My question is: If you have two z890s, A with 1 CP and 1 IFL and B with 2 IFL, then in a disaster where A is under a pile of rubble, can you get IBM to turn on a CP and an IFL in B and still pay the same price for z/OS & z/VM?
/Tom Kern On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:09:16 +0900, Timothy Sipples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>If I recall from the marketing, you only 'buy' an IFL once and when you >>upgrade your IFL's are already paid for. >>Now if I can pick up this 2 IFL box for $10-20K can I just have IBM turn >>on 2 IFL's on my z990 and just trash the z890? > >No, I don't think so. You will then own two z890 IFLs. BUT, whenever you're >ready to upgrade/consolidate to z9 or beyond, things may get more >interesting. > >- - - - - >Timothy Sipples >IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect >Specializing in Software Architectures Related to System z >Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan and IBM Asia-Pacific >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
