Hi Patrick,
It seems that WAS z/OS is in a similar stage of development to DB2 when
it was first introduced. The initial response was fear and loathing due
to the resource requirements. As people recognized the value that DB2
added as a relational DBMS, hardware and software grew more capable, and
DB2 itself matured it became an accepted workload. WebSphere on z/OS
right now has the reputation of being a dog but it may be that it will
be one of the keys to web enablement and Java deployment on zSeries. If
so maybe we will not look so harshly at it over time.
Personally I least object to paying for memory as of the things on the
floor that count it is one of them that I pay for mostly just once. CPU
& I/O capacity comes with software ripple charges and more maintenance
costs. Memory is relatively cheap.
Best Regards,
Sam Knutson, GEICO
Performance and Availability Management
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While our upgrade will include a zAAP (jeez I wonder why IBM all of a
sudden came up with this beast?) and we may initially have enough
storage,
selling our management on the cost of the upgrade along with the
potential
of what it might cost should we need additional storage and CPU could
well
sound the death knell for our environment. Remember HATS is already
running on NT. And yes I've been in calls with WAS development and WAS
SWAT, you name it and if you're not throwing tons of CPU and memory at
this stuff you can be in for a long strange trip as my favorite band use
to say.>>
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