Ok, I've reread the announcement letter. I see my confusion... The z/196 supports Power Blades. And Power Blades support i5 (the operating system formerly known as i5.OS or OS/400). It doesn't mean that z/196 has the support for the i5 OS. Which is kind of strange. Is this a licensing issue where IBM couldn't get a license for i5 to run on the z/196? Different divisions have their own chiefs.... Or is it that there is some emulation involved with running i5 on POWER that isn't available on the z/196? Or is it that there are some device drivers, performance metrics that can't be obtained, or something, that means i5 isn't available for production, at this time? Oh well.... I guess that is why there hasn't been any chatter on the forums about this. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting
>>> zMan <zedgarhoo...@gmail.com> 11/24/2010 2:59 PM >>> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Tom Duerbusch <duerbus...@stlouiscity.com> wrote: > This being a pseudo Friday in the USA due to Thanksgiving holidays.... > > Does anyone have any experience with the AS/400 support in the z/196 box? > Yep, I know it is a separate processor/memory and connected somehow, in some > sort of internal network....but.. Did I miss something? ISTR that the Power blades supported AIX but not iOS. -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it"
