Re: MULC availability

2008-04-28 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Shane On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 21:56 -0500, Al Sherkow wrote: Contact your independent consultant for an independent analysis of which of the alternatives is best for your site. And if you don't happen to have

Re: MULC availability

2008-04-26 Thread Shane
On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 21:56 -0500, Al Sherkow wrote: Contact your independent consultant for an independent analysis of which of the alternatives is best for your site. And if you don't happen to have such a beast handy, I'm sure Al can recommend a world class one ... ;-) I've got to say this

Re: MULC availability

2008-04-26 Thread Eric Bielefeld
Hi Shane, Gee Shane, I almost fell asleep just looking at the web site you quoted below, although I can see that it might be more interesting than trying to figure out all of the permutations of pricing for IBM software! On another note, I know Al, as he lives in Milwaukee. I've heard him

MULC availability

2008-04-25 Thread Rob Wunderlich
We asked our IBM Business Partner to do a study of PSLC + MULC pricing vs WLC on our Z890 machine. We have a number of required big ticket products that get almost zero utilization on our machine and we thought it might be a useful study. We provided the BP with a list of eligible products from

Re: MULC availability

2008-04-25 Thread John Giltner
We are still under MULC and we are on z990's. I know when we upgraded from z900 we looked at both z990 and z9 and we were still going to be allowed to do MULC on the z9 if we had gone with a pair of those. Rob Wunderlich wrote: We asked our IBM Business Partner to do a study of PSLC + MULC

Re: MULC availability

2008-04-25 Thread Al Sherkow
ULC is absolutely available with PSLC on the newest machines. IBM might prefer that you use Workload License Charges, but in fact there are sites that are better off without WLC and that is often because they are using ULC and Parallel Sysplex License Charges (PSLC). You cannot use ULC with WLC,