Request price quotation

Request price quotation or RPQ is a long-standing IBM designation for a product or component that is potentially available, but that is not on the "standard" price list.[1][2] Typical RPQ offerings are custom interfaces, hardware modifications, research or experimental systems, or variable-cost items. In the days of IBM's large mainframes, e.g. the System/360 and System/370 series, many unusual features were flagged as "RPQ".

A special-order software item is known as a Programming Request Price Quotation or PRPQ.

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  2. ^ Rogers, Paul; Salfa, Alvaro; Orsoni, Luiz Carlos (March 2012). ABCs of z/OS System Programming Volume 10 (PDF) (Fifth ed.). IBM Corporation. p. 181. ISBN 978-0738436500. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 15, 2016. Retrieved April 6, 2016.