On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:03:59 +1000, Graeme Moss <[email protected]> wrote:
>The company I work for is very tight with money (eg they don't pay me wh at I >would like to receive) and the section I work for (Software Factory) onl y >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 onl y >has a z9 to run on. > >Questions >1/ Do you think z/VM 6.1 could be installed under Hercules under Linux o n a >z9 ? >2/ Do you think IBM would allow it since it is not production? > >Graeme Graeme: IBM will NOT license z/VM V6 on a z9 (production or otherwise). While Hercules running on Linux on System z may allow it to work, doing this wo uld be a violation of the license. I don't think you want to put your employe r into this position. Until we ship the new function that was in the Statements of Direction in the z/VM V6.1 preview, there is only a minor functional difference you ne ed to worry about between z/VM V5.4 and z/VM V6.1 (see the preview). You cou ld run z/VM V5.4 on your z9 and z/VM V6.1 on your z10 and doing any regressi on testing on a small z/VM V6.1 image on the z10. Now when we deliver this n ew function, if you want/need to use it, you will need to roll the developme nt machine to a z10. Jim
