Jovial! Lord I miss working with that, and CMS-2Q too. :)
Anyways, have you looked at the used market? You can pick up a used
z800 o a z890 for a sweet deal these days, often well under $100K. z/
VM is available to license for those machines at a pretty good cost,
and you can always negotiate a discount.
Since you don't need to run z/OS, z9's are available with a couple
IFL's for the sub $500K mark, with DASD. (You definitely have to
negotiate that...)
Or if you can run under MVS, look at hosting it on Hercules under
Intel Linux. Very cheap!
-Paul
On Aug 21, 2008, at 4:49 PM, Karl Severson wrote:
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
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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
