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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
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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.
z/VM