On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 14:13:29 -0800, Edward E. Jaffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Mark Zelden wrote: >> You can't expect to have a separate LPAR for every small client >> in all service-bureau environments. Too expensive, too much overhead. >> > >That's why "God" invented VM. > That still would not have been practical for that environment (some of which still exists today AFAIK). Many of the clients were (are?) very small credit unions and small banks. While VM would have eliminated hardware it would not elminate the extra maintenance and overhead of duplicate MVS images, monitors, system software (scheduling, tape mgmt, etc.), CICS regions, application libraries , JCL, and duplicate batch processing. The application software was designed to run with multiple clients. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
