A Luminex box can emulate CKD on SAN FBA. Does anyone have a used one
available?
On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 6:36 PM, Connor Krukosky
<conn...@connorsdomain.com> wrote:
> I know it was a free option because I asked the price from someone at IBM
> and informed me it was actually a free feature code.
> But they just don't offer it anymore.
>
> "Feature Code 9904 was available at no charge back in the day. Unfortunately
> Feature Code 9904 was only available for ordering from IBM through December
> 31, 2007.
>
> You could try putting out a request in IBM-MAIN for Feature Code 9904 for
> your machine to see if anyone can help, but don't be too surprised if this
> just isn't possible to obtain. :-("
>
> Its likely a long shot but I thought I'd ask anyway.
>
> A DS6000 host controller, not even the whole chassis and drives, has a
> minimum price on ebay at the moment for $1,800.
> ESCON/FICON based DASD is EXPENSIVE!
> If someone has some storage laying around they don't need and are in a
> reasonable distance from me I'd greatly appreciate it.
> But I think I have to stick with SCSI storage as of now due to price of
> 'real' storage.
> It'll definitely be way more than the 50-100 or so bucks I spent on a whole
> 3TB SCSI storage box, SAN box, and SAN switch.
>
> -Connor K
>
> On 12/4/2015 6:54 PM, R.S. wrote:
>>
>> AFAIK SCSI IPL was paid feature, so it would be piracy to share it. Note,
>> this is rather "hardware piracy". ;-)
>> I'm not sure about terms and conditions, but possibly it is allowed to
>> transfer such license, so someone could give it to you from some no longer
>> used machine.
>>
>> BTW: You can obtain some CKD disks and install Linux on 3390 devices. I
>> think it's more funny. Last but not least: it does not require SCSI IPL.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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