On 10/30/2014 at 11:26 AM, Clark Morris cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca wrote:
Can z/OS read the DVD? Can z/VM or z/Linux read the DVDs for the
respective operating systems?
For z/VM that's a yes. For Linux for System z, that's a coming soon to a
distribution near you. For Linux, that will be
Assuming the installation procedures are as desired/requested, is there any
problem with DVD media when/as physical media distribution is required?
They're pretty large for software distribution purposes -- over 4 GB each
at least before compression. Certainly large enough to get started up and
As I wrote previously, DVD is more like Internet delivery.
You cannot directly read data from DVD - I'm talking about ServerPac,
because for z/VM installation process DVD is perfectly ok.
In fact I have never orderded anything *from IBM* on DVD, but I assume
the first step is upload DVD
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As I wrote previously, DVD is more like Internet delivery.
You cannot directly read data from DVD - I'm talking about ServerPac, because
for z/VM
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at 04:31 PM, Timothy Sipples sipp...@sg.ibm.com said:
DVD is the only common, universal media type for mainframes, isn't
it?
For z/VM, perhaps, but for z/OS? I thought that it wasn't supported.
Or are you
Shmuel, we have supported software delivery on DVD for some time now for
the z/OS platform.
shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) wrote:
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at 04:31 PM, Timothy Sipples sipp...@sg.ibm.com
: Thursday, October 30, 2014 3:32 AM
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Subject: Re: TS1150 and software installation
Assuming the installation procedures are as desired/requested, is there any
problem with DVD media when/as physical media distribution is required?
They're pretty large for software
r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl (R.S.) wrote:
snip
In fact I have never orderded anything *from IBM* on DVD, but I assume
the first step is upload DVD content to HFS. That means you require a
lot of HFS space, then a lot of space for unzip and RECEIVE processes.
Compare it to tape: you receive
On 30 Oct 2014 06:28:14 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
ee...@us.ibm.com (John Eells) wrote:
Shmuel, we have supported software delivery on DVD for some time now for
the z/OS platform.
Can z/OS read the DVD? Can z/VM or z/Linux read the DVDs for the
respective operating systems?
Clark Morris
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Clark Morris cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca
wrote:
On 30 Oct 2014 06:28:14 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
ee...@us.ibm.com (John Eells) wrote:
Shmuel, we have supported software delivery on DVD for some time now for
the z/OS platform.
Can z/OS read the DVD?
Of Timothy Sipples
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Assuming the installation procedures are as desired/requested, is there any
problem with DVD media when/as physical media distribution is required?
They're pretty
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​Directly? No. However, in the case of z
W dniu 2014-10-30 o 19:51, retired mainframer pisze:
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r.skoru...@snip-it.pl (R.S.) wrote:
A new tape drive was announced recently.
Tech specification says there is no upport for the oldest Jaguar
cartridges (JA aka ETC).
The question is how IBM solved a problem with software distribution?
Are there any
I don't want tape for product installations, but I can understand why
others might.
The biggest problem I see with DVD/Internet installation is that the
processes often seem to be created by non-mainframe people. So you
might see giant FTP's to/from PC's, firewall issues, USS files, Java,
A new tape drive was announced recently.
Tech specification says there is no upport for the oldest Jaguar
cartridges (JA aka ETC).
The question is how IBM solved a problem with software distribution?
Are there any plans to use new tape carts as an option for Shopzseries
software?
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r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl (R.S.) wrote:
A new tape drive was announced recently.
Tech specification says there is no upport for the oldest Jaguar
cartridges (JA aka ETC).
The question is how IBM solved a problem with software distribution?
Are there any plans to use new tape carts as an
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