Re: Solving the wrong problem...
“ 2)They need to contact IBM and borrow a faster box. If they have space in the machine room, wheel it in, plug it in and restart. Old systems should still run on the new box. Neweer boxes have even more RAM.”
Most IBM mainframes are over provisioned.
Buy the base model with base ram, cpu I/O Etc and the box is basically software throttled. Buy a better license and ibm enable more capability. CPU goes fairly, softwAre automatically retires it and brings in an already on box spare.
Newer tin is often better because it uses less power and cooling, has faster interconnects etc for the same capability license but existing tin can go faster with the appropriate licence, obviously means spending money though.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
