There are several OEM products such as FDR from Innovation, and CA, which can speedily migrate between different disk drive architectures. I think IBM utilities can do it as well, but my experience has been with the OEM's. In general, migration is easily solved.
On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 8:04 AM Grant Taylor < 0000023065957af1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On 6/26/20 3:16 AM, R.S. wrote: > > 3. 18 months is close to half of typical service contract for new dasd > > array. Still we don't know how sure is 18 months - maybe it would be 36 > > months? Even 12 months means the dasd array would have some residual > value. > > n00b questions: > > 1) Is it possible to migrate from old DASD to new DASD? > > 2) How disruptive would this be to the day-to-day operation of the > existing mainframe? > > 3) What sort of prerequisites exist for this? > > I have some experience with this in the Open Systems environment, but > I'd like to know more about how such a storage migration would be done > in the mainframe world. > > > > -- > Grant. . . . > unix || die > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
