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I/O and Networking

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Support more than 4 Subchannel Sets in each LCSS

With the plan of defining a MM 4-Site disk topology, the base devices of each copy of disk will occupy all the 4 Subchannel Sets currently supported leaving no Subchannel Set for defining Alias devices. Therefore to support a MM 4-site disk topolo...
5 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 4 Not under consideration

Capability to test OSA QDIO infrastructure (MAC and IP address) without IPL'ing a system.

We have run into multiple issues when we change out hardware, where OSAs are not operational when we go to move and operate from our DR site. We need the capability of testing OSA IP address and MAC connectivity to switches without IPL'ing a z/OS ...
9 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 2 Future consideration

Redesign the PR/SM to manage the IBM Spyre AI Accelerators resources and enabling the z/VM and KVM to access these AI Accelerators resourses accordingvto the PR/SM

This idea is very important in IBM Z17 and Linux ONE Emperor5, to use the AI acceleratotors resources for virtual machines and/or Containerized AI workliads by z/VM and KVM. This will enable Thousands and may be Millions of Openshift AI containers...
10 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 1 Future consideration

OSA-ICC 1GE Fiber Cards need to support VLAN TAGGING in the ICC Server Configuration Panels

IBM is discontinuing the Copper based OSA that support OSA-ICC consoles. The only available OSA-ICC cards in the future will be FIBER based 1GE cards. In our environment all of our FIBER switches require VLAN tagging. This IDEA is to support a VLA...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 1 Future consideration

Add VLAN tagging capability to OSA ICC in the advanced facilities configuration - z feature code 0455

The OSA 1GE cards do support VLAN tagging .. but the OSA-ICC “appliance” does not support VLAN tagging. UPS is requesting that VLAN Tagging support be added to the Advanced Facilities configuration option for the OSA-ICC server
over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 1 Future consideration

DS8950F TCT Monomode Fiber connection

We need to create a cross infrastructure at a distance not supported by multimode fiber. The availability of single-mode 10Gb cards is therefore required
about 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 2 Planned for future release

Adding Compute Express Link CXL3.0 based on PCIe6 and CXL4.0 based on PCIe7 to the IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE

CXL 3.0 is built upon the IBM OpenCAPI, but CXL3 and CXL 4 have more speeds and will achieve the following: 1- Enabling the Interconnection between IBM LinuxONE and Exa scale AI Data Centers based on Nvidia DGX H100 based on Nvidia H100 GPUs and I...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 6 Not under consideration

IBM z SDN and SD-WAN with 5G Networking and Slicing traffic

1- Adding SD-WAN to IBM Z Networking 2- Adding 5G Networking with Slicing Traffic 3- Adding NVMe over TCP/IP connectivity 4- Adding AI in Edge Computing based on Intel IPU (Infrastructure Processing Unit) and Nvidia DPU (Data Processing Unit) 5- U...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 5 Future consideration

z13 FICON path selection

a z/13 CPU design issue. An IO subsystem algorithm checks path activity and if one becomes less active it swings processing to the remaining normally efficient path. However, it never rechecks the poorer performing path to allow it to return to th...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 2 Not under consideration

Long Reach Required for OSA-Express7S 25GbE and 25GbE RoCE

Support for Long Reach fiber (Single Mode) is required on z15 25GbE RoCE and OSA Express7S.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 4 Planned for future release

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