The nasty answer to "what happened to VIO?" is "nothing". :-) :-(
Seriously, it remains as before but implemented in central storage rather than expanded. With the improved economics of memory it's worth looking at again - but only if memory is available to support it. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: [email protected] Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker Podcast Series (With Marna Walle): https://developer.ibm.com/tv/category/mpt/ From: Lizette Koehler <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 11/05/2016 14:55 Subject: Re: Whither VIO? Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> My guess would be: DASD is faster Virtual Tape is faster Central Memory is plentiful (for some shops) Lizette > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Jerry Callen > Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 6:51 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Whither VIO? > > In a thread in a distant galaxy, J.O.Skip Robinson wrote: > > > ...be aware that some customers (like us) did away with VIO a long time ago. > > I've been away from MVS for a while. Did something better than VIO come along > while I wasn't looking? Why would VIO have been vaporized? > > -- Jerry > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
