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IBM
System/390
Empowering your enterprise
Information
processing
should
reflect
an
enterprise's
operating
conditions
2
Turning
business
realities
into
advantages
Wh
ereve
r your
enterprise
operates ...
wh
atever that
busin
ess
may be ... your organisation probably fa
ces
worldwide opportunities
and
competitive
pressure
s.
In
the
pa
st
decade
alone,
business
opportunities
and
challenges
have
escalated
and
become global
in
scope. As a result, you may be among the the
execu-
tives who routinely n
ee
d to:
• Make
de
cisions about engaging in new
market
initiativ
es,
strategic
partnership
s,
joint
ventures,
merg
ers
or acquisitions.
•
Enable
your
enterprise
to
respond
to
new opportu-
niti
es
by
helping your diverse
individual
user
s,
workgroups
and
systems
to
exchange
vital informa-
tion
eas
ily
and
more quickly.
The
concept
behind
the
IBM
ES/9000
family
enables
information
processing
systems
to
be
fully
integrated
• Permit suppliers, subsidiari
es
and
fi
eld offices
to
exchange information with your h
ead
office -
and often
wi
th
one
an
other
,
as
well.
• Control costs.
• Deploy personnel for maximum eff
ec
ti
veness.
An
opportunity
to
transform
your
e
nt
e
rpri
se
I
ss
ues such as th
ese
represent
an
implicit opportunity
to
transform and str
ea
mline your ent
er
pri
se
.
Often, such transforma
ti
on is welcome -
espec
ially
when fine-tuning
yo
ur information infrastructure
ca
n
e
nhan
ce
tomorrow
's
success
by
e
nabling
yo
u to:
• Get the information n
ee
ded
to make rapid
d
ec
isions
and
r
es
pond
quick
l
y.
• Simp
lif
y
access
to
resources, faci lities
and
systems.
• Protect against the
increased
corporate security
risks
th
at accompany
inf
orma
ti
on exc
han
ge within
and
beyond ent
er
pri
se
boundaries.
• More easily
mana
ge multiple
centra
l, remote
and
bac
kup
computing sites and compli
ca
t
ed
commu-
nications technologi
es
.
•
Exp
loit competitive-edge
app
li
ca
ti
on
and
network-
ing
opportunities without
impeding
your busi n
ess
growth
by
exceed
ing y
our
res
our
ce
ca
pa
city.
Information
proc
ess
ing
s
hould
be u
se
d
uniforml
y
as
a
tool
throughout
the
e
nterpri
se
3
The
exceUent
balance
between
price
and
performance
makes
entry
into
the
mainframe
class
an
attractive
proposition
;----...I
n
r ·
L 1
4
Powering
up
your
enterprise
in
the
new
era
A
widespread
call
for
increased
access
and
control
Executives worldwide tell us that balTi
ers
to
corpo-
rate suc
cess
must be removed. They want fast,
reliable
and
easy
access
to
information within their
enterprises.
Th
ey also
seek
the fre
edo
m
to
s
har
e
dat
a
among manufacturing, marketing, finance, h
ea
d
office, s
upplier
s
and
customers. And they want
to
mana
ge
and
control the diver
se
systems throughout
the
ir
ent
er
prises.
IBM listened carefully
as
bus
in
ess
l
ea
ders
around
the
globe told us the
ir
con
ce
rns, n
ee
ds
and
re
quir
ements.
From them,
we
formed the foundation for a new era in
computin
g.
With the advent of IBM's new era in computing
yo
u
ca
n e
quip
yo
ur
enterpri
se
with the power
to
in
crease
productivity, r
ed
u
ce
costs, develop global markets,
automate
appropriate
pro
ce
dur
es, sh
or
ten develop-
ment cycles
and
respond
to
customers more quickly
and effectively. This new era encompasses:
• The IBM System/
39
0*
, a new family of growth-
oriented, high-pelforman
ce
computing systems
and so
ftw
are
• Broader, more comprehensive information
access
in a
sec
ur
e environment
• Innovative t
ec
hnology supporting your
business
vision
and
enhancing
your c
urr
ent information
assets
• In
crease
d manag
er
ial control
ov
er di
ve
rse network
and system elements
and
functions.
A
solid
foundation
for
increased
access
and
growth
IBM
System/390
provid
es
the power through a range
of new systems
and
products, as well
as
communica-
tions routers
and
switching devi
ces,
networking
solutions, adv
an
ce
d
app
li
ca
tions
and
a w
ea
lth of
ancillary services. Separately in some
in
stan
ces,
together in others, th
ese
offerings provide a solid
foundation. And this foundation e
nabl
es
yo
ur
appli
ca
tions
and
ne
tw
orked systems (non-IBM
as
well
as
IBM)
to
grow in sophis
ti
ca
tion
and
access
ibility
as
yo
u strategi
ca
lly
deplo
y them
to
ac
hieve such enter-
pri
se
-wide goals
as
incr
ease
d m
ar
ket s
har
e, improv
ed
profit marg
in
s, high
er
quality, gr
ea
ter custom
er
sa
tisfaction
and
heightened competitiveness.
The following
exa
mpl
es
illustrate how
our
innovative
pr
oducts
and
architectures
can
advance
y
our
busin
ess
vision -and help
yo
u improve your company
's
pe
l{
ormance:
• Retail buyers
ca
n gather the lat
es
t
sa
les trend
information from multiple worldwide sites
through
our
new syst
ems,
so
ftw
are and networking
solutions.
• International bankers
ca
n encrypt
se
nsitive
el
ec
tronic funds tr
ans
f
ers
for maximum confidenti-
ality
and
sec
urity.
• Gove
rnment
employ
ees
can
conso
lidat
e
and
graphi
ca
lly
depict
budget authorisations
and
ac
tual expe
nditur
es
on
an
agency
or
departm
ental
basis by using
our
d
ecis
ion-support offerings
and
Far-reaching
t
ec
h-
nological
innovation
s
lend
the
traditional
computing
centre
a
whole
new
imag
e
int
eg
rat
ed
office systems.
• A food company
's
management t
ea
m
ca
n
ana
lyse
information on field inventory
and
brand move-
ment on a daily b
as
is.
• Ma
nuf
ac
tur
ers
ca
n g
iv
e the
ir
distributors online
ca
talogue
access
through
our
new systems a
nd
networking solutions.
•
Edu
ca
tional syst
ems
ca
n be
accessed
by home -
or
office
-b
ased u
se
rs for int
erac
ti
ve
skills tutoring in
languages
or
math
ema
ti
cs
.
• Clothing importers
ca
n u
se
our
new systems
and
IBM
busin
ess
partner software to tr
ac
k imported
finished goods
and
lellers of credit, and
to
ex-
change vital informa
ti
on with the
ir
international
suppli
ers
by el
ec
tronic
data
interchange.
Pow
erf
ul
workstations
reach
a
new
l
eve
l
of
performanc
e
through
int
eg
ration
in
high-
sp
eed
n
etwo
rk
s
Designed for
the
'90s
Innovativ
e
sys
te m s
and
se
rvice
s
to
advance
your
business
vision
Scenar
ios such as th
ese
ca
n be multiplied many
times, d
epe
nding
on co
untr
y,
industry
and
busin
ess
strategy.
In
all
cases,
customer value driv
es
our
efforts to he
lp
you r
ea
lise your enterpri
se
goals.
No
maller what
yo
ur
indu
stry
or
busin
ess
plan may
be, here are some of the ways that we
ca
n help
yo
u
empower y
our
enterprise:
Fir
stl
y,
there is the growth potential a
nd
pedormance
power of
th
e new IBM System/
390
computing famil
y.
System/
39
0 inclu
des
the new
Ent
erpri
se
System/
9000
(ES/
9000)
* processor models,
as
we
ll
as
e
nhan
ce
d
system hardware and new operating system software.
System/
390's
broad range of pro
cesso
r models offers
hi
gh pet{ormance and signifi
ca
nt growth potential,
enriching
yo
ur
existing investment in systems, data,
applications
and
personne
l.
Yo
ur
employees
ca
n u
se
the System/
39
0 family
to
gain wider, more co
mpr
ehensive information ac
cess,
within
and
beyond enterpri
se
boundari
es
. This gain
is the r
es
ult of
our
enriching
and
str
ea
mlining
thr
ee
operating systems -MVS,
VM
and
VSE -
and
using
common communi
ca
tion protocols and network
archit
ec
tur
es
in the design of
our
new systems.
You
ca
n also gain a more co
mpr
ehensi
ve
mana
gerial
r
eac
h over
yo
ur
network performan
ce
and resources.
This
ca
pability derives from network solutions that
integrate diver
se
lo
ca
l
area
networks a
nd
offer
comprehens
iv
e graphic views of the resources they
contain ... new system
mana
gement directions .. . and
va
ri
ed
sec
urity options.
D
es
igned for the
'9
0s, th
ese
powerful IBM computing
solutions incorporate many va
luabl
e t
ec
hnologi
ca
l
innovations:
• A
unique
integrat
ed
cryptographic f
ea
tur
e
• Fast, lightweight fibre optic
ca
bling
• Environmentally e
ffi
cient systems.
Our
products int
eg
rate the systems that process
yo
ur
enterprise information with other office systems,
departmental
systems,
client-server
LANS, worksta-
ti
ons, workgroups and departments. For example,o
ur
Enterprise Systems
Architecture
/
39
0 (ESA /
390)*
employs logi
ca
l and ph
ys
ical interconnections that
en
ab
le d
es
igners working
at
varied geographi
ca
l
locations
to
gain f
as
ter
access
to
el
ec
troni
ca
lly
dispersed
engin
eer
ing c
hang
es. As a r
es
ult, they
can
incr
ease
productivity and shorten the product devel-
opment cycle.
It
no
longer
matter
s
if
terminals
belong
to
different
departments
or
ar
e s
pr
e
ad
acro
ss
numerous
sites
at
home
and
abroad
Accommodate
cooperative
and
distributed
processing
Th
e new IBM ES/
9000
processor models
and
operat-
ing system so
ftw
are also accommodate coop
era
tive
and
distributed
pro
cess
ing. As a result, our new
systems move
yo
u
closer
to the
da
y
wh
en any individ-
ual computing system
or
workstation in
yo
ur
enter-
pri
se
can inter
ac
t with any
other
-even
if
yo
u have
hundr
eds
of
loc
al
area
networks,
eac
h with
hundr
eds
of workstations.
Your information syst
ems
organisation
ca
n u
se
stand
ar
d IBM platforms
to
develop
en
t
erp
ri
se-wide
applications
and
link
approp
riate entet·pri
se
person-
nel with your outside clients
and
suppli
ers
. And
workgroups in one enterpri
se
department
or division
ca
n s
har
e information with tho
se
in o
th
er
departments
or di visions, r
ega
rdl
ess
of whether they
are
on the
other
side
of the site, across the co
untr
y or
in
a
remote corner of the globe.
7
I
•
The
po
s
sibilities
available
through
fibre
optics
mean
a
system's
I/O de
vices
no
longer
have
to
be
concentrated
in
one
place
8
Key
computing
attributes
of
the
empowered
enterprise
Operational
flexibility
Your IBM System
/3
90-
empowered e
nt
erpri
se
c
an
acc
ommodat
e chang
es
far mo
re
flexibly than
eve
r
be
fo
re. Applications
ca
n be shifted from one large
host system to
anoth
er ... de
vi
ces
such
as
disks a
nd
tap
es
c
an
be c
han
ged with
minimal
dis
rup
tion to
regular operations .
..
a
nd
c
omputin
g r
es
our
ces
c
an
be loc
at
ed
wh
erever s
pa
ce
pe
rmit
s.
Th
e fibre optic t
ec
hn
ology
und
e
rl
y
in
g c
hann
el
c
onn
ec
tions in
our
systems a
nd
controllers re
quir
es
far l
ess
room, an
app
ealing
alt
ernative
to
the limits
impo
se
d by the heavy,
bulk
y c
ablin
g that h
as
lon
g
se
rved the
indu
stry.
Our
new cha
nn
el t
ec
hnology
al
so pe
rmit
s data transmi
ss
ion over distan
ces
of
up
to
9
kilom
eters (5.4 mil
es
) - a signific
ant
incr
ease
over
the former
122
meter
(400
f
ee
t)
s
tandard.
As a
r
es
ult, y
ou
ca
n now loc
at
e system pro
cess
or
s in one
part
of
y
our
bu
sin
ess
c
ompl
ex, a
nd
de
vi
ces
for th
ose
sa
me systems c
an
o
cc
up
y sp
ace
in another
buildin
g
or
co
mpl
ex. You gain furth
er
fl
exibility b
eca
u
se
y
ou
c
an
access
data from a variety
of
systems and
lo
ca
tions.
IBM
's
new sy
st
ems also provide y
our
enterpri
se
with a cooperative pro
cess
ing facility, c
ouplin
g the
benefits
of
pers
on
al c
omputin
g with the pe
Iiorman
ce,
power
and
control
of
hos
t-ba
se
d c
omputin
g. Co
op
era-
tive pro
cess
ing allows
appli
ca
tions to be split be
tw
ee
n
workstations and hosts.
Increa
s
ed
security
options
to
protect
your
enterprise
You want y
our
information to be
access
ibl
e;
yet, the
more criti
ca
l that information is to the opera
ti
on, the
more
se
nsitive it b
ec
om
es
.
Th
e System/
390-
empo
w-
ered enterpri
se
ca
n provide the d
eg
r
ee
of
sec
urity
prot
ec
tion you re
quir
e,
at workstation, host and
network levels, c
ombinin
g
ease
of
u
se
with system-
managed
sec
urit
y.
Broader,
simpler
system
and
network
manag
e
ment
Our
new
produ
cts
ar
e d
es
igned
to
r
es
pond
to y
our
re-
quir
eme
nt
for broader, s
impl
er, enterpri
se
-wide
system
and
network ma
nag
ement. If improved
oper
ational
manag
ement, lower costs,
and
incr
ease
d
system availability a
nd
r
es
pons
iv
en
ess
are high on
your age
nda
,
our
new
produ
cts
and
se
rvi
ces
ca
n m
ee
t
y
our
n
ee
ds.
Powerful
system
growth
and
expansion
Th
e
18
models in the IBM
Ent
erprise
Sy
stem/
9000
(ES/
9000
) family offer outs
tandin
g room for growth.
This family
includ
es comp
ac
t, rack-mounted models,
as well as both air-cooled
and
water-cooled, frame-
mounted models, all sharing a common
ar
chit
ec
ture.
IBM
's
ex
pand
ed VSE/ESA software offering for the
ES/9
000
family accommodat
es
fast bus
in
ess
growth,
while providing the option
to
migrate y
our
enterpri
se
more
eas
il
y into
th
e
MVS
/ESA operating system
environmen
t.
Th
e ES/
9000
family offers many
upgrade options from your existing systems,
e
nhan
c
in
g y
our
IBM computing inves
tm
ent.
Advanced
applications
Inf
ormation pro
cess
ing has
mo
ved from automating
'b
ac
k-offi
ce'
applications such
as
accounting ...
to
front-offi
ce
appli
ca
tions such
as
on-line r
ese
rvations
systems ...
to
advan
ce
d appli
ca
tions that c
an
g
iv
e
yo
u a competiti
ve
edge, like
ima
ge pro
cess
ing
and
computer-int
eg
rated manufacturin
g.
Image
processing
for
increased
productivity
One l
ea
din
g
bank
has d
esc
ribed the potential of
image pro
cess
ing in the financial community as
"the
mo
st signific
ant
banking development s
in
ce
the computer" . Today, banks c
an
c
aptur
e cheque
images at the rate of 40 per
sec
ond. And now, IBM
is making such appli
ca
tions more widely available
by b
as
ing them on standard system platforms.
As a r
es
ult, image processing is gaining popularity
in oth
er
industri
es
and
pra
cti
ces
as well. Advan
ce
d
image pro
cess
ing c
an
includ
e photos, engin
ee
ring
drawings or even medical images, as well as cheques
and pape
r.
This
advan
ce
d application
ar
ea offers the
potential
to
in
cr
ease
transaction volumes ha
ndled
by
indiv
idual
employees by as
much
as
30
per
ce
nt.
Expanded
capahility
for
technical
applications
Executiv
es
are sometim
es
surpri
se
d
to
learn that
t
ec
hni
ca
l computing pro
ce
dur
es
ar
e
as
useful in
commercial applications, such as financial for
ec
ast-
ing
and
production sc
hedulin
g, as they are in com-
plex scientific appli
ca
tions. Such appli
ca
tions often
re
quir
e the pro
cess
in
g of vast quantiti
es
of stored
information. B
ec
au
se
the ES/
9000
systems also offer
fast storage a
ccess,
they
ca
n act as both compute-
and
file-
se
rv
ers, working with
hi
gh-sp
ee
d networks and
powelful programmable workstations.
Th
e new ES/
9000
family offers significantly improved
sca
lar c
ap
abiliti
es
and
, on most models, a v
ec
tor
f
ac
ility
as
well. This incr
eases
high-sp
ee
d computa-
tional
ca
pabiliti
es
for more
num
eri
ca
lly intens
iv
e
scientific
and
t
ec
hni
ca
l applications.
Our
larg
es
t
ES/
9000
model
ca
n be exp
ec
ted
to
offer from
2.0
to
2.8
tim
es
the computing c
apabilit
y of o
ur
c
urr
e
nt
largest system with the V
ec
tor F
ac
ility.
A
well-d
e
signed
conc
e
pt
for
the
prot
e
ction
of
data
provide
s a
high
degree
of
se
curity
9
10
Applications
in
the
areas
of
investment
and
production
planning,
chemical
engineering,
structural
analysis
and
s
imulation
require
extra
performance
Achieve
your
goals
using
our
solutions
Bottom-lin
e
benefits
Together, IBM
's
ES/
9000
process
or
family, e
ffi
cient
c
hann
el architecture, powerful operating system so
ft-
ware, diverse
sec
urity offerings,
communications
and
networking products
and
advanced
app
li
ca
tions
constitute a complete system approach
to
sa
ti
sfying
the information systems
challenges
inherent in
supporting your busin
ess
goals. With th
ese
products,
you
ca
n r
ea
lise the bottom-line
ben
efits of such cost-
saving innovations as the implementation of fibre
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