On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Edward Jaffe <edja...@phoenixsoftware.com>wrote:
> Today's mainframe dynamic provisioning capabilities are truly leading-edge, > and improving with each new generation. > > We can dynamically grow any DASD volume--on the fly--up to 226GB in size. > We can download and dynamically apply a patch that makes our CPUs run > faster, adds new CPUs, or both. Expect to see even more such capabilities in > the future... > > People with PC-only experience are always astonished when I tell them about > modern mainframe provisioning capabilities. They always assume when your > hard drive fills up you need a new one or when your CPU is too slow you need > a new one. What we do seems like magic to them. > You know *I* don't disagree with your position here, but there is a disconnect -- distributed folks don't understand issues like "small" volumes (226GB being smaller than the hard drive in my laptop), much less JCL. So many/most of them *still* see the mainframe as slow, old, difficult, crippled. That's something that needs to be rectified, but I'm ****ed if I know how to do it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
