Re: "Media manager" is the future?

2009-03-09 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In , on 03/06/2009 at 12:48 PM, Daniel McLaughlin said: >LDS? Linear Data Saint. >What do the Mormons have to do with this? They use IDCAMS in their rituals? Don't you love these overloaded acronyms? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

Re: "Media manager" is the future?

2009-03-07 Thread Bobbie Jo
Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 12:50 PM Subject: Re: "Media manager" is the future? Bobbie Jo pisze: ">However the disadvantage above is important for "system" filesystems. Container for downloads is not one of them, but it also could happen you want to switch it f

Re: "Media manager" is the future?

2009-03-07 Thread R.S.
Bobbie Jo pisze: ">However the disadvantage above is important for "system" filesystems. Container for downloads is not one of them, but it also could happen you want to switch it from one system to another. two words - Shared zFS, works just fine and happy I don't quite understand the catalo

Re: "Media manager" is the future?

2009-03-07 Thread Mark Zelden
On Sat, 7 Mar 2009 10:42:17 -0500, Bobbie Jo wrote: >">However the disadvantage above is important for "system" filesystems. >> Container for downloads is not one of them, but it also could happen you >> want to switch it from one system to another. > >two words - Shared zFS, works just fine and

Re: "Media manager" is the future?

2009-03-07 Thread Bobbie Jo
he catalog concern. Are you in sysplex ? - Original Message - From: "R.S." Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 10:20 AM Subject: Re: "Media manager" is the future? Bobbie Jo pisze: " what I recently needed was a really huge (

Re: "Media manager" is the future?

2009-03-07 Thread R.S.
Bobbie Jo pisze: " what I recently needed was a really huge (10 x 3390-3) UNIX filesystem.". okay, we have one zFS filesystem for downloads that is on a mod 54. For me, the disadvantage of zFS is catalog requirement. HFS is nonVSAM dataset. You can create it uncataloged, then catalog on ano

Re: "Media manager" is the future?

2009-03-06 Thread Bobbie Jo
4 PM Subject: "Media manager" is the future? Or perhaps whatever has/will replace it? The reason that I ask is that it seems that while DFSMSdfp clings tenaciously to the 3390 DASD architecture, it is also using this interface (with 4K physical blocks) for all new I/O. IIRC, it was first

Re: "Media manager" is the future?

2009-03-06 Thread Mark Zelden
On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 11:44:11 -0600, John McKown wrote: >I am not sure, but I'd bet that >PDS/E and HFS use it as well. They do. > >Just Friday musings. Brought on by my dislike of zFS being based on LDS data >sets. Because what I recently needed was a really huge (10 x 3390-3) UNIX >filesyste

Re: "Media manager" is the future?

2009-03-06 Thread Daniel McLaughlin
770-621-3237 cell: 770-666-7969 email: daniel_mclaugh...@us.crawco.com web: www.crawfordandcompany.com John McKown Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List 03/06/2009 12:44 PM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List To IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu cc Subject "Media manager&q

"Media manager" is the future?

2009-03-06 Thread John McKown
Or perhaps whatever has/will replace it? The reason that I ask is that it seems that while DFSMSdfp clings tenaciously to the 3390 DASD architecture, it is also using this interface (with 4K physical blocks) for all new I/O. IIRC, it was first just a part of VSAM. I am not sure, but I'd bet that PD