On 4/26/06 4:57 PM, "Kai Ponte"
wrote: in addition to the SLES partition on the mainframe.
Can you explain this? Just sharing the drives? Just wondering.
Not a problem. On a mainframe you can have different operating systems running at the same time in different partitions. I'm not exactly sure how it all works. At my old place, they got a new IBM z890 and had MVS on one partition, zOS on another and SLES on a third. I think the goal was to eventually move all apps off the MVS partition onto the zOS partition. Of course the SLES partition was going to be dedicated to a new version of an accounting system which was previously running on the MVS partition. It runs under *nix and uses DB2 as a backend. Oh, and in case anyone's curious about this accounting system, I wouldn't recommend it. First off, I think it costs well over $1M per year to licence and second I don't particularly like the company. -- kai