cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca (Clark Morris) writes: > z/VM also supports FBA and SCSI devices. It would be great if z/OS > could learn to do that for all FBA type data sets (VSAM, PDSE, HFS, > zFS, linear and maybe a couple of others). They might have to sign a > non-disclosure agreement but I think both groups eventually report to > a common manager.
long ago and far away ... when I offered ... I was told that even if I gave them fully integrated and tested FBA support ... it would still cost $26m (education, documentation, etc). I needed to come up with a incremental additional business case on the order of $200m-$300m in additional sales in order to justify adding the support (and I wasn't allowed to use life-cycle savings). The claim at the time, was that customers would just shift from ordering equivalent FBA for CKD ... and so I would never be able to show necessary incremental business case justification. misc. past posts mentioning CKD, FBA, and related subjects http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dasd and for little more topic drift, misc. past posts mentioning getting to play disk engineer in bldgs. 14 & 15 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk -- 40+yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
