Tim, I was based in both Hong Kong and Singapore from 1993 until 2007, and I've worked all through that hemisphere except Japan (though I work for a Japanese company). I think I know a bit about IT and Mainframe in the Asia market :-)
Ron > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Timothy Sipples > Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 10:37 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] How often IPL a production LPAR (any good practice) > > I'm really, really not disagreeing. I'm in violent agreement, actually. > Yes, what I'm suggesting some people are already doing and yes, its value > is heavily bounded by the application(s) architecture. (I say it again.) > > However, based on my meetings with many customers -- is Asia the "real > world"? :-) -- there are plenty who aren't taking advantage of this > capability. Sometimes unofficial names (like "TogglePlex") are useful to > capture the essence of a concept in order to help explain it better. > ["UglyPlex"? Not so much. :-)] > > I said up front that I apologize if this is all review for certain readers > here. Obviously it is for some. > > By the way, I can think of another example of "things everybody supposedly > knows" but which really aren't widely known: enterprise batch processing, > particularly concurrent (and multiple) batch and online. The batch concepts > and capabilities many mainframe-expert people understand (and take for > granted) are quite alien to the majority of IT staff, broadly speaking. I > spend a lot of time explaining these topics, gently and patiently. > > - - - - - > Timothy Sipples > IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect > Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan / Asia-Pacific > E-Mail: [email protected] > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
