Stacking black box units.

[Guest.Visitor]

I have been told by my CE that I cannot stack the black box units to save floor space. I have heard a rumor that it is possible and that some people are doing it. Is anyone here stacking boxes? Thanks for your response.

[Guest.Visitor]

There has been talk of people wanting to do this - but - in a rack not directly on top of each other. It has been discussed on the Midrange-L mailing list hosted on Midrange.com. Unfortuanately, I went to do a search of the archives and the archives aren't working. You might want to try yourself. I remember the conversations being that there is a company that has developed a rack for this purpose, I wanted to search the archives so I could give you a name. Bill

[David Abramowitz]

I guess it depends. In one shop, I have a model 200 over a model 620, but I wouldn't put a 620 over a 620. Rumor is, that there will be rack-mounted AS/400 soon in the offing. That might solve your problems. Dave

[Guest.Visitor]

At the last COMMON one of the exhibitors had a solution that is supported by IBM. I'm still giving it some serious consideration. I can't locate the literature and can't remember the vendor. The list of exhibitors should be available on the COMMON web site. Anyway, their solution was to provide bottom/top open (all sides) platforms with lock bars for around the bottom. These came with a small portable fork lift, like a car jack. You pumped it to raise the machine to platform level, place it on the platform, and then pull out the lift. The lift and a 2 level platform was priced about 10K if I remember right. It seemed reasonable.