It would be nice if a z10 (or future machines) had several USB ports available to multiple LPARs and could be extended several hundred feet (l ike at a DR Vendor) so that users of different LPARs could manage the attachment/detachment of their own USB storage devices.
/Tom Kern On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:49:04 -0400, Michael Coffin <[email protected] om> wrote: >I think what we really need is the ability of the HMC to use a USB as an >input device (e.g. be able to IPL a standalone program off of a USB >stick, and have a program like DDR use the USB stick as an input or >output device), and perhaps the ability of z/VM to read AND write to the >USB so that we can write iplable decks and DDR content there. > >If a vendor (IBM or otherwise) wants to further exploit that capability >with products that make it easier, so much the better. But the "basic" >ability to do I/O to the device via the HMC and OS are what I'd be >looking for. > >-Mike
