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At least partially - the technical introduction for the Z17 says that several items can be concurrently maintained (IBM-speak for hot-swapped). So far as major items like the processing units - maybe (still reading).

(3.4mb PDF) https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg248580.pdf

> Four Power Supply Units (PSUs) that provide power to the CPC drawer and are accessible from the rear. Loss of one PSU leaves enough power to satisfy the power requirements of the entire drawer. The PSUs can be concurrently maintained

I would think their customers would demand zero downtime. And hey - if BeOS could power down CPUs almost 30 years ago I would expect a modern mainframe to be able to do it.






All servers have hot-swap power supplies.

(I'm pretty sure BeOS never actually powered off CPUs; it just didn't schedule anything. Linux "hotplug" works the same way today.)




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