There is no technical restriction on the number of TSO users if you are
using zNALC licensing. However, in order to be eligible for zNALC
pricing you must have a qualifying application. Some applications
qualify automatically, such as WAS, Lotus Domino, and some others. Some
will qualify because they are available commercially on other platforms
than z/OS, but are also available on z/OS. Products like Adabas/Natural
and Oracle can be run on other platforms, but if you choose to run them
on z/OS you will be rewarded by getting zNALC pricing. Any application
that runs on a distributed server (Unix, Linux, Windows, ...) but uses
DB2 on z/OS as a data base server also qualifies. Powerbuilder, Siebel,
PeopleSoft and any RYO windows application are examples of these
applications which qualify for zNALC pricing.
OK back to the TSO users. You are entitled to run other workload on the
zNALC z/OS image only if the other workload is "in support of" the
qualifying application. The rules do not specify what "in support of"
means. Are *all* your TSO users supporting the application? Is the HSM
running there supporting the application? It seems to me that it would
be if it were backing up the files that the application support people
use. Similarly Netview and Systems Automation products also are in
support of the main application.
There is no clear definition of what entails support, but *you* as the
customer must certify once a year that everything running on the zNALC
logical partition is in support of a qualifying application.
On 2011-11-16 12:00 AM, IBM-MAIN automatic digest system wrote:
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:08:58 -0600
From: Hal Merritt<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: ZNALC Option for LICENSE Parameter
How so?
-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Timothy Sipples
Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 1:41 AM
To:[email protected]
Subject: Re: ZNALC Option for LICENSE Parameter
Walter Marguccio writes:
>....under zNALC you can have as many TSO users as you like.
That's a technical capability, but one could easily imagine that "as many TSO users
as you like" would be inconsistent with your license agreement.
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E-Mail:[email protected]
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