On the plus side, the unit address limitation with ESCON is greatly increased.
On the negative side, you cannot have a BCTC device, which is required for GRS and JES2 BSC NJE connections. On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:19:36 -0600, Mark Zelden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:17:20 -0500, Mark Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > >>Is there any advantage in migrating CTC's from ESCON to FICON? >> > >Of course. But I guess it could depend on the application. We saw much >better response times with MIM, VTAM and XCF CTCs when we migrated >to FICON. Of course now the CF links are faster (again) than using CTCs >so the XCF part wouldn't matter as much. In a basic sysplex CTCs are >your only choice. > >Mark ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
