On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:07:26 -0600, Dave Cartwright wrote: >On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:25:42 -0600, John McKown >wrote: >> >>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. >> >> http://www.mvsdasd.org/faq.html > >Thank you John, that URL is exactly what I was thinking of. Thanks also for >the connectivity lesson, obviously much needed. As a last resort z/Linux >under Hercules accessing CCKD copies of the disks could use this module to >access files. But then, so could ZZA utilities which are a lot simpler. > NFS? (Wouldn't it be useful if the NFS server provided some of the options of FTP, such as STRU R and RDW so that binary data could be processed without degradation?)
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