Excellent! I hope congratulations aren't premature. At this point compatibility is really a non issue, pretty much any thing you want to do can be done (of course within reason). You really want to pay attention to performance topics. There are lots of performance documentation available and SHARE and the upcoming WAVV conference will get into it was well.
Best of luck in your meeting. Now that you've set the stage, we're all waiting for the answer... :) On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 12:56, James Melin wrote: > I think we are finally going to go ahead with serious penguin power. > > I am going to a meeting shortly at which we will discuss a rather broad > agenda item: > > estimate a time line for the installation and implementation of z/VM, Linux > guests, DB2 Connect or Neon JDBC driver, WebSphere Application Server, RACF > support for Linux admin IDs and Websphere user IDs, LPARs on the z800, disk > space and disk backup > > > If anyone has any input to this, please feel free to touch on any of these > things. I dont expec an answer by the time I hit the meeting but if I have > some experienecs on people going from a couple of LPARS to whole hog into > VM, that would be helpful. Pitfalls, etc, and things like that. > > I have been the sole support/clueless idiot wandering in the wasteland for > z/Linux here for almost 4 years. Playing without a net, and learning as I > go. Finally I have an opportunity to get the rest of the z/os team on board > to this operating system. Once they learn to speak penguin, I think their > exceptional skills will be nothing short of empowering for us all. > > Any experiences, pitfalls that befell you, and cautionary tales are > welcome. > > Thanks > > -J > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- Rich Smrcina Sr. Systems Engineer DSG eServer & Linux Solutions Milwaukee, WI rsmrcina at wi.rr.com rsmrcina at dsgroup.com Catch the WAVV! Stay for requirements and the free-for-all. Update your zSeries skills in 4 days for a very reasonable price. WAVV 2004 in Chattanooga, TN April 30-May 4, 2004 For details see http://www.wavv.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
