
98 Introduction to the New Mainframe: Large-Scale Commercial Computing
5.4.3 Continuous availability of mainframes using clustering
Even with the improvement in reliability of newer mainframe systems, there
remained the possibility of an outage due to hardware failure or the need to
upgrade the hardware. To handle situations where hardware outages were
unavoidable, and to provide for vertical expansion of applications, the sysplex
(SYStems comPLEX) was developed.
“A sysplex is a collection of z/OS systems that cooperate, using certain hardware
and software and microcode, to process workloads, provide higher availability,
easier systems manage ...