A customer has a z13s installed and would like to consider a z14 ZR1 replacement. The z14 ZR1 will be a push/pull solution and the customer cannot deal with the MES upgrade install outage. Which RPQ…

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Options

• AFeature 0012 IBM Z Exchange Program
• BRPQ 8P2999 (Cloud DR offering)
• CFeature 0014 Migration Offering Machine
• DFeature 0099 WWPN Persistence

• A
  16% (6)
• B
  5% (2)
• C
  76% (28)
• D
  3% (1)

Explanation

Feature 0014 Migration Offering Machine is the correct answer because it allows the z14 ZR1 to be ordered and delivered as a brand-new standalone system rather than processed as an MES (Miscellaneous Equipment Specification) upgrade to the existing z13s. This is critical for a push/pull migration: both systems operate simultaneously, workloads are shifted from the old z13s to the new z14 ZR1 incrementally, and there is no forced MES upgrade install outage.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A (Feature 0012 IBM Z Exchange Program) is a trade-in/exchange program for retiring old hardware-it doesn't address installation methodology or outage avoidance.
• B (RPQ 8P2999 Cloud DR) is a special-bid offering for cloud disaster recovery configurations, completely unrelated to migration outage concerns.
• D (Feature 0099 WWPN Persistence) preserves Fibre Channel World Wide Port Names so storage fabric zoning survives the migration-useful, but it solves a connectivity problem, not the outage problem.

Memory tip: Think "14 for z14 migration"-Feature 0014 is the Migration Offering Machine feature, and its purpose is literally in the name: it reframes the transaction as a new machine (not an upgrade), enabling zero-outage push/pull migrations between IBM Z generations.

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