Would SMC-D/R work today, as a replacement to FCTC of yore? - KB
------- Original Message ------- On Tuesday, May 3rd, 2022 at 2:13 PM, Brian Westerman <[email protected]> wrote: > If you talk to CA (Broadcom), they will tell you that they don't fully > support PDS/e in a sysplex environment. I spent a long time dealing with them > for 5 smaller sites, and the end result is that all 5 could not afford to add > a specialty processor to handle GRS so they purchased (very cheap) FICON > cards and I set up Ficon CTC's for them. The cost for MIM for 1 year paid for > the cards at each site, and GRS is much faster. > > If you already have the CP's to handle this stuff, then you don't need the > cards (or MIM). GRS overhead is extremely low (compared to MIM). > > Brian > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
