The mainframe has a huge potential to support a lot of web based functions as well as provide a platform for a midrange/open systems environments could use.
Currently I am researching using CICS as the portal to a cloud environment. I am in the early stages of this research, but it looks promising. This is the Redbook on the New Mainframe. It might be helpful http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247175.html?Open I am also looking into using the IBM VTS (TS7700 family) to backup and support the mainframe and open systems backup environment. Lizette -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Quasar Chunawala Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 4:54 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: DASD, Tape and other peripherals attached to a Mainframe Hi Lizette, Thank you for the eye-opener. Quasar C. On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 7:30 AM, Quasar Chunawala < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi experts, > > I work as an application programmer with a leading bank on CICS/Cobol > for the past 4 years. Whilst I know, that data on the mainframe is > stored on disks and tapes, I have never walked in to a data-center. At > any mainframe data-center, what are different storage media used? Do > they still use Tapes or 3390 DASD? I did do some research on the > Internet, but found that the last 3390 was manufactured by IBM in > 1993. What *storage media* is used to store petabytes of data and > information? I also heard the term *DASD > Arrays,* but I am not quite sure what they are. > > I have yet another question. Can DASDs or tapes be virtualized? > > Thanks a tonne in advance! > > Quasar C. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
