Re: HMC security (was: zvm directions)

[Alan Altmark]

On Tuesday, 05/31/2011 at 11:03 EDT, Philip Tully  
wrote:
> Or listening to our SAN provisioning group here that every other 
platform
> integrates well with their tools, whereas on the Z they need to actually
> type wwpn's.

The Unified Resource Manager's Storage Administrator function includes the 
ability exporting the WWPN configuration and importing an access list 
based on it.  (Sorry, I haven't personally used it, yet, so I can't 
comment further.)

If you have specific needs that you feel aren't being met, make sure 
you're talking to the right people.  Heads up:  They don't hang out here.  
This is a case, again, where you can ask your IBMers or BPs to set up a 
conference call.  Where particular software is involved, I suggest talking 
to whoever is responsible for that software.  (HW architects cannot solve 
SW availability problems.)

Alan Altmark

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Re: HMC security (was: zvm directions)

[Philip Tully]

What David said!

We have enough fights integrating business critical application on the Z
with other infrastructure units.

How many of us have heard while integrating a complex application one tin
y
piece doesn't have a support statement to run on s390x linux. Not even th
at
it doesn't work, just that it is not listed.


Or listening to our SAN provisioning group here that every other platform

integrates well with their tools, whereas on the Z they need to actually
type wwpn's.

So now we are trying to convince the z/OS team to open their doors and th
e
distributed folks that don't we are taking control now...

Too bad more of the Z community was in these architectural discussions.