Ron, The z/OS datacenter at P&H Mining was shut down at the end of March 2006. Both the CPU and the DASD went back to their respective vendors. We had Hitachi Dasd - a 1 TB Lightning box. I don't think anyone thought of hooking up that dasd to Unix boxes, but its been gone for over a year. In any event, they would not have wanted to continue paying for the box, and it was at the end of its lease.
A couple points I forgot to mention to the original poster. We just had Hitachi reformat the DASD when we turned off the mainframe for the final time. Also, we used our tape vaulting company to pick up and shred all of the 3490 tapes that we were getting rid of. Eric Bielefeld Sr. Systems Programmer Milwaukee, Wisconsin 414-475-7434 On Fri, 4 May 2007 18:33:15 +0800, Ron Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Eric, > >If William or you are using HDS disk arrays then you may want to look at >using Cross-OS File Exchange (some of you may know this as Rapid Exchange). >In simple terms you can share your MVS volumes with UNIX and Windows servers >so that MVS flat files can be read directly by the Open Systems servers. > >I'm thinking you can restore or copy your tape files to your MVS volumes in >the disk array, and the new platform servers can read directly from those >volumes. I'm suggesting this as it would get around the clumsiness of double >handling intermediate tapes, and it's a damn site faster than using FTP. > >There are some standard conversion utilities or you can write some tailored >programs - this happens on the UNIX/Windows side. Once converted you can >change the parity groups to Open Systems format and use the capacity in the >SAN, or you may just want to leave the files sitting in MVS format if the >ability to read them without a z/OS system is all that is required. > > >Other disk vendors may also have a similar facility, but you would have to >ask them. This software works with the SUN and HP brands of the Hitachi >arrays. HDS URL is at >http://www.hds.com/products/storage-software/cross-os-file-exchange.html. > >Ron ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
