On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 07:10:42 -0600, Dave Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>We are finally looking at decommissioning our mainframe after a successful >global SAP rollout. Minor bugs, but it works. SAP runs on System-P under AIX >sharing the same DS8000 as the mainframe disks. I thought I read recently of >a module that allows Linux systems to access mainframe files. Maybe it was >just z/Linux or maybe it was fully open-sourced, in which case I presume it >would be possible to get it going on AIX. I have searched these archives and >the interweb but I cannot now find the description of this module. Am I barmy >(shush!) or is there such a tool? Any pointers would be very welcome to help >me retain the capability of reading archived mainframe files. > >Cheers >Dave This is strictly for z/Linux use. I really doubt that you can connect "mainframe" DASD to your AIX system. The interface is different. The "mainframe" uses FICON. The AIX likely uses FCP (or maybe some SCSI variant). To the best of my knowledge, there is no "host adapter" for a p Series which will connect it to a FICON DASD unit. And even if there were, you'd need a device driver. Likely what you're thinking of is: http://www.mvsdasd.org/faq.html -- John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
