Mike: Not taking your point...please elaborate? On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 10:56 AM, Mike Schwab <[email protected]> wrote:
> The IBM 360 mainframe was designed to process data from other machines > and distribute to them. Punch cards, Printers, card to tape machines, > RJE machines, 3270 screens / printers. The PC with 3270 emulator (and > now browser) replaced an I/O device, but also became a storage / user > processing devices (spreadsheets, etc). > > On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 9:33 AM, Phil Smith III <[email protected]> wrote: > > R.S. wrote: > > > >>IMHO it was a mistake from the begining. > >>Whenever I asked the question: "what is the difference between zBX and > > regular 19" rack with blade servers" I heard about Ensemble, OSX, OSM, > etc. > > Customers do not need ensembles. From customer point of view zBX is just > > rack with servers, but less flexible, vendor locked and more expensive. > Even > > IBM did not use zBX for its appliance like IDAA. > > > > > > > > The disadvantages you cite are real, for sure, and may have been > sufficient > > to kill the concept right there. But the *idea* was that high-impact > > processing could be easily/seamlessly offloaded. The "too late" part is > that > > the folks who needed to do that had already bitten the bullet and done > so. > > Fifteen years ago, not so much. > > > > > > > > I also suspect that fifteen years ago, the gaps-physical, political, > > theological-between z and distributed folks were greater, such that it > would > > have been easier for the z folks to justify keeping the data away from > those > > squatty-box weenies that they didn't trust. By now, most z folks are > > resigned to their interdependence on those same squatty-box weenies. > > > > > > > > .phsiii ("It's a strange world, isn't it?" - Blue Velvet) > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] 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 [email protected] 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 [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
