From: Veilleux, Jon L Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 12:30 PM To: 'IBM Mainframe Discussion List' Subject: FW: IBM announces Encrypting tape drives
I would like to see a pOOP (Performance monitoring Offload Optimizer) for running RMF, OMEGAMON, etc. That would save a TON of CPU cycles. The performance monitoring suite seems to take more cycles than all of the applications they are monitoring. Jon L. Veilleux [EMAIL PROTECTED] (860) 636-2683 The voice of reason downunder (Shane) points out that I got it wrong yesterday. We don't need a "zEEP" (encryption processor) anywhere near as badly as we need a "zOOP" (Optimized Offload processor) to push DFHSM onto and buy back a WHOLE lot of general CP MIPS/MSUs/thingies. Certainly at my present employer's shop we'd see more benefit if HSM had a new style CP to devour. (Although we're embarking on an unbelievable amount of encryption very soon, which will eat up our encryption co-processors in a heartbeat.) I might even suggest that some more of what DFHSM does should be pushed into the disk and tape controllers themselves except (a) I want to see how reliable the tape drive encryption runs first and (b) IBM would apparently not retrofit that into the controllers in the field. I really would have liked the tape encryption announcement much better if IBM would have retrofitted it into existing (or even new model) 3490s. I wonder how many "lost tape" incidents with banks have happened with 3590 tapes vs. 3490 tapes? -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI (Or maybe it should be a "zUUP" (Universal Utility processor)? Either way the standard seem to be to double-up on the vowels, right?) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ----------------------------------------- This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information. If you think you have received this e-mail in error, please advise the sender by reply e-mail and then delete this e-mail immediately. Thank you. Aetna ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
