Jon Perryman wrote: [ ... lots of interesting comparisions between z/OS and UNIX / Linux ... ]
Lets see, you wrote about disk management, Apps, CPU, Networking, Recovery, WLM, etc. Cool comparisions. Now I know. Thanks! ;-D Could you be kind to list the differences between these systems on Security? z/OS has RACF (or other ESM). What do you use in UNIX / Linux / other world for security? Audit trails? Product management? Intrusion detection? etc? >* UNIX: Backup and recovery utilities exist but an admin is often required to >perform recovery. In addition, recovery is often an interactive process (start >request / mount tape then repeat). What if the person responsible for this manual work has gone home to sleep? >z/OS improvements often go unnoticed. Indeed. Now and then a thread appears in IBM-MAIN about something which was actually implemented/announced years ago without the OP knowing it or just discovered it 'yesterday'. Example thread: BPX.DEFAULT.USER. >This dinosaur hasn't died yet and probably won't in the near future. Around 1990 and so when death of mainframe has been predicted [1], someone said to me: The technology to completely replace big iron has not been in place properly. Now, it is still, to my astonishment, somewhat true! Rather, new things evolved in the meantime. Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht [1] - I don't take any predictions seriously at all. I got tired/bored about those 'predictions' at every end of decades that the world will end or something like that. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
