I guess you guys never have to support a customer whose system doesn't even include TCP/IP, let alone anything modern.
-----Original Message----- From: R.S. Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2009 12:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: SMP/E packaging of maintence / products (was: FMID descriptions) Chris Craddock pisze: > 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? This is not stupidity of ancient volume architecture. The architecture was quite OK in ancient times. The stupid thing is to conserve the ancient architecture. I'm aware it's often choice of management, not technical staff. When we talk about mainframe A.D. 2009 we simply don't have such problems! Think about EAV or NFS attached USB. 3390-3 is history, as Bus&Tag, punched cards or other Dodo's. Yes, you can still use it - that's one of the mainframe strengths, but you don't have to. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
