We have one IBM customer number for Resource Link for our San Francisco
data center and another for our Kansas City data center. Those are the
only two in the US that have z/VM. Neither number worked for
ShopzSeries. I have asked our IBM rep what I should use.
Alan Altmark's answer was sufficient. There are products we can't get
electronically. That's enough for me to tell the storage architect that
we must have access to real tape drives.
Dennis O'Brien
"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 15:48
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: [IBMVM] Software on tape
Sorry - that CA was for California, not the vendor. I was referring to
IBM customer numbers.
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 3:44 PM
> To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
> Subject: Re: Software on tape
>
> 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
> >
> >
> >
>
