On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:03:33 -0600, Martin Kline <[email protected]> wrote:
>We have a sysplex with four processors, two of which run production work >with development work on the others. In their quest for trivia, my >management wants to know the impact to production if we move the >development processors to a second site, leaving the coupling facilities, >DASD, VTS and primary network all on one site. ... >And, just to make this interesting, they want an answer tomorrow. Actually >they would like it yesterday, but tomorrow will have to do. I've been reading >several manuals, and I think the answer they should get is 42. ... 42 seems like the right answer to me. Particularly if the question is, "What do you get when you multiply 6 by 9?" Such a move has no effect on licensing costs if you indeed preserve the current sysplex configuration. If you are currently under Sysplex Aggregate pricing, it will remain regardless of how far apart the DC's are. Hardware costs are another matter. Since the PHBs want to move development and leave production alone, the impact I see is latency to the CFs impacting common structures - ISGLOCK, SYSIGGCAS_ECS, Operlog, Logrec, and any IXC structures, provided none of your development DB2/CICS/IMS are datasharing with production regions. The dumb question of the day is, what's the point? Unless they need the floor space, are phasing a dc relocation, or want to eventually build a quasi-GDPS (which means moving / mirroring tape, DASD, CFs, etc.), this is a costly exercise in futility. I'm just sayin'... Art Gutowski Ford Motor Company ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
