zCX is part of new hardware exploitation. IBM still sells mainframes and needs software to exploit the great new hardware features. The flip side is that such software runs well only on the new hardware. For zCX you pretty much need to be on z15 or even z16 to start seeing the great benefits. zCX is groomed for 2GB page size, so you need that size system to start seeing how well mainframe does. It is solid technology just immature but without containers z/OS will be dead in a decade or 2. It's not running Linux on z/OS that is significant, its the application workload and like it or not, containers will be essential for some parts of applications. I'd like z/OS to stay in that game.
On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 7:33 AM Phil Smith III <li...@akphs.com> wrote: > That's a nice, positive view, Matt. Still doesn't quite make sense to me > yet, but I'm willing to believe it. Not convinced it made sense as a use of > very limited resources at this stage of the game, though. Linux on Z in > general seems to be fading, which makes me very sad: several of the poster > children have backed away completely. Whether adding it on z/OS will help > or > not-I have no idea. Hope so! > > > > ...phsiii > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
