Thank-you Jim you have given me a definite answer.
Now I know it pointless talking to the procurement team about going down
this path.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Elliott, IBM" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 12:38 AM
Subject: Re: z/VM 6.1 and Hercules on Z9
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
