Ahhh... THAT company. We actually made them blink when they wanted to up
our mystic surcharge. When we sent them the contract cancellation notice,
they started to sing another tune.
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Well, in at least one case, there isn't another product, which is probably
why they adopted the position they did. Something to do with statistical
analysis. ;)
Mark Post
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That is interesting. I will make a note, although what is likely to happen
is that we will be surprised when a vendor ups its maintenance, then the
vendor will be surprised when we switch to another product.
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Just one word of warning. A pretty small number of software suppliers
didn't go along with this pricing strategy, and will still charge you for
the additional capacity an IFL provides. Make sure you talk to _all_ your
suppliers before you actually get one installed, just so there are no
surprises.
Mark Post
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Note that z/OS not only will not boot on an IFL, but it does not see IFL
processors when counting the number of CPs in a system. This means that
they don't count for software support cost. This is very important to us
(rather, it will be if we ever get an IFL to run Linux).
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> I believe that the only difference between an Integrated Facility for
> Linux (IFL) processor and a standard processor is that the IFL has a
> microcode fix to ensure that MVS systems can't use it.
To be more specific, the IFL has a hardware/microcode difference which
prevents operating systems other than z/VM V4/V5 or Linux from booting on
it. This means, z/OS, VSE/ESA, TPF, z/VM V3 and their predecessors (not
just
MVS). This also applies to these operating systems as guests of z/VM V4/V5.
Jim
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