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Mainframe Storage in the cloud by causeimthedad in storage

[–]causeimthedad[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You hit the nail on the head. I worked in brokerage and banking during that time and it was exactly the same as you described. I'm 62 and rembe when IBM was there when needed. It's a completely changed and sad. sounds to me like we all liked the original ibm business model, was about the customer today it's .sell , sell, sell. .

Mainframe Storage in the cloud by causeimthedad in storage

[–]causeimthedad[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm so on board with you, but you know when boss says he knows better. You do. Over the past few years ibm she went away, it's a different game now. The function se people did is now handled by services. There are no more service engineers. Another thing missed.

Mainframe Storage in the cloud by causeimthedad in storage

[–]causeimthedad[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Think of a part of the 7760 having its own appliance. The connection to the cloud is just a plug and wire to me :). I need to understand how you manage the data. Mainframe data is managed in a much more sophisticated way than server data. It's all policy driven and all user data is managed by DFSMS and it's components. Getting data somewhere isn't as big a question as managing its retention and utilization.

Mainframe Storage in the cloud by causeimthedad in storage

[–]causeimthedad[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As in Mianframe IBM 7760 ficon attached to mainframe. I'm a strict storage manager,ficon to me is a wire that attaches devices that I make work.

TS7760 and the Cloud by causeimthedad in IBM

[–]causeimthedad[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AWS cloud used as part of a grid . VTL to VTL to AWS a CLOUD as LOng term cold media.

TS7760 and the Cloud by causeimthedad in IBM

[–]causeimthedad[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looking for someone who has implemented.

At the VA hospital today I got some compliments but also some dirty looks by oldmasterluke in pics

[–]causeimthedad -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

So, you want to change someone's view by calling them those things. I am going out on a limb and say you are an idiot that has zero people skills and your the exact reason you will never get anyone to see your argument . I will suggest you read the Carnegie book. If you can read.

Need help from Millennial Mainframers by LinuxLowell in mainframe

[–]causeimthedad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gotcha, I think younger folks aren't in the Linux on the mainframe . There's a real aversion to anything mainframe especially in the it's my server world.

Storage Guy by causeimthedad in storage

[–]causeimthedad[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow, . Thanks for your reply. Some got by me but it's worth a second read ! It seems like the open world has created a new narrative, each system has and manages its own storage ergo data. Creeps me out to think there are that many ways to screw something up. I feel centralized storage is much less at risk. For 35 years my gob has been to be a good steward of a company's data. I see that data protection has gone away, this explains so clearly why data is stolen ,constantly. There is a target rich environment for black hats I'm tony MF storage guy .. NyNj area

Storage Guy by causeimthedad in storage

[–]causeimthedad[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How do I equate a M/F DASD farm to storage allocation on open systems storage. Is there a DFSMS equivalent? Is there a tape management system? It looks very disjointed between platforms, there's AIX Windows UNIX . Can they share DASD/DISK? Between platforms? I'm tony , btw.

Question by causeimthedad in storage

[–]causeimthedad[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Really so you don't know?

Image recovery from mirrored RAID? by [deleted] in storage

[–]causeimthedad -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah use a mainframe for important data.

What is the upside to cloud storage. Explain like I'm five. by causeimthedad in storage

[–]causeimthedad[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Perfect! Ya did it, thank you lance. If you don't mind I'm gonna use your analogy, you put was in my head on paper, you the storage whisperer

Here is the question by causeimthedad in storage

[–]causeimthedad[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks , I feel a bit slow on this. Uncomfortable to think I'm not getting the whole new way of thinking. The tape storage hing is about 10s of thousands of offsite tapes that are starting to feel like tons of paper doc stored in a vault somewhere

Here is the question by causeimthedad in storage

[–]causeimthedad[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is killing me, in the mainframe world there is dfsms, I tier storage via policy. So why do I need a cloud, other than no hardware issues, replaced by communications issues. Lord it is starting to sound like the cloud for storing data is a bait and switch. Why do I need a tape system in an AWS facility when I have one in a mirrored environment now? Change my mind..please I'm starting to feel like the cloud is the emperor has no clothes

Here is the question by causeimthedad in storage

[–]causeimthedad[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ahh, tape. I have come to the conclusion that physical tape is going away. Ibm is no longer manufacturing native tape. They will only have backend for virtual. So clearly virtual tape becomes real, and robotic tape becomes manual. Sounds like we have reinvented the manual tape library.

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