Tom Huegel <[email protected]> wrote :-

> Does anyone run applications in z/VM?  :-

Speaking for ourselves - yes. We recently did an exercise to look at the 
support effort required to maintain our VM system and came to the 
conclusion that at least 80% was related to local applications and local 
code function. This in an installation where the primary purpose of VM is 
to host and support guest (TPF) systems.

However, even if we ran no local applications, and only supported guest 
operating systems, the power of Vm to access data is so great that access 
really does need to be controlled.

We would never consider running VM without an ESM (RACF in our case) and 
the auditors would skin us alive if we tried.



Colin Allinson
VM Systems Support
Amadeus Data Processing GmbH

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