The opportunity to do any upgrade whatever on z9 or even z10 has long expired. If you could afford to buy your way out of this problem, you could afford fresh iron. ;-)
. . JO.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile [email protected] From: "R.S." <[email protected]> To: [email protected], Date: 06/19/2013 04:00 PM Subject: Re: Other hardware discontinued. (was 2084-D48?) Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> W dniu 2013-06-19 20:23, Dana Mitchell pisze: > On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:49:36 +0200, R.S. <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Good thing we are considering starting a migration to CECs that support STP! >>> >> Well, that would mean you are using pre-z/990 machines, are you? > Currently on z9's without STP installed. > Well, STP is matter of microcode upgrade. It is possible anytime unless IBM is reluctant to do it. I'm not sure about z9, but it can be expensive, because of IBM policy. BTW: AFAIK, In order to have z9 in sysplex timer network it was necessary to order some features (timer card) to z9. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
