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Isn't XCF the coupling facility? I'm only a 2-way processor, wouldn't I
have to sacrifice one processor to the CF LPAR?
I was seeing all the crap about msys for setup and JVM's. Now that I
read more, I'll "just do it", it looks easier. I have CTC's for VTAM
and MIM and extras that I think I can use for a GRS ring. I think it
would be best to "promote" my production LPAR from a MONOPLEX to a
SYSPLEX, then join my test LPARs. That should keep me from breaking my
CICS LOGGER datasets in production.
We started down the SYSPLEX road, but never could get hardware
resources, then dropped from 6 to 3 LPAR's after Y2K.
The mainframe has been "going away" for many years here also, now it's
within 3 years, down from 5 years in 1998. My knowledge and training is
appropriately stagnant as well.
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Setting up a ESCON CTC isn't all that difficult and won't cost you
anything except a pair of ESCON channels. With that, you can set up a
3-LPAR SYSPLEX with GRS capabilities and go forward from there. Helps
immensely if you diagram it out before you start to define the IOCDS
entries.
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