Industry Standards and IBM S/390 Servers

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Industry Standardsand IBM S/390 Servers

• A Survey of Standards in the Mainframe Environment

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The Big Picture

• IBM Corporation
• Hardware
• Software
• Services

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Narrowing the Focus

• Servers
• S/390
• 7060
• 9672
• AS/400
• RS/6000
• Netfinity

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The Approach

• Review technical specifications looking for
  applicable standards
• Research each standard
• Group standards into broad categories
• Assess their significance

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The 7060 Standards

• PC/ISA
• LAN Interfaces
• RS-232
• V.35
• SCSI

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PCI/ISA

• Peripheral Component Interconnect
• A standard for connecting peripherals to a
  personal computer
• Industry Standard Architecture
• A bus standard for IBM-compatible PCs
• www.pcisig.com
• Special Interest Group

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LAN Interfaces

• Token Ring (IEEE 802.5)
• Ethernet (IEEE 802.3)
• www.ieee.org

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WAN Interfaces

• RS-232 (or EIA-232)
• Connector specification
• Equivalent to ITU-T V.24 or V.28
• V.35
• 48kb/s ITU-T connector standard

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SCSI

• Small Computer System Interface
• ANSI X3.131-1986
• ISO/IEC 9316
• Provides interface between computer and wide
  variety of intelligent devices

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The 9672 Standards

• FIPS 141-1 Level 4
• ITSEC E4
• FICON
• LAN Interfaces
• Unicode
• CDSA
• FCS

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FIPS 104-1 Level 4

• Federal Information Processing Standard
• Cryptographic modules
• Certification granted by National Technical
  Information Service (NTIS)
• S/390 Cryptographic Co-Processor has been
  certified

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ITSEC E4

• Information Technology Security Evaluation
  Criteria
• European Union
• Certifies that secure isolation exists between
  logical processor partitions

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FICON

• Submitted by IBM as a proposed standard for large
  scale data transfer
• Submitted to National Committee for Information
  Technology Standards
• Based on industry standard Fibre Channel
  technology

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LAN Interfaces

• Fast Ethernet
• 155 ATM
• Gigabit Ethernet

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Unicode

• Worldwide character standard
• Supports multilingual application development
• www.unicode.org

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CDSA

• Common Data Security Architecture
• Adopted by OpenGroup as an industry standard for
  Internet or intranet security
• Standardizes interfaces used to write
  applications which require cryptographic and
  certificate services
• www.opennc.org

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Categories

• Connectivity
• PCI/ISA
• LAN Interfaces and WAN Interfaces
• SCSI
• FCS
• Security
• FIPS 140-1 Level 4
• ITSEC E4
• CDSA
• Encoding
• Unicode

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Assessment

• Goal is success in the marketplace
• Important factors
• Interoperability
• Network security
• Globalization
• Feature emphasis
• Connectivity
• Security
• Multilingual capability