I need some advice and hopefully someone on this list serve has already tackled the problem I’m having. We run our IBM systems solely to suppor t the U.S. Air Force Jovial J73 compiler and its assorted toolset. The compiler was originally written to run on MVS but it was tweaked for us t o run on VM in 370 mode back in the mid 1980’s. Needless to say we are
running unsupported software, in our case VM/ESA 2.3 so as a result we aren’t running any modern big IBM iron either. My organization is considering re-hosting Jovial on some sort of Windows platform but I’d like to keep this an IBM operation if at all possible. We also heavily use Uni x, Linux and Windows on other platforms. To offset some of the cost of a new system (z9 at a minimum) maybe it could do double or triple duty replacin g some of those other platforms. Of my options, which would be the most efficient? The latest zVM with a VM/ESA guest? The latest zOS with a VM/ESA guest? Some other combination? Or, heaven forbid, go with re-hosting to Windows? I’m not worried about putting myself out of a job. I’ve already retired once and am just doin g some contractor work at the place I retired from. ;-) Thanks in advance. Karl Severson IBM VM System Administrator Raytheon Company El Segundo, California
