Bruce, Welcome to the wonderful world of IBM Marketing. Since z990/z890 days, hardware MSU and software MSU are not equal. Both the machine numbers and IBM's published MSU numbers are software numbers. Each generation has been discounted. This means that hardware MSU (what the machine can actually do) are more and more out of line with what the software numbers (what the machine says it can do, and what vendors use for pricing if they use MSU) are different. In table form, Machine Hardware Software Z990/z890 1.0 0.9 Z9 1.0 0.81 Z10 1.0 0.72
So your z9 T03, rated at 95 MSU (your number), should get a hardware number of around 117. Not exactly what the service units say, but they've never matched perfectly. While I may have some of the details wrong (I hope not) I hope this explanation helps. I'm sure others will be happy to correct anything I have wrong. Jim Horne Systems Programmer Large Systems Engineering & Messaging NC4IT Lowe's Companies, Inc. 1000 Lowe's Boulevard Mooresville, NC 704-758-5354 [email protected] Bruce McKnight wrote: Basically, I ran the REXX code against our z9-T03 and got SU=11477.7618 and MIPS=236.654882. Errol tells me that this is per CP, so with 3 of them I get SU=34433.2854 and MIPS=709.964646. With a bit for PR/SM overhead, the MIPS looks relatively in the ballpark of IBM's rating of 692 MIPS. Ok, now here's my big question. If I use SU to calculate MSU, I get 123.959827. Is this telling me that my 95 MSU machine is actually running at 124 MSU? NOTICE: All information in and attached to the e-mail(s) below may be proprietary, confidential, privileged and otherwise protected from improper or erroneous disclosure. If you are not the sender's intended recipient, you are not authorized to intercept, read, print, retain, copy, forward, or disseminate this message. If you have erroneously received this communication, please notify the sender immediately by phone (704-758-1000) or by e-mail and destroy all copies of this message (electronic, paper, or otherwise). 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
