![AS/400 history
● IBM Rochester, Minnesota
● Midrange system
● Different and extremely closed-source
● Project Silverlake
● Designed by Dr. Frank Soltis [1]](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/81haras4slides-100612072101-phpapp02/85/Introduction-to-the-IBM-AS-400-6-320.jpg)
![S/3 (1969) [2]](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/81haras4slides-100612072101-phpapp02/85/Introduction-to-the-IBM-AS-400-8-320.jpg)
![S/32 (1975) [2]](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/81haras4slides-100612072101-phpapp02/85/Introduction-to-the-IBM-AS-400-9-320.jpg)
![S/34 (1977) [2]](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/81haras4slides-100612072101-phpapp02/85/Introduction-to-the-IBM-AS-400-10-320.jpg)
![S/38 (1978) [2]
Control Program Facility (CPF)](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/81haras4slides-100612072101-phpapp02/85/Introduction-to-the-IBM-AS-400-11-320.jpg)
![S/36 (1983) [2]
System Support Program (SSP)](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/81haras4slides-100612072101-phpapp02/85/Introduction-to-the-IBM-AS-400-12-320.jpg)
![AS/400 (1988) [2]
OS/400](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/81haras4slides-100612072101-phpapp02/85/Introduction-to-the-IBM-AS-400-14-320.jpg)
![IBM Power systems [3] [4] [5]
● AIX, IBM i, Linux](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/81haras4slides-100612072101-phpapp02/85/Introduction-to-the-IBM-AS-400-16-320.jpg)
![Management
● Twinax (obsolete)
● Hardware Management Console (HMC)
– IPL the system
– Service tools
– LPAR
+-------+
| ||
+-------+ | IBM i ||
| || | || +----+ +----+ +----+
| HMC ||------------[FSP] || | WS | | WS | | WS |
| ||----+ +---| || +----+ +----+ +----+
+-------+/ | | | || /____/| /____/| /____/|
/_______/ | | | [CP ] || | | |
| | +-------+/ | | |
~~~~~~~ | | |
( )-----------------+ | |
( LAN )------------------------+ |
( )---------------------------------+
~~~~~~~](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/81haras4slides-100612072101-phpapp02/85/Introduction-to-the-IBM-AS-400-30-320.jpg)
![The end
● Thank you for listening!
● Images (google)
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Introduction to the IBM AS/400
- 1. The IBM AS/400 A technical introduction Tom Van Looy [email protected] August 2009
- 2. Overview • Who am I? • AS/400 history • What is IBM i? • Other environments • Programming • Work management • Exploring the system
- 3. Who am I ● AS/400 system programmer (+4 years) ● Currently Linux sysadmin (@priorweb.be) ● Linux and *BSD user ● Belgian village
- 4. Why this talk ● AS/400, 20 year anniversary (2008) ● You have nothing else to do ;-) – I brought a system here to play with ● Type-model 9402-200 (feat 2031) ● 11.6 CPW ● 56 MB main memory (8+16+32) ● 3093 MB ASP (3x1031) ● OS/400 V3R2M0 (EOL 31/may/2000) ● Dutch :-( ● I do not represent IBM these are my views and opinions!
- 6. AS/400 history ● IBM Rochester, Minnesota ● Midrange system ● Different and extremely closed-source ● Project Silverlake ● Designed by Dr. Frank Soltis [1]
- 7. Rochester systems ● System/3 (1969) ● System/32 (1975) ● System/34 (1977) ● System/38 (1978) ● System/36 (1983) ● Fort Knox ● AS/400 (1988)
- 8. S/3 (1969) [2]
- 9. S/32 (1975) [2]
- 10. S/34 (1977) [2]
- 11. S/38 (1978) [2] Control Program Facility (CPF)
- 12. S/36 (1983) [2] System Support Program (SSP)
- 13. Fort Knox ● S/36 ● S/38 ● Series/1 ● RS/6000 (AIX) ● Some small IBM mainframes
- 14. AS/400 (1988) [2] OS/400
- 15. Renaming ● AS/400 ● AS/400e ● eServer iSeries ● eServer i5 (i5/OS) ● System i5 ● System i ● POWER systems (i + p) – Power 6 – Rename i5/OS to IBM i
- 16. IBM Power systems [3] [4] [5] ● AIX, IBM i, Linux
- 17. What is IBM i?
- 18. Design principles ● Technology independence ● Object-based design ● Hardware integration ● Software integration ● Single-level store
- 19. Technology independence ● Not defined by hardware ● VM interface to the system (TIMI) ● IMPI (48bit CISC) -> PowerPC (64bit RISC) – 1995, save/restore
- 20. Technology independence +---+----------------+ +---+----------------+ | | applic. | | | applic. | | +------------+ | | +------------+ | | OS/400 | | | IBM i | | +----------------+---+ +----------------+---+ (opcodes) VM ---------> | TIMI | | TIMI |<------------ VM (opcodes) +--------------------+ +--------------------+ | +----------------+ | | +----------------+ | kernel ---------> | | VLIC | | | | | |<------------ kernel (PL/MP) | +----------------+ | | | | | (C++, PPC AS) | | IMPI | | | | SLIC | | | +----------------+ | | | | | | | HLIC | | | | | | | +----------------+ | | +----------------+ | | | 48-bit addr | | | | 64-bit addr | | | | CISC interface | | | | RISC interface | | | | HW | | | | HW | | | +----------------+ | | +----------------+ | +----------------------+ +----------------------+ system's instruction set defines all pointers as 128-bit
- 21. Object-based design ● Only objects supported data structure at MI – Atomic ● Message passing – Every object has a message queue ● Not fully OO – No subclasses – No inheritance – Polymorphism minimalistic
- 22. Hardware integration ● Information intensive environments ● The move to PowerPC – Support Java, e-commerce, BI, … ● Balanced design – Fast processing – High bandwidth, high performance I/O ● POWER capacity expressed in CPW – TPC-C benchmark – Disregards CPU speed
- 23. Software integration ● Security, communications, backup/restore, … ● Modern database (DB2/400) ● Temporary/permanent PTF's
- 25. Single-level store ● 64-bit address space – One large shared storage – Contains all programs and data – Addressable from single permanent address ● Reference by name or pointer ● Don't worry where it resides – No address reuse ● No process local storage – Task creation – Context switching ● Virtual addressing moves object into real memory (not accessible by programmer)
- 27. PASE ● Portable Application Solution Environment – Incorporated 64-bit AIX runtime env. ● Private Address Space Environment ● Not technology independent – does not talk to TIMI – syscall interface to the SLIC
- 28. PASE ● Call PASE from i – QSH CMD('ls /home/tvl') ● Call i from PASE – system ”WRKOBJLCK OBJ(MYFILE) OBJTYPE(*FILE)” ● Query DB2 from PASE, … ● Run Apache, X, ...
- 29. Hypervisor ● Hardware support in PowerPC ● Logical Partitioning (LPAR) – AIX, Linux, IBM i – Created and managed from the HMC ● Dynamic resource allocation at runtime
- 30. Management ● Twinax (obsolete) ● Hardware Management Console (HMC) – IPL the system – Service tools – LPAR +-------+ | || +-------+ | IBM i || | || | || +----+ +----+ +----+ | HMC ||------------[FSP] || | WS | | WS | | WS | | ||----+ +---| || +----+ +----+ +----+ +-------+/ | | | || /____/| /____/| /____/| /_______/ | | | [CP ] || | | | | | +-------+/ | | | ~~~~~~~ | | | ( )-----------------+ | | ( LAN )------------------------+ | ( )---------------------------------+ ~~~~~~~
- 31. Programming
- 32. Languages ● CL ● RPG ● COBOL ● SQL ● C ● Pascal ● Java
- 33. OPM, EPM ● Original Program Model ● Extended Program Model – C, Pascal, ... ● Translate into MI programs (*PGM) – Morphed into PPC pgm's by optimizing translator ● Only call external – Late binding
- 34. ILE ● Integrated Language Environment – New compiler, optimizing translator, binder facility ● Output *MODULE – Package into *PGM, *SRVPGM ● Early binding +----------+---------+-------+ | ILE | Windows | Linux | +-------------------+----------+---------+-------+ | After compilation | *.MODULE | *.obj | *.o | +-------------------+----------+---------+-------+ | Bind by copy | *.PGM | *.exe | * | +-------------------+----------+---------+-------+ | Bind by reference | *.SRVPGM | *.dll | *.so | +-------------------+----------+---------+-------+
- 35. Java ● Compiled into byte codes (CRTJVAPGM) – Part of the MI – Used by the JVM – Implemented in SLIC ● Native JVM ● PASE JVM
- 36. Work management
- 37. LUW ● Jobs – Interactive (call) – Batch (submit) – Communication – System ● job-number/user-name/job-name ● Numbers not reused
- 39. Subsystems ● Controlling subsystem – QCTLSBSD sysval ● QBASE ● QCTL – QINTER (interactive jobs) – QBATCH (batch jobs) – QCMN (communication jobs) – QUSRWRK (user work) – QSERVER (server jobs) – QSPL (spooling) ● Started by QSTRUPPGM (sysval) ● Restricted state – ENDSBS SBS(*ALL) – Backups, console display run in CTLSBS
- 44. Job queue's ● Batch jobs are placed on job queue's ● Interactive jobs on workstation queue's ● Subsystems read one or more queue's – Job queue belongs to only one subsystem – Jobs have priority on queue – Queue's are FIFO
- 46. Storage pools ● Divide memory – *MACHINE pool – *BASE pool – ... ● Dynamic – Shared pools – Adjust paging options (*CALC) – Pool size, job activity level (QPFRADJ sysval) ● Fixed size – Private pool
- 51. Routing ● Job has a job describtion (*JOBD) – Job attributes ● No runtime attributes ● Output queue ● Job initial library list ● Routing data ● Subsystem – Routing entry's ● Subsystem pool ● Class object (*CLS) – Runtime priority – CPU time slice
- 56. Objects ● Library's (*LIB object) – Can't contain *LIB objects ● Except QSYS, only contains *LIB's – IBM-supplied start with Q or # ● Objects – Inside *LIB – Max 10 characters – Name + object type = unique – EBCDIC
- 58. File system ● Integrated File System (IFS) – Virtual File System (VFS) architecture ● QSYS.LIB (OS/400) ● QOpenSys (POSIX, XPG) ● QOPT (DVD) – NFS, SMB
- 60. Users ● QSECOFR – security officer ● Authority levels – All object authority (*ALLOBJ) – Auditing (*AUDIT) – I/O system configuration (*IOSYSCFG) – Save system (*SAVSYS) – Security administration (*SECADM) – Service functions (*SERVICE) – Spool control (*SPLCTL) ● Group profiles
- 63. Navigating ● Commands ● Menu's (*MENU)
- 85. The end ● Thank you for listening! ● Images (google) – [1] http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/ibmi/endpgm/2008/atriumphofhardwork/assetuploadfile60620807.jpg – [2] http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/rochester/rochester_album.html – [3] http://www.nasi.com/images/ibm_power-family.jpg – [4] http://www.tug.ca/eblast/library/logo_IBM_POWER6_BoP.gif – [5] http://www.pclaunches.com/entry_images/0408/09/ibm_power595-2.jpg – [6] http://andrewscg.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/i5os-v6r1-logo.jpg – [7] http://www.gobmug.com/images/ibm_i.gif