IBM i 7.1 & TRs CEC 2012

IBM Power Systems

IBM i
Latest & Greatest – 7.1 & TR Features
Steve Will - Chief Architect – IBM i

© 2012 IBM Corporation

IBM Power Systems

Agenda

IBM i – the Power Systems Era

IBM i – Major Releases in the Power Systems Era

IBM i – Technology Refreshes and other post 7.1 Enhancements

IBM i – Future Directions

2 A system designed for business © 2012 IBM Corporation

IBM Power Systems

IBM i
The Power Systems Era


IBM Power Systems

IBM Power Systems

i550 i570 i595 2008
i525
i515

System i Power Systems
Power 560 Power 570 Power 595
Power 550
BladeCenter Power 520
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System p
p570 p595
BladeCenter p550
JS21/JS22 p520


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NACG moved from x86 to IBM i

NACG employees were losing faith in an
unreliable infrastructure based on Dell servers
running Microsoft Windows “The proven reliability of the IBM
Power 570 servers meant that the
Outages have been eliminated, and they outages which had been an everyday
achieved a 52% reduction in year over experience for our employees quickly
year IT costs became a distant memory.”

David Booth, CIO
North American Construction Group


IBM Power Systems

RPG RPG
RPG Cobol
Cobol Java
Java PHP
PHP

OS/400

OS/400 Hypervisor

AS/400 Hardware Power Hypervisor
Internal Storage
Internal Storage Unique IOA/IOP
Unique IOA/IOP
Power System Hardware

Power Systems


IBM Power Systems

Lower Acquisition and Ongoing Costs

ITG Management Brief: Value Proposition for IBM Power Systems Servers and IBM i - Minimizing Costs and Risks for Midsize Businesses; January 2011

Acquisition costs
– 18% less than x86 servers with Windows Server and SQL Server databases
– 43% less than x86 servers with Linux and Oracle databases
Three-year ongoing costs – full time equivalent administrators
– 55% less than Windows / SQL Server
– 60% less than Linux / Oracle


IBM Power Systems

Optimized systems
Designed for Business
Answers


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Pentair moved from x86 to IBM i

The integration of DB2 within the
Pentair’s rapid growth had yielded their x86 operating system provided major
based SAP infrastructure unreliable and benefits including scalability, high
complex.
availability, reliability, and excellent
performance.
Pentair has lowered operating cost and Cost savings offset – by wide margins –
simplified infrastructure with IBM i.
the short-term apparent savings of
buying ‘less expensive’ servers.

Wendy Marker, IT Manager
Pentair


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POWER7 is just what the doctor ordered for medical billing provider

“With all the money we’re saving, along with the extra
performance, the decision to migrate to the new Power
750 was really a no-brainer. By replacing all those older
servers with a single, new Power 750 server, we found that
our combined hardware and software maintenance would
AdvantEdge Healthcare Solutions Challenge: be reduced by about 90 percent over a three-year period.
So the server ended up paying for itself”
– 8 older servers with earlier i5/OS releases Manny DaSilva, Chief Technology Officer
– Maintenance contracts that would cost A single POWER7 750 Results:
over $500,000, over the next three years.
– One footprint at production and DR sites
Optimized Business Technology instead of 8 at each
– Consolidated Virtualized servers & DBs – 300 % improvement in nightly backup and
– High performance secure “server to reconciliation process
server” data interchange – Significant savings in power consumption,
– Positioned for growth – only 25% of cooling and footprint.
system capacity utilized so far
– Seamless migration from V5.3 & V5.4 “As far as I’m concerned, IBM i is the most stable platform out
to IBM i 6.1 there… it’s easy to plan on a life span of five or six years….
The migration was incredibly smooth. When production was
switched over to the new server, nobody noticed anything
except their jobs were running faster. I thought the service
provided by Sirius was outstanding” Manny DaSilva, CTO

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IBM i
Major Releases in the Power Systems Era


IBM Power Systems

IBM i Roadmap

2008 2010 2011-13


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Building a Foundation for the Future

IBM i 6.1 Foundational Highlights

– Solid State Drive support with unique IBM i performance advantages

– Java Virtual Machine, shared with AIX & Linux

– Systems Director Navigator web-based console

– PowerHA disk clustering

– Support for BladeCenter – Step One for Modular

– SAN DS8000 performance optimization – Step One in SAN

– PowerVM virtual storage for i partitions – Step One in POWERVM Clouds


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IBM i 6.1 Java & WebSphere Performance Improvements

i 5.4 GA i 6.1 GA
Test Environment
1400 IBM Technology for Java VM
+68% +78%
Transactions per Second

1200 WebSphere Application Server 6.1
1000 DB2
800 2-tier environment
600 POWER5+ 2.2Ghz 2-core partition
Trade 6.1 (stock trading) workload
400
200
0
Native JDBC Toolbox JDBC

Improvements primarily in JDBC, DB2 and Java
– Includes 64K pages (only available on POWER5+ and beyond)
Some improvements available via i5.4 PTFs
– But majority of improvements available only in i 6.1

•Improvements shown above are valid only for these specific workloads -- Your results may vary and are dependent on the application.


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Total integration with IBM i 7.1

Information into insights
Simplify supplier data exchange with native XML in DB2® for i

Data protection and compliance
Secure critical client data with DB2 column level encryption

Resiliency without downtime
Implement multi-site disaster recovery with PowerHA SystemMirror

Virtualization without limits
Test a new release with ease by hosting i 7.1 on a i 6.1 server

Management with automation
Reduce costs of fix management with IBM Systems Director

Workload optimizing systems
Automate exploitation of solid state drives

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DB2 for i – XML Support

XML is an industry standard for exchanging
information between customers, suppliers, and
partners

Rich XML Support now available with DB2 for i
1. XML data type stores XML documents supporting database operations
2. Decompose (shred) XML documents into relational columns
3. Generate XML documents from existing relational data

OmniFind Text Search Server provides support for
searching XML documents
PO # Customer # Date Purchase
– Search elements of an XML document (e.g., customer name = Smith) Order
– SQL statements use OmniFind to search the XML documents
– Available with IBM i for no additional charge 123 2468 5/27/09 ~
XML
~
Strategic replacement for XML Extenders Program 456 1357 6/10/09 ~
Product XML
~


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DB2 for i - Additional Enhancements
Column Level Encryption First Last City State Credit
– Allows for transparent (no application changes) encryption of a Name Name Card#
specific column in a database table accessed through SQL or
native Megan Jones Minneapolis Minnesota *&^%$*
– Solutions from tool providers including Patrick Townsend, Casey Smith Ames Iowa $%@^
Linoma Software & nuBridges supply encryption algorithms

Application Developers
– MERGE, Array support, Global Variables, and consuming Result
Sets in RPG and COBOL allows for more powerful and efficient On-Demand Performance
programming Center
– Rich tools for DB2 for i
Performance – Including Visual Explain
– Adaptive Query Processing can modify query plan while the – Adaptive Query Processing
query is running to significantly improve performance can automatically build an
– Advanced SQE query optimizer now supports native logical files index to replace table scan
…taking queries from
Management 30 minutes to 1 minute
– New tooling to monitor long running operations
– SQL_CANCEL procedure to cancel long running queries.
– Random or Sequential I/O statistics to identify tables that can
benefit from SSDs

DB2 is an integrated database supporting transaction
processing and business intelligence applications


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DB2 Web Query – Intuitive, Insightful, Extensible
Fast, easy access to business information assets for query, reporting and analysis

Authoring Tool
Authoring Tool
“Intuitive”
“Intuitive”

Reports & Graphs
Reports & Graphs
“Flexible delivery”

Dashboards
Dashboards
“Insightful”
“Insightful”

OLAP
OLAP
“Extensible”
“Extensible”


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PowerHA SystemMirror for i
Asynchronous Geographic Mirroring for
multi-site DR solution
– IBM i based mirroring for geographically dispersed
systems
– Asynchronously mirrors disk writes to target
IBM i IBM i
system PowerHA
PowerHA
– Support for automatic failover
– Supports IASPs on integrated disk, SAN, and
virtual disk IASP IASP

LUN level switching for local HA
solution
– Switch IASP on DS8000 or DS6000 between local
systems
IBM i IBM i
– Support for automatic failover PowerHA PowerHA
– Supports native and VIOS with NPIV attached
SANs

PowerHA provides a robust, simple to manage High IASP
Availability and Disaster Recovery solution


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Virtualization Enhancements for IBM i

Deploy new IBM i 7.1 partitions
IBM i 6.1 can host I/O for i 7.1 partition VIOS VIOS
Minimize change while deploying new release IBM i 6.1 IBM i 7.1 IBM i 6.1
iSCSI attached System x and BladeCenter
POWER6 & POWER7

Maintain current IBM i 6.1 partitions
IBM i 7.1 can host I/O for i 6.1 partition
Continue to run applications with IBM i 6.1 while
leveraging new capabilities of IBM i 7.1 VIOS VIOS
iSCSI attached System x and BladeCenter
IBM i 7.1 IBM i 7.1 IBM i 6.1

POWER6 & POWER7
PowerVM VIOS can host
IBM i 7.1 and 6.1 partitions
AIX and Linux partitions
VIOS supports advanced virtualization technologies
including Active Memory Sharing and NPIV VIOS
VIOS IBM i 7.1 IBM i 6.1

POWER6 & POWER7
Storage Virtualization can reduce costs
while improving IT infrastructure flexibility

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IBM i integration with BladeCenter and System x Enhancements

iSCSI Software Target Supports Higher Speed
Connection
– Replaces current iSCSI adapter on Power server side with
software in IBM i
– Uses Ethernet adapters and network to connect Power to
BladeCenter and System x
– Supports 1 Gb and 10 Gb Ethernet connections
IBM Power Server with IBM i
– Can connect to iSCSI adapter or software initiator on
BladeCenter and System x

Supported Environments
– Windows Server 2008 and 2003 Server editions
– VMware ESX 4.0
– VMware ESXi Embedded 4.0

New installation wizard
– Simplifies setup of integration environment and then starts install
of Windows Server or VMware operating system

IBM i provides advanced storage management for x86 systems
enabling cost reductions and better risk management


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IBM i workload optimization for Solid State Drives (SSD)

Total integration with IBM i of database, storage
management and performance management
enable automated SSD optimization

IBM i automatically moves most active data to
SSDs
Associated Bank Reduces Batch Run Time
Clients and ISVs can easily optimize applications by 40% with SSDs*
for SSD
– DB2 for i supports specifying SSD as target for specific, Batch Performance Runs
high use files
5
SSD Analyzer Tool 4 40% Reduction
– Designed to help determine if SSDs can help improve application
performance

Hours
3
– Runs on IBM i 5.4, 6.1 or 7.1
– Plus additional enhancements and utilities 2

1

0

72 Drives 72 Drives + 8 SSD 60 Drives + 4 SSD

SSDs can improve performance of long running batch jobs 72 Drives replaced by
or queries. IBM i can easily get the right data on the SSDs 60 Drives + 4 SSD
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# Download http://www.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/PRS3780

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Systems Management Enhancements

Systems Director Navigator for i
– Ability to manage a target IBM i 5.4, 6.1 or 7.1 system
Navigator management server runs in one place
One browser used to manage multiple environments
Extends Navigator management to IBM i 5.4
– Support for Tape and Journal management and BRMS

Performance Management Enhancements
– More metrics into Collection Services: DS8000, 12X Bus,
Save/Restore, and Tape
– Performance Data Investigator is enhanced to include Disk
response time and Java memory perspectives

Systems Director Enhancements 6.1.1 6.1.2 6.2
Systems Director 2Q 09 4Q 09 2Q 10
– New functions for managing IBM i
– Management server runs on AIX, Linux, or Windows
– Manages IBM i 6.1 and 7.1 environments Support Group and CUM
PTFs

6.1.2 Agent for IBM i

Systems Director provides an integrated platform Additional monitors
management solution for IBM i and heterogeneous servers


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Application Runtime Expert for i
Tool to verify runtime attributes of an application to
help resolve situations where application is not
starting or working properly
– Creates a template for well running application
– Performs health check against current environment
– Identifies differences between template and actual runtime
attributes
– Provides the option to fix many of the differences found

Application Runtime Attributes
– File/Directory Authorities and Attributes
– Attributes in property/http/xml configuration files
– User profiles
– PTFs
– System Values
– Products installed
– TCP/IP Network verification and configuration
– Environment variables
– Ports in use

Problem diagnostic, the first stop
– Support users without *ALLOBJ authority to create templates
– Run specified commands and verify results in template
– Collect specified spool/log files and package everything into
one easy-to-retrieve archive

Application Runtime Expert can quickly identify
issues in order to get applications back online
5733-ARE IBM Application Runtime Expert for i

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IBM i Network Upgrade Simplifies Upgrading Multiple Systems

IBM 6.1 Base Support
• Installation of LPs, and PTFs onto a IBM i 6.1 system

October 2009 – 6.1.1 Support
• Upgrade to IBM i 6.1.1 from i 6.1 system
DVD
April 2010 – 7.1 Support
Electronic
• Upgrade to IBM i 7.1 from i 6.1 or i 6.1.1
software
distribution
December 2010
• Scratch install of new system
• IBM i 6.1, IBM i 6.1.1, or IBM i 7.1
NFS Server
Install / Restore

Save IBM or
Custom Image
SAVSYS, SAVOBJ,
SAVLICPGM… to NFS Device
POWER6 server
POWER7 server
IBM i 6.1 (CRTDEVOPT *SRVLAN)
* All statements regarding IBM's future direction and intent are subject to change or
withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives only.
IBM i 6.1 or later

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Web Server Enhancements

IBM HTTP Server for i running Apache
– Latest Apache 2.2 release
– Payment Card Industry (PCI) Compliant

IBM Technology for Java
– Java 5 and 6 support for 32-bit and 64-bit JVMs
– No longer shipping Classic JVM

Integrated Web Application Server
– Part of IBM i
– Supports running Java 5 and 6 applications

Integrated Web Services Server
– Up to 2x performance improvement
– Static WSDL support providing enhanced flexibility
– Now supports programs in IASP

Integrated Web technologies easily
support new application deployments


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WebSphere Support for IBM i
WebSphere Application Server
– WebSphere Application Server Express V6.1, V7.0 and
V8.0
Access information
– WebSphere Application Server V6.1, V7.0 and V8.0
– WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment
V6.1, V7.0 and V8.0

Customer retention
WebSphere Portal
– WebSphere Portal V6.1.5 and V7

WebSphere Commerce V7
– Feature pack support coming soon Operational efficiency

WebSphere Message and Queuing
– WebSphere MQ V7.01.8
– WebSphere MQ V7.1 – NEW!! Cost reduction
• RPG, Cobol, C Client included!
– WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition V7.0.4


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Lotus Support for IBM i 7.1
Lotus Notes and Domino
– Collaboration beyond e-mail
– Domino 8.5.1, 8.5.2, 8.5.3

Lotus Sametime
– Real-Time community collaboration
– Sametime 8.5.1, 8.5.2

Lotus Quickr
– Share everyday content IBM i Supports Consolidation of
– Quickr 8.5, 8.5.1 x86 Workloads

Additional Products
– Enterprise Integrator 8.5.2, 8.5.3
– Forms 3.5.1

IBM i offers platform for consolidation of
Lotus collaboration solutions

For the latest information, see:
www-03.ibm.com/systems/resources/systems_power_ibmi_lotus_releasesupport.pdf

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Rational Support for IBM i 7.1
Rational Developer for Power
– Feature: RPG and COBOL Development for i
eclipse-based tools for RPG/COBOL development RPG
New print designer & support for language enhancements Developer
Java
Replaces Rational Developer for i (RDi) Developer
– Support for COBOL and C/C++ options for AIX

Rational Team Concert for Power EGL
– Collaborative software development, automate best practices Developer COBOL
Developer
– Integrated source control and build management
– IBM i or AIX repository options

Rational Application Developer C/C++
– Robust Java development environment Developer
– Web/Web Services development integration
– EJB and J2EE fully supported

Rational Development Studio
– Rebranding for WebSphere Development Studio
– Provides ILE & OPM compliers + traditional development tools
– New language functions have been added to ILE Compilers

Eclipse-based development tools can improve programmer productivity
and provide a familiar development environment for new employees

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Commitment to RPG


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Rational Open Access: RPG Edition
Extending RPG to reach new interfaces

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Custom
Devices
XML
Future
Interfaces
Devices

Rich
RPG IV Mobile
Clients
+ Open Browsers

Access
SOA
Interface Databases
Web
Browsers

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Extending RPG to reach new interfaces

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Custom
Devices
XML
Future
Interfaces
Devices

Rich
RPG IV Mobile
Clients
+ Open Browsers

Access
SOA
Interface Databases
Web
Now included with Browsers

the RPG Compiler!!
No additional
product required
32 A system designed for business © 2012 IBM Corporation32

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*DSPF example 5250 Screens

RPG Application

WRITE record program 5250 datastream
I/O buffer Display file object
* DSPF

Other information:
•state
•names
•pointers

RPG Runtime Display Manager

IBM i

IBM Power Systems

*DSPF example
?
RPG Application
Handler code to manage building the interface
and proprietary information

Handler Defined
program
I/O buffer
WRITE record

RPG Runtime Display Manager

IBM i

IBM Power Systems

Zend Delivers an Open Solution Stack for IBM i

Opens up a vast ecosystem of
technologies
– Development tools
– Application frameworks
– Applications

Zend Framework enables simple,
scalable, best-practice, application
development
– 10M+ downloads
– Built into Zend Server and Studio

4+ million trained PHP developers


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Zend Offerings for i

Zend Server Community Edition for i
– Preloaded with IBM i 7.1, 6.1, 5.4
– Simplified Set Up and Management
FastCGI support between ILE Apache and PHP
Eliminates 2nd copy of Apache and reverse proxy
Software fixes via PTFs
Zend Server for i
– Provides advanced functions
– Available from IBM with advanced support
offerings
Zend Studio for i
– Eclipse-based development environment
– Available with one year of Silver support from
Zend for no additional charge

DB2
Community
Edition and +++

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7.1 Additional Enhancements
IBM Transform Services for i Enhancement
– Delivers Adobe PDF output support to IBM i applications
– New support to transform existing Spool Files to PDF format
– Shipped with IBM i

Encrypted ASP Enhancements
– Added ability to start/stop encryption on an existing iASP
– Encryption key management enhancements

BRMS Enhancements
– Improved functions for managing backups, media, backup history, and recoveries

Support for additional Tape Libraries with NPIV through PowerVM VIOS
– 3577 (TS3400) with (TS1120/TS1130 ) drives
– 3584 (TS3500) with (TS1120/TS1130 ) drives
– 3576 (TS3310) with LTO drives

Remove Disk without IPL
– Removing a disk unit from a disk pool
– http://ibmsystemsmag.blogs.com/i_can/


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7.1 Additional Enhancements
IBM i Access Family Enhancements
– IBM i Access for Windows 7.1 offers:
Enhancements to the .NET, ODBC, and OLE DB providers including support for XML data type
Enhancements to Data Transfer
Updated PC5250 Display and Printer Emulation based on IBM Personal Communications 6.0
Help files converted to html help format
Enhancements to Install, including install-time support for secondary languages
– IBM i Access for Web 7.1 includes:
Additional option for viewing spooled files as PDF documents

Networking Enhancements
– IBM i DHCP server is now based on the ISC (Internet Systems Consortium) DHCP server which contains support for
IPv6 and DHCP failover
– IPv6 support for the DHCP Client, PPP (Point-to-point protocol), L2TP (Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol), and RADIUS
(Remote Authentication Dial In User Service)
– Support for the IKEv2 (Internet Key Exchange version 2) tunneling protocol in the IBM i VPN support
– Telnet Client support on IBM i is now SSL enabled (also PTF to IBM i 6.1 & 5.4)

Security Enhancements
– Expiration of user profiles
– More granular access to individual spooled files


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IBM i 7.1 and POWER7 deliver unbeatable combination

Over 150% performance improvement
IBM i 7.1
POWER7 delivers 15%
300000 delivers 56% improvement
improvement
POWER6 and
Query Navigation Steps/hour

250000
IBM i 6.1
deliver 59%
200000 improvement

150000

100000

50000

0
POWER5 8-Core POWER6 8-Core POWER7 8-Core POWER7 8-Core
IBM i V5R4 (model) IBM i 6.1 IBM i 6.1 IBM i 7.1

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IBM i
Technology Refreshes and other post 7.1 Enhancements


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IBM i Roadmap
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

V5R4 6.1 7.1 i next i next + 1

V5R4M5 6.1.1
……… 7.1 TRs
…
Clients requesting fewer operating system releases; and longer support cycles
– Major release upgrades can be disruptive for a business

Interim technology refreshes will provide new functions and I/O support
– Simpler to install on a current release and less disruptive

** All statements regarding IBM's future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives only.


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IBM i 7.1 Technology Refreshes Add Value

Technology Refresh 1 – September 2010
– Virtual Media support to reduce hardware dependencies and costs
– Network Installation of all IBM i software for more efficient operations
– Web Services support for integrating legacy applications into business processes

Technology Refresh 2 – May 2011
– Suspend/Resume IBM i partition as another step towards clouds
– Sharing Tape Drives across IBM i partitions to reduce infrastructure complexity
– XML and Security enhancements to DB2 for i

Technology Refresh 3 – October 2011
– VM Image Management in cooperation with Systems Director VMControl
– ISV Enhancements for SAP, JD Edwards, Lawson and more
– Thin Provisioning for DS8700 and DS8800 storage servers, and for VIOS Shared
Storage Pools allows configurations set up with a smaller amount of real disk storage


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Technology Refresh – Function Details


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Since 7.1 GA: Technology Refresh 1 & More
Virtual Media Auto-Changer – Delivered with TR1 9/10
– Client partitions can change the image loaded in the server's IMGCLG.
– Customer Value: Load media into one partition's IMGCLG and do unattended installs of other IBM
i LPARs on the same box.

Virtual optical media library – Delivered with TR1 9/10
– Migrate optical libraries into a virtual optical media library backed by disk.

Y4 Cryptographic card for IBM i customers - Delivered 12/10
– PCIe attached so it can plug into the newer PCIe slots

Support for LTO5 in TS2900 Tape Library - Delivered 10/10
– Low Profile Entry level Tape Library TS2900 will now support the newest LTO5 tape drive.
(Tucson will announce in Feb, IBM i GA will be in March for 6.1.1 and later.)

Full Network install - Delivered 12/10
– Initial (scratch) install of an IBM i v7.1 system from a network device

Web Services - New client support – WSDL2RPG - Delivered 12/10
Call Web Services natively from RPG
WSDL converted to native RPG to encapsulate Web Service call


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May 2011: Technology Refresh 2 & More
Virtualization Enhancements
IBM i Suspend/Resume (Hibernation) – To be delivered with TR2
– Ability to suspend a partition and resume it from the suspend point
– Customer Value: Saves IPLs. Suspend before CEC maintenance, do the repair or CEC IPL and
then resume.

IBM i to IBM i Virt Tape – To be delivered with TR2
– Allow multiple IBM i partitions to share the tape drive owned by a different IBM i partition.
– Client partitions can be either 7.1 or 6.1 with 6.1.1 machine code.

I/O Performance – Multi-path – To be delivered with TR2
– New load balancing multi-path algorithm that tries to push more I/O down the faster path.
– Example: When using NPIV, running both disk and tape traffic on the same port more feasible
since the disk traffic will move off the port if the tape traffic starts slowing down the disk
performance.

DS5K NPIV support – To be delivered with TR2
– Allows better utilization of FC adapter/switch resources by using NPIV with the DS5300/DS5100.

PowerVM Redundant VIOS Support for IBM i on POWER Processor-Based Blades
– Available through the use of SDMC


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May 2011: Technology Refresh 2 & More
Storage Announcements
IBM i 6.1.1 support for previously announced PCIe-based SSD Offering
– PCIe RAID and SSD SAS Adapter can be used for direct attach, without VIOS

SFF DASD Drawer – To be delivered with TR2
– SFF (Small Form Factor) SAS disk drawer that supports up to 24 SFF (2.5 inch) disks in a 2U 19 inch rack drawer.
– POWER6 and POWER7; IBM i 6.1.1 or 7.1

177 GB SFF SSD – To be delivered with TR2
– 2.5 times more capacity than existing 69 GB SSD
– Much improved cost per GB, and lower number of slots needed for same number of GB
– Just a few SSD reduce need for a large number of HDD, and often improve performance

571 GB 10K RPM SFF Disk Drive – To be delivered with TR2
– Lower cost per GB and more GB per 2U rack space

IBM i Disk Sanitizer PRPQ supports SSD - To be delivered with TR2
– Sanitize natively attached internal SSDs in CECs and Drawers

Optical library data migration enhancements using Image Catalog
– Lab Services offering for IBM i 5.4 with 5.4.5 machine code, and newer releases
– Improves the process and speed of data migration
– Eases transitions from IBM 3995, IBM 3996, and selected non-IBM optical libraries


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May 2011: Updates and New Functions

Director Navigator (web console) 7.1 & 6.1
– Interface with improved usability
– Adds 7.1 Director Navigator function to 6.1
– Includes “set target system” to a v5r4 or later system

DB2 for i semi-annual updates
– SQL earliest supported release (6.1 and later)
– Performance updates (6.1 and later)
– Security/Role support (6.1 and later)
– Building on XML support (7.1)
– Simplified recursive query with CONNECT BY (7.1)

Zend/PHP Enhanced Database Support
– Local DB support for MySQL, DB2
– Remote DB support for MsSQL, Oracle


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New Application Development Support
Web
Service
Web Services
– New client support – WSDL2RPG - Delivered 12/10
Call Web Services natively from RPG Native calls!
WSDL converted to native RPG to encapsulate Web Service call

Zend PHP
– New IBM i PHP Toolkit – Beta May 2011
Call *PGM, *SVRPGM, *CMD, PASE utilities
– Enhanced Database support – May 2011
Local DB support for MySQL, DB2
Remote DB support for MsSQL, Oracle

DB2
DB2
Oracle
Oracle
Remote DB Connection

IBM/Zend MsSQL
– MsSQL
PHP Toolkit MySQL
MySQL

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Post GA 7.1: Technology Refresh 3 – October 2011 *New*
DB2 IBM i for Business Intelligence
• Security – Simplify Authentication with new keyword
• SSD Asynchronous Table & Index Movement • New solution from IBM
• DB2 Monitoring Tool Improvements – Filters • Low-cost value built solution (IBM i with Power System)
Error Cases, Client IP Addresses, Group & User Profiles • Builds on popular DB2 Web Query
• ISV and Advanced User requests • Start with Operational Reporting and optionally grow into Data
Smaller SQL Statements in SQL Packages Warehousing
Improved ALTER TABLE Performance
Administration Information available through SQL IBM i CBu for HA
Application Development • New solution from IBM
• Native archive and un-archive API supports creating and • Low-cost value built solution (IBM i with Power System)
restoring archive files specifically .zip files • Combines existing CBU Editions with PowerHA
Virtualization IBM DB2 Web Query for i
• Thin Provisioning for DS8700 and DS8800 storage servers, • Standard Edition bundle to pro vide customers with a
and for VIOS Shared Storage Pools allows configurations set complete query reporting solution in a single, simplified
up with a smaller amount of real disk storage ordering package.
• Virtual Partition Manager is enhanced to create IBM i • New interface that allows users to generate URLs to query
partitions reports for report
For POWER6 and POWER7 Express Servers that do not
have an external management console.
Enhancement to IBM i 7.1, the ability to create up to four PowerHA SystemMirror for i
IBM i partitions will be enabled in VPM. • Support replication through V7000
• IBM i mirroring algorithms are enhanced to take into • Support replication though SVC server
consideration any N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) attached • Metro Mirror, Global Mirror and FlashCopy support
disks.
System and I/O Support Application Runtime Expert
• Bus level statistics for 12x loops • Automate servicing of applications using scripting, CL
• Ethernet link aggregation improves throughput and reliability commands and SQL queries
for up to 8 links
• Share physical Ethernet connections across partitions with Zend Server Community Edition
Ethernet layer-2 bridging • PHP environment preloaded with IBM I
• New extensions and toolkit for accessing DB2 for i


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IBM i Technology Refresh 4 - Highlights
Moving running workloads from one machine to another with Live
Partition Mobility delivers the next step for cloud environments
DB2 for i enhancements improve performance as well as delivering
additional security, error monitoring and SQL functions
Virtualized SAN and Network Infrastructure

DB2 WebQuery for i simplifies ordering with Express and Standard
offerings
New options in Application Runtime Expert allow access to the tool
without granting high security levels

IBM i Workload Groups allows clients to license SWG products at "less
than capacity" level
• PowerHA for IBM i now includes support for IBM Storage Systems
Storwize V7000 and San Volume Controller (SVC)


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Live Partition Mobility for IBM i

Improves service levels for IBM i workloads
– Business and IT security and resiliency are as critical as ever, and must
be dynamic and intelligent in order to match the speed of business
change
– PowerVM Live Partition Mobility
Move running IBM i partitions between systems
Eliminate planned outages and balance workloads across systems
VIOS is required



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IBM Image Composition and Construction Tools (ICON) for IBM i
Coming Soon!
Instantiate VM
A Single tool to build images into
Install software
public and private clouds
Register config OVF package

Activation Framework
Collaborative process with Base OS Reset and capture
maximum sharing and reuse

Activation Framework
Result is a high-value image asset Software 2

– Standardized OS Software 1
– Sharable
– Self-describing Software 1
OS
– Self-configuring
IBM i ISVs solution to provide Software 2
Software bundle in cloud
environment Software
bundles
New Image with ISV
Software

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DB2 for i Enhancements Row Lock Performance

250
Significant functional enhancements 228

– Short names
200
– Where used information
– Support for JDBC 4.1 specification 150
Before
SQL enhancements Minutes
After
100
– INSERT with remote SUBSELECT
– RUNSQL command
50
Security enhancements 12
– Masking for FIELDPROC columns 0

– Object Auditing Control
Performance improvements
– based on analysis of index statistics
DB Management Improvements
– adding SYSDISKSTAT catalog to QSYS
library
Enhanced SQL Error Reporting using monitor
records


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DB2 Web Query – Intuitive, Insightful, Extensible

Authoring Tool
Authoring Tool
“Intuitive”
IBM DB2 WebQuery
“Intuitive”

Reports & Graphs
Reports & Graphs
• New Express and Standard Offerings
• Simplify packaging
• Core-based licensing
Dashboards
Dashboards
• More granular user security
“Insightful”
“Insightful”

OLAP
OLAP
“Extensible”
“Extensible”


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Web Integration Enhancements

Java 7 5761-JV1 Options 14 & 15
– 32 and 64 bit version Java 7 runtime engine
– Available only on IBM i 7.1

XML Service GA Dec 2011
– New Open Source tool to access Native IBM i objects from any language
– Access RPG programs from PHP, RUBY, or other languages
– Use in a Tier 1 or Tier 2 environment


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– *ALLOBJ special authority NO longer required
– Uses the Web Admin Permissions support
– Review and compare content within spool files
from CL commands
– Archive the spool file content created on
remote system by CL command call
– Console passwords maintained per session


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IBM i Access Client Solutions

New Java based iAccess solution
– Runs on any platform with Java
Windows PC
Linux
MAC
Popular iAccess Functions
– 5250 Display and Print Emulation
– Data Transfer (*.ods & *.xlsx)
– IBM i System 5250 Console
Portable solution – NO Install!
– Load solution on thumb drive!
Open Beta
– Any customers interested in
participating?


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Application Management Tool Set

NEW Product for Managing and Editing
– Control Language (CL) source code (scripts)
– Work with Libraries & Objects
Targeted for the Administrator or Super User
– Perform various system and application
administration tasks
Low Cost
– Tier priced based on Serial number


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PowerHA SystemMirror Enhancements
• PowerHA SystemMirror for IBM i support includes
• DS8000 (DS8K)
• San Volume Controller (SVC) and IBM Storage Systems Storwize V7000
• Advanced Copy Services (ACS)
• currently available for DS8K
• version will be available for V7000 (3Q 2012)

Admin domain
Local Site
*SYSBAS
*SYSBAS
(DR)
DR Site
POWER7
(Prod) Metro Mirror
IBM i

F IASP
IASP
(Switchable) Global Mirror l HA
DR
a
s
h
C IASP
DR
HA
Flash
o
Backup
p *SYBAS
y (Backup I)

POWER7 POWER7
IBM i DS8000 DS8000 IBM i
Production SVC* SVC
Storewize V7000* Storewize V7000 ©


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IBM i Workload Groups – Enhanced Management & Licensing

Workload Groups new capabilities to manage/license workloads on IBM i
– Limit the number of cores that are used by specific applications
within single system/partition/subsystem
– Limits placed at the whole processor-core level
– Applications licensed for the number of capped cores
– Can cap a single job or all jobs/threads in a subsystem

IBM i Today IBM i with Workload Groups

Application #1= 6 Cores Application #1 = 3 Cores

Application #2 = 6 Cores Application #2 = 4 Cores

IBM i = 6 Cores IBM i = 6 Cores

IBM i System / Partition / Subsystem IBM i System / Partition / Subsystem

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/wikis/home?lang
=en#/wiki/IBM%20i%20Technology%20Updates/page/IBM%20i%20workload%20groups

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New I/O Support for IBM i

New SFF SSD:
– 2X performance 2X capacity
– Better price performance

High performance low profile SAS SSD Adapter
– RAID 5/6 with just one adapter (vs two)
– May lower the cost for SSD configuration

New lower price, 4-port 1Gb LAN adapter
– Native support plus support through VIOS
– Replaces existing 2-port and 4-port LAN adapters in most POWER7
proposals

New DAT160 USB-attached tape drive config option
– for Power 720/740/750 HH bay of system unit
– Supported through VIOS
– Potentially improves performance for saves/restores


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IBM i Cloud Capabilities

Live
Partition 7.1 TR4
Mobility

VM Deployment 7.1 TR3
(Image Management) +
VMControl
Suspend
Resume 7.1 TR2
Network
Install 12/10 – 6.1 & 7.1
IBM i
Virtualized 6.1 & 7.1
I/O
Dynamic
Resource 6.1 & 7.1
Consolidation Sharing
LPARs


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IBM i 5.4 Life Cycle – End of Service Announcement 2/7/12

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

EOM EOS
5/2011 9/30/13

- Marketed and serviced

- Serviced only

- Statement of Direction - GTS Fee-based service

IBM i 5.4 has been in the market longer than any previous IBM i release

* All statements regarding IBM's future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives only.


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Put Power to Work

SOA

Core Data Analytics Test /
Business BI Dev
Processing Reporting

5950 CPW

Power 720 Express
• 4-core
• 23,800 CPW
• 64GB memory


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IBM i Investment Themes for 2011-2015

Solutions enablement
Focus on ISV solutions integration
Invest in language & database standards currency
On latest POWER platforms

Simplified management
Integrate IBM i performance tooling with virtual I/O server
Automate with Systems Director & Hardware Management Console
Focus on Integration and Performance

Resilient systems
Simplify administration of PowerHA for mid-sized companies
Broaden storage area network integration
Off-Release Deliveries

Cloud computing
Deliver VM image management, mobility, automation
Extend storage virtualization features
Tackle licensing issues


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Requirements

If you have items your
business requires,
Submit a
requirement!

Help IBM understand
how we can help you.


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IBM Systems Magazine blogs
#ibmi “i Can” by Dawn May
On Twitter
– http://bit.ly/i_can
– To share the “hidden gems”
within IBM i.
DawnMayiCan
On Twitter “You and i” by Steve Will
– http://bit.ly/You_and_i/
– Directly communicate with the
i community
– Strategy, architecture,
announcements, and news.
Steve_Will_IBMi
On Twitter

DeveloperWorks IBM i Zone
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/ibmi/
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg247858.pdf

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IBM i updates on developerWorks

ibm.com/developerworks/ibmi

IBM Power Systems

Power Systems

IBM Power Systems

Thank You!

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