Taking the electric meter example. What if I install solar electicity panels? Am I stealing ressources and bypass the power companies meter? Am I not allowed to use the electricity that the panels produce, just because I have a contract with the power company? Or am I not allowed to replace the old lamps with energy saver lamps, just because I have a contract with the power company? Thats difficult. But I am not a lawyer. Just comparing.
By that definition any attempt to rewrite a CICS transaction to run parts of the work as SRB would be a violation, since that piece of software would likely not be eligable by the definition of IBM?! So with a PC example, do I have to ask Microsoft to write a software that speeds up the Windows bootup process and sell it? Or assuming that a software tweeks an operating systems control block to e.g. allow to run as zxxP eligable is considered violating some agreement, any software (e.g. delta VT or Omegamon or Mainview) that manipulates control blocks for ease of use or saving an IPL (which burns CPU and ressources) would be also considered unauthorized software, because rather than using documented APIs it changes bits in control? blocks of licensed IBM software and it might over a period of 12 months save you buying one additional CP? Denis. -----Original Message----- From: Bob Shannon <bshan...@rocketsoftware.com> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Fri, Jul 17, 2009 2:26 pm Subject: Re: Offload work to zIIP with zPRIME >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 lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
