I need to decommission and remove for potential destruction z16 zr1. It only has one active engine so it's capped at 88 mips which isn't very useful. But for a number of reasons it has a ton of 16G fibre channel cards (6 or 8 I think). They might have some value so I was thinking I would remove them before having the host removed. There are also 4 OSA Express cards (10G). Our IBM SE said IBM do not support used cards in CEC's but that does not mean they won't work?
Another thought was it could be used as a sysprog play pen, carving up some storage of the DS8K we have and creating a small z/OS image. But how much play can you do in 88 MIPS? Ideas appreciated. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
