Thank you Ron I was feeling alone . i have been sometimes pulling out applications from mainframe in my shop and applied all good recipes from centralised processing ( dual computer rooms , dual replicated storage bays for dasds , dual network, load balancing , dual tape robotics and even ESX vmware to drag and drop servers on the fly) And it is reliable . ( Lotus notes windows, Lotus portal windows , WAS linux , Windows data servers , AIX applications , etc ... ) The people are younger though , and when you are younger you are less experienced . In effect they are sometimes making the same mistakes i was doing 30 years ago . But now they come and ask , and we the "ancient" give them advice or ask them the right questions :" and what happens if blah blah ???" I think the issue is more with the people and their experience or attitude than with the platform . These guys sometimes ask me to put "things" in mainframe and when the cost is ok we do . Like someone said : i backup my servers with TSM on ts7700 in grid configuration with jaguar at the back , and it works ( and i tried it in AIX and z/OS and not much difference apart from the bill ) . Now i am sure that using DVD's in Z/os would slow down restoration , but then we would not think doing it . Bruno Sugliani zxnetconsult(at)free(dot)fr On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:07:19 -0700, Ron Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Oh come on Richard. There are Banks all around the world that have never >possessed a MF, and get along quite nicely with five nines availability on >Unix clustered solutions. > >We should not fool ourselves into thinking that Parallel Sysplex and GDPS >are the only HA clustered solutions in the market place, whether local, >metro or geographically dispersed. I had UNIX customers doing multi-site >RAID-1 over RAID-5 before Hiperswap was a twinkle in IBM's eye! Damn site >easier to operate too. > >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
