Matt agrees with you David. The only issue I’ve run into is sourcing some of the other software in a precompiled form. That said, Postgres for example, was strightforward to grab the source, build and package. Linux is what we had hoped back in the 90’s that Open Edition would have been :)
Matt Hogstrom [email protected] "I no longer wish to belong to the kind of club that accepts people like me as members." - Groucho Marx > On Apr 24, 2022, at 10:11 PM, David Crayford <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 23/4/22 14:10, kekronbekron wrote: >>> Building the s390x containers is straight forward. >> Again, really? (honest question). >> Are there any public examples for reference? >> You know, small enough that it isn't 50 million lines of code or something. > > I don't want to speak for Matt but building docker images for a specific > architecture is trivial. To build a s390x container that includes native > binaries you just compile/link you programs and then build the docker image > scrom scratch and specify the --platform. See > https://docs.docker.com/desktop/multi-arch/. > > >> >> - KB >> >> ------- Original Message ------- >> On Friday, April 22nd, 2022 at 9:49 PM, Matt Hogstrom <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >>>> On Apr 22, 2022, at 3:42 AM, David Crayford [email protected] wrote: >>>> >>>>> If you already deliver container images that support your product that >>>>> currently run outside z/OS, or if that’s what you plan to do, it’d be a >>>>> great idea to add s390x compatibility to your container images so your >>>>> customers have greater deployment flexibility. That’s usually quite easy >>>>> to do. >>>> Good advice. I would also add that if you are a vendor planning to deliver >>>> zCX container images then make sure you add other compatibilities just in >>>> case your customers don't run zCX. It could be a POC obstacle. >>> >>> Building the s390x containers is straight forward. It’s the POC challenge. >>> It’s like showing up with SAE tools to work on a car that is metric. Not >>> going to be very useful. >>> >>> Matt Hogstrom >>> [email protected] >>> +1-919-656-0564 >>> PGP Key: 0x90ECB270 >>> Facebook https://facebook.com/matt.hogstrom LinkedIn >>> https://linkedin/in/mhogstrom Twitter https://twitter.com/hogstrom >>> >>> >>> “It may be cognitive, but, it ain’t intuitive." >>> — Hogstrom >>> >>> >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
