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(OPERLOG). It looks for unusual messages, unusual message patterns that typical
monitoring systems miss, and unique messages that might indicate system health issues.
The IBM zAware virtual appliance requires the monitored clients to run z/OS V1R13 with
PTFs or later. The newer version of IBM zAware is enhanced to work with messages without
message IDs. This includes support for Linux running natively or as a guest under z/VM on
z Systems.
For more information about zAware, see Appendix B, “IBM z Systems Advanced Workload
Analysis Reporter (IBM zAware)” on page 453.
The z/VM-mode LPAR
z13s supports an LPAR mode, called
z/VM-mode
, that is exclusively for running z/VM as the
first-level operating system. The z/VM-mode requires z/VM V6R2 or later, and allows z/VM to
use a wider variety of specialty processors in a single LPAR. For example, in a z/VM-mode
LPAR, z/VM can manage Linux on z Systems guests running on IFL processors while also
managing z/VSE and z/OS guests on CPs. It also allows z/OS to fully use zIIPs.
IBM Dynamic Partition Manager
A new administrative mode is being introduced for Linux only CPCs for z13 and z13s servers
with SCSI storage attached through FCP channels. IBM Dynamic Partition Manager (DPM)
provides simplified z Systems hardware and virtual infrastructure management including
integrated dynamic I/O management for users who intend to run KVM for IBM z Systems as
hypervisor or Linux on z Systems running in a partition (LPAR). The new mode, DPM,
provides simplified, consumable, and enhanced partition lifecycle and dynamic I/O
management capabilities by using the Hardware Management Console (HMC).
For more information, see Appendix E, “IBM Dynamic Partition Manager” on page 501.
7.3.2 zIIP support
zIIPs do not change the model capacity identifier of the z13s. IBM software product license
charges based on the model capacity identifier are not affected by the addition of zIIPs. On a
z13s, z/OS Version 1 Release 12 is the minimum level for supporting zIIPs.
No changes to applications are required to use zIIPs. It can be used by these applications:
򐂰 DB2 V8 and later for z/OS data serving, for applications that use data Distributed
Relational Database Architecture (DRDA) over TCP/IP, such as data serving, data
warehousing, and selected utilities.
򐂰
z/OS XML services.
򐂰 z/OS CIM Server.
򐂰
z/OS Communications Server for network encryption (Internet Protocol Security (IPSec))
and for large messages that are sent by HiperSockets.
򐂰 IBM GBS Scalable Architecture for Financial Reporting.
򐂰 IBM z/OS Global Mirror (formerly XRC) and System Data Mover.
򐂰 IBM OMEGAMON® XE on z/OS, OMEGAMON XE on DB2 Performance Expert, and DB2
Performance Monitor.
򐂰
Any Java application that is using the current IBM SDK.
򐂰 WebSphere Application Server V5R1 and later, and products that are based on it, such as
WebSphere Portal, WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (WebSphere ESB), and
WebSphere Business Integration for z/OS.