Re: z/OS MF environment - effort estimation.

2018-02-14 Thread Lizette Koehler
gen, Len > Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 8:53 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: z/OS MF environment - effort estimation. > > We kept a 120 MIP system on "hospice" for several years starting with 4 FTE > and dwindling down to 1.5 FTE. Even a doo

Re: z/OS MF environment - effort estimation.

2018-02-14 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 14 Feb 2018 02:21:47 -0600, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: > >>... and general hand holding. > >Hehehe, is it already Friday? ;-) > No. St. Valentine's Day. -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instruc

Re: z/OS MF environment - effort estimation.

2018-02-14 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Rugen, Len wrote: >When things break and the application support team doesn't find a fix, the >systems team will eventually get involved. ... tell me... I have been there (called in), got a dirty T-shirt for all my troubles... >The vendors typically won't help and management will demand a s

Re: z/OS MF environment - effort estimation.

2018-02-14 Thread Rugen, Len
When things break and the application support team doesn't find a fix, the systems team will eventually get involved. The vendors typically won't help and management will demand a solution;l "you must have changed something in the system". It just takes longer when they bring problems in dea

Re: z/OS MF environment - effort estimation.

2018-02-14 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Rugen, Len wrote: >... and general hand holding. Hehehe, is it already Friday? ;-) I like this one phrase above 'care and feed' the z/OS or any system... Thanks! ;-D Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht -- For IBM-MAIN subs

Re: z/OS MF environment - effort estimation.

2018-02-13 Thread Rugen, Len
Len Rugen University of Missouri Division of Information Technology Systems & Operations - Metrics & Automation Team From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of ANIL KUMAR Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 9:45:54 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z

Re: z/OS MF environment - effort estimation.

2018-02-13 Thread ANIL KUMAR
Hi Elardus - Thanks very much for your support. I was specifically looking at effort / man hours estimate for supporting standard z/OS MF infrastructure which does not include H/W support. Basically wanted to how many FTEs does the industry standard recommend for no of LPARs. etc., for DB2 sysproc

Re: z/OS MF environment - effort estimation.

2017-12-18 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Anil Kumar wrote: >Good day. I needed expert advise on how do we calculate the numbers (effort >estimation ) What numbers / effort? Costs? Man-hours? CPU estimate? Licenses? Infrastructure? etc.? > ... provided that we have the infrastructure that we support. Are these things in place: Po