I guess I could expand on this some more. zEC12 is the only built-in solution I am aware of. Don't think there is anything that will co-exist with it in the market, now or probably ever. That being said, I am aware that DASD vendors market solid-state disk, which present to the operating system as traditional DASD. That is not new technology.
Not sure if you were asking that, or not. However, the answers to that should be the same too, covered under maintenance agreement. _________________________________________________________________ Dave Jousma Assistant Vice President, Mainframe Engineering [email protected] 1830 East Paris, Grand Rapids, MI 49546 MD RSCB2H p 616.653.8429 f 616.653.2717 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jousma, David Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 7:20 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Flash Cards on MVS Ed, If you are speaking of the new zEC12, with the Flash Express option, A couple things come to mind, but I have no direct knowledge because we don't have Flash Express. - It is a feature code of the zEC12. So only IBM parts, no OEM - Since it is a feature code of the zEC12, it would be covered under the same maintenance as any other part of the processor. - requires z/OS 1.13+maint to exploit There is fault tolerance built in, and replacement can be done concurrently. At this time, I am pretty sure that the only exploiters are PAGING and Dump Services. I hear of other plans, but don't know if those have been implemented yet. Here is a link to the redbook zEC12 Technical Guide(see Appendix C). It pretty much appears to answer all your questions: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg248049.pdf _________________________________________________________________ Dave Jousma Assistant Vice President, Mainframe Engineering [email protected] 1830 East Paris, Grand Rapids, MI 49546 MD RSCB2H p 616.653.8429 f 616.653.2717 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 4:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Flash Cards on MVS I got one civil reply offline. The uncivil one from eastern Europe is not worth the courtesy of a reply. I will attempt to rephrase the question(s) below. I have a customer that is looking at the most current IBM system. I do not have contact with anyone that has the most current IBM system, so I am asking the group nicely, several questions. These are more operations (IMO) issues questions and figured the group would have the knowledge to reply. I did google and really didn't come up with any answers pertaining to IBM's MF implementation of Flash cards. Has anyone have experience with implementing IBM's (NOT STK or OEM) flash cards. What is the typical longevity of IBM's Flash cards and do you keep a few around just in case or ? IF/when they reach their end of life do you toss them return them to IBM etc... (how many spares do you keep on hand) How does your company handle replacements ie operations (or another group) handles the insertion and taking out of "old" cards. IOW operations side of the of the handling. Thanks in advance for any information. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN This e-mail transmission contains information that is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended only for the addressee(s) named above. If you receive this e-mail in error, please do not read, copy or disseminate it in any manner. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. Please reply to the message immediately by informing the sender that the message was misdirected. After replying, please erase it from your computer system. Your assistance in correcting this error is appreciated. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN This e-mail transmission contains information that is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended only for the addressee(s) named above. If you receive this e-mail in error, please do not read, copy or disseminate it in any manner. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. Please reply to the message immediately by informing the sender that the message was misdirected. After replying, please erase it from your computer system. Your assistance in correcting this error is appreciated. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
