On Fri, 10 Apr 2020 11:20:10 +1000, Wayne Bickerdike wrote: >It's legal to run z enabled Linux on Hercules. Not sure what you would >achieve over just running Linux on Wintel but interesting in that you may >then have marketable skills for a real z shop. > Testing programs for z-compatibility. The most obvious pitfalls arise from endianness and type-punning.
I understand that some Hercules principals believe they could implement STP and ICSF, not well documented in the PoOps, but choose not to because of possible legal entanglements. >You can run mainframe Linuxes without fear of the license police. RHEL and >SLES are battle-hardened supported commercial editions. Of course there are >also free-of-cost mainframe Linuxes: > > - Fedora s390x <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/s390x> > - Debian s390 <http://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/> > - Gentoo <http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/where.xml> > - Centos <https://www.centos.org/>, using RHEL instructions > > <https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/pt-install-info-s390.html> > - openSUSE <http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Hercules_s390_emulation%22> > > >On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 10:09 AM Arthur <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 9 Apr 2020 16:23:35 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main >> (Message-ID:<[email protected]>) >> [email protected] (Bob Bridges) wrote: >> >> >This is new to me. I've heard of Hercules, but I never >> >heard that it is considered, or that IBM would like it to >> >be considered, an illegal counterfeit. Is there any >> >ethical reason for that viewpoint? No, forget "ethical"; >> >I guess I can make up my own mind about that (and there'll >> >never be a consensus on it). Is there any ~legal~ basis >> >for the assertion? >> >> My understanding is that Hercules is perfectly legal and >> ethical. However, running an unlicensed, copyright >> operating system (such as z/OS) is quite a different story. >> So, as people said, running MVS 3.8 under Hercules is fine, >> but any later OS is problematic. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
