Re: PASE runtime going away!!!!

[Bruce Vining <bvining@xxxxxxxxxx>]

   The i5/OS PASE runtime is strategic to i5/OS and will continue to be
   maintained and enhanced on the eSeries i5.  There are no plans (or even
   discussion of plans) to change this.

   Increasing numbers of applications as well as significant portions of
   i5/OS itself rely on the PASE runtime.  PASE continues to be enhanced to
   support the most current released version of AIX available at the i5/OS
   GA -- for the current i5/OS release V5R3 PASE is based on AIX 5L Version
   5.2.

   The PASE runtime often provides an i5/OS application developer with the
   best application portability with other UNIX platforms.  And, since PASE
   uses the underlying i5/OS support for configuration, userids, file
   systems, authorization, auditing, and etc., PASE avoids all of the
   complexity of managing a separate AIX or Linux partition.

   Bruce Vining



                                                                           
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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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