Geeezz....take a day off and the discussion gets completely out of control!
First, no one was whining as far as I can tell. We all have pretty high expectations of VM now, and more often than not, it meets them. I'm not complaining about z/VM 5.2.0 in any way. We signed up for the early testing knowing that problems would happen. Its why IBM likes us to be involved. For the period of time we had it running, the system simply screamed! 500 Linux systems booting in minutes rather than hours, paging extremely low....just what we are looking for. I'm confident when we get past this one problem, we will be very happy with 5.2.0. Ed and other folks who have very high availability requirements should be forewarned, however, so they can make informed decisions. CP 5.2.0 represents one of the biggest changes in VM in many years and there is bound to be a shake out period. Those who have to be very conservative might want to give it alittle time before jumping onto it. 5.1.0 is very stable. Martha
