On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:51:56 -0700, Edward Jaffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Chase, John wrote: >> We are just about to start the migration from z/OS 1.7 to z/OS 1.9. >> >> Would someone provide a "ballpark" percentage increase in the amount of >> CPU resources between the two releases so we can estimate the monthly >> increase in our z/OS base monthly billing? >> > >I believe IBM currently uses an unofficial goal of a 5% decrease in >utilization per release. > Doesn't that conflict with the goals of the hardware sales people? ;-) Seriously, that's the first time I ever heard that. It used to be a pretty good ROT to expect 3-5% increase for each new release (all things being equal). Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
