Specialty processors were introduced by IBM as a way to lower the cost of mainframe computing, but most organizations have not been able to move significant workloads off the central processors. There are many legacy applications that cannot take advantage of specialty processors. NEON zPrime makes this happen with zPrime™.
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understand the concept of no-cost processing.
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savings for mainframe operations. reducing mainframe costs by as much as 20%
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wish to make eligible for With software costs being the most expensive
specialty processors zPrime is an innovative product that allows you
component of an upgrade, zPrime makes
to better leverage specialty processors by creating
upgrading more affordable. With the ability to
an environment that makes IMS, DB2, CICS,
maximize the use of specialty processors, central
TSO/ISPF and batch application workloads
processors can be minimized, reducing the fee-
eligible for processing on zIIPs or zAAPs. In
based capacity of the hardware and lowering the
customer tests, zPrime has demonstrated the
cost of the software.
ability to enable your largest business and
operational workloads to run on specialty With specialty processors handling a larger portion
processors, resulting in significantly lower of the workload, processor resources are more
software costs. With zPrime, users have efficiently utilized, reducing overall processing
experienced a reduction of CP workloads by as time for long-running batch applications.
much as 90% for specific types of work. Some application charges are based on peak-
With the advent of variable pricing models such period CP usage. By utilizing 100 percent of the
as IBM's subcapacity pricing, cost is based on capacity of your specialty processors, you can
peak usage periods. Using zPrime, you can increase the capacity needed for peak period
reduce mainframe costs by redirecting processing processing without paying temporary usage fees
of IMS, DB2, CICS, TSO/ISPF and batch or rescheduling work.