(cross posted on IBM-MAIN and LPAR-PRICING-L)
I've completed a quick review of SCRT Version 12.1 and the changes are
much what I expected. The new z9BC is supported and some additional
products are now supported.
The most frequent request I hear from SCRT users is a capability to
indicate what month should be reported. This is finally available via a
new Report_Period= parameter in the PARMS DD statement. The LAST_MONTH
value will allow many sites to set this as default.
Surprisingly the new z9EC and z9BC machines are barely included in the
documentation. EWLC is the only pricing metric available for a z9BC
standalone machine. The SCRT Version 12.1 User Guide on page 4 includes:
"Subcapacity EWLC pricing applies only to z800 and z890 CPCs where z/OS
and z/OS.e are the only MVS-based operating systems running." This is
misleading to any IBM site considering the z9BC machines. Adding to the
confusion the EWLC web page http://ibm.com/zseries/swprice/ewlc.html has
not been updated since 2004-06-21 (based on the META tag) and is not
accurate on this topic either.
Very best regards,
Al
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Al Sherkow, I/S Management Strategies, Ltd.
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