Re: V6R1 -- MIDRANGE-L

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Urbanek, Marty wrote:

I am aware of one 390 emulator, Flex-ES that can be used to put together
a small "mainframe" for development. It runs on Intel CPUs and has IBM's
blessing as far as software (i.e. they'll let you get a special license
to run z/OS and associated program products). We had a couple of these
running under SCO UNIX for a while. Very cool.

Sigh. Mainframes emulated with IBM's blessing, but no i5/OS...

However, I'm not sure that I'd like to bet my business on running beta versions of the OS for testing my apps on a 3rd-party emulator.

Especially now:

http://www.tech-news.com/another/ap200610b.html
and particularly:
http://www-304.ibm.com/jct09002c/isv/zseries/adcd.html

From the IBM page:

"Please note: The FLEX-ES systems are not currently available."

Looks like we're back almost on a par with the 390s.

Tom Liotta

from: Tom Liotta <qsrvbas>

rob wrote:

I think you're just going to have to accept that hardware in the iSeries is going to be more expensive than hardware in the xSeries.

Kinda makes me wonder what mainframe software developers have to go
through in terms of expense.

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