About VM: I don't understand why IBM seems to have sidestepped z/VM.
VM have always given me the same feeling of a smart design as e g REXX do.
As it seems to fit well in the KISS principle that I try to follow.
(I have mostly worked in a MVS environment (or the older variants), but I have
always admired VM as an OS as such.)
But AFAICS IBM is "demounting" VM. There seems to be diminishing incentives to
use VM (maybe apart from running multiple Linux systems).
Is the reason support costs ? I don't know, but would like to.
Thomas Berg
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Subject: Baby MVS???
Maybe they'll talk about it at SHARE?
From today's announcements.
206203 IBM Customized Offerings Driver V2.2, a subset of an IBM z/OS
JES2 system, enables installation of z/OS or z/OS.e
ServerPacs and CBPDOs
http://www.ibm.com/isource/cgi-bin/goto?it=usa_annred&on=206-203
I thought that was for people who don't have a z/OS system at all and
needed one in order to install z/OS.
To be really honest, I wish that z/OS could be installed from a DVD the
way that z/VM can be. You can actually IPL from the DVD to setup the
volumes (ICKDSF). Then IPL DDR to reload the z/VM volumes. z/VM can then
be IPL'ed because it is smart enough to "find" its I/O devices. Yes, I
really like z/VM. Have liked it since I learned VM/370 (pre-SP1) back in
the early 1980s(?).
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