IBM System z10 Enterprise Class

The future runs on System z : In today’s world, IT is woven in to almost everything that a business does and consequently is pivotal to a business. Some of the key requirements today are the need to maximize return on investments by deploying resources designed to drive efficiencies and economies of scale, managing growth through resources that can scale to meet changing business demands, reducing risk by reducing the threat of lost productivity through downtime or security breaches, reducing complexity by reversing the trend of server proliferation and enabling business innovation by deploying resources that can help protect existing investments while also enabling those new technologies that can aid in business transformation.

The IBM System z10™ Enterprise Class (z10 EC) delivers a world class enterprise server designed to meet these business needs. The z10 EC provides new levels of performance and capacity for growth and large scale consolidation, improved security, resiliency and availability to reduce risk and introduces just in time resource deployment to help respond to changing business requirements. As environmental concerns raise the focus on energy consumption, the z10 EC is designed to reduce energy usage and save floor space when consolidating distributed servers. Specialty engines continue to help users expand the use of the mainframe for a broad set of applications, while helping to lower the cost of ownership. The z10 EC is at the core of the enhanced System z™ platform that delivers technologies that businesses need today along with a foundation to drive future business growth.

Benefit Feature/Function
Availability/Reliability
CICS subspace group facility
CICS subsystem storage protect
Concurrent Book Add
Concurrent ESCON, FICON, OSA-E and Coupling Link maintenance
Concurrent Hardware Management Console (HMC) and Support Element
Concurrent Licensed Internal Code (LIC) maintenance for CP, SAP, SE, PR/SM™, LPAR, HMC, OSA-E
Concurrent power and thermal maintenance
Dual Support Elements
Dynamic Change to Partition Cryptographic Coprocessor Configuration
Dynamic Channel Path Management
Dynamic I/O Reconfiguration
Dynamic memory sparing
Dynamic Oscillator Switchover
Dynamic LCSS Add
Dynamic Subchannel Set Add
Dynamic Partition Add
Enhanced Application Preservation
Enhanced Book Availability
Enhanced Driver Maintenance
Enhanced Dynamic Reconfiguration Management
Enhanced Firmware Simulation
Failure Containment for MBA
Fault Tolerant Interconnect Design
FICON Purge Path Extended
FICON Express4 Pluggable Optics for individual servicing
Fixed HSA
Frame Bolt Down Feature
Hybrid cooling
Multipath IPL—ESCON (CNC), FICON (FC) with z/OS
N+1 power supply technology
OSA-Express2 Link Aggregation Support
OSA-Express2 Network Traffic Analyzer
Partial memory restart
Point to Point SMP Fabric
QDIO Diagnostic Synchronization
Redundant I/O Interconnect
Remote operations support
Sparing for Storage Protect Preservation Keys
System Assist Processor (SAP) reassignment and sparing
System-Initiated CHPID Reconfiguration
Transparent CP Sparing

Security
Advanced encryption standard (AES) 128, 192, 256
Certified for LPAR isolation
Configurable Crypto Express2 (secure coprocessor or SSL acceleration)
CP Assist for Cryptographic Function
Crypto Express2 FIPS 140-2 Level 4 Certified
Data Encryption Standards (DES), Triple DES
Designed to meet Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 5 (EAL5) certification for the security of its logical partitions
LDAP support for HMC user authentication
Open Architecture Distributed Transaction Enablement
Pseudo random number generator (PRNG)
Remote key load for ATMs
Secure hash algorithm-256 (SHA-256), -384, -512
SSL Acceleration for Linux® and z/OS
Tamper-proof Cryptographic Support

Capacity on Demand
API for Capacity Provisioning Management
API for On/Off CoD activation
Capacity Backup for both full and subcapacity CPs
Capacity Backup for zAAP, zIIP, IFL, ICF and SAP
Capacity for Planned Event (CPE)
Capacity Upgrade on Demand
Customer Initiated upgrades
On/Off Capacity on Demand
More than 200 configuration records may be staged on Support Element
Up to four active configurations stored on SEEPROM

Specialty Engines
Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL)
Internal Coupling Facility (ICF)
System z10 Application Assist Processor (zAAP)
System z10 Integrated Information Processor (zIIP)

I/O Connectivity
InfiniBand® (IFB) host bus (6 GBps each); 24 IFBs for I/O HCA2-C Fanout
IBM ESCON CTC native and basic mode
FCP support for SCSI devices by Linux, z/VM® and z/VSE (disks)
Fibre Connection (FICON) 1, 2, 4, Gbps auto-negotiation
Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) 1, 2, 4 Gbps auto-negotiation
FICON CTC
FICON full duplex data transfer
Full fabric FCP support
IBM ESCON half duplex data transfer
Multiple Image Facility (MIF)
Multiple Subchannel Sets (MSS)
N_Port ID virtualization (NPIV) for FCP
QDIO designed for high speed networking
Up to four Logical Channel SubSystems (LCSS)

Networking
IBM HiperSockets IPv6
OSA for NCP (OSN)
OSA Layer 3 VMAC
OSA-Express2 Layer 2 Support
OSA-Express Integrated Console Controller (1000BASE-T Ethernet)
OSA-Express2 (Gigabit Ethernet, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, 1000BASE-T Ethernet)
OSA-Express3 (10 Gigabit Ethernet)5

Cluster Systems
Dynamic CF Dispatching
Dynamic ICF Expansion
Shared ICFs and CPs
Transparent ICF sparing
System-Managed CF Structured Duplexing
Sysplex Distributor
GDPS
Parallel Sysplex® clustering technology
12x IB-DDR (6 GBps)
InfiniBand Coupling links5
Internal Coupling channel (IC)
Integrated Cluster Bus-4 (ICB-4)
InterSystem Channel-3 (Peer mode only) (ISC-3)
MBA and HCA-O Fanout
ETR–Sysplex Timer attachment (standard)
Server Time Protocol (STP)
NTP Client support for STP
z/VM Virtual Parallel Sysplex

Performance
Compare-and-move extended
DB2® sort assist
Flexible Memory Options
Hardware-assisted data compression
Hardware Decimal Floating Point
HiperDispatch
Hipersorting
IBM Hiperbatch™
IEEE binary floating point support for advanced IBM Lotus® Domino® and Java™ performance
Long Displacement Facility
Modified Indirect Data Address Word (MIDAW) Facility
OSA Dynamic LAN idle
Performed Locked Operations for enhanced IP performance
Up to 1.5 TB memory

Management
(SE) maintenance
HMC Panel Wizard
HMC and SE IPv6 Support
Internal Battery Feature
Power/thermal
IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager (AEM) for Linux on System z Support
LPAR Group Capacity Limits
ESCON sparing
Cancel I/O Requests
Power Monitoring Display
Power Estimation tool

z/Architecture
Intelligent Resource Director
Superscalar Processor
Tri-modal addressability
Up to 60 LPARs each with 64-bit central memory addressability