Just remember that the same squatty boxes and off-the-shelf hardware are running most of your DASD subsystems. You bet your company's crown jewels on Power PC, P/series servers and Motorola microprocessors every day. I think the up-time for most of your DASD is probably a magnitude better than your z-boxes!!!
> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of William Ball > Sent: Wednesday, 13 July 2005 6:47 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Another - Another One Bites the Dust > > You're making a leap there that -I'm- certainly not ready to make. Speed > isn't everything, never has been. > > If you want to play games or have application that you don't really care > about when it gets done and a lot of times in accurate results and only > has 1 or 2 users, you -might- be able to live with putting it on a Unix > platform. > > However, IMHO, the RAS -really- stinks. > > You can't rely on those boxes being up and available to do -production- > work when you need them. > > One line of bad code or a missing line in a script and the box typically > goes into a loop and freezes and a lot of the time can't be gotten control > of again without turning the box off or pulling circuit cards to force it > to quit. > > The -whole- attitude of the group of people responsible for the care and > feeding of the squatty boxes is one that a -production- environment in a > mainframe world can't tolerate. They think nothing of taking a box down or > changing an IP address in the middle of the day and without telling anyone > they're about to do it. > > The number of people it takes to support the squatty box environment is > unreal (5+to 1) for every application they put up. > > It's cheaper to maintain the mainframe....overall. > > The average time for D/R recoverability on a squatty box is measured in > days....not hours. > > And the list could go on and on. > > Personally, I'd rather have a -slower- box and know that the RAS is there, > unless of course I want to play a game. <g> > > Bill > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
