On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:38:52 -0500, Brian Peterson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Your characterization of this HFS as >being "huge" and "a problem" are what I would disagree with. I just >downloaded z/OS 1.10 plus four XML FMIDs, and it all fit in one zFS >(appropriately sized). I don't think that HFS was "huge". > It's a generational / platform problem. It seems that even the younger (relative term) mainframe people I work with just can't grasp the concept that 3390-9 isn't "huge". We were just going through an internal battle trying to talk our storage management folks - aka DASD freaks :-) - into 3390-54 instead of 3390-27 for a migration that is starting. Because these folks have micro-managed mainframe storage for so long they are afraid to do it any other way. There were issues raised like "what will we do when application abc requests 5G of storage for project xyz when they are on mod-54s and out of space? We'll have to add another volume with all that wasted space." Of course this comes from micro-managing the SMS storage pools also. And as far as I know, we don't even do are charge back using that method anyway (I think there is an "after the fact" process that goes by data set name). The distributed folks would laugh at us if they sat in some of the meetings I have sat in. I'm glad we're not ready for EAVs! :-) 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
