>After all, customer are charged for software on LPAR where it is not used ( >>RACF, RMM , CTG are some examples) So it is a bit weird that customers >>should be prevented to defend their own interest and try to use fully their >>owned hardware.
No, you're not. You're charged for the capacity of the box, and more importantly someone in your company agreed to it. IBM has a variety of pricing options and anyone who wants a better deal should speak to their account representative. A complete set of PUs, 10, 12, 16 or whatever the current number is, is shipped with the processor. If you pay for one should be able to hot-wire the others so that you can use them? Specialty engines were sold to run eligible work. From IBM's standpoint eligible work is a subset of all the work on the machine. If you decide to expand the definition of "eligible work" without IBM's agreement, in my opinion you are staling resources. This is no different than bypassing the electric meter in your house. Bob Shannon ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
