Withdrawal occurred *last* year: 2010. Elvis has already left the building. You cannot upgrade the machine in any way regardless of sourcing. It's IBM's long time policy.
. . JO.Skip Robinson SCE Infrastructure Technology Services Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile jo.skip.robin...@sce.com From: John Thinnes <john_thin...@ohionational.com> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: 05/05/2011 08:14 AM Subject: z9 BC withdraw from marketing Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu> IBM Announcement 909-120 states: Effective June 30, 2010, IBM® will withdraw from marketing the IBM System z9® Business Class (z9TM BC) and System z9 Enterprise Class (z9 EC), all models, features, and upgrades. We purchased a 2096 with Q02 capacity (335MIPs/47MSU) in 2008. It is currently running as a 2096-T01 (242MIPS/34MSU). Our IBM re-seller is telling us if we do not turn on the additional capacity by June 30, 2011, we will lose it. Currently, we do not need the capacity. Our projections show we will need some of it 2012 Q1. Several questions. Has anyone lost capacity they purchased because of this IBM policy? Are there 3rd party companies that can provide the upgrade service? Can additional memory be purchased from a third party company and the box still supported by IBM? If yes to last 2 questions - can you provide company names? Any other comments on this topic may be appreciated. Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
