I too, love CMS as a versatile platform for interactive and server tasks. But I just don't think that IBM will enhance the CMS environment for managing the VM system itself or the Linux guests that IBM is promoting. It will take third-party vendors to provide encryption capabilities, spool backup to disk utilities or adding IPP (Internet Printing Protocol) to RSCS (someone will suggest doing this with a crippled LPR hook into CUPS is a linux guest but that just doesn't match having IPP in RSCS directly).
/Tom Kern /301-903-2211 David Kreuter wrote:
Well Mike, I'm sure it's no surprise that I would never abandon CMS. It remains my first love. Wow. I haven't dealt with, or even though about this CMS as a single tasker versus multitasking debate in years. Remember when TSO lauded it over us that they could do multitasking? Who cares, CMS is way better! As far as linux being a utility to assist in VM management, let's see how it unfolds. It could be most useful. Pointing and clicking to do z/VM sysdamin doesn't interest me all that much, but I'm nothing if not open minded. What can I say I belive in skills. By the way I have been working the VM SSL piece and I don't find it that ugly. What I find way worse is training MS workstations to use the proper certificates. But then again I recently said that I liked RACFVM ... David
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