Re: Running z/OS On Your Laptop

2011-05-17 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mike Schwab http://www.p390.com/pdf/zPDTPricingSheet120209.pdf is the prices for the hardware, dongle, and software discs. Compared to the 1996 pricing on a P/390, even the L3 offering here is CHEAP. Still beyond

Re: Running z/OS On Your Laptop

2011-05-17 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Field, Alan C. More like $US2330. The AUD is worth more than the USD now (www.xe.com). Yep, and The FED (Federal Reserve Bank), the world's only approved counterfeiter of US currency, is trying hard to make the USD

Re: Running z/OS On Your Laptop

2011-05-17 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
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Re: Running z/OS On Your Laptop

2011-05-17 Thread Chase, John
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Running z/OS On Your Laptop

2011-05-16 Thread Eric Bielefeld
I think there was a discussion about running z/OS on your laptop or other PC recently. There is an IBM 2 day workshop on that topic coming up on June 28. Unfortuneatly, it's in Melbourne, Australia. Shane - maybe you're interested. The link is: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/workshops

Re: Running z/OS On Your Laptop

2011-05-16 Thread Wayne Bickerdike
They are charging $2200 for a two day workshop! On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 1:17 AM, Eric Bielefeld eric-ibmm...@wi.rr.com wrote: I think there was a discussion about running z/OS on your laptop or other PC recently.  There is an IBM 2 day workshop on that topic coming up on June 28

Re: Running z/OS On Your Laptop

2011-05-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 17 May 2011 06:04:43 +1000, Wayne Bickerdike wrote: They are charging $2200 for a two day workshop! That's a fraction of what z/OS costs otherwise. Do participants get to keep it?  http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/workshops/GR0422?Open -- gil

Re: Running z/OS On Your Laptop

2011-05-16 Thread Mike Schwab
$2200 for a two day workshop! On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 1:17 AM, Eric Bielefeld eric-ibmm...@wi.rr.com wrote: I think there was a discussion about running z/OS on your laptop or other PC recently.  There is an IBM 2 day workshop on that topic coming up on June 28.  Unfortuneatly, it's

Re: Running z/OS On Your Laptop

2011-05-16 Thread Steve Comstock
such a course. :-) On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 1:17 AM, Eric Bielefelderic-ibmm...@wi.rr.com wrote: I think there was a discussion about running z/OS on your laptop or other PC recently. There is an IBM 2 day workshop on that topic coming up on June 28. Unfortuneatly, it's in Melbourne, Australia

Re: Running z/OS On Your Laptop

2011-05-16 Thread Steve Comstock
On 5/16/2011 2:11 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Tue, 17 May 2011 06:04:43 +1000, Wayne Bickerdike wrote: They are charging $2200 for a two day workshop! That's a fraction of what z/OS costs otherwise. Do participants get to keep it? http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/workshops/GR0422?Open --

Re: Running z/OS On Your Laptop

2011-05-16 Thread Field, Alan C.
More like $US2330. The AUD is worth more than the USD now (www.xe.com). -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 15:25 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Running z/OS On Your Laptop

Re: Running z/OS On Your Laptop

2011-05-16 Thread Steve Comstock
. :-) Thanks. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 15:25 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Running z/OS On Your Laptop On 5/16/2011 2:04 PM, Wayne Bickerdike wrote: They are charging $2200

Re: Running z/OS On Your Laptop

2011-05-16 Thread Ron Hawkins
Steve, I think you need to update your exchange rates. AUD$2200 is around US$2328. Ron On 5/16/2011 2:04 PM, Wayne Bickerdike wrote: They are charging $2200 for a two day workshop! That's Australian dollars, though. About USD 2077. Per person. Yup, a little pricey. If we had such a

Re: Running z/OS On Your Laptop

2011-05-16 Thread Shane Ginnane
LOL - I don't think so. Would take a lot more than that is offering to convince me to fork out my hard earned to go to Melbourne at this time of year. Shane ... On Tue, May 17th, 2011 at 1:17 AM, Eric Bielefeld wrote: I think there was a discussion about running z/OS on your laptop or other

Re: Running z/OS On Your Laptop

2011-05-16 Thread Wayne Bickerdike
It doesn't look like you come away with much at all: Day 1 : is a very detailed lecture (and demonstrations) of zPDT and a little z/OS. No student RDzUT or tokens or disks are involved. If students have a laptop with (1) wireless connection and (2) a 3270 emulator, they may connect to my zPDT

Re: Running z/OS On Your Laptop

2011-05-16 Thread Dan Skomsky, PSTI
] On Behalf Of Eric Bielefeld Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 10:18 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Running z/OS On Your Laptop I think there was a discussion about running z/OS on your laptop or other PC recently. There is an IBM 2 day workshop on that topic coming up on June 28. Unfortuneatly, it's

Re: Running z/OS On Your Laptop

2011-05-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 16 May 2011 18:12:18 -0500, Dan Skomsky, PSTI wrote: I know it isn't perfect, but Hercules with MVS 3.8J doesn't look too bad when you consider the cost, free. The combo runs just fine on a laptop even using MS VPC 2K7 to hold the Hercules guest O/S. A few unanswerable questions: How

Re: Running z/OS On Your Laptop

2011-05-16 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Is IBM motivated to retain its mainframe customers on z/OS? I used to believe they were! Now? - Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca Twitter: @TedMacNEIL -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: Running z/OS On Your Laptop

2011-05-16 Thread Dan Skomsky, PSTI
a matter of time... -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 6:40 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Running z/OS On Your Laptop Is IBM motivated to retain its mainframe customers on z/OS? I

Re: Running z/OS On Your Laptop

2011-05-16 Thread John McKown
On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 18:33 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Mon, 16 May 2011 18:12:18 -0500, Dan Skomsky, PSTI wrote: I know it isn't perfect, but Hercules with MVS 3.8J doesn't look too bad when you consider the cost, free. The combo runs just fine on a laptop even using MS VPC 2K7 to hold

Re: Running z/OS On Your Laptop

2011-05-16 Thread Tony Harminc
On 16 May 2011 20:03, John McKown joa...@swbell.net wrote: Oh, well, personally, I like the ARM architecture. But it is very fragmented right now. I have an architecture book on ARM v6. And much of it has the note of IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED on things which are not specifically mandated. I

Re: Running z/OS On Your Laptop

2011-05-16 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
poodles...@sbcglobal.net (Dan Skomsky, PSTI) writes: It is obvious IBM has a different direction they are pursuing. I have been re-hosting CICS applications onto Windows platforms for over ten years. From what I have seen, all the smaller accounts have been converted with only the Big Boys