94 Introduction to the New Mainframe: Large-Scale Commercial Computing
While books communicate with other books in the
mainframe, they are separate entities and, for the most
part, can be replaced without needing to bring down the
whole system.
Support Elements Two ThinkPad Support Elements (SEs) are mounted
behind the CPCs cover. One ThinkPad acts as the
primary (active) SE and the other acts as an alternate
(spare).
The primary SE is used for all interactions with the
System z server. The alternate SE has a special
workplace with limited tasks available.
Both SEs are connected to the CPC, via the Power
Service and Control Network (PSCN). For certain SE
errors, an automatic switch-over is made to assign the
formerly alternate SE as the primar ...