Flex and Hercules cooperation?

Ian Worthington

Sep 20, 2006

Hi.

I have a customer with a flex-es system running z/os. They need to
install a beta z system product which, unlike z/os, they believe
they're licensed to do on any hardware platform, so naturally I
proposed looking at Hercules.

This other system needs though to share disks with the z/os system,
which, unless IBM has decided to license it for Hercules, would have
to be retained under flex.

So we have two questions:

1. Has there in fact been any flexibility from IBM on licensing z/os
for Hercules?

2. Can flex-es and Hercules share disks?

Warnings of any obvious gotchas would also be appreciated.

Thanks,

Ian
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4:07 pm

Re: Flex and Hercules cooperation?

Jay Maynard

Sep 20, 2006

On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 04:07:25PM -0000, Ian Worthington wrote:
> 1. Has there in fact been any flexibility from IBM on licensing z/os
> for Hercules?

I have heard no change, either way, in the status quo: no official word from
IBM on the subject at all. It is up to the user to adhere to the terms of
his software license.

> 2. Can flex-es and Hercules share disks?

Not that I know of. There are only two ways:
1) Both systems have an AWSCKD disk image, strictly read-only.
2) Flex-ES could use the Hercules remote device protocol to share a disk
image owned by a Hercules system. I would be surprised if they had
implemented this.
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4:30 pm

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