IBM ZVSE V4.2 Brochure

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z/VSE Version 4 Release 2 brings the value

of innovative IBM System z technology to

VSE clients

z/VSE™ V4.2 is designed to deliver highest qualities of service for transactions and data.

z/VSE V4 is designed to address the needs of VSE clients with growing core VSE workloads and/or those

who wish to exploit Linux® on IBM System z® for new, Web-based business solutions and infrastructure

consolidation.

z/VSE is an important part of IBM's mainframe portfolio for

smaller IBM mainframe clients with somewhat less demanding

requirements. At the risk of oversimpliﬁcation, z/VSE is similar

to z/OS® but smaller and less complex.

z/VSE V4.2 supports the new IBM System z10 Business

Class™ (z10™ BC) and IBM System z10™ Enterprise

Class (z10 EC™), the IBM System z9® Enterprise Class

(z9® EC) and System z9 Business Class (z9 BC) servers, as

well as IBM eServer™ zSeries® 990, 890, 900 and 800.

z/VSE V4.2 operates in z/Architecture® mode only and sup-

ports 64-bit real addressing. It is designed to exploit up to

32 GB of processor storage.

z/VSE 4.2 doubles the number of VSE tasks to 512 and adds

an LDAP client. It supports Parallel Access Volumes (PAV) fea-

ture of the IBM System Storage™ series DS8000® and

DS6000™.

z/VSE 4.2 supports advanced functions of IBM System

Storage, including IBM System Storage DS8000 Full Disk

Encryption, DS8000 FlashCopy® SE (space efficient),

IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller, as well as the

IBM System Storage TS4300 Tape Library and TS7700

Virtualization Engine—just to name a few.

Page 1 V4.2 is designed to deliver highest qualities of service for transactions and data. z/VSE V4 is designed to address the needs of VSE clients with growing core VSE workloads and/or those who wish to exploit Linux® on IBM System z® for new, Web-based business solutions and infrastructure consolidation.
Page 2 Extend ● pricing, including sub-capacity pricing for clients running on IBM System z10 BC™, z10 EC, z9 EC and z9 BC servers. Protect focuses on investment protection. z/VSE clients IBM is delivering a new world class enterprise server designed should be able to exploit the latest IBM System z and to address the broadest range of business needs.
Page 3 DB2 and VSAM; feature) and twelve key VSE-related middleware products, reusing and integrating CICS® transactions and applications ● including CICS Transaction Server for VSE/ESA™, IBM TCP/IP throughout the enterprise with the CICS Transaction for VSE/ESA, ACF/VTAM®, HLASM, DITTO, DB2 server for Gateway;...
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