On 3/2/2012 8:25 PM, Joel C. Ewing wrote:
Particularly now that STP is just a matter of code rather than hardware, it makes less and less sense (from the customer's viewpoint of course) for this to be a chargeable feature, which was still the case when I last checked. As long as it is a chargeable feature it is hard to cost-justify unless you are running a multi-system sysplex environment that requires it or you have some unusual requirement that really demands your TOD clock be that accurate. That it is the "best practice" and the only sure way for keeping the TOD clock accurate makes it nice to have for a number of reasons; but if management asks if it is a "must have" additional expense or a feature you can live without, in many cases the latter response must be given.
IMHO, STP should be included in the price of the machine. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA 90245 310-338-0400 x318 edja...@phoenixsoftware.com http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
