te equal to true marginal costs. That's similar
to your electric bill -- a "connection fee" plus a charge per kilowatt
hour. Bonus points for peak and non-peak pricing. Non-peak could even be
zero.
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'd be doing with RDz.
For any network transmissions think about whether intercept is possible.
IPSec or a secure file transfer could be prudent, even on an "internal"
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>Also, we have CITRIX.
>Can that be moved the the zBx?
Sure. It's the same IBM HX5 blade running the same Microsoft Windows
operating system.
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ice management tools, etc.,
but in practice you'd probably do it rather badly, and it would necessarily
require more labor than buying something complete and ready-to-go.
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ility. But if you're running a single instance of an application and
it falls over, there will be a service interruption as it is restarted --
no great surprise.
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quot; banks gobbled up the
"non-mainframe" banks. Coincidence? Probably not.
Anyway, I only speak for myself, and sometimes not even that much. :-)
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on point of sale and "fixed function" PCs. But
unfortunately those extra applications didn't end up in the package.
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crypto support there (CPACF and/or CryptoExpress).
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free.
And yes, it's occasionally possible that a vendor's licensing terms and
conditions don't cover every "reasonable" use case. That's what
communication and clarification help solve.
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uot;unreasonable" hour of the night.
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S/390 V2R10's
IPCS, you haven't stopped running OS/390 on your machine. Which means you
wouldn't be eligible for sub-capacity licensing.
Be very, very careful here, folks. There are only a few simple rules.
Follow them, please.
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article should be entitled something like "IBM mainframe
models" with appropriate redirect aliases and links from existing, related
articles.
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Ken Hansen writes:
>My company wants to downgrade its processor
Just to understand the motivation, is that because the company has full
capacity licensed software?
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TCP/IP option.
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IT worker) are getting
progressively more expensive than z/OS. Let's hope we're all worth it...and
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r z114 yet? Run and get one of those too
even if only to plug in a DB2 AA.
3. Upgrade to DB2 10 if you haven't already. The vast majority of DB2
customers see a worthwhile performance improvement.
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happened to take
the call, that'd probably be useful.
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Also, let's brainstorm a bit on what statistics/metrics would be both
"cool" and useful. There are lots of possibilities.
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application at low volumes, but you can do even better bigger and/or
broader.
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hardware running z/OS 1.8 or later.
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It's not mainframe v. non-mainframe. Rational Team Concert is available for
z/OS, and you can even use it via ISPF if you choose.
Isn't choice a wonderful thing? I think so.
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l it. Meaning, they probably
don't understand what they're doing, they just do it. If you want to
understand how TLS and SSL work, yes, you'll need a little more time. :-)
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hes and/or on
I/O.) If you aren't happy with the results, consider adjusting WLM
settings.
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ances of operating system Z, who cares that it takes only
twice the number of people per installation of Z?
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e information here:
http://www.ibm.com/software/awdtools/sclmsuite/sclm/
There are some optional add-ons to base SCLM if desired.
Hope that helps.
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There are many, many testing tools relevant to mainframes. Could you
elaborate on what you mean by mainframe "system" testing?
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iversity of Leipzig. I've never been to
Leipzig either.
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fairly priced.
Reminder: My views are my own. The facts, however, are the facts.
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ava, or electricity either -- but
perspective is very important in understanding the world.
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Here's one option:
http://www.source-recovery.com
I have no relationship with this company and do not offer an assessment.
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terrible business consequences, in too many cases? What is the IT world now
spending considerable effort trying to un-do?
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Accelerator.
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Best wishes everyone for a safe, happy, and healthy New Year.
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Am I the only one who read the subject line too quickly, mentally
substituting an "o" for the "a" and dropping the first "e"?
I must be regressing.
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wo horses
in my view, and in the view of most other observers. It's not unlike the
passenger airliner market in that broad sense.
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g to write documentation, for example.
(*) And my views are my own.
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crease in cost, and consequently durable platforms should do well. And
perhaps we've just been through the Great Platform Shakeout of the Naughts,
which reminds me a lot of the passenger airliner industry.
We'll see, but I think the trends are pretty clear.
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x27;s also enormous opportunity for innovative third party products.
Including in Web Services, I suspect, as long as there's value for money.
Speaking only for myself.
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#x27;re missing. Every once in a while it's worth checking performance for
best practices, regardless of solution approach.
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There are lots of "Midwestern charm" references returned by your favorite
search engine.
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elation to that reality, then that's the
business problem to solve -- certainly for the sake of this taxpayer and
millions of others.
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ion? Or some other type of application on the
mainframe?
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cost-optimized. :-)
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works even more beautifully.
IBM WebSphere MQ is available for many platforms, including Microsoft
Windows. IBM WMQ is not at all the same thing as Microsoft Message Queuing.
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ub-capacity licensed.
Maybe the vendor is correct.
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Just select the latest revision number (currently -02), and you can view
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FWIW, I posted my thoughts on Steve Jobs's passing here:
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full nor is expanding
them (or building new ones) getting any cheaper.
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If you've got hard evidence that IBM doesn't know its own pricing, put up.
If you don't, it's long past time you ceased.
(Sorry for that digression, folks.)
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Please consult with your system administrators for assistance in
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ers around the world, yes, heck yes.
As a reminder, whether or not I remind, I speak only for myself, especially
when I'm controversial.
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presented, but I'm keeping an open
mind pending more information.
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more information on obtaining IBM Certified Pre-Owned
equipment:
https://www.ibm.com/financing/partner/used/overview
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z/OS 1.5 (not 1.4) was the last release that could also run in ESA (31-bit)
mode. If it's z/OS 1.6 or higher, you know for sure you're running in
z/Architecture (64-bit) mode.
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reminder in your calendar(s) for early
September?
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you can get source code, typically for Java. Here are a couple
examples:
http://opensmpp.logica.com
http://smppapi.sourceforge.net
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argument was made and nearly universally
rejected in *favor* of COBOL not all that long ago. COBOL isn't the most
CPU-efficient way to instruct a computer to perform tasks. Does that
matter?
I don't speak for IBM.
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and so on. You can use as much or as
little of that new functionality as you wish.
Yet another different: EGL is supported.
Good stuff.
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lly and financially), not to mention
that Cross System Product (CSP) is out of support.
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hich this market segment is. The vendors
you might predict that would have tools in this area do, and some other
vendors might.
As a polite reminder, I don't speak for IBM.
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ns, exactly what managers and call
centre staff are looking for. (Sure, you can drill down into detail if you
want.) TBSM can provide an end-to-end view, spanning platforms. It's
real-time.
Great stuff.
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s up 3.6% just in the past 12 months (as
I write this). If a price increases by 5% once or twice in a long while,
the real price is decreasing because of inflation.
=> Conclusion: If you're not looking at real, relative prices (and better
yet costs), you're not paying attention. :-)
to your strong demand, IBM can keep delivering even more
wonderful System z products with continuing value improvements. And (also
with your support) the 68 new mainframe customers(*) in the past 12 months
represent just the beginning.
Thank you.
(*) Yes, many are new z/OS customers.
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There are at least a couple things to watch out for when recovering to a
substantially older model machine. DB2 10 (z990/z890 and higher) and z/VM
6.1 (z10 and higher) come to mind.
Periodic, realistic DR rehearsals are wise.
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y?
That's a quasi-religious or political viewpoint, not a technical or
business value one.
Honestly, I don't get it. Maybe I should have been around when people were
(stupidly?) warring over Assembler versus COBOL versus PL/I. (The correct
answer/outcome: they're all fine.)
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that* there was the IBM 2938 Array Processor which you attached
to your System/360.
By the way, you could think of today's zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension
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Value C
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-- or preferably several such reasons.
By the way, CICS TS V4.2 uses Apache Axis2. That's a very good thing,
because it's very industry standard and moves with the industry. And that's
the point of Web Services, to provide interoperability across application
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reinvent?
Why would CICS be offline, ever? If that's the only problem, fix that.
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zSecure Alert
http://www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/zsecure/
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re-med biochemistry, and that intern
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id another
way, real Sysplexes with real workload sharing get the most Sysplex
benefit. Technically qualifying Sysplexes may only get some benefit. Said
yet another way, take advantage of Sysplex.
Writing only for myself.
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mention here:
http://www.attunity.com/forums/cics-adapters/odbc-client-interface-under-cics-os-240.html
There are some non-ODBC options, too, but I'll stop there for now. Hope
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>>Is TCP/IP for z/OS a separately priced item?
>Yes.
Actually, no.
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Since your IBM 6262 printer is now TCP/IP-attached, have you tried sending
it a small test job using z/OS's LPR command?
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By sheer coincidence there's an IBM webcast next week demonstrating how to
configure and add ECKD and FCP volumes to Linux on System z. Here's the
link for more information on the webcast:
http://www.vm.ibm.com/education/lvc/
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Just to offer one more data point on the hazards of placing PCs anywhere
"in the loop" if avoidable, which in this case it most definitely is,
consider this case from South Korea:
http://mainframe.typepad.com/blog/2011/04/maybe-its-time-for-more-mainframe-solutions.html
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l mode editors;
2. Support editing UTF-8, UTF-16, and/or UTF-32;
3. Support sequential (QSAM), VSAM, PDS/PDSE, HFS/zFS, DB2, and/or IMS data
(i.e. "whatever you can imagine").
If you'd like to reply to me offline, that's perfectly fine -- either way.
Thanks in advance.
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begging for a security breach!
Omit needless file transfers!
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running both NFS client and server.
Both IPSec and NFS are supported in all the z/OS releases mentioned.
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27;ve got the chance to do a skip-version migration, grab
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Linux on Power is also big-endian. Linux on ARM is available either way
("arm" or "armeb"). Big-endian ARM is preferred for many
performance-sensitive embedded applications because it's in network byte
order.
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hat change to 12 MSUs on a z10 BC.
There's most likely a strong business case here for doing something
different/smarter when putting the ingredients together. Whether your
employer sees the business case reasonably accurately then acts on the
business case is another question, unfortunat
ot;valleys."
Mainframes are *extremely* operator-efficient -- so if there's a focus on
controlling operations costs, go actually control operations costs. If you
add workload to a mainframe, typically the operations staff doesn't even
change.
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ommon practice
(and has been for years). IBM's zNALC and Solution Edition licensing
requires separate LPARs, in fact.
3. Integrated Workload Pricing (IWP) gets even deeper into sub-LPAR
sub-capacity licensing.
4. I'm also puzzled why sub-capacity licensing isn't even more popular
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