On Monday, 01/09/2006 at 06:50 EST, Gregg C Levine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just how easy now is it to setup a completely new z/VM and Linux > system? Or did I miss the meaning behind the thread?
Well, it's pretty easy (now) to get the system up and running. The Getting Started book helps you learn a lot of what you have to do to keep it running (even if you don't use DirMaint!), but it doesn't cover everything. Even experienced sysprogs end up writing tools to help them do things that are hard to remember or repetitive. Examples: - Do you have the PTF for APAR VM12345 applied? Is it running right now in production? - Quick, what do you do when you get a "spool 80% full" message? There are things a systems programmer must do and then there are things administrators do. The line between the two is fuzzy, at best, but I like to think that "a sysprog bails out the sysadmin when the admin tools quit working". That is, the sysprog must know something about the system's architecture and how to get things done. E.g. "Just IPL with NODIRECT and use DEFINE MDISK" is not something I would let a sysadmin do. My point was that IBM Virtualization Engine is currently geared towards sysadmins, not sysprogs, though both jobs may be done by the same person. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
