AS/400 Future Announcements
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• AS/400 Logical Partitioning (LPAR): IBM intends to significantly increase the flexibility
of LPAR by supporting dynamic resource movement between partitions and providing
support for multiple partitions assigned to a single processor.
As part of the OS/400 V4R4 announcements made in February 1999 and August 1999, IBM
announced an intention to provide an update of OS/400 that includes the following
enhancements. The previews listed are separated into fulfilled and non-fulfilled categories at
the time this Handbook was published.
Product Previews: Fulfilled
At the time of V4R5 announcement, these product previews are now fulfilled.
• Customers running OS/2 Warp Server for AS/400 and Novell NetWare 4.11 on the
AS/400 IPCS will be supported with their current capabilities until 31 January 2001.
However, these products will not be functionally enhanced. V4R4 is the final release of
OS/400 which will support OS/2 Warp Server for AS/400 and Novell NetWare 4.11 on
the Integrated Netfinity Server, the AS/400 Integrated PC Server, or the FSIOP.
• OS/400 V4R4 is the last release to offer single step CISC-to-RISC upgrade (previously
referred to as e-Jump) capabilities from V2R3, V3R0.5, and V3R1 systems.
• The IBM WebSphere Application Server for AS/400 product will include Enterprise
Server for Java support in the future. This product will include container and server
support that is compliant with the Sun Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) specification. The
AS/400 Enterprise Server Java (ESJ) container and server will be capable of hosting
EJB components. The container and server provides transaction, security, and
persistence support, which makes development of server-side business logic
considerably easier. EJB components are reusable, portable, server-side business
logic components.
This product preview is fulfilled with WebSphere Application Server Advanced Edition.
• V4R4 is the last OS/400 release to support AS/400 Advanced 36 System Support
Program (SSP), 5716-SSP, running as a guest operating system and the associated
AS/400 Advanced 36 SSP products as previously announced on 09 February 1999.
As previously stated in announcements on 01 September 1998, and 09 February 1999,
program services end on 31 May 2000, for Advanced 36 SSP and associated Advanced
36 products. Information on migration to the S/36 Environment is available at:
http://www.ibm.com/as400/developer/ssp/index.html
• IBM plans to include support for a new Coded Character Set ID (CCSID) as the
standard code set for the OS/400 Japanese version in a future OS/400 release. This
CCSID (1399) that is a super set of CCSID 5035. This new CCSID will support the full
code set of Microsoft Windows Operating System (95/98/NT) and the euro currency
sign in a Japanese environment.
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