Re: Alternative to mvsqr, was: Bringing the fun back to z/OS - new course

2006-04-04 Thread Timothy Sipples
>>Receiving a fair price on any product requires a *credible* market >>alternative in *your* particular situation. Things that bring >>credibility to the discussion: >>- a project actually underway to switch from one vendor to >>another >I would consider it a strategic error to stick with a vendo

Re: Alternative to mvsqr, was: Bringing the fun back to z/OS - new course

2006-04-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/02/2006 at 08:50 PM, Timothy Sipples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Receiving a fair price on any product requires a *credible* market >alternative in *your* particular situation. Things that bring >credibility to the discussion: >- a project actually underway to sw

Re: Alternative to mvsqr, was: Bringing the fun back to z/OS - new course

2006-04-02 Thread Ed Gould
On Apr 2, 2006, at 9:50 PM, Timothy Sipples wrote: I was asked to find out whether there exist z/OS based products from IBM or 3rd parties that provide similar content & functionality. Yes, reasonable priced. Tell us what products do you want to replace. BTW: From my experience it is often en

Re: Alternative to mvsqr, was: Bringing the fun back to z/OS - new course

2006-04-02 Thread Timothy Sipples
>>I was asked to find out whether there exist z/OS based products from IBM >>or 3rd parties that provide similar content & functionality. >Yes, reasonable priced. Tell us what products do you want to replace. >BTW: From my experience it is often enough to find an alternative >product and tell abou

Re: Alternative to mvsqr, was: Bringing the fun back to z/OS - new course

2006-03-30 Thread R.S.
Arthur Fichtl wrote: Hi colleagues, We are in the process of moving the UNIX apps to Linux under VM, where they can use the other type of processors and save us a lot of software costs (BMC is killing us, followed by CA.) I was asked to find out whether there exist z/OS based products from

Re: Alternative to mvsqr, was: Bringing the fun back to z/OS - new course

2006-03-29 Thread Rich Smrcina
Arthur, Similar functionality to which products? Arthur Fichtl wrote: Hi colleagues, We are in the process of moving the UNIX apps to Linux under VM, where they can use the other type of processors and save us a lot of software costs (BMC is killing us, followed by CA.) I was asked to find

Alternative to mvsqr, was: Bringing the fun back to z/OS - new course

2006-03-29 Thread Arthur Fichtl
Hi colleagues, We are in the process of moving the UNIX apps to Linux under VM, where >they can use the other type of processors and save us a lot of software >costs (BMC is killing us, followed by CA.) I was asked to find out whether there exist z/OS based products from IBM or 3rd parties that