Apologies if this seems rash.
Certainly don't mean to belittle people's work; many are restricted with 
choices, procedures, etc.
If it isn't for the cost of being an MF s/w vendor, competent new solutions 
would steal the show.
Much like most of y'all, I want Z to remain king of the hill.

-KB

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On Thursday, April 21st, 2022 at 9:06 AM, kekronbekron 
<[email protected]> wrote:


> As an observer, I reckon IBM are forced to use OpenShift because they've got 
> to get RedHat in there.
> Also, since everyone knows the word Docker now, the Z "has to have it".
> Surely the industry is now waking up to the mess that is the Kubernetes 
> ecoystem mgmt., service MESS.
>
> I do wonder... for those who thought setting up zOSMF RACF was painful, what 
> their journey will be for zCX and OpenShift.
> Just saying, "it's free because zIIP" doesn't make it good.
> No Ferrari owner should be "compelled" to use a unicycle's wheel just because 
> it's free.
>
> IMHO, "Me too" solutions are seriously ruining the reputation of the Z with 
> the ridiculous CPU, memory, storage requirements.
> I thought it was ridiculous that RDz wanted a few gigabytes of memory for the 
> JVM.
> Rebadged oldware, with web stack & interface from early 2010s, are now coming 
> to compete with Chrome, in their lust for memory and such.
>
> - KB
> ------- Original Message -------
> On Thursday, April 21st, 2022 at 4:22 AM, Tony Harminc [email protected] wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Wed, 20 Apr 2022 at 18:00, Robert Garrett [email protected] wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > It likes a LOT of real memory and it appears that the running instance 
> > > consumes the full amount of real memory allocated to it for the duration, 
> > > making it unavailable to zOS for paging or any other use. Don't believe 
> > > the claim that it can run in as little
> > > as 2GB. The experimental test instance that I built had 3GB allocated to 
> > > it (the most I could give it on the LPAR I was using) and it took a full 
> > > 15 minutes (yes minutes) by the clock for the address space to initialize 
> > > and reach the point where it was
> > > functional - on every start up. Admittedly, this was on a zOS image that 
> > > was being hosted under zVM at IBM Dallas, so I'm sure that had some 
> > > impact.
> >
> > That smells like three levels of SIE, which to my understanding is
> > never going to perform reasonably.
> >
> > Tony H.
> >
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