On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:30:45 -0700, Kurt Eastwood <kurtms...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>I hope those of your who have experience with Linux on the mainframe would be wiling to share your expertise. >My boss has asked me to find out anything I can about running Linux on the mainframe. >Is anyone running Linux on their mainframe? Lots. Check out my Linux on System z presentation at http://ibm.com/vm/devpages/jelliott/events.html (under the Central Ontario Users Group). >If so, how are you running it? standalone? under zos? etc? Linux runs under z/VM (or a few customers run directly in an LPAR). z/OS does not provide virtualization to run a Linux guest. >How is installation and maintenance of Linux and system while running Linux on mainframe? Maintenance is similar to running Linux on any other platform. >Are there any good Redbooks or other documentation on installing and running Linux on the mainframe? Loads, just search at http://ibm.com/redbooks. There are cookbooks there for installing both Red hat and Novell SLE. >Are there any training course on doing this? Go to SHARE or the IBM System z University (formerly Expo) where hands-on labs are run as well as lots of other sessions. Also, IBM and several of our partners run seminars around the world (not just in Poughkeepsie). >Any gotchas running Linux on the mainframe? As compared to what? Linux is a LOT different from z/OS but if you know Linux (or UNIX) from the "distributed" world, it is not a big learning curve, as long as you have someone who understands System z hardware. >Any good/great experiences or bad experiences running Linux on the mainframe? I will leave this to customers to respond. Jim Elliott >Anything anyone would like to contribute would be greatly appreciated. >Thanks, >Kurt >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO >Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
