Announcement Summary - September 04, 2012

The System x3100 M4 and x3250 M4 single-socket servers are designed for small businesses and first-time server buyers looking for a solution to improve business efficiency. These servers deliver several innovative features in a compact form factor with a competitive price. The System x3100 M4 and x3250 M4 provide next-generation performance with flexible configuration options and built-in security and systems management capabilities.

Key prerequisites

An IBM System x3100 M4 or x3250 M4 server.

Planned availability date

October 31, 2012

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The IBM 200 GB and 400 GB 1.8-inch MLC Enterprise solid-state drives for System x® provide high-performance, reliable solutions for high-capacity enterprise applications with a moderate read/write mix by employing a 6 Gbps SATA interface and MLC NAND technology. These solid-state drives present an opportunity to simplify your local storage infrastructure to help maintain overall maintenance and cooling cost, while considering remote storage solutions for end-to-end data availability.

Benefits include:

1.8-inch form factor that fits into a conventional disk-drive bay, as well an eXFlash backplane
200 GB and 400 GB capacities to accommodate loading applications along with OS booting
Cost-effective eMLC NAND technology with high read and write performance
Energy saving with as little as 2.8 - 4.6 watt power consumption per drive
Enterprise data protection to ensure NAND integrity
Rigorous testing through the ServerProven® program to help ensure your storage subsystem's compatibility and reliability.
One-year limited warranty, or system warranty

Overview

The new IBM 200 GB and 400 GB 1.8-inch MLC Enterprise solid-state drives for System x employ enterprise MLC NAND technology to bring an affordable, but performance-driven solution for applications requiring enterprise workloads with a read-write mix. The new SSD drives are available in 1.8-inch options.

These SSDs use a single-chip controller with a SATA interface on the system side and n-channels of NAND Flash internally. Packaged in an HDD replacement enclosure, these SSDs are designed to integrate easily in existing storage infrastructures. They are targeted at databases that require high I/O performance in random read and random write operations including applications caching and tiering. These SSDs can also be configured into the IBM eXFlash solution for maximum capacity and performance.

Providing additional peace of mind, the 200 GB and 400 GB 1.8-inch MLC SSDs are covered under IBM warranty. These drives carry a 1-year limited warranty; or when installed in a System x server, these drives assume your system's base warranty. Solid-state devices do have finite write or P/E cycles and are listed as Total Bytes Written (TBW). Refer to the Limitations section and the device specifications for details.

Features and functions:

200 GB and 400 GB 1.8-inch MLC SATA SSDs for IBM System x

1.8-inch industry standard form factors
Utilizes industry-leading 24 nm MLC
Cost-effective eMLC NAND technology
MLC SATA drive with high read and write performance to fulfill client needs in the enterprise space
High endurance to withstand applications with moderate read-write workloads
Enterprise data path protection
Energy saving with as little as 2.8 - 4.6 watt power consumption per drive
Absence of moving parts to reduce potential failure points in the server

Warranty

200 GB and 400 GB SATA 1.8-inch MLC Enterprise SSDs offer a 1-year limited warranty¹ .

¹ For information on IBM's Statement of Limited Warranty, contact your local IBM representative. Copies are available upon request.

Key prerequisites

IBM System x or BladeCenter® system with SATA capability.

Planned availability date

October 16, 2012

ZG12-0243 IBM Parallel Environment Developer Edition for Linux on x86 Architecture, V1.2 simplified (HVEC)

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IBM Parallel Environment (PE) Developer Edition V1.2 provides an Eclipse-based integrated development environment (IDE).

Helps improve parallel application developer productivity throughout the edit, compile, debug, and run development cycle
Includes an integrated set of performance analysis tools that helps the application developer tune a serial or parallel application

Overview

IBM PE Developer Edition for Linux™ on x86 Architecture, V1.2 provides an integrated development environment, combining open source tools and IBM proprietary tools. It consists of two major integrated components:

A workbench component that runs on a desktop or laptop
A server component that runs on select IBM System x and iDataPlex® servers

Version 1.2 enhancements include:

A simplified selection of hardware performance counter groups for IBM High Performance Computing (HPC) Toolkit is provided.
Eclipse is upgraded to Version 4.2 (Juno), and Parallel Tools Platform (PTP) is upgraded to Version 6.0.
The setup for application invocation in PTP is simplified. This includes the elimination of the resource manager view and explicit creation and starting of resource managers.
A simplified launch configuration for Parallel Environment and LoadLeveler® is provided.
Coding assist tools and online help are available for OpenSHMEM and OpenACC. Upgrades are also provided for MPI V2.2 and OpenMP V3.1.
PTP's support for modules and other environment management systems eases the process of configuring a project's build and runtime environments.
Improvements to synchronized projects make working with source codes on remote machines easier.

Licenses for offerings in this announcement include one or three years of Software Subscription and Support. Software Subscription and Support renewals for all features are aligned through Passport Advantage Express® or Passport Advantage , reducing the administrative burden of keeping your Subscription and Support up to date.

If a new release of a given offering in this announcement is made generally available in Passport Advantage after the announcement of the offering in System x ordering systems, customers may elect to take delivery of any release generally available for that offering during the product registration process.

Eligible software products, offered and selected during the ordering process with each hardware system, are enabled for electronic download for the system unit for which the product was ordered. Optionally, software and license-only orders can be created for these products based on existing supported hardware system units in your business environment. Offerings included in this announcement are available exclusively by electronic download.

Key prerequisites

IBM System x servers
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 SP2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.2

Planned availability date

September 7, 2012

Availability of programs with an encryption algorithm in France is subject to French government approval.

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IBM is announcing additional IBM OEM licenses of Microsoft™ Windows Server products to the IBM Reseller Option Kit (ROK) program for qualifying IBM Distributor participation.

Overview

IBM is adding IBM OEM licenses of Microsoft Windows Server products to the IBM Reseller Option Kit (ROK) program for qualifying IBM Distributor participation. This addition to the IBM ROK program authorizes qualifying IBM Distributors to buy IBM OEM licenses of selected Windows Server 2012 operating systems for sale to IBM Business Partners (Resellers) for installation on IBM System x , BladeCenter , and PureFlex System servers.

Distributors can also install the ROK themselves if requested by the Reseller or if they want to act as a Reseller in order to sell IBM System x , BladeCenter , and PureFlex System servers installed with the ROK directly to customers. (If a Distributor wants to act as a Reseller, they must agree and adhere to all the applicable Reseller ROK licensing terms.) This program delivers one-stop shopping and flexibility to our Distributors, allowing them to buy selected Windows Server operating systems and IBM System x , BladeCenter , and PureFlex System servers from one source.

The Windows Server 2012 product line-up has been streamlined and simplified, making it easier for customers to choose the edition that is right for their needs. The Windows Server 2012 product family will now include Windows Server 2012 Essentials (formerly branded as Small Business Server Essentials) which is ideal for a cloud-connected first server. Windows Server Enterprise, Windows Server Web, and Windows Storage Server Enterprise editions will not be offered as Windows Server 2012 editions.

Windows Server 2012 Datacenter and Standard editions will have a consistent licensing model (per processor based + CALs) and each license grants rights to run on up to two processors.

Differentiation between Datacenter and Standard editions is based on virtualization. (There are no technical controls in software; the Virtual Machine (VM) usage rights are governed via the end user license terms.)
Windows Server 2012 Standard edition (2 CPU) includes two VMs per license and Windows Server Datacenter edition (2 CPU) includes unlimited VMs. The Datacenter and Standard edition code base and features are identical.
Windows Server 2012 Standard and Datacenter editions will continue to require Windows Server CALs (Client Access Licenses) for every user or device accessing a server. Some additional or advanced functionality will continue to require the purchase of an additive CAL. These are CALs that you need in addition to the Windows Server CAL to access functionality, such as Remote Desktop Services or Active Directory Rights Management Services.

Windows Storage Server 2012 Standard edition will have a per processor based licensing model (similar to Windows Server 2012 Standard and Datacenter editions), with each license granting the rights to run on up to two processors; however, CALs are not required and unlimited external connections are allowed.

Windows Server 2012 Essentials edition licensing and Windows Server 2012 Foundation edition licensing remain unchanged and have the following licensing model:

Licensing is server-based: Foundation is for single-processor servers and Essentials is for either one- or two-processor servers.
CALs are not required for access: Foundation comes with 15 user accounts and Essentials comes with 25 user accounts.

IBM OEM licenses are available for the following Windows Server 2012 operating system editions at a competitive price:

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Datacenter edition: For highly virtualized private cloud environments
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Standard edition: For non-virtualized or lightly virtualized environments
Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2012 Standard edition: For Stand-alone NAS (Network Attached Storage), Highly Available NAS, and NAS Gateways
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Essentials edition: For small businesses with up to 25 users running on servers with up to two processors
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Foundation edition: For small businesses with up to 15 users running on single-processor servers

Key prerequisites

The Reseller Option Kit (ROK) for Microsoft Windows Server Operating Systems has the following prerequisites:

The ROK must be ordered with or for usage on System x , BladeCenter , and PureFlex System servers.
The ROK is supported on System x , BladeCenter , and PureFlex System servers.
The Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese media kit contains DVD optical media. It is recommended that an optical DVD drive be configured with the server.
The Multilingual media kit contains dual-layer DVD optical media. It is recommended that a dual-layer-capable DVD drive be configured with the server.

Planned availability date

September 14, 2012

ZG12-0279 IBM System Storage DCS3700 delivers new performance features for 1818-80C

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IBM Storage offers new technology controller updates for IBM Storage DCS3700, 1818-80C, disk controller systems. The new Performance Module feature offers increased processor speeds, very large memory capacities, and double the scalability of disk drive expansion and premium feature functions. The DCS37000 with the Performance Modules takes advantage of the capabilities of the enhanced disk drive technologies such as Dynamic Disk Pooling, to offer exceptional processing abilities to high performance computing (HPC) industries such as oil and gas, life sciences, and media applications in large corporate and government labs.

Overview

The new IBM Performance Module features provide new controller canisters for the DCS3700 with increased processor speeds, larger cache memory capacities, and double the scalability of the original offering. Designed for use with HPC computing environments, the DCS3700 with Performance Modules increases the processing capability and storage capacity for HPC uses in the oil and gas industries, media applications, and life sciences with installation in large corporate data centers and government labs.

Each performance module brings four 8Gb Fibre Channel (FC) host ports, dual gigabit Ethernet ports, and a 6Gb SAS expansion connection to the DCS3700. A slot is available for additional host interface cards, such as a new 4 port 8Gb FC host interface card (HIC). There are three slots for DDR3 memory DIMMs in 2, 4, and 8 GB capacities, for a total of up to 6, 12, or 24 GB of memory for the canister, for a total of up to 12, 24, or 48 GB for the DCS3700 system with Performance Modules.

In addition to the increased memory scalability, the DCS37000 outfitted with performance modules will have increased scalability in drive capacity, with two 6Gb SAS ports to redundantly connect to up to five EXP3700 expansion enclosures, doubling the current number of attached disks to 360. Using the 3 TB NL SAS drive options yields over 1 PB of raw disk capacity.

Increased scalability applies as well to the premium features that bring exceptional functionality. Loaded with the latest code, the base DCS3700 with the Performance Modules uses Dynamic Disk Pooling to provide thin provisioning and larger volumes. Disk pooling brings more efficient FlashCopies, roll back FlashCopies, and consistency groups. The Performance Modules allow double the number of FlashCopy® instances, up to 2048. With the Performance Module, a special bundle of FlashCopy and VolumeCopy offers up to 2048 FlashCopies and up to 511 Volume copies per array.

Key prerequisites

The DCS3700 with the Performance Module is supported for attachment to selected:

IBM System x , IBM BladeCenter , and IBM Power® System servers and blades
Intel and AMD processor-based servers

Refer to the IBM System Storage® Interoperation Center (SSIC) for additional details

: http://www.ibm.com/systems/support/storage/config/ssic

Planned availability date

September 14, 2012

ZG12-0300 IBM Express Portfolio is updated to include new IBM System x3100 M4 and x3250 M4 models

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Overview

The information for these models is based on standard models but is not an exact match.

Review the specifications included in this announcement and in the IBM announcements listed below for specific information regarding technical specifications, warranty, and terms and conditions applicable to these models.

New           Standard        IBM
part            part      announcement  Announcement
number         number        number        date
 
2582KBG       258232G      ZG11-0029    Sept 13, 2011
2583KBG       2583C2G      ZG12-0103    May 14, 2012
2583KGG       2583F2G      ZG12-0103    May 14, 2012

Key prerequisites

None

Planned availability date

September 4, 2012

ZG12-0320 Revised availability: Selected IBM System x RDX Tape Cartridges

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Planned availability date

September 4, 2012

Software Announcements

ZP12-0381 IBM Case Manager V5.1.1 provides design improvements to extend time to value and enhance case worker experience

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IBM® Case Manager V5.1.1 delivers:

Improved case design and customization
Enhanced case visibility and work assignments
New document viewer giving the case worker more power and viewing flexibility
More features in support of case worker document operations
Additional widgets and configuration options

Overview

IBM Case Manager V5.1.1 has:

Enhancements to work assignment for case workers and managers including bulk operations.
Task improvements providing additional management flexibility including task restart and enhanced repeatability.
Time-to-value enhancements making it easier for solution designers to access and extend the process designs behind the case tasks.
Enhanced case document operations enabling content drag and drop from a case worker's personal file system.
A new and more powerful case document viewer supporting additional document formats and providing viewing enhancements.
New and updated widgets designed to simplify viewing document list, task milestones, and accessing third-party or custom widgets.

Key prerequisites

For details, refer to the Technical information section.

Planned availability date

September 7, 2012: Electronic availability

October 5, 2012: Media availability

ZP12-0379 IBM Content Manager OnDemand for z/OS , V9.0 adds full text search, security, performance, and usability enhancements

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IBM Content Manager OnDemand for z/OS® , V9.0 includes:

Full text search capabilities
User administration and security enhancements
Usability and serviceability enhancements
Performance improvements

Overview

IBM Content Manager OnDemand for z/OS , V9.0 is high-performance solution for enterprise report management. It is designed to help companies gain significant return on investment by enabling them to transform costly high-volume print output to electronic information capture and presentation in support of customer service.

Content Manager OnDemand for z/OS , V9.0 includes these enhancements:

Full text search - An optional feature that is designed to enable quick and efficient store and retrieve of content that is not easily identified by regular indices. Full text search creates an optimal index of all the words within a document and enables rapid search and retrieval against that index. It is also designed to work with IBM Content Navigator and customer-written applications.
User security enhancements for user proxy, last login, and password limits and restrictions - Reduce administrative overhead associated with user IDs and password policy implementation capability.
Report Distribution - An optional feature that optimizes performance of logging and distributions tracking.
Database timestamp support eliminating internal OnDemand data limitations.
Support for 128 metadata fields - An increase from 32 to 128 so that documents may now be indexed with up to 128 metadata fields.
Adding fields to existing folder definition extending previous application group new field support.
Graphical annotation support in the ODWEK line data applet matches existing support in the Windows™ client.
Enhanced metadata update enabling Windows client to update metadata fields.
Export to .csv file format - simplified exporting of search hit lists and documents directly to .csv file format that provides an upgrade path for IBM FileNet® Report Manager.
OS/390® Indexer now supported on AIX® .
Compatibility with Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS).

Key prerequisites

Refer to the Hardware requirements and Software requirements sections.

In addition to Content Manager OnDemand for z/OS server licenses, you must obtain an appropriate number and type (Authorized, Employee, and External) of user licenses (AUVU, EUVU and XUVU) from Passport Advantage®

Planned availability date

September 7, 2012

ZP12-0337 IBM Rational Programming Patterns V8.5 accelerates and helps secure the transition to the Rational Software Delivery Platform

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Rational Programming Patterns V8.5 uses Pacbase customer investment by modernizing the pattern-driven, development-paradigm and the Enterprise Wide Repository services within the latest IBM strategic delivery platform. It provides tools to migrate at low cost, by limiting the non-regression tests and the re-training of the Pacbase developers.

Overview

Rational Programming Patterns V8.5 provides significant features that help secure the migration from VisualAge® Pacbase to the adoption of the Software Delivery Platform.

Version 8.5

Improves large repository migration performance through model entities dispatching mechanisms.
Takes advantage of sparse loading and load-with dependency features.
Optimizes memory with serialization capability and display filters.

Migration process industrialization can now be enhanced by improving removal of COBOL source code differences. This automates controls and clarifies messages.

Adoption by users is facilitated by ergonomics improvements of design entity editors and source code editors, as well as enhancements to impact analysis tooling.

Source Code Quality Control capabilities are enhanced by providing user rules for creation facility for design entities, and COBOL source code.

Key prerequisites

For details, refer to the Hardware requirements and the Software requirements sections.

Planned availability date

September 12, 2012: Electronic availability
October 1, 2012: Media availability

Refer to the complete letter for national language availability.

ZP12-0364 IBM Connections V4.0 enables professional networks and communities to reinvent how people innovate and work together

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IBM Connections V4.0 is designed to help you:

Track the activity of your network and respond more quickly using the embedded experience within the activity stream.
Bring external applications and content into the activity stream to respond in context, saving time and reducing context switching.
Track and respond to the activities of community members using the community-centric activity stream and embedded experience.
Quickly bring content from external sites and related communities into your community for faster response and better customer service.
Develop insights into community adoption and usage with new standard and customizable metrics and graphical reports.
Receive relevant recommendations on people and content using social analytics that now also utilize status updates and microblogging content.
Use hashtags to follow important topics and "Like" updates with a single click.
Schedule team events and incorporate into a personal calendar using a new community calendar.

Overview

IBM Connections V4.0 is social software for business that provides an exceptional social platform that helps enable you to access the right people and internal and external content in your professional networks and communities.

Benefits

Engage instantly and in context to get business done by staying on top of relevant activity in your professional networks and communities
Act quickly and be responsive to customers by pivoting rapidly between internal and external communities
Create an ideal community experience and anticipate the needs of a community by monitoring social activity and participation
Increase personal and organizational effectiveness by creating, connecting, and sharing in one easy to use social experience

New capabilities

Take action faster

From within your activity stream, you can view and act on an aggregated list of updates from across your network and from third-party applications. With IBM Connections V4, you can now open a view that allows you to take action immediately on the content in your activity stream. Each update in the activity stream has an associated view powered by OpenSocial gadgets, which provides an embedded experience. This embedded experience provides a user interface from which you can, for example, comment on, follow, or "Like" an item, as well as download files, share content, and view tags from within your activity stream.

Foster community growth and participation on projects

The activity stream is now available to communities, allowing community members to visualize what other members are doing. You can share status with members of your community. You can also integrate third-party applications into the community activity stream to provide visibility and easy action from within the activity stream using the embedded experience. New metrics capabilities allow community owners to monitor the adoption and vitality of their community. Insights gained from the metrics can help a community owner take actions that can make the community more useful for members, which can lead to increased community membership and participation. A new calendar provides a central place to plan and coordinate community team events.

Collaborate more effectively with teammates

New features help you work more effectively with teammates. Owners and editors can lock and unlock a file. The redesigned files summary page and tabs provide more information such as in which folders the file resides and whether the file is referenced by status updates. Team discussions in forums are enhanced with new features such as adding content from a web page or IBM Connections source to a forum topic with the click of a button. Project management is facilitated with new Activity capabilities such as converting an entry into a to-do item.

Key prerequisites

Refer to the Hardware requirements and Software requirements sections for details.

Planned availability date

September 7, 2012: Electronic availability

October 2, 2012: Media availability

Refer to the complete letter for national language availability.

ZP12-0380 IBM Parallel Environment Developer Edition V1.2, running on IBM Power Systems , is simplified

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IBM Parallel Environment (PE) Developer Edition V1.2 provides an Eclipse-based integrated development environment (IDE).

Helps improve parallel application developer productivity throughout the edit, compile, debug, and run development cycle
Includes an integrated set of performance analysis tools that helps the application developer tune serial or parallel applications

Overview

IBM PE Developer Edition V1.2 provides an integrated development environment, combining open source tools and IBM proprietary tools. It consists of two major integrated components:

A workbench component that runs on a desktop or laptop
A server component that runs on select IBM Power Systems™ and IBM PureFlex™ Systems servers

Version 1.2 enhancements include:

A simplified selection of hardware performance counter groups for IBM High Performance Computing (HPC) Toolkit is provided.
Eclipse is upgraded to Version 4.2 (Juno), and Parallel Tools Platform (PTP) is upgraded to Version 6.0.
The setup for application invocation in PTP is simplified. This includes the elimination of the resource manager view and explicit creation and starting of resource managers.
A simplified launch configuration for Parallel Environment and LoadLeveler is provided.
Coding assist tools and online help are available for OpenSHMEM and OpenACC. Upgrades are also provided for MPI V2.2 and OpenMP V3.1.
PTP's support for modules and other environment management systems eases the process of configuring a project's build and runtime environments.
Improvements to synchronized projects make working with source codes on remote machines easier.

Key prerequisites

IBM Power Systems ( POWER7® )
IBM PureFlex Systems ( POWER7 )
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.2

Planned availability date

September 7, 2012

ZP12-0449 IBM Rational Insight V1.1.1 provides a comprehensive performance management solution tailored for software and systems delivery

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IBM Rational Insight V1.1.1

Provides support for Collaboration Lifecycle Management V4 and addresses customer requirements on installation, configuration, and documentation.
Includes a new wizard to walk users through the configuration process and many of the configuration steps have been automated.
Includes platform support that was extended to include AIX 6.1 and 7.1, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server V10 and V11, Red Hat Enterprise Linux V6, DB2® on System z® , and System i® .
Delivers 64-bit support and report performance improvements.
Delivers support for high availability clusters and streamlined installation for evaluation and demo of product features with preset configuration.

Overview

Rational Insight provides a comprehensive performance management solution tailored for Software and Systems Delivery (SSD). It includes Cognos® 10 BI Reporting in-the-box and pre-built, customizable data model, extract, transform, and load, reports, and dashboards. Rational Insight can be used to measure current process efficiency and process improvement effectiveness through out-of-the-box reports and dashboards based on many Rational Method Composer best practices and out-of-the-box reports and dashboards grouped by capability maturity model integration process area and level.

Rational Insight analytics help users quickly locate root causes, prescribe corrections, and predict outcomes using out-of-the-box, scorecard framework for weighted KPI indicators and alerts. It also integrates with additional Cognos analytic applications (such as analysis studio, SPSS® , and so on).

Rational Insight is intended for CIOs, delivery executives, and managers of software and systems delivery firms who require visibility into artifacts generated across complex application lifecycle management environments including a mixture of Rational and third-party application lifecycle management tools for identifying and measuring software development and delivery performance and improvements.

Rational Insight is the only product that provides a performance management solution with out-of-the-box integrations with IBM and third-party products for transparency and analytics across the entire SSD domain.

Key prerequisites

For details, refer to the Hardware requirements and the Software requirements sections.

Planned availability date

September 4, 2012

Electronic availability
Media availability

Refer to the complete letter for national language availability.

ZP12-0393 IBM Rational Rhapsody V8.0 and Rational Rhapsody Design Manager V4.0 introduce new systems engineering design workflow and ISO 26262 safety standard support

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Rhapsody® and Rhapsody Design Manager offer:

Simplified design collaboration with new systems engineering workflow using Jazz-based database repository
Reference workflow with TuV certification
Enhanced user experience and productivity with solution-focused guidance to assist new users
Updates for UPDM 2.0, SysML 1.3, and AUTOSAR 4.0 and 3.2
Improvements to usability and performance

Overview

Rational Rhapsody supports a broad range of technologies and can be applied to applications such as:

Requirements analysis
Model-based systems engineering
Trade study analysis
Embedded and real-time software development
Safety-critical software development
Model-based testing
AUTomotive Open System ARchitecture (AUTOSAR) development
Capturing DoDAF or MODAF architectural frameworks

Rational Rhapsody V8.0 offers the new Guide Me feature that can assist users to configure and use Rhapsody for a particular application. Guidance is provided in the form of tutorials, videos, and documentation that helps users perform the tasks required.

Systems engineers strive to improve their processes to develop, communicate, and specify overall systems design. They often make tradeoffs between different systems aspects while still ensuring consistency across domains and disciplines. Rational Rhapsody Design Manager assists cross-discipline teams in sharing, collaborating, and reviewing engineering information in an efficient, intuitive manner. Rhapsody Design Manager takes a further step in integrating with the Jazz™ platform by enabling systems engineers to work with version, variant, configuration, and change management. They can work directly on a Rhapsody model stored in a Jazz-based repository. This enables finer-grain access and change control that gives systems engineers a more flexible workflow for parallel development tightly coupled with lifecycle artifacts for better response to changes.

A common location on a Jazz repository for storage of the Rational Rhapsody design artifacts with other lifecycle artifacts, such as requirements and work items, enables a tighter workflow with the broader systems and software engineering lifecycle. Because they are stored in a common location, requirements can be traced and referenced with the design information without duplications since they are stored in a shared, server-side, repository.

A single source of truth is enabled between requirements from requirements management databases, Rational DOORS® , Rational Requirements Composer, and the Rhapsody model. Using Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) links, you can establish and analyze traceability between the requirements and the design to help ensure delivery of high-quality designs that meet project objectives.

The new Rational Rhapsody Contributor role offers access to change management, report customization, and planning, design management, software configuration management, automation (build system), requirements management, and test management.

Safety-critical complex systems such as avionics, automobiles, trains, and medical devices are becoming more and more software intensive. Companies developing these systems need to work within the guidelines of industry standards to market their products and certify their applications to comply with the standard. Rational Rhapsody V8.0 includes a Rational Rhapsody Kit for ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 that provides a documented reference workflow, test cases and other artifacts including a TuV SuD certificate for ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 for using Rational Rhapsody TestConductor Add On to assist you in trying to meet the automotive or general functional safety standards. The contents can also be used for other industries such as DO-178B or DO-178C for avionics, IEC 62304 for medical devices, or other safety standards.

Rhapsody is a highly flexible and customizable solution that can be tailored to help automate delivery of designs compliant with many industry standards. Rational Rhapsody includes updates for SysML 1.3, OMG Unified Profile for DoDAF and MODAF (UPDM) 2.0, and AUTOSAR 3.2 and 4.0 for systems engineering and automotive engineers to develop solutions using the latest standards.

Rational Rhapsody and Rational Rhapsody Design Manager add a number of improvements to usability and performance, including:

Spell checking
Statistical model query for model metrics
Code generation using multiple processor cores
Improved design review workflow with change management
Cross-project searching
Sketching using a web client

Key prerequisites

For details, refer to the Hardware requirements and Software requirements sections.

Planned availability date

September 21, 2012: Electronic availability

September 28, 2012: Media availability

Refer to the complete letter for national language availability.

ZP12-0412 IBM Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager helps teams to tackle the rising complexity of product development and to improve project execution

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Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager helps engineering teams to:

Make effective and timely engineering decisions.
Improve reuse of designs.
Maintain compliance with standards by providing capabilities to visualize, analyze, and organize engineering lifecycle data and their relationships.

Overview

The products and systems that surround us and influence our lives are becoming smarter: more intelligent, instrumented, and interconnected. These products are increasingly complex as software delivers larger portions of the value of these innovative products and systems. Product development organizations are creating and managing larger, more complex, and more interrelated sets of engineering data. Old tools and processes for managing product development are strained by this complexity.

Additional and deeper dependencies across engineering domains create challenges for hardware and software co-design and other kinds of multi-disciplinary collaboration. Project development cycles lengthen. Staff costs increase. Too many defects escape notice until customer acceptance or field deployment. Opportunities for reuse may be missed.

At the same time, many organizations face pressure to get to market faster and drive cost out of the development process.

Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager enhances the Rational solution for systems and software engineering by providing the capability to visualize, analyze, and organize systems product engineering data coming from many tools. It enables engineering teams to get a better understanding of the relationships in that data, so they can make more effective and timely engineering decisions.

Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager uses Rational Jazz integration services to increase the visibility and value of engineering data.

Get faster, more complete answers to key engineering questions across the lifecycle. Search and report on data across engineering disciplines, regardless of data source and location.
Visualize and analyze engineering data and relationships in the context of user roles, product structure, development process, and project.
Use views to navigate to specific engineering artifacts needed for a particular task, and open the artifacts in the tool that created the artifact.
Analyze the impact of changes using visual and report-based representations of engineering artifacts and their relationships.
Improve reuse of engineering artifacts and the components they represent.

Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager indexes engineering data and makes the data available through custom role, product, process, and project views while honoring the security access settings on the data that it indexes.

Compared to alternative integration techniques, this federated, indexed approach has the potential to simplify deployment time and effort as well as reduce the run-time impact on engineering tools and the teams using them.

Key prerequisites

For details, refer to the Hardware requirements and Software requirements sections.

Planned availability date

September 7, 2012: Electronic availability
September 14, 2012: Media availability

ZP12-0365 IBM Connections Suite V4.0 and IBM Connections Content Edition V4.0 now incorporate IBM Connections V4.0 to meet your social business needs

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IBM Connections Content Edition V4 and IBM Connections Suite V4.0 now integrate with IBM Connections V4.0:

IBM Connections Content Edition V4.0 provides social software to build professional networks and communities that connect subject matter experts with corporate enterprise content.
IBM Connections Suite V4.0 brings together industry-leading realtime social collaboration and document management software from IBM .

Overview

Market-leading organizations are becoming social businesses by cultivating social networks and communities, and reinventing the way people work together. IBM Connections Suite V4.0 and IBM Connections Content Edition V4.0 provide starting points for building an exceptional social platform depending on your business needs and requirements.

IBM Connections Suite V4.0 and IBM Connections Content Edition V4.0 allow you to take advantage of the new capabilities of IBM Connections V4 such as activity streams, enhanced microblogging, and network and community metrics.

This combined set of capabilities is designed to help you engage with colleagues, partners, and customers more easily, make better decisions more quickly, take action faster, and collaborate on information more effectively as well as more easily develop innovative products and services.

With IBM Connections Suite V4.0, you can collaborate any time, any where and access the social networks of partners, suppliers, and customers, in addition to employees.

IBM Connections Content Edition V4 integrates IBM Connections V4 with IBM FileNet Content Manager V5.1 in a single affordable offering. This offering enables a broad audience of business professionals to view, access, and manage corporate content and associated metadata using social software to help achieve their business goals.

For additional information about IBM Connections, visit

: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/connections/

Key prerequisites

Refer to the Hardware requirements section for details.

Planned availability date

September 7, 2012: Electronic availability

October 2, 2012: Media availability

Refer to the complete letter for national language availability.

ZP12-0430 IBM Rational Software Architect simplifies team-based software design, collaboration, and lifecycle integration with new and enhanced Jazz-based Design Management capabilities

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At a glance

This release integrates Rational Software Architect into the Rational Solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) through enhanced Design Management capabilities. This allows teams to easily:

Manage design changes.
Collaborate on designs.
Establish traceability with requirements.
Understand the impact of a requirement or design change.
Document designs.

Overview

Rational Software Architect Design Management capability makes it easy for teams to manage their designs, collaborate on designs with peers and stakeholders, and integrate software design into their Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solution.

This announcement covers an update to Rational Software Architect (Software Announcement ZP12-0270, dated June 4, 2012 ) to add new Jazz-based Design Management V4.0 capabilities that complement the extensive design capability in the Rational Software Architect client.

These new and enhanced design management capabilities work with both Version 8.5 and Version 8.0.4.1 of the Rational Software Architect client and enable teams to:

Reduce design time using the new design configuration management support that provides simplified change control for designs, and reduces the chances of change conflicts.
Improve quality by collaborating on designs with peers and other stakeholders.
Establish traceability between designs, requirements, change requests, test cases, and test plans; making it easier for stakeholders to quickly find the latest design related to their work.
Know the impact of a design change or the impact of a requirement change on the design through a visual impact analysis.
Keep an active repository or their designs allowing teams members to access the latest designs from either the Rational Software Architect client or using a web client.
Quickly search designs from current and past projects to find reusable design components.
Reduce the time required to meet regulatory and contractual requirements by automating the generation of designs documents based on templates or create live design documents as part of your project.
Reduce administration time and costs with common user administration and lifecycle projects across Rational Team Concert™ , Rational Requirements Composer, Rational Quality Manager, and Rational Software Architect.

This update to Rational Software Architect adds new role-based offerings: Rational Software Architect Designer and Rational Software Architect Designer for WebSphere® Software. It provides a complete design solution that includes the client authoring, validation, and transformation capabilities and the Jazz-based server design management capabilities.

Existing users of Rational Software Architect can add the Design Management capability through the Rational Software Architect Extensions for Design Management (previously named Rational Software Architect Design Manager).

A new Contributor role is added to Rational Software Architect that allows extended team members to collaborate on the software designs. This Contributor role also provides full access to work items, planning, reporting, and read access (view and comment) to requirements and test artifacts from Rational Requirements Composer and Rational Quality Manager.

The Rational Software Architect Design Reviewer role is withdrawn from market (Software Announcement ZP12-0476, dated September 4, 2012 ) . Existing Rational Software Architect Design Reviewer users can continue to use these licenses with the new Design Management V4.0 server. New users should use the Rational Software Architect Contributor role for extended team members who need to collaborate on software designs.

Key prerequisites

For details, refer to the Hardware requirements and the Software requirements sections in Software Announcement ZP12-0270, dated June 4, 2012. .

Planned availability date

September 7, 2012: Electronic availability
September 14, 2012: Media availability

Refer to the complete letter for national language availability.

ZP12-0389 IBM Sterling B2B Integrator V5.2.4 and IBM Sterling File Gateway V2.2.4 available on Linux for IBM System z

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At a glance

IBM Sterling B2B Integrator V5.2.4 and IBM Sterling File Gateway V2.2.4 are available on IBM System z running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.5 or 6.1 with DB2 9.7 support.

Overview

Organizations are looking for ways to create more intelligent networks of business partners, customers, and suppliers in order to enhance efficiency and profitability. However, business-to-business (B2B) interactions do not exist in isolation, and must be integrated with your internal systems and processes.

IBM Sterling B2B Integrator V5.2.4 and IBM Sterling File Gateway V2.2.4 expand their platform coverage by adding Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM System z . You can now install and run IBM Sterling B2B Integrator V5.2.4 and IBM Sterling File Gateway V2.2.4 on IBM System z running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.5 or 6.1 with DB2 9.7 support.

IBM Sterling B2B Integrator V5.2.4

Sterling B2B Integrator enables the secure integration of complex B2B processes with diverse partner communities. As organizations are increasingly faced with even more complex B2B integration challenges across even more diverse partner communities, Sterling B2B Integrator provides a single, flexible B2B gateway that enables companies to solve all of their B2B integration needs.

IBM Sterling File Gateway V2.2.4

File transfer is usually a step in a larger business process. Leading organizations are moving to manage the business process across multiple applications, workflows, and events such as file transfer.

IBM Sterling File Gateway consolidates disparate centers of file transfer activity, and facilitates the exchange of file-based information securely, in virtually any format, protocol, and file size. With its advanced on-boarding features, extensive communication-channel support, and improved business process management, Sterling File Gateway helps improve operational execution and time to revenue through a centralized and secure B2B-enabled managed file gateway.

Key prerequisites

Refer to the Hardware requirements and Software requirements sections.

Planned availability date

September 14, 2012: Electronic availability

October 5, 2012: Media availability

Refer to the complete letter for national language availability.

ZP12-0440 IBM Mobile Foundation V5 and IBM Worklight V5 feature new "Additional Brand Deployment" license components that provide more flexibility in mobile application deployments

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At a glance

IBM Worklight V5.0 helps simplify the development of mobile web, hybrid, and native applications across multiple mobile platforms, including iOS, Android, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone.

New license components provide more flexibility in mobile application deployment:

IBM Mobile Foundation Consumer Edition Additional Brand Deployment enables the deployment of a single mobile application under multiple separate brands.
IBM Worklight Consumer Edition Additional Brand Deployment enables the deployment of a single mobile application under multiple separate brands.

IBM Mobile Foundation V5.0 provides the essential elements needed for mobile development, deployment, and management within a business. IBM Mobile Foundation consists of capabilities that enable:

Mobile application development and delivery
Complete end-to-end Mobile Device Management (MDM)
Advanced connectivity to back-end systems and cloud-based services that is optimized for mobile devices
Advanced application management for updates push and version control

IBM Worklight V5.0 helps you:

Build rich, cross-platform applications using standard technology, such as HTML5, the native client platform software development kits (SDKs), and integration with the growing ecosystem of third-party tools, libraries, and frameworks.
Connect mobile applications to a variety of enterprise back-end systems and cloud services through mobile-optimized middleware.
Manage a portfolio of applications and the lifecycle of their content from one centralized administration console.
Secure mobile applications through numerous protection mechanisms, such as encrypted storage, online and offline authentication, and more.

Overview

IBM Mobile Foundation V5.0 is a family of products which includes IBM Worklight V5.0 and delivers an open, comprehensive, and advanced mobile application platform for smartphones and tablets. In order to give customers more flexibility when deploying their mobile applications under multiple brands, two new "Additional Brand Deployment" chargeable components are now offered: one for IBM Worklight Consumer Edition and one for IBM Mobile Foundation Consumer Edition.

IBM Mobile Foundation V5.0 is designed to enable organizations of all sizes to efficiently develop, run, and manage HTML5, hybrid, and native applications while helping to reduce time-to-market, development costs, and ongoing maintenance efforts. As part of IBM's mobile platform, Worklight can be integrated with application lifecycle, security, management, and analytics capabilities to help you address the unique mobile needs of your business.

As customers build mobile applications in a Business to Consumer (B2C) environment, incremental revenue opportunities may often be realized, and efficiencies gained, by developing a single mobile application that is deployed under different brands.

For complete Mobile Foundation V5 details, refer to Software Announcement ZP12-0203, dated April 24, 2012 .

Key prerequisites

AIX , HP-UX, Linux , Mac OS, Solaris, Windows , and mobile operating systems including iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone.

Planned availability date

September 4, 2012: Electronic delivery
September 14, 2012: License CDs

ZP12-0509 Preview and Open Beta Program: IBM QuickFile

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At a glance

IBM QuickFile is designed to deliver an enterprise grade software appliance for person-centric managed file transfer, allowing business users to easily and securely send and receive files within the enterprise and outside, as part of an impromptu but completely governed and managed business workflow.

Designed to help companies address the person-to-person file transfer challenge by offering real value to your business:

Simple to deploy, administer, and use, yet powerful in function
Secure managed file transfer that is consistent with corporate policies
Scalability designed to meet increasing file sizes and growing user communities
Comprehensive visibility and governance across managed file transfer patterns
Enterprise ready for high availability and infrastructure extension
Customizable interfaces for extended use cases and application integration

Open Beta Program (available on September 4, 2012)

Designed to provide you with a preview of IBM QuickFile
Offers you an opportunity to test IBM QuickFile directly in your own environment
Lets you share feedback with development and product management

Overview

IBM QuickFile, a highly secure new software appliance for the person-centric managed file transfer market, is designed to enable nontechnical business users to securely and reliably exchange files inside or outside their organization without software limits on file size. It is intended to be simple to install and use in a virtualized environment. A Web 2.0 user interface will provide a simplified yet powerful user experience that will allow business users to self-register and initiate file transfers without traditional IT support.

No longer constrained by email clients or basic web browser limitations, users will be able to exchange very large files with visibility over their transfers. If file uploads or downloads are interrupted, transfers can be resumed at the point of failure, helping assure that precious time is not wasted. IBM QuickFile will also gives IT comprehensive visibility over person-to-person file transfers by integrating with the central managing and monitoring tools that are part of the IBM Managed File Transfer suite.

Your investment in the leading Managed File Transfer suite from IBM and person-centric capabilities will be preserved and extended with the addition of IBM QuickFile. You will be able to quickly deploy secure person-centric file transfer capabilities within a comprehensive Managed File Transfer solution, which includes the integration of enterprise systems and applications. This is accomplished with the confidence that these types of file transfers are no longer an isolated and unmanaged use-case.

You are invited to participate in an Open Beta Program, which provides an opportunity to test the product's capabilities for real-world use cases. To participate in the program, download your copy of IBM QuickFile from

: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/commerce/managed-file-transfer/

Planned availability date

Fourth quarter, 2012

Previews provide insight into IBM plans and direction. Availability, prices, ordering information, and terms and conditions will be provided when the product is announced.

ZP12-0507 Revised technical information: IBM Endpoint Manager Starter Kit for Lifecycle Management V8.2

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Overview

Software Announcement ZP12-0297, dated June 12, 2012 , incorrectly included support for the following IBM Tivoli® Endpoint Manager Agent operating systems:

Oracle Enterprise Linux 4 (x86, x64)
Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 (x86, x64)

All other terms and conditions remain the same.

Planned availability date

September 04, 2012

Services Announcements

ZS12-0098 IBM ServicePac offers committed service warranty and maintenance upgrades for IBM System x

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Overview

This range of IBM ServicePac® products delivers hardware maintenance or maintenance upgrade coverage in an electronic format.

ServicePac offerings are available through the same IBM Business Partners who sell the related IBM hardware. With this ServicePac offer, you get an off-the-shelf upgrade solution at the same time that you purchase the IBM machine. The number of unique ServicePac offerings is kept to a minimum with each part number supporting a range of machine types.

To select the correct ServicePac for a particular machine type, you can use a selection guide that includes a complete list of machine types with cross-references. Alternatively, ServicePac details can be found at

: https://www-304.ibm.com/sales/gss/download/spst/servicepac

You can order ServicePac offerings by part number through SAP in the same way you order IBM products. The simple registration process ensures that you receive fast and efficient coverage. To be eligible for service, you must purchase a ServicePac within 30 days of the purchase of the machine type to which it applies. You must also register a ServicePac offering within 15 days of purchase by completing the ServicePac online registration at

: http://www.ibm.com/servicepac

Planned availability date

September 4, 2012

ZS12-0100 IBM ServicePac offering - Essentials and Virtualized Essentials

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Overview

The Essentials ServicePac offering provides three-year, 24x7x4 hour response or 24x7x24 hour committed service hardware warranty upgrade (dependant on country), including three-year Remote Technical Software Support for clients running Microsoft Windows and Linux (Red Hat and SUSE) operating systems. IBM Systems Director support is also included.

The Virtualized Essentials ServicePac offering provides three-year, 24x7x4 hour response or 24x7x24 hour committed service hardware warranty upgrade (dependant on country), including three-year Remote Technical Software Support for clients running in a Virtualized Environment. VMware, Microsoft Windows , Microsoft Applications, Red Hat Enterprise Linux , SUSE Enterprise Linux , and IBM Systems Director are all supported. Other Virtualization products are also included. For more information on the full list of supported products, refer to the IBM Supported Products list relating to this offering.

These Warranty Upgrade and Support Line combination offerings are offered within a single part number for ease of purchasing with IBM System x servers.

ServicePac offerings are available through the same IBM Business Partners who sell the related IBM hardware. With this ServicePac offer, you get an upgrade solution and Software Support at the same time you purchase the IBM machine. The number of unique ServicePac offerings are kept to a minimum, and each part number supports a range of machine types. To select the correct ServicePac offering for a particular machine type, a Selection Guide is available with a complete list of machine types for cross-reference. Alternatively, additional ServicePac offerings information and prices can be found at

: https://www-304.ibm.com/sales/gss/download/spst/servicepac/extProductSelectorWWW.do

ServicePac offerings can be ordered by part number through SAP in the same way other IBM products are ordered. The simple registration process ensures fast and efficient coverage. To be eligible for service, a ServicePac offering must be purchased within 30 days of the purchase of the machine type to which it applies. A ServicePac offering must be registered within 15 days of purchase by completing the ServicePac online registration at

: http://www.ibm.com/servicepac

Planned availability date

September 4, 2012

ZS12-0097 IBM Post Warranty ServicePacs offer maintenance for IBM System x and IBM IntelliStation products

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Overview

These IBM Post Warranty ServicePac offerings for IBM System x and IBM IntelliStation® products deliver hardware maintenance in an electronic format.

ServicePac is available through the same IBM Business Partners who sell the related IBM hardware. The number of unique ServicePac offerings is kept to a minimum with each part number supporting a range of machine types. To select the correct ServicePac for a particular machine type, you can use a selection guide that includes a complete list of machine types with cross-references. Alternatively, ServicePac details can be found at

: https://www-304.ibm.com/sales/gss/download/spst/servicepac

: http://www.ibm.com/servicepac

Planned availability date

September 4, 2012

ZS12-0099 IBM Committed Post Warranty ServicePacs offer committed service maintenance for IBM System x

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Overview

This range of IBM ServicePac products delivers hardware maintenance or maintenance upgrade coverage in an electronic format. ServicePac is available through the same IBM Business Partners who sell the related IBM hardware. With these ServicePac offerings, you get an off-the-shelf upgrade solution the same time that you purchase the IBM machine. The number of unique ServicePac offerings is kept to a minimum with each part number supporting a range of machine types.

: http://www-304.ibm.com/sales/gss/download/spst/servicepac/extProductSelectorWWW.do

: http://www.ibm.com/servicepac

Planned availability date

September 4, 2012

ZS12-0092 IBM Post Warranty ServicePac offers parts only service for IBM System x and BladeCenter products

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Overview

These IBM ServicePac offerings cover IBM System x and BladeCenter products and deliver IBM Parts Services for IBM hardware no longer covered by warranty.

ServicePac is available through the same IBM Business Partners who sell the related IBM hardware. With these ServicePac offerings, you get an off-the-shelf upgrade solution at the same time that you purchase the IBM machine. The number of unique ServicePac offerings is kept to a minimum with each part number supporting a range of machine types.

: https://www-304.ibm.com/sales/gss/download/spst/servicepac/extProductSelectorWWW.do

You can order ServicePac offerings by part number through SAP in the same way you order IBM products. The simple registration process ensures that you receive fast and efficient coverage. You must also register a ServicePac offering within 15 days of purchase by completing the ServicePac online registration at

: http://www.ibm.com/servicepac

Planned availability date

September 4, 2012

ZS12-0095 IBM ServicePac offers committed service warranty upgrade plus hard drive retention for IBM System x and Storage products

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Overview

This range of IBM ServicePac products delivers committed service warranty upgrade plus hard drive retention option in an electronic format.

: https://www-304.ibm.com/sales/gss/download/spst/servicepac

: http://www.ibm.com/servicepac

Planned availability date

September 4, 2012

ZS12-0093 IBM ServicePacs offer warranty upgrades for IBM System x and Storage products - 11x5 service level upgrade

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At a glance

IBM ServicePac portfolio is updated to include new machine types into the existing offering.

Overview

ServicePac are available through the same IBM Business Partners who sell the related IBM hardware. With these ServicePac , you get an upgrade solution at the same time you purchase the IBM machine. The number of unique ServicePac is kept to a minimum and each part number supports a range of machine types.

To select the correct ServicePac for a particular machine type, a selection guide is available with a complete list of machine types for cross-reference. Alternatively, additional ServicePac information and prices can be found at

: https://www-304.ibm.com/sales/gss/download/spst/servicepac

ServicePacs can be ordered by part number through SAP in the same way other IBM products are ordered. The simple registration process ensures fast and efficient coverage. To be eligible for service, a ServicePac must be purchased within 30 days of the purchase of the machine type to which it applies. A ServicePac must be registered within 15 days of purchase by completing the ServicePac online registration at

: http://www.ibm.com/servicepac

Planned availability date

September 4, 2012

ZS12-0096 IBM ServicePac offer warranty and maintenance upgrades for IBM System x

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At a glance

IBM System x ServicePac portfolio is updated to include new machine types 7382 and 7917 into the existing committed parts offering.

Overview

IBM ServicePac products offer a range of hardware maintenance or maintenance upgrade coverage in an electronic format. ServicePacs are available through the same IBM Business Partners who sell the related IBM hardware. With these ServicePacs, you get an upgrade solution at the same time you purchase the IBM machine. The number of unique ServicePacs is kept to a minimum and each part number supports a range of machine types.

: http://www-01.ibm.com/sales/gss/spst/servicepac/extProductSelectorWWW.do

: http://www.ibm.com/servicepac

Planned availability date

September 4, 2012

ZS12-0094 IBM ServicePac offers committed service warranty and maintenance upgrades for IBM System x

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At a glance

IBM System x ServicePac portfolio is updated to include machine types 7382 and 7917 into existing part numbers.

Overview

This range of IBM ServicePac products delivers hardware maintenance or maintenance upgrade coverage in an electronic format.

: https://www-304.ibm.com/sales/gss/download/spst/servicepac/extProductSelectorWWW.do

: http://www.ibm.com/servicepac

Planned availability date

September 4, 2012

Withdrawal Announcements

ZP12-0476 Software withdrawal: IBM Rational Software Architect Design Manager selected licenses

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Overview

Effective on the dates listed below, IBM will withdraw from marketing, part numbers from the following product release licensed under the IBM International Program License Agreement:

Program           Withdrawal from 
number   VRM      marketing date  Program release name
 
5725-D79 N/A          12/04/12    Rational® Software Architect Design
                                   Manager