So after a lot of speculations first, a statement of direction and a preview announcement, it has now been officially announced : 'IBM z/OS Version 2 Release 1 delivers the foundation for Smarter Computing (Zp13-0371)'. And with it of course z/OSMF 2.1 is also announced : 'IBM z/OS Management Facility V2.1 enables you to optimize productivity and simplify management tasks (Zp13-0391)'.
I'm not going to give you another highlights show, but let me point out some practical data.
First of all, the hardware requirements :
- IBM zEnterprise EC12 (zEC12)
- IBM zEnterprise BC12 (zBC12)
- IBM zEnterprise 196 (z196)
- IBM zEnterprise 114 (z114)
- IBM System z10® ( z10™ EC, z10 BC)
- IBM System z9® ( z9® EC, z9 BC)
Planned availability date is September 30, 2013 (as was already expected too).
I must say it's quite an extensive read if you want to go through the entire announcement. Do check out the Statements of Direction where I read e.g. that "BM plans a number of changes to z/OS preventive service ordering for third quarter 2014".
The product id is 5650-ZOS.
More reading ? The datasheet (16p) is over here.
Oh, one more thing that might interest you. What about the price ? Well, the announcement says "For all local charges, contact your IBM representative". But I see that the prices have been published and I can say that, for Belgium, prices will go up with about 4% to 5%. I guess that will be pretty much the same elsewhere too.
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