"Green Screen" Tax?

[Guest.Visitor]

Chris - "Green Screen Tax" refers to the extra charge incurred when you have to buy more CPW in order to run [additional] interactive sessions on a specified /400 and prevent the CFINT0x job from kicking in to govern down interactive performance. CPW is "Commercial Processing Workload" which is an IBM measurement of comparative processing power (higher CPW = more processing power) over a specific set of tests. (My explanation may not be entirely accurate but it's awfully close! :-) ) HTH, Steve

[Guest.Visitor]

Another way of looking at it is that you have to pay more to run 5250 workloads on a given size of hardware than you do to run other types of workloads (web, Domino, Java, etc.). Brian

[Guest.Visitor]

Which I have never understood. It would be like Intel telling you that you had to pay more to use their processor if you were going to run a Java Application, but would charge you less for the hardware if you ran Visual Basic. Go figure.

"Brian Singleton" <operations@forums.midrangecomputing.com> wrote in message news:1e8f9e01.1@WebX.WawyahGHajS...

Another way of looking at it is that you have to pay more to run 5250 workloads on a given size of hardware than you do to run other types of workloads (web, Domino, Java, etc.). Brian

[Guest.Visitor]

Excuse my ignorance, but can someone tell what the "green screen" tax is? And what is a CPW? Thanks. Chris

[David Abramowitz]

This is a good point. At a user meeting several months ago, an IBMer noted the great discounts available for buying "server" models. After a moment of silenced, I publicly asked why interactive customers had to pay a 90% premium. I never did receive an answer, but the poor guy realized he had a problem when most of the other users started clapping. Dave