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BS2000 Scope Chapter 1 Overview

For decades the Fujitsu BS2000 strategy has been combining elements such as high innovative power and maximum investment protection. Today BS2000 mainframe systems are thus for many companies the most flexible, reliable and economic solution for operating their core applications.

Contents

Introduction 2 1.1 Trends and technologies in the data center 2

1.1.1 Dynamic infrastructures 2 1.1.2 Complexity of integrated circuits 3 1.1.3 Trend to scale-up scenarios 3 1.1.4 Using scale-out scenarios 5 1.1.5 Service-oriented architecture 6 1.1.6 Challenges in dynamic IT infrastructures Fehler! Textmarke nicht definiert. 1.1.7 Maximum investment protection usingmainframes 7 1.1.8 Successful with reshaping initiatives 8

1.2 Aligning BS2000 mainframe systems Fehler! Textmarke nicht definiert. 1.2.1 Proven guidelines for BS2000 mainframe systems 9 1.2.2 Reliable BS2000 product strategy 10

1.3 BS2000 product portfolio Fehler! Textmarke nicht definiert. 1.3.1 BS2000 hardware Servers 11 1.3.2 BS2000 System software and middleware 12 1.3.3 Excellent integration of proven mainframe qualities 12 1.3.4 Integration of applications 15 1.3.5 Integration of data and in heterogeneous networks 16 1.3.6 Integration with storage systems and Net Storage 16 1.3.7 Integration with other server platforms 16

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Scope BS2000 – Chapter 1 Strategy


Introduction BS2000 mainframes are designed as central large-capacity computers for data centers. This distinguishes them from industry standard server platforms and Enterprise server platforms, whose design takes its bearings from the local concept of distributed systems. The mainframe architecture is optimized so that: many applications can be installed and simultaneously run on a system, different system environments, load profiles and service levels can be simultaneously supported in a system run, ten thousands of users can be managed by a system which is secure and efficient and has high-availability levels with high performance,. BS2000 systems have established themselves as the most economic process platform with optimal functionality and the lowest TCO rates. This is particularly important for a company's important core applications which have grown over the years and which are in part used by many thousands 1.1 Trends and technologies in the data center 1.1.1 Dynamic infrastructures We are all faced with the challenges caused by the fast speed of technological developments, 24hr Internet availability, fast-moving markets and increasing globalization requirements. Flexible changes to business processes are a fundamental factor in a company's success and competitiveness. Dynamic IT infrastructures provide a decisive basis. Based on this premise the role of today's data centers is changing. The traditional data center is increasingly evolving into an IT service center that operates as a business partner closely intermeshed with the development, optimization and on-demand provision of business processes. BS2000/OSD servers have proven over decades that they are highly efficient mentors of modernization processes. Today's mainframe systems can be integrated without any problems into changing or new IT infrastructures, offering the following:

- Open standard interfaces, - Standardized system technology and - Flexible, open system software.

Thanks to their unparalleled fail-safety and excellent scalability they also offer sophisticated concepts and solutions using virtualization, automation and integration technologies. This almost seamless integration is supported by solution components, such as: - Net Storage, - Virtual machines, - Appropriate middleware (openSEAS Suite) - openNetworking. Supplementary elements are opening up these successful server systems thanks to their ability to operate applications, such as Linux und Windows, parallel to the mainframe operating system BS2000. This means maximum freedom for a service-oriented IT company and at the same time yet an even further increase in investment protection which is already at a very high level. Compatible IT concepts and solutions, application innovations and excellent Green IT technologies are offered by Fujitsu as a competent partner. There is an entire portfolio of IT infrastructure to provide maximum investment protection and adaptability for dynamic infrastructures. Cost control and efficiency Hardware consolidation Standardized infrastructure High levels of IT availability Optimal utilization of first-level support Maintenance and development of the correct know-how Seamless integration of various platforms, applications and processes and much more



1.1.2 Complexity of integrated circuits The impressive range of progress regarding IT performance over recent decades is basically due to the fast advances made in the development of hardware. This is particularly due to miniaturized memory and processor chips which have led to the complexity of integrated circuits doubling every two years as forecast by Gordon Moore. Above all, the advances made in the production processes for chips are the main reason why an increasing number of circuits can fit onto a chip. Miniaturization is progressing at an increasingly fast rate. This applies for all processors: from a smartphone to a mainframe. The ever-shorter line paths also mean that the signal runtimes are increasingly shorter and the processing speed thus accelerates. This progress can best be seen by the increasing clock rates. For physical reasons the clock rate increases also unfortunately and disproportionately generate more power consumption and heat development. It will thus be impossible in future to increase the clock rates to the same extent as was the case in the past. Alternative solutions are thus required. 1.1.3 Trend to scale-up scenarios For some time the advances in miniaturized integrated circuits have been used to accommodate serial processor cores on one processor chip (socket). Multicore and multi-threading are the buzzwords. The potential for parallel processing in a processor greatly increased when several processor cores are accommodated on one processor chip. State-of-the-art technology generates the trend to scale-up scenarios. While faster clock rates were automatically beneficial for all applications, the increase in parallel operations can only be used to the extent that parallel operation loads can run on the processor. The attainable level of parallel operations within an application is specified by the task which the application must handle. It cannot be increased in any old way. Attaining the possible internal level of parallel operations requires considerable expenditure in implementing or modifying an application. The following options exist to improve internal processor parallel operations without having to touch the application: Use suitable compilers to detect specific processes in a application and a new compilation of the application for parallelization Use multi-programming (within an operating system instance) to increase the number of useable processors, via the parallel process of several

applications Increase in internal processor parallel operations by running several guest systems on a processor All these versions can run on mainframes, but one or more versions are not available on the other platforms.

Figure 1: Capacity utilization in scale-out and scale-up scenarios



Additional reasons for scale-up scenarios The trend to scale-up scenarios does not come just from state-of-the-art developments in processor technology. The mass market for PCs has reduced hardware prices in the PC environment to such an extent that money-saving handling of hardware resources has lost some of its significance and the willingness to use PC IT for servers seems to be increasingly popular. This has resulted in server operating systems which intentionally keep down the expenditure for multi-programming and sharing resources. Multi-programming was avoidable because a low-price processor could be used for each application. Even for applications for which the performance of one standard processor was not enough, the problem could be solved at low price by distributing an application to several processors. Sharing resources, which has been regarded mainly as a problem resulting from multi-programming, was thus not seen as so important This philosophy resulted in an immensely high number of servers which were individually cheap to buy but which in total required a very high amount of system support expenditure. The utilization of these servers was extremely poor. The typical silo structure full of individual resource islands without any interaction in sharing resources makes this IT architecture very inflexible..

Figure 2: Huge number of servers, high administration costs

Mainframes do not have these problems. Some mainframe concepts, i.e. sharing resources for a pool of servers and virtual machine technology, can also be used on standard platforms as they do not touch standard operating systems. Virtual machine technology enables sufficient parallel operations so that a processor has good utilization levels without any intervention in applications and operating systems which usually only have one application installed. .

Figure 3: Solutions for different problems



1.1.4 Using scale-out scenarios Sharing resources in server pools with mainframes has first become necessary in cluster technology. Clusters are formed in order to implement load or availability arrays or to share systems that are only loosely coupled and operational resources in a controlled manner, e.g. sharing peripheral devices. Load arrays show that mainframe systems can certainly cope with scale-out scenarios. The implementation of server pools is necessary if the total load is subject to strong fluctuations. In other words, when switching-off superfluous servers or powering-up additional servers can help to align the computing power used and the actual requirements – or when the performance of a processor is not sufficient to meet the performance requirements of an application. Availability Cluster The availability cluster is not a scale-out scenario but an example of how distributed systems can increase availability levels. There are reasons why applications must be shutdown, e.g. an application upgrade and update. Any incorrect application behaviour can so far only be eliminated by ending and restarting the application. Applications sometimes crash. It helps if the application runs distributed in order to have the service which supplies the application available in such times. If an instance in a distributed application fails, the application instances still running can maintain the service. This is particularly important if 24-hour operations are necessary. Server pools The technical measures which must be taken in the event of a failure (failover) are very similar to the measures which must be taken when an additional processor is put into operation in an array. Processor pool solutions usually solve both problems. Cluster products, such as HIPLEX for BS2000 mainframes or pool solutions for standard servers, such as FlexFrame, can always be used as load and availability arrays. Scale-up and scale-out were seen for a long time as contrasting alternatives. However, these solutions are actually for different problems.



1.1.5 Service-oriented architecture In addition to IT efficiency and reliability, the flexibility of IT infrastructure has become increasingly important. The growing degree of IT integration increasingly results in modifications and system changes; constantly changing business processes also demand that the IT is adapted quickly. Architecture concepts, such as that of service-oriented architecture (SOA), result very quickly in new combinations of service functions and quickly changing load profiles. Service quality can only be maintained in these circumstances if the IT infrastructure reacts in a flexible manner to whatever the requirement. A service-oriented infrastructure (SOPI) belongs as a supplement to an application architecture). 1.1.6 Challenges in dynamic IT infrastructures Mainframes were designed for the data center as central "IT infrastructure" that provide the hardware resources for many users on demand and as efficiently and as suitably as possible. In the case of mainframes, flexibility is already an inherent feature of the system. The flexibility of standard platforms can be greatly improved by using add-on products and solutions. Many consolidation concepts therefore suggest this across all the platforms. Virtual machines and pooling resources are concepts which are increasingly available on almost all of the platforms. The tendency to technological convergence is not new: client/server and n-tier architecture, TCP/IP, POSIX, Web services, object-oriented programming and multi-processor technology are just some of the technologies which can soon be found on all platforms. This trend is clearly more evident by hardware than by software. As before - even with servers - processors exist with very different instruction sets. However, redundancy, high-availability, cache, virtualization and parallelization features are independent and can be implemented for each processor type as required. The processors would indeed be interchangeable today if the software were not optimized for certain instruction sets and there were no unique feature for mainframe processors in high-end mono-processor performance. The large amount of HW technology coming from PCs and operational system software has already forced its way in standard applications. The size of the market when selecting the platform is almost the only decision factor for ready-made standard applications. And the environment of possible run platforms is decisive for the buyer of such applications when selecting the application. On the contrary, the distribution of the platform only plays a subordinate role for the core applications of companies that are frequently ordered by users as either individual or branch applications or which are developed independently.The effort involved for the implementation, the evolutionary further development, the testing and operation and also last but not least the quality of the platform plays a decisive role here. Mainframe systems, such as the BS2000 Business Server, can play fully to their strengths in this environment. The effort involved for developing and operating BS2000 mainframe applications is lower than for standard platforms due to the following: Mainframe systems contain all the functions required for data

center operations. In the case of standard platforms a great many of these functions must be purchased from external manufacturers as add-on products.

In contrast to external products, all the products of the BS2000 software configuration are attuned to one another. Trouble-free interaction of all the components has already been tested in advance and is guaranteed by the platform manufacturer.

All BS2000 operating system products and the software configuration have a standardized interface design, both for the programming interface as well as for the command interface. This facilitates learning about the interfaces and avoids misunderstandings and incorrect interpretations about the functionality.

Mainframe systems only offer virtualized access to all resources. This separates the applications from the physical resource features. Consequently, the applications running on BS2000 are not affected by the change in the physical implementation of the resources.



Mainframe systems also improve the quality of the applications running on them: Complex resource management ensures that applications are not held up - even at full load (running at 100% capacity). Full isolation of the processes, even if they are not working correctly, ensures that any error in one process cannot spread to another process. Mainframe systems are designed in such a way that the performances of the applications also scale with ease with a very high number of users

or processes. BS2000 allows changes to be made, resources migrated, backups and numerous other maintenance activities in run mode. It also enables

24-hour operation, and for applications. In principle, all the administration functions of the BS2000 operating system, the software configuration and the applications can be managed

not only remotely but also in a fully automated way. 1.1.7 Maximum investment protection using mainframes High-end servers, such as BS2000 Business Servers, are an important component In the server pool of modern data centers when it comes to handling large quantities of data, economically supporting numerous end users and at the same time ensuring permanent availability. Examples of some business requirements for modern data centers: High-availability network Standards Security functions High availability High performance and scalability Integration of existing data and applications Integration of new applications Simple client connection, mobility The excellent features of mainframes include: Best TCO values with a high number of end users High availability during normal IT operations and in the event of a disaster Large data quantities and scalability over an extreme performance bandwidth without any technological leaps Mainframes are outstandingly suited as central high-performance systems to precisely meet these demands. They provide hardware resources as required - efficiently and tailored to suit users, while simultaneously ensuring maximum flexibility and integration options within the IT landscape. The Fujitsu BS2000/OSD/BC mainframe operating system has stood for reliability and innovative power for almost 40 years. It is particularly successful in the business-critical application environments. The BS2000 Business Servers are a proven run platform combining ideal innovations and continuity: it is a server family which is extremely economic, highly-scalable, and stable with high performance regarding processes.



BS2000 Business Servers meet the highest demands and challenges facing state-of-the-art dynamic data centers. In the server pool of service-oriented IT infrastructures, BS2000 Business Servers are the most economic component in handling large

quantities of data and providing support for numerous end-users. The various operating systems can be operated effectively in parallel on mainframe hybrid architectures. The integration of proven and new applications from heterogeneous IT scenarios and running on open IT infrastructures ensure optimal and

future-oriented IT operations. Thanks to the integration of state-of-the-art technologies BS2000 Business Servers are an ideal platform for designing new business processes.

Standard Industry Servers Unix servers Mainframes

Figure 4: Platform range in today’s data centers

Continuous further development and the associated consequent integration of new technologies ensure that BS2000 customers always benefit optimally from our innovative and powerful integration and in so doing they can rely on maximum investment protection. 1.1.8 Successful with reshaping initiatives Fujitsu offers concepts and solutions, with which companies can optimally design dynamic IT infrastructures and at the same time remain in control of their key processes. This covers all information technology topics: In today's dynamic IT infrastructure environments mainframes are still classed as mainstays and - as integrative elements of modern data centers -they provide competent, stable and effective support. BS2000 supports the further development and modernization of proven IT infrastructures. The mainframe environment complete with its

applications can be integrated in small steps ideally and in a flexible manner in state-of-the art dynamic infrastructure environments, be they web-capable user interfaces, integration in portals and heterogeneous application scenarios or by modelling service-oriented architectures.

BS2000 Business Servers provide the optimal solution for every requirement. That also applies for cross-location high availability or the consolidation of heterogeneous server landscapes.

The IT world is becoming greener and greener For many years Fujitsu has proved itself to be a "green" pioneer. Environmentally friendly initiatives throughout production and products are geared to not allow harmful materials to enter the cycle at all, to reduce CO2 emissions and by using energy-saving technologies improve our customers' energy balance. Fujitsu also makes sure its own house is in order: As part of the Initiative "Green Policy 21 - Everything Green" which started in 2010, Fujitsu, for example, reduced by the end of 2012 its own worldwide CO2 emissions by 15 million tons. Fujitsu is actively facing such global challenges and works innovatively to find and use environmentally-friendly solutions Fujitsu has been accepted in the "Energy Efficiency Export Initiative The German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWI) has started an initiative called "Energy Efficiency Export Initiative", which gives German businesses the opportunity - once certified - to advertise with the certificate "Energy Efficiency - made in Germany". Fujitsu was accepted on 30th June 2009 and has since been actively helping to improve Germany's already excellent reputation regarding "energy efficiency".



1.2 Aligning BS2000 mainframe systems 1.2.1 Proven guidelines for BS2000 mainframe systems IT today is regarded as the main driver of productivity growth. The more bespoke the technology for a particular task, the more efficiently IT can handle the role it has to play. Success particularly depends on selecting the correct system platform. Mainframe systems offer the most flexible, most highly available and most cost-efficient solution for many core activities in a company organization. Why is that? Mainframes were designed for a consolidated IT infrastructure in the data center Mainframe systems are optimized to enable many programs to be installed and run in parallel on one computer. The required number of computers can thus be kept to a minimum. Originally, this was the way to save costs for hardware components which were previously considerably more expensive. Today the advantage of an architecture that can cope with significantly fewer computers is that a considerable reduction in IT infrastructure complexity. Fewer servers mean less effort for the administration of servers, networks and peripherals, as well as less space and fewer energy requirements and, last but not least, creates a more robust IT. Mainframe systems thus cause significantly lower running costs in IT operation, so low that it more than compensates for the higher purchasing costs; the total cost of ownership (TCO) for mainframes - particularly for scenarios with many users - is notably lower than that for other system platforms. Unlimited multiprocessing and multiprogramming necessitates a consequent resource virtualization. For various applications and users not to hinder each other on one computer, mainframe systems must be able to isolate the various users and processes from each another as best as possible. This is done by the virtualization of all resources which are used by the applications and via a differentiated central resource management controlled by access rights and priorities. Resource virtualization manages the use of resources Resource virtualization has the operating system between the applications and the resources which can be freely assigned and removed as required. Unauthorized use or the domination of one application by another can thus be prevented. Resource virtualization separates the applications from the hardware and facilitates compatibility and flexibility. The high degree of virtualization implemented via mainframe operating systems separates at the same time the application software from the hardware and from implementation details. At the same time it thus forms an optimal basis for a long-term guarantee of interface compatibility, high flexibility in IT infrastructure and incomparable scaling of services which run on mainframes. Resource virtualization promotes effective error containment and automatic error handling Mainframes need comprehensive process isolation for trouble-free multiprogramming. However, this technology also increases the reliability of the individual applications if they use multitasking. And these applications today include most core applications in the company. Stopping errors from spreading within an application by isolation is the most important prerequisite for effective error handling. At the same time resource virtualization enables a compatible replacement of faulty resources. This gives the applications that run on mainframes their typical robustness and availability.



1.2.2 Reliable BS2000 product strategy The strengths resulting from the mainframe architecture are of particular benefit for long-life core applications. The following plays a decisive role: investment security, long-term guaranteed compatibility, unlimited scaling, top availability levels, automation, very flexible interoperability, evolutionary further developments and – thanks to pre-tested hardware and software configurations – a problem-free update to current software versions and the latest state-of-the-art hardware. This is the basis for the strategic BS2000 guidelines, thus offering an optimal run platform for long-life core applications within a company.

Figure 5: BS2000 strategic directives

The BS2000 hardware (HW) strategy includes the following key priorities:: The BS2000 application and system software should not depend on any specific server architecture; the hardware base which is the most

efficient for that particular BS2000 software can be used in each performance class.

It should be possible to easily scale BS2000 applications across the entire range of BS2000 server performance without having to modify the applications at source or object level for the respective system software or hardware performance class.

BS2000 servers should, wherever economically possible, also be used by other operating systems as a run platform in order to offer a very high degree of server consolidation and flexibility.

The virtualization of best-in-class peripheral systems and connections (disks, tapes, tape archives, printers, networks) should enable the applications running on BS2000 to enjoy the benefits of technical progress without having to make any extensive and expensive modifications due to the changing technologies.

The BS2000 software (SW) strategy has the following main elements: It should be possible to fully automate standard IT operations. In other words, there should be no manually interventions by administrators

apart those caused by unforeseen errors or non-routine changes in the IT configuration.

Standard IT operations, i.e. routine maintenance and HW/SW updates or upgrades and data backup and migration, should run and be operated in parallel without any interruptions and impairment. This is the prerequisite for 7x24 operations.

All the interfaces and services, required for fast, secure and efficient applications to run not only locally but also in heterogeneous data center networks and in the web, should be integrated in BS2000.

Applications running on BS2000 should only be modified when the required functionality changes but never because of adapting to a changing runtime environment (HW and SW). All BS2000 interfaces and the system characteristics are long-term guarantees.

The system and the administration interface should be identical for the entire performance range and for all operating modes: dialog, batch and transaction mode.



1.3 BS2000 product portfolio 1.3.1. BS2000 hardware Servers In today's data centers Enterprise systems work on the assumption of maximum data and application availability as well as outstanding economic efficiency as indispensable attributes. It must be possible to design and monitor a system in such a way that individual defects do not bring the system to a standstill. BS2000 Business Servers are outstandingly successful in meeting these prerequisites. From entry-level to high-end server, today’s BS2000 business servers cover a performance range from 12 to 5,000 RPF (Relative Performance Factor), equivalent to a performance factor of 1:417. There are therefore practically no limits to the scalability of the applications running on BS2000 business servers.

Figure 6: BS2000 server portfolio

The BS2000 server range uses reliable and low-priced CMOS technology on an end-to-end basis The /390-based servers offer very high mono-processor performance in the top range. The introduction of successful server lines based on micro-processors (first of all, the MIPS-based SR2000 line and then the SPARC-based servers of the SX line) was a step which analysts evaluate as entering a new dimension of open server technology with the highest economic viability levels. The BS2000 operating system was thus practically HSI-independent and can today be adapted by a mere re-compilation on each new piece of target hardware. BS2000 applications can even run object-compatible (i.e. without having to re-compile) on each BS2000 server. The x86-based SQ Business Servers have been used at customers since 2009. Several BS2000 guest systems can run on this server line and Linux and Windows systems can be operated in parallel to the BS2000. SQ servers are recommended for three main scenarios: As BS2000 Business Servers in the bottom and medium performance range As hardware platform with mainframe quality for Linux and Windows applications As universal system for the parallel use of BS2000, Linux and Windows on one server Many services are implemented today as n-tier applications implemented for which the various tiers run - often on different operating systems. For example, the application logic and the corresponding database run on a mainframe and the presentation layer of the service and the pertinent web server on a Linux platform. The standardized administration for the entire service lifecycle and the secure fulfillment of service levels must be organized in a low-price and robust manner by the central administration, where possible. And this is the option offered by the SQ Business Server, namely have all the applications which implement a service run on one platform.



Peripherals A high increase in efficiency is obtained by the high-end SAN connectivity of fibre channel technology. Online storage (ETERNUS, Symmetrix and FibreCAT systems), Nearline storage (LTO, Scalar and ETERNUS CS systems) and communication (HNC) can be integrated in such a standardized and robust infrastructure within corporate SAN and network concepts.

Figure 7: High-end SAN connectivity with Fibre Channel technology

1.3.2 System software and middleware Comprehensive and standardized BS2000 system and middleware software is one of the main reasons for problem-free, reliable and efficient running of BS2000 applications. The philosophy followed in a BS2000 mainframe system differs greatly from that of Unix and standard server operating systems. The aim of BS2000 is to provide applications with a complete software configuration, made up of optimally aligned implementation components which are already pre-integrated by the platform manufacturer and not later by the IT operator and which have been tested in the correct interaction procedures. This is the basis for the excellent fail-safety and security, the excellent scaling and extremely simple manageability of the BS2000 mainframe platform. The BS2000 mainframe operating system is a highly available, scalable, high-performance basis for business-critical applications that is totally compatible across numerous versions. The BS2000 mainframe operating system with its open interfaces enables outstandingly flexible and future-proof integration in state-of-the-art application architectures. 1.3.3. Excellent integration of proven mainframe qualities Virtualization This key technology enables extensive consolidation, adapts resource utilization to the changing requirements of business processes in the best way possible and significantly increases server utilization. As a result of the comprehensive virtualization of server and peripheral resources, resource management remains transparent in run mode for the applications, regardless of whether it is used to achieve optimal server utilization, for resource sharing, to accelerate resource access or for flexible adaptation of resource allocation to the changing resource requirements. Even a change in the interfaces to the server HW or the peripherals does not require any adaptation at all to BS2000 applications. This is, among other things, implemented by the virtual machine system, the information lifecycle management and disk caching with DAB - all technologies where mainframes are today's cutting-edge technology.



Automation The basis for all process automation is a clear policy which defines what must happen for each particular event that occur. If the effort involved in creating and maintaining such a policy is too much, this means the end of each automation project. The creation effort basically depends on how easy it is to correctly link up the sub-processes that make up an automated overall process with each other. On the other hand, the maintenance effort mainly depends on the robustness and stability of these policies. BS2000 offers highly optimized products which minimize the effort involved. In many cases, the sub-processes are linked using job control languages. SDF-P, a job control language, is available on BS2000 mainframes. It offers the programming convenience of higher programming languages and enables syntax-controlled data transfer between the sub-processes. The product JV provides persistent variables for data exchange between the sub-processes that is independent of the process lifetime. This

ensures optimal job control of job variables to exchange information between the user und the operating system.

It is not enough if only operating system functions can be easily linked. The product SDF-A is used to provide application interfaces in the form of commands. The product SHC-OSD can be used to enable ETERNUS, Symmetrix and FibreCAT disk controllers to be automatically managed from the BS2000 job control language. Before the measures defined in the policies can be initiated, the events which are to trigger these policies must first be uniquely detected. Exact knowledge about the current performance situation plays a decisive role when it comes to the automation of resources management. Today's IT usually runs in a very heterogeneous environment. Cross-platform performance tools are thus required. openSM2 from Fujitsu is a tool originally designed only for the BS2000 environment, but is now provided for Solaris (SPARC), Linux and Windows. Agents collect the necessary parameters on the respective systems and forward them to a management instance which automatically triggers the required action in the form of a script. The cluster concept HIPLEX is used to implement load and resource management over several BS2000 systems. A further important environment for automation is the automated administration of routine situations and automated error handling. Thanks to guaranteed, standardized and detailed BS2000 message texts it is possible to intercept, evaluate and automatically deal with all system and application messages. Console messages can also be automatically dealt with by the products PROP-XT and TOP/X. In addition to the load cluster, HIPLEX can also be used to implement an availability cluster. The product HIPLEX-MSCF runs permanent monitoring of BS2000 systems. After a system failure HIPLEX-AF can be used to initiate an automatic failover. The third large application for automation is handling complex job networks. The order management system AVAS is used to start jobs controlled by date and time, to define dependencies between jobs and monitor their compliance. This not only reduces manual administration, it also significantly increases the security and availability of IT services, because operating errors can be eliminated in this way. Management When considering the economic efficiency of IT systems over the entire IT lifecycle, it is basically the IT administration and operation costs which are decisive. The intelligent BS2000 system management guarantees the economic operation of applications. It ensures optimal utilization of the system resources and provides fundamental services, such as backup, archiving, print and automation functions on a cross-network, interoperable basis. Requirements regarding architecture, flexibility, reliability, scaling, openness and comfortable operations will continue to increase in future . And last but not least the need for efficient, standardized, cross-section system management will increase even today due to the increasing range of platforms, applications and thus wide range of different workloads. Current further developments will meet such requirements.



High availability Particularly reliable hardware and software as well as numerous system functions ensure highest availability (99.999%). Failover cluster concepts enable optimal utilization of system resources for operational, capacity and availability clusters of several servers. Planned and non-planned downtimes impair business processes. These downtimes in mainframe environments have an immediate effect on business-critical processes as rare downtimes already suggest there are problems. Mainframe hardware downtimes are very rare thanks to the system architecture and redundancy of the main components. Systems are down unscheduled usually due to operating errors, application errors or capacity problems. Planned work, such as hardware and software maintenance, regularly impair IT operations. How can a company and organizations be better prepared for such situations? The best possible way to ensure continuous business processes is having infrastructures with an end-to-end HA/LM concept, such as BS2000 Business Servers. Planned downtimes can be completely avoided and non-planned downtimes kept to an absolute minimum. Simple, efficient and reliable: BS2000 Business Servers ensure maximum reliability for business-critical application environments. Avoid planned IT interrupts Thanks to the extreme stability of its hardware and software BS2000 Business Servers have enjoyed excellent fail-safety statistics over decades; service interventions are very rare. If maintenance actions, such as software updates or hardware upgrades are imminent, they can usually be carried out in run mode entirely thanks to innovative functions, such as live migration. Advantages: Very high levels of available operating time Hardly any planned service interrupts or even none IT personnel deployment can be optimized more easily as special knowledge is not required so much Avoid potential downtimes Faults due to, for example, operator errors or capacity problems are avoided by BS2000 Business Servers at different levels. Simplified system management reduces above all the risk of operator errors. This is supported by a high degree of automation whereby numerous tasks are carried out by the system based on rules and the system conditions can be continually recorded and evaluated. Advantages: High productivity and quality levels for mainframe operation Proactively ensure very high levels of available operating time Relieve the strain for IT staff Minimize the effects non-planned downtimes The availability of BS2000 Business Servers can be increased to 99.999%. This peak load for applications is attained by an optimal operating, workload and availability cluster made up of several servers. Furthermore, the high-availability concept of the SQ series is a very efficient and simultaneously low-priced solution which keeps downtimes to a minimum. Advantages: High availability levels for your business-critical applications Almost unlimited scaling Higher economic viability thanks to optimally used resources Ease of administration Performance and scalability The excellent multiprocessor characteristics and associated enormous scalability ensure almost unlimited growth in all sectors including high-end - with no need to change the system. Applications do not need to be modified.



Integration and innovation The aim of adaptation is to harmonize two elements. On the one hand, existing software should be modified as little as possible so that quality is not endangered and the investment is protected. On the other hand, it must be possible to implement all modified or new requirements regarding this software as quickly and efficiently as possible. Market dynamics, changing business processes and the fast advances in information technology leave us with no alternative. An architecture concept should make this all possible: a concept which provides the services required for business processes in the form of elementary services with standardized interfaces (Service Oriented Architecture, SOA). More complex business processes are modelled by aligning such basic services. 1.3.4. Integration of applications Fujitsu‘s product suite openSEAS is a state-of-the-art middleware offering which comprehensively addresses the relevant topics on a CIO's agenda - from simple and efficient application consolidation and modern application development to the integration of legacy applications and the development of web services and corporate portals. Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and Business Process Management (BPM) are leading topics that move companies. Business-critical applications can be integrated in web portals as well as internal and external business processes by using innovative web services technology. When integrating existing applications in new scenarios Fujitsu and its openSEAS Products Suite provides a success thanks to its powerful tools (BeanConnect, openFT, openUTM, WebTransactions). Web service technology has meanwhile been able to assert itself as the main integration technology. BS2000 can be optimally integrated in any heterogeneous IT infrastructures due to the full support of standardized open operating system interfaces in POSIX, the support of communication interfaces in openNet Server, the support of services and protocols for the operation in Internet with the product interNet Services. openUTM The high-availability levels of applications as well as the option of automatically distributing workloads during peak load times have top priority and are an important feature of dynamic infrastructures. Extended high-availability is offered by openUTM cluster functionality; openUTM applications can be run without any interruptions. In BS2000 the transaction monitor openUTM offers comprehensive transaction security for data, programs, message queues and client/server communication. End-to-end security is further enhanced by sophisticated authentication and authorization mechanisms as well as the option of data encryption. openUTM in BS2000 meets stringent high-availability requirements and integrates heterogeneous environments (BS2000, Unix, Linux and Windows platforms, databases, networks). Transaction-secured data exchange with applications on IBM systems (e.g. CICS) or systems working on an OSI-TP basis, is possible. The current version of openUTM is used to run UTM applications as well as distributed applications. This even enables 24-hour operation if an update or upgrade of the system or application software is necessary or if a UTM application has to end or crashes. WebTransactions Business processes require comprehensive and fast support from a company's IT. In order to ensure such support, existing and new applications must be integrated across the platforms quickly and reliably using a flexible system. WebTransactions from openSEAS is a product which enables the use of proven host applications in new business processes and modern application scenarios. WebTransactions is available on Windows, Solaris and Linux, as well as on BS2000. WebTransactions can integrate applications without changes into Internet/Intranet/Extranet, improves and optimizes the masks used in applications, modifies the dialog process for existing host applications in order to meet user requirements (dialog re-engineering), is used to present and operate different applications on a cross-platform basis under one web interface, can easily and quickly adapt the application interface for the mobile use of planned devices (PDA, tablet PC, Notebook, WAP mobile;

Smartphone?). BeanConnect BeanConnect as an adapter family links traditional transaction monitors and state-of-the-art application servers, thus enabling the efficient integration of OLTP applications in java systems. Older applications can thus be used in new business processes. Applications based on application servers are connected with applications for the TP monitor openUTM or the CICS Transaction Server connected. The connection is compliant with Java EE Connector Architecture (JCA). New applications based on Java EE technology can be integrated in an existing IT environment using java resources.



openFT No less than 80% of the entire data exchange, whether within the company or external with customers and business partners, is currently handled by transferring files. Security during data transfer is a primary concern of IT managers. How can we upgrade a typical file transfer to a Managed File Transfer which can be regarded as secure file transfer and which also supports FTAM protocol, for example in banking or public administrations, such as road traffic office, customers or central registration departments? The answer is in openFT, the Fujitsu product family in the Enterprise class for file transfer. The corporate file transfer solution openFT meets to an extremely high degree the requirements for openness, reliability, availability, automation, security and performance. 1.3.5. Integration of data and in heterogeneous networks Fujitsu has developed the overall concept of openNetworking for BS2000 for secure and reliable Internet operations and for handling business processes via the web. Support is thus provided for all the relevant protocols, interfaces and standards for Internet technologies. Grown infrastructures are taken into account and the best connection to heterogeneous multivendor networks and mobile devices is secured via high-performance encryption. 1.3.6. Integration with storage systems and Net Storage BS2000 provides maximum flexibility, for example, when connecting storage systems in a customer's storage area network (SAN). Extended storage integration by integrating Midrange und Enterprise storage systems in the Fujitsu ETERNUS DX systems, and clone&snap functions based on the storage host component SHC-OSD. Net Storage provides the option of directly storing BS2000 files on NAS systems. 1.3.7. Integration with other server platforms For example, BS2000 guarantees standardized, comprehensive administration of servers, peripherals and networks, and at the same time supports recognized Internet protocol standards and services, ensures seamless integration into heterogeneous infrastructures via open interfaces and allows parallel operation of other systems (Linux, Windows, VMware) on SQ servers. 1.4. BS2000 services offers A comprehensive service offer supports and reliably guarantees all the elements which affect the security of IT operations and ensures intelligent solutions in order to keep the environment of IT the infrastructure efficient and future-oriented. An overview of BS2000 Services: Managed Data Center BS2000: Assumption of responsibility for the operation of the customer’s own BS2000 servers BS2000 as a Service: Provision of complete BS2000 IT infrastructures and personnel in the Fujitsu Data Center BS2000 Solutions: Efficient solutions optimize BS2000 IT resources BS2000 HW/SW/MW – Maintenance and Support Services Optimal service level agreements for all BS2000 hardware, software and middleware products

Figure 8: BS2000 Dynamic Infrastructure Services

Dynamic Infrastructure- Services

Managed Infrastructure

Managed Data Center BS2000 Remote and local services (system administration, consulting services) Financial services (AIP, CoD)

Infrastructure as a Service

BS2000 as a Service Provisioning of BS2000 IT-Infrastructures and staff via Fujitsu (Systems for productive-, archive-,information operations, disaster recovery)

Infrastructure Solutions

BS2000 Solutions (DB-Offload, SOA Integration, Consult-, Design-, Build-Services, Training, etc.)

Infrastructure Products & Services

BS2000 HW-/SW-/MW-Portfolio Maintenance and Support Services (S/SQ Business Server, BS2000, (remote/local, SlAs, etc.) BS2000-XC, openSEAS)



1.4.1 BS2000 Managed Data Center As part of the service portfolio for Managed Data Center BS2000, Fujitsu takes on the responsibility for operating the customer's own BS2000 servers. The range of services covers analysis and planning to build and operation, including maintenance & support services for the entire BS2000 infrastructure. The operation of the customer's own BS2000 infrastructure is ensured according to defined service level agreements. These services can be provided locally or remote, as well as temporarily or permanently depending on the customer's requirements. The following services are offered:

1.4.2 BS2000 as a Service Providing BS2000 infrastructure (including personnel) is also part of the service offer as is the complete transfer of service responsibility for BS2000 operations throughout the entire value creation chain. An optimal allocation of resources and cost transparency for the required BS2000 infrastructure is ensured by services such as: Efficient operations management according to defined SLAs Central contact person; a single-point-of-contact Provide the systems and applications permanently, or temporarily at agreed dates (info system) Data access via VPN connection Planning Disaster Recovery services 1.4.3 BS2000 solutions BS2000 Solutions from Fujitsu offers standardized solutions and usage scenarios throughout the value-creation chain covering Consult, Design & Build Services, and thus permitting optimal utilization and resource distribution across the BS2000 infrastructure. Optimal and skilled consultation is a decisive success factor when it comes to ensuring the appropriate solutions for efficient use of the entire BS2000 infrastructure. That is a strategic guideline for Fujitsu. A selection of the service offer: Technical consultation and analysis (extract) Organization and holding of workshops for a detailed analysis of business and technical requirements Check the prerequisites of hardware and software products for the target platform High-availability solutions (extract) Design/ Concept planning and sizing of BS2000 infrastructure using an array of different technologies Transitioning of the design concepts into test operations Seamless integration of the solution into the existing IT infrastructure Integration of hardware and software solution components (extract) Design and integration of: Virtualization solutions (VM2000) Storage management solutions (HSMS, MAREN, SHC-OSD, ROBAR) Network solutions (SNMP, openFT, HPC – High Performance Connect) Database solutions (Oracle, SESAM, UDS, DB-Offload) Mainframe SOA integration (in Service Oriented Infrastructures

System administration Health check Reporting Monitoring

Data Center automation Automation Hardware configuration HW-/SW-upgrades, -installations

Work preparation and reviews Network administration BS2000 Optimization Service System migration and consolidation

Project management Service on demand package Storage- and –backup concepts Operating



1.4.4 BS2000 Maintenance & support services Maintenance & support services from Fujitsu offers standardized services for hardware, software and middleware maintenance, infrastructure roll-out services as well as IMACD services. Service offers: Service around the clock, 7x24 hours a day and 365 days a year Availability of a comprehensive, worldwide service network The main focus is on pro-active remote services Guaranteed short reaction times, optimized arrival times on-site Software installation and Software update management Defined and promised hardware recovery times Best-in-class logistics Flexible IMACD services for the entire range 1st/2nd/3rd Level Support 1.5 BS2000 Training course offers Standard and tailor-made training courses Fujitsu has a comprehensive offer of technical training courses for BS2000 products. On request, the training course contents can be specifically modified to a customer's requirements; training courses can also be in-house as required. Topics: BS2000 fundamentals BS2000 system applications BS2000 system operation BS2000 system support BS2000 integration in data center infrastructure Products for application development 1.6 BS2000 contacts Contact: Marketing and Sales Support: [email protected] Contact: BS2000 Services [email protected] Contact: Training courses [email protected] Further information: About BS2000 in general: www.fujitsu.com/de/bs2000 About BS2000 Services: www.fujitsu.com/de/bs2000/services

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