Dave Gibney wrote: >Well, yes, I hardcap my 28 MSU capable z9 and 16 MSU to save >software costs.
Out of curiosity, why a *hard*cap if that's the motivation? Softcaps also do that. (So do lots of other things, such as upgrading to a z13s machine, upgrading to the latest release of DB2, using the latest Enterprise COBOL compiler, segregating products to LPARs when appropriate, licensing sub-capacity instead of full-capacity tools, consolidating some software currently not running on your mainframe onto a newer mainframe, and firing half your end users, to pick some examples.) The z9 -- at appropriate driver levels, and with z/OS 1.8 or higher -- introduced LPAR Group Capacity settings, so you can even set softcaps on groups of LPARs. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM z Systems, AP/GCG/MEA E-Mail: sipp...@sg.ibm.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
