The impact to us is not clear. It is also not clear how this will make my life easier.
I salute IBM for trying to help us with pricing. We really appreciate the efforts. We spent a good deal of time and money in getting to z/os.e and sub capacity pricing. I have to say the benefits were well worth the costs. All of our loved ones are now on z/os.e with z/os in 'penalty box' LPARs capped to a near wait state. z/os is not even a high priority in our DR plan. Now, I have a year or two to figure out how to get my shop to zNALC. Two *really* annoying requirements is a special LPAR name and being mutually exclusive with z/os.e. The conversion looks to be a royal blue PITA. C'mon, IBM, why a POR? All this noise about high availability and you make me do something like that so you can change your pricing schemes. Not cool. I guess the good news is that there will be some cause to keep me on the payroll for a bit longer :-) My $0.02 (before taxes) -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 9:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: z New Application License Charges (zNALC) Announced Apologies if this is already on the list: http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/6/897/ENUS207-006/ENUS207006.PDF Looks all good. A whole lot simpler, and it's (new) application-based licensing rather than technology-based. It was a little strange having both NALC and z/OS.e, and now it's all unified. I think it makes life easier for the sysprog, too. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Specializing in Software Architectures Related to System z Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan and IBM Asia-Pacific E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTICE: This electronic mail message and any files transmitted with it are intended exclusively for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. The message, together with any attachment, may contain confidential and/or privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, printing, saving, copying, disclosure or distribution is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately advise the sender by reply email and delete all copies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
