On Tue, 3 Oct 2006 20:41:48 -0600, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >In some jurisdictions the tax saving is identical if the vendor's >agent arrives with physical media; loads the software onto your >system; and departs carrying all the physical media. In either >case it's deemed a service rather than a product. > >o YMMV. > >o I don't know whether IBM cooperates in such shenanigans. > <snip> I had never known heard about this prior to our data center migration to LA. IBM does cooperate with this - they loaded our z/OS 1.6 ServerPac tapes. We submited the jobs, IBM just handled all the physical media. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS and OS390 expert at http://searchDataCenter.com/ateExperts/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
