I have often wondered about the legality of turning other engines on on an owned machine. They were delivered as part of what was bought, should they be ours to do with as we please?
We use 3rd party maintenance on or processor (government competitive bid). When IBM offered an IFL to use for a z/VM and z/Linux proof of concept project, IBM sent people to turn on and off the IFL - i.e. IBM installed the enabling microcode, they would not deliver it to the 3rd party. The SCRT report also included information about the IFL and we were called and questioned why it was on and not paid for. Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities Design and Operations Contract NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park Drive LM-15-4BH Houston, Texas 77058 Mail: P.O. Box 58487 Mail Code H4C Houston, Texas 77258 Phone: Voice: (281)336-5027 Cell: (713)591-1059 Fax: (281)336-5410 E-Mail: [email protected] All opinions expressed by me are mine and may not agree with my employer or any person, company, or thing, living or dead, on or near this or any other planet, moon, asteroid, or other spatial object, natural or manufactured, since the beginning of time. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Bob Shannon > Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 7:26 AM > To: [email protected] > 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 [email protected] 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 [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
