A few follow-up comments: 1. It is possible (and common) to see different MSU values for z/OS and, for example, for DB2 in SCRT reports. That is, a particular LPAR could peak at 10 MSUs for z/OS and peak at 8 MSUs for DB2 (and 7 MSUs for CICS), or whatever. All the major IBM products (plus several others) cut their own SMF Type 89 records. Just like the machine, the size of the LPAR (z/OS peak) is only a ceiling, not a floor, for the other products.
2. One of the factors in determining how to configure LPARs (and how many to configure) is software licensing, and certainly that's common 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. - - - - - Timothy Sipples Resident Enterprise Architect Value Creation & Complex Deals Team IBM Growth Markets (Based in Singapore) E-Mail: timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
