On 3/27/18, 9:48 AM, "IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of John Eells" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote:
> Ah, so that's what you meant. I hadn't inferred that from your earlier post. Sorry, replies crossed in the ether. > As the original builder of the ADCD systems (originally created to > support P390s) Didn't the P370 also support AWSTAPE? I don't remember -- that was a long time ago. Or were you just using P390 as a generic term? > However, we do not, and have no plans to, deliver the DVD files in AWSTAPE > format. That would seem to meet everyone's needs here, and it'd be trivial to support both electronic or physical media delivery options for the people that care one way or another. You (or some contractor, given IBM's current attitude about services and the people who deliver them) could easily support people that want physical media (copy the files to your preferred delivery media - the Hercules folks have done a fine job of providing an example of tools to do that), no one has to do anything different if they don't want to (don't break existing customer processes), and you create jobs for some folks so the people at the top of the food chain can point at all the things IBM is doing to improve the economy, even if those people aren't IBMers. Everybody wins, and no wheels need to get invented. (*insert sarcasm as needed*) > Were there hardware available to read the files we do supply on DVD so > they could be written to the z/OS UNIX file system, I would find that > interesting. Well, you're in a better positon to bug the Powers That Be that do hardware design and delivery... 8-) Seriously, I'd buy one. License Fundamental's code for the FlexCUB and give it a FICON adapter, and I'd buy a lot more than one. Might kill your disk division (or at least change what it does), but the "mainframe different because we can be" meme would finally be put to rest. It's not like the actual disk hardware has been anything unique for quite a while now, and you wouldn't have to accept the performance issues with FICON vs raw FCP. Would also avoid the mods needed to teach z/OS how to cope with FBA disks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
