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  • A Few Power Systems Items At The Cusp Of The New Year

    January 10, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Welcome back, everyone. We hope you had a joyous vacation, and that you took your vitamins and got your rest to take on a new year.

    It is generally pretty quiet in the IT racket in late December of one year and early January in the next year, and the bridge between 2023 and 2024 is no different. But there were a few items that came to our attention that we want to make you aware of.

    In announcement letter AD23-1087, dated December 12, 2023, Big Blue has put some 5250 Enablement features that were withdrawn from marketing in an announcement on July 11 and that was effective on October 24 last year back on the books so customers can buy them through October 20, 2025. The four machines that have had their 5250 Enablement features reinstated include the Power S924 (both the 42A and 42G versions, the latter of which has faster I/O) and the Power H924 (including the 42H and 42S versions, again with the latter ones having faster I/O). The reinstatement includes both the per-core 5250 Enablement and the Full 5250 Enablement at the system level. The original withdrawal was in announcement letter AD23-0479, which had withdrawals for lots of features and which we reported on at length here.

    In announcement letter AD24-0090, dated January 9 of this year, IBM is offering new memory and processor feature conversions from the Power E1080 to the Power E1080 Solution Edition for Healthcare. It looks like the memory conversion is just for plain vanilla single core activations and 512 GB memory activations to cores and memory that can be shared in an Enterprise Pool 2.0 cluster, which allows for activations to be shared across machines and moved around as needed.

    And finally, in announcement letter AD24-0849, IBM says that it is now requiring new orders of Power10 systems to include that it calls a Power Segment feature indicator code, which specifies AIX, IBM i, or Linux. There is another segment code for SAP HANA machines. There are segment feature codes that are unique to IBM i, AIX, Linux, and SAP HANA that are unique to each Power9 and Power10 model. It looks like IBM wants to do better tracking orders. IBM elaborates thus: “Effective January 9, 2024, all Power hardware orders must have a segment feature indicator for valid order. The Power Segment indicator will be defaulted based on a primary OS selected and in some cases by the secondary OS selection or other order selections.”

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