Hercules does not emulate z/OS. It emulates the hardware. You could run the free MVS that is available. Whether or not you could use that to access your backups is another question. You didn't say what kind of backups you have. Can you access DFSMSdss backups without running some version of DSS? I don't know. That's not the question you asked.
-- Tom Marchant On Tue, 11 Jun 2024 12:58:38 -0500, Jason Cai <[email protected]> wrote: >Our organization's z mainframe has reached the end of its hardware service >life and is no longer capable of running z/OS. However, we have a LinuxONE >machine that remains operational. > >We possess historical data backups from our z/OS environment that we need to >access. To address this, we are considering the installation of the Hercules >emulator on our zLinux environment. Our goal is to utilize Hercules to emulate >the z/OS necessary to access our backup data sometime. > >Could you please advise on the feasibility of this approach? Specifically, we >are interested in understanding: > >1. The compatibility of Hercules with zLinux on a LinuxONE machine. >2. Any known limitations or considerations we should be aware of when using >Hercules for this purpose. >3. The steps required to set up Hercules in a zLinux environment to access >z/OS backup data. > >Your expertise and guidance on this matter would be greatly appreciated. We >are eager to find a solution that allows us to utilize our existing resources >effectively while ensuring the integrity and accessibility of our historical >data. > >Thank you very much for your time and assistance. > >Best regards, >Jason Cai ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
