>Just about choked on my beer ... >" Support is planned for up to 4 TB of real memory on a single z/OS image. >This is expected to allow the use of up to 512 GB of real memory on a single >z/OS image on IBM System z9T servers and up to 256 GB on z990 servers." >Yep - definitely need that. Well, maybe ...
Yes, this will come in handy for some customers. Think of the new workloads here: Java (e.g. WebSphere Application Server, Java batch), DB2 (esp. business intelligence workloads), XML parsing/generating, etc., on a massive scale. There are occasions when going past 128 GB could be helpful, even for a single image. The 4 TB is an interesting figure. That's adding 5 bits worth of address range to the current 128 GB figure, and 5 bits is...odd. Maybe that's merely a testing limit? I have no idea. z/TPF can also benefit from lots of memory at extreme scale transaction levels. (It doesn't page.) I think z/TPF already supports all the physical memory in the biggest System z9. For me the new LDAP and XML features, and the Encryption Facility statement of direction, were the most interesting parts of the z/OS 1.8 preview. However, there's lots of interesting stuff in there. - - - - - Timothy F. Sipples Consulting Enterprise Software Architect, z9/zSeries IBM Japan, Ltd. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
