I would imagine that the FICON and OSA cards might have value to someone. These cards can still be used in other z14's, z15's and z16's. With the hardware WKFM date for z15's having passed, the only way to add an adapter to a z15 is to acquire it from the secondary market (aka used). You could try posting them on eBay or contact some of the companies that trade in used IBM parts.
Good luck! Mike -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Laurence Chiu Sent: Friday, February 23, 2024 6:08 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Getting rid of a z14 zr1 - any value in the host cards? Sorry. Z14 On Sat, Feb 24, 2024, 2:59 PM Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: > z14 as in the Subject or z16 as in the body? > > CM > > On Sat, 24 Feb 2024 12:04:39 +1300, Laurence Chiu <lch...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > >I need to decommission and remove for potential destruction z16 zr1. > >It only has one active engine so it's capped at 88 mips which isn't > >very useful. But for a number of reasons it has a ton of 16G fibre > >channel cards (6 or 8 I think). They might have some value so I was > >thinking I would remove them before having the host removed. There > >are > also > >4 OSA Express cards (10G). Our IBM SE said IBM do not support used > >cards > in > >CEC's but that does not mean they won't work? > > > >Another thought was it could be used as a sysprog play pen, carving > >up > some > >storage of the DS8K we have and creating a small z/OS image. But how > >much play can you do in 88 MIPS? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
