Yep.  I know my site didn't purchase upgrades until running at 100%
all weekday long would slow down batch runs by 4X elapsed time
compared to 90%.

On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 1:15 PM, Pommier, Rex <[email protected]> wrote:
> Gil,
>
> I don't think this one is necessarily a quality issue.  As widespread as the 
> problem is, it appears to me to be more of a huuuge oversight.  That said, 
> you are correct in that we don't know what IBM plans to do, or for that 
> matter, even how much of an impact fixing this will be on performance of 
> z/OS.  My concern is that since we (as well as probably many of the sites on 
> this board) are bumping against our cap and if we get hit by even a 10% 
> reduction in thruput from this, we're in danger of missing SLAs and other fun 
> TLAs.
>
> Rex
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin
> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2018 11:52 AM
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> Subject: Re: System z & Meltdown/Spectre
>
> On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 17:31:37 +0000, Pommier, Rex wrote:
>
>>And what does "a significant CPU hit" mean for those of us who's 4HRA is 
>>already at the top of our machine's capacity?  That's where my concern is.  
>>Yeah, the money for increasing MSUs is gonna stink, but missing SLAs due to 
>>the box no longer being big enough is going to really bite.
>>
> There's a cynical suspicion that when a vendor sees defect repair as a profit 
> center
> it provides a disincentive to quality.
>
> This might go a step beyond:  "We did it wrong, so we'll raise the price to 
> make it right."
>
> In fairness, we don't know what IBM plans to do.
>
> -- gil
>
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