I would just add for completeness that HYPERPAV support was announced this year as well.
Tom Moulder -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 8:09 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Implementing PAV on EMC DASD On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 03:54:00 +0000, Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>All of our DASD subsystems are EMCs, I want to know if it's possible to implement PAV on DASD made by EMC? Can it be defined as Control UNIT=2105? >Currently, it is defined as CONTROL UNIT=3990 and IODEVICE UNIT=3390 in the IOCDS. > >EMC came out with PAV support, years ago. >So, as long as you are at z/OS 1.3 (or higher) the answer is yes. >(Former EMC customer). > Yes... but just because you have EMC dasd doesn't mean you have PAV availibility. It's not free (just like it is not free on IBM DASD). In addition to static PAV support, which EMC did have early on, they also have dynamic PAV support - which came later. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.21.1/1301 - Release Date: 2/27/2008 8:35 AM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.21.1/1301 - Release Date: 2/27/2008 8:35 AM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
