DASD moving from RAID 5 to RAID 6

Products

• Datacom
• DATACOM - AD
• CIS
• COMMON SERVICES FOR Z/OS
• 90S SERVICES
• DATABASE MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS FOR DB2 FOR Z/OS
• COMMON PRODUCT SERVICES COMPONENT
• Common Services
• CA ECOMETER SERVER COMPONENT FOC
• Easytrieve Report Generator for Common Services
• INFOCAI MAINTENANCE
• IPC
• UNICENTER JCLCHECK COMMON COMPONENT
• Mainframe VM Product Manager
• CHORUS SOFTWARE MANAGER
• CA ON DEMAND PORTAL
• CA Service Desk Manager - Unified Self Service
• PAM CLIENT FOR LINUX ON MAINFRAME
• MAINFRAME CONNECTOR FOR LINUX ON MAINFRAME
• GRAPHICAL MANAGEMENT INTERFACE
• WEB ADMINISTRATOR FOR TOP SECRET
• Xpertware

Issue/Introduction

Our DASD is moving from RAID 5 to RAID 6, is there any maintenance to be applied, or are there any concerns for the Datacom suite of products? 

Environment

Release:
Component: DB

Resolution

This is no maintenance nor concerns for RAID 6 with Datacom family of products.

Additional Information

RAID 6 overview 
RAID 6 is a method of increasing the data protection of arrays with volume data spread across multiple disk drives. The DS8000® series supports RAID 6 arrays. 

RAID 6 increases data protection by adding an extra layer of parity over the RAID 5 implementation. By adding this protection, RAID 6 can restore data from an array with up to two failed drives. The calculation and storage of extra parity slightly reduces the capacity and performance compared to a RAID 5 array. RAID 6 is suitable for storage using archive class disk drives. 

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/HW213_7.4.0/com.ibm.storage.ssic.help.doc/f2c_raid-6implementation_3qsqjj.html