1. Oracle z/OS (OS/390) Status and Directions Bill Ingham z/OS Release Manager Oracle Corporation bill.ingham@oracle.com Tuesday, March 30 th 2004

2. zSeries SIG - 2004 Agenda  Review  Current Priorities  Future direction  Questions

3. zSeries SIG - 2004 2003 SIG Directions  Product Quality – 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

4. zSeries SIG - 2004 Current Priorities (9.2.0.5 and 10g)  10g – GA April 19 th 2004  9.2.0.5 – GA April 19 th 2004

5. zSeries SIG - 2004 z/OS Roadmap VersionEnd of SupportEnd of EM Support 8.1.7 MPM12/31/03N/A 8.1.7 OSDI12/31/0412/31/06 9.0.1.412/31/03N/A 9.2.0.x12/31/0512/31/07 10.1.0.x01/31/0701/31/09

6. zSeries SIG - 2004 10g Features  Datapump (Fast Imp/Exp)  Streams  Flashback  Flash Recovery  Dataguard  Enterprise Manager  Patch tracking  Ultra-large database

7. zSeries SIG - 2004 10g Features  Release Date April 19 th  OUI install  CD-based or electronic delivery  OLAP  RMAN enhancements  Data-mining **  File Access Improvements  OSDI Version information  Alert log enhancements  IEEE Float**

8. zSeries SIG - 2004 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

9. zSeries SIG - 2004 10g Maintenance Delivery  Patchsets remain primary maintenance vehicle  Common toolset based patch installation – 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

10. zSeries SIG - 2004 File Access Enhancements  Consistent behavior across tools/utils  “Agnostic” file access – HFS from TSO/batch – Data set from POSIX – Data set access in some formerly HFS-only server features  Isolate/control OraRTL compatibility

11. zSeries SIG - 2004 Future directions  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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