Sorry, Ted, but I have to disagree with you on that second point (and apparently in the case of the 7060 crashing on a regular basis, the first as well). Like the writer, we are running a 7060-H50 (uni-processor) and no money to be able to buy a "real" z-series box, much less the money to invest in enough hardware to implement parallel sysplex. Granted, the only hardware related outage we've had over the 4+ years of our 7060 was with a third-party front-end communications processor, but the fact is we are stuck on a single frame without enough gas and/or hardware to implement a sysplex. My guess is that there are quite a few more sites out there like his and mine.
Rex -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 7:00 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Article in Information week: Mainframe Programmers Wanted >I can understand not having everything on your mainframe because if it crashes, well then a lot of stuff would be down. ... That's specious for two reasons: 1. Mainframes rarely crash. 2. Can you spell PARALLEL SYSPLEX boys & girls? -teD In God we Trust! All others bring data! -- W. Edwards Deming ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
