This is not a Flex issue, PWD members are currently running z/VM Version
5 under Flex. The software is not the problem, this is a licensing
problem. IBM will not license z/VM Version 5 for Flex customers. You
need to contact IBM. Once this is resolved a great many customers will
be very happy.
This will soon affect the VSE crowd as well. Although z/VSE currently
supports pre-z hardware, it is inevitable that z/VSE will be zSeries only.
Dave Jones wrote:
Hi, Nob.
Since you can not order z/VM 4.x any longer from IBM, I would suggest
that you contact FLEX and see if you can not work out some sort of
agreement that would let you run z/VM 5.x on your FLEX-ES system. To the
best of my knowledge there is no technical reason why z/VM 5.1 would not
run, unless it has something to do with FLEX's support of VM in a 64 bit
environment.
Good luck in any case.
DJ
namueller wrote:
I have to install a new application, which is only supported under z/VM
4 or z/VM 5, on a FLEX-ES box. Today we are using VM/ESA 2.4.
Now i can't order z/VM 4 because this Version was withdrawn from markt
at end of march 2006.
z/VM 5 is not allowed for using on a FLEX-ES box.
Any idea is very much appreciated.
Nob.
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