> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Andrews > Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 3:03 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: CF pricing [was: SPFEDIT does a RESERVE!?!] > > > On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 14:02 -0500, McKown, John wrote: > > No coupling facility, so basic sysplex. XCF signalling via > a ESCON CTC. > > That's all I have. The CF was nixed due to cost. > > Sigh. That CF is 1/4 of a z10 chip, already delivered to you and > sitting idle. It could have been positioned and marketed as IBM's > competitive advantage, but instead it was priced out of reach and sits > there stopped 24/7. What a waste. > > -- > David Andrews
I agree with you in principle. However, from IBM's standpoint, that unused CP is actually a "hot spare" and could be brought into play in the rare case of a CP failure. We actually had this happen on our z800. This saves IBM a service call. I simply don't know why all CPs (zIIP, zAAP, IFL, CFL <not Canadian Football League>, and general CP) don't have the same hardware cost. Why charge more for a CP? Because it can "do more"? Everybody get a rake off from having more CPs than you need in software costs, as far as I can see. So why more cost for the same physical hardware which is just running different microcode? I know, marketing - which means meaningless to my techie mind. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology The information contained in this e-mail message may be privileged and/or confidential. It is for intended addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other use of this communication is strictly prohibited and could, in certain circumstances, be a criminal offense. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by reply and delete this message without copying or disclosing it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
