No: Expanded Storage DIDN'T become pointless: Hiperspaces, most notably 
DB2 Hiperpools, enabled address spaces to get round the 31-Bit Virtual 
Storage limit. And MVPG / ADMF made this more economical.

Yes: Their economy in using cheaper expanded storage went away. But that 
wasn't all the value.

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From:   "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" <[email protected]>
To:     [email protected]
Date:   24/11/2015 15:19
Subject:        Re: z/OS and hiperspaces
Sent by:        IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]>



In
<874b151289704e46a874bf2ae6fdd8d1310ab...@kl126r4b.cs.ad.klmcorp.net>,
on 11/24/2015
   at 02:30 PM, "Vernooij, CP (ITOPT1) - KLM" <[email protected]>
said:

>but I remember reading that expanded storage is now virtualized in
>central storage.

The whole point of expanded storage was that it was less expensive.
Once IBM started carving out expanded memory from the same pool as
regular memory, it became pointless, but by then IBM had code in place
that provided an incentive to go along with the charade.
 
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