With the zIIP, IBM is looking to support mainframe concepts like business resiliency, workload management, hubs for data, and service oriented architecture (SOA).

The zIIP is a specialty engine that will run eligible database workloads and is designed to help free up general computing capacity. The zIIP better enables data to be centralized on the mainframe. With the zIIP capability, the System z9 mainframe helps minimize the need to maintain duplicate copies of the data and provides better security between the applications and the data.