RE: Cost of Activating Second Processor

Hi Sam,

I don't have any answers for you, but we recently activated a second processor and so far we haven't noticed any impact. I wasn't a part of the decision to get the additional processor, but there must be a way to get some metrics on your system to see if a second processor would provide an ROI. Make sure you're up-to-date on PTFs. We're working on the PTF thing (just about there) and the next step is that there are some reports that can be ran that cost a couple hundred bucks (so I hear).

-Kurt

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Subject: Cost of Activating Second Processor

We have a Power 6, M25. P10 Group. V7R1. One processor is activated.

Asked the Business Partner the cost of activating the second processor and they said:

"Cost for the 2nd processor and OS License would be $17K but also makes your SWMA charge double."

Does that sound reasonable? (We need to license OS/400 again for the 2nd processor? SWMA doubles because we'd be in a new group?)

I'm not sure a second processor will have much impact. Most of our activity is RPG & SQL based with some .NET access, and day end is nearly all single threaded.

Can we turn the second processor on for free for a week or a month to see the impact?

Thanks,

Sam
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