On Sat, 30 May 2009, Chris Craddock wrote: > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 8:51 AM, John McKown <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't know whether to be comforted or irritated to see people still > suffering from the stupidity of ancient volume architectures. I have a bag > full of cheap USB thumb drives that are bigger than a mod 3. Nobody has seen > a real 3390 in at least a decade. Storage volumes are all virtual now. Why > not just make 'em as big as you need and be done with all this nuttiness? > CC >
But the 3390-3 is the perfect size! Everybody __knows__ that 3390-9 or larger volumes are just too slow. Oh, what? PAV? Doesn't that cost extra or something? Oh, and doesn't it require a more advanced storage array than our ancient 2105? NO MONEY! NO MONEY! AAAAHHHHHH!!! HERESY!!!! The above is not my opinion. One manager two levels above me is trying to figure out how to outsource our z/OS from our z9BC-T02 to a shared z800 which is about 1/4 its power. Because it would save a lot of money!!! And that is what gets "points" now where I work. Everything is about cost. Not value. Not investment. Not ROI. Cost. Period. End of discussion. Does not make me confident in our future. "Polish it up and sell it fast!" (we are owned by an Investment group right now). -- Trying to write with a pencil that is dull is pointless. Maranatha! John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
