Eric, I know this is a relatively old thread, but I've been on vacation.
When we unplugged our ancient RVA (model T82 upgraded to an X82, still with 4 GB drives in it, 3 years ago, we gave it to another site in town for spare parts. AFAIK, they are still running one of these beasts, using ours as their maintenance contract. :-) Also, as of 3 years ago when we upgraded from the RVA, StorageTek (actually a VAR) quoted us an SVA which is still using the virtualization technology of the RVA. Unfortunately they were too pricey compared to the competition so they lost out. Rex -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Eric Bielefeld Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 12:42 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: "A foolish consistancy" or "3390 cyl/track architecture" You've refreshed more of my memory. So you really could have more or less volumes at different times, depending on how much data, blocksizes, etc. that you have on them. But, I would think you need to define a static set of volumes for normal processing, although I could see that at times such as month end you might need more volumes. I have a couple of questions. Does anyone have an RVA still? Is there any current DASD that still works this way? Eric Eric Bielefeld Sr. Systems Programmer Milwaukee, Wisconsin 414-475-7434 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
