Also, it has been stated that Dell will no longer support Mainframe DASD. 

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Steve Beaver
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2025 2:47 PM
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Fiserv is dumping all Dell DASD by the end of Jan 2026 in favor of a DS8K

We have had too much trouble




-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of Michael Watkins
Sent: Wednesday, December 3, 2025 2:30 PM
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Subject: Re: Dell DASD

The Texas CPA has a DLm8500 (emulates a TS7k virtual tape server) front-ending 
a Data Domain 9900 disk subsystem, which is shared with open systems servers. 
All mainframe virtual tapes are records in an MTree
(folder) on the DD9900.


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How many of you are running Dell DASD?








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