On 05/12/2015 11:05 AM, John Eells wrote: > [email protected] (Paul Gilmartin) wrote: > <snip> >> Does IBM (or other vendors) make software available on Blu-Ray? > <snip> > > We do not, for the z/OS platform at least. >
Just a bizarre thought: There is MFNetDisk to make z/OS connected via TCP/IP to a PC/WOrkstation platform see specially formatted files files on that other platform look like a local-channel-attached disk drive to z/OS. Perhaps IBM should give serious thought to an IBM-supported tape counterpart application that could make special files on such a platform appear like a local channel-attached tape drive to z/OS? That would open up all sorts of software distribution strategies for getting the corresponding "tape" files to a PC/Workstation via DVD, flash drives, Internet, whatever, while still preserving the tape-centric, non-HFS installation strategies on z/OS that some still find more effective. The file structure for such an emulated tape drive could surely be designed with some suitable encoding so that a means is built into the data file to insure that the data file is valid and has not been tampered with since leaving the software vendor. -- Joel C. Ewing, Bentonville, AR [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
