Sebastian Welton writes: >I presume that a z800 can be used for PWD use as I know of ISVs that use >rather larger systems but I doubt you would get the ADCD as these are >(were?) only for FLEX-ES based systems which means you're going to need >ESCON and tape drives.
Yes, a z800 is eligible for PWD, or so I've been told. ADCD is still OK except for initial z/OS.e load. I believe the z800 was the first DVD loading mainframe, and that works for z/VM and Linux. For z/OS.e, I've checked prices for tape drives (3490, 3590) on the secondary market, and they're quite reasonable. The 3590s seem plentiful right now, probably because of all the shops that upgraded to 3592s and TS1120s, including the encrypting TS1120s. >However even if this were possible, which I presume it is, I personally >would not want to run zOS.e for such a system. The only compiler is for >C/C++ which pretty much limits you to that and that only. And Java. That's OK for me, but your mileage may vary. There are also interpreted languages available like Perl, LotusScript, and, if eweek.com is correct, PHP. (PHP is already available, but eweek.com says that Zend will enter the support business for it.) And Assembler. I'll have to read the fine print, but the z/OS.e Web site says that the COBOL, PL/I, and FORTRAN compilers are not eligible. Maybe that still leaves BASIC, Pascal, RPG, and REXX compilers as options, but that's not an issue for me. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Specializing in Software Architectures Related to System z Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan and IBM Asia-Pacific E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
