I don't really see much of a problem here. Since the IFL engines can't be mixed with S/390 engines. You end up running the S/390 in seperate LPARs from the IFL engines.
Buy the new box. Move your current z/VM 3 on the S/390 engines. Install z/VM 4.2 on the IFL side. Do the Linux proof of concept, on the IFL side. You may, at this time, when you buy z/VM 4 for the IFL engines, also buy it for the S/390 engines and run your z/VM 3 under SVC for up to a year. BTW, we got z/VM 4.2 a lot cheaper than $45K when we bought a MP3000. If we would have known to bid our current VSE operating system at that time, we could have received a discount on VSE/ESA for the first year also. I don't know if z/OS can be discounted or not. But in any case, find out before you sign the deal on the hardware. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Ann Smith wrote: > Alan Altmark posted that z/VM 3 can't run in IFL engines. This is not > good news for us. We are currently running VM on a machine that can't > run z/VM 4. We are looking at getting newer machine with an IFL engine. > We wanted to do a Linux proof of concept on the new machine, on the IFL > to isolate the linux workload. > If z/VM 3 can't run on an IFL we'll have to upgrade VM - but after we > get the new machine since our current machine can't run z/VM 4. > So my question is can z/VM 3 really not run in an IFL, or is this > another license issue? We already are pursuing RACF licensing and I now > see we'll need a special bid for RSCS NJE and/or Passthru. Can the z/VM > issue also be pursued as a licensing issue or is this one real?
