If a company is using a 20 MSU system and is forced to buy a 200 MSU system because that's the smallest available, unless something drastic happens to hardware AND software pricing, the company isn't going to be looking for "what else can I put on this expensive and woefully underutilized machine", they're going to be looking at "where can I move my 20 MSUs worth of processing to get rid of this expensive machine".
We're running a 2-way, 316 MSU machine and my business customers would squawk loudly if I had to move our workload to a 4 way with no more horsepower. We have several single-threaded processes that run that would be woefully impacted if the per-engine thruput was halved. Rex -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Andrew Rowley Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2023 5:34 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: z/OSMF On 27/06/2023 5:40 pm, Gibney, Dave wrote: > 200 MSU was much more than we needed. Maybe 20 or so at our peaks. And the > z/OS and ISV charges at 200 levels would have been intolerable. That's why I keep qualifying it with ISVs would have to adjust their pricing. While the smallest system is 13 MSU they have no reason to do that, but if the smallest available system was 200 MSU I think they would be forced to adjust. If you are using 100% of a 20 MSU system, z/OS is just an expensive system that can't do much more than run the stuff still around from the 90s. If you are using 20 MSU of a 200 MSU system, it's an expensive system hugely underutilized, and maybe people start asking what work can be moved there, how to make better use of the data it contains etc? -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The information contained in this message is confidential, protected from disclosure and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, distribution, copying, or any action taken or action omitted in reliance on it, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and destroy the material in its entirety, whether in electronic or hard copy format. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
