IBM Z10 EC User Manual

April 2009IBM System z10 Enterprise Class (z10 EC) Reference Guide

z/VSEz/VSE 4.1, the latest advance in the ongoing evolution of VSE, is designed to help address needs of VSE clients with growing core VSE workloads a

Operating System ESA/390 z/Architecture (31-bit) (64-bit)z/OS V1R8, 9 and 10 No Yesz/OS V1R7(1)(2) with BM Lifecycle Extension for z/OS

of your business. With the potential for increased perfor-mance and capacity, you have an opportunity to continue to consolidate diverse applications

z10 EC preplanning improvements are designed to avoid planned outages and include: • Flexible Customer Initiated Upgrades• Enhanced Driver Maintenan

The System z10 EC is designed to provide balanced system performance. From processor storage to the system’s I/O and network channels, end-to-end band

The z10 EC has been designed to offer high performance and effi cient I/O structure. All z10 EC models ship with two frames: an A-Frame and a Z-Frame,

number will be reported by the Store System Information (STSI) instruction for software billing purposes only. There is no affi nity between the hardwa

z10 EC PerformanceThe performance design of the z/Architecture can enable the server to support a new standard of performance for applications through

The z10 EC contains an I/O subsystem infrastructure which uses an I/O cage that provides 28 I/O slots and the ability to have one to three I/O cages d

ESCON Channels The z10 EC supports up to 1,024 ESCON channels. The high density ESCON feature has 16 ports, 15 of which can be activated for customer

2Table of ContentsIBM System z10 EnterpriseClass (z10 EC) Overview page 3z/Architecture page 6z10 EC page 11z10 EC Design and Technology page 14z1

The System z10 EC Model E12 is limited to 64 features – any combination of FICON Express4, FICON Express2 and FICON Express LX and SX features. The FI

FICON Support for Cascaded Directors Native FICON (FC) channels support cascaded directors. This support is for a single hop confi guration only. Two-d

SCSI IPL now a base functionThe SCSI Initial Program Load (IPL) enablement feature, fi rst introduced on z990 in October of 2003, is no longer required

It will register: • Platform’s: – Worldwide node name (node name for the platform - same for all channels) – Platform type (host computer) – Platfo

The requirements for channel extension equipment are simplifi ed with the increased number of commands in fl ight. This may benefi t z/OS Global Mirror (

Choose the OSA-Express3 features that best meet your business requirements.To meet the demands of your applications, provide granu-larity, facilitate

onto System z10. With reduced latency, improved through-put, and up to 96 ports of LAN connectivity, (when all are 4-port features, 24 features per se

There are two PCIe adapters per feature. OSA-Express3 10 GbE LR is designed to support attachment to a 10 Gigabits per second (Gbps) Ethernet Local Ar

When confi gured at 1 Gbps, the 1000BASE-T Ethernet fea-ture operates in full duplex mode only and supports jumbo frames when in QDIO mode (CHPID type

For latency sensitive applications, the blocking algo-rithm is modifi ed to be “latency sensitive.” For streaming (throughput sensitive) applications,

IBM System z10 Enterprise Class (z10 EC) OverviewThe IBM System z10™ Enterprise Class (z10™ EC) server is designed to meet the challenges of today’s b

Layer 2 transport mode is supported by z/VM and Linux on System z.OSA Layer 3 Virtual MAC for z/OS To simplify the infrastructure and to facilitate l

OSA-Express for NCP, supporting the channel data link control (CDLC) protocol, provides connectivity between System z operating systems and IBM Commun

The HiperSockets function, also known as internal Queued Direct Input/Output (iDQIO) or internal QDIO, is an inte-grated function of the z10 EC server

A solution is HiperSockets Multiple Write Facility. HiperSockets performance has been enhanced to allow for the streaming of bulk data over a HiperSoc

Today’s world mandates that your systems are secure and available 24/7. The z10 EC employs some of the most advanced security technologies in the indu

Enhancements to CP Assist for Cryptographic Function (CPACF):CPACF has been enhanced to include support of the fol-lowing on CPs and IFLs:• Advanced

Support for ISO 16609Support for ISO 16609 CBC Mode T-DES Message Authentication (MAC) requirements ISO 16609 CBC Mode T-DES MAC is accessible through

TKE 5.3 workstation and continued support for Smart Card ReaderThe Trusted Key Entry (TKE) workstation and the TKE 5.3 level of Licensed Internal Code

Remote Loading of Initial ATM Keys Typically, a new ATM has none of the fi nancial institution’s keys installed. Remote Key Loading refers to the pro-c

It may sound revolutionary, but it’s really quite simple. In the highly unpredictable world of On Demand business, you should get what you need, when

Just-in-time deployment of IT resourcesInfrastructures must be more fl exible to changing capacity requirements and provide users with just-in-time dep

Capacity Back Up (CBU): Temporary access to dormant processing units (PUs), intended to replace capacity lost within the enterprise due to a disaster.

• The quantity of temporary IFLs ordered is limited by quantity of purchased IFLs (permanently active plus unassigned). • Temporary use of unassigne

z/OS Capacity provisioning allows you to set up rules defi ning the circumstances under which additional capac-ity should be provisioned in order to fu

In today’s on demand environment, downtime is not only unwelcome—it’s costly. If your applications aren’t consis-tently available, your business suffe

With the z10 EC, signifi cant steps have been taken in the area of server availability with a focus on reducing pre-planning requirements. Pre-planning

Concurrent Physical Memory UpgradeAllows one or more physical memory cards on a single book to be added, or an existing card to be upgraded increasing

and provide the clock signal to the system transparently, with no system outage. Previously, in the event of a failure of the active oscillator, a sys

memory activation feature. One pre-planned memory acti-vation feature is required for each preplanned memory fea-ture. You now have the fl exibility to

IBM Systems Director Active Energy ManagerIBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager™ (AEM) is a building block which enables customers to manage actu

be dynamically routed to the z/OS image most capable of handling the work. This dynamic workload balancing, along with the capability to have read/wri

In order of introduction:The Internal Coupling Facility (ICF) processor was intro-duced to help cut the cost of Coupling Facility functions by reducin

Coupling Facility Confi guration Alternatives IBM offers multiple options for confi guring a functioning Coupling Facility: • Standalone Coupling Facili

Introducing long reach Infi niBand coupling linksNow, Infi niBand can be used for Parallel Sysplex coupling and STP communication at unrepeated distance

System z now supports 12x Infi niBand single data rate (12x IB-SDR) coupling link attachment between System z10 and System z9 general purpose (no l

Time synchronization and time accuracy on z10 ECIf you require time synchronization across multiple servers (for example you have a Parallel Sysplex e

The following STP enhancements are available on System z10 and System z9 servers.The STP feature and the latest Machine Change Levels are required.Enh

always accepted by some environments. The STP design provides continuous availability of ETS while maintaining the special roles of PTS and BTS assign

Prior to this enhancement, the PTS, BTS, and Arbiter roles had to be reassigned manually using the System (Sysplex) Time task on the HMC. For addition

The new functions available on the Hardware Management Console (HMC) version 2.10.1 apply exclusively to System z10. However, the HMC version 2.10.1 w

local and remote users permitting interactive plain-text communication between two users and also allowing a user to broadcast a plain-text message to

IBM Implementation Services for Parallel Sysplex CICS and WAS Enablement IBM Implementation Services for Parallel Sysplex Middle-ware – CICS enablemen

point operations. This is expected to be particularly useful for the calculations involved in many fi nancial transactions. Decimal calculations are of

System z servers. Now Geographically Dispersed Open Clusters (GDOC) is designed to address this need for open systems. GDPS 3.5 will support GDOC for

z10 EC Confi guration Detailz10 EC Environmentals Model 1 I/O Cage 2 I/O Cage 3 I/O Cage E12 9.70 kW 13.26 kW 13.50 kW E2

Processor Unit Features Model Books CPs IFLs zAAPs ICFs Standard Standard uIFLs zIIPs SAP Spares E12 1/17

z10 EC Frame and I/O Confi guration Content: Planning for I/OThe following diagrams show the capability and fl exibility built into the I/O subsystem. A

Coupling Facility – CF Level of SupportCF Level Function z10 EC z9 EC z990 z10 BC z9 BC z890 16 CF Duplexing Enh

IBM intends to support optional water cooling on future high end System z servers. This cooling technology will tap into building chilled water that a

The following Redbook publications are available now:z10 EC Technical Overview SG24-7515z10 EC Technical Guide SG24-7516z10 EC Capacity on De

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The z10 EC is also able to exploit numerous operating sys-tems concurrently on a single server, these include z/OS, z/VM, z/VSE, z/TPF, TPF and Linux

With z/OS 1.9, IBM introduces:• A revised and expanded Statement of z/OS System Integrity• Large Page Support (1 MB)• Capacity Provisioning• Suppor

z/VMz/VM V5.4 is designed to extend its System z virtualization technology leadership by exploiting more capabilities of System z servers including:•