Re: Your opinion on More or Less CPs in a Z196

2010-09-23 Thread Norman Hollander on DesertWiz
rsday, September 23, 2010 Thursday 12:46 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Your opinion on More or Less CPs in a Z196 Hi to All. I would like to hear your opinion on the following issue. We plan to change out 2xZ/10 (704+705) to 2x Z196 We still run a little bit of CICS and normal batch, but our main wo

Re: Your opinion on More or Less CPs in a Z196

2010-09-23 Thread Mike Schwab
1. Better to have 2 z/Series, just in case one should go down entirely. 2. Are they in separate computer rooms in separate cities at least 2 POPs away, for mirroring and protection against a "Hinsdale" fire taking out a phone company hub. http://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/26/business/phone-system-fear

Your opinion on More or Less CPs in a Z196

2010-09-23 Thread Giovanni Santuz
Hi to All. I would like to hear your opinion on the following issue. We plan to change out 2xZ/10 (704+705) to 2x Z196 We still run a little bit of CICS and normal batch, but our main work is, that we are running (and Coverting) our present applications to a multitier-System. That is, the applic