z/VM 6.1 and Hercules on Z9

[Graeme Moss]

The company I work for is very tight with money (eg they don't pay me what I 
would like to receive) and the section I work for (Software Factory) only 
gets hand-me-down mainframes. I can see the situation arising where our 
clients who are on a z10 will want z/VM 6.1 but the Software Factory only 
has a z9 to run on.

Questions
1/ Do you think z/VM 6.1 could be installed under Hercules under Linux on a 
z9 ?
2/ Do you think IBM would allow it since it is not production?
Graeme