XIV supporting z/OS roadmap? Can you point me at something official that says this? I would like to look at the XIV but I was told by our VAR that XIV supporting FICON and (emulated) CKD isn't in the works.
I for one would love to see it! Rex -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Shorkend Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 10:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: When will MVS be able to use cheap dasd We have been using (relatively) cheap SATA disks connected to our Hitachi USP. IBM says that XIV for z/OS is on the road map. I do not know when this will happen. Mike On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Larry Macioce <[email protected]> wrote: > A colleague and I were talking as we feel the powers to be are looking > at "options other than the mainframe". The talk went to dollars and cents I > stated the price of a z box has dropped big(for our size shop) but the cost > of > purchasing dasd is still high along with maint. > His question was why can't mvs use scsi or san dasd, VSE and VM can. > We looked around the web could find nothing on it. > Thoughts?? > thanks > Mace > The information contained in this e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information and is intended for the sole use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized use, disclosure, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please reply to sender and destroy or delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
