Consider sub capacity pricing. Buy a bigger box than you need, pay for what you use. Your bill grows (or shrinks) right along with your load.
Pluses include letting you pull large usage spikes without penalty. Minuses include watching for and managing runaway tasks. HTH and good luck. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kopischke, David G. Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 11:54 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: z8 ??? Greetings again, We're in another cycle of hardware upgrades. It seems our z800 tapped out after a frenzy of migrations from tape to DASD in order to prepare for a lights-out type of operation while the bird flu pandemonium was in full swing. Enough of the history... Now that we're looking for a new machine, does anyone out there with their finger on the pulse of IBM know anything about a possible date for a z8 size processor ??? IBM did it with the z900 and then the z990, now I'm predicting they'll follow the z9 with a z8. The timing is the problem for me. I'm trying to hold off a z890 purchase so our hardware doesn't go obsolete during shipment. Any crystal balls in the audience ??? Thanks, Dave K. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
