I haven't heard of vendors that both have sub-capacity licensing and then proceed to define sub-capacity differently than the four hour rolling average. But I suppose anything is possible. (A 3.28 hour rolling average?)
I'm still not sure what the use case is for a dummy LPAR, though, at least nowadays. If the purpose is to keep tight control over a particular non-IBM software product's CPU consumption for licensing reasons, then presumably that's always true every minute, every day. So then why would you want to pay for the dummy LPAR's z/OS MSUs? What about a hard cap? I guess you could also vary engines off, but that's a rather coarse adjustment on most machines. Or what about creating a coupling facility LPAR? - - - - - Timothy Sipples Resident Enterprise Architect Value Creation & Complex Deals Team IBM Growth Markets (Based in Singapore) E-Mail: timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
