With the EC12, according to our IBM rep, all cables come down from the ceiling, which is provided for in a slab-only data center.
. . JO.Skip Robinson SCE Infrastructure Technology Services Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile jo.skip.robin...@sce.com From: Eric Bielefeld <eric-ibmm...@wi.rr.com> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 08/28/2012 02:53 PM Subject: Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> I'm curious - what do you do with all the cables coming in to the machine. Obviously you have a power cable, and all the channel cables. Do they get hung from the ceiling if you have no raised floor? -- Eric Bielefeld Systems Programmer ---- Skip Robinson <jo.skip.robin...@sce.com> wrote: > No one has mentioned the enhancement that most interests us:the EC12 can > be installed in a data center *without raised floor*. Slab floors have > become de rigour for new built-from-scratch data centers. The z114 can be > mounted on slab but not the z196. This is the first Enterprise Class > mainframe that can live happily in the brave new world. > > . > . > JO.Skip Robinson ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
