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IBM DASD Technology Refresh

Postby The Mean Farmer » Thu Oct 18, 2012 9:59 pm

Does anyone know what this means? It is as simple as upgrading the firmware on the DASD controller or something larger?
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Re: IBM DASD Technology Refresh

Postby enrico-sorichetti » Thu Oct 18, 2012 10:10 pm

it depends on the context...
could be just smoke or it could describe the <serioius> task of bringing the dasd farm up to the current state of art
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Re: IBM DASD Technology Refresh

Postby dick scherrer » Thu Oct 18, 2012 11:23 pm

Hello,

Where did you see this? What brought this to your attention?
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Re: IBM DASD Technology Refresh

Postby Akatsukami » Thu Oct 18, 2012 11:35 pm

Is this not an AS/400, rather than a System z, reference?
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Re: IBM DASD Technology Refresh

Postby The Mean Farmer » Thu Oct 18, 2012 11:53 pm

I am doing some research into some cycle efficiencies but one of the hardware guys wants us to back off for now because there is a "IBM DASD Technology Refresh" coming up.

This is for a Z196 box.
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Re: IBM DASD Technology Refresh

Postby Akatsukami » Fri Oct 19, 2012 12:01 am

Hmmm. Well, I've never seen the phrase "DASD technology refresh" except in the context of an AS/400, so I guess I'm not going to be of help here.
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Re: IBM DASD Technology Refresh

Postby dick scherrer » Fri Oct 19, 2012 12:31 am

Hello,

because there is a "IBM DASD Technology Refresh" coming up.
Possibly the "hardware guys" will explain just What is coming up (i.e. some details).
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Re: IBM DASD Technology Refresh

Postby Peter_Mann » Fri Oct 19, 2012 1:16 am

Working in Design and Build some time back we've used this phrase to describe a new DASD subsystem(s) to replace the existing subsystem(s), I've seen where in some contracts the vendor is responible for the data migration (one subsys to the other), some folks like to do the migration themselves, but either way there's hardware and gen work that will need to be done
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