Actually, MVS benefitted from FBA devices, too. The resistance is having a mix of devices to handle FBA and ECKD.
"If this is true, then why doesn't some enterprizing vendor sell disk that emulates FBA devices, to be used by Linux, VSE and VM?" "enterprizing" is an interesting word. SCSI is now available on the Enterprise Storage Server (Shark) and I would assume FBA (thougs it won't fill the bill for VSE or VM). I know we have a number of AIX boxes and intel boxes connected to Shark, but so far I have not had the opportunity to try SCSI on zSeries. Perhaps Neale could speak to the space usage of disk on SCSI for zSeries, formatted block sizes, and the like... ===== Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries "Computer are useless.They can only give answers." Pablo Picasso __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools
