On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 23:52:01 -0600, Brian Westerman <[email protected]> wrote: >The short answer is "yes". And you don't need to get the extended end of life >updates for z/os 1.9 to do it.
I always worry about such short answers. :-) The last machine z/OS 1.9 supported was the z196/z114. Since is was never supported on the zEC12 or zBC12, there is no assurance that it will operate correctly. (And even if you extended the life on z/OS 1.9, you wouldn't get support for zEC12 or zBC12.) From a z/VM perspective, z/VM 6.1 was the last release to support z/OS 1.9 guests. In general, z/VM does not hide the processor architecture (including Crypto-Express) from the guest. Where the guest *does* get some relief is in the I/O space since you can use virtual devices or expose the guest only to devices it understands. So you can do anything you like with whatever operating systems you wish. Whether you should build a business dependency on that choice is another matter entirely. And as a gentle reminder, I see that general support for z/OS 1.12 ends in September of this year. Regards, Alan Altmark IBM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
