It's neither a supplement or a replacement. So it's an 'other'. This is how I interpret the situation - zCX is for people who don't have Linux on Z, and/or would like to keep this slice of linux in the mainframe domain's garden. zCX is not just Ubuntu. A few other distros will work too, if not all.
As you say DJ, zCP is "just" isolation for USS processes. They don't code today for USS, but a whole world of possibility w.r.t tooling is opening up because of the LLVM-based compiler options that IBM provides now. Decades of tools written in C/C++ (now with make, cmake, clang working in zOS) are now "game" in zOS. Same for tools written in Go from recent times. So zCP is a way to deploy them as they would be off of mainframe. The more that native zOS stuff is unix-ified, the more of zOS administration can be managed/controlled from OpenShift Operator for zOS or whatever it's called. At the moment, Ansible is trying to help for working with the MVS-native side. I say "trying to" because I see automated workflows getting horribly complicated -- and still embedding JCL -- and being sold as modernized/improved. 300+ lines of python + yaml to replace 20 lines of JCL... where the 300+ lines embeds said JCL. On Wednesday, March 6th, 2024 at 19:01, Allan Staller <00000387911dea17-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Classification: Confidential > > How does this compare to z/CX. IS this a supplement? Replacement? Other? > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU On Behalf Of > Timothy Sipples > > Sent: Tuesday, March 5, 2024 7:45 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: IBM Announces the z/OS Container Platform > > [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Unless you trust the > sender, Don't click links or open attachments as it may be a Phishing email, > which can steal your Information and compromise your Computer.] > > I'd like to draw your attention to this IBM announcement: > > https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/announcements/zos-container-platform-delivers-industry-standard-cloud-technologies-build-run-zos-unix-applications-as-containers-natively-zoshttps://www.ibm.com/docs/en/announcements/zos-container-platform-delivers-industry-standard-cloud-technologies-build-run-zos-unix-applications-as-containers-natively-zos?region=US > > > ----- > Timothy Sipples > Senior Architect > Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM Z/LinuxONE, > Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.ibm.com > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ::DISCLAIMER:: > ________________________________ > The contents of this e-mail and any attachment(s) are confidential and > intended for the named recipient(s) only. E-mail transmission is not > guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, > corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or may contain viruses > in transmission. The e mail and its contents (with or without referred > errors) shall therefore not attach any liability on the originator or HCL or > its affiliates. Views or opinions, if any, presented in this email are solely > those of the author and may not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of > HCL or its affiliates. Any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, > disclosure, modification, distribution and / or publication of this message > without the prior written consent of authorized representative of HCL is > strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please delete > it and notify the sender immediately. Before opening any email and/or > attachments, please check them for viruses and other defects. > ________________________________ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
