If you let the service lapse on the equipment you have now, for the equipment to be sold, or put back on maintenance, there could be a charge to " recertify" the equipment to be eligible to go back on a maintenance contract.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peggy Andrews Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 10:48 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Drop hardware maintenance contract We are soon at the end of a decommissioning project (very, very sad). Our hardware maintenance contract (z800, Shark, and ATL/VTS) expires 2/1/09, but we may not be able to decommission until a few months after that. Does anyone have ideas on "ballpark" figures on costs associated with hardware failures without a contract? - i.e. a disk drive failure, vs. a tape drive failure, vs. any z800 failure - and on-site call rates?? I am waiting to talk to IBM directly on this, but of course my management wants the information NOW, so thanks for any insight... Peggy ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
