On 5 Oct 2006 20:28:34 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >on 10/05/2006 > at 07:58 AM, "McKown, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >>4K physical and logical. Like VSAM LINEAR. Or a PAGESPACE. > >Do you know for a fact that those use a 4 KiB block size? > >><rant>I sure wish that DFSMSdfp would support FBA. Or, even better, >>direct connection to a SAN via FCP the way that z/Linux can, perhaps >>as emulated FBA.</rant> > >So did a lot of other people, 3 decades ago. IBM rejected the >requirement. :-( > >When was the last attempt? Is it too soon to try again? > I submitted a requirement to the SHARE storage management project within the past 4 years that didn't attract much interest but I was unable to attend the SHARE conferences so personal lobbying might help.
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