On Wed, 9 May 2012 12:29:31 +0800, David Crayford wrote: > >Years ago when my wife was working for HDS and I had a lively discussion >at a Christmas lunch with some of her colleagues about the the mainframes >superior I/O. They scoffed at me like I had been living in a cave for >the last decade. I was respectfully informed that the high-end UNIX boxes >easily kept pace with the mainframes wrt I/O performance. Most >embarrassing was the fact that mainframes were still huffing and puffing >away on half-duplex ESCON when the competition was racing away on super >fast fibre channel. That was a very humbling experience for me. > Yeah, but can any of those "high-end UNIX boxes" handle CKD DASD?
There's some irony to this thread. There's a frequent antipathy to z/OS UNIX (USS) expressed here. The spirit seems to be, "MVS (pre-OpenEdition, only) forever!" But considerable delight at the thought of applications moving from other hardware platforms to Linux on zSeries. That's supposed to be better? Perhaps the writers harbor a latent fantasy that when the z comes in to run Linux there'll be a spare LPAR or VM guest for good ol' z/OS. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
