The feature enables the following functions for the storage type:
• Easy Tier application
• Easy Tier heat map transfer
• The capability to migrate volumes for logical volumes
• The recongure extent pool function of the extent pool
• The dynamic extent relocation with an Easy Tier managed extent pool
Operating environment license
The operating environment model and features establish the extent (capacity) that is authorized to use
the product operating environment.
To determine the operating environment license support function, see “Machine types overview” on page
2.
Thin provisioning
Thin provisioning denes logical volume sizes that are larger than the usable capacity installed on the
system. The volume allocates capacity on an as-needed basis as a result of host-write actions.
The thin provisioning feature enables the creation of extent space efcient logical volumes. Extent space
efcient volumes are supported for FB and CKD volumes and are supported for all Copy Services
functionality, including FlashCopy targets where they provide a space efcient FlashCopy capability.
z-synergy Services license
The z-synergy Services license includes z/OS
®
features that are supported on the storage system.
The z-synergy Services license is available for the following license scope: CKD.
The z-synergy Services license includes the following features:
• High Performance FICON for z Systems
• HyperPAV
• Parallel Access Volumes (PAV)
• Transparent cloud tiering
• z/OS Distributed Data Backup
• zHyperLink
• IBM Fibre Channel Endpoint Security
The z-synergy Services license also includes the ability to attach FICON channels.
The z-synergy Services license feature codes are ordered in increments up to a specic capacity. For
example, if you require 160 TB of capacity, order 10 of feature code 8351 (10 TB each up to 100 TB
capacity), and 4 of feature code 8352 (15 TB each, for an extra 60 TB).
The z-synergy Services license includes the feature codes listed in the following table.
Table 38. z-synergy Services license feature codes
Feature Code Feature code for licensed function indicator
8350 zsS - inactive
8351 zsS - 10 TB (up to 100 TB capacity)
8352 zsS - 15 TB (from 100.1 TB to 250 TB capacity)
8353 zsS - 25 TB (from 250.1 TB to 500 TB capacity)
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