It depends on your business model. Some businesses seek to reduce expenditures to an absolute minimum. Other businesses are highly motivated to avoid O&M in favor of capital outlay. In the latter case, 'what will it cost?' is secondary to 'what column will this cost go into?' In one case you shop for the cheapest acceptable service provider. In the other case you look to replace a (perfectly serviceable) piece of hardware in order to capitalize maintenance.
This choice is determined at the highest corporate level. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ken Smith Sent: Friday, April 14, 2017 9:14 AM To: [email protected] Subject: (External):Re: Third Party Maintenance on IBM DS8870 By the strange logic of sales it might be cheaper or the same cost to buy a new 8884 box, which would include maintenance. I've seen this happen here with our 3 year old 8870 and now we have an 8884, bigger, faster, with maint. Same deal with a z10 to z13s processor upgrade. I suggest contacting Mainline and/or Sirius to ask for a informal proposal on an upgrade. They know how to work the system. Then issue a RFP or whatever you call it based on their proposal. Magic to me but it works. Ken Smith State of Maryland On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 11:37 AM, Longnecker, Dennis < [email protected]> wrote: > Morning - > > When I purchase my DS8870 several years ago, I purchased it with 3 years > of warranty/maintenance. I am coming up to the time to renew. IBM's one > year maintenance is about the same price as my original purchase price and > three years of warranty. Crazy. > > Anyone using a third party provider for support on the IBM DS8870? If > so, mind PM'ing me who it is so I can give them a call. > > Thanks, > > Dennis Longnecker ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
