On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:47:33 +0900, Timothy Sipples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Yes, agreed. As Dave Jones points out, PWD would provide development >licenses at a very attractive price. I had a slightly different goal in >mind with that blog post, a "home mainframe" with full license rights for >time sharing, commercial use (such as hosting a Web site), etc. I assumed >those uses would fall outside the PWD agreement. Either way it is an >interesting thought exercise -- and, I hope, more than that if/when I open >my personal data center. :-) > >One thing I didn't consider is whether it would be possible to set up PWD >LPARs alongside full commercially licensed z/OS.e LPARs, on the same >system. That might be another way to go for the CICS, IMS, COBOL, PL/I >application development resources while still providing commercial >capabilities under z/OS.e (for Web hosting, as an example). I presume that a z800 can be used for PWD use as I know of ISVs that use rather larger systems but I doubt you would get the ADCD as these are (were?) only for FLEX-ES based systems which means you're going to need ESCON and tape drives. However even if this were possible, which I presume it is, I personally would not want to run zOS.e for such a system. The only compiler is for C/C++ which pretty much limits you to that and that only. > >Re: disk, there are boxes such as these: > >http://www.bustech.com/products/zdasd-3990-controller.asp >http://www.luminex.com/products/virtualblue/3990.htm And the FLEXCUB from http://www.funsoft.com/ Seb. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
