RE: PASE runtime going away!!!!

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hopefully they'll get the pricing issues figured out by then.  Frankly,
I'm running AIX on a pseries right now and it's a REALLY CHEAP solution
compared to running AIX on iSeries hardware.  Make sure you price out the
differences before you buy...



On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I'm using PASE on a 270 and a partitioned 825. I *think* the message
> here is that if you want to run AIX apps on a new box, you'll need
> 'real' AIX, not just the run-time. I don't think it will affect
> existing boxes. I wonder if V5R2 PASE will work on V5R3?
>
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: PASE runtime going away!!!!
> > From: "Wilt, Charles" <CWilt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Mon, February 14, 2005 10:03 am
> > To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (E-mail)"
> > <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > All according to this article:
> > http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh021405-story04.html
> >
> > "On that same day (April 1st), IBM also plans to withdraw the OS/400 PASE 
> > AIX runtime environment (feature 5732 of OS/400) from marketing, as well as 
> > its feature 1893 36.4 GB, 10K RPM disk drives. Now that the i5 supports the 
> > real AIX, IBM doesn't want to sell customers an AIX runtime environment or 
> > pay to support it on older machines. Customers who want to run Unix 
> > applications on their OS/400 platforms will just have to upgrade to i5s and 
> > run the real AIX."
> >
> >
> > WTF?  I don't explicitly use PASE at present, but I was under the 
> > impression that some of the new features in OS/400, (DNS, C++ compiler 
> > maybe?) were actually AIX executables running in PASE.  How can they kill 
> > it off?
> >
> > Seems like that could cause some problems to those on older but recent 
> > boxes such as my 810.
> >
> > How exactly does the dropping work?  If I order v5r3 now will it have PASE 
> > but if I order it after March 1 it won't?
> >
> > Charles Wilt
> > iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
> > Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
> > ph: 513-573-4343
> > fax: 513-398-1121
> >
> >
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