I'd be very leery of 3rd party vendor hardware support. That was tried here once to try and save money, our ATL/VTS device was down for 5 days before they admitted they were lost. We had to have IBM come in and save the day, that took another 2 days. Hence, the manager is not here any longer, an outage like that is not taken too kindly.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Staller, Allan Sent: Friday, August 09, 2013 2:14 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z10 Memory I don't know about 3rd party support, but if you have minimal storage config (32GB) a different chip is used. The upgrade from 32GB to >32GB requires replacement of *ALL* memory chips and a disruptive outage. HTH, <snip> Since IBM dropped the z10 from marketing, it seems impossible to get anything done to the box from them. Does anyone know if it is possible to acquire memory, from a third party, and have it put in the z10 and be actually operational? I'm told everything is done via microcode now and IBM won't even update that on z10's...the memory will be there but the microcode isn't set to use it. </snip> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
