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TSM migration to UNIX Discovery project status for 01/10/02

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David G Kalenderian)
Thu Jan 10 12:50:16 2002

Date:         Thu, 10 Jan 02 12:49:27 EST
From: David G Kalenderian <DAVEK@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
To: MAGELLAN@MIT.EDU
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Project Name: TSM Migration to UNIX Discovery
Project Leader: Dave Kalenderian
Report Date: 01/09/02
Submitted by: David Kalenderian
URL: http://web.mit.edu/is/discovery/tsm-unix/index.html

Accomplishments past period:
- Held project kickoff meeting.

- Met with Tivoli, IBM and IBM Business partner reps to gather
  information regarding TSM on UNIX and comparsions with TSM on VM. They
  also provided TSM UNIX software license pricing as well as RS6000
  hardware costs.

- Created TSM UNIX Discovery web page.

- Revised and published initial TSM to UNIX Discovery project plan.

- Contacted TSM support at Princeton U. They are about 1 year ahead
  of us in terms of transitioning TSM from VM to Sun Solaris. Learning
  from their experience could/would be very helpful. A possible meeting
  is in the works.

- Coordinated/shared information with VMSST regarding TSM hardware/software
  costs as VMSST looks at upgrading VM hardware. TSM UNIX costs and the
  cost savings associated with special bids for hardware/software
  on VM with and without TSM could significantly impact timeline of TSM
  migration to UNIX effort.

Goals for next period:
  - Refine and understand hardware/software cost issues.
  - Align and compare multiple hardware platforms costs
  - Cost out VM and UNIX software scenerios

Issues:
- Outcome of VMSST mainframe upgrade could impact outcome of this
  project.

Key learnings:
- None at this time.

Team dynamics:

- Good.

Additional comments:

- None at this time.

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