> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples > Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 1:37 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Mainframe Linux Mythbusting (Was: Using Java in > batch on z/OS?) > >
<snip> > > Does anybody seriously dispute that Linux is popular? That Linux is > growing? Including the mainframe? What I am suggesting is > the following: > > 1. More people here should add Linux to their knowledge base > -- ideally > leading efforts in your shops to implement Linux for certain projects. > Ostrich strategies do not work, IMHO. I've been trying here, but the Windows people (at least in the past) have been "driving the boat". The new CIO is more platform agnostic, but as "a voice crying in the wilderness", I'm fairly ineffective in getting anyone interested. > 2. Many of you are already learning Linux (in effect) and > just don't know > it. USS skills are quite transferable. (And you need at > least a little > bit of USS knowledge to be a competent z/OS system programmer, in all > candor.) My was the reverse. I have been using Linux/Intel at home for quite a while (finally 99.9% off of Windows!). z/OS UNIX was very easy to pick up. The other z/OS sysprogs here basically don't like UNIX. I may need to suggest a minor class on UNIX concepts for them (even invite interested programmers - what a concept!) > 3. Difficulty implementing Linux is exaggerated by many in this forum, > truly. It's not zero, but it's also not the Apollo Space > Program nor the > Manhattan Project. Unfortunately, I don't have a zSeries Linux to play with. I could do it on Hercules/390 at home (I run MVS 3.8j at home! Makes me love the enhancements in z/OS.) Installing Fedora Core 5 on an old Pentium III was so simple as to be boring. On my AMD64, I run SuSE 9.3. SuSE 10.0 is running on my laptop. Installing there were not difficult. YaST makes it fairly simple. I even have a version of DB2 on my Linux/AMD64. Wish I knew how to use it <grin>. > > [ Speaking for myself, if that wasn't obvious. :-) ] > > - - - - - > Timothy F. Sipples -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and its content is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this transmission, or taking any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
