> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Chris Craddock
>
> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 8:51 AM, John McKown <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
> > A good idea. However, we only have 3390-3 volumes. And, as I said in
> > another post, if I have a large amount of "unused" space in a SMS
pool,
> > then management becomes unglued. Of course, I could just leave the
entire
> > space allocated to a zFS file. I'll see if I can talk my manager
into
> > that. Thanks for the idea.
> >
> 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?
"Institutional[ized] Inertia". But we do have a handful of mod-9s
now.... :-)
-jc-
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