IBM software must continue to support features X, Y, and Z and hardware devices X1, Y2, and Z99 long after the vast majority of their customers no longer use those things. Just because your installation might have NO real tape drives does not mean that you do not have software running right now that thinks it is writing data to a real tape but it is really writing data to a virtual tape drive (all puns really intended). By inserting more levels of virtualization between the application and the real hardware you avoid ever having to change the application and you can still support that application's use of all the latest and greatest hardware virtually forever.
Bill Fairchild Programmer Rocket Software 408 Chamberlain Park Lane * Franklin, TN 37069-2526 * USA t: +1.617.614.4503 * e: bfairch...@rocketsoftware.com * w: www.rocketsoftware.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Lindy Mayfield Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 1:57 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: "New" way to do UCB lookups No mainframe shop that I know of in Finland has had tape drives for some years. I thought they went the way of card readers and paper tape already. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Steve Conway Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 4:48 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: "New" way to do UCB lookups Why is that curious? Steven F. Conway, CISSP LA Systems z/OS Systems Support Phone: 703.295.1926 steve_con...@ao.uscourts.gov From: Lindy Mayfield <lindy.mayfi...@sas.com> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 11/19/2012 09:44 AM Subject: Re: "New" way to do UCB lookups Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> People still use tapes? Oh. That's curious. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
