re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#77 z/VM Live Guest Relocation

Other CP/67 7x24 trivia. Initially moving to 7x24 was some amount of
chicken & egg. This was back in the days when machines were rented that
IBM charged based on the system "meter" ... that ran when ever the cpu
and/or any channels were operating ... and datacenters recovered their
costs with "use" charges. Initially there was little offshift use but in
order to encourage offshift use, the system had to be available at all
times. To minimize their offshift costs ... there was a lot of CP/67
work down to oeprate "dark room" w/o operator present ... and to have
special CCWs that allowed the channel to stop when nothing was going on
... but startup immediately when there was incoming characters (allowing
system be up and available but the system meter would stop when idle).

Note that for system meter to actually come to stop, cpu(s) and all
channels had to be completely idle for at least 400milliseconds.
trivia: long after business had moved from rent to purchase, MVS still
had a timer task that woke up every 400milliseconds making sure that if
system was IPL'ed, the system meter never stopped.

with regard to MVS killing VM370 product (with excuse they needed the
people to work on MVS/XA) ... the VM370 development group was out in the
old IBM SBC (service bureau corporation) in Burlington Mall (mass, after
outgrowing 3rd, 545tech sq space in cambridge). The shutdown/move plan
was to not notify the people until just before the move ... in order to
minimize the number that would escape. However the information leaked
early ... and a lot managed to escape to DEC (joke was major contributer
to the new DEC VAX/VMS system development was the head of POK). There
was then a witch hunt to find out the source of the leak ... fortunately
for me, nobody gave up the leaker.

past posts mentioning Future System product ... its demise (and
some mention of POK getting the VM370 product killed)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys

not long after that, I transferred from science center out to IBM San
Jose Research ... which was not long after US HONE datacenter
consolidation up in Palo Alto. One of my hobbies from time I originally
joined IBM was enhanced production operating systems for internal
datacenters ... and HONE was a long time customer from just about their
inception (and when started clones in other parts of the world, I would
get asked to go along for the install). I have some old email from HONE
about the head of POK telling them that they had to moved to MVS because
VM370 would no longer be supported on high-end POK processors (just
low-end and mid-range 370s from Endicott) ... and then later having to
retract the statements. past posts mentioning HONE
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
some old HONE related email
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#hone

in previous post I had mentioned VMSHARE ... TYMSHARE started offering
its CMS-based online computer conferencing, free to SHARE starting in
August1976. I cut a deal with TYMSHARE to get monthly distribution tape
of all VMSHARE (and later PCSHARE) files for putting up on internal IBM
systems (also available over the internal network) ... including HONE.
The biggest problem I had was from the lawyers that were afraid IBMers
would be contaminated by customer information. some old email
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#vmshare

another run in with the MVS group ... was that I was allowed to wander
around the San Jose area ... eventually getting to play disk engineer,
DBMS developer, HONE development, visit lots of customers, make
presentations at customer user group meetings, etc.

bldg. 14 disk enginner lab and bldg. 15 disk product test lab had "test
cells" with stand-alone, mainframe test time, prescheduled around the
clock.  They had once tried to run testing under MVS (for some
concurrent testing), but MVS had 15min MTBF in that environment
(requiring manual re-ipl). I offerred to rewrite input/output supervisor
to be bullet proof and never fail ... allowing for anytime, on-demand
concurrent testing greatly improving productivity. I then wrote up an
internal research report on all the work and happened to mention the MVS
15min MTBF ... which brought down the wrath of the MVS organization on
my head. It was strongly implied that they attempted to separate me from
the company and when they couldn't they would make things unpleasant in
other ways.

past posts getting to play disk engineer in bldgs. 14&15
http:///www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk

part of what I had to deal with was new 3380 ... another MVS story
... FE had developed regression test of 57 3380 errors that they would
typically expect in customer shops. Not long before 3380 customer ship,
MVS was failing (requiring reipol) in all 57 cases ... and in 2/3rds of
the cases there wasn't any indication of what caused the failure. old
email
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#email801015

While at SJR, I was also involved in the original SQL/relational
implementation, System/R. System/R was done on modified VM370 running on
370/145. The official next generation DBMS was EAGLE ... and while the
corporation was preoccupied with EAGLE, we managed to do tech transfer
"under the radar" to Endicott and get it released as SQL/DS.  Then when
EAGLE imploded, there was a request about how fast it would take to port
System/R to MVS. This was eventually released as DB2 (originally for
decision support only, note IMS was sort of database1 and EAGLE would
have been database2 ... but System/R becomes it replacement). past posts
mentioning System/R
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr

previous posts mentioned last product we did at IBM was HA/CMP, past
posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
We were also doing commercial cluster scaleup with RDBMS vendors
and scientific/technical cluster scaleup with national labs.
reference to Jan1992 meeting in Ellison's conference room
on commercial cluster scaleup
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13

within a few weeks of the Ellison meeting, cluster scaleup was
transferred to Kingston, announced as IBM supercomputer, and we were
told that we couldn't work on anything with more than four processors.
Likely contributing factor was that the (mainframe) DB2 group had been
complaining that if we were allowed to go ahead, it would be at least
five years ahead of them. A few months later we depart the company.
some old email
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa
17Feb1992 press, for scientific/technical "ONLY"
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters1
11May1992 press, surprised by national lab intersest
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters2

trivia: later two of the Oracle people (mentioned in the Ellison
meeting) have also left Oracle and are at a small client/server startup
responsible for something called the "commerce server". We are brought
in as consultants because they want to do payment transactions on their
server, the startup had also invented this technology they called "SSL"
they want to use ... the result is now frequently called "electronic
commerce".

note in this time-frame, IBM had gone into the red and was being
reorganized into the 13 "baby-blues" in preparation for breaking up the
company ... reference behind paywall, but lives (mostly) free at wayback
machine
http://web.archive.org/web/20101120231857/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,977353,00.html

although we had left the company, we get a call from the bowels of
Armonk asking if we can help with the breakup. Business units were using
MOUs to leverage supplied contracts that were frequently with other
divisions. With the breakup, these would be in other corporations and
the MOUs would have to be cataloged and turned into their own
contracts. before we get started, a new CEO is brought in and reverses
the breakup.

-- 
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970

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