Specialty Engines
Hal Merritt
gadgets?
Thanks!!
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What products execute on zIIPs?
This note will be updated as new programs/products are reported:
- IBM DB2 and DB2 Utilities
- IBM Communications Server for IPSEC
- IBM Communications Server for Hipersocket Large Messages.
- IBM XML, some parts of the parser.
- IBM Extended Remote Copy (XRC) data mover address spaces (OA23174).
- DFSORT
- SYNCSORT
- IBM Scalable Architecture for Finanancial Reporting (SAFR)
- System Data Mover (SDM) benefits (z/OS Global Mirror).
- Encrpyption and Compression:
- CA-Vtape (option to use software compression to compress the cache)
- CA Brightstore Tape Encryption (both conmpression and encryption).
- CA Datacom
- CA Netmaster for IP Packted Analysis (also uses zAAPs)
- CA Insight for DB2 (when the SQL is already running on a zIIP.
- CA IDMS R17 offloads some system mode time to zIIPsa.
- PKZIP
Tom Harper
zIIP-enabled in any way.
Tom Harper
IMS Utilities Development Team
Neon Enterprise Software, Inc.
Sugar Land, TX
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What products execute on zIIPs?
This note will be updated as new programs/products are reported:
- IBM DB2 and DB2 Utilities
- IBM Communications Server for IPSEC
- IBM Communications Server for Hipersocket Large Messages.
- IBM XML, some parts of the parser.
- IBM Extended Remote Copy (XRC) data mover address spaces (OA23174).
- DFSORT (not)
- SYNCSORT
- IBM Scalable Architecture for Finanancial Reporting (SAFR)
- System Data Mover (SDM) benefits (z/OS Global Mirror).
- Encrpyption and Compression:
- CA-Vtape (option to use software compression to compress the cache)
- CA Brightstore Tape Encryption (both conmpression and encryption).
- CA Datacom
- CA Netmaster for IP Packted Analysis (also uses zAAPs)
- CA Insight for DB2 (when the SQL is already running on a zIIP.
- CA IDMS R17 offloads some system mode time to zIIPsa.
- PKZIP
- Neon Enterprise Software - IMS Utilities
- Progress Software - Data Direct
- Phoenix Software - Most products, including (E)JES
R.S.
> Can anyone point me to a list of products that support/exploit those
> gadgets?
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/advantages/ziip/index.html
In a brief:
CP - everything: z/OS, Linux, VM, VSE, TPF, CFCC
IFL - Linux, VM
ICF - CFCC (Coupling Facility Control Code)
zAAP - (under z/OS) Java, XML
zIIP - (under z/OS) also XML, IPSec (network encryption), SDM (XRC
System Data Mover), some HiperSockets workload, some DB2 workload (some!
legacy CICS-DB2 installation will not benefit from zIIP),
AFAIK also Encryption Facility and several non-IBM products, ie.
CA-VTAPE (compression services).
I haven't tested wether Linux can work on ICF,
if I remember correctly CFCC cannot work under IFL, (only ICF or CP).
I'm not sure if I can use zIIP or zAAP for z/OS under VM.
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Mark Post
-snip-
> I'm not sure if I can use zIIP or zAAP for z/OS under VM.
Yes. z/VM will allow a z/OS guest to dispatch work on a zIIP or a zAAP. z/VM itself will not use either of them.
Mark Post
Shane
> z/VM will allow a z/OS guest to dispatch work on a zIIP or a zAAP.
Unless I'm mis-remembering, this is only true if you happen to be on
latest z/VM, on latest hardware, and happen to have an appropriately
defined LPAR.
Maybe not everyone meets all those criteria.
Shane ...
Mark Post
> Mark Post wrote:
>
>> z/VM will allow a z/OS guest to dispatch work on a zIIP or a zAAP.
>
> Unless I'm mis-remembering, this is only true if you happen to be on
> latest z/VM, on latest hardware, and happen to have an appropriately
> defined LPAR.
No, that's not the case, unless you're talking about mixing IFLs into the LPAR as well. If you want IFLs as well, then yes, you need a z10 and z/VM 5.4.
Mark Post
Shane
> the LPAR as well. If you want IFLs as well, then yes, you need a z10
> and z/VM 5.4.
Mark, are you saying that prior to z/VM-mode LPARs, VM would still
dispatch (qualifying) guest workload on zIIP/zAAP.
That's not the way I read 208-249 - but unfortunately I don't have
access to machinery to test my doubts.
Shane ...
Mark Post
> Mark, are you saying that prior to z/VM-mode LPARs, VM would still
> dispatch (qualifying) guest workload on zIIP/zAAP.
> That's not the way I read 208-249 - but unfortunately I don't have
> access to machinery to test my doubts.
Yes. Starting back in June of 2007, z/VM 5.3 had the capability to do just that. Take a look at slide 17 from Reed Mullen's presentation at SHARE in San Jose.
http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/MULLENRA/SHARE111.pdf
Mark Post
Wayne Driscoll
as you are running on a processor that supports zIIPS and/or zAAPS, you
could define vitural specialty engines. Clearly no benefit for a production
environment, but could be useful in a POC for getting a specialty engine.
Wayne Driscoll
Product Developer
NOTE: All opinions are strictly my own.
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Shane
> Yes. Starting back in June of 2007, z/VM 5.3 had the capability to
> do just that.
Thanks Mark - I think I've (finally) got it. Was paying too much
attention to the 5.4 announcement, and not enough to the 5.3 features.
Shane ...