I haven't used z/OSMF myself so bear with me, but if it runs as a java
application, doesn't that allow the possibility of running some kind of
agent on the mainframe, and moving the heavy stuff (whatever that is)
off to a 5 year old laptop?
On 6/26/2023 4:21 PM, Andrew Rowley wrote:
On 26/06/2023 8:13 pm, Timothy Sipples wrote:
That said it's typically a "really good idea" to configure machines
running z/OS with at least one zIIP — and not just for z/OSMF but for
myriad other reasons.
I've said it before but I'll say it again - to avoid embarrassment
alongside 5 year old laptops or perhaps even a Raspberry Pi, IBM needs
to figure out how to bring the smallest z/OS systems up to a modern
configuration - I would suggest minimum 4 processors and 200 MSU.
With z/OSMF, IBM has become a victim of their own policies. Software
licensing has really strangled the low end of the mainframe market. IBM
and ISVs need to figure out how to reverse this i.e. modified pricing so
customers can move to larger machines.
At a time when a laptop has 10 physical/12 logical processors, "one
zIIP" isn't much better. zIIPs and System Recovery Boost seem to be a
kludge to work around the dire lack of processing capacity in these
systems anyway. (zIIP does benefit me because I write Java, but I can
still see it's a bad solution.)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
