Brian Westerman writes: >Have you considered running Z/OS.e to save even more $'s? If you don't run >CICS and/or DB/2 it's a great idea. The cost is somewhere around $1,500 per >month per CPU.
DB2, including precompiled COBOL stored procedures (and of course Java stored procedures), runs great on z/OS.e. Maybe you were thinking of IMS (which is excluded from z/OS.e)? FWIW, I'm definitely not a pricing expert, but that price doesn't look correct for the original poster's System z9 BC. You may have a larger system. Note that z/OS.e is eligible for subcapacity (WLC/EWLC) licensing. Also, I believe you can run z/OS.e and z/OS in separate LPARs to take at least partial advantage of z/OS.e prices if that makes sense. Yes, z/OS.e is a good example of another difference between certain 64-bit systems like the System z9 BC and predecessors like the Multiprise 3000. - - - - - Timothy F. Sipples Consulting Enterprise Software Architect, z9/zSeries IBM Japan, Ltd. 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
