Tim, Your statement " VOS3 does not run on today's IBM Z machines" appears to be at odds with the 2017 IBM announcement.
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/52454.wss The Hitachi AP series is the IBM z14. Ron Hawkins Director, Ipsicsopt Pty Ltd (ACN: 627 705 971) | m: +61 400029610 | h: +61 387399252 | email: [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples Sent: Friday, 25 January 2019 18:45 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] how many OSes run on IBMz Parwez Hamid wrote: >IBM itself doesn't distribute LINUX. IBM doesn't distribute Linux yet. If IBM's pending acquisition of Red Hat completes, that'll change. >Hitachi’s operating system, VOS Hitachi's operating system is now called VOS3/XS in its latest iteration, introduced in 2018. VOS3/XS runs on the new Hitachi AP10000 model machines, also introduced in 2018. IBM is Hitachi's system technology partner, but VOS3 does not run on today's IBM Z machines. VOS3 runs on Hitachi's machines. The latest Hitachi AP10000 is a "cousin" to the IBM z14 ZR1. Historically, for a couple IBM Z model cycles and with a little adaptation, VOS3 did run quite well on IBM Z machines. It was VOS3/LS back then, if I'm correct about vintages. Hitachi built the IBM z800 model for the global market (including Japan) using IBM processors, and Hitachi also built a variant of that model for Japan to run VOS3/LS, the VOS3 update introduced in 2002 that incorporated a very little bit of 64-bit-ness. I think there was enough VOS3/LS compatibility in the IBM z800, z890, and z9BC (those three models as I recall) so that it'd run well on the IBM machines, with a bit of adjustment. Bernd Oppolzer wrote: >MUSIC/SP, but I don't know MUSIC/SP would have some problems starting up on an IBM z14 machine, but I suspect it'd still run under z/VM with SET MACH ESA. It'd have to be MUSIC/SP 6.1 or higher, and you would need permission from its copyright holders. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM Z & LinuxONE E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
