Ed (and Tom), Well, to be honest, about a year ago I already suggested to try to migrate into an zVM 5.x. And just before we moved the VM 2.2 I did repeat that suggestion. But according to some it would be too much of a risk. I guess it's a political risk, not a technical risk. And besides that, we were given too little time to plan a test on zVM before the move. But that's just my opinion. If it was up to me we would be on 5.4 next week.
Anyway, as far as I can see it (I don have access to the detailed internals of the VM system) the only two risks would be ACF2 and VTUBES. And there is some external package I can't determine what risk it would have on zVM 5.4, I don't know if it is just CMS or that it does have some interaction that would require some VM/ESA level instead of zVM. ACF2 would require a new release and I don't know for sure what it would mean for VM 5.4 and VSE 2.3, if anything. But in all cases, we could just move the USER DIRECT into our host zVM 5.4 and try it. Perhaps we will try this in the next month but then we do need approval of those who are responsible for the service. Bottom line, the move of the system supposed to be as-is to minimize risks. For several reasons we now do not meet the requirements of the customer. Some were more or less expected but some realy do not meet our and their expectations. Regards, Berry. Edward M Martin schreef: > Hello Barry, > > I have been watching this thread. > > I agree with Tom. Why not have VSE 2.3 run under z/VM 5.4 and have > VM/ESA 2.2 run under z/VM 5.4 if need be? > > > Ed Martin > Aultman Health Foundation > 330-363-5050 > ext 35050 > > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On > Behalf Of Tom Duerbusch > Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 11:42 AM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: Third level VSE > > And what are the inhibitors that prevent you from running VSE 2.3 > directly under z/VM 5.4? > > I have VSE 2.3.2 running on z/VM 5.2 on a z/890. I've been toying with > the idea of upgrading VM this summer. Are there other products that are > running under VM/ESA 2.2 that need to be on the same VM system as the > VSE system? > > Tom Duerbusch > THD Consulting > > >
