Mainframes have been the workhorses of the corporate data center for more than half a century. More than 70% of Fortune 500 enterprises continue to use mainframes for their most crucial business functions. Syncsort has been the leader in mainframe innovations since the early years. Recently, IBM made two major announcements for their mainframe customers. IBM has recently made two major IBM z announcements: new Tailored Fit Pricing and the next-generation z15 mainframe. In this on-demand webinar we’ll help you understand the opportunities and challenges that the new pricing model and z15 systems present. We’ll also share exciting sorting technology innovations from Syncsort that drive cost savings with the new z15. You will learn: • How to evaluate the decision to move to Tailored Fit pricing or to stay on 4HRA pricing • How Syncsort's Elevate MFSort (formerly MFX) reduces workloads on the new z15 mainframes • How we plan to exploit the IBM’s new instructions for sort acceleration

1. New IBM z Innovations Mean New
Opportunities for You
Presented by
Bill Hammond – Product Marketing
Maggie Li – R & D

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Bill Hammond
Maggie Li
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3. Agenda
• IBM Tailored Fit Pricing Model
• New Sort Instruction Set
• Q & A
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4. IBM Tailored Fit
Pricing Overview

5. Pricing History
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6. Eligibility
• IBM z14 Model ZR1 and upwards
• Minimum growth commitments
Common Themes
• No R4HA
• Focus shifts to business outcomes
• Aggressive growth pricing
• Pricing predictability
• Using ALL of client-owned infrastructure
Tailored Fit Pricing for IBM Z
2. Enterprise Consumption Solution
1. Enterprise Capacity Solution
Tailored usage-based
licensing model
Designed for clients with
unpredictable workload patterns,
requiring predictable, usage based
costs for all workload growth
Tailored full capacity
licensing model
Designed for clients with substantial
workload growth, requiring
operational simplicity & complete
cost predictability

7. What best describes your current
status regarding Tailored Fit Pricing?
Poll Question

8. “
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Now that I have these new options, what
factors do I need to consider to make the right
decision for my organization?

9. Customers
already on
Tailored Fit
Pricing
Room for
Growth
Reduce MSU
Consumption
Manage you growth efficiently
with Syncsort
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10. Customers
staying with
4HRA
Reduced
CPU Time
zIIP
Offload
Reduce
Licensing
Costs
Syncsort has been the leader in
mainframe sorting for 50 years
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11. Customers
considering
Tailored Fit
pricing
Understand
impact
Reduce
MSU usage
Optimize now
Get “Fit” for Tailored Fit
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12. Elevate ZPSaver zIIP-enables sort
operations to help control costs
and delay/prevent upgrades
• Allows sort work encryption to be
completed on zIIP, reducing CPU
utilization dramatically and reducing
costs
• Makes use of under-utilized zIIP engines
• Significantly reduces general processor
operation
• Helps control MLC costs and reduces
consumption
Elevate MFSort focuses on
reducing CPU time and I/O
activity for sort operations
• Sort operations are resource intensive
• Uses less CPU time than competing
products
• Optimizes I/O better than competing
products
• Encrypts sort work for required
security and compliance
• Faster execution means more work
can execute in the same amount of
time
A Powerful
Combination
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13. IBM z15 Mainframe
Sort Innovation

14. History of Product Innovation
Syncsort MFSort
has a commitment
to innovation with
50 years of
consistent product
leadership
Syncsort Feature Year
Competing Sort
Product
Lag
SORTWORK Encryption
ZPSaver Suite
Create & E-Mail PDF, RTF, HTML Files
2018
2014
2011
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zIIP Exploitation 2008 ✖
MIDAW Exploitation 2006 ✖
JOIN Processing 2004 2009 5 Yrs
PAV Exploitation 2001 ✖
Direct DB2 Access 2001 ✖
PARASORT 1999 ✖
Horizontal Arithmetic on OUTREC 1999 2003 4 Yrs
XSUM 1996 ✖
PipeSort 1994 ✖
Global DSM 1992 ✖
Data Space Exploitation 1989 1992 3 Yrs
SAS PROC SORT Replacement 1989 ✖
Variable/Fixed Conversion 1989 1995 6 Yrs
Incremental DYNALLOC 1985 ✖
Multiple Output 1983 1991 8 Yrs
Report Writing 1983 1995 12 Yrs
MAXSORT 1979 ✖
IEBGENER Replacement 1979 1987 8 Yrs
INREC 1979 1983 4 Yrs
INCLUDE/OMIT, SUM, OUTREC 1977 1983 6 Yrs
COBOL Exits 1976 1985 9 Yrs
EXCPVR 1975 1988 13 Yrs
COBOL Exits 1976 1985 9 Yrs
EXCPVR 1975 1988 13 Yrs
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15. The Fastest, Most Efficient Sort. Period!
Elevate MFSort:
✓Optimizes resource use
✓Exploits advanced system functions
✓Utilizes dynamic parallel processing
to reduce elapsed time
✓Reduces Total CPU Time by 30 - 40%
✓Reduces Elapsed Time by 20 - 40%
Total CPU Time Elapsed Time
Performance Comparison
Competing Sort Product Elevate MFSort
Elevate MFSort Customers Achieve Significantly Faster Sort
Performance and System Throughput at Lower Costs
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16. IBM z15
Mainframe
Core System
Performance Offerings
• Up to 14% performance
improvement
• 25% more system capacity
• More on-chip cache per core
• Up to 40 TB real memory
• On-chip Integrated Accelerator
for z Enterprise Data
Compression (zEDC) replaces
zEDC Express card for better
performance
• New instructions for sort
acceleration
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17. • z15 introduces a new
instruction for sort acceleration
• Work closely with IBM including
access to early z15 machines in
Poughkeepsie
• Improve TCB time and elapsed
time for some sorts
• Will need to tune when this
new technique is used, not
applicable for all sorts
Features Involved
• SORT and MERGE Applications
dependent on LRECL & key length
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What and Why
IBM z15
Mainframe
New z15 Instruction
for Sort Acceleration

18. What are your plans related to
moving to the z15 platform?
Poll Question

19. Q & A