On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:35:57 +0000, Ted MacNEIL <[email protected]> wrote:
>>Also, I'm not sure you could use FICON CTCs, since GRS Ring requires BCTCs (IIRC). > >I know it used ESCON CTC's because that's how we set it up on an environment long ago. >If it's still supported by IBM, and it is, and we have processors without parallel channels, it has to use more than BCTC's. >So, I'd be surprised if it cannot use FICON. >The software shouldn't care; it's up to the processor, the IOS, the SAP, and z/OS to make it look like a CTC to GRS. > I think it matters. If XCF is doing the communications, it can be FICON. If not (which includes systems in a ring in different sysplexes / monoplexes), it can be ESCON CTC operating in basic mode. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[email protected] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
