For a C Note (or 2) you can get a USB Blu Ray drive to reduce the number of platters. http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=external+blu+ray+drive+usb
On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 10:10 AM, John Eells <ee...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za (Elardus Engelbrecht) wrote: >> >> John Eells wrote: >> >>> Also...receive from tape? I'd hope fewer people are using RECEIVE >>> processing for product installation every day, and for service it's hard to >>> beat a nightly production job that runs RECEIVE ORDER for simplicity, >>> keeping service on hand and HOLDDATA both dead current. "Set and forget." >> >> >> One little note please: as noted in previous IBM-MAIN threads, many sites >> do not have internet connections for their mainframe due to some rules and >> regulations as mandated by [ignorant] management. > > > Yes, and for those who cannot connect z/OS to the Internet we do have DVD > available. My point is that receive from tape is in no way simpler than > either (a) avoiding receive (along with apply and accept) for products > entirely by ordering via ServerPac or (b) using RECEIVE ORDER for service. > (Suitability of DVD and Internet in a particular place is of course another > question.) > >> I think you should support all delivery methods until there is an >> agreement what media and what delivery method should be used. > > > The very purpose of this enquiry! We want to avoid doing anything rash. > > <snip> > > -- > John Eells > z/OS Technical Marketing > IBM Poughkeepsie > ee...@us.ibm.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
