Gord Tomlin wrote:
>AFAICT the sole reason for the (paid) hardware feature is to provide
>entitlement.
>My guess as to why they require this feature is that you can run a lot
>of FOSS products in zCX that offer similar function to IBM products.
>Unfettered free use of zCX could be very costly to IBM.
That's a bad guess.(*) To the extent you can do that, you can already
(also) do that without zCX. Moreover, z/OS isn't Feature Code 0104's only
beneficiary. For that matter, Feature Code 0104 ("Container Hosting
Foundation") is also available for IBM LinuxONE II and LinuxONE III
machines, and z/OS isn't.
(*) And backwards, ironically.
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Timothy Sipples
I.T. Architect Executive
Digital Asset & Other Industry Solutions
IBM Z & LinuxONE
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