McKown, John wrote:
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I am the original poster. We have an IFL engine enable on our z890. We
got it because we had one on our z800. Our z890 is an "upgrade" to our
z800. It actually would have cost more in upgrade fees to upgrade to the
z890 and disable the IFL than to continue to have the IFL (weird!). We
had an IFL on the z800 because of good marketting and poor understanding
on our management's (ex management now) part. Management thought that we
could consolidate a number of MS SQL servers onto a z/Linux system. Not
migrate the data, but actually run MS SQL Server on z/Linux. They also
were told "Linux is free". They thought: No monetary cost. Nobody in IBM
marketting disabused them of this.
They even didn't asked you about IFL ? Unbelievable.
Two thoughts:
1. In case of any doubt they sould ask their technicians. They should
ALWAYS ask.
2. Even manager should know about MS SQL on z/Linux feasibility,
otherwise he should manage something else ...or nothing, but not IT.
So I have an enabled IFL engine on my z890. Right now, it is running the
coupling facility code (in an LPAR, of course), but I can't get anybody
to want to bother using that either. Too much trouble! VSAM/RLS? Who
cares? <sigh>. I guess that I just hate to have a bought and paid for
engine "doing nothing". And I like the thought of doing some things in
Java (like XML and Web type processing) under CICS. But no real interest
in that either. I'm frustrated, I guess. If this were the 80s (IIRC),
then I'd just try to find a more "progressive" company.
IMHO you can get some benefits from having CF in your system, even
monoplex. If you have no other idea, try to use it.
BTW: AFAIK, at least the smallest z/800 machines were equipped with
mandatory IFL. IBM *want* to have big number of IFLs delivered. Used or
not, but delivered.
--
Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
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