IBM Multiprise

IBM S/390 Multiprise was a short-lived series of small, compact, entry-level mainframes.

[2][3] The IBM's Multiprise 3000 (product number 7060) was a compact mainframe measuring just 82 x 52 x 111 cm introduced in 1999.

[6] The Multiprise 3000 was popular among smaller mainframe customers, particularly those running the 31-bit z/VSE V3R1 operating system.

However, the Multiprise 3000 rapidly lost popularity in the 21st century among z/OS and Linux/390 users because it did not implement the full z/Architecture architecture.

Multiprise 3000 users mostly upgraded to 64-bit models, starting with the System z9 BC, to run newer software such as DB2 Version 8 for z/OS.