Re: GDPS and DASD Vendors

2006-02-20 Thread John Ticic
-- snip -- Is there any IBM public list about what DASD vendors suppport GDPS?. If so, could you please provide me with the URL? I dont'know why my post did not get through , i'll re-ask . My question : If you talk about DASD support for GDPS , i suppose you mean the ability to do Hiperswap

Re: GDPS and DASD Vendors

2006-02-20 Thread TISLER Zaromil
- snip - I thought that Hiperswap was a software only feature ( after all it only swaps UCB's ) . So i am curious .. why would hardware matter ? - snip - I would not say that Hyperswap (GDPS) only swaps UCB's. It must communicate the hardware to change the mirroring direction at

Re: GDPS and DASD Vendors

2006-02-20 Thread John Ticic
-- snip -- I would not say that Hyperswap (GDPS) only swaps UCB's. It must communicate the hardware to change the mirroring direction at the same time. I remember we had to wait for new microcode levels to use Hyperswap or at least some of its new features. E.g. one of the features is (was)

Re: GDPS and DASD Vendors

2006-02-17 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Is there any IBM public list about what DASD vendors suppport GDPS? The three mainframe DASD vendors supported GDPS in 2000. I know, because we had all three (IBM, EMC, HDS) in our GDPS environment. That shouldn't have changed in 6 years. - -teD I’m an enthusiastic proselytiser

Re: GDPS and DASD Vendors

2006-02-17 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Sorry for responding to my own post. That should have said ... 2001 ... 5 years. -Original Message- From: Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 00:00:00 To:IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: GDPS and DASD Vendors Is there any IBM public list about what DASD

Re: GDPS and DASD Vendors

2006-02-17 Thread Bruno Sugliani
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 14:23:09 -0600, Giovanni Cerquone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any IBM public list about what DASD vendors suppport GDPS?. If so, could you please provide me with the URL? I dont'know why my post did not get through , i'll re-ask . My question : If you talk about DASD