Aren't they under IBM warranty for the first year?
Timothy Sipples
Consulting Enterprise IT Architect (Based in Singapore)
E-Mail: sipp...@sg.ibm.com
Here we go again. :-( I'll start by correcting the subject line.
Fact: IBM already announced *exactly the same* price changes per Value Unit
for all IBM Passport Advantage software products for Windows, Linux, UNIX,
etc.
So let's spend 3 seconds thinking about this, shall we? Since there's a
There is GDPS-only restricted use licensing available for Tivoli System
Automation and Tivoli NetView for z/OS which may be applicable depending on
your situation. (Ask your IBM representative.) The IBM program numbers
are 5698-A43 and 5698-A44 as I write this.
Basically you would choose A43 if
There's also static power save mode. That feature debuted in the z196. If
you have sustained low or zero utilization periods it's generally worth
using. Or if you're running much quicker than you need to be within your
batch window(s) then you might use this feature.
The word static is perhaps a
I think there's widespread agreement that the U.S. patent system has
problems.
One challenge regulators have is that it's already extremely tough to
distinguish between software and hardware -- and it's getting tougher.
Should a software-defined radio -- or some novel part of a software-defined
Michael Knigge writes:
The .NET Framework is free of charge.
No, that's highly misleading. Microsoft provides the core .NET Framework at
no additional charge with Microsoft Windows, such as with Microsoft Windows
Server. You most certainly do pay for Windows licensing and support
(servers and
Paul Gilmartin writes:
If it [TSO] appears as a separate line item on invoices from IBM...
To my knowledge it does not, at least in relation to z/OS.
Timothy Sipples
Consulting Enterprise IT
Bruno Sugliani writes:
I do not believe anyone here would run production on a single
engine box or run Dev and Test on that single engine machine.
Almost everyone here would. These are mainframes, with PR/SM and LPARs
proven to Common Criteria EAL5+ certification standards. Regardless of the
IBM's Jeff Frey has already alluded to the fact that there's more function
in the pipeline for Flash Express, like (probably) large in-memory DB2
databases. If you've got ideas, particularly of the I'll sign up to buy
some/more if you implement this variety, send them through the official
Maybe they will start using price per MIPS model?
Then that'd be *even more* financially favorable to the most intensely
virtualized, highest average utilization cores -- the chips with the MIPS
which are most efficiently used, with the fewest idle MIPS per year. Which
would be zEnterprise cores.
IBM also announced:
1. No additional charge support extensions/lifecycles for CICS TS V3 and
CICS TS V4;
2. Price reductions (technology dividends) for all IBM AWLC software
products when moving to the new zEC12 model.
Note also that the announcement letter deals with IMS V9 and V10, not IMS
V11
For purposes of licensing its software running on Linux, IBM assigns a
metric called PVUs (Processor Value Units) to each type of processor
core. Most IBM software products for Linux are licensed according to the
number of PVUs at a price per PVU. Likewise, annual software subscription
and support
Yes, there are organizations that use zEnterprise servers for heavy
numeric computation. Like decimal floating point. Cryptography is another
excellent example. And you can buy optional CryptoExpress adapters if you
want to augment the excellent capabilities found in every machine. You can
also
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