RE: Capacity on Demand: memory issue

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However, if the memory is already physically installed, as memory on
demand would be, then there would be no need for a hard down would there?
Wouldn't there just be some function in SST to activate it?

The difference here is that IBM already has the licensing scheme in place
for processor on demand to make sure that you pay, or die in 70 days.
These others would take some different techniques to make sure the 'check
is good'.

Rob Berendt
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"Andy Nolen-Parkhouse" <aparkhouse@attbi.com>
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Rob,

Your supposition is correct.  The below is taken from an IBM V5R2
presentation on Capacity on Demand, note the footnote.

Processor-on-Demand                              Units of Processor
Capacity
Memory-on-Demand                                                 Units of
Memory Capacity*
Disk-on-Demand                                           Units of DASD
Capacity*
Interactive-on-Demand                            Units of 5250 Interactive
Capacity*

* IBM is currently evaluating for a future iSeries release.

Presentation source is:
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/hardware/ondemand/
and requires Lotus Freelance Graphics.

The question of whether the customer will have downtime is more related
to concurrent maintenance than to whether the item is available on
demand.  As far as I know, installation of memory requires a
powered-down machine.  Some features can be added to the newer platforms
(PCI cards and DASD) without powering down, but memory is not one of
them.

Regards,
Andy Nolen-Parkhouse