> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Larry Macioce > Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 10:24 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: When will MVS be able to use cheap dasd > > A colleague and I were talking as we feel the powers to be > are looking > at "options other than the mainframe". The talk went to > dollars and cents I > stated the price of a z box has dropped big(for our size > shop) but the cost of > purchasing dasd is still high along with maint. > His question was why can't mvs use scsi or san dasd, VSE and VM can. > We looked around the web could find nothing on it. > Thoughts?? > thanks > Mace
FlexCUB. But it only supports Escon, not Ficon. It emulates 3390 on SAN / PC type disk. I think part of the problem is with the support for legacy PDS and files with "hardware keys". Searching a PDS directory for a member is a very simple CCW chain. And is used a lot in IPL and NIP. So the first thing that would need to be done is to have IPL and NIP be able to support PDSE. Or, even better, something which has "members" but is superior to PDSE. I don't know why z/OS cannot use the CMS file system. It works, as you said, for z/VM. Or use whatever z/VSE uses for its libraries. I'm not z/VSE literate. And then there is the VTOC. It also has hardware keys. Now I'm curious how z/VSE supports FBA disks. Time to go look at some books. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-691-6183 cell john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
