Sebastian Welton wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:37:38 +0900, Timothy Sipples
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
There are other effects. For example, another wise thing IBM did in my
opinion is to release Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for z/OS Management Console. This
product is available for download at no additional charge to anyone -- go
grab it. This serves a much larger market expansion role, in making basic
z/OS monitoring much simpler and easier especially for new z/OS operators,
including smaller cash-limited customers. An operating system that's
easier to use and easier to operate is more likely to enjoy even greater
expansion.
This also looks quite interesting in this area:
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/residents.nsf/50da6a28780ffa688525701b004a4f21/139a5dae215326d2852572450072f90c?OpenDocument
or:
http://tinyurl.com/25ev5p
Seb
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All this is fine and dandy, for an established software house, but it
doesn't address the initial problem. Where is a small developer going to
get access to computer resources for product development? I get a small
amount of mainframe time, once in a while, in return for consulting
services. But not everyone is that lucky. The solutions offered are not
acceptable because of the cost. (I'm living on a rather niggardly
pension; I can't take out a SBA loan every month just to buy computer
time!) Being allowed to run Hercules and MVS 3.8 under it is nice, but
there's no RACF, for which I'd like to develop low-cost RACF reporting
tools. DITTO for ISPF, for which I'd like to develop better storage
management reporting tools, among other things. Now the shop where I
have my somewhat limited access is talking about ditching the mainframe
entirely; the costs of z/OS, DB2, CICS and OEM software are reaching the
point of being untenable. Now what?
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