Responding to Linda, I think you'll want to compare business cases with your management.
Case #1: Business as usual. Case #2: Minimize the cost of overnight operators as much as possible (through increased automation, alerting, etc.), and compare the cost of that skeleton crew (of one?) to the likely sub-capacity license savings. It seems odd to me that #1 would make financial sense, but odd is not impossible. And then.... Case #3: Case #2, plus reallocate some non-mainframe operators by shifting workload to the mainframe, starting with some workloads that can fill utilization "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. - - - - - Timothy Sipples Resident Enterprise Architect Value Creation & Complex Deals Team IBM Growth Markets (Based in Singapore) E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
