Visara also makes a rack mount replacement dasd for Ds6800 and ds8000
Kenneth A. Bloom CEO Avenir Technologies Inc /d/b/a Visara International 203-984-2235<tel:203-984-2235> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> www.visara.com<http://www.visara.com/> On Apr 15, 2022, at 6:03 PM, Enzo D'Amato <[email protected]> wrote: Thank you for the input. Would you know where to look for ckd devices? I have seen parts of a DS6800, but always without the controller. I know luminex and IBM also make smaller rack mount units, but I haven't seen any of those either. ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Jay Maynard <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 15, 2022 5:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: HS student with question about small mainframe DASD Basically, running FBA storage restricts you to running z/VM and z/VSE, and possibly z/Linux (I've never run it on FBA, but there's no particular reason it wouldn't work). z/OS requires CKD DASD. Learning experience? Absolutely! I want to get a z/Series myself, but there's a tradeoff there...in particular, I don't think I could manage 3-phase power. On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 4:43 PM Enzo D'Amato <[email protected]> wrote: Hello. I am a US high school student who is seriously considering acquiring a z114 mainframe. I have found a listing selling one for a price that I think is reasonable, and I have determined that I can meet the space, transportation and power requirements for the machine. I did however have one question before I continued. I know in Connor Krukosky's talk, his biggest issue was finding DASD for the machine. I have looked, and it appears that proper ficon DASD is still rare. My situation is not quite as significant as Connor's , as my machine has SCSI IPL as a native feature. Despite this, I wanted to know if anyone here could give some advice on the topic. Would the machine still provide a good learning experience with just FBA storage? Thank you for any information that you can provide ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Jay Maynard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
