Timothy,
I wish your statements were true, but IMHO they're not.
1. Does it really save any cost to switch from OS/390 to z/OS ?
I assume other factors unchanged - CPC, workload, memory, etc.
2. How can I justify cost increase for new versions of DB2 and CICS?
DB2 is even SLOWER, but costs more. I mean "64-bit world": DB2 7->8,
CICS 2->3. Maybe those products are significantly enhanced, but I simply
don't need those features. Oh, BTW: AFAIK CICS functionality was REDUCED
(Interdependency Analyzer).
The most important advantage I see is to be up to date, supported, etc.
I'm not awaiting almost any of the new features (maybe except some RACF
enhancements), people I talk to have same feeling.
My $0.02
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Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
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