Dave, I would encourage you to contact some folks at NIU about PeopleSoft. We recently migrated from our own in-house solution which we called webconnect to peoplesoft, mostly to facilitate the surplussing of our ESA/390s and it has been ghastly. We have ended up with scores of students forced to delay their graduation. Others have had other problems. My advice: If you go PeopleSoft, get their analysts in a room, lock the door, and beat them with a clue-bat for about 2 weeks before you let them go.
Erik Johnson On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Shockley, Gerard C <gsh...@bu.edu> wrote: > > Dave, > > Been running Oracle on Z in prod coming up on 2 years. > We can SHARE any experiences with you. > > Gerard C. Shockley > Boston University > gsh...@bu.edu > > 617.353.9898 (w) > 617.353.6171 (f) > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of > Dodds, Jim > Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 8:51 AM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: In an LPAR once again? > > Dave, > > As for running Banner and Oracle on Z/Linux you may want to talk to > Marist. They are currently working on doing just that. We were hoping to > get to work with them on that, because we too think it is a good idea > but also here the Administration says we won't be running that on a > mainframe. They have told us not to even pursue it. As far as I know > Marist is the only one to even attempt it. Every time we asked Banner > about it they said they don't support it and no one seems to want it. I > am sure that when Marist gets it working, Banner will change their mind > and support it. > > Jim Dodds > Systems Programmer > Kentucky State University > 400 East Main Street > Frankfort, Ky 40601 > 502 597 6114 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of > Gibney, Dave > Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2009 12:59 AM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: In an LPAR once again? > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of >> David Boyes >> Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2009 1:08 PM >> To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU >> Subject: Re: In an LPAR once again? >> >> On 5/11/09 7:33 PM, "Gibney, Dave" <gib...@wsu.edu> wrote: >> >> > I may have some interest in zLinux around here. The usual caveat > of >> > [snip] >> > Good idea? Or am I making it more complicated than I need to? >> > Dave Gibney >> > Information Technology Services >> > Washington State University >> >> Well, it would certainly be cool to have WSUVM1 alive again...8-) > > Well, I pretty sure that's what we'd call it :) > > Unfortunately, I don't think our heydays of the past hold much with > the IBM of today. Of course, I'm not even remotely a holder of purse > strings. And the only way I'll be able to sell zVM and zLinux is by > showing without any real doubt that it is a cost effective platform to > implement potential planned ERP solution(s). And the funding for ERP is > likely 2 years out. Our state funding was cut 21% for 2009-2011. After > taking about a 10% cut this year. > > As for academic ventures, WSU's Computer Science department became a > program under the College of Engineering quite sometime ago. I'm also > suffering under the myth that no one is teaching "mainframe" anymore. > (As an aside, I sorta resent perception. In my day :) you didn't get > taught or trained much, we just dam well did the work :) > > In the few moments I can spare from keeping our z/OS system going and > maintained (I'm still running 1.7 in the important LPARs), I need to > show that Oracle (database and applications(ERP will likely be Banner or > Peoplesoft) runs well on zLinux and that zLinux under zVM is cost > effective in a major way over HP or Sun or other Intell farms. > > By the way, I never intended to imply that we would never buy zVM or > additional zHardware and that I wanted to do this on the sly in the long > run. I just have some (longish) short term delay. We had to cut out the > Watson newsletter and are seriously looking at any way to save some > pennies :( > We're also very short handed do to the budget and other problems. > > P.S. It's been awhile Dave, I've often wondered if you were the same > Dave Boyes that spent some time here. The 3090's been gone a long time > now. > > > >> >> Given WSU's historical relationship with IBM, I would suspect that if > you >> asked IBM for a loaner copy of z/VM, one would appear for a long > period of >> time. I think that while you *could* do VM->LPAR, it would probably be > >> less hassle and more productive to try to negotiate a long-term loan. >> >> -- db >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send >> email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 > or >> visit >> http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
