It is also my understanding that you have to buy another VM license to run guests under your IFL engine when you get it. The IFL VM will have to talk to the NON-IFL VM via an intra-LPAR communications technique.
>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? -- Rod Clayton KA3BHY Systems Programmer Howard County Public Schools [EMAIL PROTECTED]
