What can a general purpose CP on the LinuxONE Rockhopper II or Emperor II be used for?

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Options

• AIBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator (IDAA)
• BGeographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GDPS)
• CSecure Service Container (SSC)
• DDynamic Provision Manager (DPM)

• A
  3% (1)
• B
  88% (30)
• C
  6% (2)
• D
  3% (1)

Explanation

On LinuxONE Rockhopper II and Emperor II, general purpose CPs are authorized for GDPS because GDPS is a high-availability and disaster recovery framework that runs standard workloads across geographically separated systems - it has no restriction to specialized processor types and can leverage general purpose CPs directly.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A (IDAA): IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator requires dedicated accelerator hardware or specific zIIP-class resources, not general purpose CPs.
• C (SSC): Secure Service Container is designed specifically for IFL (Integrated Facility for Linux) processors to provide its isolated, tamper-resistant environment - general purpose CPs are not eligible.
• D (DPM): Dynamic Partition Manager is an HMC management interface for system configuration, not a workload type that runs on a CP.

Memory tip: Think "GDPS = General purpose" - both start with G. SSC needs Secure (specialized IFL) processors, IDAA needs an Accelerator (not a general CP), and DPM is a Manager tool, not a workload.

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