IBM stated this week it’s going to quickly roll out an AI-infused, hybrid-cloud oriented model of its z/OS mainframe working system.
Anticipated within the third quarter, z/OS 3.1 will assist applied sciences meant to allow deployment of AI workloads co-located with z/OS functions, IBM stated in a buyer preview letter.
The brand new OS will work finest with the latest model of the Massive Iron, the z16, however it’s going to assist z14 fashions and above, IBM says.
The z16 contains an AI accelerator constructed onto its core Telum processor that may do 300 billion deep-learning inferences per day with one millisecond latency and contains what IBM calls a quantum-safe system to guard organizations from anticipated quantum-based safety threats.
When it was launched IBM stated the z16 would open a complete new set of AI prospects that couldn’t be thought of earlier than. Now it guarantees the brand new model of z/OS will additional ship on that plan by:
- Supporting a brand new AI Framework for system operations meant to enhance z/OS with intelligence that optimizes IT processes, simplifies administration, improves efficiency, and reduces ability necessities.
- Extending the AI ecosystem by enabling AI co-located with z/OS functions, designed for low-latency response occasions.
- Controlling the system with AI-powered workload administration that intelligently predicts upcoming workloads and react by allocating an acceptable variety of batch runs, thus eliminating guide fine-tuning and trial-and-error approaches.
Supporting AI functions is a core part of the z16 technique, however the upcoming working system additionally options cloud capabilities, IBM says.
“z/OS 3.1 intends to embrace elements of cloud-native administration of z/OS primarily based on trade requirements and entry to constant and trendy browser-based interfaces, enabling customers to effectively replace and configure z/OS and associated software program,” IBM said.
“With enhanced administration infrastructure and self-service entry to duties, z/OS 3.1 plans to proceed simplifying and automating the administration of the working system to assist information the following technology of system programmers,” IBM said.
With that in thoughts, IBM stated z/OS 3.1 will embody:
- A brand new z/OS callable service, Cloud Knowledge Entry, to allow entry to knowledge in cloud object shops and to include cloud object knowledge into z/OS workloads.
- A set of contemporary APIs with a C-based interface, designed to simplify the appliance effort wanted to entry NoSQL VSAMDB knowledge units on z/OS.
- IBM z/OS Container Extensions (zCX) to enhance efficiency and safety whereas operating containerized Linux workloads and to assist NFS, HTTPS, and IBM WebSphere Hybrid Version.
- Devoted actual reminiscence swimming pools to enhance the conduct of functions which have a excessive reminiscence requirement.
- An extension of the z/OS Approved Code Scanner to offer better protection of potential vulnerabilities.
- Enhanced COBOL-Java assist that can let 31-bit COBOL name 64-bit Java applications utilizing the IBM Semeru Runtime Licensed Version for z/OS.
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