On 6/23/10 6:51 PM, "Rich Smrcina" <r...@velocitysoftware.com> wrote:
> On 06/23/2010 05:43 PM, Howard Rifkind wrote: >> >> A friend of mine stated that CICS can run native under z/VM with z/OS >> being present. There was a CICS/VM about 20 years back that did not require a guest OS, however it was withdrawn ages ago. There are apocryphal stories that it was withdrawn because there were fears in IBM that if such a thing existed, it would somehow hurt CICS sales on the other operating systems. I still have paper manuals for it, and it was very popular with universities in the Higher Ed Software Consortium because it was a lot less difficult to use to teach CICS programming with it, and it was dirt cheap compared to running a VSE or MVS guest. You also could only crash your own virtual machine, instead of screwing up everybody's work... -- db
