Frank Lawrence wrote:
I was surprised to find today that IBM no longer offers OSA Token Ring as
of the introduction of the zSeries z9-109 processor line. Apparently they
made some statement of direction about this last year, but then who takes
those things seriously. It's sort of like when IBM responds to a SHARE
requirement with the words "future design consideration" --- you just
don't believe it is really going to happen.
Well, we have a large demand for token ring among out sites, and will have
for at least the next few years. So, how much demand is out there for
Token Ring in other mainframe customer locations? If you don't mind
sharing, I'd like to hear back from shops using Token Ring and your
thoughts on how this will impact your upgrade decisions. Also, if you
have already addressed this limitation with some third party OEM solution,
please share that, too.
- Thanks
As we have requirments for both Ethernet and Token Ring we have taken
the stance that all new MF will only have Ethernet and we will use
routers to get to the Token Ring segments. The MF will have Gigabit
Ethernet only.
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