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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
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My 2 cents worth: the "cheap DASD" doesn't live up to the reliability
standards that IBM demands for z/OS. Stop and think, really hard, about
the demands on z/OS DASD storage, as opposed to the "standards" you
enjoy with your PC DASD. How many of your PC's stay up, with DASD
spinning, on a 24/7 basis, for several years without problems?
Rick
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