> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Doc Farmer
>
> Okay, I'll give it a shot:
>
>
> [ snip ]
>
> 2) The CIO, a big-iron neophyte, wants an explanation why
> you need an upgrade from a z890 to a z900, with an
> addition of 6 new CPUs and 256GB of main memory, as
> well as an appropriate number of shark spindles. What
> do you do?
> A) Explain the business need as outlined by overall
> production growth over the past four years.
> B) Provide RMF charts to show the past 2 years of
> increased use and the next two years of upgrade
> capacity.
> C) Go into a deep technical explanation of hardware
> and software requirements, explaining in hex
> wherever possible.
> D) Bore the CIO into the coma mentioned in Question 1,
> so that you won't catch seven kinds of hell when you
> apply that APAR on production until s/he regains
> consciousness.
E) Explain why a z900 would be a *downgrade* from a z890.
(Perhaps you meant "upgrade to a z9"?)
[ snip ]
-jc-
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