On Thu, 7 Jul 2005 11:25:19 -0500, Paul Dineen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Bill, > >A zAAP (zSeries Application Assist Processor) is a processor engine which >absorbs a percentage of JAVA workload, available for z990/z890. A large >benefit of a zAAP is that OS software charges don't apply to it's use. > >http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zaap/ > And in case that doesn't sound familiar, you may have heard it referred to as an IFA (Integrated Facility for Applications - similar to Linux IFL). That was the name before the marketing people at IBM got involved. You still see that name used in various places like RMF reports and the HMC. Cheers, Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Programming expert at http://Search390.com/ateExperts/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html