RE: PASE runtime going away!!!!

[michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

I'm using PASE on a 270 and a partitioned 825. I *think* the message
here is that if you want to run AIX apps on a new box, you'll need
'real' AIX, not just the run-time. I don't think it will affect
existing boxes. I wonder if V5R2 PASE will work on V5R3?

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: PASE runtime going away!!!!
> From: "Wilt, Charles" <CWilt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, February 14, 2005 10:03 am
> To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (E-mail)"
> <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> All according to this article:
> http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh021405-story04.html
> 
> "On that same day (April 1st), IBM also plans to withdraw the OS/400 PASE AIX 
> runtime environment (feature 5732 of OS/400) from marketing, as well as its 
> feature 1893 36.4 GB, 10K RPM disk drives. Now that the i5 supports the real 
> AIX, IBM doesn't want to sell customers an AIX runtime environment or pay to 
> support it on older machines. Customers who want to run Unix applications on 
> their OS/400 platforms will just have to upgrade to i5s and run the real AIX."
> 
> 
> WTF?  I don't explicitly use PASE at present, but I was under the impression 
> that some of the new features in OS/400, (DNS, C++ compiler maybe?) were 
> actually AIX executables running in PASE.  How can they kill it off?
> 
> Seems like that could cause some problems to those on older but recent boxes 
> such as my 810.
> 
> How exactly does the dropping work?  If I order v5r3 now will it have PASE 
> but if I order it after March 1 it won't?
> 
> Charles Wilt
> iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
> Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
> ph: 513-573-4343
> fax: 513-398-1121
>  
> 
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