The defining standard in enterprise computing

IBM S/390 Parallel Enterprise

Server – Generation 5 and Generation 6

Highlights New enhancements • Automatic enablement of Capacity

• The balanced design of the S/390 G5/G6 BackUp for Geographically Dispersed
server processor clusters contribute to Parallel Sysplex™ (GDPS) systems
Powerful servers
much greater throughput with less variabil- activates spare processor resources non-
Enterprise Computing is no longer just
ity for different workloads. disruptively upon detection of a site or
about batch jobs and transaction
processor failure.
processing. It’s about doing real busi-
• The Capacity Upgrade on Demand feature
ness over the Internet, intranets and
to increase CPU capacity for new or • S/390 FIbre (Channel) CONnectivity
extranets. It’s about turning the supply
unexpected workloads has been en- (FICON™) provides a new high-perfor-
chain into a value chain with Enterprise
hanced by simplifying the process for mance I/O channel, optimized for effi-
Resource Planning solutions. It’s about
enabling extra capacity. ciency at high speed. FICON channel
using Business Intelligence applica-
capacity for the S/390 G6 Server has been
tions to help identify customer needs you
• The Capacity BackUp function has been increased providing customers with
never knew existed. And it’s about
improved to allow customers to activate improved performance and bandwidth
helping you handle all this work with an
additional CPU capacity during an over current I/O connectivity options.
affordable, manageable infrastructure.
emergency e.g. disaster recovery.
The IBM S/390® Parallel Enterprise
• Increased subchannel capability to enable
Server™ – Generation 5 and Generation
• New PCI Cryptographic Coprocessor full utilization of the G5/G6 servers power
6 family can handle all these tasks
(PCICC). and end to end bandwidth capabilities.
concurrently in a stable, very highly
secure environment that can grow easily
as your business grows.
Cost-effective computing
Air-cooled CMOS processors consume
less energy, require less space and can
help reduce maintenance costs
compared to bipolar technology —
replacing a water-cooled 9021-9X2 with
an S/390 G5/G6 enterprise server can
reduce your energy bill by up to 95%
while increasing capacity significantly, can
take 91% less floor space and can reduce
maintenance costs from IBM by up to 70%.
Virtually unlimited capacity
The S/390 G5/G6 enterprise server
family offers a vast performance range
that can meet almost any growth
requirements. If you’ve invested in
previous generations of S/390 CMOS
servers, easy upgrade paths are
available. S/390 G5/G6 servers are a
superior choice for S/390 Parallel
Sysplex® clustering, with enhancements
that provide increased efficiency and
Direct high speed access to your receive volumes of data between S/390 ESCON® attached networking devices.
e-business applications and the network. The Open System Adapter 2 (OSA-2)
The Open Systems Adapter-Express The new OSA-Express Fast Ethernet and delivers connectivity for Token-Ring and
(OSA-Express), available on S/390 ATM adapters are capable of exploiting Fiber Distribution Data Interface (FDDI)
G5/G6 servers, is an integrated S/390 the Queued Direct Input/Output (QDIO) Local Area Networks (LANs).
hardware feature that delivers connec- design providing benefits for IP and rivaling Support also is provided for disk and print
tivity for Gigabit Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, any channel attached network device. serving and data distribution using
and 155 ATM. The Gigabit Ethernet feature provides LANRES. Network file serving is provided
The OSA-Express feature provides significantly improved levels of price/ using LAN Server (available on OS/390®,
increased bandwidth to send and performance while outperforming MVS/ESA™,VM/ESA® and VSE/ESA™).

S/390 G5/G6 enterprise server — Features

Advanced Capacity Upgrade on Demand Dual CMOS Cryptographic Coprocessors

Capacity BackUp PCI Cryptographic Coprocessor
Open Systems Adapter 2 (OSA-2) FICON channel 100 MB/sec full-duplex
OSA Express Express GbE S/390 architecture

Clustered systems Parallel Sysplex clustering technology Integrated Cluster Bus (ICB)
Sysplex Timer® Internal Coupling Facility (ICF)
Integrated Coupling Migration Facility (ICMF) Shared ICFs and CPs
Resource Sharing Dynamic ICF Expansion
Coupling Facility Control Code Transparent ICF Sparing
Coupling Links (HiPerLinks) Dynamic CF Dispatching
Internal Coupling (IC) Channel Enhanced Parallel Sysplex Clock Functions
Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex VM/ESA Virtual Parallel Sysplex

Availability Dual Instruction/Execution unit for each N+1 power supply technology
Central Processor N+1 cooling
Transparent CP Sparing Concurrent power and thermal maintenance
System Assist Processor Sparing Concurrent channel, OSA-2 and coupling link maintenance
System Assist Processor Reassignment Concurrent Hardware Management Console (HMC)
Enhanced Application Preservation and Support Element (SE) maintenance
Spare memory chips Concurrent Licensed Internal Code (LIC) maintenance for CP, SAP,
Dynamic memory sparing PR/SM™, LPAR, ICMF, channels, HMC, SE, Power/Thermal
Partial memory restart Dynamic I/O Reconfiguration Management (DRM)
CICS® subsystem storage protect Internal Battery Feature
CICS subspace group facility Independent dual utility power feeds
Remote operations support Cancel I/O requests
Alternate service elements Console integration
Capacity backup upgrade

PR/SM Up to 15 LPARs Automatic Reconfiguration Facility (ARF)

Multiple 2 GB central storage LPARs Enhanced Dynamic Reconfiguration Management

Performance IEEE binary floating point support for Hiperbatch™

advanced Domino™ and Java™ performance Scalar square root functions
Up to 32 GB memory allocated between Asynchronous page out facility
central and expanded storage Performed Locked Operation for enhanced
Check sum assist IP performance
Data spaces DB2® sort assist
Hipersorting SIE assist
Immediate-and-relative instruction Hardware-assisted data compression
Compare-and-move extended Move page
Called space identification Dedicated move page processor
Fast Sync data mover facility

ESCON ESCON 17 MB/sec channel ESCON CTC native and basic mode
Multiple Image Facility (MIF)

FICON FICON 100 MB/sec channel Multiple Image Facility (MIF)

NET WORKING OSA-Express OSA-2

– Gigabit Ethernet (1 Gbps) – Token-Ring (4/16 Mbps)
– Fast Ethernet (10/100 Mbps) – FDDI (100 Mbps)
– 155 ATM (155 Mbps) Multiple Image Facility (MIF)
S/390 G5/G6 enterprise servers at a glance

Hardware models 9672 G5 IBM S/390 Architecture

and number RA6 (1-way) R16 (1-way) RB6 (2-way) R26 (2-way) RC6 (3-way) RD6 (4-way)
of processors R36 (3-way) R46 (4-way) R56 (5-way) R66 (6-way) R76 (7-way) R86 (8-way)
R96 (9-way) RX6 (10-way) Y36 (3-way) Y46 (4-way)
Y56 (5-way) Y66 (6-way) Y76 (7-way) Y86 (8-way)
Y96 (9-way) YX6 (10-way)
9672 G6 X17 (1-way) X27 (2-way) X37 (3-way) X47 (4-way) X57 (5-way) X67 (6-way)
X77 (7-way) X87 (8-way) X97 (9-way) XX7 (10-way) XY7 (11-way) XZ7 (12-way)
Z17 (1-way) Z27 (2-way) Z37 (3-way) Z47 (4-way) Z57 (5-way) Z67 (6-way)
Z77 (7-way) Z87 (8-way) Z97 (9-way) ZX7 (10-way) ZY7 (11-way) ZZ7 (12-way)

Coupling facility 9672 Model R06 1 – 10 ICFs

ICF Up to 3/7/9 (RA6 - RD6 / R36 - Y96 / X17 - XY7 and Z17 - ZY7)

Channels Minimum 3 or 4/4/0/3 (Parallel/ESCON/FICON/Total)

Maximum 96/256/36*/256 (Parallel/ESCON/FICON/Total)

Increments 3 or 4/4/1 (Parallel/ESCON/FICON)

General Channel maximums can be decreased by the use of OSAs and/or coupling links

Cryptographic — CMOS Cryptographic Coprocessor 2 - standard

— PCI Cryptographic Coprocessor up to 8 - optional

Processor storage Minimum 1 GB

Maximum Up to 32 GB

General Central and expanded storage are user-definable

Exceptions RA6, RB6, R26, RC6, RD6 models maximum 12 GB

R36 - RX6 models minimum 2 GB
Y76, Y86, Y96, YX6 models minimum 8 GB
Y36-Y66, Xn7, Zn7 models minimum 5 GB

G5 upgradability Upgradable from R3, G3 and G4 models

Upgradable within G5 family

G6 upgradability Upgradable from G3, G4 and G5 models

Upgradable within G6 family

R06 upgradability Upgradable from 9674 C04 and C05 models

Upgradable within R06 models
Upgradable to G5 RA6-YX6 models
Upgradable to G6 X37-ZZ7 models

Maximum coupling HiPerLinks 32 (Any G5 or G6)

connections IC 32 (RA6 - ZZ7) (Not on R06)
ICB 6/18/24/18 (RA6 - RD6/R36 - YX6/R06/X17 - ZZ7)

Physical 1 Frame Minimum Weight (unpacked): 612 kg (1346 lbs)

configuration Footprint: 1.0 Sq meters (10.4 Sq feet)
Service clearance 2.5 Sq meters (27.4 Sq feet)
Input power: 0.6 kVA
Heat output: 2.0 KBTU/hr

2 Frame Maximum Weight (unpacked): 938 kg (2057 lbs)

Footprint: 1.8 Sq meters (19.7 Sq feet)
Service clearance: 4.8 q meters (51.9 Sq feet)
Input power: 5.5 kVA
Heat output: 18.8 KBTU/hr

General Conforms to EIA guidelines for frames

Employs standard 24-inch cage enclosures

Software OS/390 and MVS basic and LPAR mode

OS/390 All OS/390 releases
MVS™ MVS/ESA SP V5R2 and subsequent releases
MVS/ESA SP V5R1
ICF/MVS 2.1

VM basic and LPAR mode

VM All VM/ESA V2 and subsequent releases

VSE basic and LPAR mode

VSE VSE/ESA V2R1 and subsequent releases
VSE/ESA V1R4 (ESA mode only)

TPF TPF V4R1

* 24 for G5
Automated file backup and restore for sparing are examples of the built-in
client data on workstations can be functions that help to reduce planned
achieved with products such as ADSM. and unplanned outages. S/390 G5/G6
enterprise servers are a superior choice
Connection to the Internet/intranet is for providing 99.999% availability with
now much easier and more secure with Parallel Sysplex clustering technology.
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Federal Information Processing Standard channels and an Integrated Cluster Bus information on the products or services available in
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cryptographic function has been of a Parallel Sysplex cluster. You can find additional information via IBM’s World
enhanced with the addition of an Wide Web server at http://www.ibm.com.
optional PCI Cryptographic Coprocessor S/390 G5/G6 enterprise servers are
IBM hardware products are manufactured from
(PCICC). supported by many different operating
new parts or new and used parts. Regardless, our
systems, including OS/390, VM, VSE and warranty terms apply.
The combination of the standard CMOS TPF. Using VM, you can now serve data to
Cryptographic Coprocessor and the customers via Internet protocols to The products and services described in this offering
optional PCICC feature enables are also available separately.
create enhanced support for client/
applications to invoke industry-standard server systems. Using VSE, you can help By ‘Year 2000 ready’, IBM means the capability of a
cryptographic services — such as protect your investment in people and product, when used in accordance with its associated
CDMF, DES and Triple DES or RSA —to documentation, to correctly process, provide and/or
skills and allow for the future growth of
help protect personal identification receive date data within and between the 20th and
your business through easy migration
21st centuries, provided that all products (for
numbers, message authentication within the S/390 family. example, hardware, software and firmware) used with
codes, data, passwords, digital signa- the product properly exchange date data with it. IBM’s
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