| z Rewards | List Price USD$ | |
|---|---|---|
| Light benchmark for System z | $3,500 | The WW Client Centers Benchmark Centers can provide fast and easy access to low cost, short term, pre-configured remote system environments at current software release levels, for Proof of Concept or small benchmarking engagements. Both z/OS and Linux on System z environments are offered. |
| Sysplex HA Planning and Assistance | $14,000 | The WW Client Centers High Availability Center of Competency can provide planning and assistance for any number of client projects that center around improving high availability and service management. For example, consulting, review proposals, teach classes or any number of activities to help the client on their path toward higher availability. This can be done at the client location or at an IBM location. |
| New System z technology enablement workshop | $14,000 | WW Client Centers Design Centers: This interactive workshop will discover the IT environment and identify opportunities for usinghe speciality engines in a System z environment. It will highlight the pros and cons and prepare the client for reducing cost and better exploiting System z.The venue for this workshop is at an IBM location. (Maximum of 2 days) |
| Linux on System z migration discovery/planning workshop | $21,000 | The WW Client Centers Design Centers can provide an interactive workshop that will discover the client environment and identify opportunities for virtualization/consolidation to a Linux on System z environment. It will highlight the pros and cons and prepare the client for exploiting Linux on System z. The venue for this workshop is at an IBM location. (Maximum of 3 days) |
| System z Architectural Review | $21,000 | WW Client Centers Design Centers: This review is for clients that have their own architecture design and are seeking a second opinion. This interactive workshop can discover requirements, review design and feedback and options on how to improve their design. (Maximum of 3 days) |
| Distributed to System z integration workshop | $21,000 | WW Client Centers Design Centers: This interactive workshop explores and identifies the integration technologies that satisfy client requirements. Pros and cons of different technologies are discussed to enable optimizing the environment for different objectives, like performance, availability, security, functionality. This workshop is typically conducted at an IBM location. (Maximum of 3 days) |
| Accelerator! IBM System z Health Assessment | $28,000 | IBM Systems Lab Services and Training can provide a high level infrastructure review of operating systems (z/OS) and sysplex infrastructure. |
| Accelerator! z/VM and Linux on IBM System z Health Check | $28,000 | IBM Systems Lab Services and Training review of the customer’s operating systems (z/VM or Linux on System z) and Hypervisor levels to evaluate the basic environment areas--code levels, change management, OS and system security, backup and recovery, system performance, and processes and procedures. |
| Accelerator! Performance Environmental Changes Study | $28,000 | After a processor change (e.g. upgrade), STG lab services can conduct a study to demonstrate how system performance has changed between the pre- and post-change environments. This study includes high-level analysis (before and after) of performance data and identifying potential bottlenecks and tuning opportunities |
| Accelerator! Hardware Component Failure Impact Analysis | $28,000 | Service to analyze the current IBM installed hardware environment to determine if the environment is configured in such a way that critical single points of failure have been avoided. This analysis can provide recommendations that could lead to reduced outages and downtime |
| Accelerator! DFSMShsm Assessment | $28,000 | This service provides a high level analysis of DFSMShsm operations based on actual results from the customer's systems. This will include a review of DFSMShsm configuration options, focusing on exploitation of newer technologies, and provide recommendations for changes to DFSMShsm settings to optimize its use in the customer environment. |
| Accelerator! General Maintenance Assessment | $28,000 | This service assesses a current maintenance configuration and strategy. IBM will review the process/procedures for applying maintenance, and provide recommendations to optimize or improve these processes. |
| Accelerator! Maintenance Currency Assessment | $28,000 | This service can provide assistance in maintaining maintenance level currency. We will help to research and apply maintenance to IBM products that are identified as down-level. |
| Accelerator! DB2 on IBM System z Health Check | $28,000 | A DB2 on System z accelerated health check includes a review of the DB2 subsystem parameters (ZPARM), the current buffer pool strategy and its implementation in the environment for one production DB2 subsystem. Additionally, a review of the backup and recovery processes, DB2 maintenance procedures, as well as the security architecture will be done. The bulk of the work will concentrate on catalog analysis and its relationship to the buffer pool strategy. |
| Accelerator! MQSeries on IBM System z Health Check | $28,000 | An MQ on System z Accelerated Health Check includes a review of the WMQ subsystem parameters (ZPARM), the current buffer pool strategy and its implementation in the environment for up to 4 production WMQ subsystems. Additionally, a review of the backup and recovery processes, WMQ maintenance procedures as well the security architecture will be done. |
| Accelerator! CICS on IBM System z Health Check | $28,000 | A CICS on System z Accelerated Health Check includes a review of the CICS Subsystem Initialization Table parameters (SIT), Shutdown Statistics, the VSAM Local Shared Resource pool strategy and its implementation in the environment for up to 8 production CICS regions. Additionally, a review of the backup and recovery processes, CICS maintenance procedures as well the security architecture will be done. A performance review of each region will be included. |
| Accelerator! Security Architecture and Key Management Review | $28,000 | This service provides technical resources to help with the security architecture and the key management on z/OS, z/VM, and Linux for System z. |
| Accelerator! IBM System z SOA Services | $28,000 | This service provides technical resources to review a customer's business infrastructure and provide an architectural SOA review. Gathering of the information needed to deliver an architectural review document tailored specifically for their business. |
| Accelerator! Java Performance | $28,000 | This service provides technical resources to help deploy a Java workload or increase the performance of an existing Java workload deployed to System z. The offering will be scoped to meet the needs of the client request. |
| System z Availability Assessment | $28,000 | The WW Client Centers High Availability Center of Competency will conduct a High Availability assessment of the client's sysplex environment. This is an interactive 2 day workshop at the client location exploring technology, availability management processes and service management concepts. The follow on deliverable includes a complete report with both tactical and strategic recommendations to improve availability. |
| High Level Architectural Design Workshop | $28,000 | WW Client Centers Design Centers: The Design Center will run a Requirements Gathering Session to discover the client environment and understand client requirements and then a Design Workshop to design an infrastructure architecture that satisfies the requirements. Both of these sessions require interactive client participation. This workshop is typically performed at an IBM location. (5 days) |
| System z Custom Migration Services | $70,000 | IBM Systems Lab Services and Training can provide up to 160 hours of custom migration services for a customer. These activities can include assistance with migration planning and analysis, hardware and/ or software installation, customization and more. |
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