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© 2007 IBM Corporation
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IBM Systems
z/OS Update
Réunion Guide MVS 31 janvier 2008
François [email protected]
IBM System z
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� XML System Services and specialty engines for 1.7 + 9/07
� zIIP Assisted IPSec for 1.8+ 9/07� zIIP for 1.6+ 6/06� Enhanced Crypto Support for 1.7 5/06� Encryption Facility for z/OS ® 12/05� z/OS OMEGAMON® Mgt Console 12/05
Architectural Level Set
9/04
9/051.6
1.7 9/06
1.8
1.9
9/07
1.10*
9/08
1.11*
9/09
z/OS Planned Roadmap
IBM System z
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z/OS Coexistence
� Starting with z/OS V1R6, IBM has aligned the coexis tence, fallback, and migration policy with the service policy� z/OS V1R7, z/OS V1R8, and z/OS V1R9 are supported fo r coexistence, fallback, and
migration � The lowest release is supported for coexistence, fa llback and migration on z/OS
V1R9 is z/OS V1R7.
� Only JES2/JES3 that can coexist with the shipped JE S can be "staged" on z/OS. This is enforced in z/OS V1R9.� z/OS R7 JES2/3 thru z/OS R9 JES2/3 are supported fo r coexistence, migration, and fallback
Note: If staging JES2 migration, the same level of JES2 and SDSF must be used due to policy changed in z/OS V1R9.
z/OS
V1R6
z/OS
V1R7
z/OS
V1R8
z/OS
V1R9
z/OS
V1R10
IBM System z
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�Simplified setup, editing, and auditing of TCP/IP features for z/OS including:
�IP Security �Application Transparent-TLS �Quality of Service�Intrusion Detection Services �Network Security Services (1.9)*�Policy-Base Routing (1.9)*
�Ships with “best practice” default configurations.�Performs self-checks of configurations; notifies when exceptions are detected.
�Simplified setup, editing, and auditing of TCP/IP features for z/OS including:
�IP Security �Application Transparent-TLS �Quality of Service�Intrusion Detection Services �Network Security Services (1.9)*�Policy-Base Routing (1.9)*
�Ships with “best practice” default configurations.�Performs self-checks of configurations; notifies when exceptions are detected.
Configuration Assistantz/OS Communications Server Value
�Helps provide secure access to z/OS applications and data
�Enables simplified development and maintenance of security-rich Web apps.�.. with Application Transparent -TLS can help you secure the network connectionwith no anticipated application modification.�... with Network Security Services function provides centralized monitoring and managing of IPSec certificates in a sysplex (1.9)*�... with policy-based routing Routing Agent may be used as a centralized networking policy server for heterogeneous nodes – in or across a Sysplex (1.9)*.
�Helps provide secure access to z/OS applications and data
�Enables simplified development and maintenance of security-rich Web apps.�.. with Application Transparent -TLS can help you secure the network connectionwith no anticipated application modification.�... with Network Security Services function provides centralized monitoring and managing of IPSec certificates in a sysplex (1.9)*�... with policy-based routing Routing Agent may be used as a centralized networking policy server for heterogeneous nodes – in or across a Sysplex (1.9)*.
z/OS Communications Server Value
Simplify network and security managementz/OS Communications Server and the Configuration Assistant for z/OS Communication Server
Available as Web download!ibm.com /support/docview.wss?rs=852&uid=swg24013160
Available as Web download!ibm.com /support/docview.wss?rs=852&uid=swg24013160
Originally the Network Security Configuration AssistantOriginally the Network Security Configuration Assistant
Hundreds of downloadsHundreds of downloads
IBM System z
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� Enhancements with z/OS 1.7– Library Server
• Enhanced PDF support and improved search capabilities• Excellent integration with Library Center - ibm.com /servers/eserver/zseries/zos/bkserv/
– SMS• SMS provides more information to help provide easier analysis and improved storage utilization
– RMF™, ISPF, z/OS UNIX System Services, zFS• Improved function, more commands
� Enhancements with z/OS 1.8– InfoPrint ® Central
• Improved InfoPrint Central Web-based print management GUI • Improved operations and diagnosis: real time status information, remote printer online, offline, and reset, remote cancel print, and network connectivity problem resolution.
– ISPF• Easier search, auto-discover of workstation IP addresses, improved alias processing • Display and process z/OS UNIX files and directories (reduced need to go into UNIX shell)
– RRS• A new SHUTDOWN command is designed to allow you to end RRS instead of doing a CANCEL. This helps avoid unnecessary abnormal termination and provide clearer shutdown messages.
– RMF
Additional ease of use enhancements
IBM System z
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�Enhancements for z/OS 1.9�NEW System REXX (SYSREXX) component
– Allows execution of REXX routines in an authorized environment. SYSREXX execs can be used to automate complex operator commands and other system functions.
�z/OS Communications Server adds new and improved Ne twork Management Interfaces (NMIs)– Collects more information on network security associations faster – Tivoli exploiters
�CF management improvements– CF maintenance REALLOCATE process shortened– Improved reporting for performance and problem determination
� ISPF improvements– Edit and browse UNIX and ASCII files with ISPF – one editor does it– Share profile variables across multiple systems in a Parallel Sysplex cluster – Provide support for using system symbols in data set names on ISPF panels. – Edit recovery improvements
�RRS improvements – Allows you to collect RRS information when needed and use this information for problem
determination if any failure should occur later�DFSMShsm ™ - additional SMF data for management and tuning�DFSMSdfp ™ OAM (Object Access Method) - additional level of sto rage hierarchy
Additional ease of use enhancements
IBM System z
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zNALC simplifies new workload pricing on z/OS by offering:�One new workload pricing for full range of z/Architecture® servers�Wider choice of qualifying applications –qualify your application�Sub-capacity granularity�Improved pricing performance�No need for additional z/OS products or product numbers
zNALC simplifies new workload pricing on z/OS by offering:�One new workload pricing for full range of z/Architecture® servers�Wider choice of qualifying applications –qualify your application�Sub-capacity granularity�Improved pricing performance�No need for additional z/OS products or product numbers
zNALC value
ibm.com /zseries/swprice/znalc.htmlibm.com /zseries/swprice/znalc.html
�zNALC provides a reduced price for z/OS operating system on dedicated LPARs where you are running qualified ‘new workloads’
�If you are interested in consolidating distributed applications and co-locating them closer to your core z/OS systems to help increase control and improve TCO ...�If you have z/OS NALC or z/OS.e...�Then, zNALC may be of benefit to you .
�zNALC provides a reduced price for z/OS operating system on dedicated LPARs where you are running qualified ‘new workloads’
�If you are interested in consolidating distributed applications and co-locating them closer to your core z/OS systems to help increase control and improve TCO ...�If you have z/OS NALC or z/OS.e...�Then, zNALC may be of benefit to you .
zNALC
Simplifying z/OS pricing for new workloadsIBM System z New Application License Charge (zNALC) March 16, 2007
IBM System z
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� Extending user authentication management – Integrated Security Services Enterprise Identity Mapping (EIM) improvements (1.7)– Support for SAF Identity Tokens (1.8)– Support for defining Intrusion Detection Services (IDS) policies in a
policy agent configuration file (as well as an LDAP server) (1.8)– Network Authentication Service (the z/OS implementation of the Kerberos
authentication protocol and Key Distribution Center) adds AES128, AES256 options to KERB segment of RACF user profile (1.9)
� Cryptography– 64-bit cryptography support in ICSF (1.7)– AES (128) support for: TLS and SSL (1.7), IPSec and InfoPrint applications (1.8),
Tape data set protection using DFSMS and RACF (or other security manager) (1.8)
� Improved z/OS System SSL (1.9)– CRL tuning, connection renegotiation and confirmation, and information on HW or
SW encryption (performance)
� Improved auditability of UNIX System Services with n ew SMF92 subtype (1.9)
ibm.com /systems/z/securityibm.com /systems/z/security
z/OS Security leadership continues
IBM System z
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z/OS Security leadership continues� Certifications
– Common Criteria– z/OS 1.7 was certified under the Common Criteria, using the CAPP and the LSPP, at
Evaluated Assurance Level 4, augmented by ALC_FLR.1. (March 2006)– z/OS 1.8 was certified under the Common Criteria, using the CAPP and the LSPP, at
Evaluated Assurance Level 4+ (April 2007)– IdenTrust
• z/OS Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Services are IdenTrust compliant as of z/OS 1.5
� Encryption Facility for z/OS 1.2 – with OpenPGP suppo rt– To help protect data shared with partners, suppliers, and customers – Separate product for tape encryption that leverages z/OS key management and high
performance hardware encryption and compression– The Encryption Services feature now supports OpenPGP standard, RFC2440
• zAAP eligible workload– What can I do with OpenPGP support?
• Use HFS/zFS files or z/OS partitioned (PDS and PDS/E) or sequential data sets as input or output
• Perform cryptographic acceleration with certain kinds of System z hardware• Use Security Server Resource Access Control Facility (RACF) and ICSF key
repositories
IBM System z
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� Application Transparent TLS (z/OS 1.7)– Can help reduce development complexity and costs– Define a TLS secured connection with no anticipated changes to existing applications
� FTP and TN3270 use of App. Transparent-Transport La yer Security (AT-TLS) (1.9)– Helps simplify implementation of security over FTP and TN3270– More flexibility and security features over SSL – Also ... FTP Unicode support
� NAT Traversal (1.7)– Support for IETF standard allows for interoperability between IPSec and NAT
� IPsec enhanced (1.7)– Designed to improve scale and performance, see z/OS 1.7 Communications Server
Performance Summary = ibm.com /support/docview.wss?rs=852&uid=swg27006865– Built into z/OS Communications Server with support of: IPv6, IP filtering, Internet Key
Exchange (IKE), Virtual Private Network (VPN)
� zIIP Assisted IPSec (z/OS 1.8 with PTF)
Enhanced enterprise network security
IBM System z
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� Application-based encryption (with SSL and TLS)
– Encryption acceleration in the System z server
– Application Transparent TLS for easier implementation
– DB2 V9: SSL encryption for sending documents
� End-to-end network encryption (with IPSec )
– Can create a secure tunnel for selected network traffic (Virtual Private Network)
– Enabled without application changes
– More compelling on System z with support for zIIP specialty processor
� File transmission encryption
– IPSec or SSL protected FTP, OpenSSH
– Encryption Facility for z/OS
SSL
Mainframe Web browserHTTPS
IPSec
MainframeData
Center
Branch Office
Remote printers
new
new
Network security –Encryption options over the Internet
IBM System z
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� The z/OS Communications Server allows IPSecprocessing to take advantage of zIIPs
– This zIIP Assisted IPSec function moves much of the z/OS IPSec processing from the general purpose processors to the zIIPs.
• In addition to performing the encryption processing, the zIIP will also handle cryptographic validation of message integrity, and IPSec header processing.
• Specifically, the z/OS Communication Server (z/OS CS) is designed to interact with z/OS Workload Manager to have all of its IPSec enclave Service Request Block (SRB) work made eligible to run on the zIIP.
� This capability is available August 2007 with:
– z/OS 1.8 Communications Server PTF (APAR PK40178)
– z/OS 1.8 PTF (APAR OA20045)
– System z9 with zIIPs
– z/OS CS = GLOBALCONFIG ZIIP IPSECURITY
New! - zIIP Assisted IPSec (Available August 2007)
IBM System z
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� z/OS Communication Server adds Network Security Ser vices (NSS) function– Provides single, centralized certificate storage and monitoring and managing services for
IPSec cross-systems or cross-sysplex
� z/OS Communications Server adds Policy-Based Routin g (PBR) function– Outbound network traffic can be separated by application needs– Policy-based routing allows TCP/IP stack to make routing decisions based on job name, ports,
protocol (TCP or UDP), source IP address, NetAccess security zone, and security label
� z/OS Communications Server enhances Policy Agent to provide centralized collection, distribution, and management of networking policies
– Policy Agent can be configured to act as both a policy server and policy client - can read, install, and load local policies for a set of TCP/IP stacks, and can retrieve remote policies that are theninstalled in the local TCP/IP stacks.
� Configuration Assistant for z/OS Communications Ser ver enhanced with PRB and NSS, Policy Agent enhancement s, and its own configuration checks
� z/OS Communications Server also provides– Dynamic monitoring of OSA traffic for improved performance– Improved multicast support
Centralized configuration and management of network
Intrusion Detection Services (IDS), Quality of Service
(QoS), IPSec (IP Security), and Application Transparent -Transport Layer Security (AT-
TLS), NSS, and PBR.
Centralized policy based networkingz/OS Communications Server updates for z/OS 1.9
IBM System z
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� Reduce need for SNA connections– JES2 NJE support for TCP/IP (z/OS 1.7)– JES3 support for TCP/IP in z/OS 1.8 (available March 30)
• Can help improve NJE performance • Can also improve availability with NJE in a separate address space• Can easily add TLS encryption using Application Transparent TLS
� High availability and optimized performance– Confidence level checking for data transfer (FTP)
• Can report on transfers that have completed successfully
� Enhanced connectivity options for z/OS– Improved Communication Server, Enterprise Extender, FTP, and Telnet (1.8/ 1.9)– Improved connectivity between z/OS SMB server and Microsoft Windows clients via
Windows Terminal Server (WTS) support (1.8)– The z/OS SMB server also supports the Linux Samba client (1.8)
� IPv6 support extended to– Functions supporting IP filtering, IPSec, and Internet Key Exchange (IKE) (1.8) – HiperSockets™ (requires System z9) and Advanced Socket API (1.7), Sysplex (1.6)
Enhanced networking
IBM System z
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� Improved diagnostics (1.7)– Improved FICON error recovery
• Fiber connections can drop and recover, over and over, using a lot of recovery resources
• System designed to take the path offline until you tell it to put it back online– Wild branch diagnosis
• Help solve those “How the heck did I get here?” problems• System keeps last branch-from address
� Improved record data collection, management, and pe rformance monitoring (1.9)� SMF can be configured to use System Logger to write data to a log stream.
This is expected to:– Allow support of far higher SMF data write rates when a coupling facility is used (as
compared to writing to SMF data sets). • Collect more performance data during periods of high utilization
– Allow you to specify different record types be written to separate log streams • Use different retention periods/ auditing processes for each log stream• Easier to go to and retrieve a particular time period
� ALSO : System Logger availability is also improved with the ability to support multiple concurrent migrated data set requests for increased logger availability
Improving performance, availability, and diagnosis
IBM System z
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� OSA Express2 performance improved with z/OS Communi cation server Dynamic LAN Idle– TCP/IP adjusts interruption interval for OSA-Express2 adaptors based on network
traffic� Language Environment ® performance improved for:
– C/C++ and PL/I applications using heap pools– Any application using long long division and long long multiplication
� z/OS UNIX File System (zFS) availability – Reduced latch contention – reduced the amount of time the MOUNT LATCH is held– Improved shutdown and recovery for AUTOMOVE– Improved auditing - new subtype of SMF type 92
� System Logger availability improved� Virtual storage constraint relief
– z/OS BCP Allocation’s dynamic storage moved above 16 MB– Select DFSMShsm buffers moved above 16 MB– IOS (I/O Supervisor) configuration data tables moved above 31 MB - Customers with
large I/O configurations are expected to get more benefit than others.
z/OS 1.9 Performance, Availability
IBM System z
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� Help reduce the need to IPL– z/OS UNIX System Services dynamic service activation may reduce the need to IPL (1.7)– PDSE restartable address space (1.6)
• May reduce the need to re-IPL a system due to a hang, deadlock condition, or out of storage condition
� Recovery assistance for key resources (1.7)– Integrated Catalog Forward Recovery Utility, now incorporated into z/OS – Unicode control block recovery for certain conditions– Extensions to JES2 Checkpoint data recovery
� Backup & Recovery – DFSMS Fast Replication extended (1.8)– Ability to backup and recover from to/from tape – Recovery at the data set level (from a backup on disk or on tape)
� RRS (1.9)– Improved availability with reduced need for RRS restart– Improved diagnostics - Allows you to collect RRS information when needed and use this
information for problem determination if any failure should occur later
Today’s Capabilities: Designed for up to 99.999% availability** for System z to help avoid planned and unplanned outages
** Note : Based on Parallel Sysplex implementation
z/OS availability – Extending z/OS leadership
IBM System z
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� Parallel Sysplex enhancements announced with z/OS 1 .7– Improved management between WLM and Sysplex Distributor
• Helping direct traffic to systems that are meeting response time goals– z/OS Load Balancing Advisor
• Better interaction with network-based load balancers – Simplified configuration of TCP/IP in a sysplex with improved operator commands– Designed for IP Automatic Takeover when IP stack is not healthy (1.6)
• DVIPA reclamation, designed to reclaim VIPAs when original server is available (1.7)
� Parallel Sysplex improvements announced with z/OS 1 .8: – WLM services for “troubled applications” in a sysplex (1.8)
• Designed so instances of distributed applications and subsystems can tell WLM they are having problems processing requests (e.g., full queues, abending, etc.)
• WLM designed to adjust recommendations used by load balancers such as Sysplex Distributor to help avoid routing more work to the application having such a problem
• WLM will pass abnormal transaction counts to Sysplex Distributor from subsystems that provide these counts (CICS, z/OS Comm Server, WebSphere Extended Deployment ... )
Enhanced sysplex
IBM System z
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� Parallel Sysplex improvements announced with z/OS 1 .8: – An option to allow the z/OS Sysplex Distributor to favor local servers where possible, while
avoiding servers that are no longer active or are overloaded. – The ability to specify a subdivision of a TCP/IP network within a sysplex into multiple "subplexes“
• May be useful in scenarios where different LPARs within the same sysplex need to be isolated into different security zones
– New LDAP server for z/OS, IBM Tivoli Directory Server for z/OS , designed to have stronger affinity toward sysplex (and allow a sysplex group to replicate with other LDAP server )
– Dynamic registration and deregistration of Domain Name Server (DNS) based on server/ host availability
– The sysplex autonomics function is enhanced to help monitor network interfaces and designed to invoke recovery in the event of an interface failure.
– z/OS UNIX System Services (z/OS UNIX) byte range lock manager (BRLM) is enhanced (locks can be replicated and recovered) to help improve availability for applications that use BRLM
– Improved CF Recovery time– Improved CFRM. These enhancements can enhance sysplex availability by significantly reducing
I/O contention for CFRM couple data sets (CDS) – The single master console is eliminated, and therefore it no longer can act as a single point of
failure
Enhanced sysplex
IBM System z
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� Parallel Sysplex improvements announced with z/OS V 1.9: – Improved System-Managed Coupling Facility (CF) Structure Dup lexing – streamlined
protocols are anticipated to make CF duplexing faster and may make it a viable option (available 1Q 2008)
– Improved Couple data set I/O performance and throughput – any system that has significant I/O to Couple data sets will benefit from parallelism in XCF Couple data set access channel programs
– SFM (Sysplex Failure Manager for z/OS) improved wit h more automatic identification, removal, and even termination of troubled systems in a sysplex
– RMF support for CF utilization for improved CF performance monitoring
� Improved Consoles processing with Message Flood Aut omation (1.9)– Policy driven automation for dealing with large amounts of messages
• Can be set in PARMLIB (function was made available via APAR OA17514 for z/OS 1.6 and higher)
– Helps prevent the flood messages from being displayed on a console, from being logged in the SYSLOG or OPERLOG, from being queued for automation, from propagating to other systems in a sysplex, from being queued to the Action Message Retention Facility (AMRF)
– Helps take action against the address space issuing the flood messages, by issuing a command (typically a CANCEL command)
Enhanced Sysplex
IBM System z
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� GDPS® designed for improved business resilience – Improved GDPS options for high volume applications with XRC+ (1.7)
• Better support for remote mirroring of high volume logging applications (IMS™ & CICS)
– Metro Mirror (PPRC) enhancements to help improve GDPS recovery time and reduce need for log-based recovery (1.8)
– Improved z/OS UNIX latch contention detection (1.8)– New trigger for HyperSwap™ (1.8)
• Based on I/O Timeout (MIH) – designed to allow transactions to resume processing more quickly on the secondary volumes
� Server Time Protocol (STP) – Server Time Protocol is designed to allow the GDPS/PPRC
distance to be extended to 100 km without an intermediate (External time Reference (ETR) – 9037) site.
• May help simplify configuration and reduce cost by eliminating the external Sysplex Timer® and by consolidating the currently-separate timer links with coupling links (ISC, ICB).
• STP support planned to be compatible with ETR support.
Enhanced availability
IBM System z
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� The ability to define a capacity limit for not only a single logical partition (LPAR), but for a group of LPARs as well – System z to manage the group of LPARs in such
a way that the sum of the LPAR capacity limits will not be exceeded.
– Capacity limits based on four-hour rolling average– Available on System z9 EC and z9 BC only– Available with z/OS 1.8 and up
Capacity Limit
Capacity Limit
CapacityLimit
LPAR1
Capped
LPAR2 LPAR3 LPAR2LPAR1 LPAR3LPAR1
LPAR3
LPAR2
LPAR1
LPAR3
LPAR2
Individual LPAR capacity limits Group capacity limit
Capped
No cap
No cap
Enhanced sysplex workload management[LPAR] Group Capacity Limits (GCL)
�May help reduce the amount of ‘capping’ �More productive use of ‘white space’ and higher utilization during 4-hour rolling average
IBM System z
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IMAGES
� Up to 60 LPARS on a single server (z/OS 1.7 and IBM System z9 Enterprise Class (z9 EC), up to 30 LPARS with z/OS 1.7 and System z9 Business Class (z9 BC)
� Up to 54 way support (z/OS 1.9 and z9 EC)
� Up to 32 processors per logical partition (z/OS 1.6 with System z9 and IBM eServer zSeries 990 [z990])
� Up to 32 z/OS logical partitions can be configured in a single-image Parallel Sysplex cluster, with shared data (up to 1,024 engines total)
� Support for up to 4 TB of real memory on a single z/OS image (z/OS 1.8). (Up to 512 GB on System z9, up to 256 GB on z990)
I/O CONFIGURATIONS
� MIDAW - Designed to improve FICON performance (z/OS 1.6,1.7)
� Support for 63K subchannels(z/OS 1.4)
� 63.75K subchannels (in sub-channel set =0) (z/OS 1.7 and System z9)
� Support for multiple subchannelsets – 127.75K subchannels (z/OS 1.7 and System z9)
� Support for more than 32K device groups (z/OS 1.8)
� Parallel VARY OFFLINE (z/OS 1.7) and VARY ONLINE (z/OS 1.8) processing – vary up to 32 devices in parallel
� IBM System Storage DS6000™ & DS8000 enhancements
FILES� Support for larger sequential and
EXCP data sets (>64K tracks)
– TSO/E (z/OS 1.9). Larger JES spool, and DFSMShsm and DFSMSrmm™ journal data sets (z/OS 1.7)
� More than 255 extents per VSAM component (z/OS 1.7)
� 64-bit GRS dramatically increases the number of concurrent enqueues that can be supported on a z/OS system (z/OS 1.9)
– z/OS 1.8 - Support for 2,147,483,647 GRS concurrent ENQs
� Language Environment (C/C++) support for sequential data sets larger than 64K tracks and for VSAM extended addressability data sets (z/OS 1.8)
� z/OS UNIX limit on file descriptors per process increased from 128K to 512K
Extending Scale and Flexibility
IBM System z
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Database
Sysplex
Prioritizing workin a single z/OS image,
across LPARs across a sysplex
to your network
�With workload management, you define performance goals and assign a business importance to each goal. You define the goals for work in business terms, and the system decides how much resource, such as CPU and storage, should be given to it to meet the goal. Workload Manager will constantly monitor the system and adapt processing to meet the goals.
�Can allow work to be prioritized based on business needs – Manage to Service Level Agreements�Dynamic resource sharing across mixed application workloads�End-to-end prioritization capability, from the network to the data
WLMNetworkTCP/IP
�Workload Manager (WLM) 1994�Parallel Sysplex® 1994�Sysplex data sharing 1994�TCP/IP Sysplex Distributor 2000�Intelligent Resource Director (IRD)2001�Transactional VSAM (DFSMStvs)2002�TCP/IP Sysplex Health Monitoring 2004�Cross platform monitoring - EWLM2004�WebSphere Application Server 2004�DB2® Stored Procedures / latches
2005�Sysplex Distributor coordination 2005�Load balancing Advisor 2005�Support for zAAP 2005�Group Capacity Limits 2006�Support for zIIP 2007
�Workload Manager (WLM) 1994�Parallel Sysplex® 1994�Sysplex data sharing 1994�TCP/IP Sysplex Distributor 2000�Intelligent Resource Director (IRD)2001�Transactional VSAM (DFSMStvs)2002�TCP/IP Sysplex Health Monitoring 2004�Cross platform monitoring - EWLM2004�WebSphere Application Server 2004�DB2® Stored Procedures / latches
2005�Sysplex Distributor coordination 2005�Load balancing Advisor 2005�Support for zAAP 2005�Group Capacity Limits 2006�Support for zIIP 2007
A long history
Simplifying workload management
IBM System z
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New WLM Service Definition EditorNew WLM Service Definition Editor
�WLM services for “troubled applications.” WLM helps route work away from those applications and subsystems.
�New Resource Group types that are easier to understand and manage.
�More integration with EWLM, facilitating the end-to-end management of workloads across your enterprise.
�A modern UI for managing service class definitions.
�WLM ‘trickle’ support�Promotion of cancelled jobs
�WLM services for “troubled applications.” WLM helps route work away from those applications and subsystems.
�New Resource Group types that are easier to understand and manage.
�More integration with EWLM, facilitating the end-to-end management of workloads across your enterprise.
�A modern UI for managing service class definitions.
�WLM ‘trickle’ support�Promotion of cancelled jobs
New for z/OS 1.8
New for z/OS 1.9
Continued leadership in workload managementz/OS Workload Manager
IBM System z
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� WLM routing services enhanced to recognize zAAP and zIIP capacity – Routing services to return weights for zAAPs and zIIPs - this is in addition to those
returned for CPs, for which weight calculations are unchanged– Improved routing and management for zAAP and zIIP workloads
� WLM “Trickle” Support– Ability to devote a small amount of processor resource to work that otherwise would
“never” get done on a 100% busy system � WLM Promotion of canceled jobs
– Increase priority of canceled jobs – helps get canceled work out of the system quickly so that held resources can be made available in less time
� WLM for z/OS (1.8)– Improved WLM Goal Mode management for zAAP workloads– Improved IFAHONORPRIORITY=YES processing
• New design intended to use CP resource only when zAAP workload goals are expected to be missed - Help maximize the use of zAAP engines
– Alternative option for determining tape I/O priority - If no WLM I/O priority is provided, then SRM is designed to provide the priority.
z/OS 1.9 Optimization and management capabilities
IBM System z
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� Enterprise workload management enhancements (1.8)– EWLM / WLM service class correlation
• WLM to accept classification of work from EWLM – zAAP reporting to EWLM
� A new version of the Common Information Model (CIM) (1.8)– Important standard for cross-platform management– Upgrade of the CIM Server Runtime Environment to version 2.5.1 of OpenPegasus from
the Open Group, the upgrade of the CIM Schema to 2.9– RMF support to enable CIM client applications to subscribe to RMF events and metrics – Upgrade designed to help improve security, reliability, and scalability improvements
� DFSMSrmm enablement for removable media across the enterprise
– CIM agent can support Creation, Change and Deletion of volumes and data sets (1.8)
– Enterprise-wide Query and Display capabilities provided in z/OS 1.7
Enterprise-wide management capability
IBM System z
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� IRMM is a robust middleware product for Linux on System z. IRMM is designed to :
System z
Clients(Tivoli Storage
Manager Servers)Linux onSystem z
z/OS
Tape Management
IRMM DFSMSrmmLinux
AIX®
Windows
Solaris
– Combine the capacity of multiple heterogeneous tape libraries into a single virtual reservoir of tape storage
– Help increase administrator productivity and efficiency with centralized access control, policy-based administration, monitoring, and reporting
– Integrate with mainframe removable media management to provide a central point of management and control for both open systems and z/OS tape
– Help increase resource utilization and help reduce TCO of tape management
Enterprise-wide tape managment on System zIntegrated Removable Media Manager for the Enterprise on System z (IRMM) 5655-S57, Sept 14, 2007
IBM System z
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�Reduced TCO for removable media infrastructure by:
– Centralizing management, administration and reporting services
– Enhancing resource utilization through intelligent, dynamic sharing of libraries, drives and cartridge pools
– Virtualizing libraries, drive pools and cartridge pools
– Helps to eliminate changes or downtime for upgrading storage technology
�Enabling enhanced media protection and security by:
– Tracking the whole media lifecycle including “in-transit” and offsite locations
– Security model including access control
�New efficiencies with DFSMSrmm– Can use the same DFSMSrmm inventory to
manage removable media for z/OS and for distributed
– Extend DFSMSrmm function to distributed: Manage vaulting, retention, media retirement
� Increased productivity– Centralized media management,
administration, and reporting– Simplified, flexible drive provisioning– Integration with Tivoli Storage Manager
Configuration & Maintenance and Tivoli Enterprise Console products
– Monitoring & Reporting� Increased resource utilization
– Implement a common scratch pool.
IRMM ValueInfrastructure simplification and resource optimization to help drive:
IBM System z
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� A new LDAP server for z/OS, IBM Tivoli Directory Se rver for z/OS, designed to improve performance, scalability, auditability, availabilit y, and ease of use.
– This function is available March 30 2007.– May use a z/OS UNIX System Services flat file as a backing store in addition to the existing DB2-based
backend. (May still be backed up to DB2)
� A new z/OS system component, z/OS XML System Servic es (z/OS XML), will be designed to deliver an optimized set of XML parsing services for middleware.
– Initial support provides assembler interface, C/C++ interface planned in future release*– Also planned to be made available on z/OS 1.7
� z/OS UNIX System Services– New commands to help with application portability– Stabilized HFS (1.7)– Improved BPXBATCH (1.8)
� Perl (version 5.8.7) - Part of Ported Tools for z/OS, available June 16, 2006 – Easy to install design – preconfigured and precompiled
� PHP (version 5.1.2) - Part of Ported Tools for z/OS, available May, 2007– Easy to install design – preconfigured and precompiled– Access to DB2 (through the DB2 ODBC driver)
z/OS 1.8 Application Integration Features
IBM System z
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� XL C/C++ improvements
� Easier to specify options for Language Environment ( 1.7) – System-level defaults can be set in parmlib – Application options can be specified in a data set or file
� Improvements for Language Environment’s Preinitiali zed Environments for Authorized Programs (1.8)
– Support for changing the number of system-managed environments dynamically– Improved failure data collection capabilities and more recovery options
� Unicode support for new collation tables needed by middleware applications (1.8)
– Designed to conform to Unicode 4.0 standard
� RMF support of CIM (1.8)� ISPF enhancements (1.7 and 1.8)� XPLINK transition tracing (1.8)
– Can help optimize application performance
Integrating applications on z/OS Leveraging, extending and integrating core applications
IBM System z
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� NEW System REXX facility– Now can run REXX routines (and C/C++ applications) in authorized environment– Designed to allow REXX code to run outside the TSO/E environment, via programming interface or
operator command
� NEW METAL C option in z/OS XL C/C++– Designed for XL C system program development– No Language Environment run-time dependency– Can imbed HLASM statements in a C program
� z/OS XL C/C++ enhancements– Decimal floating point support, compiler options, support for IBM WebSphere Developer for System z
V7, in addition z/OS dbx support for WDz.
� ICSF and RACF support of PKCS#11 (RSA Public Key Cryptography Standard #11 (aka Cryptoki))– Adopting the PKCS#11 standard allows mainframe encryption and centralized key management to be
used by Web-based applications and SSL network environments – Integrating these applications with mainframe security.
� Enhanced UNIX commands help simplify the porting of UNIX applications and shell scripts to z/OS (awk, bc, ed, file, mailx, od, sed, tr, uuencode, and uudecode)
� Language Environment improvements– Continued alignment toward SUSv3 UNIX standard– Too many to list!
z/OS 1.9 Integrating new Applications Supporting Industry and Open Standards
IBM System z
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Announcement:
1. NEW! z/OS XML System Services is enabled to take ad vantage of zAAPs.
Statement of Direction, at a future date:
2. IBM is intends to enable the z/OS XML to take addit ional advantage of zIIPs. (i.e. 100% zIIP redirect, greater than the current (about half) for DRDA)
3. IBM also intends to extend and expand the use of z/ OS XML System Services with additional future enhancements:
� IBM intends to enhance the XML Toolkit for z/OS so eligible workloads use z/OS XML. This allows eligible XML Toolkit processing to exploit zAAP.
� IBM intends to add validating parsing to the z/OS XML component. This extends zAAP and zIIP exploitation to include XML validating parsing workload as well.
August 2007 announcement –z/OS XML System Services*
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z/OS XML System Services exploitation of specialty engines
XML non-validation parsing for:
- DB2 9 inserting/ saving XML data over DRDA
- any SW using z/OS XML System Services in SRB mode
z/OS XML System Services called in SRB mode
z/OS 1.9z/OS 1.8, OA20308
z/OS 1.7 w/ OA16303, OA20308
DB2 9 NFM
The C API for XML System Services is available with z/OS 1.9, rollback APAR for both 1.7 and 1.8 is OA18713
100% of z/OS XML System services parsing eligible for zAAP
September 28 with z/OS V1.9 GA
XML non-validation parsing for:
- DB2 9 inserting/ saving XML data, and XML table loads locally
- any SW using z/OS XML System Services via Assembler or C interface in TCB (task) mode
z/OS XML System Services called in TCB mode
Please note, XML parsing performed in Java already eligible for zAAP
z/OS 1.9, z/OS 1.8,
z/OS 1.7 w/ OA16303
DB2 9 NFM
Same % as the zIIP-eligible work
Today
TBA*100% of z/OS XML System Services parsing eligible for zIIP
SOD*
SOD*
SOD*
Availability
TBA*100% of z/OS XML System Services parsing eligible for zAAP
Select workloadsXML Toolkit for z/OS use of z/OS XML System Services (implies TCB mode)
TBA*100% of z/OS XML System Services parsing eligible for zAAP (TCB mode) or zIIP (SRB mode)
TBA*z/OS XML System Services with validation
XML non-validation parsing for:
- DB2 9 inserting/ saving XML data over DRDA
z/OS XML System Services called in SRB mode from zIIP-eligible workload
RequirementsRedirectExamplesWorkload
IBM System z
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� Support for the VSAM KEYRANGE attribute will not be withdrawn as stated in announcement letter 204-180, dated August 10, 2004.
– IBM recommends that you minimize or eliminate your use of KEYRANGE. Striped data sets are expected to provide better performance than KEYRANGE, and can be viewed as a good replacement for KEYRANGE data sets.
� VSAM data set IMBED or REPLICATE attributes will be removed in the future. – Using these attributes for existing data sets can waste DASD space and can often degrade
performance. IBM recommends that you stop using these attributes.
� z/OS 1.9 will be the last release to support CPU af finity– Meaningless/ obsolete since introduction of PR/SM in most all cases– Attempts to assign CPU affinity will be ignored by future releases
� In a future release, Communications Server will rem ove support for:– Network Database (NDB) function; consider using the distributed data facility (DDF) provided
by z/OS DB2, and the DB2 Run-Time Client instead.– The DHCP server; consider replacing it with a DHCP server on Linux for System z. – The Boot Information Negotiation Layer (BINL) function; consider using IBM Tivoli
Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment in its place.
Statements of Direction* (Aug. 2007)IBM plans to take the following actions in the future:
IBM System z
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Statements of Direction* (Jan. & Feb. 2007)IBM plans to take the following actions in the future:� IBM plans that z/OS 1.9 will be last release to sup port ISPF panels in DFSORT ®
– Support for JCL to sort, copy or merge will continue to be available.
� z/OS 1.9 is planned to be the last release of z/OS Communications Server which will support the configuration of Traffic Regulation (TR ) policy as part of the Quality of Service discipline. – The TR configuration function remains supported, but IBM recommends that you
implement it as part of the Intrusion Detection Services (IDS) policy configuration made available in z/OS 1.8.
� To replace both the z/OS.e operating system and the NALC pricing metric with the zNALC pricing metric. IBM intends:– For z/OS.e Version 1 Release 8 to be the final release of the z/OS.e operating system. – To allow ordering of z/OS.e 1.8 until the planned withdrawal from marketing in October
2007. IBM intends to provide service for z/OS.e 1.8 until its planned end of service in Sept. 2009.
– To continue marketing of the NALC pricing metric until fourth quarter 2007 after which you cannot request NALC pricing for any OS/390 or z/OS license
IBM System z
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IBM intends to – Make it possible to define a logical partition (LP) group capacity limit on
System z9 servers.
– Enhance the IBM Encryption Facility for z/OS Encryption Servicesfeature to use the OpenPGP standard, RFC 2440
– Support offer capabilities within the IBM TotalStorage® portfolio to support outboard encryption and to leverage the centralized key management functions planned for z/OS ICSF (tape encryption announced)
– Support more than 32 processors in a single logical partition on the z9 EC in the future.
– Announce a version of New Application License Charges (NALC) intended to help improve the price/performance of z/OS in certain new workload environments by delivering subcapacity pricing in 2H2006.
– In a future release of z/OS Communications Server, support for the in-stack version of the TN3270 Server is planned to be discontinued. The standalone TN3270 server introduced in z/OS 1.6 offers significant advantages, and remains supported.
ibm.com /servers/eserver/zseries/zos/zos_sods.html
Group Capacity Limits
Encryption Facility
Encryption on Storage
Subsystem
Increase z/OS scale
Sub-capacity pricing
Communications
z/OS Statements of Direction* (August 2006)
IBM System z
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� z/OS Version 1 Release 9– Previewed Feb 6 2007– Announcement Tuesday August 7, 2007– Ordering starts September 14– GA / shipment September 28
� z/OS 1.8– October 9, 2007, recommended last date for ordering z/OS 1.8 no-charge ServerPac and
CBPDO (z/OS 1.8 SystemPac available thru June 2008)– z/OS.e 1.8 - October 9, 2007, last date for ServerPac, CBPDO, and SystemPac
� z/OS (and z/OS.e) 1.7 planned end of service is Sep tember 2008*
� z/OS (and z/OS.e) 1.6 end of service is September 3 0, 2007
z/OS Key Dates *
IBM System z
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z/OS.e 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8 supported on z800, z890, and z9 BC only. There is no z/OS.e 1.9x1 – IBM eServer zSeries 990 (z990) compatibility or exploitation feature required (no longer orderable)
End of Service
Coexists with
z/OS...
Planned Ship Date
3/07 1.7
3/07 1.8
9/07 1.8
9/08* 1.9
9/09* 1.10*
9/10* 1.11* 9/07
9/11* 1.12* 9/08*
9/12* 1.13* 9/09*
R10* x x x x x x
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G5/G6Multiprise
®
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DS8000 DS6000
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� z/OS 1.9 Coexistence-supported releases*Release Coexistence-supportedz/OS 1.9 z/OS 1.7, z/OS 1.8, z/OS 1.9z/OS 1.10* z/OS 1.8, z/OS 1.9, z/OS 1.10*z/OS 1.11* z/OS 1.9, z/OS 1.10*, z/OS 1.11*
z/OS Support Summary
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Migration to z/OS 1.9 Considerations
IBM System z
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� BCP 1-byte console ID support removal (z/OS 1.8)– Stull use the Console ID racking Facility– Change programs that reference unsupported console functions.
� Remove your run-time dependency on the C/C++ IBM Op en Class ® Libraries (1.9)– Use the Standard C++ Library instead
� SNA Services – Remove AnyNet definitions (z/OS 1.8)– Consider Enterprise Extender
� Run the TN3270 telnet server as a separate address space (z/OS 1.9)– Must do this before R9 to keep Telnet functions
� DFSMShsm copy pool R8-format coexistence (z/OS 1.8)– FRBACKUP against a copy pool converts to R8 format, then, only fast replication
command on pre-R8 system is FRRECOV from DASD� JES2 – some changes (z/OS 1.9)
– A lot less than R7 ... Exits 8, 31, 42, 45, and any exits using JCTID.� It is recommended to migrate from HFS to zFS
– zFS is the strategic file system for z/OS UNIX and continues to be enhanced to provide superior performance, reliability and data integrity.
z/OS 1.9 Migration Considerations (from z/OS 1.7)
IBM System z
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� System z File System (zFS) can now be used as the r oot– zFS is the strategic z/OS UNIX Systems Services file system. – The Hierarchical File System (HFS) has been stabilized– Start your conversion from HFS to zFS after your migration to z/OS 1.7
• Use z/OS 1.7's tool, BPXWH2Z to help� Examine JES2 exit routines and modify if needed
– Changes have been made to JES2 exit routines due to JES2 structure changes � Support for the following has been removed:
– ISAM data sets– JOBCAT and STEPCAT – JES2 compatibility mode– OS/390® 2.10 C/C++ (ISO C/C++ compiler is still supported) – 1-byte Console IDs support
• Use the Console ID Tracking Facility, introduced in z/OS 1.4 Consoles Enhancement feature with the latest exclusion list now.
� FUTURE….Remove your dependency on the C/C++ IBM Ope n Class (IOC) Dynamic Link Libraries (DLLs)
– Use the Standard C++ Library instead
See z/OS 1.8 Migration guide for more information.
Reminder: Effective January 15, 2006 the
S/390® Service Update Facility (SUF) was
discontinued.
z/OS 1.8 Migration Considerations
IBM System z
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Announced with z/OS 1.7 � z/OS Communications Server will remove support for BIND DNS 4.9.3 function in a future release. � VSAM support for IMBED, REPLICATE, & KEYRANGE will be removed in a future release.� DFSORT ISPF panels will be removed in a future release.� Support for sharing zSeries File System (zFS) file systems contained in multi-file system aggregates to be shared across a
sysplex will be withdrawn in the release after z/OS 1.7.� z/OS 1.7 is planned to be the last release to include the Firewall Technologies component of the Integrated Security Services
element.� z/OS 1.7 is planned to be the last release in which z/OS Communications Server will support: Configuration profile block
definition statements (ASSORTEDPARMS and KEEPALIVEOPTIONS), The PAGTSNMP subagent, Defining EE TGs with multiple SAP addresses, AnyNet®
� z/OS 1.7 is planned to be the last release to support 1-byte Console IDs. � Support for zFS multi-file system aggregates will be withdrawn in a future release.� IBM intends to provide a VSAM Java database connectivity (JDBC) Connector in the future, not in 2005 as previously stated.� Support for the TCP/IP, z/OS UNIX, Language Environment, Parallel Sysplex, ISPF, and RMF plug-ins for msys for Setup will
be withdrawn in the release following z/OS 1.7. IBM intends to deliver z/OS setup and configuration improvements in the future. The DB2 V8 plug-in is not affected. The TCP/IP plug-in will be made available via the Web and will not require msys for Setup
� z/OS 1.7 is planned to be the last release to support the z/OS msys for Operations element.
Announced with z/OS 1.8� IBM intends to stabilize the prelinker. The prelinker is designed to be used with the linkage editor. Note: The Binder provides
additional function, and is not stabilized� z/OS 1.8 is planned to be the last release to support APPC communication between HCD and HCM. TCP/IP communication
remains supported� z/OS 1.8 is planned to be the last release to include the C/C++ IBM Open Class (IOC) Dynamic Link Libraries (DLLs). You
should plan to migrate to the standard C/C++ libraries, see the IBM Open Class Library Transition Guide.
Additional migration considerations, continued*
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z/OS 1.7z/OS 1.8z/OS 1.9
Summary
IBM System z
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� Improved ease of use – Health Checker for z/OS – More checks, integrated
in z/OS, and new user interface – Hardware Configuration Manager – can simplify
I/O configuration and planning– SMP/E Internet Service Delivery – can simplify and
automate service acquisition – IBM Configuration Assistant for z/OS
Communications Server (was the z/OS Network Security Configuration Assistant )
– IBM OMEGAMON z/OS Management Console (separate product, Web download)
� Networking and Security– JES2 NJE over TCP/IP– Improved FTP confidence level checking– Sysplex networking enhancements: z/OS Load
Balancing Advisor, improved Sysplex Distributor and WLM interaction.
– Networking security improved with Application Transparent TLS, IPSec, and NAT Traversal
– Encryption Facility for z/OS to help protect data shared with partners, suppliers, and customers (separate product)
– RACF enhancements– 64-bit cryptography support in ICSF, AES (128)
support for TLS and SSL applications
� Scalability– 32-way z/OS image– Support for MIDAW and Multiple Channel
Subsys. (with System z9)– Support for larger sequential data sets,
more than 255 extents per VSAM� Availability
– z/OS Load Balancing Advisor – Improved management with WLM and Sysplex
Distributor – IP Automatic Takeover when IP stack is not
healthy – z/OS UNIX System Services dynamic service
activation may reduce the need to IPL– Improved GDPS options for high volume apps
with XRC+� Application and data serving support
– Improvements to Language Environment,
zSeries File System (zFS), C/C++, z/OS UNIX System Services
– Support for zAAP and ZIIP
z/OS 1.7 improvements
IBM System z
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� Improved ease of use – Health Checker for z/OS – improved
framework to help make it easier to write checks, more checks available
– Hardware Configuration Manager – vastly improved graphics and user interface, can simplify I/O configuration and planning
– IBM Configuration Assistant for z/OS Communications Server – Improved to allow you to configure IPSec, Application Transparent TLS, QoS, and IDS policy using a consistent user interface
– SDSF, ISPF, RRS, and RMF improvements� Networking and Security
– JES3 NJE support for TCP/IP planned*– Enhanced connectivity for Enterprise
Extender, FTP, Telnet, and z/OS SMB Server– Sysplex networking enhancements: multiple
TCP/IP subplex support, improved network monitoring and recoverability, dynamic DNS, and performance improvements with Sysplex Distributor prioritizations
– RACF improvements– Support for SCEP, AES 128 bit, SAF identity
tokens
� Scalability– Support for up to 4TB real memory as well as larger sequential
data sets– Support for more: concurrent ENQs, UNIX file descriptors,
device groups� Availability
– Improved backup and recovery with more DFSMS Fast Replication options
– Improved Sysplex: dynamic DNS, new LDAP with tighter affinity to sysplex, choice of master console, improved UNIX System services, and CFRM
– Improved GDPS: enhanced PPRC, improved UNIX latch detection, new HyperSwap trigger for more proactive disk swap
– Server Time Protocol planned*� Application and data serving support
– Vastly improved LDAP server planned*, designed for improved performance, scalability, auditability, availability, and ease of use
– New high performance XML parser integrated in z/OS– Support for latest Perl– C/C++, UNIX System Services, Unicode support, and XPLINK
tracing improvements� Management
– Improved WLM management of zAAP and JES2 batch workloads
– Support for new CIM, better integration with EWLM– LPAR Group Capacity Limits– Support for “troubled’ applications
z/OS 1.8 improvements
IBM System z
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� Improved ease of use – NEW System REXX (SYSREXX) facility - SYSREXX execs can
be used to automate complex operator commands and other system functions.
– Expanded IBM Health Checker for z/OS - Supports checks written with new SYSREXX facility - easier to write your own checks. New health checks for z/OS UNIX System Services, TSO/E, the Virtual Storage Manager of z/OS BCP, and z/OS Communications Server.
– Hardware Configuration Manager - improved reporting – Configuration Assistant for z/OS Communications Server updated – CF maintenance and management updates for improved
performance and problem determination – ISPF improved to edit and browse UNIX and ASCII files – one
editor does it– Lots of DFSMS improvements.
� Networking and Security– z/OS Communication Server adds Network Security Services
(NSS) function for centralized IPSec certificate storage and monitoring and management.
– z/OS Communications Server adds Policy-Based Routing (PBR) function that allows outbound network traffic to be separated by application needs
– RACF support for Java user and group SAF admin class (JSEC SAF) Easier admin - RACF user and group administration can now be written in Java
– RACF to support passwords/phrases up to 100 characters -Easier to share passwords, tokens, key rings between systems
– PKI Services and RACF improvements in support of digital certificates
– FTP and TN3270 use of App. Transparent-Transport Layer Security (AT-TLS)
z/OS 1.9 improvements� Scalability, Availability, and Performance
– 54-way support (the sum of CPs, zIIPs, and zAAPs) within a single system image
– TSO/E support for large (>64K TRK) sequential data sets– Improved record data collection, management, and performance
monitoring - SMF can be configured to use System Logger to write data to a log stream. Allow support of far higher SMF data write rates when a coupling facility is used (as compared to writing to SMF data sets).
– Parallel Sysplex provides improved: System-Managed Coupling Facility (CF) Structure Duplexing, Couple data set I/O performance and throughput, and SFM (Sysplex Failure Manager for z/OS)
– Improved Consoles processing with Message Flood Automation– OSA Express2 performance improved with z/OS Communication
server Dynamic LAN Idle– Performance improvements with: Language Environment, zFS, and
additional virtual storage constraint relief.
� Application and data serving support– NEW System REXX facility– NEW METAL C option in z/OS XL C/C++– z/OS XL C/C++ enhancements– ICSF and RACF support of PKCS#11 (RSA Public Key
Cryptography Standard #11 (aka Cryptoki))– Enhanced UNIX commands help simplify the porting of UNIX
� Management– WLM routing services enhanced to recognize zAAP and zIIP
capacity – WLM “Trickle” Support– WLM Promotion of canceled jobs– EWLM Application Response Measurement (ARM) 4.1 support– Updated CIM (Common Information Model) Server for z/OS