On Aug 30, 2012, at 11:43 AM, Mike Schwab <[email protected]> wrote:
> Could you create IPL and Paging packs on these devices? In case of > exceeding SSD write limits and the devices fail, you would have > replace volumes on reqular volumes too. Of course, once you IPL you > the I/O rate should be fairly low, and paging packs should have very > low I/O. Again, all I know is what I've read in the announcements and the "IBM zEnterprise EC12 Technical Guide" Redbook I downloaded Tuesday, but it looks like for now this storage is only available for paging, and for that matter it will only work if you have z/OS 1.13 with PTFs applied. Plans are to add an API so applications (DB2 and Java are specifically mentioned) can use it directly as cache. But it won't be a device in your hardware configuration; it won't be managed like a disk at all. It seems to really be more like expanded storage, just implemented very differently. -- Curtis Pew ([email protected]) ITS Systems Core The University of Texas at Austin ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
