Re: NEW TOPIC -- Workload move from z/OS to z/Series Linux

2008-02-01 Thread David Boyes
> Has anyone actually moved workload from z/OS to z/Linux? Yes. Application development and testing, some DB/2 work, Oracle as several people have mentioned, document conversion (PSF to ), dataset compression and encryption, archive conversion, Websphere work. How much more do you want? 8-)

Re: NEW TOPIC -- Workload move from z/OS to z/Series Linux

2008-02-01 Thread John Summerfield
RPN01 wrote: We've moved IBI's I-Way and WebFocus from z/OS to Linux on zSeries, and actually got an improvement in performance. I was just beginning to wonder about performance. I think a brief performance assessment from those who've done it would be beneficial. Improved performance is nice,

Re: NEW TOPIC -- Workload move from z/OS to z/Series Linux

2008-02-01 Thread Steve Mitchell
Alan, we moved our entire WebSphere (JAVA applications) environment from z/OS to z/Linux. Saved a bunch on liscensing, we already possed the distributed WAS liscenses. Nearly all of our our current java apps do little more than replace 3270 screens,(no heavy cpu intensive work) most of the data a

Re: NEW TOPIC -- Workload move from z/OS to z/Series Linux

2008-02-01 Thread RPN01
We've moved IBI's I-Way and WebFocus from z/OS to Linux on zSeries, and actually got an improvement in performance. (We also moved I-Way and WebFocus from a Solaris box to Linux on zSeries and got better than 60% performance improvement. Not germane to your question, but possibly interesting...) W

Re: NEW TOPIC -- Workload move from z/OS to z/Series Linux

2008-02-01 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
Hi Alan. We have moved about 3 small and 2 large Oracle applications over from z/OS. Mary Anne On Jan 31, 2008 8:56 PM, Alan Ackerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My original topic was completely hijacked by disucssion of ZIIPS and > ZAAP so I am going to try again. > > Please no more ZIIPs and Z

Re: NEW TOPIC -- Workload move from z/OS to z/Series Linux

2008-01-31 Thread Hubert Kleinmanns
- Workload move from z/OS to z/Series Linux > > My original topic was completely hijacked by disucssion of ZIIPS and > ZAAP so I am going to try again. > > Please no more ZIIPs and ZAAPs. (Frankly, my dear, ...) > > Has anyone actually moved workload from z/OS to z/Linux?

Re: NEW TOPIC -- Workload move from z/OS to z/Series Linux

2008-01-31 Thread Marcy Cortes
" -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Ackerman Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 5:56 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [LINUX-390] NEW TOPIC -- Workload move from z/OS to z/Series Linux My original topic was completely hijac

Re: NEW TOPIC -- Workload move from z/OS to z/Series Linux

2008-01-31 Thread Adam Thornton
On Jan 31, 2008, at 7:56 PM, Alan Ackerman wrote: Has anyone actually moved workload from z/OS to z/Linux? Yes. Yes, people have. It usually happens for licensing reasons. Either because IFLs are cheaper than CPs or because Linux licensing, even on Z, follows the vendor's Open Systems licens

Re: NEW TOPIC -- Workload move from z/OS to z/Series Linux

2008-01-31 Thread Daryl Hoffman
We are currently working on moving our home grown 3270 application from z/OS to a MFL environment using WAS 6.1, DB2 and a workflow engine from Fujitsu (Interstage iBPM). It will be a J2EE enabled application. We are also moving some of our 3270 traffic for mainframe connections to Linux using HA

NEW TOPIC -- Workload move from z/OS to z/Series Linux

2008-01-31 Thread Alan Ackerman
My original topic was completely hijacked by disucssion of ZIIPS and ZAAP so I am going to try again. Please no more ZIIPs and ZAAPs. (Frankly, my dear, ...) Has anyone actually moved workload from z/OS to z/Linux? So far I got only one response, someone who moved TSM from z/OS to z/Linux. I go