Sorry for the ignorance. What is an ELA (enterprise licensing agreement?)?
Why would this cause you to dismantle your sysplex?
Joel Wolpert
Performance and Capacity Planning consultant
WEBSITE: www.perfconsultant.com
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From: "Arthur Gutowski" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 1:08 PM
Subject: Re: how-to Sysplex?
Sysplex may have been conceived as a way for applications and systems
to "grow beyond a box", but like it or not, it has evolved into a means to
merge independent systems together. Understanding the technical
limitations
(we're closer to that now), each shop can decide how far to exploit it.
There
are advantages and costs at each stop, and these should be weighed and
decided upon by all affected parties within the organization.
That's the hard part - IBMs internal disconnect between development and
the
various sales & marketing groups have, IMHO, contributed to some of the
difficulties we've discussed in this, and related threads, recent and
past.
The constant bait-and-switch tactics with the customer base doesn't help,
either. After 12 months of planning and implementing our "shamplex", now
IBM
tells us we can save even more money by moving to an ELA. <!*&$...@!>
Why this wasn't an option last year...
Not too suprisingly, this has prompted some in our shop to posit
institution of
an ELA and dismantling of our now reasonably-stable sysplex. It's a
wonder
my head hasn't exploded.
SIGH. It is what it is. We are stuck in a rickety-plex for now, but I'd
at like
to get to DASD, Tape, and RACF sharing (saving T&E on administration and
SW deployment), if not true data sharing, where justified.
Regards,
Art Gutowski
Ford Motor Company
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