>as we heard that upgrading from a 2086-230 to a 2086-270 would cost us 350.000 Euro, we abandoned our consolidating project on the mainframe. The price is, at least for a small company like us, too high, >and doesn't take into account the higher sw licence costs which would come along due to more MSUs. > >We are still at z/OS 1.7, Com-plete and ADABAS 7.4.4., online and batch being our main workloads. > In general SAG does not give us any breaks for z9 MSUs and sticks to the notion IBM is pulling a fast one. Here have grown the MIPS/MSUs by 25-30% and our IBM charges have stayed close to the same. Other vendors is another story. Now specifically with your batch workload, unclear if you ADABAS Parallel Services implemented. We did have all ADABAS executing one one TCB and as we gained workload and went from 1CP to 2CP to 3CP's we got more power but ADABAS did not pick up much. All the other STC's now could get a shot at a CP and in the short term is help things like CICS, JES2, etc. Bad news is you would have to buy Parallel Services to have ADABAS running on multiple engines. Ours is configured for 2CP's; need a spare CP for doing other work.
The idea of a z9BC is not so far fetched because they are on the used market. Some of the z890 hardware might carry over at no charge. I sold folks on a z9BC-O02 with the idea in 13 months we'd dynamically downgrade the machine from 252 MIPS to 90 because a big application was leaving. I even wanted to give all the vendors the date so I could financially reallocate the savings, a year in advance. The customer was so sure they were leaving. Could get them to commit to showing the savings to people even though it was "assured"; 18 months later they are still here and am looking at an upgrade. jim ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
