Would SMC-D/R work today, as a replacement to FCTC of yore?

- KB

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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
>
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