They have less support staff total than the Australian Bank I worked for had System Programmers.
DR works with TrueCopy the same way MVS does, and server-less backup is way beyond anything us MVS guys can dream of. No need for Hyperswap and its associated performance penalty, because RAID-1 is built into the Logical Volume Manager (something like DFP)if you want that sort of redundancy (some do). Systems are usually up for months, and I find that the Solaris, HP-UX and AIX vendor support can read dumps just as well as the MVS guys. I will concede that the equivalent of IO Config changes can be a PITA compared to dynamic HCD, and that Fault Tolerance is not as good as Hot Pluggable FRU. However in many cases this is managed using failover within the clustering support, not unlike we do today with Parallel Sysplex. We are talking TCO here. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Robin Murray > Sent: Thursday, 14 July 2005 4:29 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Another - Another One Bites the Dust > > If they are indeed doing a better job than what a mainframe can do > regarding the number of support staff, disaster recovery, ease of > maintenance and debuggability, then I would indeed concede the point. Have > you investigated these areas? Or are they just running unix because "it's > cheaper than a mainframe"? > > Robin Murray > Tel: (902) 453-7300 x4177 > Cell: (902) 430-0637 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
