'Affordable' Mainframe On Offer For £56,000
News The z9 BC and its big brother, the z9 Enterprise Class (EC), will be the first IBM systems to use the z9 Integrated Information Processor (zIIP), a "specialty engine" that will run database workloads which IBM promises will free up general...
[April 28, 2006, 15:30]
IBM Gives Business Apps Hardware Speed Boost
News The module, called the System z9 Integrated Information Processor, or zIIP, accelerates several database operations in conjunction with the mainframe's z/OS operating system. The other, the zSeries Application Assist Processor (zAAP), accelerates...
[January 27, 2006, 9:50]
Planning Considerations For HiperDispatch Mode
White Papers For all levels of z/OS, a TCB or SRB may be dispatched on any logical processor of the type required (standard, zAAP or zIIP). A unit of work starts on one logical processor and subsequently may be dispatched on any other logical processor.
[April 30, 2008, 1:02]
IBM Throws $40m At SAP On The ZSeries
News IBM says the programme will use the recently released zSeries Integrated Information Processor (zIIP) for data-centric applications. IBM is attempting to establish SAP on the zSeries mainframe, a platform that has until now been closed to the...
[August 17, 2006, 12:25]
IBM Plans Mainframe Lovefest
News First, Big Blue expects to benefit from special-purpose mainframe hardware — IFL for running Linux, zIIP for running IBM's DB2 database software, and zAAP for running Java software. IBM has plans in place to spend tens of millions of dollars to...
[August 29, 2006, 9:00]
