Dick, We've been doing this for a number of months. We have a 2094-704 that we dedicated one CPU to our sysprog lpar (so we didn't need to create a parking lpar). It seems to be working to hold down the costs on the other production lpars.
Alan -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Bond, Dick (DIS) Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 16:58 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Dummy LPAR to store excess MIPS Does anyone use the concept of a "dummy" LPAR to store excess "MIPS" to avoid software costs? Suggest other methods of storing unused capacity? Thanks. Dick Bond Department of Information Services CSD Production Support di...@dis.wa.gov ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu 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 lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
