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** crossposted to VM-ESA and linux-390 **

I realize that this request is somewhat like asking you all what
color looks best on me when you've never seen me in person.. but here goes
anyway.

My knowledge about DASD technology is pretty dated.  We've usually just
been given whatever os/390 is finished with, which, to be honest, has
usually been adequate here for VM needs (although we do have an i/o bound
FOCUS job that is having trouble meeting it's deadline that must be
addressed too).

Now we've been asked to put together a list of what Linux on VM might
need in terms of DASD.  Our situation so far has been build it and
they will come.  They are starting to come (we have 13 or so Linux
guests now) but don't have a grand scheme of replacing the world (yet :).
So far, we're mainly doing apache and another app which uses mysql.

So what would you ask for if you didn't know what you needed and
wanted to be prepared:) Our MVS environment has moved to all mod 9, mod 27,
and FICON.  Are these well suited to Linux?  How about remote copy
support (we do run our disaster recovery in house).

Marcy Cortes
Wells Fargo Services Co

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