CA used to offer % of zIIP pricing. Example, if you used the base IDMS, it offloaded up to 40% to zIIP for no additional dollars. If you want 75%, there was a OTC offered for the feature. If you wanted 100%, you needed a big-ticket Enterprise feature to unlock that feature. I'm Sure there were "certain" arrangements made for the larger customers.
Fuzzy Math Alert, numbers mentioned are an example, not actual values. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Jaffe Sent: Friday, June 7, 2013 8:56 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: zIIP Enabler for Natural On 6/7/2013 5:23 AM, Bob Shannon wrote: > Is this an additional charge feature or just a startup option? It appears to be an additional charge, which is interesting. AFAIK, every other vendor from IBM, to CA, to (Phoenix--that's us!), to you-name-it has offered zIIP enablement free as a way to make their products more attractive and to help lower costs for our platform. Software AG's approach is probably aimed at helping them recoup some of the development costs associated with zIIP enablement--which can be quite high. Have other software providers done this as well? Or is Software AG the first? -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA 90245 http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
