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zIIPs, zAAPs and IFLs, MIPS, MSUs and ICFs – if you’re in the know it makes good sense, otherwise it can sound like a lot of mumbo jumbo. Here’s a very brief run down on some of the terms used in the mainframe space. First things first – Why System “z”? “z” Stands for zero [...]
Pricing does NOT include the following: GST Delivery Installation Plain English Terms and Conditions Apply. Subject to prior sale. Call us on 1800 777 111 and quote “IBM Specials” for more information on the following items. Upgrade Your 520 1000 CPW System Now! Upgrade to 2400/2400 CPW Over double the CPW power! $29,500 Rental Special [...]
Pricing does NOT include the following: GST Delivery Installation Plain English Terms and Conditions Apply. Subject to prior sale. Call us on 1800 777 111 and quote “IBM Specials” for more information on the following items. IBM Machines IBM 9406/810 P10 750/570 CPW 2GB/200GB V5R2 QU1 XW1 $11,000 IBM 9406/520 P20 0/3300 CPW 8GB/980GB $31,000 [...]
The decision to use a High Availability (HA) product is not as straight forward as it would first appear It is usually an agreement between the business and the IT Department around Service Level Agreements the business requires. This may differ between applications as some businesses have critical applications. You may also need to consider [...]
If you are contemplating upgrading to HMC Code 7.3.3., here are a couple of tips that may assist you when you perform the install. After you have imported your system plan or created your LPAR’s, you may get this error when you open up a 5250 console session: HMC not configured for this LPAR and [...]
Here’s a quick summary of services we offer our customers either here at Computer Merchants or onsite. IBM System i has been a great part of our business, but these days we are also seeing lots of BladeCenter services coming through. We have installed IBM System i, System p, System x, BladeCenter, HMC and Sun hardware, [...]
Over the past 6 weeks we have created a storm in the market over EchoStream – a Continuous Data Protection for AIX systems – and EchoCluster, the complementary product for High Availability fail over. Both have been met with so much enthusiasm from the AIX community. It seems that both these types of products have [...]
Pricing does NOT include the following: GST Delivery Installation Plain English Terms and Conditions Apply. Subject to prior sale. Call us on 1800 777 111 and quote “Web Specials” for more information on the following items. IBM Features IBM 9406/4494 16GB Main Storage for 9406-570 $12,800 IBM 9406/4454 8GB Main Storage for 9406-570 $4,650 IBM [...]
Many of us who have been around a while will know that partitions in an IT environment are nothing new, particularly in a mainframe environment. However in the past few years the concept of Logical Partitioning has made a resurgence. The benefits to users are many, including: Reduces floor area, reducing real estate usage Ability [...]
Success Story Our engineer Richard recently had the pleasure of travelling to Papua New Guinea to work with the great people from Bank South Pacific at their Port Moresby office. Richard was responsible for the installation and set-up of their new i570 Power 6+ System i, with 2 Frames, 5 LPARs and over 5 TB [...]
Previously, we’ve talked about the IBM Jumpstart program. We received a great response regarding the FREE System-i half day course and the more in depth three day course. Well, in addition to the Jumpstart courses, IBM Education has introduced customised training for whatever your company’s IT department requires. These come in the form of education packs, [...]
Maxava HA SMB includes capability for data, object and IFS replication and introduces role swap support Maxava HA SMB provides cost effective High Availability to protect your IBM i business critical applications, data, objects and IFS. It incorporates advanced autonomics, enhanced auditing and user administration tools as well as maxView Monitor – a smart way to [...]
Like most of us, the time comes when we need to upgrade our machine and often our first thought is how much is that going to cost me? Let’s face it, if I’m buying some new equipment, I naturally expect it’ll cost me money. Well, that’s not always the case. Success Story Recently, we had [...]
Well what a start to the year! It has been an exciting time for the Production Department here at Computer Merchants. Here’s a little of what has been going on. It started with two i520s in racks for one of our customers. These machines required 3 LPARs each and that was exciting. Then I was off [...]
IBM are withdrawing OS/400 V5R2 from support as at 30/04/2007. OS/400 V5R3 withdrawn from marketing on January 2008. Support is expected to continue into 2009. #5096 and #5296 expansion tower announced. They are essentially #5094 #5294 with just the PCI/X slots, ie no disk slots. #5786 and #5787 (EXP24 Disk Enclosure) announced holds up to 24 disks [...]
The IBM 2074 console support controller replaces the console support functions of the IBM 3174 establishment controller. One 2074 can replace multiple 3174′s. For example you would need one 3174 for every OS/390 LPAR on a system, whereas a single 2074 can manage up to 32 LPARs or system images. In fact, the 2074 model [...]
