David, I do not think you have to order base PSF any more in order to use ACIF. You could license ACIF by itself.
http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=an&subtype=ca&appname=gpateam&supplier=897&letternum=ENUS208-037 "The Enhanced ACIF feature of PSF is now a separately ordered and priced feature. A base PSF license is no longer required when ordering Enhanced ACIF." Thanks Natarajan >>> "Kopischke, David G." <[email protected]> 2/2/2009 5:28 PM >>> >>> Greetings, A couple years ago, I was researching the relationship between PSF and the APKACIF module within it. At the time, IBM was coming out with a new release of PSF which decoupled APKACIF. If you wanted APKACIF, you had to buy the Enhanced ACIF offering. We don't use PSF and acquired it only to be able to use APKACIF. I don't know anything about the product or the APKACIF module. A 3rd party vendor said we needed it for their process, so we got it. Our release of z/OS 1.9 came with the newest release of PSF integrated. This is missing the APKACIF module. Now we either buy Enhanced ACIF which essentially doubles our monthly bill for this product set or we revert to our previous release of PSF (3.4 I believe). IBM won't assure compatibility of PSF 3.4 with z/OS 1.9. In discussing this with our vendor, the possibility of dropping PSF and picking up Enhanced ACIF alone was brought up. In our previous discussions, I remember Enhanced ACIF as only being available as an extension of PSF. In other words, not available by itself. Does anyone else license this product like this ??? I don't want to commit to a strategy that isn't possible nor reasonable. Thanks, Dave K. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. ============================================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 NOTICE OF CONFIDENTIALITY The information contained in this communication, including but not limited to any accompanying document(s) and/or attachment(s), is privileged and confidential and is intended solely for the above-named individual(s). If you are not the intended recipient, please be advised that any distribution, copying, disclosure, and/or use of the information contained herein is strictly prohibited. If you received this communication in error, please destroy all copies of the communication, whether in electronic or hard copy format, and immediately contact the Security Office at EDFUND at (916) 526-7539 or [email protected]. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
