Jay Maynard wrote: > Yes, you're dealing with an application migration. You won't > be able to run the image directly on your z890, and while you > may be able to kludge your way into running it with some > combination of VMs and/or Linux and Hercules (FWIW, I believe > that running MVS under Hercules under z/Linux would be legal, > if slow), you'd have an easier time of it just going ahead > with the application migration you're going to eventually > need to do anyway.
OTOH, if the situation is that they've acquired a company with a datacentre, and they have to get everything out by time t, then they have the choice of moving the datacentre as a whole (hardware+OS+apps), moving the OS+apps (as originally asked about), or moving just the apps. The first of these is obviously a poor bet, particularly if the datacentre is geographically far away. Moving the apps alone is clearly the Right Choice, but it may well take more time than they have. In which case, moving the OS+apps may not be so hopeless, particularly if they can get a transitional licence of some sort to allow running on an old or otherwise unsupported processor. How big is the workload? Maybe a P390 or Integrated Server would be the right box. But this is all just speculation... Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
