BS2000/OSD-BC forms the basis for the time-proven mainframe characteristics – unsurpassed reliability, outstanding security concepts, exceptional scalability and excellent manageability.
BS2000/OSD-BC V6.0 implements support for new hardware and adds a further improvement to the key business-critical computing features of scalability, availability, security, manageability, and openness.
Major functional enhancements concern:
Business Servers and Peripherals:
S155 and S190 Business Servers of the S series
SX100-C and SX150 Business Servers of the SX series
Scalari2000 library system with LTO-2 MTC devices attached to type FC channel
Further increase in scalability thanks to various measures including system address space relief, multiprocessor optimization, increase in backup performance, and support for large configurations.
Further increase in availability thanks to reorganization of open files, concurrent copy tuning, and introduction of a journaling file system in POSIX.
New file encryption security function.
Further improvement in manageability thanks to enhancements for system-managed pubsets and self-configuring NK-ISAM pools.
For SX servers, the BS2000/OSD-BC V6.0 variant ported to SPARC64 architecture is available as a part of the OSD Extended Configuration Package versions OSD/XC V2.0 and V2.1.