Re: How many shops... ?

2016-03-14 Thread Harley Linker
I work for an outsourcer, Ensono, and we have a several CEC's, two of them have GP and IFL engines. One is a LAB (test) box with several lpars: 1 running z/OS on a GP engine, and 2 more running z/VM on IFL's. The other is a production box with 3 lpars running z/OS and 1 with 6 IFL's running z

Re: How many shops... ?

2016-03-14 Thread Kurt Acker
While it will not answer your question directly, going to user groups and events will allow you to talk to customers running workloads in production, noting that most of these customers are not public references. Oracle workloads make up a large percentage of IFL usage (and no, I do not have a

Re: How many shops... ?

2016-03-14 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 3/14/2016 at 12:19 PM, Dave Jones wrote: > I doubt very much that that information is publicly available anywhere. > Actual, hard numbers of this sort are considered proprietary marketing > information by IBM, think. And not only by IBM. SUSE and Red Hat think the same way. The OP woul

Re: How many shops... ?

2016-03-14 Thread Dave Jones
Hi, Thomas. I doubt very much that that information is publicly available anywhere. Actual, hard numbers of this sort are considered proprietary marketing information by IBM, think. The best you can do, I think, is to poll the members of this list and others like it, e.g., the VM list, and see

How many shops... ?

2016-03-14 Thread Ambros, Thomas
My searches of the archives are not productive, probably ill formed. Likewise, general internet searches not coming up with much useful. We've asked this question of our IBM account team, in the range of their territory, and are waiting for an answer. I've seen statements at conferences