Say what you will about VM, but it sure makes a Disaster Recovery test a lot easier.
> virtualize addresses to match 'back home' > virtualize CPUID to keep from playing ISV games to come up > faster than building up an LPAR image, but I could be wrong on that one If anything, there ought to be a Z/VM lite to support Linux and to help reduce costs... Daniel McLaughlin ZOS Systems Programmer Crawford & Company PH: 770 621 3256 * Don't ping my cheese with your bandwidth. (Scott Adams) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html