The way I read it is it's a way to do away with the 'crippled' z/OS.e and allow you to run full z/OS with the same pricing (FSVO same).
Can anyone tell if z/OS.e = zNALC z/OS = z/OS NALC pricing? The restriction is: z/OS is eligible for zNALC pricing when running in an LPAR where the Qualified Application is executing. The only other products that may execute in this LPAR are those products that support the Qualified Application. The LPAR must be used exclusively for the Qualified Application and for programs that support the Qualified Application and for no other purpose. So maybe I can run COBOL and a bunch of TSO sessions and be in a parallel sysplex after all. Ken Porowski AVP Systems Software CIT Group E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- McKown, John OK, I'm stupid. From what I gather, IBM positions this for "new work" only. And from reading, it is basically to get people to not invest in a UNIX or NT solutions, but to use this (my opinion) "crippled" version of z/OS instead. Why would I do that? If I wanted to stay with the System z processor, I would strongly look at Linux under z/VM. I will grant that z/OS has some real strengths over Linux. But I just don't see the reason. Again, from my reading, IBM does not expect people to really run any "legacy" work on a zNALC system. Yes, I know about the code that allows COBOL programs to legally run under z/OS.e and I would guess that it would still work on a zNALC system. But I'm just bumfuzzled about this. I can understand running Websphere on my normal z/OS system. But if I'm going to segregate the Websphere workload onto a zNALC system, why not just go whole hog and use Linux (on System z or even some other hardware)? Or have I just not had enough sleep lately? (my dog keeps waking me up every 3 hours at night - but he is 16 and is allowed). John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
