Yes, zLinux rings a bell. However, if you don't already have tape and/or
disk infrastructure in place for it,  or if you don't have sufficient
excess capacity in what you do have, you will have to purchase them, as
there is no good way to share these resources between z/OS and z/Linux.
And yes, I'm aware that you could carve out part of your disk from z/OS
and assign it to z/Linux, but that doesn't take into account the
duplicate disk you'd need on both sides of the house while migrating
from one platform to another. 

I have expressed my displeasure in this situation to TSM product
managers. Norman, I'd suggest you do the same. 


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On 10 sep 2009, at 23:16, Gee, Norman wrote:

> But there are no other options for us mainframe bigot as TSM 6.x
> server
> does not exist on z/OS.

does zLinux run a bell? I know it's not exactly what you might expect,
but it does run TSM server 6.1.

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