>>- z/VM (with a 31-bit VM defined)
>>- z/OS 1.5 (IPLing in 31-bit mode)
>>- z/Architecture system
>>[....]
>Ed Jaffe responded that that won't work (gets a disabled wait state
>early on), and since he's "in the business" of trying out those kinds of
>things I believe his response can be accepted as definitive.

Sounds like Ed's idea of using an older VM/ESA running inside z/VM might 
do the trick. I admit to knowing one customer still running that way for 
another (but similar) purpose. VM back that far is indeed unsupported.

>We perceive it as a SOX requirement to recover our current Production
>system at D/R.  Though we are currently upgrading to z/Architecture
>hardware (and z/OS 1.7), we will not "be there" before our next D/R
>test.

Makes sense.

>>I don't think there's a legal impediment, but I would get a second, 
formal
>>opinion.
>Has been requested.

OK, cool.

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Timothy F. Sipples
Consulting Enterprise Software Architect, z9/zSeries
IBM Japan, Ltd.
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