System z is the new term for zSeries. Anything referred to as System z is the new
mainframe architecture. The announcement does refer to the new features, some of them
backward compatible with the z990/z900/z890/z800, some of them not. There is a section in
the announcement that mentions which is which.
It is possible that these new machines are the EC, unless BofA has some early ship
arrangement. The new BC machines aren't available to mere mortals until the end of May.
Alan Ackerman wrote:
On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:22:44 -0400, Richards.Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
om> wrote:
Neale,
What about this one? PAV support and more for z/VM 5.2!
http://www.ibm.com/isource/cgi-bin/goto?it=usa_annred&on=206-084
That announcement keeps talking about "the System z environment". New ter
minology? What's
"the System z environment"? Do these new features work on all z* machine,
or only z9 machines?
There is a reverence to Hardware Requirements that gives:
IBM System z9 Enterprise Class
IBM System z9 Business Class
IBM zSeries 990
IBM zSeries 890
IBM zSeries 900
IBM zSeries 800
But then several places say "exclusive to the z9 EC and z9 BC" -- I canno
t figure out if ANY of the
new stuff will work on our z900. IBM maintains its sterling record for in
comprehensible
announcements. (First kill all the lawyers. Then hire someone who was an
English major, not a
computer-science major. Sigh!)
We have two z9-109s coming in the next month -- but that one z900 will pr
obably keep us from
making any use of z9-109-only features. (Our last non-LPAR VM system.) T
hese new z9-109s
may have been renamed z9-109 EC, but the paperwork from IBM so far does n
ot say so. Maybe
the new name only applies to systems ordered after today?
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