I recently saw a list question about current use of CMS for application execution. While years ago this was hardly unusual, CMS production usage has obviously declined (and that's too bad!). Nevertheless, I suggested an article about this for Destination z website and posted a preliminary query to the VM list.
I received a few responses about CMS usage along with suggestions for the article's potential orientation. One comment noted that although traditional CMS workloads (e.g., Profs/OfficeVision, interactive personal computing, application execution) had indeed declined, CMS was still widely used for two critical functions: service virtual machines (SVMs) and and configuring virtual machines for Linux. While service machines have been a powerful component since VM's introduction, today's communication, execution, and hypervisor functions far exceed what might even have been imagined in the early days. So I'd appreciate comments along these lines (and any others you think of!): * How is CMS used for its traditional workloads? * How have SVM-enabling facilities evolved, what are your most critical/powerful/innovative SVM functions? * How does CMS enable/facilitate introducing, supporting, and scaling Linux usage? Please copy responses to me directly so they're not buried in list digests. Unless specified otherwise, I'll assume that comments are for publication; please indicate if they can't be used verbatim. Destination z editor strongly prefers comments to be attributed by name, title, and affiliation; they can be anonymized if necessary. Thanks! -- Gabriel Goldberg, Computers and Publishing, Inc. [email protected] 3401 Silver Maple Place, Falls Church, VA 22042 (703) 204-0433 LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/gabegold Twitter: GabeG0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
