On Thursday, 04/27/2006 at 11:50 EST, Alan Ackerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That announcement keeps talking about "the System z environment". New > terminology? 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 cannot > figure out if ANY of the > new stuff will work on our z900. IBM maintains its sterling record for > incomprehensible > announcements. (First kill all the lawyers. Then hire someone who was an
> English major, not a > computer-science major. Sigh!) For hardware enhancements, nothing goes back to the z900/z800. *Some* go back to z890/z990/z9-109. *Some* go "back" only to the z9-109 (the first generation of the z9-class machine). > We have two z9-109s coming in the next month -- but that one z900 will probably > keep us from > making any use of z9-109-only features. (Our last non-LPAR VM system.) These > new z9-109s > may have been renamed z9-109 EC, but the paperwork from IBM so far does not say > so. Maybe > the new name only applies to systems ordered after today? The z9 EC (not "z9-109 EC") is a not just a renamed z9-109. It also represents a functional upgrade, just as it would had we left the name "z9-109". As usual, if you have a maintenence contract, the upgrade from an older z9 EC (a z9-109) to a new z9 EC is free. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
