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AS/400 System Operations Overview

The document provides a history of IBM's midrange computer systems from 1969 to 1988, culminating in the introduction of the AS/400. Key points include: IBM's first midrange systems targeted low-end commercial and small business customers using punch cards; the System/34 was IBM's first multi-user minicomputer in 1977; the System/38 introduced in 1978 was an early machine with object-based architecture and relational database capabilities; the AS/400 was announced in 1988 as a successor to the System/38 with improved hardware independence and a layered design concept separating application software from the hardware.

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AS/400 System Operations Overview

The document provides a history of IBM's midrange computer systems from 1969 to 1988, culminating in the introduction of the AS/400. Key points include: IBM's first midrange systems targeted low-end commercial and small business customers using punch cards; the System/34 was IBM's first multi-user minicomputer in 1977; the System/38 introduced in 1978 was an early machine with object-based architecture and relational database capabilities; the AS/400 was announced in 1988 as a successor to the System/38 with improved hardware independence and a layered design concept separating application software from the hardware.

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Chapter 1

Background of the AS/400

IBM Midrange Background

Began June 1969


System 3/x Rochester, MN Punch card design Target low-end commercial & small-size batch

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System 3/x Line

System 3/x Midrange line


Small, efficient computer Single computer model - standard

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System/34

System/34

April 1977 First multi-user minicomputer Low-cost computer

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System/38

System/38

1975 research project 1978 announced Machine independence New processor User needed to upgrade First time contained a relational database Object-based architecture Ahead of times
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System/36 Upgraded Models

System/36 upgraded

Many customers preferred to stay with system/36 rather-than System/38

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AS/400 History

Project SilverLake

1985 started research New machine Successor to System/38 New future machine

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AS/400 History - Continue

Application System/400 (AS/400)


June 1988 announced Improving at about 10% per year Hardware independent untested until 1995 CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computer)

Instruction length variable

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AS/400 History - Continue

Upgrading

RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer)


Equal instruction length From 48-byte to 64-byte word size True hardware independence

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AS/400 History - Continue

Enhanced Series or e-series


1994 development began Foresaw potential of Internet Announced August1997 New n-way processors up to 12-way First package machine

A server configured and preloaded with SAP software


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Layered Design Concept


Layered Architecture Distinguished from traditional computers Key to machine independence

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Application Software

Application Software

OS/400 Machine Interface (MI) Vertical Licensed Internal Code (VLIC) Internal Microprocessor Interface (IMPI) Horizontal Licensed Internal Code (HLIC)

OS/400 Machine Interface (MI)

System Licensed Internal Code (SLIC)

Object Based Kernel

Hardware CISC Processor 48-bit Addressing

Hardware RISC Processor 64-bit Addressing

AS/400 Architecture Used in 48-bit CISC-based Systems T 1.1 - AS/400 layered software architecture.

AS/400 Architecture Used in 64-bit PowerPC RISCbased Systems

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Data Storage and Objects

Object-based computers

Everything stored on an AS/400 is an stored as an object

Objects stored in Libraries Data stored as

EDCDIC - Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
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Single-level Storage

No distinction between disk storage and main memory One large storage area (single address space)

Memory DASD

Object must be in memory to use or operate on


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Single-level Storage

Automatic divides object into blocks pages Virtual storage

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Software

Operating System Application Programs Job/Program types

Interactive Batch

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