>While we will of course work with anyone to get them going if necessary,
>and although we do have this capability to a very limited degree today,
>the DVD support for the Customized Offerings Driver that will make this
>function available to everyone is not planned to be generally available
>until 1Q11.
Thanks, John. Sorry I was a little over-enthusiastic.
Anyway, yes, IBM is planning general support for loading z/OS from scratch
from DVD (sans tape) onto an empty mainframe. And yes, this capability
would often be useful for both new and current z/OS customers.
This support was announced in July with z/OS 1.12 and has a planned
availability date of February 22, 2011 ("Customized Offerings Driver on
DVD"). OK, so it's not entirely clear in the announcement letter what that
support means in practical terms (DVD bootstrapping of z/OS), but that's
what it means. :-)
Plans can sometimes change, but that's the plan.
As for speed, that'll no doubt be situational. But, to give some idea,
you'll be loading the Customized Offerings Driver which is rather small (by
today's standards anyway) and reading it from DVD to get going. (That's
reading, not writing.) The Customized Offerings Driver is capable of
accessing the network for further z/OS goodness.
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Timothy Sipples
Resident Enterprise Architect
STG Value Creation & Complex Deals Team
IBM Growth Markets (Based in Singapore)
E-Mail: [email protected]
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