Walter, IBM can fill your requirements using extracted SMF/RMF data and modeling the proposed CPU configuration.
Contact you IBM SE Kevin -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Walter Marguccio Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 5:48 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: z890 model upgrade Hello list, as we heard that upgrading from a 2086-230 to a 2086-270 would cost us 350.000 Euro, we abandoned our consolidating project on the mainframe. The price is, at least for a small company like us, too high, and doesn't take into account the higher sw licence costs which would come along due to more MSUs. Are there guidelines, tools, books, etc. which would help us to estimate whether 3 or 4 CPs (i.e. 2086-350 or 2086-440) less fast would still improve our performance compared with 2 fast CPs like in the 2086-270 ? In other words: better more (slower) CPs of fewer (faster) ones ? What does it depend on ? We are still at z/OS 1.7, Com-plete and ADABAS 7.4.4., online and batch being our main workloads. Walter Marguccio z/OS Systems Programmer BELENUS LOB Informatic GmbH Munich - Germany ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
