Re: IBM z/196 and AS/400

2010-11-29 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 11/24/2010 at 04:32 EST, McBride, Catherine cmcbr...@kable.com wrote: IOS runs fine on the PS701 Express Blade server which is the Blade shipped with zBX. However, the integrated management modules (Zmanager) may not yet support IOS. At this time, the zBX supports only AIX 5.3

IBM z/196 and AS/400

2010-11-24 Thread Tom Duerbusch
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 networkbut.. Can we share devices, like we do

Re: IBM z/196 and AS/400

2010-11-24 Thread zMan
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

Re: IBM z/196 and AS/400

2010-11-24 Thread zMan
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 4:05 PM, McBride, Catherine cmcbr...@kable.com wrote: Power Blades support IOS But do they on a zBX? I don't see that in the docs I'm looking at (of course, it may have changed, too). -- zMan -- I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it

Re: IBM z/196 and AS/400

2010-11-24 Thread McBride, Catherine
: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 3:16 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: IBM z/196 and AS/400 On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 4:05 PM, McBride, Catherine cmcbr...@kable.com wrote: Power Blades support IOS But do they on a zBX? I don't see that in the docs I'm looking at (of course, it may have changed, too

Re: IBM z/196 and AS/400

2010-11-24 Thread zMan
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 4:32 PM, McBride, Catherine cmcbr...@kable.com wrote: IOS runs fine on the PS701 Express Blade server which is the Blade shipped with zBX.  However, the integrated management modules (Zmanager) may not yet support IOS. Right, that was my point. Without real support,

Re: IBM z/196 and AS/400

2010-11-24 Thread Tom Duerbusch
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

Re: IBM z/196 and AS/400

2010-11-24 Thread Kris Buelens
A goal of the zBX is that the virtual servers on it are all managed by the HCM. That is: virtual machine can be defined, started, etc. This requires hooks in the hypervisor. And, that's the reason why not everything that might run on these blades natively isn't supported on the zBX. If the