As others have stated, it works well under z/OS. The only "catch" is that it will only work when the connection is between two systems running on the same physical box (LPAR, partitions, VM guests; whatever). Within the storage area of CA we use Hipersockets quite nicely to allow BAB (Arcserve renamed) running on z/Linux to "write" its data to a Hipersocket connected to an application on z/OS that then really writes the data to physical tapes. So you have a distributed backup system whose server is running on z/Linux backing up lots of distributed toy-computers but have the data actually written to good old reliable z/OS cartridges that are tracked by a real tape management system (preferably CA-1 of course) that knows how to insure that a tape is not re-used before its time (novel concept for the toy-computers).
Russell Witt CA-1 Level-2 Support Manager -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chase, John Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 3:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: FW: Hipersockets VM Only? Forwarded on behalf of a colleague.... ________________________________ John I was looking at Hipersockets for our z890, and found this paragraph: zSeries HiperSockets is a technology that provides high-speed TCP/IP connectivity between virtual machines (under z/VM) within System z servers. It eliminates the need for any physical cabling or external networking connection between these virtual machines. in the following Redbook: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg246990.pdf Can you confirm that Hipersockets work only with VM? I though z/OS TCPIP could use them as well. Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
