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Foreword by Al Zollar, General Manager, IBM iSeries
Jim Hoskins and Roger Dimmick
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Exploring IBM ~ iSeries
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The Instant Insider’s Guide to IBM’s Popular
Mid-range Servers
Jim Hoskins
Roger Dimmick
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Acknowledgments
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for helping coordinate this edition.
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Foreword
Designing a computing system that is easy to manage, offers an exten-
sive portfolio of industry-specific solutions and provides mainframe-class
security and reliability might seem like an almost impossible task. And
yet, these are the exact design points that have inspired an enduring
success story in an industry where progress is often measured only by
the next crank of the technology.
Make no mistake about it. Technology is essential. It has put the
power of yesterday’s room-sized computer into today’s laptop. But the
secret behind a computing architecture based on simplicity, integration
and speed of deployment goes much deeper. Its roots are found in the
people who write applications for the architecture, and the customers
who use it.
Since I joined IBM 26 years ago as a systems engineer, I have always
been in awe of the technical innovation of our IBM development team in
Rochester, Minnesota. Rochester’s pioneering work with the System/38
and AS/400 included delivering an object oriented architecture before
most people even knew what objects were. Rochester delivered single level
storage and a virtualized machine architecture before people could imag-
ine the possibility of their being adapted into logical partitioning and
capacity on demand features that we offer on today’s iSeries servers.
Rochester listened when customers asked for a simple solution—
one that would allow them to spend their time managing their busi-
nesses and not their computers. They listened when iSeries business
partners asked for the kind of reliability and quality that would dis-
tinguish their solutions from those of their competitors. And they lis-
tened again when customers asked them to protect their application
investments, by continuing to enhance their offerings while resisting
the temptation to start from scratch. The incredible ability to adopt
new technology is, perhaps, what is so exciting for me about the iSeries.
It’s adaptability has enabled it to take on the challenges of multiple
computing generations, the latest of which we see as the era of e-busi-
ness on demand.
When IBM established the concept of e-business in 1996, it was
clear that the global economy was on the verge of an enduring, tech-
nology-led business revolution. The early phase of that e-business rev-
olution was characterized by simple strategies such as publishing prod-
uct information to the Internet and the first simple web-based
transactions. The second, integrating phase of e-business adoption was
marked by strategies to link internal processes end-to-end and by com-
panies connecting across the Web to their external value nets. Today,
the industry is moving into a new era of e-business, the on-demand
era. Now companies are driven by the need to optimize their e-busi-
ness operations, dynamically responding to the needs of customers,
partners and employees.
With the high pressure and fast-moving nature of today’s on-de-
mand world, a business must be agile enough to adjust to constant change.
That’s why we’ve rapidly adapted the iSeries to help customers meet the
challenges of the on-demand era. iSeries is pioneering new on-demand
technologies, like On/Off Capacity on Demand, and has become a multi-
platform server that runs multiple operating systems simultaneously, dy-
namically adjusting to changing e-business requirements. Exactly what
you need to thrive in today’s on demand era.
Al Zollar,
General Manager,
IBM eServer iSeries
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Table of Contents
Introduction .......................................................................................... xvii
What This Book Is......................................................................... xvii
What This Book Is Not.................................................................. xvii
How to Use This Book ................................................................. xviii
Your “Members Only” Web Site .................................................... xix
A Glance Backward......................................................................... xx
Chapter 1:
IBM eServer iSeries 1
IBM’s e-business on demand Strategy................................................ 1
Open Standards......................................................................... 2
Integration................................................................................. 2
Virtualization............................................................................. 3
Autonomic Computing .............................................................. 3
IBM’s eServer and TotalStorage Strategy ........................................... 4
Pervasive Computing......................................................................... 5
About IBM eServer iSeries................................................................. 7
What Makes Up an iSeries System? ................................................... 7
Advanced Application Architecture................................................... 9
Meet the Family............................................................................... 12
iSeries Model Specifics..................................................................... 16
iSeries Model 800 (i800) Specifics............................................ 16
Model 800 Value ............................................................. 16
Model 800 Standard........................................................ 17
Model 800 Advanced....................................................... 18
iSeries Model 810 Specifics...................................................... 18
iSeries Model i825 Specifics..................................................... 21
iSeries Model i870 Specifics..................................................... 24
iSeries Model i890 Specifics..................................................... 28
Capacity on Demand (CoD) ............................................................ 31
iSeries Dedicated Servers for Domino...................................... 31
iSeries for Domino Model i810D..................................... 32
iSeries for Domino Model i825D..................................... 34
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