RE: Node.JS Was: New lower cost IBM i announced

There's a reason I said "like a virtual machine"... :)

" PASE is a separate operating environment, a subset of AIX, running along side of, rather than in or on top of the IBM i virtual machine environment."
In that case, you should be able to run PASE without booting IBMi, no?



-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan Andelin [mailto:nandelin@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2017 4:58 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Node.JS Was: New lower cost IBM i announced

Nathan, would it be a correct assumption that you consider PASE like a
virtual machine, so things running in PASE aren't native IBMi apps?

In regard to labeling PASE as a virtual machine environment, everything I have read suggests that hardware changes could break code that runs in PASE. The objective of a virtual machine environment would be to solve that. Therefore PASE is not a virtual machine environment.

But I do view PASE as an operating environment - specifically PASE is a subset of AIX.

In regard to the statement "things running in PASE aren't native IBMi apps", I would suggest the following:

PASE is a separate operating environment, a subset of AIX, running along side of, rather than in or on top of the IBM i virtual machine environment.
PASE utilizes teraspace storage, rather than single-level store.
PASE applications interface with IBM i, mostly communicating with IBM i services via sockets.

PASE is more integrated with IBM i than running AIX and IBM i in separate partitions - but more comparable to the latter in regards to how PASE applications interface with IBM i applications via host servers.

Aaron Bartell suggested that IBM i should be priced and marketed like Linux. I'm suggesting that the argument would be moot if people appropriately distinguished IBM i from *nix.