I'd like to gather your feedback on the requirement for Linux exploiting Parallel Access Volume (PAV) support available on ESS (Shark) storage subsystems and its competitors in the market.
In the past some customers expressed their concern about the data throughput ESCON attachments provide, which made us think about PAV support. However, I would appreciate any thoughts about FICON based storage attachments already satisfying your throughput requirements or whether you consider PAV exploitation a major requirement nonetheless ? Any opinions ? e.g. do you see requirements for it as you can't move to FICON in the forseeable future ? I would appreciate your feedback, either offline or to this list. In any case I would appreciate if you could also depict the business scenario / solution you expect PAV exploitation being a requirement for. Thanks and best regards, Ingo ********************************************************************** Ingo Adlung, Linux for zSeries - Strategy & Design The box said, 'Requires Windows95 or better', ...so I installed LINUX.
