Has anyone converted VISARA consoles from ESCON to FICON? They work fine as ESCON, but will not talk to z/OS as FICON.
They run off of ESCON and FICON directors respectively. We have done 3 PORs and each time the console's get either a 505 or a 510. We need VISARAs for the LMU interface for the STK SILOs, but they also double as system consoles. We are going zEC12 which is pure FICON. The OPTICA PRISM ESCON Converters which IBM recommends must be direct to the device, they cannot go through an ESCON director. So we are forced to make them FICON and need them working. I suppose a workaround would be to attach the ESCON VISARAs through OPTICA PRISM ESCON Converters directly to the CEC, instead of the ESCON director. We are MULTISYSTEM with 4 LPARs with EMIFed CHPIDs. -- George Henke (C) 845 401 5614 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
