On Mon, 26 Mar 2018 13:33:23 -0500, Edward Gould wrote:
"IBM plans to discontinue delivery of z/OS platform products and service on magnetic
tape on July 1, 2018. ..."
Congratulations to IBM. This sounds the death nell for z/OS at this install.
What will you do instead?
(I'm not sure why I can't see Ed's post, so I copied the above from
another.)
First, we are still delivering these things on DVD and have no current
plans to stop doing that. So, if that was your concern, a connection to
the internet from z/OS is not required.
In addition to that, you can take a laptop outside your firewall,
download stuff*, bring the laptop back in, connect to your internal
network, and upload it to z/OS to be processed. A connection from z/OS
to the internet is not required for this, either, and it's probably
faster than waiting for a DVD to arrive. I don't have actual numbers
handy, but the data volume for most orders is probably less than you
need to download for a Netflix movie in SD. If you are ordering the
gorilla in the room (z/OS itself), it's about what you need for a few
Netflix HD movies.
Then, if you are willing to buy hardware as David Boyes outlined, you
can perhaps do it that way. I have no knowledge about these products,
and we have not tested that approach, so I do not know whether or not it
works. If someone has tried it, I'd be (academically, I'll admit)
interesting in knowing about the outcome.
* "Stuff" = Products, PTFs, HOLDDATA, etc.
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John Eells
IBM Poughkeepsie
[email protected]
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