Re: Inside an IBM z17

Marco Moock  <mm@dorfdsl.de> wrote:

On 01.05.2025 22:16 Uhr Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>

What exactly are they good for? Nothing, really, except perhaps
compatibility with ancient legacy code that has long passed its EOL,
just like the companies that might still be running it.

>
Linux can run on IBM z, so you can do anything that Linux can do on
those machines.

This is actually kind of interesting, because thanks to VM you can have
one LPAR that is running your database in a stripped down mainframe
operating system, and another LPAR running a web front end in Linux.
--scott


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