> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Phoenix > Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 1:04 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: zAAP on zIIP > > John, > > You are allowed to have as many zIIPs and zAAPs as CPs, so 2+2+2 is a > legitimate combination. > > David, > > You might still want to purchase a zAAP if your JAVA workload > is large > enough to consume more than your zIIP's unused cycles. Plus the JVM > won't have to compete for cycles with other workloads on the zAAP. > Think of it this way, you will be able to have almost a 2 to1 > specialty > engine to CP advantage for JAVA workloads
Thanks. The likelihood of ever getting anything "approaches zero from beneath" as we used to say in mathematics. I'd love a zAAP especially. But that would require a commitment to Java (on CICS and maybe batch to start), which could lead to WAS on z/OS (or JBOSS or Tomcat for that matter). But, at least for the foreseeable future, we are still trying to decrease our costs (and increasing a cost now for a decrease later is not generally considered). The only other exploiter of zAAP, as I recall under z/OS 1.10, is System XML which requires COBOL 4.1 (and we won't get that because it costs more than 3.4 and we don't even use all the new stuff in 3.4). -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell [email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
