Brian, SAS licence fees in constellations similar to yours where SAS is (perceived to be) used mainly for MXG/ITRM purposes are a constant source of concern in mainframe shops. You will find this topic being discussed again and again on MXG-L. http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?A0=MXG-L
Al Sherkow posted 'SAS and the zNALC Pricing Metric' a mere two weeks ago on May 7. http://preview.tinyurl.com/2q39wq SAS Institute (when hard pressed) seems somewhat more willing to listen to their mainframe customer's licence fee related concerns than they had been in the last couple years. As to WPS with MXG on the mainframe I think the only reliably authoritative source here is certainly Barry Merrill himself. A google search for 'wps site:www.mxg.com' leads to http://www.mxg.com/news/news47.asp >From following SAS-L, MXG-L, IBM-MAIN I got the impression that there is a fair number of companies having made the transition from MVS-based MXG to Unix-based MXG. Only very recently there was someone mentioning they had gone back to the mainframe (main reason IIRC had been problems with day-to-day operational stability). Hopefully others with real life experience will chime in. You might get more feedback on MXG-L. http://www.mxg.com/frame_mxgl.asp Robert Bardos Ansys AG, Zurich, Switzerland > -----Ursprungliche Nachricht----- > FRASER, Brian > Gesendet: Dienstag, 22. Mai 2007 08:29 > > We have some management here with $$$$ in their eyes > wanting to stop the payment of our SAS mainframe licenses. > They want us to move all our SAS workload (including MXG) > onto a Unix box. > > Anyone out there done it? > > How painful was the experience? > > Does anyone have any experiences using the SAS clone WPS on the > mainframe? > http://www.minequest.com/WPS_Conversions.html > > Could we keep MXG without SAS and run it using WPS instead? > > <snip> > > But you must have SAS installed, and that is expensive. > > </snip> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
