Re: WDSC changing to RDi

Walden H. Leverich wrote:

Not looking for a fight at all, but this is an _important_ change that
needs to be made clear to everyone.

Not looking to be argumentative, but if you feel that strongly, maybe you should email folks at IBM and then post the answers here, rather than ask me. <smile>

OK, I guess that goes both ways. Again, we're in named user land, yes?
So if Bob and Dave do ILE and Mike and Jane do OPM then I don't need 4
licenses to each set of compilers, I need 2 to ILE (for Bob and Dave)
and 2 to OPM (for Mike and Jane). Nice. Of course, not all shops are
like that, if everyone shares load, then you will need 4 licenses.

You're about to answer your own question.

Of course, then comes the fun... if Bob submits a job that waits on a
dataq listening for compile requests and everyone just sends dataq
messages to the queue instead of directly issuing the CRTxxx command is
that only one license? It's only one user! :)

Yup.

And this is as far as I'm gonig to go with the discussion. Everything here has been common sense, and if people stop complaining long enough to really look at the situation, they'll see that, like everything in this life, it's got pros and cons. It's not perfect, but really given the hole IBM dug themselves, it's about as good as it's going to get.

By the way, IBM gets around the issue of a single user by charging a minimum number of users per tier. In effect, they've tier-based the pricing anyway. Software pricing at some point becomes as nebulous as music pricing, and anybody who licenses off-the-shelf software is eventually going to look like the RIAA.

Joe