If your workload is mainly DB2 and CICS these products used to run on other platforms. Have you investigated a Windows Server? To keep it IBM you could look at a P series running AIX or Linux. May be faster and cheaper than Z. Perhaps moving part of the workload to another platform could offer savings.
DC On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:38:04 +0000, Jan Vanbrabant <[email protected]> wrote: >*** cross-posted in IBM-MAIN, CICS-L, DB2-L *** > >Hi, > >If having the choice between a z10-BC with 2 or 3 processors, >and if NOT taking (or having to take) into account the price aspect, >is it possible to investigate wether a 2- or a 3-processor system might better suit us? > >I assume it may be possible to gather info about a latent demand for a processor. >Where to look at in RMF, or in SMF to find this out? > >What about DB2 and/or CICS? >DB2 and especially CICS do offer more and more parallellism. >Any ideas if we can find this out within these subsystems? > >Jan > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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
