I thought that the zIIP was proprietary to IBM, I guess not anymore. A couple of snippets from the "DBTA 5 Minute Briefing". Among the CA solutions announced today is Unicenter NetMaster Network Management for TCP/IP, which offloads statistical analysis of packet flows by its Packet Analyzer component and the trace processing performed by its SmartTrace component to one or more zIIP engines. Another product, BrightStor CA-Vtape Virtual Tape System, frees up capacity on general purpose processors by offloading its processing to zIIP engines, thereby reducing the cost of tape storage while adding greater scalability and reliability to virtual tape implementations, CA said. Also announced was BrightStor Tape Encryption, which employs zIIP engines to reduce general processor capacity requirements, enabling customers to protect data with existing hardware. CA also unveiled Unicenter NeuMICS Resource Management, which enables system administrators to determine workloads that will deliver maximum ROI through the zIIP processor. Additional CA solutions, including the CA IDMS and CA DATACOM database management systems, will exploit zIIP over the next 12 to 18 months, according to the company. "It is kind of a slow, steady build towards serious exploitation of the zIIP," said Re. "I think where we would like to end up is that the customer could think of that zIIP engine almost as an embedded management appliance. All of the management function runs there, all of the stuff that you really don't want to use general mainframe MIPS for ends up on that zIIP engine - it saves the customer a lot of money and gives him a lot of flexibility about where to put these different product functions."
"Craddock, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU> 02/14/2007 08:45 AM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU> To IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU cc Subject Re: CA and zIIPs > Don't know about the rest of the 'stuff' in the announcement, but the DB2 > Detector item doesn't really mean a whole lot, I don't think. Detector > gets > it's data by hooking the SQL PC's. I would think that that means the > Detector code has no choice but to run on whatever processor the operating > system has chosen for the SQL statement. There may be more to this, but I > think that part of the announcement is just stating the obvious. You're correct about that part. For Detector, it's just stating the obvious. The whole announcement is a lot more comprehensive though. There are products that merely observe the behavior of work on the zIIP. They would be used for planning and tuning and other vendors have similar function too. However, the real meat of the announcement is that several of our products really are exploiting zIIP engines to offload work from the general purpose engines. They are using the formal IBM interfaces that allow them to run on a zIIP. So that's considerably different than just being a casual bystander. And there will be more coming. Maybe it's not your father's CA after all? CC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
