on multiple systems 򐂰 Hold, release, or end a job on any endpoint system 򐂰 Run commands on any system or group of systems 򐂰 Manage Integrated xSeries Servers

– View status of Integrated xSeries Servers – Startup and shutdown of Integrated xSeries Servers – Run Windows commands – Monitor Integrated xSeries events (routed to an iSeries message queue)

򐂰 Read only mode for selected users

EZ-Setup

These additional V5R1 functions are available via an English-only PTF. Refer to the iSeries Navigator for Wireless Web site to find the PTF numbers to load the code for Management Central-Pervasive:

http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/navigator/pervasive.html

EZ-Setup is an application intended to simplify the setup of a new iSeries server by having users answer questions in an questions are then used to produce a customized list of tasks. The tasks include wizards and step-by-step information for completing a server setup, including tasks to:

򐂰 Configure security settings 򐂰 Create a TCP/IP interface 򐂰 Set up iSeries for the Internet 򐂰 Install and configure Domino 򐂰 Configure Operations Console 򐂰 Install Information Center

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Summary

The iSeries server architecture has been extremely successful in delivering on its design goals. However, it is an extensible architecture. It will continue to evolve to exploit technology for the benefit of the commercial IT marketplace in an on demand world.

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Chapter 3. Workload, capacity, and

performance

Workload and performance are critical considerations in selecting a computing system. The performance that users see with their i5 and iSeries servers depend on many factors that often involve:

򐂰 The type and number of disk devices 򐂰 The amount of memory 򐂰 The system model and processor 򐂰 The application being run

We recommend that you order sufficient memory to balance memory across processors. For sizing recommendations for the Eserver i5 and iSeries servers, consult your IBM Marketing Representative and service provider. You can find detailed performance information in iSeries Performance Capabilities Reference, SC41-0607.

This chapter discusses some of the performance measurements to take into account. This includes workload ratings and processor positioning. This chapter also discusses the tools that are available to measure and size the workload.

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Commercial Processing Workload

~ i5 595 Completes the Line

595 32/64-way

Upgrade paths

595 16/32-way

595 8/16-way

570 13/16-way

570 9/12-way

570 5/8-way 570 2/4-way 570 1/2-way

550 1/4-way

520 2-way

520 1-way

520 1-way 520 Express 520 Express

Flexible Midrange

POWER5 - Entry

CPW

0 20000 40000 60000 80000 100000 120000 140000 160000 180000

Unprecedented Scalability

Scalable Building Block

Note: 64-way measured as two 32-way partitions

The performance capacity of all i5 and iSeries servers is represented by a workload measurement called Commercial Processing Workload (CPW). CPW values are given to all i5 and iSeries processors and are derived by performing various monitored and measured workloads on i5 and iSeries servers. The results (reported values) can be used to compare relative performance characteristics of processor features offered for i5 and iSeries servers. The reported values for CPW do not represent a guaranteed level of capacity to perform a given workload. They can serve as a quick means to compare performance.

Several IBM and non-IBM tools are available to do performance analysis and sizing. IBM tools include the IBM Performance Tools for iSeries licensed program product (5722-PT1) for analysis and sizing and the IBM Eserver Workload Estimator (WLE) that can be found on the support web site. Refer to “IBM Performance Tools for iSeries (5722-PT1)” on page 759 and “IBM Eserver Workload Estimator” on page 54 for further information.

5250 CPW

5250 CPW is an approximate value that represents the amount of processing power to be used to perform 5250 online transaction processing (OLTP) work.

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Note: 5250 CPW is known as Interactive CPW on earlier servers.

Remember that:

򐂰 A system administration job submitted to

work.

򐂰 The use of iSeries Navigator (graphical user interface (GUI) administration

functions) is not considered 5250 OLTP work.

򐂰 Any task that uses a 5250 data stream is considered 5250 OLTP work and

requires some amount of 5250 CPW to process regardless of how the task is started.

򐂰 A task submitted through a 5250 session (5250 device or 5250 emulation)

that does display or printer input/output (I/O) requires 5250 CPW.

򐂰 A task submitted through a 5250 session (5250 device or 5250 emulation) as

batch job is not considered 5250 OLTP work and does not require any 5250

CPW unless the task does display or printer I/O.

5250 OLTP applications no longer require 5250 CPW after being WebFaced by using the IBM WebFacing Tool of IBM WebSphere Development Studio for iSeries (5722-WDS).

batch is not considered 5250 OLTP

5250 devices

To learn more about how these features influence system performance, see “=Refacing options for the iSeries customer” on page 56. This referenced section includes some of the i5 and iSeries products available to support 5250 OLTP applications.

Refer to “5250 OLTP considerations” on page 310 for upgrade considerations.

The i5, iSeries and AS/400e servers support a family of displays and emulation adapters that are known as

data stream

flow of the character stream, as discussed in the following section.

A 5250 twinaxial device or 5250 emulation adapter in a PC can support a single address, multiple addresses, or shared sessions on a single address. Whenever a device is powered on or when the 5250 emulation software is started on a PC, any addresses defined respond to the workstation controller polls. These addresses count as an active address, even though no device description may exist on the i5 and iSeries server. This occurs when the system value QAUTOCFG is set to *NO.

. Throughput considerations for these workstations account for the

5250. The supported data stream is known as a 5250

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򐂰 When a device has multiple addresses defined for multiple sessions to

support jump screen or an attached printer, each session counts toward the maximum active addresses supported by that workstation controller.

򐂰 When a device has a

counts as one of the maximum active addresses. There can be up to four shared sessions on a single device.

There is a maximum of 300 shared sessions per I/O processor (IOP).

Refer to Technote Twinaxial Attached Device Throughput for Twinaxial Devices, TIPS0358, to determine the types of sessions that count toward the maximum. It also discusses the 5250 Express Data Stream capabilities relative to twinaxial workstation adapters.

single address defined with shared sessions, that device

Communication WAN restrictions

Communication restrictions for Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) systems are defined in the “LAN/WAN adapters” section of the model chapters in the IBM Eserver iSeries and AS/400e System Builder, SG24-2155. You can find rules for individual communication cards (adapters or IOPs) and sizing rules in the specific adapter or IOP feature description within each model chapter of the System Builder.

You can also find placement information in the Eserver Hardware Information Center to install an adapter. Start at this website:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/eserver/v1r2s/en_US/index.htm?info/iph ak/howtodecide.htm

For general communications performance considerations, refer to the online document iSeries Performance Capabilities Reference, SC41-0607.

iSeries server structure and terminology

The IBM Eserver i5 520, 550, 550, 570, and 595 servers, and the iSeries 810, 825, 870, and 890 servers, include a Processor feature and an Edition feature:

򐂰 Processor feature: Feature code by which the 򐂰 Edition feature: Feature code by which the 򐂰 Server feature: Feature code by which the processor

ordered

IBM Eserver i5 and iSeries models offer two CPW ratings:

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package of features is ordered

configuration is

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򐂰 Processor CPW: Represents maximum relative performance running

commercial processing workloads for a processor configuration. Use this value to compare relative performance between models with the same or different number of processors.

򐂰 5250 CPW: Represents the relative performance available to perform 5250

OLTP (interactive) workloads.

Important: Limited 5250 CPW is always available for a system administrator to use 5250 display device I/O to manage various aspects of the server. Multiple administrative jobs quickly exceed this limited 5250 capacity.

Simultaneous multithreading explained

Although an operating system gives the impression that it is concurrently executing a large number of tasks, each processor in a symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) traditionally executes a single task’s instruction stream at any moment.

The QPRCMLTTSK system value controls whether to enable the individual SMP processors to concurrently execute multiple instruction streams. Each instruction stream belongs to separate tasks or threads. When enabled, each individual processor concurrently executes multiple tasks at the same time. The effect of its use will likely increase the performance capacity of a system or improve the responsiveness of a multithreaded application.

Running multiple instruction streams at the same time does not improve the performance of any given task. Since this is the case with any performance recommendations, results vary in different environments.

The way that multithreading is done depends on the hardware model, and therefore, the performance capacity gains vary. IBM Eserver i5 Models 520, 550, 570, and 595 support this approach through a concept called simultaneous multithreading (SMT). There are several distinct differences between different types of multithreading implemented in the industry. You may find articles discussing Intel’s Hyper-Threading, Superthreading, and other multitasking techniques from several sources.

Older iSeries processors use an approach called (HMT). In the hardware multithreading approach, the hardware automatically switches between the tasks on any long processing delay event, for example, a cache miss. Some models do not support any form of multithreading, which means the QPRCMLTTSK system value has no performance effect. Because the QPRCMLTTSK system value enables the parallel use of shared processor resources, the performance gains depend highly on the application and the

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model. Refer to the iSeries Performance Capabilities Reference, SC41-0607, for guidelines about what performance gains you may expect through its use.

In some exceptional cases, some applications are better served by disabling simultaneous multithreading.

iSeries for Domino performance terminology

iSeries for Domino models are specially priced and configured for Domino workloads. iSeries for Domino separates mail, instant messaging, and collaborative applications while automatically balancing and adjusting performance. With iSeries for Domino servers, you can run non-Domino workloads without restriction, even when the Domino server is not active.

Note: This is unlike the Dedicated Server for Domino servers (now withdrawn

from marketing

The iSeries for Domino servers do not have processing guidelines for non-Domino workloads. Performance is not measured using the CPW measurement, but a Mail and Calendar User (MCU) measurement.

), which have restrictions on non-Domino workloads.

Mail and Calendar Users

Mail and Calendar Users (MCU) is a relative performance measurement derived by performing mail and calendar functions using Domino and Notes clients. The MCU workload is significantly more complex than the Simple Mail Users (SMU) measured workload.

The MCU workload represents concurrent users on a Notes client who are reading, updating, or deleting documents in an e-mail database. It also represents users who are performing lookups in the Domino Directory, and scheduling calendar appointments and invitations. Reported values reflect 70% processor utilization to allow for growth and peak loads in excess of customer workload estimates.

See “Summary of today’s iSeries” on page 81 for a listing of the MCU rating for each iSeries for Domino server.

Capacity on demand

IBM Eserver i5 and iSeries capacity on demand (permanent or temporary) offers the ability to nondisruptively activate one or more additional central

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processors on the Eserver i5 550, 570 and 595 and iSeries 825, 870, and 890 servers. Any and all of the inactive processors installed in the server can be activated as additional permanent or temporary capacity. This is of significant value for customers who want to add capacity without disruption. There are some differences between the capacity on demand implementation for the different models.

IBM Eserver i5 570 and 595 models have the additional ability to activate memory on demand.

To take advantage of Capacity on Demand, and On Demand Memory you must purchase a configuration that includes the inactive processor capacity or memory.

For more information, refer to:

http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/ondemand/cod/

See “Capacity on Demand upgrades” on page 313 for considerations involving Capacity on Demand upgrades.

Capacity On Demand Models 550, 570, 595, 825, 870, and 890

All IBM Eserver i5 550, 570 and 595 and certain iSeries 825, 870, or 890 servers comes with extra processor capacity built into the server. This extra capacity, known as permanently or temporarily.

Appropriately configured Eserver i5 570 and 595’s also have extra memory capacity that can be activated permanently or temporarily

inactive (or standby) processors, can be activated

Capacity Upgrade on Demand (permanent capacity)

CoD is the iSeries offering for permanently activating capacity. When one or more activation features are ordered, an activation code is generated and shipped to the customer (mailed and posted on the Web). The activation code (think of it as a capacity key) must be entered on the proper server screen, and the newly activated processors are ready to use. No initial program load (IPL) is required. The permanently activated processors simply need to be assigned to a partition prior to use, regardless of whether the server is configured for logical partitioning.

Activating additional processors also requires an additional OS/400 license entitlement to be purchased for every processor or part of processor used by OS/400. This is ordered via a chargeable feature of OS/400 (5722-SS1).

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Processors activated solely for Linux, AIX 5L, or both do not require an OS/400 license entitlement.

To enable permanent activation of the inactive processors, a quantity of activation features and license entitlements is ordered. IBM manufacturing then generates an activation code (capacity key) unique to the server and the required additional OS/400 license key or keys. The activation code is mailed to the customer and is posted at the following Web site:

http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/ondemand/cod/

The OS/400 license key is mailed to the customer and is posted on the Web at:

http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/wwkms

Refer to “OS/400 terms and conditions changes” on page 601 for more information about OS/400 and license entitlements.

On/Off Capacity on Demand (temporary capacity)

On/Off Capacity on Demand is the iSeries offering to temporarily activate capacity and memory. Temporary capacity can be turned on and off to match peak periods. It allows a variable number of days and processors to be requested (processor days). The capacity is effective immediately. An IPL is not required.

Before requesting temporary capacity on the server, the server must be enabled. To do this, an enablement feature (Miscellaneous Equipment Specification (MES) only feature) must be ordered and the required contracts signed. An enablement code allows up to 360 processor days of temporary capacity for the Eserver i5 550, 570 or 595 server, or 192 processor days on other servers.

This means that requests for temporary capacity can be made over the life of the machine as long as the processor day limits are not exceeded. When the limit is reached, a new enablement feature must be ordered, and a new enablement code entered. Every time a new enablement code is entered, the limit of processor days that can be requested is reset.

When temporary capacity is needed, the OS/400 temporary capacity screen on the server is used to specify the number of inactive processors that are required to be temporarily activated, and the number of days. That is, the processor day is equal to the number of processors multiplied by the number of days. The activated processors simply need to be assigned to a partition prior to use, regardless of whether the server is configured for LPAR. Activating additional processors does not require any additional OS/400 license entitlement to be purchased for the temporarily activated processors.

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Note: Additional licensing charges may apply for software that is priced by processor. Refer to the software vendor for further information.

It is important that the processors are assigned to a partition as soon as they are activated to achieve the full benefit of the temporary capacity.

Note: At the end of the temporary period (processor days requested), the temporarily activated processors must be made available to be reclaimed by the server, or unreturned processor days are billed (per the signed contract).

The contract, signed by the customer before receiving the enablement code, requires the customer to report billing data at least once a month, regardless of whether there is activity. This data is used to determine the proper amount to bill the customer at the end of each billing period (calendar quarter).

Processor days of credit are then applied against any requested or unreturned processor days of temporary capacity. This happens automatically, until they are used up.

Failure to report billing data during a billing quarter results in a bill for 90 days of temporary capacity. The sales channel is notified of customer requests for temporary capacity. As a result, the sales channel is required to place an order for a quantity of billing features (one feature equals one processor day).

Customers pay for activated processor days after or before activation. Billing features are ordered afterward (one feature per processor day). For Model 550, 570, 595, 825, 870, and 890, a Prepaid feature provides additional budget flexibility. A block of 30 processor days can be bought at a discounted price if purchased in advance. The 30 processor days are credit days and are applied by IBM at the end of the billing period. Credit days cannot be transferred to a server with a different type and serial number. Credit days are not transferred if a customer sells the server. Credit days not used in one quarter “roll over” into the next quarter.

iSeries Memory Capacity on Demand

Memory Capacity on Demand allows permanent and on/off memory activations in increments of one GB. Memory Capacity on Demand works specific memory feature cards only.

A memory enablement code lets you request up to 9,999 memory days of temporary capacity (9,999 days x 1 GB of memory). When you reach the limit of

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9,999 memory day, place an order for another memory enablement code to reset the number of days you can request to 9,999.

Refer to the individual model chapters for feature details.

iSeries Reserve Capacity on Demand

IBM Eserver Reserve Capacity on Demand delivers great flexibility in meeting peak demands. This option is also ideal for spikes in needed capacity (in other words, peak loads). But unlike On/Off CoD, a Prepaid Activation Feature is purchased up-front that sets a value on the server representing the number of processor days that can be used as reserve CoD capacity. No contract and no reporting to IBM is required when paying for the reserve capacity ahead of time.

Reserve CoD represents an automatic way to activate temporary capacity. Reserve CoD enables the user to place a quantity of inactive processors into the server’s shared processor pool, which then becomes available to the pool’s resource manager. When the server recognizes that the number of base (purchased/active) processors and assigned across uncapped partitions has been 100% utilized, and at least ten percent of an additional processor is needed (based on multiple hits over the measured period), then a processor day is charged against the reserve CoD account balance. The processor day is good for 24 hours. Another processor day is charged for additional processor put into use based on the 10% utilization rule. No charging occurs when the 24-hour clock expires and there is no longer a need for additional processors.

Reserve CoD is an effective way to handle peak loads that occur on a limited basis. Unlike On/Off CoD, contracts and reporting to IBM is not required. The purchase of reserve CoD activation time is prepaid in blocks of 30 processor days. Multiple blocks of activations can be loaded at a time.

Reserve processor days are transferred with the machine if the server is transferred to a different customer. Any remaining reserve processor days are lost when upgrading to a different model, or physically adding processors. For example, if upgrading from a 2/4 way to a 5/8 way, the reserve processor days are set to zero.

Note: The break-even pricing for processor days on the Eserver i5 servers is approximately 90 processor days. In other words, you can permanently activate a processor for the same price it costs to prepay for 90 processor days of reserve CoD capacity.

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Trial Capacity on Demand

IBM Eserver Trial Capacity on Demand is quick, easy, and ready when you are. Use it for trial processor capacity or trial memory capacity, or for both. Trial Capacity on Demand is offered at no additional charge.

IBM provides you with a code (a key) to start the trial. The code is good for 30 consecutive powered-on days, after it is entered at the server console. A request for trial processor or memory capacity can be made after initial installation, after a processor upgrade, or after the purchase of one or more permanent processor activations.

You must make the trial capacity available to be reclaimed by the server at the end of the trial period.

For more information about Eserver i5 Capacity on Demand, to request a trial or start the trial, go to:

http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/ondemand/cod

iSeries for Capacity BackUp Edition

iSeries for Capacity BackUp (CBU) Edition is offered for the Eserver i5 570, and iSeries Models 825, 870, and 890. These servers provide a solution that requires an off-site, disaster recovery system. CBU is not intended as a backup server for 24x7 high availability solutions that require day-to-day full operation of a backup server.

The IBM Eserver i5 and iSeries for CBU server has a minimum set of startup processors that can be used for any purpose and a large number of inactive processors that can be activated temporarily at no charge in the event of a disaster. The inactive processors cannot be permanently activated.

Trial capacity

The Model 890 #2487 and #2488 processors, the Model 840 #2416, #2417, #2419, #2352, #2353, and #2354 processors, and the Model 830 #2349 processor each come with inactive capacity that can be permanently activated (CoD). These models offer trial capacity, which is a means of “trying” on demand capacity before buying it. Trial capacity allows 100% of the inactive processors to

Note: The process to enable inactive processors temporarily is the same as for the temporary capacity process for the IBM Eserver i5 Model 570, and the iSeries Model 825, 870, and 890 servers.

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be activated for a period of 7 by 24 hours of system operation. If powered off, the clock does not increment.

Each model offers a number of set of

inactive processors that are in standby status. To permanently activate one

or more inactive processor, place an MES order for the desired quantity of the model-specific activation code, as follows:

򐂰 #1604 CUoD Activation for the Model 840 򐂰 #1605 CUoD Activation for the Model 830 򐂰 #1610 890 CUoD Activation for the Model 890

Ordering a CUoD activation feature generates an activation code, which is posted on a Web site and mailed to the customer. This activation code must be entered on the IBM Eserver i5 or iSeries server console.

For further details, refer to the planning guides for Capacity Upgrade on Demand or On/Off Capacity on Demand on the Web at:

http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/ondemand/cod

Note: The 830, 840, and 890 processors (#2487 and #2488) are withdrawn

from marketing

Capped and uncapped partitions

Partitions in a shared processing pool can have a sharing mode of capped or uncapped. A exceed its assigned processing capacity. processing power for a partition and the workload demand needed at a particular time assuming you have free resources in a shared pool.

capped partition indicates that the logical partition (LPAR) will never

startup processors that are in active status and a

Uncapped partitions increase the

Use capped mode when a software application never requires more than a certain amount of processing power. Any unused processing resource is used only by the uncapped partitions in the shared processing pool.

Uncapped capacity is limited to the minimum of the number of virtual processors assigned to the partition and the capacity of the shared pool. If two partitions need additional resources at the same time to complete a job, the server can distribute the unused processing resources to both partitions. This distribution process is determined by the uncapped weight of each of the partitions.

Uncapped weight is a number that you set for each uncapped partition in the shared processing pool. By setting the uncapped weight, any available unused capacity is distributed to contending LPARs in proportion to the established value of the uncapped weight.

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For a discussion of partitions in a shared processing pool, see:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/eserver/v1r2s/en_US/index.htm? info/iphat/iphatsharedproc.htm

See “Model 520 uncapped capacity” on page 546 for partition limitations.

Workload measurement and sizing tools

Capacity planning and performance management tools, which are available to work with IBM i5/OS V5R3 and OS/400 V5R2, include:

򐂰 IBM Eserver Workload Estimator 򐂰 IBM Performance Management for Eserver™ iSeries 򐂰 IBM Performance Tools for iSeries 򐂰 PATROL for iSeries – Predict 򐂰 IBM WebFacing Tool 򐂰 IBM Disk Magic for Windows

The IBM Eserver Workload Estimator is a Web-based estimation tool. It recommends a system that best fits overall system needs. It is described in the following section.

Use PM Eserver iSeries (formerly called PM/400) to gather performance information and pass the performance statistics to the IBM Eserver Workload Estimator for projecting future needs of installed workloads.

For more information on PM Eserver iSeries, see:

http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/pm/

You can use Performance Tools for iSeries to measure resource utilization. Refer to “IBM Performance Tools for iSeries (5722-PT1)” on page 759 for more information.

Use PATROL for iSeries – Predict to perform detailed capacity planning and “what-if” scenarios. For more information, see “PATROL for iSeries – Predict (5620-FIF)” on page 761.

Use the IBM WebFacing Tool to convert 5250 source applications to applications to run with the WebSphere Application Server. The IBM WebFacing Tool is discussed in “IBM WebFacing Tool” on page 57.

Use Disk Magic for iSeries when IBM TotalStorage® Enterprise Storage Server® (ESS) disk drives are in the configuration. See “Disk Magic for iSeries” on page 56 for more information.

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IBM Eserver Workload Estimator

The IBM Eserver Workload Estimator is a Web-based estimation tool that automates the manual calculations previously required from paper sizers. It allows the user the option to enter data for multiple workloads, from which a machine recommendation is made that best fits overall system needs.

Workloads supported by IBM Eserver Workload Estimator include:

򐂰 Installed system 򐂰 PM Eserver iSeries 򐂰 Web serving 򐂰 Java 򐂰 WebSphere Commerce Suite 򐂰 IBM WebFacing Tool 򐂰 WebSphere Portal Server 򐂰 WebSphere Commerce Payments 򐂰 Traditional 򐂰 Generic computing resources 򐂰 Domino 򐂰 Linux file serving 򐂰 Linux web serving 򐂰 Non-IBM workload

You can learn more about IBM Eserver Workload Estimator on the Web at:

http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/perfmgmt/

When you reach this site, select Sizing Tools.

Disk arm requirements

A physical disk drive (and the processing through the disk controller) performs a specific number of disk accesses each second. The configuration of disk units influences the overall performance of the system. Newer disk arms and controllers provide better performance than previous drives. Therefore, fewer disk drives (disk arms or actuators) can typically be used, yet provide comparable performance.

You can provide for the best obtainable disk subsystem performance and enable the best possible overall system performance. To do so, it is important to size an iSeries server with an appropriate number of disk arms. The white paper iSeries Disk Arm Requirements discusses this concept. You can find it on the Web at:

http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/perfmgmt/pdf/V5R2FiSArmct.pdf

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PM Eserver iSeries and IBM Eserver Workload Estimator include disk arm statistics and arm requirements for sizing. Use PM Eserver iSeries or IBM Eserver Workload Estimator to help size the minimum number of disk arms required for a given iSeries processor. Performance Tools for iSeries provides detailed reports on collected performance data.

Solution developers and other application solution providers also have recommendations for a minimum configuration as it relates to their solution.

To ensure you have sufficient disk arms to meet the needed workload, it is best to have performance runs from your current system run at a time when the disk workload is heavy. These can then be used as input to various tools including the IBM Eserver Workload Estimator and PATROL for iSeries – Predict.

You can also use the reports to determine the number of disk requests/second that are happening on your current system, as reported in the System Performance Report and other Performance Tools reports.

Disk workload is measured in terms of operations/second. Depending on the speed or vintage of the disk drives and controllers, average service time should be somewhere in the 3.5 to 10 millisecond range (lower for newer, higher for old 7200 rpm disks). Numbers higher than these can indicate a disk bottleneck and therefore stored demand. Use tools such as PATROL for iSeries – Predict to determine the stored demand. Note that the tools assume a properly tuned system. If a bottleneck exists, the system cannot be properly tuned.

The number of disk arms required can be determined from the number of disk accesses that must be performed each second.

If upgrading to a larger or newer system, the new system typically can perform more disk requests each second. In addition, more memory acts like a read cache and can reduce the number of physical disk accesses that must occur.

Note: There is no substitute for proper modeling.

The following general rules apply in many cases. These rules assume an average disk access size of between 6k and 10k in size (shown in the performance report). If you are in the over 25k range, lower the values by 20%. This also assumes that

all disks are the same size and use the same type of

controller.

Historically 10k rpm disk drives on #2748/#2778/#4727/#4778 disk unit controllers (with 15 drives attached to the controller) could do about 20 disk operations/second with adequate or good performance. By the time you reached

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25 disk operations per second, you could feel the controller slowing down. Any more than that and the controller started to bottleneck.

Using 10k rpm drives and replacing the above controller with a #2757 PCI-X Ultra RAID Disk Controller meant that you could go up to about 50 disk operations/second/disk with a possibility of still handling peaks at 60 operations per second (after which the disk drive started to bottleneck). With 15k disk drives and a #2757 (15 drives per controller), you could go up to 50 disk operations per second per drive.

For disk-related performance information, refer to “Chapter 14, DASD Performance Management”, in iSeries Performance Capabilities Reference, SC41-0607.

Disk Magic for iSeries

The IBM Disk Magic for iSeries product is intended for modeling ESS disk drives on iSeries servers. Configuration and workload details are entered into the tool. Algorithms support calibration, configuration changes, workload changes, and automatic cache modeling. The output is available in tabular and graphic reports.

Performance analysis is based on limited measurement data. Disk Magic for iSeries is most useful to obtain rough performance estimates of ESS drives on iSeries servers.

You can find the tool on the Web at:

http://w3.ibm.com/sales/systems/portal https://www-1.ibm.com/partnerworld/sales/systems/portal

Refacing options for the iSeries customer

Several products are available for the iSeries to reface (browser-enable) 5250 application software. Some of the products available from IBM include:

򐂰 IBM WebFacing Tool: Part of WebSphere Development Studio (5722-WDS)

򐂰 Host Access Transformation Services Toolkit: Part of WebSphere

Development Studio (5722-WDS)

򐂰 iSeries Access for Web: Part of iSeries Access Family (5722-XW1)

򐂰 WebSphere Host on Demand: Part of Host Access Client Package for iSeries

(5733-A78)

򐂰 WebSphere Host Publisher: Part of iSeries Access Family and WebSphere

Integration Offering V1.0 (5722-XW1 and 5733-A53)

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򐂰 WebSphere Host Access Transformation Server (HATS Studio): Part of Host

Access Client Package for iSeries (5733-A78)

򐂰 WebSphere Host Access Transformation Server Limited Edition (HATS LE):

Part of iSeries Access Family (5722-XW1)

The unique requirements of the customer application determine the best solution for a customer environment. You can find a comparison of functions for many of the IBM products on the Web at:

http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/access/web/ web_to_host_comparisons.html

IBM WebFacing Tool

The IBM WebFacing Tool provided in the IBM WebSphere Development Studio for iSeries creates a Web-ready GUI to 5250 applications. The applications can then be made available in a familiar GUI format recognized by any Web user to anyone with a browser.

To create the interface, the IBM WebFacing Tool works from Data Description Specification (DDS) display files and User Interface Manager (UIM) help files. The interface which is generated consists of Java Servlets, JavaServer Pages (JSPs), JavaBeans, and JavaScript. The interface runs under WebSphere Express for iSeries, WebSphere Application Server V5, or WebSphere Application Server V4. These WebFaced applications do not require 5250 CPW capacity when run on the Model 520, 550, 570, 595, 800, 810, 825, 870, or 890.

Applications that are Web-enabled using the IBM WebFacing Tool generally perform better than applications refaced with other tools. Most other tools convert the 5250 data stream to a Web interface in a run-time conversion. This impacts the execution performance of these refaced applications.

With the IBM WebFacing Tool, the Web interface is created at development time. During application execution, the data from the application is redirected to the Web interface created by the IBM WebFacing Tool. No 5250 data stream is created and there is no run-time conversion. This up-front resource investment pays off with more efficient production operations.

The 5250 data stream and 5250 OLTP are efficient and have been fine-tuned over many years. 5250 applications running with the GUI take significantly more CPU resource than if they run with the original green-screen interface under a 5250 OLTP environment. The magnitude of the increase in resource depends upon the application. The larger the percentage of time is spent doing screen I/O in a 5250 application, the larger the CPW increases when running with a GUI. Typically the application requires several times the processor resource.

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Tip: Understand the 5250 application functions being brought to the Web, and pilot those parts of the application.

For additional tips and considerations, refer to Chapter 14, “DASD Performance Management”, in iSeries Performance Capabilities Reference, SC41-0607.

Use IBM Eserver Workload Estimator to help predict the system characteristics for these applications that are enhanced by the IBM WebFacing Tool. You can access the tool on the Web at:

http://www-912.ibm.com/wle/EstimatorServlet

Refer to “IBM WebSphere Development Studio for iSeries (5722-WDS)” on page 688 to read more about the IBM WebFacing Tool and WebSphere.

iSeries Editions

iSeries Editions are flexible-options packages that help simplify choices and maximize business value. IBM Eserver i5 and iSeries servers are offered with Editions that provide you with some of IBM’s most popular middleware in an integrated package, yet have the ability to run traditional OLTP applications that require 5250 CPW. Each iSeries edition incorporates a set of software licensing and hardware features designed to help meet the specific demands of small, medium, and large enterprises.

The editions offered for today’s iSeries servers include:

򐂰 Standard Edition: The Standard edition is attractively priced to drive new

workloads that do not require 5250 OLTP CPW on the Eserver i5 models. The Standard Edition is featured for a wide variety of e-business and client server solutions.

The Standard Edition for the Model 520 processors provides limited 5250 CPW for 5250 OLTP workloads. The Standard Edition also provides support for Capacity on Demand (permanent and temporary).

Note: 5250 OLTP applications modernized (WebFaced) using the IBM WebFacing Tool of IBM WebSphere Development Studio can be used with the Standard Edition.

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򐂰 Value Edition for iSeries Model 520: The Value Edition for iSeries Model

520 edition is tailored specifically to small enterprises and is available on select Eserver i5 520 servers. Minimum hardware requirements apply.

The Value Edition for the #7450 and #7451 IBM Eserver i5 Model 520 provides 30 and 60 CPW respectively for 5250 OLTP workloads.

򐂰 Express Edition for iSeries Model 520: The Eserver i5 520 Express

Edition offers a choice of five pre-packaged offerings that provide small and medium enterprises with the basic infrastructure for running their core business applications. The 520 Express Edition simplifies your decision process by delivering the key elements of your IT infrastructure in a single server with supporting hardware, software, maintenance, and support at an aggressive price.

– All Eserver i5 520 Express Edition offerings include hardware and i5/OS.

The #7392, #7392 and #7393 Edition features mirrored disk protection, while editions #7394 and #7395 Editions feature RAID disk protection.

–The Eserver i5 9405 520 Express Edition offerings are available at initial

order as deskside servers. They can later be converted to a rack-mount configuration, or additional features can be added by chargeable upgrade orders.

– All Eserver i5 520 Express Editions are shipped from IBM with the

system console on twinax workstation controller as the default setting.

Note: The IBM Eserver i5 9405 520 Express Edition is now packaged under machine type 9405.

򐂰 Enterprise Edition: The Enterprise Edition is designed for customers who

require the highest level of flexibility. It is designed as a total system, fully integrating and exploiting all of the fundamental hardware and software all on demand businesses need. The Enterprise Edition is featured for customers with dynamic business environments who need to respond immediately to fluctuating, unpredictable on demand business needs.

The Enterprise Edition offering includes everything in the Standard Edition and more. The Enterprise Edition leverages the widest range of IBM middleware while still having the ability to run traditional OLTP applications without first being WebFaced by the IBM WebFacing Tool of WebSphere Development Studio.

The Enterprise Edition provides maximum 5250 CPW for 5250 OLTP workloads. The Enterprise also provides support for Capacity on Demand (permanent and temporary).

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򐂰 Domino Edition: The IBM Eserver i5 Domino Edition is designed for

organizations of all sizes, where e-mail and electronic collaboration are increasingly becoming mission-critical applications with the same requirements for availability and security as line-of-business applications.

The Domino Edition continues the tradition established by the iSeries Dedicated Server for Domino (the DSD) and the iSeries for Domino. That is, the price and performance is targeted for Lotus workloads combined with the reliability, manageability, and low cost of ownership that have made iSeries a highly successful Domino server. In addition to the two processors that are standard on the IBM Eserver i5 Domino Edition, you have the option to activate one or two more processors with built-in Capacity on Demand. Optionally, you can create logical partitions (LPAR) and run Linux or AIX on the additional processors.

򐂰 Solution Edition: The Solution Edition is designed for customers with

qualifying ISV solutions to provide a more attractively priced total solution. Like the Enterprise Edition, one Enterprise Enablement feature is included, providing one processor authorization of 5250 CPW.

The Solution Edition leverages IBM middleware and still can run traditional OLTP applications without first being WebFaced by the WebFacing tool of WebSphere Development Studio.

The Solution Edition supports multiple operating systems (i5/OS, AIX 5L, and Linux), Web modernization with enhanced Webfacing support, up to ten partitions per processor (LPAR), 5250 OLTP, and Capacity on Demand (including CoD and On/Off Capacity on Demand). Additional hardware and software are is included with the Solution Edition.

򐂰 Capacity BackUp Edition (CBU): The Capacity BackUp Edition is designed

for customers who require an off-site disaster recovery system. It provides everything the Enterprise Edition provides, except it is shipped with a minimal set of software content because IBM software licensing can allow the primary iSeries server’s licensing to be transferred to a backup iSeries server in case the primary server is out of production. In addition to their no-charge disaster usage, the standby processors can be used on a chargeable basis for other work.

Note: The Capacity BackUp server is not intended for a backup server for 24 x 7 high availability solutions that require day-to-day full operation of the backup server. Such utilization can require a significant number of chargeable processor days.

On demand memory features are not activated for no-charge during a disaster.

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򐂰 High Availability Edition (HA): The High Availability Edition provides

everything the Enterprise Edition provides (including hardware that is physically identical to the equivalent Enterprise Edition hardware), except it is shipped with less software content. It is designed for customers who require 24 x 7 availability.

You can connect multiple IBM Eserver i5 and iSeries systems together with high-function third-party software for role swapping and running production on both primary and secondary servers. In this multiple iSeries server environment, the Eserver i5 or iSeries for high availability is an attractively priced model linked with a model of equal or higher CPW.

The High Availability Edition provides maximum 5250 CPW for 5250 OLTP workloads. The High Availability Edition also provides support for Capacity on Demand (permanent and temporary).

򐂰 Value, Standard and Advanced Editions for iSeries Model 800: The Value,

Standard, and Advanced Editions are designed specifically for small enterprises. Each offers a different level of capacity, power, and functionality that support various e-business, client server and 5250 OLTP solutions. Minimum hardware is required.

Note: The POWER5 partitioning implementation requires a minimum of 240 CPW worth of processor power per partition. Therefore the maximum number of partitions for the editions with 500 CPW is two and the maximum for partitions for the editions with 1000 CPW is four. This implementation applies to all Editions.

For information that is unique to the edition offering of each iSeries Model, see the appropriate model chapter in this Handbook.

All iSeries Editions include:

򐂰 Support for multiple operating systems (i5/OS or OS/400), Linux, IBM AIX 5L) 򐂰 Support for Web modernization with enhanced IBM WebFacing Tool support

(the ability to deploy IBM WebFaced applications without 5250 OLTP CPW)

򐂰 Support for Virtualization Engine Systems Technologies, including dynamic

logical partitioning (LPAR)

򐂰 Licensing for i5/OS (WebSphere Express is integrated with i5/OS as part of

V5R3)

Some editions support 5250 OLTP applications. Each edition offers a different level of capacity, power, and functionality.

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Note: Enterprise Editions ordered for iSeries 825, 870, and 890 servers at V5R2 include licenses for DB2 DataPropagator™, WebSphere Application Server Express, Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing (Sametime®), and Lotus Team Workplace (QuickPlace®).

The following tables reflect the specific components that are included with each iSeries edition and IBM Eserver i5 and iSeries models shipped with V5R3 or i5/OS.

Standard Enterprise

Domino

520 7550

570

595

810

825/870/890

520

550

570

595

810

825/870/890

550

Features

Support for multiple operating systems Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y

Support for Web modernization Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y

Support for LPAR Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y

Support for Capacity on Demand Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y

Support for 5250 OLTP Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y

Installation Assistant using VMI Y Y Y Y Y

Software license(s)

IBM i5/OS V5R3 YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY Y

e-business solution tool licenses

WebSphere Portal Express Plus

DB2 Query Manager & Development Toolkit

DB2 symmetric multiprocessor (SMP)

DB2 UDB Extenders

XML Toolkit Y Y Y Y

Datacenter management tools licenses

Performance Tools

Backup Recovery and Media Services

3, 4

3, 5

YYYY Y

YYYYYY YYY

YYY Y Y

YYY Y

YYYYYY YYY

YYY Y Y

Solution

550

520

810

CBU

570/825/870/890

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HA Switchable Resources

Media and Storage Extensions

Standard Enterprise

Domino

520 7550

570

595

810

825/870/890

520

550

570

595

810

825/870/890

550

YYY Y Y

Solution

550

520

810

Tivoli® Monitoring for Web Y Y Y Y

Tivoli Storage Manager Extended Edition

Virtualization Engine for iSeries, Enterprise

YYY Y

YYY

Workload Manager

Education and services

IBM ILS Education Credits 1 3 5 5

1 \ 3 \ 1

IBM Service Voucher(s)

111111 1 1

Hardware

Processor activation

YYY

Integrated xSeries Server Y Y Y

1. One license per start-up processor and five client licenses

2. Per user license

3. Includes one server license

4. Includes Manager option)

5. Includes Network option

6. For Linux or AIX 5L (if used by i5/OS, one i5/OS processor license required)

7. Standard Editions of Model 520 do not have OLTP 5250. Value and Express editions do have a limited preset value. See table below.

8. Services vary with model.

CBU

570/825/870/890

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Value

Standard

800 #2463

Features

Support for multiple operating systems Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y

Support for Web modernization Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y

Support for LPAR Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y

Support for 5250 OLTP Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y

Software

IBM i5/OS V5R3 YYY YYYYYYY

WebSphere-Express V5 for iSeries Y Y

Performance Tools

DB2 Query Manager & Development Toolkit* Y Y Y Y Y Y

iSeries Access YYYY

Query for iSeries YYYY

WebSphere Development Studio Y Y Y Y

Virtualization Engine for iSeries (7333-VE1) Y Y Y Y Y

Cryptographic Access Provider 128 bit Y Y Y Y Y

Client Encryption 128 bit Y Y Y Y Y

Web Enablement (5722- WE1) Y Y Y Y Y

Twinax adapter (included) - -

Hardware

Tape/disk controller (included) 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

RAID disk controller (included) Op Op Op Op Op Op Op Op 1 1

Disk drives (included) minimum 1 2 2 1 1 2 2 2 4 4

30 GB QIC tape (included) Op 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

DVD-ROM (included) 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

Main memory (included) GB .25 .5 2 .5 .5 1 1 2 1 2

Ethernet LAN ports (card or embedded) 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2

Advanced

800 #2464

Value

520 #7450

Value

520 #7451

520 #7390

520 #7391

520 #7392

520 #7393

520 #7394

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Value

Standard

800 #2463

2-line comm. adapter (included) 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

Twinax adapter (included) - 1 1 Op Op 1 1 1 1 1

1. One license per start-up processor and five client licenses

2. Per user license

3. Includes one server license

4. Includes Manager option)

5. Includes Network option

6. For Linux or AIX 5L (if used by i5/OS, one i5/OS processor license required)

7. Standard Editions of Model 520 do not have OLTP 5250. Value and Express editions do have a limited preset value. See table below.

8. Services vary with model.

Value

Advanced

800 #2464

520 #7450

Value

520 #7451

520 #7390

520 #7391

520 #7392

520 #7393

See “Edition upgrades” on page 314 for considerations when upgrading editions.

For current detailed information on each edition for the IBM Eserver i5 and iSeries models, see:

http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/hardware/editions

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IBM eserver i5 Handbook

Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

Front cover

Contents

Notices

Trademarks

Preface

The team that wrote this redbook

Become a published author

Comments welcome

Chapter 1. The next generation iSeries

Simplicity in an on demand world

Simplify your infrastructure

Integrate to innovate

Deliver without disruption

Looking toward the future

System concepts

iSeries architecture

Single-level storage

Technology Independent Machine Interface

POWER Hypervisor

Hierarchy of microprocessors

Technology in stride

Microprocessor excellence

Silicon On Insulator

On-chip copper-wiring technology

Advanced I/O architecture

High-speed links

iSeries integration with the Windows Server

Reliable, managed availability

Clustering with switchable DASD and IASP

Cross-site mirroring

Virtualization technology

Virtualization Engine

Dynamic logical partitioning

Virtual Ethernet

AIX 5L for Eserver i5

AIX 5L Version 5.3

AIX 5L Version 5.2

AIX 5L and logical partitions

Linux for iSeries and Eserver i5

IBM i5/OS

Object-based

DB2 Universal Database

Java and e-business for iSeries

iSeries web serving

Lotus Domino for iSeries

iSeries advanced user interface

iSeries Navigator

Management Central-Pervasive

EZ-Setup

Summary

Commercial Processing Workload

5250 CPW

5250 devices

Communication WAN restrictions

iSeries server structure and terminology

Simultaneous multithreading explained

iSeries for Domino performance terminology

Capacity on demand

Capacity On Demand Models 550, 570, 595, 825, 870, and 890

iSeries Memory Capacity on Demand

iSeries Reserve Capacity on Demand

Trial Capacity on Demand

iSeries for Capacity BackUp Edition

Trial capacity

Capped and uncapped partitions

Workload measurement and sizing tools

IBM Eserver Workload Estimator

Disk arm requirements

IBM WebFacing Tool

iSeries Editions