Hi Alan, Thanks for the detailed expert explanation on z/VM and guests. I agree with you on z/OS versions usage and support on various processors. Thanks for the z/OS 1.12 general support reminder too.
Regards, Suresh On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 5:52 PM, Alan Altmark <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > -- *SureshNc* ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
