Permanent Upgrades - IBM z13s Technical Manual

Term
Purchased capacity
Permanent/Temporary
entitlement record
Replacement capacity
Resource Link
Secondary approval
SCM
Staged record
Subcapacity
Temporary capacity
Vital product data
(VPD)

8.1.3 Permanent upgrades

Permanent upgrades can be ordered through an IBM marketing representative, or started by
the customer with the CIU on IBM Resource Link.
CIU: The use of the CIU facility for a server requires that the online CoD buying feature
code (FC 9900) is installed on the server. The CIU facility itself is enabled through the
permanent upgrade authorization feature code (FC 9898).
Permanent upgrades ordered through an IBM representative
Through a permanent upgrade, you can perform these tasks:
Add a CPC drawer.
Add I/O drawers and features.
Add model capacity.
Add specialty engines.
Add memory.
Activate unassigned model capacity or Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL) processors.
Deactivate activated model capacity or IFLs.
Description
Capacity delivered to and owned by the customer. It can be higher than the
permanent capacity.
The internal representation of a temporary (TER) or permanent (PER)
capacity upgrade processed by the CIU facility. An entitlement record
contains the encrypted representation of the upgrade configuration with the
associated time limit conditions.
A temporary capacity that is used for situations in which processing capacity
in other parts of the enterprise is lost during a planned event or an
unexpected disaster. The two replacement offerings available are CPE and
CBU.
IBM Resource Link is a technical support website that is included in the
comprehensive set of tools and resources available from the IBM Systems
technical support site:
http://www.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/
An option, selected by the customer, that a second approver control each
CoD order. When a secondary approval is required, the request is sent for
approval or cancellation to the Resource Link secondary user identifier (ID).
The packaging technology that is used to hold the PUs and SC chips.
The point when a record representing a capacity upgrade, either temporary
or permanent, has been retrieved and loaded on the SE disk.
For z13s servers, CP features A01 to Y06 represent subcapacity
configurations, and CP features Z01 to Z06 represent full capacity
configurations.
An optional capacity that is added to the current server capacity for a limited
amount of time. It can be capacity that is owned or not owned by the
customer.
Information that uniquely defines the system, hardware, software, and
microcode elements of a processing system.
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