What is the relative cost/gigabyte of storage Wintel vs. z/OS? Could you justify this increased cost if asked to?
Now if it's ATM transactions in DB2, perhaps you can argue that improved RAS justifies that cost differential - but for a static database already backed up on CD/DVD? Why not load it onto three Windows servers in three different buildings - that should give you reliability approaching that of z/OS (and yes, it's an option that would not be suitable for ATM transactions). Chris raises a great point. You really should keep your z/OS doc on Windows - you're never going to need it more than when z/OS is down. z/OS is an awesome platform, but we really need as a group to get over this silly anti-Windows thing. Windows has its place, and serving up static documentation is a wonderful example. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craddock, Chris Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 7:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: HFS vs. zFS? Well its late in the day and I just couldn't resist. So I'm a bad person. > Suppose, for the sake of argument, that I want to keep all the z/OS > documentation that I currently have on a Windows share on z/OS itself. > I plan to put it all in z/OS UNIX files and serve it up via the HTTPD > server. This avoids any dependance on the Windows server for our > documentation. Was there any compelling reason to move them? Seems to me if your z/OS box is face down in the dirt for whatever reason, and you need doc in a hurry to get it upright again, that having the doc somewhere other than on the system that was down, or in trouble, was probably a good idea. Was there ever a time when you needed to access the doc (on windows) and couldn't? I'm not pushing the idea of putting it on windows, but if it's already there anyway why move it? Worst case I suppose you could just access it directly from the IBM pubs site and never need to update your own copy. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
