Z/VM, Order z/OS through the Internet

z/VM

Order z/OS through the Internet

ShopzSeries (formerly SHOPS390) provides an easy way to plan and order your z/OS ServerPac or CBPDO. It will analyze your current installation, determine the correct product migration, and present your new conﬁ guration based on z/OS. Additional products can also be added to your order (including determination of whether all product requisites are satisﬁ ed).

IBM Service is available through ShopzSeries as an Inter- net-based, strategic software tool available to fulﬁ ll orders 24x7 (365 days a year). Through Service in ShopzSeries, customers can quickly and easily order and receive cor- rective or preventive service electronically over the Internet or by standard physical media. For preventive service, customers can order just critical service (HIPERs and PTFs that resolve PE PTFs), the latest recommended service (which includes all critical service), or all available service. Service in ShopzSeries reduces customers’ research time and effort by using their uploaded SMP/E Consolidated Software Inventory (CSI) so that all applicable service, including reach ahead service, for the installed FMIDs in the target zones is selected. ShopzSeries also uses the CSI information to limit the size of the service order, only sending applicable service that has not already been processed by SMP/E. IBM Technical Support is available through RETAIN for problems and Q&A.

ShopzSeries is available in the U.S. and several countries in Europe. In countries where ShopzSeries is not available yet, please contact your IBM representative (or Business Partner) to handle your order via the traditional IBM order- ing process.

For more details and availability, visit the ShopzSeries Web site at: ibm.com/software/shopzSeries.

The infrastructure for on demand environments can be deployed with visionary technology on z/VM, including advanced virtualization, support for open-source soft- ware, and autonomic computing enhancements. With virtualization technology as its foundation, z/VM continues to provide new function and technology exploitation on the mainframe that enables you to virtualize processor, communication, memory, storage, I/O, and networking resources, with the potential to help reduce the need to plan for, purchase, and install hardware to support new workloads.

z/VM supports Linux, one of the world’s leading Open Source operating system, on the mainframe. Within the VM environment, Linux images can share hardware resources and use internal high-speed communications. While ben- eﬁ ting from the reliability, availability and serviceability of zSeries servers, z/VM V4 offers an ideal platform for con- solidating select UNIX, Windows, and Linux workloads on a single physical zSeries server, which allows you to run tens to hundreds of Linux images. z/VM V4 is priced on a per-engine basis and supports IBM Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL) engines for Linux-based workloads, as well as standard engines for all other zSeries and S/390 workloads.

z/VM V4 is the follow-on product for VM/ESA® and z/VM V3. It provides additional support and exploitation opportuni- ties for the thousands of users who have built enterprise- wide automation and infrastructure enhancements on the VM platform in support of their applications, database systems, and on demand business solutions.

z/VM V5 offers new levels of price/performance, functional capabilities, and hardware exploitation that increase the attractiveness of deploying Linux solutions on the main- frame. You can add capacity to existing zSeries systems for hosting Linux on z/VM workloads by conﬁ guring their server with IFL engines. z/VM V5 is the follow-on product to z/VM V4.