We drug 10 years out of a z9. Last several years, it would have been cheaper (hardware maintenance and z/OS license charges) to upgrade to current model minus 1 or even current model.
But, the mainframe was going away..... Our 5 year contract with a MFaaS site runs out in October and it is looking like we will not be running z/OS after that. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On > Behalf Of Carmen Vitullo > Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2022 12:27 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: IBM Z13 and Z13s EOL > > [EXTERNAL EMAIL] > > thanks, yes we got as much bang out of the box as we could before EOS, > and the plan was to 'outsource' or move the prod processing to a cloud > provider. now it looks like leadership has decided to purchase a new > processor, but they'd like to get every bit of juice out of this box > before they 'NEED' replace it. > > thanks for your response > > Carmen > > On 8/18/2022 2:22 PM, Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: > > AFAIK it is not yet announced, but it seems it could be 2026 or 2027. > > I mean EOS - end of support. > > However this is one of several "end of life" dates. You cannot > > purchase any upgrade to z13, including microcode activation of > > resources already present in the machine. > > z/OS 2.5 still supports z13, so most of the software will work on it > > as well (there are exceptions). > > > > So, the platform is moribund - it is still supported, but no HW > > upgrades and it seems z/OS 2.6 will not support it. Good time to > > change it. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
