That's really too bad about the traditional CMS workloads not being allowed on IFLs. We have 5 z990 machines (some in some coming) averaging 20 something engines each; that's just the production data center - the other has another set of z990s in & planned. Our traditional VM workload would fit nicely on an engine or 2 but we'd be nuts to pay to license VM on 25 engines and use it on 1. So it sits on 9672's, stuck in 31bit land until who knows when.. The benefits of server consolidation don't seem to apply to VM itself. It seems most of the other sw vendors allow mips based sw licenses and would allow it.
We do read z/OS datasets directly & safely. We put data on "pass through" volumes and look at them read only from VM. Those are the only MVS volumes genned to both sides. Marcy Cortes (415) 243-6343 "This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation." -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 12:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] COBOL on Linux On Friday, 07/30/2004 at 02:17 AST, David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you have lots of VS COBOL or COBOL II programs, you may also want > to consider whether you should use CMS COBOL instead of COBOL on > Linux. The CMS COBOL compilers run fine on IFLs. It'd take a special > bid from IBM, but that's not a big deal these days, they're used to > it. It'd be a lot less conversion work, and the debugging tools are MUCH better on CMS. > You'd also still have the ability to read z/OS datasets directly w/o > going through the NFS overhead. We would most likely reject such a request. We're flexible about software that is used to meet your systems management and productivity needs, but running COBOL applications to process business data is outside the bounds of what an IFL was designed to do (run Linux apps). Read z/OS datasets directly? <delicate cough> Use caution. It certain environments it creates a security problem, not to mention possible data integrity issues. Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
