zIIPs were available on z9 servers. >From IBM announcements: The IBM z Systems Integrated Information Processor (zIIP) is available on the IBM z13 processor, IBM zEnterprise (zEnterprise™), System z10, and System z9 servers. It is designed to help free-up general computing capacity and lower overall total cost of computing for select data and transaction processing workloads for business intelligence (BI), ERP and CRM, and select network encryption workloads on the mainframe.
There are other conversations one could have about migrations. In our history, going from version to version of the OS has had hurdles. Think about MVS/XA to MVS/ESA to OS/390. But I would say those hurdles are minimal to non-existent today. Going from a release to a release to z/OS could be compared to a maintenance upgrade. 1.13 to 2.2 is not earth shattering. Now the discussion of exploiting the new features in new releases may have some effort needed to implement. See Marna Walle's SHARE sessions on Migration. They are the defacto word on migration (IMHO), and will point to PARMLIB and Exit reviews. The other conversation about hardware upgrades could be discussed from a monetary point of view. Certainly new hardware has costs. But the benefit of new technology and exploitation might lead to needing less expensive resources than what was previously required. Examples might be old COBOL programs using new compiler technology on new processors could lead to reducing batch windows. SMT for zIIP and IFL workloads could possibly reduce the number of specialty engines required. One could say that the cost of MIPS on newer hardware is less than the predecessors. Certainly the is a z13 or z13S size that would fit most workloads and wallets. Value to cost is definitely a good topic for discussion. zN -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ed Jaffe Sent: Friday, July 15, 2016 8:29 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Any Gotchas going from V1.13 to V2.2 On 7/15/2016 4:59 AM, Vernooij, CP (ITOPT1) - KLM wrote: > The gotcha with the z9 is, that it out of support and you can't have anything > modified or built into the machine anymore. Even converting a built-in > processor into a zIIP is 'buying new hardware' which is not possible anymore. > Anyway not by IBM. The z9 "gotcha" is even more significant than that. zIIP was introduced with z10. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA 90245 http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu <mailto:lists...@listserv.ua.edu> with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
