I'd encourage any account to go back to their sales team and get them to work with you on the costs. Installation and Migration can be very costly in dollars and people-time. And unless there is some missing functionality, I'd think you would want to avoid that.
[email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 SYSN 12:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: CA SPOOL REPLACEMENT Costs was the reason we migrated to it. But our "VTAM" group that replaced another product could probably go on for days about "whats wrong with it" compared to the product we previously used. But they will also say that the support was excellent in responding to issues and writing code to support our migration, which took about a year. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[email protected] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:19:46 +0200, jerome benting <[email protected]> wrote: >costs > >-----Original Message----- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf >Of Norman Hollander on DesertWiz >Sent: 12 February 2010 10:20 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: CA SPOOL REPLACEMENT > >What's the matter with CA-Spool?? > >-----Original Message----- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf >Of jerome benting >Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 SYSN 11:27 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: CA SPOOL REPLACEMENT > >Hi All, > >Does anybody know of a good replacement product for CA-Spool? > >JQP from mackinney seems pretty good. Any others? > >Regards. > >Jerome > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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 > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
