My units are all directed connected, no switches. The issue is how far down can the newer storage units go down on the speed charts as they are designed to run at 8 and 16 GB. I don't know that all of the newer units can slow do to 4 GB.
Thanks Bill Bishop Consultant, Mainframe Engineer Mainframe and Scheduling | Infrastructure Technology Services Toyota Motor North America bill.bis...@toyota.com Office: (469) 292-5149 Cell: (502) 316-4386 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Grant Taylor Sent: Friday, June 26, 2020 10:28 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DASD migration On 6/26/20 9:09 AM, Bill Bishop (TMNA) wrote: > One issue that you may encounter with going to a new storage system on > a z9 processor is the speed of the ficon cards and whether the new > unit can z9 cards. I am not sure the new Hitachi's can work with 4GB ficon. I would naively assume that the FICON switch (director?) would facilitate speed conversion. Is that an incorrect assumption? -- Grant. . . . unix || die ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
