Mike, I have a HDS9980V ( at microcode level: 21-13-02/00 ) that does have ESCON and FICON interfaces installed. However, the ESCON interfaces are not connected to any host, so they are inactive. I also have Shadowimage installed/active. Now that I have Flashcopy V2 installed, we can use Flashcopy ( using Shadowimage ) to copy any-to-any. The only caution I can remember from this mixed ESCON/FICON configuration was the CUADD limitation of the ESCON interfaces. ESCON supports CUADD '0' thru 'F' while FICON supports CUADD '0' thru '1F'. In our configuration, the ESCON interfaces were connected to a 'remote' CPU via a CNT Channel Extender, that was our XRC System Data Mover image ( the XRC Secondary Host ). The FICON interfaces were connected to our primary host. Our only requirement was to place any DASD volume that needed to be XRC'ed on the devices in the CUADD '0' thru 'F' so the XRC SDM system could 'see' them. I never tried to use the ESCON interface to Flashcopy a volume from the 'lower' CUADD's ( CUADD '0' thru 'F' ) to the 'upper' CUADD's. ( CUADD '10' thru '1F' ). My guess would be it wouldn't work.
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