Richard,
We have a CA customer number for each data center. My comment about
ShopzSeries was related to IBM customer numbers. It's my understanding
that California does not charge sales tax on downloads, but only if
physical media is sent to California. We dealt with this when we were a
California-based bank, before being acquired by NationsBank. Someone
discovered the sales tax issue and asked us to use download whenever
possible to avoid being taxed.
Dennis
"A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill." --
Robert A. Heinlein
-----Original Message-----
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Schuh, Richard
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 15:35
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: [IBMVM] Software on tape
We get our software from VSSI, Velocity-Software and CA via FTP. I have
gotten an RSU and individual PTFs from IBM that way. I don't know about
an initial distribution, though.
About your customer number - has BoA started having its software sent to
Charlotte because of the tax burden that CA imposes? If so, your old CA
number customer will have been deleted this year. I know that mine did.
It was supposed to have been changed over 2 years ago, but nobody told
me (it was an MVS secret). The old number worked up to the end of last
year.
Regards,
Richard Schuh
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The IBM z/VM Operating System
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of O'Brien, Dennis L
> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 3:25 PM
> To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
> Subject: Software on tape
>
> I've been asked whether our z/VM systems could convert to
> using only virtual tape. One of the possible sticking points
> is vendor software.
> If necessary, we could keep a couple of manual tape drives
> around for software installs. I'm trying to determine if
> it's necessary.
>
> Have IBM or any other software vendors made statements of
> direction for offering alternatives to delivering software on
> tape? I know that z/VM itself has been available on DVD for
> the last 3 releases, and CA's VM:Manager products are
> downloadable. I see that z/VM and products on SDO are now
> downloadable, too. What about products not on SDO? Is tape
> the only choice for those? I tried to register for
> ShopzSeries to see what was actually downloadable, but was
> told my customer number doesn't exist. Perhaps customer
> numbers for Resource Link and ShopzSeries are not the same.
>
> Dennis O'Brien
>
> "A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes
> downhill." -- Robert A. Heinlein
>
>
>
