Sounds like z/390. Keep the hardware instructions, rewrite the z/OS calls.
On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 10:49 PM, zMan <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.computerworlduk.com/infrastructure/lzlabs-promises-end-mainframe-migration-woes-with-software-defined-approach-3645686/ > seems enthralled with LzLabs, but the article doesn't really shed any light > that I can see. > > Consider statements like: > *Yet, while considered robust and reliable for certain uses, mainframes are > costly to maintain and difficult to support, particularly due to the > imminent retirement of those with knowledge of a system’s inner workings.* > > OK, we can debate this (and have), but then: > *Cresswell described the migration process: “When an application is moved > from the mainframe into our environment we don't recompile it or anything > like that. We literally take the binary code that comes off the mainframe > environment,” Cresswell explained.* > > How does this help with the maintenance issue? Do you keep a real z for a > dev platform? > > Next graf says: > *“At the time we put it into the container we replace all the APIs with > contemporary ones that reference our software defined mainframe container.”* > Um, right. So that > L R3,540 Get TCB address > statement is going to get replaced? Or just replicated/emulated? Or they're > going to emulate all of the data structures in z/OS? > > Or is this all a shell game, and it's really just Herc in the cloud? > > I'm not opposed to someone doing something to shake things up. But the lack > of detail from Lz is starting to smell like PSI redux. > -- > zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
