Dana, Not sure what your referring to here. We can run DB2 and CICS ......
Scott ford www.identityforge.com Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. - Chinese Proverb On Jan 30, 2013, at 10:03 AM, Dana Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote: > zPDT may work well for develpoment, but it's the classic catch-22 situation > since IBM doesn't provide a viable entry level platform for actually > *running* such an application. I'm sure zPDT comes mired in rules about what > kind of work can and cannot be run on it. > > While wearing my IBM i hat this week, I'm looking at a quote for an IBM > Power 7, 720 6 core machine, 64GB of memory, 5TB of internal disk behind > two pair of 1.8GB cache adaptors. All this hardware comes in well under > $100K. That would be a very good sized z/OS installation if it could run > on there, and of course the Power 7 hardware can be had in much smaller > footprints as well. > > Dana > > On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:27:15 +0800, David Crayford <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On 30/01/2013 1:07 PM, Don Williams wrote: >>> Hi Scott, >>> >>> While I've heard of zPDT, I don't really know/understand what is does or >>> offers a vendor. Sounds like zPDT is an affordable and effective platform. >>> Too bad some vendor did not use it to develop an z/OS EMR package for >>> hospitals that already have a z/OS infrastructure. >> >> >> It offers vendors who have no need for a sysplex a cheap >> development/testing/demo environment that they can run on a laptop, >> desktop or rack server. >> It would be interesting to see how it measures up running a production >> workload on the latest x86 iron like >> http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/x/hardware/enterprise/x3850x5/specs.html >> compared to a business class mainframe like a z114. >> >> >>> Don > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
