Re: Software on tape

2008-05-06 Thread Graves Nora E
Another consideration is DB2, if you run DB2 for VM/VSE. We have successfully written log archive files to disk, but for the full archives apparently tape is the only thing it will accept. Product documentation indicates that tape is required for log archives as well, unless running a user-define

Re: Software on tape

2008-05-05 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
ot 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

Re: Software on tape

2008-05-05 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 05/05/2008 at 06:26 EDT, "O'Brien, Dennis L" wrote: > Have IBM or any other software vendors made statements of direction for > offering alternatives to delivering software on tape? The products in the SDO, including z/VM itself, are available for download via ShopzSeries. No other

Re: Software on tape

2008-05-05 Thread Schuh, Richard
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 sale

Re: Software on tape

2008-05-05 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
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 Califor

Re: Software on tape

2008-05-05 Thread Schuh, Richard
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 imp