I would imagine that anything requiring microcode/millicode would be impossible without IBM's blessing. Maybe you could get a one-time exception as long as you have no commercial (including development of Mainframe products) usage planned for your system.. Of course IBM would not want development on older systems regardless. Anything that gives life to off support systems (at this point z890/z990 and possibly z114/Z196) would be strongly discouraged. JMHO and ICBW. Even if you own an older off support system I would bet that IBM would give you an incentive (however small) to get the older hardware out of the market. Makes sense from an IBM business perspective even if you want to continue running your old 360/370/434x/438x/308x/309x/9672/z800/z900 etc. Upwards and downwards compatibility is a two edged sword. Positive in some/many cases but hindering advancement and condoning complacency (for better or worse) in others. What other system exists that will continue to run 20+ year old mission critical code without failing (even if it is inefficient by today's standards)?
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To the extent permitted by applicable law, CIT and others may inspect, review, monitor, analyze, copy, record and retain any communications sent from or received at this email address. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Friday, December 04, 2015 6:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] IBM z890 Update. AFAIK SCSI IPL was paid feature, so it would be piracy to share it. Note, this is rather "hardware piracy". ;-) I'm not sure about terms and conditions, but possibly it is allowed to transfer such license, so someone could give it to you from some no longer used machine. BTW: You can obtain some CKD disks and install Linux on 3390 devices. I think it's more funny. Last but not least: it does not require SCSI IPL. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland W dniu 2015-12-04 o 23:39, Connor Krukosky pisze: > Ok so I'm sure many have been wondering what happened with the z890. > I have after many road blocks I have gotten the FCP SCSI storage > working and actually did complete an install of CentOS 4.7 on it last > night! > But the new problem is IPLing said install. I would be-able to > directly IPL from SCSI if I had Feature Code FC 9904, which I do not. > This was supposedly a free Feature Code back in the day but was only > available till Dec. 31, 2007. > So if anyone has FC 9904 and is able to send me a copy (If that's how > that works? I assume this is loaded into the system via floppy.) it > would make my life a million times easier :) > Otherwise I will have to find a way to mount the drives in an > installer and boot with the installer. > Which I have yet to find a way to do this, any documented way anyway, > I will have to play with it. > This should be last step to have Linux running! > So hopefully someone can get me a copy of FC 9904 or I can find some > other way to IPL. > > -Connor K > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Treść tej wiadomości może zawierać informacje prawnie chronione Banku przeznaczone wyłącznie do użytku służbowego adresata. Odbiorcą może być jedynie jej adresat z wyłączeniem dostępu osób trzecich. 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