I would of course prefer that the MLC rates did not increase. IBM does provide significant new feature and function every year in z/OS and certainly does not raise the price every year. Many of my ISV products increase maintenance with every renewal and some have not added value in as many years. If you are paying for it I hope you upgrade z/OS regularly and use the functions included to reduce the number of vendor products you pay for. Most shops have at least one or two vendor products that are being maintained and paid for purely due to inertia which could be replaced without any impact to their business by functions included at no additional charge with z/OS base and DFSMSdfp. Still using an OEM tape sharing product? Still using an OEM product to provide VTAM consoles? Still using an OEM product to improve VSAM performance or reduce space ABENDs? Opportunities abound to recoup that 6% increase in many shops. I am also subject to some inertia and politics but z/! OS does have a strong track record of recurring delivery of increased performance, scalability, feature and function.
I do feel that z/OS is doing a good job in delivering value but I think they can do better and move faster. As customers we need to push harder with requirements including requirements which will allow us to remove IBM and ISV products that provide function that should be provided in some form "good enough" to use in the base operating system. Best Regards, Sam Knutson, GEICO System z Team Leader mailto:[email protected] (office) 301.986.3574 (cell) 301.996.1318 "Think big, act bold, start simple, grow fast..." ==================== This email/fax message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution of this email/fax is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy all paper and electronic copies of the original message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
