I may have used the wrong term for my capping by Lpar group (of all four Lpars). All the other questions have either simple answers (no DB2 here) or complex answers involving my specific site, it's history, staffing (or lack of), and our current and future direction(s).
> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples > Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2016 9:48 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Any Gotchas going from V1.13 to V2.2 > > Dave Gibney wrote: > >Well, yes, I hardcap my 28 MSU capable z9 and 16 MSU to save software > >costs. > > Out of curiosity, why a *hard*cap if that's the motivation? Softcaps also do > that. (So do lots of other things, such as upgrading to a z13s machine, > upgrading to the latest release of DB2, using the latest Enterprise COBOL > compiler, segregating products to LPARs when appropriate, licensing sub- > capacity instead of full-capacity tools, consolidating some software currently > not running on your mainframe onto a newer mainframe, and firing half your > end users, to pick some examples.) The z9 -- at appropriate driver levels, and > with z/OS 1.8 or higher -- introduced LPAR Group Capacity settings, so you > can even set softcaps on groups of LPARs. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > Timothy Sipples > IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM z Systems, AP/GCG/MEA > E-Mail: [email protected] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
