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2020-05-03 Thread Charles Mills
-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of scott Ford Sent: Sunday, May 3, 2020 12:04 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: LzLabs Robert, Yeah my experience was 1989-1992, wow speed limits have changed. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

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2020-05-03 Thread scott Ford
Robert, Yeah my experience was 1989-1992, wow speed limits have changed. Scott On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 2:33 PM Robert Prins wrote: > On 2020-05-03 04:46, Mike Schwab wrote: > > Just one county, Germany. 1400KM, 12 hours drive. > > Than you're sticking to US type speed limits. ;) > > https://pr

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2020-05-03 Thread Robert Prins
On 2020-05-03 04:46, Mike Schwab wrote: Just one county, Germany. 1400KM, 12 hours drive. Than you're sticking to US type speed limits. ;) https://prino.neocities.org/blog/2020-02-07-uncanny.html Robert -- Robert AH Prins robert(a)prino(d)org The hitchhiking grandfather - https://prino.neoci

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2020-05-03 Thread scott Ford
Yeah Stefan it was 120-130kph in France and Switzerland when I lived there. Scott On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 8:38 AM Peter Relson wrote: > > They drop the interrupt handling in zIIPs and zAAPs to get full speed > processing. > > > Untrue. > > What is true is that z/OS chooses to disallow certain

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2020-05-03 Thread Peter Relson
They drop the interrupt handling in zIIPs and zAAPs to get full speed processing. Untrue. What is true is that z/OS chooses to disallow certain interrupts from occurring on zIIPs and zAAPs. That has nothing to do with "full speed processing". Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design -

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2020-05-03 Thread Stefan Skoglund
sön 2020-05-03 klockan 04:45 + skrev Mike Schwab: > Just one county, Germany. 1400KM, 12 hours drive. > County ?? Country really, but hmmm 12 hours drive don't think so. It would mean average 120 km/h at autobahn and when the current problems ends usually with a fair amount of traffic ie St

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2020-05-02 Thread Mike Schwab
Just one county, Germany. 1400KM, 12 hours drive. On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 2:48 AM Tom Brennan wrote: > > Sounds great!! I'm sure I would have loved the country - I just wasn't > too keen on the company's product. By coincidence, my wife came by my > desk this morning and asked if Switzerland is

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2020-05-02 Thread scott Ford
I loved the vacations, I had 5 weeks , man ..Denmark would also be nice. I saw France, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands and the U.K. working in several. Scott On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 10:48 PM Tom Brennan wrote: > Sounds great!! I'm sure I would have loved the country - I just wasn't > too keen on th

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2020-05-02 Thread Tom Brennan
Sounds great!! I'm sure I would have loved the country - I just wasn't too keen on the company's product. By coincidence, my wife came by my desk this morning and asked if Switzerland is far from Denmark, so she's got something in the early planning stages. Probably for after the vaccine is

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2020-05-02 Thread scott Ford
Tom, I got to Switzerland due to a job phase out in NYC. It was an overall great experience. Scott On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 9:38 PM Tom Brennan wrote: > Years ago I was offered a trip to Zurich (both me and my wife) to check > things out. I said no thank you. My wife was upset :) > > On 5/1/20

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2020-05-02 Thread Tom Brennan
Years ago I was offered a trip to Zurich (both me and my wife) to check things out. I said no thank you. My wife was upset :) On 5/1/2020 3:59 AM, David Crayford wrote: I used to work with the guy that was the tech lead for the LzLabs CICS project. He tried to recruit some of us! --

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2020-05-02 Thread Seymour J Metz
du/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Wayne Bickerdike [wayn...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, May 2, 2020 12:56 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: LzLabs It's interesting that a zIIP can be described a

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2020-05-02 Thread Seymour J Metz
metz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Mike Schwab [mike.a.sch...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, May 2, 2020 8:54 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: LzLabs Yep. They drop the interrupt handling in zIIPs and zAAPs to get full speed processing.

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2020-05-02 Thread scott Ford
Yeah, I remember Neon On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 8:55 AM Mike Schwab wrote: > Yep. They drop the interrupt handling in zIIPs and zAAPs to get full > speed processing. > > Could have checked the chips on the boards. Most S/360 models had > some microcode, only the highest model had all instructions

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2020-05-02 Thread Mike Schwab
Yep. They drop the interrupt handling in zIIPs and zAAPs to get full speed processing. Could have checked the chips on the boards. Most S/360 models had some microcode, only the highest model had all instructions in hardware. On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 4:58 AM Wayne Bickerdike wrote: > > It's inte

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2020-05-01 Thread Wayne Bickerdike
It's interesting that a zIIP can be described as a "speciality" engine yet the workload they run also run on a CP engine. I thought that they are the same basically and it's just another way to sell a piece of kit and play bait and switch on pricing. Years ago we had a 9370 and a company in Melbo

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2020-05-01 Thread Mike Schwab
https://www.eweek.com/networking/neon-settles-mainframe-software-lawsuit-with-ibm On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 3:18 AM Steve Beaver wrote: > > Actually they Did in Europe. European courts sided with Neon > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On May 1, 2020, at 22:07, Steve Smith wrote: > > > > No. Neon was

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2020-05-01 Thread Steve Beaver
Actually they Did in Europe. European courts sided with Neon Sent from my iPhone > On May 1, 2020, at 22:07, Steve Smith wrote: > > No. Neon was a software company. They sold a product called zPrime that > allowed unauthorized usage of zIIP and zAAP for almost any kind of > workload. IBM al

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2020-05-01 Thread Steve Smith
No. Neon was a software company. They sold a product called zPrime that allowed unauthorized usage of zIIP and zAAP for almost any kind of workload. IBM already runs much of DB2 on zIIP. IBM only allows code to run on zIIP when you have specific contracts that allow you to for specific things.

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2020-05-01 Thread Mike Schwab
me out of the market. There was also a > permanent injunction issued against Neon. > > > > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 30. April 2020 um 15:32 Uhr > Von: "Steve Beaver" > An: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Betreff: Re: LzLabs > Seymour > > LzLABS (John Moores) fo

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2020-05-01 Thread Peter Baumann
ERV.UA.EDU Betreff: Re: LzLabs Seymour LzLABS (John Moores) fought all his battles in the 90's against IBM and won. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2020 8:11 AM To: IBM-MAIN@

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2020-05-01 Thread Seymour J Metz
: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of scott Ford [idfli...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 1, 2020 12:52 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: LzLabs Steve and Mike: I heard that also. I follow this guy also http://secure-web.cisco.

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2020-05-01 Thread scott Ford
gt;> > >>> > >>> -Original Message- > >>> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On > >>> Behalf Of Phil Smith III > >>> Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2020 8:56 AM > >>> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.

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2020-05-01 Thread scott Ford
e asset and competitive advantage. > > Charles > > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of scott Ford > Sent: Friday, May 1, 2020 9:13 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: LzLabs > &g

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2020-05-01 Thread scott Ford
ulator. As I remember > he wrote it in JAVA and > Did a pretty good job of it > > Steve > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Mike Schwab > Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2020 12:47 PM > To: IBM

Re: LzLabs

2020-05-01 Thread Steve Beaver
:47 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: LzLabs http://www.z390.org/ is pretty close. http://z390-asm.blogspot.com/2012/11/catching-up.html Don Higgins 2nd IBM mainframe emulator product, lzLabs is his 3rd. On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 3:34 AM Peter Baumann wrote: > > As their own releas

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2020-05-01 Thread David Crayford
riginal Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Phil Smith III Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2020 8:56 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: LzLabs Peter Baumann wrote, in part: Emulating the entire ecosystem and all the third-party t

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2020-05-01 Thread Charles Mills
itive advantage. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of scott Ford Sent: Friday, May 1, 2020 9:13 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: LzLabs All, Why can’t IBM or other vendors somehow license their apis so ot

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2020-05-01 Thread scott Ford
inal Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Timothy Sipples > Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2020 10:18 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: LzLabs > > Shmuel Metz wrote: > >Google for "look and feel

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2020-05-01 Thread scott Ford
; > Behalf Of Phil Smith III > > Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2020 8:56 AM > > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > > Subject: Re: LzLabs > > > > Peter Baumann wrote, in part: > > > >> Emulating the entire ecosystem and all the third-party tools seems like &g

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2020-05-01 Thread Charles Mills
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2020 10:18 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: LzLabs Shmuel Metz wrote: >Google for "look and feel lawsuit". It's il

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2020-05-01 Thread David Crayford
2020 8:56 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: LzLabs Peter Baumann wrote, in part: Emulating the entire ecosystem and all the third-party tools seems like insane. They call it re-hosting. IMHO you can re-host something written to open standards. Otherwise you have to deal with legal

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2020-05-01 Thread Seymour J Metz
@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: LzLabs Shmuel Metz wrote: >Google for "look and feel lawsuit". It's illegal to run >z/OS on an unlicensed platform; it is perfectly legal to >implement the z/OS interfaces that you need. How well, >e.g., UNICICS, runs is a separate issue.

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2020-04-30 Thread Timothy Sipples
Shmuel Metz wrote: >Google for "look and feel lawsuit". It's illegal to run >z/OS on an unlicensed platform; it is perfectly legal to >implement the z/OS interfaces that you need. How well, >e.g., UNICICS, runs is a separate issue. Let's leave aside the "edge cases" involving laws in certain sanct

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2020-04-30 Thread Mike Schwab
, 28. April 2020 um 17:11 Uhr > Von: "Ed Jaffe" > An: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Betreff: Re: LzLabs > On 4/28/2020 7:49 AM, Jake Anderson wrote: > > They migrated some swiss based telecommunications company. > > Swisscom, the largest telco in the country: > > ht

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2020-04-30 Thread Steve Beaver
Smith III Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2020 8:56 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: LzLabs Peter Baumann wrote, in part: >Emulating the entire ecosystem and all the third-party tools seems like >insane. They call it re-hosting. IMHO you can re-host something written >to open standa

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2020-04-30 Thread Phil Smith III
Peter Baumann wrote, in part: >Emulating the entire ecosystem and all the third-party tools seems like >insane. They call it re-hosting. IMHO you can re-host something written >to open standards. Otherwise you have to deal with legal issues and >since it's all propritary and patented they must

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2020-04-30 Thread Steve Beaver
ason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Peter Baumann [peterhbaum...@gmx.ch] Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2020 11:34 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Aw: Re: LzLabs As their own release says, it's only 2.5k MIPS of

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2020-04-30 Thread Seymour J Metz
gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Peter Baumann [peterhbaum...@gmx.ch] Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2020 11:34 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Aw: Re: LzLabs As their own release says, it's only 2.5k MIPS of batc

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2020-04-29 Thread Peter Baumann
: Dienstag, 28. April 2020 um 17:11 Uhr Von: "Ed Jaffe" An: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Betreff: Re: LzLabs On 4/28/2020 7:49 AM, Jake Anderson wrote: > They migrated some swiss based telecommunications company. Swisscom, the largest telco in the country: https://www.there

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2020-04-28 Thread scott Ford
I worked and lived in Switzerland. For Switzerland companies to do layoffs it isnt good economically. The Swiss Franc is extremely strong in the currency market. Scott On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 1:23 PM David Crayford wrote: > On 2020-04-28 11:11 PM, Ed Jaffe wrote: > > Swisscom, the largest telc

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2020-04-28 Thread David Crayford
On 2020-04-28 11:11 PM, Ed Jaffe wrote: Swisscom, the largest telco in the country: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/16/lzlabs_kills_swisscoms_mainframes/ Re: the lay-off, now is great time to trim workforce "fat" and/or "dead wood" with many governments providing unheard of subsidies

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2020-04-28 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 4/28/2020 7:49 AM, Jake Anderson wrote: They migrated some swiss based telecommunications company. Swisscom, the largest telco in the country: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/16/lzlabs_kills_swisscoms_mainframes/ Re: the lay-off, now is great time to trim workforce "fat" and/or "dead

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2020-04-28 Thread Jake Anderson
They migrated some swiss based telecommunications company. On Tue, 28 Apr, 2020, 6:19 PM zMan, wrote: > Again? They did that a year or two ago already. Not a good sign. > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 8:18 AM Peter Baumann > wrote: > > > Hi there > > Any news on LzLabs mainframe emulation company.

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2020-04-28 Thread zMan
Again? They did that a year or two ago already. Not a good sign. On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 8:18 AM Peter Baumann wrote: > Hi there > Any news on LzLabs mainframe emulation company. I heard they are having > big layoff. > Peter B > > -

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2020-04-27 Thread Brian Westerman
It was a pretty web site though, wasn't it? Don't get me wrong, I think its a good concept, but I don't think it will work like they try to picture it, especially not for a large or medium size place, (or maybe even not for a really small one). I guess if you had converted everything and you st

Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld

2016-12-14 Thread Aled Hughes
al Message- From: Phil Smith To: IBM-MAIN Sent: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 22:39 Subject: Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld Tony Harminc wrote, re MP3000: >Ah - you are quite right. And the P30 was the PWD machine, which did >not change its model number when (effectively) converted to an H50 by >the Linu

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2016-12-13 Thread Mike Beer
http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/0/897/ENUS199-240/ Am 13.12.2016 um 22:44 schrieb Tony Harminc: On 13 December 2016 at 13:10, Pommier, Rex wrote: Tony, one correction to your comments. The H70 was the two-way machine. The H50 was the full speed uni, and the H30 was a knee-capped un

Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld

2016-12-13 Thread Phil Smith
Tony Harminc wrote, re MP3000: >Ah - you are quite right. And the P30 was the PWD machine, which did >not change its model number when (effectively) converted to an H50 by >the Linux add-on. There was never a P50 or P70, to my knowledge. We were doing Linux at Linuxcare (who'd'a thunk), and I thi

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2016-12-13 Thread Tony Harminc
On 13 December 2016 at 13:10, Pommier, Rex wrote: > Tony, one correction to your comments. The H70 was the two-way machine. The > H50 was the full speed uni, and the > H30 was a knee-capped uni. Ah - you are quite right. And the P30 was the PWD machine, which did not change its model number wh

Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld

2016-12-13 Thread Parwez Hamid
Re: MP3000 - nothing good about? If you wanted a full 'function' z System, there were alternative options available at the time. The MP3000 addressed the requirements of a certain customer type/set with a different price point and. They didn't need the same functionality as other z customers o

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2016-12-13 Thread Pommier, Rex
e superdome was gone too. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tony Harminc Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2016 10:50 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld On 13 December 2016 at 10:34, R.S. w

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2016-12-13 Thread Phil Smith
Tony Harminc wrote, re MP3000: >It was *much* better than the MP2000. Very much faster. It was a 390 >G5 CPU. Even 2 x G5 on the top model (H50). >A note on the "development only" idea about this machine. There *were* >development (PWD) models. We had one, at a much reduced price, and we >also ha

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2016-12-13 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
d the production OS/390 2.10 LPAR to a test z/OS 1.4 LPAR for testing purposes. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tony Harminc Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2016 11:50 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: LzLa

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2016-12-13 Thread Rick Troth
It's been said, those who do not understand Unix are condemned to re-invent it ... poorly. We could have a lively discussion about that on this list, but likely we all agree that those who don't understand mainframes are condemned to re-invent them (poorly). I really don't know anything good o

Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld

2016-12-13 Thread Tony Harminc
On 13 December 2016 at 10:34, R.S. wrote: > I dare to disagree. My turn... > Although MP3000 was better than MP2000, it was still nothing good. It was *much* better than the MP2000. Very much faster. It was a 390 G5 CPU. Even 2 x G5 on the top model (H50). A note on the "development only" ide

Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld

2016-12-13 Thread zMan
"As a production or development machine the I/O was really poor." Production, sure; we had one for dev, and while it wasn't an I/O screamer, it was *dev*. So I'll have to disagree. Sure, a z800 would have been better. So would a z900. On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 10:34 AM, R.S. wrote: > I dare to di

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2016-12-13 Thread R.S.
I dare to disagree. Although MP3000 was better than MP2000, it was still nothing good. As a demonstration/learning/portable machine it was much to big. As a production or development machine the I/O was really poor. No real channels except ESCON. No sysplex capability. A lot of SPOFs. z800 and fol

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2016-12-13 Thread Dana Mitchell
In the 2000-2001 timeframe we were indeed pitched MP3000 as a replacement CPU for a production workload. As I understood it at the time, the z infrastructure and internal DASD ran under, and was dependent upon an OS/2 hypervisor. Dana On Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:53:14 +0100, R.S. wrote: > W dni

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2016-12-13 Thread zMan
Oops, yeah, sorry. For some reason I do that with Gmail threads a lot. Dumb on my part. Thanks. MP3000 was a nice machine. Too bad IBM killed the follow-on. On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 10:12 AM, R.S. wrote: > zMan, > > Please, re-read the message you responded to. > Hint: Itschak asked the question

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2016-12-13 Thread R.S.
zMan, Please, re-read the message you responded to. Hint: Itschak asked the question, Radoslaw answered. Regarding zPDT - indeed, it is licensed to "non production" activities (*some* development tasks, learning). The difference is zPDT is a license - you buy the hardware, IBM delivers you USB

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2016-12-13 Thread zMan
As others have noted, No, it wasn't. I suspect you're confusing MP3000 and zPDT. 2016-12-13 6:53 GMT-05:00 R.S. : > W dniu 2016-12-13 o 11:52, Itschak Mugzach pisze: > >> Isn't mp3000 licensed to development only? >> > No. > However I would use past simple tense. ;-) > > > -- > Radoslaw Skorupka

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2016-12-13 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2016-12-13 o 11:52, Itschak Mugzach pisze: Isn't mp3000 licensed to development only? No. However I would use past simple tense. ;-) -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland --- Treść tej wiadomości może zawierać informacje prawnie chronione Banku przeznaczone wyłącznie do użytku służbow

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2016-12-13 Thread Parwez Hamid
The MP3000 came with integrated disk and was not restricted to dev only. A lot of 'small' customers used it for production work. Having said this it was ideal for dev. End of Service for the system was in 2012. -- For IBM-MAIN s

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2016-12-13 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Isn't mp3000 licensed to development only? ITschak בתאריך 13 בדצמ 2016 12:50,‏ "R.S." כתב: > W dniu 2016-12-13 o 11:05, Dave Wade pisze: > >> [...] >> There are many sites out there that have been deserted by IBM who only >> want to sell "Big Iron". There is nothing like the MP3000 for >> price

Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld

2016-12-13 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2016-12-13 o 11:05, Dave Wade pisze: [...] There are many sites out there that have been deserted by IBM who only want to sell "Big Iron". There is nothing like the MP3000 for price/performance available today, yet many were sold. What options are there for users of small mainframes? I

Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld

2016-12-13 Thread Dave Wade
>The legacy, legacy, legacy everywhere on their site is pure indoctrination, >sorry, psychologically-inspired advertising, easily >impressed on the brain-pans of those with no genuine knowledge of Mainframes >who are already "modified" to believe that a >Mainframe is a dusty-old-thing running sy

Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld

2016-12-13 Thread Bill Woodger
According to the marketing literature, it does binary. Both Raincode and IT-COBOL are partners. If a binary doesn't work, you go to a COBOL-IT recompile. They have a demo-film for batch, with this stern and impressive prologue: "The recording has not been edited or shortened. Everything you wil

Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld

2016-12-12 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 12/12/2016 8:17 PM, Phil Smith III wrote: Indeed. Though ISTR that one of John Moores' previous efforts was a multi-platform security system, so I'd be willing to bet that they do understand the issue pretty well. Wasn't that Barry Schraeger's BOLT? AFAIK, Barry is not involved in this eff

Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld

2016-12-12 Thread Phil Smith III
R.S. wrote, in part: >I'm rather curious about RACF (security? who needs security?), CICS, IMS, etc. Indeed. Though ISTR that one of John Moores' previous efforts was a multi-platform security system, so I'd be willing to bet that they do understand the issue pretty well. ---

Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld

2016-12-12 Thread Charles Mills
Somehow if I were IBM I would not be quaking in my boots. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Monday, December 12, 2016 2:10 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld The

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2016-12-12 Thread R.S.
The solution is a little bit simpler: they don't support binary code. They can recompile some source code using Raincode compilers, but even the source code need to be "simplfied" (read: some constructs are not understood). How does it work? As about references. And *check them*, otherwise yo

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld

2016-12-12 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 12/12/2016 11:50 AM, Charles Mills wrote: Along those lines, would such a product have to/be able to "emulate" DB2? Easy to come halfway close (MySQL) -- damned difficult to do it all. Just ask Oracle. Doesn't DB2 UDB run on non-z platforms? If so, you might be able to intercept the z/OS D

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld

2016-12-12 Thread Jerry Whitteridge
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Monday, December 12, 2016 12:50 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: EXTERNAL: Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld Along those lines, would such a product have to/be able to

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld

2016-12-12 Thread Tom Marchant
On Mon, 12 Dec 2016 11:50:04 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >would such a product have to/be able to "emulate" DB2? May not have to emulate it. DB2 is available on other platforms. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / sign

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld

2016-12-12 Thread Charles Mills
Of Jerry Whitteridge Sent: Monday, December 12, 2016 10:57 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: EXTERNAL: Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld The problems occur not in the move of the programs and their execution, but in the logic of the application design which nearly always makes assumptions about the e

Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld

2016-12-12 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
9:06 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld Sounds like z/390. Keep the hardware instructions, rewrite the z/OS calls. On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 10:49 PM, zMan wrote: > http://www.computerworlduk.com/infrastructure/lzlabs-promises-end-main >

Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld

2016-12-12 Thread Charles Mills
. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Monday, December 12, 2016 10:55 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Charles Mills wrote: > I agree

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld

2016-12-12 Thread Jerry Whitteridge
ember 12, 2016 11:46 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld Um, OK...so it's going to work for the subset of programs that happen to use the calls that they've implemented? This reminds me of early Windows, when it was a shell over DOS: everything

Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld

2016-12-12 Thread John McKown
On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Charles Mills wrote: > I agree, but it must be an adequately solvable sort of problem if Wine can > do it for the Windows API (adequately). > > Charles > > ​You just beat me to that (immediate _after_ I clicked SEND). But I'd consider WINE more like CA's DUO whic

Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld

2016-12-12 Thread John McKown
On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 12:45 PM, zMan wrote: > Um, OK...so it's going to work for the subset of programs that happen to > use the calls that they've implemented? This reminds me of early Windows, > when it was a shell over DOS: everything was fine until it wasn't, when > you'd try something that

Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld

2016-12-12 Thread Charles Mills
@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld Um, OK...so it's going to work for the subset of programs that happen to use the calls that they've implemented? This reminds me of early Windows, when it was a shell over DOS: everything was fine until it wasn't, when you'd

Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld

2016-12-12 Thread zMan
Um, OK...so it's going to work for the subset of programs that happen to use the calls that they've implemented? This reminds me of early Windows, when it was a shell over DOS: everything was fine until it wasn't, when you'd try something that hadn't been handled yet, and fall off the edge of the e

Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld

2016-12-12 Thread Mike Schwab
Sounds like z/390. Keep the hardware instructions, rewrite the z/OS calls. On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 10:49 PM, zMan wrote: > http://www.computerworlduk.com/infrastructure/lzlabs-promises-end-mainframe-migration-woes-with-software-defined-approach-3645686/ > seems enthralled with LzLabs, but the ar

Re: LzLabs (Was: CeBIT and mainframes)

2016-03-20 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 3/19/2016 6:35 PM, Clark Morris wrote: On 19 Mar 2016 14:53:09 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: This is what happens when a billionaire loses a court battle with IBM. Can we expect this product to be the subject of a court battle if it is successful in doing what it claims? What a

Re: LzLabs (Was: CeBIT and mainframes)

2016-03-20 Thread Dave Wade
>Can we expect this product to be the subject of a court battle if it >is successful in doing what it claims? What are the medium to long >term implications for the z series? The i and p series? > >Clark Morris Well i and p both use proprietary hardware so no effect. For the "z Series"I don't s

Re: LzLabs (Was: CeBIT and mainframes)

2016-03-19 Thread John McKown
On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 8:35 PM, Clark Morris wrote: > On 19 Mar 2016 14:53:09 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: > > >On 3/18/2016 6:30 AM, Bill Woodger wrote: > >> A google-translate of part of the final article in French from the > media section of the LzLabs website. > >> > >> "Lzlabs

Re: LzLabs (Was: CeBIT and mainframes)

2016-03-19 Thread Clark Morris
On 19 Mar 2016 14:53:09 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >On 3/18/2016 6:30 AM, Bill Woodger wrote: >> A google-translate of part of the final article in French from the media >> section of the LzLabs website. >> >> "Lzlabs technology leans on a container system which embeds the mainfra