The thrust of my z10 User Experience segment in Austin is that it's time to rethink the 'classic' mainframe configuration. Insistence on multiple CECs to provide 'adjacent' failover in case of planned or unplanned outages leads to chronic problems of load balancing. A single machine that (1) you can trust and (2) can be extensively reconfigured without a POR, immediately solves the balancing problems while still promising stellar availability. The z10 is such a machine.
http://ew.share.org/client_files/callpapers/attach/SHARE_in_Austin/S2839SR192048.pdf . . JO.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile jo.skip.robin...@sce.com "Richards, Robert B." <Robert.Richards@ To OPM.GOV> IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent by: IBM cc Mainframe Discussion List Subject <ibm-m...@bama.ua How Many Mainframes Do You Need? .edu> 03/23/2009 03:21 AM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List <ibm-m...@bama.ua .edu> It has been awhile since someone has referenced the "Mainframe" site: http://mainframe.typepad.com/ Timothy Sipples has placed a nice post out there called "How Many Mainframes Do You Need?" It is worth the read, even for us old, crusty types who sometime forget we didn't always know everything! <smile> Bob <snip> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
