On 27/06/2023 11:52 am, Tom Brennan wrote:
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?
Not really - Java is just a programming language. Like any language, you
can run part of your application here and part there if you build a
communications architecture, have the data in the right places etc. But
you can't just divide the application without doing the design work.
z/OSMF does actually run part on z/OS and part in your browser
(Javascript I assume) but the parts that access z/OS services, read z/OS
data etc. need to be on the mainframe. I doubt there is much that can be
practically offloaded.
(On the other hand, I think the mainframe side performance could be
greatly improved. Having looked at the SMF data from z/OSMF startup, I
suspect the startup time could be cut by 90%+ with a bit of tweaking...)
--
Andrew Rowley
Black Hill Software
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