IBM I 7.1 Installation guide
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IBM i 7.1 Overview
Power your planet.
Smarter Systems for a Smarter Planet
Metro Midrange Systems Association
The Dallas/Fort Worth IBM Power Systems User Group
Mehboob Mithaiwala
Certified Consulting IT Specialist
Power Systems – ATS, IBM Coppell
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Virtualization without Limits
9Drive over 90% utilization
9Dynamically scale per demand
Dynamic Energy Optimization
970-90% energy cost reduction
9EnergyScale™ technologies
Resiliency without Downtime
9Roadmap to continuous availability
9High availability systems & scaling
Management with Automation
9VMControl to manage virtualization
9Automation to reduce task time
Workload-Optimizing Systems
AIX - The Future of UNIX
Total Integration with i
Scalable Linux ready for x86
Consolidation
Systems for a Smarter Planet
Power your Planet
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✓4, 6 or 8 cores per socket
✓3.0 to 4.14 GHz
✓Up to 4 threads per core
✓Integrated eDRAM L3 Cache
✓Dynamic Energy Optimization
Power Technology leadership
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Power 550
Power 570
Power 755
JS Blades
Power 770
Power 750
Power 780
Power 595
PS Blades
Power 575
Power Systems Portfolio
HPC
PS702
PS701
PS700
Power 795
Power 720
Power 740
Power 710 Power 730
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IBM i Strategy and Roadmap
“Our commitment to our IBM i clients, ISVs and
business partners is solid and unchanged. With
our clearly defined processor and software
roadmap, we are making substantial investments
in the future of IBM i as an important, strategic
element in the IBM systems portfolio.
New IBM white paper
Includes information about the IBM i market, Power
Systems and IBM i roadmaps, plus the latest information
on POWER7 and IBM i 7.1
http://www.ibm.com/systems/power/software/i/rossmauri/index.html
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IBM i Roadmap
2008 2010
IBM i 6.1.1
20112009
IBM i 6.1
2012
IBM i 7.1
IBM i Next
Delivering a major new release of IBM i every two years
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Building on the Foundation
IBM i 6.1 Highlights
–New Solid State Drive support with unique IBM i performance advantages
–New DB2 for i functional and performance enhancements
–New DB2 Web Query product (replacement for Query/400)
–New Compliance Security Features
–New Data Encryption during disk and tape backup, BRMS support
–New Java Virtual Machine, shared with AIX & Linux
–New Integrated Web Application Server for less sophisticated Java apps
–New Systems Director Navigator web-based console
–New PowerHA disk clustering
–New IBM i on Power Blade support for BladeCenter
–New PowerVM virtual storage for IBM i partitions
–New SAN DS8000 performance optimization
and much more….
IBM i 6.1 is a cornerstone release for strategic initiatives which follow.
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DB2
–Support for XML and column level encryption
–SQL statements use OmniFind Text Search Server
–DB2 Web Query enhancements
PowerHA SystemMirror for i
–Async Geographic Mirroring & LUN-level switching
–Space efficient Flash Copy
Virtualization
–IBM i virtualization for IBM i partitions
–N_Port_ID (NPIV) support for fibre tape and SAN
–Fibre channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
Storage and Solid State Drives
–Automatic movement of hot data to SSDs
–Concurrent remove of disk units
–Native support for DS5000
Systems Director
–Richer management of IBM i via Systems Director
–5250 Emulation and Set Target System
–New Journal Management capabilities
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GA’d on April 23
IBM i 7.1 Announcement Highlights
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IBM i 7.1 Announcement Highlights continued
Remote Upgrade to IBM i 6.1.1 or 7.1
–NFS backed optical images for IBM i upgrades
–Electronic Delivery Support expanded
IBM i 7.1 technology update method
–Technology Refresh (TR)
–An update to the Licensed Internal Code (LIC)
–Planned to be delivered on approximately a six
month cycle, and targeted to enable a specific set
of new hardware and firmware functions
Open Access for RPG
–Extend application reach to pervasive devices
–RPG applications can support other interfaces
such as mobile devices by using “Handlers”.
Zend Server Community Edition
–PHP environment preloaded with IBM i
Application Runtime Expert for I
(SOD)
–Deliver a new capability for IBM i to verify
application run time attributes to ensure consistent
performance and deployment of new workloads
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DB2 for i – XML Support
XML is an industry standard for exchanging
information between customers, suppliers,
and partners
Rich XML Support now available with DB2 for i
1. XML data type stores XML documents supporting database operations
2. Decompose (shred) XML documents into relational columns
3. Generate XML documents from existing relational data
OmniFind Text Search Server provides
support for searching XML documents
–Search elements of an XML document (e.g., customer name = Smith)
–SQL statements use OmniFind to search the XML documents
–Available with IBM i for no additional charge
Strategic replacement for XML Extenders
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