I used z/OSMF on a z13s from 2018 till the end of 2022. Since then it's on a 
z15 T02. I have not found performance to be an issue. It was really bad in the 
early days before it exploited Liberty Profile, but much better after that.

Neil.


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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of 
Brian Westerman
Sent: Tuesday, 27 June 2023 14:48
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: z/OSMF

I manage 3 sites that each have a z13s with no specialty processors, they were 
deemed unnecessary at the time of the purchase, and at the time IBM didn't 
disclose that shortly afterwards they would be shifting to z/OSMF which all but 
locks them out of installing the next release.  

Possibly IBM should not sell processors that are under powered for the 
mandatory processes, or possibly not force sites to upgrade the processor they 
purchased jsut because IBM has decided that z/OSMF is "easier" than Serverpac.

It would have been smarter for IBM to keep z/OSMF based installation optional 
until the z13s was no longer a supported processor. 

Brian

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