On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:00:38 EDT, Gene Hudders <[email protected]> wrote:
> Depending on where you are software wise, you may not be able to back >level your software to run on z800 and even if you can, there may be a >conversion and risks associated with the conversion. Huh? If his software supports z9, then he certainly can support older z hardware, including z800. The problems would only be if he is using new features that were z990/z890 or z9EC/z9BC that he could no longer use and would have to plan for not using them. There is a long list - more LPARs, more CHPIDs, more than one LCSS (Logical Channel Subsystems), more internal LANs for HiperSockets, MSS (Multiple Subchannel Sets), just to name a few. But being a small shop none of those may be a factor. FICON and (less likely) OSA speed could be an issue depending on what he has today on the z9. 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
