On Sun, 14 Oct 2018 19:37:14 -0400, Don Poitras <[email protected]> wrote:
>In article <[email protected]> you wrote: >> On Sun, 14 Oct 2018 12:33:58 -0400, Mark Regan wrote: >> >https://it.toolbox.com/blogs/trevoreddolls/what-mainframers-hate-mainframes-101418 >> ... >> I believe there are sites running multiple Linux guests and using CMS only >> to support those guests. I asked on IBMVM whether such a site could discard >> CMS and the idiosyncratic skill set it requires and rely solely on Linux >> itself >> for support. Alan Altmark and others replied, emphatically, "No." > >If you're going to use z/VM to host z/Linux, then you'd need CMS as that's >required for z/VM. > That's the sort of dependency that can be removed via RFE. Tape drives used to be required for OS/360 and VM/370. > ... But you don't have to use z/VM, you could instead >use KVM and avoid CMS. I don't think KVM is anywhere near as good as >z/VM, but at least you avoid the learning curve. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
