Transcript Oracle z/OS (OS/390) Status and Directions

Oracle z/OS (OS/390)
Status and Directions
Bill Ingham
z/OS Release Manager
Oracle Corporation
[email protected]
Tuesday, March 30th 2004
Agenda
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Review
Current Priorities
Future direction
Questions
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2003 SIG Directions
 Product Quality
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Increase in generic regression tests run
Increase in z/OS specific testing
More focus on interoperability testing
More leveraged use of generic processes
Support GTL program
 Extending Generic Functionality
 Enhanced O/S features
 Apps 11i Split-tier Certification
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Current Priorities (9.2.0.5 and 10g)
 10g – GA April 19th 2004
 9.2.0.5 – GA April 19th 2004
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z/OS Roadmap
Version
End of Support
End of EM Support
8.1.7 MPM
12/31/03
N/A
8.1.7 OSDI
12/31/04
12/31/06
9.0.1.4
12/31/03
N/A
9.2.0.x
12/31/05
12/31/07
10.1.0.x
01/31/07
01/31/09
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10g Features
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Datapump (Fast Imp/Exp)
Streams
Flashback
Flash Recovery
Dataguard
Enterprise Manager
Patch tracking
Ultra-large database
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10g Features
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Release Date April 19th
OUI install
CD-based or electronic delivery
OLAP
RMAN enhancements
Data-mining **
File Access Improvements
OSDI Version information
Alert log enhancements
IEEE Float**
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10g Release Delivery
 Based on Oracle’s common installation toolset
– Shipped on CD or downloaded electronically
– X-windows based GUI install
– Platform transparency
 PM3/4 means ability for generic link on site
(but still ship with binaries)
 Enhancements delivered only in base release
 OSDI versioned and tied to server bundle for
simplicity and stability
 SQL only shipped in USS
 Minimum requirement of z/OS 1.4
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10g Maintenance Delivery
 Patchsets remain primary maintenance vehicle
 Common toolset based patch installation
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Platform transparent
Inventory means easier tracking of maintenance
Interim patches shipped as object files**
Linked on site**
More granularity available
Smaller delta means better stability
More flexible for customer
Consistent with other platforms
 Interim ‘one-off’ patches only for P1 and escalated
P2 bugs
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File Access Enhancements
 Consistent behavior across tools/utils
 “Agnostic” file access
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HFS from TSO/batch
Data set from POSIX
Data set access in some formerly HFS-only server
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 Isolate/control OraRTL compatibility
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Future directions
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Shipment of new releases with first patchset
Further integration into ‘Oracle factory’
Continued quality improvement
Further expansion of features to support
Mainframe Program
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Q U E S T I O N S
A N S W E R S