> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples > > Al Sherkow writes: > >Integrated Workload Pricing does not change the charges or > >value unit requirements of the WebSphere products. The 'value' > >is in reduced software charges for CICS and IMS. > > IBM announced Getting Started Sub-Capacity IPLA licensing for several > WebSphere products some time ago (in 2008). The announcement is here (watch > the wrap): > > http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/8/897/ENUS208-088/ENUS208-088.PDF > > "Getting Started" is a nice financial solution to the "little WebSphere/big > CICS or IMS" LPAR scenario, in particular. And even more particularly for > customers with batch peaks.
Hmmm.... Could also be a roundabout way of saying "IMS revenues are down. Let's figure out a way to increase them." :-) -jc- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
