"As a production or development machine the I/O was really poor."
Production, sure; we had one for dev, and while it wasn't an I/O screamer, it was *dev*. So I'll have to disagree. Sure, a z800 would have been better. So would a z900. On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 10:34 AM, R.S. <r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl> wrote: > I dare to disagree. > Although MP3000 was better than MP2000, it was still nothing good. > As a demonstration/learning/portable machine it was much to big. > As a production or development machine the I/O was really poor. > No real channels except ESCON. > No sysplex capability. A lot of SPOFs. > z800 and followers were not much more expensive, but it's functionality > was significantly better. > > -- > Radoslaw Skorupka > Lodz, Poland > > > > > > > > > W dniu 2016-12-13 o 16:27, zMan pisze: > >> Oops, yeah, sorry. For some reason I do that with Gmail threads a lot. >> Dumb >> on my part. Thanks. >> >> MP3000 was a nice machine. Too bad IBM killed the follow-on. >> >> On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 10:12 AM, R.S. <r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl> >> wrote: >> >> zMan, >>> >>> Please, re-read the message you responded to. >>> Hint: Itschak asked the question, Radoslaw answered. >>> >>> Regarding zPDT - indeed, it is licensed to "non production" activities >>> (*some* development tasks, learning). >>> The difference is zPDT is a license - you buy the hardware, IBM delivers >>> you USB key, emulator and right to use ADCD system. >>> For MP3000 it was (past tense justified) just a small mainframe and one >>> had to obtain the liceneses separately, as for any other mainframe >>> machine. >>> >>> Regards >>> -- >>> Radoslaw Skorupka >>> Lodz, Poland >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> > > > > --- > Treść tej wiadomości może zawierać informacje prawnie chronione Banku > przeznaczone wyłącznie do użytku służbowego adresata. Odbiorcą może być > jedynie jej adresat z wyłączeniem dostępu osób trzecich. Jeżeli nie jesteś > adresatem niniejszej wiadomości lub pracownikiem upoważnionym do jej > przekazania adresatowi, informujemy, że jej rozpowszechnianie, kopiowanie, > rozprowadzanie lub inne działanie o podobnym charakterze jest prawnie > zabronione i może być karalne. Jeżeli otrzymałeś tę wiadomość omyłkowo, > prosimy niezwłocznie zawiadomić nadawcę wysyłając odpowiedź oraz trwale > usunąć tę wiadomość włączając w to wszelkie jej kopie wydrukowane lub > zapisane na dysku. > > This e-mail may contain legally privileged information of the Bank and is > intended solely for business use of the addressee. This e-mail may only be > received by the addressee and may not be disclosed to any third parties. If > you are not the intended addressee of this e-mail or the employee > authorized to forward it to the addressee, be advised that any > dissemination, copying, distribution or any other similar activity is > legally prohibited and may be punishable. If you received this e-mail by > mistake please advise the sender immediately by using the reply facility in > your e-mail software and delete permanently this e-mail including any > copies of it either printed or saved to hard drive. > > mBank S.A. z siedzibą w Warszawie, ul. Senatorska 18, 00-950 Warszawa, > www.mBank.pl, e-mail: kont...@mbank.pl > Sąd Rejonowy dla m. st. Warszawy XII Wydział Gospodarczy Krajowego > Rejestru Sądowego, nr rejestru przedsiębiorców KRS 0000025237, NIP: > 526-021-50-88. Według stanu na dzień 01.01.2016 r. kapitał zakładowy mBanku > S.A. (w całości wpłacony) wynosi 168.955.696 złotych. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
