UTS Global RELEASE 4'4 Announcement

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UTS Global RELEASE 4.4 Announcement
January 17, 2000
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Brief UTS Global History

• UTS Global is a customer proven product (18
  years)
• Only native SVR4 UNIX S/390 system
• Principally used by Telecom Industry
• Used for business critical production apps
• - 10,000/sec call detail record (CDR) processing
• Availability second to none gt .99999
• - Virtually no unscheduled interrupts

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UTS Global Principal Values

• Customer Focused - Web access for maintenance
  updates
• High RAS (reliability, availability,
  serviceability) and scalability
• Premier enterprise wide large scale open
  operating system
• Best bridge between MVS workloads and open system
  networks

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UTS4 Is The Preferred Platform

• Benefit from new UNIX SVR4 standards and features
  like MP and latest hardware support
• 3PP suppliers are reluctant to support back
  versions
• UTS can now be easily extended to future
• Customer enhancement requests more easily
  incorporated into future UTS4 releases
• Provides improved development and OAM tools
• Certain UTS4 features are not technically
  feasible for UTS2.1 (Example is Dynamic Slice
  Admin.)
• UTS4 is easier to maintain

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UTS Global Release Strategy

• UTS4 is the standard release with significant
  ongoing development of new functions and features
• UTS2.1 is maintained as stabilized release
• - Enhancements done by priced RPQs
• New UTS 4.X releases planned regularly
• - Quarterly maintenance updates available on web
• Emergency temporary fixes provided as required
• Customers on contract can request log-in ID to
  access UTS problem status on-line and down load
  fixes

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UTS Global Maintenance Strategy

• UTS2.1 is source-based system customized by each
  customer
• UTS2.1 requires source maintenance and is very
  difficult to track and manage, especially with
  customized RPQs
• - Maintenance provided by periodic source flash
  tapes
• UTS4 is distributed and maintained in binary
  format
• - Maintenance provided by quarterly binary
  cumulative update releases using UMF tracking
  tool
• Web maintenance
• - UTS4 customers on contract can request log-in
  ID to access problem fix status and down load
  maintenance
• - UTS2.1 customers can access problem status only

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UTS Global Pricing Strategy

• Pricing strategy is for UTS4 to be less costly
  than UTS2.1
• - UTS2.1 Monthly Usage Fee (MUF) increased by 20
  in 1998 to cover support costs
• - UTS4 will provide collective savings to RBOCs
  gt1M/year
• Limited free use of UTS4 while migrating
• UTS pricing model for Monthly Usage Fee (MUF)
  calculation based on MIPS
• UTS2.1 enhancements only by customer paid RPQs

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UTS Global Release 4 Features Benefits

• Technology Benefits
• OAM Benefits
• System Management Benefits
• UTS Release 4.4 Features
• FEP Replacement Connectivity Options
• UTS2.1 Migration Considerations
• Summary

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UTS Global Release 4 Technology Benefits

• Latest hardware support in base system
• - CPU models and DASD devices
• - Includes Amdahl, IBM and HDS compatible S/390
  systems
• - Comm devices - OSA, new TCP/IP devices (e.g.,
  2216)
• UTS4 RAS is better than UTS 2.1
• - Lower sensitivity to CPU failure
• - DYNSA dynamically allocates disk slices to UTS
  without outage
• - Hot backup using multi-mirror disk (MMD)
• - Improved recovery from console failure

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UTS Global Release 4 Feature Benefits

• Web tools and Open Source products only on UTS4
• - UTS Web enabled products - Apache web server,
  POP3 mail handler
• - Future Open Source ports will include JAVA,
  Samba, ported software framework (PSF)
• Improved multi-processor support allows scaleable
  growth and higher performance
• - I/O distributed across all processors
• - Improved network performance
• New feature/function enhancements in UTS4
• - Support for modern communication devices

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UTS4 OAM Benefits

• UTS4 is standard system in known maintenance
  level
• - Cannot know the maintenance state of UTS2.1
• UTS4 maintenance is applied and tracked with UMF
• - Significantly simplifies support for both
  customer and vendors
• UTS Customer Care available on Web
• - Maintenance updates and temporary fixes
• - Problem list and fix status
• - UTS4 manuals available for browsing and
  printing
• Saves time and admin. resources for both vendors
  and users

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UTS Global Release 4 Maintenance Facility

• UTS Maintenance Facility (UMF)
• - SVR4 OAM facility enhanced for UTS
• - Simplifies applying and tracking maintenance
  updates Checks co-requisites
• - Prevents installing maintenance out of sequence
• - Can easily back-off maintenance if desired
• - Facilitates propagation of maintenance across
  multiple UTS system images

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UTS4 System Management Benefits

• Concurrent backups via Multi-Mirror Disk (MMD)
  facility - local and remote
• Dynamic Slice Administration (DYNSA) dynamically
  allocates slices to UTS without outage
• - Provides volume sharing with MVS
• - Allows MVS to backup UTS volumes
• - UTS volumes appear to MVS as standard fully
  allocated MVS volume
• Improved, standardized console management in UTS4
• - Console switching capability to alternate
  console(s)
• - TTY mirroring of operator console commands
• Facilitates remote operations

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UTS Global RELEASE 4.4

• Release objectives
• - Facilitate migration from UTS2.1 to UTS4
• - Facilitate execution of UTS2.1 apps on UTS4
• - Improve UTS4 performance
• - Provide connectivity enhancements
• General availability January 17, 2000

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UTS2.1 To UTS4 Migration Facilities

• Enhanced UTS 2.1 Compatibility Features
• - UTS2.1 System Commands already in UTS4 base
• - UTS2.1 System Calls supported on UTS4
• - Includes UTS2.1 socket calls
• - UTS2.1-based commands supported on UTS4
• - Updated Migration Guide

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UTS4 Performance and RAS Enhancements

• 2GB Real and Virtual Memory Support
• - Limits were 1.4GB real and 1.0GB virtual
• - User programs can take advantage of full S/390
  architecture
• Extended Memory Cache Feature
• - Enables buffer cache pages to use Expanded
  Storage
• - Much faster access time than disk
• Page Migration Improvements
• - Anonymous pages migrate from expanded storage
  to disk swap device vice versa
• - Stores only most active pages in Expanded
  Storage

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UTS4 Performance RAS Enhancements - 2

• Improved CPU Scheduler
• - User-controlled CPU Dispatcher reduces system
  overhead processing
• - Compatible with MDF dispatch mechanism in MP
  environment
• - Heartbeat Command
• - New, operator controlled
• - Uses CPU timer to interrupt CPUs at specified
  time interval to look for work tasks
• - SIGP dispatching mechanism
• - Notifies idle CPUs of work via S/390 SIGP
  instruction
• - Default mode at system boot time

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System Dump Improvements

• Disk-Based Stand-Alone Dump (SAD) Facility
• - Formerly all dumps were only written to and
  read from tape
• - Faster SAD processing time
• - Reduces customer downtime
• - Eliminates tape handling
• - Exploits higher speed disk data transfer rates
• Fast Dump
• - Writes dump to raw disk slice rather than to
  U4K file
• - Supports much larger dump files
• - Shortens dump processing time

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Other UTS Release 4.4 Enhancements

• UTS4.4 System Header File Modifications for C
  Compatibility
• - Wrappers added to system header C files to be
  easily included in C programs
• - Compliant with industry standards

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Enhanced Connectivity Options

• IBM 2216 TCP/IP Controller Support
• - Supports IBM 3172 pass-through mode
• - Both ESCON and parallel channel host
  connections
• UTS 4.4 UUCP Enhancement
• - New internal TCP/IP feature supports use of
  UUCP Socket connections over TCP/IP
• - Accepts TCP as internal caller and initiates
  UUCP socket connection request

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Enhanced Connectivity Options - 2

• BX.25 Telecom Communications Protocol Support
• - Compatible with UTS2.1
• - Customer UTS2.1 apps must be recompiled
• - Supported with 4745 and 4655 FEPs
• TADS 4.0 Database
• - Telcordia Database for MARCH and FOMS/FUSA apps
• - Customer UTS 2.1 apps must be recompiled and
  linked with TADS 4.0
• - Supports STK automatic cartridge silo loader
  subsystem

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UTS Global Release 4 FEP Migration

• We provide a migration path for connectivity on
  UTS4
• UTS4 replacement for 4635/4655 Datakit is TCP/IP
  with Lucent LCS60 Gateway
• UTS4 replacement for 4655 Async is TCP/IP with
  terminal servers
• For existing 4655/4745 Customers only, UTS4
  supports
• 4655 Async, Datakit, BX.25 S-Calls
• 4745 (or compatible) BX.25
• 4635 and 4655 FEPs are MD and in EOL
• Support will be discontinued 12/31/2000
• 4635 Datakit is not supported on UTS4
• No end-of-support date is announced for 4745

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UTS4 46x5 Datakit Network Replacement
Configuration
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UTS4 Async Network Replacement Configuration
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Compatibility With Prior UTS4 Releases

• UTS 4.4 is binary compatible with all earlier
  UTS4.4 releases, provided
• - Customer apps follow rules in bincompat(5)
  manpage
• All prior UTS4 optional features, compilers,
  connectivity controllers and ported third-party
  products should run without change on UTS4.4

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UTS2.1 To 4.4 Migration Considerations

• Plan for UTS4 domain for running parallel
  releases
• UTS Global can provide service offerings
• - End user training - UTS4 Differences from
  UTS2.1
• - Porting assessments and engineering studies
• - Porting of local scripts
• Expect migration to be a 6 -12 month effort
• For the RBOCs bulk of migration effort to be done
  by Telcordia
• - Except for RBOC local apps and scripts

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UTS2.1 to UTS4 Migration Benefits

• Same S/390 platform for both UTS2.1 and UTS4
• - Minimized exposures since moving within UTS
• - Less costly and less difficult to stay with UTS
• - Significant UTS2.1 compatibility features now
  supported in UTS4 to facilitate migration
• - Limited free use of UTS4 while in migration
  mode
• After migration, price for UTS4 should be the
  same as pre -1998 UTS2.1 price for the same
  number of MIPS
• S/390 platform facilitates CPU and storage
  expansion for customer growth

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UTS4 Benefit Summary

• Better end user productivity with UTS4
• Positioned for web-related business activity
• Expect more open source and third party products
  to become available
• Lower UTS administration and operational costs
• Easier to maintain

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Bottom Line

• Going to UTS4 is the Right thing to DO
• We are ready when you are!

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