John McKown wrote: >z9BC here. A two CP machine. Two LPARs running z/OS 1.12, but one is just >my "sandbox".
FYI, since the announcement of IBM Multi-Version Measurement (MVM): https://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/3/897/ENUS217-093/ENUS217-093.PDF you are permitted to run newer IBM products that are compatible with your machine, within the same capacity(ies), at no additional charge.(**) Or, in other words, there is no more Single Version Charge (SVC) period. (Hurray!) MVM begins on June 1, 2017, based on your May, 2017, Sub-Capacity Reporting Tool (SCRT) submission. Since SVC offered a minimum of 12 months, anything newer that you start running now will only consume one or two months of SVC before MVM kicks in. In other words, MVM has effectively already arrived. Here are some examples of software releases compatible with your z9BC machine: z/OS Version 2.1 (not 2.2 or above) DB2 Version 10 for z/OS (not 11 or above) Enterprise COBOL Version 6.1 (*) CICS Transaction Server Version 5.3 (*) IBM SDK for z/OS Java Technology Edition Version 8 (*) WebSphere MQ Version 9 for z/OS (*) (*) Latest releases as I write this. All of the software releases listed above are currently IBM supported, as I write this. DB2 10 will reach End of Service (EoS) on September 30, 2017. Since DB2 10 requires z/OS 1.10 or higher, if you're running DB2 then you might already have Version 10. Of course I don't recommend staying on a z9BC machine, but you can still move up somewhat without additional charge and without a machine upgrade. Indeed possibly a lower peak processor utilization requirement, for example if you put Enterprise COBOL Version 6.1 to good use. (**) Read the fine print since it's *possible* to do something otherwise, as always. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
