IBM's big issue with Neon zPrime was because it allowed people to run
work from other vendors on zIIPs.
If you (as a licensed vendor) have authorization to run your code on
zIIPs, and another vendor gives you a letter saying 'Yes, you can call
my software from a zIIP', then again IBM is not concerned. Now, the
chances of you getting that letter from the 'other guy' which charges a
flat fee, is fairly good, but the chance of you getting that letter from
someone like Adabas or CA which charge based on MSUs is 'slim to none'.
On the reverse side, if your software running on a zIIP calls Adabas,
and you don't have a letter of agreement from them, IBM will use it's
big boot to make sure you stop. That was the Neon zPrime issue.
Tony Thigpen
Paul Gilmartin wrote on 10/26/2015 10:45 AM:
On Mon, 26 Oct 2015 08:27:29 -0400, Tony Thigpen wrote:
It has to do with how the other guy prices his software. For example, if
he is mips based on a specific box, and you then start running his
software on a much faster zIIP, he would be loosing revenue and the
customer could be in violation of the use agreement.
I see. But if the "other guy" charges a flat rate or even supplies FOSS
and doesn't care, this creates a side door to the zIIP and I'd expect
IBM to care, as IBM surely cared about Neon zPrime.
On Sun, 25 Oct 2015 20:53:13 -0400, Peter Relson wrote:
Once properly licensed, I believe that there is very little of your own
code that you are not allowed to make zIIP eligible.
The main thing that you are not allowed to do is to make someone else's
code zIIP-eligible (which includes calling them from a zIIP-eligible
state), without their approval.
-- gil
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